Yu Xiaocao, who became one of the shareholders of the leading condiment company in the future, spent the next few days wondering how to get her parents to agree to her going out to let the wind out, so that she would have the opportunity to sneak away to the place where her father was set to do something. Alas! Parents are too nervous, and sometimes it's a nuisance!

In the end, though, she didn't get her way. It's not because my father and mother don't agree, but because another heavy snow is coming. This snow was no less than the first snow, and the entire mountain village was shrouded in a thick white.

Half of the roof of the Yu family's old house was crushed by snow. The three brothers of the Yu family, under the insistence and leadership of Lao Yutou, worked hard for three or five days in the wind and snow before repairing the old house.

The old house of the Yu family was built with two adobe thatched houses with the enthusiastic help of the villagers of Dongshan Village when the old Yu was a child, fleeing with his father. It is full of old Yutou's thoughts of his deceased father and childhood memories. The four brothers and sisters of the Yu family were all born and raised in this old house.

Therefore, even if the Yu family moved into the five new houses that were newly built, they did not leave the old house behind. Lao Yutou often goes to the old house to see, and it will be repaired once or twice a year, or it will become a ruin sooner.

The snow is so heavy that it is impossible to go into the mountains to hunt. Yu Xiaocao's idea of saving a little money from prey a year ago was put on hold. The price of goods climbed to a new peak a year ago. Zhang sighed every day and counted the rations of his family.

Fortunately, the family is at home and does not need to do any physical work. The Yu family's two meals a day were reduced to only eating breakfast and one dry meal, and only eating a bowl of hard-to-swallow bean soup at night. The coarse bread of the morning is not eaten as much as you want.

The palm-sized bread has two pieces for each man, only one piece for the women, and even fewer for the children. Even Yu Caidie's private meal-eggs, Zhang's stopped. A family of more than a dozen people has no money in winter, and the chickens in the family are not diligent in laying eggs in winter. If you sit on the mountain like this, how much money do you have to fill it!

Zhang glared at Yu Hai's father and daughter hatefully, if it weren't for the famine for the dead girl's medical treatment, the silver money from the second child selling prey before the snow would be enough for the family to have a fat year! Why do you count the grains in the pot like you do now?

"Second child! There are still two days to go before the Chinese New Year. It just so happens that the snow has stopped today, so take advantage of this gap to go to the town to buy some New Year's goods! Don't talk about anything else, there is not much millet noodles, buy more and come back to stock. Also, no matter how you say it for the New Year, you have to make dumplings, buy some white noodles, and cut two catties of meat......"

Zhang's Lala said a lot, but he didn't pay for it.

Yu Haigang wanted to agree, but his little daughter pulled his sleeves. Turning his gaze, he found that his daughter was giving her a look. Yu Hai understood what his daughter meant, after all, more than twenty years of obedience to the Zhang family had become a habit, which made him hesitate.

But seeing her daughter's pitiful eyes, thinking of the determination she had made not long ago, she finally spoke: "Mother, I'll go to my uncle's house to borrow a plow - but, the money for this New Year's goods ......"

As soon as he mentioned the money, Zhang's face suddenly stretched longer than a donkey's face: "A few days ago, didn't you go to the town every day to sell prey?" You must have made a lot of money, right? I have money in hand and ask for it! Second, there is no precedent for our family to save private money! You can't open this opening! ”

"! A while ago, the snow in the mountains and forests had not melted much, and the prey caught was limited. It's just a day or two to harvest and you can still watch! How much silver can you sell, can you still not know in your old heart? It's going to be the New Year, and of course the money you earn will have to pay off your foreign debts first. I repaid the money that my grandfather's family lent me for medical treatment, and I didn't even have enough money to buy medicine! It's still Dr. Sun who takes pity on me, so he allows my father to owe medicinal herbs on credit! Father! After the beginning of spring, you can go into the mountain a few more times and return the more than a dozen taels of silver from the Tongrentang. In the future, our family will still point to Dr. Sun to see a doctor! ”

Xiaocao knew very well that her father was able to ask the Zhang family for silver, which was a great improvement. So I took over the conversation and said everything that needed to be said.

A dozen taels of silver? Zhang Shi gasped, looking at Xiaocao with a gaze like a knife, if she could, she really wanted to chop this mourning star!

"Shhh A minor illness costs more than ten or twenty taels of silver, and our family really has a young lady's life. It's a pity, the wrong person is born, and there is no life for that body!! Oh, these more than 20 taels of silver are almost enough for a family to save money for a year! Tut-tut...... "Li instigated Yahuazi on the side, and kept arching the fire.

Yu Hai remembered the indifference of the family when her daughter was in danger. 's daughter's illness didn't cost the family a penny, but she still had to listen to those cold words. His face immediately turned cold, and he said angrily: "What is my daughter's life, I don't need your sister-in-law to say it!" My girl's illness didn't cost you a penny! ”

"Yo! I'm in a hurry!! Your girl's illness didn't cost me a penny, and I didn't eat yours or drink yours, why are you yelling at me! When I'm a bully, what's the matter? "Li is not the master who suffers, she jumped up and shouted with her waist in her hands.

Yu Hai was originally not good at arguing with people, and he was helpless to watch Li take out the shrew's set.

Yu Xiaolian didn't do it: "Auntie, you are allowed to talk about others with a gun and a stick, and others can't say a word about you!" What is the truth of this? Is my dad wrong? My sister spent a lot of money to see a doctor, and when my father earns money to see his daughter, who can stop him? Not to mention twenty taels of silver, it's two hundred taels, and it's not as important as my sister's life!! ”

Zhang's triangular eyes glared, took the handle of the sweeping kang in his hand, threw it in the direction of Xiaolian, and roared in his mouth: "When adults talk, what do children mix?" Second, that's how you teach your children? ”

Yu Xiaocao screamed: "Milk, what are you doing here?" It's not enough to make me seriously ill, but to beat my sister! Milk, you can think about it, if you beat my sister up, don't feel sorry for the silver! ”

As soon as the silver was mentioned, even if the Zhang family was full of anger, he didn't dare to send it to a few children anymore. New Year's Day, if there is really another good one. With Yu Hai's strength to hurt the child, even if there is more famine, he will treat the child. In this way, throughout the spring and summer of next year, she won't want to scrape money from her second child.

The old man, who was silent on the side, finally spoke! "Give me a break! Under the New Year, I am not afraid of being laughed at! Damn, it's not like you don't have silver in your hand, so don't think about the old second-hand man! Hurry up and pay for New Year's goods! ”

"How can I have enough money in my hand for them to flutter?" Picking out the money from Zhang's hand is more uncomfortable than ripping her flesh.

The old man said impatiently: "Money money all day long!" A piece of money is bigger than a big mill! When the offshore waters thaw in spring, won't the money come back after a few sea trips? At the beginning of spring, I went to sea with the eldest and let the second child enter the mountain. Can't afford to spend the winter? ”

Seeing that he couldn't hide, Zhang mumbled in his mouth, and reluctantly opened the lock of the cabinet with the key, and took out a string of copper coins from it, and a few broken silver the size of small fingernails. Afraid that Yu Hai would spend money indiscriminately, he said: "Now that prices are expensive, buy less food." There is sweet potato flour at home, although I eat too much heartburn, I can also stop hunger! White flour and meat, only enough to buy one meal of dumplings will become ......"

Yu Xiaocao looked at the silver money in her hand, pursed her lips, and said in her heart: Just that little money, it's not enough to buy more! Still need to repeat it?

Yu Hai took the money and left the house silently. It is rare to have a sunny day, although the snow on the ground is as thick as a calf, there are still many people who go to the town to buy New Year's goods. After days of heavy snowfall, most families didn't have time to do New Year's goods, and they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to buy what they should buy.

Yu Hai's uncle also planned to go to the town today, but when he saw that his eldest nephew had come to borrow a plow, he saw that the sky was not like a sunny day, so he went the next day.

Yu Haiduo didn't dare to buy anything, so he went straight to the grain store and bought 50 catties of millet noodles and 5 catties of white noodles, and went to the butcher shop to cut two catties of meat. The money given by Zhang was not enough, so he used his own money to supplement dozens of yuan.

On the street, I met the big shopkeeper of the Zhenyu Building. The big shopkeeper knew that his young master attached great importance to the little girl of the Yu family, so he was naturally very enthusiastic about Yu Hai. Seeing that the New Year's goods he purchased were so simple, he bought some pastries and sugar from the dim sum shop, and had to let Yu Hai accept them, saying that they were specially ordered by Wednesday Shao in the capital to buy them for Miss Yu and her younger brother to eat.

Yu Hai bought some meat buns again, turned to the woodware shop to see his son, and left some copper plates for his son. How did he know that the money he and Xiaocao gave Yu Hang, Yu Hang was reluctant to save it, but because of this, he got into trouble and almost died.

The New Year is coming. Early in the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Liu Shi was busy in the kitchen with his two daughters. Most of the two catties of meat that Yu Hai bought back were fat. Liu cut some refined lard, and the remaining oil residue was kept for the evening to make stuffing with cabbage and wrap it into dumplings.

Winter vegetables, in addition to radish is cabbage. Yu Xiaocao had long foreseen that there would not be enough New Year's dishes at home, so he gave birth to some bean sprouts on the kang and made some handmade vermicelli with sweet potato powder.

With vermicelli, New Year's dishes are less monotonous. Stewed vermicelli with cabbage and radish, vinegared cabbage, braised radish, vegetarian stir-fried black fungus Chinese cabbage, cold crispy radish, dry stir-fried bean sprouts...... I cut a few more slices of fat and made a home-cooked dish with bean sprouts vermicelli. The soup is cabbage and bean sprouts soup.

When the dishes were served, even the picky Zhang was surprised. I didn't expect that radish and cabbage, as well as a few handfuls of beans, could make so many dishes.

As for the taste, looking at the appearance of everyone who can't talk and eats bitterly, is the greatest affirmation of these dishes.

Lao Yutou rarely drank a cup, he poured a cup for each of his three sons, and said with satisfaction: "The craftsmanship of the second daughter-in-law has grown again!" ”

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