"The next time you kill a pig, can you keep the pig's blood, pig's belly and pig's intestines for me? I can give you money to buy..." Yu Xiaocao asked eagerly.
Butcher Wang was very curious and wondered: "What do you want these pickled things for? Little girl, these fishy smells are really not delicious!"
Yu Xiaocao smiled mysteriously, and said: "I know, I'm useful... Otherwise, I'll spend two cents to book with you, and you'll just throw it away. Why don't you sell it to me and earn two cents more?" !"
Butcher Wang’s business is so good, so of course he doesn’t care about the two pennies. He smiled and said, “Okay, okay! I’ll keep it for you, and you don’t need the money. I’ll give it to you as an uncle’s gift. If you need to buy meat at home, remember to take care of the uncle.” business is done.”
"Do you want to tie the pig's head with a straw rope for you? I'll go to the house and get you the pig's stomach and intestines!" Butcher Wang did not forget to take some straw carefully and put them in a grass basket, for fear that the stomach and intestines would get messed up. Dirty bottom fish.
Xiaocao asked him to put the pig's head in the basket as well. This time the harvest was good, and it can be said that he returned with a full reward. She spent another ten renminbi to make a can of soybean oil. The basket was packed to the brim. arrive home.
After walking to the entrance of the village, I saw a familiar figure lingering by the side of the road, and a small black shadow was also wandering back and forth under my feet. Seeing their siblings, the little roe deer ran over first, went to Xiaocao's feet and rubbed his head a couple of times like a baby, and then played with the little stone.
"Haha! I haven't seen you for a long time. Did the little one miss me? Or we little ones are sensible and know to win us. Second sister, I'm afraid your little glutinous rice balls have gone to the wild! Dad is right, the wild cat is not very good. It can be raised well!" Little Shitou hugged the little roe deer, and enjoyed being licked by the little guy.
The miniature golden kitten transformed by Xiaobutianshi is very arrogant, and no one in the family pays attention to it except Xiaocao. The little stone wanted to get close to it, but was scratched by its paw, leaving a few red marks. Little Stone loves and is afraid of it, and runs against it sourly every time.
Xiaocao pinched Xiaoshishi's face amusedly, and said, "What? Xiaotangyuan offended you again? It's enough for you to be angry with a cat!"
Since Xiaobutianshi had a physical body, he took his own multicolored stone body every day to go out early and return late, looking for the spring water with the strongest aura in the mountains and forests, soaking it for a whole day, and coming back obediently at night.
Xiao Lian, who had lingered at the entrance of the village for a long time, ran over panting. She took the baskets they were carrying, feeling the weight in them in amazement.
When I went there, the basket was obviously not so heavy. Xiao Lian thought that the stewed chicken gizzards were not sold, so she smiled and comforted her younger sister and younger brother: "Tonight I have a good meal! I tasted a small piece of chicken gizzard yesterday, but I haven't tasted it yet! Dinner is going to be a real treat! Sister, Thanks to you, our dinner is definitely richer than New Year's Eve!"
Just as Xiaocao was about to whet her appetite, Little Shitou yelled impatiently: "Sister, it's not enough to sell all the lo mei we brought today. Guess how much we sold? Guess quickly!"
"It's all sold?" Xiao Lian opened her mouth wide in surprise, "I shared the lo mei. It's 60 cents in total. If you die, you can sell it for 60 yuan. Is there any need to guess? Are they all sold?"
Seeing her uncertain face, Xiaocao burst out laughing, and said, "It was sold out in less than half an hour, and that's not enough to sell! Many people asked me to go tomorrow if I bought it but didn't buy it." No? Even the steward from the capital praised our stewed vegetables for its delicious taste!"
"That's great! It's a pity that Aunt Zhou's family doesn't often have the opportunity to kill so many chickens..." On the one hand, Xiao Lian was happy for today's results, but on the other hand, she regretted that this was just a one-shot deal.
However, she soon cheered up again, weighed the heavy basket, and said, "Sister, what did you buy in the basket? You won't spend all the sixty coins you earned, right? No wonder your mother always said that you have Can't save money...”
"No! It only cost sixteen cash, and this time we made all our capital back. We will make money if we sell it in the future! When we have money, we will also set up a shed at the pier to sell all kinds of Braised vegetables!" Xiaocao patted the place where the purse was placed, full of confidence in the stewed vegetables business.
"Xiaolian, Xiaocao, where did you three brothers and sisters come from?" the village idiot's daughter-in-law asked with a smile while staring at the heavy basket in Xiaolian's hand.
Er Lengzi's daughter-in-law is a well-known gossip in the village. She and Li's eighth pair of mung beans are as good at chewing tongues.
Xiao Lian didn't want to pay attention to her, and said perfunctorily: "My sister said that she wanted to go to the pier to have a look, so I asked Xiao Shitou to take her to play. Auntie, the younger brothers and sisters haven't had breakfast yet, we're going back first..."
Looking at the hurried backs of the three siblings, the second-born daughter-in-law curled her lips, said "Cut", and said, "Going to play on the pier, and still carrying the basket? I don't know what good things are in it! By the way, Li Guihua today Didn't she complain that her father-in-law and the man brought back less money today? Could it be that old Yu secretly gave the fish to the siblings? No! I have to go and talk to her!"
The stupid daughter-in-law approached Mrs. Li, and talked about it with more details. Mrs. Li was furious when she heard that, wow! No wonder the money from selling fish has been getting less and less recently. It turns out that it is used to subsidize the second child's trash and sick children.
As soon as Xiaocao and the others arrived home, before the things in the basket could be put into the kitchen, Mrs. Li followed.
She kicked open the door of Xiaocao's house confidently. If the door was not newly opened, it would probably be broken. Before entering the door, her pheasant-like voice yelled: "Second, come out!! We are all separated, and you are still asking the old man to suck their blood and sweat, do you still have it?" Conscience? Ah?? Spit out what you took!!"
Yu Hai, who was making bamboo ware in the yard, was scolded by her so that Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out: "Sister-in-law, you can't talk nonsense? After the separation, I never took a penny from the family. You have to prove what you say! "
"Huh! Didn't you take a penny from the family? How did you build this house? How did you break up the furniture? Don't tell me, it was subsidized by the younger siblings. We know what's going on in the Liu family, and we can take out ten cents at once. How many taels of silver come out? Need evidence! Wow... This basket is the evidence!!"
Li's triangular eyes turned towards the yard, as if grasping something, pointed at the basket that Xiaolian had just put down, and shouted with a sneer.
Fortunately, Xiaocao's family lived some distance away from the fishing village, and there were only two or three families nearby. Otherwise, Li's high-pitched voice would definitely attract a large crowd to watch the fun. Even so, the neighbor to the west, Mrs. Mao, still leaned against his door, stretching out his ears to look here. Fang Shi also came over and persuaded Li Shi in a low voice.
Fortunately, today is the day when Mrs. Liu goes to the town to help people starch and wash clothes, otherwise she will definitely be very angry.
Xiaocao was holding a bowl of warm water and drinking it, when she heard this, she was so angry that she splashed the water on the ground, almost splashing Li's foot. She said bluntly:
"We need to settle the accounts, right? Okay! Let's do the calculations carefully!! Among other things, the money my father bought from hunting and selling in the mountains is more than ten taels of silver a year, right? Let's not talk about it, let's count it from the birth of Xiaoshi Since then, at least six taels of silver have been handed over to grandma in six years. After deducting the annual expenses of two taels of silver, there is at least fifty taels left.
Yes, my father was injured and spent more than a dozen taels of silver, let's count it as twenty taels! The family still has thirty taels of silver left. When we separated, how much did we divide? Like sending beggars, gave us two taels.
The house is dilapidated and leaking, and the food allotment is not enough to last for half a month. What do you do with two taels of silver? If it wasn't for the grandma's family helping to borrow some money, and the uncle in the village helping to build the house, we would still be sleeping in a house that is ventilated and leaky!
Say grandpa subsidizes us? Others don't know the money for selling fish every day, so can uncle not know? Grandpa uses his hard-earned money to subsidize us every day, don't uncle have any objections? Won't tell you? "
Mrs. Li was robbed of white by her for a while, her face turned red and white, but she couldn't find a reason. Yes, the father-in-law may feel sorry for the second son and disagree with her. But when fishing and selling fish, her men would follow her, and once or twice, her men might even help to hide it. It is impossible for her to have no complaints after a long time.
Then... what happened to the full basket that the second-struck daughter-in-law said? With the current situation of the second child's family, it is absolutely impossible to buy so many things at once. Thinking of this, Mrs. Li immediately revived like a cockfighting cock:
"I didn't subsidize you? What's in that basket? Didn't you cry poorly and say that you can't even eat? How can you have spare money to buy so many things? If you have the ability, you open the basket and let the old lady see what's in it?"
Xiaocao sneered, and said badly, "Auntie, are you sure you want to see it?"
"Of course I have to watch it!! That's the proof that father-in-law is partial to you!!" Li Shi hopped and shouted, the fat on her face trembling with her movements, it was really similar to the pig's head that Xiaocao bought today fight.
"Okay! If that's the case, I'll make it happen for you!!" Xiaocao bent down and opened the basket, took out the big pig's head from inside, and threw it at Mrs. Li.
Li Shi only saw a black shadow flying over, and subconsciously reached out to catch it. She lowered her head and fixed her eyes, oh my god! An ugly pig head, rolling dead eyes, met her eyes...
Ah—Ms. Li screamed, and threw the pig's head out of her hand.
"Don't you want to see it? Show it to you! Show it to you!!" Xiaocao thought that if it wasn't for Mrs. Li who pushed the deity of this body to his death, she might not be able to pass through it, and maybe the modern Lin Xiaowan would not. won't die. The resentment in his heart increased, he grabbed the stinking pork belly and pig intestines in the basket, and threw them at Li Shi.