After Dr. Du left, they went around to the back street and went to the iron shop in the back street to buy iron pots.

Gu Jinli's family does not have an iron pot, only the third grandfather's family has one, and this pot is used for cooking, cooking and boiling water in the past few days, which is very inconvenient.

Bell bell bell ~

As soon as I entered the blacksmithing shop, a piercing sound of ironing came.

When the blacksmith saw them, he pointed to a row of iron pots of different sizes placed on the ground and said, "See for yourself what pots you want to buy." ”

Then he asked them, "Have you brought your household registration?" You can't buy ironware without a household registration. ”

In ancient times, iron was a weapon, a thing controlled by the imperial court, and if a peasant wanted to buy iron, he had to get a household registration, otherwise he couldn't buy it.

"Brought it." Gu Dashan came to the row of iron pots, took out a straw rope, compared it with the straw rope, and chose an iron pot the same size as their earthen stove, picked it up and knocked it for a while, listening to the sound and touching, and only selected it after half a quarter of an hour.

He asked the blacksmith, "Master, how do you sell this pot?" ”

"Recently, there has been chaos in various places, iron is expensive, it is two hundred yuan more expensive than last year, and your pot will cost three or two or two hundred yuan."

An iron pot is a very important property of a farmer, and no matter where he goes, the pot must be carried on his back.

Gu Dashan felt a little painful when he heard this price, but he still bought it. In their hometown, if they want to buy such a big iron pot, it is about the same price, they are in the northwest, there are often wars, and iron tools are very expensive, and it is not easy to buy.

Qin Saburo also spent the same amount of money to buy a large iron pot.

They gave the silver, and showed the blacksmith's household register, and after confirming it, they left the blacksmith with the pot.

After leaving the iron shop, they returned to Main Street and went to the grocery store.

The grocery store is quite large, and there are a variety of things inside, including wooden barrels, baskets, flat poles, thick ropes, salt, sugar, vinegar, sauce, wine, needlework, and so on.

There are more people in the grocery store than in Buzhuang, and most of them come to buy sugar and wine for the New Year.

The third grandfather and they went shopping, bought three pairs of wooden tongs, a pound of salt, a bag of caramel sugar, a pot of vinegar, a pot of wine, and a dozen pottery utensils, and bought needles and threads for the women of the family, and a bundle of burlap.

This burlap is the worst cloth, the price is cheap, and the cloth is generally not sold. Even if it is sold, the price is more expensive than outside, and farmers want to buy it, and they usually come to the grocery store, and the price here is two or three cents cheaper than that of the cloth village.

Gu Jinli saw that they didn't buy sauce, so he pointed to a few bottles of sauce on the shelves and said, "Dad, let's buy a bottle of soy sauce, this dish is delicious." ”

They don't have any seasoning sauce at home, and the meals they have eaten these days are only salt, and last night's meat was only salt, ginger, and cumin and bay leaves she found on the road.

When Gu Dashan heard this, he hurriedly shook his head and said, "You can't buy it, you can't buy it, this fresh sauce is something that rich families eat, and we farmers don't eat this." ”

"Fresh sauce?" Gu Jinli didn't quite understand.

Qin Saburo explained, "It is a sauce made from meat, and when put into a dish, it makes the dish taste delicious. But the price is very expensive, a pot of fresh sauce costs one or two silver. ”

Gu Jinli thought about it in her mind for a while, and then realized that the sauce they were talking about was the sauce she had seen in the history books.

Before the Han Dynasty, there was no soy sauce made from soybeans, only a sauce made from meat soaked for 100 days, called 醢, which was made in a similar way to fish sauce. But this kind of sauce made of meat is very expensive, and generally only the nobles of the gate valve can afford to eat it, and the common people cannot afford it.

After Gu Jinli heard that this sauce cost one or two silver, she stopped thinking about buying it, but she kept in mind that Da Chu did not have soy sauce.

A few people paid the money, tied up their things, and left the grocery store.

"Let's go to the grain store." The third grandfather said, "We have to buy food." "When they came to the town this time, buying food was the most important thing.

By the time they arrived at the grain store, Uncle Tian's father and son, Gu Damu, and Gu Dalin's brothers were already waiting here.

Gu Dalin was the first to see them, and smiled at them: "Third Uncle, Brother Dashan, you have bought a lot of things." ”

The burden was almost holding their people back.

"It's cold, it's all things to buy." The third grandfather looked at Uncle Tian and saw that there was nothing in the basket at his feet, so he frowned and asked, "Why didn't you buy cotton and fabric?" On this cold day, if you don't buy cotton to make clothes and quilts, how will you spend most of the winter? "Didn't Elder Qin lend the Tian family silver, why didn't he buy things to keep out the cold?

When Gu Dalin heard this, he said to the third grandfather: "Third uncle, we have already talked about him when we were in Buzhuang, but he just didn't buy it, not to say that there are warm clothes and quilts at home, which are enough, and there is no need to buy them again." What is enough, those are the clothes, where can they keep out the cold? The quilt was issued by the government, there was only one bed, and it was still an old quilt that was damp, and it could freeze a person to death when covered with it. ”

The Tian family followed Gu Damu and Gu Dalin's brothers to buy things, but when Gu Damu and Gu Dalin's family were shopping, the Tian family's father and son just watched and didn't buy anything, no matter how much they persuaded them, it was useless for them to persuade them.

Uncle Tian lowered his head slightly, and said, "Third uncle, don't worry, our family has those clothes and old quilts, and there will be a fire in the house, and it won't be cold to sleep by the fire at night, it's okay." ”

The family is still in debt, but they are reluctant to buy anything.

When the third grandfather heard this, he was so angry that he wanted to beat people: "The province is not such a provincial law, do you want to be frozen to death?!" "Although it is not as cold as Yangji Mansion in the east, it is also frozen.

Gu Jinli knew that the Tian family had no money to make trouble, so she took out the money from selling the snake and said to Uncle Tian: "Uncle Tian, the snake we caught yesterday was sold for money, and it was sold for two or eight hundred yuan. ”

Tian Erqiang kept shrugging his head, and when he heard Gu Jinli's words, he immediately raised his head and asked her excitedly: "Xiaoyu, do you mean it really?" Our snake really sold for two or eight hundred yuan, and Xiaohua and I can get more than four hundred yuan? Is it more than 400 people? ”

Gu Dashan said: "Xiaoyu didn't lie to you, your snake really sold for two or eight hundred yuan, and we all watched it." ”

Gu Jinli opened the money bag, gave Tian Erqiang a tael of silver, and said to him: "You and Xiaohua can get a total of 934 Wen, you have to find us 66 Wen." ”

Tian Erqiang took the silver, cried excitedly, and held the silver to Uncle Tian: "Dad, this is our family's silver, it was earned by me and Xiaohua, we can make money, you and your mother don't save anymore, our family's life will definitely be able to live." ”

Uncle Tian's eyes were red with excitement, he didn't expect the two children to earn so much money in one day when they went up the mountain, it was earned, not borrowed, which was more important than anything else.

He shook his hand and took the silver, carefully put it in the inner pocket of his clothes, counted out sixty-six yuan, and handed it to Gu Jinli: "Xiaoyu, my uncle's family wants to thank you." ”

Gu Jinli took the money and said with a smile: "Thank you, this is earned by Erqiang and Xiaohua, they can make money, Uncle Tian doesn't have to save so much, it's important to hurry up and buy some cotton, so as not to freeze and spend money to buy medicine to eat." ”

With these nine hundred and thirty-four dollars, Uncle Tian's whole person came back to life, and these money were earned, which was different from what was borrowed, which proved that they could live with their own hands.

"Okay, I'll go buy cotton cloth with Erqiang." You can't be frostbitten, you can only make money to support your family if you are in good health.

Uncle Tian and Tian Erqiang carried baskets and went to the cloth village to buy cotton cloth.

When he came back, he was followed by Gu Dafu, Gu Dagui's brothers, and the Chen family.