Chapter Forty-Six: A Chance Encounter at the Bazaar
After buying things in the butcher shop, Zhao Yongzhong pushed the cart and planned to go to the grain shop not far in front to buy grain, but was stopped by Zhao Siniang.
"Dad, let's go to the big grain store on South Street to buy it!" Zhao Siniang proposed.
Zhao Yongzhong said: "Aren't we going to the grain store to buy white noodles and soybeans?" Although this grain store is a little smaller, there is definitely no shortage of these two things? Why take a long detour to South Street? ”
Zhao Siniang looked around vigilantly and saw that although this East Street was far less prosperous than the North and South Second Streets, it was also full of people. So she rolled her eyes and casually made an excuse: "Didn't you buy candy yesterday?" Let's go to the big grain store on South Street to buy grain now, and buy some candy at the grocery store there by the way! ”
Zhao Yongzhong pointed to the small grocery store close at hand and asked, "Can't you just go to this place?" ”
Yesterday, Zhao Yongzhong didn't want his little girl to find out about Zhao Yongnian, so he supported her to take a long detour to South Street to buy candy. In fact, there are also grocery stores on East Street, just diagonally opposite the butcher shop. Although the contents are certainly not as complete as the grocery stores on South Street, there should be something like sugar.
Zhao Siniang blinked her eyes and said nonsense: "Hmm...... Didn't you say yesterday that I'm going to buy spices in addition to sugar. Those spices are not ordinary, and they are certainly not available in such small grocery stores. Let's go to the big shop and buy it! ”
The honest Zhao Yongzhong listened to the belief and thought it was true, so he obeyed the meaning of the little girl, turned the head of the car and walked towards South Street.
When passing by the blacksmith shop, Zhao Siniang asked her father to stop, and after a brief discussion, the father and daughter went to order a few molds.
In fact, the mold used to make sweet potato noodles is a colander with a sieve eye, and whether the noodles are thick or thin depends entirely on the size of the sieve eye.
Two days ago, I didn't have enough money, so I only ordered a colander with a smaller sieve, which can only be used to make fine vermicelli. Now that she has made a fortune, Zhao Siniang decided to order the mold of coarse vermicelli and vermicelli to increase the variety of sweet potato noodles.
Thinking that now that funds are not a problem, Zhao Siniang, who has a lot of money, made a temporary decision, and ordered two pink molds in one go, and then came out of the blacksmith shop.
After a while, I walked to the market. Today is not a market day, and it is a little late, and the market is empty, with only a few small stalls.
At a glance, I found that the stall owner who sold her dishes the day before yesterday had already started to close the stall, so I hurriedly ran over.
"Uncle, you take it slowly, let me take a closer look!" Zhao Siniang said busily.
The stall owner was a young man about twenty years old, looked up, and recognized Zhao Siniang as the big customer who bought eighty yuan of dishes at once, hurriedly put down the work in his hand, and asked with a smile: "Little girl, are you here to buy bowls again?" ”
Zhao Siniang nodded and said, "I want to buy dishes." But instead of buying the big ones last time, this time I want to buy some small bowls and plates. ”
When the young man heard this, he hurriedly took a few small bowls and plates that had been loaded into the car and showed them to Zhao Siniang.
On closer inspection, like those large bowls and plates, the workmanship is rough and slightly deformed. But Zhao Siniang doesn't mind, doing business on the dock, how many good dishes do you want? As long as it works, the most important thing is to be cheap.
"Last time, you said that these small bowls and plates cost three for a penny, I buy more, can it be considered cheaper?" Zhao Siniang asked.
The young man's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked, "Little girl, how much are you going to buy?" ”
"Just like last time, buy 80 each. But this time, in addition to buying dishes, I also plan to buy some jars and clay pots. The jar you gave me last time was good, and I'm going to buy ten. Hey? Last time, I saw a clay pot for sale, but now it's not for sale? Zhao Siniang frowned, she originally wanted to get the jars and jars here at one time, but now that there is no stock here, is it difficult to find another one? made a lot of money, and now Zhao Siniang, who has a very hard waist, feels a little impatient.
"Sell! Selled! It's just that it takes up too much space, so I brought two of them today, but unfortunately someone bought them in the morning. Little girl, I see that you often come to this market, you must have your home near here, right? Why don't you know that I'll send you the clay pot directly to save you trouble? The young man said earnestly.
"This ...... I don't live in the town, my house isn't close to here! And I'm going to buy two clay pots, so I'm embarrassed to let you send them to me!" Although she was very moved, Zhao Siniang thought about it and refused.
"No trouble! No hassle! If your family is not in a hurry to use it, I will send these dishes, jars and clay pots to your family early tomorrow morning, so that you will not have to worry about it! Last time, I saw that your father and daughter had done so many things, and now there are so many ingredients piled up in the car: pork, hens, and so much food, you must have opened a food shop, right? As long as your family wants to buy pots and jars in the future, just think of our house. Our house is in the nearby Gaodian Village, specializing in selling all kinds of ceramics, you can go to the village and ask 'the Li family under the old locust tree in the west of the village'. The young man laughed.
Zhao Siniang didn't expect the young man to be so discerning, and she was a little surprised. Hearing that he was so happy to deliver to the door, he was about to nod his head in agreement.
At this time, Zhao Yongzhong, who had been standing silently next to him, suddenly asked, "Little brother, are you surnamed Wang?" ”
The young man was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "Big brother, how do you know?" ”
Zhao Yongzhong smiled: "You are the Wang brother who married the second girl of the Li family last autumn, right?" That day, my fourth brother also went to your house to drink the wedding wine. By the way, I will do three, and my fourth brother has been married to the eldest girl of the Li family since he was a child. ”
"It turned out to be Third Brother Zhao!" The young man hurriedly greeted Zhao Yongzhong.
It turned out that this young man's name was Wang Hequan. His parents died when he was a child, and his family had no permanent property, so he had to go out to work to make ends meet. Later, he went to a kiln near Jinghai County to work for people, and a worker from Gaodian Village saw that Wang Hequan had a resolute personality and was down-to-earth, and remembered that the Li family next door to his house was full of old and weak women and children, and he needed a man to support the door. So the workers made a matchmaking and introduced Wang Hequan as the son-in-law of the Li family.
As for the Li family, the Li family's grandmother's grandfather is long gone, and their grandmother, Chen, is still alive. The Chen family had a total of two sons: the eldest son died young, and the eldest grandson also died young, leaving only the eldest daughter-in-law Shao Shi and the second granddaughter Li Cuilian; The second son, Li Zhongqiang, married his wife Dong and had the eldest granddaughter Li Cuiping, the second grandson Li Qinglin and the third granddaughter Li Cuiwei.
Li Zhongqiang also ran a restaurant in Changle Town in the early years, and his family background was getting better and better, and it was at that time that he met Mr. Zhao, and married his eldest daughter Li Cuiping to Zhao Yongxiao, and the two families formed a family of children and daughters.
Who knew that there were unforeseen circumstances, Li Zhongqiang suddenly became seriously ill, and in order to treat the disease, the Li family not only spent all these years of savings, but also took out the rice shop. But Rao is like this, Li Zhongqiang died three years ago, leaving a family of old and weak women and children.
The Li family, which lost its pillars, became more and more difficult, but fortunately, Wang Hequan was recruited as a son-in-law last year, and with Wang Hequan's help, the Li family's life was slightly better.