Chapter 25: Cutting Expenses
Fang Pingying leaned on Luo Zhiyong's arms and sighed, "It's not a day or two between me and Fang Xiu, it's not a big deal to quarrel, but it's the matter of giving the family this money, I plan it like this." ”
Fang Pingying told Luo Zhiyong about her thoughts, "Originally, I planned to wait for us to be away from home for a month and only send back ten yuan, but I thought about taking my time, my mother used to spend money and spend it in the past, I was afraid that she wouldn't be able to take it all of a sudden, in case the money was not enough, you must not be happy in your heart, thinking about adding two more yuan and giving twelve yuan." ”
"But in fact, these days at home, I calculated the family's weekday expenses, and sending back ten yuan a month is enough."
"The family spends less than ten dollars a month?" Luo Zhiyong frowned slightly, Zhou Yunmei often told him, saying that the thirty yuan he sent back was just enough, and sometimes it was less.
Fang Pingying nodded, and carefully calculated the family's expenses to him, "You think, like in the first half of the year, because the family killed a pig during the New Year, the lard is basically not sold, if the family eats like ordinary people, the lard of a pig can be eaten for at least half a year." ”
"The rice is at home, and then the vegetables and fruits at home are planted, and what you really have to spend money on is some meat, and the meat is more to eat, less to eat, according to the current life at home, as long as the mother does not waste things, four or five yuan of meat a month is definitely enough, maybe it can't be eaten."
After a pause, Fang Pingying continued, "This is still when we are at home, if we are not at home in the future, the cost will be less, I thought, if we give twelve yuan, we will add some during the New Year's holidays, no matter what, it will not be used up, and my mother can still save a sum." ”
Luo Zhiyong also calculated, the meat in the town is eight or nine cents a catty, and five yuan can buy five or six catties of meat, which is indeed enough for a family to eat for a month, in fact, eating meat for two or three yuan a month is considered good.
And the food is the best, few people in the countryside can eat meat so frequently, Fang Pingying treats her family like this.
Fang Pingying said, and remembered what she was doing, so she said to Luo Zhiyong again, "Also, when you came back just now, you saw the hawthorn I put in the yard, I plan to try it with Honglan after breakfast, see if I can make some hawthorn sauce, hawthorn cake or something to buy and sell in the town, if these things are easy to sell, I want to save a sum of money, and then I will go to the city with you, and I can do some business by myself." ”
Luo Zhiyong was very supportive of Fang Pingying's statement that he wanted to do business, because Fang Pingying had also mentioned it to him before, and he agreed.
He was still a little worried about his family's money, after all, he had cut twenty yuan at once, and he was also worried that Zhou Yunmei would disagree.
But after thinking about it, I felt that Fang Pingying's words were not wrong, so I nodded and said, "Okay, you can plan all the business things, let's try to get it first, as long as the money for the family can cover the expenses, it should be no big problem, my mother's side, I'll go and talk to her, see what she says, no matter what, it's time for my mother to learn to save money and stop spending lavishly." ”
Fang Pingying knew that Luo Zhiyong hadn't completely agreed, but he was willing to let go, indicating that he was also aware of the problem, so he didn't say anything more, just reminded him, "Well, that's the case, besides, we are married, and we will have children and families in the future, and the family will have to live." ”
"Give birth to a child......" Luo Zhiyong repeated, looking at Fang Pingying with burning eyes, they haven't done anything to have a child yet, where did the child come from.
Fang Pingying's face flushed and patted him, "Don't think about it, go out and tell your mother quickly, otherwise I'm afraid that my mother will take the initiative to find you." ”
As soon as Fang Pingying's voice fell, she heard Zhou Yunmei shouting in the courtyard, "Zhiyong, what are you doing, you come out, I have something to tell you." ”
Fang Pingying knew what Zhou Yunmei was talking about with her toes, she looked at Luo Zhiyong and raised her eyebrows, signaling that she had arranged everything, and saw how Luo Zhiyong told Zhou Yunmei.
Anyway, I don't know what Luo Zhiyong said to Zhou Yunmei, Zhou Yunmei didn't make trouble, but when Fang Pingying went out, her face was extremely ugly, and she looked at Fang Pingying as if she hadn't seen it.
Fang Pingying had already guessed that according to Zhou Yunmei's temperament, the financial power in the family was suddenly handed over to someone else, and she was certain to be unhappy.
Fang Pingying didn't care about her, and went to the stove house to serve breakfast by herself.
After breakfast, Luo Dashan went to the field with a hoe, anyway, no matter whether there was work in the field or not, Luo Dashan didn't like to stay at home, and most of the time he stayed in the field.
Zhou Yunmei thought that she was uncomfortable, so she took a piece of cloth from the house after eating, and called Luo Cuilan to leave, saying that she had gone to the tailor in the village to make clothes for Luo Cuilan for her wedding.
As for Fang Xiu and Luo Zhiming, they stayed in the house at first and didn't come out, and at first everyone in the family was there, and no one paid attention to the movements in their room.
When the family was gone, and the yard was cleared, a woman's stoic scream could be heard from their room.
Fortunately, Luo Honglan was washing dishes in the stove house at that time, and only Fang Pingying and Luo Zhiyong were sitting in the courtyard.
Although the two of them have never been in battle with real knives and guns, they don't understand anything, and the two of them who were made by this kind of cry were red-faced and red-eared for a while.
Finally, Fang Xiu's house was clean, and Fang Pingying called Luo Honglan to come to the courtyard to help her choose hawthorn together, and told Luo Zhiyong to go to the small shop at the entrance of the village to buy some rock candy and white sugar to come back.
Boiling hawthorn sauce is not difficult, but the procedure is a little more complicated.
First cut the washed hawthorn in half, put it in the pot, and then add water, the water should not pass the hawthorn, cook the hawthorn over medium heat, and sieve the cooked hawthorn while it is hot.
Fang Pingying brought a bamboo sieve, and a wooden basin was placed under the sieve, and the hawthorn mud would drip into the basin along the leaky net of the bamboo sieve, because the hawthorn was too viscous and not good to penetrate through the bamboo sieve into the basin below, so Fang Pingying kept diluting the hawthorn mud with the water used to cook the hawthorn and then squeezing it.
Finally, the peel and pit left in the bamboo sieve are not needed, and a pot of hawthorn fruit paste is obtained.
Flush the fruit paste into the pot, add white sugar and rock sugar, continue to heat, keep stirring while heating, until the wooden spoon hangs a thin paste, Fang Pingying stroked it with her fingers, and saw that the fruit paste would not flow and close, and the jam was boiled.
There was a small part of the fruit paste left, Fang Pingying thought about trying to make some hawthorn cake, so she continued to heat it in the pot until the wooden spoon could hang a thick paste, and then put it into a small porcelain bowl with a layer of oil while it was hot, and then it was completely cold, and it became a hawthorn cake.
Because Fang Pingying wasn't sure what the taste of her own makeup was, she didn't dare to make a lot of it the first time, but just tried to make some for her family to taste, if she really had to do it, Fang Pingying would have to go to the town to buy some things that she needed.
The jam thing is quite simple, as soon as it comes out, Fang Pingying got some for Luo Zhiyong and Luo Honglan to taste.
After the two tasted it, they both said that it tasted good, Luo Honglan also smiled and said that she had never eaten such a delicious thing in her life, sweet and sour, especially appetizing, if the weather is hot, it must be a good thing to smear some of this thing on steamed buns or other sweets.
After the hawthorn cake cooled, Fang Pingying let them taste this, and the two said that this thing was better than jam, and it could be eaten as a snack.
Hearing them say this, Fang Pingying was relieved, in fact, she just tried it today, put some of the simplest things, and rushed Ming'er to the town to buy some more things like honey, or see if there were any lemons or other things to taste, the taste would only be better.
Thank you to the princess's mother, SEVEN JIU 9, Xuan'er Feifei, the peace charm of the three, thank you dear drops.