take a wife to support the family

Chapter 27

The next day there was a market, Lily got up early in the morning to eat hot porridge, and then went to Liu Yi's house to look for Lu Xiaofeng.

The fields in Liu Yi's house could not be plowed in one day, Li Caifeng's brothers would go home after dinner, and come back the next day, Li Xiaofeng didn't have to travel hard, and slept at the eldest sister's house at night, and whispered to Xing'er for half the night.

Li Caifeng urged them to go to bed several times, but neither of them listened, they just laughed together, but when Li Caifeng arrived at the door, they were still sleeping.

"How old is a girl, do you want to lose face?" Seeing Li Caifeng coming, Li Caifeng was so angry that she took a broom and slapped the two little ones across the quilt. Li Caifeng knew that she was in a hurry, but she was not really angry.

Li Xiaofeng got up suddenly, then turned around and tickled Xing'er: "Not up, not up?"

The aunt and nephew laughed, and Li Caifeng rubbed her forehead involuntarily: "I have a headache from the quarrel."

In fact, Baihe didn't expect Li Xiaofeng to get up so late today, she was originally here to invite her to go to the market together.As soon as Li Xiaofeng heard that he was going to the market, he didn't even bother to eat breakfast. After washing his face and combing his hair, he wanted to run out, but Li Caifeng stopped him with a look: "Go after dinner, always so frizzy, what do you say?" !"

After eating, Li Caifeng gave Xiaofeng some money and asked her to wear a velvet flower before going out.It doesn't matter that Lily is married, Lu Xiaofeng also needs to see her for a year or two, as her older sister, she always hopes that her sister will marry well.If outsiders knew that Li Xiaofeng was lazy at home and only got up at this time, wouldn't he be called a lazy woman?
This reputation is very important, if Lily hadn't been rumored to be lazy, there were so many bachelors in the town, and there were even more unscrupulous ones, she wouldn't have been able to get to Song Haonian's house.

Xing'er also wants to go out with her, but on Jiri Town, people come and go in cars, even the older girls are afraid of getting lost, so it is best to go out together, how dare Xiaofeng and Baihe take Xing'er out?I had no choice but to promise her good things and say a lot of good things before going out.

When Da Niu was in Liushan Village, she only knew how to work hard and never handed her a handkerchief.Going to the market with Li Xiaofeng is also because of Li Caifeng's favor. Xiaofeng and her sister have similar temperaments, and Lily feels comfortable getting along with her, so she is a little more affectionate.

Xiaofeng also felt that Lily was very different from Da Niu, which made her want to make this friend.

Lily wants to buy colored thread, but the big girl has never bought one before, and she doesn't know which one to choose for a while.Xiaofeng took her to look at each family. Either the thread on this stall was not bright enough, or that stall was not strong enough.

Not only did the two of them look at the colored thread, but their eyes were also attracted by other rouge, gouache and other things from time to time, and the speed was even slower. It took a long time to pick out a handful of thread. There were all kinds of colors, bright and strong.

Li Xiaofeng was smart-mouthed, the vendor originally asked for three yuan, but she bargained for two, and gave up half a foot of red-headed rope for nothing.

Squeezing out from the crowd, Lily couldn't help saying in admiration, "You're really good at bargaining."

Lu Xiaofeng became more and more complacent, and taught Lily a lot of tricks to go shopping, such as going shopping when the market is about to go, it must be cheaper than coming earlier.But you can't buy things like colored threads too late, or they will all be snatched up by others...

Xiaofeng bought two shiny silver thimbles, one for herself and her eldest sister, and Lily also bought one when she saw this. She was going to make insoles, and when the insoles had a certain thickness and the strength of her fingers was not enough, she had to use thimbles.

Seeing that there were windmills on the fair, Lily wanted to buy a windmill for Xinger, Xiaofeng laughed at her: "You love Xinger so much, why don't you give birth to one yourself!"

Lily replied with a smile: "You are not married yet, and your mouth is full of raw and familiar things."

In the end, I still bought a windmill for Xing'er.

Xiaofeng had to go back to help Li Caifeng cook, the two of them left the market before noon and went home separately.

Lily was walking on the road, watching the weeping willows fluttering gently in the breeze, feeling refreshed.Suddenly she saw a few Chinese toon trees by the roadside, the new shoots had just grown, and they were trembling vigorously.

The newly grown toon buds are purple in color and have a special fragrance. People who like to eat them find it extremely delicious, while those who don't like to eat it find it so stinky that it is unacceptable.

These toon trees grow by the side of the road. I don't know if they belong to the owner or if no one likes to eat them.It just so happened that Lily was the kind of person who liked to eat Chinese toon. When she remembered that there were still two eggs in the house, she rushed to secrete saliva from her mouth. She stared blankly at the Chinese toon tree, unable to move her eyes away.

An acquainted neighbor passed by and saw her staring at the toon tree, and said with a smile: "What a fresh and tender toon bud! My man also likes to eat it, so I will pick some back."

Lily quickly asked: "Whose tree is this? Can it be picked?"

"Wild trees on the side of the road, anyone can pick them. At this time, the buds will grow when the wind blows. Don't think there are many now. They grew yesterday. If you don't pick them, they will be snatched up later!"

When Lily heard about it, she hurriedly went to pick the toon buds with the woman.The few trees were not very tall, and the lily could reach the high buds by stretching out its hands. Just fold down a lot, and the two of them picked a lot after a while.

Back home with the tender and fragrant toon buds in her arms, Lily picks out some of the tenderest ones and puts them in the water basin to soak.Divide the rest into two parts, one part is spread directly in the bamboo flat, put it under the sun to dry, and the other part is rinsed with well water and left first.

It was already time for lunch, and Lily ate hastily, and then rushed to the fair before the end of the market, and bought a clay jar and two taels of coarse salt cheaply.

Don’t worry about the Chinese toon that is drying in the sun. You have to wait for the sun to dry it before putting it away, and then eating it in autumn and winter.Blanch the cleaned portion first, and when the color turns green and the toon buds become soft, quickly pick it up and drain.

The big-bellied pottery jar has been scalded with boiling water several times, washed cleanly, sprinkled with a layer of salt first, put a layer of blanched Chinese toon buds, compacted, then sprinkled with a layer of salt, and then put a layer of Chinese toon buds... …

In this way, after seven or eight floors, the toon buds are well grown, and there is not much coarse salt that Lily just bought.

Salt is the most expensive. When Lily was a child, she heard from her grandma that people in some places could not afford salt, so they had to dig the soil for salt.Soil salt is actually saline-alkaline land. When you dig the soil and cook it yourself, there are many toxic substances in it.

But if you don’t eat salt, you will get sick. When she was a child, she saw several people with big neck disease. After crossing, she was very lucky that she and most of the people around her didn’t have this problem.

When Lily went to buy salt, she found that although the quality of the salt was not very good, it was not as ridiculously expensive as imagined. Everyone in the town valued salt, but no one was short of salt. Very unexpected.

She doesn't know that this is a measure of the court, but she also knows that when there is no shortage of salt, it must be a very stable and rich time, and her small life in this era can last for a long time.

Withdrawing her drifting thoughts, Lily put the lid on, and poured water into the groove at the mouth of the jar, which can isolate the air and keep the toon buds from breaking down for a long time.

The jar is placed in a cool corner of the kitchen, and when there is no such refreshing dish in summer, it can be eaten out.

(End of this chapter)