The Resplendent Farming Apothecary - Chapter 55

[Chapter 55 Big Purchase]

Gu Ye and Gu Ming had no clue about the New Year’s goods, so they could only follow Ninth Uncle and Ninth Aunt. buy whatever you want.

A group of people came to the butcher shop in the middle of the vegetable market. It was already full of people, most of whom came from the mountains to buy New Year’s goods. Among them, there are several villagers of Qingshan Village.

Ninth Aunt pulled her daughter with one hand and Gu Ye with the other, squeezing into the crowd. She raised her voice and shouted at the fat-headed and big-eared butcher: “Brother Li, come with five catties of fat and two catties of lean meat!

” The two pigs haven’t moved a pound! Look, how is this piece?” Butcher Li, who was close to Ninth Aunt’s family, cut a piece of pure fat meat for her neatly, and hung it on the scale. Five pounds tall. Then he also called two catties of lean meat, wrapped it in oiled paper and handed it to Aunt Jiu.

Aunt Jiu gave the meat money, pulled Gu Ye to his side, and said loudly, “Little Ye’er, what do you want, tell Uncle Li quickly!”

Gu Ye had long been optimistic, she pointed to a whole piece of fat and thin Pork belly said: “Uncle Li, help me weigh this piece, I want it all! You can also cut this piece for me from here, all the way to here. And these four hooves…”

Jiu Shen saw the light that A piece of pork belly weighs more than ten pounds. And the lean meat she wants, there are five or six catties, and if you add the hoofs, there are always twenty catties. And Gu Ye still didn’t know what to do, his fingers stretched out again.

“Little Ye’er, you bought so much, can you eat it all during the New Year?” Aunt Jiu was afraid that the little girl would not have enough money to spend, so she couldn’t help reminding her.

However, Gu Ye nodded sincerely and said, “After eating, grandpa and my master both like to eat meat!” The point is, she also likes to eat!

“What a filial child! Uncle Li gave you this pig’s trotter!” Butcher Li happily weighed the meat for her, took a pig’s trotter from the stall and placed it on the weighed meat.

Gu Ye’s eyes lit up, and he pointed at the pig’s trotters left at the meat stall and said, “Uncle, how do you sell these pig’s trotters? And this pig’s head and pig’s tail…”

Aunt Jiu quietly pulled the corner of her clothes and whispered. Said: “Your family didn’t catch up with the big sacrifice, what kind of pig head did you buy? A pig’s trotter and pig’s tail are nothing but bones, what else can you eat?”

Butcher Li also smiled and said, “These pig heads, pig trotters and pig tails, little girl. If you really want it, it will add up to twenty pennies for you!”

“Brother Li, you are not being kind, you usually give away these bits and pieces, but you open to accept my niece two. Ten wen. I think… 10 wen is about the same!” Aunt Jiu knew that apart from the pig’s head, which was worth a few cents, the rest were usually extras for selling meat.

Butcher Li looked like he was very talkative: “Since the chrysanthemum girl has opened her mouth, it’s 10 wen. The girl, the total is 15 catties of five flowers, 8 catties of lean meat, and 5 catties of hoofs. The total is 1,000 yuan. Twenty coins.”

Gu Ye took out a tael of silver, counted another twenty copper coins, and squeezed out the crowd with the full harvest. This price is quite cheap, adding more than 30 catties of meat, only one or two silver.

Only one or two? You must know that people in the mountains have a year’s income, and if you can go out to eat and drink, you will be able to plan carefully. Gu Ye has money in his pocket, forgetting the difficulties when he has no money.

Seeing that Gu Ye happily put the pig’s head and trotters into the bamboo basket, Aunt Ninth couldn’t help but complain a little: “You kid, you have some spare money in your hand, so you can’t spend it randomly. You buy a lot of lean meat, and These hoof tails don’t have much meat on them, it’s a waste of money.”

“Nine aunts, this piece of lean meat is the tenderloin, the tenderest piece of meat on a pig, and it’s the most suitable for stir-frying. Pig head, trotter, pig The tail, marinated with special spices, has a unique taste. When it is ready, I will give you a copy, you will not say that I wasted money when you taste it.” Gu Ye’s previous life was about the braised pig’s head, pig’s trotter, and pig’s tail. I have a soft spot for it. There is an Aunt Yan who can cook in the family. She will soon be able to eat these delicious foods again!

Ninth Uncle followed suit: “Since you’ve already bought it, don’t say anything! Let’s go and have a look at the grain store over there.”

At the grain store, Aunt Ninth planned carefully and only bought five kilograms of white noodles, sorghum noodles and cornmeal. They bought 20 pounds each. She has grown rhubarb rice at home, so she didn’t buy it, she bought some red beans and kidney beans. It cost less than 300 yuan in total.

The family seldom eats coarse grains now, and the refined grains are consumed very quickly. The 50 catties of white flour and 50 catties of rice that I bought half a month ago have almost been eaten. Gu Ye made another big purchase in the grain store: 50 catties of rice, 100 catties of white noodles, red beans and kidney beans, but she didn’t dare to buy much, because she had never eaten bean buns before, so she didn’t know if it fit her appetite. Another one or two or six coins was spent.

At the cloth shop, Gu Ye pulled two more clothes for grandpa, master and brother. Seeing that there were fresh fruit-green muslins in the store, she bought another one for herself. She wears this red-bottomed cotton-padded coat that looks like a little girl, so it’s better to change it quickly. Grandpa’s aesthetics, she is really powerless to complain.

There were defective cloths in the cloth shop, and Gu Ye grabbed a lot of them, which could be used to make sheets and curtains. Seeing her spending money like running water, and Gu Ming just smiling and pampering her, Ninth Uncle and Ninth Aunt couldn’t help shaking their heads, thinking, “Fortunately, Fifth Uncle has been in the army for many years, and he has some wealth, otherwise he really can’t stand this girl’s fluttering. Fifth uncle is also true, how can you let Xiaoye Ye hold the money? Little Ye Ye has such a big-hearted temper, and I don’t know who to follow! It must have been taught badly by Mrs. Liu! !

How could they know that Gu Ye spent all the money they earned. This trip into the city, in addition to her master’s one thousand taels of silver notes, she has more than eighty taels of silver in her hand!

But if you work hard, you can spend less than five taels of silver in a day. Gu Ye was a little unfulfilled, and when he saw a jewelry store in front of him, he pulled Gu Li’er and walked in. Ninth Aunt was afraid that she would spend money indiscriminately, so she put the New Year’s goods purchased outside for her man to watch, and walked in a little timidly.

Inside the jewelry store, a woman wearing a gorgeous gold hairpin with a full head was picking out jewelry. Beside her was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, wearing a red robe, embroidered with blossoming begonias on the skirt, and a cloak bordered by white foxes, looking charming and lovely. If it weren’t for the impatience and disdain on her face, she would be a beautiful woman.

“Auntie! What kind of jewelry can you pick out from this poor place? I really lost my mind, so I went home to visit relatives with you. Look at what kind of people these people are, the dirtier country bumpkins can’t get on the stage. We are actually picking things with these inferior people, and we won’t be laughed at by those sisters if we say it!” The

red-clothed girl glanced at the three of them, and the expression on her face was even more contemptuous. She quickly looked away again, as if looking at them one more time would pass on the rusticity to her.

A trace of anger flashed in the shopkeeper’s eyes, but he still said calmly, “This is the best filigree silver bracelet in our shop, and the gemstones embedded on it were brought back from the coast by me. If Madam can see it Eye, I will erase the fractions of fifty-two taels for you, and you will be fifty taels.”

“What? This broken bracelet costs fifty taels? Our best silver bracelet in Yancheng Tongfang Pavilion is only twenty or thirty taels. Is your bracelet inlaid with gold?” The girl’s sharp words sounded again. The woman beside her hesitated for a while, and finally put down the bracelet.

The shopkeeper took a deep breath and said, “Our bracelet is not set with gold, but is set with rubies that are more valuable than gold. These are all from overseas. If my bracelet is in Yancheng, I would have to sell it. Hundred taels. This lady, if you think it is too expensive, you can look at other styles.”

“What do you mean? Do you look down on people? Just the jewelry in your shabby store is only for these poor country bumpkins! It’s also overseas. The gem that came, I think it is just a dyed and broken stone. Seeing that we are rich, I want to defraud us! Ten taels of silver! If there is more, let me tell you whether you will sell it or not!” The girl arrogantly said, Vice “Give you 12 taels to look down on you” expression.

“Sorry,” the shopkeeper put away the inlaid silver bracelet, neither humble nor arrogant, “Twelve taels of silver is not enough for the price of one of the gems, the small shop is so simple that it can’t catch your eyes, please move to another store. ”

What? You actually drove me away! Do you know who I am? Do you believe that I can’t keep your store open?” The girl was going to be mad, because she was a concubine when she was in Yancheng. , I was looked down upon by a bunch of little sisters, so I followed my aunt back to her parents’ house to relax.

Who knows that when you come to this rotten place where birds don’t poop, you will be angry with a small jewelry shop shopkeeper. She fought back her anger so that she didn’t smash the shop.

“Qing’er, how did your father tell you before going out? Don’t rely on your own background to bully others. Why, you forgot?” The woman pretended to reprimand, with a faint smile on her face, said, “The shopkeeper Yes, not to mention whether your gemstone is real or not, just talking about your craftsmanship, it is indeed worse than the jewelry shop in Yancheng. Otherwise, I will pay 30 taels of silver, and I will buy this bracelet Down.”

“I’m sorry! Madam, fifty taels is already the lowest price.” The shopkeeper didn’t want to say more, and put away the bracelet.

He raised his head and greeted Gu Ye and the others who had been coming in for a long time: “What kind of jewelry do you want to buy, I can recommend it for you…”

“Humph! Just these few hillbillies, they are so poor and sour, they can’t even afford to eat. Now, can you still afford jewelry?” The girl was full of anger and had nowhere to go, she pouted at Aunt Ninth’s old white-washed cotton-padded coat.

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New Year’s Eve! Have you eaten dumplings yet?