Chapter 515 Lively Village
“It seems that I washed my feet very well last night, and now it’s time for dinner.”
While Zhang An’s family was still having lunch , Huang Ming came over.
The higher the number of feet washed on New Year's Eve, the greater the probability of being encountered by others for dinner. This is a more superstitious point among the older generation.
So every New Year’s Eve, I would wash my feet more honestly than the children in this family.
"That's not good. You can eat wherever you go. Sit down quickly and I'll bring you a bowl."
With that said, Wang Fang got up and prepared to serve Huang Serve a bowl.
“No, no, no, no, uncle, please sit down and eat. Don’t worry about me. I’ve already eaten at my grandma’s house. After two bowls, there were more than twenty people, and now there are still some. "I'm tired of it."
When Huang Ming heard this, he quickly stopped Wang Fang and patted his stomach to show that he had really eaten.
No matter what it is, as long as it is made of glutinous rice noodles, it tastes delicious if you eat a little, but no one can bear it if you eat too much. Just like glutinous rice, you can’t be greedy for too much.
"I actually came here to see Xiao An for something."
"Oh? Why are you so anxious?"
Zhang An was a little surprised that Damingzi had something to do with him. After all, Today is only the first day of the Lunar New Year.
“I just wanted to come to your house to catch some rabbits, so I came over to say something.”
Although the two of them have a good relationship, it is really inappropriate to come to your door to ask for things on the first day of the new year. , it is quite taboo to put it in some people's homes, so Huang Ming is indeed a little embarrassed.
"The door is open. You can just catch it yourself. What else can you say? Your mother can let you eat meat today?"
When Zhang An heard Huang Ming If you want to catch a rabbit, you just think that it is caught and eaten. However, on the first day of the new year, there is a custom to avoid meat and fish and the whole family eats vegetarian food.
Given Zhang An’s fucking understanding of Huang Ming, it should be impossible.
"That's not true. I didn't catch rabbits this time to eat rabbit meat. Brother An, you also know that I bought a bunch of plastic rings there, but the toys didn't attract many people. They weren't as popular as last year. That’s a good idea, so I plan to catch some rabbits and set up a stall with toys, so the business will probably be better.”
Huang Ming waved his hand and expressed his thoughts at Zhang An’s house.
"The rabbits I want are not too big, they are all one or two kilograms, and there are a lot of them. I have to come over and say something. If I only catch one or two, I won't be polite."
< br>"Okay, this must be a good business, and people in the city will definitely be attracted to it. I didn't expect you to catch it. It would be great if you could do this when you were studying."
< br>After Zhang An listened, he stared at Da Mingzi for a few times and said.
The method of spending money to make hoops is only available to Zhang An and his friends in recent years. They usually use small toys, hairpins, rubber bands, etc., which are not worth much money.
It will take a few years before someone will replace these things with small goldfish, and it will be many years later that rabbits and geese will appear.
He didn't expect Da Mingzi to be so business-minded, and his key ideas were so forward-thinking.
"This is all my imagination. People in the city are not like us. They may not have gone to the mountains to catch rabbits, so I want to give it a try."
Hearing from Zhang An After praising himself, Huang Ming felt a little embarrassed.
"Then have you brought anything over? I will take you to the pen to catch it."
Zhang An happened to finish eating, and Wu Qiuping was there, so he was not allowed to clean up the dishes, so he I want to take Huang Ming to catch rabbits.
"Bring it with you, I bought two big chicken coops. I will catch some first and try it out. If the business is good, I will catch it again. If the business is not good, it will be bad if there is a backlog."
Huang Ming I also had a plan. Anyway, it’s not far from Zhang An’s house, so I’ll grab some and go over to test the waters.
Replenish the goods when the business is good. If the business is not good, it will not cause a backlog. After all, if you can’t catch it all, you still have to keep it.
Then the two men carried the chicken coop to the pen where the rabbits were kept.
Huang Ming only wanted a pound or two of rabbits, which would free up some space for Zhang An's family.
Although people come to buy rabbits every day, the number of rabbits raised by Zhang An's family is too large, and more rabbits are born than sold every month.
It is estimated that soon there will be no room left in this circle.
Zhang An plans to come out after the Chinese New Year. Then he will go to the city to look for anyone who wants to buy rabbits, and sell half of them out first.
“Ouch.”
Huang Ming went in with Zhang An to catch rabbits, but failed to catch two, so he was attacked by those big rabbits and was kicked twice.
This thing is not like the rabbits raised by other people. It is really uncomfortable when it kicks people.
"I'm really not saying that, Brother An, these things you raise are too outrageous. You kick people so hard. Fortunately, I didn't do it alone, otherwise I would still have to be kicked."
< br>After being kicked twice, Huang Ming simply stopped arresting him and walked out to wait for Zhang An to arrest him.
He picked up his trouser legs and saw that two places on his calves had been kicked red.
"Then just wait, I'll catch them."
Zhang An naturally knows how skinny these rabbits in his family are. Although he doesn't dare to do anything to himself, he doesn't do anything to others. You're welcome.
The chicken coops are not very big, so it didn’t take long for Zhang An to fill both chicken coops.
Although Huang Mingyao’s rabbits are not big, they can only hold a dozen or so, and any more would be too crowded.
"Okay, you can carry it. If you can't finish it, you can take it back."
"Hmm, let me try these first. Brother An, how much does it cost? Only suitable.”
Huang Ming put down the chicken coop and took out the money from his pocket to pay.
“It’s nothing but money. Such a small rabbit doesn’t have a few taels of meat, so you can just take it.”
Zhang An waved his hand. If anything happens to their family, Huang Ming will follow him. I always rush to help with my own affairs, so I definitely won't charge him for it.
"That won't work. I'll just take it back to eat for myself, but it's for business. One code equals one code."
Huang Ming clearly understood that with this The relationship between the two of them means that they can grab it whenever they want.
But this is used to make money, definitely not once or twice.
"Then I don't care about you. You can either take it away directly, or if you want to take the money, put it back for me."
Zhang An ignored Damingzi at all and walked out on his own. .
"Then let's do this, brother An. I won't give you any money either. I'll put it back when I can't finish it. After I finish it, I'll continue to catch you. I'll share half of the money I earned with you, which is just right. Please clear the inventory, you see there are too many rabbits to fit in."
Seeing that Zhang An didn't want his own money, Huang Ming simply thought of a way. These rabbits are equivalent to Zhang An and him. Join the team, get the goods without paying, and wait until the end to share.
But after he finished speaking, he found that Zhang An had already gone out.
In the afternoon, seeing so many people outside, Zhang An took his son to go out for a walk.
There are many more people coming to the village this year than in previous years, and the flow of people is not expected to be less than in the town. The people in the village are also very clever. Those who know how to make snacks have long pushed out the snack stalls and set them up from the bridge head to the grain drying field.
"Zhang An brought the baby out, come here, let me give you a fried pancake to eat."
"Come on, come on, try my sesame crisp pancake, this They are all sesame seeds that I asked for at your house last year. They are very fragrant.”
“And my fried potatoes and root were dug from the woods yesterday morning, and the peppers are also from your house.”
When many people saw Zhang An coming out with Xiao Siqi, they all greeted him warmly and prepared to give Zhang An a piece of the food from their own stalls.
"No, no, no, uncle, keep it for yourself and sell it. I can't eat this little guy while I'm holding it, otherwise he will make trouble when he sees me eating it."
Zhang An naturally refused. With so many people asking for food, it was hard for him to eat. However, it was not good to ask for food from one family, so he might as well not accept it at all.
These ladies and uncles would definitely give it to them if they refused, so Zhang An used Xiao Siqi as an excuse.
After hearing this, the aunts and uncles no longer insisted.
When they arrived at the grain drying field, Zhang An saw at a glance the place where Huang Ming set up his stall. There were many people surrounding it in three circles inside and three outside. It didn't look like there was no business as he said in the morning.
Huang Ming and Li Xiaoying are both here at the moment. Li Xiaoying is sitting in front, holding a large bunch of plastic rings in her hand, responsible for collecting money and selling rings.
Huang Ming, on the other hand, stayed behind and picked up the goods for anyone who caught the trap, and then filled the empty space.
In this guy's stall, the items in the front are the gadgets he purchased before, and the three rows in the back are rabbits.
And each rabbit is kept in a small bamboo cage. I don’t know where this guy got it.
"Hey Da Mingzi, this business is good."
Zhang An saw many people holding money in their hands, including children and adults. They were probably waiting in line, because there were people now Still using it.
"Hey, it was almost this little rabbit that attracted them. There were not many people at all in the morning. After I put the rabbit on the table, there were more people. There were not many rabbits caught in the morning. Wait. After these few are taken away, I will probably have to capture two more cages.”
Huang Ming chuckled. He didn't expect the business to be so good. In just one or two hours, a lot of toys and rabbits had been taken away.
But he didn’t feel bad but was very happy because he made more money.
"Then you can catch it yourself later. If you are afraid of being kicked, just coax the little tiger to go with you."
There are many animals in Zhang An's family, but the hierarchy is very strict. Big dogs like Xiaohu are basically at the top, excluding Huatou and his family, of course.
"Okay, I will bring a big chicken leg to Xiaohu later. He will definitely be willing to come in with me."
Although Xiaohu does not eat food given by strangers, Huang Ming and the others A few of them often went to Zhang An's house, but Xiaohu didn't treat them as outsiders.
But that's all. Usually, Xiaohu and the others don't pay attention to them at all, unless they give them a benefit.
“By the way, you’ve been preparing this cage for a few days, and it looks like it was just made.”
Huang Ming’s pig cages for rabbits look like they were cut open Bamboo doesn't look like it existed before.
“Yes, I just made it up today. My grandfather and dad are still making it up at home.”
Huang Ming can make money, and Huang Erye and Huang Zhengbiao are very supportive. When they heard that Huang Ming needed pig cages, the two men have been squatting at home to help make them.
There is no need to go to the bamboo forest to cut new bamboo, because Mr. Huang had already cut a bunch of them back and planned to make a dung pan in the spring.
Now that Huang Ming needs it, he will use it first and then cut it again in a few days.
At this time, a burst of noise broke out from the crowd in front of the stall. Zhang An looked back and saw that it was the trapper who had just trapped a rabbit. Now many people were saying that he was awesome.
Because Huang Ming’s stall is not set up very quickly, but it is a little far away, and the rabbits are placed in the last three rows. Anyone who can catch them is either lucky or really powerful.
But many people come just to trap the rabbit. It doesn’t matter how far they are, they just buy more hoops, as long as they trap the rabbit.
"Okay, you go about your business while I look around."
Huang Ming was going to get rabbits for others and restock them, but Zhang An stopped talking to him.
After telling Da Mingzi, Zhang Ancai took his son to wander around the grain drying field.
Not far away, I smelled a very fragrant smell. After looking around, I found that Zhang Jianzhong was selling beggar's chickens in the grain drying farm.
At this moment, someone bought one. As the mud was knocked away and the lotus leaves were peeled off, the smell of beggar's chicken wafted out everywhere.
Not to mention, the smell is quite tempting, even Zhang An swallowed his saliva when he smelled it.
"Business is good, uncle, how many have been sold today."
Zhang An walked over and talked to Zhang Jianzhong who was packing the bags for others.
"Haha, it's not bad. I came here this morning and sold more than twenty of them."
Although he said it was okay, there was a smile on Zhang Jianzhong's face. That's unabashed.
“Come on, your chicken is already packed, take it.”
After talking to Zhang An, Zhang Jianzhong handed the packaged beggar’s chicken to the customer who bought the chicken in front of him. .
Zhang An knew that the chicken cost twenty yuan a piece without even asking.
Because after the man took the beggar's chicken, he handed Zhang Jianzhong fifty yuan, and then Zhang Jianzhong gave him thirty yuan.
This price can be said to be very expensive, but it is completely worth the money spent.
Because Zhang Jianzhong has been a cook for decades, he cooks beggar's chicken very fragrantly.
And the chickens used are not small. They all weigh more than two kilograms or three kilograms, so there are many people buying them.
"Xiao An, if you want to eat it, I'll make one for you."
Zhang Jianzhong said to Zhang An while knocking the beggar's chicken for the next customer.
"Don't bother uncle, I'm holding the baby and I don't have any hands to spare. Give him something to eat and he won't be able to eat it. If you don't give him something to eat, he'll make a fuss. It'll be very annoying."
< br>This beggar's chicken is not the other potato cakes or fried potatoes, it's something that only costs a few cents. After all, twenty yuan is not a small change, so Zhang An rejected Zhang Jianzhong's kindness.
"Hahaha, then our family Siqi must grow up quickly, and grandpa will cook delicious food for you from now on."
Zhang Jianzhong laughed and teased Xiao Si in Zhang An's arms together.
Farewell to Zhang Jianzhong, Zhang An began to wander around the grain drying farm again.
This year, not only the grain drying field is full of people, but also the fields below the grain drying field are almost the same.
Those pieces of land were planned by Zhang Jianwen to build a deer park. He spent a few days a year ago to dig them all into the same level, and now they are just like a dam.
There are many people coming to the village to play now, and we are not in a hurry to build it, so we might as well use it first.
(End of this chapter)