Chapter 8 Cicada Monkey

"Yes, I have just the last 5 kilograms left. I will close the stall after I sell them all. If you want, I will give it to you for one yuan per kilogram!"

"One yuan per pound?" Shen Xiangbei almost cried out, and he quickly lowered his voice: "Show me, if it's good, I'll take it all."

He asked around and found that the cheapest flour was 2.5 yuan per pound, and the more expensive ones were 3 yuan. The 2 yuan flour was not very white and was not ground finely. He thought that as long as the flour was not too bad, he would take it.

When he peeled off the cloth, he saw that it was Fuqiang powder, right? It was so white and so fine, he made a fortune! He quickly paid five yuan and left with it.

Shen Ruoqing also hurried out to change her clothes. This black coat was too hot, and she was almost dying of heat. Fortunately, she could sell it back to the system, but after wearing it for a while, the system only charged six yuan for recycling it. Oh, I have to hurry up and make money to buy space.

"Ruoqing, where have you been? I looked around for you but couldn't find you."

"Fourth brother, I'm in a hurry to pee, so I'm going to find a toilet. Have you bought everything?"

"Of course not. Are you worried about your fourth brother going out? Let's go back quickly."

Shen Xiangbei and Shen Ruqing went back.

"Mom, please don't say that I am an unfilial son. Do you know how much a pound of white flour costs now? Three yuan a pound! Even this is in short supply, and I bought five pounds, which cost me 15 yuan. All my son's savings were spent on this."

As soon as he entered the house, Shen Xiangbei complained to Old Lady Ji that his flour, which cost one yuan per pound, was actually three yuan per pound. Old Lady Ji didn't believe it at first, but after taking a look at the flour, she was surprised how white it was, so she believed it.

"Mom knows. It's not in vain that I raised you." Old Mrs. Ji praised Shen Xiangbei casually, picked up the food and left.

"Mom, I'd better help you carry this weight of food back."

It’s 55 kilograms in total. How can this little old lady carry it?

"Okay, you can help us carry it back." Old Mrs. Ji didn't plan to carry it herself. She was just waiting for Shen Xiangbei to ask.

It was already noon when we returned to the Shen family.

"Brother Four, please stay for lunch." It's already time for lunch, and it would be embarrassing not to leave you food.

"No, Mom, I'm going back first."

"Why, you don't like our steamed bread?"

"How dare I, mom? I just think there's not enough food here."

"I told you to stay, so stay. I'm not being polite. Stop talking nonsense."

Shen Xiangbei remained silent. It was rare for Old Lady Ji to invite him to dinner. Today, she invited him to lunch, apparently because of the five kilograms of flour.

"Mom, fourth brother can stay home for dinner. I'll go and exchange two eggs." Shen Ruoqing had a good impression of this fourth brother.

"Look how nice your sister is to you. She even prepares eggs for you when you come. I, an old lady, don't even get this kind of treatment. You must remember your sister's kindness in the future." As soon as Old Lady Ji got the chance, she started brainwashing Shen Xiangbei, although she felt that her darling might want to eat eggs.

The current price of eggs is 1.5 yuan per pound. This is the price at the supply and marketing cooperative. A pound of small local eggs like these laid by farmers cost 15 cents each. They are precious things that farmers usually cannot afford to eat.

Shen Ruoqing exchanged the food she just bought for five eggs. She planned to make up for the lost food secretly. Now she bought more than 50 kilograms of food. If she added a little secretly, who would find out? When Mrs. Ji saw Shen Ruoqing took five eggs, she felt a little distressed. These foods were bought at high prices on the black market. She could just exchange two. Why did she exchange five?

"Mom, let's fry them all and eat them."

"You are such a spendthrift. We just exchanged for such a small amount of food, and you wasted it all." Although she said words of blame, Old Lady Ji agreed with Shen Ruoqing, "Let's fry all the food from the old family. This is your sister. She feels sorry for you and is afraid that you won't have enough to eat, so she specially took out a few more eggs."

Shen Xiangbei was also a little moved at this time. Maybe his mother was right. This sister really cared about her brother.

My goodness, all these eggs exchanged for public food have become the credit of Shen Ruoqing alone.

For lunch, I had wild vegetable porridge and steamed corn bread, plus some scrambled eggs with leeks. It was a very rich meal.

Because there were eggs, everyone at the table was rushing to grab them. If it weren't for Old Lady Ji picking up two pieces of eggs for Shen Ruoqing with her chopsticks, Shen Ruoqing wouldn't have been able to eat the egg.

The plate of scrambled eggs with leeks was empty in an instant.

It seems that the eggs are still not enough, there is no way, there are many people in the family. Shen Ruoqing thought secretly.

After dinner, Shen Xiangbei said goodbye and left.

Shen Ruoqing touched her belly. She now had 412.54 yuan left. Going to the black market could make money quickly, but she couldn't always go to the black market. The road was too far and it was unrealistic. In addition to digging herbs and wild vegetables, were there any other ways to make money quickly?

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"Aunt, I caught some cicada monkeys. You can cook them later." Shen Hansong was holding a jar with five or six cicada monkeys in it.

Farmers are all craving for meat, but they are reluctant to buy it. Every summer, the day when cicada monkeys emerge from the ground is their happiest day. They usually cook cicada monkeys or roast them over fire, which are both delicious. After all, it is meat, and it is free meat. Shen Hansong heard from Old Lady Ji that Shen Ruoqing needed to be nourished, so he went to catch them.

Shen Ruoqing knew about cicada monkeys, but had never eaten them. In modern times, it is very rare to find a natural and pollution-free version of this thing. The heavy metal content in them often exceeds the standard, but many people still eat them. Moreover, this thing is expensive.

"Ding - Golden cicada detected, seven yuan a pound, are you selling it?"

Shen Ruoqing was shocked. This cicada monkey could also be sold for money? "Han Song, where did you catch this cicada monkey?"

"I caught it when I passed by that woods on my way back. It's summer now, so aren't these things everywhere?" Shen Hansong touched his head, somewhat confused as to why his aunt was suddenly so excited.

"Can you help me catch more of these cicada monkeys?"

"This..." Shen Hansong looked embarrassed, "Aunt, I have to go to work in the afternoon. How about I help you catch it when I come back in the evening? There will be a lot of things to do in the evening."

There was no one in the family who didn't work, except Shen Ruoqing. Even Wang, although she didn't go to work because of her big belly, still had to do housework at home, helping with cooking, etc. But Wang's cooking was not as delicious as Han's, and usually when it came to cooking meat dishes, Old Lady Ji asked Han to take over.

Shen Ruoqing said, "Okay, let's go catch cicada monkeys at night, and you can call San Ya and the others to join us."

Shen Xiangbei didn't take it too seriously. He thought Shen Ruoqing was just craving for meat, so he quickly promised to take the younger generations of the Shen family to catch cicada monkeys in the evening.

There were too few of these five or six cicada monkeys to buy, so the system mall only offered 35 cents for them. Shen Ruoqing kept them and decided to sell them together when he had more.

In the afternoon, Shen Ruoqing went to dig wild vegetables and medicinal herbs as usual, earning 41 yuan.

(End of this chapter)