"Mom, when I just ran over here, the old ox cart was about to leave, but I stopped it. They were waiting for us." Dahua ran over and insisted on helping Gu Qingqing carry the pot.

Gu Qingqing couldn't help but praise her, "Dahua is awesome!"

Since the ox cart was waiting for them today, when they returned to the village, darkness had already swept to the top of Niutou Mountain.

Wen Wuyan was standing at the intersection, leaning on a crutch, holding Sanhua and Erhua in his arms. His tense expression only relaxed when he saw the mother and daughter come back.

"Why are you here?" When Gu Qingqing saw the people standing on the roadside, she would be lying if she said she was unhappy.

"Seeing that you didn't come back, I couldn't stay at home, so Erhua and I came out to greet you. How is it? Is everything going well?" Wen Wuyan did not stop Dahua from taking Sanhua from his arms, but his free hand insisted on taking the big iron pot from Gu Qingqing's hand.

Now that the meat at home has a place to go, Gu Qingqing is in a good mood. She said happily, "Not bad. Some people who didn't buy any said they would come back tomorrow morning to buy. It will be hard work when we go back. We have to cook all the remaining meat and sell it in town tomorrow morning."

After Gu Qingqing finished speaking, without waiting for Wen Wuyan to speak, she said directly, "We will go there tomorrow with a cart. Our whole family will go. We will also go to the brokerage firm to ask about the prices of houses in town and the land around us."

When Wen Wuyan heard that he was finally going to be taken with him, he could not help but feel happy, "Thank you for your hard work tomorrow."

Gu Qingqing, however, acted like a superior and waved his hand, "Okay, okay, when your leg is healed, you can do more housework."

"Of course. I will never let you work so hard in the future." Wen Wuyan replied with a smile.

When Gu Qingqing got home, she was still very happy to see a thatched hut in her house, with the only gray light left in the sky.

"They are so fast. They built the shed in just one day!" Gu Qingqing sighed as she went over to watch.

"Everyone in the village is used to doing this. The bamboo was cut yesterday, so it will be quick. The stove here has also been built, but it's not completely dry yet. It will take two days before it can be used." Wen Wuyan said, pointing to a brand new stove next to him.

Gu Qingqing didn’t quite understand this, but she still happily went forward and touched it.

"I followed your method yesterday and added lean meat and wild vegetables to the sorghum rice today. I wonder if it tastes good." Wen Wuyan took out a lit oil lamp from somewhere.

The wick is as small as a bean, bringing light to the family.

"Really? Then try it!"

In the past, having a bowl of thin soup and half a steamed bun for dinner was already the best we could have.

They now have as much meat porridge and meat buns as they want, and all five members of the family are well fed.

At this time, the happiest person was Erhua because her mother bought red bean cake for her to eat.

Under the oil lamp in the bamboo shed, Gu Qingqing and Dahua were responsible for moving some stones in, while Wen Wuyan was responsible for setting up a temporary stove.

They cooked the pork, fried the salted vegetables, and prepared the necessary ingredients.

Then move everything into the house.

After Gu Qingqing simply washed up with cold water, she went to the back of the house and covered the person who was already asleep with a large floral quilt, and she also fell asleep immediately.

The next day, as soon as the rooster crowed, everyone except Erhua and Sanhua got up.

Dahua was responsible for making the fire, Gu Qingqing was responsible for cutting the meat, and Wen Wuyan was responsible for marinating and arranging the meat slices according to Gu Qingqing's instructions.

At daybreak, the aroma of the meat in the pot almost filled the entire hill. Fortunately, they were some distance away from the village, otherwise many children would have cried out of greed.

It’s not that the road to Shangzhen is difficult to walk on, after all, it has been traveled for hundreds of years, but it is really difficult to walk on, and there are many potholes along the way.

Wen Wuyan initially refused to take the bus, but after walking for a while he could not hold on any longer and had to get on. Erhua, who was originally guarding Sanhua in the bus, got off the bus when she saw her father getting on, and helped her mother pull the bus with her sister.

There were two bamboo baskets on the car, each containing a steaming pot of meat, and another pot of meat was placed directly on the car.

There were two more baskets, one contained a large piece of black stuff, and the other contained a piece of torn clothing. In them were all their belongings, eighty-three taels, three hundred and forty coins.

Today the whole family is going out, and they feel it is unsafe to hide the money anywhere, so after thinking it over, they decide to carry it with them.

The closer we got to the town, the more people there were on the road. Some were pushing wheelbarrows, and some were carrying two baskets filled with white radishes on a shoulder pole.

There are also people carrying a bamboo basket on their backs, in which you can see wild vegetables sprouting.

Similarly, there were also men from the village who carried a load of firewood to the town to sell.

What's more, there was an old woman carrying two hens!

The town gate was so busy in the morning. Not far from the town gate, one side of the road was filled with people from the surrounding villages who came early to set up stalls, selling all kinds of things.

There is a clean tea shop at the foot of the wall, with wonton noodles with the aroma of scallion oil, steamed buns with steamed buns, fried pancakes and oil cakes with the aroma of oil, as well as white porridge and red bean porridge.

In addition to cooked food, in the past there were villagers who carried bamboo baskets to sell vegetables, eggs, and even live ducks and firewood.

It can be said that there is everything from farm goods.

Many people come here, all of whom live not far from the town. They come here early in the morning to eat the fresh food.

If Gu Qingqing's Shaobai was sold here, it would probably be a big seller. However, she told those who didn't buy it yesterday that she would continue to sell it at the same place today, so she still pulled the cart to the same place as yesterday.

Although the street here is not as busy as the one at the town gate, there are still many people coming and going, and there are even more stalls than yesterday.

Before Gu Qingqing reached the spot, she saw three or five people already waiting there.

Seeing her show up, the people waiting there immediately surrounded her.

There was also a young man who looked like a servant, who came forward and asked uncertainly, "Are you selling shaobai?"

Gu Qingqing looked at the man holding his own pottery basin, smiled and nodded at him, and said, "But did your manager ask you to return the basin?"

When the servant saw that he had found the right person, he nodded quickly and said, "Wait a moment, I'll go call our steward."

As the servant said this, he placed the basin on Gu Qingqing's cart, and without asking for the deposit back, he ran away.

Gu Qingqing had only set up her stall when he and the middle-aged manager who had come yesterday arrived.

The steward came up to her, pointed at the meat on Gu Qingqing's plate and asked, "How much shaobai do you have left?"

"Today we have 30 kilograms of meat in total, and one pot is 10 kilograms." Gu Qingqing replied.

At the same time, Gu Qingqing had a feeling that the big boss was going to take care of everything for her.

Sure enough, the boss' voice rang in my ears, "We want all three pots."

As a result, before Gu Qingqing got her turn to speak, the person waiting nearby disagreed.

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