"It's only right to repay debts, but let me use my daughter to pay off my debts, that's absolutely impossible!" The big girl threw out a sentence.

"Her father, although your words are good, where can we get some money." The eldest girl said with a sad face.

"Oh, no, let's sell some more wheat." When the eldest girl heard his wife say this, the hardness just now suddenly withered.

"How's that going to work! We only collected more than two stones of wheat, and in order to make up 500 wen, we have already sold some of them, and if we sell them again, how can our family of four live? The eldest girl cried sadly.

"Cry, cry, you woman knows how to cry all day long!" The big girl yelled irritably.

"Father, mother, don't let me marry, I will definitely be able to earn money." The big girl said with tears in her eyes.

"Bitter girl." The eldest girl hugged her eldest daughter and hugged her younger daughter, and the mother and daughter cried together.

"Even if the Ding family is making money, it has only been a few days, and I dare to ask you for an extra five hundred Wen, is there any royal law here!" Du Mei looked at the poor family and said angrily.

"Meizi, don't hide it, even if she only needs five hundred wen now, I can't take it out. The 500 wen that used to sell grain has bought medicine for your uncle in the past few days. The eldest girl choked up.

"I used all my family's money to buy an ox cart, otherwise I can lend it to you for emergencies." Du Mei said helplessly.

"Thank you, Meizi, you've been so nice to us. Earlier, thanks to you for giving us three liters of rice, but later, with kindness, I didn't ask us to return it. You are really a girl with a bodhisattva heart, and you will be rewarded in the future. The eldest girl patted Du Mei's hand.

"Uncle, if you want me to say, you might as well accept an apprentice, first, the craftsmanship will not be lost, and second, there will be a foil at home." Du Mei thought for a moment and said.

"It's easier said than done to accept apprentices. Don't say that the ancestral training can't pass the test, just find an honest and reliable young man who can bear hardships and stand hard work, and now it is difficult. The eldest girl shook her head and said.

"Her father, isn't there a ready-made one in front of her eyes?" The eldest girl stared at Du Mei and said in surprise.

"Yes, Umeko! Would you like to? "Big girl dad turned his worries into joy.

"No, no, no, I said to accept apprentices, not to accept me, besides, didn't Uncle say that the sugar man's craft is passed on to men and not to women, and I don't care about it." Du Mei blushed.

"In your uncle's heart, you are no worse than a man!" The eldest girl said with joy.

"But I already have a lot of things going on at home, and I really don't have time to learn sugar man." Du Mei had the heart to refuse.

Sugar man is the Huang family's handicraft, her original intention was to find a young man to be an apprentice to the Huang family, in the future, if the eldest girl is willing, to become a husband and wife, is not the best of both worlds. Which Cheng thought, but the Huang family thought of her.

"No hurry, no hurry, now the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it's not the best time to be a sugar man. At present, what I can learn is to boil syrup and practice the skills of sugar painting. When the eldest girl said this, she was a little excited.

"This ......, Uncle Huang, you should still consider it, it's better to find a boy to learn." Du Mei tactfully persuaded.

"I'm a waste now, the family is full of women, if there is a boy, if it's good, if it's bad, wouldn't it lead a wolf into the house." The eldest girl is also thoughtful.

"That's it, Uncle Huang, you still mainly teach the big girl, I will learn from the side, and the big girl can sell it at my stall in the future, or you can sell it in the town." Du Mei thought of Niu Er,

If you ask him to take care of it, there should be no problem.

"Since you have become my apprentice, I will definitely teach you everything, how can I pass on my own children and treat my apprentices badly." The eldest girl's father seems to treat Du Mei as a serious apprentice.

"This sugar man learns, and he can't get out of the teacher in a year and a half, so how can he get through the difficulties in front of him." The eldest girl rubbed her hands anxiously.

"How much are you missing, I'll go to the town to sell food these days and make up for you." Since he is an apprentice, Du Mei has to take care of it.

"I still have two hundred wen left." The eldest girl counted the remaining money for the medicine.

"My body, I can't die, and I can't get better, don't spend money on me in the future!" When the eldest girl heard that the money had bought the medicine, she immediately felt distressed.

"Uncle, you must be well. Let the eldest girl come to my house to help temporarily, if you want to learn embroidery, I can teach her. When she can start a candy man business, life will be fine. Du Mei looked at the eldest girl, although he was crippled, he was still alive. Being alive is the best thing in the world.

"Really? Sister Meizi, don't worry, I will definitely do a good job. The eldest girl said happily.

"See you tomorrow at the mouth of the village." After sitting for a while, Du Mei thought about the bone broth boiled at home, and said goodbye and went home.

At the dinner table, Du Mei said that the eldest girl was going to come to help.

"The orphans and widows in our family have just eaten a full meal in front of us, so we invite her to help, and the neighbors are afraid that they will gossip." Xu Shi said sullenly.

"Her father took me as an apprentice, and I should take care of them." Du Mei said, taking a bite of the nest. It's not that she hasn't thought about it, but she's not a ruthless person.

"That's the reason, then let's calculate the salary higher, I'd rather earn less." Xu Shi thought for a while and said.

"I know that when the money from the food and sales comes in the next few days, I will lend it to her family first, which solves the urgent need." Du Mei nodded and said.

After a day of preparation, Du Mei's food on this day was particularly complete. Ruyi soup, braised bean rolls, fennel beans, stinky tofu, and assorted dishes for Niu Er are naturally indispensable.

Huang Daya waited on the side of the road early in the morning, and Du Mei had an ox cart, and people were much more relaxed. Du Gui and Huang Daya sat for the first time, and they were very excited, chattering non-stop along the way.

In the stall in the town, the big girl rushed to work, serving Ruyi soup, cutting braised bean rolls, turning over the table to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and the movements were quick and clean. Du Gui was in charge of welcoming customers and collecting money and selling fennel beans, and Du Mei set up an oil pot at the door of the stall to prepare fried stinky tofu.

The black marinade on the stinky tofu was washed by Du Mei at home, but the smell was faintly audible. Other foods are sold quickly, only stinky tofu, and there are many people who see it, but no one dares to order it.

When the oil was hot, Du Mei slid six pieces of stinky tofu into the pan, causing the yellow and clear oil to tumble. A strange fragrance spreads out, very different from the original taste.

Stinky tofu has the most dipping sauce, sweet, spicy, sweet and sour tomato flavor, and a kind of marinade. Du Mei cut the fried stinky tofu into 12 pieces, dipped them in sauce and marinated them, and invited onlookers to taste them for free.

The oil used in Du Mei is squeezed from rapeseed just harvested in May, and the stinky tofu is golden, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and has an attractive fragrance. Finally, a bold man in his thirties couldn't help but eat a piece, and then couldn't wait to taste all four flavors.

The people who didn't dare to eat it next to him asked again and again, "How does it taste?" ”

"Does it still stink? Seeing that you eat so fiercely, is it fragrant? ”

The other person asked a little puzzled when he saw that the man had not spoken for a long time.

"Give me twenty dollars!" The man didn't have time to answer the inquiries of others, and he didn't even have time to swallow the food in his mouth completely, so he stretched out two fingers towards Du Mei.

"Is it really that delicious?" The onlookers are fast and slow. Soon, there was nothing left in the tasting bowl except the residue of the dipping sauce.

The first plate of twenty pieces of stinky tofu was freshly cooked, and the man had a bowl of ruyi soup in front of him, and three other dipping sauces lined up, and he seemed to have a soft spot for tomato sweet and sour dipping sauce, and added it twice.

"How much?" The man stroked his well-fed stomach and asked contentedly.

"Stinky tofu costs three yuan a penny, you are the first to eat it, only six yuan will be charged, and the other two pieces will be counted as given to you, Ruyi soup five yuan, a total of eleven yuan." Du Mei said with a smile, and the accounts were clearly calculated.

"Gee, I've been smelling this from afar." Niu Er and his followers walked all the way and greeted Du Mei.

"Brother Niu, please inside!" Du Mei hurriedly let in.

"There are a lot of varieties sold today." Niu Er sat on a stool by the door, waiting for stinky tofu while chatting with Du Mei.

"Well, I also made a mixed dish for your mother today, remember to tell Du Gui when you leave, let her bring it to you." Du Mei was on the oil pan, a little overwhelmed.

"Great, you're really my savior, my mother has calluses in my ears." Niu Er touched his ears and smiled.

"Haha." Du Mei couldn't help but laugh.

"You've hired a helper?" Niu Er pouted at Huang Daya, who was busy, and asked.

"Well, for the time being, she's a candy man at home." Du Mei kept his hands on him, stealing a few words to him.

"If you look like a diligent person, you don't know if your hands and feet are clean." Niu Er really treats Du Mei as his sister, and he doesn't feel that he has to check for her.

"They are all children of poor families, and besides, the money does not go through her hands, where is there anything clean or unclean." Du Mei was reluctant to doubt her.

She saw that Huang Daya was deliberately avoiding suspicion, and when a guest paid the bill, she asked the other party to find Du Gui. Du Gui is quite talented in arithmetic, and simple addition, subtraction and subtraction can't make it difficult for her.

"I'll try it for you." Niu Er took out a penny from his pocket. Give it to the dog who is sitting against the wall and let him quietly put it in the corner.

"That's not good!" Du Mei was a little anxious.

"You can't have the heart to hurt people, you can't have the heart to prevent people, try it, and you won't lose a hair." Niu Er rolled his eyes.

Ye Qing went to the countryside early in the morning to collect embroidery, and when he came, the braised bean rolls and fennel beans had been sold out, and the oil pot for fried stinky tofu had also been removed. There was barely a bowl of Ruyi soup, stinky tofu and three fried pieces, Du Mei had the intention to leave these for Du Gui and the eldest girl to eat, but now that Ye Qing was here, he had to give them to him.

Ye Qing has never eaten stinky tofu, and after eating those three pieces, it is like Zhu Bajie eating longevity fruit, and before he tastes it, it is gone.

"I said, don't go to collect embroidery so early, I haven't eaten it." Ye Qing muttered.

"I'll keep it for you tomorrow." Du Mei saw that he looked greedy and thought it was funny.

"I'll rest tomorrow, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the sweat stains are stained with silk threads, and I can't sell them for a price." Ye Qing ran all morning, and the harvest was not big.

"That's right, my screen will be embroidered in a day or two, you can pick it up in a few days." Du Mei remembered and said. 2k reading web