When the steward saw the worker, he went to the stone table in the courtyard and took the borrowed scale. Then Fei Teng also asked him: "Does the housekeeper sell meat with scales?" The butler replied, "Uh-huh." ”

After replying to Fei Teng's words, the butler took the scale and went to the cart of horse meat, and put the scale on the cart first. What else is the disadvantage of wanting to sell horse meat?

"Knives, you have to have a knife to cut meat when selling horse meat." The butler turned his head from side to side, trying to borrow a knife from the shopkeeper. When he saw that there was a knife seller on the other side, he said to himself, "It's better to buy a knife than to borrow it." ”

The butler went to the knife stall and said, "Buy a knife to cut meat." ”

The stall owner stared at the butler, and estimated that he had bought a knife to cut the flesh of the carriage. He said, "You pick." ”

The housekeeper fancy a sharp knife that can cut flesh and cut bones. He stretched out his hand and took the knife, and said, "I will sell horse meat, and I will give you money after selling horse meat." I am the housekeeper of the village office. ”

The knife seller thought about it, looked at the cart and the horse, looked at the butler in front of him, and replied: "Okay." ”

"Thank you" The butler turned the knife upside down and threw a punch at the stall owner. The stall owner smiled at him and returned the salute with a smile.

The butler returned to the carriage with a knife and shouted, "Sell horse meat!" Two copper plates are a catty, regardless of the horse's head, legs, loin, ribs, intestines, all two copper plates are a catty. ”

The housekeeper hadn't sold vegetables for a long time, and he stood there stiffly shouting, a little uncomfortable. With a sharp knife in his hand, he shouted loudly. At first, no one wanted to come near him.

After shouting for a while, someone passed. In the past, he was a fat man about forty years old, with a bare chest and back, a big belly, black and red skin, as if he had drunk alcohol.

The man did not go fast, passed the butler, went to the carriage, and looked at the horse meat in the carriage, which was fresh and smelled of fresh meat. The man asked, "Are they two copper plates a catty?" ”

Seeing that a guest was coming, the housekeeper stopped shouting, and he said: "It's all two copper plates and a catty, no matter what kind of meat, horse head, horse leg, loin, ribs, intestines." ”

"What's that heart, it's also two copper plates a catty?" The guest asked, pointing to the organs in the ribs.

"It's all two copper plates and a pound." The butler went to see with a knife.

Horse meat is cheap, and this man has a question, why is it cheap? He addressed the question to the butler. The steward replied, "This is the horse of the village government, the horse's foot was broken, and the village master healed the wound of the horse, and then killed the horse and sold meat." ”

The housekeeper said: "Two copper plates and one catty, because this horse meat is sold by the village government, and the village government sells it to the villagers, so it can't be sold expensive." ”

"I see." The man pointed to a horse's leg: "Give me a horse's leg." ”

The shopkeeper crept into the construction site and stared at the housekeeper. He went up to the two of them and said, "You two go to the backyard." ”

"Shopkeeper, what are you doing in the backyard, please give me instructions." Both of them are the same.

The shopkeeper replied: "Don't do anything, you two go over." ”

The shopkeeper let him pass, there must be something. The two families didn't ask much and put down the work in their hands. Go out to the construction site.

He Bufan, Qian Xiwu, He Feng, listened, I don't know what is going on? Seeing the two families out of the construction site, the shopkeeper went out to see that they and the housekeeper left the construction site after the two families.

When they arrived at the courtyard, the two went straight to the backyard, and the shopkeeper followed them.

The Fei Teng sat on the chair and looked back, wondering what was the matter with them? Look at this family and the shopkeeper disappeared behind the room.

"What's the matter?" Why not fan the hammer in his hand and ask.

Qian Xiwu withdrew his head from the side of the house and said, "I won't be allowed to do any work?" ”

"What's the matter?" Why not fan smash down the wall with a light swing.

I don't know what happened, Hefeng turned his head back and did his job.

Qian Xi clenched his fists on May 1 and spat on the tiger's mouth, thinking what was the matter?

The steward went and took the horse's leg and gave it to the man. The housekeeper used to set up a stall, sold vegetables or something, and weighed the scales. After the housekeeper weighed it, he said how many catties, and after calculating, he told this person how much money.

Two copper plates of horse meat are a pound, which is suitable. The man took out the money, gave it to the butler, and said, "Do you have a rope, tie a few more, and I'll carry it home." ”

The steward sells meat in a hurry, the scales are borrowed by the steward, the knife is on credit, and the meat is sold without rope or wrapping paper. "There is no rope," he said. ”

This horse has big legs and oil, so it can't be carried or carried, and if it is carried, it will dirty clothes and dirty hands. This man said: "How can you take this game without a rope?" ”

The housekeeper looked south of the street to see where there were stalls selling groceries. He said, "Wait a while, I'll use your money to buy some rope." ”

This man wants to buy this leg, it is suitable. He said, "Okay, you go." ”

The butler turned back to Fei Teng in the courtyard and shouted, "Help me watch the horse meat for a while, and I'll go back as soon as I go." After speaking, the butler did not wait for Fei Teng to answer, and turned to go.

Fei Teng just wanted to respond, and when he saw the housekeeper leaving, he answered softly, but he didn't know if the housekeeper heard it?

The butler walked south, carrying a sharp knife in one hand and money in the other. Came to a grocery stall. The stall owner of the grocery stall saw the housekeeper standing in front of him with a knife in one hand and money in the other, and he was stunned for a moment, and then saw that the housekeeper was not like a wicked person.

The housekeeper said: "Is there a rope, I sell meat, and I carry the rope for meat." ”

"Yes, here." The stall owner took a handful of rope for the butler.

This rope is the rope that ties the meat and carries the meat, and the housekeeper asked the price, gave more than half of the money, and bought one. The steward resigned from the stall owner, and walked back with a knife in one hand and the rest of the money and the rope he had bought. The stall owner also gave him a gift: "The guest officer walks slowly." ”

The butler returned with the rope he had bought, threw the rope knife into the cart, took out some of his money from his trouser pocket and stuffed it into his belt, and then stuffed the money from the sale of meat into his trouser pocket. After loading the money, the butler took three ropes and went to tie the horse meat for the guests.

After tying the horse meat, the butler picked up the horse's leg and said, "Give you horse meat." ”

The man snorted and took the horse's meat. Look at the horse meat in the carriage before leaving.

The guests left, and the housekeeper looked at Daonan to see if the workers had returned? There are no carriages in the south, and there is no shadow of workers. The housekeeper went to see the construction site, Qian Xiwu and the three of them worked slowly again, and the two family members were gone.

The housekeeper said, "You can do it again, and when the workers come back, you will stop and go to the inn to eat together." ”

It's not because he's lazy, but because he doesn't know what those two guys are doing?

After listening to the housekeeper's words, Qian Xi Wu said: "Housekeeper, those two family members are gone?" ”

"What are they doing?" The housekeeper asked.

"I don't know, his shopkeeper called it." Qianxi five times.

The housekeeper looked behind the rooms on both sides of his house and said, "There may be something, you do your work, don't worry about others." ”

The housekeeper spoke, He Feng, Qian Xiwu, and He Bufan, they were all working again, and they were still thinking in their minds, what did the shopkeeper ask the two families to do? is doing work, so why not ask: "His family doesn't cook anymore?" ”

Here is adjacent to the street, there are everything sold on the street, and there are also restaurants that stir-fry vegetables, and the fragrance is wafting. Na Hefeng said: "His family seems to be cooking, right?" ”

"Are you going to call for dinner?" He Bufan swung a few hammers at the root of the wall.

"At this time, some people have already eaten, I guess right?" He Feng said as he worked.

"Eating with us on your back?" Qian Xiwu said with a few swings of his hammer at the base of the wall.

Whether his family is eating has not yet been determined, He Bufan waved two hammers and said: "You can't jump to conclusions, maybe it's eating behind our backs, right?" ”