Chapter 7: The Poor First Pot of Gold
Three days passed in Yang Yun's hard digging of mother-in-law Ding and Chai Hu, and just as Yang Yun thought, Yang Qingshan did not complain to Mrs. Li, but often paid attention to Yang Yun.
On the day of the market, the Yang family's compound, which had slept all night, woke up early.
Today, Mrs. Li is going to take Yang Zhi to the town to hand in the embroidery work, and by the way, she will take the eggs accumulated at home to exchange them for some household use, and she will be accompanied by the fourth aunt Fang.
Going to the town to catch up with such a good thing, naturally there is no matter of the second room, Yang Yun doesn't care, as usual, after brushing her teeth with mint water and bitten willow branches, after breakfast, she slowly carried her own special basket and led the star fruit out under Yang Qingshan's gaze.
After Yang Qingshan couldn't see him, Yang Yun handed over the basket and shovel to the star fruit, touched the star fruit's hair, and instructed with a smile, "Tao'er, you give the basket and shovel to your third brother, go home quickly, and wait for the second sister to come back from the town to buy you candy to eat." ”
"Okay, second sister, don't worry, I won't say anything Brother Qingshan asks."
Yang Yun smiled and nodded, then turned around and returned to the backyard, taking out the back basket prepared last night in his haystack.
The back basket is naturally the fruit of these few days' labor, and the sun-dried mother-in-law Ding and Bupleurum.
Although the original owner has not been to the town, Yang Qingsen has been, and the road to the town is also very recognizable.
Yang Qingsen said that as long as you leave the village, you can walk along the main road.
Yang Yun believed that with her adult soul, she would definitely find the town.
Half an hour later, Yang Yun arrived at Heisongyi Town, which was named after a post station.
Naturally, the towns and villages of ancient times were not as prosperous as they are in modern times.
A main road paved with bluestone slabs is lined with shops and hawker stalls.
Heisongyi Town was too small, Yang Yun was afraid of running into Mrs. Li, and she had to return to the village before Mrs. Li, so she didn't delay any longer, and went straight to the pharmacy after asking a roadside vendor.
Walking along the main road, there is a very large shop, and the black plaque reads the three big characters of Jirentang.
Yang Yun stopped in front of this shop, and as soon as she entered, a guy greeted her.
"The little girl grabbed the medicine?" The guy greeted warmly, smiling with a lovely smile, and he didn't despise Yang Yun at all because of his patched dress.
"I don't take medicine." Yang Yun shook her head and said crisply, "I'm here to sell medicinal herbs." Excuse me, brother, do you collect firewood here? ”
"We'll have to ask our shopkeeper about this." The guy waved his hand, "Follow me." ”
Yang Yun obediently followed, and the guy led her to a counter and said, "This is our big shopkeeper, Dr. Jin." ”
I saw a middle-aged man in his thirties, sitting behind the counter, hearing this, he raised his head and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
"Hello Dr. Jin, may I ask if your pharmacy collects firewood?" Yang Yun stepped forward and asked generously.
"Collect, but we're only collecting dry goods." Dr. Kim said.
"Look, is this okay?" Yang Yun removed the basket from her back, took out a small cloth bag from it and handed it to Dr. Jin.
Dr. Jin grabbed a handful of the small bag, rubbed it repeatedly, and then leaned in front of his nose and asked, "Wild Bupleurum is also very dry, 45 wen per catty, can it be sold?" ”
"Sell!" Yang Yun nodded very dryly.
"Weigh ......," Dr. Kim handed the basket to the man.
Soon the man came over with the scale, weighed it and said, "It's almost two pounds." ”
"Then count it as two catties." As he spoke, he began to count the copper plates from the drawer on the counter.
Yang Yun hurriedly said, "Doctor Jin, wait a minute, I still have my mother-in-law here, and you can accept it in your pharmacy?" ”
The golden shopkeeper counted the copper plates for a moment, looked up at Yang Yun's clothes, frowned slightly, and swallowed the words that were about to be spoken.
Then he took a big cloth bag handed over by Yang Yun and glanced at it, then looked at Yang Yun's face full of hope, and sighed slightly in his heart, "Accept it, but it can only cost 2 yuan per catty, do you want to sell it?"
"Sell."
The trace of pity in the eyes of the golden shopkeeper was naturally captured by Yang Yun, but now she is a poor person, so she can only bend down and bow 90 degrees to express her gratitude, "Thank you, the golden shopkeeper." ”
The golden shopkeeper nodded, and didn't say anything else, just beckoned the guy to call him Mother-in-law.
The sun-dried mother-in-law is very light and does not weigh at all.
"2 catties and 8 taels"
The golden shopkeeper had already counted the copper plates of Chai Hu, and after hearing the man's report, he counted 6 copper plates from the drawer and handed them to Yang Yun, "Na, a total of 96 Wen." ”
Yang Yun bowed again to express her gratitude before taking the copper plate with both hands.
Out of Jirentang, Yang Yun couldn't help but spread her hands, looked at the large and small blood bubbles in her palms, and sighed secretly, "It's really difficult to earn this first pot of gold." ”
Ignoring his feelings, he looked at the sky and hurriedly walked towards the place where steamed buns were sold not far away.
"Uncle, how do you sell these buns and steamed buns?"
Seeing customers coming to the door, the stall owner said enthusiastically, "A meat bun is 2 Wen, a vegetarian bun and a white flour steamed bun are 1 Wen, and Erhe Noodles Mantou is 1 Wen and 2 Wen." ”
"Then give me 10 Erhe noodle steamed buns." After thinking about it, he said, "Six more meat buns."
"Okay, Erhe noodles steamed buns are 5 wen, meat buns are 12 wen, a total of 17 wen."
In ancient times when materials were scarce, Yang Yun didn't care, and handed the cloth bag containing her mother-in-law to the stall owner. After watching the stall owner pack the buns and steamed buns, he counted 17 copper plates painfully and handed them over.
Leaving the steamed bun stall, Yang Yun looked down at the shoes that were about to show her thumb, and couldn't help stopping at a stall selling shoes.
"Auntie, how do you sell these shoes?" Yang Yun asked at this time, pointing to a pair of embroidered shoes.
The stall owner said enthusiastically, "The little girl has good eyesight, these shoes are the best pair of shoes for my aunt, and the little girl must look good when she wears them." The stall owner couldn't help but glance at Yang Yun's shoes, "These were originally 25 yuan, and my aunt didn't ask you how much you wanted, so I just gave 20 yuan." ”
Looking at the workmanship and materials, the stall owner is also a sincere person. But now she is not allowed to be extravagant at all, so she had to shake her head and pick up another pair of shoes on the stall with very ordinary materials and no embroidery, "Auntie, I want this pair, how much does it cost?" ”
The stall owner still said enthusiastically, "This pair is cheap, 5 yuan a pair." ”
Yang Yun accepted the price, nodded, glanced at all the cloth shoes on the stall, and took a pair of each for Yang He, Yang Qingsen, and star fruit, but unfortunately there were no shoes worn by Qin's and Yang Erming.
Yang He, Yang Qingsen's and Yang Yun's are the same price, the star fruit shoes are small for 3 yuan, and Yang Yun spent 18 yuan again.
"I bought food, bought shoes, and bought some candy for Tao'er, and I don't know if the rest of the money is enough to buy some cloth for underwear......"
Just as Yang Yun was thinking about spending the rest of the money, Mrs. Li, Yang Zhi, and the Fang family happened to come out of the shop next to them.
Yang Yun dodged and hid in a nearby shop.