Half-demon peasant girl has space

Chapter 12 Counting copper plates Tao Jiaman's warmth
"Little sister, why are you so happy?" Tao Hechen bought three meat buns and two vegetarian buns, and when he came back, he saw Qian Lian smiling as if thinking about something, her eyes were bright.

"Ah, no." Qianlian came back to her senses, the matter hadn't been finished yet, she didn't plan to tell Tao Hechen for the time being, smelling the aroma of the steamed stuffed bun in Tao Hechen's hand, she sniffed: "It smells so good."

Tao Hechen smiled, put away one meat bun, and handed the other two meat buns to Qian Lian: "Keep one and take it back to Mom, eat it quickly, it's delicious."

Meat buns are more expensive than vegetarian buns. Meat buns cost two cents a penny, and vegetarian buns cost a penny. Tao Hechen only bought meat buns for Duan and Qian Lian, planning to eat vegetarian buns himself.

Qian Lian looked at the two meat buns in her hand, silently stuffed one of the meat buns into Tao Hechen's hand, and then took back a plain bun from his hand.

"Little sister..."

"Eat." Qian Lian glared at Tao Hechen: "Otherwise I won't eat."

Tao Hechen pursed his lips, and secretly vowed in his heart that he must work hard to earn more money so that his mother and younger sister could live a better life.

The two finished their lunch, and half an hour later, the remaining mushrooms and chestnuts were also sold. Looking at the empty bamboo basket, the brother and sister smiled at each other.

"Let's go, let's go buy some rice. We don't have much rice at home." Tao Hechen picked up the bamboo basket, returned the steelyard to the stall owner next door, and said to Qian Lian.

"Okay." Qianlian nodded, and followed Tao Hechen to a rice shop.

"Boss, how do you sell the rice?" Tao Hechen asked.

"A liter of brown rice is three pennies, a liter of white rice is five pennies, and a liter of polished rice is eight pennies."

The owner of the rice shop took a look at Tao Hechen and Qianlian. Knowing that they were both children from the countryside, he probably bought some brown rice at most, but he was not a bully, so he quoted all the rice prices.

Tao Hechen counted the copper coins in his hand, and said, "Boss, let's buy five liters of brown rice."

"Row."

The owner of the rice shop nodded, weighed five liters of brown rice and put it into the bamboo basket behind Tao Hechen, took the fifteen copper coins Tao Hechen handed over, and asked, "What else do I need to buy?"

Tao Hechen shook his head. There are only so many copper coins in total, so we still need to save some money.

After leaving the rice shop, Tao Hechen went to the grocery store to buy a catty of coarse salt.

In the Great Qin Dynasty, fine salt was monopolized by the government. Not only was it expensive, but it was also not easy to buy. For example, there was no place to sell fine salt in Taohua Town. If you want to buy fine salt, you have to go to Taoyuan County, which is farther away. .

And in Peach Blossom Town, only grocery stores can sell coarse salt, but this coarse salt is not cheap, and a catty of coarse salt costs fifteen yuan.

After shopping, seeing that it was still early, Tao Hechen decided to go back to Taoshan Village, maybe he could go into the mountain to pick some mushrooms. Qianlian wanted to help him with some weight, but Tao Hechen refused, so Qianlian only let Qianlian carry it on his back. Empty bamboo baskets.

The two walked for nearly an hour and returned to Taoshan Village.

When I returned to Taoshan Village, but it was not yet the right time, Duan saw that the two had not only sold out their things, but also bought rice and salt, and hurriedly poured a bowl of water for the two: "Take a rest, today is very tiring." It's broken."

Qian Lian shook her head and said, "Mother, I'm not tired."

"Why aren't you tired?" Duan's heart ached, if the head of the family was still there, how could there be such a need for these two children to work so hard?

Seeing that the circles of Duan's eyes were red, Qian Lian's heart was trembling. She had no experience in comforting others. After thinking about it, a flash of light flashed in her mind: "Mother, I got a lot of copper coins today, let's count how many."

Count the coppers, count the coppers, count the coppers, and you should be happy.

"That's right, mother, I bought a lot of things today, and there are still some copper plates left." Tao Hechen put the coarse salt and brown rice in the kitchen, and when he came out to hear what the mother and son said, he echoed, and then took out He picked up the meat bun and handed it to Duan: "Mother, I brought you a meat bun back."

Although the meat buns were a bit cold, they were still delicious. Seeing the meat buns, Mrs. Duan said, "Why are you buying me meat buns? I don't like them. Let Sanya eat them. Her injury is just right and she needs to nourish her body." .”

Looking at Duan's sallow and thin face, Qian Lian felt a warm current in her heart, took the meat bun from Tao Hechen's hand, and stuffed it into Duan's hand: "Mother, you can eat it, we've already eaten it, If you don't eat it, I'll throw this meat bun away, I don't know how to eat it anyway."

Duan said angrily: "You child, how did you learn to threaten people?"

Thinking of Qianlian's threat to him at noon, Tao Hechen couldn't help laughing: "Mother, you can eat it. If you don't eat it, my little sister will definitely do what she says."

"Okay, I'll eat, I'll eat." Duan took a bite of the steamed stuffed bun, and the long-lost smell of meat immediately filled her taste buds, and she couldn't help but turn red again.

Qian Lian blinked her eyes, well, a steamed stuffed bun is about to call out the tears of the cheap mother, and the cheap mother loves to cry too much.

Qianlian has a headache, the big demon Qianlian really can't coax people, why don't you... talk about counting coppers again?

Fortunately, Duan's eyes were red and he didn't cry. Seeing that Duan finished eating the buns, Tao Hechen hurriedly took out the remaining copper coins and put them on the table: "Mother, this is the money left over from today. the lower copper plate."

The three of them counted, and there were a total of fifty copper coins left. Today, they spent a total of 39 copper coins to buy rice salt and steamed buns. That is to say, they earned a total of 89 copper coins a day today.

The wrinkles on Duan's face have loosened a bit, there are not many copper coins left in the family, and today there are dozens more, no matter how hard she works, she should be able to scrape together four taels of silver for the pension when she gets old money.

Thinking of so much pension money, Duan's frown became frowning again. In previous years, there was one that could be mortgaged, but this time the family is really destitute, and there is nothing that can be used even if you want to mortgage it.

Duan's sorrow, not to mention Tao Hechen, even Qian Lian has become accustomed to it.

After Mrs. Duan collected the copper coins, the two went up to Taoyun Mountain with bamboo baskets on their backs. Their luck was really good, and they found a large piece of mushrooms. The brother and sister had a great time picking mushrooms, but they couldn't Knowing that a person came back from the town, he went directly to the old house, wanting to see the jokes of the three of them.

"Hey, Han Dahua, what are you doing at my house?" Li Shi couldn't help rolling her eyes when she saw the visitor.

The person who came to the old house was also a villager from Taoshan Village, named Han Dahua, married from another village. Her husband-in-law and Tao Zhili belonged to the same generation. More than that, the laziest people in Taoshan Village are these two.

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