Yu Ying left the jelly and mint water in the restaurant, agreed to come over after lunch, and then left to go shopping.
The market in Jade County is similar to the fair in later towns. In addition to some shops, there are also many people selling or hawking along the street.
Yu Ying walked half a circle and finally saw the pawn shop.
It was a small shop, with a high counter, about as high as Yu Ying's neck, and a fence. There was a waiter sitting high behind the counter.
Yu Ying entered the pawn shop, took out the silver leaf and put it on the counter: "Shopkeeper, let's see how much money this silver leaf can exchange for. It's a pawn."
The pawn shop owner picked up the silver blade and looked at it carefully, then put it in his palm to roughly estimate the weight, and then said a number coldly: "Thirty cents."
Yu Ying was silent for a moment, and said calmly and clearly: "The weight can be exchanged for thirty-five cents, and it can be made directly into a hairpin without any more labor. Thirty cents is not even enough to replace it."
The owner of the pawn shop glanced at the woman outside and knew that she was not easy to fool, so he said coldly: "How can a piece of silver leaf be used as jewelry? Just melt it. I'll give you thirty-five cents at most, any more will be fine." there is none left."
Throughout the ages, items bought and resold have been subject to extremely low prices. Even so, there was still room for negotiation, so Yu Ying was not deterred by the pawnshop owner's momentum.
She was still calm and calm: "I still have one at home. Two leaves can definitely make a hairpin. If it's thirty-eight cents, I'll pony it up in three days. By then, the shopkeeper will not only earn four cents. You can earn more and not lose money.”
In the past, Yu Ying didn't like to bargain, but judging from the current situation where a penny has to be broken into four parts to spend, an extra penny is worth a penny.
The shopkeeper glanced at her, then at the silver leaves on the table, calculating the sum in his heart.
Thirty-eight cents, if used as silver, there is still four or five cents left to earn. Two pieces are about ten cents. If it is made into jewelry, you can also earn a little from it.
After thinking for a while, the pawn shop owner said: "I will give you thirty-seven cents first, and next time I will pawn another piece for thirty-nine cents."
After all, it was not a lie, so Yu Ying agreed.
The pawnshop owner counted thirty-seven cents for her and strung them together with straw.
Yu Ying had no money bag, so she could only wrap it in rags, then walked out of the pawn shop and turned to the drug store.
She brought a lot of herbs here, which were not common on the road, but almost all found in the mountains.
Even so, a middle-aged doctor came to take a look and picked out some herbs and said they were weeds. He only paid three cents for the remaining half-box of herbs.
I discussed with the doctor to give him more, but there was no room for him.
A penny was still silver, so Yu Ying sold it.
After selling the silver tablets and herbs, Yu Ying did not dare to buy other things at will. Instead, she went straight to the grocery store to ask about the price of salt.
The salt is coarse salt, which costs thirty-two cents per catty. Yu Ying is not well-off, so she can only buy half a catty.
After buying salt, I didn’t buy rice at the grocery store.
She had just been shopping at the market and saw someone selling a small amount of rice, but the quality was not as good as the ones in the grocery store. The husks were not as clean as those in the grocery store, but it was cheaper than the ones in the grocery store.
After comparing, Yu Ying found the original stall and bought three bamboo tubes of brown rice for three pennies and one bamboo tube. There was nothing to put it in, so she could only put it in a clay pot.
She weighed it, and it was a little more than a pound.
Save money and use brown rice to cook wild vegetable porridge, and add a little salt. This rice can probably be eaten for three or four days.
After buying the necessary necessities, I thought about the medicine that Luo Shi and Fu Wei had been drinking for a long time. I gritted my teeth and bought an extra jar for boiling medicine. I spent another four cents, and in the end I only had eighteen cents left. .
I was so hungry that I spent a penny to buy a steamed bun to satisfy my hunger.
Carrying the remaining dozen copper coins, Yu Ying secretly breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that all the jelly would be sold.
She found a big tree, picked a few big leaves and sat on the ground.
The sun gradually moved westward, and Yu Ying judged that it was noon based on the time when food was sold fastest in the market. After the food shop gradually disappeared, and about half an hour later, Yu Ying walked to the food shop.
Entering the small restaurant, shopkeeper Chen was settling accounts at the counter. When he saw her coming, he smiled and said, "I guess you will be back soon."
Yu Ying asked: "Can the ice cream be sold?"
She came expecting the worst.
Shopkeeper Chen said truthfully: "Not many people came to my place to eat Chinese food at noon. I sold nine bowls and still have some left."
It's already great if it can be sold, and Yu Ying doesn't dare to expect to be able to sell them all.
Shopkeeper Chen: "There are probably more than three bowls left. I plan to buy them and send them to my boss. After deducting the cost of the sugar water, which is six cents, I will give you eleven cents."
As he said that, he put ten cents on the counter.
Yu Ying knew how to count and said, "Ten cents is enough."
That one only took nine coppers, leaving one copper.
Shopkeeper Chen couldn't help laughing: "I'm willing to pay you this penny, just take it."
Yu Ying said: "You can't charge an extra penny."
Shopkeeper Chen felt a little fond of her when he saw her persistence in distinguishing public from private.
He took back a penny and said: "Although it is not sold out, it is a good start. Most of the people who have tasted it today said it is better than sour plum soup to relieve the heat. I will continue to order it next time."
Speaking of this, shopkeeper Chen asked: "How many days can these ice creams be stored?"
Yu Ying thought for a while and gave a more conservative time: "If it is hung in the well all day, it can be left for two days."
Shopkeeper Chen pointed his finger at the table and thought for a few breaths.
After a few breaths, shopkeeper Chen proposed: "In three days, I will send you twice as much as now, and still at this price, what do you think? You can ask my father to send it to you, or you can send it to you yourself."
Yu Ying suddenly felt happy: "Of course, I will deliver it directly when the time comes!"
Shopkeeper Chen smiled and said, "Then I'll wait for you to deliver it."
Yu Ying saw a glimmer of hope. Although she didn't earn much, it was already a good start.
After coming out of the small restaurant, Yu Ying had a slight smile on her face.
She followed the old road to the city gate and waited for Uncle Chen's bullock cart.
About half an hour later, Uncle Chen arrived with his bullock cart.
Uncle Chen, who had been cold in the morning, now smiled a little more towards Yu Ying.
"I heard from my eldest son that all the ice creams have been sold, which is good."
Yu Ying said: "Thanks to shopkeeper Chen, and also to uncle Chen."
Uncle Chen said amusedly: "What does it have to do with me?"
Yu Ying helps out at the traditional Chinese medicine clinic every summer vacation. There are also a lot of old people here at that time. She knows what these old people like to hear, and she is not stingy about saying nice things.
"If Uncle Chen hadn't kindly given me a ride and asked me to fetch water from Shopkeeper Chen, how could I have sold all the ice cream?"
The smile on Uncle Chen's face became even stronger.
After the two talked for a while, two more people finally came to ride the ox cart, and then they stopped talking.
It took about an hour to return to Lingshui Village. It was almost dusk when we almost returned to Lingshui Village.
Looking from a distance, I saw an old figure standing at the entrance of the village.
Yu Ying felt vaguely familiar. When she got closer, she saw that it was Luo Shi.
Yu Ying was stunned for a moment. Although she knew that Luo Shi might be waiting there because he was worried that she would not come back, her mood was a little subtle.
There was still someone waiting for her in this strange place.
Yu Ying could endure the hardship for a while, but she didn't dare to endure it alone in this strange place.
Now she may never see her relatives and friends again, so she is afraid of being alone and dead, afraid of having no one around her to talk to, and afraid that even if she dies in this world, no one will collect her body or visit her grave.
Perhaps this was one of the reasons why she stayed in the Fu family and was willing to help the Fu family and help Fu Wei.
Hearing the sound of the bullock cart approaching the village entrance, Luo Shi squinted and looked at the shadows in front of him, but he only saw vague shadows and could not see anything clearly. It was not until he remembered the familiar voice that the big stone in his heart finally settled. On the ground.
"Mom, what are you doing here?" Since the oxcart had not gone far, Yu Ying called out to others to avoid suspicion.
Luo Shi was stunned when she heard the call "mother", and at the same time couldn't help but think to herself - if Mrs. Yu can call her "mother", that means she really intends to live a good life with Erlang.
Now that Mrs. Yu can stay, Luo Shi is happy in her heart.
"I'll pick you up." Luo Shi's tone was a little more relaxed.
Yu Ying didn't know what she was thinking, so she turned around and walked back with Luo Shi, saying, "Go back and eat something good tonight."
After walking a little further, Luo asked: "How is the sales of jelly?"
After thinking for a while, he added: "If you can't sell it this time, let Fu An go to Jade County to sell it with the adults in the village next time."
Yu Ying saw that she was walking very slowly and there were stones on the road, so she reached out and gently held her arm and said, "They are all sold out, and the clay pots have been bought back."
Hearing this, Luo Shi's face paused slightly.
After being silent for a while, Luo Shi suddenly said: "Liu Niang, from now on you have the final say on all matters in the family, and we all listen to you."
Suddenly hearing a strange name, Yu Ying didn't react for a moment. After a few breaths, she remembered that Liu Niang was the nickname of the original owner.
When I returned to the Fu family's fence, I saw the brother and sister in the yard.
Fu Ning stood aside stupidly and watched his brother chop wood.
Fu An, who was less than four feet tall, was holding a hatchet and was struggling to chop down branches that were too long and too thick.
Seeing that their grandmother and Yu Ying were back, the brother and sister looked out of the yard.
Seeing Yu Ying go and come back, Fu An had only a hint of surprise on his face. Although he was surprised, he seemed to think that she would come back.
Yu Ying let go of Luo Shi, put down the backpack, then took out Aunt He's pottery pot and called Fu An: "Give the pot back to Aunt He and tell her that I will go over and thank her tomorrow."
Although Fu An didn't like her doing what he wanted, he curled his lips, took the pot, and ran out of the yard.
Yu Ying took the salt, new clay pots, and rice into the thatched house where she lived, poured the rice into several bamboo tubes, and also filled a bowl.
She grabbed two handfuls of rice and put them in a clay pot. After thinking about it, she grabbed another handful of rice, and then went out to wash the rice.
She put the rice water she washed for the second time into the basin and used it to wash her hair later.
After Fu An came back, his eyes suddenly lit up when he saw the new clay pot. When he saw the rice in the clay pot, his eyes widened even more and he looked at Yu Ying in disbelief.
Fu'an hasn't had rice porridge for a long time. Before his uncle came back, he could still have a bowl of wild vegetable porridge every few days, but later he could only eat wild vegetable soup.
After a long time, Fu An came back to his senses. He hesitated for a while and then asked Yu Ying coyly: "Do we have a share?"
Yu Yingxian glanced at him and said, "Go and start the fire. I'll watch the fire later and I'll make some medicine for your uncle and grandma."
When Fu'an heard that he had something to eat, he worked more diligently than usual and hurriedly went to make a fire.
Yu Ying built a simple stone stove again, put the pot on it, went back into the house and took out a handful of red mushrooms, washed them, tore them into half with her hands, and put them in a bowl for later use.
When making porridge with red mushrooms, there is no other seasoning and only a little salt. Even so, it will be very delicious.
Let Fu An watch the fire and call her after the water boils.
She originally wanted to prepare some medicine, but after taking a look at the sky, she thought about it first to see how Fu Wei's legs were doing, and then to see if the bamboo strips tied to them were loosened.
She shook the water drops on her hand, then opened the straw curtain and looked up at Fu Wei on the bamboo bed.
Fu Wei leaned against the thatched wall, eyes closed, and his side face facing Yu Ying.
Yu Ying saw the decadently beautiful side face and thought to herself that beautiful people and things can make people feel happy.
Moreover, good-looking people look good even when they are wearing a sack.
Although Fu Wei is now down and out and lifeless, people are still amazed that he has a good skin.
Yu Ying walked in, stopped beside the bed, and said, "Let me take a look at your legs."
Fu Wei heard her voice, opened his emotionless black eyes, and asked indifferently: "Why don't you leave?"
Yu Ying frowned slightly: "Why should I leave?"
Fu Wei was silent for a moment, then turned his face and looked at her expressionlessly: "The Fu family is a bottomless pit that you can't fill. And I, the son of the prefect of Wuling County, still regard me as a thorn in his side. I don't know what will happen in the future. You There’s no benefit to staying.”
Yu Yingxin said that he was self-aware.
But she didn't need to explain anything to him, so she only said three words.
