Chapter 20 Visiting Shahe Town

Although it is still dry and hard and the corn paste is so rough that her throat hurts, Huixin eats very steadily and sweetly, and the family is happy even if she eats bran vegetables together.

In her previous life, Huixin's parents spent very little time at home, and there were fewer opportunities for the family to sit and eat together, and Huixin rarely experienced this ordinary happiness.

"I'll go to town tomorrow to buy something, we don't have anything after we split up." After eating, Zhang told his family that he was going to the town to buy something tomorrow.

Lin Laosan didn't ask for the money he went out to work before when the Chen family broke up. Lin Laosan's salary is 20 wen a day, and he has worked for 50 days, a total of 1,000 wen yuan, which is consistent money, which means that all the net worth of their three rooms is this consistent money.

"Mother, I'll go to town with you tomorrow, I want to go and see, let Xiaozhu stay at home with his father, and he will go next time."

It's been a few days since she came here, and Huixin hasn't been out of Luliu Village yet, she wants to go to the town to see what she can make money, and now their family is in urgent need of money.

Zhang has always felt ashamed of his daughter, and her daughter rarely asks for her, thinking that her daughter wants to go to the town, so she relented and agreed, Xiaozhu is a sensible child, and promised to accompany her father obediently at home.

The next day, as soon as there was a glimmer of light, Zhang got up to cook, and after the family had a simple breakfast, Huixin went out with her mother.

Luliu Village is not close to Shahe Town, but it is not far away, and it looks like a ten-mile road.

If Zhang went to the town by himself, he would have walked, but looking at his thin daughter, he couldn't bear to let his daughter suffer this crime, so he took his daughter to the village entrance to take an ox cart to the town.

When the two of them arrived at the entrance of the village, there were already several people on the ox cart, and these people were going to the town, and with the two of them, the ox cart was basically full.

"Brother Sun, this is the money for the two of us to take the car." One penny per person in the car, and Zhang gave two pennies to the person who drove the car.

"No, you just broke up, and your life is not easy, so forget it this time." The driver refused to take the money.

The eldest brother Sun in Zhang's mouth is called Sun Fuquan, and he is the son of Li Zheng.

This year, that is, the Lizheng family can have oxen and ox carts.

"Brother Sun, one yard is one yard, you are in business, you can't break the rules." Zhang is a kind-hearted person, they are all from a village, if Sun Fuquan does not collect his own money and accepts other people's money, it will be difficult for him to be a man.

Seeing Zhang's words, Sun Fuquan could only accept the money, and then drove the ox cart to the town.

The ox cart walks slowly, the ox is not like a horse, it can only walk slowly, sitting on the "convertible car", Huixin feels that she is about to be thrown upside down, but fortunately, the scenery on the side of the road is not bad.

After a bumpy hour, the ox cart finally arrived in town.

Zhang and Sun Fuquan made an appointment to go back, and when they went back, they still met at the entrance of the town.

Having just experienced the baptism of floods, Shahe Town looks like a scene of ruins waiting to be rebuilt, which can be said to be far from what Huixin imagined.

The Zhang family wanted to buy daily necessities, so they went to the business district first.

At this time, the division between commercial areas and residential areas is still relatively strict, and those who set up stalls and open shops can only be in the commercial area.

Zhang led Huixin into a grocery store and bought a pound of salt.

Salt is a necessity of life, people will have no strength if they don't eat salt for a long time, but it is also a luxury in the countryside, a pound costs 50 Wen, when the family was separated, the Chen family did not give them a spoonful, so Huixin's family has not eaten salt since last night.

After buying salt, the mother and daughter went to the market again, full of things in the market, their family lacked everything, and there was nothing missing, the family had a total of money, just bought salt and spent 50 yuan, this money is really not spent.

Seeing that the market was about to come to an end, the two of them were reluctant to buy anything, and there happened to be a pork seller at the head of the market.

The pork is fat and lean, and the fat pork is shining with an attractive oily shine, which makes people unable to lift their feet and walk when they see it.

"This sister-in-law, do you want pork, my pork, you see, it's all fat, buy this pork back and stew it in the pot, it must be fragrant, and the price is not expensive, just 20 yuan a catty, I'll cut it for you." Pork sellers try their best to sell their pork, especially rural people, most of them love to eat fatty meat, because there is a lot of fat meat, and people rarely see oil and water.

Zhang's family is a little difficult, he is not hungry for pork, but the two children in the family are still young, and the husband broke his leg again, and they all need to make up for it.

"Give me a pound." Zhang still bought pork for her husband and children.

"Uncle, how do you sell those pigs in the water?" Huixin looked at the pile of pigs under the case, as if no one had bought them.

"Little girl, this is not worth much, I can't sell it, usually I give it to others to feed the dog, if you don't like to take Shen, I'll give it to you." This pile of pigs is about to attract flies, and this person is worried about how to deal with it, so someone will solve the problem for him.

"Really! Thank you, uncle. The uncle also provided them with a sack for free, and Hui happily filled the pig into the water.

"Xin'er, what do you want to do with this, we don't have a dog at home?" Zhang was curious about what her daughter wanted to do with this pile of stinky things, but she always loved her children, and even if they were stinky and coaxing, she helped her daughter carry them.

"Eat, this one is delicious." Hui Xin explained with a smile.

"What, how can I eat this, Xin'er, my mother bought meat today, and I'll make it for you when I go back." Zhang wondered if his daughter was starving, why did she want to eat everything.

"Mother, isn't the fish also fishy, I did it last time, didn't you also say it was delicious?" Huixin was afraid that Zhang's would throw the pig into the water, so she hurriedly persuaded Zhang.

Zhang thinks about it, but she is more curious about how her daughter has so many novel ideas, how do you know, can't she read books again?

"Mother, let's go to the grocery store and buy something for the pig." Hui Xin took Zhang to the previous grocery store again.

This shop is called Wang Ji Grocery Store, and when Huixin first came, she found that this grocery store still sells a lot of things, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc.

Huixin asked for a pound of soy sauce, soy sauce and salt for a price, also cost 50 wen a catty, and asked for a pound of sugar, 20 wen a catty, and bought some star anise, pepper and other spices, spices are bought by few people, and the price is not too expensive, and it only cost 20 wen to buy a lot of them.

When checking out, Zhang was taken aback, she loved the child, but she went out for 90 Wen all of a sudden, and Xin'er spent too much money, Zhang wanted to say no, but looking at Huixin's pleading eyes, Zhang disarmed and surrendered again.

Out of the grocery store, Zhang said distressedly; "Xin'er, what are you spending so much money on to buy these, if it's to make pigs into the water, it's too expensive, it's better to eat pork directly."

No wonder Zhang's distressed, the family has a total of so little money, today the mother and mother came to the town once, and spent 160 yuan, their family currently has no source of income at all, it is really a penny less.