A jujube red horse tethered not far from Xiao Gray was not interested in the fine beans in his trough at this time. It craned its neck and tried to eat the rough fodder in front of the little donkey. But the reins limited its range of movement, and the feeling of wanting to eat but not being able to eat made it grumpy, and it couldn't help but pick up its feet and raise its head and hiss.

Its owner had just come out of the pickle shop when he heard the angry neighing of his horse and strode towards him. Seeing this, the handsome young man scolded amusedly: "Hongyun, you are really cheap!" Don't eat good beans, but covet other people's hay? Competing with a little donkey for food, you are really good!! ”

The red horse seemed to understand its master's words, and screamed a few more times as if arguing, and struggled to break the reins that bound it. The young man let go of the reins, and the little red horse immediately rushed towards the little donkey, squeezed the little gray with his body domineeringly, licked the few mouthfuls of grass left by the little donkey, and neighed fiercely at the little gray, as if blaming the little gray for not giving it more left!

The little gray man is relatively mild, and he doesn't make trouble when he is robbed of food, but just looks at the jujube red horse with gentle big eyes. The red horse seemed embarrassed to look at it, and stopped making a fuss, turned to face it with his buttocks, and chewed a few times in his mouth, as if to savor the deliciousness of the grass.

"You brute, you're really a slut! If you like forage, just go home and ask the groom to prepare some for you! The young man gently touched the little gray and oily hair, and patted it again, "I've wronged you!" Old man, I'll pay my bag of beans to the donkey's owner later! ”

The old man, who was in charge of the cattle and horses, also smiled and narrowed his eyes, and agreed again and again.

The young man took the reluctant horse, got out of the vegetable field, and galloped all the way to the direction of the capital!

The mother concubine has recently worried about her younger brother who has sailed away, and her appetite is not very good, and she has not improved after changing a few cooks. I heard Mrs. Wu, whose husband worked in Tanggu, say that there are a few pickles in the vegetable market in Tanggu Town, which are very refreshing. The mother concubine tasted the refreshing and crispy radish sent by Mrs. Wu, and actually ate a bowl of porridge more than before.

After all, Mrs. Wu brought back to the capital not many pickles, only enough for the mother concubine to eat for two days. After eating the pickles, the mother returned to the state of eating something wrong. Filial piety, he couldn't bear to watch his mother lose weight, and took advantage of this time to rush to Tanggu all the way, and finally bought the delicious radish that his mother loved after several inquiries!

In order not to run in vain, he even packed all the pickles in other people's stores! If he let his friends know that for a few crude pickles, he would be the prince of Jingwang in a dignified manner, and he would have gone back and forth between the capital and Tanggu Town in one day, and he would definitely laugh off his big teeth. However, for the sake of the mother, why not make them smile!

Today, it is just in time for the big gathering every Friday. Those who do small business, sell vegetables, and catch up with the market...... All converge in the wet market. As soon as Yu Xiaocao put the watery and green vegetables on the table, a few people came up.

"Yo! At this time, there are vegetables for sale! Look at this little cabbage, it is so tender that you can pinch out the water, which makes people have an appetite when they look at it!! This big brother, how is this little cabbage sold? "The one who asked the price was a lady who was Fufu Taitai, wearing a muslin jacket and a silver hairpin on her head, and it seemed that the conditions at home should be good.

On the way here, the two men had already negotiated the price of green vegetables. Yu Hai said with a smile: "Twenty wen a pound of cabbage, fifteen wen a pound of spinach, eighteen wen of oil and wheat cabbage, and twenty-five wen of lettuce." Sister, take a look, what do you need? ”

"Yo! Your vegetables aren't cheap, you're about to catch up with pork! Most people really can't afford it!! The lady's chubby face was wrinkled, and she seemed to be very dissatisfied with the price!

Yu Xiaocao smiled and said sweetly: "Auntie, as the saying goes, things are vaguely precious!" As you know, there was a lot of snow this winter, and there were two snowfalls in the spring! What kind of food can't freeze to death? It's not easy for us to grow this kind of food! ”

The people around looked at the fresh, although they were curious about how this watery vegetable survived the spring breeze and snow, but they also knew that this was the way to eat, and the fool would say it, so he stopped inquiring. However, most of the people who come to the market are people from the surrounding villages, and there are really few who can afford to eat vegetables at the same price as meat.

Although the fat lady really thinks that the food is expensive, she still has the financial resources to eat it once or twice. In addition, the daughter-in-law of the family is pregnant, and she wants to eat some green vegetables when she vomits whatever she eats. She also knows that the vegetables are not planted in the ground at this time, where do the green leafy vegetables come from?

She also had the intention of trying it out to see if she could touch it. If you can't touch it, buy some garlic and give birth to some garlic seedlings on the kang, which can be regarded as a green leaf. I didn't expect her to really touch it, and almost all the vegetables in the spring are there.

Although the price is a little more expensive, for the sake of her eldest grandson, who was not born, she gritted her teeth - buy!

The fat lady had a proud smile in the envious eyes around her, and pointed to the little cabbage, spinach and lettuce with her white and fat hands, as if she was afraid that others would not hear her, and raised her voice and said: "Little girl, this, this, and this, give me half a catty each!" If you eat well, the eldest lady will come to buy it tomorrow! ”

"Okay!" Yu Xiaocao quickly weighed out the dishes that the fat lady needed, and gave each scale high, "Auntie, no more, no less, a total of thirty wen!" ”

"Thirty Wen! It's enough to buy a pound of pork!! In previous years, the price of one and a half pounds of pork would have bought such a little green vegetables. Who wants to eat! ”

"That's it, that's it! I wanted to buy some for my family to try, but I didn't know it was so expensive! Forget it, let's bear with it! Wait a few months and the vegetables will almost come down! ”

"People sell it to the rich! There are 30 Wen, enough to buy more than ten catties of coarse grain! This winter is cold, food is skyrocketing, and it is good that you don't starve to death. How can you have the spare money to eat this rich dish. ”

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There are many onlookers, but few are bought. Half an hour passed, and except for the fat lady, Yu Hai's father and daughter never met a second guest.

"Cao'er, isn't our price set a little high? It's almost noon, and if you can't sell it anymore, the vegetables will wilt, and if you want to sell them at a good price, you can't! Yu Hai looked at the vegetables in the basket with some concern.

These vegetables condense how much effort the little girl has, watering and weeding every day, never fake the hands of others. In early spring, the temperature is low, and in order to prevent freezing, the vegetable fields must be covered with grass at night, and when the sun comes out in the morning, they have to be opened again. Every day, neither of these two steps is missing.

In front of the house and behind the house, wherever there is vacant land, vegetables are planted, adding up to four or five acres. Cao'er and a few children never scream tired, and they are so sensible that they are distressing.

Especially the youngest daughter, she grabbed pickled vegetables and planted vegetables, and this little girl who was only as tall as his waist was more worried than him as a father. Alas! The main thing in my family is to be more competitive, and I will not let a nine-year-old girl take on the burden of the family too early.

Yu Xiaocao didn't know that his father's mind had turned so much in an instant, and he still said confidently: "Dad, don't worry!" There is no shortage of rich people in Tanggu Town!! We have nowhere to buy this vegetable at the moment! ”

She swept her eyes to the crowd and saw a middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper, so she greeted loudly: "This uncle, do you want fresh vegetables?" We are unique in the market! ”

The housekeeper with a goatee was the housekeeper of the Yao Mansion, the wealthy family second only to the Zhou family in the town. Mrs. Yao has been celebrating her 60th birthday in the past two days, and she is just in time for this green and yellow shortage, and the meat dishes are easy to handle, but the vegetables and other things are tricky.

Because of the snow disaster this winter, Mrs. Yao did not prepare to make a big deal, but only invited a few close friends and relatives, who were all rich or noble. To entertain distinguished guests, you can't always put all the radish and cabbage on the table, right?

The butler, who was so worried about the birthday banquet dishes that his hair turned gray a few times, faced the date of the birthday banquet that was getting closer and closer, not only mobilized his subordinates, but also went into battle himself. I've been shopping in this vegetable market for more than half of the time, and I still don't have a clue. The butler was so anxious that he scratched his head!

As the so-called: the road to the sky, I didn't expect that at this moment, a heavenly voice sounded in my ears.

The housekeeper followed the prestige, and the baskets of verdant vegetables were so fresh that they were close to the eye. The butler was in tears—saved!

He rushed to the stall of Yu Hai's father and daughter with an arrow, and did not ask the price, pointed to all the bamboo baskets, and said eagerly: "I will ...... all of these"

"Isn't this Miss Yu!" A familiar voice interrupted Steward Yao's words.

Yu Xiaocao turned his eyes and saw that he was the apprentice of Chef Zhenyulou, and the money in charge of the purchase was much smaller!

"Little Miss Yu, it's been a long time since I've seen you go to the restaurant to deliver prey, and my master has been talking about you for a few days!" Qian Xiaoduo saw a basket of green vegetables, and his eyes showed surprise.

In a wealthy family like their own, it is not easy to have a few green leafy vegetables on the dinner table this season, which are grown in a greenhouse built at a great price. How could the Yu family grow fresh vegetables at this time?

"There's something going on at home...... I may not be able to send prey to your restaurant in the future. However, Uncle Zhao and Brother Han are both good hunters, and there will be no shortage of game in your store. ”

In the past month or so, the family has been doing one thing after another. First, my father was injured, then I split up, repaired the house, went to the dock to sell braised vegetables, and my brother had an accident...... After all, she hadn't been to Zhenyulou for a few days.

"Little Miss Yu, you are selling vegetables!!" Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, Qian Xiaoduo didn't ask any more questions, looked at the basket of vegetables, and said, "You said that you are really, there are such rare vegetables, why don't you send them to Zhenyulou?" How many vegetables like this are collected in our restaurant, and what kind of stalls do you set up! Go, go! Dola shop to ......"

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Today's second is a bit late. Who will throw a red envelope over again and break the spell of 250?