005: The County Town Sells Duck Eggs

20 catties of sweet potatoes for two people can't support it for a few days.

This year's new food has not yet arrived. When Xia Dajun returns, he will definitely find Liu Fen to go back, but will the Xia family forgive Xiaolan? Liu Fen was thinking about going back to her parents' house tomorrow to find a way. The Liu family was also poor, but Xia Xiaolan's uncle was poor and generous, and would never watch her niece starve to death.

Just thinking about it, Xia Xiaolan came back with a bunch of dry branches, her eyes bright, and said she wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes. Liu Fen sees that she is in good spirits, she is willing to suffer no matter how hard she is:

"Okay, Mom will bake sweet potatoes for you."

However, Xia Xiaolan turned away the firewood, revealing the wild duck eggs.

Liu Fen was also very happy, the wild duck egg was about the size of an egg, and at first glance it was found in the reeds. With this bit of duck eggs, Xia Xiaolan can replenish her body, and now the thin wind can blow it down, Liu Fen can feel distressed.

"I'll cook another duck egg for you."

There are no pots and utensils in the old shabby house, and the country people are not particular. It is absolutely fine to boil an egg in an enamel pot. Xia Xiaolan stopped her mother: "Duck eggs can't be eaten now, and our good days are on the wild duck eggs. Now the villagers are concerned about the grain in the fields and have no time to cut the reeds. I want to find more wild duck eggs to get them. Going to sell in the city... Tonight we will go to the reeds, and it would be good to catch two wild ducks."

Liu Fen has never done such a thing.

The Xia family is not divided, and her mother-in-law and sister-in-law bring the eggs she usually saves to sell in the city. It takes two hours to walk from Dahe Village to the county seat. But Xia Xiaolan was eloquent, but Liu Fen couldn't say anything about her daughter, and she was used to being obedient, so she couldn't find anything to refute.

The mother and daughter each ate a sweet potato. Liu Fen thought that if she wanted to sell duck eggs in the city, she must have at least two baskets. She ran outside to get some reed poles, and Liu Fen made two small baskets:

"I don't have tools and I haven't been soaked in water. It will definitely be broken within a month."

Liu Fen pressed the reed basket with stones and placed it in the river to soak it. She was quite disgusted with her own craftsmanship. Xia Xiaolan already thought it was a weaving handicraft. Anyway, neither Xia Xiaolan knew this stuff!

The mother and daughter were going to be "egg thieves" at night, so they hurried to sleep after weaving the baskets. The door was unlocked and covered with wood, and there was no bed in the room. Xia Xiaolan used clean reed poles to spread it on the ground. Fortunately, it's August, otherwise the old, leaky house would have to freeze people out of trouble.

There was no alarm clock, and there was something in her mind, and Xia Xiaolan didn't sleep for long when she was woken up by the rustling sound. It turned out that Liu Fen had retrieved the reed basket from the river.

"You go to sleep a little longer, and Mom will go find it first."

The leaves of the reeds are very hot on people. If the eggs of wild ducks were placed there, why would no one pick them up? This is a hard job, Liu Fen doesn't want her daughter to suffer, and 'Xia Xiaolan' was very delicate, and didn't do much farm work.

Xia Xiaolan shook her head, "Let's go together."

The two found it quickly and safely. They didn't even have a flashlight, so they could only stare at the moonlight. Fortunately, the moonlight is strong tonight, and tomorrow will definitely be a sunny day again.

Xia Xiaolan and her daughter took a small basket and tried to find it in a remote place. When they came across the reeds, the wild ducks were frightened and flew away. It was hard to find the wild duck nest, which was empty.

When the first clutch of eggs was found, the dog in the cowshed was startled.

The lonely old Wangtou who was looking at the cowshed was very alert: "Who is there!"

The flashlight flickered twice, and Liu Fen blocked Xia Xiaolan behind her, very embarrassed: "...Uncle, it's me, picking up a few duck eggs to make up for the child."

"The army's family?"

Old Wang saw that the mother and daughter were covered with grass clippings.

Dahe Village knew about Xia Xiaolan being kicked out of the house, and the old man didn't like Xia Xiaolan very much. Even if there was no style problem, this girl has no elders in her eyes, and she doesn't even call anyone on weekdays. However, Liu Fen is very pitiful. Xia Xiaolan's forehead is covered with blood oozing gauze. Pharaoh thinks about it and handed the torch to Liu Fen:

"Pay me back tomorrow."

Liu Fen's grateful eyes turned red.

Xia Xiaolan thought, Dahe Village is not all jerk, she is also very sincere:

"Thank you, Grandpa Wang."

Old Wangtou was a little surprised, he glanced at Xia Xiaolan, took the dog back to the cowshed, and stopped caring about the mother and daughter.

With the help of a flashlight, this piece of wild duck nest suffered. Xia Xiaolan and her daughter walked for a few hours, picking up seventy or eighty wild duck eggs and putting them in two reed baskets. Liu Fen was still a little confused.

In addition to duck eggs, they also found a litter of hatchlings.

"Survival."

Liu Fen was very happy that all the fluff on her body had grown out.

Xia Xiaolan thought of the ruined house that guarded against the gentleman but not the villain, and shook her head: "I can't tell who is cheaper when I grow up. Let's sell it together."

Liu Fen was a little reluctant.

But she and Xia Xiaolan had a problem eating by themselves, and raising a few wild ducks was indeed too eye-catching.

The two went home and checked the eggs one by one. Together with the 12 that Xia Xiaolan picked up before, there were a total of 82 eggs that had not hatched. Can't wait for dawn, Xia Xiaolan and Liu Fen set off into the city together, and took out two sweet potatoes from the ashes, which are the rations for the mother.

Baked sweet potatoes, Xia Xiaolan's first meal was fresh and wild.

Even eat two meals, she is not happy. Fortunately, she endured a lot of hardships when she was a child, and she was still able to persevere in such a situation. If she wore a Bai Fumei, she would definitely be driven crazy on the first day.

To survive, to survive in this era, can you expect a better life!

With this belief in mind, Xia Xiaolan hurried on the road, and when she arrived at the county seat, it was already light. Dahe Village is poor, but Qing'an County has a little economic foundation. There is a large meat factory and an agricultural machinery factory in the county.

feed many workers. The cows raised in the cattle shed in Dahe Village are to be sold to the meat factory.

Even the workers of the meat joint factory can usually fish for some meat, but it is not easy to buy eggs. In the towns and villages below Anqing County, more pigs and cattle are raised, and fewer poultry are raised.

"Where to sell?"

There are two large factories in Anqing County. The workers are rich, and the black market revolves around these two factories. The benefits of the meat joint factory are good, and the workers have money in their pockets. According to Liu Fen, it is better to sell it next to the meat joint factory.

Xia Xiaolan did the opposite:

"Let's take a walk outside the agricultural machinery factory."

There are many workers in the agricultural machinery factory, and Xia Xiaolan is more familiar with this kind of factory.

When I walked to the agricultural machinery factory, it was dawn. The workers in the factory were riding bicycles. Xia Xiaolan saw a few people on the side of the road holding things in their hands. They seemed to be in the same company. competitor.

As soon as I found a place, an aunt with a vegetable pocket came around:

"Eggs for sale?"

Xia Xiaolan didn't pretend, "It's a wild duck egg, it's all fresh. If you like it, I'll sell it to you cheaper than the egg."

Wild duck eggs are the same size as eggs, and if they are cheaper than eggs, it must be a good deal. The taste is fine or not, which is so much!

The market price of eggs is 1.2 yuan per pound, and food stamps are also used. For eggs sold by farmers themselves, they cost 1.5 yuan without food stamps. Xia Xiaolan had inquired just now, with a mouth under her nose, she greeted people politely, her mouth was sweeter, and no one hid the selling price as a secret.

Seeing the aunt standing still, she was obviously tempted. Xia Xiaolan knew:

"If you buy less than 10 pieces, I'll give you 1.3 cents a piece, 10 or more, 1.2 cents, and 20 or more, 1.1 cents!"

Her step-up sale price made Auntie a little confused.

It's a bastard to not take advantage of it. I originally wanted to buy a few, but my aunt bought 21 of them... Aunt's life wisdom should not be underestimated. If you want to take advantage of it, she didn't really lose her head.

Xia Xiaolan charged two yuan and three, and wiped off the fraction of a penny.

She handed the money to Liu Fen, but Liu Fen didn't recover. A few sellers around were also looking at Xia Xiaolan. This girl is so enchanting and enchanting.