My Courtyard Refuge

: The First Transaction

“Mom, I’m back.”

Xu Ma was peeling edamame in the yard, when she heard this, she raised her head and asked:

“Why did you come back so late? Your sister said you left at noon.”

Xu Dong picked up the bag in his hand, and said mysteriously, “I went around Panjiayuan and bought some good things.”

“What good stuff?”

Mama Xu curled her lips, what time is it now, and I can still buy some good things. Now the family can’t even bear to eat air-dried chicken casually, because there is one less one to eat.

Xu Dong took the turtle out of the bag directly.

“Mom, the tortoise is great tonic, let’s make soup tonight.”

Xu Ma’s eyes lit up: “Good stuff, where did you get it?”

“Didn’t I just say that someone in Panjiayuan sells this stuff.”

“What to replace it with?”

Xu Dong chuckled, “Isn’t it a good deal for only 40 catties of corn flour?”

The corn flour in their family is usually used to feed the chickens. There are more than a dozen chickens in the family, and they consume a lot of food every day.

“Well, such a big turtle is not expensive.” Madam Xu said with satisfaction.

Yang Lina took the triplets out to see her father. When the three little ones saw the turtle, they came to watch curiously.

“Big tortoise.” Yang Lina pointed to the tortoise to teach the triplets to pronounce.

“Dawudui.” Dabao said excitedly.

Xu Dong immediately corrected him, “It’s a big tortoise.”

“Dawudui…Dawudui…” Erbao and Xiaobao also shouted.

Xu Dong wanted to teach again, Xu Ma waved her hand: “Okay, just know it’s a turtle.”

“Husband, can this turtle not be eaten? Anyway, there is not much meat.”

Yang Lina was somewhat influenced by traditional thinking. After all, in the circle of Xia people, it is popular to eat turtles and not turtles.

“Why don’t you eat it? Do you still want to keep it? Let me tell you, this tortoise has been around for at least ten years. It belongs to an old tortoise. It hasn’t had a good life for a few years.” Xu Dongnai explained patiently.

“Don’t turtles live a long life?” Yang Lina wondered.

“This is a Brazilian tortoise with a lifespan of only ten years.”

“It’s not our domestic tortoise!” Yang Lina said in surprise.

“Of course not. This thing is theoretically an invasive alien species, so we don’t need to feel burdened by eating it.” Xu Dong said seriously.

Mama Xu stood up and patted the heads of the three grandchildren one by one, and grabbed the tortoise: “Okay, Nana, take the children back to the house, I’ll kill the tortoise.”

“Mom, let me help you.” Xu Dong followed behind.

Next, I won’t talk about the specific process of killing the turtle, it’s a bit bloody.

Referring to the recipes on the Internet, Xu Ma finally made a “Ginseng and Antler Stewed Turtle”.It just so happens that there is no shortage of ginseng and deer antler at home.

The method is very simple, first chop the turtle into pieces, then stir-fry slightly, add a proper amount of water and bring to a boil, then add an appropriate amount of velvet antler, ginseng and wolfberry, and finally simmer for two hours on low heat.

At the dinner table, under the “coercion” of Xu’s mother, Xu’s father drank three bowls of soup in a row, and he was full with just the soup, and the rice porridge didn’t move much.

Mama Xu drank a large bowl herself.

Xu Dong and his wife drank the rest of the soup. As for the turtle meat, most of it went into the stomachs of the twins.

The three of them, Dabao, are too young to enjoy it. Just smelling it is enough.

Not to mention, this turtle soup is really enough to nourish, and Xu Dong and his wife spent most of the night before going to sleep.

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===Section 106===

When he woke up the next day, Xu Dong felt full of vitality, as if the sky was bluer and all his troubles were gone.

Send the twins to school.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Dong moved out two hundred bags of white sugar from the warehouse, one hundred catties each, weighing one ton in total.

I drove a pickup truck to Panjiayuan.

There is no shortage of porters in Panjiayuan. Xu Dong spent 1,000 yuan to transfer all the sugar to the shop.

“Boss, what kind of goods are you, why are you so heavy?”

Xu Dong transferred 1,000 yuan to the other party through WeChat, and said casually: “Plastic granules, made of plastic shells.”

“Oh I got it.”

“Xiaobao, I still have a lot of work to do, just wait for my call.” Xu Dong confessed.

“Thank you, boss, don’t worry, I promise to be there on call.” Xiaobao immediately promised.

“By the way, try to bring as many people over next time, I’m in a hurry.”

“no problem.”

After locking the gate, Xu Dong took a taxi and went to work. Panjiayuan’s interior is full of cameras and there are security patrols around the clock, so there is no need to worry about the sugar being stolen.

It’s hard to finish a day’s work.

After get off work, Xu Dong hailed a taxi again, and then only went to Panjiayuan.

Boss Duan came earlier than the scheduled time.

“Old Duan, why are you here so early?”

“I arrived ten minutes earlier than you. I said Brother Xu, do you really have to go to work during the day?”

Looking at the other party’s dusty appearance, Boss Duan couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.

Xu Dong opened the door of the shop: “Didn’t I tell you, I have my own job, and this is just a side job.”

“I brought all the goods here, and the car is parked in the parking lot. How are your preparations going?” Boss Duan asked.

“Come in, I’ve already prepared it here.” Xu Dong said, patting the outer package of sugar.

Boss Duan couldn’t wait to go forward to check, Xu Dong took out a small knife: “Old Duan, do you want to inspect the goods first?”

Boss Duan nodded, took the knife, picked four bags of sugar at random, and started to inspect the goods. Finally, he nodded in satisfaction:

“Your batch of sugar is fine.”

Xu Dong took tape to seal the breach again, and asked at the same time: “Have you brought someone over? If not, I’ll call the porter.”

“No need to call, I brought four people over, plus you and me, it’s enough.” Boss Duan waved his hand and said, of course, this kind of thing is still reliable.

“Okay, let them start working quickly!”

Boss Duan made a phone call, and within ten minutes, four big men came over pushing two small carts with four big sacks piled on them.

Xu Dong also had to inspect the goods first. The shrimps were big and had no mildew. They were all good dry goods.

The next step is weighing. The electronic scale was just bought yesterday afternoon, and it can weigh up to 300 kilograms.

It took more than an hour to go back and forth more than 20 times, and the first transaction was finally completed.

“Brother Xu, happy cooperation.”

Xu Dong was so tired that he was sweating profusely, and he slumped on the ground, “It’s a happy cooperation, tomorrow is still this time.”

“no problem.”

“Old Duan, can you bring a few more people here tomorrow? It’s a waste of time.” Xu Dong asked.

“Instead of me bringing more people, why don’t you get an electric tricycle here, wouldn’t it be more troublesome?” Boss Duan suggested.

Xu Dong slapped his head, why didn’t he think of this good way, the store is two to three hundred meters away from the parking lot, and it is really too slow to rely on a small cart.

“Okay, I’ll take a look later.”

Boss Duan glanced at the phone and said, “It’s getting late, brother Xu, then I’ll go back first.”

“I won’t see you off here.” Xu Dong waved his hand.

“Stay.”