Chapter 589: Calling for Rice (20)
"Tong Suo is not bullied, give me two catties." A middle-aged man asks for two pounds of horse meat.
"What do you want two pounds?" The middle-aged man didn't say that horse meat was still horse intestines or something, so the housekeeper asked.
"Horse meat, come to two catties of horse meat, wrap a dumpling and try it." The middle-aged man returned.
"Buy more, is two catties enough to eat?" The housekeeper asked.
"Enough, buy as bad as you want." The middle-aged man returned.
"Okay, cut it." The guest asked for two catties, and the housekeeper cut two catties. The housekeeper dragged the meat, but he couldn't cut the meat accurately, and estimated that he had cut the piece. He picks up the meat and weighs it for the guests.
After weighing the scales, the housekeeper said, "Two catties and three taels are more." The housekeeper smiled, his estimate was okay, two catties and three taels, not too much difference. He said: "Two catties and three taels, count you as two catties." The village government sells horse meat and gives preferential treatment to the villagers. ”
"Okay, okay." The middle-aged man replied, "You put a rope on me." ”
The steward took the meat and tied it to him, and handed it to him. The middle-aged man took the meat, took a look, signaled to the housekeeper, and turned around.
"I've cut this tender meat, I have to have three or four catties, right?" The woman carries a large piece of meat.
The middle-aged man left, the housekeeper looked at him, the man walked more than ten steps, and the housekeeper shouted, "Hey, haven't you paid yet?" ”
The middle-aged man stopped, looked back, and the butler turned to pick up the meat and ran away.
"Huh?" The butler did not expect that this man would not pay for the meat. The man ran away, but the butler did not chase him, he said, "This man." Forget it, just give it to him for nothing. ”
The butler said, "The meat is tender." When he had finished speaking, he reached for the meat. He asked, "How many pounds do you want?" ”
"Let's have three or four pounds." Women only need three or four pounds.
"Selling horse meat!" The butler shouted with his knife and went over to cut the meat. The housekeeper still estimated that she would cut a large piece down. The butler put down the knife and weighed the meat on the scale.
The butler carried the scale in one hand and the other and said, "How cheap is this meat?" The housekeeper looked over there and looked at the middle-aged man, who was somewhere and might have entered the alley.
The women did not squeak. Looking at the horse meat on the side, he felt that the horse meat was not good horse meat, so he looked at it for a while and left. Why do you think horse meat is not good horse meat, because it is sold cheaply?
There were only women left in front of the car, and the housekeeper weighed the meat and said, "Three and a half catties." After speaking, the housekeeper carried the scale and pinched the weighing rope to show the woman, and said, "Look, is it three and a half catties?" ”
The woman didn't know how to look at the scales, and she said, "All right, tie it up." ”
The steward put the scales and took ropes to tie the flesh to the women. After tying the meat, the butler handed it to the woman and said, "Give the money first and then take it." ”
Looking at the housekeeper, the woman was taking out the money, and she said, "Look at what you said, and I won't buy it if you say it." ”
When the butler saw that the woman did not look like the man, he smiled and said, "You take it first, you take it first." ”
The woman did not take it, but first took out the money for the steward, counted seven copper coins, and gave them to the steward. The steward took the money, and the woman took the meat. The woman turned to leave, and the housekeeper said, "Go slowly, it's not enough to buy again." ”
The woman didn't speak, but walked away quickly with her meat.
The guests all left, and none of them gave money. Looking at the street, the housekeeper shouted: "Sell horse meat, two copper plates for a catty, two copper plates for a catty!" ”
"Selling horse meat, two copper plates a catty!" The housekeeper looked north and south at the street.
The butler shouted, and some more people gathered, four or five. Four or five, three of them bought horse meat, and horse meat was cheap, so people were willing to buy it, and the rest did not buy it, and I don't know why?
After they had gone, the steward shouted again, calling for his horse's meat, two copper plates and a pound.
When meat is cheap, people want to come. If this horse had been killed in the morning, it would have been sold out in one day.
Some people gathered in front of the car, some bought and some did not. If you don't buy it, you can take a look and leave, and if you buy it, one person carries a few catties. The guests were greeted, and the butler patted the money bag, which had some more money.
Qian Xiwu put on his shoes, not for anything else, he smelled it himself, but he didn't want to smell it, so he put his shoes on.
"Your feet must be washed at night." Why don't you sit there and say.
"Do you want to wash at the inn at night?" Qian Xi asked.
"The inn can be washed and bathed." Why don't you look at Qian Xiwu's shoes.
"Then at the inn, even wash him with his feet and bath." Qian Xiwu wanted to wash his feet and bathe in the inn.
If you want to wash your feet and bathe in the inn, why don't you think about it, it doesn't cost anything to wash in the inn? The village government paid for it. He Bufan put his nose and said, "I will also take a foot and take a bath at the inn at night." ”
"Why don't you wash it too?" Qian Xi asked.
Looking at the housekeeper, why didn't he say: "The village government pays money, who doesn't wash it for nothing?" ”
Qian Xiwu looked at the housekeeper: "Are you washing like this?" ”
"It doesn't cost anything." Why don't you look at the housekeeper.
He Feng listened to it over there, smiled, he thought about it, he was at the inn at night, and he also washed his feet and bathed.
Why didn't Fan glance at the courtyard and say, "Fei Teng, who has a wounded mouth, can't come out?" ”
Qian Xiwu looked back, "He drinks porridge slowly and has no front teeth." ”
Fei Teng drank porridge in the kitchen, and he was almost finished. The two of them went to the thatched house to go back to the kitchen, and then left, and Fei Teng said hello to them. The two of them answered him.
Sitting on a stool, drinking porridge spoonful by spoonful, each spoonful is not so fast.
"Okay, you have to put on dentures, this mouth can't be toothless." Without teeth, Fei Teng felt that he had to drink porridge hard.
The meat was cheap, the housekeeper shouted, those who came to see came to buy, and some people left and some people came. The butler cut the meat and weighed the meat for the guests, and tied ropes to them. At this time, a fat man came, dressed well, with a pipe in his mouth, and a basket with a guy behind him.
The guests took the meat, gave the butler the money and left. Two men stood by and watched, looking at the meat in the wagon, but did not buy it.
"Two copper plates and a pound of meat?" The fat man with the pipe asked, taking a puff of his cigarette.
"Two copper plates for a pound." The butler replied to him.
"Is this horse meat?" The fat man with the pipe asked.
"Horse meat." The butler replied to him.
"I'm running a tavern." Said the fat man with the pipe.
"I'm the village housekeeper." The butler replied to him.
The fat man with the pipe clenched his fist and shook it at the butler, biting the pipe in his mouth, one eye half-open and half-closed by the smoke, "Butler." ”
When the butler saw this, he clasped his fists at him and lowered his hands. He looked at the guy with the basket next to him and asked, "How much meat do you buy?" ”
The fat man clenched his fist in his hand, bit his pipe, closed one eye, looked at the basket that the man was carrying, and said, "Look at the meat, buy more." ”
The butler had already put his hand down when he clenched his fist, and the fat man put his hand down, took a puff of his dry pipe, and went to see the meat on the carriage. The meat was fresh, and he could see it as soon as he saw it. He wanted to buy more, and he bought it and made it for the guests to eat.
When the butler saw that the man was dressed, that he was fat and that he had a good pipe, and that he was carrying a basket with a fellow behind him, he knew at first sight that he would buy more. "If you look at the meat, it's all good meat. No matter what it is, it's two copper plates and a pound. ”
The tavern keeper took a fancy to the flesh on both sides of the horse's backbone, and the horse's backbone was cut off, and he said, "I want the meat on both sides of the backbone, and I want the meat on both sides of the backbone." If the housekeeper is troublesome, let me cut it. The shopkeeper pointed to his fellows.