"By the way, grandma, are we running out of chili peppers?" Zhao Siniang inadvertently saw the scattered pepper skewers under the eaves and asked with concern.

Yang nodded and said, "It's not much." I only started planting this thing last year, and I planted a lot of fresh peppers. But almost every household has planted it, and like sweet potatoes, it can't be sold at a high price, so you can only keep it at home and eat it. But since I ate it last year, there are not a few skewers left. In the past few days, you've been making fat intestines or something, and you've used it almost. ”

"Then you can go to the village for me next day and buy some back!" Zhao Siniang said.

"Buy?" Yang originally wanted to say that he just asked people for some, and he didn't have to spend money to buy them. But I think that there are definitely not a few chili peppers to be used in the shop, so I am embarrassed to ask for too many to come back. So she asked, "If you buy it, how much will you give a pound?" ”

"The only thing that can be saved until now is dried chili, and this pound of dried chili peppers can take several catties of fresh chili peppers to be dried into a ...... Grandma, do you think you give a penny a pound? Zhao Siniang asked.

"Done! How not? At this price, the villagers must be rushing to sell it! Yang smiled.

"Then buy thirty pounds!" Zhao Siniang decided.

Yang was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Thirty catties?" Wouldn't that be too much? ”

"You have to believe Siniang, Siniang said to buy as much as she wanted, let's buy as much as you want!" Without waiting for Zhao Siniang to answer, Old Man Jiang commanded.

Zhao Siniang smiled: "It's not much at all!" In the future, there will be many places where chili peppers will be used in the shop, and there will be some time before the fresh chili harvest season. Therefore, thirty catties is only a little less. ”

At this time, Zhao Sanlang, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "Our family is from another village, but the villagers here don't treat us as outsiders. If nothing else, let's just say that our shop, the villagers have made a lot of efforts, and I think we should thank them. Let's see if we can do this: when my grandmother goes to buy chili peppers later, she will tell the villagers that in the future, when people from this village come to buy tofu, we will count it as a penny. Although it is a small matter, it can be regarded as a kind of reward for our family to the villagers. ”

Old Man Jiang was the first to nod in agreement, and said busily: "It's done!" ”

Even the Yang family heard it, and they all said that it should indeed be so.

Zhao Siniang also nodded in agreement, and added: "However, tofu is sold at two prices in the shop, and the difference is so great, it may not be good for other customers to see it." Why don't you let the villagers in our village who want to buy tofu inform us one day in advance, and let's leave the corresponding amount of tofu at home and let them come to our house to pick it up, what do you think? ”

Everyone agreed.

At this time, Old Man Jiang thought that Zhao Siniang's family was going to rush back to Zhaojia Village on foot, and hurriedly urged them to leave quickly.

"Bring everything that the shopkeeper gave me yesterday! By the way, and this basket of eggs. In the future, you will always live in Jiangjiatan, and if you are not with the second elder of the in-laws, you will have to bring some things back to honor them! Old Man Jiang said earnestly.

Zhao Siniang and Zhao Sanniang glanced at each other, and said in their hearts: Even if you take those things to feed the dogs, it is better than giving them to the old Zhao family!

But although she thought so in her heart, Zhao Siniang swore and said: "What my grandfather said is that my grandma's kindness to us will never be forgotten in my life!" It is time to be filial to them. But I still understand our grandma, although the things sent by the shopkeeper Wang are good, but those are probably not in line with the second elder's mind. It just so happens that I have two spare money on hand, so let's go to town and buy something that I like and send it over! ”

Zhao Yongzhong felt strange: those things are not cheap, why are they not in line with his father's wishes? But strange is strange, he still chooses to believe the little girl, stands aside and nods yes.

The Jiang family knew that Zhao Siniang was talking nonsense again, and she would never pay for anything good to send back to Zhaojia Village.

Zhao Sanlang said with a smile: "Our grandmother used to live in the county seat, Siniang is right, or the things bought in the town are more in line with their hearts, so they don't bring those things over." In my opinion, let's send those things to Lizheng's house! My uncle's leg was able to be healed in time, thanks to his family's help! ”

Zhao Siniang on the side was secretly surprised, Zhao Sanlang rarely took the initiative to speak in the past, but now he took the initiative to speak twice, which is really rare! The utilitarian she thought about it and decided that her eldest brother knew that he would have to mix in Jiangjiatan in the future, and wanted to have a good relationship with the people in Jiangjiatan.

So Zhao Siniang supported her eldest brother and said: "What my eldest brother said is that this is a great kindness!" Well, I think in addition to those things, you can send some rulers over! ”

Yang couldn't help but be speechless: "Why do you need to send so many things?" That's too much! ”

Old man Jiang also said: "Our Jiangjiatan is a poor village, and people in the village walk around each other, so they don't want to give such a heavy gift." ”

So after some discussion, it was decided to give the Li family two letters of snacks and three feet of muslin.

Zhao Siniang saw that the trick of giving generous gifts did not work, so she decided to change the way, and said righteously: "Although the sweet potato noodles have not yet been made, our family has successfully made sweet potato flour, which shows that it is indeed feasible to use sweet potatoes to make flour, and our family no longer has to worry that the sweet potatoes will spoil." But in addition to our family, there are many people's sweet potatoes in the village that are still slowly rotting in the cellar. So I want to tell Li Zheng the method of making sweet potato flour, and let him lead the people in our village to make sweet potatoes into flour, so that there will be more grain storage when the green and yellow crops are not harvested. ”

Old man Jiang always knew that his little granddaughter had the ability, but he didn't expect that she would be so knowledgeable at a young age.

In fact, when he saw the sweet potato flour made yesterday, Old Man Jiang tried to persuade Zhao Siniang to inform the villagers of the recipe for making flour several times. But he knew that Zhao Siniang had been worried about confidentiality, and this sweet potato flour was an important part of making sweet potato noodles in the future, and it couldn't be leaked casually. Seeing that the recipes of those balls were sold for a sky-high price of one hundred taels, he couldn't open this mouth even more.

Hearing Zhao Siniang take the initiative, the old man Jiang was full of emotion in his heart for a while, and said in his mouth: "Okay! Good! Good! ”

Zhao Siniang felt a void in her heart at the appreciative gaze of Old Man Jiang: In fact, their family grinds sweet potato pulp every day, combined with the sweet potato flour in the yard at her house, people with a heart can quickly see through the mystery, and this method will not be hidden for long at all. Instead of waiting for others to figure it out, it is better for her to take the initiative to tell Li Zheng to sell this recipe, so that their family's life in Jiangjiatan will be smoother in the future. This is completely out of selfishness, where is it as noble as her grandfather imagined!