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The eleventh day happened to be the day when Xiaoyang was going to deliver dried tofu to the city.However, the snow in the first two days was too heavy, which made the road to the county town not very easy to walk. "Brother Zhu, is Dahui okay?" Of course, he couldn't expect someone to sweep the snow on the road with a shovel and broom. Distressed.After all, this big ash can be regarded as the most precious means of transportation for the two families, so what if it gets frozen!

Zhu Hai also put his hands into his padded jacket, not intending to take a whip at all: "It's okay, he has been through no matter how heavy the snow is in previous years."

Xiao Yang sighed: "I will go to Brother Niu in a while, and I have to tell him that this year's spicy cabbage can't be made. These are the last four jars. Brother Zhu, in the spring of next year, we need to grow some peppers. It’s too troublesome to put it away when it grows on the mountain. And many people in our village know that the red pepper can be eaten, so we can’t eat it all by ourselves.” I just don’t know if the wild pepper seeds I left this year can be planted alive.Anyway, the seeds I brought are definitely fine, but there are not many of them.

"See how much you can grow with the seeds in your hand. You can plant peppers first. Anyway, you can arrange them anyway. If they don't grow, you can replant potatoes." After calculating the current six acres of land in my family, I gave up two It's okay for mother to torment her daughter-in-law.Planting well can only make more money.He has enough confidence in the red spikes that no one wanted all over the mountains and plains before!

"Oh, it's really cold. Brother Zhu, let's go back to dinner to eat hot-boiled mutton." Thinking of plump mutton, juicy Chinese cabbage, translucent white radish slices, and now there are dried tofu and dried tofu. , Frozen tofu... Anyway, just thinking about it makes my mouth water!It feels like the whole body is getting warmer.

"Boiled mutton? What?" Zhu Hai was puzzled.But looking at Xiaoyang's intoxicated face, he can be sure that it is an excellent food again!

Xiaoyang answered: "It is to cut the mutton into thin slices, then boil it twice in the boiling soup pot, and then eat it with sauce. You can also boil other meat and vegetables, which are most suitable for warming up in winter! Waiting for vegetables After eating, the soup can be cooked with noodles or porridge. Even rice and vegetables are complete."

Zhu Hai understood: "Hot pot, right? But we don't have a copper hot pot, it's too expensive and most people won't buy it. Would you like an iron pot? But you can't put carbon in it."

sweat.Xiaoyang felt that this place could not even have hot pot.It turned out that there was a problem with my statement.Thinking about it, I have been here for nearly four months, and I have seen a lot of cavalry, and the only copper things are copper plates.It seems to be really expensive... "Of course! You don't need to put carbon, just use an oven. Then let's buy two catties of mutton in a while, and then ask him for some mutton bones to make soup. Hehehe, I We have to see what their family can get around, and we can’t leave any of them to him! Brother Zhu, why do you think mutton is so expensive, let’s raise a few tomorrow.”

Zhu Hai couldn't laugh or cry: "Silly boy, no matter how expensive mutton is, it's not as much money as we sell half a pig. Now our family has more and more pigs, and we only have four hands. Raising sheep is not as good as raising pigs." , have to mow or set them. It's trouble."

Xiao Yang nodded: "That's true. Raising pigs is the easiest thing to do. They eat and sleep, or huddle together and hum. Sigh! Let's talk about raising sheep!"

The journey, which would have taken less than an hour, took a full hour and a half this time, but at this speed, Xiaoyang also had a high respect for Dahui, because he felt that Huihui was already very fast!

When the two arrived at Niu Daqian's grocery store, they found that Wang Erbao was drinking tea with a teacup in his house.Seeing Zhu Dazhuang and Yang Xiaoyang enter the house, he immediately laughed: "Brother Niu is right! It seems that I listened to the advice and waited for you here. If I go back to the village, my feet will be frozen." hard."

Niu Daqian ordered the assistant to unload the things, and then hurried into the back room: "Xiaoyang, why did you bring four jars of spicy cabbage today?"

Xiao Yang quickly replied: "Brother Niu, because there is not enough chili powder, the chili sauce for pickled cabbage can't be made. This is the last four jars this year." He scratched his head at this point, "Actually, I still have A few, but we plan to have one in our family during the Chinese New Year."

Niu Daqian smiled and said: "Then tell them to wait until next year to buy it? It's okay. If you have hope, it's worthless. If you can eat every day, it's worthless. But according to my brother, you can get it last year. Something new, not to mention that it can be sold for a good price during the Chinese New Year, there is always a new trick that can make a name for yourself. Now you, Master Yang, are remembered by many people."

Xiao Yang scratched his head embarrassingly; "That's not what you said well for me, Big Brother Niu. But this new thing... I have to think again."

Wang Erbao protested: "If you really can't think of it, you can sell spicy steamed stuffed buns with vegetarian fillings. I took them to the provincial capital to give the carpenters a taste, and our uncle Li Tou was full of praise after eating it. "

Xiao Yang shook his head at that time: "Of course the pies are delicious when they are freshly made. You have eaten warm ones, but the cold ones are incomparable. And you can't put those things away. If I sell pies, I will have to eat them." I’ve been staring at the city every day.” Having said that, he glanced at Zhu Hai, “I’d better think about other things.”

Er Bao clicked his mouth twice: "Oh, this young couple can't get along for a day!"

Niu Daqian laughed loudly after hearing this: "Xiaoyang, don't worry too much, it doesn't matter if there is really nothing new. It's your first New Year's Eve here, so don't be tired. Brother, that's what I said."

Xiao Yang nodded: "I understand, Brother Niu is also doing it for our own good. By the way, Brother Niu, Mrs. Xianghua asked me to bring him some embroidery thread back home."

When Niu Daqian heard that his daughter-in-law wanted to buy something, he immediately said: "Then wait for me here, and I will go back as soon as I go."

Xiao Yang hurriedly said, "Brother Niu, I'll go with you. Brother Zhu, wait for me here!" After speaking, he followed Niu Daqian out of the back room.Only Zhu Dazhuang and Wang Erbao were left at a loss.

Having settled the account of selling stewed dried beans and spicy cabbage last time, Xiao Yang weighed the half of the copper coins in his hand, thinking about not moving the other coins. Baiwen, even the money for a pair of cotton shoes is enough to buy things.What's more, he doesn't want to buy new year's goods yet.It's not easy to walk on such a cold day.In comparison, he would rather go to the market to see if there is any cheap and delicious food that can be stored.But when he turned his head to talk to Zhu Hai, he saw a smirk on his face: "Brother Zhu, what are you laughing at?"

Zhu Hai touched the cotton shoes that Xiaoyang bought for him in his bag, and the smile on his face couldn't be restrained: "I'm happy. My wife bought shoes for me."

Xiaoyang couldn't laugh or cry: "Is this what makes you so happy? I didn't do it myself." In fact, it's not like he doesn't know how to sew.But it is limited to making a patch and sewing a button, which also depends on self-reliance in the orphanage.

"Then I'm happy too!" After speaking, Zhu Hai took the hand of his little lamb: "People say that a good wife is a woman who knows how to love a man with cold feet."

Xiao Yang was embarrassed by this sentence at that time.He saw that Zhu Hai had only bought a new pair of cotton shoes this year, and they were so old that they were several years ago, so they were not warm... Well, he was afraid that his own feet would be cold.But he didn't expect there to be such a "common saying" here? ?Is this a compliment to yourself?But why do you feel like you have been TXed again? "Then sister Cai also gave you shoes before!" It wasn't that he wanted to turn his stomach... It was that he suddenly thought of one of the important events that made him misunderstand that this guy was a straight man.

Zhu Hai suddenly smiled and took it back: "What's the difference? She said it was given to me by his father because he was dressed too big! Daughter-in-law, she is married now, why don't you believe me!"

Xiao Yang burst out laughing immediately: "When did I say I don't believe you anymore? I'm just wondering, why didn't you think of that sentence when you took other people's shoes?"

Seeing his daughter-in-law smiled, Zhu Hai knew that Xiao Yang was really not angry, and he didn't care about Cai Sihua: "I never cared about her, but I cared about you. That's why I thought of it."

Xiao Yang pursed his lips and gave Zhu Hai a white look: "You really can talk!"

Zhu Hai bared his teeth: "The truth."

After shopping around the market, I bought two catties of mutton and a whole mutton spine.Comrade Xiaoyang didn't catch the goods this time, but a pork shop ordered a pig from Zhu Hai and paid the deposit.This trip is also a double collection of money and goods.You must know that the slaughter price of pigs this year was several cents more expensive than usual!But compared to buying from pork dealers, this pork shop is still more economical.It was just that Zhu Hai was asked to help butcher the pigs. Comrade Da Zhuang would not take up the job normally, but this time he had other thoughts.

When returning to the village, there were naturally three people sitting on the donkey cart.Wang Erbao glanced at the mutton they bought, and his mouth became greedy. "It's good to eat hot pot! I also have leek flowers at home, and it's best to eat with meat!"

Xiaoyang grumbled in his heart.Even if you don't come back, your leek flower can't escape the fate of being eaten today! "Go home and grind some sesame paste with sesame seeds, and mix it with chive flowers to taste better. By the way, Brother Zhu, are you going to send the pig over yourself the day after tomorrow?"

Zhu Hai nodded: "Yes. Don't follow me. There's nothing to see about killing pigs."

Xiao Yang grinned: "I don't want to go to the pig slaughter! But don't forget to bring back the goods they don't want!"

Zhu Hai smiled and agreed: "Okay. Not only will I bring back the goods, but I also have to bring back the pig's blood. I haven't eaten it after hearing what you said last time." This is his important purpose for taking on this job!

Wang Erbao rubbed his chin: "It's good to have a wife! You two have no attitude in your eyes, tsk tsk tsk, it makes my brother want to marry a wife and go home!"

Xiaoyang glanced at Wang Erbao: "Brother Wang, you have to hurry up. You can't wait for someone to fall from the sky to give it to you?"

Er Bao pouted: "What's wrong with that? Didn't you just fall from the sky to be Da Zhuang's wife!"

As soon as the voice of this sentence fell to the ground, the three of them suddenly heard a "gudong" from the left.There was quite a commotion, followed by three people who turned their heads, and found a man in a red shirt lying in the forest by the roadside.Based on the sounds heard before, it can be imagined that this person fell from above into the snow.And Xiaoyang found that there were no footprints on the surrounding snow, so this person definitely did not fall from the edge.Realizing this, he felt a little hair on the back of his spine.

But the surprise was the surprise. When they saw someone lying in the snow, they still couldn't just pretend they didn't see it.So all three jumped out of the donkey cart and ran over together.

Wang Erbao quickly squatted in front of the man in red, and tested his breath with his fingers: "I still have some energy." After speaking, he looked around and then at the sky. "Did it really fall from the sky?"

"What nonsense are you talking about! Hurry up and get him up, or he'll freeze to death!" Zhu Hai was about to reach out his hand after speaking, but Wang Erbao took the first step and hugged him up.