When doing farm work at this time, everyone carries a bowl with them.
Firstly, it is convenient for you to drink water. Secondly, if someone sends you sweet soup or something, you can eat or drink it for free.
Qiao Xiazhi knew about this. In the past, her grandparents often drank mung bean water sent by their fellow villagers.
So she wasn't stingy this time.
Anyway, it's just a matter of adding a few more spoonfuls of water and a few spoonfuls of sugar. Some people don't add sugar when cooking mung bean water, but she added sugar. Even if it's all water you drink, it's very good with just a little bit of mung bean flavor.
"Hey, Xiazhi, you added sugar to the mung bean water."
"As expected, water with sugar in it makes me feel better. After drinking this bowl of mung bean sugar water, I feel like I can do a lot more work."
"Hahaha……"
The villagers were happy drinking the mung bean soup, and the Qiao family was even happier drinking the mung bean soup delivered by Qiao Xiazhi himself.
"Hey, I caught you two, hahaha..." Suddenly, Qiao Daguo's happy voice rang out.
When everyone looked over, they saw Qiao Daguo holding a large eel in one hand.
Qiao Xiazhi was overjoyed when he saw this, and quickly handed the basket over, "Quick, quick, put it in the basket, so you can have a snack in the evening."
"Hey, I caught one too."
Ma Daqiang also held up a very plump yellow eel and shouted, "Xiazhi, the syrup you gave is really good. Look, the yellow eels came out when you came."
Seeing this, Qiao Xiazhi immediately thought of the eel in his hand.
"Brother Daqiang, if that's the case, then give me your eel. Let's give you a price that's appropriate for you."
Ma Daqiang smiled and said, "Why are you asking for a price out of affection? I'll give it to you."
Zhu Shizhen, the grandmother of the Qiao family, said, "Oh, that won't work. This yellow eel is not small. It must weigh at least half a pound. Can I give you 60 cents?"
I don’t know what the prices were like in the 1970s in real life, but in this fictional 1970s, eels were half as expensive as pork.
At that time, pork was 80 cents per pound, and eel was 1.6 yuan per pound.
Loaches are cheaper, one yuan per pound.
However, villagers seldom go to cut meat to eat, after all, they need meat tickets to buy meat.
The only time folks eat meat is when they slaughter pigs at the end of each year and share some. If they are better off, they will buy more, then make it into jars and preserve it to eat slowly.
The usual source of meat is fish, shrimp, loach and eel in the river, so the villagers seldom exchange these things for money.
However, Ma Daqiang only found one at this time. It's not that he can eat it at home, but it's a bit too little. There are many people in his family, so it's better to exchange it for money.
"Grandma Qiao said 60 cents, so 60 cents is fine." Ma Daqiang said, putting the eel in his hand into Qiao Xiazhi's backpack.
"I'll ask Daguo to send the money to you later." Zhu Shizhen said.
"It's okay, don't worry."
Three eels are enough to make a braised eel.
Originally, Qiao Xiazhi wanted to touch the snails, but because she was still on her period, it was safer to be more careful.
There is no rush to wait a few days before going to catch snails.
But Qiao Xiazhi has to make plans for himself in the days to come.
You can't just sit around doing nothing all day.
Qiao Xiazhi has supernatural powers, and she has thought about becoming a doctor in the future. However, being a doctor and curing diseases and saving lives cannot be achieved suddenly, there must be a reason.
She remembered that her grandfather knew a little about medicine. She seemed to have heard someone say that her grandfather's great-grandfather used to be an imperial physician in the palace. She just didn't know why medical skills fell into disuse by her grandfather's generation.
By the time his father's generation came around, they no longer knew how to do that.
During dinner in the evening, Qiao Xiazhi said, "Grandpa, I want to learn how to cure diseases and save lives."
The Qiao family: !!!
"Xia Zhi, what did you just say?" Qiao Daguo thought he was hallucinating and asked.
"I want to study medicine and save lives," Qiao Xiazhi replied.
Qiao Qiping stood up at this time and went straight back into the house. When he came out, he had a large wooden box in his hand.
"This was secretly left to you by your grandfather's great grandfather when he passed away. This is all the life's work of your great grandfather. Whether our Qiao family can continue on this path depends on your own luck."
Sure enough, Qiao Xiazhi knew that her grandfather must have some hidden treasure.
By the time she has finished looking through this huge box of treasures, she will have mastered at least half of them, if not all of them. The remaining half she will have to figure out through practice.
If she could learn half of it, combined with her special abilities, it would be enough for her to make a name for herself.
"Grandpa, why did our great-grandfather secretly give you these things? And why didn't you study medicine?" Qiao Xiazhi's curiosity made her unable to help but ask.
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