Shi Jiang was very satisfied with the wild grapes that were neatly arranged and ready for use after just a little cleaning.
Especially after taking a bite, maybe because of the sunshine here, it is very sweet.
After she took out all the wild grapes, she weighed them directly.
Then he took out seventy-eight copper coins and handed them to the older boy.
"You have twenty-six kilograms of wild grapes in total. One kilogram costs three cents. Here is seventy-eight cents. Count them."
When Shi Jiang said this, the other party's face suddenly turned red, his lips wriggled a few times, and then he lowered his head and spoke in a low voice.
"We haven't read books and can't count."
After hearing what the boy said, Shi Jiang was stunned for a moment, but without showing any look of contempt on his face, he turned around and entered the room.
When the boy saw Shi Jiang enter the room directly, he suddenly felt inexplicably sad.
For people like them, it is good enough not to be beaten or scolded in the customs. Today, this young lady, just because she smiled at them just now, actually had a little more expectation in his heart.
What he was expecting, he didn’t even know!
Just when he was feeling frustrated, Shi Jiang walked out of the house, holding a ball of thread and a pair of scissors in his hand.
Then he took a handful of scattered copper coins and counted them one, two, three in front of the boy. While counting, he threaded them into the thread. When he counted to ten, he used scissors to cut the thread.
Then put the ten copper coins in a bunch aside.
After all the copper coins were strung, he put the strung coins into the boy's hand counting one, two and three.
There are ten coins in a bunch, seven in total, and eight coins are placed separately in his other hand.
Shi Jiang pointed to the seven strings in his left hand and the eight copper coins in his right hand, and said: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seventy... One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight! Add up, seventy-eight,
Is it clear?"
The boy stared blankly at the copper coins in his hand, and then looked up at Shi Jiang in confusion.
The big blue eyes were full of surprise.
"If you want to learn how to read, I will teach you when I send you wild grapes in the future. If for no other reason, at least you will not be defrauded of your money."
Shi Jiang smiled at him and said.
Hearing this, the boy's eyes suddenly burst into surprise, he nodded vigorously, and then pointed at his eyes and the eyes of the boy with him.
"Thank you, miss. My name is Dalan and his name is Xiaolan. If you need anything in the future, you can come to us."
Shi Jiang thought for a while and said to them: "If it is convenient for you, you only need to send wild grapes every two days. If it is very dangerous, it doesn't matter if you pick them every few days."
After all, she also wants to continue this business for a long time.
If it's too dangerous, these two are still half-grown children!
However, Big Blue and Little Blue don't think so.
Upon hearing Shi Jiang's request, he bent down and thanked her.
"Thank you, miss. Thank you, miss. I will deliver the wild grapes to you on time."
Compared with being hungry, how important is filling one's stomach?
Besides, dangers are commonplace here at the border.
Maybe one day those barbarians from outside the pass will come to knock on the pass to raid the grass and valleys. That was how he and Xiaolan's mother were plundered by the barbarians.
After giving birth to Xiaolan, the barbarians relaxed their vigilance, and the mother took them and secretly ran back to the pass.
However, after arriving in Guannei, the relatives whom my mother longed for refused to recognize her.
No, it should be more accurate to say that they refused to recognize him and Xiaolan.
So, in the end, my mother had no choice but to take him and Xiaolan to Zahu Village.
But because he was hungry and cold, he left after only a few years.
From then on, they were often so hungry that stars appeared in their eyes. When they were the hungriest, they even gnawed on turf and tree bark.
Now that this lady can give them so much money at a time and teach them how to read, they are willing to go through the dangers and fires.
After they left, Shi's mother sighed, life is not easy.
Shi Jiang was afraid that Shi's mother would be depressed and not feeling well, so he quickly used the fresh wild grapes, peeled them and dug out the seeds to make a glass of grape smoothie for her to drink.
It's just past May and the weather is already getting warmer.
The wind and snow had long since stopped, and when my mother drank the smoothie, she was stunned on the spot.
This is not the time when they were official wives and young ladies in the capital. At that time, there was an ice cellar in the house, and every year in the hot summer, they could take out the ice cubes hidden during the New Year and cut them out to relieve the heat and cool down.
Here, where did my daughter get the ice cubes and grind them into such fine pieces?
In the evening, when Shi's father came back, Shi Jiang demonstrated how to use saltpeter to make ice in front of the two of them.
"This saltpeter can be used repeatedly. In the future, we won't have to worry about running out of ice in the summer."
After hearing this, Shi's mother glared at her and then said.
"No, you are a girl, so you can't be so greedy for coolness. If you get cold, it will be harmful to your future heirs."
Hearing Shi's mother's words, Shi Jiang choked.
Her head suddenly hurt. She had never thought about getting married or having children!
With this new drink, although people still drink the original pearl milk tea, it is not as attractive as the real smoothie grape.
After all, the ice cubes in this smoothie are only available to wealthy families during this season.
Where do you find an ice cellar to store ice in an average home?
Time passed by, and Shi Jiang was patrolling the backyard like a queen.
All the sweet potatoes in this field are ready to be dug.
This time, in order to dig these sweet potatoes, Shi's father rushed back early after selling everything, and then worked in the fields all afternoon.
Every time he dug a sweet potato vine, the large bunch of sweet potatoes growing underneath would make him smile from ear to ear.
This is all real food. If they had this food, they would never have to go hungry again.
The most important thing is that this lump of earth is full of treasures.
My daughter picked off the stems that grew on the vines, peeled them off, and asked Mrs. Shen to fry them for the whole family to eat. It was very delicious.
After the vines that were not eaten were cut, they were chopped into pieces and fed to the pigs.
That's right, after buying Mrs. Shen, Mrs. Shen felt that the work she did at the owner's house was too leisurely.
Unlike Shi Mu, she doesn't know how to do delicate work like embroidery.
So, she directly advised Shi's father and bought two pigs and a dozen chickens and ducks. She took care of them together with the cow.
And these sweet potato vines all became food for these livestock.
The biggest reason why animals cannot be fattened or grown large is that people have no food to eat, so where will the food come from for the animals?
Now that the animals are full, they will naturally grow wider and fatter.
Especially that cow, it looks exactly like two cows when it was brought from the village chief's house.