In the afternoon, Li Ailian took Zhang Yuxiu home, Sister Qiu and Dayin followed Lin Zhun to learn a few more words, and then went to Lao Sheng's grocery store at the entrance of the village, asking Lao Sheng to send another 100 catties of soybeans. It is true that it is cheaper to buy a hundred catties of soybeans in the big grain store in the town than in Lao Sheng, but first, the town does not give delivery, Sister Qiu's family only has women, and carrying soybeans home is a heavy physical job, and secondly, according to Sister Qiu, the big grain stores in the town are all Rong Deyi's industry, and she does not plan to take care of Rong Deyi's idea, so she would rather spend a few cents more to buy it in Lao Sheng.

All of them are from the villagers, although Lao Sheng is a businessman, but he is quite kind, the soybeans sold to them are basically all good, and there are very few dirt and stones in it, and there are very few bad beans. Sister Qiu heard that there were some grain stores, and they deliberately bullied the people who were born in the face, and the beans they gave were not good, not to mention, a bag of 50 catties of beans could be mixed with two or three catties of pebbles to earn black money.

When I arrived at the Lao Sheng grocery store, there was a group of people chatting around the door of the store, among which there was Erniu, who had scared Brother Cheng in the morning in the market and fled, standing there shirtless, spitting and talking about something.

When he looked at Sister Qiu, the sound suddenly stopped, he stared at Sister Qiu, and then looked at Sister Qiu standing next to Lin Zhun, who wanted to scold and scold a few words, but he didn't dare to scold, but he just held a grudge in his heart, opened his mouth and spit, almost spit on Sister Qiu.

"Eh, it's the daughter of the old Xiucai! Uncle Gang didn't see you, no wonder! "The second cowhide preached with a smile on his face.

Lin Zhun glanced at him with a gloomy face, pulled Sister Qiu and continued to walk forward, ignoring him.

After entering Lao Sheng's shop, Sister Qiu said to Lao Sheng: "Uncle Shun, I will ask Brother Fuzi to send another hundred catties of beans to my house later." ”

Lao Sheng smiled and couldn't see his teeth, "Okay! Fuzi is fine now, so I will ask him to come with you. After speaking, Lao Sheng shouted to the door, and Fuzi, who was squatting by the door and listening to the gossip of the people in the village, immediately ran in, smiled at Sister Qiu and Lin Zhun, and asked, "Sister Qiu, this time is still a hundred catties of beans?" ”

Sister Qiu nodded, smiled and said, "I'm tired of Brother Fuzi." ”

Fuzi hurriedly shook his hand, "Don't bother, don't bother!" "Who is tired of making money?

When Fuzi came out of the grocery store with a huge burlap bag on his back, everyone stopped talking in unison, and glanced at Sister Qiu with a look that was both envious and complicated. There are no secrets in the village, Fuzi carried a hundred pounds of beans to Sister Qiu's house a few days ago, everyone knew it, but I didn't expect it, so far it has only been a few days, and Sister Qiu's family will ask for another hundred pounds of beans, the idea is really good!

At this time, the harvest of the wild land accounts for almost half of the economic resources of the households, at most they will do a side business, raise a grass pig to feed a few chickens, sell grass pigs during the Chinese New Year, and usually sell a few copper plates of red eggs, and there are very few opportunities to go out to make money. Even if you go to the market to set up a food stall, if you don't have good palm skills, the idea is not good, and it delays the work in the field.

Like Sister Qiu's idea

is such a prosperous stall, and the people in the village can say that they can't envy it.

"How can people get their ideas right?" One of the men couldn't help but speak what was in his heart.

Er Niu laughed, crossed his waist and said in a loud voice: "What's so enviable about this, you went to marry Mrs. Lao Xiucai, don't say anything about a lady who is so big, what a good idea is all yours!" ”

The sound was very loud, and Sister Qiu hadn't gone far yet, so she naturally heard Erniu's words word for word. Before Lin Zhun could open her mouth, Sister Qiu stopped, turned her head and smiled at Erniu and said, "Uncle Erniu, come here, I have something to tell you." ”

The people around laughed for a moment, and immediately glanced at Erniu.

Erniu was a little weak and didn't dare to go over. Sister Qiu stood beside Lin Zhun, although the kid was only 14 years old, but he was already tall and big-headed, and he couldn't bear it with a punch.

"What's wrong? Erniu, you don't dare to come over? Sister Qiu said with a smile.

The people around who watched the excitement all brushed and sneered, "Erniu, look at you like a bear!" You're even afraid of a little girl! ”

Erniu argued to himself, "Who is afraid? I just didn't react! Can I still be afraid of her? So saying, he strode over, as if to prove that he was not at all afraid.

"What's the matter?" Erniu asked, holding his chin high.

Sister Qiu darkly pulled Lin Zhun's palm, signaled him not to be angry, and asked calmly: "You went to the town to sell water tofu in the morning, why did you say that it was the same as my family's water tofu?" Aren't you blind? ”

"How am I blinded!" Although Erniu's face turned purple and red, his neck was straight, and he didn't admit it honestly, "I use your water, and the water tofu I make is average!" ”

Sister Qiu asked in confusion: "When did you get my water?" We haven't lent the well to anyone else. After speaking, Sister Qiu specially accentuated her tone, and said with a slap in her eyes: "No one has to think about it!" That well is my house! ”

"Didn't your second uncle choose water from your family?" Erniu was in a hurry, and asked at the mouth, could it be that the water tofu could not be made, or was it the cause of the water?

Sister Qiu looked at Erniu, and Erniu's heart was straight and weak in her heart, and after a long time, Sister Qiu was able to take a look and asked, "Did you see my second uncle carrying water from my house?" ”

Erniu was shocked in his heart, and he didn't pick up the stubble for a while. The water was picked up by Mei Lao Er and went straight to his house, but he didn't see Mei Lao Er go to Sister Qiu's house to carry water.

There was Erniu's hesitation at this moment, which was enough for Sister Qiu to judge that Erniu didn't look at Mei's second uncle carrying water, and she continued: "Who is my second uncle's father, my mother's illness will throw my mother out when he is sick, and he wants to sell me every day to change the fine noodles for his son to eat, and my family doesn't want him to enter the door!" ”

Sister Qiu put down such a sentence, regardless of Erniu, and pulled Lin Zhun and said: "Brother Zhun, let's go, this person is mixed with my second uncle, and it must not be a good thing!" ”

Lin Zhun understood, dragged Sister Qiu forward, and whispered to Sister Qiu: "Your family's deep well water is optimistic, let's go to the town to buy a lock tomorrow, not there."

When I was at home, I locked the manhole cover. ”

The sound was not loud, enough for Erniu to hear clearly.

"Mei Er, you bastard, dare to play grandpa me!" Erniu had a gloomy face, and said to himself, and after speaking, he hurriedly walked to Mei's house with his head simmered, he had to settle accounts with Mei Tang. He promised Mei Tang that he only needed to pick two buckets of water for him, and he would give Mei Tang a hundred cents of dividends after selling the water tofu. But he didn't expect that Mei Tang couldn't pick up the magical deep well water from Sister Qiu's house, and dared to use ordinary deep well water to fool him! He was embarrassed in public, and he almost promised to be arrested by the official and sent to prison! He can't swallow this breath!

Mei Tang is sitting at home waiting for the second cow to send the "dividends", to be very impatient and annoying, the plan is going to go to the second cow's house in person, the second cow came to the door, Mei Tang was overjoyed, and felt that the two cows were coming to send dividends, and hurriedly caught up, and as a result, the two cows fell to the ground with a punch in the face, and they sturdily slammed a few times.

One scolds the other shamelessly, even he dares to pit, and the other scolds Erniu for wanting to swallow money alone, and the water duel is no problem, but Erniu doesn't believe Mei Tang anymore, the two of them fought for a while, Mei Er'er was dizzy with her stomach in a hurry, and she didn't dare to pull forward, for fear that her belly would be missing.

When the two of them were tired, Mei Laosu and Mao came back from the field, and hurriedly pulled the two away, Mao saw that his son had suffered a loss, like a fried rooster, jumping and howling and scolding La Erniu.

Back at home, Lin Zhun couldn't help but ask, "Sister Qiu, what did you tell Erniu about those things?" ”

Sister Qiu grinned, picked up the beans in the basket, and said, "Didn't Brother Zhun guess everything?" And follow my words, two cows! ”

I don't know when it started, Lin Zhun also followed Jia's family, and his title to Sister Qiu became an intimate "Sister Qiu". Sister Qiu was also unconsciously disgusted at all, and the feeling that Dazhun gave her was comfortable, reliable, and trustworthy.

Lin Zhun smiled, Xiao Nizi relied on her intelligence to trick people again, but Sister Qiu was measured in her heart, and all the people in the pit were people with bad conduct.

The cement gypsum that Sister Qiu bought when she first went back to the town had already been used up, and the next cement gypsum was bought by Sister Qiu who asked Dayin and the donkey to run to other pharmacies, as far as possible without attracting attention. The idea of water tofu will definitely get better and better, and it will not be able to make it bigger just by relying on the two adults Jia and Li Ailian. Sister Qiu didn't want to hide the method of making water tofu, but with the situation of their family, it was good for orphans and widows not to be oppressed, and they had not earned enough money, and now it was too early to contribute the water tofu recipe to the head of the village.

In the afternoon, Sister Qiu still only soaked 30 catties of beans.

Jia Shi looked at the beans in the bucket, smiled at Sister Qiu and said, "Just soak ten more catties, I seem to be buying more and more water tofu, and I don't have to worry about selling it!" ”

Sister Qiu rolled her eyes, and said helplessly: "Mother, now there are only 30 catties of beans, you and your aunt all have to get up in the middle of the night to grind beans and cook bean juice, 30 catties of beans are made into bean flowers and water tofu There are 100 catties of tofu and pick them to the town."

How tiring! Ten more pounds, and you'll both be exhausted! ”

"Mother is not afraid of being tired!" Jia Shi smiled happily and said, "My mother has physical strength, and the idea is good, let's do more and earn more." ”

Sister Qiu shook her head with a smile, beating to death and didn't want to add more beans, "Mother, you talked in your dreams last night, complaining about the pain of shaking your arm from shaking the grinding plate!" ”

"Really?" Jia Shi was surprised, her face was flushed, she was a little embarrassed, and she stroked her own arm with her thoughts, but no, she got up in the middle of the night every day to grind beans, her arm was really unbearable.

The Jia family is so hard-working, and he has never complained in the Mei family before, how can he complain when the family is separated? It's just Sister Qiu coaxing her, no matter how much she can do it, she can't collapse her body.

"Mother, the money can't be earned, let's take our time, pay off the debt first, and then save money to buy a little donkey to grind, it's inconvenient to save a lot of effort? If you are tired and sick, and I am the only one left, what will I do? Sister Qiu said.

The last sentence is said to be in Jia's heart, the only thing she can do is Sister Qiu, who still has a wisp of fantasy and expectation about the Mei family, and feels that Sister Qiu is the child and grandson of the Mei family, if she is gone, how can the Mei family take care of Sister Qiu, at least give her food, and now she understands that even if the family is separated, if there is no her protection, the bandit-like people of the Mei family will definitely sell Sister Qiu for money.

Under Sister Qiu's persuasion, Jia dispelled the idea of grinding more beans, and he was indeed tired enough every day.

Sister Qiu has the idea of hiring people, it is inconvenient for their orphans and widows to hire men, it is still okay to hire uncles and daughters-in-law to grind beans, and give five copper plates a day, and a lot of people will take it to do this work.

Today, Sister Qiu also bought a river fish, originally planned to eat it with the big guys, but I didn't expect Li Ailian to suddenly take Zhang Yuxiu home to take a look, only one and Jia were left at home, and the two of them must not be able to eat a whole river fish. Sister Qiu called Lin Zhun's family and cut the river fish into pieces and made a sweet and sour river fish piece. After it was done, Sister Qiu took a bowl of river fish and asked the big seal to send it to the donkey.

She didn't drive the donkey to do things for her every day, and after the first time the two of them took the river fish and shrimp to get a salary from Sister Qiu, the second time she said that she didn't want anything, and later under Sister Qiu's questioning, the donkey told the truth, and the father and father of the family all spoke, and he was not allowed to ask Sister Qiu for salary.

In the eyes of the dealer's house, the small river fish and shrimp in the river want to catch as much as they want, and then talk about it, the donkey still eats the bean curd of Sister Qiu's house, and has never given money.

The thick sauce with the umami flavor of river fish is still everyone's favorite, and the big seal is delicious enough to make pancakes with sauce, and all river fish don't have to eat. At this time, there were no eight major cuisines, and the cooking was also out of the embryonic stage, and the dishes made by Sister Qiu were specially catered to everyone's tastes and seasoned

There are a lot of ingredients, and the flavor of the dish is very strong.

When it was time to hold the lamp in the evening, Li Ailian rushed back with Zhang Yuxiu in a hurry, and Jia Shi was not at ease, so he put on his coat and looked at the door several times.

"Why are you only coming back now?" Jia Shi complained, "Black rumbling, what if your mothers and relatives fall!" ”

Li Ailian smiled and shook her hand, "This road is all familiar, if there is really something, this village is full of acquaintances, and it is inconvenient to shout." ”

"Have you talked to Ruoxu?" Jia asked.

Sister Qiu brought Li Ailian and Zhang Yuxiu a bowl of river fish soup and two pancakes in the evening, Li Ailian and Zhang Yuxiu walked a long way, they were hungry early, and they ate with it.

(End of chapter)