After being forced to marry a butcher

Chapter 22

 When Li Lerong returned home, he said that Liu Guiying was out of breath, so he dragged them, the surviving senior female elders, to the door of Du Yulan's house.

After a quarrel, the entire Taoyuan Village knew that Du Yulan had done this.

"Oh, don't let others say that my family has poked my family's heart." "

Who says it's not, in fact, it's all unfounded, and if someone's family is still alive, isn't it all restrained?" "

That's right, she didn't take care of Dazhuang from the time he got married, and he didn't see how it went. The life is still prosperous, and he just got a fat boy." Du Yulan was crying at home, and her son Li Quansheng mentioned it

. He went to the door of Li Qingshan's house to make an apology, but Li Qingshan kicked him out as soon as he came in, and said that he would never have any contact with his family again.

Li Quansheng went home and blamed Du Yulan: "Mom, what are you doing? I was bullied before, and Brother Qingshan turned towards me, but now he doesn't even let me in. How can you say such a thing? This Darling, I just can't do it!"

This is a later story, right now we still have to make good preparations for the three feasts of the big dealer.

Three tables of banquets is not much, but sixteen dishes.

In the afternoon, Dazhuang brought tables, chairs, and dishes for banquets from the village ancestral hall, all of which had to be washed from the upper reaches of the La River. Li Qingshan told him to do his homework first, and he helped him to the riverside.

Da Zhuang hammered Li Qingshan's shoulder, good brother, everything is said and done.

Aunt Zhuang also knew about Du Yulan at this time, and said to Cong Chunhua: "Don't listen to her nonsense, why are you unlucky? The green hills have grown up, and the daughter-in-law you married will only get better and better in the future. Besides Now, I want you to do it, your skill is amazing, my in-laws are just thinking about it!"

Cong Chunhua laughed. When she first heard Du Yulan's words, she was a little sad, but with so many people in her family protecting her, after thinking about it, she felt that there was no need to worry about irrelevant people in the future.

In the afternoon, everything should be prepared, and before dawn the next day, Li Qingshan and Uncle Zhuang went to the county town to pick up the chicken and fish that were ordered yesterday.

For the willow fish, they wash the vegetables in the yard and cut everything that needs to be cut first.

In addition to the two stoves in the stove room of Li Qingshan's house, the stove was set up at the gate of the courtyard yesterday, and Dazhuang moved out his two iron pots and set them up outside. Sister Dazhuang helped to light the fire, and Liu Yu first steamed the rice with brown sugar and glutinous rice.

The glutinous rice was soaked last night, and each grain has absorbed enough water. Brush the bottom of the bowl with thin oil, spread red dates, sweet and sour candied fruit each, sprinkle brown sugar on top of glutinous rice, then sprinkle honey beans, candied dates, then spread glutinous rice brown sugar, heat water and steam in a pot.

The people in Taoyuan Village woke up today amidst a burst of sweet fragrance.

The voice of beating a child came from many houses, "Forget it if you are greedy!"

As a result, I was a little drooling when I heard it, thinking that I must be greedy today!

The brown sugar glutinous rice and eight-treasure rice are steamed, and Li Qingshan and the others are back.

Cong Chunhua took care of the most time-consuming elbow and stewed it in the pot first.

Li Qingshan said to Liu Yu: "Mother's elbows are excellent, this is a dish that Da Zhuang ordered!" Elbows are

rare and expensive, even though they need a lot of spices to make, it's not good to put them on the table Cost-effective. But it doesn't matter if the number of tables washed for three banquets is small.

The dishes were all agreed upon by Liu Yu and Cong Chunhua, so he naturally knew about it.

Li Qingshan said: "In a few days, I will collect the woolen pig, and I will save an elbow for mother to stew for you and grandma to taste."

Then do you want to do business, one elbow sells for a lot of money, Liu Yu thought.

However, this is Li Qingshan's wish, Liu Yu nodded sympathetically.

In the early days, the preparations were well prepared and there were many people who helped, so the noodles were made very quickly.

It's just that the people in Taoyuan Village have suffered a lot. The smell of meat has not stopped all morning, and they can hardly eat their own food. They all think that when the children of Dazhuang are full moon wine, they will have to eat a big meal to satisfy their hunger.

The relatives of Da Zhuang's family arrived one after another, three tables of banquets were placed in the front yard, Li Qingshan and several younger brothers of Da Zhuang helped to serve the dishes.

The braised elbow is soft and rotten in the mouth, the carp with scallion oil is tender, light and refreshing, the stewed crispy meat is crispy, hot and sour, salty and fresh...every dish is applauded, and a glutinous rice and brown sugar eight-treasure rice has become the favorite of children , so that the adults are embarrassed to put down their chopsticks.

The host and guest enjoyed the meal, and several vegetarian dishes were also cleaned up and eaten.

Cong Chunhua is very happy, she doesn't care if she earns more or less, but she has to prove to others that the craftsmanship passed down to her by her mother is not bad.

After lunch, there is the ceremony of "cleaning the three". Because the things added to the pots are finally given to the grandma who was born, so except for the uncle Zhuang who added more, everyone else added a few pennies or even some dates. Forget about happy fruits like chestnuts and chestnuts.

Liu Yu also went to add ten Wen, and waited until the full moon wine time to spend more.

After seeing off the guests, Mrs. Zhuang asked Cong Chunhua to cook the rest of the meat and vegetables, and the family sat down with Li Qingshan's family to make do with a meal.

This is the case with weddings. The host's family is busy entertaining guests and arranging things, so they can't eat well at all.

By the time everything was cleaned up and cleaned, it was already evening.

After a busy day, the jackets on their bodies smelled of smoke. The family boiled water to take a bath. Liu Yu dried his hair by the stove by the embers of the fire, and hurried into the bed to warm up.

It was getting colder and colder this day, Li Qingshan saw him shivering when he entered the room.

"It's just passed the frost, what are you going to do when it's winter?" Li Qingshan climbed into bed, the bed was completely cold, he unbuttoned his clothes, asked Liu Yu to put his hands on his waist to warm up, and hugged Liu Yu in arms.

His firepower was strong, his chest was warm, and Liu Yu's face felt warm when pressed against it, "It's too cold here."

Li Qingshan helped him cover his other cold ear, "I'll buy you a Tang Pozi in two days. "

Mother already has one, and I have to buy another one for grandma, Li Qingshan silently planned in his heart.

Liu Yu rubbed against his arms, suddenly remembered something, got up and searched on the wooden box, and handed Li Qingshan a folded handkerchief.

Li Qingshan took it slowly, a little unbelievable, "For me?"

Liu Yu straightened the quilt and nodded.

Li Qingshan opened the veil suspiciously, and a corner of the veil was embroidered with a big silver-gray dog ​​sitting upright, sticking out its tongue and eyes black as if waiting for its owner to pet or feed it.

Li Qingshan couldn't believe it, when did his gentle husband learn to swear at people around the bush!

"This is me?"

Liu Yu blinked slightly and said, "This is a dog."

Li Qingshan looked at him in disbelief, and Liu Yu looked at him calmly.

After a while, Li Qingshan snorted softly, folded up the handkerchief and put it away carefully in his pocket, then grabbed Liu Yu's leg and pulled down, directly throwing Liu Yu down, "Little liar!" Liu Yu was

caught He couldn't stop laughing, and tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.

Li Qingshan stopped his movements, and quietly lay on Liu Yu's body, staring at him firmly.

With such gentle eyes, Liu Yu's face became hot, and his eyelashes trembled slightly and he lowered his eyes.

Li Qingshan lowered his head and rubbed Liu Yu's nose with his nose.

Liu Yu understood, and put her arms around Li Qingshan's neck.

Li Qingshan smiled and kissed Liu Yu.

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Spring is born in a room.

After eating on the second day, the family first went to the field to collect all the cabbages and radishes planted on the ground. In this way, except for the unretting ramie and the mustard in the vegetable field in front of the house and in the backyard, all the farm work at home was done years ago.

Cabbages and radishes are piled up in the yard, which ones are to be dried in the cellar, and which ones are to be made into sauerkraut and pickles.

Li Qingshan exchanged the 1,500 Wen in his and Liu Yu's hands with Cong Chunhua for 1, 25, and took another 200 Wen to carry on his body. He took his guy and even pushed the cart out the door. .

This time, the money he and Liu Yu had saved for a while was only fifteen Wen.

A few days ago, when Cong Chunhua went to the county town to buy things with the people from the big dealer, the nine handkerchiefs embroidered by Liu Yu were also asked to take her to the cloth shop in the city to sell. The ruler silk cloth bought five bundles of embroidery thread, and gave Cong Chunhua the rest of the money.

Now Liu Yu only has what he saved before and what he got at the market that day, a total of one hundred and ninety-one coins.

However, he is not in such a hurry now.

Years ago, there was no shortage of food at home, and cotton clothes. Cong Chunhua also had three taels of silver in his hand, enough to last for a long time. He could get some money from embroidering handkerchiefs and selling rice cracker candies. Li Qingshan's career as a butcher has gradually started. On track, everything is going in the right direction.

Liu Yu finished counting the money and left the house. The cabbage had just been brought back from the field, and the water was high, so it had to be dried in the yard for a few days before running out of water and putting it in the cellar.

Today's job is to clean the cellar, wash clothes, and then cut some radishes and dry them, which is very brisk.

Li Qingshan pushed the cart all the way to Zhu Zhuang, after the incident with the cows last time, he came to Zhu Zhuang twice to help Zhu Xing with pigs, many people in Zhu Zhuang already recognized him, and when they saw him in the village, they immediately went to Zhu Zhuang. Ask him what he's here for.

Li Qingshan said: "I'm here to collect the woolen pigs."

Because Zhu Xing has a good way of raising pigs, each family feeds a lot of pigs. Hearing that he is here to collect the woolen pigs, they all come up to ask whether the pigs have been slaughtered now Ask for a price.

"What's the price of a hairy pig?"

Li Qingshan said: "It's hard to say, I have to go to see the pigs, the ones with fat buttocks, big backs, and wide backs can't be less than ten renminbi, and the next order is nine renminbi." The price is right

, Anyone who wants to sell pigs invites Li Qingshan to visit the pigs.

Li Qingshan first followed to the nearest one, and chatted on the way: "Brother Qingshan is going to be a butcher in the future?"

Li Qingshan nodded, "The river is about to freeze, and the pier is closed, so it is difficult to find work in winter. You have to find a way out now."

The man said: "It's better if you have skills."

Li Qingshan smiled, "It's not as good as the one with a lot of land, I'm just getting started."

He is humble and polite, he is young and handsome, and people like him very much. The first lady couldn't help but ask: "Li Tuhu, are you married?" Is it done?"

"It's done." The smile on Li Qingshan's face deepened, "It was done in July." The

aunt was a little regretful when she heard the words, this Li Qingshan looks so good, and now he is a butcher. It's not bad, it's really hard to find someone with a lantern. It's a pity that Li Qingshan got married, otherwise she really wanted to tell him about her niece.

Li Qingshan went to several houses and picked the fattest one. The master borrowed a large scale, tied the pig's limbs, and the two carried one piece onto the scale.

Zhuzhuang is really good at raising pigs. Ordinary pigs weigh only 140 to 50 catties, but this one weighs more than 160 catties. Li Qingshan paid the money on the spot, the family was overjoyed from ear to ear, the pigs that had been fed for more than ten months were not in vain.

Li Qingshan pushed the pig all the way home, and when he arrived at Taoyuan Village, the villagers were very surprised to see him push such a big fat pig, "Qingshan, what is this?" Li Qingshan said: "

Uncle, I collected this in Zhuzhuang. Butcher pigs and sell them in the county town."

Everyone in the village knew that he spent money to go to Heshan County to learn from a teacher, but he came back after a short visit, and they didn't see him doing anything related to butchers after he came back, and they thought he didn't learn much. People are cheating money. Who would have imagined that if this is not the case, it would be a blockbuster!

Seeing that this big, fat pig can't come down without a tael of silver, the man happily said: "Okay! Leave two catties for uncle." The nephew is going to be a butcher, and the

uncle has no choice but to support it, let alone what happened yesterday The smell of meat in the three banquets is really greedy!

The others were also happy, thinking that there was a butcher in the village that would make it easier to buy meat in the future, and secondly thinking that they would not be afraid of other butchers coming to lower the price of pigs in the future, how could Qingshan cheat uncles like him!

"Then do you give pigs?"

Li Qingshan nodded, "A pig costs eight cents a pig, and a slaughtered pig costs twenty cents. But in our village, a pig is paid five cents, and a pig is killed for a catty of meat."

Look, isn't this the benefit of being a craftsman in the village? This makes people feel happy. Li Qingshan's uncles all said that they will help him butcher pigs tomorrow.

Li Qingshan pushed the pig home, and the three of them left their work to welcome them.

Cong Chunhua looked at the big fat pig with a throbbing heart.

Li Qingshan said: "One, two or six is ​​too much."

This is a lot of money, Cong Chunhua is actually a little uncertain, but she didn't say it, she just said: "Hurry up and drive the pig into the pigsty, it will be uncomfortable to tie it all the way. "

Li Qingshan nodded, and after driving the pig into the pigsty, he said to the three of them: "This pig should not be fed today, just feed it some water, so as not to kill it tomorrow." The three of them wrote it down, Liu Yu

went The kitchen poured a bowl of warm water for Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan gulped it all down, and Liu Yu asked: "Are you hungry?"

When Li Qingshan went out in the morning, Liu Yu wanted to bake some pancakes for him, but Li Qingshan said that he would come back soon without any trouble, but this time It has been more than two hours since I went there once, and they all had lunch at home.

Li Qingshan nodded, and Liuyu asked again: "What do you want to eat?"

The corners of Li Qingshan's mouth raised, "Don't pick, you can eat whatever you want."

It is not easy to cook at three o'clock a day, because the pot is hot in the dog days, and the pot is cold in the winter. Li Qingshan didn't pick and choose, he just ate whatever was on the dinner table.

Liu Yu glanced at him and went to the kitchen to prepare lunch for him.

It was very hot during the rush, Li Qingshan washed his hands and face and went to sit on the porch, only then did he see his mother making new shoes, he asked a question.

Cong Chunhua smiled and said, "This is the cloth that brother Yu cut for me."

Liu Yu originally planned to do it by himself, but he wanted to embroider handkerchiefs and handle the things sold at the big market, how could Cong Chunhua be willing to call him After doing so much work, I simply did it myself.

Needless to say, Li Qingshan knew that the unfinished new shoes on Liuyu's stool belonged to him.