Yu Xiaocao, who will become one of the shareholders of the leading condiment company in the future, spent the next days thinking about how to get her parents to allow her to go out and let her go out, so that she would have a chance to sneak into the place where her father set her up. well! Parents are too nervous, sometimes it is also a kind of trouble!
However, in the end she failed to do so. It was not because the parents disagreed, but because another heavy snow came one after another. This snow was not inferior to the first snow, and the entire mountain village was shrouded in thick whiteness.
The roof of Yu's old house was half collapsed under the weight of snow. The three brothers of the Yu family, under the persistence and leadership of the old head Yu, worked hard in the wind and snow for three to five days before the old house was repaired.
The old house of the Yu family was two adobe thatched houses built with the enthusiastic help of the villagers in Dongshan Village when Lao Yu fled with his father when he was young. It contains old Yutou's longing for his deceased father and childhood memories. The Yu family's four brothers and sisters were all born and raised in this old house.
Therefore, even though the Yu family moved into the newly built five new houses, they did not abandon the old house. Old Yutou often goes to see the old house, and repairs it once or twice a year, otherwise it will be a pile of ruins.
The snow is too heavy, and hunting in the mountains is impossible. Yu Xiaocao's idea of saving some money with prey years ago was stranded. The price of years ago has climbed to a new peak. Mrs. Zhang sighed and calculated the rations of her family every day.
Fortunately, the whole family is at home, and there is no need for physical work. The Yu family's two meals a day were reduced to a dry meal in the morning, and a bowl of unpalatable bean soup at night. The rough noodle pancakes for breakfast are not free to eat as much as you want.
Palm-sized pancakes, two pieces for each man, only one piece for women, and even less for children. Even Yu Caidie's extra meal in private - eggs, Zhang's also stopped. There are more than a dozen members of the family, and they don't earn a penny all winter. In winter, the chickens in the family don't lay eggs frequently. How much money do you need to fill in such a place where you sit and eat
Mrs. Zhang stared at Yu Hai's father and daughter resentfully. If it weren't for the famine owed to the sick girl's medical treatment, the money that the second son Xueqian sold his prey would be enough for the family to live a healthy life! Why is it counting the food and putting it in the pot like now
"Second boy! The Chinese New Year is only two days away. It just so happens that the snow has stopped today. Take advantage of this gap, go to the town to buy some new year's goods! Don't say anything else, there are not many millet noodles, so buy more Come back to store some. Also, I have to make dumplings for the New Year, buy some white noodles, and cut two catties of meat... "
Mrs. Zhang talked a lot, but she didn't pay out.
Just as Yu Hai wanted to agree, his youngest daughter tugged at his sleeves. Turning his gaze, he found that his daughter was giving him a wink. Yu Hai understood what his daughter meant in a second. After all, he has become a habit of obeying Zhang for more than 20 years, which made him fall into hesitation.
But seeing the pitiful look in her daughter's eyes, and thinking of the resolution she made not long ago, she finally said, "Mom, I'll go to my uncle's house to borrow a sledge—but, the money for buying new year's goods..."
As soon as money was mentioned, Mrs. Zhang's face suddenly stretched longer than that of a donkey: "A few days ago, didn't you go to the town to sell prey every day? You must have made a lot of money, right? Ask me for money if you have it! The second child , There is no precedent for our family to save private money! This hole can't be opened!"
"Grandma! A while ago, the snow in the mountains and forests hasn't melted much, and the prey you hunted is limited. You can still see the harvest in just a day or two! How much money can you sell, still don't know in your old mind? It's the New Year, earn Of course, I have to repay the foreign debt first. I paid back the money my grandpa’s family lent me to see a doctor, and I didn’t even have enough money to buy medicine! It was because Dr. Sun took pity on me that he allowed Dad to owe medicinal materials on credit! Dad! After the spring, can you I have to go into the mountain a few more times, and return the more than ten taels of silver from Tongrentang. In the future, our family will point to Dr. Sun to see the doctor!"
Xiaocao knew very well that it was a great improvement for her father to be able to ask Zhang for money. So I took the lead and said everything that should be said.
A dozen taels of silver? Mrs. Zhang gasped, and looked at Xiaocao with a knife-like gaze. If she could, she really wanted to cut this mourner into pieces!
"Hiss! A minor illness costs more than ten or twenty taels of silver. Miss Jiao's life really happened in our family. It's a pity that she was entrusted to the wrong family. She has the body but the life!! Oh, these twenty-somethings Two taels of silver are almost enough for the whole family to live frugally for a year! Tsk tsk..." Mrs. Li slapped her teeth on the sidelines, and kept lighting the fire.
Yu Hai thought of the indifference of his family when his daughter was in danger. The daughter's illness didn't cost the family a penny, but she still had to listen to those sarcastic remarks. His face immediately turned cold, and he said in a low voice: "What is the fate of my daughter, I don't need you to tell me! My daughter is sick, but it didn't cost you a penny!"
"Hey! I'm getting anxious!! Your daughter's illness didn't cost me a penny, and I, Li Guihua, didn't eat or drink yours. Why are you yelling at me! Why do you think I'm a bully?" Li Shi is not the one who suffers, she jumped up and down with her waist in her arms.
Yu Hai was originally not good at arguing with others, but seeing Li's tricks of a shrew, he was helpless.
Yu Xiaolian didn't want to do it anymore: "Auntie, you are allowed to talk about others with a gun and a stick, and others can't say a word about you! What is the reason for this? Did my father say something wrong? My sister spent a lot of money on seeing a doctor. Silver, who can stop a father from earning money to see a doctor for his daughter? Not to mention twenty taels of silver, even two hundred taels, it’s not as important as my sister’s life!!”
Zhang's triangular eyes stared, he took the handle of the kang sweeper, and threw it in Xiao Lian's direction, shouting: "The adults talk, what do children get involved with? Second, that's how you teach children ?”
Yu Xiaocao yelled, "Grandma, what are you doing? It doesn't matter if you make me seriously ill, but you still have to beat my sister! Grandma, you can think about it, if you beat my sister out Anyway, don’t feel bad for Yin Zi!”
When mentioning money, even though Mrs. Zhang was full of anger, she didn't dare to send it to the children again. It's New Year's Eve, if there is another good or bad. With Yu Hai's love for the child, no matter how much famine he owes, he will still treat the child. In this way, she will not be able to scrape money from her second child for the whole spring and summer of next year.
Old Yutou, who was silent at the side, finally spoke! "Give me a break! New Year's Eve, you are not afraid of being laughed at! Damn, it's not that you don't have money in your hand, so don't think about the second-hand money! Hurry up and buy new year's goods!"
"How can the little money in my hand be enough for them to spend?" Taking money out of Zhang's hands is more uncomfortable than gouging out her flesh.
Old Yu said impatiently: "Money is money all day long! A money is bigger than a big mill! When the sea is thawed in the spring, won't the money come back after a few times? In the spring, I will go to sea with the boss and let the second Go into the mountains. Can you still pay for the winter expenses?"
Seeing that she couldn't escape, Ms. Zhang muttered, and very reluctantly opened the lock of the cabinet with the key, and took out a bunch of copper coins and a few broken silver coins the size of a fingernail. Afraid that Yu Hai would spend money recklessly, he said, "Nowadays, things are expensive, so buy less food. There is sweet potato flour at home, even if you eat too much heartburn, it can still prevent hunger! White flour and meat, just buy enough dumplings for a meal... "
Yu Xiaocao looked at the money in her hand, curled her lips, and thought: With that little money, it's not enough to buy more! Still need to repeat
Yu Hai took the money and left the house silently. It's a rare sunny day. Although the snow on the ground is as thick as a calf, there are still many people who go to the town to buy new year's goods. With the continuous heavy snowfall, most people didn't have time to buy new year's goods, and they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of God's break to buy what they should buy as soon as possible.
Yu Hai's uncle had originally planned to go to town today, but seeing his eldest nephew borrowing a sledge to see if the sky didn't look like it was just a sunny day, he decided to go the next day.
Yu Hai didn't dare to buy too many things, so he went straight to the grain store and bought fifty catties of millet flour and five catties of white flour, and went to the butcher's shop to cut two catties of meat. The money given by Mrs. Zhang was not enough, so he used his own money to subsidize dozens of Wen.
On the street, I met the shopkeeper of Zhenxiu Restaurant. The shopkeeper knew that his young master attached great importance to the young girl of the Yu family, so he was naturally very enthusiastic towards Yu Hai. Seeing that the New Year's goods he bought were so simple, he bought some pastries and candy from the pastry shop and asked Yu Hai to take them. He said that Young Master Zhou in the capital specially ordered them to buy them for Miss Yu and her younger brother.
Yu Hai bought some more meat buns, went to the woodware shop to visit his son, and left some copper coins for him. How did he know that Yu Hang was reluctant to save all the money he and Xiaocao gave Yu Hang, but because of this, he got into trouble and almost died.
The footsteps of the new year are approaching quietly. In the early morning of the New Year's Eve, Mrs. Liu started working in the kitchen with her two daughters. Most of the two catties of meat that Yu Hai bought back were fat. Mrs. Liu cut up some refined lard, and saved the leftover oil residue to make stuffing with cabbage at night and make dumplings.
Winter vegetables, except for radishes, are cabbage. Yu Xiaocao had foreseen that there would not be enough food for the New Year at home, so she grew some bean sprouts on the kang, and made some handmade vermicelli with sweet potato flour.
With vermicelli, New Year dishes are not so monotonous. Stewed vermicelli with cabbage and radish, vinegared cabbage, braised radish, fried Chinese cabbage with black fungus, cold and crispy radish, stir-fried bean sprouts... I cut a few slices of fat meat and made a home-cooked dish with bean sprouts vermicelli. Soup is cabbage bean sprouts soup.
When the dishes were served, even the discerning Mrs. Zhang looked surprised. Unexpectedly, radish, cabbage, and a few handfuls of beans can make so many dishes.
As for the taste, seeing how everyone is eating without talking is the biggest affirmation of these dishes.
It was rare for Old Yu to have a drink, so he poured a glass for each of his three sons, and said with satisfaction, "My second daughter-in-law's skills have improved again!"
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