Chapter 22: The Seed
The Queen Mother shook the cloth bag containing the money with a rattle.
For her, this kind of voice is comparable to the sound of heaven, and she can never get tired of hearing it!
Thinking about the cost of the spicy strips and the price at which they were sold, she smiled from ear to ear.
The cost of a hundred spicy strips is about one silver coin, and when you sell them, you get five silver coins.
Selling spicy noodles can earn at least a few silver coins a day, but selling tofu can only earn a dozen iron coins.
You know, twenty iron coins are worth one silver coin.
I haven't used up the seasoning I bought last time, and I still have a small half left. The queen mother decided to make another batch of bean tendons after returning from the stall, and quickly processed spicy noodles with her son.
I made money and saw that I could make a lot of money in the future.
So the Queen Mother is rare for generosity. pulled Wang Zhe to the mutton restaurant and asked for two bowls of mutton steamed buns.
The boss was honest and gave a full amount, and there was a small half catty of meat in the big bowl, and a layer of red chili oil floated on it.
There were two large stacks of cakes in the straw basket, which made Wang Zhe and his mother very full.
When she left, the Queen Mother happily took out nine iron coins from her money bag to pay the bill.
A bowl of mutton steamed buns costs five iron coins, but if you want two bowls, you can charge one less.
Fortunately, otherwise Wang Zhe would have doubted whether his mother would be willing to buy a second bowl.
When passing by the sugar shop, Wang Zhe found that his mother was really different.
The reason is that she actually bought four iron coins of boiled sugar.
You must know that since her husband died, she has never taken the initiative to buy candy for her two children. Whenever Xiaorou pestered her to ask for candy to eat, she just spent an iron coin and bought a piece from the sugar shop.
And today she was so generous, buying four yuan at once.
The owner of the sugar shop saw that she bought too much, and spared a small one.
This lump of sugar, commonly known as 'sugar syrup', is browned and made from boiling sweet potatoes. Each piece is slightly smaller than tofu, but thicker, crispy to bite, sweet and greasy, and delicious.
On the way back, Wang Zhe couldn't help but eat a piece, which tasted more authentic than what he had eaten when he was a child on earth.
……
In the yard, in the shade of the trees.
Xiaorou hugged the fox and kept brushing its fur, leisurely.
"Xiaorou, wash your hands, guess what good things your mother brought you?"
"Ah, there's something to eat? Is it sugar, give it to me. ”
Wang Rou directly threw the fox on the ground, ran forward and lay on the barrel, rummaging through it.
Xiaobai screamed when he was fallen, and he must have despised Wang Rou, a gluttonous cat who didn't care about anything when he saw it.
"Ah, Xiaobai, did it hurt you? Don't worry, I'll take the candy and hug you. ”
If Xiaobai can speak, maybe his mother will sell it.
"Little gluttonous cat, don't look for it, come with me to wash your hands."
Wang Rou's little hands didn't know if they were wet, so she wiped them with a towel, which was completely perfunctory.
didn't wait for Wang Zhe, so he happily went to his mother to get candy.
"Zhe'er, it's really yours, I didn't expect the spicy strips to really make money, let's make some more in the afternoon?"
"Okay, use up the leftover seasoning from last time."
……
After making spicy strips, it was already evening, and Huzi came to rob again.
Secretly ate a spicy strip hanging on the wooden board, and smacked his lips: "It's still the same taste, cool." ”
Then he went home and took the 'small basin' he used to eat, and the cheeky spicy strips came.
"Hey, little tiger, those haven't dried yet. Give the bowl to your aunt, and your aunt will fill it with the air drying the day before yesterday. ”
The spicy strips are huge, but four or five will fill the bowl.
In the past, the Zhang family took care of their family, and they would send a mountain-jumping pheasant or something in ten days and half a month.
Now the Zhang family kid likes to eat his own spicy strips, can the queen mother be happy? I can't wait to fill him with a big bowl every day.
After the tiger left, the queen mother moved out of her dowry box, sat on the small bench, and wiped it vigorously by the soft halo of the setting sun.
The evening breeze was long and peaceful.
When Wang Zhe and his sister saw their mother open the "treasure chest", they were very curious, and stretched out their heads to see what was inside.
The Queen Mother was in a surprisingly good mood today, and she actually took out the contents one by one and introduced them one by one.
"This red wedding dress was worn by my mother when she married your father. This silver bracelet is a wedding gift, and there was originally a hosta, but I didn't eat it at home a few years ago, so I let me give it away. ”
"These insoles were sewn for your grandfather, who knew that as soon as they were sewn, your grandfather passed away. Later, I wanted to leave it for your father to wear, but who would have thought that he was also dead, and he left a jade lock and a small wooden box before he died. ”
"Said that when you grow up, you must pass it on to you, and said that this is something left by your ancestors, and you can't lose it when you die. But I see, the wooden box is a solid pimple, with holes but no key, what can it do? Sometimes I want to split it with an axe to see if it's gold, so that your dead ghost dad is about to run out of breath and don't worry, so I have to force me to swear a poisonous oath......"
"Look, it's this jade lock, and his pimple-like square wooden box, it's all here, and I'll keep it for him."
The queen mother pinched the jade lock and chattered endlessly. The gaze is very soft, as if through time and back to the past.
"Show me our heirloom treasure, I want to see it." Wang Rou held the fox in one hand, and reached over to grab the jade lock with the other.
"Hey, be careful, don't break it."
"Got it."
Wang Rou grabbed the jade lock and watched happily.
"This jade lock is so beautiful! Mother, mother, when I grow up, will you give me this lock as a dowry? ”
"Haha, think beautiful! These heirlooms belong to your brother, but you don't have any share. ”
"Hee-hee, isn't my brother's mine? Even my brother is mine. Anyway, when I grow up, I want to marry my brother, and if I don't pay a dowry, it will be mine. ”
Wang Rou smiled and squinted, like a little fox who had succeeded in his conspiracy, and he was almost happy with his belly exposed.
The Queen Mother happily stretched out her finger and tapped her forehead: "You! Let me say what's okay? ”
I don't know if Xiaorou hugged it too tightly and made Xiaobai uncomfortable, or Xiaobai simply wanted to turn over. In short, the jade lock in Wang Rou's hand fell to the ground as soon as the fox arched.
The jade lock was falling on the bluestone at his feet, cracking into multiple petals.
The queen mother suddenly lost color, stretched out her hand to hit Wang Rou, but was stopped in time by Wang Zhe, who was standing aside.
Wang Rou was so frightened that her face was pale, and the fox in her arms was thrown to the ground.
After the fox fell to the ground, he didn't care about wailing, and his eyes were shining and he directly bit a piece of broken jade. At the same time, a cheerful muffled sound came from his throat.
Seeing this, Wang Zhe hurriedly picked up other fragments, and the Queen Mother also temporarily put aside the idea of cleaning up Rou'er and helped pick up the jade lock fragments.
In this short period of time, he was devoured by the damn fox again.
After collecting all the fragments, several people found that the originally white and bright broken jade was actually emitting a purple halo at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It didn't take long for pieces of broken jade to turn into dark purple, revealing a strong spiritual rhyme, condensing but not dispersing, and it was very extraordinary at first glance.
The fox ate two pieces of broken jade, and gave birth to a lot, lying on the ground, motionless.
But the light that surged all over its body was extremely magical, indicating that it was undergoing some kind of metamorphosis at this time.
This is an extraordinary creation for it, and its entire life level will be transformed into a hierarchy as a result.
Wang Zhe didn't pay much attention to the fox, but focused his gaze on a long strip in his hand. It was about the size of his thumb, turquoise, like a seed, and stood out among the pile of purple jade.
As if he understood something, he grabbed the wooden box next to it and looked at the only small hole in it. Try, tremble, and stuff the long strips of seeds into it! It turned out to be just right!! Plug the hole tightly!!
The long strip of seeds is like a key, which can be inserted into the small hole in the wooden box just the right size, leaving only a little tail, slightly raised, against the door of the cave.
Wang Zhe hesitated slightly, then pressed the remaining end of the tail with his hand to allow the seed to be fully inserted. Then, with a sudden pain, blood oozed from the index finger, which fell on the seed and dripped at the door of the small hole.
The wooden box suddenly shone brightly and opened on its own.
Inside is a blood-glittering red pill, fragrant and mouth-watering.