Chapter 11 Buying Household Belongings
Li Zhu thinks that there is still a day's supply of medicine for Hamahama and Min'er, and the most important thing at present is to build the kitchen and chicken coop, and the rest will be put on hold. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Ming'er said hello to her father, mother, and eldest brother. A quiet night.
The next day, Li Hongshen and Li Yuchen came over, planning to work before the sun was over. Li Yu washed the earthen stove that had just been completed yesterday for three days in Binbin, when his family had prepared an extra amount of mud, and at this time people came over and carried the excess mud and the necessary utensils from the front of his wing. Li Hongshen, Li Yu, and Li Zhu, although they don't often do this, but they have seen a lot, and they roughly know how to do it. The stove is equipped with two pot mouths, divided into two outlets, the upper outlet puts firewood, and the lower outlet is convenient for picking grass and wood ashes, and there is a mezzanine between the upper and lower parts. Two pot mouths, divided into large stove and small stove, the inner corner of the stove and the inside of the small stove in the two pot stoves, there is a common smoke channel, there is a smoke hole at the top of the cigarette mouth, and the small pot is placed next to it, so as to boil warm water, stew soup, and save firewood.
At noon, Li Yu and Li Zhu walked up the hill behind the village, cut the bamboos of different thicknesses and came back, Li Zhu selected four thicker bamboos, inserted them in the four corners of the stove, cut some bamboos, tied them with straw, tied them together in the style of tic-tac-toe, and then put them on the four thick bamboos, and then connected them with the four bamboos with straw, spread the straw, and the grass shed became.
Li Zhu built the straw shed to the inside, covered the empty space behind the stove, surrounded a chicken pen with sliced bamboo, and then made a small grass shed with four small bamboos in the chicken pen, and spread straw underneath so that the chickens could lay eggs, and a simple chicken coop was made. Li Hongshen couldn't stop nodding his head, and kept praising Li Zhu for being careful.
Li Zhu selected some fist-sized bamboos to cut them, and especially left a few knotted bamboos at the knots to make bamboo cups and bamboo bowls. Then I picked up some smooth slices and cut a few pairs of chopsticks. Li Zhu also cut out a few greener bamboos, deliberately cut them at the length of an arm above the knot, and split them at a height of a palm from the knot, leaving the joints of the two fingers to prevent them from breaking, like a spoon, as a soup spoon. Li Hongshen looked at it and praised: "Zhu'er's mind is really a coincidence! Li Zhu saw the love in the eyes of the uncle and the eldest brother, and said: "Uncle, eldest brother, you are happy, I will make a few more" Since the bamboo is cut on the mountain, only a little processing is needed, Li Yu and Li Hongshen are not polite to Li Zhu, and they took a few when they went home.
The next day, Li Zhu stewed chicken soup for the Deng family, asked Aunt Sun to help take care of the family, brought a few old noodles of the Deng family and four taels of silver when the family was separated, and went to Uncle Zhang's house to borrow an ox cart to go to the town. I don't tell you all the way.
Because of his memory of home, Li Zhu had already returned home when he was in Youyou. A cart of stuff and a calf and a sheep.
Aunt Sun heard the sound in Li Zhu's room and immediately came out to help with things, Li Zhu and Aunt Sun moved things with their hands and feet, Li Hai, Li Tao, and Li Bo Xiao circled around the calf and sheep, and they were very happy that new members had been added to the family.
Li Zhu took two thick logs, sharpened one end, drove it into the ground, and tied the calf and sheep to the wood. Then Li Zhu returned the ox cart to Uncle Zhang, and when he went home, he picked a bundle of grass on the way back to feed the cattle and sheep.
When Li Zhu returned home, Aunt Sun had already prepared dinner and went home. Li Zhu first loaded the meal for the Deng family before pulling the family to eat. After washing up the dishes and chopsticks, Li Zhu took out fifteen taels and three hundred Lu Shiqiwen and said to Deng Shi: "I went to the town this morning and took your dowry." Two silver hairpins, a silver hairpin, and a golden hairpin were only twenty-five taels of silver. Because the calf had only been born for two weeks, it had not been planted in the field, and it was only six taels of silver. I have taken twenty days' worth of medicine for you, and a total of sixteen taels of silver. Dr. Kang said that it is good for the girl to turn white, there is no big problem, as long as she is pampered in the future, she will be fine, and she does not need to take too much medicine. So only bought your portion. Hamahama couldn't help but nod his head, thinking that this doctor was still good. Let's not talk about money, it's not good to take too much medicine, let alone a newborn baby. It's just that this medicine is really expensive. After hearing this, Deng Shi was puzzled: "A cow is more than twenty or thirty taels, how can this cow be bought so cheaply?" Isn't there something wrong with it? I just need to do a good job of confinement in this body, and I don't need to spend so much money to get medicine. Li Zhu's face was bright, and he turned sideways and said busily: "Niu is nothing, don't you say that I am the only one working in the family, you are in good health, there will be one more." I've got the medicine back, so you can make it up. Deng Shi looked at the medicine and looked at Li Zhu, his heart was warm, sighed, and said, "Okay, you can't take it again after drinking these." Li Zhudao: "After drinking these, you have to ask the doctor to show you before you can use the medicine again." Don't shirk it, you just don't do it for yourself, not for me, for these little ones to take care of your body, and your daughter is still drinking milk, your body is good, and your girl's food can be good, isn't it? Although Deng is already the mother of four children, she can't help but be thin-skinned, and after hearing this, her face turned red and said: "You are poor!" ”
Li Zhu saw a smile on Deng's face, this smile was really more frequent, and he was a lot more bored in his heart, and said: "I bought salt, oil, sauce and vinegar for hundreds of copper coins at Brother Quan's house, and I bought more things. Brother Quan sent an iron pot and spatula, saying that it was to congratulate our family on the stove. Brother Mu gave a set of teapots, saying that it was a family gift, and that the family had this dignity. The four of them surrounded me, and I couldn't shirk it, so I took it and wrote it down. Deng nodded. Li Zhudao: "I went to your house by the way, and your father, eldest brother, and sister-in-law left me for lunch." Then your eldest brother asked me how I got my things, and I said whatever I wanted, and when they heard that they were your head, their faces were not very good. Alas. It's that I can't stand you, and I've tired you from following me. Deng Shi hurriedly asked: "I am willing to follow you, nothing like that." My family didn't bother you much after hearing this, did they? You say I'm in charge. At the end, he added, "Why are you so sincere?" "But when I think about it, if it's treacherous, I won't want to get married.
Li Zhu turned sideways and said, "Don't we think it's an outsider, so we said it truthfully, and these things can't be hidden." Deng Shi thought about it, too, it is better to be honest. Hamahama's ears are also open now, and when he hears this, he feels that his father should belong to the honest head of the twenty-four filial piety, and he is a person who can only work part-time and cannot become a boss. Li Zhudao: "After your family heard that I took sixteen taels to buy medicine, they gave ten chickens that laid eggs, and your mother stuffed ten taels of silver for me." Said that the family has a good harvest this year, and there are few places to use money, and this silver is a gift for our family. Deng thought that his father and eldest brother were both teaching gentlemen, the family had ten acres of land, the college examination had just passed, and he would have to wait for three years. Li Zhudao: "I took your family's belongings and went to the pork shop, wanting to buy some meat for you to replenish." Deng Shi hurriedly said, "In the past few days, I have eaten chicken almost every day, and I still use pork." Li Zhudao: "I went to the pork shop, saw this goat, saw its Ru room is huge, this sheep is weighed by the catty, cheaper than fat pork, fat pork is 18 Wen a catty, this sheep is 13 Wen 1 catty, this sheep is 52 catties, a total of Lu Baiqi picked up Lu Wenqian, the seller of sheep only received Lu Baiqi Shiwen. I wonder if Hamahama is drinking milk, you can try it. After hearing this, Deng frowned and said, "I have heard people say that this goat's milk smells too strong and generally can't be drunk, and the mutton has no fat and can't be fried." Lamb also has a fishy smell. Sheep like to kick and stomp, easy to hurt others, and have to be kept separately. Li Zhu was dumbfounded after hearing this, "This, then I won't be wronged with this money." Deng said: "Alas, yes. Binbin listened to the sermon and said in his heart: No, no injustice, the nutritional value of goat milk is higher than that of cow's milk, and drinking more goat milk has many benefits. Dad, you're so nice. After Li Zhu heard this, his face showed unwillingness and said: "Isn't Binbin just born, maybe she can't tell what the smell is, and she gets used to it after drinking." Deng thought about it, and he should do it. Li Zhu was instructed to feed the cattle and sheep separately. Cattle are a large property of any farmer, and for fear that the sheep will kick and hurt the cow, immediately tie the sheep to the peach tree and feed.
After everything was done, Li Zhu returned to the room and continued to say to the Deng family: "I bought four catties of brown sugar, three catties of white sugar, three catties of pig's feet, and 10 catties of fine rice, and shared a hundred cents of money. I heard that my mother-in-law wants to make vinegar, brown sugar, and pig's feet for my daughter-in-law who is confined, and you know our mother's situation, so I'll make it for you tomorrow. Fine rice is used to grind rice paste for the girl to eat. After hearing this, Deng Shi was moved to wipe away his tears. In this era, it is rare to be a daughter-in-law sincerely, and this quality of Li Zhu is extremely rare. Brown sugar is a pound of Lu Wenqian, white sugar is sweeter than brown sugar, and it is also a little more expensive than brown sugar, and Qiwen money is a pound. Pig's feet can't be fried in oil, and they are cheaper than fatty meat, and they cost ten yuan a catty. Milled rice is more expensive, eight cents a catty.
Deng Shi saw Li Zhu turn sideways again, and wanted to straighten out: "Zhu, why did you turn sideways all night, is there something wrong?" Hey, why do I smell you! Li Zhu was nervous after hearing this, and blurted out: "How come, I can't even smell the smell of this herb." When Deng Shi heard this, his face instantly turned pale.