Chapter XVII
Sun Yang almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.
But Sun Chen didn't have time to care about this.
After sending away his grandmother, who had nothing to do, he lay down on the thatched bunk on the ground alone after freshening up, and he had not burned the two kangs in the house, although the outside was dry, the inside was still wet.
Alas, the brain is too excited, what if some can't sleep?
I knew that I wouldn't refuse Da Zhuang's request to come over, so I could still chat. However, if Da Zhuang had followed, he would not have sent Sun Yang's old lady away so neatly, because he was afraid that he would show his stuffing in front of him, so he would have to be more or less restrained.
There is also Sun Zhou, a cheap father, Sun Yang's going back with his breath like this will definitely not make him feel better, alas, sympathize with him for a second~
There is really nothing in this house, it seems that tomorrow in addition to going to the blacksmith shop to play some darts for hunting, you must also add some necessities, I don't know how much Uncle Tie Li can get by selling the prey, whether it is enough ~
Thinking like this, Sun Chen fell asleep in a daze in the second half of the night, and when Da Zhuang came to call him, he barely opened his eyes.
"Why don't you get up so late, didn't you say okay yesterday, go to my house for dinner early, let's go to town together?" Da Zhuang looked at him with disgust.
"Uh......" Sun Chen was a little embarrassed.
"Hurry up, hurry up, there's something good for you."
"What's good?" Knowing in his heart that it must be Uncle Tie Li who helped him sell the copper plate of his prey, Sun Chen still pretended not to know.
"Na!" Da Zhuang took out a cloth bag from his bosom and took out the copper plates one by one, "Your two rabbits have a total of nine catties, nine wen and one catty, and you have eighty-one copper plates, and the pheasant weighs three and a half catties, and ten copper plates weigh one catty, and the two add up to a total of one hundred and sixteen copper plates." ”
"Look, these are mine, and I have a hundred and three copper plates!" The first time he got so much money, Da Zhuang was so excited that he danced, "You said let's go to the town later, what should we buy?" ”
"Darts cost a lot of money, right? Let's buy the darts first, and then let's buy something else. Sun Chen threw down the willow branch used to brush his teeth, rinsed his mouth fiercely to get rid of the smell in his mouth, and then reminded him while washing his face.
"I asked the second uncle, and he said that although the darts we want don't use much iron, they need to be customized, not only the time to pick up the goods is long, the salary will not be low, at least ten copper plates are needed!" Speaking of this, Da Zhuang was a little reluctant, "Or ...... Let's make a few less sticks and make do with them first? ”
"So expensive?" Sun Chen frowned, a kitchen knife is only sold for ten wen here, and the same heavy iron, but it can make two or three darts! "Shall we do six branches by one of us? Less is inappropriate. ”
"Okay, listen to you!" Da Zhuang responded, "Let's go, we're all waiting for the two of us at home!" ”
Sun Zhou gave himself 300 wen, and there were still 30 wen left in the house of 500 wen for selling turtles, and Sun Chen took it with him before leaving home with Da Zhuang.
After eating with Aunt Zhuzi, Sun Chen and Da Zhuang, as well as Erniu and Yanzi, all followed Lin Tieli to the town.
In fact, there are special people who drive ox carts to transport the villagers in the town, but they need three yuan per person for the journey, and the five of them have to pay fifteen yuan together, according to Sun Chen's meaning, the money will be paid, but the rest of the people are a little reluctant, and Sun Chen has no choice but to follow them to catch the eleventh car.
Along the way, Sun Chen, who couldn't stop thinking about all kinds of transportation in modern society, dragged his two legs and finally came to the town in an hour and a half, that is, three hours later.
Look at the side, except for Lin Tieli, who was only slightly wheezing, the other ones were in a similar situation to himself, and he was half dead tired.
"Let's take the ox cart when we go home, I'm tired!"
After taking out the water in the basket and drinking a few sips, they gradually eased up.
The blacksmith's shop is on the outskirts of the town, and it is not a small place, but it is nothing more than a large shack made of wooden planks.
When Sun Chen and the others entered, just in time for the lack of guests, they saw two shirtless strong men under the shack, one carrying a big iron hammer, alternately throwing his arms at the red-hot iron block. Pick it up more than a dozen times, and then use pliers to put the iron into the red hearth, and then clamp it out when the iron is red again, and repeat the cycle.
The owner of the blacksmith shop, Lao Lei, who was one of the two blacksmiths, heard Sun Chen say his request, and he discussed it with another blacksmith, who was also his brother, before he opened his mouth to tell Sun Chen and them the price.
"Although this dart is not made of many materials, it is not easy to build, and you only need twelve, and you must give me a total of a hundred copper plates."
"The copper plate will not be less of yours, just make things better, especially the top, it must be sharper." This is really an unexpected surprise, Sun Chen and the others originally thought that they would need at least one hundred and twenty copper plates, but this time it is twenty less than the budget, and they can buy a lot of things if they save it!
"You can rest assured that no one has said that they are dissatisfied with the things that came out of our Lei family's blacksmith shop!" Lao Lei patted his chest and promised. "You come and get it in three days, if it's not good, you won't charge money!"
Sun Chen bought a hoe from here that had already been laid, and handed over 12 wen, and the two acres of land allocated to him needed to hoe the grass once.
Leaving the blacksmith shop, Lin Tieli led them to the street where daily necessities were sold, and it was very lively with people coming and going.
Because the things to be bought were different, they agreed on a time and place to meet later, and they went their separate ways.
Sun Chen led his sister and was the first to come to the place where clothes and fabrics were sold.
Each person bought the cheapest finished clothes, and at the request of the second girl, they pulled the fabric back and made another one for each person, which cost forty-eight yuan. Thinking that there were still two sets of quilts missing, he pulled the quilt and ten catties of cotton, and planned to go back and ask Aunt Zhu to help sew it, and it cost another sixty-nine yuan.
Erniu picked out a large number of small pieces of cloth in the corner of the store, saying that it was used to hold the soles of shoes, plus the things in front, and gave a total of 120 yuan to the shopkeeper of the cloth village.
Pots and bowls can still be used, but the condiments at home are only salty salt, there is no rice jar at all, and there is not a grain of rice, there is not much cornmeal, and oil also needs to be bought, these things add up to a total of 134 yuan, Sun Chen said it badly, so he asked the shopkeeper to erase the fraction of 4 yuan and collect 130 yuan.
They went to the place where needlework was sold, bought needlework and thimble for their sister, and spent thirteen yuan, and at a small stall on the street, Sun Chen spent six yuan to buy a wooden hairpin for his sister, which looked quite exquisite, and the top was carved with a blooming begonia flower. After thinking about it, I bought another one with a rose carved on the top, which is also counted as Liuwen.
Passing by a shop selling pastries, Sun Chen's brother and sister went in and bought two catties of sugar cakes, which cost 18 yuan.
"Do we have anything else to buy?" Sun Chen asked his sister.
"Let's do these first, we can slowly tinker with other things, don't spend money."
Erniu didn't know how much money her brother had in his hand, but looking at the things they were carrying in big bags and small bags, and then looking at the increasingly deflated cloth bag in his hand, she knew that there wouldn't be much left.