The shopkeeper of the pharmacy is happy, and his heart says that this half of the size will be a person. He looked down and saw that it was a snail, and it was not an expensive thing, so he asked the man to go to the back and get a bowl to pack, "Which village boy are you, I don't seem to have seen you before." ”

"From Lujia Village, I also came to sell it for the first time, and I will take care of you."

The shopkeeper nodded, pinched the snail and tasted it, with a pause, he pinched another one and tasted it, "You have dried peppers in here." ”

"Yes."

"How do you make this dried pepper taste?"

Lu Xu smiled, "Exclusive secret recipe, how to make this spicy, our county is the only one, I don't hide it from you, just point to this to make a little money, or do you buy some more?" ”

Shopkeeper Le, a boiled snail has become a rare treasure, "Why don't you say that we are alone?" ”

Lu Xu was ashamed: "It may be true, but I have to be humble." ”

That's all modesty! The shopkeeper smacked his tongue, he could probably taste what ingredients were put here, but these ingredients had a taste that they didn't usually eat, like cooked oil, but how the cooked oil was mixed with spicy sauce, he couldn't figure it out for a while, and he didn't know how this kid's family did it, "How much is a bowl?" ”

Lu Xu replied crisply: "Wuwen, you help me open the store, and I will give you half a bowl more." ”

It's just such a big and small bowl, tsk, the shopkeeper groaned, "Let's have three bowls." ”

Lu Xu opened his first business.

But then it didn't go so well.

He sold a piece of kung fu to fry snails, and the vacant seats near the pharmacy were also filled, and it happened to be some people who sold vegetables, grain, and firewood, all of which made hard-earned money, and no one was willing to eat a small bowl of snails for five cents.

Now the price of everything is rising, a bundle of firewood only sells for 30 wen, and a handful of wild vegetables are picked before it sells for 5 wen.

"It's only ten wen a pound of brown rice, and it's only fifteen wen to buy a pound of ground rough noodles, your snail is cooked in gold, dare you sell it so expensive?"

"People sell fish at the wharf, small miscellaneous fish with two and one big fish, one small one for one, and one for two, and there is meat for cooking, how can you have meat for this snail."

Lu Xu only smiled, "That's different, I can cook this snail with expensive ingredients, my family's secret recipe, you can't eat it elsewhere." ”

Others don't eat his set, so they scold him when they open their mouths, "People sell meat buns by the dock, and one is only five dollars." ”

Lu Xu said: "If you buy 5 money snails, there will definitely be more meat than in the buns." ”

"It's pork!"

"That's it, there is more snail meat in the river, no money!"

Lu Xu listened to their gossip with a smile and groaned, and he was not angry.

He was here to touch the situation, they were willing to talk, he was willing to listen, it was not yet lunch, he was not in a hurry, and he was quite in the mood to help Yan Junqi sell the table.

"Auntie, your child is small and soft, I'll pick a soft one for you, you see that there is no burr, and it is the most suitable to make the bed."

"Drying grain? So do you pick a thick, sturdy, this one? ”

"You buy a dense one to build a shed, and spread straw on it to protect it from the rain."

Yan Junqi was stunned for a moment, they were all made up by his father, how could he not know that there was a difference between soft, hard, thick, thin and dense?

But what Lu Xu said was that the lady who bought the seat was more like that, and she had to look at each one and pick the tightest one.

Yan Junqi: "......"

Seeing that the eldest lady left with a earned expression, Yan Junqi was still in a trance.

Lu Xu also talked to him, "Such a big table only costs eighty wen, what can eighty wen buy now, you can't buy two catties of salt, if you replace it with my uncle, the asking price is more than five wen and you don't let you choose, my brother is clumsy and won't ask for the price, what he gives is a low price, and he doesn't bargain, and you can choose!" ”

But no, his father thinks that he makes up the same seats, what is there to pick?

After Lu Xu's nonsense, there are more and more people who come to buy seats, you look at me, you pick me too, for fear that the good ones will be snatched away by others, and before noon, he sold six!

When it was time to eat, the shopkeeper of the pharmacy went to the back hall to eat, and asked the guy to buy two bowls of snails from Lu Xu. The stalls nearby are a little curious, is it really so delicious? It's all five bowls.

Lu Xu saw that the time was about the same, and carried the basket to his chest and instructed Yan Junqi, "I'll go to the dock to sell it, Junqi, you sell it here, just sell it at the price just now, don't you know if you don't bargain?" ”

Yan Junqi nodded, his mind was buzzing now, and it was all Lu Xu's nonsense.

Lu Xu held the bottom of the basket with both hands, and began to sell it as soon as he arrived at the dock: "Secret snails, salty, spicy, fresh, delicious, and more fragrant with wine——"

He slowly went to the bun shop, and when he saw the meat bun that he bought, he handed two pieces, "You taste it, if it's not delicious, you don't need to buy it." ”

I was stunned when I bought the bun, and subconsciously took it.

Lu Xu: "Put it on the side of your mouth and it will come out." ”

The man put his mouth suspiciously to try it, and was coughed spicy, "It's very spicy!" How do you sell this snail? ”

Lu Xu: "Ancestral secret seasoning, there is no such taste elsewhere, a bowl of five texts, how many do you have?" ”

The man thought for a moment, "Let's have a bowl first." ”

Lu Xu packed it with reed leaves for him.

Others were curious, Lu Xu gave two pieces one by one to taste the taste, and sold more than a dozen bowls next to the bun shop.

Steamed bun shop owner: "......"

Lu Xu smiled and said, "I want two vegetable buns and one meat bun." ”

This bun is quite big, it looks soft and fluffy, and it must be better than his little stepmother!

The boss looked better.

Lu Xu bought the buns and saw that the merchants who used to rent sheds to sell goods were crowded at the edge of the shed area today, and the two largest sheds seemed to be receiving goods.

Lu Xu bit the vegetable bun and asked the boss, "Uncle, what do you collect over there?" ”

Boss: "Collect the grain." ”

Lu Xu was surprised, "Harvest grain here?" "It's the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and no one has much surplus grain at this time, who still sells grain?

Besides, now that the summer harvest is coming, that's the real grain harvest season, who can't wait?

Lu Xu wondered, "Where is the disaster?" ”

The boss shook his head, "I haven't heard." ”

Lu Xu relied on the only ancient knowledge he had and Lu Xu's memory, and searched his stomach to come up with the only explanation he could think of - to fight!

The owner of the bun shop rubbed his dough worriedly and didn't say much.

Lu Xu took the basket and looked closer, and when he walked to the side of the shed, he heard someone shout, "The snail seller, come." ”

Lu Xu carried the basket over and saw half a bag of snails scattered on the table, the person who had just bought his snails was sitting there, and the shopkeeper wearing a muslin cloth bought him five bowls.

Hearing the movement, the grain shed sent someone over to call Lu Xu, who saw that one of them was tall and tall, and his speech was not their accent here, so he was more and more sure of his guess. They tasted the snail and bought half a jar of Lu Xu. didn't let Lu Xu scoop it according to the bowl, but directly gave him half a tael of silver.

Earned! Lu Xu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that he is quite civilized, he was afraid that they would not give money for eating just now.

Lu Xu boldly asked, "Are you still here to collect grain next time?" ”

The head asked someone to divide the snails, "Not here." Do you have any surplus grain at home, and ask someone to sell it for 5,000 yuan per stone? ”

Lu Xu was taken aback.

Now a pound of polished rice is only 50 Wen, and they mainly produce wheat here, and now the price has risen year after year, and the highest stone is only 4,000 Wen!

Lu Xu shook his head, "My family only has two acres of land, and there is no grain in stock. Do you accept old grain beans? ”

Although his family has no food, the third uncle and the fourth uncle's family have it! Especially mixed beans.

The other party pondered for a moment, "Collect, which village are you from?" ”

Lu Xu replied: "Lujia Village." ”

The other party nodded, "I'll stay for another day tomorrow and ask the grain sellers in your village to come here to find me." ”

Lu Xu: "Okay. ”

Lu Xu was selling by the dock for a while, and there was still a layer of bottom left, so he took the basket to the unloader and asked them if they wanted it.

I only earned 30 wengong money on the day of unloading and moving goods at the wharf, and I was willing to spend money to buy a vegetarian bun in the bun shop, most of them brought their own cakes and steamed buns to send away lunch, and they were even more reluctant to spend money to eat this fried snail.

The consumption power of ordinary people in the town is like this, even the pharmacy shopkeeper is the first time to buy a fresh, and he will not buy five bowls at once after a long time.

Lu Xu thought for a while, folded the reed leaves into a small pocket, and proposed: "One bowl can't hold three pockets, one pocket and two pennies, you either?" ”

A few people were moved, "Can you taste it?" ”

"Yes." Lu Xu grabbed two for each of them.

The dry chewing mixed noodles steamed buns were not easy to swallow, but when they tasted them, they paid for a bag, and some asked Lu Xu to wrap a bowl and take it home for the children to eat.

Lu Xu sold out, only a few were left, and he took the basket on his back and went back to the pharmacy to find Yan Junqi to share it.

There were few people at noon, and Yan Junqi only sold one seat.

Lu Xu took the two buns wrapped in lotus leaves from the frame and gave them to Yan Junqi, the meat buns were broken, half for one person, and the vegetarian buns were also handed to Yan Junqi, "I ate the bun, this is for you." ”

Yan Junqi wanted to give money, but Lu Xu didn't want it, Yan Junqi thought about it, and broke half a vegetarian bun for Lu Xu, Lu Xu took it, chewed it in three or two bites, chewed it, and swallowed it.

He actually wanted to taste the meat buns for five cents and the vegetarian buns for two cents, to be honest, this bun was far worse than his grandmother's bun, and compared with this bun, Lu Xu felt that he was a big loss to sell a bowl of snails.

After a while, Yan Junqi sold another seat, and there were two left, and he didn't plan to sell them again, Lu Xu went to the pharmacy to buy some spices such as pepper fennel, and they also put spices and herbs in stewed meat to make sauce, and the shopkeeper didn't think it was unusual.

The remaining two mats were carried to the dock and sold for fifty cents, and the two of them went to purchase oil and salt easily.

The salt rose from 50 to 60 wen, and the oil rose from 100 wen to 120 wen, Lu Xu gritted his teeth and bought two catties of salt and one catty of oil, and bought another catty of the cheapest wine, twenty wen, a pot of vinegar, fifteen wen, two catties of soy sauce, and thirty wen. The money he had just received was spent again, and he felt more and more that the snails had been sold at a loss.

Yan Junqi bought salt, bought caramel for his younger brother, and went to the bookstore with Lu Xu to buy paper and ink.

The worst paper has uneven thickness and perforation in some places, and it costs 200 wen for a knife, and the worst ink costs 300 wen for a piece. A slightly more symmetrical paper, a knife of five hundred texts, a good grade of ink, one or two. The one with a fragrance costs a dozen taels of silver and a piece of ink!

Lu Xu counted expressionlessly, how many snails are worth a piece of ink? No wonder Yan Junqi always writes with branches in the yard.

Passing by the dock when he went home, Lu Xu went to the fish stall to bargain and bought a small pot of small trash fish for 20 yuan. Although the largest is less than half a foot, it is always meat, take it home, stew, stew the bones, and eat it as a pickle!

Chapter 7: A Family

Lu Xu went home and put down his things, and first went to Li Zheng to explain the grain collection in the town.

After listening to this, Li Zheng worriedly said that he knew.

Collecting grain is a trivial matter, and he is afraid that he will have to be conscripted again.

Lu Xu went home, and Layue and Yan Wenzhen guarded the fish and ate sugar in the yard of his house.