Lin Xi carried a mandarin fish, a piece of meat wrapped in a lotus leaf, and a jar of wine in her other hand, walking briskly toward her home.

Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, and there are sellers of wild rice and quince leaves everywhere on both sides of the street. There are also vendors carrying a load of rice and standing leisurely on the roadside. There are sellers of glutinous rice and sticky yellow rice.

When she arrived in front of her house, she saw a man standing on the roadside with a basket of cherries, leaning against a tree and falling asleep. Lin Xi walked forward, bent down and looked at the basket for a while. Seeing the man open his eyes, he asked

: "Are your cherries sweet?"

"Sweet! Sweet! Very sweet!"

Seeing the man's crisp answer, Lin Xi didn't believe it. She picked one and put it in her mouth, spit out the core and said, "You man, you won't tell the truth. This cherry is not sweet at all! And the core is big! I won't buy yours anymore!"

After saying that, he took the wine and meat and walked quickly through the door.

My father was taking a nap under the ginkgo tree. He heard footsteps and opened his eyes. Seeing Lin Xi carrying many things, he said happily: "Have you done some work in the yamen for a few days and you have made money?"

Lin Xi said: "Where can anyone get money so quickly? Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, and I have paid two quid in advance. It has been scattered everywhere in the past few years, and we haven't had a good holiday for a long time. Now that we have settled down, it's time to celebrate."

"Okay, okay, let's celebrate!" His father stood up and came forward to see what Lin Xi had bought. "It's just wine and meat. Mandarin fish is very expensive outside, so why buy it! Buy a few common fish, and you have to pay for it."

Not much money!”

Lin Xi said: "Dad, the mandarin fish here is the most delicious! In the past few days, I have also learned a new method here, called squirrel mandarin fish. It tastes the most tender and delicious. Since you want to eat it, of course you have to eat it well.

."

My father shook his head. He wanted to eat good food, but he also felt that mandarin fish was too expensive. There was a lot of water around Xiangyang, and ordinary fish were as cheap as dirt. Do you really need to buy such expensive fish? Just buy a tail fish, and you will feel it in your mouth.

The fishy smell is enough.

Putting down the things in his hands, Lin Xi said: "Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. I bought some rice dumpling leaves and will make rice dumplings tomorrow. There is a quince tree on Nanyang Mountain, which is different from the wild rice leaves and has a special fragrance. The nearby natives

, these leaves are used to wrap yellow sticky rice, which is called golden rice dumplings.”

The father said: "What's so strange? The rice dumplings at home are made of mugwort leaves and watered with water. They are also golden rice dumplings."

Looking at her father's look, Lin Xi said nothing more and just smiled. The glutinous rice dumplings will turn yellow when soaked with mugwort water. There are quite a few people who have done this in recent years. But the golden rice dumplings here have a different taste.

Seeing his daughter tidying up there, her father asked, "You and the two Taizhao were working together. Why did you just come back by yourself and not see them?"

Lin Xi said: "They also received money in advance and went to a restaurant to drink. The observation asked them to draw a map of the Han River, but we should take a closer look."

"They drink, but they don't call me!" The father was a little frustrated and sat down aside.

After sitting there for a while, my father said again: "How much money do you get paid a month when you work in the yamen? We, father and daughter, can't do it if we have less money. I went to the market and asked, and the prices in Xiangyang are really not low.

"

Lin Xi said: "I have six guans a month. The two of you have more to ask for, and each of them has eight guans a month."

After hearing this, my father nodded repeatedly: "This Wang Zhuan is not a stingy person! I heard from people that working in the yamen, the salary is really quite a lot! It is more than the salary paid by the previous court! It's just that there are no rewards, no salary, all depends on the salary.

Cash is a bit bad."

While Lin Xi was packing the fish, she said casually: "What's wrong? Just take the money and go to the store to buy rice. The rice you buy is all new. Is it not as delicious as old Lumi? There are things in this world that money can't buy.

of?"

The father said: "You are still young and don't know many things. It's okay to have peace in the world. But in times of turmoil, the price of rice will rise, and money will be far less than Lumi. Just like in Kaifeng Mansion now, you can fight for a fight every time.

, where can I afford it?”

Lin Xi laughed when she heard this: "What did Dad say? In turbulent times, you can't get money even if you are an official!"

The two father and daughter were chatting with each other. After the breakup of Kaifeng, the two wandered for several years, and they finally settled down today. Now that Lin Xi can make money again, she talks a lot.

After putting away the fish, Lin Xi cut the meat and washed the vegetables.

The father said: "This Xiangyang city is indeed different from other places. I have inquired about it and found that there are no guilds and people here, and business is much easier than other places. It is a pity that we have no capital, otherwise we should do some business."

Lin Xi said: "Dad, the more a place is like this, the more difficult it is to do business. Think about it, as long as you have capital and brains, you can do business in the city. There will be many businessmen gathered there. If there are more businessmen, everyone will have their own business."

Isn’t it more difficult to do this?”

My father smiled and said: "I have been doing business everywhere since I grew up. How can I be compared to ordinary people? I have done countless businesses in Kaifeng for several years and have never suffered a loss. It seems like the yamen here in Xiangyang don't care about everything and have no teeth.

You will definitely make money!”

Lin Xi just laughed. His father is indeed a businessman. He has been in business for ten or twenty years and has never lost money. But if you want to do business, you must have capital. It is rare for father and daughter to have food and clothing like this.

Do you still dare to think about saving capital?

Seeing Lin Xi busy there, his father said: "You are a little lady, less than twenty years old, but you can do anything, which is sad to say. At this age, if you were born into a wealthy family, how could you do such rough things?

Hey, it’s really difficult for you.”

Lin Xi said: "There are so many wealthy families in the world. Haven't you seen that my father has been living in various places in the past few years? In ordinary people, there is no one who has been a popular cook since elementary school! If not, how will you live your life when you grow up?"

The father looked at the sun on the tree and was lost in thought for a while. Then he said: "In the days of Kaifeng Mansion, although our family was not rich and powerful, we were not poor either. It only took a few years. How could you imagine that we would be reduced to this kind of life?

"

In the past five or six years, how many families have been destroyed and displaced. Kaifeng was once the largest city in the world, with a population of over one million, but now there are only 10,000 people left? It is already rare to survive. More people have died wandering around.

on the way.

Speaking of this, his father continued: "This year, the Wang Kuan Company is on the battlefield. At the beginning of the year, we saved Shaanxi Province from thousands of miles away, and a few days ago we won a great victory at Jingmen. I see no place in the world for soldiers and horses that is as difficult as this one. In today's troubled times, what can we do?"

Living in a place like this is such a blessing! You should work hard in the Yamen and we can save some money. I will wander around Xiangyang City more and do some business if there is an opportunity. You will not be in the Yamen for a long time
Chapter completed!