Yoshida Mii

Chapter 23 Yuanshui Town

The nearest town to Tagouji where Dongbao is located is Yuanshui Town, and it takes more than half an hour to walk, and the place where Dongbao is sold to work is the city that governs Tagouji, Anzhou City, Anzhou City is far from Tagou It is farther away, and it takes one or two hours to get there even by carriage.

There is not much work in the field right now, but if Mrs. Li wants to drop the work at hand and go to the town, she must have a reason that can be explained to Mrs. Huang, and that is to go to the town to see Dong Bao's uncle.No matter how unreasonable the mother-in-law is, she can't prevent the daughter-in-law from seeing her eldest brother.Although Mrs. Huang was not happy about Mrs. Li going back to her natal family, every time Mrs. Li went to town to see her eldest brother, she would always bring back a gift or two in return, a bag of brown sugar or a bag of sugar dice, which was decent and good-looking, and worth a few dollars. money.

Hearing Mrs. Li said that she was going to the town, Mrs. Huang let out a displeased "Yeah", but couldn't help but habitually run on Mrs. Li, "Your brother is a rich man, and he runs a shop in the town to do business. , for your man's funeral, he will pay you two dongs, is he your brother?"

The Li family couldn't hold back the face of being run on, and lowered his head and pulled Dong Bao out. Dong Bao curled his lips secretly. It was the Song family who died, not the Li family. I only gave a sling of money.Mrs. Huang is unreasonable and unreasonable. Could it be that even Mrs. Li's natal elder brother should be like the scholar's father and die for the Song family?If you have the ability, go to the door of Shan's house and scold.

After leaving the door of the Song family, Dong Bao could clearly feel that Li Shi's footsteps were much lighter than before. Looking at the faces of Huang Shi and the second wife of the Song family all day long in the Song house, Li Shi was sad and depressed. The Song family seemed to have escaped from the shackles and cage.

It was still early and the sun had not yet fully come out. The eastern sky was full of red morning glow. In the field, there were already hard-working farmers wearing bamboo hats and carrying hoes on their shoulders. Many early-maturing rapeseed flowers had already bloomed, dotted with bright yellow stars on the green fields. In the field, it is very beautiful.

When passing a sloping field, Dong Bao noticed that dozens of graves, large and small, had been raised on the sloping land. Mrs. Li stopped by holding Dong Bao's hand, sighed, pointed to a grave in the distance and said, "Baby Son, that's your father's grave, remember? It will be Qingming in a few days, and it's time to visit your father's grave."

The mounds in the distance are many different sizes, overgrown with weeds, and in the mist of the morning, Dong Bao couldn’t tell which one Li was pointing at. Some of the mounds didn’t have steles, while others had steles. The scholar’s ​​father’s The grave should be among the graves with monuments erected. After all, he is a scholar, so the grave should not be too shabby.

Mrs. Li just pointed at him hastily, and dragged Dong Bao forward quickly, as if he didn't want to look more.With such a superb phoenix male husband at the booth, no amount of affection between husband and wife will be wiped out.

After leaving Tagouji, Dongbao said to Mrs. Li: "Mother, let's go shopping in the town and look for the medicine shop to see if we can sell the snake slough, so we won't go to Uncle's house, it doesn't look good empty-handed. "All these years when Mrs. Li went to her uncle's house, she didn't even have a decent gift. The family's money was in Mrs. Huang's hands. It was impossible for Mrs. Huang to give Mrs. Li money to leave her natal relatives. In Mrs. Huang's eyes, her son The daughters-in-law are all from the Song family, so why use the Song family's money to give gifts to the Li family?As for Uncle Li's return gift to Mrs. Li, shouldn't that be taken for granted?

The rich have distant relatives in the mountains, but the poor have no one in the downtown.Mrs. Li came to the door empty-handed, and came back with something, the face of the eldest aunt has long been unsightly, and if she goes again, she will be disgusted by others.

Hearing what Dong Bao said, Mrs. Li felt uncomfortable, and she didn't want to come to see her sister-in-law's face, so go to elder brother's house, it doesn't look good empty-handed, don't go, parents are gone, don't go to elder brother's family again, I'm afraid it will be broken, she really has no family.

"Go to the door of your uncle's shop to see your uncle, and then leave. We won't take things from your uncle's house." Li Shi said, also made up his mind.She accepted the gift from her eldest brother with the cheek to try to curry favor with Huang Shi. Without her son Huang Shi being extremely dissatisfied with her, and taking some brown sugar cakes back, Huang Shi's face towards her would be more or less nice.

This time, Mrs. Li made up her mind to be tough and stop taking things from her eldest brother's house. Anyway, the scholar is dead, so please feel free to scold Mrs. Huang. She will bear it all. As long as Dongbao can grow up safely, she will There is nothing else to think about.

It was the first time for Dong Bao to walk such a long distance since he came to this world. Mrs. Li was used to farm work, and she strode forward with great strides, walking quickly with the wind. Dong Bao reluctantly followed and walked for almost an hour. , Two people entered Yuanshui Town.

Different from the pattern of rural houses where three or five houses and courtyards gather together in Tagou, the houses in Yuanshui Town are all blue brick and tile houses. Although they are not grand, they are bright and tidy. how many times.There are many shops and stalls on the street, selling steamed buns, fried dough sticks, candy snacks, and cloth gouache. This is the time when the market is most crowded, and the streets are very lively.

Fearing that Dongbao would get lost, Li-shi held Dongbao's hand tightly all the time. Dongbao looked at the bustling markets on both sides, a little dizzy. Li-shi thought she had stayed in the country for a long time, seeing such a lively market It's fresh for a while, but I don't know that what Dongbao has been thinking about is how to find a way to earn four or three thousand dollars and pay off the family's foreign debts.

There are many people around this stall, selling sesame seed cakes, Dong Bao watched on tiptoe, then shook his head, the skill of making pancakes is the key, if the taste is not good, business will be difficult to do business, neither she nor Mrs. Li know kang sesame seed cakes, When the craftsmanship is figured out, the day lily is cold.Besides, I don't have the capital to let the two of them grope.

"Want to eat sesame seed cakes?" Seeing that Dong Bao kept looking at the sesame seed cake stall, Mrs. Li asked, feeling a little uncomfortable because she didn't have any money on her body. When Mrs. Huang heard that she was going to the elder brother's house in the town in the morning, she didn't even let her have breakfast. She ate with Dongbao, so she asked them to go out. Dongbao was hungry and wanted to eat sesame seed cakes, but she, a mother, couldn't even buy a sesame seed cake for her daughter.

Dong Bao shook her head, she doesn't want to eat biscuits, she wants to eat meat!The Song family ate coarse grains, not to mention not being full, and there was not even a little bit of oil in the rice.Modern people pay attention to eating whole grains, eating less oil, and keeping healthy. Let them try eating corn porridge for half a month.She only wants to eat meat now, the braised pork that is rich in oil and flavor, and she didn't even want to see it in her previous life!If you don’t have braised pork, big meat buns are also fine.In her previous life, when she ate work meals, she even picked out the fat from the dishes and threw them aside. Now that I think about it, it was a crime!God punished her to suffer in this place because she saw her wasting food!
Seeing her daughter swallowing greedily and saying that she doesn't want to eat, she is really a good and sensible child, and she doesn't make trouble with her even when she is greedy, Li's heart aches, and she pulls Dong Bao forward.

Dongbao walked all the way and looked around, and there were many other things for sale, but he didn't see a stall selling bean sprouts and tofu. Could it be that tofu hasn't appeared in this strange time and space?Thinking of this, Dong Bao's heart beat fast, it's not that bad, there is miso when eating at home, this is soybean paste fermented from soybeans, the technology is mature, soybean paste has come out, it doesn't make sense that tofu hasn't appeared yet .

"Mom, why didn't you see a tofu seller in this episode?" Dong Bao asked.

Mrs. Li smiled, and took Dong Bao's hand and walked forward, "What's the matter, want to eat tofu? Didn't you never eat it before? We don't make tofu here, and the tofu always tastes astringent. I heard that the water in Anzhou is different from the water in other places, and the tofu made is not as good as other places.”

Dong Bao was stunned, she drank the water from this place since she came to this time and space, and she never felt the astringent taste in the water.If the tofu has an astringent taste, it only means that the water quality in this place is hard, and the water contains too many substances that cause the soy milk to flocculate.However, these are not difficult. As long as you master the time and dosage of adding brine or gypsum to the soy milk, you can make smooth and tender tofu.

Don't underestimate the time and dosage of adding brine and gypsum. This is a secret in the handmade tofu workshops in the past.Even the brine for ordering tofu is fermented one after another in the ancestral brine tanks, which has fed generations of people. The secrets hidden in the brine tanks are not disclosed.

Dong Bao and Li Shi first found a pharmacy. A flag with black characters on a white background was hung at the door, with a big word "medicine" written on it, fluttering in the air in the wind.

Entering the pharmacy, the clerk at the door looked Dong Bao and Li Shi up and down. They were obviously countrymen, with shabby clothes and patches piled on top of each other. Someone must be sick and came to get the medicine, so he asked, "Auntie, come to get the medicine." ?”

Mrs. Li was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to answer, so she subconsciously looked at Dongbao.

Dong Bao stood in front of Mrs. Li, shook his head and said with a smile, "Brother, we are not here to fetch medicine, we are here to sell medicinal materials."

The little guy laughed, and looked at Dongbao again. The clothes on this little girl had been worn for many years, and the material was worn out. You could vaguely see the flowered jacket she was wearing inside. medicine?What a surprise.

"What kind of medicinal materials do you sell?" The little man smiled, with a bit of teasing to amuse children.

Dong Bao took out the cloth bag from his bosom, opened it, and the white snake slough, more than one meter long, was displayed in front of the buddy. Not many people know that snake slough can be used as medicine.

"Shopkeeper, come over and have a look, someone is selling snake sloughs!" The boy called the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper was around forty, with a somewhat fat body. Standing in front of the counter, he looked down at Dong Bao and Li Shi. Dong Bao calmly let him look at him and said with a smile to the shopkeeper: "Look, this snake slough is complete. Really, such a long worm is rare here in Anzhou."

The shopkeeper glanced at the snake slough in Dongbao's hand, picked it up and looked at the light for a few times, with a careless and uninterested look.

Dong Bao became nervous at the meeting, not knowing how much the snake slough that carried her hopes could be sold for.

(End of this chapter)