Chapter Twenty-Seven: Selling Bacon
"Xiao Yi, ask when you go to town." Wu Qingguo whispered to Zhang Yi and said, Zhang Daqi and Lin Chunhua will come over in a while, and the three adults in the family are not afraid that the pillar will suddenly come to the door.
"Got it, mother, let's go." Zhang Yi put some sausages and bacon in the back basket, and a cured chicken, go out to see if he can sell it.
The three of them went out in a big way, Zhang Chuchu was wearing a thick forehead mousel hat on her head, which was made for her by Wu Qingguo, wearing a thick winter coat and small boots, and it was not cold to go out. She was hit with a stone on her head, and although the wound was healed, she was left with a disease at a young age, and she was prone to migraines when the cold wind blew on a cold day.
She touched the thick jacket on her body, and her little short legs stepped on the snow, the snow here was so clean that she was reluctant to step on it.
Wang Tingjian said that she was childish, but Zhang Chuchu didn't care about it, and followed along. When they arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw a matchmaker with a large mole on his cheek, followed by a girl with a broken burden, twelve or thirteen years old.
"Yuehua, what are you rubbing, hurry up, the pillars are waiting, your family received him fifty wen, and asked for a bag of white flowers, and you still want to deny it?"
"Auntie, I'm too young."
"Phew! When choosing someone, who let you come out, if you don't want to marry, let your family return everything and apologize in person! ”
The matchmaker is very polite, Yuehua's eyes are full of tears, the family is poor, there is nothing on the mountain, and she can't survive the winter without rice, so she has to walk one foot deep and one foot shallow. Zhang Chuchu looked at the moonflower, she was very delicate, and she was definitely a beauty when she grew up.
"Little uncle, she won't be the daughter-in-law of the eldest girl's father, right?" When Zhang Chuchu thought of this possibility, he felt that this thing was too ridiculous.
"I guess so, after this year, I will grow up after three or four years as a child daughter-in-law."
Wang Tingjian also looked back a few times: "The world is not good now, if I wasn't a boy, I guess I would have been arrested as a child daughter-in-law." ”
"Eh, you are our child's husband, don't sigh here."
"Sister, even if I am a child husband, I am also your child husband, be kind to my younger brother~"
Wang Tingjian began to talk to Zhang Chuchu again, Zhang Yi asked them to go quickly, don't delay the hour. He didn't plan to come out, the two little guys were clamoring to make money, and there was no way to take them, so they had to try their luck.
"Let's go for a walk, let's come back and see." When Zhang Chuchu looked back again, he couldn't see the figure of Yuehua anymore.
She was about to run, but her feet slipped, her stomach bounced on the ground a few times, and she rolled on the snow for almost ten meters before stopping. Zhang Yi and Wang Tingjian went to help her up, and Zhang Chuchu rubbed her stomach and got angry.
"I hate it to death, this belly, it's really going to find trouble for me!"
"Are you alright?" Zhang Yi and Wang Tingjian asked together, Zhang Chuchu took their hands and got up, hugged his stomach and walked forward.
She is a strange girl now, and the people in the village will laugh behind her back if she doesn't say anything, I really don't know when it will be better.
Zhang Yi and Wang Tingjian talked to her from time to time, and when they were halfway through, Zhang Chuchu was in a good mood, Zhang Yi glanced at Wang Tingjian and began to praise.
"It's because you're different, so it's very precious, and it will bring good luck to the Zhang family, if Zhao Jia doesn't leave, my mother doesn't know when it will be good."
"That's right, sister, don't be too accidental, we know you're a good person, if you change the girl doll outside the stall last time, I don't like it."
"You don't say good things, but I can still tell the difference. Let's not talk about face, when will this broken belly go away? ”
"This, sister, rest assured, it will disappear before summer at the latest."
"Phew! It's summer again, and when I ask again, I guess it won't be possible next winter. ”
Zhang Chuchu quarreled with Wang Tingjian, it was good to be in a mood for arguing, she hit her stomach a few times, and it was still a little painful, so she regarded it as a gift from God, and she couldn't throw it away.
In the town, Zhang Chuchu pulled Wang Tingjian to walk in front, Zhang Yi originally wanted to carry them, but the two little guys didn't want to carry the bacon, and walked to the town with their little short legs.
"Let's go see if there are any stores that sell dry goods." Zhang Chuchu took a few breaths, his little hands were red from the cold, and it was still warm when he went out, but it was cold when he stopped. She stopped holding Wang Tingjian's hand, and kept it in her pocket to warm up.
Wang Tingjian is smaller than her and not tall, Zhang Yi is worried that he will be separated and has to be pulled. When he entered the town just now, Wang Tingjian went to read the notice again, but fortunately there was no news of his arrest.
He hoped that his father and mother would escape this catastrophe and go home. Now there is no news, and he does not dare to look for it, for fear of being exposed.
The three of them walked all the way, but they still didn't see a store selling dry goods. Zhang Chuchu began to ask, and the people in the restaurant heard about the bacon and directly refused to let them into the house.
"This kind of rotten thing, dare to come and sell it to us, don't leave, be careful that we are not welcome!"
Many people refused, Zhang Chuchu sat on the stone in frustration, jumping his feet from time to time, and it was still cold to go out in winter. Zhang Yi comforted them that if they couldn't sell it, they would eat it themselves, and they could eat it for a whole year.
"Hey~ Little bit, we'll meet again." Linglong sat in the carriage, she went out shopping with Yulian today, it was too cold and she was about to go back.
"Grandma!" Zhang Chuchu knew her, Linglong was a good person and helped her twice.
"It's so cold, why don't you go home? Are you selling stones again? ”
"This kind of stone is rare, and it can be found everywhere every day." Zhang Chuchu rolled his dark eyes: "Grandma, do you like to eat bacon, we came to the town to sell it, but no one bought it." ”
"Bacon? Is it made with pork? Linglong came down with the hand warmer, and Fang Li knew that she liked to meddle in things, so she also got down from the carriage.
Zhang Chuchu thought that Linglong was in the car, but he didn't expect that the future life was also there, so he smiled even more happily: "Yes, our family has a secret recipe, and I brought some today, do you want to take a look?" ”
"Okay, Yulian likes to eat, I'm going to play with her tomorrow, bring it to her."
"Linglong." Fang Li was about to cry, Linglong came back from the Zhou Mansion and asked him to go to Tanhua, and the two close friends had to meet every day.
These two women like to think about good things when they are idle, and where is the champion and Tanhua, where they say they can be admitted if they take the exam.
"Brother Li, let's take a look, there is nothing at home, I ate it a few times last time, I think it's good."
"Okay." Fang Li smiled dotingly, Linglong asked them to put the bacon down, if it was good-looking, it would be all wanted.
Zhang Chuchu happily asked Zhang Yi to put his back down, and after the linen cloth was torn apart, the aroma of bacon wafted out. Fang Li also saw it, the color was very good, and there was a faint rosin.