Finally, half an hour later, the ox cart arrived outside the gate of Anping County, Niu Tiezhu parked the car in the pergola outside the county and paid two yuan for parking, and then explained to everyone: "Everyone has something to be busy with, remember to hurry up, I will wait for you here this afternoon (15 o'clock to 17 o'clock Beijing time), if it is late, you can only walk back by yourself." ”

After saying goodbye to everyone, Bai Dafu and his wife walked towards Huazhang Street, which leads to the business district. (In addition to the main road after entering the city gate, Anping County has a total of five avenues, one is Anxian Street near the county government, where there are many officials and their families, the second is located in the northeast of Anping County Yongchang Road, and located in the northwest is the most famous place to find flowers and willows, its street is Qinxiang Street, as for the other two are Wutong Road, where the common people live, and Huazhang Street, where Bai Dagui and his wife want to go.) ）

After Bai Dafu saw that the people in the village couldn't hear it, he whispered to his wife: "Why did you bother with Xiangzi Niang just now, anyway, we won't really marry our daughter to that Han boy, why make it so ugly." Besides, although Han Xiaozi's life is a little harder, we can also say that we have watched him grow up, except for the hard life, there is nothing else to be picky about, isn't it too hurtful for you to say that. ”

Lu Shi listened to her husband say the good things about Han Jingsheng little by little, and only felt angry, so she pulled her face and stopped, and said to her husband: "That Xiangzi Niang said so, can I bear it?" You think I'm a dough kneader. Even if that Han Jingsheng is good-looking and down-to-earth, but so what, if he doesn't pay attention to our Cuicui, of course I can fairly call him very good. But people are selfish, even if he is not as good as my Cuicui. "So this Han Jingsheng has touched the Lu family's reverse scales. Lu Shi didn't pay attention to her husband anymore, and walked forward by herself.

Bai Dafu looked at his wife's angry appearance, and couldn't help but have a headache, and hurriedly caught up and grabbed his wife's wrist and explained, "You said why didn't you change your hot temper, I didn't really blame you for anything, as for this little bit." Okay, it's all my fault, right, how old are you and still playing with children's temper? ”

"I'm just this temper, what can you do, you can't get used to looking for someone else, what are you pulling me for?" Lu immediately shook off her husband's hand, raised her head and fought back.

"You are my daughter-in-law, I don't look for you, who are you looking for? Okay, let's stop fighting, didn't you say you want to buy a lot of things, why don't you go and buy them? Seeing this, Bai Dafu hurriedly stepped forward and transferred.

Lu Shi looked at her husband's flattering look, although she didn't speak, but the anger in her heart had long since disappeared, not to mention that she also knew that she was angry with Xiangzi Niang, so she took the opportunity to get angry. After all, it wasn't his fault in the end, so he stopped and changed his face.

Bai Dafu looked at his wife and was not angry, and he also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, with her unwilling to suffer a loss, if she ignores her today, she will have her own hardships in the future, "Then while it is still early, I will first go to the shopkeeper Wang to discuss and see when I can do things?" ”

"If you want to go, you can go, do you want me to accompany you?" Lu waved his hand impatiently and motioned for her husband to hurry up.

"Okay, when I'm done, I'll go to Li Ji's shop to find you." As soon as Bai Dafu heard his wife's words, he explained, turned around and walked away.

An hour later, Lu Shi saw that he had bought all the things, but her husband had not yet come, so he secretly calculated today's cost: "These two pots cost two hundred and forty-one yuan, after all, it is not good to have a pot at home." (Generally, there are two pots in the countryside earthen stove side by side, one front stove is used to cook vegetables, and the back stove is put some water, so that when the meal is ready, there is hot water available at the back.) Although it will look more expensive to get two pots. But it's actually more cost-effective all year round. ）

The three catties of lard used to boil the oil are 66 Wen, and a jar of salt is 30 Wen, as for the two bags of brown rice of 50 catties each, it was originally 1,500 Wen, because it was cheaper to buy more than 10 Wen (brown rice is 15 Wen per catty), and seeing that the weather was about to turn cold, there was no quilt at home, so the cotton and cloth were pulled for a total of 227 Wen. This is just the right time to get out two quilts and some to get a pair of shoes for the children.

Oh, and the two red ropes of Cuicui, a flower of the winter leaves and a string of sugar gourds of the stone are a total of seven yuan, so it cost 1,965 yuan today, that is, about two taels of silver (1 tael of gold = 100 taels of silver, 1 tael of silver = 1000 taels of silver = 1 copper plate)

At this time, at the door of the shopkeeper Wang's house, Bai Dafu asked the shopkeeper Wang with a look of disbelief: "Do you mean that I don't have to go to the restaurant to deliver food?" But why, didn't we already discuss it in the first place? ”

Seeing Bai Dafu's disgraced appearance, although he felt a little unbearable and guilty, after all, he had promised him in advance, but now he reversed himself, but in the end he gritted his teeth and said apologetically to Bai Dafu: "This thing is not authentic for us to do, but you also know that my nephew has only had a son so far, so, alas, since his daughter-in-law asked her cousin to take over the deal, of course my nephew can't say anything, right?" After that, Shopkeeper Wang looked at the snacks in Bai Dafu's hand, shook his head helplessly and said, "You better take these snacks back and give them to the children to eat, I have something to do and leave first." Then he turned and locked the door and walked away without saying a word.

Outside Li Ji's shop, Lu waited left and right to see that her husband always didn't come, and couldn't help but feel a little worried, so she put everything in the shop, and after asking someone to take care of it, she walked to the Baiyang Hutong on Wutong Road that her husband said.

And when she came to the poplar alley, she saw her husband squatting under a poplar tree, muttering to himself with his head in his hands, seeing this, Lu couldn't help but hurry to the government, and also squatted down and gently pushed her husband's shoulder, and asked nervously: "Master, why are you squatting here?" Didn't you say you were going to go to the king's treasurer? What the hell is going on? ”

Bai Dafu heard his wife's voice in his ears, and then felt that his shoulder was shaking, so he raised his head blankly, and then it took a while to realize that it was really his wife Lu. Then he said to his wife in a hoarse voice: "It's over, it's all over." Shopkeeper Wang just told me that someone has taken over the vegetable business. And it's someone's uncle. Bai Dafu paused for a moment, then slowly took a breath and said, "I'm sorry, Sanniang, it's all because I didn't think about it at the beginning, I originally thought that after the separation, I would be able to let you and the children live a good life, but, I didn't expect that it would be for you to suffer with me, and maybe you won't even be able to eat in the future, you said that if I had been more thoughtful, would I not have become like this." ”