The leisurely life of the reborn daddy

Chapter 80 Stealing melons and stealing them into my own field

Friday the 8th!

Cheng Xiaolin asked her husband early in the morning: "Husband, the Yellow River is flooded. I heard that Brother Zhao's house in the alley next door caught a lot of fish. Why don't you go?"

"It's not a matter of a day or two to release the water. Don't worry, it's not too late to wait two days." Cao Shujie said.

He said: "Daughter-in-law, I will go to the market today to buy a sheep and come back. Cao Zhen and the others will come over tomorrow, and then we will go to the river to fish together."

"You want to buy a sheep? Are you finished?" Cheng Xiaolin asked him.

Cao Shujie shook his head and said, "There are dozens of catties of food in total, so I can't finish it."

After finishing the words, he said again: "It doesn't matter even if you can't finish it. When the time comes, divide it up and put some away. We will make mutton dumplings in two days."

"Don't just buy sheep, buy some other vegetables." Cheng Xiaolin told him.

In such a hot weather, she didn't want to go out at all, otherwise she would go to the market for a walk.

For a child like Mengmeng, looking at the big sun in the sky, she has no energy at all from being exposed to the sun, and she doesn't want to go out.

Seeing his daughter's pitiful appearance, Cao Shujie felt very distressed. Before leaving the house, he said, "Mengmeng is good, dad will buy you watermelon today."

"Okay!" Mengmeng replied weakly, she usually likes to eat watermelon, but today she is not interested.

On the other hand, his father, Cao Jianguo, went to the village chef’s house to borrow a tin oil barrel stove to stew a whole sheep. It would be more effective to use a tin barrel stove with a large iron pot on top in the yard.

If it is stewed in the kitchen, the space is small and the air is slowly released, which is not convenient at all.

When he came to the market, Cao Shujie locked his electric tricycle in the open space next to the power supply station in Qingshi Town, and then wandered into the market for a stroll.

All kinds of voices yelling and selling things made Cao Shujie feel a different smell of fireworks in the world.

But most of the people who buy things are middle-aged and elderly people, or women with a half-old child, and there are very few people as young as him.

Cao Shujie didn't talk too much, and went directly to the fresh meat section. When he saw a stall selling beef, mutton, and pork, he went over to ask the price.

"Boss, how do you sell this mutton?" Cao Shujie saw a skinned sheep hanging from one of the stalls, and asked directly.

The owner of the mutton vendor is quite thin, and looks about 50 to [-] years old, unlike the pork vendor next to him, whose fat waist looks like he is wearing a lifebuoy.

"19 yuan and 3 cents a catty." The owner of the mutton vendor stretched out his hand and gestured: "Little brother, you can go to the market and inquire about it. The quality of mine is good and the price is not expensive."

This is not a lie. When Cao Shujie bought mutton in the capital, it cost 24 yuan more per catty.

"Oh, the price is okay, boss, how much is the wool now?" Cao Shujie asked casually.

The owner of the mutton vendor thought that Cao Shujie was a sheep breeder, so he stretched out his hand and gestured a 9, and he became interested: "9 yuan and 2 cents per catty, brother, how many do you have?"

"If there is more, I can give you some more money."

These are all clearly marked market prices, and he is not afraid of Cao Shujie's tricks, so he directly gives the price.

But then I heard Cao Shujie say: "I haven't started raising it yet, but I will have it next year."

"Boss, I want to kill a whole one tomorrow, can you do it?"

"I'll kill you?" The vendor owner understood what Cao Shujie meant, and seeing him nodding, the vendor owner continued, "Which village are you from?"

"Caojiazhuang, Cao Jianguo." Cao Shujie directly reported his father's name.

There is no way, he just came back from the capital for a few months, if he reported his name, some people might not know it.

Sure enough, the other party asked in surprise, "Brother Cao Jianguo who grows kiwifruit in Caojiazhuang?"

"You know my dad?" Cao Shujie was also curious. His dad is quite famous, and he knows quite a few people.

Then I heard the owner of the mutton vendor say: "How can I not know each other, after two months when the kiwi fruit comes down, brother Jianguo will have to set up a stall in the market."

"I didn't buy less from him."

Hearing that there was still such a relationship, Cao Shujie looked at the age of the other party, and then called "Uncle".

He also told Cao Shujie that the sheep to be slaughtered was about 100 catties, but after removing the fur and bones, there would be about 60 catties of meat left. In fact, the price was not less than 200 yuan from buying meat directly.

Cao Shujie still ordered a whole one, and asked the boss named Li Jiagen to slaughter it and send it to his home directly.

"Tomorrow, yes." Li Jiagen readily agreed.

When Cao Shujie wanted to give him a deposit, he was directly scolded by Li Jiagen: "I know your dad so well, wouldn't it be a slap in the face to ask for a deposit?"

"Besides, even if you lie to me, your dad won't be able to escape." Li Jiagen said with a big smile.

Cao Shujie also smiled: "Uncle Li, then I'll go shopping first and buy some other dishes. See you tomorrow."

He went to buy beef, various vegetables, and a large watermelon to feed Mengmeng.

It's late this year, and next spring, he said he wants to grow watermelons himself.

Wait until September to plant some strawberries, and the more than 9 mu of land can be kept forever!
When I got home, I saw an oil drum stove in the yard, and the inside was covered with mud, and the middle was burnt and blackened.

When Mengmeng saw her father came back, she kept looking into the bucket of the electric tricycle. When she saw the watermelon, she was very happy: "Dad, watermelon."

"Look, mom, daddy bought watermelon, haha!" Mengmeng shouted with a smile.

Cheng Xiaolin also saw two big watermelons, but not the mutton. She asked, "Where's the mutton?"

"Don't worry, I told the boss that I will kill one and send it over tomorrow, and it will be stewed then." Cao Shujie said.

When he saw his father Cao Jianguo, he asked him, "Dad, do you know someone named Li Jiagen?"

"That Li Jiagen who sells sheep at the fair? If so, I will know him!" Cao Jianguo asked his son back.

Seeing his son nodding, he asked, "Did you buy it from him?"

"It happened that he was the first one I found. I saw that the price was about the same, so I didn't ask anything else." Cao Shujie said to his father.

Wang Yuelan didn't care about that. Seeing her granddaughter looking at the watermelon all the time, she came over and took out a watermelon from the cart: "Mengmeng, let's go, grandma will cut it for you."

"Mom, put the watermelon in cold water first, it will be soaked by the sun, it's too hot to eat." Cao Shujie told her.

Wang Yuelan turned her head and said, "You don't need to say, I used to eat more watermelons than you."

"You stole melons into our field when you were a child, and I haven't settled with you yet!"

"..." Cao Shujie was speechless, can this choke me?
When Cheng Xiaolin heard her mother-in-law say that, she couldn't hold back on the spot, and burst out laughing.

She never thought that her husband would do such an embarrassing thing!

　Chapter 1, there will be Chapter 2 later, in revision
　　
　
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