Chapter 44: There is a girl who can spend money
Ji Ruinian didn't expect that his daughter could lower the price than himself, if he bought four taels of silver and raised it at home, it would really be earned, in case ...... Ji Ruinian's heart went up and down, Ji Nuan took his hand and shook it twice, and said the word master silently.
Thinking that the changes that have taken place in the family for a while are all related to the mysterious master of the daughter, Ji Ruinian's anxious heart suddenly became steady, since the daughter said that her master would help, what are she afraid of.
The father and daughter told the cattle seller that if they were willing to sell it for four taels of silver, they would immediately count the money, and if they didn't sell them, they would leave, and the man saw that Ji Ruinian was really leaving, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and agreed to sell.
It was indeed cost-effective to spend seven taels of silver to buy a cow, a donkey, and a car, but when he saw the state of the old cow and the donkey, Ji Ruinian was a little worried, afraid that the silver would be lost.
"Don't worry, Daddy, they'll be fine, let's go to the county seat, I want to buy some muslin and start making dried tofu tomorrow." Ji Nuan wanted to buy some cloth and buy some white noodles to make dumplings at home, but he was afraid that his father would not allow it, so he had to find a reason.
Making tofu is a serious matter, Ji Ruinian took his daughter to Buzhuang, because he wanted to watch the car and the cow, Ji Nuan went in alone, and after a while, the shopkeeper took out eight cyan coarse cloths, two blue coarse cloths, and a muslin cloth on the donkey cart.
"Girl, how much does this cost!"
"Dad, it's not too much to make a new dress for one person, the eldest brother and the second brother have to come out to sell tofu, the clothes are too worn and will affect the business, make new clothes for the four of them, it's not bad for the fourth brother, right, they also do a lot of work at home, my mother and I are women and should have decent clothes, don't we do it for you!"
Ji Ruinian found out that he really can't talk about his daughter, this little mouth can really speak, forget it, the girl earned so much silver today, let her spend it.
"What else do you want to buy, let's hurry up, it's already past noon now, rub it for a while, it's dark when you go home, my daughter's father will buy you two meat buns to eat." Ji Ruinian remembered that the two of them hadn't eaten lunch yet, he was an adult fighting hunger, but don't starve his daughter.
"Dad, I'll settle the account for you, let's have a meal and you will eat a bowl of noodles, I have to eat two meat buns for nearly ten cents, right, today the shopkeeper Mao gave such a big piece of meat, let's take out the lunch money, add some, enough to buy two catties of white noodles, go home and let my mother give us a meat dumpling, the family can taste the meat, you say it's good."
This idea is good, the father and daughter came to the door of the grain stack, Ji Ruinian didn't dare to leave the livestock, and he couldn't let his daughter watch, so he had to call the grain stack guy and ask him to weigh five catties of white noodles.
"Nuan Nuan except for five catties of white noodles, don't buy anything else, okay?" Five catties of white noodles is seventy-five yuan, if you buy mixed noodles enough to buy twenty catties, Ji Ruinian feels distressed when he thinks about it.
A few small ones have never eaten white noodles since they were born, and the big ones have not eaten white flour dumplings for many years, and when they were in the old house, they made up to two bowls of white flour dumplings during the New Year, and their father had a bowl of three brothers, and their stepmother also ate bean noodles and vegetable buns during the New Year.
Ji Nuan walked out of the inn with a cloth bag, Ji Ruinian was quite pleased, the girl was obedient this time, she didn't buy anything, he praised the girl before he could say anything, he saw that the grain stack guy resisted two bags and came out, this kid should not buy a bag of white noodles and a bag of japonica rice, it would cost a few taels of silver, absolutely not.
"You kid......"
"Dad, don't be excited, there is cheap wheat bran in the grain store today, I thought that the two livestock we bought would have to be supplemented, so I bought some, such a big bag is only a dozen yuan." There is half a bag of white flour and half a bag of japonica rice in the other bag, Ji Nuan only mentions wheat bran, not another bag, and she can't return when she goes home and is found out.
This time you can go, the two of them stayed in the county for most of the day, and spent almost ten taels of silver, setting a record for the highest amount of money spent in Ji Ruinian's life, he still feels like a dream, it just so happens that the day is not early, go home quickly.
Ji Nuan climbed into the car and closed his eyes by the wheat bran bag, today's goal is completed, it would be good if he bought some more cloth to make a few new quilts, looking at his father's appearance, he should jump to his feet if he spends more money, so be it today, next time I have the opportunity to buy cloth and cotton.
When the ox cart walked to the fork in the county seat and the crescent ditch, Ji Ruinian saw two familiar figures: "Lian Qiu and Lian Shou, why did you come here?" Ji Ruinian grabbed the reins, and Lao Niu stopped Ji Nuan, who was sleepy in the car, rubbing his eyes together: "Dad, are you home?" ”
"Not yet, your eldest brother and fourth brother are here."
Ji Nuan straightened up his upper body and waved his little hand to greet the two elder brothers: "Big brother, fourth brother, do you miss me!" ”
The eyes of the two and a half boys were attracted by the old cow and the donkey, and they had no time to answer their sister's questions, Ji Lianqiu first came back to his senses and asked where the cow and the donkey came from, Ji Ruinian glanced at the girl who pouted because the two brothers ignored him: "Ask your sister to go." ”
"Nuan Nuan, what's going on?" Ji Lianshou reacted quite quickly this time.
"My dad and I bought it, go home and let my mother make dumplings for us to eat, my saliva is about to flow out when I think of dumplings, dad hurry up and catch the car." Ji Nuan rubbed her stomach, she was hungry!
Ji Ruinian was also in a hurry to go home, but the old cow was wilting, and the donkey had no energy, so he didn't dare to let the two animals go too fast. When passing by a small river, Ji Nuan asked his father to drive the car over to the old cow and the donkey to drink some water, Ji Nuan asked Xue'er to correct the fetal position of the cow, and at the same time found a big leaf to hold some water, dripped into a little space well water to feed the cow and the donkey respectively.
Xue'er asked Ji Nuan to put her hand on the cow's belly, moved according to its instructions, and told her after a moment that she could take her hand away: "If I do this kind of thing a few more times, I can really be a veterinarian." "The dignified beast actually corrected the fetal position of a beast, which is really overkill.
"My Xue'er is the best, I can't bear you!"
"Keep your rhetoric to coax others, and let me do less of this kind of low-status thing in the future, I feel ashamed...... No, it's the face of the beast. ”
"How do you want me to compensate you, as long as you say it, I will never shirk what I can do."
"That's what you said, remember to compensate me later, don't pay the bill."
Although he is not a gentleman, he will not be in debt, and the cow and the donkey will immediately change their mental state after drinking the water given by Ji Nuan. The old cow was not wilting as before, and strode into the crescent ditch with his head held high, and the brothers followed with a puzzled stomach, wondering where their father and sister got the money to buy the donkey and the ox.
These two animals can't be bought without eight or nine taels of silver, and these things in the cart are worth a lot of money, can they have picked up the silver?