Chapter 65: The First Pot of Gold
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Cui'er's family went to the town to sell tea and wicker baskets, a total of about 15 catties of tea, and got 7 taels and 5 yuan of silver, plus 300 big coins of 20 wicker baskets, Cui'er's family earned 7 taels of silver in one day.
Naturally, there is a lot of income and this expense, buying rice, noodles, meat and eggs, it cost more than 100 yuan, for the big girl Xiaohu, and Lian Qinghe's big Mao Ermao to buy some snacks, and it cost less than 50 yuan, and 100 yuan for the chickens...... These are all small heads, and even Qingshan went to the yamen to register Cui'er, but it cost two taels of silver.
In fact, it doesn't take so much money to run a marriage book or something, and it can be done with a hundred or ten big money on weekdays, but because Cui'er doesn't know where she lives and doesn't have a certificate of household registration or anything, she can only bribe the yacha to do this, so she spends a lot of money.
There are earnings and flowers, because they earn more, so the ones who spend them are not so distressed, especially when Cui'er doesn't know that Lian Qingshan has spent so much money for herself.
Cui'er sat on the ox cart, with a basket of chickens in front of her, and a little tiger with round eyes in her arms.
"Chicken ...... Chicken ......" Xiaohu stretched out his little hand to reach forward, sixty chicken cubs were crowded together in the basket, fluffy and tender yellow color, with the sound of chirping, Rao is Cui'er felt that it was not good, let alone children like Da Niu and Xiaohu?
"Yes, these are chicken cubs, let's take the chicken cubs home, feed them water and vegetables, and when they grow up, lay eggs for the big girl and the little tiger to eat, okay?" Cui'er looked at the children with shining eyes and looked at the chickens, and she was in a very good mood.
Among the sixty chickens, ten are male eggs, and the remaining fifty are hens, and Cui'er imagines that when these sixty chickens are all grown up, they will have at least thirty eggs every day, and whether they are eaten at home or taken out and sold, they are all extremely good.
"Cui'er, have you ever raised chicken cubs before? This chicken cub, after going back, put it in the house for a few days, and then move it out after it grows up, or this chicken cub will get cold, and love to be strained......" Aunt Lu sat on the ox cart, looking at Jing'er with moisture, and mentioning Cui'er.
"Hey, I'm really not good at raising chickens, auntie, you can teach me more!" Cui'er responded when she heard this, and asked carefully how to raise this chicken cub, and then carefully remembered it in her heart, and prepared to go back and raise it like this.
Speaking of which, Cui'er also raised chickens in modern times, but at that time, the chickens sold in the market were dyed and looked good-looking, but they couldn't help but live. Cui'er likes to raise a little chick when she is a child, and she buys it every year, and she hasn't really raised a few until she grows up.
"By the way, it's the May Festival in a few days, do you have zongzi leaves in your house? If not, go up to me and take two sheaves. Aunt Lu talked about raising chickens for a while, and suddenly thought that it would be the May Festival soon, and asked Cui'er.
"Yes, I went to pick some a while ago, and it just works." As soon as Cui'er talked about zongzi leaves, her face was slightly hot, because she remembered the brief intimate time with Lian Qingshan when she picked reed leaves before.
"Okay, when our family makes zongzi, I'll send you some too." Aunt Lu heard that Cui'er had zongzi leaves, so she didn't say much, and chatted with Cui'er about other idle things.
After a short time, a few people arrived at the place, Lian Qingshan handed Lian Qinghe ten money, and asked him to go to the house of the person who borrowed him the ox cart, Cui'er was busy sending the sleeping little tiger into the house, and let the big girl look at her younger brother, and she went to put the chicken cubs on the kang again, and was busy taking the things on the ox cart down.
After getting these done, Cui'er took out the heavy silver selling tea in her arms, put it on the kang, and looked at the big and small pieces of silver ingots, plus five hundred big money, Cui'er's eyes narrowed with a smile.
"Qingshan, come and see, our family has earned a lot of money." Cui'er put the silver on the kang, her heart was hot, she picked up the smaller silver ingot, put it in her mouth and bit it with her teeth, and then put it in front of her eyes.
"Hehe......" Lian Qingshan looked at Cui'er's appearance and suddenly chuckled.
"What are you laughing at?" Cui'er thought that she was laughing at the action of biting the silver with her teeth, and asked with a pout.
"Silly girl, if this silver is counterfeit, you can see it with a dozen eyes, and you really bite it with your teeth, let me see if it hurts?" Lian Qingshan saw Cui'er's angry appearance in his eyes, and he was very funny in his heart, the vivid woman with bright eyes and bright teeth in front of him was already closely connected with his own life, and this feeling made Lian Qingshan's heart hot.
"By the way, why do you have to bite the silver with your teeth?" Cui'er also saw biting silver with her teeth in the costume TV series, and she bit it just now, but she didn't see anything else except for a small tooth mark, so she asked curiously.
"You forgot about that?" Lian Qingshan was a little surprised when he heard Cui'er say this, he stretched out his hand and hugged Cui'er in his arms, leaned his chin on Cui'er's forehead, and gently coaxed Cui'er, "Some of this silver is fake, maybe it is imitated with tin ingots, and that kind of fake silver is extremely soft to bite, and there is a layer of silver wrapped around the copper ingot, that kind of fake silver, it is not easy to bite, or after biting out, you can see other things." ”
"Oh......" Lian Qingshan said carefully, but Cui'er was softened by his warm body temperature, she was half asleep and half awake, and asked something in a trance, only to feel that Lian Qingshan was whispering to herself next to her ears about what kind of household marriage and the like, and before she could hear it clearly, her head fell asleep.
Lian Qingshan told him about the account post he had made for Cui'er, and waited for Cui'er's reaction for a long time, only to find that Cui'er didn't know when she had fallen asleep. looked at the little woman with red cheeks from sleep in her arms, kissed her on the forehead lovingly, put her on the kang gently, and put a thin quilt on it, and then went down to the ground on crutches.
Lian Qingshan first looked at the big girl and Xiaohu who were sleeping soundly on the kang, the two children got up early in the morning, and watched the chicks excited for a long time, at this time, they slept very sweetly on the kang one by one, and the big girl's chin left a string of white lines suspiciously, and Xiaohu even snored.
Seeing that the children were sleeping well, Lian Qingshan was relieved to put the silver ingots on the kang into the box containing the money, and the silver in it suddenly became so much, Lian Qingshan was still a little uncomfortable, looking back at Cui'er who was sleeping very soundly on the kang, Lian Qingshan was glad in his heart, how blessed he was to get the love of such a beautiful woman.
Lian Qingshan cleaned up the kang, then slowly walked outside, found a large deep-mouthed basket from the things he had knitted before, patted the dust on it, took it into the house, and then grabbed the chickens on the kang that were crowded in the flat-bottomed basket one by one and put them into the basket.
Even Qingshan used a small bowl to drink water for the chickens, and then covered an old quilt on the top of the basket, which can be regarded as a means of keeping warm.
After doing this, Lian Qingshan picked up the wicker and continued to weave it, but this time he did not weave the fine wicker baskets that he sold on weekdays, but a chicken coop with a large mesh.
Cui'er slept soundly, and by the time she woke up, it was almost dark.
"Ah, why did I sleep so late, and I haven't gotten the chickens yet." Seeing that the sun outside had set in the west, and the faint sunset covered the sky, Cui'er said in annoyance, turning over and getting up, about to feed the chickens.
"Cui'er, don't worry, lie down for a while, I'll take care of the chickens." Lian Qingshan put down the chicken coop in his hand, stretched out his hand to pin Cui'er's sideburns and scattered hair, and said softly to Cui'er.
"Qingshan ......" Cui'er's face was a little red, and she suddenly remembered that she seemed to have fallen asleep in his arms, her face became more and more red, and she ran away as if she was running away, "I'll go and soak the zongzi leaves, and Ming'er will wrap zongzi and eat it." ”
Cui'er was overjoyed by Lian Qingshan's gentleness, and felt shy and panicked, and after running into the kitchen quickly, she gasped for a while, and then she barely pressed her thumping heart, and then she had the heart to think about what kind of stuffing zongzi she wanted to wrap during the Dragon Boat Festival.
The zongzi that Cui'er ate when she was a child were mostly pure glutinous rice, and there was no filling. Cui'er likes the Dragon Boat Festival very tightly, every time at this time, she always has to insert a mugwort on the door, and then cook a large pot of fragrant zongzi, the sweet and glutinous taste, so that Cui'er's stomach is round every time she eats.
When she gets older, in addition to the zongzi wrapped in her own bag, Cui'er can also eat the zongzi sold on the street outside, and the zongzi at that time are more types than those at home, including red dates and bean paste, but because Cui'er's family lives in the north, even the zongzi sold are sweet.
When she was older, after Cui'er was admitted to the university and went to other places, she found that the zongzi of the Dragon Boat Festival were not only these tricks, not only all kinds of sweet zongzi, but also ham, fresh meat, egg yolk and other salty zongzi, which are really full of variety.
It's just that Cui'er at this time, there is no longer the excitement of childhood, Rao is cooperative unit will send a lot of zongzi to Cui'er every year, she is celebrating the festival, but she can't remember to cook two to meet the occasion, most of the zongzi have become Cui'er's supper after overtime, or when it is too late to eat breakfast, it is early in disguise.
Cui'er soaked the zongzi leaves, while reminiscing about the past, and suddenly found that many of them were forgotten in the corner of memory, those dusty past, turned out to be alive, the childhood yearning for the Dragon Boat Festival, the love for zongzi, so that Cui'er's hand movements accelerated, this time we must wrap more zongzi with different flavors, for the girl to try it.