Aunt Jiu on the side listened, looked at the small bodies of the brothers and sisters (the mule was stored in Jimin Hall), and said, "You two buy some necessary things first, and wait for your grandfather to come back, just find a chance to enter the city again!" Let's go cut some meat first, and we won't be able to buy a good one when it's late. Do you want to be together? ”

Gu Ye and Gu Ming didn't have a clue about the New Year's goods, so they could only follow Uncle Nine and Aunt Jiu, and what they bought, they would buy themselves.

A group of people came to the butcher shop in the middle of the vegetable field, which was already crowded with people, most of whom came from the mountains to buy New Year's goods. Among them, there are a few villagers from Qingshan Village.

Aunt Jiu pulled her daughter with one hand and Gu Ye with the other, and squeezed into the crowd. She opened her loud voice and shouted at the fat-headed and big-eared butcher: "Brother Li, come five catties of fat meat and two catties of lean meat!" ”

"Okay! Chrysanthemum girl, you came at the right time. This is the second pig that just came up, and it hasn't moved a catty! Look, how about this piece? "Butcher Li was close to Aunt Jiu's mother's family, and neatly cut a piece of pure fat meat for her in his hand, and hung it on the scale, five catties high. Then he weighed two catties of lean meat, wrapped it in oiled paper and handed it to Aunt Jiu.

Aunt Jiu gave the meat money, pulled Gu Ye to her side, and said loudly: "Xiao Ye'er, what do you want, hurry up and tell Uncle Li!" ”

Gu Ye had already taken a good look at it, she pointed to a whole piece of fat and thin pork belly and said, "Uncle Li, help me weigh this piece, I want it all!" And you cut it for me from here to here. And these four hooves......"

When Aunt Jiu saw the piece of pork belly, it was more than ten catties. There is also the lean meat she wants, there are five or six catties, and if you add the hooves, there are always twenty catties. And Gu Ye was still unsatisfied, and his fingers stretched out again.

"Xiao Ye'er, buy so much, can you finish eating for the New Year?" Aunt Jiu was afraid that the little girl didn't count in her heart and didn't have enough money to spend, so she couldn't help but remind her.

Gu Ye nodded very sincerely: "After eating, grandpa and my master both love meat!" "The point is, she loves to eat herself!

"What a filial child! This pig's trotter was given to you by Uncle Li! The butcher happily weighed the meat for her, took a pig's trotter from the stall, and put it on the weighed meat.

Gu Ye's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the remaining pig's trotters on the meat stall and said, "Uncle, how do you sell these pig's trotters?" And this pig's head and pig's tail......"

Aunt Jiu quietly pulled the corner of her clothes and whispered, "Your family didn't catch up with the big sacrifice, what kind of pig's head did you buy?" Pig's trotters and pig's tail are bones in addition to skin, what do they have to eat? ”

Li Butcher also smiled and said: "These pig's heads, pig's trotters and pig's tails, if the little girl really wants them, add up to twenty yuan for you!" ”

"Brother Li, you are not kind, these bits and pieces, you usually give them away, but you open your mouth to accept my niece twenty wen. I think...... Ten is about the same! "Aunt Jiu knows that among these, except for the pig's head, which is worth a few pennies, the others are usually added to the meat sellers.

Li Butcher looked very good: "Since the chrysanthemum girl has spoken, ten will be ten." The little girl, a total of fifteen catties and five flowers, eight catties of lean meat, and five catties of hooves, is a total of one thousand and twenty wen. ”

Gu Ye took out a tael of broken silver, counted twenty copper plates, and squeezed out of the crowd with a full harvest. This price is quite cheap, adding up to more than 30 catties of meat, only more than one or two silver.

Only one or two more? You must know that people in the mountains, with a year's income, can leave two or three taels when they go out to eat and drink. Gu Ye has money in his pocket, and he has forgotten the difficulty when he has no money.

Seeing Gu Ye happily putting the pig's head and pig's trotters into the bamboo basket, Aunt Jiu couldn't help but complain slightly: "You kid, you have a little spare money in your hands, and you can't spend it indiscriminately." You buy a bit too much lean meat, and these hooves and tails, there is not much meat on them, it's a waste of money. ”

"Aunt Jiu, this piece of lean meat is the tenderloin, the most tender piece of meat on the pig, and it is the most suitable for stir-frying. Pig's head, pig's trotters, and pig's tail are marinated with special spices, which has a unique taste. When it's done, I'll send you a copy, and you won't say I'm spending money if you taste it. "Gu Ye had a soft spot for braised pigs' heads, pig's trotters, and pig's tails in her previous life, and there is an Aunt Yan who can cook at home, and she will soon be able to eat these delicacies again!

Uncle Nine also followed suit: "Since you have bought them all, don't say anything!" Let's go to the grain store over there. ”

When she went to the grain store, Aunt Jiu made careful calculations and only bought five catties of white flour, while sorghum flour and cornmeal each bought twenty catties. Her family planted rhubarb rice, so she didn't buy it, but bought some red beans and kidney beans. In total, it took less than 300 yuan.

The family rarely eats coarse grains now, and the fine grains are consumed very quickly, and the fifty catties of white flour and fifty catties of rice that I bought half a month ago have almost eaten. Gu Ye made another big purchase in the grain store: fifty catties of rice, one hundred catties of white noodles, red beans and kidney beans, but she didn't dare to buy much, because she had never eaten bean buns, and she didn't know if it suited her appetite. Another one or two or six pieces of silver were spent.

When he arrived at the cloth shop, Gu Ye pulled two more clothes for his grandfather, master and brother. Seeing that there was a fresh color of fruit green muslin in the store, she bought herself another body. The cotton clothes with broken flowers on the red background on her body are worn out and she is a little soil girl, so it is better to change it quickly. Grandpa's aesthetics, she really can't complain.

There are defective cloths in the cloth shop, and Gu Ye grabbed a lot of them, which can be used to make bed sheets and curtains. Seeing her spending money like running water, and Gu Ming just smiled and indulged her, Uncle Nine and Aunt Nine couldn't help but shake their heads, and said in their hearts: Fortunately, Uncle Fifth has been a soldier outside for many years and has some family background, otherwise I really can't help this girl fluttering. The fifth uncle is really, how can he let Xiao Yezi hold the money? Xiao Yezi's big temperament, I don't know who to follow! It must be the Liu family who taught it badly!!

How do they know that Gu Ye spends all the money he earns. This trip into the city, in addition to her master's 1,000 taels of silver tickets, she had more than 80 taels of silver!

But the energetic flowers, at the end of the day, cost less than five taels of silver. Gu Ye was a little unsatisfied, and when she saw that there was a jewelry store in front of her, she pulled Gu Lier and walked in. Aunt Jiu was afraid that she would spend money indiscriminately, so she put the purchased New Year's goods outside for her man to look at, and she also walked in a little shrunken.

Inside the jewelry shop, a woman wearing a bright gold hairpin with her head full of sticks is choosing jewelry inside. Next to her was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, wearing a red robe, embroidered with begonias on the skirt, and a white fox trimmed cloak on the outside, looking delicate and lovely. If it weren't for the impatience and disdain on her face, she would be a pleasing beauty.

"Auntie! What eye-catching jewelry can be picked out in this broken place? I was really dizzy to go home with you to visit my family. Look at who these people are, dirty hillbillies, who can't be on the stage. We actually pick things up with these inferior people, and don't be laughed at by those sisters when we talk about it! ”

The corner of the girl in red's eyes swept over the three of Gu Ye, and the expression of disdain on her face was even worse. She quickly looked away again, as if if one more look at them would bring the rustic smell to her.

A hint of anger flashed in the shopkeeper's eyes, but he still said kindly: "This is the best cloisonné silver bracelet in our shop, and the gems embedded in it are brought back from the coast." If Madame can see it, fifty-two taels of odds will be erased for you, and you will be counted as fifty taels. ”

"What? This broken bracelet costs fifty taels? The best silver bracelet in our Yancheng Tongfang Pavilion is only twenty or thirty taels, and your bracelet is inlaid with gold? The girl's harsh words rang out again. The woman beside her hesitated, but finally put down the bracelet.

The shopkeeper took a deep breath and said, "Our bracelet is not inlaid with gold, but it is inlaid with rubies that are more valuable than gold, and these are all from overseas. If my bracelet were in Yancheng, it would have to be sold for hundreds of taels. This young lady, if you are too expensive, you can look at other styles. ”

"What do you mean? Look down on people, don't you? You jewelry is only worthy of being sold to these poor hillbillies! I think it's just a broken stone dyed from overseas, and we have money and want to blackmail us! Ten taels of silver! If there are too many, just say whether you sell it or not! The girl was arrogant, with an expression of "giving you ten taels is worthy of you".

"I'm sorry," the shopkeeper put away the silver bracelet with inlaid treasures, and said without humility or arrogance, "Ten taels of silver is not enough for the price of one of the gems, and the small shop is so simple that it can't get into the girl's eyes, so please move to another store!" ”

"What? You drove me away! Do you know who I am? Do you believe that I can't keep this store open? "The girl is going crazy, when she was in Yancheng, she was only looked down upon by a group of little sisters because she was a concubine, so she followed her aunt back to her parents' house to relax.

Who knew that when I came to this broken place where birds don't, all kinds of things didn't go well, and I had to be angry with the shopkeeper of a small jewelry shop. She held back her anger so that she didn't smash someone's shop.

"Qing'er, what did your father tell you before you went out? Don't rely on your own background to oppress others. Why, you forgot? The woman pretended to reprimand, with a faint smile on her face, and said, "Shopkeeper, not to mention whether your gem is real, just say that your craftsmanship is indeed worse than the jewelry shop in Yancheng." Otherwise, I will pay thirty taels of silver, and I will buy this bracelet. ”

"I'm sorry! Madam, fifty taels is already the lowest price. The shopkeeper didn't want to say more, so he put away the bracelet.

He raised his head and beckoned Gu Ye, who had been coming in for a long time: "What jewelry do you want to buy, I can recommend it to you...... below."

"Humph! Just these hillbillies, with a poor and sour face, can't afford to eat, can they still afford jewelry? The girl was full of anger and had nowhere to come out, so she looked at Aunt Jiu's white-washed old cotton clothes and pouted.

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It's a good time to celebrate the New Year! Did everyone eat dumplings?