They arrived neither too early nor too late.
The mountain folks who had come here from all over had already set up their stalls and started hawking their wares.
"Frozen pears, frozen pears, vegetables and cotton wool are all fine."
"Persimmon cakes, fragrant and soft, with cotton as the main ingredient, and a gamey flavor."
"It's cabbage, I can change it for anything!"
"Fur, rabbit skin, roe deer skin..."
A wide variety of things.
Although most people are clamoring to exchange things, it is also possible if someone is willing to pay for it. However, this cannot be done openly and can only be done through barter.
The two walked and looked, but didn't see anything suitable that they wanted to exchange.
Until I walked to a young man's stall.
There was a unique smell in front of his stall, the unique smell of mutton, and it looked quite fresh.
If you don't have time to kill the sheep, you can buy some mutton to eat first.
Gu Qinghuan stopped at his stall.
An old man next to him immediately laughed and said, "I advise you to leave! This guy has been here for half an hour, and has asked many people, but no one has exchanged mutton.
What he wants is not ordinary stuff, he wants woolen material for making clothes! We don’t have such precious stuff here!"
The young man was not annoyed by the ridicule. He just lowered his head and continued to guard his mutton stall.
Waiting for the right person.
His family lived deep in the mountains and made a living by hunting. It was not easy to catch a sheep. He wanted to exchange it for something he thought was most valuable, so he would rather wait even if he could not exchange it.
Of course, if he still can't get what he wants by the end of the market, he will have to exchange it for something else, otherwise the mutton he takes back will not be fresh and can't be sold at a good price.
Gu Qinghuan didn't really want to eat this piece of mutton, but he suddenly became interested in this shy young man.
"Can I ask why you want to change the tweed material?" People in the mountains probably don't wear this kind of thing all year round, right?
Chen Ershu raised his head to glance at Gu Qinghuan, noticed a beautiful woman, and immediately looked away.
She said, "I heard that women outside wear dresses made of this material to get married. I also want to make one for my partner. We are going to get married in the spring."
In an instant, Gu Qinghuan's heart seemed to be hit by something and felt warm.
Humans will always be moved by sincerity.
Although Gu Qinghuan has never been optimistic about the so-called love, it cannot be denied that it does exist somewhere.
Regardless of love or not, a young person's sincerity is rare and should not be trampled upon.
Chen Ershu thought that this beautiful woman would be like the others before her, mocking him for overestimating his own abilities and saying that a mountain man still wanted to wear a woolen coat.
Unexpectedly, she not only did not laugh, but asked seriously: "How tall is your partner? What color of woolen material do you want?"
Chen Ershu summoned up his courage and said, "She's about 1.6 meters tall. It doesn't matter what color she is, as long as she looks good. By the way, it's better not to wear black." Wearing black to a wedding is unlucky.
Gu Qinghuan thought for a moment and said, "I have a camel-colored woolen fabric, enough for your partner to make a set of clothes. In addition, I can also give you a set of Zhongshan suit material, and exchange them for your sheep. Is it enough?"
Chen Ershu looked up in surprise: "Really? That's enough!"
He never thought that he could really exchange a sheep for a woolen coat, and the other party was so kind as to give him the material for a Zhongshan suit.
Finally, he could give his partner a decent wedding. This man fulfilled his promise.
The old man at the stall next to him shook his head when he saw that Gu Qinghuan really wanted to trade with him. There are really all kinds of people these days.
Gu Qinghuan originally wanted to find an excuse to take out the woolen material and exchange it directly, but was stopped by Xu Huaian. He thought that people would gossip a lot, and everyone in the family knew that she did not bring any woolen material with her. It was obviously wrong to get an extra piece of material out of nowhere.
So he would rather go through some trouble than put Gu Qinghuan in danger.
So Gu Qinghuan could only discuss with Chen Ershu: "Look, I didn't expect someone to exchange the woolen material when I came here the other day, and I left it at home without bringing it with me. So if you don't mind, can you come with me to my house to get it when the meeting is over?
Don't worry, I'm definitely not lying to you. You can carry the mutton on your back. When we get home and check everything, you can give it to me."
Chen Ershu saw that Gu Qinghuan's expression did not seem fake, and the things were still in his pocket, so for the sake of information, he agreed.
In fact, if you go by the prices of that era, a wild goat can't even be exchanged for a woolen coat.
But who made the naive Chen Ershu meet the soft-hearted Gu Qinghuan?
Of course, she was not blindly kind and did not let herself be at a disadvantage. Based on the prices in her vending machine, the woolen coat was more than worth a wild goat.
The two of them each got what they needed.
Gu Qinghuan fulfilled a beautiful relationship, and felt comfortable and emotionally fulfilled.
We also harvested a slaughtered wild goat, which we can make a delicious lamb dinner in the evening.
But from the perspective of others, she was just a lamb to be slaughtered.
A middle-aged man at another stall came over and said, "My dear, we have some excellent wild boar meat here, and I want to buy a woolen dress for my wife."
Gu Qinghuan was speechless. Did her face show that she was easy to deceive?
Do these people think she is the Virgin Mary? She will help anyone.
Xu Huaian carried the middle-aged man away with just one move.
Gu Qinghuan's ears were finally cleared.
The two men asked Chen Ershu to carry the mutton and wait for them under the banyan tree at the market gate.
Then the two of them found a stall that sold mountain products and exchanged the Chinese cabbage they brought for some mountain products such as black fungus, pine nuts, and persimmon cakes.
I went to another girl's stall and bought some red paper with money.
Red paper plays an important role these days. It is used to write couplets, cut window decorations, write the word "Fu" during the Chinese New Year, and even to hold weddings and cut the word "Xi" on red paper.
As for pens and ink, you don't need to buy them specially since Gu Lanting has them.
The two took the opportunity to take out a bag of frozen pears and pheasants and rabbits they had prepared and put them on the sled.
When we were almost done shopping, we gathered under the banyan tree with our things.
When the two arrived, Ming Ruxue, Gu Lanting and their children were already under the banyan tree.
Several people held various foods in their hands and exchanged them while enjoying themselves.
There are sugar cakes, lotus leaf cakes, sugar-coated fruits, candied haws, stirred sugar, maltose and so on.
Well, it turns out these foodies are here to eat.
Gu Qinghuan also went over and tasted a piece of maltose. It had the old taste, the taste of childhood.
Maltose is made by fermenting and saccharifying grains such as corn, barley, sorghum, millet or maize.
At the same time, it is also a traditional Chinese medicine with sweet and warm nature and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. It is mainly used clinically to nourish the spleen and replenish qi, relieve acute pain, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and treat spleen and stomach qi deficiency, middle-jiao deficiency and cold, lung deficiency and chronic cough, shortness of breath and asthma, etc.
These things were not like the industrial products of later generations, which were full of high technology and hard work. The children could eat them if they wanted to, and she did not stop them, so she let them eat to their heart's content.
Ji Linhai squatted on the ground, staring at the package on the sled, not knowing what had been replaced, but he looked at it very closely.
Chen Ershu's home is in the mountains, quite far from here. In order not to delay his return home, Gu Qinghuan prepared to go home first. Erdan's family also came back soon, so they went back together.
When Chen Fengqin learned that she had exchanged the material of a woolen coat for a wild goat, she whispered in her ear, "Sister, don't be fooled! You can't exchange a wild goat for a woolen coat."
Gu Qinghuan whispered in her ear, "This woolen material is a defective item that we bought before. It's not worth much money."
Chen Fengqin thought, defective products are also good materials! But they are willing to fight and suffer, so she only reminded them once, and if she said too much, she would not be disliked.
Gu Qinghuan breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Chen Fengqin did not ask any more questions, otherwise she would have to make up stories again.
It's so tiring to tell a lie and then cover up another one.
Chen Fengqin's family exchanged some vegetables and cotton for some meat and mountain products, and also returned home with a full load.
The departure is grand and the return is grand.
On the way back, the sleds were not idle either. Gu Lanting was still pulling the goods, and Ji Linhai was pulling a few children.
They refused to let Xu Huaian replace them.
The children got up too early, and soon fell asleep next to each other in the basket.
When they reached the village, Gu Qinghuan, who had no burden, said first that he wanted to go back to find information.
In fact, you have to go back and place an order from the vending machine first.
She had some fabrics at home, but no woolen ones.
He rushed back to the room, closed the door, and entered the space.
After not paying attention for a while, there were a lot more messages and private messages on the vending machine urging her to sell things.
She ignored everything and found a shop selling woolen fabrics.
Converted to the current unit price, the price is 6.5 yuan per meter. A woolen coat requires about 2.8-3 meters of material. She plans to buy three meters directly to leave a little extra for the buyer.
In other words, the woolen coat cost ten dollars and fifty cents.
There was also material for a Zhongshan suit. She bought a dark grey one, which made her look more energetic.
I originally wanted to buy the black one, but then I didn’t buy it because Chen Ershu said that black is unlucky for marriage.
Although she doesn't think you can't wear black to a wedding, she just needs to respect other people's ideas.
The material for Zhongshan suits is much cheaper. During the promotion, I bought one for only RMB 2.5.
The extra bucks cost her twenty-two bucks.
The sheep that Chen Ershu owned looked to be more than twenty-two feet long, and probably had more than ten feet of meat. Judging from its size, it looked like an adult goat.
Their supply and marketing cooperative only supplies mutton during the Chinese New Year, and the price starts at one yuan per piece. So even if we calculate it this way, she still makes money.
However, when it came to Chen Ershu, he must have felt that he had made a profit. After all, he could not buy such high-end and fine materials with his own money.
Both of them got what they needed.
Before the man came back, Gu Qinghuan took out the material and found a piece of kraft paper, preparing to wrap it for him after checking the goods.
Chen Ershu had to walk along the mountain road to get home, for he was afraid that the material would get wet and dirty and would be difficult to take care of.