The ox cart finally entered the town, Lin Dazhu parked the ox at the house of an acquaintance, and told everyone that it was time to go back, and everyone got off the car.

Although it is a town, it does not look very prosperous, and there is no city wall, but most of the houses are brick and tile structure, which is much stronger than some mud houses in the village, and there are many shops on the street, and there are many small business people who also set up stalls on the street, but in the east of the town, there is a special place to open up as a vegetable market, and Aunt Li has to be there if she wants to specialize in eggs, and she also needs to pay a penny as a land occupation fee, and there are also long-term stall vendors, who pay monthly fees.

Lin Zhu and Ruyu followed Aunt Li inside, paid a penny first, took a sign as a voucher, and found an open space, because they came earlier, so they occupied a high position. Aunt Li took down the back basket, put it on the ground, exposed the eggs, and waited for someone to buy them. One after another, people came into the venue to put the things they brought, and there were more people who came to buy things, and some of them were the managers of large families who were responsible for purchasing, and such people bought a lot, and there would be people around them, and then there were people from the restaurant who came to buy, and the same amount was also very large. There are also residents of the town, and on the day of the market, there are more kinds of things sold in the market than usual, so people will come out to shop.

Lin Zhu noticed that Aunt Li's eggs were priced at two pennies, because they looked so fresh, they were all bought after a while, and more than forty eggs were sold for more than 20 cents.

After selling eggs, Aunt Li took Lin Zhu and Ruyu to go shopping, passing by the stall selling meat, and saw Ruyu staring at the meat from time to time, Aunt Li looked at her and smiled dotingly, and went to ask the butcher who sold meat, "How do you sell this meat?" Hearing this, Ruyu's eyes lit up immediately, and she immediately followed closely beside Aunt Li, "Fifteen Wen a pound for the fat point, and thirteen Wen a pound for the thin point." The butcher replied, "My meat is a pig that has just been slaughtered today, and where is it fresh, and which piece do you want?" Aunt Li looked at the meat on the meat table and pointed to the slightly fatter piece, "Cut me a pound from this piece, if you want to be fat, it will be fragrant." ”

Lin Zhu watched from the side, and found that there were well-divided pork on the meat table, the fat ones were put aside, the thin ones were put aside, and the shaved pork ribs were also put in the basket under the case, and there were pig offal and a few cleanly shaved stick bones in the basket under the case. The butcher skillfully divided the pork, and after a while, he weighed the piece that Aunt Li wanted, tied it with a straw rope, and put it in Aunt Li's back basket. After paying the money, Aunt Li looked at Ruyu with a smile, "I'm satisfied." "Well, that's great. When I go back, Daddy will be very happy. Ruyu's cheerful voice came immediately. Satisfied, Ruyu looked at Lin Zhu standing next to him and asked, "Xiaozhu, don't you buy some meat?" You're so skinny, you should buy some supplements. Hearing her words, Aunt Li glanced at Ruyu vigorously, but the naïve Ruyu didn't see it, "Well, you should buy some," Lin Zhu felt that she had to buy some meat to supplement her current body, so she said to the butcher: "Boss, give me a pound of fat, and then a pound of thin." As soon as her words fell, Aunt Li and Ruyu were a little stunned, feeling that she had bought too much, and just wanted to persuade her to buy less, but they heard Lin Zhu say, "How do you sell these ribs?" Without waiting for the butcher to reply, Aunt Li hurriedly stopped Lin Zhu, "Sister Zhu, you buy so much meat, and you still want to buy pork ribs?" How much does that cost? Why don't you come back and buy it again. "Aunt Li, don't worry, I know it in my heart." Lin Zhu smiled, rejected her proposal, and turned to the butcher again, "Pork ribs are worth a pound." Seeing that Lin Zhu still wanted to buy it, the butcher continued, "How much do you want?" Lin Zhu looked at the ribs on the case, asked the butcher to cut off the part of the back chop, weighed it about four catties, and thought that it should be enough to entertain the guests, so he asked the butcher to tie it up with a straw rope and the meat just weighed. Then he pointed to the bones of the stick and the pig entrails under his feet and asked, "How did you sell this?" The butcher saw that she had bought a lot, and said generously: "This is ten cents a pair, if you want it, give five cents." "I don't want anything else, just give me the pig heart, the pork liver and the stick bone." Lin Zhu declined his kindness, the pig heart and pork liver are relatively simple to clean up, and they are very delicious when boiled, but she really can't clean up the rest, and she can't get rid of the dirty smell if she can't get rid of it, and it is even more unpalatable to make. "It's okay, just give Erwen money." The butcher was also very bold and gave the price. A total of sixty-two yuan, Lin Zhu quickly paid the money. Because there was no basket or anything like that, I had to say to Aunt Li: "Aunt Li, can you put it here first, I will take it out after I buy the basket." ”

Seeing that Lin Zhu bought so much, Aunt Li was a little unhappy, but there were many people around, and it was not good to say anything, so she made up her mind to wait for a while, and when there were fewer people, she must warn Lin Zhu well, and she had to live a long life, so it was not okay to be extravagant. Took the meat and ribs and put them in the back basket, and took the lead and walked first. Ruyu saw that her mother's face was a little bad, and she followed her obediently. Lin Zhu saw Aunt Li's displeasure, and hurriedly followed.

It wasn't until she got out of the vegetable market and there were fewer people around her that Aunt Li stopped, stood opposite Lin Zhu, looked at her, and said solemnly: "Sister Zhu, I have to talk to you about some things, although I am not related to you, but in my eyes, you are juniors like Ruyu, so I can also say some things to you." Lin Zhu looked at Aunt Li's serious appearance, and knew that it was for the matter of buying meat just now, and just wanted to explain, and heard Aunt Li say: "It's not easy to live, you are alone, there are no elders in the family, and you are a child, it is normal to not understand, but now Auntie has to remind you, you can't spend money without moderation like this, I'm afraid you don't have much money saved, what should I do if I spend it?" You are so young and don't know the difficulty of making money, our peasant family is busy in the fields all year round, just for that harvest, it is not easy, the wind eats the sun, and it is very hard. You have to do this in the future, so you have to save some money, you have to spend it in important places, today you bought so much meat and ribs, how long do you have to eat a person, although it is almost September, but the day is still hot, at this time the meat is not released, if you can't eat it, what a pity. Lin Zhu listened to Aunt Li's words, her heart was very moved, just after seeing her twice, she paid so much attention to her, tears were about to flow out, she stabilized her emotions, and slowly said to Aunt Li, "Auntie, I was wrong, thank you, thank you, don't worry, I will definitely listen to you, and I will never spend money in the future." Seeing her bowing her head and admitting her mistake, Aunt Li couldn't bear to scold her anymore, "Okay, it's good that you know that you are wrong, let's go buy you quilts and clothes." "Yes, I have to buy new clothes for Xiaozhu, okay, okay, let's go." Ruyu saw that the atmosphere was not very good, so she hurriedly echoed, "Hmm" Lin Zhu's voice stagnated slightly.

"Sister Zhu, if you want me to say, it's better for you to buy some cloth and cotton to make your own quilt, it's more expensive to buy, and so are the clothes." Aunt Li thought about Lin Zhu from her heart, and gave her ideas on the way to Buzhuang, "I also know the Tao, but I don't know how to needlework, so I can't do it well." Lin Zhu was embarrassed to say, after all, people in this era, whether they are women or girls, will have several hands of needlework, and some people even make a living from it. It's okay, Xiaoyu and her sister and I will do it, and Hongwen's daughter-in-law will too, just help you do it together. Now the family is not busy, and it can be done in a day or two. "I don't know how to thank you, you have put so much effort into me." Lin Zhu's voice was a little choked.

"Don't worry too much about these things, you will learn more in the future, girls have to know it, and they won't be embarrassed by this kind of thing when they get married in the future. Xiaoyu won't either, blame me for being too used to her, in the future, the two of you will learn together, and you can learn fast as a partner. Seeing Ruyu who mentioned herself, she blushed a little, and didn't rely on Aunt Li: "I can't learn, mother, the needle prick's hand hurts so much, you feel sorry for your daughter, don't let me learn." "Okay, which girl's daughter doesn't take a needle and thread, don't let others laugh at me, go back to school."

While chatting and walking, soon arrived at the cloth village, the name of the cloth village is Kam Kee cloth village, into the store, found that there are many types of fabrics, linen, cotton cloth and silk are placed separately, and the store also doubles as an embroidery business, separated from the counter area where the cloth is placed. There are also a lot of people coming and going. It can be seen that business is very good. I heard Ruyu say that this is the only cloth village in the town, and the reputation is very good, so everyone buys it from here.

Lin Zhu first looked at the cotton cloth, coarse cloth and a little thinner cotton cloth, asked the guy in the store, the price difference is also very big, she looked at Aunt Li, asked her to help with the idea, Aunt Li took the lead in choosing a moderately priced fabric for her, and asked the guy if there was cotton to sell, after hearing the affirmative answer, he bought some cotton, but when buying the fabric for clothes, Lin Zhu wanted to buy muslin to make clothes, although it was more expensive, but the close-fitting clothes, she thought it was better to be more comfortable, Aunt Li thought about it and agreed, Girls have delicate skin, so they should dress well. The coat was made of general materials, and Lin Zhu agreed. In the end, it cost more than 100 yuan, because there were too many things, so the guy sent them to Lin Dazhu's ox cart. When they were just about to leave the cloth village, they saw the guy in the store take a large bag of things out of the village and throw them away, from the edge of the baggage, it should be some rags, and the leftovers left after cutting the cloth can no longer be used. There are still some brocade cloth heads in it, Lin Zhu suddenly thought that he could use these purses and the like, when he took out the purse to pay just now, the strange eyes of the guy and the sound of Ruyu's sullen laughter made her blush very much, and now she found some things that can be used and save some face, of course she can't let it go. She followed the fellow out of the house, and when she saw him take out the burden, she didn't throw it away, and hurriedly followed him to have a look.

When the guy saw that it was a little girl, he thought he was here to make trouble, so he wanted to blast her away, "Go, don't make trouble." "Are you going to throw it away?" Lin Zhu hurriedly asked him, "Of course not, someone asked for this." "Do you sell it too?" "Of course, it's a big bag of five cents, it's cheap, if you want it, I'll sell it to you." When the man saw her asking and asking, he teased her. "Give you five cents, sell me this." Lin Zhu immediately took out the money, and when the guy saw that she really wanted to buy it, he wanted to sell it to whoever he wanted, so he sold it to her with peace of mind.