Chapter 170: Guests
It was too hot, and the stalls in the market were not doing well, and most of them had to be set up until the afternoon, and when Du Mei went, the stall owners were waiting for a handful of customers to visit.
Du Mei weighed a pound of candy, ordered more chicken, fish, and meat, and added some game, and the wine shop had already prepared wine for her, and seeing that she intended to ask for more, the stall owner immediately smiled happily, and hurriedly prepared to go.
The old man was still waiting at the stall, and when Du Mei ordered tofu, he had already told him, and now he talked to him seriously and invited him to a moving banquet.
Bought a set of dishes and chopsticks in the grocery store, Du Mei thought in her heart, she didn't invite Ye Dan Ye Qing in person, so she went to Yunshang Embroidery Village to take a look.
"Ye Qing, you're back!" As soon as Du Mei entered the shop, he saw Ye Qing arranging the silk handkerchief on the counter, and said with a little surprise.
"Well, just got home. Why are you here on such a hot day? Ye Qing dropped his work and talked to Du Mei with a smile.
"Where's Shopkeeper Ye?" Du Mei raised her eyes and looked at the store, but she didn't see Ye Dan's figure.
"Hmm...... I'm in a hurry today, and my brother is too single to stand the bumps, so he's lying down now. Ye Qing groaned and said.
Because Du Mei was in danger, Chu Lin ordered Ye Dan not to hold another singing and selling party, and this time he found out that the master behind the Splendid Workshop was the King of Shu, Chu Lin didn't want to provoke a bigger incident, and Du Mei Shengsheng was involved in the disaster. So he hurriedly ordered them to enter Beijing and admonished them, Ye Dan was ashamed and tormented in his heart, and he fell ill in a hurry.
"Why are you sick? Have you seen Uncle Zhong Yu? Du Mei asked anxiously.
"I've seen it, it's not a big deal, just take two pairs of medicines." Ye Qing waved his hand again and again.
"Three days later, I moved and invited you to dinner, I wanted to invite him in person, but since he is sick, I will tell you." Du Mei did not doubt him, and said to himself.
"Okay, okay." Ye Qing grinned, he liked Du Mei's dishes the most.
"Ye Qing, Chunshang, do you still have the Chen rice you bought for me?" Du Mei remembered another important matter.
"Why did you remember to ask this?" Ye Qing asked suspiciously, her ducks are all placed in the mouth of the fish, and there is not much food to eat.
"There was a severe drought this summer, and there was no rain for more than a month, and the last time I came back from the capital, I saw that the rice in the fields along the way was dry and could be lit. At this time, tillering and booting are being formed, and once there is a lack of water, all the shells are deflated. If this continues, I am afraid that the grain in autumn will have to turn a few somersaults, and when the weather is cold, the ducks will not be able to get into the water, and there will not be enough food, I am afraid that they will not be able to survive the winter. Du Mei frowned, expressing his concern.
"That's what you said, this year is really strange, in the spring, the rain can't stop, but now it doesn't rain a drop." Ye Qing looked at the scorching sun outside, and shook his head like a little adult.
"So, I'll prepare in advance, otherwise, the price will be ridiculously high, and I won't be able to afford it." Du Mei has seen that when the spring is not green, the price in the rice shop is almost one price a day, and it is rising whirringly.
"I don't know if people still have it now, I'll ask you first, how many catties do you want?" Ye Qing took out the bookkeeping notebook and prepared to write it down.
"Buy a hundred taels." Du Mei said without hesitation.
"You're crazy! Last time we negotiated the price of 800 wen a stone, how many stones do you have to buy! Ye Qing was taken aback by her words.
"It's already great to be able to buy 100 stones, and if the drought doesn't ease for a day, the price of this rice will have to soar." Du Mei was much calmer than Ye Qing.
"But you want so much, and you can't put it at home
Ye Qing said worriedly.
"I'm not going to move right away, I'm going to clean up the old house again, it's warm in winter and cool in summer, and it's just right to put rice." Du Mei had already planned for it.
"Well, since you say that, I'll do my best to help you. I happen to know some people, so I'll help you inquire first. Ye Qing listened to what she said, it didn't seem like a whim, so she naturally fell in love.
After saying so, Du Mei's hanging heart fell back into her stomach, and she took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels from her purse, thought about it, and exchanged it for one hundred and fifty taels.
"That's too much!" Ye Qing carried the silver ticket and said a little helplessly.
"The sooner you buy, the better, and the more you buy, the better." Du Mei said with a serious face. Her ducks are going to lay eggs in autumn, so they can't be short of food!
"Okay, Ming'er, I'll go out and inquire." Hearing her say this, Ye Qing had no choice but to accept the silver ticket.
Since she came to the town, Du Mei wanted to take a look at Niu Er and Hei Jiaolong's injuries by the way, so she quit Ye Qing and went to Niu Er's house.
Dumay tied the heifer to the shade of a tree and plucked a handful of grass for him to chew. The door of Niu Er's courtyard was closed, and there was no sound inside, so she stepped forward and knocked on the door.
"Who?" Niu San asked in a wary whisper.
"It's me, Dumay." Du Mei thought to himself that his words were still somewhat useful, and they were now cautious.
"Squeak" The door opened a crack, and Niu San leaned out half of his body to look around.
"Come on in." Sure that there was no one outside, Niu San hurriedly greeted Du Mei.
"What kind of demon is this?" Du Mei asked, puzzled.
"It's not that you said to be careful, don't leak the news." Niu San turned his head to look at her, as if he was still very aggrieved.
"You're so sneaky, Rao will be seen as something if you're fine!" Du Mei said angrily.
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what should I do?" Where did Niu San suffer such grievances on weekdays, he spread his hands and didn't know what to do.
"It's time to get by, it's just the two of them, just don't go out too early." As they spoke, the two had already entered the house.
"We didn't go anywhere, we just stayed at home." Niu Er heard her voice and hurriedly said.
He and Hei Jiaolong used Zhong Yu's ointment and raised it for two or three days, and the wound scabbed. By this time they were able to get up and were idle, wandering around the house.
"Meizi, there's nothing going on outside, you haven't been here for a few days, and we don't dare to inquire outside." The black dragon walked over and asked.
"I've been busy with family affairs these days, and I don't have time to come, don't worry, it's too peaceful outside." Du Mei said with relief.
"Your house is ready, isn't it time to move?" Niu Er estimated that he counted the days, and Du Mei's family had been building a house for more than a month.
"Well, move in three days." Du Mei didn't want to tell them, lest they also want to go, and it would not be good to be used by people with bad intentions. But when it came to this, she had to tell the truth.
"Then we ......" Hei Jiaolong's eyes flashed with longing, he quit smoking, drinking, and spicy every day, and the birds faded out of his mouth.
"You can't go out!" Du Mei categorically extinguished his illusions.
"We're not going, we're not going." Niu Er saw that Du Mei seemed annoyed, and said flatteringly. As he spoke, he winked at the black dragon.
Du Mei instructed again, drank a bowl of tea, and went back.
"Ah......h Ah ...... "Du Mei took an ox cart back to Dujiagou and sneezed several times along the way.
I saw Du Zhong and Du Shu driving water in the field, Du Mei
Jumped out of the ox cart, woke up and walked towards them.
"Uncle Zhong, Brother Shu, in three days, the family will move to a new house, and you will come to eat." Du Mei wanted to change Du Shu to rest, but he politely refused.
"Okay." Du Zhong didn't talk much, he was working hard, and he didn't have much to say.
"Go back quickly, you've been running for another day, you must be tired enough." Du Shu saw that Du Mei was dusty, and the heifer on the ridge lowered his head and kicked his hooves impatiently.
Du Jiasuo carefully brushed the new furniture of Du Mei's house with tung oil, Du Mei was busy all day, and three days passed easily. Early in the morning, Butcher Zhang sent a pork leg, and the old man also sent tofu and dried tofu shutters. Then the liquor seller brought wine, beef, chicken, fish, and game.
Du Mei sat at home waiting for the receipt and payment, and the three small ones went to the field early to pick vegetables and fruits.
Fang's came over as soon as it was dawn to help Xu's pack up and eat. The eldest girl had said to the regular customers who came to drink herbal tea as early as the day before, and she and her mother would come to work together early in the morning for a day off.
The two stunned people carried the only two benches in the house to Du Mei's house, and the countrymen held banquets, ranging from tables, chairs and benches, to small dishes, chopsticks, cups, and cups, which can be borrowed from the neighbors, and they have to give some candy and melon seeds as a thank you gift.
The left and right neighbors are proud of being borrowed, and if any family has good things that are not borrowed, they will be gossiped by the villagers for a long time and isolated.
The Fang family's tables, chairs, benches, dishes, chopsticks, cups and cups are being moved to the new hall house of the Du Mei family one by one by the Du family. Du Mei estimated that there would be three tables, two tables in the new house, and one more in the kitchen. She bought a new set of tableware and borrowed a set from Aunt Zhang's house, which was almost enough.
In the kitchen, Du Gui and the eldest girl were cooking in the stove, Du Mei and Xu were cooking in two pots at the same time, and Fang's was close to each other, cooking rice and boiling bone broth on the stove in her house.
The whole Dujiagou is filled with all kinds of meat aromas early in the morning, the fresh fragrance of chicken, the fat of fish, and the spicy smell of hares.
Chunhua Qiuguo dragged the spring buds alive and dead, and they helped make tea and set up dishes and chopsticks. The old man rarely took a day off from work, and did not go to sell tofu, and when he saw Chunya, he didn't know where to put his eyes, and Chunya was even more ashamed to raise his head.
Zhong Yu was the first to come, he was wearing the azure pine needle bamboo leaf gown, which was long and straight, like a bamboo repair, clear and steady. He tied the carriage to the outside of the courtyard and came in with a small bag in his hand.
The second stunned man was sitting in the courtyard, he had done business with Du Mei, and he had already practiced sweetness and quick hands, he saw Zhong Yu coming, knowing that he was Du Mei's distinguished guest, and hurriedly shouted to the kitchen, got up and gave up his seat, and the girls immediately made tea.
When Du Mei heard this, she called out with a smile: "Uncle Zhong Yu, you are here." ”
"Well, this is for you, some medical books and medicinal herbs." Zhong Yu handed her the baggage.
"Thank you." Du Mei accepted it happily.
"Go ahead, I'll see for myself." Zhong Yu knew that Du Mei was busy today, so he didn't want her to accompany him, so he took a look in the new house by himself.
The second one came was Song Shaohuai and Fengxian, Fengxian wanted to come to see Du Mei, and woke up Song Shaohuai early in the morning.
"Plum!" A gust of fragrant wind blew in his face, and after getting out of the carriage, the phoenix hurried to the courtyard.
She is wearing apricot pollen flowers and butterflies today, hairpin hairpin flower arrangement on her head, her face is like a peach blossom in February, her waist is like a willow swinging in the wind, she is wearing a jingle between walks, and her clothes are fluttering, just like a nine-day Xuannu descending to earth, and she is stunned. 2k reading web