After traveling to ancient times, I became a superb shrew

Chapter 12

The basket behind her was suddenly heavy, and she planned to buy something, but she couldn't carry it anymore.

Gu Qing went out with a basket weighing dozens of kilograms on her back, and met Yang Pei head-on.

Yang Pei handed the remaining copper coins to Gu Qing, holding a small bag of salt: "Master, the price of salt has risen, and ten pennies can only buy such a little..."

Gu Qing shook her head: "I bought some just now, let's go home."

Salt in the shopping mall is cheap, and you can buy five bags for ten cents.

The two got into the bullock cart, Gu Qing counted the money left in his hand, bought all the ready-made clothes for a tael of silver, sold mushrooms for [-] Wen, and spent [-] Wen for the pot.

Ok?Thinking of cooking pots, thinking of the dishes at noon, Gu Qing hurriedly opened Yang Pei's pannier to check. Sure enough, there were only various seasonings and coarse and fine grains in it.

Gu Qing sighed with a complicated expression, and had no choice but to hold her back basket, and spent two hundred Wen to buy ten catties of pork belly, five ribs, and two pig's trotters in the mall.

Gu Jiang saw her back basket, and asked casually, "Why did Mrs. Gu buy two pots? These pots look really good. When did Blacksmith Zhu's craftsmanship become so good?"

Gu Qing said: "It wasn't Blacksmith Zhu who beat him."

Where did she buy it, but she refused to say another word.

Gu Jiang thought to himself, it would be nice to have some food these days, but this prodigal girl actually spent money to buy two pots.

After the other people in the bullock cart came to town, they were all in a bad mood and chatted along the way.

"Millet costs five cents a catty. I can't afford it, so I bought some buckwheat flour."

"There are only three days of rations left at home, and it's all about the crops in the field. It will take another month to open the sickles. Our family can only eat small vegetables in the field every day."

"Last year, the imperial court distributed relief food due to the drought, but this year the weather is good. When the food is harvested and taxes are paid, there should be a lot left."

"I heard that it rains every day in Huzhou, and all the crops are drowned. With so many people suffering, is there enough food for the imperial court? It won't increase our taxes by then, right?"

"..."

The more we chat, the more dull the atmosphere becomes.

There was a drought last year, and Gujia Village had no crops. Relying on the government's relief, and autumn planting and spring harvest, it has survived until now.

Now it's hard to get a bumper harvest, and the lake city next door is flooded...

When they arrived at the entrance of the village, Gu Qing and Yang Pei jumped out of the car. Only Gu Yu was at home, mending clothes.

Gu Qing walked in: "Yu'er, go and close the door."

As the saying goes, wealth is not revealed, and if there is food, it still cannot be revealed, otherwise it will attract others' covetousness, which is why she bought two pots in the town, and the iron pots were buckled on the back of the basket, so that no one could see her in the basket What did you install.

Even Yang Pei didn't know exactly what Gu Qing bought.

Gu Qing took out the iron pot first, and then took out the other things in the same way.

Ten catties of pork belly, five pork ribs, two pig's trotters and six sets of ready-made clothes.

From Yang Pei's back basket, he took out 1430 catties of rice, 280 catties of white flour, 1710 catties of cornmeal, [-] catties of buckwheat noodles, a large bag of coarse salt, and various necessary seasonings, and put them on a table full ... She still has [-] Wen coins and Yang Pei's unused [-] Wen coins, which is a total of [-] Wen coins. In the afternoon, she will go to the mountains to find mushrooms to earn some copper coins.

With a mall in hand, getting rich is not a dream!
Gu Qing cut out two catties of pork belly and took a pig's trotter and handed it to Gu Yu: "Give these to grandma."

The original body was not good to the whole family, and it all depended on the old lady secretly donating food, otherwise the whole family would only get thinner.

Gu Yu paused for a moment: "Sister, how much are you giving?"

Gu Qing glanced at her: "In the past, you used to eat the private food given by Grandma, but now that we have food, are you stingy?"

"It's not stingy, Eldest Sister, these are all grains that I got in exchange for the silver hairpin given by Auntie. We don't keep them and eat slowly. How can we buy so much meat? What will we do after we finish eating?" Gu Yu worried. , her elder sister really can't live a life!
"You are so young, you have to worry a lot. Don't worry, the mushrooms you picked yesterday sold for 1600 renminbi. Let's go up the mountain to pick them again this afternoon. Anyway, elder sister won't starve you anymore!"

"What? 1600 Wen?" Gu Yu and Yang Pei were stunned. The mushrooms on this mountain are so valuable, don't the villagers know?Why did the Patriarch find out so generously?

Gu Qing also explained to the two of them more, fearing that the description would get darker, and waved the two of them out: "Okay, don't ink, hurry up and send the meat to Grandma, Yang Pei, go find Zhu Han and come back to cook!"

Gujiacun eats two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the evening, and there is no fire at noon.

But at this moment, there was a faint smell of meat floating in the air.

Aunt Zhao sat in the yard and sniffed it vigorously. It smelled like pork, definitely pork.

In this season, there are still people in the village who can afford pork!
Aunt Zhao walked out of the yard following the scent, and saw Gu Nuo coming from the field ridge, with a small body carrying a big basket full of stinky vegetables.

"Xiao Nuo, why are you digging up so many stinky vegetables?"

Gu Nuo replied honestly: "Eldest sister said that stinky vegetables can be used as medicine."

The corners of Aunt Zhao's mouth twitched, she didn't even eat stinky vegetables, chicken and duck, could it be used as medicine?Miss Gu is lying to the children.

"Xiao Nuo, wait!"

Aunt Zhao turned around and went into the room, took out a steamed bun, stretched it out and then retracted it, then broke it in half, and stuffed a small half into Zhao Sidan's hand: "Eat it quickly, fill your stomach."

Gu Nuo quickly pushed back: "Auntie, I can't have..."

"You child, I'll take it for you, why are you being so polite?" Aunt Zhao scolded angrily, "Your eldest sister sold all the good things, and it's hard for you, ten-year-old child! You look like you are six or seven years old...Your eldest sister deserves it, she is not doing business all day long, and in the end she was beaten up by her husband-in-law, what a joke! Xiao Nuo, when you grow up, hurry up from Move out of the house, don't stay at home and be an old scalper, you can't even get a bite of food..."

Gu Qing was washing her hands in the yard when she heard cursing from outside.

And who is it that stands at the door of her house and scolds her in broad daylight?
She dried her hands and went out, only to see Aunt Zhao holding Gu Nuo and standing at the door next door to talk, Gu Nuo tried to interrupt several times, but Aunt Zhao forced her back: "Okay, eat this half of the corn bread quickly, Don't let your elder sister see it, or you won't be able to catch a bite..."

Gu Qing was also convinced, sharing food is obviously a good thing, but Aunt Zhao did it to make people suffocate.

However, she recalled what Yuanshen had done, and she could understand why Aunt Zhao was so angry with Yuanshen, because the two families were neighbors, and there was a honey locust tree between the two yards, so they were so close to each other. There are many conflicts, and Yuanshen is a person who likes to take advantage, and Aunt Zhao often suffers from Yuanshen's hands.

Many times, the original body would go back to autism after being scolded by Aunt Zhao bloody.

Even so, Aunt Zhao still secretly stuffed Yuanchen's younger brother with cornbread.

As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and it would be a good thing if you can turn the fight with Aunt Zhao into friendship, but the original person has a bitter and mean personality, and the sudden change is really abrupt.

"Keep this stuff for yourself." Gu Qing stepped forward and picked up the pannier on Gu Nuo's body, "Our family has meat to eat today, who wants to eat steamed buns?"

Her words were three points of ridicule, three points of ridicule, and four points of showing off, but they had learned eight points of Yuan Bo's temperament.

Aunt Zhao smelled the smell of meat floating in the air, she was full of disbelief: "Your family can still afford meat?!"

(End of this chapter)