When Gu Qingqing had the money in her hands, the first thing she did was to go to the store and buy two new sets of clothes for each of her family members. The clothes of her family, both adults and children, were so tattered that they were unbearable to look at.

Dahua felt so distressed when she saw this, and whispered to Gu Qingqing, "Mom, you don't have to buy me clothes. Just alter your clothes for me, and I can wear them."

"I won't change." Gu Qingqing said frankly.

"I can, but mother needs to buy me some needle and thread, and I will do the alterations."

Gu Qingqing couldn't remember how to sew, so she asked, "Can you make clothes?"

Dahua nodded, but didn't notice that what Gu Qingqing asked was: Can you make clothes?

Gu Qingqing, with her divine understanding, naturally thought that Dahua's ability to alter clothes meant that she could make clothes.

Gu Qingqing was immediately delighted and said to the owner of the cloth shop, "Boss, give me ten feet of this cloth and a sewing kit."

...Didn't we agree not to buy it? I feel bad about spending money.

When Gu Qingqing came out of the store, she had two taels and three hundred coins less in her hand.

Although she didn't wear the new clothes, Gu Qingqing was in a good mood. When she came across a bun shop, she bought ten big meat buns, two each for her and Dahua, and they took the rest back.

"Mom, these buns are so delicious." Dahua said happily while chewing the big meat bun her mother bought.

"It's OK. It's edible." Gu Qingqing's answer was rather mysterious.

"Mom, this is the most delicious bun I have ever eaten."

Gu Qingqing was stunned. Yes, she had eaten too many delicious foods in her previous life, so she felt that the buns were just so-so.

But it was different for Dahua and the others. A meat bun was once out of her reach.

"Mom will make you buns someday. The buns she makes are much more delicious than these." Gu Qingqing boasted.

"Okay, what do you want me to do?... Mom, look." Dahua said halfway when she suddenly looked at a little beggar who was huddled under the wall and spoke cautiously.

At the same time, Dahua put herself in front of her mother. She felt that the little beggar was going to snatch the buns in her mother's hand, or the silver in the bamboo basket?

Gu Qingqing had seen beggars before. When she was a child in her previous life, she could always see many little beggars with broken limbs and disfigured faces at train stations and crowded squares. At that time, she was afraid of them and always thought they were scary.

Only after I grew up and recalled it did I gradually understand that when they were so young, their eyes were full of indifference and ferocity due to being wronged.

Just like the one under the wall, with tattered clothes and messy hair, but his eyes look like a wolf looking for food.

Seeing that he was staring at the bun in her hand, Gu Qingqing was not afraid but took two steps forward and held the bun in her hand in front of him, "Here you go, I'm full."

Then Gu Qingqing saw that his pupils shrank slightly and he looked a little wary.

Seeing that he didn't take the buns, Gu Qingqing squatted down and placed the oil paper bag and the buns on the ground in front of him.

Almost as soon as she put it down, the little beggar snatched it away and hid it in his arms.

She saw the little beggar's lips moving, but she couldn't tell what he said.

It was not until they walked a distance away that Dahua called out in confusion, "Mom."

Gu Qingqing just rubbed her head and said nothing.

"Mom, I'm full too. Please help me eat half of this bun." Dahua said as he cut the bun in his hand into two and gave half to his mother.

......

When Gu Qingqing went to the market, she regretted it in her heart. You know, she could earn so much money. Why did she want an old rooster when the family was divided? Not only did it disturb her sleep in the morning, but it also couldn't lay eggs.

What a mistake!

Gu Qingqing was upset!

Looking at the fat meat on the stall, Gu Qingqing became even more annoyed.

She should have brought the cart.

"Boss, how much is the pork belly?"

"Twenty-one cents."

"What about lean meat?"

"Lean meat is cheap, 16 cents a pound, would you like some?"

After hearing the price, Gu Qingqing's first thought was why lean meat was so cheap? Then she understood that in ancient times, farmers were just trying to fill their stomachs. It was common for them to not have a meal of meat in a month. They preferred to buy fat meat, which was rich in fat.

After Gu Qingqing figured it out, she pointed at the big piece of fat and asked, "What about this?"

"This is twenty-two cents. You can also buy lard. It's also twenty-two cents a pound."

When the family was divided, she was given three spoonfuls of lard. If she were asked to cook, it would be enough for two days at most. Thinking of this, Gu Qingqing simply bought five pounds of pork fat, three pounds of fat meat, and three pounds of lean meat.

The stall owner was happy. He took a meatless pork thigh bone from the chopping board and asked Gu Qingqing, "I have a thigh bone here. If you don't mind, I'll give it to you."

Gu Qingqing took it without hesitation.

The thigh bone is fine. I will give it to Wen Wuyan when I get back. As the saying goes, you are what you eat!

She and her daughter eat meat.

Gu Qingqing thought happily and gave the boss two hundred and twenty-four cents.

In order to prevent the fat from rubbing onto the newly bought clothes, Gu Qingqing specifically asked the boss for some oil paper to put under the meat.

Then, Gu Qingqing took Dahua to buy salt, soy sauce and various condiments and spices, spending more than fifty cents.

Passing by a grocery store, Gu Qingqing learned that they had vegetable seeds for sale, so she bought some more.

I went to the blacksmith shop and bought a kitchen knife. It was not cheap, costing two hundred coins.

There was only one ceramic basin at home, and Gu Qingqing bought two more this time. If she hadn't considered that it would be difficult to carry a new pot, she would have planned to buy a new pot.

As soon as she walked out of the market gate, Gu Qingqing saw several people gathered in front of a stall near the market gate, pointing and talking.

"Boss, your puppy can't stand up. How about I buy another one and give this one to me?" someone in the crowd spoke up.

"No, this is only thirty coins. Not a copper less."

"Hey, you're too stubborn, old man. You'll have to give it food when you go back. Why don't you give it to me? I can have a snack."

"A pound of pork costs twenty cents. Even though this puppy can't stand up, at least it still has more than a pound of meat on its body. If I hadn't raised dogs and not eaten them, it wouldn't be alive today." The old man seemed to have a stubborn temper. Looking at the puppy lying on the ground, he said he would not give it away.

"Then I'd like to see today, can you still sell such a disabled dog?" After the man said this, he sat down next to the old man.

Gu Qingqing, who had already walked over, heard something about a disabled dog and for some reason pulled Dahua back.

She had absolutely no other thoughts in mind, she just wanted to see the dog.

When she got to the stall, she saw that there were two puppies on the old man's stall. One of them was lying on its belly, chewing the old man's straw sandals, and the other was lying on the ground, with only its head slightly moving.

"How much is this dog?" Gu Qingqing didn't say which dog she was asking about.

The old man pointed to the little black dog that was gnawing on his straw sandals and said, "This one is two hundred coins, and this one is thirty coins." Without the old man saying much, Gu Qingqing knew that the thirty-coin one was the disabled dog that the man had just mentioned.

"Was it like this when it was born? Or?" Gu Qingqing asked, pointing at the disabled puppy.

"It was fine a few days ago, but suddenly became like this. I don't know how it got like this. If it had been like this when it was born, we wouldn't have to raise it," said the old man.

Gu Qingqing didn't say anything else. She squatted down with the bamboo basket on her back and stroked the puppy's back. The puppy was paralyzed all over, and it couldn't move anything except its head. It couldn't even make a sound.

She had seen a cat at school before whose condition was the same as the puppy's, probably with dislocated bones compressing the nerves.

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