Escape from the desert

Jiang Yan didn't know how to tell the time by looking at the sky, so she could only guess that after sitting for about half an hour, that is, nearly an hour, the ox cart swayed up a road paved with blue bricks, which was the official road.

The official road was not so bumpy after all, and after about half an hour, the ox cart finally stopped in Yongan Town.

Jiang Yan jumped out of the car and led her son to the street. The original body would come to town every once in a while, so Jiang Yan could clearly know where and what was for sale.

This time is when the streets are lively. There are all kinds of small stalls on the streets, most of which are selling food, and all kinds of fragrances float into the nose.

Jiang Yan carefully looked at the food stalls on the street, thinking about what kind of food stalls she could make in the future, and she felt the liveliness of Yong'an Town, as if people came and went without being affected by the drought.

She pondered the copper plate in her arms, thinking about what to buy. It is estimated that she can't afford fabrics now. Although the clothes on the family's body are full of patches, they can barely wear them, but there is no rice at home, and oil and salt must buy some.

"Mother, what are we doing in town?"

"There's not much work to do in town at this time."

The two sons watched their mother wandering around the food stall. They really didn't understand what the mother was going to do. Instead, they walked around like this, and the greedy worms in their stomachs were attracted by the smell of the stall.

They used to follow the villagers to work in big families when they came to town, and this was the first time they walked on the street.

"There's no salt at home, so I can't borrow it from others every day, right?"

Jiang Yan took out 6 cents of money from her pocket and handed it to Lin Nan, "You take the third child to buy 6 cents of salt, and I'll go to the grain store to buy some rice."

Lin Nan took the copper plate carefully, a little surprised: "Mother, does our family still have money?"

If you have money, why do you want to borrow money from the village chief?

"There are only some copper plates left on my mother's body. If they are all given to the Liu family, what should our family eat? It's hard to take your new daughter-in-law to drink the northwest wind!" Jiang Yan said deliberately with a stern face.

She came to town this time just to see the market, to see what small business she could do, otherwise she wouldn't be able to explain to the Lin family just by selling things in the mall to make money.

When the two sons saw that their mother was about to lose their temper, they immediately stopped and took the 6 copper plates given by their mother to buy salt.

Jiang Yanzhi left two sons, and then went to the grain store to buy rice. Several large jars of rice were placed in front of the store, with a wooden board stuck on top of them, and the price of rice was clearly written in red paint.

Polished rice costs 18 cents a pound, ordinary rice 13 cents a pound, brown rice 8 cents a pound, white flour 8 cents a pound, and corn and buckwheat 5 cents a pound.

Jiang Yan frowned. The price of rice has risen too much. The brown rice in the original memory is usually 5 cents a pound. It didn't take long for it to rise so much.

Jiang Yan gave up her plan to buy rice at the grain store. She walked quickly to a place where no one was around, and bought 73 catties of brown rice and 70 catties of white noodles in the plane shop. The mall also gave a discount, which is calculated as [-] cents. If you are in a grain store, you can't buy ten pounds of brown rice!

Jiang Yan paid the money painfully, and sighed, now there are only 24 copper coins left on her body, she is really poor!
Carrying a heavy bag of rice, she was out of breath after walking a few steps. Lin Nan and Lin Xi both carried the two carrying baskets. She would have carried one if she knew earlier.

These dozens of pounds were a bit difficult for Jiang Yan, so she had to wait in place for a while, and Lin Nan and Lin Xi came back after a while.

Lin Nan took out a piece of salt in his hand: "Mother, I bought the salt."

Looking at the small piece of salt in Lin Nan's hand, it was almost enough for them to eat for a week. Fortunately, the price of salt did not increase. I went to the mall to buy some. The salt in the mall is cheap, and a copper plate can buy a large package.

Jiang Yan put the heavy bag of rice in Lin Xi's back basket, Lin Xi smiled happily, he liked the feeling of a lot of food at home!

The three of them were walking on the street. Jiang Yan wanted to buy some white sugar, but she asked the price in the past. It was really expensive.

I had to pick and choose from the grocery store, and bought a few cheap ones that I used at home.

When passing by the stall selling steamed buns, Lin Nan and Lin Bei couldn't help looking over when they smelled the aroma of steamed buns from the booth.

Jiang Yan paused, and the three stopped in front of the steamed bun.

The proprietress of the steamed bun shop saw that there were guests, and quickly greeted: "Auntie, do you want to buy steamed buns, two yuan for vegetarian food, and three yuan for meat, all of them are thin-skinned and stuffed, and you want to eat them even if you eat them!"

Jiang Yan's face twitched a few times, it was really hard for her to get used to being called Auntie!I touched a few copper plates in my arms. I spent 7 cents at the grocery store just now, and I have to leave three cents to ride on the ox cart, but I only have 14 cents.

Looking at her two eager sons, Jiang Yan had no choice but to cancel the idea of ​​continuing shopping. She nodded to the proprietress and said, "Three vegetable buns and two meat buns!"

The price of steamed buns has gone up. In the past, they used to be one penny for vegetables and two penny for meat. Jiang Yan had to buy three vegetable buns for the three of them to eat, and the remaining two meat buns were brought back to the two youngest children in the family to eat.

"Okay, auntie, take it and walk slowly!" The proprietress swiftly packed the bun with oil paper, then handed it to Jiang Yan, and took the copper coin from Jiang Yan's hand.

Jiang Yan took the steaming steamed buns, divided two and handed them to Lin Nan and Lin Xi, "Let's eat vegetable buns for three, and bring the remaining two meat buns to Xiaodouzi and Xiaowu."

"Got it, mother." Lin Xi took the bun and took a bite. This was the first time he had eaten a bun!The mother bought it for him!
Lin Nan was different. He had red eyes and held the buns for a long time without eating them. Finally, he carefully wrapped them and put them in his arms. This was the first time his mother had bought something for him. Dream to eat together!

Jiang Yan ignored them, finished eating the buns in a few mouthfuls, and quickened her pace, preparing to go to the town gate to find Uncle Gui.

The three of them were about to take the ox cart when a hairy child suddenly appeared on the street. He ran into Lin Nan in a panic!
Lin Nan stumbled to the ground, the basket on his back was crushed, the vegetable buns in his arms rolled out, and were crushed to pieces by the falling hairy child!
Lin Nan, who got up from the ground with a hoarse grin, couldn't care less, pushed the Maotou child away, looked at the buns that were crushed into mud, his eyes turned red, and tears fell down!
"This is the first time I've eaten buns! My mother bought them for me... My buns... woo woo woo..." Lin Nan cried heartbreakingly, as if he had lost more than just a vegetable bun.

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Jiang Yan watched this scene, the blue veins on her forehead jumped. In her memory, Lin Nan was a good child since childhood. Although she was a little stubborn, she couldn't cry. She remembered that Lin Nan was bitten by a snake and beaten by a guy from a big family. I can't even cry, but now I'm crying because of a bun, like a dead mother...