Hearing his parents' questions, Shi Jiang pursed his lips and smiled, but did not answer, and Shi's father and Shi's mother didn't care either.
Shi Jiang also poured a bowl of milk tea by herself and drank it into her mouth. It was no different from what she had drunk before. It was sweet and delicious.
Shi's father finished the drink in one breath and poured the few pearls at the bottom of the bowl into his mouth to chew.
"This thing is really powerful."
After saying that, while chewing the pearl, he sawed all the bamboo he had just chopped section by section.
After sawing, put it in a basin to clean, and tear off the white film in the bamboo tube.
He also smoothed the sawed opening to avoid pricking his mouth when he drank from it.
Shi Jiang looked at the bamboo branches that Shi's father had chopped down. Unfortunately, these bamboo branches were too thin. If he only drank milk tea, he could barely drink it, but there was no way to suck up the pearls in the bamboo tube.
It seems that she still has to find a slightly thicker bamboo section, about the size of her little finger, to use as a straw.
When summer comes, you can also make fruit tea.
Shi Jiang said this to Shi's father, and Shi's father nodded in agreement. When he was free, he went to ask others to see if there was any bamboo as thick as his little finger.
Shi Mu thought about it for a moment, then hesitated and asked, "Would that kind of reed work?"
There are many tidal flat-like places here where nothing can be grown, but a lot of these reeds grow next to them.
She also heard from Mrs. Cai that when she had free time, she could cut some reeds and make them into reed mats, which could be placed under the bed.
Sister-in-law Cai showed her a piece of reed and said that there are such things in many places here.
When she heard her daughter describe it just now, her first reaction was this reed.
When Shi Jiang heard Shi's mother's words, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Mom, of course you can. Let's go cut some and bring them back now, and soak them with these bamboo tubes. We can use them tomorrow."
"Okay, okay, you two stay at home and I'll go chop it down."
Shi's father hurriedly stopped the excited mother and daughter. There was no need for a woman to do this kind of chopping and moving.
Early the next morning, Shi's father took a bucket of boiled milk tea and a jar of pearls, an iron boiler and spring cakes with side dishes, and rode Uncle Cai's ox cart to the county.
Shi Jiang was not worried at all about today's business, and turned around and went back to the backyard to tend her sweet potatoes.
When the time came, Shi's mother felt uneasy, even more uneasy than when she followed Shi's father to the capital to take office.
Until almost noon, Shi's mother had just finished cooking lunch when there was a noise outside the door. Shi's mother immediately ran out and saw Shi's father with a happy face. After unloading the things from the ox cart, Uncle Cai drove the ox cart.
Gone.
Shi's mother waited until Shi's father took all the things back to the yard and closed the door before asking.
"How is business? Does anyone want to eat these things?"
Shi's father proudly lifted the lid of the pot and motioned to Shi's mother to look inside the bucket. There were no spring cakes or side dishes left, and the same was true for the milk tea.
"You don't know, at first they didn't dare to come forward to eat. It was because I boldly shouted that it was not delicious and that I didn't want to pay for it, so some of them came to try it. Then the word spread, and many people who were not in the academy also wanted to try it.
Come buy cakes and milk tea to eat. Especially the milk tea, everyone said that it is full of milk flavor and they have never tasted such a sweet drink. After a while, everything was sold out."
If Shi's father hadn't gone to buy materials again, he wouldn't have waited until now to come back.
Of course, the slow speed of ox carts is also relevant.
The family of three ate first. After finishing the meal quickly, Shi's father took out the bag where the money was kept and poured out the copper coins.
I counted it carefully and found that there were nine hundred and thirty articles in total.
After deducting the cost, it was less than 200 Wen, which means that in one morning, I made more than 700 Wen.
If this is done in one month, there will be a net income of almost twenty taels of silver.
In the capital city, the income of maybe twenty taels of silver a month is nothing.
But here, with an income of more than 20 taels, it proves that their family can live a good life.
It won't even be long before you can buy a maid for your daughter and wife, so they don't have to work so hard to cook and wash their own clothes.
After all, the annual income of an ordinary family here is only a few taels of silver.
"Don't worry, Dad, when the sauce is ready, business will be even better."
After listening to Shi's father's plan, Shi Jiang said to him with a smile.
Because of the success of spring cakes and milk tea, Shi's father and Shi's mother were very confident in their daughter's garlic soy sauce.
However, even if it doesn't work, it's okay. After all, these two things are enough for their family of three to live well here.
The family of three was having a silly laugh when they heard a loud noise coming from the Wu house next door, and then a sharp and harsh woman's cry pierced the sky above the yard.
"The Wu family is really restless. It has only been quiet for a few days. Why has it started to become noisy again after a few days?"
The original smile on Shi's father's face faded slightly, and he frowned and said.
Shi's mother sighed after hearing Shi's father's words.
"I know about this. Sister-in-law Cai mentioned to me that Wu Tongpan was going to marry his concubine Wu Yingchun to the butcher in the village. You don't even know that the butcher is about the same age as you. It is said that the former
My mother-in-law was beaten to death, and she has three children at home, the eldest of whom is older than Wu Yingchun. Wu Tong thinks this is trying to force his daughter to die!"
Hearing Shi's mother's words, Shi's father pursed his lips, and the last trace of smile disappeared from his face.
He was really ashamed that he and Wu Tong were once officials in the same dynasty.
No matter what, although the daughter was a concubine, she was Wu Tongpan's biological flesh and blood after all.
He didn't believe that this matter could be settled just by relying on Wu Tongpan's wife.
How could the mess in the backyard be possible without the tacit consent of the male owner?
However, there must be something hateful about poor people.
Among the few children of the Wu family who were born as concubines, Wu Zihao left the house with his wife.
My father remembered that Wu Yingchun and Wu Zihao were born from the same mother.
If Wu Yingchun had been willing to leave the Wu family with Wu Zihao at that time, I'm afraid she wouldn't have ended up like this.
In the end, he was just afraid of suffering outside following his brother who had left home, so he hid in Wu's house, thinking he could live a comfortable life.
But she didn’t expect that it would be herself who would be harmed in the end!
"From now on, our family will have less contact with their family."
Shi's father was silent for a long time, and then said seriously to his wife and daughter.
In his opinion, except for Wu Zihao who had a little bit of integrity and left home, there were probably no good people in the Wu family.
Especially after being rejected that time, he had strong opinions on the Wu family.
I am deeply afraid that my daughter is still young and does not understand the good and bad of people's hearts. If Wu Yingchun comes to ask for help, my daughter will easily believe other people's words. What will happen if she is deceived?