The three of them walked on the street, and Liu Meiniang couldn't help but sigh, the county is still very prosperous, at least the main street is very wide, similar to what is played on TV, and the street is bustling and looks very prosperous. The cries are endless.

"Want to eat?" The person carrying the sugar gourd to sell walked by, and Liu Meiniang saw Zhang Dandan's eyes staring at the side.

"Don't eat sister-in-law." Zhang Dandan swallowed his saliva and shook his head firmly.

"Four strings." Liu Meiniang stopped the person who bought the sugar gourd, and at the same time was relieved for Zhang Dandan's sensible rush, like a child of this age, it is when he loves to eat and play, Zhang Dandan saw that the sugar gourd obviously wanted to eat it or held back, because he knew that there was no money at home, and the sensible one was a little distressing.

"Okay, it's a total of fifteen for you." The man who sells sugar gourds said politely.

"Go pick four strings." Liu Meiniang urged.

After Zhang Dandan picked it, Liu Meiniang asked the person who bought the sugar gourd to ask for the leaves that were specially wrapped in the sugar gourd, wrapped the two bunches and put them in the basket, and the remaining two bunches, one bunch was handed to Zhang Dandan and one bunch was handed to Zhang Jihan.

"Sister-in-law, this is for children, I don't eat it." Zhang Jihan frowned and said, but Liu Meiniang clearly saw Zhang Jihan secretly swallow his saliva.

"Aren't you just a child?" Liu Meiniang couldn't hold back a smile and said. Isn't a thirteen or fourteen-year-old a child in modern times?

"I'm not, I'm already an adult." Zhang Jihan said with a stiff neck.

"Let's eat." Liu Meiniang decided not to discuss this issue with Zhang Jihan, and stuffed the sugar gourd into Zhang Jihan's hand.

"I ......." Zhang Jihan wanted to say something, Liu Meiniang had already walked forward with Zhang Dandan.

"Sister-in-law, you eat first." Zhang Dandan raised his head and handed the sugar gourd to Liu Meiniang as if he were offering a treasure. Just now, the sister-in-law only bought four strings, she and the second brother each had a string, and the remaining two strings must have been for the third sister and her mother.

"Dandan eats." Liu Meiniang touched Zhang Dandan's head.

"Sister-in-law, I'll eat it first." Zhang Dandan stubbornly shook his head, Liu Meiniang smiled helplessly, lowered her head and bit off one on Zhang Dandan's sugar gourd.

"Let's eat." Zhang Dandan ate it with satisfaction after seeing Liu Meiniang eat it.

Liu Meiniang doesn't have much love for sugar gourds, the ancient sugar gourds are not as delicious as modern ones, and they are a little sour, but Liu Meiniang is very happy to see Zhang Dandan eating them.

"Are you hungry?" The three of them walked around for a while, mostly looking here and there, and didn't buy anything. Liu Meiniang was going to go to the cloth village to pull some cloth and go home to make some clothes, but most of the clothes worn by the Zhang family were coarse linen clothes, which were worn on the outside in the summer and the skin hurt, and it was too hot to put on the inside.

But Liu Meiniang thought about it and gave up, now they haven't made money yet, and if they buy so many things at once, they will definitely be suspected, and Liu Meiniang still decided to wait for the things on the mountain to sell before buying.

At that time, she still wants to enlighten a few children, she is also a graduate of 985 University with a master's degree in literature in modern times, and it should not be a problem to teach a few children to enlighten and recognize words.

However, it is said that this ancient pen, ink, paper and inkstone are frighteningly expensive, after all, in this era when everything is inferior and only reading is high, the value of literati still has a certain reason.

Liu Meiniang thought about it in her heart, and she probably had a plan.

"Coo....... Zhang Dandan's stomach rang at the right time, and Liu Meiniang and Zhang Jihan laughed at the same time when they heard the voice.

It's almost now, and when we go out in the morning, everyone only nibbles on a bite of cake and drinks porridge, so there will be ghosts if you don't get hungry.

"What do you want to eat?" Liu Meiniang asked the two children.

"Yangchun noodles."

"Yangchun noodles." The brother and sister said in unison.

"Yangchun noodles?" Liu Meiniang asked rhetorically.

"Yangchun noodles are cheap and you can eat enough." Zhang Jihan said. Now he also knows what the situation is at home, and he has to buy fish fry and chickens, as well as other expenses, how can he still spend money as before.

"Okay, then let's go eat Yangchun noodles." Liu Meiniang also agreed to the proposal of the two, even if they went to eat a good one, the two little ghosts would not be happy, because they had a burden in their hearts.

"The boss has three bowls of Yangchun noodles, all with meat." A few people found a street stall and sat down.

"Okay, little lady, wait a minute." The stall owners are a middle-aged couple.

"After eating, we went to buy chickens, and when we were done, we went back to Uncle Zhang to get the fish fry and went home." Liu Meiniang said after sitting down.

"Okay."

After a while, Yangchun noodles came up, a big bowl, full, and several people were very satisfied.

Compared with the vegetable market in the west of the county, the last time they went to the vegetable market on East Street, it was like a joke.

The vegetable market in the west of the county is really big, a bit like a modern flower, bird and fish market, with two in the middle, selling vegetables and poultry and animals on the other.

Liu Meiniang and the others went around the place where the poultry was sold several times, and finally took a fancy to a stall.

"The little lady wants to buy chickens?" The stall owner was a swarthy man in his early forties, who looked very honest, but the light in his eyes betrayed him.

"Well, let's look at the chickens." Liu Meiniang squatted down quietly to observe.

She just watched it all, and this one's chicken cub is the most lively, and the chirping has not stopped. Although she has little experience buying chickens, the details can reveal a lot.

For example, this stall owner is the cleanest here, as long as a person likes to be clean, then his things will not be bad, especially this kind of living creatures, at least the chance of disease is much smaller.

In ancient times, unlike modern times, these animals could be vaccinated to ensure their health.

"How do you sell this chicken?" Liu Meiniang asked.

"Fifty for a rooster, thirty for a hen." The stall owner made a number.

"Can it be cheap?" Liu Meiniang asked.

"Little lady, I also watched you wander around for a long time, you should sincerely want to buy chickens, I gave you the cheapest price." The stall owner also saw that Liu Meiniang was the one in charge of this line, and squatted down and said to Liu Meiniang.

"How much do we buy?" Liu Meiniang added another sentence.

"It depends on how much the little lady can buy." As soon as the stall owner heard Liu Meiniang's words, he knew that there was a big business coming.

"Let's buy a hundred." Liu Meiniang said.

"Forty roosters, sixty hens." Zhang Jihan added.

"Yo, the little lady buys so much?" The stall owner was overjoyed.

"Then if the little lady buys a hundred, how about I erase the odds for the little lady?"

"Okay." Liu Meiniang said happily.

"It's ....... altogether," the stall owner couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Three, two, eight." Liu Meiniang said.

"Ah, that's a lot of money." The stall owner looked at Liu Meiniang's eyes sparkling.

"Wow, sister-in-law, you're so amazing." Zhang Dandan looked at Liu Meiniang with admiration.

"Did the little lady go to school?" The stall owner asked.

"I'm just a peasant woman, how can I go to school." Liu Meiniang touched her nose and said embarrassedly.

Although Daqi is very similar to ancient China, there is no ninety-nine multiplication, and people here are generally slow to arithmetic.

"That little lady is smart." The stall owner gave Liu Meiniang a thumbs up.

"Hehe, I've won awards." Liu Meiniang laughed.

"Then even if I am a little lady, I will pay three or two or five dollars, you see how it is, it is already very affordable." The stall owner continued.

"Then thank you stall owner." Liu Meiniang said happily.

"Good luck with your business." Liu Meiniang took the chicken packed by the stall owner and waved her hand and said.

"Borrow the little lady's auspicious words." The stall owner replied loudly.

"Sister-in-law, little chicken." Zhang Dandan was also holding a bamboo cage in his arms, and he was very excited when he heard the chirping of chicks inside.

"Go back and put them on the hill?" Zhang Dandan asked again.

"yes, what's wrong?" Liu Meiniang asked.

"Sister-in-law, can you let me raise one?"

"Do you want to keep them?" Liu Meiniang was a little surprised.

"Hmm." Zhang Dandan nodded heavily.

Their family is poor, and there are many people in the village who have chickens at home, and Zhang Dandan is very envious, especially sometimes when they play with Xiaohua, they will say that their parents have bought new chickens for themselves.

"Okay, as long as Dandan is not too troublesome, he will raise it." Liu Meiniang said.

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Zhang Dandan was very happy.

One hundred chicks were packed in five cages, Liu Meiniang and Zhang Jihan carried two each, and Zhang Dandan held one in his arms.

Back to Uncle Zhang, the sun had already set.

"You're back? When I go into the house, I will drink saliva, and I will pack the fish as you said. Uncle Zhang said with a smile.

"I'm sorry Uncle Zhang." Zhang Jihan nodded politely.

"I've fed your cow too."

"Thank you, Uncle Zhang." Zhang Jihan was a little annoyed, how could he forget about this matter.

"It's okay, it's okay, but how are you going to raise so many fish?" Uncle Zhang picked up the teapot and poured a glass of water for all three of them.

"We keep it in a fish pond in the mountains." Zhang Jihan glanced at Liu Meiniang, and only when he saw Liu Meiniang nodding did he speak.

"On the mountain?" Uncle Zhang was obviously surprised.

"We're also trying to see if it won't work out." Liu Meiniang obviously didn't want to say more.

"Lady Zhang, if you need my help, just ask, I can't do anything else, I still have a set of fish farming." Uncle Zhang was silent for a while, and suddenly said.

"Uncle Zhang, are you?" Zhang Jihan couldn't understand what Uncle Zhang meant.

"I've lived for most of my life, and I've seen a lot of people, I felt that you were different from others when I saw you yesterday, and today I saw the big lady and I was even more sure, I believe that the fish farming method you said will be successful, I have sold fish fry for a lifetime, and it doesn't mean anything, if you need it, I can go and help you, don't get paid."

Uncle Zhang's words couldn't help Zhang Jihan, and even Liu Meiniang was stunned.

"Uncle Zhang, you ......" Liu Meiniang didn't know what to say. Uncle Zhang waved his hand and interrupted Liu Meiniang's words.

"If you need it, ask someone to come to the city and bring a letter." Uncle Zhang smiled innocently.

"Okay, then I'll thank Uncle Zhang first." Liu Meiniang said sincerely.

"Thank you, you guys go quickly, I won't leave you to eat, otherwise it's too late to go back and your family will be worried." Uncle Zhang looked at the sky outside the window.

"Okay Uncle Zhang, then we'll go first, and if there is something in the future, I will trouble you to help." Liu Meiniang said.

"Okay, let's go." Uncle Zhang got up and sent a few people out of the door.

"Stay safe on the road." Uncle Zhang advised.

"Okay, Uncle Zhang, don't send it, go back quickly." Liu Meiniang and Zhang Jihan only found out at this time that Uncle Zhang had carefully loaded the fish fry into the car, and several people moved the chicken coop up, Uncle Zhang was afraid that the chicken coop would fall on the way, and specially found a rope to tie the chicken coop to the car.

"Goodbye, Uncle Zhang." Liu Meiniang sat in the car and waved.

"Sister-in-law, we bought so many things." Zhang Dandan looked at the things in the car and opened his mouth in surprise.

"yes." Liu Meiniang pulled Zhang Dandan forward, afraid that she would fall.

Zhang Jihan was in front of the car.

Looking at the way the old ox pulled the cart, Liu Meiniang still felt a little unbearable, but if they didn't take the ox cart, they would go back in the middle of the night.

This time, it was not possible to say that there was any danger on the way back to the village, so Liu Meiniang put aside that little bit of unbearable and got on the ox cart.

When Zhang Jihan returned, he obviously sped up the drive, and the way home was more downhill than uphill, so the car ran a little faster, almost the same time that Zhang Jihan went home that day, and the three of them arrived at the door of the house.