After being forced to marry a butcher

Chapter 12

   For lunch, I eat fried fungus with cress, mixed oyster mushrooms, pancakes and rice porridge.

In autumn, a lot of vegetables are harvested at home and in the vegetable garden in front of the door, but most of them are prepared to be dried in the sun for the winter, so I try not to eat them at this time, because most of them are not resistant to storage and cannot be dried in the sun. Use it as dried vegetables or wild vegetables that are still fresh outside.

Cress is the top choice. It grows next to various small ponds or ditches diverted from the Wubai River. It grows after a crop, and now you can eat fresh and tender ones.

The cress is crisp and the fungus is tender, and it tastes very fragrant. Mixed oyster mushrooms are boiled oyster mushrooms, pepper noodles, chopped green onion, sesame seeds, minced garlic, topped with hot oil, mixed with soy sauce and balsamic vinegar, it is very spicy and delicious with rice.

Liu Yu ate the whole pancake at once, and the different eating habits in the family influenced each other.

Cong Chunhua drank the porridge made from the rice that Li Qingshan bought a while ago and said: "This rice porridge is quite delicious." It was

sweet and mellow, full of rice fragrance, and after drinking a bowl, she felt hot.

It's a pity that rice is expensive in the north of them. I heard that because of the flood in Nanjiang Mansion, it has almost risen to twenty or thirty yuan a catty these days. After eating these, the family may not be able to afford it for a while.

After the meal, Li Qingshan took advantage of the bad weather and the village head's family didn't have to be busy with the millet, so he invited him to weigh the millet at home.

The ground outside was still wet, so it was weighed directly in the granary.

Grain was weighed with a large steelyard, and a wooden pole was put through the center of the scale. Li Qingshan and Li Qinghe carried it a little off the ground.

After working for more than half an hour, the food was finally weighed. Not counting fractions, a total of 2,100 catties, and a total of 105 catties of grain tax.

The food planting in Qingzhou Prefecture is basically "cutting the grain and planting wheat, and harvesting wheat and planting grain". The wheat is winter wheat, and there is no need to plant ramie and cotton during this period of time.

At the end of April this year, 1,400 catties of wheat were produced from the ten mu of land. The eating habits of the people in Qingzhou Prefecture are mainly wheat noodles, supplemented by corn. Therefore, the 1,400 catties of wheat were not sold at the time, and it was originally a year's ration for him and his mother.

But now that there are two more people in the family, this amount of wheat is obviously not enough. Li Qingshan made the final calculation and planned to leave four hundred catties of millet. Years later, when the food was not enough, I bought wheat to grind myself and mixed it with rice.

After the scale was over, Liu Yu took the sickle, the basket and went out with Li Qingshan.

It rained all night last night, and it was the time when the soil was easy to dig. Li Qingshan wanted to take advantage of this time to dig out the pits for composting in the newly allocated five acres of land. Liuyu was with him, helping to cut some grass and gather some fallen leaves for composting.

The five mu of land is still too barren, it has been seven or eight days since it was sown, and wheat seedlings have already sprouted in the nearby fields. At first glance, it is a piece of green, but the five mu of land is extremely sparse.

In contrast, it is slightly bleak.

Li Qingshan thought about it, and walked to the ground holding Liu Yu's hand, "It doesn't matter, after a few years of careful service, there will always be good crops."

This person is like this, he likes to think on the bright side of everything. Liu Yu laughed, thinking it was true, at least having something was better than nothing.

Li Qingshan dug a hole on the ground, Liuyu cut the grass near the field, his work was brisk and not in a hurry, when he was tired, he sat in front of the pit to rest, passed water to Li Qingshan to wipe his sweat, and made Li Qingshan feel full of energy full.

At dusk, when the two returned home, Mrs. Guan and Cong Chunhua had already made dumplings, and hot water had been boiled in the two cauldrons for their return.

In this weather, Liu Yu only took a bath and did not dare to wash her hair. After Li Qingshan washed his hair, he still dared to walk out with wet hair.

Liu Yu took a cloth towel from the clothesline and gave it to him, and said softly: "It's cold, you need to dry your hair, otherwise you'll get a windy head."

Li Qingshan bent down and stretched his head in front of him, not meaning It goes without saying.

Liu Yu hesitated for a moment, then slowly stretched out her hand to wipe Li Qingshan's hair.

Li Qingshan was very pleased with himself, his face was full of dissatisfaction.

Liu Yu bit her lip, and glued the cloth to Li Qingshan's face.

Li Qingshan thought that he accidentally got it up, but after waiting for a while, no one made any more moves. Li Qingshan took off the cloth towel by himself, only to realize that the little villain had already run away.

Li Qingshan gritted his teeth, thinking that the night would make him feel better!

The ground vegetables are fat and tender. After frying them slightly in the pot, put a small handful of leeks, mix them with fried eggs, and add some sesame oil. The taste is very delicious. It must be made by every household in Taoyuan Village today. rice.

Dumplings are dipped in vinegar and served with a bowl of hot dumpling soup. The person who eats it will feel warm and warm in his heart.

After the meal, Li Qingshan went to the backyard to take care of the vegetable field, washed his hands after the willow fish fed the chicken, and then went to the main room to help the old lady Guan and Cong Chunhua weave the straw curtains together, and his life was so ordinary.

After another day, the sky cleared up, the ground was dry, and every household moved out the unfinished millet to dry.

Uncle Li, Li Qingjiang, and Li Qinghe helped Li Qingshan, and the four carts pulled 1,700 catties of grain to the county town for sale. Cong Chunhua and Liu Yu followed, helping push from behind when the road was difficult.

The market price of corn is four cents a catty, and the price of new rice purchased by grain merchants is about three cents to seven cents. Because of the problem of rice yield, millet is much cheaper than corn, and the purchase price of grain merchants is two cents per catty.

Farmers usually choose to sell millet directly, because pounding millet on tens of acres of land is not only labor-intensive, but also time-consuming. After pounding, the corn will almost be unable to sell for the price of new rice, which is really not worthwhile.

The one hundred and five catties of grain and tax were left alone, and the rest were sold, for a total of three taels and one hundred and ninety cash.

Cong Chunhua bluntly said that it is not cost-effective to grow millet. Not only is it more laborious to pack than wheat, but the price is also cheaper than wheat per catty. It's a pity that wheat in Qingzhou Prefecture cannot be harvested twice a year.

Uncle Li and the others went back to the village first, and the three of Li Qingshan lined up to pay the autumn tax.

There are three kinds of autumn taxes, one is grain tax, twenty taxes are one, and the Li family has to pay one hundred and five catties of millet; The third is head tax, sixty cash per person, and the Li family has to pay two hundred and forty cash.

After the officials of the county government inspected one by one, they gave a deed with a big seal, which was regarded as a proof that the household had paid the autumn tax, and it might be used when the government officials went to the countryside for spot checks in the future.

After paying the autumn tax, she was light-weight, and the remaining twenty-nine and fifty cash was the income from this trip. Cong Chunhua was very happy, holding the willow fish and said: "I will take the little rice and the old hen in a while. It's sold, mother will take you to pull the cloth!"

Li Qingshan's heart is also warm, he will be able to go out to work tomorrow after finishing his family affairs, earn more money and come back, which will make mother and husband happy.

The business environment in the Yu Dynasty was relaxed, and shops could be opened in any place, so it was even more casual to set up a stall. As long as you wanted to, you could put your things there, and you could yell on the spot.

But considering the issue of stall rent, the market in the county town was gradually divided up, and a grass market was set up for farmers to occasionally sell small things such as vegetables, fruits, firewood, etc. Small businesses like this do not charge rented.

Of course, you don't want to fish in troubled waters. There are government officials patrolling every day. If you often set up a stall in the grass market to avoid the rent, you will be punished. Most people dare not do this.

Li Qingshan found an open space in the grass market, parked the cart, put half a bag of grains and the old hen with bound legs on the cart, and began to yell, "I'm selling grains, it can be used as a pillow core." Chowder."

After he finished yelling, Cong Chunhua yelled about the old hen.

Most people who come to Caoshi are looking for cheap, and vegetables, fruits, meat and poultry are the best sellers. The price of the old hen was quickly asked, "How do you sell this chicken?

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Chicken is more expensive than pork. Out of the grass market, the price of an old hen can be more than 20 yuan. As soon as the man heard that the price was right, he asked Li Qingshan to weigh it for him.

Li Qingshan passed the scale and showed it to him, and the man began to bargain, "Is forty Wen okay?"

Cong Chunhua said with a smile: "Brother, I sold this for a cheap price."

The man also understood this reason, see He looked at the chaff next to him and said, "Then I'll buy you ten catties of chaff, can it be two yuan cheaper?" The

price of chaff is seven cents, and ten catties is seven cents.

Cong Chunhua readily agreed and accepted a total of forty-eight cash from him. Both the buyer and the seller were very happy.

It's not easy to come to the county, Li Qingshan watched the leftovers for sale, and asked Cong Chunhua and Liuyu to go around.

Cong Chunhua only took half of the silver, and gave Liu Yu forty copper coins, and asked Li Qingshan to pretend to be good at the rest. After all, the market was full of fish and dragons, so Li Qingshan pretended to be reassuring about the money.

There is nothing to go shopping in the grass market, and the things sold are basically available at home.

Cong Chunhua led Liu Yu straight to Buzhuang.

The waiter greeted him warmly, "Guest officer, what kind of cloth do you want?"

"Cotton cloth, for winter clothes, for my brother to wear."

After Cong Chunhua answered, the waiter shouted, and the shopkeeper at the counter quickly picked it out. Cloth waited.

Li Qingshan is a kid, he can dress up casually, there is no need for her to dress up at all. Now the family finally has a little brother, and Cong Chunhua is very satisfied. She took the cloth and compared them one by one, and asked Liuyu which one she liked.

"Anything is fine." Faced with such care, Liu Yu was always uncomfortable and at a loss.

Cong Chunhua pondered for a while, then compared again, and said happily: "Then mother has decided for you!"

Liu Yu nodded.

Cong Chunhua chose two colors of emerald blue and tianshuibi for him to make the top and jacket, and the bottom pants were black, a total of three colors.

The inside of the cotton coat is made of cotton cloth woven by the family. When the time comes, the horse at home pays someone to dye it and then exchanges the cloth with the villagers. Therefore, only the fabric to be used for the outer layer of the cotton-padded jacket was cut. The tops were cut four and a half feet each, and the bottoms were made into two pairs of trousers, which were cut seven feet.

The two colors of emerald blue and tianshuibi are thirteen coins a foot, and black is eleven coins a foot, a total of one hundred and ninety-four coins.

Cong Chunhua negotiated the price and went around Wuwen.