Before leaving the city, he saw a seller of cooking cakes, so he bought a few. Everyone in the family is used to Xiaocao having to eat at noon, and it is this hour, and they may not be able to catch up with the meal when they get home, and their daughter must be hungry.

Xiaocao sat on the donkey cart, leaning on the cotton bag behind her back, her legs drooping outside the donkey cart, nibbling on the fragrant cooking cakes, and she looked very comfortable.

"Brother the sea, little grass!! I've got you all the time, come! Outside the city gate, on the old Zhangtou's ox cart, the Fang clan was already waiting there. It seems that she is doing well today, the bamboo basket in her hand is empty, and the chickens and eggs are all sold.

Lao Zhangtou looked at the donkey cart driven by Yu Hai in surprise, knocked the cigarette pouch in his hand on the wheel, and said, "The sea! Where did this donkey cart come from? You can't buy it, right?? It's not that the uncle said that you, buy a donkey and pick a fat and healthy one...... Can you feed you? ”

Yu Hai said with a smile: "Uncle Zhang, this donkey looks thin, but he is in good spirits. I used to study with a veterinarian for a few days, and there was nothing wrong with watching the donkeys, so it should be fine after a few days. If a donkey is not thin, how can it be so cheap? ”

Lao Zhangtou asked how much the donkey cart was, and Xiaocao lied to him and said that it was only one or two silver. The old man nodded and said, "One or two pieces of silver is not expensive, and a donkey cart is almost the same money." Even if the donkey can't survive, it won't lose much...... Brother Dahai, you buy this donkey cart ......"

When Lao Zhangtou didn't send firewood, he would pull people to the town, and when it was good, he could still earn twenty or thirty copper plates a day. When he saw Yu Hai's donkey cart, the first thing he thought was: Is Yu Hai planning to compete with him for business? After all, the speed of a donkey cart is much faster than that of an ox cart.

Xiaocao hurriedly smiled and said, "Grandpa Zhang, isn't our family studying in the town?" There is a donkey cart, so it is more convenient for us to come and see him. Moreover, we grow some vegetables in front of the house and behind the house, so that it is convenient to sell vegetables in the town and have a car. ”

Lao Zhangtou saw that she didn't mean to use a donkey cart to pull people, so he relieved himself.

On the way back, Yu Hai was afraid that he would be tired of the thin donkey, and he was reluctant to get on the donkey cart. Xiaocao couldn't resist him, so he let him sit in the old Zhangtou's ox cart. The donkey was also obedient, and followed the ox cart step by step, except for the grass in the middle and fed it to drink the second spirit stone water, there was no tired and collapsed thing that Yu Hai was worried about along the way.

Xiaocao's home is at the foot of the West Mountain, and when you come back from the town, you have to cross most of the village. Before their father and daughter arrived home, the news that Yu Hai's family bought a donkey cart had already spread in the village.

Li stepped on his little feet, staggered and ran home, and told his mother-in-law Zhang what he had heard. Last time, she didn't get a good job at Xiaocao's house, but this time she learned to be obedient and instigated her mother-in-law to teach the second room a lesson. also said that the father-in-law did not subsidize them, and it was only a long time before they were able to buy a donkey cart!!

When Zhang heard this, his eyebrows suddenly wrinkled: "Bought a donkey cart?" Are you sure? ”

Li nodded his head heavily and said, "Of course I'm sure, it's spread all over the village, so I'll hide it from our family!" Mother, think about it, just a donkey costs five or six taels of silver. The second brother has just separated from the family, and his legs are not good, where did he get the money to buy a donkey cart? Isn't it my father-in-law's private ......"

Li's words stopped here and didn't continue, Zhang knew very well what she meant, and said suspiciously: "I am in charge of all the money in the family!" To say that the old man has ten or eight copper plates in his hand, I believe this, and it is unlikely that he has a few taels of silver to supplement the second child! ”

Seeing that he didn't fan his mother-in-law's anger, Li Shi was anxious: "Mother, if it weren't for my father-in-law subsidizing them in private, the second child wouldn't be able to afford to eat, how could he afford to buy a donkey cart?" There are fewer fish caught these days, but what about before? When the second child has good legs, the money from hunting and selling is handed over to his father first. If he hadn't handed it all over to his mother, there would be only one left, maybe ......."

"Wow!!" When Zhang thought that the old man was hiding from her and gave the silver to the second family, he was angry. She threw the needle and thread in her hand into the basket and exclaimed:

"When I said that I was separating, why did the second child agree so smoothly! It turned out that he had fished enough oil and water from the hands of a dead old man! No, let them spit out whatever they say!! ”

Zhang snorted and walked on the road to Xiaocao's house, Li smirked at the corner of his mouth, twisted his fat waist and followed behind. Liu, the eldest daughter-in-law of Yu Lichun, the eldest brother of the old Yu head, saw the expressions of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, as well as the direction in which they went, obviously went to Yu Hai's house to find fault. secretly screamed in his heart, and hurriedly went to find the old man who was playing chess with people in the village.

When Zhang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law arrived at Xiaocao's house, the family was busy cleaning up the pig's head and putting the pig into the water. As soon as Liu Shi looked up, he saw the menacing Zhang, his heart tightened, and he hurriedly got up and said, "Mother, why did you come here at this time?" ”

When Li saw the stinky pig intestines in the wooden basin, he thought that he didn't take advantage of it last time, but got a fishy smell, and went back to wash his clothes several times, but he always felt that there was that smell, and he couldn't wash it off. She saw Xiaocao holding a pig intestine in her hand, looked at her with a smile, hurriedly retreated behind Zhang's family, covered her nose and said, "Why can't my mother come at this time?" Why don't you come to your second house, but you still have to pick a time? ”

Zhang snorted heavily from his nose and said, "I heard that the second family is out of the house and bought a donkey cart." I'm a mother, can't I come to congratulate? ”

Suddenly, her face changed suddenly, and she said, "Second daughter-in-law, you confess honestly!" How much money did you coax from the old man? When I said that when I split up, why did your family agree so smoothly! I have this hand!! I tell you, if you don't hand over the money you got from the old man today, I'm not done with you!! ”

When Liu Shi heard this, he was anxious, and hurriedly said: "Mother, where is the silver?" The two taels of silver I got when I split the family borrowed some from my mother's house, and I spent it on this house. Does Dad have any silver on hand, how much silver, others don't know, can you still not know? ”

"I just don't know!! If the old man hadn't stuffed you with money in private, you would have been able to earn money to buy a donkey cart in such a short time because you are lame, sick, and small? ”

When Zhang heard that a donkey cart costs five or six taels of silver, now the old man and the boss bring fish every day, the money sold is only enough for the family's expenses, how long do you have to save five or six taels of silver! The thought of this made her heart feel as if someone had dug a big hole and bleed.

Liu's temperament is gentle, where can she talk about Zhang's, she was so anxious that tears were about to come out, and she whispered: "Mother, the money to buy a donkey is the money from Xiaocao to go to the dock to sell braised pigs' heads and pigs into the water." If you don't believe it, you go to the dock and ask, many people know about our family's penny meat dishes. ”

Xiaocao slapped her forehead and sighed in her heart: My mother! You're too honest, aren't you? In a few words, we will explain our family background......

"Penny meat dishes? Second brother and sister, who are you coaxing? A pound of pork costs 20 yuan, and a penny can buy a few pieces of meat, which is not enough to stuff your teeth! I look at you as an honest person on weekdays, but I even lied to my mother! Li Shi said cool words next to him, with a good look on his face.

"Sister-in-law, I didn't lie to my mother! These pig-headed pigs are put into the water and stewed with seasonings, and they taste good. Can you get dozens of dollars a day...... If it weren't for this, our whole family would have been unable to open the pot for a long time......" Liu also kept an eye on it, and did not account for all the income of two or three hundred wen a day.

However, dozens of articles a day are enough for Zhang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law! Zhang looked at the wooden basin where they usually felt pickled, and they all threw away the pigs that fed the dogs into the water, stepped forward and took a step, but they were smoked back by the smelly smell, so they pouted and said:

"This smelly and dirty thing, will anyone buy it? You're stupid to be my wife, it's easy to deceive, isn't it? Even if you can get a few tens of dollars a day, without eating or drinking, it is impossible to earn back the money of an ox cart in ten days! ”

Yu Hai, who was helping the little gray donkey build a shed in the backyard, heard the movement and walked over quickly, and whispered to Zhang: "Mother, the donkey we bought is sick and dying, and people want to throw it away." It's just that the money for the car is less than one or two silver. If you don't believe me, you can go to the backyard and have a look......"

In the backyard, Xiao Ash, who had drunk the spirit stone water, was lying comfortably on the ground basking in the sun. From Zhang's point of view, he only saw a donkey who was so thin that his bones were tall and tall, there was not a few taels of meat on his body, he was lying on the ground weakly, and he couldn't even stand up.

However, she couldn't come in vain this time, her eyes rolled, and she said: "Second child, your family is capable, there are dozens of dollars a day, and I don't know how to help the family." Your father and mother are almost out of food, and you still throw silver to buy a sick donkey that is dying, and you are not afraid of people saying that you are not filial! ”

Xiaocao was happy, and said quickly: "Grandma, don't forget, we have separated!" When the family was divided, we were only given three acres of sandy land, two taels of silver, and a yard that was too broken to live in. When the family is separated, the contract is clearly written. All we need to do is give you five hundred pounds of grain every year, or one or two or a half pieces of silver. Grandma, the sweet potatoes in the field haven't been planted yet, how do you think we can help you? ”

Zhang was greedy for the three hundred taels of silver that Yu Hai exchanged for his life, but he didn't feel ashamed at all, and said confidently: "Isn't your family able to sell pigs to make money?" You teach us the recipe to get the pig's head into the water, don't hide it, although we are separated, we are also a family. It's better to be cheap than to be learned by others......"

Xiaocao felt speechless, this is to cut off their family's way of life! She was extremely glad that the weather was relatively cold today, and the vegetable patches in the courtyard and backyard had been covered with grass and straw early, otherwise the vegetables in the field would have been seen by the Zhang and Li families, and maybe a layer would have to be scraped off. There is no doubt that there is nothing that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can't do.

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It's a hundred chapters of "Farm Garden", sprinkle flowers!!

Continue the night battle!