Chapter 25: Listen to your little ghost
Ming Fang went to the town with a basket on his back. Walking south to Erli Road, there is the location of the commune. She went directly to the supply and marketing cooperative. The supply and marketing cooperatives pulled the bungalows, and the doors and windows faced the road. She walked in and glanced around, but didn't see Li Shanling. She inquired about Director Li, and the saleswoman told her that Director Li was in the back office.
Mingfang carried the basket on his back and entered the backyard of the supply and marketing cooperatives from the side door. The backyard courtyard is quite large, there are several bungalows against the north wall, and the director's room, accounting room, warehouse and so on the door. The sign next to the gate is the acquisition station.
Because he came to the acquisition station, Ming Fang didn't look for Li Shanling anymore, went straight over, pushed open the door and walked in.
The room was very large, and it was a mess, furs, medicinal herbs, broken copper and iron, roughly classified and stacked, and miscellaneous things were piled up all over the room.
An old man bent over his waist and scavenged in a corner of the room, tying up a pile of furs.
Scattered from the scrap copper and rotten iron, down to the soles of the feet, are copper coins.
The old man heard the sound of the door opening, and slowly straightened up and asked, "What is it this time?"
"Well, master, I sell rabbit skins. Mingfang put the basket on the ground.
The old man moved over slowly: "Weigh!"
Ming Fang hurriedly took out a few rabbit skins from the basket and put them on the scale, and the old man familiarly pulled the weight and muttered: "Five corners." ”
Five rabbit skins, five dimes, and one dime. Ming Fang took the five dimes from the old man's black hand.
"Master, how can this copper coin on the ground be ......" Ming Fang stared at the copper coin under his feet.
"What was just collected, a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, was pulled to the smelter in a few days. ”
Pull it out and melt it away? This is an antique, is it good! Maybe there are rare varieties in it that are valuable!
In his previous life, Jia Mingfang practiced medicine in addition to collecting. When she has nothing to do, she buys collectible books and collects common sense from the Internet. In addition to stamp collecting, she can't afford to collect valuable things, but while she goes to the countryside to practice medicine, what Tang River quarrying, old spinning wheels, old-fashioned door locks, flower brick carvings, she has not less to collect, she has set aside a room in the hospital to store the treasures.
At this moment, she stared at the copper coins on the ground and couldn't move her legs: "Master, how much do you pay for these copper coins when you collect them, can you sell them to me?"
Only then did the old man raise his eyes and glance at her: "I collected it together with the pile of broken iron, and when I weighed it, the copper coins rolled all over the ground, and I was too lazy to pick it up, so I didn't count the weight......
Ming Fang took out the five dimes that sold the rabbit skin: "Then, five dimes, I want these copper coins, okay?"
The old man turned around and continued to busy his work, and threw her a sentence: "You are rare, pick it up." Worthless stuff, what's the money?"
Mingfang was simply ecstatic, and said in his heart, what a pity to take it to the smelter to melt. She hurriedly picked up the copper coins and put them in the basket, and did not stop until they were found in the corners and corners, and confirmed that they could not be found again.
Ming Fang took off her scarf and covered the copper coin. Wash your hands and take out two sparrows from the sack.
"Master, spiced sparrow, give!"
The old man happily took it and handed it to his nose and smelled it: "It smells so good." It's time for snacks at noon!
Mingfang came out of the acquisition station and walked south to Hejiaji Town. She blew up the remaining seven sparrows in the morning, and now she has only seven sparrows in her basket. Last night, when she returned from delivering medicine to Old Man Lin, she placed a few nooses in the forest, but in the morning she ran to see that a hare had not been caught, and she returned empty-handed.
Just now I gave the old man at the acquisition station two sparrows, and now there are five more in the basket.
This time she went to the gate of the He Family Concentration School. This is a high school, she thought, the sparrows are too small to sell at a price, and when the teachers and students come out after school, only five sparrows should not be sold.
A biscuit costs seven cents, so why do I have to sell my spiced sparrows for six or seven cents? If each one sells for six cents, five is a triangular penny. Two cents a pound of vinegar, if you buy vinegar and soy sauce, the triangle money is enough for a while.
Mingfang guarded the basket and calculated, the bell rang for the end of class, and it didn't take much effort to pour out many students, all of whom were students who were close to home, and came home from school to eat. There were also a few teachers who talked and laughed and walked towards the school gate.
Mingfang hurriedly took out the sack pieces from the basket, held them in his hand and shouted: "Hey, five-spiced sparrow, it's delicious and not expensive!
Fragrant and crispy, or is it a sparrow? Her cries immediately attracted teachers and students, who gathered around her.
"Sparrows, what sparrows?"
Mingfang opened the sack slice and revealed the fried golden sparrow: "The spiced sparrow that has just come out of the pot is seven cents a piece!"
A young male teacher came up and took a closer look with glasses: "I don't know if your food is delicious, can it be sold cheaper?"
Mingfang was about to lie, but she nodded when she heard it: "How many do you want, teacher? ”
"Okay, let's have two!" The glasses teacher took out two of them and handed them over, Mingfang received them in his hand, and couldn't find them.
"I should have looked for you for eight cents, but I couldn't find it. ”
"I'll buy one, I'll want one too...... several students bought it out of their pockets, and the remaining three were quickly sold.
Mingfang found money for the glasses teacher, and smoothly put the triangular money into her pocket, rabbit skin and spiced sparrows, and today she got star anise.
There are two sparrows that have been sent to the old man for nothing, Ming Fang thought in her heart, and when she got home, she told her mother that there were seven sparrows, one of which was sold for seven cents, and a total of four corners and seven were sold. The five corners of the rabbit skin were handed over to the mother, and the triangle was collected by herself, so she said that she bought white noodles without authorization.
She has to find a legitimate reason for the white noodles on the roof of her house to show up! Otherwise, during the Chinese New Year, in order to eat a meal of white flour dumplings, her mother will have to go out to borrow them from Aunt Daling's house.
The forest farm became Liu Mingfang's small treasury. After lunch every day, she hurriedly carried the basket to the forest farm, first laid down the lasso and waited for the rabbit, and then set up a sieve to catch the sparrows. After the noose is lowered, Old Man Lin will go over from time to time to take a look, and once he catches a rabbit, the old man will help her pick it up and put it away in the hut.
Mingfang is not greedy, just deduct a few sieves every day and catch more than ten sparrows. It is quite laborious to clean the sparrows and then fry them.
After catching the sparrows, Ming Fang treated the old man Lin with acupuncture and moxibustion.
The old man took the medicine she had given, and saw that he was much lighter, and his cough was less violent, and his wheezing was much better. The old man walked around the forest farm every day, looking at this state-owned forest farm, which was his task of decentralization and transformation. Especially in winter, it is even more difficult not to let the nearby villagers who come here to collect firewood and grass steal trees, and it is even more important to prevent people from smoking or something to cause fires. Once a fire breaks out in a forest farm of thousands of acres, it is terrible.
When Ming Fang caught the sparrow, she inadvertently made a new discovery, she found a medicinal herb called Rehmannia on a sunny slope, and when she looked around, there were really a lot of Rehmannia roots.
As a doctor in her previous life, she naturally knew the medicinal value of Rehmannia. In fact, rehmannia is found everywhere in the ridges, river slopes, and idle land, and it blooms with purple-pink trumpet-shaped flowers in spring. It's just that the villagers don't know much about it, and no one notices it.
Mingfang borrowed a small pickaxe from the old man and ran to the sunny slope to shave the ground, and the old man Lin helped her pick it up, and the two of them did not work hard to planh half a basket.
Haha! Another way to make money!
Ming Fang looked at the basket almost full, straightened his waist, and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead: "Hey, this forest farm is really full of treasures!"
Old man Lin pinched a piece of rehmannia in his hand and asked her, "Little ghost, can this thing really be exchanged for money?"
Ming Fang smiled and nodded: "Man, this rehmannia was dug by the two of us, and when it is sold for money, I will give you a drink!"
Old man Lin crossed his hands on his hips and laughed heartily: "Okay! I haven't drunk it for a long time, I'm really hungry." ”
"Your bronchitis is better to drink. Now I'm your doctor, and you have to listen to me if you can drink it or not, and when you can drink it. ”
"Haha!" The little girl's condescending tone in front of her made the old man laugh, "Okay, little ghost, I'll listen to you, the health care doctor." ”