The whole village is starving, but I have a full warehouse of meat in the mall

Chapter 40 Selling Herbs

"Yes."

As he spoke, Jiang Wan asked Ye Dahe to take out the herbs.

The middle-aged man took the herb in his hand and smelled it carefully: "The herb is well processed, it is top quality."

Hearing this, Jiang Wan inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief.

"Forsythia suspensa costs twelve coins per ounce, Fritillaria thunbergii costs nine coins per ounce, and Glehnia littoralis costs eleven coins per ounce."

The medicine boy separated the herbs and weighed them one by one.

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"It's 752 coins in total. Take it."

Ye Dahe stared at the string of copper coins in a daze. It turned out that they could actually be sold for money! !
It hurts to think about how much money he has wasted over the years.

The other five people had the same reaction, especially Ye Xiaofang, who had very complicated feelings.

Jiang Wan looked at them with amusement: "Okay, those herbs will grow again. You can pick more and pay me back in the future."

"Mom, let's go home now." Ye Dahe felt a little uneasy carrying so much silver.

"No hurry. Go grab two pieces of cloth and make a set of clothes for each of you."

Ye Dahe immediately waved his hands: "Mom, please let them tear it off. I can still wear this dress."

Jiang Wan glanced at him and said, "You have at least thirty patches on your body. It's uncomfortable to wear them in the fields. Besides, the money you earn is meant to be spent. What's the point of earning it if you don't spend it?"

Besides, she is not a heartless person. After being here for so many days, she has truly felt the love these children have for her.

Ye Dahe opened his mouth but didn't dare to say anything else.

After entering the cloth shop, Jiang Wan looked through all the items one by one.

I found that most of them were linen, with only a small amount of cotton, and most of them were black and gray.

Most of the people in these two areas wear linen clothes, so linen clothes have the best sales.

After thinking about it, Jiang Wan tore off half a batch of black linen, half a batch of blue linen, and some cotton cloth to make inner clothes.

After pulling the cloth, she asked Dahe and the others to wait in the carriage, and she went to an empty corner to browse the mall.

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The sun is westward.

Jiang Wan and everyone in the family got busy.

Ye Sishan and Ye Xiaofang's job was simple. They went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, then came back to chop them up and feed the chickens.

Ye Sanshu and Ye Erhai were responsible for loosening the soil, pouring water on the dry and hard vegetable fields in front of and behind the house, and then digging it up and turning it over so that they could start sowing tomorrow.

Ye Dahe made mint water under Jiang Wan's instruction.

The spring water on the mountain is cold enough, so put the boiled mint water in the spring water to chill it.

While waiting, Jiang Wan asked his sons to go up the mountain to look for hawthorn berries. This season is the time when hawthorns are ripe, so they made some hawthorn jam. The sour and sweet taste made people want to drink it again.

Jiang Wanze and Gu Xiaohui were boiling sugar water in a pot.

This sugar is brown sugar bought from the mall. There is also red sugar in this era, but it is coarse sugar and the taste is not very good.

She plans to make two flavors first, hawthorn mint water, and sweet mint water with sugar, but she doesn't know which one will be more popular.

Gu Xiaohui watched her mother-in-law pour a large box of brown sugar into the pot, and she felt extremely distressed. In this era, meat is expensive, and sugar is even more expensive. So much sugar costs at least 60 coins. Is the money earned from selling herbs really enough? Although she was confused, she had one advantage: she never questioned her mother-in-law and did whatever she said.

When the syrup was ready, Ye Sishan and Xiaofang rushed into the house with a handful of hawthorn berries.

"What a great guy!" Jiang Wan praised generously, "When the mint water comes out, the first bowl will be awarded to our Xiaofang and Sishan."

Ye Sishan and Ye Xiaofang licked their lips and stared at the mint water chilled in the spring water.

Jiang Wan wiped his hands, took a wooden spoon, walked to the basin, and scooped a spoonful.

Ye Sishan squatted beside the basin, blinking his big eyes: "Mom, can I drink it now?"

Ye Erhai secretly stretched out his finger and licked it, his eyes lit up: "It's icy, cool, and delicious!"

"Really?" Ye Sishan couldn't help it, and quickly took a spoon and put a little in his mouth. He smacked his tongue, his eyes shining, "Mom, what is this called? It's so cool to drink when the weather is hot. I like it very much. I'm sure I can sell it for money!"

One of them held a bowl of mint water and drank it in small sips, smacking his lips after each sip, which looked a little funny.

"This big pot has no ingredients added. If you drink too much, you won't be able to drink the finished product when it comes out." Jiang Wan laughed and shook his head, "Come and help while it's still early."

She found a small bowl, added tapioca flour, glutinous rice flour, and steamed sweet potatoes into it, kneaded it into dough, put it in a pot to blanch it, and finally rolled it into small balls little by little. The simple version of taro balls was ready.

After looking at the sky, Jiang Wan put them in the well water to cool them down, and then went to prepare dinner with Gu Xiaohui.

The dishes on the table were still wild vegetables and mushrooms, nothing fresh. What the family lacked most was meat, but there was no reason to eat meat with a clear conscience.

Rice with wild vegetables and mushrooms is considered the best meal in Lotus Village.

After dinner, it gradually got dark.

Jiang Wan got up to prepare the ingredients, took out all the bowls in the house, put a spoonful of chopped hawthorn pulp and a spoonful of black sticky brown sugar water, and finally added mint water and taro balls, and placed them steadily in the bamboo basket.

There were only ten bowls in the house, which were filled in two baskets. She carried the baskets and walked out of the house.

There are still people in the rice fields at the door.

The rice fields, which had been dry for almost two months, suddenly had water. Some experienced farmers were reluctant to leave the ridges of the fields and walked back and forth in their rice fields again and again, fearing that this was just a dream.

When Jiang Wan walked over, many people took the initiative to greet her, which was something that would never have happened before.

She carried the basket and walked to Old Ye's house, where the whole family was enjoying the cool air in the yard.

"Mother Dahe, you are here." Old Madam Ye looked at the basket in her hand, "Did you really make food?"

Jiang Wan nodded: "Didn't I ask the children to help pick Fritillaria a few days ago? I made it with that. It's my first time making it, so I don't know how it tastes. If you think it's good, I'll take it to town tomorrow to see if anyone wants to buy it."

She took out the bowls from the basket and placed a total of ten bowls on the table. There were twelve people in the Ye family. She was just about to ask the children to go to her house to drink, and the children could have as much as they wanted.

Before she could finish her words, Li said quickly, "Da Ya, Si Ya, what are you still standing there for? Hurry up and get the bowls. If you go too late, there will be none left!"

Li curled her lips, thinking that her eldest sister-in-law was too stingy. There were twelve people here, but she only brought eight bowls. That meant two people couldn't drink. What if the old lady didn't allow the girls to drink? Then the two maids in the second room wouldn't be able to drink a single sip. No matter how you look at it, the second room would be at a loss.

Jiang Wan took it all in.

She didn't say anything and let Daya and Siya take two bowls each and leave. The four people in the third room each had a bowl of mint water in their hands.

She picked up two bowls, handed one to the old lady and one to the old man.

There were only two bowls left, and Ye San's wife An said, "Dazhu and Erzhu, you two can share one bowl, Erya and Sanya, you two can drink one bowl, and the remaining two bowls are for your second uncle and father."

(End of this chapter)