"I'm so unfilial, I didn't even notice that my mother had lost weight." Lu Wenping looked remorseful, and then took Hua Ronghua's hand and looked moved, "Thanks to the lady, if you hadn't said it, I wouldn't have known!" Although the lady usually quarrels with her mother, she still thinks about filial piety to her mother, you are really a good wife! ”

Hua Ronghua's face was full of discomfort when she was praised, and she muttered in a low voice, "I don't know if she's thin or not." ”

"What did the lady say?" Lu Wenping didn't hear clearly, and couldn't help but ask.

"I said I should buy some meat and go back to you and the old lady to make up for it." Hua Ronghua took the money bag in Lu Wenping's hand, "If you want to give her the money directly, you must be reluctant to spend it, if you buy the meat directly, you will stew it and eat it in order not to waste it." ”

Lu Wenping nodded slowly, "What the lady said, then let's go buy meat!" ”

Hua Ronghua followed behind him and quietly made a gesture of victory, in fact, she herself had eaten enough cabbage in the past two days.

The two came to the butcher shop and asked in unison, "How much is this meat?" ”

The meat seller smiled, "I said, which piece are you two asking?" These two pieces are not the same price. ”

Hua Niang looked at Lu Wenping, he was referring to a piece of meat with more fat and less lean, but he was referring to a lot of lean meat, no wonder the meat seller asked like that.

"Then you can report it all." Hua Ronghua said with a smile.

"This is good hind leg meat, thirty cents a pound." The meat seller pointed to the lean meat, and then pointed to the fat next to it, "There is a lot of fat in this piece, and there is also a lot of oil that can be relied on, forty yuan a catty." There is still a bit of scrap here, less than a catty, if you two want it, you will give twenty wen. ”

"Ah, your fat meat is more expensive than lean meat!" Hua Ronghua sighed.

"Of course, fatty meat also produces more oil than lean meat! Which piece do you see? The meat seller rubbed the whetstone twice, and then asked, holding up the sharp knife.

"Uh......" Hua Ronghua took half a step back and asked Lu Wenping on the side, "Which one to buy?" ”

"Mother loves fatty meat, so let's have two catties of fatty meat." Lu Wenping's everything is based on Mrs. Lu's preferences.

Fatty! Hua Ronghua hurriedly called out to the owner of the butcher shop, and then discussed Lu Wenping, "Too fat meat is not delicious, and my mother-in-law always relies on the oil at all, and in the end she can eat some mushy oil residue, so let's bring more lean meat." ”

"This ......" mentioned that every time his mother ate meat, it turned into eating oil residue, and Lu Wenping also hesitated.

"Why don't you have this piece of pork belly? There are a lot of fat ones, and not too many thin ones. Hua Ronghua thought about it, and bought this piece of meat and went back to make braised pork.

"Okay!" Lu Wenping didn't want to eat oil residue anymore, so he nodded.

Seeing that the meat seller was about to wield a knife, Hua Ronghua hurriedly asked, "How much is this five dollars a catty?" ”

"Thirty-five."

"Then a pound."

The meat seller looked up at Lu Wenping and asked, "Do you want a catty?" ”

Lu Wenping suddenly felt that his face was a little hot, and he regretted coming to buy meat in person.

Hua Ronghua didn't care, "The money is enough to buy a catty, uncle, you don't object to giving me more." ”

The meat seller looked at Hua Ronghua and smiled, "You little lady is a shrewd lady." As he spoke, the knife deviated from the position just now and slashed, and then said, "One catty, two taels, forty-two wen." ”

"It's forty wen." Hua Ronghua is used to bargaining, which is a habit developed when buying things in modern times, even if it is only a dime cheaper, he feels as if he has taken advantage of it, and his heart is comfortable.

"Ouch, little lady, you also saw the name just now, one pound and two taels are high, and it looks like it's going to be one pound and three taels, you are still wiping it down, where can I make money?" The poor who sell meat.

"It's cheaper, and I'll come to you to buy it later." Hua Ronghua took out the money bag and began to count the money.

The meat seller looked at Lu Wenping, "This Xianggong is going to say something, and your article will earn more than us......"

Lu Wenping's face was very ugly, and he snatched the money bag in Hua Ronghua's hand and threw it to the meat seller, and then turned around and left.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Hua Ronghua screamed, didn't care about Lu Wenping, and hurriedly took back the money bag and four yuan from the meat seller before catching up.

"Hey, what are you doing so fast?" Hua Ronghua caught up with Lu Wenping and asked a little unhappily.

Lu Wenping pursed his lips tightly and didn't speak, and even a few short whiskers on his chin were pursed.

"Are you angry?" Hua Ronghua looked at Lu Wenping's tightly knit brows and guessed.

Lu Wenping stopped suddenly, Hua Ronghua almost bumped into him because he couldn't close his steps, only to see him say with a straight face: "Although the lady is from a merchant, but you are now my wife of someone Lu, can you not speak and do things with the spirit of those businessmen?" ”

"Huh? Our philistine? Hua Ronghua pointed to his nose with a look of surprise, "I'll just talk about bargaining to help you save a few pennies and become a philistine?" Are you sick? I'm helping you save money. ”

Lu Wenping's nostrils seemed to be a little thicker, and his voice unconsciously raised, "Isn't it a philistine to quarrel with someone on the street just for a few pennies?" It's a shame! ”

Hua Ronghua was extremely aggrieved, especially the curious glances of passers-by who didn't know the truth made her feel like she had been stripped naked in broad daylight, "Okay, I'm embarrassed, I shouldn't have helped you save those few pennies, I deserve to be slaughtered!" As he spoke, he threw the meat into his arms, turned his head and ran away first.

Lu Wenping was also angry, he didn't understand that Hua Ronghua was talking about being slaughtered, and he thought he was cursing himself for dying, so he didn't squeak when he watched her go farther and farther away from the fork in the road home.

Hua Ronghua walked forward for a long time in anger, and only stopped when he felt that his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he was a little dumbfounded when he looked left and right, "It's not that where are we going?" Lu ......"

When I turned around, I realized that the person behind me was not Lu Wenping, but someone I didn't know.

The man was startled when he saw Hua Ronghua suddenly turn around, moved to the side for a few days, and walked a few steps away from Hua Niang.

Hua Ronghua stood in place and searched for a circle but did not find Lu Wenping, and was anxious, angry and sad for a while. He threw himself a woman in a strange street market because of those two words, and he was not afraid of accidents! Then an inexplicable panic hit me again, where should I go now?

It was only at this time that Hua Ronghua came to her senses, and the place she crossed over to was a completely strange place, where there were no relatives and friends she was familiar with, only relatives and strange husbands who hated her.

The panicked gaze swept over the trembling beggars on the wall, the thin clothes could not hide the naked body covered with black ashes, the whole face was almost covered by a beard and hair, only the eyes, which were full of desire to survive, hope and anxiety.