Chapter Twenty-Eight: Snatching the Sugar Gourd
"All of them, how do you sell them?" Fang Li doesn't know arithmetic, he is the account room for Yinlou to settle accounts, but he is used to asking.
"A pound of meat plus our labor costs fifty wen, I know it's a bit expensive, but the recipe is very good, keep you happy to eat."
"Yes, there seem to be so many here, let's give you two or two." Linglong knew that they were farmers and had a hard life, otherwise they would not come out to sell bacon in the winter.
Fang Li agreed, in his eyes, two taels were just money for a meal, not much. Zhang Yi thought he had heard it wrong, two or two! The other party was well dressed, so he sold it for this money.
The coachman put away the bacon, and Linglong specially asked Zhang Chuchu's village where he was, if it was delicious, he would ask someone to buy it. Zhang Chuchu is not worried about being returned, this kind of cured meat is chewier than fresh meat.
When the carriage left, the three of them happily went shopping, Zhang Chuchu knew that Wu Qingguo could embroider, and bought needlework and good cloth. Zhang Yi took them to ask the government office, and there were no lost children, so he went to buy vegetables and various snacks that could be put in the New Year, and prepared to go back. Zhang Chuchu walked to the grocery store and saw that there were seeds sold inside, she wanted to grow vegetables in the house, but she didn't study this, so forget it for the time being.
"Sister, I want to buy this wood." Wang Tingjian saw an ancient piece of wood and asked the village carpenter to help carve something, which he could use in the future.
"How do you kid pick something and ask for a piece of wood?" Zhang Chuchu looked at the fact that there was not a small piece of wood, and there was more than a penny.
"This little boy knows the goods, this is a high-grade Huanghuali, this piece is extra, if you buy it, take it away for ten cents."
"Shiwen!" Zhang Chuchu was so shocked that his eyes were about to fall.
"Yes, Huanghuali is very expensive, don't underestimate a piece of wood."
"Buy it, it's rare for Ting Jian to like one thing."
Zhang Yi paid for it, and Wang Tingjian held it in his arms like a baby, and he didn't hold hands with Zhang Chuchu. Zhang Chuchu was so disgusted that he chewed the rock sugar gourd and ate it in a big gulp.
"Little uncle, even if we like to eat sweet and sour sugar gourds, you don't need to buy so much."
Zhang Chuchu looked at Zhang Yi holding a sugar gourd, there were more than forty strings on it, and it cost fifty yuan to buy it, but the ancient sugar gourd was really delicious, not sticky, sweet and sour, appetizing.
"We're going to celebrate the New Year, I bought snacks, it's easy to get tired of eating too much, there are three children at home, you can put the sugar gourd, go back and eat slowly."
Zhang Yi is spoiled by the children he likes, Zhang Chuchu likes this feeling, it is good to have the love of the elders. Wang Tingjian ran all the way, looking at the sugar gourd, Zhang Chuchu knew that he couldn't hide it, so he gave a string.
They bought a lot of things, and they only spent 300 Wen, and Wu Qingguo didn't spend all the money he gave. In previous years, the Chinese New Year was not lively, but this year, the Zhang family should be lively.
"Sugar gourd!" The four girls and the eldest girl went out for a walk, and today there is one more person in the family who eats rice, and they will all have to live together in the future, and the four sisters don't have to do things.
"This is what my children eat, your family is so rich, if you want to eat, you want to go to your father."
Zhang Yi drove them to the side, the eldest girl was really cheeky, she reached out to grab it, and was beaten by Zhang Chuchu. The eldest girl was unrelenting, and was about to shout, when Zhang Chuchu said coldly.
"People who have no conscience are not worthy of eating our sugar gourd!"
"Why don't I have a conscience, you are our boss, you should spoil us! All the good stuff is for us to eat! ”
The eldest girl jumped to grab it, Zhang Yi rushed back first, and Wang Tingjian and Zhang Chuchu stopped her. The four cats got out of their bodies, were tripped by Wang Tingjian, and slid on the snow with fat feet, kicking up and down their limbs and screaming. Sister-in-law Liu went out and saw Siya's appearance, and she couldn't laugh straighter.
Zhang Chuchu and Wang Tingjian threw the snow on the big girl's face, and the two of them ran home holding hands. When a few peasant women saw it just now, they immediately sent a message out, and many people were saying that the big girls were shameless, and they had to rob the sugar gourds of the Zhang family dolls with so much money at home.
"I can't see it, people give you food and drink when you don't have anything to eat, and I heard that they also ate the chicken legs of the little granddaughter of the Zhang family. Now it's the New Year, buy some sugar gourds and come back, you have to grab it if you have money. ”
"Shame." Sister-in-law Liu saw Siya peeing her pants again, and the clown's face was wrinkled, and she couldn't laugh.
The eldest girl didn't care what they said, and dragged the four girls home. In the courtyard of the Li family, Yuehua was washing dishes, and when she entered the house, she was beaten by a pillar, and she had to do any job.
Er Ya and Er Ya stood and watched, and the pillar said that in the future, all the work at home will be done by moonflowers.
"Stinky thing, I still know to come back, go back to the house, I hate it when I look at it!" When the pillar saw Siya, he was angry.
The eldest girl also wanted to say that the Zhang family had sugar gourds, dozens of them, seeing that the pillar was so angry, how could she dare to say it, and pulled Siya back to change clothes.
"Stinky things wear new clothes every day, ugly like toads, no matter how stinky and beautiful they are, they can't be beautiful!"
The third girl scolded in the yard, and the eldest girl asked the fourth girl to dress herself and ran out to fight. The pillar kicked it, and the big girl didn't dare to hit her chin until she hit it.
"Spank! Sanya is right, it looks like she is the best looking in your group of ugly babies, and you are the eldest sister, if you dare to beat her, I will abolish you and the ugly things in the house! ”
Siya was so frightened that she hid under the quilt and shivered in her wet pants. The eldest girl hurriedly admitted her mistake, and when the pillar saw that Yuehua was watching, she walked over and slapped her.
"Stinky girl, look at the fart! Look at returning my things and selling you to the kiln to suffer! ”
Yuehua touched her face, she was beaten and scolded for only one day, and she was so sad that she couldn't do it, if it weren't for thinking about what her two younger brothers and sisters didn't eat in the winter, she wouldn't have come to be a child daughter-in-law to change food.
"Let's go." Er Ya asked Anya to go into the house to roast the fire, Yuehua felt that the family was really bad, no wonder the female dolls were ugly.
The Zhang family's yard is always smiling, and the pumpkin sits on a small stool eating sugar gourds, looking so well-behaved. The pillar passed by the courtyard of the Zhang family, and when he saw the pumpkin like that, he roared, and the pumpkin was almost choked.
"Ahem~" Pumpkin was so frightened when he heard the sound of the pillar that the sugar gourd didn't want it, and crawled back into the house, Zhang Chuchu hurriedly ran in to see.
Zhang Yi heard the voice and came out to see that the pillar had already walked away, "It's too much!" Adults and children are careful, and if they don't support the female dolls at home, they come to my house to find fault! ”
"Xiao Yi, the pillar is here again?" Zhang Daqi came out from the other side, there were more children at home, and he went to the field to dig taro again, so that he could make taro balls and sugar water for them to eat.
"Yes, the little pumpkin was frightened by his voice, and the sugar gourd didn't dare to eat it."
"His grandmother's, sooner or later, he will have to get it back!" Zhang Daqi had a bad temper, and the pillar couldn't beat him.
"Uncle, let's go in first, Chu Chu is comforting the little pumpkin, don't scare the child again."
Zhang Daqi went into the house with a bamboo basket, the pumpkin's small body trembled, and he felt a little safe leaning on Zhang Chuchu's big belly.