Chapter 38 Are you kidding me?

"No, no, no." Sister-in-law Song waved her hand and gave her an angry look. "You just bought a few kilograms of flour. The eggs and sugar didn't fall from the sky. I don't have the face to take advantage of this bargain, so I'll take this piece back and give it to the two."

Just eat it as a kid."

Lin Yuzhu couldn't help but snatch the piece of cake out, lifted the cloth and stuffed it into her mouth.

"How can you know what's so good about it if you don't taste it carefully? How can you brag to Liao Rongfu's wife tomorrow? We are going to make money from this, how can we do it if we don't taste it ourselves?"

"Hmm!" Sister-in-law Song held the cake in fear, fearing that the crumbs would fall to the ground if Lin Yuzhu applied force. That would be such a waste.

A big mouthful was stuffed into her mouth, and she had to eat it, bit by bit slowly.

As I ate, my eye circles became red.

"Sister, I'm not afraid of making fun of you. I used to be the youngest in the family, and I would always stick to me if there was any delicious food in the house."

She smiled and wiped away her tears, "My father also wanted to give me the quota for non-agricultural transfer to non-agricultural land. If my sister-in-law hadn't made a fuss about jumping into the river, this would have almost happened."

"I have never experienced any hardship since I was a child. When I got here, every day in the fields and at home were as busy as a spinning top. I gave birth to three debt collectors in my life. My family was reluctant to fetch food at school and ate the cooked vegetables brought home every day.

Braised sauerkraut with black bean paste. He saved the food stamps his grandpa gave him and secretly gave them to me, saying he wanted to give his two younger brothers some refined grains to replenish their health."

"One time when I was going to the market, I happened to see him at the supply and marketing cooperative. Did you know that he touched the pen and looked at it for a long time without buying it, and the salesperson scolded him so hard... I didn't dare to go there, for fear of embarrassing him. It's not that I didn't know

Speculating means that I will be put in jail or sent to a labor camp. I am really willing to risk it... As long as I am not caught for one day, I can let the child live a better life for one more day."

At the end of her words, she fell on her knees and cried. Lin Yuzhu comforted her for a long time before she was able to calm her down.

In the dead of night, Lin Yuzhu was lying on the bed, thinking about how to find a time to sell the ginger seeds hidden in the space.

Working with Mrs. Song and delivering goods together, we can't just give her an extra load out of thin air.

The day after tomorrow is Shanpaiwei day, which is a little farther than Luotianwei.

She wasn't going to send it to Liao Rongfu, so she had to find another bad guy.

This kind of exchange of cheap labor for remuneration is too slow to make money. If you can't squeeze into the upper level of the food chain, you can't even hope to get rich in this life.

One thought after another came to mind, and I fell asleep without realizing it.

She didn't sleep well and got up early.

I lit the oil lamp and quietly went to the kitchen. I improved the bamboo tube so that each piece of bamboo was spread out more like an octopus.

Coupled with the strength gained from years of hard work, the effect is very obvious, and the egg whites can be beaten in just a few minutes.

With the experience of steaming cakes for the first time, I am more precise in the ratio of raw materials this time.

There was no clock, so she lit a stick of incense, steamed the incense for half a time, turned off the fire, steamed for a while without lifting the lid, and then poured out the cake.

This time I only steamed one big one, the others were all small ones.

Each small bowl-shaped cake is exquisite and cute, and the cake steamed in a basin looks particularly wealthy.

After packing it in two cloth bags, I picked some boiled sweet potatoes from the pot for breakfast, and after packing up my things, Sister-in-law Song happened to cough twice outside the wall.

The two of them picked up the basket and hurried on in the dim light of dawn.

The dew on the tips of the weeds made our trousers wet. It was almost nine miles away, and the mountain road with poor infrastructure was not easy to walk.

There is no need to pick a place to rest in the middle. You can just sit on one of the two baskets with a carrying pole.

The two were eating sweet potatoes and chatting. Song Ersao accidentally glanced behind Lin Yuzhu, quietly stuffed the sweet potatoes into her mouth, and untied the brown rope from the pole.

He held up the pole and swung it towards Lin Yuzhu's head.

Lin Yuzhu was so frightened by the fierce stance that she was swiping at her that she instinctively lowered her body and looked back in fear, with goosebumps all over her body.

A snake with a green body and a hint of yellow on its tail was twisting wildly on the muddy ground.

The triangular snake head with thin scales, the golden vertical pupils in its red eyes and the pair of fangs in its wide-open mouth made Lin Yuzhu break into a cold sweat.

In principle, if you don't actively attack the snake, the snake will most likely not bite her.

But a green bamboo snake was admiring the back of her head from behind. This didn't make people happy at all, right?

"Quick, quick, get my bag!" Sister-in-law Song happily pressed the snake's head with a pole, bent down and pinched the snake by seven inches, and picked it up, "Let's see if we can sell it in a while. If not, take it back to make wine.

"

Lin Yuzhu had an instinctive physical fear of snakes, things like snakes that had no legs and could run very fast. She held up the bag and wanted to open the mouth of the bag as wide as possible.

The snake fell into the bag and calmed down a little.

"I was afraid of snakes before I got married, but I figured it out later." Sister-in-law Song took the bag and neatly twisted the bag into a knot. "It's scary, but it can be exchanged for money and eaten, so it's good."

Something~”

Encountering a snake, as long as you are not bitten, is a happy thing.

Lin Yuzhu twitched the corner of her mouth, she made sense and was unable to refute.

As the morning sun began to rise, scattered houses began to appear on both sides of the dirt and gravel road.

My back was wet with sweat, half of my trouser legs were covered with mud, and they were half dried by the wind.

The two found a small pond, took out the clean cloth shoes from the basket, washed the mud off their feet, and put on the cloth shoes.

Going to town to go to the fairgrounds to dress decently is the last stubbornness of the poor.

Jiantan Town is a big town, and the flow of people is significantly higher than that of Luotianwei.

The trading of agricultural and sideline products is concentrated on one street.

This long street has a supply and marketing cooperative, a health center, a veterinary station, and a grain station.

The name of the street is no longer important, because there is an old archway, and everyone calls this area Yuejin Gate.

Arriving at Jiantan Town, Mrs. Song held her head high and led Lin Yuzhu directly to the Yuejin Gate.

Bypass the chicken, duck, geese and firewood trading area next to the health center and walk along the residential alley.

I walked around and walked to the outside of a row of collapsed mud houses. There were lush weeds inside the ruins. The weeds outside were no higher than ankles and were trampled bare by people.

Lin Yuzhu immediately spotted the young man sitting on the steps eating sweet potatoes.

Xiao Dongming, who was always paying attention to people coming and going, also discovered Lin Yuzhu and Song Ersao at the same time.

Hey, familiar person.

With a smile on her fair and thin cheeks, she stood up and patted the dust on her pants and walked over enthusiastically.

He glanced at their tightly covered baskets and said, "Come to catch the fair?"

"Young man, come here." Sister-in-law Song waved to him mysteriously.

Xiao Dongming was a little surprised. These two people hadn't sold anything yet, so they were so eager to take care of his business?

Following them to the foot of a small slope, he was about to take off his pocket bag, but Lin Yuzhu stopped him.

"Don't worry, I'm here to do business with you today."

"I don't collect the mountain ginger seeds. Someone will come over later to collect them." Xiao Dongming pursed his lips towards Lin Yuzhu's basket, "I collect grains, but no one will carry them here directly."

Lin Yuzhu didn't answer, she opened a corner of the bag, dug in the basket for a while, and gave him a cake, "Do you want to take it?"

Xiao Dongming took it and pinched it, then raised it to the tip of his nose and smelled it, "Hiss~Eh? It looks like rice cake but not the same. It's quite fragrant. How did you make it?"

"You can eat and see."

"Really treat me to food?"

"Um."

"Well, well, then I'll accept your favor."

Xiao Dongming smelled the cake again, took a bite, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "It's not rice noodles, it's not so tender, is it flour?"

He grabbed the cake and turned it over and over, "I'm so willing to give it up. It's so sweet. It must have been because of the addition of eggs. The yellow gardenia dye doesn't have this fragrance."

Then he took another small bite and smacked his lips, "It must be eggs. How are they made? There is no rancid taste at all."

Lin Yuzhu lowered his head and smiled, "It's hard to explain the recipe passed down from our ancestors."

In this era, yeast powder and baking powder were not widely popularized yet. When the villagers made rice cakes, they used distiller's yeast mixed with rice milk to ferment naturally.

Naturally, there will be sour and rancid flavors.

After steaming, the sour smell is lighter, but you can still smell it.

Xiao Dongming took two bites and put the remaining half of the cake into his pocket. He frowned and thought for a while, feeling very confused.

"I've never seen anything like this before, and I don't know if anyone wants it."

"There are people who want the unpalatable steamed buns and fat cakes in state-owned restaurants. How would you know if you don't try them?"

"It's hard to eat?" Xiao Dongming looked at Lin Yuzhu like he was looking at a monster, "Most people can't eat it if they want to. Have you ever eaten it?"

Those are steamed buns!

Steamed buns that you can only buy with food stamps!

A bun that not many people know how to make!
To be continued...