Chapter 19 Spices Everywhere
The wild boar killed a total of more than 80 catties of meat, excluding the remaining bones and the fraction thrown away when selling meat, 15 yuan a catty Qin Mianmian sold a total of 1,260 copper plates.
After removing the wages for Ma Lao Wu and the money for buying baked cakes, there are only 1,140 left.
That is, there has always been a little more money, and there are more than 800 copper plates left from the two runs owed to Wan Luo.
With the capital, Qin Mianmian didn't dare to pin his hopes entirely on hunting, after all, no one knew what he would hunt tomorrow.
It just so happened that she saw a stone mill in the yard of her home, and Fu Chen was worried that she couldn't sleep well all night because she owed money.
If she can find something to do so that she can earn her own money, she should be able to sleep soundly at night.
So after Qin Mianmian finished nibbling a dry baked cake, he led Fu Jingbo to the grain store, and bought dozens of catties of soybeans, more than ten catties of peanuts, and a few catties of rice and white noodles.
The rice jar at home has bottomed out, and it is not okay to eat these things every day. With the money she spent today, she will definitely find a way to earn it back tomorrow.
And her purpose is not only to help the family pay off the debt, but also to let the family have a stable income, so that there will be no debts in the future.
Besides, the Fu family seems to still have debts from that doctor, and it sounds like her cheap father-in-law will have to spend a lot of money to see a doctor in the future.
Fu Chen's hands are skillful and hardworking, which is a good opportunity to make money.
After buying these things, she went to buy some spices, but there were not many spices these days, and I don't know if no one bought them or because no one found anything to remove the fishy Titian.
So on the way home, she was looking for treasure all the way.
When you come across a grapefruit tree, pull some young leaves from the top, and put the young leaves of the grapefruit in the flesh can also play a role in removing the fish.
When he saw that there was wild ginger, he dug it out with a wooden stick. Although this ginger is not big, it is much spicier than the ginger planted in later generations, and it is believed that it will be more effective to remove the fish.
Don't ask her why she knows this ginger is spicier, just ask if she tasted it.
In addition to these, what bark, mountain pepper, green peppercorns.
She picked all the spices she could recognize, and as she picked them, she thought to herself that the spices here were quite complete.
When they got home, she and Fu Jingbo already had a lot of money.
Fu Jingbo carried peanuts and soybeans, as well as skinned trench pigs and wild boar bones hung from palm leaves.
Qin Mianmian held a packet of baked cakes in her hand, as well as a large bag of spices wrapped in banana leaves, as well as the rice and white noodles she bought.
These two people are in the dust, living like the escapees, how embarrassed they look.
"You two, this is..."Fu Chen looked at the big bags of things in their hands, and his mouth couldn't close in shock.
Qin Mianmian smiled, and didn't care about wiping off the dust on his face, so he ran to the water tank and scooped up a large scoop of water and drank it first.
After drinking, he didn't forget to hand a scoop of water to Fu Jingbo, who had just finished unloading, the man looked at Qin Mianmian blankly, and drank it all with the scoop.
"This, is it a trench pig, is it that no one buys it." Fu Chen looked at the skinned trench pig and said with a frown.
Qin Mianmian nodded: "Everyone dislikes that it is full of bones, and it is fishy, and no one wants to spend money to buy it." ”
It's not like this year, even bats are barbecued as game. Money is hard to make, and they certainly won't buy a bunch of bones to gnaw on.
Just like wild boars, they are more than twice as expensive as pigs in later generations, and they are difficult to buy.
Here, pork sells for fifteen wen a catty, and wild boars only sell for fifteen wen a catty, and everyone has to complain that this wild boar is not as fat as domestic pork.
The living environment is different, and the price will not be the same.
"What do you do with so many soybeans, and peanuts." Fu Chen asked in a broken way while counting the things Qin Mianmian had brought back.
"This, a job for my mother to make money." Qin Mianmian said with a smile.
"A job to make money? Do you want me to grind tofu and sell it? Fu Chen's eyes lit up: "Don't say it, don't say it, I really know!" ”
Qin Mianmian looked at her smiling face, and handed over the bag of baked cakes in her hand.
This baked cake was too hard, she couldn't eat one after eating it, but Fu Jingbo ate three in one go.
When he watched him eat, Qin Mianmian was afraid that he would choke himself if he was not careful.
"Why are there so many pancakes, haven't you eaten them?" Fu Chen exclaimed again.
"Eat, mother, if you are hungry, you can eat one too, after eating, we will soak soybeans first, and then prepare dinner."
Fu Chen hesitated to look at the baked cakes in the oiled paper bag, and finally picked one up.
But she didn't eat it herself, but went to the kitchen and poured a bowl of boiling water and hurried back to her room.
Qin Mianmian: .....
Sure enough, if she is a woman who cares about her family, it is not a good thing to be able to cook cakes, and her first thought is to give them to her man.
Yes, she found this baked cake unpalatable, perhaps it was indeed a good thing in this barren era.
So she looked around, ready to call Fangfang's little girl out.
But after looking around, I didn't find where the little girl was hiding.
As soon as Fu Chen came out, he saw her frowning and turning around.
"Mianmian, what are you looking for?" She asked as she took her purchases to the kitchen.
It didn't matter if she took it, she saw that Qin Mianmian was still holding white flour and rice in her hands.
Suddenly, her face froze.
"Mother, where is Fangfang? Tell her to come out and eat the pancakes together. Qin Mianmian didn't pay attention to her face, and answered her question by herself.
"Fangfang, I said that I went to send a basket to Xiaohuzi. Yesterday, she was helping Xiaohuzi to beat pigweed before she fell, this kid..."Fu Chen's eyes were a little helpless, and he also concealed the fact that Fangfang went to help beat pigweed for eggs.
She didn't teach that child well, and it seems that she will have to teach this child not to be greedy in the future, otherwise she doesn't know what will happen.
"Her foot is twisted, she can't walk on her own." Qin Mianmian was a little worried.
Fu Chen waved his hand indifferently: "Don't worry, she is holding a firewood to borrow strength." ”
After speaking, he glanced at the rice and white noodles with an embarrassed face, and pulled Qin Mianmian to the corner.
"Mianmian, my mother knows that it is wrong for me to let you pay off your debts as soon as you enter the door, but I can't do anything about it. You have also seen the situation in our family, life is more difficult..."
"No, it's my own willingness to repay the debt, why are you mentioning this, mother." Qin Mianmian looked at her appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, and simply asked directly.
"Mother just feels sorry for you." Fu Chen said that he was about to shed tears again.
Qin Mianmian hurriedly took a step back: "No, no, no, there's nothing to be sorry for." I promised it myself, and it has nothing to do with you. ”
She is not afraid of anything, but she is afraid of others showing weakness.
The so-called eating soft or not eating hard is her.
"I'm still young and don't know what it means to be in debt." Fu Chen sighed, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and looked at the rice and white noodles with a sad face.