After being forced to marry a butcher

Chapter 51

When Liu Yu came home, the atmosphere became more relaxed, and Cong Chunhua had already reheated their breakfast. After eating, the three of them went to the market with baskets on their backs.

This is the last big fair in the village a few years ago. It has a sense of the New Year. There are more stalls than usual. Cong Chunhua picks and buys the new year's goods at the right price. I'll buy it when Twenty Seven goes to the county town to catch the new year's fair.

There are actually quite a lot of new year's goods to buy, not to mention the dishes and meat for the New Year's Eve dinner, but it costs a lot of money to paste the blessing characters and couplets on the doors of the house.

In previous years, the family had no money, and Cong Chunhua had to deal with it just to save money. This year, the family not only has more people, but also lives a better life. In this regard, money cannot be saved, and we have to pay attention to it.

With money, who doesn't want to have a festive year.

This year is the year of the dog, so there are more people who put on window grilles and cut dogs. Liu Yuben suggested to Cong Chunhua to buy red rice paper and cut them out by themselves.

Both he and grandma can embroider, so cutting window grilles is not difficult. But after seeing a silly dog ​​with pricked ears lying on the ground with a smiley face on the market, with a character 福 on its body and a character wang in its mouth, Liu Yu held back his smile and said to Cong Chunhua: " Mother, let's buy this."

Cong Chunhua is not a harsh mother-in-law, so there is no one who does not follow her, this thing has to be bought in pairs, and it costs 30 yuan to buy two, which shows that the price of paper is low. how expensive.

Otherwise, even people with abundant years of land would be reluctant to send their children to study. What is expensive is not Shuxiu, but pens, inks, papers and inkstones. How can they afford to rely solely on the output of the land.

Cong Chunhua bought a new portrait of the Stove Lord at this stall, and bargained for the price of the three items together so that the stall owner would give him two cents cheaper.

As for the blessing characters and couplets at home, I went to the county town to cut red paper during the annual collection, and brought some things to ask people who are good at writing in the village to help write it.

"Let's buy another pair of red lanterns and hang them up!" The pair of red lanterns were still usable when Li Qingshan and Liu Yu got married before, so I bought another pair and hung a pair at the gate of the courtyard and a pair in front of the main room during Chinese New Year. The taste of the year.

In addition, Cong Chunhua also bought two chickens from an old woman, one for them to eat during Chinese New Year, and the other for Li Qingshan's family on the second day of the new year.

The three of them don't know much about fireworks and firecrackers, they can't pick out the good and the bad, and they don't know the price, so they have to wait for Li Qingshan's annual collection to see and buy.

There were not many other dry goods, new bowls and chopsticks, and candies. Cong Chunhua didn't like any of them. After discussing with Mrs. Guan, she still waited to go to the county to buy them. So I finally bought 30 eggs, carried them carefully, and went home.

When I got home, I started steaming the steamed buns. I took out the dough that had been raised last night, sprinkled some flour on the chopping board, and kneaded the dough repeatedly until the dough was cut and there were no air holes.

After the dough is kneaded, knead it into thick and long strips and divide it into equal doses. Knead it back and forth with your hands to form a round shape. Cover the curtain and wake up for another quarter of an hour before steaming in a pot. The three of them had no other jobs at home, so they worked hard on it.

Round, square, green onion, salt and pepper rolls, and sweet brown sugar steamed buns, but the latter three types are less, and I am afraid that they will not be able to stand.

When the steamed buns are ready, the bun fillings are adjusted. The meat ones include cabbage and pork, scallions and sauced meat, and the vegetarian ones are only made with eggs and fragrant. Three kinds of fillings, steamed after wrapping, then frozen, and eaten hot for breakfast.

At noon, the three of them ate freshly baked hot steamed buns. They tried all three fillings of willow fish. They liked the sauced meat the most.

In the afternoon, the tofu maker at the entrance of the village sent all the ten catties of tofu ordered by Liuyu. According to Cong Chunhua's instructions, a small piece of Liuyu was reserved for dinner, and the rest were cut into small pieces and frozen outside. frozen tofu.

Li Qingshan on the other side was not idle either, he closed the stall and went to Zhuzhuang to help Zhu Xingyou kill pigs. Butchering pigs for him, Li Qingshan doesn't need money, Zhu Xingyou didn't treat him politely, saying that he would invite him to drink on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. Naturally, Li Qingshan will invite him after the next year.

Besides him, Zhuzhuang is a big village, and the more pigs are fed, the more people kill the pigs. Li Qingshan started his business in this farm, and many people even sold pigs to him, it was a good fortune, the price Li Qingshan asked was cheaper than other places, only fifteen yuan a head.

Everyone in Zhuzhuang praised Li Qingshan for his benevolence.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day of the New Year's Collection. Early in the morning, Li Qingshan slaughtered three pigs and two sheep, and helped Uncle Li's family slaughter the New Year's pig. Uncle Li's family spent a lot of money because of Li Suzhi's affairs. This year, the pigs will keep some meat for themselves, and the rest will be sold for money, so as to have a good year.

Naturally, Li Qingshan wouldn't take money from it, he just loaded the pig together on a cart and pulled it to a stall to sell, and he would give Uncle Li whatever it sold for.

Today, apart from Wu Tong's pregnancy, Uncle Li's family stayed at home for fear of being crowded, and even Xianhu and sister Tian also went to the street to join in the fun. So Li Qingshan killed so many pigs and sheep, Uncle Li's cart can also help pull some of them.

The old lady Guan felt that she was not physically strong, so she didn't plan to go, but Cong Chunhua said that the New Year's Fair only came once a year, so she had to be dragged to watch the excitement anyway, and she couldn't be left alone at home, so they took them with them when they went to the official road. The mule cart that Xianhu and Sister Tian went to take.

Cong Chunhua paid for it and asked Liu Guiying and Mrs. Lin to sit down too.

Liu Yu and Li Lerong didn't sit down, they were still young, they just chatted and followed Li Qingshan and the others.

To do business, they set out quite early, but when they arrived in the county, they found that there were many stalls on the street. Fortunately, Li Qingshan's booth is a long-term lease, so he is not afraid of being taken away if he arrives late.

Liu Yu and Li Qinghe helped Li Qingshan set up a stall here, and the others took advantage of the fact that there were not many people on the street to go shopping and compare prices.

But cutting the meat is early, before the other stalls opened, Li Qingshan's meat stall was already full of people. There are a lot of people who come to buy meat on this day. Looking at the hundreds of catties of meat, fifty or sixty customers will be allotted.

After collecting the money from the stall, Li Qingshan and Li Qinghe pulled the cart outside the city, lest there would be more and more people on the street and it would be difficult to get out of the city with the cart.

Someone outside the city has encircled a lot of land, specializing in the business of looking at cars. Each car costs a penny, and they will be given the right card, and the car will be led by the right card when the time comes. This kind of business is registered in the county government, so we are not afraid of any mistakes.

At this moment, Liu Yu and Li Qingshan have the time to visit the New Year's Market, Cong Chunhua explained in advance that she buys all the things used at home, and Liu Yu picks what she likes and buys what she likes.

The most important fish to buy during the Chinese New Year, yesterday Li Qingshan bought two fish weighing three catties, and raised them at home, today he just bought some candies and drinks. Although Li Qingshan doesn't drink, but when he entertains guests after the new year, he must prepare some wine at home.

There were many people on the street, and they all stared at the stalls on the street to watch the excitement, Liu Yu was not afraid of being looked at, and held Li Qingshan's arm, calling Li Qingshan beautiful, "The wine jar is not easy to hold, let's go shopping first Buy some food for fun, and buy wine at the end."

Liu Yu nodded, and stood next to Li Qingshan, with a smile in her eyes like honey in her heart.

Although I need to save money to buy a mule cart, I can't be short of it for the New Year. Candy, candied fruit, snacks, willow fish taste good, and I bought some of them.

In addition to red paper, lanterns, lamp oil, incense and paper money for New Year's sacrifices, wine, firecrackers, and new bowls and chopsticks, etc., Liu Yu did the math after arriving home, and spent more than one or two taels of silver on the day of the New Year's Collection.

However, this includes the wine and snacks prepared when going to Li Qingshan's natal family after the year, as well as the cloth for Mrs. Cong, etc. It is not too much to spend a good year.

Cong Chunhua took a tael of silver from her to make up for Liu Yu, so that they could buy the mule cart quickly, and in this way, Liu Yu had more than twelve or six hundred cash in his hand.

"We'll work hard for a while after the new year, and when we save up to fourteen taels of silver, we can buy mules."

Twelve taels are the price of horse mules, and the other two taels are the cost of doing business.

Looking at the white silver ingots, Li Qingshan was also happy in his heart, "It's not for nothing in the past three months!"

Liu Yu looked at his rough face but was full of distress.

He closed the money box, sat on Li Qingshan's lap, put his arms around his neck, and looked at Li Qingshan's face with fixed eyes.

Li Qingshan looked at him and asked him: "What are you looking at?"

Liu Yu rested his head on Li Qingshan's shoulder, stretched out his hand to touch his face and said, "It's a lot rougher."

Li Qingshan knew that he felt sorry for him, so he moved his legs and weighed him, Deliberately making him happy, "Ten years from now, when the two of us are walking on the road together, people will say that I am a bad old man and married such a beautiful young man." "

What are you talking about!" Liu Yu didn't like to hear him , buried his face on Li Qingshan's neck, and said sullenly: "We are the best match at any time."

Li Qingshan couldn't stop laughing at Fu Lang's mindless protection.

The two hugged for a while, put the money box away, and then went out to work again.

Liuyu and Cong Chunhua were originally scheduled to stew meat and boil pork skin for jelly tomorrow, but Li Qingshan said that his uncle in the village had helped their family a lot in the past, and this year he became a butcher, wanting to honor his uncle and clan elders. After discussing with Cong Chunhua, Liu Yu and Cong Chunhua decided to boil the pork skin jelly today, keep it cold overnight, and give it away tomorrow.

This is a lot of cooking, two big pots are put into battle, Cong Chunhua and Mrs. Guan clean up the pig skins, Li Qingshan starts to kill the chicken and fish for the New Year's Eve dinner, and the willow fish is helping him to scoop up water to rinse, and there are things to do .

After slaughtering the chickens and fish, find hemp ropes and hang them on the shelves outside, so that after the twenty-eighth, there will be no more blood from the knife.

After finishing these things, Liu Yu will not ask Li Qingshan to work any more, "You have worked hard for so long, let's go to the house and rest." "

You all work, so it's not good for me to be idle in the house."

Liu Yu The fish hand is doing it, let Li Qingshan put down the sleeves that were rolled up just now, "What's the matter, it's all a family. Besides, it's all the work in front of the stove, so there's nothing for you to do "

Li Qingshan was really tired after being busy for a while, he listened to Liu Yu's words, went into the house to heat up the kang in their room, washed his feet with boiling water, and then fell asleep on the bed.

On the way, Liuyu entered the house and tucked the quilt for him, and went back to the kitchen. When Cong Chunhua asked, Liuyu smiled and said, "I slept so deeply, I was tired, and I snored.

" Seeing it in his eyes, there is no one who doesn't feel distressed, and heard the words: "Then you have enough sleep tomorrow!"

Seeing that it was almost time to make dinner, Liu Yu said to Cong Chunhua: "Mom, I'll buy another piece of fresh tofu Well, the fried tofu made the day before yesterday, Qingshan said it was delicious."

Cong Chunhua nodded and smiled.