After Grandma Mo left, Xiang Jin went to the kitchen to check whether the ingredients for making chili sauce were complete.
In the end, I found that there was not enough salt, not enough ginger, not much garlic, and the most critical high-quality white wine was not available. There were also things like white vinegar and rock sugar that needed to be prepared.
But it won’t be ready until the third day, so the chopped chili peppers can’t be made right away, and they have to wait a little longer.
But the next day, her eldest uncle and second uncle came again, along with her cousin Yang Zhao, who came to collect grain poles for them.
Her uncle said that the corn poles were almost drying in the geographical area and could not be dried any longer. Not only would they easily break over time, but snakes could easily hide inside, so it was better to take them back as soon as possible.
However, they did not take it to Aunt Liao's house, but directly took it to the house they were building in Huangye Bay, not far from their house. A few days ago, his grandfather built another house for them with no facts.
An open thatched shed designed for stacking firewood.
According to her two uncles, it was to avoid the trouble of moving around.
Xiang Jin followed them to the fields to collect grain poles. In fact, she and her cousin collected the grain poles scattered in the field, and then handed them to her uncles to carry back.
During the process of picking up the grain-packing poles, Xiang Jin asked Yang Zhao, "Have you picked the silkworm cocoons from your family and my second uncle's family?"
"Pick it!"
"How about it? How many pounds does it weigh?"
Yang Zhaodao said, "Our family picked a little more than 32 kilograms. My uncle's family seems to have picked more than 29 kilograms, but less than 30 kilograms."
Xiang Jin's hand holding the corn pole was stunned, "Is it broken that much?"
She remembered that her grandmother had told her before that if a piece of silkworm paper was raised, it could produce 40 to 45 kilograms of cocoons. Both of their families raised summer silkworms on two pieces of silkworm paper, and the result was that the cocoons they picked were
It's less than a piece of silkworm paper, which is really surprising.
Yang Zhao nodded, "Yes, there have been a lot of bad things this year."
Xiang Jin then asked, "What is the price of silkworm cocoons this season? Are they better than spring silkworms?"
Yang Zhao nodded, "The price is higher than that of spring silkworm cocoons, but our selling price is basically the same as spring silkworm cocoons."
Xiang Jin raised his eyebrows and didn't understand what he meant. Yang Zhao said, "The appearance of our silkworm cocoons this season is not very good, and there are a lot of yellowish ones, so we only sold it for thirteen yuan and a pound, but the second uncle
The color of their cocoons is better, basically snow white, so they sell them for 16 yuan and 30 pounds."
"Oh, so that's it?" She didn't know that selling silkworm cocoons was very particular. It seemed that everything had to be graded.
Then I heard Yang Zhaoyou say, "However, our zombie silkworms are still sold for more than two hundred yuan, and my second uncle's are about the same."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then asked how their family's corn was breaking off.
Yang Zhao said, "It's all broken, and the corn stalks have been cut down. However, the quality of our corn this year is not very good. There are a lot of rice seeds, a lot of cracked noses, and a lot of sparse teeth."
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Xiang Jin understood what "Xiyaba" meant. It was a corn cob with one corn kernel in the east, one in the west, and a few scattered ones on top.
Xiang Jin consoled him, "This year, many families' corn is like that."
Yang Zhao nodded and then said nothing. Xiang Jin asked him if all the corn kernels in their house had been peeled.
Yang Zhao said, "Not yet, we are drying the sticks, and we won't start peeling them off in a few days."
"Then do you want Xiang Nan and I to go over and help you peel it off together?"
Her uncle and aunts always came over to help them with their work. To be honest, Xiang Jin felt a little bit sorry. She thought that if possible, she still hoped to help them as much as possible.
In addition to sincerity, the relationship between people must also come and go. If you blindly take from others and ask others to pay without giving anything yourself, then no matter how close the blood relationship is, it will not be possible.
It will fade.
Yang Zhao said, "No, with the tool you gave us for peeling corn kernels, plus a few people in our own house, we can finish peeling them in less than two days, and there are also my mother and the others."
By then, some corn cobs with long and plump kernels will have fallen, so there will probably be fewer that can be peeled."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then the two stopped talking and each picked up the corn poles in the field.
Xiang Jin and her family's cows will be transferred to others to raise in three days. In order to avoid sudden rains at that time, or they have no time to rush out to graze, Xiang Jin still suggested that her two uncles should be the last ones to carry the cows.
A bundle of grain poles was placed in the corner of Aunt Liao's house.
On the third day, Xiang Jin got up early, cleaned the peppers, put them in a clean dustpan to drain the water, and then went to the market with a basket on his back.
By coincidence, she was cutting meat at the vegetable market, and Xiang Jiao was also buying something at the vegetable market, and he was at a stall not far away from her. They both saw each other, but neither of them paid attention.
Everyone is buying what they need.
Xiang Jin came out of the vegetable market. After walking for a while, she suddenly felt like someone was following her. Xiang Jin's brows immediately frowned. Who was that person? What was the purpose of following her?
Did someone dislike her and want to take revenge on her? Or did they just want to rob her?
But no matter what it is, she can't panic at this time, she has to wait and see what happens.
So Xiang Jin pretended not to know and continued walking forward.
The other party was very persistent and followed her from one street to another.
Finally, Xiang Jin curled up his lips, went to a stall that sold everything for one yuan, picked up a mirror and pretended to look at it.
Then he saw two people not far behind him, staring in his direction with bright eyes.
One of them had messy curls permed, and one had a bunch of yellow hair highlighted on his forehead.
Both of them looked young, probably around twenty years old.
Oh, two? Little bastards?
She didn't know how she attracted the attention of these two people, but there were not many people, but she felt a lot more at ease.
After Xiang Jin paid the stall owner, he continued to walk forward as if nothing had happened, and the two gangsters also continued to follow.
Yan Chen was taking a young man of his own age to buy soda in a drink shop across the street. After paying the price and waiting for the store to pick it up, he looked up and looked outside inadvertently, and he happened to see it.
Two young people who looked like members of society followed Xiang Jin towards another street in a sneaky manner.
He frowned suddenly, his heart also lifted, and then he picked up the young man beside him and chased Jin and the others in the direction they left regardless.
The shop owner waved from behind and shouted, "Huh? Huh? I haven't asked you for any money yet?"
"Oh, Yan Chen, what are you doing? You're in such a hurry and you don't want any money? You didn't even take the soda? And my luggage is still there?"
The young man was startled by his sudden pull on his hand and his extremely worried and nervous look. He trotted along with his steps and asked curiously.
road.
Yan Chen let go of him and said, "Then just wait for me here for a while. I have something urgent to deal with." After saying that, he speeded up again.
The young man was confused. Although he was very curious about what he was doing, he still had to go back to get his luggage.
When the boss saw him coming back, he came up with the money he had found and his luggage, "Here, here is the money for you, and the soda you just bought, here it is!"
"Oh, okay, thank you," the young man took it from the boss's hand and said, "Boss, can I stay at your place for a while? My friend said he had an emergency and left beforehand, and said he would come here later.
Looking for me, I'm afraid that if I leave, he won't be able to find anyone and will be anxious?"
"Okay, okay, no problem, come on in and sit down," the boss said cheerfully and enthusiastically. He walked to the store to welcome him, and then brought him a stool.
The young man sat down, and then the boss asked him, "Young man, you are not from our town, are you?"
The young man nodded, "Well, no, I'm from the county."
The boss nodded and said, "Oh, no wonder you still have luggage with you. Are you planning to stay at a friend's house for a longer period of time?"
The young man nodded, and the boss continued to chat with him, "Although we are in a remote and remote place, it is not as prosperous as the county town, but the air here is incomparable to the city."