The carriage was on the road, Cao Xiangnan took the two children with him, and took them to the town to see Dr. Luo. The two children had never ridden in a carriage before, and were excitedly leaning on the window looking outside, mumbling something. He asked Cao Gang to get him a number for the clinic in the morning, and they didn't have to queue up with the number. Cao Xiangnan got off the carriage with the two children at the door of the clinic, and Cao Gang's carriage left first. He pushed Goudan's shoulder, pulled the younger one, and said, "Let's go."
The two children have grown up in Caojia Village since they were born, and this is their first time in the town. Everything here is new in their world, and they are also afraid of the unknown world. But there is someone leading them in front of them, and they are full of curiosity to explore the unknown world.
On Goudan's thin, sunken face, his big eyes stared at the back of the person standing in front of him, and then he looked around with peace of mind.
After seeing the last patient, it was their turn to go in.
"Why are you here, kid?" Doctor Luo looked up and saw Cao Xiangnan, and a smile appeared on his face. Seeing him with two little ones, he asked in confusion, "What are these?"
"Doctor Luo, I brought these two children to you to help you take a look at them." Cao Xiangnan pulled Xiaomao up to the chair and sat him down, saying, "Please take a look at this little one first. He had a fever and vomited last night, but he doesn't have a fever anymore now. I was a little worried, so I brought him to you to take a look."
He was worried that the two children had been hungry for a long time, resulting in extreme malnutrition. He was afraid that there was something wrong with their bodies, so he brought them to take a look to feel at ease.
Xiao Mao was a little scared, holding onto the person who brought him here with his little hands, and staring at the old man sitting in front of him with his dark eyes. Doctor Luo looked at the two skinny kids, and he felt more confident. When he met the kids' eyes, his smile became a little gentler, and he said, "Don't be afraid, stretch out your hand."
"Stretch out your hand." Cao Xiangnan pushed the hand that was holding him away. For a moment, he thought the kid he was holding wanted to run away, but in the end, he just sat there obediently.
Doctor Luo felt the child's pulse, then touched his forehead, sat back in his seat, picked up a brush and wrote a list on paper, saying, "The child is not feverish anymore. The child's body is not in good condition and he is very weak. He needs to be well taken care of. I'll prescribe two doses of medicine for him. He needs to be careful in the future and eat light food during this period. He will be fine after a period of rest."
Goudan was in good health and had no problems. He honestly let Doctor Luo feel him.
After seeing Doctor Luo, Cao Xiangnan took the medicine and left the clinic with the two children. Beyond the clinic was the pier, and Cao Xiangnan took the two children to their stall.
"Why did you bring these two little ones here?" There weren't too many people at this time. Sun Ji, who was standing in front of the stall, saw Cao Xiangnan bringing the two little ones and asked.
"Bring the two children to see Dr. Luo. The little one had a fever yesterday. Let's see him to rest assured." Cao Xiangnan saw Xuanxuan and waved to the child, asking him to come over.
Xuanxuan looked at the two children brought by his uncle Xiangnan. His eyes met the older one and he found that the older one was also looking at him. He looked at the younger one and wrinkled his nose, thinking that they were really ugly.
Goudan and Xiaomao were so thin that only a big head was left. The brothers' eyes were big and bright, giving people the feeling that they were left with a head and a pair of eyes.
"Let me introduce two new friends to you." Cao Xiangnan choked up when he thought of the name Goudan.
"My name is Goudan." Goudan glanced at his uncle Xiangnan and said generously.
"My name is Xuanxuan." Xuanxuan looked at the boy who was about the same age as him, and there was curiosity in his eyes. He had no playmates of the same age since he was a child. Now he was with Am and there was no one to play with, so he reluctantly got to know these two new playmates who were not good-looking.
"This is Xiaomao, my brother." Goudan pointed at his brother and said.
Sun Ji, who was watching from the side, laughed happily and laughed out loud.
Cao Xiangnan touched his nose, indicating that he did not understand the world of children.
Someone in the town brought chicks and ducklings to sell, but if you want to buy so many at a time, you still have to ask. He asked the two children to stay at the stall, told Goudan to look after Xiaomao, and went to the street alone.
It happened that today was a market day, and he only bought a hundred chicks after one trip, less than half of them, and he bought all the seedlings. He asked several stalls if they had any seedlings at home, and the time they responded varied, but it would take some time before they had them. He simply paid the money and ordered all the seedlings, and asked them to send the seedlings to him at the stall.
"Great, how many do you have at home?" When he walked to the last stall, the old man said that he had a batch of hatched chicks at home. He asked him how many he had, but he didn't know, which meant it was a lot.
After asking the old man, he found out that he lived in Chenjia Village. They happened to pass by Chenjia Village on their way back from the town, so Cao Xiangnan decided to go to Chenjia Village with the old man.
He had bought all the chicks in the stall, and the old man was going to close the stall and go home. They all came here early in the morning to sell the chicks, and they also had to go home after selling them. After Cao Xiangnan and the old man reached an agreement, he asked the old man to wait for him here, and he went back to call someone to go to his house with him to buy chicks.
When he hurried back to the stall, Cao Gang was already there.
Cao Xiangnan said hello to Sun Ji and Cao Dapeng, took the two children and left with Cao Gang. After loading all the seedlings onto the cart, Cao Xiangnan turned around to pick up the old man and headed for Chenjia Village. The old man got on the carriage and touched things here and there, smiling with his toothless mouth showing, and said, "I have never ridden in a carriage in my life, but today I got to ride on one."
"Grandpa, does anyone else there have chicks? Ducklings are fine too, I'll take as many as you can." There were not many stalls selling ducklings, and Cao Xiangnan only found one stall selling ducklings during his trip, and he bought more than twenty of them.
You know how delicious roast duck is, and brined duck is even better. Cao Xiangnan decided to get a batch of ducklings and let the villagers raise ducks for him. Then he would promote roast duck in Yipinzhai and sell it in brined flavor to other places.
Not many people here raise ducks because duck eggs are not as valuable as chicken eggs, and ducks eat more than chickens, so it is not as good as raising chickens. So it is not easy for him to get more ducklings now.
"Do you want more?" The old man thought of the Zhang family next door when he heard it, "Yes, the Zhang family has a lot."
"Did you sell it?"
"Of course."
The carriage went all the way to Chenjia Village. His mother was actually from Chenjia Village and married to their Caojia Village, but Cao Xiangnan didn't have any impression of Chenjia Village. With his mother's kind of person, after her family had some money, she was afraid that her mother's family would come to ask for money, so she didn't even dare to step into the entrance of Chenjia Village, let alone bring their children back.
When the villagers saw the carriage coming in, they looked at it curiously, not knowing whose house it was going to. The village had never seen a carriage enter all year round.
"Here, here, we're here."
"Hoo--" The carriage stopped, and Cao Xiangnan reached out to help the old man get down from the mud-brick house. As soon as the old man entered the house, he called his wife at home. An old nanny came out of the house and paused when she saw the two men who came back with her husband.
The old man happily told his wife, "The two young men came with me to buy chickens. They want to buy a lot of chickens."
Cao Xiangnan followed in and heard the clucking of the hens. When he walked over, he saw a large group of fluffy chicks in the nest. There were really a lot of them. He grabbed the chicks one by one and put them in the basket. There were about fifty of them.
I followed the old man to the Zhang family he mentioned. In addition to a group of chicks, there were also dozens of ducklings. Later, I followed the old man to several other families and bought hundreds of seedlings. This trip was not in vain. After loading the seedlings into the car, they returned to Caojia Village.
They sent the seedlings they bought to Li Zheng's house and asked Li Zheng to notify those who had registered to pick them up. He searched for a long time before finding half of the seedlings. Those who were late would have to wait for the next batch.
"Don't say I didn't tell you, those who were late would have no more." Cao Xiangnan was very happy when he told this story when he returned home. He was very happy to find more than 200 seedlings, which meant he had bought all the seedlings in Fenshui Town. Later, he also went to Chenjia Village.
"Oh, did you send it to Li Zheng's house?"
"Hurry, Li Mei, let's go to Li Zheng's house."
The boys who were helping to cook in his yard immediately threw down their things and ran to Li Zheng's house, as fast as a gust of wind. Wu Yue, who was running behind, didn't forget to shout, "Bai Lian, help me look after my Doudou." As soon as she
finished speaking, she ran away.
Doudou was left standing there, not knowing what was going on. Looking at the running Amu, she almost cried with a smirk. Sun Bailian almost laughed until her waist hurt. She went to pull Doudou and said, "Don't worry about your mother. They will be back soon. Doudou, help Bailian and Momo pick vegetables first."
For a while, Li Zheng's family was noisy. Chen Hong and others who arrived early had already received their seedlings and left. They all had some money in hand, so they paid for the seedlings when they received them. On the way back home with the chickens, they met someone who was rushing to Li Zheng's house. "Hurry up, hurry up, if you go late, there will be no more."
"Ahem, they have been taken. You can only take them next time." Those who arrived late were told by Li Zheng that there were no more and they could only wait for the next batch.
There were also people in the village who hatched chicks themselves, but they only hatched eight or ten at a time. In the past, Caojia Village was not as close to the town as Chenjia Village, so many people hatched chicks to sell. If you want to hatch chicks yourself, you have to wait for a long time before you can have chicks. Moreover, you can't hatch that many at a time. It's better to buy ready-made ones. Cao Silang bought them in the town and sent them back. The price was the same as what they bought in the town, so they saved a lot of trouble. Among the group of people who planned to raise chicks, several husbands worked for Cao Silang, and they had thirty big bucks in their account every day.
Seeing that Cao Silang had made money and was willing to help them, the smart ones knew to seize this opportunity and follow him. Otherwise, when others raised and sold
the seedlings and made money, they would be the only ones left. Wouldn't they have to watch others get the money with envy? The brothers who took Xiao Miao home quickly were very happy. Wu Yue went home with a small basket. He had already taken the child to the school to see the teacher and paid the tuition without telling his mother. The child would be able to go to school with everyone tomorrow. Thinking of this, the smile on his face became even bigger.
The few people who knew about Wu Yue's situation were happy for him. They went home with a group of chirping furry things. Chen Hong was the only one in the group who had a group of ducklings. He heard Xiang Nan sigh that there were so few ducklings and was worried about why there were so few people raising ducks, so he just took some ducklings to raise.
"I'll come find you when I bring the chicks home."
"Yeah, sure."
The brothers agreed to go to Cao Jia Silang's place together.