Tuan Chong is five and a half years old and started his fortune from farming.

Chapter 20 Reciprocity

Brown sugar, cumin, star anise, cinnamon, and chili pepper are all common and the price is within the affordable range.

But there were a few spices that were so expensive that Fubao could only sigh in despair and give up for the time being.

After walking out of the grocery store, my mother only had thirty copper coins left in her purse.

There were more than ten kilograms of spices in the basket on her back. Thinking that this would be the most important thing for her family to turn around, Mrs. Liu's heart beat like a drum and she was very nervous.

"Mom, let's go to the butcher's shop."

Fu Bao shook his mother's hand and signaled her not to be nervous.

"Hey."

Mrs. Liu came to her senses and held her daughter's hand tightly.

By the way, pigs go into the water!

"Mom, let's just say for the time being that the big yellow dog in our village has given birth to a litter of puppies. That family asked us to take in a few more pigs and keep it secret for as long as we can."

"Okay, that's what you say."

The mother and daughter exchanged words with each other and were not afraid of cheating for the time being.

Sure enough, when they came to the butcher shop where they bought meat yesterday, the butcher recognized them. Mrs. Liu asked for two pieces of pork liver, and then asked sheepishly if he could give her some, saying that there was a neighbor's big yellow dog in the village. A puppy was born~
  The butcher has no doubt that he is there. These days, pigs are given away and no one wants them!
  That thing was so pickled that only a dog could eat it.

In order to keep the customers coming back next time, the butcher couldn't help but give the mother and daughter three sets of pig guts from his stall. He also asked them to wait for a while before going to a nearby butcher shop to ask for pig guts.

Well, after asking, I found out that the nearby meat stall and the butcher uncle are all related!
  Fubao rolled his eyes, smiled at the uncle, and said sweetly:
  "Uncle, thank you. My grandma is thinking about something delicious. When I come up with it, I will give it to you to try."

"Hahaha, okay little one, if your milk comes out, you can bring it to uncle to taste~"

The butcher happily responded, being friendly and making money, and being courteous~
  He just likes this little girl’s temperament, it’s better than someone who just takes advantage~
  Mrs. Liu thanked her profusely, took out the sack prepared in the bamboo basket, and put the pig into the water.

The pig's liver was not heavy, and it was wrapped tightly with tree leaves, and Mrs. Liu put it in the basket.

After paying the money, Mrs. Liu pulled her daughter away with some guilt.

The butcher didn’t take it seriously and continued to greet other customers~
  After walking out of the meat market, Fubao was happy and worried. When he saw the veins popping up on his mother's slender wrists, he suggested:

"Mom, I didn't expect that uncle to be so honest. He gave us a dozen pigs to drink. They are too heavy for us to take home. We should hire an ox cart."

"it is good."

Mrs. Liu bought two pieces of pork liver for ten copper coins.

I still have 20 copper coins left on me, and riding the bullock cart will cost about two or three coins. Although I feel a little distressed, when I think of four copper coins for a bowl of braised vegetables, and such a sack of pig waste, how many coins will it cost if it is made into braised vegetables? Copper coins!

Take a car, but you are not allowed to take a car.

The mother and daughter were also very lucky. After walking a few hundred meters, they saw an ox cart pulling people.

However, their sacks did stink, so after discussion, they spent four copper coins on travel expenses.

The grandfather who drove the bus said that if he didn't see the mother and daughter as pitiful, he wouldn't buy them at such a cheap price.

Mrs. Liu apologized, it was true, she had nothing to refute.

Fu Bao curled his lips, this old man is really verbose.

Maybe it was because he was too verbose, so no villagers were willing to ride in his car.

However, she only asked for four copper coins to drag her mother and daughter into the water with a bag of smelly pigs. What else could she say? Sir, please continue, I will treat you as if you don’t exist~
  Returning to Dahe Village, at this point in time, the villagers were either busy digging wild vegetables, hunting pigweed, or washing and scrubbing. When the mother and daughter came back, they hardly attracted much attention.

Someone saw it and smelled the smell of pig shit as soon as they got close, yue~
  It's easier to hide and run away.

Just when Fu Bao, mother and daughter, finally dragged their sacks home, the courtyard door of Lao Zhang's house next door was pushed open.

A fat body squeezed out, stretched out his head, and waved, as if he wanted to coax Fu Bao.

"Little Fubao, come here and tell Auntie, where did you and your mother go? What good things did you buy back home?"

This person is Xiaohua's mother, Mrs. Bao.

Fu Bao would not pass. Not only would he not pass, he would also shout very loudly - "Ms. Bao, there are vegetable leaves on your teeth."

"What?"

Mr. Bao pursed his lips, added teeth, and then dug his teeth directly with his hands.

No, except for the smell, where are the vegetable leaves?

Just when she was about to ask Fu Bao again, she didn't expect that the other party made a face at her and ran home in a hurry!

"you--"

Mrs. Bao realized that she had been tricked by the little girl and was about to scold her when she was glared at by Mrs. Xu from the house next door.

Get scared, get scared in a second.

"Bang~"

Old Mrs. Xu closed the courtyard door with a gloomy face.

When he turns around again, he is extremely kind~
  Mr. Bao spat, not daring to confront the old man head-on.

Alas, it will be difficult for her to take advantage of the neighbor next door while this old thing is still alive!

In Fubao's house, mother and daughter came back by bullock cart, but they didn't suffer much.

Mrs. Xu poured hot water for her daughter-in-law and granddaughter to drink. After asking about the situation, her heart dropped.

"You two have a good rest, I'll take care of it when the pig gets into the water."

"How can this be done? It's too much, mother. I'll help you do it together. You can do it alone. We don't even want to eat lunch."

"You need to train your hands for embroidery. Where can you do such a job?"

"Mom, it's okay to embroider. I'll wash my hands when the time comes. I'll embroider after I've washed it. It won't be a problem."

"Yes~"

"Mom, I am your daughter-in-law. How can your mother-in-law be tired and your daughter-in-law not work? What is that like?"

"Okay, okay, it's up to you."

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have discussed it carefully and have never been embarrassed in several years.

Precisely because of the harmony between their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Fubao and his stinky brother have always been surrounded by love and grown up~
  Now, there is another Song Yu.

Behind the window sill, Song Yu listened to the noise and copied the book with peace of mind.
  Yesterday, Mrs. Xu washed the pigs and went into the water. Old Xu was very familiar with the road.

Mr. Liu is very clever, not only good at embroidery, but also good at cooking.

When dealing with pig waste, you will know how to deal with it after watching it for a while.

This is a delicate job, and it requires cleaning the dirt, plant ashes, and pickled cabbage water several times.

Clean water, filtered countless times.

It took two hours, including missing lunch, for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to finish handling these dozen pigs.

The cleaned pigs were put into the water and soaked in the big bucket, and they were as white as snow.

Fu Bao was not idle either. She prepared several packets of marinade, wrapped them in gauze, tied them up, and put them in the cupboard. She hid the remaining spices, just in case, and locked them up.

Old Mrs. Xu has eaten more salt than Fu Bao has walked, so she naturally understands what her granddaughter is thinking.

At the same time, she asked her granddaughter, after picking up the marinated buns, can they be used again?

If not, will it be destroyed?

The grandfather and grandson are each smarter than the other, and everything is hidden.

(End of this chapter)