Just when cabbage starts to be sold by car in the market, not by three or two, this means that winter is really not far away in the Northeast.
We should stock up as much as we can at the moment, and buy as much as we can while vegetables are cheap, because we will have enough to eat until April or May of the following year.
During this period, there was no green on the earth anymore. It was either covered with white snow or yellowed withered grass covering the black soil. The Songjiang River was so deep that it would freeze into ice and horses could be run on it. There would be no vegetables in the past six months.
Even if there is, you can guess with your toes that it is not something ordinary people can afford.
It is no exaggeration to say that the quantity of autumn vegetables now determines your life for the next six months.
After all, there is not enough food to eat, so I add more vegetables. Anyone with more food will be praised and said that this is a good life.
So in the endless fields, there are many women working hard but smiling.
People who have never been to this black land cannot imagine what green onions are in bundles. There are dozens of green onions in a bundle, and the poorest families have to store at least a few bundles. The mustard lumps used to pickle pickles are also called Yugen Tou Lun baskets. The baskets stick out until they can no longer fit and fall to the ground.
Cabbages are pushed home in carts, each cart contains two to three hundred kilograms, and every family has to push several carts back. The Xu family has to push back more than a dozen cars.
Remove all the gates at home, otherwise the carts will be piled high with autumn vegetables and the gate will get in the way, making it impossible to enter the yard.
When harvesting vegetables, the earth is often filled with all kinds of lively sounds.
This means that you are tired and anxious. The more tired and anxious you are, the bigger your temper will be.
"I can't count on you for anything all day long. You don't follow me at all. You don't have any enthusiasm. It's more difficult for you to do anything than to eat shit."
There are also men whose calves are so tired from pushing vegetables after a long day.
Guan Ertu is one of them.
Before he reached the door of the house, he called to his daughter: "Yingsha, it's dad, come and take over!"
Even after Yu Qiniang brought back several carts of cabbage, her arms were so sore that Xu Laoer had to put down the carpentry work and take over, leaving Yu Qiniang at home to store vegetables in the cellar.
Xu Laoer used the repaired outermost layer of cabbage to feed chickens in the west courtyard and pigs to the village collective in an unseemly manner. From now on, I will keep the cabbage with vinegar, stew the potatoes with cabbage, and eat the cabbage with dipping sauce.
And such a scene not only happened in Erdaohe Village, but also the same scene outside.
And on the road leading to the county town, I saw many country people loading carts of vegetables and preparing to sell them in the city.
Mrs. Xu and her party would be able to get home within four days.
The reason why they were late for most of the day was because something went wrong.
What's going on?
Of the two vehicles that Mrs. Xu and her group later hired from the county, one overturned and the cow fell off its legs.
It is human nature to read gossip, and the family members in the live broadcast room are more serious than Level 4 listening.
In the words Xu Tianxin explained to his family, the so-called cow dropped its horn, which means the cow's horn broke.
The bullock cart they hired had half of its horns knocked off by Rambo, the bullock selling the vegetable cart next to him. He suddenly went crazy and went crazy.
It's like half of the cow's bumper fell off, do you understand?
We were halfway there and didn’t know which department to go to to call the police, so we had to do it privately.
I don’t blame their side even if it’s private, because Rambo and Daniel didn’t turn around, so Rambo and Daniel should be fully responsible. The cow we hired was hit on the spot and its head was buzzing. The cow is now slightly concussed. The owner of the cow was lying on the ground and yelled: "Pay me the horns. I can't get up unless you pay."
How can a vegetable farmer have money? Hearing that Rambo Daniel was borrowed, he also lay on the ground crying: "What should I do if I have no money? I only have vegetables."
And if the vegetable farmers don't pay compensation, employers like Mrs. Xu will have to pay compensation.
Mrs. Xu and the others were wronged. We spent money to hire you. The car was hit by someone else and something went wrong. We didn’t know what to do with our goods because they were thrown into the mud. We had to cross the water without wearing new clothes. We had to go out to sell cloth. If you want to explain a few more sentences and ask us to pay one or two silver coins for Rambo, who can swallow this sigh of relief?
Liu Laozhu was so angry that he sat down on the dirt:
"Blackmailing, right? Figure it out, I'm going to
Home! Don't say nice things to my eldest brother or your eldest brother. Everything is fake. I am only serious about being poor. See if I will give you a penny. One or two more? Do you think I look similar? "
This was both funny and sad for the family members in the live broadcast room. They went to the city to buy goods and went to the West to learn the scriptures.
It was Mrs. Xu who pulled Liu Laozhu up and said, "Calm down. The closer you get home, the less you can afford to delay with them."
Mrs. Xu pulled out the knife from her waist and pointed at the two men lying on the ground: "They are both men. Why are they crying and urinating? Stop it and get up!"
The men immediately calmed down a lot.
Later, the two parties who caused the accident calmed down and listened. In the words of Mrs. Xu's mediation, if you two thieves meet a thief, your driving skills are not very good, so don't blame anyone.
However, the horns of cows do require medical treatment. Who wouldn’t feel bad for such an expensive cow to be injured?
But the injured party can't blackmail the person by asking for one or two silver coins. It's not that good to be a rat and just want to drink cat's milk.
The party that hit the bull should also try its best to pay some compensation. At least put some wound medicine on the horns of the cow and wrap them with a piece of cloth.
As for them as employers, they have to accept their defeat and go to the city to help sell vegetables sooner. If they sell vegetables earlier, they will be compensated for not doing so earlier. If the two people were allowed to quarrel forever.
Isn't that right? Mrs. Xu has already arrived in the town. She is standing on the vegetable cart with her hands in her sleeves and shouting:
"Here, eat cabbage pickled sauerkraut, which has been passed down from generation to generation. It relieves phlegm and relieves constipation and helps digestion. You won't have to worry about constipation after eating it.
It’s the season to stock up on cabbage again. If your family is short on food, stock up on cabbage.
Why are you still hesitating? Take a closer look and see if it’s fresh or not! "
Next to her, the men such as Xu Laosan and Liu Laozhu were opening their clothes, and their clothes were full of goods samples.
Xu Tianxin covered herself with wild boar skin to look like a monkey, which made her very cold. The further she walked home, the colder she got.
Xu Tianxin braced himself and shouted: "Don't miss it if you pass by. There are only things you can't think of here, and there is nothing you can't buy."
Xu Tianxin pointed to the various needles and threads hanging on her third uncle’s body:
"Grandma, aunt, sister-in-law, you can borrow this needle and thread from your boss or your west. After you borrow it, everyone will take care of it. There is no need for you to pay for it. Why not buy a set here. It is much cheaper than a shop, and the shop has to pay taxes. , We don’t have them. We’ll catch them later and we’ll run away. Look at them, they are all brightly colored.”
Liu Laozhu patted the chests of the boys in the village and said, "Yes, if you can't see clearly, just touch it nearby."
Xu Tianxin formed a trumpet with his hands and shouted again: "Selling cloth, there is an old man in the family who has passed his birthday, and it is about to celebrate the New Year, so he pulled it up a few feet and gave it to his parents to make up for the kindness of raising him."
"Hey, okay, third uncle, this color is twelve feet tall. This uncle returns to his hometown in fine clothes to celebrate his birthday in Gaotang. I wish his family a long life, good fortune and good health."
"Uncle, why don't you buy another one for your mother-in-law? My mother-in-law will praise her son-in-law as better than her son."
The boys in the village felt that Tian Xin was too difficult, so they followed the hawking call: "You can pull a few more feet and keep them to give to relatives, friends and close friends. It's great to give gifts during the New Year and holidays. Whoever you give them to will never forget you."
In addition, those rags are very soft.
"We really don't lack anything. The road to Fucheng is long and it's not easy to transport some rare items back. Let's buy some rags for my mother-in-law... The peppercorns are so small that every household can't live without them. They sell peppercorns as an aniseed ingredient."
"What are you buying? Oil lamp, what a coincidence, there is one!"
"Can we not have scissors? We are all people going through life. If we don't buy anything else, we have to buy this."
Zhao Dashan's wife was found all the way through hearing about it.
I heard that a group of people are selling like crazy, selling everything except children.
There is also cheap cotton. If we come a little later, the group will run away for fear of paying taxes.
She also hurriedly stopped the yamen servant who was about to deliver the message. You wait until she has finished buying the cotton before you go and tell the truth.
When Zhao Dashan's wife arrived, she saw eight cars and a large cart of cabbage from afar. Most of the cabbage was sold out, and the hawking was very lively.
Wait until you get closer and take another look.
Zhao Dashan's wife immediately slapped her thigh and said, "Emma, who are you, Auntie? When did you come back? Auntie, you are really not an ordinary person. You make such a big noise even when you come home."
Mrs. Xu smiled helplessly.
She didn't want to be like this, stopping in the town to sell goods without even drinking hot water. After traveling for several days in a row, she was so sleepy that she just wanted to go home and lie down on the kang to sleep.
Zhao Dashan's wife grabbed Mrs. Xu's arm again and said, "Auntie, what are you doing with this little money? Why don't you go home quickly!"
"What's wrong?"
"I've received a letter from the county. It's your sister-in-law who is very capable. She took the road to the post station to get the news. She said that a high-ranking official wanted a total of 8,000 pieces of soap locust. Of which 3,000 pieces were like cold wind. Yes, someone will pick it up in a month and a half, saying that your eldest niece knows what is going on, and she knows the high official."
Mrs. Xu: I'm not sleepy anymore. Hurry up and go home.
Zhao Dashan's wife did not dare to delay Mrs. Xu's business, but she wanted to know which official Xu Tianxin knew, so she chased after him carrying a dozen sweet sugar canes.
Mrs. Xu didn't want it, so Zhao Dashan's wife simply threw the sweet pole directly into the car.
Zhao Dashan's wife didn't know that Zhao Dashan borrowed two taels of silver from the Xu family to buy tiles. Zhao Dashan only said that a colleague of his had family difficulties and would pay in two months. Zhao Dashan's wife couldn't hold her breath and didn't dare to complain.
"It's for the children, don't tear it apart, Auntie, who among our two families will follow the other."
Zhao Dashan's wife has been making a lot of money selling Guokui for more than a month. Besides, if her small business doesn't make money, she won't be able to help her nephew even if she wants to, and the nephew will have to go back to his hometown.
She had to express this, not to mention that the sweet pole did not cost any money and it was her eldest sister who asked her nephew to give it to her.
Zhao Dashan's wife waved and shouted again: "I'm in a hurry today, I'll go to the village to see you in two days!"
She wanted to bring her son to make money.
She suddenly liked Xu Tianxin today.
Ever since she received the news about the eight thousand soap locusts, she had been distracted from time to time. To be honest, she regretted the quarrel over Tian Xin.
That night, at the entrance of Erdaohe Village, children were running and shouting: "Grandma Xu and the others are back!"
Xu Tianxin breathed a sigh of relief, finally no longer having to listen to the background music in the live broadcast room: "My hometown, hey, I live in that village."
