The following days were a bit like the busy season of the autumn harvest, nervous and tiring but very fulfilling, and every day I watched with joy the copper coins in the money jar rising vigorously. The money jar was also as Chrysanthemum thought, and it was changed to a big one.

Zheng Changhe can already go to the ground, but he can't do heavy work yet. Aoki helped him sharpen a cane and walked in and out of the ground every day. Those pigs' heads and trotters were all cleaned up by him.

When you have a lot of things, you don't want to work hard. In order to speed up the cleaning of the pig's head and trotters, Chrysanthemum simply asked Yang to buy two sharp knives - similar to daggers, and simply rip off the fur that could not be shaved in the folds on the pig's face and trotters. This makes the cleanup much faster. Almost without the help of others, Zheng Changhe can clean up four pig's heads and sixteen pig's trotters in an hour!

Chrysanthemum roasts the pig's head, pig's trotters and pig's tail every morning, and burns the pig in the water in the evening, always leaving a pot for cooking. If you have a small fish, just get up in the morning and burn it again, that thing will burn quickly!

Acorns are also processed a lot. After blistering and drying, all the kernels are packed in sacks and stored in the cellar. Now Chrysanthemum's heart is really steady. If it weren't for the fact that she had been in business lately and had been very busy, she would have to catch two more piglets and come back. After thinking about it, forget it, take your time, you can't eat a bite to become a big fat man.

Why is the Zheng family so desperate? It's not to scrape together money to buy quilts and cotton clothes quickly.

The weather gradually became very cold, and Chrysanthemum felt that she couldn't stand it, so she especially liked to stay in the kitchen and cook the pot, and she didn't dislike the smell of oil smoke at all. Why? It's a fire!

But she can't stay in the kitchen all the time, she has to do laundry, feed pigs, and wash vegetables, at this time she tries to use well water - the well water is warm!

Fortunately, Zheng Changhe is busy with pig's head and pig's feet every day, chrysanthemums are also carefully cooked around the stove every day, Yang's is even more like earning his life every day to carry a large load of cooked vegetables to Xiatang to sell, Aoki is morning and evening to help, the family gets up early and works greedily, after all, it is a rich return, more than 20 days down, but also earned seven or eight taels of silver.

This is more than the Zheng family's income in previous years!

If you want to say that you can't sell it for so much money, now that the weather is much colder, there are many fewer people rushing to the market, and there are naturally fewer people working in Erlipu.

However, these vegetables of chrysanthemum roast are famous, and even the residents on the Xiatang market will often come to buy some to eat, and the nearby farmers who want to make tooth sacrifices will also run a while to buy some and go home to coax the little baby.

You don't have to spend a lot of money, you can buy a big bowl for two yuan, why can't you buy it? If you don't buy this, do you want to buy the pork for 20 cents a pound? That's not a loser!

Therefore, Yang's daily load of cooked vegetables is actually sold cleanly, if someone comes late, they can't buy it!

But chrysanthemums don't plan to increase the amount anymore - things have to be eaten to be fragrant, if they are not rare, then they are not fragrant.

Also, if someone came all the way to Erlipu today, only to find that the pig water and pig head meat were sold out, how disappointed should they be? I'm afraid that the taste of that dish will be more and more reminiscent in my mouth, and I will not be willing to wait until I come to buy it early tomorrow, and maybe I will have to buy an extra penny!

As a result, Erlipu staged a scene every day when someone came to buy the pig water and pig's head meat, but finally returned disappointed. This mobile cheap restaurant also became more and more famous, and finally attracted the attention of people who paid attention to the pig's launch.

With money, the Zheng family unanimously decided to buy quilts and cotton clothes!

Yang had already found out that Chrysanthemum was shaking all day long, and he was desperate to make the bed soft and warm, and then made her a thick cotton coat and a pair of cotton shoes!

However, there was little rain in the autumn, but in the winter there was cold rain for several days, so the matter had to be put on hold.

Finally, when the weather cleared, it happened to be the day when Aoki School was resting, so he and Yang went to the market to buy cotton elastic quilts.

Seeing that the long-awaited wish was about to come true, Chrysanthemum happily dismantled all the three quilts at home, and soaked all the sheets and cleaned them; The old cotton wool is all dried on the rope, and the rope that bends the clothes into an arc!

Zheng Changhe quickly finished processing the pig's head and trotters, and saw that Chrysanthemum was carrying a large basket of sheets to the river to wash, so he hurriedly stopped: "Chrysanthemum, the river is very cold!" Let's dig water from the well and wash it! ”

Chrysanthemum said: "With such a big sun, it's almost noon now, and the river is not so icy." This sheet is so big that it can't be shaken in the basin; Throw it into the river, rinse it a few times and it will be clean, which is very convenient! ”

Zheng Changhe was even more worried: "It's because the quilt is big, and the water is very heavy when it gets wet, what if I pull you into the river when I turn around?" ”

Chrysanthemum smiled: "Dad, I'm careful, it's not in the way!" ”

The winter sun warmly shone on the withered and yellow riverbank, and the water of Xiaoqing River was still clear, reflecting sparkling waves in the sun, and the river water was cold and biting, which did not make the sun hotter.

It was wet with a single and it was really heavy. After fiddling in the river for a while, Chrysanthemum broke out a fine sweat, but her ten fingers were as cold as carrots. She felt a little overwhelmed, and even her toes were freezing and aching.

She threw the sheet on the stone slab, and kept stomping her feet in place, and put her hands together to her mouth to keep snorting for heat, but that pitiful little heat could not warm her frozen fingers at all!

Just thinking about whether to stuff these hands into his underwear to cover the heat for a while, and worried that the ice would be colder on his body, suddenly a person sprang out from the side, picked up the sheet on the stone slab and threw it into the river, threw it hard, shook the sheet away, and then dragged it in the water, and the sewage flowed away, but he brought back a bunch of the sheets, folded them in half, put them on the stone slab and smashed them with a mallet.

Chrysanthemum was startled, her body shook, and she almost fell into the river, but it was thanks to the man's hand that he quickly held on, so it didn't cause a tragedy!

She stood firm and saw that it was Zhang Huai!

Why is this man so reckless? Is this a help or a troublemaker, why don't you squeak?

Chrysanthemum said complainingly: "Brother Huaizi, why don't you squeak? I almost fell into the river! ”

Zhang Huai listened to her cordial, did not alienate, his heart trembled, and he said in a muffled voice without looking back: "I thought you heard it!" Is your brother at home, why did you come to wash this cold water? ”

On the road, he saw Chrysanthemum washing things by the river from a distance, thinking that the water was very cold, why didn't she wash it in the household well? Isn't Aoki at home today, you can help fetch water!

Although there is no female baby in his family, he also knows that women can't be casually exposed to cold water, especially in winter, his mother always has a few days to wash her clothes and let his father or him wash them.

So, he went around and looked.

When he saw Chrysanthemum's thin body writhing vigorously, vigorously swinging the heavy sheet, and the struggling look, he almost worried that she would be dragged down the river by the sheet. She fiddled for a moment and then stopped, stomping her feet in place, so cold that she was hot on both hands. He took no other care of the basket and threw it down to the riverbank.

Chrysanthemum said: "My brother and my mother went to the market to do errands." Brother Huaizi has something to do with my brother? ”

Although she felt a little awkward in her heart, but people were eager to help, and she couldn't refuse with a straight face, and the water was really cold, so she happily stood aside and crossed her hands into her armpits to keep warm. That hand was really cold, even through the clothes, it was freezing her.

Zhang Huai didn't get the answer he wanted, and paused for a while before saying, "It's nothing!" My grandmother's house sent some beef, so I'll give you some. My mother's cooking is not as delicious as your cooking, so I brought the raw meat! ”

When Chrysanthemum heard this, she was not embarrassed, and asked in surprise, "Really?" Is it a scalper or a buffalo? Are there cow bones? Let me tell you, it's not very difficult to burn, you blanch the beef, put some ginger, garlic, star anise, cinnamon, chili soy sauce and cook it over low heat. When it is almost cooked, put the white radish slices in it and burn it. When you cook it like this, that radish is better than beef! Beef bones are used to simmer in soup, and they should be simmered all night! ”

Zhang Huai's body stiffened for a moment, first "belched", and then replied: "I don't know what kind of cow it is." Beef bones are also available. My mother said that there was no meat on the bones, and she was embarrassed to bring it to you, so I didn't bring it. If you like, I'll send you some later! ”

Chrysanthemum was happy when she heard that there was beef, and she was also quick to talk, so she said a lot of things, and when she finished speaking, she felt that it was really inappropriate - did you ask people for things like this? Now I hear Zhang Huai say that he wants to send some more bones, I'm very embarrassed!

She said apologetically: "People love meat, but in fact, the soup simmered with bones is the most fragrant." Your family finally got some beef, so you can keep all the meat and send some bones to my family. Anyway, my family loves soup. ”

Zhang Huai was very unhappy when he heard it - why did he see him like this? Could it be that he was asked to bring back the beef he brought? Recently, didn't my family often eat the pig water and pig head meat sent by Aunt Zheng?

So he didn't say a word, and put the sheets into the river vigorously, and when he was done, he dragged them back and put them on the stone slabs, three handfuls and two handfuls, and washed two beds in a while!

Chrysanthemum saw that he was very skilled in his work, and thought to herself, what a good young man, but I am afraid that I will help his mother do this work at home.

When wringing out the water, the chrysanthemum wanted to help, Zhang Huai didn't let it, twisted his hands crossed, the water flowed down, and the sheet was twisted into a thick rope, curled into an inverted figure 8!

He was busy as fast as Chrysanthemum stood by and watched.

He consciously felt Chrysanthemum's gaze, and even his neck turned red, and he didn't dare to look up at her more and more. I was thinking about what was going on, and I suddenly heard Chrysanthemum say: "Brother Huaizi, I'll wash the rest, it's almost!" ”

Zhang Huai looked up at her in surprise - why didn't he wash so much and didn't let him wash it?

Seeing his puzzled gaze, Chrysanthemum's narrow eyes under his eyebrows looked at him fixedly, and his heart moved, secretly thinking that it was really unreasonable, why are countrymen so handsome? Well, it's not a big deal, her brother is also very handsome!

She turned her gaze slightly to the village road—there were two people there!

Zhang Huai followed her gaze and immediately understood the meaning of the chrysanthemum - this is afraid of gossip! The blush on his face just now has not faded, and now he has spread another layer, and that handsome face makes Chrysanthemum can't bear to look at it!

She thought, I'm like this anyway, and if I want to affect your "reputation", I don't care about my reputation.

Zhang Huai turned his head and continued to wash the sheets angrily, ignoring the chrysanthemums. He didn't know whether he was angry with others for gossiping, or angry at Chrysanthemum for being so careful, in short, Chrysanthemum avoided suspicion like this, which made him very uncomfortable.

After washing all the sheets, Zhang Huai washed the mallet and put it in the basket, lifted it and said to the chrysanthemum: "Let's go!" ”

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