Peasant woman

Chapter 11

Xu Cao was very happy to get ten taels of silver. In the almost 13 years she has been here, the most she has in her hand is only a few pennies, and it was Xu Laobao who asked her to buy wine.Now it's the first time I get ten taels of silver, and it would be a lie to say that I am not excited.

In her previous life, her family was not very rich. After studying in university, she always worked part-time outside to provide for her own living expenses, and her life was very simple.In this life, life is even more impoverished, and it is common for her to not have enough to eat. She finally grew up to this size, and with this silver tael in her hand, the first thing she thought of was to go shopping in the market.

The ten taels of silver she would buy later, fearing that the thieves would miss her, asked Ma Yuanwai's mother Yu to exchange the ten taels of silver for her for broken silver.Mama Yu pursed her lips and smiled, and changed it for her.Xu Cao then went to the market with ten taels of broken silver.

Miao Miao doesn't have much clothes, and it's autumn now, she plans to pull some cotton cloth to make cotton clothes for Miao Miao, the second younger brother and sister's brother Jun doesn't have much clothes, so he also has to pull a whole body for him, the other is Yang Lao and Chen Shi that's it.

Went to the cloth shop to ask, ordinary cloth costs two hundred yuan a piece, Xu Cao was a little moved, this piece of cloth can be used to make clothes for everyone in the family, and there is still some left over, so she can keep it for more Wealthy, Miao Miao and herself buy more clothes.

Pay attention to make up, she talked with the cloth shop boss for a long time, bought a piece of cloth for 190 yuan, and then went to buy pig offal, pig intestines, and pig bones.These things are cheap, handled properly, and taste good.

After thinking about it, I went to buy a few catties of rough noodles and a catty of coarse salt, and made another two catties of vinegar.

Salt is very expensive here, seventy Wen a catty.The price of salt is ridiculously high.

She didn't dare to buy more other things, so she went back after buying these things.

These things cost her almost [-] Wen, and it was already late noon when she went back. The second younger siblings, Mrs. Chen, Father Yang, second younger brother, third younger brother, and Xiaoan went to dig the soil.There is only Niu Shi in the family.Xu Cao went into the room and found that Miao Miao and Brother Jun were sleeping soundly.

Xu Cao didn't bother them either, and went to the kitchen to sprinkle some thick noodles on the fat intestines.She didn't dare to waste it, so she sprinkled it and carefully washed off the greasy things on the fat intestines. Now it's clean after repeated washing several times.This thing is cheap, and everyone eats it on weekdays, but it is not handled well, and there is always a smell.In the past, when she was in Xu's house, she also washed with semolina, and Mrs. Xu would beat her up every time she saw her, saying that she was wasting food. There is always a smell, so she seldom eats it.

She also washed the pig belly in the same way, and cooked soup with the pig bone at night.

Pork bone soup, the longer it is boiled, the more fragrant it will be.She washed the large intestine and pork belly, washed the big bones, scalded them with hot water, put them in a pot and boiled them.

When the pork bones were cooked, she went to the backyard to pull out a radish and washed it for later use.

After finishing these, Xu Cao had nothing else to do, went back to the room and locked the remaining money, then leaned on the kang to rest for a while.

Not long after, Miao Miao on the top of the kang woke up. Seeing Xu Cao, her shrunken mouth immediately lifted up, and she called out to Xu Cao, "Your Majesty."

Xu Cao hurriedly picked Miao Miao up, touched the kang, but when she didn't urinate, she hurried out to urinate for her.Hearing movement in the second sibling's room, Brother Jun must have woken up too, so she hurriedly hugged Brother Jun and came out to pee.Then throw the two dolls on the kang and let them play by themselves.

Brother Jun is also more than one and a half years old, just a few months younger than Miao Miao, and he can recognize people. When he sees Xu Cao, he knows to call him Auntie. Although the pronunciation is not very standard, Xu Cao has been enjoying himself for a long time.

When it was time to apply, the strong smell of big bone soup came from the kitchen, Xu Cao went to have a look, cut the radish into pieces, and threw it in together with the chopped pork belly.

Niu also woke up, and when he smelled the scent, he went into the kitchen, saw that it was Xu Cao, and went out again.

Not long after, Mrs. Shen, Mrs. Chen, and Father Yang all came back.Shen Shi smelled the fragrance and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you are back, what is cooked in the kitchen is really fragrant."

Xu Cao led Miao Miao and Brother Jun out, and said with a smile: "Today, the jam sold for some money, and I bought some big bones and pork belly to make soup, father, mother, go wash it up, wait When Fugui comes back, we will have dinner."

Shen smiled, stepped forward to hug Brother Jun, and said: "Sister-in-law, thank you, and said that you are worried about leaving Brother Jun and Miao Miao at home. Fortunately, you came back early."

"It's okay, brother Jun is well-behaved and obedient, I like him before it's too late."

The two talked and laughed, but the mother-in-law Chen who was beside her was hesitant to speak.Seeing that the two were talking about Zhenghuan, he frowned and entered the room.After a while, Father Yang also followed in.

Seeing this, Mrs. Chen hurriedly pulled Father Yang out, glanced outside the door, and whispered: "Father, how much do you think the jam sold by the old man? Why don't you know how to respect us?"

Father Yang glared at her and said angrily, "Are you looking for money? Wealth has subsidized how much of our family's household? The money I give you every month is also quite a lot. When he married his wife, you paid a penny." No? The boss spends his own money on marrying his wife, if that’s the case, you still blame him, and now you even care about the boss’ wife’s money? Are you ashamed?"

When Mrs. Chen heard this, she was furious, "Why am I thinking about her money? After marrying into our Yang family, everything about her belongs to the Yang family. Now that they are rich and honored, they have no separate families, so the money they earn naturally belongs to the whole family." How can I share her reason with mine?"

"Tch..." Father Yang sneered, fearing that the children outside would hear it, his voice was much quieter, "Wealth is not born of you, it would be good to give us some pension money every month, and you don't have to worry about the eldest daughter-in-law. Money, if you really dare to ask the eldest daughter-in-law for money, I will kick them out today! Let them separate and live on their own!"

After hearing this, Mrs. Chen glared at Father Yang fiercely, "Are you partial to her son, don't you? She's been dead for many years, and you haven't forgotten her yet!" She only dared to take these things Having said that, I dare not open my mouth to ask about Suso asking for money anymore.After all, the contribution of wealth to the family is still great, and the separation of the family is not worth the loss to her.

When Father Yang heard this, he became very angry, and his voice suddenly became louder, "You woman, what to do with the dead! Fugui is my child, just like the second and third child, Xiao'an. eccentric!"

Father Yang was angry, and Mrs. Chen didn't dare to say anything, so she turned around and sat on the kang to sulk.

Xu Cao who was outside heard the voice, went into the kitchen in a daze, and added some salt to the bone broth.The father-in-law was arguing with the mother-in-law, and these juniors could at best ignore it.

When the big bone soup was ready, Fugui returned with two pheasants on his shoulders.Seeing Xu Cao, he grinned and said, "I don't have much harvest today, so I just hunted two pheasants and came back."

Xu Cao smiled, took the pheasant in his hand, and said: "You are tired, go and have a rest, the water will be poured for you."

As she spoke, she turned her head and saw that the vine with the pheasant feet tied seemed familiar.

(End of this chapter)