CH 45.2

Xu He was also in a hurry: "If you buy a few at a time, won’t today’s money is for nothing?"

Zhang Fangyuan swallowed his words, his face was not blushing and his heart beating: "But buying more can be beneficial. Three are cheaper than buy two, four are even cheaper. It 's cheap!"

Xu He was slightly moved.

"It's necessary to use the left and right. Buying more at one time not only will save you money, but also save you running around again and again. Although it’s always open to do business, but people always remember our faces and tell jokes secretly, right?" Zhang Fang Yuan tried to reason with him, and after finished speaking, he magnified his move: "Why don't you go? I'm stupid and I don't know how to bargain, so you can buy it, maybe it will be cheaper."

Xu He's ears turned red, and he said quickly: "

"Forget it, I-I can't buy everything. You can buy more things and you can bargain after you practice. You can buy it yourself."

“Okay then.” Zhang Fangyuan stepped in and said, “Don’t blame me if it’s too expensive.”

Xu He nodded, took a look around with the rice bowl in his hands, and saw that there was no one around, and no one was paying attention to the two of them, so he finished the meal in peace.

After eating, Zhang Fangyuan returned to the stall happily, but Xu He changed his joy of earning money and was a little hesitant, and occupied Zhang Fangyuan's chair when he returned to the stall.

Zhang Fangyuan still looked cramped when he sat on the chair, but when Xu He sat on it, it looked very spacious, and it was not too much to sleep on it.

"No one comes to buy things now. I'll go out for a while and I'll be back soon."

Zhang Fangyuan was afraid that someone would change his mind, so he went back to the stall and took the money to run outside. Xu He turned a blind eye and closed his eyes, as if he didn't know what he was going to do: "You go."

Seeing the people leave, he picked up the fan and fanned the flies. He would bring some dry wormwood tomorrow, burned it to drive away the flies and to remove the fishy smell, and checked the leftover meat on the stall. All that was sold today were fatty meat and streaky pork belly, the intestines was still there, small intestines, pork livers, kidneys...

Xu He saw that only the small intestines could be marinated, and nothing else. In addition, he also took a fancy to the pig's feet, pig's tail, and pig's tongue, and he could also marinate pork ribs!

Today's stewed vegetarian were also easy to sell. So when he changed the style and taste of the stewed meat, the stewed vegetables were also simply changed.

Nowadays, cowpeas from the earlier crop had grown in the village. The light bean-green cowpeas had long and thin roots were the most crispy. They were suitable for sour cowpeas, and were also suitable for cooking porridge.

However, if the cowpea was still tender, and people in the village would feel reluctant to pick it and eat it before it was mature.

The cowpeas in their family were planted a little late. They were still blooming and producing stalks. They were not half as thick as a little finger, and the cowpea hadn’t yet grown even though they were willing to pick them.

It was not a problem, if you gave some money to buy in someone else’s field, the villagers would be happy to sell it. In addition, the spring bamboo shoots he used today could be replaced with square bamboo shoots. The stewed square bamboo shoots with small roots tasted better than ordinary spring bamboo shoots. He had a few catties at home, so he didn’t need to look for them.

It was a pity that there was no fresh mushrooms. Several guests said it was delicious. It seemed that he could only use the dried mushrooms he saved at home.

He was satisfied when he imagined that there would be more buyers at the stall tomorrow, and secretly thought that he should go home as soon as possible.

In the past, he was the one who persuaded Zhang Fangyuan to set up a stall before going back, but now that the sun still hadn’t set to the west, he urged people to go back. For this reason, Zhang Fangyuan urged him if they met an old man selling fish on the way out of the city, he would buy a fish and go home.

Xu He also agreed to cook the fish with the leftover crispy pickled radish from lunch today.

When the two drove the carriage back to the village, half of the sky was dyed by the sunset glow, and the evening breeze was blowing. Zhang Fangyuan raised his feet and pulled the reins loosely, thinking about the good fortune at night.

"Why does the village look busier than before?"

Zhang Fangyuan raised his neck when he heard the sound, and it was true that the Hu family's courtyard at the entrance of the village was noisy.

"Go and have a look?"

Xu He was not a spectator, but the carriage had to pass by other people's houses.

The horse passed by, and Zhang Fangyuan saw the yamen servant with a knife on his waist at a glance. He didn't need to go, he knew what was going on: "The tax collector is here."

"Which family? Go home and prepare the money, pay for the poll tax and corvee tax!" Before the two could speak, the yamen servant stopped them first.

"Pay corvee tax and poll tax together this year?" Zhang Fangyuan asked while sitting on the cart.

The yamen servant looked Zhang Fangyuan up and down, slightly dissatisfied with his attitude of not getting out of the carriage and talking to him respectfully, he said sharply: "The imperial court's edict is like this, I can't talk to you small people for nothing. Let you go back and prepare the money, why are you talking so much?"

Zhang Fangyuan was not a good tempered person, he turned his head and wanted to go back, but Xu He grabbed his wrist: "Understood, master, we will go back and prepare money for the taxes."

Then the yamen servant was a little satisfied: "Come back, how much should be paid by then, how many people are in corvee, there are records here."