Chapter 53: Itchy Ears
"Three fuel-efficient lamps and ten candles."
Yan Funing took out her purse in advance, took out a string of copper plates, quickly counted them, and handed them over.
"You buy so much cloth, don't you buy the lamps beside you?" The shopkeeper took a copper lamp and introduced it, and opened the small door of the lamp with his delicately trimmed nails, "This lamp is exquisitely made, and it can be opened here......"
Yan Funing shook her head with a smile: "No need, we like ceramics." ”
The shopkeeper said: "Ceramic, easy to break." ”
Her words seemed to be said to Yan Funing, but her eyes glanced at Fu Ciyi from time to time.
The owner was a young woman, in her twenties. Her hair was meticulously combed, her face was covered with makeup, and her lips were smeared with lipstick.
She looked at people's eyes and taught Yan Funing to be uncomfortable.
Unconsciously leaned towards Fu Ciyi's side and said, "We will use it carefully." ”
The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows, and his heart was stingy.
He took the copper plate, plucked it with his fingernails, and counted them one by one.
After a long time, he said: "A total of two hundred and ninety texts, that's right." After a pause, he asked, "Wick or?" ”
Yan Fu shook her head: "Don't want it yet." ”
The wick I bought last time can be used for a long time, so I am not in a hurry to buy it.
The shopkeeper said "um" and removed three ceramic lamps and ten candles from the shelves.
She had wanted to wrap them together so that she could save a piece of kraft paper.
However, this time there were many lamps and candles, so she reluctantly took another piece of brown paper and wrapped two packs separately.
Yan Funing gently put the two paper bags into the back basket, and when she saw the shop owner looking at Fu Ciyi again, she pulled his sleeve: "Husband is holding so many cloths, be careful when walking on the threshold." ”
The cloth stood tall in the air, just blocking his view, revealing an unassailable sideface.
Fu Ciyi's ears suddenly itched.
When the woman is introduced, she will say that he is her husband, and she will also call him husband in front of her mother.
Like this, when the two get along, they call themselves privately, this is the first time!
He didn't know that the shopkeeper sitting at the counter had seen him a hundred and eighty times.
The couple went out of the incense wax shop, and the female shopkeeper took out a bronze mirror from the counter drawer and looked left and right.
She touched her face, she looked good.
What made her depressed was that she thought they were brother and sister, but she thought they were husband and wife!
took a sip: "How can such a stingy woman marry a handsome husband?" ”
Thinking that the little lady looked so good with her face facing the sky, she was so angry that she stuffed the bronze mirror back into the drawer.
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Walking on the street, Fu Ciyi tilted his head to the side of the cloth: "It's strange, I thought you would bargain every time you went to a store." ”
This was not the case.
Yan Fu said: "The owner of the incense wax shop has a kind face, and I don't want to talk to her more." ”
Yan Ba saw a stall selling rapeseed on the side of the street, so he walked a few steps quickly and asked, "Old woman, how do you sell rapeseed?" ”
The old woman squatted on the side of the street, her shriveled fingers trembling and picking up a few small paper bags.
"A bag of five cents is like more rapeseeds, and you can plant an acre of land. There are fewer pumpkin seeds, only a dozen grains, all of which cost five cents a pack. There are many kinds of seeds next to it, all of which are seeds from their own vegetables, so they are guaranteed to be planted well! ”
Yan Funing squatted down and chose green rape seeds, long cowpea seeds, green bean seeds, pumpkin seeds, as well as chives and pepper seeds.
"Old woman, I want these six." She took out thirty dollars and gave it to her, "Count them." ”
After receiving thirty yuan, the wrinkles on the old woman's face deepened: "Girl, you are the first one you came to buy today, and it can be regarded as the opening of my business." ”
"It's good to open, and business will be better."
Yan Funing put six bags of seeds into the basket, and as soon as she left with Fu Ciyi, someone went to ask the old woman to buy rapeseeds.
The old woman squinted at Yan Funing's back and said happily: "What a good girl, you really came to business!" ”
Yan Fu Ning saw someone walking around the street with a cloth in his arms, which was very inconvenient, so he suggested: "Why don't you go and sit in the car with Che Li first, I have to buy some other things." ”
"It doesn't matter." Fu Ciyi said.
"Then I'll buy it faster."
She first went to the roasting shop to buy a bag of sugar-fried chestnuts and spent twenty yuan.
Thinking that he wanted to change the dishes, and he wanted to have oil and water, so he went to the meat stall.
The stall owner greeted her happily: "Girl, have you finished eating the ribs at home?" ”
"Not yet."
Yan Fu smiled, this person stared at her to buy ribs.
Also, people rarely buy ribs to eat.
"So what to buy today?"
"How do you sell pork belly?"
"Pork belly, it costs eighty dollars a pound."
Yan Funing was surprised: "How is it more expensive than fat and lean meat?" ”
"The girl doesn't know, the school is used for pork belly. This period of time has passed, and it is the beginning of the school year, and it is also the peak season for pork belly. ”
Yan Funing understood, and said, "Then half a catty of fat meat and a catty of lean meat as usual." After that, he took out the copper coin first, "Eighty-five Wen, for you." ”
The stall owner handed over a bamboo basket and asked her to throw the copper plate directly into it.
Yan Fu smiled: "You don't count? ”
"Don't count, you just throw it away, I believe you."
He began to swing his knife and cut meat.
Yan Funing stacked eighty-five copper plates into four stacks, twenty in each stack, and stacked the remaining five in the middle of the upper part. It is neatly stacked in the corner of the bamboo basket, and people can know the number at a glance.
The stall owner saw that she was so meticulous, so he gave her a small piece of fat as he did last time.
The probe looked into her back basket and saw that there were already quite a few things, so she wrapped the meat in two layers of brown paper.
Seeing this, Yan Funing smiled and thanked: "Thank you, boss, the boss has a prosperous business!" ”
"Boom and boom." The stall owner leaned over, covered his mouth with his hand, and said, "Every time the girl comes, my business will be much better, and you must come often." ”
"Really?"
"Really!" The stall owner nodded, "Look at how many people on the street are looking at my meat stall." ”
Yan Funing turned her head sideways, and it turned out that many women who were shopping for vegetables were staring at Fu Ciyi with shyness.
Of course, there are also many men who look at her.
As soon as they walked away, the crowd rushed to the butcher's stall.
The butcher stall owner happily waved to her and pointed to the crowd as if to say, "I'm right, right? 】
Yan Funing shook her head with a smile, and saw that Fu Ciyi had been following her silently, so she said again: "You wait, I'll buy it right away." ”
"Okay, no hurry." He said.
Yan Funing bought some dried tofu at the tofu stall, a pound of fried tofu, and it cost 18 Wen. I bought two catties of taro and a handful of celery from the peasant woman, and it cost twenty-two yuan.
The stuff was put into the back basket, and the back basket immediately became full.
Fu Ciyi asked her, "Can you carry it?" ”
Yan Fu pinched her shoulders, pursed her lips and said, "Yes." ”
Fu Ciyi frowned, how can a squeamish person carry his back?
Then he held the five pieces of cloth with one hand, picked up the basket, and walked away.
Walk pretty fast.
Yan Funing trotted to catch up: "I can really carry it." ”
(End of chapter)