CHAPTER XVI

"Well, sister, you are greasy, good times!" Xiaohui said vaguely while biting the big white steamed bun that Xiao Yan exchanged for fish.

"Eat more delicious, don't just eat steamed buns, just order food." Xiao Yan gave him a chopsticks of fried cabbage, "Sister is going to go to the county to buy something in a while, you go to play with friends, didn't you say that Wang Xiaocui didn't go to school either?" How about you go play with her? ”

"Huh?" Xiaohui puffed out his mouth, stopped chewing, and then hurriedly swallowed the contents of his mouth, "I'm going too!" ”

"Yesterday, Aunt Feng came to you and saw that someone wanted to buy the sauerkraut made by my sister, my sister went to the county this time to purchase, she wanted to go back quickly, not to play, so I won't take you there, you are just sick, don't toss." Xiao Yan said earnestly.

"I don't play either, I'm not home alone, I'm going!" Then Xiaohui performed an unprecedented pestering **, and Xiao Yan had to nod and agree before stopping.

In the end, Xiaohui got his wish and happily followed his sister to the county seat.

The county seat is very large, the population is also a lot, but the economy is not developed, everywhere you can see are low houses, people dressed in gray clothes, the largest building in the whole county is the county government compound, not even a two-story building.

There is also a main street in the county, some state-run stores and shopping malls that sell things, but things are expensive, the attitude of the salesman is still very bad, the country's economic development in the past two years, slowly some private people have opened shops, sold things, their things are diverse, the price is cheaper than the shopping mall, and the service attitude is good, but now in this era, there are only a few people who dare to go to the sea to do business, and most of the people still choose to work in the factory.

Compared with a few shops, the more inexpensive ones are the markets in the west of the city, where there will be a big market every two days, people spontaneously go there to buy things and sell things, Xiao Yan has already inquired with Aunt Feng before going, there is everything on the big market, and you can bargain if you buy more, and the place they are going to go today is there.

The two of them have hardly been to the county seat, and the few times they used to do so were either during the Chinese New Year or to see a doctor at the county health center, so everything they saw was fresh.

There are a lot of people in the market, there are many people who sell things and buy things, there are large and small vendors, and there are also people who can't eat after collecting their own things and set up a stall here to sell.

The purpose of Xiao Yan's trip was to order cabbage wholesale and buy all kinds of spices, so she went straight to the innermost market of vegetables in the market, and the more people walked inside, the more people came, she held Xiaohui's hand tightly, for fear that her little brother would get lost.

Came to a stall selling cabbage, "Boss, how do you sell this white cabbage?" ”

The boss was a middle-aged man, and there was a little girl next to him, who was holding a bowl of noodles and eating fragrantly, "Oh, five cents a catty, it can be cheaper if you want more!" ”

"Then I'll give you more, and you can give you a real price for the least more money." Xiao Yan bargained with the boss, Xiao Hui looked left and right to find something he was interested in, there were all vegetable sellers nearby, and there was nothing delicious and fun, and after turning around, he was finally attracted by a sugar gourd seller behind him.

Xiaohui's eyes lit up, and seeing that his sister was busy bargaining, he got out of his not so tight hand, and he ran to the sugar gourd inserted into a bunch in two steps, looking up at the bunch of red and bright fruits, and the corners of his mouth flowed out of an unknown liquid.

"Kid, do you want to eat?" Said the seller of sugar gourds.

Xiaohui nodded stunned, and the man said again, "Then ask your adult to buy it for you!" ”

Xiaohui shook his head, "Our family has no money." Then he sucked the unknown liquid at the corner of his mouth, and reluctantly wanted to leave.

"Haha," a voice next to him drew Xiaohui's gaze, it turned out to be a child who was older than him laughing at him, his face turned red all of a sudden, glared at the child, and said in his heart, what is ridiculous, but he didn't say it.

After laughing, the child ignored Xiaohui when he looked at him, and came straight to the side of the sugar gourd, and stretched out his hand to hand over a ticket, "Uncle, come to a string." ”

The uncle who sold sugar gourds replied loudly, "Okay, I'll give you a big skewer." ”

The child didn't eat it after taking it, and frowned, "This thing looks good, but it's actually sour, so I still don't eat it." "After saying that, he was about to throw it on the ground.

Xiaohui looked at his ruined appearance, and let out an distressed 'ah', the child did not throw it to the ground after all, and looked at Xiaohui's appearance and said, "You want to eat!" ”

Before Xiaohui could speak, the other party handed over the sugar gourd and said, "Here you go." ”

Xiaohui licked his lips and shook his head firmly, "My sister said that you can't just ask for other people's things, I want to eat what my sister will buy for me." After speaking, he looked at the string of sugar gourds fixedly, looking very eager to eat, but forced to endure it.

"What kind of nonsense, isn't your sister not here now?" The kid looked impatient and stuffed it directly into him.

Xiaohui was afraid that the sugar gourd would fall to the ground, so he hurriedly caught it, licked it carefully, and squinted his eyes.

"By the way, what about your sister?"

"Do you know my sister?"

"Xiaohui," as he was talking, he saw Xiao Yan running over, "What are you running around, you can't see anyone in a blink of an eye, who gave it to you?" Xiao Yan negotiated the price with the cabbage seller, and gave the address to the other party to trouble the other party to deliver the goods, and the other party readily agreed in order to sell more things.

Finally negotiated, this turn of the head Xiaohui disappeared, I had to turn my head and see him holding a sugar gourd and a child opposite, I don't know what to say?

Xiaohui looked at his sister, handed the sugar gourd over, and said flatteringly, "Sister, you taste it, it's very sweet." ”

"Sister doesn't eat, where do you get the money to buy this?"

Xiaohui looked at the child, and the meaning was self-evident.

"Why are you still so dark?" This disgusted tone, looking at the child's appearance, coupled with this disgusted tone, made Xiao Yan immediately think that this child was not the child with a stomachache that she met in the health center that day?

"Are you well?" Xiao Yan asked.

The child nodded, "Just look at me here!" Still asked? ”

Xiao Yan didn't care about the children either, and pulled Xiaohui to leave, "Thank you for inviting Xiaohui to eat, but your family can't spend money so indiscriminately if you have money," he turned his head and said to his younger brother, "Xiaohui, return the sugar gourd to others." ”

Xiaohui was a little reluctant, but he still listened to his sister's words, and just as he was about to hand it over, the child ran away.

"Huh?"

After buying cabbage, Xiao Yan went to buy some seasonings, after all, it is much bigger than the village, and there are many more seasonings that can be bought, she bought everything she can according to the recipe, and strives to make the best delicious things, after all, the better the quality, the more she can earn.

Although she bought everything she could, she could only buy less than half of the dozens of seasonings in the formula, and in the end, she really didn't buy anything, so she had to give up.

Then I went to buy several large and small jars for pickling, although there are a few at home, but after all, there are too few and not enough. After buying it, I also asked the other party to send it home.

After buying something, count the money in your hand, the deposit of twenty yuan, there are less than five yuan left, and now the price is low, just these five yuan is enough for him and his brother to eat for a week, and when the goods are delivered, there will be a bigger balance payment, think about her and feel excited, change the problem of picking the rope on weekdays, and say generously to the younger brother who has just finished gnawing the rock sugar gourd, "Brother! Let's go, sister will take you to eat beef ramen! ”

Unexpectedly, the little brother who has always been greedy disagreed, "No, sister, let's go home and eat steamed buns, there are several big steamed buns at home, enough for us to eat for several days!" ”

But after the days of eating the last meal and not the next meal, everyone has to break a penny in half and spend it, and Xiaohui is already a sensible child.

Xiao Yan saw that her brother was so sensible, she sniffed and said, "It's okay, Sister Mantou has put it up, it won't be bad, let's keep it and eat it slowly, let's eat it outside when we come out today, you see that my sister is rich." ”

She stretched out her hand to show her brother the money, Xiao Hui thought for a while, "Okay, we won't be able to catch up with the meal when we go back at this point, sister, you should be hungry and uncomfortable, then let's go eat!" ”

Xiao Yan doesn't have a good appetite, and it's easy to make mistakes when she catches a cold or doesn't eat, the whole family knows about it, and Xiao Yan can't help but feel funny and relieved when Xiaohui says it so seriously.

So, the two sisters and brothers found a noodle stall that looked fairly clean and asked for two bowls of beef ramen, during which Xiaohui had to ask for a big bowl, and asked people to put more noodles and more beef.

The proprietress who teased her was straight, saying that this kid is really good, so you can count the money for a bowl, isn't it?

Unexpectedly, Xiaohui was not embarrassed to be debunked at all, but nodded solemnly.

After the two had lunch, Xiao Yan carried a large bag of spices and took her younger brother home.

As soon as I got home, the cabbage delivery came to the door.

Xiao Yan asked the other party to unload the cabbage under the wall, the cabbage seller just left, and the jar seller also came to the door, Xiao Yan bought five large altars, eight small altars, a total of thirteen, Xiao Yan didn't want to buy too much, but if she bought less, people were too far away to send it, so she had to add a few more, anyway, this thing is not a consumable, it can be recycled all the time.

Everything is complete, and you can make zuò.

This busy work went for most of the day, and there were two and a half days left, looking at this big zero thing, Xiao Yan sighed, "It's not easy to make money." ”

So, she kept busy, after all, she was the only one, the cabbage had to be cut and stacked, the jar had to be washed and dried, and it took a lot of time.

Xiaohui saw that her sister was busy, and she was not far behind, she followed behind her sister, like a little tail, her sister brushed the jar, so she scooped water for her sister, and her sister stacked vegetables, so she helped her sister peel vegetables and deliver vegetables, Xiao Yan asked him to leave it alone several times, and he couldn't help much when he was small.

But Xiaohui was not happy, and patted his chest, "I'm a man, how can I eat rice." ”

Xiao Yan looked at him and was happy, "I'll give you black rice that night." ”