Fertile land

Chapter 39

"Brother Li, I've kept you waiting..." Li Sanmao looked up and saw Luo Zhi'er being brought in by shopkeeper Zhu...

His eyes relaxed: "Haha, it's okay, it should be!"

He rubbed his hands obediently, thinking that if he didn't come back, he would rush out to look for her...

Shopkeeper Zhu looked at him funny, "Brother Li, you are so discerning and you have married a good wife."

Li Sanmao's face turned red after being praised, like a little daughter-in-law.
"Shopkeeper Zhu also has good taste, I think so too..."

After casually chatting for a few words and saying goodbye, Shopkeeper Zhu sent them to the gate and said, "Ms. Luo, Brother Li, please go slowly. We'll see you in two days!"

"You're welcome! Shopkeeper Zhu, please go back and do your work."

"it is good!"

Li Sanmao, carrying a basket on his back, looked at Shopkeeper Zhu's back in confusion and wondered, why does Shopkeeper Zhu have such a good attitude towards them?
Did you say goodbye in two days?
"Daughter-in-law, what on earth is going on?"

He found that the jar of gallbladder oil she was holding was gone too...

"Daughter-in-law, where is the jar?"

I'm afraid my mother will scold her again if the jar is lost... Luo Zhi'er winked at him mischievously, "What do you think?"

"Could it be..."

"Haha, husband, look at how stupid you are, what do you think this is?"

Luo Zhi'er looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to them, so she playfully took out the money bag and waved it in front of his eyes...

"What? This is..."

Luo Zhi'er's eyes sparkled, "Hey, you guessed it right, that thing was sold, and the price is pretty good!"

"Haha, that's great, my wife is amazing!"

Li Sanmao said happily, he was happy, but the basket of dried bacon he carried had not been sold yet!

"Of course, if Ben Zhi'er comes forward, is there anything else that can't be done?"

Li Sanmao looked at her with a smile, noncommittal, but as a grown man, he still felt a little embarrassed...

"Let's go, treat you to a big meal!"

"Ah... no need, wife. You have to pay for this money when you get back. If your parents find out that you spent it, you will be scolded!"

His original intention was that it was not easy for Zhi'er to make money, so she should keep it for herself and not spend it on him, but then he thought about having to pay for it when she went home...

Luo Zhi'er didn't expect that Li Sanmao would say this after a long time.

She knows it's true...

But she felt uncomfortable in her heart and secretly touched the folded banknotes in her arms. It seemed that her decision was right.

Before leaving, he asked Shopkeeper Zhu to give him one tael of silver in change. The rest were just banknotes, so it was better not to tell him that he had money on him.

"It's okay, sir, here's the money from selling chicken fungus oil. This is the reward from selling shredded bamboo shoots and the shopkeeper. It's okay for us to have a big bowl of wontons..."

"OK then!"

Li Sanmao was limping with a basket on his back, Luo Zhi'er's fat back was shaking when seen from a distance, and the two of them walked towards the snack street...

At the window of the master's room on the second floor of Yuman Building, a man put down the piece of paper with a marketing strategy written on it, and followed them away with his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking...

The two of them walked to a well-decorated wonton shop, where the waiter saw that they were shabby and didn't do much to entertain them...

Luo Zhi'er walked in boldly, fearing that he was also a part-time worker. Li Sanmao paused for a moment to find a place to put his backpack...

She ordered him a large bowl of Chaos, fried peanuts, scrambled eggs with chives, and mapo tofu, and then ordered a bowl of vegetable soup for herself.

She still cares about appearance. After all, although she came from a rural family...

At first, only her grandma was with her at home, and then she was the only one left at home, but she was still the school beauty, and now she has become a fat woman, being bitten by others...

Ignorant fat woman...unruly fat woman...fat hoofs...fat woman's cries were really embarrassing to her.

When she doesn't feel particularly hungry, it's better to eat as little as possible...

Li Sanmao sat down and saw wontons, three dishes and one soup on the table. Then he saw his wife chewing her food carefully, filling a small bowl of soup in a formal manner and sipping...

He didn't eat anything else and gave her a chopstick of eggs with a smile.

"Eat more, wife!"

"Oh!"

Luo Zhi'er saw that he didn't have any other expression of displeasure because of her order, and wondered if she was overthinking it just now?
He squinted his eyes, looked at the eggs in the bowl and swallowed his saliva, but couldn't help but pick it up and eat it in one bite...

"good to eat!"

"Miao Miao's father, you are the stumbling block on my way to lose weight... If I can't lose weight, are you asking..."

Li Sanmao saw that she was fuming and wanted to say something. He saw that his wife was chewing her soup carefully and slowly, like a rich lady. She looked quite good-looking, so she kept silent...

"Tell me honestly, are you afraid that if I lose weight and become prettier, I will run away and not want you?"

Li Sanmao was sweating!
"Daughter-in-law, you are thinking too much. I am just worried that you will be hungry and faint on the way... We still have six or seven miles to go!"

"Humph!"

"Of course... I naturally don't want you to run away. You are my wife and Miao Miao's mother. You can't leave me and my father alone and run away."

Luo Zhi'er then took two sips of the soup, "That's not necessarily the case. If you don't treat me and my mother well, just wait, hum!"

Li Sanmao shook his head seriously... "I promise not."

After Luo Zhi'er finished joking, she mentioned to him that he would have to deliver goods every week from now on.

"deliver goods?"

Li Sanmao frowned. He originally thought that it would be over once he sold this. If he wanted to deliver the goods again, the family might not want her to run to the street too much... He was worried that she would be disappointed and unhappy...

Luo Zhi'er told him that together with the deposit, the items on the altar today totaled 15 taels of silver.

"Ten...15 taels?"

Li Sanmao's jaw almost dropped in shock. He had been busy all morning and sold a piece of meat, but it was his wife who sold it. She got 15 taels at once?

"Zhi'er, you..."

He didn't know what to say for a moment... Looking at his idiotic look, Luo Zhi'er shrugged indifferently,

"What's the deal? This fir fungus oil is so delicious. They will buy it after they taste it..."

Although she knew that at first they regarded her as a fraudster... similar to those who engage in pyramid schemes in modern times...

"Husband, it would be great if we could come to a restaurant and eat whatever we want, live in a big house, have our own business, and not be controlled by others!"

Seeing his daughter-in-law talking freely, looking forward to the future...dreaming about the days to come, he felt a little unfamiliar with her.

She exuded a faint light, as dazzling as the sun. He had always known how good she was, but he didn't know she was so good...

Did she hide all of herself before?

He doesn't believe her?
It was him, his family that bound her...

After coming out, Li Sanmao didn't say anything the whole way. These 15 taels were earned by Zhi'er, but they had to be handed over to his parents when he got home.

If it were the other daughter-in-law, she would have been unhappy a long time ago. She didn’t seem to have any reaction and was full of curiosity about everything around her...

After walking for a while, Luo Zhi'er stopped at a stall selling knives, "Boss, how do you sell this razor?"

This razor is like a knife with a wooden handle...

"Haha, little lady, can you buy it for your man?"

"Here, it's twenty cents. If you want it, I'll sell it to you for eighteen cents!"

"Okay, boss, I want this one!"

Luo Zhi'er paid him eighteen coins and gave the razor to Li Sanmao.

Li Sanmao was stunned: "Daughter-in-law, why did you buy this for me? I can just use the wood-cutting knife at home to scrape it..."

"This is the best woodcutter. This is a gift from me. Use this next time!"

"Hey!" This time he learned the lesson and didn't refuse to talk nonsense anymore.

He must keep it well and put it in his arms carefully, with a warm heart...

Luo Zhi'er saw that Li Sanmao was thick and unshaven. He was carrying a backpack like a bear. He was still limping. He didn't have time to shave after walking in the morning...

Li Sanmao saw his wife leaving in front of her and quickly caught up and said,

"Miaomiao, mother, it's still early. You and I can go to the drug store to find a doctor to nurse you back to health..."

I guess I have to walk back to the village later...

Her body was damaged last time and she wasn't very good at it. She fainted every now and then. He still had some money on him, which should be enough...

Luo Zhi'er was secretly happy. She had just wanted to go and see if she could sell the bird's nests and water dragon bones!

Target Pharmacy…

The two of them walked around and looked at...

Luo Zhi'er saw that there was a little girl's hair flower for sale on the roadside. It was very pink and pretty. She negotiated a price and bought two pairs for five cents, one pair for Liu Liu and one pair for Miao Miao.

Then I saw that there were also toys for little boys on sale. I thought that Yunliang Muqing was going to study, so I bought a writing brush, a rice paper exercise book, and a bottle of ink for each of them, which cost a total of fifteen cents. .

Sure enough, the thing to study is expensive...

Li Sanmao watched his wife buy it, but said nothing...

After shopping, Li Sanmao led the way and walked along Yong'an Street for half a quarter of an hour to Jiujiu Pharmacy.

As soon as we entered, it was still noisy, with people getting medicine, people queuing up for medical treatment, people waiting, people who had no money for medical treatment and begging for help, people with painful expressions on their faces, crowded...

Looking at the situation inside, she was a little discouraged.

I couldn't help but sigh, no matter how miserable you are, only when you go to this drug store do you know the real suffering in the world, and you immediately feel that it's great that you can live a healthy life...

Li Sanmao was limping through it while carrying a basket on his back. He accidentally bumped into someone again with the basket on his back...

A person who looked like a waiter quickly came over and shouted to them: "Line up! Line up!!! Can't you see?"

"Haha, I'm sorry, little brother, we just came in and haven't figured out the way yet..."

The waiter looked at him and said,

"Brother, come in as soon as you come in, why are you still carrying a basket on your back..."

"Don't you look at how big our shop is? It's crowded with people. Aren't you adding to the chaos?"

Li Sanmao looked embarrassed, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, I just came with my wife to see the doctor..."

"Seeing a doctor? Who of the people here are not seeing a doctor? Look at who is carrying a basket like you? What if someone gets injured and gets hit by you?"

Luo Zhi hurriedly said, "What the second brother said is true, but my husband can't leave the backpack outside. It's full of meat. It's not good to lose it!"

The waiter's doubtful eyes wandered between Luo Zhi'er and him?
"Are you his wife?"

Incredible expression in eyes...

"Oh, exactly!"

He yelled at Li Sanmao, "Then you go outside and wait. Don't worry, your wife's physique won't be lost. She will come out naturally after watching this..."

"Otherwise, you would be blocking the road just by yourself, and with your fat wife, who is so tonnage, it would take up several places!"

Luo Zhi'er instantly felt many eyes wandering up and down her body, feeling a little embarrassed...

"Are they still passing by? Everyone is very anxious and want to see a doctor and get medicine as soon as possible!"

"That's right, you kid, get out quickly. My old lady is waiting for me outside! I can't hold on, hurry up, my stomach hurts like crazy!"

An older man, sweating and out of breath, covered his stomach and said...

There is also an old lady next to her, being supported by her family, waiting!
"All right!"

Li Sanmao looked at Luo Zhi'er apologetically, with pious eyes...

"Daughter-in-law, I'm out...you take care of yourself..."

"It's okay, just go ahead! I can do it!"

Luo Zhi'er patted her chest, why not just line up by herself...

(End of this chapter)