Chapter 13 Ride on an Ox Cart
"Mother, I've got everything ready to sell in the afternoon, and after lunch, we'll be ready to go." Lin Yao said.
"Okay, my mother knows." Yao's mother replied with a smile while biting the thread.
At noon, Lin Yao steamed some polished rice that he bought yesterday, and looking at the brown rice at the bottom of the rice tank, Lin Yao thought that he wouldn't eat it anyway, so he threw all the brown rice to the chickens in the yard to eat.
Then he killed and chopped the remaining chicken given by Xiao Moyao, and fried it with Tsubaki, this time Lin Yao added various seasonings to it.
In a few moments, the scent permeated the room.
Xiaodouding ran in with greedy drool, "Sister, it's so fragrant!" The adzuki bean inhaled the fragrance vigorously.
"Little glutton!" Lin Yao was amused by his small actions, and hurriedly took out a piece of meat from the pot and threw it into the bowl and handed it to Xiao Douding, "Oh, take it and eat it." ”
"Hmm!" Xiao Douding obediently sat down at the table with a small bowl and ate obediently.
After the meal was cooked, Lin Yao served three bowls of rice, a plate of chicken, and a plate of chicken to the Jin family, and told the Jin family to trouble Brother Yang to accompany them to the town after eating later, and the Jin family hurriedly smiled and said yes.
After eating, Lin Yao put thirty cans of honey lemonade and twenty bottles of rose water into his back basket, and wrapped the Ganoderma lucidum picked in the morning in a cloth and carefully placed it on the top of the back basket.
Yao's mother carried the meat sauce and Tsubaki vegetables that Lin Yao had made in the morning, and followed Lin Yao out of the door.
As soon as he went out, he found that Yang Yun was already waiting by the door, he was wearing a light blue coarse cloth shirt today, replacing the ink-colored headcatcher suit, obviously a sturdy man with resolute lines, but he always gave people a gentle and elegant temperament that only a scholar has.
Lin Yao hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile, "Brother Yang, I've been waiting for a long time." ”
"It's okay, I've just arrived, I'll help you carry the basket." Yang Yun said with a smile as he wanted to take the basket on Lin Yao's back.
Lin Yao hurriedly turned around and dodged, and said with a smile, "No need Brother Yang, just a few steps to the ox cart at the entrance of the village, this basket is not heavy, I really don't need it, thank you." ”
Hearing this, the smile on Yang Yun's face stiffened, so he had to take back the hand that was stretched out in the air awkwardly, he looked at the polite and detached smile on Lin Yao's face, his eyes darkened, and he didn't say anything more, just helped Yao's mother behind him to take the basket.
"Xiaoyun, I can take a few days off when I come back this time, your mother has made a lot of delicious food." Yao's mother looked at Yang Yun and said with a smile.
This young man is really good, he has been filial and sensible since he was a child, and now he is still a head catcher, and he still has no shelf at all.
The more Yao's mother looked at Yang Yun, the more satisfied she felt.
Yang Yun had a smile on her lips, "I can take four days off when I come back this time, and I'm very happy to be able to come back to accompany my mother." ”
"Well, Xiaoyun is filial piety." Yao's mother said with a smile.
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When he arrived at the entrance of the village, Lin Yao found that only Uncle Huang, who was driving the car, was sitting alone on the ox cart and waiting.
Most of the people in the village are reluctant to spend a penny to ride the ox cart, so unless there are a lot of things or some spare money, the average villager is not willing to spend a penny to take the ox cart.
Seeing Lin Yao and the three of them walking towards him, Uncle Huang buckled the cigarette stick, and his face wrinkled together happily, "Lin girl, are you going to the town to sell things?" ”
"Yes, Uncle Huang, I made something to try my luck in the town." Lin Yao said as he took out three pennies from his arms and handed it to him, "This is the fare for the three of us." ”
When Yang Yun saw it, he hurriedly stopped, "Sister Yao, how can I ask you to help me pay for it, I have money." Saying that, Yang Yun had to pay for it himself.
"Brother Yang, you came to the town to help me, if you shirk it again, then I will pay back the money myself." Lin Yao pretended to be angry.
Seeing this, Yang Yun had no choice but to give up and follow her into the ox cart.
Several people sat and waited for half an hour, and finally two more people came, Lin Yao took a closer look and found that it was the village chief's wife Su and daughter Li Xiuhe.
Seeing that it was them, Lin Yao frowned slightly, this Su family is married to the village chief, and his son is a showman, so he is very arrogant and domineering in the village on weekdays, always talking to people with his nostrils up, because the situation of the Lin family is not good, so in the memory of the original owner, this Su family has a proud look.
Today, both of them were wearing bright silk clothes, and they had the style of the housekeeper's wife and lady, and they moved over in small steps.
From a distance, there was a silver hairpin inserted between Su Xiuhe's sideburns, and the tassels at the tail of the hairpin were shining in the sun.
"Ah, isn't this Sister Yao? You're going to town, too? Su Shi touched the silver bracelet on his hand and said as he walked.
"Yes, Yaoyao and I are going to go to the town to sell something." Yao's mother replied with some restraint.
"Oh, what's for sale?" Su Shi said as he helped his daughter into the ox cart.
"It's nothing, it's just some miscellaneous stuff." Seeing Yao's mother's somewhat restrained appearance, Lin Yao hurriedly replied.
Hearing Lin Yao speak, Su Shi turned his head to look at her, "Yo, isn't this Yaoyao, you choked on water a few days ago, right?" After speaking, Su Shi covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and before Lin Yao could answer, she said with a disgusted face, "The dust of this oxcart is really big, and my face is all dusty, so I applied the rouge of the Rouge Pavilion." ”
Lin Yao only watched her play tricks quietly, and Uncle Huang, who was driving the car, didn't say anything when he heard this, but just knocked the cigarette stick on the ox cart a few times.
After sitting down, Su Shi saw that there was another Yang Yun, and seeing that it was him, Su Shi hurriedly smiled and squinted, "Ah, Xiao Yun is back, and now he has become a head catcher, which is really good." ”
Yang Yun still smiled and said lightly, "It's nothing, this is also thanks to the care of the people in the village when I was a child." ”
When he said this, Lin Yao remembered that the Jin family used to be poor, Yang Yun was still young at that time, and the people in the village saw him as pleasing, so they always went to feed him with an extra mouthful of food.
Su Shi's eyes rolled, and he waved his handkerchief with a smile, "Xiaoyun, my sister-in-law's second daughter Jiang Shu has been going to my aunt's house to play these days, you have nothing to do with going to your aunt's house to walk around." ”
Although this Yang Yun is a head catcher, has some official power, and earns a good income, but the Su family, who is bent on climbing high branches, is not to be looked down upon, but the niece Jiang Shu who matches her is not bad.
Lin Yao can also be regarded as hearing the Tao, this Yang Yun is now a fragrant bait in the village, handsome, with a good personality and a high salary.
Hearing Su's words, Yang Yun subconsciously glanced at Lin Yao, and found that she was looking unconcerned, feeling a little lost, and he replied in a somewhat cold voice, "No, auntie, I have to go back to the yamen in a few days, the yamen is busy, I'm afraid I won't have time to come back." ”
Hearing this, Su also understood Yang Yun's unintention, she pursed her lips and didn't say anything anymore.
The ox cart walked slowly on the road, and after sitting in Xiao Moyao's carriage, Lin Yao only felt that the ox cart was really slow, and the sun above his head was so hot that people couldn't lift their spirits.
After a while, Lin Yao felt a little thirsty, so she took out two jars of honey and lemon water from the back basket and gave one jar to Brother Yang and Yao's mother, and then opened another jar and took a sip to drink.
Knowing that this water could be sold for some money, Yao's mother was a little reluctant, "Yaoyao, this water is to be kept and sold for money, so my mother still doesn't drink it." ”
Seeing this, Yang Yun also excused himself and said, "Yes, Sister Yao, I'm not thirsty, you should keep this water and sell it for money." ”
"It's okay, you guys drink it quickly, this water is not expensive." Lin Yao waved his hand indifferently and said.
Seeing Lin Yao's indifferent appearance, the two of them also felt that the water was not expensive, and seeing Lin Yao's appearance of drinking water, they suddenly felt thirsty, so they also opened the bamboo tube and drank it.
Seeing the three of them drinking with a satisfied look, Su Shi and Li Xiuhe also felt a little thirsty.
"What kind of water is this? Are you thirsty? Su Shi turned his head to Li Xiuhe and asked.
"It's fine." Li Xiuhe wiped his forehead with a handkerchief and answered softly.
"Yao girl, how much is a can of this water?" Su asked absentmindedly.
"This is honey lemonade, so it's more expensive, ten cents a can." Lin Yao replied simply and continued to drink water.
"What? Ten pennies a jar? What kind of water is this worth ten yuan?!" This Lin family is poor and crazy and wants to rob money, Su Shi showed a look of disdain.
Lin Yao didn't care and didn't respond anything, still lowering her head and taking small sips.
"Yaoyao, this water Shiwen?" Hearing this, Yao's mother was so frightened that she hurriedly stopped her mouth, she knew that her little girl had earned money, so she wouldn't be as suspicious as Su's, but she really didn't expect that just such a jar of water could be sold for ten yuan, so wouldn't she drink ten yuan into her stomach?
Looking at Yao's heart-wrenching eyes, Lin Yao reluctantly leaned into her ear and whispered, "Mother, drink quickly, have you forgotten that we still have a big bucket of honey and lemons at home, which can be mixed with many jars of this water." ”
Hearing this, Yao's mother still felt a little distressed, but when she saw that she had drunk everything, she had no choice but to continue drinking.
"Ah, Sister Yao, this water is really delicious, sweet and sour, and a little cold, what is this made of?" After speaking, Yang Yun regretted a little, why did he ask such a sensitive question.
Lin Yao smiled nonchalantly, "I added some honey, lemon and mint to it. ”
"Lemon, mint? I know about honey, but I haven't heard of either of them. Hearing this, Yang Yun suddenly felt a little curious, and at the same time a little puzzled, where did Sister Yao know so many things.