Chapter 20: Earning Money

Jiang Saburo picked up the boning knife, gestured at the fish, and asked, "Which piece does the guest want?" The fish loin is delicate and can be made into fish belly, and the fish belly is thick and can be braised or grilled, you see ......"

The fox fur hat stretched out his hand to circle the fish, "Right here, cut two more fins, cut them deeper, and stick more live meat." ”

The piece of meat under the fin of the fish is the most delicious, especially the fin meat of the big fish, which is delicious when stewed, and his master's family has the best bite.

"Okay." Jiang Saburo raised the knife in his hand, cut off a large piece of fish meat, cut two fins, bundled them with fine hemp rope, and hooked them on the scale.

"A total of twenty-one catties and three taels, remove the hemp rope and count you as twenty-one catties, and benefit two hundred and ten wen."

The fox fur hat took four strings of money from the money bag wrapped around his waist, counted another ten copper coins, and handed them to Jiang Sanlang.

Jiang Saburo took the money and counted it, a string of fifty for a total of four strings, plus ten odds, exactly two hundred and ten.

"Thank you for your patronage." Offering the fish with both hands, Jiang Saburo smiled and sent the first guest away.

The first order was successfully made, and the next one was much smoother, and the few people who were watching also bought a large piece each, carried it up, and left.

There are more and more people on the set, and the fish on the board car of the Jiang brothers has been sold almost completely.

At this time, the township who collected taxes also came, stood in front of the board car and looked at it, and asked for 20 yuan in money.

Jiang Dalang was displeased, and just wanted to argue with reason, but was stopped by the third brother.

Jiang Saburo counted out twenty wen and handed it to the township rank, then cut a piece of meat from the fish head and handed it over: "Our brother came back to the town to set up a stall, and a little heart is not respectful." ”

Xiangzhi looked at him, smiled, took the fish, and asked, "Which village?" Will you come next time? ”

"Chen Village, if you catch another fish, you will definitely come back." Jiang Saburo also laughed.

"That's fine." The villager said: "Come back in the future, your stall is still here, I will count you as a business tax, and you can pay ten yuan each time." ”

Jiang Saburo thanked: "Then thank you." ”

After the township left, Jiang Dalang was dissatisfied: "Each household in the surrounding stalls only charges three or five yuan, and those who carry baskets to sell vegetables and eggs only give one or two yuan, but they ask us for twenty yuan, why do you still give it to him?" ”

"The strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake, our village is far away from the town, and we are not familiar with these people, so if we want to set up a stall to sell fish smoothly in the future, we can only temporarily shorten the people."

Jiang Saburo explained: "What's more, we don't have time to entangle with him." ”

"San Lang is right, we may come back next time, and now it's not bad for the township to arrange a fixed place."

Jiang Dalang was silent for a moment and asked, "Still coming?" Can we still catch such a big fish? ”

Jiang Saburo scratched his head, but there was no squeak.

I don't know if I can catch a big fish, but I should be fine with ordinary fish.

There are still two baits left in my little girl's bait, which is estimated to be enough for two times.

By noon, the last bit of fish was sold out, and even the fish heads and bones were sold at a low price, and the three brothers pushed the empty cart home.

Back at the mansion, the three brothers hurriedly hid in the house and counted the money.

With a bang, the money bag fell down, and a pile of copper coins shook dizzily.

Several people counted together, and quickly came to a conclusion.

"Four thousand five hundred and thirteen wen, a fish was sold for more than four thousand five hundred wen!" Jiang Dalang was pleasantly surprised.

That's almost enough to catch up with his family's annual income.

Jiang Dalang shaved in the ground, and the total harvest in a year was only fifteen or sixteen, except for some miscellaneous endowments given by the land endowment households, and then the cost of seeds was removed, only about five or six guan remained. The days are pretty tight.

Fortunately, I and my younger brothers know how to hunt for some skills, and every winter we go to hunt some small game to supplement the family, otherwise we will definitely not be able to live.

I didn't expect to be so lucky this year, I earned more than two times with my third brother in the summer, and I earned more than four times today, adding up to seven.

Although the money was divided equally between the three of them in the end, it was also divided into his Jiang family.

Hehehe, Jiang Dalang couldn't help laughing, and asked the third brother expectantly: "San Lang, will we still go fishing tomorrow?" ”

Jiang Saburo scratched his head, "Let's go again in a few days, it will be a big gathering in ten days, let's go fishing before the set, and it can be sold fresh the next day." ”

The fifteenth day of the first month of each month is the day of the temple fair, the villagers almost poured out of the nest, and the fish had to take advantage of that time, which could be sold at a higher price, not to mention that it would be New Year's Day after a while, and the big set before the festival was more lively, everyone had to prepare New Year's goods, and they were more willing to pay money.

"Yes, yes, yes! What the third brother said is reasonable. ”

Jiang Erlang nodded again and again, "It's New Year's Day in another month, let's fish before the festival, and we will definitely be able to sell it at a good price if we go to the market." ”

Jiang Dalang was a little regretful, but still agreed with the words of his younger brothers: "Well, that's fine, the big sturgeon has been caught by us, and it will definitely not appear in the river again for a while, so let's wait a few days and see again." ”

After the three brothers agreed, they began to divide the money.

Four times more money, first cut out the change, the whole four through into three parts, each family to get 1,334 Wen.

The remaining five hundred and eleven texts, two hundred texts were given to the old father and mother, and three hundred and eleven texts, which Jiang Dalang asked to leave to Yingbao.

Because yesterday he saw that Sakura put something in the river, and the two big fish swam over.

"We're fine, right?" Jiang Dalang is the eldest brother, and what he says carries the majesty of the elder brother.

Jiang Erlang hurriedly nodded: "I agree, the big fish is from Yingbao, and without the eldest niece, we can't catch such a big fish." ”

Jiang Saburo smiled and said: "Then thank you two brothers, I'll accept it for Yingbao first, and I'll give it to her when I go home." However, the third brother still has one more thing he wants to tell his brothers. ”

Jiang Dalang Jiang Erlang was stunned for a moment, "San Lang, you say, my brothers are listening." ”

Jiang Sanlang coughed and said, "I speak straight, the eldest brother and the second brother must be treated, but when it comes to my daughter, I have to speak first."

Well, our brothers are members of their own family, and they don't have any scruples about talking, but outside, don't say that the big fish is from Yingbao, your niece is still young, I'm afraid that someone will arrange something bad to spread out. ”

"Understood." Jiang Dalang patted the third brother's shoulder, "You reminded me right, I forgot about this stubble, and my brothers will pay attention to it in the future." ”

Jiang Erlang also promised: "Second brother, I will say it in front of you, and I won't mention it outside, San Lang, don't worry." ”

Jiang Saburo arched his hand towards the two elder brothers and said with a smile: "Brother, thank you for your understanding." ”

"What kind of understanding is this, but it is a wake-up call for us, and I will explain to the second boy when I turn around, so that he doesn't go out and talk nonsense."

"Uh-huh."

When he returned home with the money, Jiang Saburo immediately told his wife and daughter the whole story, and took out the money that belonged to his daughter and handed it to her.

Sakura took it and put it in a small wooden box on her kang.

Haha, she's finally got her first money.

Although it is not much, as a child less than two years old, she is already a little rich woman in the village.

Sister Dani is almost ten years old, and her family has begun to look for her mother-in-law, but she has nothing on hand.

Compared with his cousins, he is simply rich.

Well, after a while, she will definitely ask her father to take her to the market and buy some colorful silk and silk flowers for her cousin to tie her hair.