Chapter 13 Rush to the streets
In the early morning, just showing a little white belly, the little couple got up and packed up and went to the street with a basket on their backs.
Today, there are no places in the town, but there are still many vendors opening shops and setting up small stalls to shout, and the bustle of the vegetable market is no worse than other streets and alleys. Everyone either carried baskets on their backs or carried baskets through the wide alleys, and stood there bargaining with the vegetable farmers. Some of the big-mouthed ladies started to kill, which was comparable to a general going into battle to kill the enemy, and some people were enthusiastic.
Song Jiu sells pork in the alley, many vegetable farmers know, a few days have not seen people set up stalls, they have to talk about some idle chat, there is a fish seller and Song Jiu is from the same village, so he told the news of Song Jiu's family accident.
Everyone sighed when they heard it, saying that Song Jiu was unlucky to be such a big family, and if ordinary people went in, it was easy and easy to come out, and it was not easy or easy. It's only been a few days, and I suddenly saw him carrying a backpack to protect a petite woman dressed as a woman to go to the vegetable market, thinking to myself, this kid is okay, a few days of hard work will come out, and it seems that he has not suffered in it.
"Yo, Song Jiu is going shopping with his sister-in-law!"
"Let's just say that I haven't seen you come these days, and many guests have asked about you, so I was at home with my sister-in-law!" Those familiar vegetable farmers joked about Song Jiu.
Song Jiu shook his head: "It's a long story, I couldn't come because something happened at home a few days ago." ”
"Phew, who's your." Han Qiu, a boy who sells pork next to Song Jiu's stall on weekdays, said with a smile.
Song Jiu was not annoyed, but asked him to pick a hind hoof for himself, and planned to go back to stew pig's trotter soup for Wange to drink.
"Okay." Han Qiu threw the sweat towel towards the arrow, and neatly picked a sturdy hind leg: "Is this a success?" ”
"You kid can be trusted." Song Jiu is also a veteran, and he knows exactly what is good and bad at a glance.
"Okay."
Han Qiu took off the pig's trotters and put them in Song Jiu's back basket.
Wan Ge took out the silver and was about to pay, but the person waved his hand and said: "It's my filial piety to my sister-in-law, it's not much, brother, don't dislike it." ”
"You are all doing some small business, and it is not easy to make money, so how can you just forget it."
Han Qiu put on a sweat towel and said with a smile: "A pig's trotter, it's not much valuable, sister-in-law's lunch is my heart." ”
Wan Ge didn't want to take it for nothing, so he took the silver and looked sideways at Song Jiu. As a result, Song Yu thanked the person directly and pulled her away.
"Eh, isn't it good for us to do this?" didn't go far, Wan Ge broke free of Song Jiu's hand and frowned. You say it's some cheap side dishes, but a pig's trotter costs half a penny, so it's always a little sad to take it for nothing.
"What's not good, we didn't say that we wouldn't give money, it was what he said about honoring his sister-in-law." Song Jiu's face was calm, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this.
"No, I'll go back and give the money to others."
Song Jiu grabbed the person: "He won't accept it, if you really don't want to invite him to have a meal at home another day, or take care of his business." ”
"......." sells pork in his own family.
"Okay, hurry up and buy something and go back, otherwise it's too late." Song Jiu half-hugged and half-pushed people away, but he couldn't, and the evening song could only remember when he had the opportunity to return the favor.
There is no food at home, and the two families have to be invited to dinner at night, so they can't buy more, so the two of them have been delayed in the vegetable market for a long time, and it will be noon when they buy almost enough.
Thinking that it would be a little late to go back, and that I would have to cook on the fire, I simply planned to find a small stall in the town at noon, eat casually and fill my stomach before going back. In this way, the two of them are not in a hurry to go shopping leisurely, anyway, it doesn't cost money to look at it.
The Jiang family has not had a good time these days, in order to avoid touching Jiang Hai's mold, Jiang Qingyue has been quietly working as a female worker these days. Her embroidery is actually good, the needlework is dense, and the embroidery of the wireless head is like the real thing.
This is not to save a few embroidered Xiupa and a few braided tassels, and sell them in the town with the Shen family, which can be regarded as earning some loose money to subsidize the family. The mother and son were about to pack up after selling, but they didn't want to meet the two of them hanging out.
"Mother, look, is that a late song?" Jiang Qingyue hurriedly grabbed Shen and pointed to the two people who walked into Ruan Ji's ready-to-wear shop.
Shen Shi stopped and looked in the direction Jiang Qingyue pointed, and really saw the two of them: "Didn't you say that the Song family is surrounded by four walls?" How can you have that spare money to buy clothes? Shen frowned.
"I'll see if they can afford it." Jiang Qingyue snorted, just to see if their poor and sour appearance could afford Ruan Ji's clothes?
The clothes in Ruan Kee's ready-to-wear shop are notoriously good-looking in the town, and the materials used are also excellent, and they are not at all as coarse linen clothes as coarse linen, and they are very comfortable and smooth.
Of course, the corresponding price of good things is slightly higher than that of other stores, and a little less expensive will cost two taels of silver. It's nothing for the wealthy, but the average family rarely buys it, at least they prefer to buy cloth and make it themselves, which is cheap and affordable.
Let's put it this way, her embroidered handkerchief sells for ten cents, and she has to embroider two hundred embroidered handkerchiefs for two taels of silver. And the Jiang family's expenses for two months are only a little more than one or two, so you can imagine what the concept of two taels of silver is for a farmer's family.
In this way, who would be willing to spend two taels of silver to buy a piece of clothing, even if Song Jiu earned some silver by selling pork on weekdays, he would be willing to do it?
Shen nodded, she didn't believe that Song Jiu would sell Ruan Ji's clothes.
Song Jiu's clothes are washed white and there are many patches on his head, which shows that he is a thrifty person, do you think such a person would be willing to spend so much silver to buy such expensive clothes? Who is teasing!
"Let's go!" Shen retracted his gaze.
"Wait, mother, they're out." Jiang Qingyue, who was just about to leave, swept out, and the two of them hurriedly grabbed Shen.
As soon as the words fell, I saw the shopkeeper smiling and sending the two to the door, Song Jiu held two pieces of cloth in one hand, and turned around with a bulging burden in the other hand to say something to the shopkeeper, and then left with Wange.
The Shen family and their mothers stood not far away, and their eyes were straight.
"Mother...... Mother, she's ....... Really bought. Jiang Qingyue was so shocked that she couldn't speak straight, how could it be possible, how could they be willing to buy such expensive clothes. In fact, not only did they buy it, but they also bought two more pieces of cloth. I have to say that at this moment, Jiang Qingyue was jealous of the evening song, it was Ruan Ji's clothes.
Shen Shi looked at Ruan Ji's shop door, and then looked at the direction Song Jiu and they left, and his hand holding the basket tightened.
Jiang Qingyue didn't want to believe it, and said with a sour mouth: "I don't think it's necessarily for Wange, the two pieces of cloth are gray and brown, and they are bought back for Song Jiu to wear." I said, how could she be so good. "As for that baggage, who knows what's in it!
"Let's go back! It's time for your dad to be angry if he delays any longer. Unwilling to listen to Jiang Qingyue's sour words, Shen Shi carried the basket to the entrance of the town with a cold face.
Jiang Qingyue bit the skin of her mouth and stomped hard to catch up.
Wan Ge didn't know that she had met Jiang Qingyue and them, and now she was hurting the silver that Song Jiu had just spent.
No one doesn't like Ruan Ji's clothes, even if it's an evening song, they can't escape the word beauty. But beauty is beauty, and clothes are really expensive. Two clothes of five taels of silver, two pieces of cloth and three taels of silver, together with eight taels of silver, in the blink of an eye, they went to other people's pockets. Song Jiu doesn't spend money, but when he spends money, he is like running water, and his eyelids don't tremble.
Until dinner, Wan Ge's face was sullen and distressed, and Song Jiu was amused.
"I see you have two clothes in your closet, and they are torn in some places. You said that you married me, how can I be embarrassed to let you live a hard life, we have to be better to ourselves with that money, and I won't give you a cub if I save it left and right. Song Yu raised his hand and rubbed it on Wan Ge's head: "Besides, the silver earned was originally spent, so why do you feel distressed." ”
In Song Jiu's opinion, there is nothing wrong with spending money on his family, after all, not so hard to earn money is to make the family live a comfortable life. Clothes are expensive and some expensive, but they are durable and comfortable, and it is better to wear them on yourself than to take them to eat and spend them indiscriminately.
"I know, but we could have bought some cloth and made it ourselves." It's a lot cheaper to make your own clothes.
"yes, so didn't you buy two more pieces of cloth and go back to make them?" Song Yu patted the two pieces of cloth beside him, and his unreasonable appearance really made the evening song angry. It just so happened that the shopkeeper brought the noodles of the two of them, and Wan Ge smoked his chopsticks and ate without paying attention to this scoundrel.
Song Ji looked at her puffed appearance, and there was a smile in his eyes. His little wife is very awkward, and her temperament is still big, and she will be bored all day long without talking to herself.
In fact, it was indeed as Song Jiu guessed, until he returned home, he didn't say a word to anyone until he returned home, and when he arrived at home, he pursed his lips and ignored Song Jiu, and took the dishes to the stove and began to wash them.
Song Ji touched his nose, and very consciously walked over to pick up the pig's trotters in the evening singer, saying that he came to get this. The evening singer paused, then put down his hooves and turned to wash the beans to prepare for the stew of pig's trotters later.
Carrying the pig's trotters and throwing the remaining pig hair on the stove, the fat pig's trotters were roasted on the fire for a few times, and a few drops of fat dripped down the pig's trotters into the fire to make a sizzling sound, and then a burst of meat fragrance wafted out, making people smell and want to eat.
Seeing that it was almost over, Song Jiu washed the pig's trotters in hot water and put them on the vegetable pier, pulled a machete to slaughter the pig's trotters, and the sound of pounds and pounds was particularly deafening in the small stove room. Wan Ge couldn't help but peek at it, and turned around to ask her if the pig's trotters were stewed now or Song Jiu, who was waiting for a while, but Wan Ge, who was caught, ran out with a basin in a panic, and didn't have time to answer Song Jiu's words.