The eldest aunt looked at Sun Yanyan in surprise and said, "Didn't you give me five kilograms? That's a lot! You young people just spoil your children. Ziyi is only a little old. Wouldn't she get sick after eating all of it?"
"Don't eat like this next time. Good things should be eaten carefully. Don't do that..."
She said earnestly:
"A cow chews a peony."
Sun Yanyan's face was numb.
Mao Li happened to get on the car as well. Upon hearing this, she said with a fake smile, "His aunt, you don't know, Tan Tan is now a big shot in the vegetable business!"
"Just like the Chinese astragalus last time, it was not rare in the fields when we were young, but she sold it for 20 yuan per pound."
"I discussed with Yanyan about going to the vegetable market to take care of a relative's business, but I didn't expect that she would not lose a penny and made me lose face..."
"If you ask me, we are all poor relatives now, and we can't afford to eat such precious things as hers!"
"What?!"
My aunt raised her voice suddenly: "Just like the one you sent last time, twenty yuan a pound?!"
The uncle Zhu Jun standing by was also shocked, thinking that the pork belly fried with asparagus was really delicious. He and his son's family of three ate it all in two meals. How careless!
Mao Li felt their shock and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
I thought: Finally someone knows Song Tan's proud face now! This child gets excited when she earns a little money, and she doesn't respect her elders at all. She deserves to be told to go back and be a bad person and teach her a lesson.
But I never thought that my aunt looked regretful at this moment:
"Oh my! How can Tantan be so honest?! What kind of vegetables can't be bought in the market? Why must he give such good things!"
"This vegetable is so expensive, it's not possible to sell it for money. How much can you buy with twenty dollars? This kid is so generous!"
She covered her chest with her hands. Her heart was bleeding when she thought about how she had eaten a hundred yuan worth of vegetables in just one or two meals. She didn't have time to think about what Mao Li meant.
Mao Li: …
I was instantly filled with anger again.
The car drove forward in this awkward atmosphere. Halfway through the journey, Uncle Song stopped the car and went to buy some yellow paper and other things with Aunt.
Mao Li sat in the car and thought for a long time, and decided that she couldn't let things get awkward. After all, there was a big plastic frame in the trunk. If it was used to store vegetables, it could hold at least 30 to 50 kilograms, right
If the child's aunt didn't take it, and she took it alone, it would look so embarrassing. It was as if they were living in the city now and had to go back to the village to beg for money.
While I was thinking about it, my aunt had already opened the car door and got in, holding two pieces of yellow paper and a black plastic bag in her hands, and she was in a good mood.
Sun Yanyan is worthy of being the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of Mao Li. At this moment, they opened the conversation as if they were in sync: "During this festival, yellow paper is not cheap, right? Prices are rising rapidly now."
"Of course not!" Auntie said to Uncle Song in the driver's seat with dissatisfaction: "If you ask me, it's because you don't care enough. I called you earlier and told you to buy it as soon as possible - the price hasn't increased yet!"
"You kept saying there was no rush, but now they're convinced that we have to spend the money, and that's why they won't give us a penny."
It seemed like her bargaining skills were not very good.
But then he turned around and said to Mao Li proudly: "But his price is too unreasonable. So I bargained with him for a long time and finally added five dollars. I also got a bag of gold ingots and a stack of US dollars - each of these costs five dollars. I also asked our grandparents to go abroad to have fun."
Okay.
Sun Yanyan's draft was instantly tied up and came to an abrupt end.
She sat there feeling depressed, luckily her mother-in-law was there.
At this moment, Mao Li pretended to praise her: "Hongmei, you are really good at negotiating. Everything is expensive now, and life in the city is difficult. Prices are rising rapidly, and buying vegetables is so expensive..."
Continuing with this theme, wouldn't it be natural for them to bring more vegetables back to the village
But my aunt did catch it, but not completely.
She agreed, "That's right. The price of eggs has gone up a lot. My pancake has flour, eggs, chopped green onions, and ham. I can't make much from four or five yuan."
"Sister-in-law, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but the kids are under a lot of pressure right now, so you should also think about saving more."
"Last time I went to your house, it was quite clean, but you didn't make use of such a big balcony!"
When it comes to saving money, no one is better than my aunt: "Let me teach you, find a few empty oil bottles, dig some soil in the community and plant garlic seedlings and onions, it's so beautiful!"
"Many of the green onions I use to make my egg pancakes are grown at home."
"Our old neighborhood is unattended, and there's no room for them at home. Why don't you bring a few oil bottles and line them up on the sidewalk downstairs? If the neighbors want to eat some, they can just pick a couple, and you can save some money, right? Onions don't cost much..."
Mao Li: …
Mao Li no longer had the desire to continue chatting.
The group hurried along in silence and it was almost ten o'clock when they returned to their hometown. Wulan and Wang Lifen were preparing vegetables at home.
After all, there are eleven people eating now, plus their two families, so the appetite of twenty people must be large, and it is not an easy job.
Uncle Song's car smoothly stopped at the gate of the yard. Sun Yanyan got out of the car and found that her uncle's house was still the same as before, and it seemed that nothing had improved because of making money.
The yard seemed to have changed, but it also seemed as if nothing had changed. The only new things were three chubby little dogs.
"Ouch," she cried out in mock surprise:
"Auntie, how do you keep these dogs?"
Wu Lan smiled and greeted the man, saying casually: "Qiao Qiao picked it up on the roadside. It just so happened that my family was in need of a doorman, so I kept it."
Sun Yanyan laughed and said, "Aunt, Qiao Qiao is not sensible. This little dog might be some kind of mixed breed, and how big it can grow is another matter."
"If you really want to keep one, spend some money and buy a purebred dog. Wolfhounds and the like are not expensive. I have an acquaintance who sells them. You can get one for five or six hundred yuan..."
Wulan laughed: "You young people are always talking about breeds. Tantan insisted that this puppy was useless and spent three thousand yuan to buy a few more..."
A few...
Although I don’t know what they bought, the fact that they were suddenly willing to spend money and raise so many dogs shows that their family has become wealthy, right
Sun Yanyan felt uncomfortable.
Uncle Song and his uncle-in-law brought the meat and oil they bought to the old house, and Mao Li strolled around the yard.
Seeing several large iron basins placed next to the kitchen, filled with bundles of green vegetables, lettuce, etc., he could not help but exclaim in surprise:
"Oh, we are family, why do you prepare so many dishes? You are too polite!"
At the same time, he quickly approached Wang Lifen and said, "Mom, you are so old, you should be enjoying your life at home, why are you still working?"