168, contrast
168, contrast
On the third day, the rabbits his father had ordered were delivered to their stall. Lu Mingfei handed the rabbits to Lu Chunping along with his own "Rabbit Raising Manual," and said, "Uncle Chunping, please take these rabbits and this manual back to the village chief."
"This booklet contains some information I've written on how to raise rabbits and the things you need to pay attention to. You must have the village head and the head of the village take a close look at it. The methods I've written here are very useful and can be used as a reference. If they don't have any better methods, they can follow my instructions."
"Okay, I will definitely take your words back to them." Lu Chunping and his two nephews who came with him to deliver the goods carried the rabbits onto the ox cart, and they prepared to go back.
"Then we'll leave. Come back to the village to play when you have time."
"If you're not in a hurry to go back, why don't you sit down and have a bowl of rice before leaving?" Lu Mingfei knew that the three of them must have eaten something when they went out in the morning. They walked all the way from the village to the city, and then ran across half of Kyoto to deliver goods. He was afraid that the little food in their stomachs had been digested long ago.
The three of them will have to walk back to the village soon, and it will take more than an hour to get back to the village.
Their family had lived in the village before and knew that the villagers were very frugal when it came to food. Except for the busy farming season when they ate three meals a day, most people only ate two meals a day at other times. The better ones would have one thin meal and one thick meal, while the worse ones would have two meals a day of porridge and wild vegetable soup.
But compared to not having even a mouthful of porridge to eat during a famine, having a mouthful of porridge and wild vegetable soup was already good. Many ordinary people lived frugally all their lives and never had a good meal of fish and meat until they died.
It is very ironic when you think about the people in the noble families in Kyoto who eat the best food every day, including the delicacies from land and sea. The rotten water thrown away in the kitchen is many times better than the food on the tables of ordinary people.
"No, no, we are in a hurry to go back, so we won't stay any longer." Lu Chunping didn't have the nerve to sit down and eat at the stall. They had eaten here twice, and each time Liu Sanniang and Lu Youtian refused to take their money.
After talking to his nephew, Lu Chunping shouted to Liu Sanniang and said they were going back.
Upon hearing this, Liu Sanniang shouted, "Are you leaving so soon? Eat something before you go?"
"No, no, we're in a hurry to go back, so we'll leave first." Lu Chunping was afraid that Liu Sanniang and her son would keep them here for dinner, so he hurriedly led the cow and took his two nephews away.
Lu Mingfei knew Lu Chunping's character, so he didn't chase him to give him anything. Because if he gave Lu Chunping two pancakes today, Lu Chunping would definitely bring something for them tomorrow.
It was quite troublesome going back and forth. In the end, the thing Lu Chunping gave them was worth more than the two pancakes they had given them, so they ended up taking advantage of him.
It would be better to find a way to help the villagers increase their income. If we raise these rabbits, every household will definitely earn an extra ten taels a year. If we raise them for three to five years, the money we save can be used to buy a few acres of land far away and pass it on to future generations.
As long as there is land, you can either farm or raise livestock. It is better than letting the next generation continue to be tenant farmers for the landlord.
Perhaps for this reason, the people in their tribe have made a lot of money from bean sprout farming over the years, but they are reluctant to spend money on food and clothing. Because compared to having good food and clothing, most people still want to buy a few acres of land for their descendants and leave something for them.
Lu Mingfei discovered that among his people, whether in modern times or today, parents and elders always thought about leaving something for their descendants, always thinking that they would not suffer for their descendants even if they suffered for themselves. He didn't know how to evaluate this behavior.
As long as everyone is happy, everyone has their own way of doing things. As long as they don't gain benefits by harming others, but instead earn their income through their own efforts and then save it to pass on to future generations, there seems to be nothing wrong with that. This spirit of selfless dedication has existed for so long.
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After seeing Lu Chunping off, the items at their stall were almost sold out.
The stall was now fully staffed and didn't need him to help out every day. Thinking that everyone would come to their house for a barbecue today, Lu Mingfei said goodbye to his mother and went to the street to buy meat by himself.
In the morning, Zhang Qi sent his three children to the escort agency for martial arts training. Previously, Zhang Qi would return to the stall after sending people off, but later, he simply asked Zhang Qi to stay there and learn a few moves that could save his life if necessary. So now, Zhang Qi and his three children stayed at the escort agency and would not return home until noon.
Otherwise, if the kids at home were here, they would definitely come out with him.
It was a rare occasion for Lu Mingfei to go shopping alone, so he would buy whatever delicious food he saw, but he did not forget his purpose.
I walked along the street and found the stall selling mutton.
Seeing half a lamb hanging on the stall, Lu Mingfei asked the boss, "Boss, how much do you sell this lamb for?"
"It was sold for fifty cents per pound earlier. If you want it, I'll give it to you forty-five cents per pound." The market would be over soon, and the boss wanted to sell this half mutton before the morning market ended.
Seeing half a lamb chop on the table, Lu Mingfei didn't rush to bargain. He pointed at the half lamb chop and asked, "What about this one?"
"If you want this, I'll give it to you for thirty cents per pound," said the boss.
Their family buys pork every day to make braised dishes, so Lu Mingfei knows the price of pork. The price of mutton is more than twice that of pork. In winter, the price of mutton is even more expensive.
But it's summer now, and mutton is still so expensive. The boss is taking advantage of him because he is young!
"I want a leg of lamb and these lamb chops. Can they be cheaper?" Lu Mingfei knew the prices, so he knew that the price of lamb would not be as expensive as 45 cents per pound at this time, not to mention that the market was almost closed at this point.
"The leg of lamb is forty, and the chops are twenty-five?"
"Can we all count them as twenty-five?"
"Oh, I really won't make any money from you at this price."
After a long arguing, the two men finally agreed that the lamb legs were 30 cents per pound, and the lamb chops were 20 cents. Lu Mingfei also asked for an extra piece of lamb, which was also charged at 30 cents per pound.
Fortunately, he came out with a backpack. After weighing the meat and paying for it, he asked the boss to help him put the meat into his backpack so that he could carry it himself.
His mother had already reserved pork for him in advance, and there were also vegetables and other things at home.
He wanted to buy some beef to take home and barbecue, but unfortunately there was very little beef for sale on the street. Even if there was any, the cows were either old or sick. He definitely didn't dare to eat sick beef. The meat of old cows was too hard, and even he, a young man with good teeth, couldn't bite it.
So if you want to have a normal meal of tender beef, forget it.
Fortunately, he was lucky today. He met someone selling river fish and river shrimps on the street. He bought two fish and bought all the river shrimps left in the boss's basket.
He spent a lot of money to buy it, and it was all his own money.
Luckily, he went to the jewelry store yesterday to collect the royalties for the two sets of designs he'd received. The boss had also ordered three new sets from him, but he wouldn't receive the royalties until they were submitted. Even so, he wasn't short of money.
Seeing someone selling chickens on the road, he bought the two chickens in the cage.
When he finished shopping and returned to their stall, it was just closing up.
"You've been gone for such a short while, and you've bought so many things?" When Liu Sanniang saw her son coming back with a backpack full of things and a chicken in one hand, she hurried over and took the two chickens from her son's hands.
The meat in the basket was too heavy on his shoulders. When he got back here, Lu Mingfei put the basket on the table and said, "I thought there would be many people eating today, so I bought some extra food."
"I wonder if my father and adoptive father will be back this afternoon. Let's invite him and his mother to have dinner at our house in the evening." His father and adoptive father went out of town again yesterday and didn't come back last night, so he gave the rabbit to Lu Chunping today.
"He should be back. I told him the day before yesterday that we would have a barbecue at home today." Seeing her son sweating profusely, Liu Sanniang took out a handkerchief from her arms and wiped the sweat from her son's forehead.
"Mom, let me do it myself." Lu Mingfei was already grown up, and he was embarrassed to ask his mother to wipe his sweat, so he quickly took the handkerchief from his mother's hand and wiped his sweat himself.
After his mother finished packing up the stall, the mother and son took Ruyi and the two people they bought later and drove the donkey home.
After returning home and having lunch, Lu Mingfei asked someone to help him kill two chickens and a fish. Otherwise, he would not dare to kill chickens and he was not very good at killing fish. Having someone take care of it for him saved him a lot of trouble.
In the afternoon, his mother and Ruyi went to work at the pancake shop, so he and Zhang Qi, who had returned home, worked together to process the ingredients and marinated the meat that needed to be marinated in advance.
The two killed chickens also need to be marinated together. He plans to make a soy sauce chicken and cut the other chicken into pieces and skewer it for grilling.
There are a lot of people eating at home tonight, so this much meat should be enough.
In addition to meat, there are also vegetables, which can be skewered in advance with bamboo sticks.
He got the bamboo sticks from his two uncles' barbecue stall yesterday. He wanted to pay for them, but his two uncles and cousins refused to accept them, so they ended up giving them to him. Fortunately, it wasn't a valuable item, so after everyone pushed it back and forth, he finally accepted it. Author's words: Thank you Bole 9492239 (9492239) for your support. Kisses! For more exciting content, please leave me a message on Liancheng Reading.
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