In the big house chartered by Erdaohe and his party.

At this time, Liu Laozhu and the boys had already been *** light, they were all men, and they didn't care about their image, and they were using hot kang to burn their waists with a quilt.

Their clothes were washed, and every man's cloth shoes were washed.

From time to time, there will be children who take turns to get off the kang and pull a pair of old straw sandals borrowed from the store to add firewood to the kang hole.

It is necessary to keep the house and the kang warm all the time, so as to ensure that everyone's clothes and shoes are dried tomorrow morning.

"Why hasn't Third Brother Xu come back yet?"

If you don't come back, you don't dare to sleep in the door. Don't plug in the door, Uncle Li Zheng brought too much money to buy money, and he couldn't sleep well. I hope to live in Fucheng for these two days to recuperate, otherwise it will be more than ten consecutive days to go back. On this trip, everyone lost at least two pounds.

Liu Laozhu was worried: "He won't be guarding his mother outside the door again, right? This stupid boy is damp, but he changes his clothes and guards it. Go and see if there's anyone back from that house." He has a change of underwear here, but Xu Youcang is wearing a short one.

The grandson of the fourth uncle's family said, "Uncle, I saw that the third brother went out with his aunt after changing his clothes, so don't worry about it."

The boys are envious.

It's good to have a mother with you, and Aunt Xu brought a change of clothes and straw sandals to Brother Xu.

Even if the clothes they put on are tattered, they look like they wear for daily work, they are much better than them.

Along the way, the aunt also wiped the hair of the third brother with a handkerchief, and when eating potatoes, she would scoop some hot sauce with a wooden spoon and smear them.

I heard that the third brother was injured when he went out to work a while ago, and his aunt spent a lot of money at home to catch medicine for the third brother, and went out with pills.

They often hear their aunts shouting that they should not forget to take medicine and drink more water when they are in a hurry.

When he was in the county seat, he carefully told him, presumably when he arrived in Fucheng, he took his son with him to go out to sell goods together, which allowed the third brother to see a lot of new things.

Everyone knows that Mrs. Xu brought the goods, and she also had to help Guan Langzhong sell the goods, but it is not clear what to sell and how much silver to sell. I only know that the jars and baskets I brought are all gone, and they must have been sold.

The people in the house were talking about Xu Youcang, and Xu Youcang, who was only wearing two clothes, pushed the door and walked in.

Xu Youcang was holding five oranges in his hand.

In addition to Liu Laozhu, he has also eaten oranges and bought them in the house, and he knows that they are very expensive.

Most of the others have never even seen it, let alone eaten it, and they haven't eaten it at all.

Even Liu Laozhu eating oranges is also a coincidence, and fox friends and dog friends are treated.

Although he spent money to buy it, but at that time, his old wife was pregnant with his old son, and he bought it twice. A few years ago, the price of oranges was more expensive than now, and the old wife didn't care about what to eat and thought about giving it to his eldest daughter and eldest son, so he didn't eat a bite.

At this time, there is a kid who doesn't know how to eat and is eating orange peel.

Xu Youcang stopped him and said that the orange peel should be collected, and that thing could not be eaten.

In fact, he has eaten skins before, he looks so good-looking and Huang Cancan, and sells it so expensive, isn't it even a belt to eat, isn't it blind?

Hearing that his mother said that the peel could not be eaten, he stopped.

Xu Youcang, as a person who came over, taught the little brothers experience: "I heard my mother say that the white on the orange petal is the best for the body, don't look at it and chew it a little bitter, but it is more nourishing than the orange petal."

His mother has seen a rich man eat oranges in a county restaurant, and he will never be wrong.

The Sun family kid looked at the orange peel, and there were more white silk stalks in the skin, so wouldn't it be more beautiful to eat?

Xu Youcang was stunned for a moment, yes, he only wrote down that his mother wanted to leave the skin, and he heard that it could be sold to a medicine shop for money when it was dried. If you want him to say that selling fruit peels for money is a trap. So what do people often buy oranges to save for peels? If you can afford to eat, you still have to sell the peel for money?

But his family is poor, and it is a penny to be able to sell a penny.

"Then eat, just leave me the outermost part." After speaking, Xu Youcang took the lead in nibbling on the orange peel.

Due to the inconvenience of coming to the big house, Mrs. Xu never expected that the peels of these five oranges would only be left in the end, only the layer of Huang Cancan, the thin, white skin was all gone, and it was gnawed clean by the boys.

When Xu Youcang handed it over, Mrs. Xu didn't have any

Language.

"Mother, they say it's delicious, sweet and sour, it's water when you bite it, it's different from the wild fruits picked in the mountains, let me thank you."

In fact, many wild fruits in the mountains are not astringent, but everyone is poor, and their legs and feet are diligent, and they are afraid that people will pick them before the fruits are ripe, so they can't wait to pick them back and eat them.

Xu Youcang didn't learn Uncle Zheng and told the price, and after listening to the price, the people in the big house didn't know how to eat these five oranges, and they all shrank back and were slightly ashamed.

may have guessed that Niang Huo went out to buy such an expensive fruit to give Tian Xin.

Mrs. Xu looked sad, a fruit peel, especially in modern times, during the Chinese New Year, is to eat oranges, everyone throws them away after eating, and even the fragrant house is too lazy to be fragrant. People with good conditions, fruits that are more expensive and rare than oranges are even rotten, but here they are held in both hands like treasures.

She asked the third to wait.

This kind of orange peel, which has been bitten by more than a dozen people, she specified that it cannot be kept for drying.

After thinking about it, everyone drove all the way, and everyone was quite hot and dry.

After cutting the orange peel into shreds and scalding it twice with water at forty or fifty degrees Celsius, after scalding out the bitter taste, Mrs. Xu scooped out a spoonful of honey and some sugar from the honey she bought to make pastries, and then borrowed a kettle from the shopkeeper.

Because Mrs. Xu borrowed the kitchen stove to give a separate piece of money, the store thought that Mrs. Xu was quite discerning, and proposed to borrow it only in the dead of night without delaying their work, so they happily found a slightly larger red clay kettle.

Mrs. Xu soaked the orange peel into shreds and asked Xu Youcang to send it to the big house.

"Take advantage of the clear taste, drink it as sugar water."

The boys in Erdaohe Village didn't expect that after tasting dozens of pounds of orange petals for the first time, they drank fruit peel sugar water again.

Just to dry their clothes, the kang was too hot to work, and their throats were dry.

"What is Aunt Xu doing?" A kid asked.

Xu Youcang said that he had bought some ingredients and borrowed the store's stove to make snacks for Tian Xin'er.

Everything sold in the city is expensive, and only a few pieces of jujube cake cost more than 40 yuan. If you can make it yourself, it's cheap. Even if it is not as good as the sale, the precious ingredients will not be too bad.

Xu Youcang felt sorry for his niece, and was described by the eldest son of the Liu family, who was even more sad.

He originally wanted to prepare more food and drink for his niece all the way back to the city in Fucheng, and finally came to the big city, selling everything, and didn't want Tian Xin to go back and eat potatoes again. And the money earned on this trip is enough, and the famine has been repaid by more than half, and the pressure has become less, and I am not afraid of luxury. Live your life carefully, not to treat your children badly and save on your children.

They have only one field core, and they haven't raised it yet, so isn't it a blind job? The injuries he and his second brother and fourth brother suffered felt meaningless.

As for other words, like the old lady mentioned that she wanted to try more other pastries and wanted to sell them, Xu Youcang didn't say it.

But the Erdaohe boys also understand that it seems that the aunt of the Xu family should have earned money this time. Besides, even if he didn't make too much, I heard that the Xu family went to the county to help the king's family outside, and he also made a lot of money with the recommendation of acquaintances, which is not a secret. A few women in the village guessed how much money they earned when Aunt Xu happily returned the two taels of silver to the grandmother of the Xu family.

But if you make money again, you will not be willing to do this to them, no matter how rich you are.

The boys drank orange peel water and sighed in their hearts, Aunt Xu's various cares along the way made them more deeply aware of what kind of elder this is, and they unconsciously respected it.

Many people thought in their hearts: I want to talk to my father and mother when I go home.