90s Little Struggle

Chapter 49 Chicken Soup
After three o'clock in the afternoon, another old customer came to the door, sniffing the smell in the store, seeing the braised chicken that was still smoking, and shouting excitedly: "Give me half a chicken, you didn't say it earlier, it's me!" The neighbor came to buy it in the morning, and I didn’t know that you still have braised chicken.”

"Okay! Grandpa, wait a moment!" Xiao Hong hurriedly cut half a chicken for him, and after he chose it, wrapped half of the chicken in lotus leaves, put it in a basket, picked up the scale and weighed it for him: "Three Six taels per catty, except for the two catties of the basket, the chicken is six taels per catty, two yuan per catty, and the total is three yuan and two taels.”

"Tsk tsk, this is too expensive." The uncle thought it was too expensive, but he took out the money honestly and handed the lunch box to her: "I am a regular customer of your family, where are your parents? I bought it from them." When I was there, they would give me some soup."

His father was greedy for cheap, and bought other people's urgent lo-mei. The price was cheaper than this one, and the taste was worse than his one, so he finally settled on theirs.

"Master, I'll give you a spoonful of soup." Xiao Hong spooned him a full spoonful of soup: "My parents are off to pick lotus leaves."

There are not many plastic bags now, and the price is also expensive.

Most of them use straw, oiled paper, net bags, and cloth bags to hold various items, which can be recycled.

And lotus leaves are even more useful.

Pick it now and you can wrap it with marinated chicken and meat, and you can also wrap it after it is dried, and it can add a lot of lotus leaf fragrance.

There are lotus leaves growing in many ponds near Houzhai Town, so they looked for ponds where they were going to dig lotus roots, and they could pick a lot of lotus leaves for some money.

After that, some customers came to buy braised meat one after another, and some came to eat dumplings and wontons, but there were not as many customers as in the morning.

Seeing that it was already 06:30 in the evening, there was still half a stewed pig head and a plate of dumpling stuffing left, so Zhao Laosi sent it to the refrigerator of Liu Qiang, who sells pork.

Yanyan looked at her mother and her two older sisters expectantly: "When will our family buy a refrigerator?"

The latter sentence can hardly hide the nature of foodies: "If you have a refrigerator, you can freeze popsicles and eat them yourself, and soda and watermelon are also more delicious when frozen."

"You little greedy cat, you just know how to eat!" Wu Julan scolded with a smile, "The refrigerator is very expensive, and it will take a few years for us to buy it."

"We have earned money, so we can buy it next year." Xiao Hong also felt that it was too inconvenient to not have a refrigerator: "We sell lo-mei, and refrigerators are indispensable. We can't always borrow others."

Xiao Fang also echoed: "And with a refrigerator, you can make more lo-mei, so you don't have to worry about it going bad after night."

Wu Julan agreed when she heard it, but when she thought of the refrigerator costing thousands of dollars, she felt distressed like cutting flesh, so she simply said: "It's almost autumn now, let's wait until next summer?"

Yanyan was not disappointed either. Hearing the voice from the Huang's TV next door, her soul seemed to be hooked away: "Mom, shall I go to Aunt Huang's house to watch TV?"

"Okay, let's go!" There are many houses in the town with TV sets, especially since they are all shopkeepers, at least half of the houses have TV sets.

Before Wu Julan finished speaking, Yanyan flew out like a real swallow.

She smiled helplessly, looked at her two daughters who were still helping her clean up the kitchen, and said softly, "You guys also watch TV, and you will be neighbors from now on, so don't be embarrassed."

Now it is really common for neighbors to drop by with bowls.

Xiao Fang smiled slightly: "I don't like watching TV, I'll read a book later."

Xiao Hong also refused: "I want to take a bath and wash my hair."

She didn't want to be in the food business before, because braised meat, burning fires, etc., could easily taint the smell on her body.

Anyway, after listening to it in the kitchen today, she felt like a delicious suckling pig.

If she doesn't take a bath, she will never sleep.

"You like to be clean." Although Wu Julan said so, she hurried to see if there was hot water in the kettle on the stove.

"By the way, Mom." Xiao Hong finally found the opportunity, approached her and asked in a low voice, "Do you have any toilet paper? Get me a pack."

Now in the big cities, there are already two corners of Anle sanitary napkins, but in the countryside, you can't see this kind of thing.

Xiao Hong had asked the supply and marketing agency in private before, and they also said that there was no stock.

Now everyone usually uses the very rough square straw paper, and during the special period of women, they use rolls of toilet paper and sanitary belts with particularly good water absorption.

Now she desperately wants to go to the city to buy some supplies that can make her feel better.

"Yes, you can get it yourself, it's in the drawer." Wu Julan told her in a low voice after speaking, "If that comes, can you wash your hair and take a bath with cold water?"

"Got it." Xiao Hong asked unintentionally, "Mom, when did you come last time?"

But Wu Julan obviously didn't understand the implication of her daughter's words: "After I gave birth to Yanyan and got the ring, it became abnormal, and sometimes it took two months."

Not only was she not worried, but she was also looking forward to that coming later, it was best not to come, so as not to be inconvenient for those few days.

Seeing her happy face, Xiao Hong was about to die of depression.

What can she do?
You can't say you're pregnant when you see how she hasn't puffed up yet.

Or, when her stomach grows bigger, will she still think she is fat?
Thinking of this, Xiao Hong bit her lower lip, held back her smile, turned around and went upstairs to pack her clothes and prepare to take a shower.

After buying this new house, Xiao Hong is most satisfied with the fact that there are squatting pits and showers on the upper and lower floors.

When she returned to her room after taking a shower and rubbing her hair with a dry towel, she saw Xiao Fang's door was open and she was still working hard at the desk.

She walked in and said lazily: "It's been a busy day today, so you should go take a shower and go to bed early."

Xiao Fang didn't raise her head: "Okay, I'll make another paper later."

Xiao Hong really admired her: "I think you really love studying, don't you feel tired?"

"Not tired, the knowledge you have learned belongs to you." Xiao Fang then turned to look at her, and said seriously: "Study is much easier than going to work in the fields. Now we can have such good learning conditions. , we don’t want to let us down, it’s great to be able to broaden our horizons when we go to college.”

Xiao Hong could only nod.

Well, it's also thanks to my own sister, who pours chicken soup for my soul from time to time, and wants to work hard on myself.

She said, "Let's take some time to go to the city to buy a tape recorder? Buy some English tapes, and you can improve your English."

In Zhacun, it is useless to buy this thing, because there is no electricity at home.

She thought the battery-operated tape recorder was too bulky.

Xiao Fang was a little moved, but also a little worried: "That will cost a lot of money, right? Or we can borrow Xinning's tape recorder to use it."

"No, it's more convenient for me." The last thing Xiao Hong wanted was to get too close to Xu's family.

Putting myself in the shoes of Xu Xinning, if Xu Xinning was her son, she would not be happy to see him secretly borrowing money and valuable things to delay his own studies in order to fall in love.

(End of this chapter)