Two of the women and brothers who sat on the ox cart together have been observing Du Qiyue, Du Qiyue used to be one of the rarest young men in this Liushuwan Village, these women and brothers have girls and brothers of the right age at home, and they have more or less thoughts about Du Qiyue, and they didn't recruit Du Qiyue as a son-in-law, not to mention how much it is not a taste in their hearts. But now they see that the feelings in Du Qiyue's hearts have disappeared, but they are replaced by complex feelings such as sympathy and schadenfreude.

There were two women with many mouths and tongues, and when they saw Du Qiyue take out the cake, they swallowed their saliva, and they wanted to ask one to eat, but they couldn't pull their faces. I thought to myself, such an unlucky boy who died with his father, shouldn't you live such a hard life, and now you can still eat such good cakes, they haven't eaten such cakes yet!

One of the women couldn't bear her temper, so she said to Du Qiyue: "Du family boy, you have been sick for so many days, why didn't I see your uncle's family go to see you, and your future Yue family didn't come to see you, tsk, why do you say they are so cold-hearted, it's really pitiful." ”

This sounds like a grievance for Du Qiyue, but in fact, he is stabbing Du Qiyue, saying that he is pitiful and no one cares. This woman obviously knows the character of the original owner, and the person who is so proud in the heart of the original owner will definitely feel uncomfortable when he hears this, but Du Qiyue didn't feel uncomfortable at all, he looked at the woman, and said with a sincere face: "Aunt Qi, I heard that your brother A Shu followed a blacksmith master, then he can make farm tools for your family in the future, then he can save a lot of money!" Congratulations. ”

The woman who was called the aunt of the Qi family by Du Qiyue was called Wang Sanxiang, because the husband's surname was the only one in the village with the surname Qi, so everyone called her the aunt of the Qi family. When Wang Sanxiang heard Du Qiyue's words, her eyes widened suddenly, and her face turned red with anger.

A few days ago, Wang Sanxiang's son Qi Shu did pull an old blacksmith in the town, and he had said that he was going to be an apprentice, but when she came to her, she ran to the old blacksmith and told the old blacksmith that her son had been sick when he was a child, and he didn't have the strength to make iron, so he sent some li, so he sent his son to be an apprentice. Two days ago, Wang Sanxiang knew that there was a big fuss at home, and wanted her nephew to give back the apprenticeship to her son, but her husband came back from the field and beat her, saying that it was the same for anyone in the family to be the blacksmith apprentice, and if she made any more trouble, she would divorce her. Wang Sanxiang has a good face, she has lost her face this time, she has been hiding at home for the past two days, and today she also knew that the people in the village had almost finished talking about her before she came out, but I didn't expect Du Qiyue to say this, and she was angry and wanted to stand up and scold.

A brother sitting next to Wang Sanxiang reached out and pressed Wang Sanxiang's shoulder, and said, "What are you doing on the bumpy road?" ”

This brother's name is Luo Qiongyu, it is the village chief husband of this Liushuwan Village, he has a very fierce temperament, few women and brothers in this village dare to provoke him, Wang Sanxiang was held down by him, and he shrank his head and did not dare to scold.

Luo Momo withdrew his hand with satisfaction, looked at Du Qiyue with a smile, and asked, "How did Xiao Yue get to the town today, is she in good health?" ”

Most of the people in Liushuwan Village are surnamed Du, and they are somewhat related by blood, so Du Qiyue still has to call the village chief uncle, he saw Luo Momo helping him, so he smiled and said: "Luo Momo, I'm all right, this time I went to the town to buy something." I asked the Huzi family to help me collect rape, and I packed the food, so I went to buy some meat and came back. ”

"Yes, your uncle said last night that he was worried that no one would help you harvest those rapeseeds, but now it's okay, you have Uncle Qing and Zhao Momo who are good to you, you have to remember." Luo Momo likes Du Qiyue very much, and he thought about hiring his youngest daughter to Du Qiyue, but he was one step faster by the Qian family, and now he feels a little regretful when he thinks about it.

"I remember, if it weren't for Uncle Qing and Zhao Momo taking care of me, I might still be lying in bed now!" Du Qiyue said that he was grateful to Zhao Momo's family in his heart, if it wasn't for Zhao Momo who found the original owner who was in a coma and invited a doctor, it is estimated that he would have died of illness when he walked through, how could he still be as alive as he is now.

Then Du Qiyue became the talking point on this ox cart, although everyone avoided talking about the deceased Du Fugui and Zhao Momo, but they were all talking about the Qian family. One of the women was married from Liushutun Village, and she went back to her parents' house a few days ago, saying that she saw Qian Yin making a wedding dress for herself, and the fabric used was fine silk cloth, and the embroidery was done with her heart. also said that the Qian family prepared a lot of dowry, and the dowry box was placed in a room, it seems that this time it is going to be a beautiful wedding, and Du Qiyue is going to have good luck. Du Qiyue's heart was disgusted when he heard this, the preparations made by the Qian family were not to marry him, but to marry the merchants in that town.

The ox cart took more than an hour to reach the gate of the town, as soon as the car stopped, Du Qiyue jumped to the ground, he really couldn't bear this ox cart anymore, the road that used to ride a bicycle for up to half an hour, this ox cart actually walked leisurely for more than an hour, and it was very bumpy, he was sore all over his body, and his feet were numb.

Du Qiyue shook his arms and moved his hands, squatted down again, and began to rub his feet, Huzi knew that Du Qiyue had not been used to sitting in an ox cart since he was a child, so he pulled people to the side of the road and said: "Let's rest here, it's still early, and it is estimated that many people in the town have not gotten up yet." ”

"Alright then, let's rest for a while, my feet are a little numb." Du Qiyue said, squatting on the ground again and began to rub his feet, but this time his eyes were not idle, and he looked around curiously.

The town that Du Qi loved was called Dahu Town, and it is said that it was named because there was a very large lake in the town. This Dahu Town is very different from the ancient appearance that Du Qiyue saw in costume films before, and the city gate alone is very different. Usually in costume films, there is just a bare city gate, with a few soldiers standing at the gate, and then one by one the people either carry things or lead donkeys and horses or drive cars into the city. The gates of this Great Lake town were not guarded by soldiers, and the gates were not bare, but a large fence and livestock sheds were built for those who entered the city to store their cattle.

Because many people who come to the city will bring ox carts and donkey carts to hurry, but it is very inconvenient to walk on the street with these empty carts after entering the city, so many people will pay five cents to store the ox carts and donkey carts in the zài livestock shed, and there are not only the chariots and horses in the yamen to help watch, but also people to help feed a meal of forage.

Du Shisan's ox cart was sent to the cattle shed, and he handed it to the city gate chariot and horse servant in charge of registration to register the name of the sender, the village to which it belonged, and the time of sending the car, and the ox cart was pulled into the shed by the small servant and locked with a thin chain to the rope that was tied around the cow's neck. The keys of the chains are branded with words, which are the same as the words on the key plate, the chariot and horse maid gave the key plate to Du Thirteen, and then put the used key string on an iron rod at the corner of the table, and the car was completed. When it was time to go out of the city to get the car, Du 13 only had to give the key plate to the chariot and horseman, and the chariot and horse servant would take the key to the little guy and get the ox cart according to the words on the key plate.

Du Qiyue rested for a few minutes before his legs eased up, and followed Huzi into the city. The name of the alley doesn't sound very good, but the people who live there are all good. The streets there are also quite lively, Du Qiyue walked all the way to see, there were all kinds of small stalls selling food and clothing on both sides of the road, the stall owners were not shouting to greet guests, the whole street was simply noisy.

Du Qiyue was not interested in others, so his eyes were focused on those small stalls selling food, only to see that there were those who sold door oil, chrysanthemum, wide coke, side thickness and other varieties of baked cakes, some sold steamed cakes, sugar cakes, fitting, leading plates and other varieties of oil cakes, there were those who sold bamboo shoots and fern wontons, grouted steamed buns, thin-skinned spring cocoon buns, Taixue steamed buns and other steamed buns, there were those who sold Qibao vegetarian porridge, five-flavor meat porridge, jelly bean porridge, cake porridge and other porridge products, there were those who sold chestnut dumplings, water balls, honey cakes, puff cakes and other pastries, and there were pickled vegetables such as ginger oil, trough Qiongzhi, light salt, fat and spicy vegetables, etc. There are fruit snacks such as orange ointment, two-color fragrant lotus root, honey, sugar peas, etc., each of which looks extremely delicious.

Huzi saw that there was a snow-white milk cake sold at the pastry stall, and thought that neither his brother nor his brother had eaten this thing, so he wanted to go over and buy a piece, but he took out the copper plate in his pocket and counted it, and he was deflated, he only had fifteen yuan, but he couldn't afford to buy milk cake.

Du Qiyue saw that he was counting the money and sighing, so he asked, "Brother Huzi, what do you want to buy?" ”

"I want to buy a milk cake for me and Brother Liu, but that thing is too expensive, and I don't have enough money." Huzi said.

As the name suggests, milk cake is a pastry made with dairy products, that is, milk, a piece of milk cake as thick as an inch and a finger will sell for more than 30 yuan, which is very expensive, and Huzi's money is definitely not enough to buy.

In Du Qiyue's opinion, the white sugar cake with a little milk is really worthless, but in Dafeng Chaoniu is a noble animal, and the buffalo here in Dahu Town are all raised with little milk, so the milk is also quite expensive, which also makes the dairy products here ridiculously expensive.

Du Qiyue's father used to work in the largest restaurant in Dahu Town, called Zuifu Building, it is said that it was opened by a wealthy merchant in Dadu, and many such restaurants have opened in various places, large and small, as long as a new restaurant is opened, most of them will send cooks out. One year, a restaurant was opened in Qingtian County, which is further south than Dahu Town, and most of the cooks sent out passed by Zuifu Lou in Dahu Town when they went there, and lived there for a few days. That's two hundred yuan, two hundred taels of silver, you must know that the farmers in Liushuwan Village who only rely on farming to support their families are already satisfied with spending five or six percent all year round, and two hundred yuan is not earning in a lifetime.

Looking at the custard cake on the stall, Du Qiyue touched his pocket, he didn't have much money today, probably not enough to buy, so he patted Huzi's arm and said: "I remember that the ewe of the prey Dashan family in our village gave birth to cubs two days ago, and after we went back, we went to ask them to buy some goat milk, and I will make milk cakes for everyone to eat." ”

Huzi scratched his head and said, "Isn't the milk cake made of milk, made of goat's milk?" Besides, how fishy is that goat's milk, can you make it eat? ”

"Sure, I'm not going to spoil things." Du Qiyue assured.