Chapter 9 Thrift Becomes a Disease

When he took his granddaughter shopping for the first time, the old man stood at the entrance of the market and said heroically: "If you want to buy anything, tell your grandfather, and I will buy it for you." ”

When he entered the market, Gu Yao pointed to the whole rabbit skin that looked very good, and said, "Grandpa, I want this!" ”

The old man said, "Well, if you want, we can hunt rabbits by ourselves and see what else." ”

Gu Yao pointed to the colored bracelet ground out of unknown raw materials and said, "Grandpa, I want this!" ”

The old man said, "Well, if you want, we can dig and polish the stones ourselves and see what else." ”

Gu Yao pointed to the fifty-year-old ginseng again and said, "Grandpa, I want this." ”

The old man said, "Well, if you want, we can go into the mountains and dig by ourselves and see what else." ”

The two-mile-long bazaar was finished in a short time, and the grandparents and grandchildren didn't spend a penny. The old man was not very comfortable, and asked Gu Yao rhetorically: "Don't you want a sugar man?" ”

The sugar man who couldn't see the human form, a penny, Gu Yao said: "Sweet, don't." ”

"Where's the clay figurine?"

The clay figure without color, a penny, Gu Yao said: "Ugly, don't." ”

"Where's the bun?"

The oversized cabbage meat bun, one by one, Gu Yao said: "It's too big, my granddaughter can't finish it." ”

Seeing that it was noon, he had to buy something, so Gu Yao said, "Grandpa, let's buy a piece of tofu and go back to make small buns to eat, okay?" ”

This can be had.

The old man heroically bought tofu the size of a brick for three cents, ending the first day of shopping for his grandparents and grandchildren.

On the way back, on the bank of the small river beside the road, the two of them picked fresh shepherd's cabbage. An hour later, the fragrant and delicious xiaolongbao and the soft and sweet millet porridge were served on the table. Gu Yao ate five, and the old man ate more than thirty in one go, and he had to eat again.

Gu Yao hurriedly said: "I feel uncomfortable after eating, and my grandfather still wants to eat, just ask Brother Quan to do it again." ”

The old man smashed his mouth and said, "This spring, cooking is really good, let's eat it too." ”

"Grandpa, I'm a vegetarian ......"

The old man waved his hand absently and said, "I don't eat meat on weekdays." ”

Gu Yao still had something to say.

A few years ago, Gu Zhi County sent five truckloads of 20 stone grain, enough for ten adults to eat for a year, and the food was not worried, but there was a shortage of vegetables. When Gu Yao and Zhang Quan ate alone before, it was winter, and they had cabbage and radish and tofu for a penny, which was to improve their lives, and in the past few months, a hundred dollars had not been used, and Gu Yao could afford it.

However, Old Man Gu ate their daily allowance in one meal, and adding one to him was by no means a matter of adding a pair of chopsticks, because he asked, "Where did that dish come from?" ”

After asking, he found that Old Man Gu was covering his heart, and Gu Yao was so frightened that he hurriedly asked, "Grandpa is too late?" Stomach pain? ”

Old Man Gu waved his hand, indicating that he was fine. He, just suddenly remembered that after the eldest son's family left, the big kitchen only needed to cook for him and Yu Niang, and his family would lose a lot of money!

Seeing that his grandfather's face returned to normal, Gu Yao put his mind at ease and beckoned Zhang Quan to pack twenty buns, and the old man hurriedly asked, "Which one to give it to?" ”

"Master Yuan."

"Twenty buns, less than five cents!"

Old Man Gu blew his beard and glared at him, as if Gu Yao had lost all his family property, and Gu Yao blinked innocently. The old man was so angry that he educated her: "Five and five more are ten dollars, and if you take a string of ropes, it is the whole money, and you can't spend it." ”

Gu Yao was shocked beyond words. Didn't she have a fake grandfather? The official of the third grade, ten dollars and ten dollars? Yu Niang was most annoyed by his picky temperament, because he said: "Mr. Song said the day before yesterday that he asked the general to treat Master Yuan well." ”

Old Man Gu suddenly became excited, closed his eyes, came out of sight, and waved his hand: "Then send it." ”

Two bites of a small bun, Yuan Fang finished eating ten, and stopped.

Gu Yao asked, "Isn't it delicious?" ”

Yuan Fang replied: "The taste is fresh and beautiful. ”

"Then why don't you eat it? Don't say you're full, I don't believe it. ”

After hesitating for a moment, Yuan Fang said, "Save it for tomorrow's breakfast." ”

Gu Yao: ......

No matter where you are poor, it seems that you have to think of a way to earn money! Just thinking about it, I saw the "high" threshold, and it seemed that she was so short, and she was suddenly melancholy again.

is too young to earn money by selling his body, and he has to be elders.

After going back, Gu Yao communicated with Old Man Gu: "Let Master Yuan eat with us, okay?" ”

The old man's eyes lit up, and he suddenly had an idea, and after smiling, he summoned Zhang Quan and instructed him: "In the future, Yuan Fang's kid will also eat with us." If you don't have enough food to eat, go to someone else's yard to pick it up and pick up the child's house in the school. ”

This kind of behavior is too ugly, how can Gu Yao ask Zhang Quan to do it?

"Yu Niang told me that it was wrong to go to someone else's house to get something." Gu Yao said with a straight face, took the old man's hand again, and asked with a concerned face: "If grandpa is short of money, let Master Yuan help write to my father and ask him to give us money." ”

Reaching out to ask his son for money, Old Man Gu's face is really not so big.

The old man said angrily: "What nonsense! Grandpa just didn't think about it, which is no money! ”

What's there to think about here? plus Yu Niang and Yuan Fang, they all have a total of five people to eat, and they are not big fish and meat, food does not need money, and vegetables that support a lot of money a month are so difficult?

Gu Yao snorted angrily and went to Yuan Fang to complain: "The officials of the Ming Dynasty are so poor? ”

Yuan Fang saw that she was finally a little childlike, so he laughed out loud and patiently explained to her: "Taizu is thrifty, so that the older generation is somewhat thrifty. The general's move is understandable. The girl doesn't have to be annoyed, what she thinks in her heart, she might as well talk to the general directly. You must know that the girl is only five years old now, and the general will never really annoy the girl. ”

Gu Yao blinked and said suspiciously: "Wouldn't it be better to let grandpa change his mind and not make him angry?" ”

Yuan Fangdao: "If you can, it will naturally be better." ”

Gu Yao said: "Yes." Master Yuan, you know so much, your skills are so great, haven't you heard of someone being dismissed because of excessive frugality? ”

Hearing this, Yuan Fang propped up the case with both hands, looked down at Gu Yao, snorted coldly, and said, "After talking for a long time, he didn't ask me to complain, but asked me to work." ”

"The Master wants to eat too, right?"

Yuan Fang lost his temper, and after walking back and forth a few times in the school hall of Nuoda, it really reminded him of such a number one person. After Gu Yao heard this, he ran to the front yard to find Old Man Gu to talk about it.

At that time, Mr. Song was also there.

I only heard Gu Yao say: "Grandpa, I heard that there was an official who was frugal and used the wrong cup for drinking, and was dismissed. Mr. Song, is there such a thing? ”

Mr. Song looked at Old Man Gu and didn't speak, so the old man said, "You tell the truth." ”

Mr. Song said, "The fifth girl is right. This is not an outsider, it is the previous political envoy of Yunnan, Han Yike and the imperial history of Handu. This person can be called a genius, Taizu once sent him to prison, and the next day he personally released the person and made him the secretary of the Shanxi government, and I don't know why, he was demoted to the Yunnan government. When the old man returned to his hometown two years ago, when he heard that this person had left Yunnan, the people of Yunnan sent him off. ”

Gu Yao was confused when he heard it, but he knew that this person was not ordinary.

Shanxi and Yunnan are more partial, and they are also the bosses of the two provinces! Yuan Fang's kid actually gave her such an example, this is, met the legendary pig teammate?