CH 40.1

" He ge’er, are you going to dig wild vegetables again?"

Xu He went straight to the other side of the mountain without turning back to go home after planting the vegetable seedlings in the field early in the morning. He hung a hollow gourd obliquely around his waist. When the weather warmed up, Zhang Fangyuan bought two gourds from the city. One was used by him, filled it with water and brought it when he dug the wild vegetables, and the other was used by Zhang Fangyuan to take to the city.

Seeing him tidying up like this, the folks knew that he was going to dig wild vegetables.

"Yeah."

"Is the wild vegetables easy to sell recently?"

Xu He said, "There are a lot of wild vegetables sold by farmers in the city, so the price is cheaper. It's just enough to buy candle."

"Some income, even it’s a little also a good thing."

Xu He chatted a few words for a while with others and then walked away.

The fulang who was pulling the weed chatted with the villagers in another field across his field: "

I'm afraid He Ge'er will have to dig up the mountains outside our village. He said to pick some bracken and go home to eat cold salad. Whe I saw it, there was a pile of wild vegetables that he has been picked."

"Hey, those couples seem to have lost money, you said there are only two people in the family now, what are you doing with so much money?"

"It's convenient for people to get in and out of the city with a carriage, so why don't you think about making money. The wild vegetables you dig are sold in the city the next day, and those that can't be sold are brought back to dry in the sun or make pickle vegetables. A while ago I went to the butcher’s house to borrow a hoe. I saw that there were several jars of pickled vegetables in the kitchen, and all the bracken and spring bamboo shoots were drying in the yard. Xu He even grabbed a handful of dried mushrooms for me. "

"Don't say it, I didn't pay much attention before, Xu He is quite capable, but I have never seen her sister busy."

"Who knows."

After April, the mountains and forests became more and more green. Xu He couldn't dig the spring vegetables twice. As soon as the weather was hot in summer, all the wild vegetables on the hillside would be old, and no new ones would come out. However, this kind of relying on the mountains to eat was not a long-term livelihood, and it was great to give farmers a chance to breathe.

Fortunately, their village was far away from the city, otherwise there must be a lot of villagers who dug wild vegetables to sell. So why would he only dig the fresh ones and can choose the wild vegetables at will. Now only the villagers in this village would dig some to eat back. Although there were some people fighting, it was definitely not as fierce as those villagers in the adjacent city.

The next day, he took the fresh wild vegetables and the mushrooms from the long tung tree tree at home and went to the city with Zhang Fangyuan to set up a stall.

"The mushrooms grow very big when it rains. Look, the mushrooms growing on the tung tree at home is enough to fill a basket."

Xu He hugged the basket and showed off the soft mushrooms with Zhang Fangyuan.

At the beginning, the mushrooms were growing here and there, but not many. When they were mature, Xu He picked and dried them in the sun. It was the first time that they had grown enough to be sold.

Zhang Fangyuan flicked the reins, and said sourly: "I took some effort to carry the tree back, but I never ate the big mushrooms. Those masters in the city who are willing to spend money are better than me."

Xu He said helplessly: "There are still some small ones on the tree that I didn't pick. When they get bigger, I'll pick them off and give you a mushrooms shredded meat, okay?"

Zhang Fangyuan smiled on his face: "Okay. This time I sold a quarter of the pork to the Chen family, and we can sell the rest of the meat today. The Chen family also asked me to buy and bring some things back home, and I will come to you when the meat is sold out, and we will go buy it together. "

He was a businessman himself, but he didn't know how to bargain with others. This matter depended on Xu He, so he could save some money. In fact, this was just a superficial talk, and it was bitter to say it, because he had no money to buy things at all.

His wife was embarrassed to manage his money at first, and he was afraid that he wouldn’t have enough money to spend every day. If he went out alone in the morning, he would prepare lunch box for him to take it with him, and he would give him half of a string copper coins (500 coins) to keep in case of occasional expenses, for fear that he would lose face if he had no money.

As the time went on and the two of them were nestled in bed, Xu He said that he was too lazy to count the half of a string copper coins every day, so he might as well convert it became 20 copper coins. Was this a valid reason? But lying on the bed, Zhang Fangyuan naturally obeyed everything his fulang asked for, so he agreed.

After a few days, the two of them were lying on the bed again. Xu He said that he had surplus from 20 copper coins, and he had already formed the habit of thrift. So he changed it to ten copper coins to see, if it really didn't work, then back to 20 copper coins. This time, he said it nicely, but whether it sounded nice or not was second to none. The most important thing was on the bed, so he agreed again.

So, he lived happily for half a month, and he didn't know how much he had promised Xu He on the bed.

Now that he didn't give him a copper coins, he would use the money from selling the meat to buy anything he needed to spend, and report it to Xu He when he came back .  

The little ge’er said that he didn't think carefully before, that he would get money by selling the meat, and if he was in a hurry, he would use the money from selling the meat, which was not bad. Anyway, every piece of meat sold was at least ten or twenty copper coins, and the money in hand had never been cut off.

Zhang Fangyuan’s thinking was beautiful. He bought oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar before. When he went back and reported it, Xu He didn’t say much, but he would check the market price carefully. He knew the difference between the two soy sauce shops in the east and west of the city, and he knew the prices of the things in the shops, so he couldn't be fooled at all.

The day before yesterday, he used the money from selling the meat to buy two jar of wine, and Xu He found out when he went back to check the bill the same day.

As soon as that little face collapsed, he wouldn’t speak a word to him for three days when he got angry.

Up to now, it had been a breeze, no different from that post station, the copper coins entering the station was only temporarily stored in his pocket, after all, it would be put at the terminal station.