As soon as Chen saw Gu Jinli, he immediately rushed up and said, "Xiaoyu, your snake was sold for two or eight hundred yuan?" Eh, why are a few broken snakes so valuable? ”

blamed Gu Jinli again: "Such a valuable thing, you don't call your aunt when you go to catch it, if your aunt is here, I will definitely be able to help you catch dozens more." ”

Chen's flesh twitched in pain, if only her family could share the money.

Gu Jinli looked at her and said with a smile: "Okay, next time we go to catch snakes, we will definitely call your aunt, but the snakes that can be sold for money are highly poisonous, and being bitten is a lifeless thing, when something happens, your aunt can't blame me." ”

Chen was afraid of death, and when he heard this, his face twitched, and he sneered: "This, you let your aunt think about this matter again." ”

While talking, Uncle Tian's father and son and Gu Dafu and Gu Dagui also carried things back to the door of the grain store.

Not long after, the Luo family father and son also bought good things and came to the grain store to meet.

The Luo family bought a lot of things, cotton cloth was bought, and they were also responsible for ordering water tanks for several families: "A water tank costs 500 yuan, and I ordered five, if it is to be transported to the village, each water tank will have to add another 100 yuan, I didn't let it be sent, and I told the master that I would come and move it away tomorrow." ”

Tomorrow and tomorrow, the shopkeeper's family will go back to the countryside for the New Year, and they will come back after the New Year.

"Okay, let's hurry up and go back after shopping, rest early in the evening, and get to town by tomorrow hour to carry the water tank back." After the third grandfather finished speaking, he took a few people into the grain store to purchase the most important grain.

There are large earthen jars in the grain shop, which contain all kinds of grains, mainly rice, noodles, beans, and grains.

They also sell seeds, including grain seeds, vegetable seeds, bean seeds, garlic seeds, shallots, etc., and even dried chili peppers!

Gu Jinli was really shocked when he saw the chili pepper, pointed to the chili pepper and asked the shopkeeper: "Uncle, what is this red thing?" ”

The shopkeeper glanced at her, ignored her, and thought she was stupid, and didn't even know Chili.

Qin Saburo said: "This is spicy, like dogwood and ginger, they are all spicy things, which were brought in from outside the customs in the previous dynasty." ”

It turned out to be something that existed in the previous dynasty, and it came from outside the Kansai, not from the sea.

Gu Jinli was amazed again by the mixture of Da Chu, and when he saw that Qin Sanlang knew more, he asked him again: "Is there potatoes and corn?" "In the memory of the original owner, there are no such things, only soybeans, sweet potatoes and wild vegetables.

"Potatoes and corn? Haven't heard of it, what is that? Qin Saburo frowned and asked her.

Gu Jinli said: "There are two kinds of things that can be eaten, and I heard a few old people say that they are probably produced in the mountains when they fled the famine." ”

She was afraid that Qin Sanlang would ask deeply, so after speaking, she took a cloth bag and went to pick chili, garlic, and shallots, each picked about a catty, and carried it to Gu Dashan to choose food.

The most they buy are sweet potatoes and soybeans, these two things are cheap, both of them cost three cents a pound, and they can eat for a long time when they buy a sack.

Rice and noodles are expensive, and new rice and noodles are sold for 30 wen a catty; brown rice with chaff is also sold for 20 wen a catty; Millet eighteen wen, old rice is cheap, only fifteen wen a catty, and there is a kind of moldy rice that is cheaper, as long as five wen a catty.

Her family bought 50 catties of soybeans, 50 catties of sweet potatoes, 20 catties of old rice, 10 catties of millet, and 5 catties of noodles.

The Luo family, Gu Damu's family, and Gu Dafu's family are similar to what they bought.

Qin Saburo didn't buy soybeans, only sweet potatoes, brown rice and millet.

The Tian family only bought soybeans and sweet potatoes, and a pound of old rice.

After paying the money, they did not go back immediately, but left one person in the family to wait in front of the grain store, and the rest went to the butcher shop in the town to buy meat.

Meat is expensive, especially fatty meat, which sells for 30 yuan a catty, which is a full 10 yuan more expensive than pork belly, and lean meat is 10 yuan cheaper than pork belly.

Gu Jinli's family bought a pound of fat meat and a pound of lean meat, and the rest of the family, except for the Tian family, bought two pounds of meat.

After shopping, it was already afternoon, and several families no longer stayed, carrying things back to rush. Because there are many things, Gu Jinli also has to pick up sundries such as wooden barrels, pottery pots, and pottery bowls.

Passing by the farmers' stalls, they bought some eggs and a few other cheap groceries.

After buying it, I kept going out of town, hurried all the way, and finally returned to the village in the evening.

When passing by the old earthen house where they lived the night before, they saw a few villagers outside the courtyard of the old earthen house, and He Sanzi was talking meat to the courtyard.

Old Man Mo was so angry that he jumped to his feet and scolded: "You guys hurry up, if you don't get out, the old man will go to the village chief and sue you!" ”

The three lepers laughed and said, "Sue us? Sue us for telling meat jokes around the old mud house in Dafeng Village? This is the house of Dafeng Village, not your Mo family, you didn't give money to live in our house in Dafeng Village, and you dare to sue us, where did you come from! ”

"If you don't want to give money, call out your eldest granddaughter, let us kiss the incense, and we will recognize you as people from Dafeng Village." After speaking, He Sanzi laughed evilly with a few villagers, which made Old Man Mo angry.

A woman's voice came from the old earthen house: "I told you a long time ago that the money can't be saved, you have to deduct and search, now it's okay!" ”

The third grandfather did not stop, walked quickly past the old mud house, and came back to the rented house at the end of the village.

The third grandmother had been waiting for a long time, and when they saw them come back, the women and children of several families all ran out of the house.

"Are you back and you're done buying?" The third grandmother asked.

The third grandfather unloaded his burden, rubbed his shoulders and said, "After I bought it, there are still five water tanks, and I will move it tomorrow morning." Are you okay at home today? ”

"Okay, let's give the village money, and Qin Lao and Erlang are guarding it, and the bastards in the village don't dare to approach."

When the children of several families saw that they had bought so many things and came back, they were all happy to carry the burden and not let go.

Several adults were helpless, so they could only carry the burden while they carried it, and they chattered all the way back to their respective homes.

Gu Jinli's family bought too many things, and they were busy for an hour before everything was put together.

Cui Shi looked at the cotton and cotton cloth, and said distressedly: "Why did you buy so much cloth?" Just buy some burlap, and burlap can also be used to make clothes. ”

"Mother, we will work hard to make money, you don't have to save so much." Gu Jinli said: "For the Chinese New Year, it's not good to wear coarse linen clothes. ”

The burlap cloth is mostly used to make filial piety clothes, and those who wear filial piety wear them, and they still have some silver money in their house, so there is no need for every piece of clothing to be coarse linen.

Although the third grandmother also has a pain, she likes children, so she immediately helped: "Xiaoyu, I want you to dress decently." When we arrived in the village, we had to wear some decent clothes, and if we were too poorly dressed, we would be looked down upon by the villagers. ”

After hearing this, Cui Shi stopped talking and carefully put away the cotton and the two cotton cloths.

After the family finished tidying up their things, they hurriedly ate dinner and fell asleep tired.

Before dawn the next day, a few men rushed to the town to carry the water tank that had been ordered yesterday.

After Gu Jinli got up, he went to Luo's Tian's house and told them that he wanted to use the grinding plate in the yard.

Gu Jinli wanted to make tofu, and among the yards rented by several families, only the yard of Luo Jiatian's house had a dirty old grinding plate.

The two adults naturally agreed.

Gu Jinli picked up the wooden barrel to wash the grinding disc.

Luo Huiniang played well with her and came over to help: "Xiaoyu, what kind of tofu can soybeans really make?" ”

Gu Jinli brushed the grinding disc and said, "Yes." This soybean is a treasure, in addition to tofu, it can also be used to make a lot of food, such as bean cake, which can be eaten as a staple food and can also be eaten as a vegetable. ”