In Taoyuan Village,

Little Jiang Yue is nearly eight months old, but she doesn't have much time to go out.

She climbed on her elder sister's shoulders and paid attention to every brick and tile, every blade of grass and every tree in the village.

Although Taoyuan Village is not big, there are many villages nearby.

Their village is located in the middle of the city, so every day, there are small vendors stopping along the alley at the entrance of the village from time to time.

After about a quarter of an hour, the two men arrived at the village entrance.

At the entrance of the village, among the vendors were an old lady selling eggs,

A hunter who sells pheasants and rabbits,

There was also a peddler passing by, carrying two baskets of cakes and pastries.

In total, there are only these three people.

Little Jiang Yue looked around and heard her elder sister asking the woman selling eggs,

"Auntie, do you have any hens for sale?"

The old lady shook her head and said, "The hen needs to be kept to lay eggs."

Besides, she had raised the old hen for three or four years and she ate all the food herself.

"Where is the chick?" Jiang Dani continued to ask.

"There are no chicks." She was reluctant to sell the newly grown chicks.

"At this time of year, everything that should be sold has been sold. Little girl, if you want to buy chicks, remember to come to me next spring."

Jiang Dani was a little depressed.

Little Jiang Yue felt a little sorry. She thought that her grandmother must want to buy a ready-made hen that would lay eggs as soon as it was brought home.

But I haven't found the right way yet.

Sister, go ask somewhere else.

As she turned her head, she saw two neighbors, Grandma Li and Grandma Zhang, walking towards them with small baskets filled with freshly dug wild vegetables.

I thought to myself, my elder sister could ask them.

"Dani is here too." Zhang greeted Jiang Dani with a smile as soon as she saw her.

The reason is that she is still thinking about her second sister.

As she spoke, she teased little Jiang Yue who was in Jiang Dani's arms.

"This child is so handsome. When he grows up, he must be nice to his sister."

Little Jiang Yue cooperated and uttered a few babbling sounds, which made the two women laugh along.

"Dani, what are you going to buy?" Li asked.

"Grandma Li, I want to buy a chicken." Jiang Dani smiled, then looked around, and finally looked at the hunter in front of her, shaking her head.

This chicken is not that chicken.

Li thought to herself, Sister Liu next door has seldom bought anything since her family encountered misfortune, so why is she being so generous today?

Li and Liu have been good sisters for many years since they became neighbors.

Before, the two of them always competed secretly.

Whose family lives better?

In the past few years, Mrs. Li always wanted to suppress Sister Liu because she lived better than her in every way.

Now, she felt more sympathy for Sister Liu.

For example, Sister Liu was such a strong-willed woman that she put aside her previous self-esteem and asked to borrow two pounds of flour from her.

This kind of thing has never happened before.

She said at the time that there was no need to pay it back, as she couldn't bear to see the child being an orphan and a widow.

But today, Sister Liu insisted on returning it.

"That's perfect. I'm also going to buy some pheasants to nourish my old couple and my grandchildren." Mrs. Li said as she picked up little Jiang Yue.

No matter what, we can't be outdone by our neighbors.

"Xiao Liu, let's let Big Sister take a break."

Jiang Dani...replenish her body? She thought of her grandmother's dizziness.

That’s right, grandma needs to replenish her body.

Jiang Yue looked at these women and wished that her grandmother could live a comfortable life like them.

Zhang also became interested when she heard this. "Your grandchildren's meat is there for you to eat, so how can we miss my Xiaoyong?"

The family conditions of the two women were quite good.

There is also a little bit of comparison.

Several people came to the hunter in front together.

Zhang, Li, and Jiang Dani all turned their eyes to the pheasant.

Little Jiang Yue, on the other hand, looked at the little pheasant in the hunter's frame.

There are actually little pheasants for sale?

She estimated that the little pheasant was about one month old and should be easy to raise.

The hunter followed the three people's line of sight and greeted them with a smile.

"Madam, do you want to buy pheasants? We just hunted them today. Fourteen cents a pound."

"Fourteen cents?" Zhang pursed her lips.

"Cheaper."

"Yes, a little cheaper." Li agreed. "Let's add... eight cents."

The hunter frowned when he heard this.

"No, aunts and sisters, this is a wild chicken, not a domestic chicken. It's not easy to walk on the long mountain road, and it's not easy to hunt. Please give me some money for running errands..."

Domestic chickens are sold at ten cents per pound. If he sells this wild chicken for eight cents, isn't that too much of a loss?

"..." Jiang Dani didn't know how to bargain, so she just nodded.

Zhang and Li were engaged in a heated argument, and no one paid any attention to Jiang Yue, who was still staring at the pheasant.

Finally, the price was agreed upon as ten cents.

"Forget it, forget it. I'm afraid of you." The hunter smiled helplessly.

Since he was in a hurry to get home and didn't know much about business, he had to let the women choose for themselves.

Little Jiang Yue, who was still on Li's body, kept waving her hands at her elder sister, asking for a hug.

Jiang Dani took Jiang Yue over.

She felt her only fifty copper coins and saw that Zhang and Li had already selected the pheasants and were weighing them.

His eyes fell on one of the pheasants.

"Weigh this for me."

"Okay, little girl, wait a moment." The hunter said, and then said,

"Nineteen coppers."

"Twenty-two copper coins..."

Zhang and Li paid the money one after another.

Finally, the hunter picked up the one that Jiang Dani was pointing at.

"This is exactly twenty coppers."

"Yeah." Jiang Dani thought of the scene when her grandmother was sick, and without hesitation, she took out twenty copper coins.

Then, she put the bundled pheasants into a small basket, and together with the two grandmothers, she laboriously carried little Jiang Yue and prepared to leave.

But Jiang Yue's anxious little hand pulled his arm.

She turned her head and saw little Jiang Yue's little hand pointing at the little pheasant in the frame.

Sister, chicks can live a long life.

The weeds in the mountains can be used to feed the

There are still a lot of grains at home~~~

Let’s buy it together.

By the end of the year, one chicken will be worth twenty cents, and ten chickens, if they are not damaged, will be worth two hundred cents.

No matter what, it can bring more income to the family.

If you inquire about buying chickens and raise them until the end of the year,

The egg production of domestic chickens here is not high.

If you buy a chicken, it costs 10 wen per pound. Even if the chicken is thin, it costs 20 wen per pound.

By the end of the year, after three or four months, there will be only a few dozen eggs at most, no more than a hundred.

There is no high-quality feed here, so the egg production rate is not high.

The eldest sister’s money is definitely not enough to buy two chickens. Isn’t she still thinking about nourishing grandma’s health?

Don't ask her how she knows. In this life, she went to her grandmother's house in the countryside, where she raised chickens.

But later her grandmother passed away, her parents divorced and remarried, and she became an orphan.

Little Jiang Yue really can't wait to grow up.

She was afraid that her grandmother would tire herself out.

I am also afraid that my small body will not grow up.

If a woman disguises herself as a man and is too small... well, it's incongruous so be it. Anyway, her fate in this life has already been determined.

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