Sister Qiu smiled at her, washed her hands and face, and then went into the small kitchen to order water and tofu, she also felt that Qiu Guier had just split up yesterday and had to rest for a day or two before she could go to work. "Eh, Sister Qiu." Qiu Gui'er stopped Sister Qiu, and opened her mouth in a bad way, "I heard that you want to make more water tofu in the afternoon, can you even out a few pounds, and ask your Uncle Rong to sell water tofu too?" ”

Aunt Qiu Gui'er nodded happily and desperately, "He's happy, what's he not happy about!" After working at Sister Qiu's house for so many days, Qiu Guier understood in her heart that the people in the village did not understand the situation of Mrs. Xiucai's family, and felt that Mrs. Lao Xiucai supported the family, as well as the palm skills of making water tofu.

Fortunately, Qiu Gui'er is not the person with a broken mouth, she only thinks about doing her own work and getting a good salary, otherwise Sister Qiu will not continue to hire her, and give Darong a piece of water tofu money to earn.

When Jia Shi and Li Ailian picked up the bean curd, the water tofu and 100 fragrant dumplings went to the town, Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu were also busy, cooking vegetables and steaming pancakes, Sister Qiu was worried about how the fresh meat dumplings were selling, and went to the town earlier than usual.

When they arrived in the town, Jia and Li Ailian were busy as usual, Sister Qiu first looked at the bamboo basket where the fresh meat dumplings were placed, and then breathed a sigh of relief, the original basket of fragrant dumplings was full, but now there are only more than 30 left.

Jia Shi was busy and whispered to Sister Qiu: "It's still your method, it's all too expensive at first, so your aunt peeled off a fragrant dumpling and cut it into small pieces for them to taste, and most of the people who have tasted it have bought it!" ”

Sister Qiu smiled and nodded, "We are a good thing, don't worry about not being able to sell it." ”

In less than a moment, the fragrant dumplings were sold again, Sister Qiu listened to the sound of the copper coins falling into the money box, and smiled with her eyebrows, making fragrant dumplings is much easier than making water tofu, and making money, it is a pity that Huyang is located in the north, and there is no habit of eating fragrant dumplings, so you can only sell them as seasonal food.

Seeing that Jia's side had a smooth idea, Sister Qiu was ready to go to the academy with Zhang Yuxiu, but before anyone left, she heard someone shouting in front of the stall: "Are your fragrant dumplings wrapped in gold?" Ten cents a piece? ”

The sound flowed in the air, as if it came from the nose and the eyes.

Sister Qiu followed the sound and saw a man in his 30s standing in front of the stall with his bare chest and waist crossed, wearing only a thin coat on his body, and behind him stood two men who looked like followers, all of them tied their hair indiscriminately, and a thick layer of ash was glued to their clothes and pants.

Look at this makeup, it seems to be a worker unloading goods for a few trading houses in the town.

Jia Shi and Li Ailian glanced at each other, and Li Ailian smiled first and said: "This eldest brother, we are selling meat-flavored rice dumplings, and the best pork belly meat is wrapped in it, do you want to buy two of them and taste them?" ”

"You're talking about lightness, buy two? What if it doesn't taste good? Isn't the money in vain? The man cried out, "Peel it off first, and give one of our brothers one to taste." ”

Sister Qiu quietly touched and shook her head at Jia, this person

At a glance, it is the master of Laipi who does not give money for eating.

Jia was a little embarrassed, these people looked full of fierce faces, if they "invited" them to eat a few fragrant dumplings, they could leave, but they were afraid that after eating fragrant dumplings, they would find something to bully their orphans and widows.

"Isn't this a cut fragrant rice dumpling?" Zhang Yuxiu took the lead in speaking, and pushed a small plate of fresh meat dumplings cut by Li Ailian towards the man, "You can taste this!" ”

"Wow!" The shirtless man tilted his head and looked at Zhang Yuxiu, "Where did Xiao Nizi come from?" Uncle didn't talk to you, why did you send it yourself? ”

The two attendants behind the man said with a smile: "Xiao Nizichun's heart is moved, look at our brother Zhu!" ”

"It's not bad, it's okay to follow our Brother Zhu!"

Zhang Yuxiu was ashamed and angry, her face was flushed, she had never encountered such an ugly thing, and the bare-chested man looked at her and made her have the urge to gag.

"Stinky and shameless nonsense!" Sister Qiu scolded with a gloomy face, blocked the front of Yuxiu, pointed at the shirtless man and shouted, "You know...... Anko? It's Anzi, the official who patrols this street, and we are his relatives! ”

Sister Qiu originally wanted to bring out Lord Yan, but as soon as she thought of Lord Yan's serious face, she didn't have much confidence in her heart, and maybe the children were not happy to have anything to do with them, and in comparison, there was no psychological pressure to carry An Zi out.

To cure these scoundrels and hooligans, one Anzi is enough.

"You...... Are you relatives of Lord Liang? The shirtless man stumbled and asked, his heart was weak and frightened, his eyes wandered, and he didn't dare to look at Sister Qiu.

"What am I coaxing you for?!" Sister Qiu said angrily, "If you have the ability, you are waiting here, I will go to find Brother An Zi to come and pick you up!" After speaking, Sister Qiu ran down the street, ran a few steps, then turned her face and pointed at the man and shouted, "If you dare to go, you will be a bastard!" ”

However, when Sister Qiu got into the bustling crowd on the street and disappeared, the shirtless man and the two followers behind him were completely panicked, and they looked at each other a few times, regardless of whether they would be "bastards" or not, they took advantage of the work of Jia Shi and Li Ailian to give people bean flowers, turned their heads and ran.

In fact, Sister Qiu didn't go to look for Anzi at all, she didn't know if Anzi was on duty today, saying that this was just to scare the scoundrels and scare people, because these little things were not worth looking for Brother Anzi to help. Although there is Xiao Xu's matter there, Lord Yan is very obvious to accept their favor, but Sister Qiu doesn't want to bother others with everything, at least she wants to use this favor to a bigger place.

But what Sister Qiu didn't expect was that today was really a coincidence, she pretended to run forward in the crowd, and ran into An Zi before she could take a few steps, wearing a black and red official uniform patrolling the street.

"Yo, it's Sister Qiu!" Anzi smiled first.

Sister Qiu smiled, her eyes rolled, she pulled Anzi and walked forward, and said: "Brother Anzi, my family has a new package of fragrant rice dumplings, but they are delicious, I promise you haven't eaten them before, come and taste them!" ”

Anzi couldn't resist her and laughed

Hehe, Sister Qiu dragged to Jia's stall, there were a few people who watched the play, and stayed in front of the stall to eat bean curd with the attitude of seeing if it was true or false, but I didn't expect that the little lady of this family really pulled Anzi over, and the relationship between the two was not bad, so I believed Sister Qiu's previous statement, and it was really related to Anzi.

The Jia family didn't expect that Sister Qiu really pulled Anzi over, so they were a little reluctant not to go, it was not a big deal, and they bothered Anzi to come over, but because Anzi was here, it was not easy to say anything about Sister Qiu.

Zhang Yuxiu hurriedly peeled a fragrant dumpling for Anzi, and enthusiastically handed the bowl and wooden chopsticks to Anzi, "Taste it, Brother Anzi!" ”

"It smells so good!" Anzi glanced at Zhang Yuxiu with a smile, sighed, took a big bite, and the salty and fragrant fragrant dumplings were frozen as soon as he entered his mouth, the fragrance was soft and smooth, and he couldn't tell how delicious it was. Anzi nodded to Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu and said with a smile: "It's delicious!" I'm so big, I haven't eaten salty dumplings, this taste is really good, fragrant! ”

Taking advantage of Anzi's happy eating, Sister Qiu looked at her own toes and said to Anzi: "Brother Anzi, let me tell you something, don't be angry!" ”

"What's the matter? That's it! Anzi asked with a smile.

Sister Qiu lowered her head and told Fang Cai about the matter, and finally said: "That person is here to make trouble, and I can't do it, I don't mean to pretend to be your relative......"

"Hey!" Anzi rubbed Sister Qiu's head with a smile, ate the fragrant dumplings in three or two bites, and said with a proud smile: "What a big deal!" In the future, as long as someone dares to oppress you without long eyes, they will report my name! If you two call me brother, you're my sister! Whoever dares to make trouble, you Brother An Zi will find him to settle the account! ”

He can see it clearly, Boss Yan is very grateful to the Jia family, and there is no harm in getting along with them, besides, this family is kind and honest, and he also wants to help them in his heart.

Zhang Yuxiu pulled Sister Qiu and said with a smile: "It's good that Brother An Zi is not angry!" ”

Jia Shi and Li Ailian also laughed happily, and hurriedly filled Anzi with a bowl of bean curd, and according to his preference, they put enough marinade and fried soybeans, but did not put coriander and green onion flowers.

Anzi took the bean curd handed over by the Jia family, looked at it and said with a smile: "Auntie still knows how I like to eat!" ”

When he finished eating, Anzi took out the money pocket from his arms and wanted to give money, and blocked it for Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu, Sister Qiu smiled and said: "Brother Anzi, aren't we relatives, how can relatives still ask for money for a fragrant dumpling?" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Yuxiu's face turned purple in a hurry, "If Brother An Zi wants to give money, he will treat us as outsiders!" ”

The words were all preached, and Anzi was polite and pretentious, so he smiled and said, "Okay, then I'm not welcome." ”

"You're welcome." Sister Qiu said with a smile, and quickly tied four fragrant rice dumplings to Anzi with a straw rope, and said: "Brother Anzi take it back and eat it, this is cooked, if it is cold, it can be eaten after steaming in a pot for a while." ”

Anzi excused himself, shook his hand and said, "This is not for me to be polite to you, me."

One person is full and the family is not hungry, and all the pots and rice stoves at home have not been used by young people, and it is useless for me to give me this fragrant dumpling, so you should keep it and sell it! ”

Sister Qiu was slightly surprised when she heard about his family background for the first time, and then handed the fragrant dumplings to Anzi, and said with a smile: "Then Brother Anzi will bring Lord Yan and Xiaoxu to taste it!" ”

This time, Anzi didn't refuse, smiled and took the fragrant dumplings and left.

After tossing for a while, delaying for a long time, Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu hurriedly picked up vegetables and pancakes to go to the college, and when they left, Sister Qiu also brought twelve fragrant dumplings, first gave the eldest uncle and father two fragrant dumplings to try, and the remaining ten were ready to be sold to the students of the college.

However, to Sister Qiu's surprise, it was not the student who came out first, but the lame man and his wife who met yesterday.

"Little lady, let's have a bowl of food! More water tofu! The man smiled and raised the bowl in his hand.

Sister Qiu hurriedly took the bowl and said with a smile: "Okay! ”

I can't tell why, she likes this handyman couple very much, and they don't see much money, but the affection and warmth shown between the two people's words and expressions are enough to make people envious, Sister Qiu picked more water and tofu vegetables, and uncovered the cloth on the bamboo basket and said with a smile: "Uncle, we still have meat dumplings here, salty and delicious, do you want to come and taste them with my aunt?" "Salty?" The man's face lit up.

The man touched his beard and smiled, turned his face to his wife, and said, "When I was in Jiangnan, I ate the meat-flavored dumplings there, and the taste is really unforgettable......

His wife interrupted him unceremoniously, laughing and saying, "It's blowing again!" Always blowing in front of other people's little ladies, and they are not ashamed! He smiled softly at Sister Qiu Zhang Yuxiu and said: "What he said, you can just listen to it, but don't dismantle his platform, this person has a very strong heart!" ”

The man was angry and laughing, couldn't help but stomp the cane in his hand, shook his head with a smile, and said, "Madam, Madam, you dismantled the table for your husband very neatly!" ”

The woman also laughed, stopped arguing with her husband, and smiled at Sister Qiu and said, "Come on." ”

On the other hand, Zhang Yuxiu hurriedly tied the fragrant dumplings with a straw rope and handed them to the women.

"How much is it?" The woman asked with a smile.

This time, Sister Qiu didn't say anything polite to them anymore, and said with a smile: "The dish is two cents, and the fragrant dumplings are ten cents each, a total of 22 cents." ”

The woman took out a copper plate from her purse, counted 22 and gave it to Sister Qiu, who took the money, looked at the back of the woman and the lame man slowly leaving, and said with a smile: "Come back tomorrow!" ”

Zhang Yuxiu pulled the copper plate in the box, stuck out her tongue and said: "Tingfeng Academy is good, even the handymen have so much money!" ”

22 cents is not much, but it is enough for a cropper to spend on salt sauce and vinegar in January, if it is not for the abundance of money, I am afraid that I will not buy two fragrant rice dumplings in such a refreshing moment.

"I don't think they look like handymen." Sister Qiu shook her head and said.

"Not like a handyman?" Zhang Yuxiu raised her eyes and looked at the two, and asked strangely, "What is it that is not a handyman?" ”

Sister Qiu smiled and said, "I."

You know. Although she is just a lame middle-aged man who feels that her expression is not as easy as her cheap father Mei Lao Xiucai, she always has a strong bookish atmosphere that cannot be explained, and she is not like a disabled person with a sense of decadence, even the old aunt who looks decadent has a very hearty temperament, and she does not have the harsh and harsh appearance of a little woman at the bottom.

After a while, the bell of the college after class rang, a lot of students poured out from the door of the college, Sister Qiu's stall also lined up, everyone who came to buy food, Sister Qiu all recommended and introduced their own fresh meat dumplings, because of this rare thing, most of the students who came to buy food were quite wealthy, and many people would buy a fragrant rice dumpling by the way to taste.

When it was Zhu Pingshan's turn, there was only one fragrant dumpling left, and Zhu Pingshan hurriedly smiled and said, "I bought this." ”

Zhang Yuxiu smiled regretfully, she also planned to leave it to Zhang Ruoxu.

After finishing the dishes and pancakes, Zhu Pingshan and his tall and strong friend didn't go back immediately, and when the students who came to buy food were almost gone, they smiled at Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu and said, "Our college has a two-day holiday on the fifth and sixth days of junior high school. ”

This Qiu sister listened to Zhang Ruoxu's words, nodded and said, "Well, I know, I won't come in those two days." ”

(End of chapter)