Snack Street Tycoon

Chapter 6

After Fan Yu thought about water filtration when he went down the mountain to the estuary that day, he started thinking about it every day when he was free after returning to his home on the mountain, but he didn't start to do it for a while.In those few days, my mother-in-law still went out to do small business in the morning, and when she came back in the afternoon, she prepared the ingredients and items for the next day's small business.And Fan Yu, because his mother-in-law restricted him from doing some heavy things, and what kind of things are considered heavy, asked him that he didn’t know how to define it now. In short, according to his mother-in-law’s standards, there is nothing that is not heavy. So he simply wandered around the hills all day long, and my mother-in-law thought that it was not impossible to go out and wander on the hills. It was a great thing to bask in the sun and inhale the air in the mountains, and it was not tiring. The person here is very good, so I didn't care about him. In short, he came back for dinner at some point.

He wandered around for a few days until later he thought that he should collect all the buckwheat kernels that could be harvested in the back mountain.The past few months have been basking in the poisonous sun. It would be good if the buckwheat kernels were dried naturally on the tassels. It would be much easier to harvest, and it would save the time when the buckwheat kernels seem to have just grown and are full of water. The harvesting of children is quite strenuous, and after harvesting in this way, there is no need to spread it out in front of the house to remove moisture after returning home.And he had to catch up with the time to harvest. He knew that the season would change in a while, and there would be a few heavy rains when the season changed. Just don't accept it, it will all rot in the ground.

So he simply took a cloth bag with him every time he went out to hold the buckwheat kernels he picked.After harvesting, it is properly stored in a corner of the mother-in-law's "multifunctional", "comprehensive" and "minimalist" kitchen that is both a firehouse, a mill and a workshop.My mother-in-law once saw that there were more and more triangles of wheat in the corner of her kitchen, so she asked him if he had gone to the back of the mountain to pick this kind of wheat, and he said yes.The mother-in-law just said that she should pick them in a hurry, and that there are enough for now.He also just said yes, but he still picked them every day, and with the increasing strength in his body, he picked them more frequently. He expected to harvest all of them in about a week.

But at this moment, the mother-in-law had a stomachache.I had stomach cramps that night, and after asking, I found out that my mother-in-law would have stomach discomfort several times every year when the seasons change.Fan Yu guessed that the water was for drinking. He hadn't started to make filter materials for water filtration. Since he thought about purifying water, he just boiled the upstream river water that was transported home every day. , put it there to cool, and told my mother-in-law to drink the boiled water.But even though the mother-in-law listened to what he said, she didn't change her old habits. She always took a ladle from the water tank to drink raw water. People living in the mountains and rivers are like this. I never heard that they have to boil the water.She has never connected the stomachache at the turn of the seasons with this water. She just thinks that the solar terms are different, and there must be some physical adaptation problems.

Fan Yu emphasized it again to his mother-in-law that night, saying that he could only drink the boiled water and not the unboiled water. Seeing his serious expression, the mother-in-law agreed seriously, saying that he would drink boiled water from now on. of.

The next day, Fan Yu went out to do a small business for his mother-in-law. The noodles were made by her mother-in-law before she had a stomachache yesterday.

After he pushed the cart into the city, he was going to walk along Daqi Street, pass the brothel, turn into Mangguzi Lane to do his business seriously, but he was stopped by a hawker from a fruit stand along the way, Ask him: "Do you have a gray wheat bag to buy here?" Fan Yu knows the authentic names of many things here, and now he tries to use their names for things as much as possible when talking with people, such as The buckwheat on the back mountain of his house is called "triangular wheat", because the wheat kernels are indeed triangular, and this kind of gray bun is called gray wheat bun by the people here.He replied to the peddler, "Yes." The peddler said that he rushed out to set up the stall in the morning, and came before he could eat, could he buy two gray wheat bags for him right now.He said yes, then opened the cage, took two still warm ones for the peddler, and charged him four.

The money here is divided into "big ingots", "small ingots", "strings" and "zi". A big ingot is equivalent to five small ingots, and a small ingot is equivalent to [-] strings.And a bag of gray wheat is worth two dice.

When he handed the wheat bag to the peddler, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of some fruits piled on the sackcloth on the ground, and saw coconuts.He didn't think much, just blurted out and asked, "Brother, where did you get the coconuts here?" The man was startled, looked in the direction of his gaze, and replied, "Big coconut? You're not from here, are you? Don’t you know this? Yunu City is a few villages and counties to the east, and there is another big city. The city is near the sea, and the big coconuts are picked here before they are ripe and fall to the ground naturally. It’s lucky. It will be sweet and ripe when it arrives.” Although Fan Yu knew a lot of the truth of this world, because he saw everything in his dream when he first came, but later he always used his own The memory is alive, and it does not always remind of that dream and the original memory of this body. Therefore, sometimes if you don’t think about it before speaking or doing something, you will always blurt out or make something as soon as you do it, which makes people listen and watch. Strange words or things come.

Just like the city by the sea, "his" memory is also there, but because he didn't think hard before asking the question, he asked something like he didn't know the existence of that city at all.Although this body has never been to that seaside in the past, it has heard about it, and the people next to it have said that there is a very prosperous city to the east of Yumao City, which is near the sea.He also knew that the coconut is called "Daye" here, but just a moment ago, he was only asking the question according to his own memory, and did not change his words.

Seeing that the man saw him being so strange, he simply stopped responding to the question of why he didn't even know these things, and just asked the man: "Brother, you don't want the shell of this big coconut every day." Right." He "remembered" that every time this body passed by this fruit stall when returning from chopping firewood, he would see a lot of coconut shells piled up on the side, and the peddler would remove the coconut shells after people bought them. , Only the core inside is taken away by others.It's just that he used to see this man and the pile of coconut shells on his return trip at noon, but he didn't know how long this man was doing business every day, and where he threw the coconut shells.The man replied: "Yes, I throw them away every day when I close the files."

He asked the man: "Brother, the family where I work wants me to come to the fruit stand to ask for some coconut shells. The more the better, because they grow a vegetable at the back of the mountain, which is said to be made from big coconut shells. Throw it in the ground, that kind of vegetable will not attract insects. I don’t know if you will give me the coconut shell every day. I just transport it back, and it will save you from throwing it yourself every day, so it will be cheaper to close the file. "He will not explain to this man the real use of this coconut shell.When this man heard it, he was naturally very good, as he said, it would be easier to close the file like this.

The man said that his business was done from morning to evening every day.Fan Yu said: "Then I will collect it once when the stalls close at noon, and I will collect it again in the evening before you close the stalls." The man was very happy, thinking that in this way, someone would help him collect the waste for free , the shell of this big coconut on his stall is a troublesome thing, and other fruits will not produce any waste. Just this big coconut, with such a hard shell, can't be eaten or used, and it can't even be used as fertilizer. Now there are people It must be collected from time to time, it is like a good thing that fell from the sky.

After the two agreed on the coconut shell, Fan Yu pushed the cart and walked to the place where her mother-in-law usually had stalls.When passing by the brothel, he took a look inside, not to see the brothel, but to see Zu Xin, after all, there was a friendship, and the original owner of this body was very congenial with Zu Xin.Since he left here, he often misses Zu Xin, because he is so honest and honest, and he is given such an appearance. In this way, he is easy to be bullied and easy to miss. superior.Thinking of this, he did worry about him.

It's a pity that when the push cart passed by the brothel, it only had a quick glance, and it was not seen at all.He also thought that he had left the brothel for more than a month, and he didn't know whether Zu Xin was still working as a tea and water refiller in the lobby, or had asked his mother to lock him in a side room to "grow fat".

After he finished his business this morning and sold out all the gray wheat bags, he ate a wheat bag for himself at noon, and then pushed the cart back inside.When passing by the big brother's fruit stand, he collected all his coconut shells, and made an appointment to come again in the evening.

After he got home, he first checked to see if his mother-in-law was in better health.After that, he pushed a medium-sized tank in the kitchen to the west room of the house where he lived in the back with a cart.He slept on the east side, and the room on the west side should have looked like a kitchen, but because no one lived in the house before, there was nothing in the kitchen.

He put the vat in and placed it near the window, then exited and closed the door.He put the coconut shells on the ground outside the house and let it bask in the sun.Then I was about to enter the kitchen of the house in front of me, trying to take over from my mother-in-law to do the flour and flour work, but found that my mother-in-law had already entered the kitchen and was busy.He asked her mother-in-law to rest, but her mother-in-law refused, saying that her health had already recovered, she was tired from lying down, and she had to get up and do something for a while.He had no choice but to tell his mother-in-law that he dried some big coconut shells in front of the house in the back. He had to go to the back mountain to harvest the triangle wheat. He didn't know if there would be sudden rain in the afternoon. The shells were brought into the house, because he just wanted to keep the inner layer of the coconut shell without any water.Although the mother-in-law didn't know what he was messing with, she just agreed while grinding the wheat, and let him go harvest the triangle wheat without worry.

He took another cloth bag and went to the back mountain to collect triangle wheat. When he arrived, he saw the unharvested wheat kernels scattered in the mud in some places on the ground. Received it early.It's better to have money and hire some strong men to go to various mountain backs to collect these triangle wheat in season, and he is still pointing to this thing to make some money.Just because he has been thinking about using this kind of wheat kernels to make money these days, he has told his mother-in-law several times not to use the wheat kernels to cook porridge, and he wants to use them for other purposes.Now that he is used to getting along with his mother-in-law, he realizes that he must say something three or four times to the old woman.Otherwise, they always agree, but they don't implement it the first few times, it's not that they don't want to do it, but they habitually follow the old routine, so it has to be emphasized several times to make a deep impression, and then Do it the new way.

The mother-in-law heard him say not to use these wheat kernels, so she didn't need them. Although she didn't know what to do with them, she thought it was no big deal. At most, she could cook porridge with the rice bought with money.

After Fan Yu collected a lot of triangle wheat this afternoon and went home, he helped his mother-in-law make noodles for a while, and then took back the dried and hot coconut shells, and set off for the city in the evening I am going to collect another batch of coconut shells.This time he went with a cloth bag on his back.

When he came back in the evening, he had dinner with his mother-in-law.Then he went back to the west room of the house behind him, put the coconut shells that had been drying for an afternoon into the medium-sized tank and burned them. The smell of smoke was choking. After watching for a while, he stopped looking at the fire, but went back to the front kitchen, and saw that his mother-in-law had already put on her face, so he looked through some utensils in her kitchen, because he remembered that there was a A medium-to-large hardwood funnel-like thing, I don't know what kind of wood it is made of, and I don't know what it is used for.He asked her mother-in-law while she was here at the moment, and the mother-in-law said that it was used to filter rice milk, and said that she used to sell rice cereal, but when she got old, she thought she had to bring a lot of cups, saucers and bowls to sell rice cereal When I went to the stall, it was very troublesome to bump into it, so I simply stopped selling it and only sold gray wheat bags.

Seeing this, Fan Yu took another look at the structure of the big funnel, and found it very suitable. The diameter of the top of the funnel was only two circles smaller than that of an ordinary round table, and the diameter of the wooden tube below which leaked pulp was only about [-]% smaller than the cap of a Coke bottle. It was so big, it was the perfect size, and he asked his mother-in-law for this hardwood funnel to put in the kitchen behind him.

He squatted down to look at the burning situation of the coconut shell, and found that the bottom of the tank was completely black, but there were small fires from time to time, like clumps, coming up from some hole, and it was not high. Thinking of burning like this for about three quarters of an hour, it can be closed and smoldering.

He straightened up now, thinking that he might use this kitchen frequently in the future, so why not clean it while he has free time.So he brought a broom and rag from the kitchen in front and began to clean carefully.Three quarters of an hour later, he took the thick wooden lid of the vat and pressed it on the mouth of the vat, and then hugged a small quilt to block the mouth of the vat tightly, and then pressed a piece on the quilt. Big stone picked up outside.When he asked his mother-in-law for a quilt, her mother-in-law simply didn't ask him what he was doing for the quilt in this hot weather, because her mother-in-law has also found that he is a weird person these days, if she has to ask about everything, then she will It's so tiring, it's better to let him mess around.