In Mengmenguan in May, red and purple mulberries hang on the branches.
When women and children pick mulberry leaves, they often pick some ripe mulberries and take them home.
The silkworms were eating mulberry leaves, and people were eating mulberries.
At this time, the winter wheat had not yet fallen, and the spring beans were not yet mature.
It was a time when food was scarce.
For many people who are hungry and have no oil or water in their bellies, mulberries are actually not a very good food.
If you eat something sour when you are hungry, only those who have really been hungry will know the taste.
And because mulberry is a cold thing, it can be used as medicine.
If people with body heat eat it, it can nourish yin and dispel fire.
If people with weak and cold bodies eat too much, there will naturally be no benefit.
But even so, people still have to be grateful for the gifts of nature.
No matter how difficult the era is, when the mulberry season comes every year, it is rare to hear of someone dying of starvation.
"Grandma, don't eat these mulberries anymore.
There are some mixed flour pancakes in the house.
I'll get one to eat with you."
The teenage girl returned to the courtyard carrying a basket full of mulberry leaves.
She saw her grandmother sitting there picking mulberries to eat again.
She was reluctant to eat the ripe purple-red fruits, and specifically chose the light red and bright red ones. , It is said that if the drug store is willing to collect dried mulberries, it will especially like to pick the ones with good quality.
"Nothing happens anyway, I'm just sitting here eating and playing."
The old woman in the courtyard waved her hands and said: "You can go in and feed the silkworms.
These spring silkworms are about to spin silk.
At this moment, don't scream.
They are hungry."
This year's silk has not yet been harvested and sold, and everyone in this family dares to chew it and use it lavishly.
She can't live much longer with her old bones.
Now she can't even pick a mulberry leaf.
Two days ago, she came from outside I came back carrying a basket of mulberry leaves and fainted on the way.
Fortunately, I fell on the ground and was not seriously injured.
I was carried home and it took me a long time to recover.
In the past two days, my children and grandchildren have not been here.
Ken asked her to go out to work again.
"Your mother-in-law has been out for a long time.
You can bring them some pancakes later, and your brother and brother.
Young people, please don't hurt your foundation."
The old woman put down the bamboo basket she was using to dry mulberries.
Step by step, she moved outside the silkworm room and watched her granddaughter feeding silkworms.
"Aye asked me to cook you some corn porridge at home."
The girl neatly spread the newly picked mulberry leaves on the mulberry bed, and then carried the basket on her back and left the silkworm room.
"The corn porridge you eat at noon is so delicate," the old lady muttered, and moved to the kitchen step by step, only to see her granddaughter take out two eggs from her waist and put them on the stove. came on, and immediately asked: "Where did you get the eggs?"
The homes of sericulture farmers like them are the worst at seeing dirt.
Spring silkworms are very delicate.
As long as they are a little bit dirty, they like to get sick.
Therefore, most sericulture farmers do not raise chickens and geese in their homes, so naturally there will be no eggs.
Goose eggs are edible.
"Oh, you idiot, you're going to touch that money again.
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Have I told you so many times that you can't touch that money?
People like us can't do anything to help you.
It's so easy to save a few dowries by yourself." , take out a few pennies today, and a few pennies tomorrow, do you still want to live like this for the rest of your life?"
The old lady wiped away her tears as she spoke.
She was half buried in the earth, and she still ate a lot of eggs.
Look at the granddaughter in front of her.
She is as young as a green onion, filial and hard-working.
Not born into a good family "What are you talking about?
This alley is quiet, and I can hear you talking from a distance."
At this time, two more people came in at the entrance of the courtyard, one was her son, and the other was tall and strong.
He was an acquaintance, it was Wang Dang who was known as Boss Wang.
"Why is Wang Dalang here today?"
The old lady was very happy to see Wang Dang coming over.
She wiped the tears on her face and moved a bench out for him to sit on.
She also watched Wang Dalang grow up, and now he is like this day by day.
Rather than just one day, it would be nice to see her one more time.
After seeing her this time, I don’t know if there will be another time.
"This time I brought a batch of soap to sell.
I just sold it when I met Tu Er on the road, so I came with him."
Wang Dang was also happy to show off in front of him.
These days, if he said he was in the soap business, that would be true.
A bit of face, much more respectable than working as a porter before.
"Well, you are really promising now."
The old lady was really happy for him.
"When I came back this time, Naluo Sanlang asked me to collect some dried mulberries.
I wonder if your family still has them."
Since there is a business, it is natural to take care of the familiar people first.
"Yes, yes, how much does he want?"
The old lady was very happy when she heard that someone wanted to buy dried mulberries.
"It's said to be ten loads."
Wang Dangyan said.
"What does he want to do with so many mulberries?"
The old lady was also a little surprised.
She had also heard that Luo Sanlang's family didn't open a pharmacy.
What did he want to do with so many mulberries?
"I want to buy it to make soap."
Wang Dang said to several people in the courtyard: "If this soap is made by him, he will probably buy more dried mulberries in the future."
"Seriously" the three people in the yard were all overjoyed.
"If you have free time these days, please post more.
I think this business is 80% okay."
Wang Dang is very optimistic about Luo Yong.
The young man doesn't know if he is blessed by a Bodhisattva or something, but every time he sees him Whatever he does, there's nothing he can't do.
"It all depends on Da Lang."
Even when he couldn't sell the dried mulberries, his family would dry them as much as they could.
Now that he heard that someone wanted to buy them, he still had to dry them.
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"As for the price, I heard that the pharmacy charges half a bushel of corn for a bushel of dried mulberries, so I'll charge it at that price, okay?"
Wang Dang asked.
"It makes, it makes."
When it comes to filling one's stomach, how can dried mulberries compare to grain?
As they talked, the grandmother immediately asked her son and granddaughter to take out the dried mulberries from the house that had just been dried today.
"It's not easy to dry these mulberry seeds.
If you don't get them right, they will get moldy.
This year is better.
With the help of the fire kang, you can put them in the sun during the day and bake them on the fire kang at night.
Look at these mulberries that have been dried recently.
It will be better than in previous years.”
The old woman's son quickly measured the dried mulberries with rice buckets.
There were more than ten buckets in total.
The remaining ones looked like they were not enough for a bucket, so he simply didn't bother and poured them into the basket.
Put them together with the measured dried mulberries as a supplement.
"Next time Na Luo Sanlang wants to buy mulberries, don't forget our family."
Na Tu Er said to Wang Dangyan.
"Don't worry, I will never forget your side."
Wang Dang promised.
More than ten buckets of dried mulberries, which is a little more than one load.
According to the measurement unit at this time, ten buckets is one stone, and one stone is one load.
It can be packed in two baskets.
It is just right to pick it up and carry it.
The dried mulberries don't weigh much. , it’s just too full, so be careful not to spill it.
"It's so full that it's hard to carry it.
Erlang, you can pack it up with a bamboo basket and go with Wang Dalang."
The old lady said.
"Okay."
His son agreed.
"Just in time, this pair of poles and baskets will be available for you to bring back in a while."
Wang Dang said, and together with Tu Er, he took out some dried mulberries from the baskets, packed them in the baskets, and then picked up the load.
They left the yard one after another.
Luo Yong asked them to help collect more than ten loads of dried mulberries.
Wang Dang collected more than one load.
In addition, his brothers also went to find people they knew each other at this time.
They would meet again later.
If it was not enough, they would pick it up later.
Find someone else to collect some from.
"Wang Da, look at Lishi County and see if there are any good young men."
On the way, Tu Er asked Wang Da Dao.
"But I'm asking because of your second wife," Wang Dang asked.
"Exactly."
Parents naturally want to try their best to find a good home for their children.
The second wife of his family is of good character, and people nearby have asked, but he is not satisfied.
Either the character is not good, or the family is too rich.
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Thin.
You can't blame him for hating the poor and loving the rich.
When people go to higher places, there are no elders who are willing to watch their children suffer.
Forget it for the son.
Born in such a family, he is destined to have such a fate.
The daughter will always have a chance to jump.
If you go out, with the character and appearance of his daughter, no one will be at a loss if you marry her back.
"There are young men of about the same age, but I don't know what kind of regulations they have.
This time I go back and let you know."
Wang Dang thought about it, and indeed he remembered a few good young men.
"If you can help my second mother find a good family, I will thank you very much in the future."
Tu Er said solemnly.
"What are you talking about?
How many years have you been a brother?"
I think they had grown up together naked, but later on Wang Dang went out to travel around, and his friend rented a mulberry field to raise silkworms in the local area.
Their living habits and circles were different, so their contacts gradually became less and less.
Now, because of this mulberry business, the two of them have come together again.
Time flies by, and ten or twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye.
These bluestone alleys are still the same as before, except for the two little kids who were heartlessly laughing and playing in the alleys.
Now they are both parents, carrying the weight of a family on their shoulders.
The childish appearance of the past has also been stained with weathering over the years.
The author has something to say: Mulberry: synonymous with mulberry.
One load: one stone has the same meaning. gd1806102: