After being forced to marry a butcher

Chapter 13

 After paying the money, Liu Yu asked: "Can the shopkeeper accept nets and embroidered handkerchiefs here?"

Generally speaking, the cloth shop and the embroidery shop are separate, but in small counties, it is inevitable that cloth shops will buy some small handkerchiefs. , Xiuzhuang sells beautiful silk cloth.

Only now did Liu Yu ask this question when he saw the handkerchiefs on the shelves beside him.

The shopkeeper paused when receiving the fabric, seeing that Liu Yu was also a dexterous boy, he asked, "Do you have any embroidery with me? Let me have a look."

Liu Yu took out the breakfast from the basket. Show the shopkeeper the prepared nets and handkerchiefs.

The zipper is the leftover material of the previous wedding dress. The willow fish is cut into cloth threads and woven with a little other fabric. There are auspicious knots, pan-length knots, auspicious cloud knots and group brocade knots. The small net bag like a purse, if it is a jade pendant hanging on the waist, it will definitely look good.

The shopkeeper was even more surprised when he looked at the two embroidered handkerchiefs, "Ah, this is southern embroidery?"

Most of Qingzhou's embroidery is Lu embroidery and hemp embroidery. The embroidery is a little rough, and the patterns are mainly freehand. The stitches of South Embroidery are delicate and solid, the patterns are graceful and realistic, and each has its own merits.

However, it is always strange to see a different South Embroidery in a place where Lu Embroidery and Ma Embroidery are prevalent.

"The embroidery is pretty good, but it's a pity that it's cotton cloth."

Otherwise, with this embroiderer, you should be able to get a good price. The shopkeeper asked the price, "I'll take these four simple knots at five yuan each, and the other One counts eight Wen. How about ten handkerchiefs?"

One foot of cloth can make two handkerchiefs. If you want to buy this white cotton cloth, it is still ten yuan a foot, plus the cost of embroidery thread, Liu Yu said: "The handkerchiefs Thirteen pennies."

The shopkeeper agreed after a moment of hesitation, thinking that these two handkerchiefs should sell well.

Liu Yu got fifty-four cash, spent forty cash to tear two feet of silk cloth, and bought two bundles of embroidery threads of other colors, and the shopkeeper gave him two cash cheaper.

Cong Chunhua didn't ask him for the rest of the money, but told him to keep it by himself, and she was very happy with the basket on her shoulders, "Oh, it's good to have a skill!"

Although he just earned a few money and spent it, he will come back sooner or later Yes, Liu Yu also slowly revealed a smile.

Taking advantage of the abundance of pockets and money in her hands, Cong Chunhua made up some things for the family.

Salt is worth a penny, and then I have to make some pickles for the winter, and I bought more, which cost forty pennies.

Oil, vinegar, and soy sauce are often sold by peddlers who go to the countryside, and the family replenishes them in time, so there is not much shortage.

Lamp oil costs forty-eight coins per catty, and it can burn for more than a month per catty, so I bought one catty.

The two of them went back to the grass market to look for Li Qingshan with their things, Li Qingshan had just sold out the rice dumplings, but his mother and husband didn't come, so he didn't dare to look for them, so he could only wait there.

From afar, he saw the smile on his mother's face and the joy in his husband's eyes, Li Qingshan was also happy, and when Cong Chunhua and Liu Yu approached, he asked: "What did you buy?" "Still talking!" Cong Chunhua said with a smile:

" Brother Yu's two handkerchiefs and a few nets sold for fifty-four renminbi!"

"That's amazing!" Li Qingshan smiled.

Liu Yu pursed her lips, "After deducting the cost, it's only about 20 yuan."

"That's amazing!" Li Qingshan subconsciously walked up to Liu Yu.

Liu Yu looked at him, smiling with crooked eyebrows.

Before leaving, I went to the butcher shop and cut another four catties of meat, then two catties will be sent to Uncle Li's house, and two catties will be kept at home for eating.

When the harvest is good and the grain is sold, there must be a meal of meat.

The three talked and laughed and returned home. Cong Chunhua put down all the money and things, and brought two catties of meat to Uncle Li's house.

The sun was getting late, and lunch was mainly fast. I cut a catty of meat and made shredded pork with green peppers. I picked a cabbage from the ground, chopped a small half of it and slipped it away.

After eating, the whole family gathers together and counts today's money, and there are two, two, six hundred and ninety cash left.

Cong Chunhua gave the old lady Guan 20 coins for pocket use, and she took ten coins to go to the dyer's shop in a while, and the remaining 660 coins were kept by Liu Yu as a small private treasury for the young couple, and the other two She took two pieces of silver for flowers at home.

After finishing the arrangements in a hurry, she hugged the cotton cloth she had knitted before and went out with Mrs. Guan.

Only Liu Yu and Li Qingshan are left at home.

Liu Yu went back to the room, found out the original money bag, poured the copper coins together and counted them, there were seven hundred and ninety-seven copper coins in total. Liu Yu counted three copper coins from the remaining ten copper coins and put them in, and put them together.

Exactly eight hundred copper plates.

Liu Yu tied them up with hemp rope, and when he looked up, he saw Li Qingshan looking at him with extremely gentle eyes.

Looking at each other, Liu Yu lowered his head, but Li Qingshan leaned over and hugged him from behind, "From now on, I will definitely let you live a good life." "Yes."

Liu Yu responded lightly.

Li Qingshan turned his head to find Liu Yu's lips and kissed them.

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After the intimacy, Li Qingshan went to punting on the Wubai River to make mud. The compost pit for the five acres of land had already been dug out yesterday, and the only remaining farm work now is to make mud and compost.

But there are still a few days before the cold, so it is enough to take the time to do this job piecemeal, and I have to go to work for everything tomorrow.

After Liu Yu turned over the drying things in the yard, he was ready to go to the granary to dig some millet and pound it.

At this time, Li Lerong brought Xianhu and sister Tian to him to play, "Brother Liuyu, I heard that the second aunt said that she bought you two pieces of very beautiful fabric!

" People doted on him, so he just helped to look after his nephews and nieces, and he didn't have to go to the threshing field anymore.

Liu Yu washed and wiped his hands, and took out the cloth to show him.

Li Lerong gesticulated twice on himself, then on Liu Yu, and said with certainty: "Brother Liu Yu, you must look good in it!" Liu Yu smiled and said, "You

also look good in it."

"Oh my goodness." My mother said that I look like a mud monkey, and I only deserve to wear blue!" Li Lerong felt very regretful, and after carefully folding the fabrics, he helped Liuyu go to the village ancestral hall to pound rice.

There are two kinds of tools for pounding millet. One is that people hold a stick for pounding rice and pound their hands. They swing it high and then drop it hard, which is a bit like pounding garlic. The last time Cong Chunhua secretly used new rice to paste pancakes, she used the stone mortar at home to pound it. This kind of laborious work can only be done in a small amount at a time.

Another kind is the rice pounding pair, which is composed of a stone mortar and a wooden tread. The stone mortar is placed in front, and a person steps on the pedal at one end. When this end is pressed down, the cone at the other end of the stone mortar will be lifted. As soon as the foot is loosened, the cone falls and hits the millet in the stone mortar, which saves a lot of effort compared to the previous one.

After paying the grain tax, the grain can be eaten freely, so Liu Yu planned to pound more at a time, and had to use the pounded rice in the ancestral hall.

"Brother Liuyu, your decision is right!" Li Lerong said: "You don't know how tight it will be after everyone pays the food tax. If you are unlucky, you may not be able to queue for two or three days.

" Everyone felt that it wouldn't be so hard to pound a few catties and eat it first. The fear was that those who pounded rice and wanted to sell corn would really have to wait indefinitely. It's better to go home and use a pounding hand to pound it. . "I heard from my mother that one year the Chen family

spent three days and three nights guarding two pairs of pounding rice."

Compete with them.

After Liu Yu heard this, her eyebrows moved slightly.

The two of them pounded rice each other for an hour, and then Cong Chunhua came with a happy face.

Liu Yu asked: "Mom, where is my grandma?"

"I'm feeding the piglets at home!" Cong Chunhua said very excitedly: "When I was delivering cloth and chatting with people, I found out which house had piglets, so I will stay with your grandma." I went to see it, and brought one of the best food!"

Of course, she didn't bring enough money, so she borrowed it from the dyer, and just returned it to him when she picked up the cloth next time, since they were old acquaintances.

For rural households, buying a pig at home is equivalent to adding a big piece, which is very happy.

Cong Chunhua replaced Liu Yu, telling Liu Yu and Li Lerong to rest and go home to see the little piggy.

By the way, Liu Yu brought home the seven or eight catties of corn that had been pounded. These had to be washed and dried quickly, and then ground into flour at night, and mixed with wheat noodles and soybean noodles to make steamed buns.

Thinking about the steamed bread made of new rice noodles with a bowl of stewed pork and cabbage, Li Lerong is so greedy that he is almost thirsty.

Cong Chunhua smiled and said: "No one can lose you!"

Uncle Li's family's new millet can't be moved without paying the grain tax, and Li Qingshan's family will not lose their share if they do it.

When the two returned home, they first went to the backyard to see the little piggy.

Li Qingshan's father had considered this point when he built the house, the pigsties in the backyard were all built upright. The family has not raised pigs for a while, and the pigsty is full of firewood, which has been cleaned up by now.

There was thick grain and grass on the ground, and the little piglet was basking in the sun and sleeping soundly after eating!

Li Lerong smiled and said: "It's really idle!"

When Cong Chunhua said she wanted to hold the little piglet, the family usually went out to collect firewood and came back with some pigweed, but these hay can only be used as roughage and mixed with pigs to eat eat.

If pigs want to get fat, green feed and concentrated feed are essential.

Concentrated materials are wheat bran, rice bran and bean cakes, etc., which are not lacking in the daily grinding and pounding of rice at home. Green material is the grass that pigs like to eat, such as ryegrass, alfalfa, white clover and so on. But now it is September, and the grass will be gone in another month.

So now we have to mow more grass and save it for fermentation, and then we will mix it with wheat bran and chaff to feed pigs in winter.

Mrs. Guan went out to cut pigweed with a basket and a sickle. Liu Yu washed the corn and then went back to the village ancestral hall to pound the rice. Li Lerong still led Xianhu and sister Tian to follow.

In one afternoon, more than 20 catties of millet were husked, and about 15 to 6 catties of corn were harvested. The chaff was also packed in sacks separately.

Liu Yu went home and fetched the dried corn, which he pushed a stone mill to grind into flour.

The steamed steamed buns of the three-in-one noodles are golden and full of the aroma of grains. Because of the bean flour, the taste is much more delicate, soft and firm, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes.

It was the first time for Mrs. Guan and the willow fish to eat. It was warm, fragrant and sweet after a bite, which really made people happy from the bottom of their hearts.