Aunt Jiu listened to this, looked at the little mules of the brothers and sisters, and said, "You two should buy some necessary things first, and wait for your grandfather to come back for the rest, and go back to the city if you have a chance. Let's go cut some meat first, we won't be able to buy good ones later. Would you like to join us?"
Gu Ye and Gu Ming didn't have a clue about the New Year's goods, so they could only follow Ninth Uncle and Ninth Aunt. They bought whatever they bought themselves.
A group of people came to the butcher shop in the middle of the vegetable market. It was already full of people, most of whom came from the mountains to buy New Year's goods. Among them, there are several villagers of Qingshan Village.
Ninth Aunt pulled her daughter with one hand and Gu Ye with the other, squeezing into the crowd. With a loud voice, she called to the butcher with a big head and ears: "Brother Li, come with five catties of fat and two catties of lean meat!"
"Okay! Sister Chrysanthemum, you came just in time. This is the second pig that just came up, and it hasn't moved a pound! Look, how is this piece?" A piece of pure fat meat was cut for her, and it was weighed on a scale, five jins high. Then he also called two catties of lean meat, wrapped it in oiled paper and handed it to Aunt Jiu.
Aunt Jiu gave the meat money, pulled Gu Ye to his side, and said loudly, "Little Ye'er, what do you want, tell Uncle Li quickly!"
Gu Ye had long been optimistic, she pointed to a whole piece of fat and thin pork belly and said: "Uncle Li, please weigh this piece for me, I want it all! And this piece, cut it for me from here to here. .And these four hooves"
When Ninth Aunt saw the piece of pork belly, it weighed more than ten kilograms. And the lean meat she wants, there are five or six catties, and if you add the hoofs, there are always twenty catties. And Gu Ye still didn't know what to do, his fingers stretched out again.
"Little Ye'er, you bought so much, can you eat it all during the New Year?" Aunt Jiu was afraid that the little girl would not have enough money to spend, so she couldn't help reminding her.
Gu Ye nodded sincerely and said, "After eating, grandpa and my master both like to eat meat!" The point is, she also likes to eat!
"What a filial child! Uncle Li gave you this pig's trotter!" Butcher Li happily weighed the meat for her, took a pig's trotter from the stall and placed it on the weighed meat.
Gu Ye's eyes lit up, and he pointed at the pig trotters left on the meat stall and said, "Uncle, how do you sell these pig trotters? And this pig head and pig tail."
Ninth Aunt quietly pulled the corner of her clothes and whispered: "Your family didn't catch up with the big sacrifice, what pig head did you buy? Pig trotters and pig tails are just bones except for the skin, what do you eat for the head?"
Butcher Li also smiled and said, "These pig heads, pig trotters and pig tails, if the little girl really wants them, they will add up to twenty dollars for you!"
"Brother Li, you're not being kind. You usually give away these bits and pieces, but you offered to accept my niece twenty. I think ten is about the same!" Aunt Jiu knew of these, except for The pig's head is still worth a few dollars, and the others are usually added to the meat.
Butcher Li looked very talkative: "Since the chrysanthemum girl has spoken, ten will be ten. Little girl, a total of fifteen catties of five flowers, eight catties of lean meat, and five catties of hoofs, a total of one thousand and twenty ."
Gu Ye took out a tael of broken silver, counted another twenty copper coins, and squeezed out the crowd with the full harvest. This price is quite cheap, adding more than 30 catties of meat, only one or two silver.
Only one or two? You must know that people in the mountains have a year's income, and if you can go out to eat and drink, you will be able to plan carefully. Gu Ye has money in his pocket, forgetting the difficulties when he has no money.
Seeing that Gu Ye happily put the pig's head and trotters into the bamboo basket, Aunt Ninth couldn't help but complain a little: "You kid, you have some spare money in your hand, so you can't spend it randomly. You buy a lot of lean meat, and These hooves and tails don't have much meat on them, it's a waste of money."
"Ninth Aunt, this piece of lean meat is the tenderloin, the tenderest piece of meat on the pig body. It is the most suitable for stir-frying. The pig's head, pig's trotters, and pig's tail are marinated with special spices, so it has a unique taste. When it's ready, , I'll give you a copy, and you won't say that I wasted money when you taste it." Gu Ye had a soft spot for braised pig's head, pig's trotters, and pig's tail in his previous life, and there was an Aunt Yan who could cook in the family. She'll be eating these delicious treats again soon!
Ninth Uncle followed suit: "Since you've bought it all, don't say anything! Let's go and have a look at the grain store over there."
When I went to the grain store, Aunt Jiu was careful, and only bought five catties of white flour, while sorghum flour and corn flour each bought twenty catties. She has grown rhubarb rice at home, so she didn't buy it, she bought some red beans and kidney beans. It cost less than three hundred in total.
The family seldom eats coarse grains now, and the refined grains are consumed very quickly. The 50 catties of white flour and 50 catties of rice that I bought half a month ago have almost been eaten. Gu Ye made another big purchase in the grain store: 50 catties of rice, 100 catties of white noodles, red beans and kidney beans, but she didn't dare to buy much, because she had never eaten bean buns before, so she didn't know if it fit her appetite. Another one or two or six coins was spent.
At the cloth shop, Gu Ye pulled two more clothes for grandpa, master and brother. Seeing that there were fresh fruit-green muslins in the store, she bought another one for herself. She wears this red-bottomed cotton-padded coat that looks like a little girl, so it's better to change it quickly. Grandpa's aesthetics, she is really powerless to complain.
There were defective cloths in the cloth shop, and Gu Ye grabbed a lot of them, which could be used to make sheets and curtains. Seeing her spending money like running water, and Gu Ming just smiling and pampering her, Ninth Uncle and Ninth Aunt couldn't help shaking their heads, thinking, "Fortunately, Fifth Uncle has been in the army for many years, and he has some wealth, otherwise he really can't stand this girl's fluttering. Fifth uncle is also true, how can you let Xiaoye Ye hold the money? Little Ye Ye has such a big-hearted temper, and I don't know who to follow! It must have been taught badly by Mrs. Liu! !
How could they know that Gu Ye spent all the money they earned. This trip into the city, in addition to her master's one thousand taels of silver notes, she has more than eighty taels of silver in her hand!
But if you work hard, you can spend less than five taels of silver in a day. Gu Ye was a little unfulfilled, and when he saw a jewelry store in front of him, he pulled Gu Li'er and walked in. Ninth Aunt was afraid that she would spend money indiscriminately, so she put the New Year's goods purchased outside for her man to watch, and walked in a little timidly.
Inside the jewelry store, a woman wearing a gorgeous gold hairpin with a full head was picking out jewelry. Beside her was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, wearing a red robe, embroidered with blossoming begonias on the skirt, and a cloak bordered by white foxes, looking charming and lovely. If it weren't for the impatience and disdain on her face, she would be a beautiful woman.
"Auntie! What kind of jewelry can you pick out from this poor place? I really lost my mind, so I went home to visit relatives with you. Look at what kind of people these people are, the dirtier country bumpkins can't get on the stage. We are actually picking things with these inferior people, and we won't be laughed at by those sisters if we say it!"
The red-clothed girl glanced at Gu Ye and the three of them, with an even more contemptuous expression on her face. She quickly looked away again, as if looking at them one more time would pass on the rusticity to her.
A trace of anger flashed in the shopkeeper's eyes, but he still said calmly, "This is the best filigree silver bracelet in our shop, and the gemstones embedded on it were brought back from the coast by me. If Madam can see it Eyes, fifty-two taels will be erased for you, and you will be fifty taels."
"What? This broken bracelet costs fifty taels? Our best silver bracelet in Yancheng Tongfang Pavilion is only twenty or thirty taels. Are your bracelets inlaid with gold?" The girl's sharp words sounded again. The woman beside her hesitated for a while, and finally put down the bracelet.
The shopkeeper took a deep breath and said, "Our bracelet is not set with gold, but is set with rubies that are more valuable than gold. These are all from overseas. If my bracelet is in Yancheng, I would have to sell it. One hundred taels. This lady, if you think it is too expensive, you can look at other styles."
"What do you mean? Look down on people, don't you? Just the jewelry in your broken shop is only for these poor country bumpkins! The gems from overseas, I think they are just a dyed and broken stone, we have Money, I just want to defraud us! Ten taels of silver! If you have more, let's say you sell it or not!" The girl was arrogant, with an expression of "I give you ten taels to look down on you".
"Sorry," the shopkeeper put away the inlaid silver bracelet, neither humble nor arrogant, "Twelve taels of silver is not enough for the price of one of the gems, the small shop is so simple that it can't catch your eyes, please move to another store. !"
"What? You actually chased me away! Do you know who I am? Do you believe that I can't keep your store open?" The girl was going to be furious. When she was in Yancheng, she was arrested because she was a prostitute. A bunch of little sisters looked down on them, so they followed my aunt back to their parents' house to relax.
Who knows that when you come to this rotten place where birds don't poop, you will be angry with a small jewelry shop shopkeeper. She fought back her anger so that she didn't smash the shop.
"Qing'er, how did your father tell you before going out? Don't rely on your own background to bully others. Why, you forgot?" The woman pretended to reprimand, with a faint smile on her face, said, "The shopkeeper Yes, not to mention whether your gemstone is real or not, just talking about your craftsmanship, it is indeed worse than the jewelry shop in Yancheng. Otherwise, I will pay 30 taels of silver, and I will buy this bracelet down."
"I'm sorry! Madam, fifty taels is already the lowest price." The shopkeeper didn't want to say more, and put away the bracelet.
He raised his head and greeted Gu Ye and the others who had been in for a long time: "What kind of jewelry do you want to buy, I can recommend it for you next time"
"Humph! It's just these few country bumpkins, with poor and sour faces, they can't afford to eat, and can they afford jewelry?" The girl was full of anger and had nowhere to go. Straight pouting.
New Year's Eve! Have you eaten dumplings yet