Chapter 105 Eating Earthen Lumps
Yu Jiaming was angry at that time. Jiang Hongyu quickly covered his mouth and smiled ingratiatingly at the soldier. The soldier looked them up and down and saw that they were indeed strangers. He waved his hand and asked them to leave.
After entering the city gate, Yu Jiaming pried Jiang Hongyu's hands apart and said, "Why are you stopping me? We only have two cents each, but you're charging three cents for an oxcart. Why?"
This sounds very problematic. People are not as good as cows!
Ye Mingzhu looked at him, thought he was stupid, and gestured for Jiang Hongyu to explain.
Jiang Hongyu: "Three cents is the price for hiring someone to clean up the cow dung. The last person who questioned this price is now in the county jail. He was held there for three days before being released."
"If you're locked up, you don't know when you'll get out."
Yu Jiaming felt that this was implying that he was stupid, and he was a little annoyed: "Why would I be locked up for so long?"
Jiang Hongyu: "Because the new county magistrate hasn't taken up his post yet."
Logically speaking, the two county magistrates must complete the handover before the former county magistrate can leave. However, this place is remote, and after the former county magistrate received the promotion notice, he temporarily handed over the county affairs to the county magistrate, and then he left. According to the situation, the new county magistrate should arrive in the next few days.
After the new county magistrate arrives, he needs to familiarize himself with the situation and it is not known when he will remember the people in the prison.
The current county magistrate was a good-natured man who refused to make decisions, so during this period, anyone who caused trouble was thrown into jail, waiting for the new county magistrate to come and deal with them.
Yu Jiaming was speechless for a moment, and the three of them walked forward in silence.
When passing by an inn, Jiang Hongyu drove the ox cart inside. Ye Mingzhu was waiting outside the door. He glanced at the two of them and followed Jiang Hongyu in.
Jiang Hongyu waved at him: "I'll park the ox cart here and be out soon."
Yu Jiaming was a little surprised that the ox cart could be parked at the inn, but after the lesson just now, he didn't say anything more, walked out the door and stood aside.
After Jiang Hongyu came out, he saw the two of them standing on either side of the door. He waved to Ye Mingzhu, and the two of them walked forward together. Yu Jiaming quickly walked to Jiang Hongyu's side.
"How do you know about the county magistrate?" Yu Jiaming suddenly asked.
He once again began to doubt Jiang Hongyu's identity. The couple both looked good, but dressed very ordinary. They were very young, but they owned a manor and knew about the county magistrate. This was too strange.
"The last time I came to the county to buy a human being, I heard from the broker that since the county magistrate is away, the procedures for buying a human being have been much simpler recently."
Jiang Hongyu's patience with Jiaming was about to run out: "If you have any questions, ask them all."
Yu Jiaming didn't know what to ask for the moment, so he shook his head: "Where can we buy some candy bars?"
Jiang Hongyu pointed ahead and said, "Follow this road and go straight ahead. You can buy candy bars. They are very long, like sticks."
Yu Jiaming had seen sweet sticks in a book, and he had eaten brown sugar yesterday, so he guessed that the other party wanted to use sweet sticks to make sugar.
He felt a little regretful that he had spoken too hastily and agreed to buy something for Ye Mingzhu. When he thought about walking on the street with a candy bar as tall as a person, he felt that everyone on the street would look at him.
In order to delay buying the candy bars, he followed Jiang Hongyu and Ye Mingzhu closely, and even though Jiang Hongyu glared at him, he pretended not to see it.
Ye Mingzhu ignored the quarrel between the two. She saw someone selling some earth-like things on the roadside. Some of them were broken, revealing the yellowed flesh inside.
She had an idea, squatted down and picked up a "clod of earth".
"I dug this up in the mountains. It's edible. My family has eaten it. Five, no, four cents per pound." The seller was a white-haired old man who tried his best to prove that what he said was true.
A woman selling vegetables nearby scoffed, "Old grain and coarse flour only cost a few cents per pound, and you're selling these lumps of dirt you've never seen before for four cents a pound."
The old man didn't look at her, but stared at Ye Mingzhu eagerly: "Girl, this is really delicious. Everyone in my family has eaten it."
Afraid that Ye Mingzhu wouldn't believe him, he picked up a broken "lump of earth" next to him and put it directly into his mouth, took a bite, and swallowed it hard: "Girl, it's really edible. We have a little grandson at home who wants to drink porridge, so we sold it to him."
Yu Jiaming was startled. This "lump of earth" was covered with dirt, and there was a circle of mud on the corners of the old man's mouth after eating. He wanted to reach out and hold Ye Mingzhu, but he couldn't be too kind.
Jiang Hongyu blocked his hand. He realized that Ye Mingzhu was already married and his behavior was not very nice.
The way Ye Mingzhu usually spoke to him was so natural that he couldn't help but ignore the other person's gender.
Ye Mingzhu ignored them. She checked all the "lumps of earth" on the ground and confirmed that they were sweet potatoes.
Although the variety is different from the modern ones and is much smaller, she smelled the broken flesh and confirmed that it was a sweet potato.
There was confusion in her eyes. What dynasty was this? Although it was the Dashun Dynasty, it had nothing to do with Li Zicheng's dynasty. So where did sweet potatoes come from?
She thought for a moment, then looked up and motioned for Yu Jiaming to squat down, showing him the cracked sweet potato: "Do you know what this is?"
Yu Jiaming looked at the yellow flesh inside, knocked off some of the dirt outside, and shook his head: "I don't know, I've never seen anything like it."
Ye Mingzhu was sure that sweet potatoes were not promoted here, otherwise how could Yu Jiaming, who looked like a nobleman, and the poor old man not know about them?
She rubbed some of the dirt off a few whole sweet potatoes and felt a little greedy. Her favorite foods in the past were roasted sweet potatoes, dried sweet potatoes, and candied sweet potatoes...
Even stir-fried sweet potato leaves are delicious. No meat is needed, just stir-fry them and add some minced garlic when serving. My family used to love to make this dish.
Ye Mingzhu was feeling a little down. If she couldn't go home, it would be fine to eat home-cooked meals that tasted like "home".
She wanted to buy all the sweet potatoes, of course, without being a "sucker",
Four cents for a sweet potato is not expensive, provided that you knock off all the dirt on the sweet potato.
Having some dirt on the sweet potato can be said to prevent the skin from breaking, but so much dirt is not normal.
"Uncle, if you remove the dirt from these things, I can buy some." Ye Mingzhu said, pointing at the sweet potatoes.
The old man was delighted at first, then he asked with some difficulty: "After knocking off all the dirt, these things will spoil quickly."
"Four cents a pound of soil, isn't that too expensive?"
Ye Mingzhu's words made the aunt next to her giggle.
"Oh, I said you old man are dishonest. It turns out you want to sell the dirt at the price of coarse grains. Girl, don't buy his dirt. Buy my vegetables and I'll give them to you at a lower price."
The old man who was hesitant just now nodded immediately: "Okay, I'll knock off all the dirt now, you're going to buy it."
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