Chapter 60: Buying Chickens
There seemed to be silence for a while.
"Bring it." The faint voice was impatient but helpless.
"You ......" Yuan Qing watched in a daze, as he took a jar from her hand.
"What am I?" He was still expressionless, and his tone was cold.
"It's good that you're not angry." She said.
"Am I that easy to get angry?" He said angrily, as if he was a person with a small belly.
"That's good, by the way, surnamed Li, do you like eggs?" Yuan Qing asked.
"Don't call me Li." He said with a dark face.
"Why? Aren't you surnamed Lai? "Yuan Qingdao, don't be so arrogant.
"I don't like it when you call me that, anyway." He said.
"Oh, I don't know what to call you, can I just call you that?" Yuan Qing said in a tone of discussion.
"Nope." He said no, as if there was no maneuver.
You specially, every day for a title, tangled for a long time, labor and management quit. Yuan Qing's heart was crossed, and he said: "Then call you Wangye, and when others ask, they will say that your surname is Wang, and your name is Ye." "That's all right.
"Whatever." The word cold, it seems that he is too lazy to say anything.
Because Yuan Qing spoke too loudly just now, the people around her all looked at her.
"Lord Wang? Is this person really a prince? ”
"How is that possible? Why did the prince come here to join in the fun. ”
"Then what was she arguing about?"
"Who knows, there must be a nerve problem."
"Miss Yuan, what did you just say? Did you see the prince? At this time, an aunt from Bilian Village came to Yuan Qing's side and said curiously.
"Brother Li, what did your lady say, who is the prince?" One said again.
"You heard it wrong, just now I said that a distant relative of mine is surnamed Wang, his name is Ye, and I just saw him and greeted him." Yuan Qing raised his voice.
"The surname is the king's name night. He also dared to come up with this name? "One person, in this era, a certain kind of name, no one dares to use this as their own name. For example: the emperor, the prefect or the prince...... Even if it is the same sound, few people dare to get up.
"yes, that's why I'm trying to persuade him to change his name." Yuan Qing came down the ladder and said.
"It's time to persuade him to change his name." One nodded.
Yuan Qing sighed in his heart. In particular, the position of power in this era is the most important, and no one dares to infringe on the two specific titles......
After a burst of nonsense, Yuan Qing also dispelled the idea of calling Prince Li Chen directly here, even if he is a genuine prince, but it is better to be low-key here.
Speechless, walking with each other, Yuan Qing looked at the prince beside him and swallowed his saliva. Said: "You haven't answered me yet, do you like to eat eggs?" ”
"General." Li Chen replied lightly.
"That's fine, do you like duck eggs?" She asked again.
"It's average, too." He replied.
"Both of them are average, but I like them better, so let's go buy them here." After speaking, Yuan Qing looked at a place that sold chickens and ducks next to him, and pointed with his chin and said.
"Is this a place to sell eggs?" He said.
"Haven't you heard that hens lay eggs?" Yuan Qing said: "If you go directly to buy eggs, you will come to buy them after the eggs are eaten." Buy a hen and go back, it will lay eggs every day, and then we won't have to buy eggs, and the eggs are still fresh. ”
She's still thinking about it very practically.
Li Chen listened. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, speechless.
The two walked into the chicken and duck store, walked around, and finally came to a stall selling chickens, Yuan Qing squatted down and asked the seller: "Uncle, how did this hen sell?" ”
"Girl. You buy hens to take out and stew soup to drink, right? The man in his forties asked.
"No, it's the one who took it out to lay eggs." Yuan Qing replied very bluntly.
The man didn't have any contempt or anything like that, but said straightforwardly: "Then, girl, you've come to the right place, this hen will definitely lay three eggs a day." "It's the so-called place, the speech is subtle, are you going to do that?
"Huh, huh? Uncle, don't lie to me. Yuan Qing smiled and said, three eggs in one day, how powerful is it?
"Alas, girl, how could the uncle lie to you, even if it's not three a day, one every three days." The man smiled, his simple face looked like he didn't know.
"Once every three days, uncle, are you teasing me?" Yuan Qingdao.
"This girl, this hen can lay up to two eggs a day, one in three days is too little, you come to me to buy, my hen here used to lay eggs every day, in the last few days, this egg does not lay much, I plan to sell it." The old hen's meat is very replenished," said a man next to him.
"Ahem, you don't talk about it." A woman coughed a few times and quickly interrupted the man's words. People were originally going to buy hens to lay eggs, and you still told the hen that she had laid eggs until she was old and couldn't lay them......
Yuan Qing shook his head, "Uncle, I don't know if the old hen's meat is supplemented, but I want to buy hens to lay eggs, not to buy hens to stew soup and drink, I think it's better to forget it." ”
"You." Women look at men with hatred and are angry at their stupidity.
Yuan Qing asked the previous seller again: "Uncle, how can this hen be sold?" Since he didn't know how many eggs the hen could lay, he certainly didn't know that the hen had just laid eggs.
"Girl, this hen has a total of six catties, one catty is ten yuan, and six pounds is sixty yuan." The man replied with a smile.
"Okay then." Yuan Qing said, touching into her arms, oh no, I didn't have enough money, the broken silver was all used up just now, and she only had silver tickets in her body...... At that moment, she looked back with a wry smile, looked at Li Chen, thought about it and said, "Then ......" If you can't call him that, he will definitely turn his face, "...... Male, do you have any broken silver with you? How bitter was her smile......
This voice, no matter how lame the pronunciation was, how reluctant the person who shouted was, the man's heart was inexplicably warm when he heard it, he didn't want to, he took out a bag of silver in his arms and handed it to her.
Yuan Qing looked at his action of taking out the money without hesitation, he was a little stunned, took the money in a daze, turned around in a daze, looked at the seller in front of him, and said with a blank smile: "Sixty taels of silver?" ”
"Girl, it's sixty wen, not sixty taels." The man smiled helplessly, he also wanted to sell sixty taels of silver.
After he reminded her, her head, which was still short-circuited just now, finally regained her senses, lowered her head and opened the money bag, took out a tael of silver from it, and handed it to the man.
The man found out forty wen, put the hen in a small cloth bag, handed it to her, and said with a smile: "Girl, you and your father-in-law are going well." ”
"Thank you." Yuan Qing took the cloth bag and said with a light smile.
"Bring it and I'll take it." Li Chen said lightly, and took the cloth bag containing the hen in Yuan Qing's hand.
Yuan Qing didn't seem to feel anything, and the seller said again: "Girl, your father-in-law is really good to you." "I gave her a large bag of silver before, and I didn't hesitate to take it, and now I take the initiative to help her carry things, such a good man is really extinct in the world......
Yuan Qing didn't say anything, just smiled faintly, and turned to leave. Damn, when did he treat me well? It's either a cold face, or a blow to me openly and secretly. But when you think about it, he seems to be pretty good to her.
The two walked out of the chicken and duck store, they only bought a hen, the duck or something, at this time, most of the people who came to Wancheng to catch the market were ready to go home, and the hour was almost in the afternoon.
"Do you want to buy anything?" Li Chen asked.
"Well, I don't have to buy anything." Yuan Qing pondered for a moment.
"Then go home." Li Chen said.
"Oh, okay." Yuan Qing nodded and followed beside him.
They had just walked a few steps when they saw a young man's voice shouting in front of a stall on the side of the road: "Brother Li, Sister Yuan." ”
Hearing the sound, the two stopped and looked at the sound, it was a thirteen-year-old boy, his face was handsome, he was indeed thin and pale, sick, and it made people feel distressed.
"Xiaoyuan, you're here." Yuan Qing looked at the young man and said with a smile on his eyebrows.
"Yes, sister." Xiao Yuan walked from the stall, and he had a sense of intimacy like a big sister to Yuan Qing.
"Brother Li, Miss Yuan." At this time, a girl turned around, she looked at the two of them with a smile, her eyebrows and eyes were beautiful, and her red lips were dandan.
"Miss Xiao, are you going to come to Wancheng with Xiaoyuan to catch the market?" Yuan Qing said with a light smile.
"Yes, my father just passed away, and there are still a lot of trivial things at home." Xiao Mo said, her voice was thin and soft, and every voice seemed to be able to enter people's hearts.
"Oh, have you bought it then? You and your big brother Li are going home, if you buy it, we will go back together. Yuan Qingdao said.
"Disturbed." Xiao Mo smiled lightly, and turned her gaze to Li Chen, Li Chen can be regarded as a great benefactor of her family, her father was loyal to him during his lifetime, after his death, their family did not have any savings, it was this person who helped them a lot, the grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by a spring, and Li Chen's kindness to her Xiao family is not the grace of dripping water?
Li Chen still didn't have any expression, maybe he was used to being noble, and he rarely smiled at others. Xiao Mo saw that his handsome face was like ice, and smiled faintly at him: "I'll buy some things with Xiaoyuan, and it will be fine right away." Then she turned around again and went to the stall next to her to buy something.
But after a while, Xiao Mo bought something, turned around, and said, "I've been waiting for a long time." ”
"Soon, since you've bought all the things, let's go." Yuan Qingdao.
The four of them walked slowly.
"Miss Xiao, what kind of medicine did you buy?" Yuan Qing seemed to smell a smell of herbs, so he asked, don't forget that Yuan Qing knew herbs before.
"These herbs are sold to Xiaoyuan, who has been weak and sick since he was a child, and the doctor said that he needs to drink some herbs to break the roots." Xiao Mo said. To be continued