Chapter 15 Buying Duck Eggs
I saw the gate of Zhuangzi from afar, but the door was open. , but you can't get in if you want to, there is a small maid guarding the door, as soon as the mother and daughter approach, the little maid guarding the door walked out of the shade.
"What are you two doing?"
The little girl's tone was not good, she squinted at the mother and daughter, and her eyes fell on Su Yu, and the pickiness was very obvious.
That look made Su Yu very uncomfortable, if it was in modern times, she would have glared back, but thinking that she had crossed over, she had to suppress the impatience in her heart.
"This little brother, we are new villagers who have moved to Yujia Village, and we want to buy some duck eggs, and I heard the villagers in the village say that only you have them in Zhuangzi, so let's ask, do the duck eggs on the village sell?"
The bolt guarding the door felt that he was not hallucinating, and there were villagers who ran to their Zhuangzi to buy duck eggs, which was really rare, usually only their Zhuangzi people went to the village to buy things, where did they see villagers come to their Zhuangzi to buy things.
Lian's dealings with the villagers in the village can still be reasonable, but when he sees the appearance of the gatekeeper, he is a little empty, and Su Yu is not embarrassed by his mother.
"This big brother, we really want to buy duck eggs, please ask the steward in Zhuangzi if they sell it? We want as many duck eggs as there are in the Zhuangzi. ”
Su Yu has a tone that there is no shortage of money at home, but he has been guarding the door for three years, and he is confident that he can look at people's eyes, and the mother and daughter in front of him look like they are rich, and they are similar to those who came to sell their children in the past.
People are not small, but they have not a small mouth, they have less than twenty or thirty ducks raised in Zhuangzi, and the ducks do not divide the land, and they can pick up a few in a day, and there are not many people who buy duck eggs, and there are hundreds of duck eggs in Zhuangzi as far as he knows. Originally, he didn't plan to pay attention to the mother and daughter, but when he thought of the girl's cowhide blowing big, he wanted to see what it would be like if he couldn't come up with the money to buy duck eggs.
"You wait here, I'll ask the steward."
Seeing the little guy leave, the corners of Su Yu's lips hooked slightly.
The previous statement of buying eggs to fool the villagers was passable, but the people in Zhuangzi, especially the stewards, were much more powerful than the villagers, and they were afraid that others would see the flaws, so Su Yu changed his mind and planned to buy all the duck eggs in Zhuangzi, so he didn't believe how many duck eggs there could be in Zhuangzi, and there were only a few hundred in the sky.
As soon as the others left, the Lian clan immediately panicked.
"Fish, how do you say that you buy them all, there are still things in it that can't be used, what can you do when the time comes."
"Mother, don't worry, I have my own way, this money will definitely not be wasted."
Although the Lian family was still uneasy in her heart, she had to wait and talk about it when she heard her daughter say this.
The plug quickly folded back.
"Let's go, don't let Sun wait for a long time."
Lian took his daughter's hand and followed, and the three of them stopped and walked for a while before they came to a row of houses, smelling the aroma of food wafting inside, it was not difficult to guess that this was the kitchen of the village.
A room on the side is used to stack rice, flour, grain and oil, except for the chickens and duck eggs to be sent to the town, the rest are here.
The bolt nodded and bowed.
"Steward Sun, this is the mother and daughter who want to buy duck eggs."
"What are you doing with so many duck eggs?"
Originally, there was no need for Steward Sun to come forward in person for such a trivial matter as selling duck eggs, but he was a little curious, so he came to take a look.
"My family is in the food business, and we need eggs and duck eggs, and I heard that there are them in Zhuangzi, so I came to ask my mother and my parents."
Steward Sun retracted the gaze that fell on the Lian family, lowered his head and fell on Su Yu, but he didn't expect that the mother and daughter were the daughters.
"I've got five hundred duck eggs here, are you sure you want them all?"
"I'd like to see the goods first."
Steward Sun waved his hand, and the bolt entered the side room, and soon came out with a large basket of duck eggs. Su Yu glanced at the well-preserved duck eggs, and the mother and daughter stepped forward to count them, and after making sure that the number was correct, they asked the Lian family to pay for the silver.
Lian was very painful, took out a tael of silver from his arms, and handed it to the plug next to him.
Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Steward Sun felt bored and left first, but what he didn't expect was that the mother and daughter he looked down on at the beginning would end up being nobles that his master couldn't climb.
The plug still can't believe it, the mother and daughter can buy more than 500 duck eggs, is that 500 duck eggs, that's a tael of silver, his monthly silver is only 200 Wen, and he has to work for five months to save it, now it's good, I wanted to see other people's jokes, but I didn't expect to become a joke.
On the way out of Zhuangzi, the bolt's face was tense, and he led people outside Zhuangzi, without even looking at the mother and daughter.
As soon as the others left, Lian's face collapsed, and he bought so many duck eggs, and he didn't know how many could be used in them.
Seeing that there was no one next to him, he was afraid that the old lady would think about it, so Su Yu hurriedly said what he thought in his heart.
"Mother, don't worry, let's hatch the ducklings if you can use them, I have a recipe here if you can't hatch, and if you make it, it will definitely be in short supply, so you can rest assured."
"You didn't lie to your mother."
"When did your daughter cheat on you?"
Lian's thought about it, although her daughter was a little naughty before, she never deceived her and the master.
"Okay, let's get the duck eggs back first, I don't know how many can be used in them?"
Lian muttered quietly, and the mother and daughter went home with a basket of duck eggs. When I got home, it was already dusk, and there were more than a dozen bamboos piled up at home, all of which were cut by the father and son this afternoon.
Su Yu put the duck eggs and walked to his father, he only cared about buying them before, and forgot to tell his father.
"Dad, you can make me a few boxes first, they should be so wide and so high."
Su Yu gestured a few times.
"It doesn't need to be very strong, it can be used, I use it to hatch chicks, and I estimate that it will take eight to suffice."
"Okay, I'll rush to work with your eldest brother at night, and I'll make it for you tonight."
After finishing finishing business, they went to work, Su Yu picked duck eggs that could be used, and Lian prepared the family's dinner.
Duck eggs are bigger than eggs, but people here obviously don't like to eat ducks, and even duck eggs are not easy to sell, although duck eggs are bigger, but the price of eggs is the same, two pennies a piece. Although Su Yu knows that people here don't like to eat duck very much, but she is not worried at all, the popular Peking duck is not blown, just she will do, when the duck is raised, the recipe of the roast duck will be sold to the town or the restaurant in the county, and then you can sell your own duck to them, and you will not worry about not being able to sell it when the time comes.
As for saying that she went to sell roast duck, Su Yu never thought about this, artificially incubating chicks, which was a common thing in later generations, and in ancient times, it was against the sky, and it was too late for her to cover up, where did she dare to be in the limelight.
Pick and choose, put aside the eggs and duck eggs that can be used, and plan to use them to make preserved eggs if they can't be used, there is no such thing as preserved eggs in the Dazhi Dynasty, in Su Yu's view, preserved eggs are a comparison with durian, people who like it can't like it, and people who don't like it avoid it, but she doesn't have much production, and everyone doesn't like it.