Xiao Qing held a few pieces of cloth, and asked Shopkeeper Li for needles and threads, thinking about something else, and asked: "Shopkeeper Li, you are familiar with the county, you know whose donkey cart and ox cart run to Yaoshan Village, you see I hold so much, it's better to hire a car!" ”

Shopkeeper Li was polite, showed her the way, and asked her to hire a donkey cart.

Qiao Erjing and Zhou's bought a lot of household goods, and came to the mouth of the alley when they were leaving, and saw that Xiao Qing had been waiting here for a long time.

The two of them didn't go to their mother's side quickly, and saw that their mother hired a donkey cart, no one blamed their mother for spending money, they just had six hands, how could they carry back so many things without a donkey cart?

However, when Qiao Erjing put down the table and stool and saw the things on the donkey cart, he was immediately taken aback: "Mother, where does this rice and flour oil come from?" And these cloths, and such a large piece of pork, mother, did you just buy these? ”

How much money should this cost, all the money in my mother's pocket has been used up, right?

Xiao Qing naturally had a calculation in her heart, there are more than 20,000 steps in the Xiaochao system mall, and there are more than 16,000 steps to replace four buckets of rice noodles, she simply changed three buckets of rice and three buckets of noodles, used up more than 6,000 steps, and replaced a piece of front leg meat, the choice is good, but it is precious, saying that what is the black pork, used her more than 6,000 steps, and used 2,000 steps to exchange for half a can of lard, lard is not easy to buy, so it is expensive in the mall, and she changed the salt for the last few steps, the salt is very cheap, and it is only 500 steps after changing two paper bags, and the number of steps in the mall is almost used up, He took out fifteen pennies in his pocket to rent a donkey cart, and added those few pieces of cloth to have this half cart.

"Mother's body money is here, enough for our family to eat for a few days!" Xiao Qing helped him carry the iron tools he bought onto the donkey cart, looked back at Zhou, helped her take the cauldron in his arms, and put it on the donkey cart: "Mother hopes that you can eat better and dress better, maybe next year will be a bumper harvest year, and the rain will be smooth, and we will have a better life in the future." ”

Since Xiao Qing and them confessed their hearts yesterday, Zhou's heart has trusted her mother, she believes everything her mother says, so much meat, thinking of how happy Xiaocheng is when she sees it, her heart is happy.

It's just that Zhou held a few pennies in his hand, worried that her mother would scold her for spending money, so she didn't even buy lard, so she retreated and handed the money to Xiao Qing: "Mother, I didn't buy ...... lard."

Xiao Qing saw her head down, for fear that she would scold her for being useless, she would be a loser, and she was a few feet away from herself, she walked over with a smile and pointed to the pots and bowls, rice noodles, candles, and kitchen knives in the donkey cart: "Why don't you let Erjing help you with so many things, get on the donkey cart quickly, it's late to go back, and the children will drink cold water at noon to keep them hungry." ”

Zhou let out a blank sigh, and when he was dragged to the donkey cart by his mother, he saw that there was no trace of anger on his mother's face, and he didn't ask for a few pennies in his hand.

There was a warmth in her eyes, her mother was really determined to live a good life with them, their mother was so good!

Qiao Erjing saw that her mother was not angry with her sister-in-law, but let her get on the donkey cart, and her opinion of her mother was also changing.

He took the initiative to return the rest of the money to his mother: "Mother, the tables and stools are expensive, so I didn't buy a few, but I bought files and hammers, and saws, let's go home, I learned to make them myself, which is much cheaper than what is sold in the county." ”

Xiao Qing doesn't blame him, the second meridian will live, there is no him at home over the years, and their family has starved to death a few times.

She pushed away the hand he handed over: "Mother, don't you, you can keep it, you have time, you take Xiaolan and the children to the county, buy some snacks to eat, let the children satisfy their hunger, don't look at other people's children's mouths all day long!" ”

Those who look like they have almost 100 yuan, not much, which iron tools are very expensive, and there can be 100 yuan left, which shows that Qiao Erjing has worn off a lot with others.

Qiao Erjing seemed to be stuck in his throat, choked for a while, endured the tears in his eyes, nodded and said, "Mother, thank you, I know." ”

Xiao Qing saw that the emotions in the eyes of the two were not right, she would not persuade people who were full of emotions, so she urged: "Get on the donkey cart, this car is precious, a trip costs fifteen yuan, and our family will have to spend a lot of money today." ”

Qiao Erjing and Zhou didn't speak, listened to their mother's words, got into the donkey cart, and rushed home.

In the early afternoon, the donkey cart ride was much faster than the walk, and it was half an hour smaller.

Xiao Qing was not tired this time, she got off the donkey cart, called the children to help carry things, let Erjing and Zhou look at the children, and instructed the Qin family to burn the meat, and then when the meat was stewed, pour in a few bowls of rice to cook together, cook a pork rice for the children to eat, and then go to the house to lie down.

She's so fat, she's walked so much in the past two days, she's going to die if she doesn't stop.

The Qin family responded, seeing a cart of food and clothing, thinking in his heart how much it should have cost?

But what does the mother do, she listens to it, these are the mother's own money.

Xiao Qing lay down and rested until Qin called for dinner before she woke up.

The table and a few small stools that Erjing bought came in handy, in the center of the courtyard, on a boxy table, there were nine bowls of meat and rice, and a yard of children and sons and daughters-in-law were waiting for her to sit down first, and she walked over and sat down first.

She looked at the rice in front of her, there was so much meat, there was so much rice, she was hungry, very hungry!

She picked up the chopsticks, picked up the bowl, and pointed to the stools around the small table: "Sit down, all of you!" Such a good white rice and rice, aren't you hungry just looking at it? ”

Qiao Cheng licked his mouth, swallowed his saliva, looked at Xiao Qing with bright eyes, and asked in surprise: "Grandma, how many of us can sit and eat with you?" ”

Xiao Qing squinted at him with his eyes: "Of course you can, sit down and eat, what are you doing while standing?" There is a lot of rice and noodles, enough for you to eat, and if it's not enough, grandma will buy it for you! ”

Qiao Cheng looked at Zhou again, Zhou nodded and smiled: "Don't look at me, listen to grandma!" ”

Qiao Cheng sighed, beckoned Qiao Yuanyuan and Qiao Yang, and sister-in-law Qiao Yu to sit down together, and each of them served a bowl and prepared to eat.

A few children looked at the smooth black bowl, a bowl of thick white and tender rice, and there were large pieces of meat hidden in the rice grains, and the insects in their stomachs screamed when they sniffed the fragrance.

Qiao Cheng glanced at his grandmother: "Grandma, we eat?" ”

Xiao Qing smiled and urged: "Eat quickly!" ”

Qiao Cheng raised his eyebrows at Qiao Yang, and the two of them were ready to start, bowing their heads together and quickly stuffing rice into their mouths.

Several children also followed the two elder brothers, carrying bowls and picking up rice and sending it to their mouths.

The three adults saw that they had all eaten, and with the acquiescence of their mothers, they also picked up their bowls and ate them.

The yard was full of the sound of chopping rice and chewing meat, and several children almost choked because they ate too fast, but fortunately, the Qin family prepared water in advance, so that a few children did not choke.

Qiao Yuanyuan swallowed a mouthful of meat and said with a smile: "Sanxing will say that white bread is delicious next time, I have to beat him, obviously pork steamed rice is the best!" ”