Bamboo Fragrance

Chapter 56
After wrapping the prepared hawthorn rolls and fruit skins in oil, they were divided into two baskets, and the small scales borrowed from Chen Baisheng's family were pressed on the blue background.

After it was done, Li Kongzhu and Mai Ya'er sat on each other's shoulders and waited in the house for Zhao Mengzi to go to Uncle Zhao's house to rent the ox cart back.

Mai Ya'er helped Li Kongzhu wrap his head with the thick fur brought from home, and when only two eyes were left, he let go of his hands.

Li Kongzhu pulled his somewhat strangled neck, and said that he had to drink water.Then he was pulled down by Maiyaer again, "You take a couple of sips first, as long as you are not thirsty, don't drink too much. Otherwise, you will go to the county later and talk for two hours, and you can't find anything if you need to pee on the way. On the way."

In the snowy sky, there are open fields everywhere, and there is not even a crop to cover it.If you rush to urinate everywhere, and happen to be seen by outsiders, I'm afraid it's a reputation or something, and you won't be guaranteed!
Li Kongzhu glanced at her speechlessly, opened the door, and prepared to pour a cup of hot drink on the stove in the hut.

As soon as the door was opened, the fierce north wind blew in head-on.It's not yet dawn, and it's the coldest time outside, and the breath on the eyelashes can be frozen into ice slag immediately, which really makes people who go out feel a lot of fear.

Go to the hut and get a bowl and pour a cup of hot boiled water.

Seeing that Zhao Junyi was giving Cui Jiu another arm, he asked him: "Is ginseng all I need in the house? Do I need some other medicine?"

Zhao Junyi raised his eyes to look at her, saw her pouting her bright red mouth, puffing her cheeks gently blowing on the scalding boiling water in the bowl, she moved her eyes uncomfortably.

"No need, the medicine prescribed by the doctor last time is fine!"

"Yeah!" Li Kongzhu nodded while sipping the cooler water.

After drinking almost, I put the bowl away.

Zhao Mengzi, who was sewing outside, also came by ox cart, and asked Mai Ya'er to help open the door.

Li Diaozhu wrapped the surrounding leather tightly.Confess to Zhao Junyi, "Well, if it sells well today, I might be able to come back in the evening. If it doesn't sell well, I'm afraid I'll have to stay in the county for one night! I warmed the steamed buns and porridge in the morning. .If I finish eating, I will come back tomorrow. I have already said hello to Second Aunt and Aunt Wang. Then you just need to scoop up enough rice and bring it to them for a joint meal!"

Zhao Junyi looked at her face with only a pair of cut pupils, and listened to her chattering instructions.I don't know what it feels like, but there is a hint of warmth in my heart.

Seeing that she was about to say something, he quickly responded in a low voice, "Yes! I understand! You should be careful when you go!"

Li Kongzhu wanted to ask him if there was anything else he wanted to buy or explain, but he cut off the conversation and came to tell him.

"I know, with Ya'er and his wife around, it shouldn't be a big deal!" Li Kongzhu followed him back, thinking that he was just a cold lover, and would never say anything if he really wanted to.When the time comes to sell the money, it's better to buy some necessities by yourself and come back!

Li Kongzhu didn't know that she and Zhao Junyi were chatting like that now, they were almost like that ordinary couple, and they completely lost the indifferent and indifferent mentality of living together when they first married.

Zhao Junyi saw her leave the house.He let go of Cui Jiu's hand.After thinking about it, he got up, followed behind her, and walked outside.

When Li Diaozhu came out, he happened to meet Mai Ya'er, who was holding a basket and opened the courtyard gate, ready to get into the car.

Xunyan glanced at the wooden sledge cart, thought for a while, returned to the main house, and came out with a quilt in his arms.

Seeing this, Mai Ya'er, who got into the car, quickly reached out to take it.When she also got into the car, she opened the quilt and wrapped it around the lower half of the two of them.

After finishing it, Li Kongzhu turned his head and waved at Zhao Junyi, "Head of the house! Close the door, let's go!"

The man watched silently without making a sound.

After Zhao Mengzi heard what was said later, he waved the bullwhip, and the bull pulled up the sledge and began to slide.

Looking at the few people who were drifting away, for the first time, the man did not follow her.I couldn't tell what it was like in my heart, but my face became more and more cold...

Here, Li Diaozhu and the others headed towards the county seat against the howling north wind.

Along the way, it was exactly as Mai Yaer said, the flat plains were full of white snow and the north wind sweeping people's faces.

The early stage was fine, but after an hour, the two women in the car couldn't stand it any longer.

After thinking about it, he untied the quilt that bound his legs, and put it all over his body.Even Zhao Mengzi, who was driving the car and wearing a leather jacket, couldn't help shivering, which showed how cold the weather was.

At a moment's notice, the group finally arrived at the gate of the county seat.

Compared with the ring town, there are guards at the gate of the county town as soldiers.And if foreigners want to enter the city, each person must pay a penny to enter the city.

In addition, Li Kongzhu and the others also had to store the ox carts.In this way, three people and one cow spent five copper coins.

Li Kongzhu paid the money and went into the city. Mai Ya'er looked at him and his face was like a bun, and he snorted in distress, "I haven't seen the money yet, so I threw seven of them out. My mother!" , let's walk next time, this bastard seems to cost more than us!"

Li Kongzhu gave her a funny look, and looked at this county called Yuzhou City in a blink of an eye.

The roads in the city are more than one meter wider than those around the city.The restaurants and teahouses on both sides rarely have two-story buildings, and most of them have three floors.

There are also many small vendors on the road, and the clothes of pedestrians are more elaborate than the gentry and common people in the town.Even with the small embroidery pattern, it looks much more flexible than Huancheng Town.

Mai Ya'er and his wife followed her, seeing people coming and going along the way, they didn't know where to go to sell them.

After a while, finally couldn't help but asked Li Diaozhu who was still watching, "Sister-in-law, how are we going to sell it?"

Li Kongzhu glanced at the street vendors on both sides of the road, and saw that most of them were selling cosmetics and flowers.He said: "Go around and see if there is any open space and a place with a lot of people!"

In fact, she could go to a dim sum shop and ask for sales like the first one selling haw jelly.But once they go to sell, the shopkeepers who smell the opportunity will inevitably think about buying prescriptions.What's more, she didn't want to sell these prescriptions!

A county seat is no better than a town, and it is possible to open a shop in this place.There are more or less two points of ability in it.

The few people walked for a while, and arrived at a place where clay figurines and dolls were sold.

Most of the people who come here are people with children.For those who are hungry for freshness, they will buy one or two for children.

Li Kongzhu found a place and stood beside the young man who was yelling to sell Yitang, and said to the two people behind him: "Let's do it!"

The guy who sells sugar is bringing sugar to a woman with a child.Seeing that they were going to set up a stall on his side, he looked at a few people very strangely.

He shouted in displeasure, "What is this for? How can I do business by squeezing this place. Go, go, find another place, don't squeeze me!"

"Hey!" Mai Ya'er rolled up his sleeves, "Squeezing you? Your butt is so big that you can occupy two places. Besides, this place belongs to your family. You protect it like this!"

As soon as the man heard it, he quit and gave the sugar to the woman, but he wanted to drink again with a sullen face. Seeing this, Li Diaozhu had no choice but to hold the malt to avoid conflicts.

"It doesn't matter if you let it or not. Find another place!" Don't get into a fight with someone as soon as you come.They just came here, and they are not familiar with them yet. Seeing that these vendors have been doing business for a long time, it is really hard to get away when they make a fuss.

Malt was pulled.He spat at the young man angrily, "But he only sells two pieces of Yitang, which is not sweet, so he really is a landlord. But he doesn't dominate the position."

"Okay!" Zhao Mengzi hurriedly pulled her to his side to protect her.The big man stepped forward, and the young man who was about to get angry immediately hid himself when he saw this.

However, those sharp eyes were still staring at them.

Li Kongzhu didn't want to cause trouble, so he brought up Lan Zi again and said to the two of them: "Let's go first!"

After hearing this, the two had no choice but to do it.

Li Kongzhu asked Zhao Mengzi if he had ever been to the county.

Zhao Mengzi replied that he had been here several times, but he was not very familiar with it.During hot weather and off-season, prey hunted in cities and towns are not easy to sell, so they will come to the county to sell in the market.

There are many large households in the county, and those who want to eat game will come and buy one or two.

"Let's go to the market!"

Li Kongzhu said directly.

Mai Ya'er asked worriedly, "Now that we've met, I'm afraid it's the next episode!"

"It's okay!" Where there is a market, there are small stalls.This meeting is not far from Xiangwu Tou'er. Some residents in the middle and lower-level counties, who are afraid of the trouble of cooking, will go to that stall to have a cheap meal.

Several people turned around and walked towards the county market.

When we got to the place, almost all the vendors who sold the crops went to the market.

A few government servants inspected some vendors who were still setting up their stalls, and they stretched out their hands to ask for money for the stalls.

Zhao Mengzi explained to her in a low voice, "The county rules, after the [-]:[-] o'clock, the stall fee will be collected!" So ordinary vendors will start to close their stalls at the [-]:[-] o'clock and stop selling.

Li Kongzhu nodded, found a small stall selling noodle soup and sat down.He greeted Mai Ya'er and sat down, and ordered three bowls of lumpy noodles.

When Mai Yaer heard that it was going to cost money again, she looked at Li Kongzhu with a look, "Sister-in-law, I'm not hungry yet. Besides, how long is it? I'll just have lunch."

"When is the time to eat!" Yin got up before the hour.By now she was really a little hungry.

Seeing that Mai Ya'er wanted to persuade her again, she quickly pulled her to sit down, and gave Zhao Mengzi who was embarrassed at the side a look, telling him to just sit down and eat.

"You have to eat enough to do anything, I know it in my heart!"

After hearing what she said, Mai Ya'er had no choice but to eat the pimple soup quietly and quietly.

After waiting for Li Kongzhu to drink the soup slowly, he saw a lot of people called soup coming to the stall.

Most of them wear common clothes, and some are residents of the county.Some are street vendors who are ready to eat a bowl of hot pimple soup after selling their goods in the nearby market.

Seeing that Mai Ya'er and Zhao Mengzi finished their soup in a few sips, Li Diaozhu called out to the vendor's wife, "Madam, can you lend me a small plate? My sister is a little gassed, I have it Hawthorn sticks for digestion. Take it out and give her two or two! Just put it on a plate, okay?"

When the proprietress of the stall heard this, a smile appeared on her simple face, "What's the matter! Wait a minute!"

As he said that, he quickly washed a dish with his hands and feet, and handed it over!

"What are hawthorn sticks!"

Seeing her curiosity, Li Diaozhu smiled and opened an oil-paper package from the basket and said, "This is it!"

Mai Ya'er also realized it, and hurriedly took a tong made of wood, put a small tong in a small dish.

"This stuff is very useful. I have nothing to eat on weekdays. It's refreshing and sweet. Sister, do you see the sticky on it? It's like that frost, it's white sugar. It tastes good when you eat it. !"

As soon as she took it out, some people who were eating next to her looked over.Someone in the town brought a baby to eat, so he quickly slid off the stool and ran over.

Mai Ya'er took one and ate it into his mouth, squinted his eyes and pouted his mouth to look at Li Kongzhu and said: "Sister-in-law, I can't get enough of it. If I can eat this stuff all the time, I'd rather go back to eat flatulence! "

"If you don't talk poorly, you can talk nonsense about illness. You can't eat too much, you have to sell it later, and you have to travel for two hours, and the family is still waiting for urgent money!" Li Kongzhu blamed He glanced at her and saw that she took another one into her mouth.Feeling distressed, I reached out and took a few into the basket.

"Auntie! Isn't that sugar sweet!" The kids who came running looked at the sugar particles she was sticking to their mouths, and couldn't help but suck their saliva.Added fingers.

Mai Ya'er narrowed her eyes and nodded, "It's sweet. How about you try it?"

The little ones nodded hurriedly.

Some people who saw the way of the door hurriedly stopped the hand that their children stretched out to take.

Mai Ya'er rolled his eyes, and said with a plate, "Our family is a villager who lives outside Huancheng Town. This is my sister-in-law. She used to be a cook in a rich family's house, and she knows how to make pastries. These pastries But we couldn’t buy it outside, so we sold it because our family was in a difficult situation, and we wanted to go to the county town to buy it at a better price, so we walked several miles in the dark.”

"It's just around the corner. Seeing that it's not far from Xiangwutou, we came here to have lunch and breakfast together. If it was on weekdays, how could we be willing to give up the money? It's just the money for making pastries, or borrow it." Come on!" she said, her eyes turning red.

It made the people in several nearby counties who were able to live a decent life sighed.

Li Kongzhu gave her a thumbs up secretly, but said with a very painful face: "Okay! Eat it quickly! It's getting late, if you can't sell it, you have to go home in the dark at night!"

Mai Ya'er sat down with two hecks.

The little children around were still watching eagerly.Seeing this, the people over there stopped drinking and let them stand there.

Maiyaer ate a few more, and seeing that the kids were still watching, she quickly took the plate off the table, said with a smile, "Try it!"

Several little children looked at her and smiled very beautifully.In addition, I was really greedy for the taste of this red, red and white thing, so I tried to reach out and take one into my mouth.

For a moment, the children quickly turned to their parents, threw themselves into their arms, and whispered something to the adults.

When the adults over there saw this, their eyes flickered.

Mai Ya'er brought the plate over again, "Brothers and sisters-in-law, try it, I'm not blind! As far as my sister-in-law's craftsmanship is concerned, it's top-notch! If it wasn't for the difficulties at home, I would open a big shop at this level. No problem!"

(End of this chapter)