Chapter 316: What the Heck is Dark Cuisine (8)_1
The sugar-coated peanuts and Drunkard’s Peanuts had already made a name for themselves in town. For the New Year, no household was short of those couple of taels of silver, so they would buy a pack of sugar-coated peanuts for the kids and a pack of Drunkard’s Peanuts for the men of the family. Serving them on the New Year’s table was considered a dish in its own right.
During the holiday season, the town market was bustling every day. Schools were closed for the New Year’s break, Chang Yonglin returned home, and Pei Wendong came out to help set up the stall.
The siblings could make a bit over a tael of silver in a day.
However, the markets before New Year weren’t many, only starting on the 20th of the twelfth lunar month and lasting for ten days.
The siblings continued to sell until New Year’s Eve, wrapping up their stall just before noon to go home and make dumplings for the celebration and to burn incense and offer dumplings at Lady Fang’s grave.
They also took two large bamboo rats they had caught on the mountain and a wild hare to the Fang family as a gift before the New Year.
They sent a bamboo rat and a wild hare to Sun Tiezhu’s house as well.
Knowing that Pei Qin loved mutton, Zou Xing, who was carrying two bamboo rats back home, saw someone in the village slaughtering a sheep. After discussing it with his family, he bought a sheep leg to gift to her. Pei Qin had taught them how to forge iron and they had sold the winnowing machines they made quite well. This year, they had earned sixty to seventy taels of silver.