A small breakfast shop in the street market, supporting the family and making money

Leng Yan could probably guess what her elder brother was thinking.

This is the current environment. Compared with the refreshing silver sprouts, the strong, rich and fatty pork is obviously more suitable for farmers, and vice versa.

Rich families are used to eating big fish and meat, so they want to eat some refreshing side dishes.

There are very few fresh vegetables at this time of year, so silver sprouts can fill this gap, and the price naturally goes up.

Several people were immersed in joy for a long time. Leng Yan took advantage of the joy and suggested going to the grocery store to buy some seasonings.

As he had just earned some money, Mr. Leng did not refuse it. He just watched Leng Yan pick and choose in the grocery store.

The family has always eaten pepper, and Leng Yan was worried at first that there was no pepper in this era, but he didn't expect that the grocery store actually had it.

It’s just that not many people buy it. Compared with the two, most people choose pepper.

Leng Yan felt strange and asked the boss. It turned out that most of the peppers here were from Qianzhou. The taste was too pungent and spicy and difficult to control.

On the contrary, pepper, whether it is stir-frying, stewing, or mutton soup, just add a little bit to make it spicy and warm the body, which is killing two birds with one stone.

After getting this important information, Leng Yan felt like he saw a bright future.

In ancient times when the development rate of peppers was less than 10%, it was easy for her to make a fortune by using peppers.

However, Leng Yan did not dare to get carried away. Now was not the right time and he had to take it step by step.

After buying spices and weighing some brown sugar at the grocery store, I went to the grain store to buy some soybeans.

Leng Yan discussed with her grandfather and bought cloth and cotton, preparing to make a new set of clothes for everyone in the family for the New Year.

Cotton cloth is expensive, and it cost only one or two taels of silver in one go.

If he hadn't earned more than ten taels of silver today, he wouldn't have believed that his father could be so generous.

Finally, the grandfather and grandson wandered over to the pork stall.

The last time he bought lard and pork bones, Leng Yan didn’t dare to ask the price of pork. This time he finally felt confident.

She asked, "Boss, how much is pork?"

Seeing that they looked familiar, the boss became particularly enthusiastic.

"Big fat meat is 16 cents a pound, pork belly is 15 cents a pound, and the leaner ones are 13 or 14 cents a pound. What kind of meat do you want?"

The prices are actually the opposite of modern times. In this era, fatty meat tastes better.

Leng Yan thought about it and chose the pork belly which had a mix of fat and lean meat.

"Grandpa, how many pounds do we want?"

Of course, she still gave the final decision to Mr. Leng.

After all, no matter how different she is on the inside, to outsiders, she is still a child who needs to be ruled by her elders.

The same went for Leng Huai and Leng Cang, both of them were eagerly waiting for their father and grandfather to make a decision.

They were both excited and reluctant. They all looked forward to eating the greasy and fatty meat, but were reluctant to spend too much money.

"Cut two pounds!"

Mr. Leng thinks long-term and does not dare to spend money lavishly.

"okay!"

The owner of the pork stall responded and quickly cut the meat and weighed it.

"Eat it first, and we'll harvest more during the New Year!"

I don’t know if this was out of comfort or expectation for the kids when Mr. Leng said this.

Leng Huai and the others nodded obediently, while Leng Yan negotiated and ordered three more bones for five cents each.

When the owner of the pork stall heard her say she wanted pork shanks, he recognized them.

In order to ensure their long-term development in the future, the pork stall owner even gave them an extra pork bone.

After buying the things, the grandfather and grandson got on the ox cart back to the village.

When the ox cart was swaying and moving slowly to the bank of the Zhanjiang River outside the village, we saw shadowy figures on the ice from afar, but we could only see them when they got closer.

It turned out that the chief was leading people to break ice to catch fish, and this was the last time to set the net before the New Year.

Since the beginning of winter, the leader has led people to cast nets several times, and most of the fish caught have been sold to dignitaries.

Now, this net contains the fish that the surrounding villages will eat during the New Year, so there are an unusually large number of villagers on the Zhan River today.

Seeing this, the old man driving the ox cart also wanted to buy fish, so he turned around and asked other people on the cart.

It is said that there will be surplus every year. Whether it is for the expectation of a good year or to have some meat during the New Year, every household will buy a few fish at this time of year.

Therefore, after receiving the response, the old man drove the ox cart onto the ice. When they reached the middle of the river, everyone got off the cart.

I saw that the ice surface not far away had been chiseled into a large rectangle by the workers, revealing the river water.

It is just about casting the net and waiting, and then two donkeys push the millstone. The connection between the modified millstone is the fishing rope for collecting the net.

As the two donkeys continued to push the millstone, the fishing rope became tighter and tighter, until the water and the fewer fish in the fishing net flowed out along the net bag, leaving only the densely packed moving fish backs in the fishing net.

Afterwards, more than a dozen workers on the ice had to work together to drag the hundreds of meters long fishing net onto the ice, which was not an easy task.

"One, two, one, two!"

Listening to the leader shouting in unison, the villagers on the ice also became excited, and when they saw something exciting, some people would come forward to help drag the boat.

Looking at the dense and lively fish tails jumping in the air, the hundreds of meters long fishing net became tighter and tighter. The big fish came ashore and the small fish fell back into the water from the net bag.

The ignorant children nearby saw the fish running away and started to warn the fish anxiously.

"The fish is gone! The fish is gone!"

At this time, the old man next to him would explain patiently.

"This is called endless hunting!"

The children were confused, but the old man explained it in detail, waiting for them to understand its meaning.

"Dad, his uncle, you are back."

Zhang Cuiniang and Leng Su, with their heads wrapped in cloth, brought their twin babies with them, and followed the women from the same village to buy fish, where they happened to meet Leng Yan and his companions who had just returned from the city.

It was cold, and seeing that the queue for buying fish would take a while, old man Leng said.

"It's useless to keep so many people here. Second son's wife, you take the children and your belongings and go back first. I'll wait here."

Each household would only send one or two people to buy fish, but his family would just be freezing if they stayed here with a bunch of people.

"Oh good."

Zhang Cuiniang knew her father-in-law's temper, so she didn't try to persuade him much. She just told him the types of fish he wanted to buy, then she and Leng Su and Leng Huai carried the baskets on their backs, and called the little twins who were playing crazy nearby to go home together.

Leng Cang pestered his grandfather to stay, and Leng Yan also wanted to stay and continue watching, but she was very cold on the way back to the village from the city, so she obediently followed her mother home.

On the way, she saw her mother and aunt, who were thin and had difficulty carrying baskets. She walked forward a few steps, holding a basket in each hand and walking quickly.

She originally wanted to help her uncle get it, but Leng Huai saw this and walked quickly with the backpack on his back.

Thinking about the fish that her family was going to buy, Leng Yan wanted to drink fish head and tofu soup.

So when she was at the entrance of the village, Zhang Cuiniang went to Grandma Lin's house to buy some tofu.

"Wangwangwang!"

As soon as they arrived at the gate of the yard, Dahuang came out to greet them, wagging his tail.

When the little twins Leng Qi and Leng He saw the dog kissing them, they immediately changed their attitude and started playing with Da Huang in the yard.

It was cold and windy, but after they entered the house, Zhang Cuiniang hurriedly brought them some warm tea. After each of them drank a cup, they felt warmer.