Princess of Nongmen

Chapter 49 Aunt Li's House

Sure enough, as I continued walking, I heard Chun Niu say again: "My family is also poor, so I was married to Li's family to fill in the house for my youngest son. The neighbors don't want to see me, saying that my family is too poor. It looks like the Li family can have enough to eat. So I don't dislike you, I have nothing to talk to you about, okay?"

Only then did Liu Ya understand why Chun Niu didn't follow those older girls and younger daughters-in-law just now.It turned out that they were excluded, and it was also because the family was poor.

Liu Ya pursed her lips and looked at Chun Niu again.I saw that although Chun Niu was quite handsome, her skin was very rough when you looked closely.The waist is not very thin, although he is not fat, but he has thick hands and big feet, and his body is quite strong. He can tell that he has been working a lot.

Liu Ya didn't say "yes", but she didn't directly refuse either.Just said: "You know my family is poor, so I have to be busy working."

"I know, I know." Chun Niu immediately said: "I just think that after you get better, you are different from other girls in the village. I can't talk to anyone from other families, so I just think of a family situation similar to yours. I want to walk around with you. But I didn't say that I talk to you every day, I also have to work."

"That's fine." Liu Ya nodded, but she thought this Chun girl was quite interesting.

And to make friends so carelessly, it seems that the mind is more simple.It's not like those people who love to gossip, talking about other people's faults all day long.

"Here we are." As she spoke, Chun Niu had already brought Liu Ya to a gate.

Although this gate is not as grand as the Wu family's new one, nor is it as polished as the polished tiles, but it still belongs to a wealthy family.Especially the yard is huge, with vegetables growing in the front and back yards, and there are at least six or seven brick houses in a row.

However, Liu Ya heard that the Li family hadn't separated yet, so the brothers lived together.If a family of brothers lives in two rooms, it is not considered a big family.

Chun Niu stood at the door and called out first: "Sister-in-law, the sister of the Liu family is here." Then she pushed the door open, turned around and pulled Liuya and said, "Come in, my sister-in-law is in the east room. Put your things away first, don't let me go." carry it."

Liu Ya is not used to being touched by others, so as soon as Chun Niu stretched out her hand, Liu Ya subconsciously avoided it.However, he didn't just shake his hands away, but looked more polite, and took advantage of the situation to put down the bamboo pole at the door.

Chun Niu was originally a careless and generous woman, so she didn't pay too much attention. She stepped through the threshold first, and then pointed to the last room in the West Room: "My Siping and I live in that room. I'll go back and have a look. "

After finishing speaking, Chunniu lowered her voice again: "My Siping can't hear you."

Hearing this, Liu Ya's thoughts froze slightly.This spring girl is not a bad-hearted girl at first glance, but she is actually quite warm and generous.But it's okay to marry and fill the house, but the husband is still deaf.

Of course, Liu Ya didn't think there was anything wrong with the disabled, but subconsciously felt that this Chun girl was really not easy.

And Chun Niu was about to go back to the house when she saw a middle-aged woman coming out of the east room. She looked quite virtuous and walked slowly, but before she arrived, she smiled first and said to Liu Ya: "Ah, Ya My son. Oh, no, I changed my name to Ya'er when I heard that you were well. Well, the change is quite good, after all, she is not the silly girl she used to be."

Liu Ya knew that this was Li's aunt.He smiled slightly and said, "Hi Aunt Li, I'm here to buy rice." After a pause, he said again: "When I went out in the morning, my father told me to come to Aunt Li to buy a steamed bun and take it with me on the way. Thinking that Aunt Li's house sells steamed buns, they should also sell food. And the steamed buns at Aunt Li's house are fair, and the rice and noodles are not bad."

"Yes, yes, there are." Aunt Li replied with a smile: "My family harvested a lot of food last year, and planted a lot of vegetables in the spring of this year, and now they are all harvested, so there are surplus food and vegetables, and the neighbors in the village are nearby. Come here and buy them all. Ya’er, if you want to buy rice, come in and have a look, the aunt’s house guarantees that there are plenty of rice.”

"Then thank Aunt Li first." Liu Ya said, and entered the warehouse with Aunt Li.

The warehouse of the Li family was quite spacious, the floor was paved with crushed stones, and wooden boards were laid under the grain bags. It seemed that the family was well-off and able to live.

Aunt Li pointed to the two pockets and said: "The big bag is brown rice, the price is the same as Wu's, eight yuan a catty; the small bag is polished rice, which is one penny cheaper than Wu's, twelve yuan a catty. But look at Auntie. The brown rice from our family has fewer shells, and the rice grains are not so broken. It is actually better than the brown rice from Wu’s family, and it is considered cheaper.”

Liu Ya had eaten brown rice porridge before, and the finely broken rice grains were mixed with rice husks. Apart from being cheap, it was actually not worth it.Liu Ya walked directly to the side of the millet bag, squatted down and opened the bag.

"Ya'er, are you going to buy polished rice?" Aunt Li's tone was a bit startled, but she didn't say much, she came over and squatted down, opened the bag of rice for Liu Ya to see, and said: " Look, how plump the rice is. After grinding, I sifted it again, and I almost picked every single one. It’s a penny cheaper, what a deal.”

Liu Ya frowned slightly, in fact, she didn't really like being promoted like this.But looking at the fineness of this rice is really good, it is not the old rice of previous years, and the grains are crystal clear and full.

Liu Ya secretly calculated, brown rice is cheap, only eight cents a catty; while polished rice sounds expensive, at twelve cents a catty, a catty of polished rice can buy a catty and a half of brown rice.But if you think about it carefully, there are a lot of broken rice and rice husks in brown rice, not to mention the taste. If you eat too much of this kind of rice, your stomach will definitely not be good. In the long run, of course, polished rice is cost-effective.

"Aunt Li, let me bring two catties of polished rice. Besides, what fresh vegetables do we have at home? How do we sell them?" Liu Ya counted the money in her pocket, and if she could buy rice, it was enough to buy vegetables.Especially when the business opened on the first day, she wanted to celebrate it.

Unexpectedly, Aunt Li was stunned after hearing Liu Ya's words, she didn't move for a long time, but looked Liu Ya up and down.

"What's wrong? Aunt Li, we don't have food at home? Forget it, just weigh two catties of polished rice for me." For a while, Liu Ya was only thinking about what to cook at home at night and how to celebrate, without paying attention to Aunt Li's expression , thought she didn't answer because she had no food to sell.

Aunt Li then said: "There are also vegetables. The small rapeseed I just picked this morning is very tender. But it costs four pennies a catty, which is one penny more expensive than cabbage."

"Well, do you have any potatoes? How much is it?" Liu Ya thought about cooking rapeseed with potatoes.Their family has been eating wild vegetables for several days, and the best vegetable is half a cabbage. It would be nice to have some rapeseed, so I asked by the way.

This time, Aunt Li didn't speak again.

(End of this chapter)