Chapter 55: Baked Cakes

"Did you ask?"

As soon as Li Sixi got on the boat, his daughter-in-law immediately came over.

Li Sixi glared at her angrily: "No, you think Lu Quan is a fool and will tell us." ”

"Even if you don't say it, you can find a chance to see the bamboo tube that Cancan said."

Aunt Li didn't feel that there was anything wrong with her: "Last night, the Lu family's junior and fourth children went to the river beach to dig wild vegetables, and brought the bamboo tube, and Lu Quan went to the river beach with the little four early this morning, and when he came back, he brought two buckets full of long fish, and he carried the bamboo tube back." You say, it's not the bamboo tube, let them catch it, can they catch so much? ”

Speaking of two full barrels, Aunt Li's tone was filled with indescribable envy.

Her man can catch long fish, but this thing is not caught every time, and it depends on luck.

The most is the first time, I caught two big long fish, which added more than a catty, and sold them for two dollars of silver.

Later, sometimes I didn't catch it, sometimes one or two, two or three, it wasn't very big.

That's it, it's made her family's life a lot better.

The Lu family caught two buckets full of long fish this time, so how much copper money do they have to sell.

No, she must find a way, even if she steals, she has to steal a bamboo tube and come back to see how she got it.

"How can there be two buckets, I can see, in his pot, most of the loaches are on the plate."

Since Li Sixi knows how to fish for long fish, he feels that he is one of the best among these companies.

was pressed down by Lu Quan, and he couldn't swallow this breath.

"How many loaches are there, let me tell you, don't you see ......"

The couple leaned their heads on their heads and talked about the Lu family, and there was no one in the entire wild wharf who was not talking about the Lu family.

There are envy and jealousy, and there are those who are sincerely happy for their family.

……

On the way back, Lu Quan held Xiao Si in one hand and pig's trotters in the other.

Lu Yangge wrapped six pieces of baked cakes in lotus leaves and carefully held them in his arms.

Originally, Lu Quan only planned to buy three pieces of baked cakes, one for Xiaosi, one for Xiaoqing and Xiaoli, and one for Xiaoyu and Qiu.

He's a big man, so he doesn't eat baked cakes.

Although this thing is fragrant, it costs two pennies a piece, which is really expensive.

But the fourth child counts that he wants to buy six yuan, one for his father, one for his mother, one for the eldest sister, one for the second sister, one for the small fish, and one for the younger four.

Looking at the children at his feet snapping his fingers and counting all the people who can eat baked cakes at home, Lu Quan's heart is as if he has been soaked in sweet water, and he can't say how comfortable it is.

Seeing how sensible his little four are, he thinks about his father and sister when he eats baked cakes.

This child is worthy of being a child of the Lu family, Bishop Lu Zhuang is really good!

After buying the baked cakes, Lu Xiaosi went to buy pig's trotters again, saying that he wanted to give them to Xiaowu.

She also said that everyone ate the baked cakes, but Xiao Wu didn't eat them, so she had to buy a pig's trotter for Xiao Wu.

The fat sausages eaten before the Dragon Boat Festival, the meat eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, the zongzi and salted duck eggs eaten, and the big bone broth, after which the Ding family sent meat, boiled half a bowl of lard, and wrapped dumplings, and the snake meat eaten last night.

The whole family who has eaten in the past few days has been happy, but Lu Quan, who has also eaten, has an indescribable feeling in his heart, both happy and afraid.

Eating like this, he hasn't lived for decades!

It always felt like a dream, and he was really afraid that he would wake up from the dream, and the whole family would go back to the days when the cold wind stirred the winter, lying in the cabin and starving to death.

Lu Quan was reluctant to buy pig's trotters, and coaxed Lu Yangge: "Didn't you just eat snake meat at home last night, let's buy it in a few days." ”

"That's different." Lu Yangge reasoned with her father: "Today, Dad bought us baked cakes, if we don't buy them for Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu will be unhappy, Dad bought him a pig's trotter, my mother ate it, Xiao Wu will have milk to drink, and he will be happy." ”

Fallacies and heresies.

How old Lu Xiaowu is, he knows what to be happy or unhappy about.

Lu Quan felt that if he bought pig's trotters, probably the happiest person would not be Xiao Wu, but Xiao Yu.

But thinking of eating snake meat at home last night, Xiao Si didn't touch a mouthful, and he felt distressed.

Buy it, don't you just sell the long fish, buy a pig's trotter and go back to stew soup, give it to Qiu's family, and also give it to Xiaosi.

It has only been a long time since the child arrived at his house, and the whole person has lost a lot of weight.

It was he who was sorry for the owner of Lu Zhuang, and even his only child left behind did not take care of Lu Hao.

"Dad, you haven't said how much silver you sold for long fish."

Lu Quanling landed Lu Yangge on the way to Ding's house to buy pig's feet, passing by Fushun, Lu Yangge remembered this key problem.

"Shopkeeper Li said, this long fish is rare, the store has always received eighty pounds and one catty, a total of twenty-five pounds and nine taels, and Shopkeeper Li said that it is twenty-six pounds, and a total of 2080 pieces were sold."

Two taels of silver, when Lu Quan got it, his hands were shaking.

Lu Yangge couldn't believe it: "Dad, didn't you say that Uncle Li sold two long fish to Lai Fushun and got two dollars of silver?" There must be about 30 long fish we caught today, how can we have such a small number? ”

"Listen to your Aunt Li's nonsense, how can you sell long fish for as much as two dollars of silver, wouldn't it become a treasure."

Seeing Lu Yangge looking up at him curiously, Lu Quan smiled and touched Yangge's little head: "The two long fish that your Uncle Li caught are not small, and the two have already weighed more than two catties, and they should be sold for more than one hundred and seventy or eighty according to reason." It was also a coincidence, that day, a merchant who came to Yangzhou was in the store, and he took a fancy to this long fish and gave it to him, and directly gave you Uncle Li a silver horn, which was counted as a reward. I heard that the silver horn weighed two coins. ”

"Oh."

It turns out that this is the origin of the two long fish sold for two pieces of silver.

Lu Yangge lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, and Lu Quan didn't care.

Seeing that Lai Fushun was in front of him, Lu Quan couldn't help but sigh: "If you can catch so many long fish every day, I don't know if you can sell them at such a high price." ”

The price of long fish in Laifushun is expensive, and that is because long fish are rare.

But if you can get more than ten or twenty catties of long fish every day, I am afraid that the long fish will not be sold at a price by then.

Lu Yangge was a little puzzled: "Isn't Lai Fushun famous for its long fish noodles?" Surely they need a long fish? ”

"Yes."

Lu Quan smiled: "But this Jiangjiaba is not only your Uncle Li who can catch long fish, and you have the luck of fishing and can also catch the net." Jiangjiaba only comes to Fushun to collect long fish, and other families don't want it. Although the long fish noodles in Laifushun are very famous, not everyone can eat them. When the merchant came, he ordered long fish noodles and always ordered some other dishes, such as fish and shrimp meat, but he couldn't eat all of them. Only noodles are made, and the quantity of long fish is still limited. ”

Lu Yangge thought thoughtfully: "It's not impossible to use long fish for cooking." ”

"What?"

Lu Quan didn't hear clearly, lowered his body, approached Lu Yangge's side and asked again.

"I said, Laifushun can make a long fish feast, such as Boiling Tiger Tail, Dragon Tiger Fight, Soft Pocket Long Fish, Xiangyou Eel Paste, Bursting Eel Tube, Fried Butterfly Slices, Big Roasted Saddle Bridge, Fried Eel Silk...... As long as the reputation of the long fish banquet in Fushun is beaten, so that the merchants who pass by Jiangjiaba hear that there is a long fish banquet in Fushun, they must be very curious, and they all come to taste it, then there are more long fish that his family needs. ”

Lu Yangge added in his heart, in this way, our family's long fish will not be able to sell for a price.

No matter how much you catch, you won't have to worry about selling.