In the famine year, the group pet cubs awakened to farm in Shanhaijing

Chapter 21

The streets in the town are paved with stone slabs, but they are actually very narrow and not spacious.

On the longest street, the three of them walked side by side without any gaps. Cheng Miaomiao walked close to Ye Ning along the way, keeping his eyes on the houses and shops on both sides of the road.

These shops are all built of wood, only one story high, and covered with tiles.

Those who hang a pretense in front of the door are shopkeepers, and the town is very lively in the early morning, with shouts everywhere:
"Big buns! Hot buns just out of the oven!"

"Sugar cake, sweet sugar cake!"

"Selling wontons, the broth made from pure old hens!"

……

Cheng Miaomiao asked curiously, "Aniang, what is a sugar cake?"

Sugar cake is a cake made of flour and sugar. It is very crispy, and sugar water will flow out after one bite, but the price is not cheap.Not to mention it's a bad year and the price of food has become higher.

Cheng Miaomiao was a little dazzled by the things in the town alone.

For the few pennies she exchanged from Dr. Zeng, she couldn't even afford a piece of candy in the town!
She was hit hard immediately.

Ye Ning led her into a shop with the words "Zhuang's Cloth Shop" written on the cover, which Cheng Miaomiao couldn't recognize because she was still illiterate, but this did not prevent her eyes from falling on the dazzling array of cloth in the hall.

Sitting at the counter of the cloth shop was a woman with a round face and a white and round face. She was persistently fanning the round fan slowly.

Seeing Ye Ning, she stood up and said with a smile: "Xiao Ye, you haven't been here for a long time, are you busy with the farming these days?"

"Sister Lao Zhuang is thinking about it. The child has been sick for the past few days and has not been able to come."

Ye Ning explained with a smile, lowered his head and touched Cheng Miaomiao's head, and said, "Miaomiao, this is Aunt Zhuang."

"Hello, Aunt Zhuang," Cheng Miaomiao looked up at her and called out obediently, revealing two sweet dimples, "Auntie, you are so beautiful, you look just like a fairy in the sky."

During this period of time, she drank a bowl of egg syrup every day, and ate nuts and wild fruits on the mountain, her complexion has gradually improved.

There is no flesh on the small face, but the round eyes are really lively.

Sister Zhuang covered her face with a round fan and giggled.

It can be seen that she is very happy: "Oh, look at what you said, she is really a cute and clever little girl."

Hearing this, Cheng Miaomiao laughed lightly.

Nodding vigorously, she proudly said, "I also think I'm really cute and clever."

Sister Zhuang was overjoyed immediately.

Ye Ning laughed dumbly, and dumped all the tassels in the cloth bag on the counter: "Sister Zhuang, these are the tassels I made during this period, and I also made two new patterns and brought them together."

Sister Zhuang flipped through it, and the new pattern she made up was as good-looking as ever.

"Then we still follow the old rules?"

"Well, please ask sister Zhuang to save the money for selling patterns for me for the time being. I'll just take the money for tassel weaving."

"A tassel is two taels, and a new pattern is two taels," Sister Zhuang counted with her slender fingers on the abacus, "then it is four taels and forty taels in total, and I will give you forty taels first. "

……Um?

Cheng Miaomiao tilted her head, a little bit of confusion appeared in her eyes, and suddenly realized after a while——

Oh, Auntie has saved money from her own house at Aunt Zhuang's place!
In this way, Mrs. Zhao will not know!
Well, so smart!

Cheng Miaomiao immediately hugged Ye Ning's arm, looked at her with admiration, and boasted without hesitation: "Mother, you are really amazing!"

Ye Ning didn't know what she thought of, her eyes were so bright suddenly, but she was still hit by her daughter's soft and trusting eyes, she pinched her face with a smile, and asked, "Really? "

Cheng Miaomiao nodded: "Yes!"

"Your daughter is really well-behaved, much better than that naughty brat in my family."

Sister Zhuang looked a little envious, and handed her two strings of copper coins.

Ye Ning took the money, shook his head amusedly, and said, "She just looks good. She spends all day on the mountain so that I can't see anyone. Such a young child dares to wander around on the mountain."

Cheng Miaomiao retorted: "I'm not fooling around!"

As she spoke, she reached out and took out a half-palm-sized paper bag from the cloth bag, and urged Ye Ning to put it on the counter, saying: "The paper bag contains crushed mint, chrysanthemums and bamboo leaves, which can be cooked in summer." Drink it as herbal tea, calm down and relieve the fire."

"I ground it myself at Dr. Zeng's and gave it to Aunt Zhuang."

The child's voice sounds soft, sweet and obedient.

Very good, really good.

Sister Zhuang was overwhelmed by the flattery, and she thanked her repeatedly, and it was good to be thinking about having a daughter when everyone was gone.

...

Cheng Miaomiao stepped on the stone slab with great interest.

The straw sandals on her feet made a rattling sound when they stepped on the ground because they were too hard. She found that the stone slabs were very clean, and even if she stepped on them without shoes, her feet would not be dirty, unlike at home where the soles of the feet are often covered with mud.

Human beings are really troublesome, Cheng Miaomiao thought, she will also lay a floor at home in the future, so that she can step on the ground barefoot!

When the two returned to the booth, they saw Qian's blushing and thick neck, bargaining with an old woman carrying a basket.

"Auntie, eggs cost two cents a piece, they are homemade eggs!"

"Look at the egg in my hand. It's round and white. Have you ever seen an egg like this? Even the magistrate can't eat such an egg. It's cheap if I sell it for three Wen. You want two for three Wen?" Ass eat!"

(End of this chapter)