Chapter 45: Buying Meat
Because it is the day of the town's market, the main roads leading to Xiafeng Town are paved with people.
As soon as Zhou Xiaoliu and the three of them left the village, they saw a brand-new agricultural tricycle with a welded carport parked in front of Aunt Xiuhua's grocery store.
Zhou Xiaoliu broke away from the hand held by the third sister, walked up to ask the owner how to charge, Zhou Xiaoxiao saw this, quickly pulled her arm, and then said to the owner with a little apology: "We don't take the car, we just walk......"
"Take the car, only three cents for a person!" The owner opened his mouth jerkily to get customers, his business is not very good, there are only a few people sitting in the car, these years, there are not many people who are willing to take the car, three cents does not sound much, but saving, but you can almost buy two catties of salt.
Zhou Xiaoliu wanted to take the car, but her third sister grabbed one of her arms firmly, and said in her ear: "It's okay to take the car, but don't think about buying meat and boiling broth to drink!"
When Zhou Xiaoliu heard this, he gave up struggling.
But Zhou Peng didn't know that she had already made a choice between drinking broth and sitting in the workshop, for fear that she would climb onto the tricycle, in order to defend the broth, he also followed the example of the third sister and grabbed Zhou Xiaoliu's other arm.
Zhou Xiaoliu said helplessly to his brothers and sisters: "Let it go, I won't take the car anymore." "She's really not riding in the car anymore, can you not carry her around like a prisoner?
Zhou Peng guarded against it, if it were him, he would definitely trick the other party into letting go first, and then rush into the car to die or live, Xiaoliu is stupid, but what if her anxious IQ is exerted again?
Zhou Xiaoliu didn't want to run naked, and she couldn't be naked, so she said anxiously: "You two let go! My pants are about to fall off!" She secretly decided that when she came back from the town, even if her fingers were pierced with as many pits as many thimbles, she would use needles to tighten the waist of her pants one by one.
Zhou Xiaoxian and Zhou Peng glanced at the waistband of her pants after hearing her words, and then let go of their hands.
Zhou Xiaoliu regained his freedom with his hands, lifted his pants, and then followed his brother and sister into the surging crowd in the town.
After walking for half an hour, Zhou Xiaoliu and the three arrived in the town. Zhou Xiaoxian stood at the entrance of the market, looking blankly at the bustling street in front of him, holding his younger brother in one hand and his sister in the other, not knowing which direction to go in for a while.
"Third sister, buy meat first, it's gone if it's late!" Zhou Xiaoliu said. It is best to buy tube bones, and boiling soup with tube bones can enhance physical fitness.
Zhou Xiaoxian looked at his eager younger brothers and sisters, nodded, and held his younger brothers and sisters' hands tightly, and squeezed towards the stall selling meat. Obviously, it was only a short distance, but through the sea of people, they had to prevent being squeezed out, so by the time they arrived in front of the meat stall, it had already been more than ten minutes, and there was a thin layer of sweat on their bodies.
There are more people crowded in front of the butcher stall, not all of them want to buy meat, there are no festivals, if there are no guests at home, few people will be willing to buy meat.
Most of the people just came to see the excitement, which family bought meat, and how much meat they bought, analyze and compare the economic situation of other people's families, and meet the people who buy meat in every episode, so they ask if there are any family members of marriageable age in their families, and save resources for their descendants who are waiting to be married.
A small number of people who really want to buy meat are still hesitating between buying it and not buying it, because the stall owner sells meat along the knife edge, and they always want to wait for the piece of meat they like.
The stall owner is not in a hurry, waiting for the guests to make up their minds to buy, and then they will cut the meat according to what the guests say. Anyway, the pig on his stall can be sold completely without having to disperse.
Zhou Xiaoliu saw that Zhou Xiaoxian squeezed into the crowd without success, so he said to Zhou Xiaoxian: "Third sister, you two are waiting here, I'll squeeze in and buy it." As he spoke, without waiting for Zhou Xiaoxian to react, he relied on the small people, like loaches, to get into the cracks and squeeze into the front of the crowd.
"Boss, weigh two catties of pork belly, and then weigh one barrel bone, by the way, is the tenderloin still there?" Zhou Xiaoliu said to the meat stall owner.
Because of his professional habits, as soon as the stall owner heard Zhou Xiaoliu speak, he picked up the knife and prepared to cut meat, but his mind changed, no, now everyone comes to buy meat, no matter which part, the price of meat is the same.
He looked at it again, and the other party was a five or six-year-old girl, so he put down the knife and laughed: "Little girl, if you are hungry for meat, ask your adults to buy it, and I will cut it for you!"
He pulls a pig to sell in each episode, and it's not the first time this has happened.
The kid in Xiwu last time was too, and he had to let him cut five catties of meat, saying that his own adult would come to pay for a while, but the adult came, and directly beat the child, scolding while beating: "Let you run blind, let you be greedy, let you lie, and I won't take you to the market next time......"
Seeing that the other party didn't believe it, Zhou Xiaoliu took out twenty yuan from his pocket and said, "I'm really here to buy meat, my sister is standing behind the crowd, I'm small and easy to squeeze in, so she gave me the money and asked me to buy it." ”
When the stall owner saw the money, he estimated it in his heart, no matter what she said was true or not, anyway, as long as the money was given, we would not be short of catties or two, so we would sell it to her.
The stall owner picked up the knife and said to Zhou Xiaoliu: "It's okay to sell it to you, but without your selling method, we sell meat along the way, and where we cut it, everyone is willing to ask for pork belly, not lean meat and bones, so we can't sell it as you say." ”
"In this way, those two catties of meat can be cut casually, can you pick out the loin and hind leg barrel bones and sell them to me? It is also calculated according to the price of meat!" Zhou Xiaoliu looked at it, because it was early, this pig was only sold a little bit, and the tenderloin and barrel bones she wanted were still there, since the stall owner had an opinion on pork belly, it should be no problem for her to pick these two, right?
The stall owner saw that Zhou Xiaoliu insisted, so he didn't object again, according to what Zhou Xiaoliu said, picked out the hind leg barrel bone and loin, and then cut about two catties of meat, took the straw rope that was put aside in advance, tied the three together and weighed them, and said: "Weigh 4 catties and 8 taels, 4 yuan per catty, a total of 19 yuan and 2 cents!"
Zhou Xiaoliu snapped his fingers, then handed over 20 yuan to the stall owner, and said, "Well, that's right, find me 8 cents!"
The people who were still thinking about whether to buy it before were a little surprised to see Zhou Xiaoliu buy so much meat in one go, and someone asked: "Who is this child......?
There was a woman who was probably from Li Village, who probably knew Zhou's mother, and she said, "It seems to be Li Yue's daughter, right?
Zhou Xiaoliu nodded and smiled at her, took the meat in the stall owner's hand and the 8 cents he found, drilled into the cracks of the people, and returned to his brother and sister.
The stall owners' business seemed to suddenly improve, and people crowded over to demand that the meat be cut. Zhou Xiaoliu thought to himself: Could it be that he was stimulated by his atmospheric behavior?
After Zhou Xiaoliu left, the first person to open her mouth to buy meat successfully bought the piece of pork belly she wanted, and said happily: "It's not in vain that I waited for so many minutes, and finally someone who didn't make a plan bought the bone on it, and cut it down, and the next thing is this piece of pork belly." ”