Chapter 30 Buying Ingredients

Ye Caiping said, "It's time to process our cassava. If we keep it any longer, it will go bad."

Old Lady Ye nodded in response. Thinking of the 800 kilograms of cassava left at home, she smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed into a line:

"This brown rice, together with cassava, will last until the New Year. After the wheat is harvested after the New Year, we will have a food supply."

When everyone in the Ye family heard this, smiles appeared on their faces.

Half a month ago, they were still worried about food, but now, the warehouses are full of food.

It’s all thanks to Ye Caiping!

Old Man Ye looked at Ye Caiping with admiration, and even Ye Yong, Ye Xuan and Ye Jinhua had a changed opinion of her.

Mrs. Du was even more delighted because they no longer had to support Li Zhiyuan's studies.

Their grain would not be taken away as soon as the harvest came and filled into the bottomless pit of the Li family.

As long as the sister-in-law doesn't marry a blood-sucking bastard again, their lives will become more and more hopeful.

Ye Caiping said, "Mom, from now on, don't mix rice bran into our rice. Just add cassava or radish, and we will have enough to eat."

“Yes, yes.”

The next day.

Although the weather has turned cooler, autumn is still a good time to dry clothes.

Every household was busy drying cassava, and the whole village was filled with joy.

Old Mrs. Ye went out early in the morning to borrow an axe and a sickle from others.

Everyone in the village knew that the Ye family still had a lot of cassava to process, but they were not jealous. After all, they also got a lot of cassava from the ground and got a lot of benefits.

Those who were asked all borrowed knives, and some were enthusiastic and even said they would come over to help.

Old Mrs. Ye smiled and declined.

After getting the knife, the Ye family closed the door and processed the cassava.

After two days of hard work, I finally cut the cassava into slices and filled six large baskets.

Old Man Ye chose a sparsely populated river and soaked six baskets of cassava in it.

Fearing that someone would steal the cassava, Old Man Ye arranged for Ye Erquan and his three grandsons to take turns keeping an eye on them. One person during the day, two people at night.

Soon, it will be the Double Ninth Festival on September 9th.

On this day, Old Mrs. Ye decided to cook a meal of white rice, and locked the remaining rice in the room, saying that she would save it for the New Year.

Ye Caiping didn't have time to take care of these trivial matters. She was going to set up a stall tomorrow and had to prepare the ingredients today.

After lunch, Ye Caiping took Ye Jiner to the town to buy things.

There were only mother and daughter on the ox cart.

Ye Caiping said to Ye Bajin, "Bajin, I have to set up a stall in the town early tomorrow morning. Can you take us there? Because I have too many things, I have to take you there separately. I'll give you 20 cents for a round trip."

"20 cents?" Ye Bajin was so excited that he almost stopped the ox cart.

He would carry a maximum of eight or nine people each time he went out. Even the morning trip might not be full. After all, not everyone was willing to ride a ox cart to the town.

20 cents is equal to the car fare for ten people!

"Sister Caiping, there's no need for so much. Just give the money according to how many people you go with." Ye Bajin said anxiously.

"No, I have too much stuff and it takes up too much space. And we have to be taken alone. If someone wants to get on, we can't get on. It's 20 cents for a chartered car."

Ye Bajin was so happy that he didn't know how to answer, and stammered, "Well... OK. When are you going out tomorrow?"

"We'll leave at dawn in the morning, at 5 a.m., and wait for me at my door. We'll be back in the village before noon."

Ye Bajin calculated it in his mind and became more willing.

By then, I can send Sister Caiping to town, and then come back to pick up the morning group of people to town, which is a perfect staggered trip.

Ye Bajin was grinning with joy all the way.

When we passed Wangjia Village, another aunt and an old man got on the bus.

The aunt said to Ye Bajin, "Qinghe Village, what's going on with you guys lately?"

"I went up the mountain to collect grass for pigs, and for several days in a row I saw guys from your village digging poisonous roots in our East Mountain! And every time I saw them, it was a different person."

"This poisonous root is full of poison. Why did they dig it up? I asked them a few questions, but they didn't answer and just turned around and left. It's really weird."

Qinghe Village and Wangjia Village are located next to each other, one on the south side of Niutou Mountain and the other on the east side.

The activity range of Qinghe Village is generally in the south, while that of Wangjia Village is in the east.

In addition to the cassava forest near Qinghe Village, there are many scattered cassavas on the mountain.

The people in Qinghe Village already knew how to eat cassava, so they naturally searched for it all over the mountain.

Ye Bajin was stumped by what Aunt Wangjiacun said.

He hesitated. The method of removing toxins was Ye Caiping's and he couldn't tell anyone else.

Besides, if he told him, would the villagers blame him?

Before he could look at Ye Caiping, the old man from Wangjia Village coughed dryly and said, "They are digging poisonous roots, so they are poisoned rats. There are many rat thieves in Qinghe Village recently."

"So that's how it is. Speaking of which, Sixth Master, your Erya is the one who married into Qinghe Village, right? I saw Erya come back yesterday, and she must have told me about the poison rat."

Mr. Wang Liu did not answer. He looked away guiltily and looked at the trees on the side of the road.

Ye Caiping's eyes flickered slightly, and she understood.

Some people in Qinghe Village have already told their parents or relatives about the detoxification method.

This Mr. Wang Liu must be the first batch to be informed!

Now we want to dig more cassava before it spreads. Naturally, I would not tell my aunt in the same village that cassava is edible.

Soon, we arrived in town.

After getting off the bus, Ye Caiping and her daughter went to the grain shop first.

Buy five pounds of vermicelli, dried black fungus, peanuts, dried day lily, tofu skin, and dried chili peppers.

Then we went to the butcher's shop.

Beef is too rare and expensive. We can’t afford it and there is nowhere to buy it.

Ye Caiping had no choice but to buy 5 jin of lean pork instead, and spent 5 cents to buy a whole unwanted pig skull and a clean pig bone.

Then he bought two kinds of coarse porcelain bowls, large and small, a total of 50, as well as a spoon, two large ladles, and two large wooden barrels half a person's height.

The owner of the wooden barrels even tied two shoulder straps to the barrels with hemp rope so that they could carry them.

The mother and daughter put the ingredients and bowls into a large bucket and each carried one on their backs.

Ye Jin'er asked, "What do we sell? Steamed buns, steamed buns, or noodles and wontons?"

"Neither. I'll make some soup for you tonight."

"Then we need to buy some tables and chairs, as well as bowls and chopsticks. But... after the guests have eaten, how are we going to wash the food? Where can we get water?"

Ye Caiping had an idea: "We can buy some dried lotus leaves to put underneath, and replace them with new lotus leaves after eating one."

Ye Jin'er's eyes lit up: "The wonton stall in front does the same thing."

The mother and daughter went to buy five hundred dried lotus leaves and then returned to where the ox cart was parked.

Ye Bajin quickly took over their big wooden barrel and said, "Why didn't you tell me if you wanted to buy something big? I'll go there with the ox cart."

"Then you're welcome. I'll also buy a few tables and stools."

"Let's go!"

Ye Bajin drove the ox cart and finally stopped at the place where he bought furniture.

Ye Caiping bought a long table to store condiments and other things. Then there were twenty small stools and five small square tables.

The small square table is detachable. Just twist it gently and the four legs can be removed. Just put it on when you use it, very convenient.

I spent a few taels of silver on all sorts of things.

Tables, chairs and wooden barrels took up most of the ox cart. When the two men from Wangjiacun came back, their faces were pale and they had to squeeze in and sit on the edge.

Ye Jin'er took a deep breath. There were so many things. No wonder her mother had to spend 20 cents to buy the car.