Chapter 70: Save a little
After returning home, the old lady took the back basket behind Yuan Si for the first time, then turned around and locked the courtyard door, and explained to her daughter, "Look at when to tell your master, our family is not busy, see when it is convenient for his old man, send us the wheat back, the wheat is still wet, don't cover it and be blind." ”
Yuan Si rolled her eyes, "Well, I see. ”
Seeing that the girl was interested, the old lady carried the basket into the house, and then opened the basket and took it out one by one.
She had to exclaim every time she took out, and after she finished taking it, she muttered that her daughter was a loser, but she went out with a brand-new enamel jar in her hand to show off.
As for the money and tickets that the girl needs to buy these things, do you still need to ask, the girl herself is not sure that her fairy master gave it.
Yuan Si doesn't have to make excuses to do these things when she goes home now, the old lady can make up for it by herself.
However, she still gave the old lady the money from the sale of pork belly.
That night, when the old lady went home, she brought back a bowl full of fried pickle gnocchi, it turned out that she went to her sister-in-law's house, Fangping's children were still worried about what they promised their little aunt in the afternoon, and when they went home, they went home and told her grandmother that the little aunt gave her meat buns and sugar to eat, so Chen Fengzhen didn't use her daughter-in-law to do it, and went to the kitchen to fry a big bowl of fragrant mustard gnocchi for her niece. It happened that the old lady went to visit the house, so she directly asked her to bring it back to Yuansi.
The next morning, in order to eat this bowl of pickles, Yuan Si deliberately boiled a pot of sticky rice porridge, added a grate to heat eight large meat buns, and then cut a plate of braised pork, and the mother and daughter dealt with a meal.
Yuan Si felt that this pickle gnocchi was very delicious, but it would taste better if she put more meat in it when frying, so she told the old lady that she wanted to eat this kind of pickle, and she couldn't always care about other people's houses in the future, so it was better to work hard at your own house and pickle a vat of it.
The old lady didn't say anything about the pimples that her daughter wanted to eat, and she was a little embarrassed about the pickled gnocchi that she wanted to chase immediately.
"Si'er, we don't have anything at home, what will my mother pickle for you. Either you're waiting, waiting for the next Jiniang to take a look, if there are still pimple sellers, I'll buy you more back, okay. Also, just talking about pickles, we don't even have a jar for pickles, so we have to buy them on the market. ”
Mustard gnocchi is not expensive, the best is only two cents a catty, and a pickled tank is a hundred catties at most, which is only two yuan. But the pickle jar is not cheap, buy a similar size, how to say that it will cost ten or eight yuan. These two things together are more than ten yuan, if it weren't for the more than twenty yuan that my daughter got back yesterday, she would have said that she would not be willing to do anything.
"Okay, mother, you just remember. Now the important thing is to hurry up and buy the cotton and cotton tires back, the ticket will expire in a few days, and you will be blind if you don't use it. "I wanted to buy it when I was in the market yesterday, but the cotton and cotton tires took up a lot of space, and it was too strange for her little girl to carry so much cotton back, so she suppressed the urge to buy when she was in the supply and marketing cooperative, and took the ticket back to the old lady, so that she had time to buy it back. The bedding at home was from many years ago, and the hard ones were all clumpy.
The old lady was a little reluctant, "Si'er, our bedding is so good, why spend that unjust money to get a new one, or I'll go and see whose family wants to marry a daughter-in-law and a girl, our tickets are estimated to be able to exchange a lot of money." The old lady has her own careful thoughts, "Our family is just an adult laborer, and the income is enough for our two mothers." After saying this, the old lady couldn't say any more, this was the previous set of knocks, but now the little centimeter she earns really can't afford to feed her daughter. "Ahem, that's what I said, it's not easy for my mother to save some money, your brother just went out to be a soldier for a year, and he will be subsidized for eight yuan a month, and he can't spend enough money himself, and he can't be pointed to sending money home. Your brother is getting older, and if he doesn't marry a daughter-in-law, he is afraid that he won't be able to find a good one, I think that in the past two years, we will save a little bit, first save the money for your brother to marry a daughter-in-law, and then there will be your dowry. Hey, there are more children who are all debts, why did I arrange you and your brother before closing my eyes to rest assured. ”
Yuan Si, this is the first time I've heard about the original owner's brother for more than half a year. In my memory, the original owner's brother Li Yuanbao is twenty-four this year, and he will be twenty-five years old, and he went to be a soldier at the beginning of the year. Marrying a daughter-in-law to her son has always been a problem for the old lady.
However, a powerful widow with a sister-in-law who is a few years old, Li Yuanbao still inherited Li Laoshi's dull temperament, he can't beat a fart with three poles, and he won't be obedient to the little girl, and the family doesn't have any money, so it's not easy to find a partner under such conditions. This has not been delayed until she is in her twenties, and the old lady is worried at home, and she can't sleep every night. But with this condition at home, she just can't help it. Later, Li Ende saw that this would not work, and it would be difficult for his nephew to become the boss if he dragged it on, so it would be even more difficult to find, so he gave the old lady an idea and let Li Yuanbao become a soldier, if he developed well in the future, he would be able to take root in the army as an officer, and if he was looking for a partner, wouldn't he pick and choose, take a step back and say that he will return home in a few years, and the state will also arrange a job, and he will come back as a worker, and it will not be difficult to find a partner when the time comes.
The old lady listened to it, and then smashed the pot and sold iron to find a relationship to give gifts and finally sent Li Yuanbao into the army, a few days ago I received a letter from my son from the army, and I found someone to read it, only to know that the recruit's egg in the army is only eight yuan a month subsidy. Li Yuanbao was reluctant to spend a penny of other money except for buying some daily necessities for most of the year, so he saved 20 yuan and mailed it to the old lady along with the letter.
Of course, the old lady is beautiful outside again, and her son is filial, so she saved all the subsidies and mailed them back to the old lady. The old lady was proud of the spring breeze outside, and when she got home, she started to worry.
She basically has no money in her hands, and her son will mail back twenty yuan a year in the future, and after three or four years, it will only be 180 yuan in savings, which is barely enough to marry a daughter-in-law in the countryside, but her son will be a worker when he comes back, and if he wants to marry, he will have to marry a daughter-in-law in the city, and the 180 yuan may not be enough.
The old lady thought of her son's marriage, and began to pick up her hands again.
Yuan Si recalled all kinds of the elder brother in the memory of the original owner, he is a good brother, he usually doesn't talk much, but he is good to the original owner, the old lady is patriarchal, and when he usually eats, the good ones have to be eaten by his son first, and he will divide the good ones into three parts, one for the old lady, one for his sister, and one for himself.
At this time, it is a filial child to be able to sit like this.
Yuan Si finished recalling, so she didn't care too much about having such a brother, as for the old lady who said that she wanted to save money to marry his daughter-in-law, then save it, she has the ability to do it, and she is worried about not making money.
But the premise is that it doesn't affect her quality of life.