Liu Xiangmei had a delicious meal at her sister's house, and her complexion became more and more rosy.
Only the youngest of the Xu family had this skill. She thought it was good when she ate Xu He’s food for the first time. When she returned home, she took her own girl to learn how to cook, but it turned out that this cooking still needed some talent in it. She couldn't force it.
On the table was Liu Xiangmei's favorite pig's trotter and winter bamboo shoots. She was very happy and wanted to praise He ge’er, but Xu Shaochun couldn't stop adding vegetables to her bowl, so she had to hold back the words .
In the afternoon, Liu Xiangmei went back. In the first few days, she said she was free when she was free, and said she was busy when she was busy. Liu Xianglan didn't keep her. She said that she would go to her sister's house some days when she went to the city to go to the market.
Zhang Fangyuan was busy with small his business in the past few days, leaving early and returning late, and the villagers hadn't noticed much. He came back after selling the pork that day, and drove the horse cart back to the village. People saw him along the way. He didn't care that the people in the village stopped to look at him, and went straight home.
He put all the money he earned in the past few days into the jar under the bed, and when he carried it out, it made a rattling sound, which made people felt at ease. He poured out all of the money and piled up on a small table. It looked like a lot, but in fact it was only a few thousand copper coins. In fact, it was much more convenient to go to the bank to change it into silver. But to do business, you need change to make up money, and you still needed to have enough loose money on hand.
After counting, it looked like four thousand copper coins.
It cost 2,460 copper coins to buy a pig. After the pig was slaughtered, the meat yield was about 70% to 85%, except for the internal organs and pig head. The pigs he bought this time were pretty good, with a meat yield of 80%. After a few days of hard work, he made more than a thousand copper coins, and he was quite satisfied.
If things went on like this, it shouldn't be long before he could redeem the silver bracelet he pawned, but now was not the time, he wanted to buy pigs to sell, and he needed to have enough money in hand.
After packing up the money, he unloaded the cart in the yard, fed the horse with a lot of grass, and took some snacks he bought in the city and some things that could be used on weekdays to his fourth uncle's house for dinner.
"Is it easy to sell?"
"It's okay, I'll go to look for the pigs again after a day off." Zhang Fangyuan ate his fourth aunt's stir-fry. He hadn't eaten well these days, and his mind was all on the stall. He said: "I've already put up a sign on the side of the shop, and people who have pigs can contact me."
Zhang Shicheng sat on a chair by the threshold. Today, he came back from visiting his relatives. He had already had dinner. Just accompany Zhang Fangyuan to eat. Seeing his nephew digging into the rice, he stretched his legs comfortably and leaned back on the chair, and asked him about the meat market.
He Shi and Xiaomao were in the bedroom, unpacking the things that Zhang Fangyuan brought over. There was a pack of dried nuts, which were used as snacks for children. Needless to say, they put the things in their arms with a smile.
Then he saw several large bags of salt and sauce, and He Shi was overjoyed: "Your cousin is getting better and better, and knows how to choose practical things to buy, but after buying so much, he even bought another jar of wine for your father, or the problem of being extravagant can’t be changed.”
“Hey, what is this?” Xiaomao listened to her mother talking with smile and was about to reply to his mother’s words, but he saw a small wooden box in the innermost part of the bundle.
He took it out suspiciously and opened it, and saw a double-folded hair tie lying safely in the long small wooden box.
The dark green silk hair tie was smooth to the touch. It was embroidered with a golden lotus pattern and accompanied by auspicious cloud patterns, which was very beautiful. If you tie your hair with this in spring, it would definitely look good.
"Mom, what a beautiful hair tie!"
Xiaomao couldn't help exhaling: "Why is my cousin so good at picking things!"
On the contrary, He Shi frowned slightly, and took a look at the hair tie. Although the hair tie was good, the color was a bit dark, and it didn't seem the color that Xiaomao would wear at his age.
Although she saw that her little ge’er liked it, she still said, "Maybe your cousin will give it away."
Xiaomao was a little disappointed, but he still said sensiblely: "Then I will give it back to my cousin, he has already bought me dried fruit, and this hair tie doesn't look cheap."
He Shi smiled and nodded, rubbing his little ge’er’s hair.
Zhang Fangyuan was full of wine and food, and he had explained to his fourth uncle what he had to explain. He wanted to slip away, and when he was about to speak, Xiaomao ran out first: "Cousin Ayuan, is this what you want to send to someone?"
Hearing the sound, Zhang Shicheng also turned his eyes to his little ge’er, he saw the box in Xiaomao's hand, Zhang Fangyuan blushed carelessly, and hurried over to take it: " Ah... yes. Oops, I have a bad memory, I just came back and came here in a hurry when I was hungry, and I forgot to take out this thing.”
Seeing that the box was really going to be given to others, Xiaomao was not unhappy, but said: “It’s very beautiful, who will my cousin give it to?"
Zhang Fangyuan scratched the back of his head, a little at a loss in the playful eyes of his fourth uncle's family of three. He just smiled and carefully put the thing in front of his chest: "I have something to do, I'll go back first."
Several people didn't keep him, they all smiled and shook their heads when they saw the tall figure going out the door.
Zhang Shicheng got up from the chair: "This kid, he can be considered if he is enlightened."
He Shi smiled and touched Xiaomao's head: " Mao ge’er, I think you will have a sister-in-law soon."
Zhang Fangyuan left Zhang Shicheng's house and didn't go back directly, but wandered around the village with a clear goal but seemingly aimless, only worried about how to call out the person who he wanted to give the gift if he was at home.
But after he went to Xu's house and walked around, he didn't see Xu He at home. Instead, he met some villagers who pulled him into a conversation. He was impatient and sent them away with a few words.