Chapter 100: A New Gain on a Rainy Day
"I eat a smell of fennel, why don't you call it fennel beans?" Du Mei looked at his sisters.
"Fennel... Bean, like a girl's name, I like it. Du Gui said with a grin.
"Sister, you have a stall in the town in the future, so bring fennel beans to sell as well. Broad beans are squeamish, and moths will be born on rainy days. Du Tao looked at the basket of beans.
"Okay, in a few days, the stall will be vacated, and I'll take some to sell, this is a snack, maybe I can sell it." Du Mei still bowed his head and drew tricks.
"It doesn't matter if you can't sell them, I'll eat them all!" When Du Gui was growing, he didn't have enough to eat.
"Sister, look at Komatsu, your hands are really strong, what did you knead the fire beaver into?" Du Ying rubbed her eyes and leaned on the side of the bed to tease Juniper.
Du Mei looked up and saw Juniper, playing with the smiling face of the fire beaver in a round. It was just an unintentional move, but Du Mei saw a different situation in his eyes. In the midst of the electric light, another window was opened.
Du Mei's pen quickly sketched and drew the different faces of the fire beaver, smiling, beautiful, cute, well-behaved, naughty, and greedy. Six pairs in one go.
"Mother, Du Ying, come and see!" Du Mei calmed down his excitedly pounding heart a little.
"Wow! So magical! The three little ones gathered around, all of them screaming in surprise.
"It's going to be in a row, it's so appealing." Du Ying said with a smile.
"It's like a marquee." Du Gui always plays differently from others.
She folded six pieces of paper together and held them in her hand, quickly letting them go one by one, alternating different expressions of the same beaver.
"You have a lot of ideas, and I don't know who you look like?" Xu sneered.
"Like a big sister!" Du Gui turned around and pointed.
"Hahaha." A room full of mothers laughed and leaned back.
Infected by this laughter, even the lingering rain outside the house came to join in the fun and flew under the eaves.
When I cooked dinner, the broad beans in the pot were completely cold, and the skin was a little harder, and Du Mei tasted another one, tough but not hard, sweet but not greasy. This time, it's really like in a dream.
The rain gave Du Mei a lot of time, and she embroidered the six beavers on the paper vividly on the cloth, and only waited until the town was selling soup and vegetables, and showed it to Ye Dan and asked him what he thought.
She is an idle person, in addition to embroidery, she also ponders food, plus Du Gui's stomach is not full, she has tried a few things at home, that stinky tofu, she has always wanted to try.
After the success of making tofu fruit and fennel beans, Du Mei has become convinced of the method he said in his dream.
In the dream, it was said that stinky tofu was soaked in brine from pickled amaranth stalks. It just so happened that there was a jar of brine at home, so Du Mei cut the tofu from the fried tofu fruit into small pieces and soaked it in the jar.
On the fourth day, after the rain, the sun was shining brightly, and after half a day's work, the original muddy road was already half dry.
Du Mei carried a shovel and went to the mouth of the fish mouth to take a look, and sure enough, such a heavy rain had already cleaned the river beach, and the water level had risen to its original position. It's just that because the current is too fast, all the tributaries converge here, and the water is still turbid.
"Mother, in a few days, the duck can be put in the mouth of the fish." Du Mei said happily as soon as he got home.
"Hey, this god always treats people well." Xu recited Amitabha gratefully.
"The field is too bad to get down, Uncle Zhong will probably plow the field and plant rice in a few days, and we will put the ducks in the wheat field in the afternoon to peck at the fallen wheat grains." Du Mei turned his head and said.
"It's okay, others are also going to pick up ears of wheat to feed the chickens and ducks, let's just release the ducks." Xu nodded and said.
After breakfast and lunch, the Dumay sisters drove the ducks out. She was afraid that these ducks would be locked up for a long time and forget the rules, so the four sisters went out together.
These days, the ducks have rice, some flesh has grown on their bodies, and their feathers are fluffy and plump. Da Bai is still the head, with it following Du Ying, the ducks are not chaotic at all, but Du Mei is too cautious.
More than 100 ducks are scattered in the field, like flowers embroidered on a black cloth. These "flowers" are stuck in the wheat field, and no matter how small the wheat grains are, they are pecked clean by the small flat shovel beak, and the grasshoppers and earthworms in the field are even more delicious for ducks.
The next family members all went out, carrying small baskets and bending down to pick up ears of wheat. In order not to waste a little bit of food, everyone was so tired that their backs hurt, and those scattered one by one really couldn't pick them up, so they had to give up.
When they saw that Du Mei's family drove the ducks directly to the field, they were both curious and jealous. But they soon died down, and still honestly lowered their heads to pick up ears of wheat. Ducks were herding on the river beach, and they had learned Du Mei, but it turned out to be a fiasco, and they didn't want to try.
In the evening, under the setting sun, every duck swelled and staggered home. Xie Shi passed by, looking sideways. I thought to myself, why didn't this duck lose anything at all?
The next day, the three little ones continued to herd the ducks, and Du Mei still went to the town to sell soup and vegetables. This time she didn't do much, first, to see if the stall was settled, and second, she had to show Ye Dan the six small beavers.
There was a sign in front of the fruit stall that said half price of fruit, and the shopkeeper probably still had some fruit unsold, so Du Mei still held a burden next to the old man.
"Sister Meizi, you're finally here." Du Mei didn't come in the past few days, but Ye Qing was hungry, and he muttered dissatisfiedly while eating heavily.
"If you harvest wheat at home, you will have to plant rice in a few days, but you won't be able to come." Du Mei said to him while taking care of business.
"Ah, I don't want to come again!" Ye Qing had a resentful expression on his face.
"Give, compensate you." Du Mei handed a packet of fennel beans to Ye Qing, and in her heart, Ye Qing was like her sisters.
"Wow, it smells so good!" The fennel beans are wrapped in dried lotus leaves, and Ye Qing can't wait to put one in his mouth and chew it.
"Is your brother in the shop?" Du Mei asked a straight question.
"Yes, he supervised Luo Meixuan a few days ago, and he just came back yesterday." Ye Qing's teeth are good, and after three or two clicks, he ate half of a packet of fennel beans.
"Luo Meixuan? A shop in Gangneung City? Du Mei asked.
"Well, my brother is very close, very concerned, maybe it won't be summer, it's going to open." Ye Qing spoke while chewing, the aroma of a mouthful.
"Where did you buy those beans?" A young man next to him had just sat down and couldn't help but ask.
"My sister gave it." Ye Qing raised his hand and pointed.
"You want a pack?" Du Mei asked with a smile.
This kid is just a chatter, he keeps talking, he eats beans here, and he recruits customers for Du Mei.
"Hey, I see that he eats well, I want a pack to taste, how much does it cost?" The young man was a little embarrassed.
"Home-harvested beans, three pieces of a pack." Du Mei took out the remaining nine packets from the small cabinet.
"I'll have a pack, too." An aunt who often comes to buy braised bean rolls handed over three cents.
Unexpectedly, this fennel bean is still very popular, and it was sold out at once. The soup and vegetables are also selling fast, and the townspeople also know that it is the busy season in the countryside now, and seeing that Du Mei is rare to come, they all buy more than usual.
"Let's go, I'll show you something good." Du Mei cleaned up the stall and explained a few words to the old man. Take a small burden and call Ye Qing to go to Yunshang Embroidery Village.
Ye Dan was having a headache in the inner room, and there were several pieces of rice paper spread out on the big case, with different styles of plum characters written on them, which were all the prince's ink treasures.
Originally, Ye Dan went to Yan Wangfu to ask for a store move, but he didn't expect that the prince splashed ink and wrote so many in one go, Zhang Zhang is a fine product, how can he choose?
"Meizi, come on, come on." Ye Dan saw a shadow flash at the door, and stood up happily to greet him.
"Shopkeeper Ye, what are you doing here?" Du Mei saw the paper of the case and said with some surprise.
"Meizi, you can choose which one is better." Ye Dan was originally in the calligraphy and painting business, but he couldn't choose it, so he asked Du Mei about it.
"I think...... It's all pretty good. Du Mei took a look, so many of the same words, she had to make three small literacy problems, and she couldn't recognize the word Mei.
"Oh, what can I do?" Ye Dan patted his head.
"Let me see, this word is dignified and magnificent, graceful and luxurious, and it must be suitable for what kind of ornaments." Du Mei pointed to a letter in front of him.
"This one, elegant and chic, the pen walks the dragon and snake, and when you meet the arrogant, it must be a perfect match." Dumay picked up a cursive script in his left hand.
"As for this one, it has a round head and a round brain, simple and natural, and it is most suitable for wood carving." Du Mei picked up the seal book with his right hand.
Du Mei is a complete layman, what she said is just the intuitive feeling that these words give her, and Ye Dan's judgment with the eyes of an expert is not at the same level at all.
"Wake up the dreamer with a word! Meizi, you are really a noble person of Luo Meixuan. Ye Dan slapped his face excitedly.
"I don't know anything, but it's nonsense." Du Mei was a little embarrassed by him.
"Listen to you, I want this official book." Ye Dan picked up the word like a baby.
"Can you give me a copy of this?" Du Mei looked at these words and thought of Chu Lin inexplicably.
She didn't have a pen and ink at home, so Chu Lin taught them to read and write, all of them used charcoal to write stroke by stroke on the dirt floor. She had never seen him write in any other font, and if he did, he would not lose to this.
"Okay, I'll give you this one." Ye Dan handed the official letter to Du Mei, he wanted to ask for a complete plaque anyway, and he had to ask the prince to write it himself.
"Really?" Du Mei was overjoyed, took it carefully, folded it four times, and carefully put it into his pocket.
"Hey, what's in there?" Du Mei gave Ye Dan too many surprises, and he didn't dare to guess any more.
"By the way, I'm here for this." Du Mei untied his baggage, revealing six small ones.
"Didn't I tell you to do just one or two?" Ye Dan was a little anxious when he saw the six red heads exposed.
"Take a closer look." Du Mei was not annoyed, and put the six in a row.
"Oh my God! Plums, this ...... This ...... Ye Dan's eyes couldn't leave.
Ye Qing even started directly, grabbing them one by one and comparing them carefully.
"Laughter, beauty, stupidity, goodness, skin, greed, this is a set." Ye Dan said the characteristics of his expression one by one.
"Why didn't you cry, annoyed, and ugly?" Ye Qing asked with a glare.
"Who wants to spend money to be unhappy." Du Mei laughed.
"Uh-huh." Ye Qing nodded like pounding garlic.
"So, you agree with that?" Du Mei looked at him with joy. 2k reading web