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

Chapter 46: Encouraging the villagers to pick Fritillaria for money
Jiang Wan motioned for her two sons to carry their things and go back first. She smiled and said, "I made some food. Luckily, I managed to sell it and made a few copper coins. I bought more than half a pound of meat for the children to try."

"After the grain prices in town went up, the price of meat also skyrocketed. The last time I went back to ask, it was thirty cents a pound, which is extremely expensive."

"Mother Dahe can afford meat at thirty cents a pound. It seems she really makes a lot of money."

"Tell us how much money did you make?"

Women are naturally gossipy, and they all open their eyes wide to seek answers.

"The price of meat is 40 cents today." Jiang Wan sighed, "I spent 30 cents to get such a small amount. There are seven people in my family, so each of them can have a bite to taste. I'll use the remaining copper coins to buy ducks. There is water here, so I can raise some ducks and sell their eggs. It's much better than working hard to make food."

A woman who was good at accounting calculated in her mind that pork was thirty cents, and twenty ducks were at least a hundred cents. In other words, Sanshu's mother actually earned more than a hundred cents after working hard for a whole day!

Countless women were extremely jealous: "Mother Dahe, what kind of food did you make?"

Jiang Wan continued to sigh: "I asked the children to help pick Fritillaria a few days ago. It looks like it doesn't cost much, but you will know how troublesome it is to make it. The main thing is to add sugar. Everyone knows how expensive sugar is. Half a catty is fifty cents. I have to buy a big bag of sugar and boil it into water every day. I also have to add fruit. It tastes sweet, crisp and refreshing..."

The women present had complicated expressions on their faces. A bowl of tasteless water could make people drool after adding brown sugar.

No matter what food you eat, as long as you add brown sugar, the taste will not be too bad.

But brown sugar is too expensive. They really don't dare to take the risk of making snacks with brown sugar and selling them in town. What if they can't sell them?

"I bought half a pound of brown sugar on credit from the grocery store today, and I have to continue selling food to settle the bill tomorrow." Jiang Wan said, "I will continue to buy Fritillaria from the mountain, one cent per pound, and I hope my sisters-in-law can help me."

Aunt Zhao slapped her thigh and said, "That's great. I'll take some plum blossoms up the mountain before it gets dark."

Another woman said, "I'll ask my boy to pick some as well. If there are eight or nine kilograms, Dahe Niang won't reject them, right?"

Jiang Wan smiled and said, "Of course, this thing consumes a lot of energy, so I'll take as many as I can."

The women who were originally chatting suddenly dispersed, fearing that if they went up the mountain too late, the Fritillaria would be plucked away by others.

Jiang Wan walked back home slowly.

While making money herself, she also gives those gossipy women in the village something to do, so they won't be jealous of her.

She walked into the yard and saw Gu Xiaohui processing pork, preparing to make steamed pork with rice flour using the same method as before. She was quick and skillful, and soon had the meat stewed on the stove.

Ye Sanshu was busy washing mint leaves. Jiang Wan asked him to work in the main room. No matter what era, the core technology could not be revealed. All the operations related to mint water had to be done in the inner room.

Ye Ergou was tilling the vegetable garden at home. He had been busy at home all day and had almost finished tilling the land in front of and behind the house. He divided the land into small plots and planted different vegetables in each plot, then watered the plot and applied organic fertilizer.

Ye Dahe was chopping wood in the open space in the yard, which was something he had to do every day.

Ye Xiaofang and Ye Sishan were teasing the new ducklings and feeding them wild vegetable roots.

"Mom, I love ducklings so much!" His eyes lit up. "Ducklings love water. Let's dig a pond for them."

Jiang Wan remembered the pond in the backyard: "The ducks are still small, so let's put them in the pond in the backyard for now. We will build a big pond later."

The land she wanted to buy was for digging a pond, raising ducks was secondary, she planned to grow lotus roots. Jade shoots are a southern variety, not so crisp and delicious when grown in Lotus Village, and the color is also light yellow, but she has improved varieties in the mall, the quality of the lotus roots and lotus seeds grown will not be too bad, but not too outstanding, otherwise it would be a big loss if they were selected as tribute.

This thing has always been a tribute. It is not difficult for local people in the south to eat it, but in other regions, only the superiors in the palace and some royal relatives are qualified to have a taste of it.

If she grew them and sold them exclusively to the powerful people of the time, it would be a lucrative business.

But now, she can't even afford 28 acres of land.

The task is heavy and the road ahead is long. The task is heavy and the road ahead is long!

Before the last bit of sunlight faded, the steamed pork with rice flour was finally out of the pot. There was less than a pound of meat, and it filled half a bowl. It smelled sweet and delicious, and I wanted to swallow my tongue when I ate it.

The steamed pork with rice flour was eaten up in an instant. Each person was given a spoonful of the soup made from the leftover ingredients and mixed with white rice. It was simply the most delicious thing in the world.

After eating and drinking, Jiang Wan took out a bag of snacks from his backpack: "Sishan, this is for you, take it and eat it."

Ye Sishan was extremely happy: "Mom, you are so good to me, you are my favorite person!"

He carefully opened the wrapping paper and smelled the crispy aroma. Before he took a bite, he heard the sound of gurgling saliva beside him.

He was afraid that his three brothers would be hunted by hungry wolves, so he quickly hid the snacks in his sleeves.

Jiang Wan laughed a little and continued to take things out of the backpack: "Everyone has one bag, Xiaohui and Xiaofang also have one, eat your own, don't steal others'."

Ye Dahe scratched the back of his head: "Mom, I'm already this old, I don't want to eat snacks."

Jiang Wan took the snack from his hand and stuffed it into Gu Xiaohui's hand: "If your man doesn't want to eat it, you can eat it all. No leftovers are allowed."

Gu Xiaohui had never eaten this kind of snack bought in town since she was a child. Her hands trembled slightly as she took the snack and said solemnly with sobs: "Thank you, mother..."

She must be filial to her mother-in-law and take care of her until the end of her life.

Jiang Wan continued to empty the backpack. None of the people in the family had ever taken a copper coin and had no idea of ​​its purchasing power, so she felt no pressure to fish in troubled waters. It seemed as if there was no end to the things in the backpack.

"Take all the food and lock it up so no one sees it. Also, the cloth you bought last time can be used to make a new set of clothes for each person. The cotton cloth can be used to make some inner clothes."

Don't think she doesn't know. Except for the eldest daughter-in-law and Xiaofang, the other four boys in the family don't wear underwear, but only a pair of outer trousers. If the trousers are torn, their buttocks will be exposed, which is simply unsightly.

"You choose your own color."

As the family was distributing the cloth, a voice was heard at the gate of the courtyard.

There were five or six children at the gate of the yard.

Each child was holding a basket filled with picked fritillaria.

"You little guys are really quick." Jiang Wan said with a smile, "But I can't pay you until tomorrow night, is that ok?"

(End of this chapter)