The mulberry life of a small peasant girl

Chapter 8

With 60 taels in my arms, I can naturally buy things that are missing at home.It's just that if you buy too many things at once, you will inevitably be missed, and it will be bad if you gossip.

Back in the market, Nuan Bao found Aunt Zhang's seat and saw her chatting with some women there.She hurried over and tugged at the corner of the aunt's clothes.

"Yo Xiaonuan is back. The things are sold out today, and we can close the stall."

Seeing this, several women bid farewell to Aunt Zhang one after another, saying that they would continue to visit the assembly, so it would not be a hindrance.

Aunt Zhang stuffed the linen towel into the back basket, and walked along holding Nuan Bao's hand.Finding a puppy in Nuan Bao's back basket, he asked her how much she bought for fear that she would be scammed.

Nuan Bao hurriedly told the aunt that the dog only cost [-] Wen, and Aunt Zhang said that it was about the same, and it was worth the price.

Near noon, Aunt Zhang took Nuanbao to have lunch. She said that there is a noodle stall in this market that tastes very good. It's fair, you can eat a bowl for only five cents.

When they arrived, they found that the noodle stall was full of people, and there was no room for seats. Many people gathered around the noodle stall with big bowls and ate, and they didn't mind not having a seat at all. It seemed that this noodle was really famous.

Aunt Zhang counted out ten coins and handed them to the stall owner, brought two bowls of plain noodles and warm treasures and found an empty seat to eat while standing.

Nuan Bao immediately smelled a scent of scallion oil. There were a few small cabbages and some bean sprouts spread on the noodles. The fine minced meat was marinated with marinade, which was very fragrant and attractive.The noodles were tough, glutinous, smooth, and chewy. The broth was full of meat flavor, and there was a layer of sesame oil floating on the soup. Nuanbao ate it without regard to etiquette.

It was so delicious, Nuan Bao ate up all the noodles and the soup base, his stomach bulged like a bun.The pup behind has been barking, and it is estimated that it can also smell the food. It is really a greedy dog.

Nuan Bao thought that with the company of her aunt, it would not be easy to buy too many things, so she had to pick the most important ones.First of all, you must buy a chicken, so that you can lay an egg for Xiaofu to eat every day.Secondly, I need to buy some vegetable seeds. I only have Chinese cabbage seeds at home. Can I only eat Chinese cabbage all winter?Next, buy some ginger and garlic, as well as oil and salt.

Aunt Zhang knew that there was a family in the market that sold chickens for a living. Their chickens rarely had roup infection, and they were well taken care of and could lay eggs every day.When she came to the chicken stall, Aunt Zhang picked two hens for Nuan Bao. As for the roosters, she didn't need them for the time being. It would be cheaper to buy chicks when there were chicks in spring.Fifty yuan per hen, a total of one hundred yuan for two, because it is a chicken that lays eggs, so it is more expensive.

Aunt Zhang took out her purse, counted out fifty cash to Nuan Bao, and told her it was money for selling rabbit skins.Fortunately, Nuan Bao asked the shopkeeper to exchange silver and copper coins at the makeup shop before, otherwise she would really have no money to buy them.

After buying the hen, Aunt Zhang took her to the seed shop to buy seeds.Now it's autumn in the north, and there are very few varieties of vegetables that can be grown.Nuan Bao picked radishes, cucumbers, celery, coriander and spinach.Hey... the day of getting rid of pickles is not far away, she raised the corners of her lips happily.

Then I went to the spice shop and bought ginger, onion, pepper, fennel, pepper, star anise and so on.Next door is a grocery store, I bought some cooking wine, oil and salt, soy sauce, sweet and sour and so on.

Passing by a raw meat stall, I thought that when I came here, except for the stir-fried rabbit meat, I really didn't have any meat smell, and now I have a puppy, I want to buy some meat to go back.So I picked two catties of pork belly for 44 renminbi, a catty of pork ribs for [-] renminbi, and gave away two pork bones.

Stopping and stopping along the way, I saw potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes and bought some more. These are cheap things, very cheap, and they only cost [-] yuan and weigh more than ten catties.

Until the basket was full, Nuan Bao was led home by Aunt Zhang in the dusk.

When he got home, Xiaofu was already waiting in the yard. When he saw Nuan Bao's figure, he ran straight into her, and Nuan Bao was almost knocked down by her.Then he pawed and pulled on her body, refusing to get off.Nuanbao knows that Xiaofu is young and lost his parents in his early years, so he feels very insecure.

Nuan Bao happily said to Xiao Fu, "Let's eat meat today."

When Xiaofu heard the word meat, his eyes immediately lit up, "Sister, have you eaten any more meat?"

The pup in the carrying basket heard a strange voice, so he couldn't help standing up, laying down on the carrying basket, revealing his little gray head, and humming.

Xiaofu tilted his head in doubt and asked, "Sister, why did I hear some strange voices?"

If it wasn't for the pup's barking, she would have really forgotten. "Hey, I bought it today. Let's give it a name." Nuan Bao lowered the bamboo basket so that Xiao Fu could see the dog's appearance clearly.

"Wow! There is a dog." Xiao Fu rushed over, hugging the dog and refusing to let go.The puppy whimpered and whimpered in her arms, struggling to escape from the suffocating embrace.

"You put it on the ground and let him walk around and get acquainted with our house."

Xiaofu also thought so, so he put the pup on the ground. The dog was still a little shy when it came to their house, and shrank on the ground, refusing to move. Xiaofu stroked its fur and muttered to it.

Aunt Zhang saw that there was no chicken coop in Nuan Bao's house, so she brought a chicken coop over, and told Nuan Bao to give the chickens the wheat bran mixed with wild vegetables.

Nuan Bao put the chickens and their coops in the stove. There was no way. The fence in the house was dilapidated, and you could see what was in the yard at a glance. Although the villagers in ancient times were very simple, the hearts of the people were still unbearable. test.

After settling the small living things in the house, she realized that living in the countryside is necessary for these small animals, otherwise it would be deserted and uncomfortable.Listening to the crowing of the cock and the barking of the dog every day, how happy and leisurely it is.

Nuan Bao hoisted the pork belly up with joy. There is no time to make stew tonight, so I will make some sweet and sour pork ribs.Ribs are very cheap, only fifteen cents a catty, probably because there is not much meat.However, this body seldom eats meat, and eating so fatty all of a sudden, the stomach can't stand it.

She boiled a pot of water, put the ribs in and blanched for a quarter of an hour, picked them up and marinated them with soy sauce and cooking wine until they were colored, and then put them in the pot and boiled them with the ribs soup just now.Put three tablespoons of sugar and vinegar before serving, and add a little salt to taste, and a delicious dish of sweet and sour pork ribs is complete.

During the period, I chopped two pig bones with an iron knife and planned to boil them into bone soup for drinking tomorrow morning.After the fire is boiled, it can be simmered slowly. Put some charcoal into it when you sleep at night. The fire will not be broken overnight, and it saves firewood and tastes delicious.

In the evening, Nuanbao fried shredded potatoes and sweet and sour pork ribs. Both of them ate so much that their mouths were greasy and they burped.It was truly the best day I've had in days.

The night in the countryside is very quiet. Nuan Bao is lying on the bed and looking at the moonlight coming in from outside. My home is where I feel at ease. She will no longer miss the house left by her parents in her previous life. She will definitely cherish the life she has now. When everything before was a dream.

(End of this chapter)