Author: cool beauty

After three o'clock in the afternoon, another regular customer came to the door. He smelled the aroma in the store and saw the still smoking braised chicken. He shouted excitedly: "Bring me half a chicken. You didn't tell me earlier. It's me."

My neighbor came to buy some in the morning, and I didn’t know you still had braised chicken.”

"Okay! Wait a minute, sir!" Xiao Hong quickly cut half a chicken for him. After he chose it, he wrapped half of the chicken in lotus leaves, put it in the basket, picked up the scale and weighed it for him: "Three

It’s 6 taels per catty, excluding the basket which weighs 2 jins, the chicken is 6 taels per catty, which costs two yuan per catty, so the total is three yuan.”

"Tsk, tsk, this is too expensive." The uncle said that it was expensive, but he still honestly paid for it and handed the lunch box to her: "I am a regular customer of your family, where are your parents? I bought it from them.

When I go to school, they will give me a spoon of soup."

His father was greedy for cheap and bought the braised food that others were in urgent need of. The price was cheaper than this place, and the taste was also worse than his place. In the end, he settled on their place.

"Uncle, let me give you a spoonful of soup." Xiao Hong gave him a spoonful of soup: "My parents went to pick lotus leaves."

There are not many plastic bags now and they are expensive.

Most of them use straw, oil paper, net bags, and cloth bags to hold various items, which can be recycled.

And lotus leaves have even more uses.

You can wrap the braised chicken and braised meat when you pick them now, and you can also wrap them after they are dried, which will also add a bit of lotus leaf fragrance.

There were many ponds near Houzhai Town with lotus leaves planted in them. They looked for the pond where they were going to dig lotus roots, and for a little money they could pick a lot of lotus leaves.

After that, customers came one after another to buy braised meat, and some came to eat dumplings and wontons, but there were not as many customers as in the morning.

Seeing that it was already half past six in the evening, there was still half a braised pig head and a plate of dumpling fillings left, so Zhao Laosi sent them to the refrigerator of the pork seller Liu Qiang's house.

Yanyan looked at her mother and two sisters expectantly: "When will our family buy a refrigerator?"

The last sentence can hardly conceal his foodie nature: "If you have a refrigerator, you can freeze your own popsicles and eat them. Soda and watermelon are also more delicious if they are chilled."

"You're a greedy little cat, you just know how to eat!" Wu Julan scolded with a smile: "Refrigerators are very expensive, it will take us a few years to buy one."

"We have made money, so we can buy it next year." Xiao Hong also feels that it is too inconvenient not to have a refrigerator: "We sell braised food, and a refrigerator is indispensable. We can't borrow others' often."

Xiao Fang also echoed: "And with a refrigerator, you can make more braised food, so you don't have to worry about it going rancid overnight."

Wu Julan heard the same thing, but when she thought that the refrigerator cost thousands of dollars, she felt heartbroken as if it were a piece of meat, so she simply said carelessly: "It's almost autumn now, let's wait until next summer?"

Yanyan was not disappointed either. When she heard the voice from the Huang family's TV next door, her soul seemed to be taken away: "Mom, should I go to Aunt Huang's house to watch TV?"

"Okay, let's go!" There are many houses with TV sets in the town, especially since they all have shops. At least half of the houses have TV sets.

Before Wu Julan finished speaking, Yanyan flew out like a real swallow.

She smiled helplessly, then looked at her two daughters who were still helping her clean up the kitchen, and whispered softly: "You guys should also watch some TV. We will all be neighbors from now on, so don't be embarrassed."

Nowadays, it is really normal for neighbors to visit us with bowls in hand.

Xiao Fang smiled lightly: "I don't like watching TV. I'll read a book later."

Xiao Hong also refused: "I want to take a bath and wash my hair."

She didn't want to be in the food business before because the smell of braised meat and cooking could easily get on her body.

Anyway, after spending time in the kitchen today, she felt like a delicious suckling pig.

If she didn't take a shower, she would never be able to sleep.

"You just love to be clean." Although Wu Julan said this, she also hurried to see if there was hot water in the kettle on the stove.

"By the way, Mom." Xiao Hong finally found the opportunity, approached her and asked in a low voice: "Do you have any toilet paper? Get me a pack."

Nowadays, in big cities, there are already two-cent sanitary napkins, but in the countryside, you can't see them.

Xiao Hong had gone to the supply and marketing cooperative to ask privately before, but they also said there was no stock.

Nowadays, everyone usually uses rough square-shaped straw paper. During women's special period, they use rolls of toilet paper and sanitary belts that are particularly absorbent.

She is now eager to go to the city and buy some supplies that will make her feel better.

"Yes, you go get it yourself, it's in the drawer." After Wu Julan finished speaking, she whispered to her: "If that one comes, can't you wash your hair and take a shower with cold water?"

"I know." Xiao Hong asked as if unintentionally: "Mom, when did you come here last time?"

But Wu Julan obviously didn't understand the underlying meaning of her daughter's words: "After I gave birth to Yanyan, I was not normal. Sometimes it takes two months to come."

Not only was she not worried, she was also looking forward to it coming later. It would be better not to come at all, so as not to be inconvenient during those few days.

Seeing her happy face, Xiao Hong was almost depressed to death.

What can she do?

Judging from the way she hasn't swollen yet, you can't say you're pregnant.

Or, when her belly gets bigger, will she still think she is fat?

Thinking of this, Xiao Hong bit her lower lip, suppressed her smile, turned around and went upstairs to pack her clothes and prepare to take a shower.

After buying this new house, what makes Xiao Hong most satisfied is that there are squatting pits and showers on both floors.

When she finished taking a shower, rubbed her hair with a dry towel and returned to her room, she saw that the door to Xiao Fang's room was open and she was still studying at her desk.

She walked in and said lazily: "It's been a busy day today, so you should hurry up and take a shower and go to bed early."

Xiao Fang didn't even raise her head: "Okay, wait until I make another paper."

Xiao Hong really admired her: "I think you really love studying, don't you feel tired?"

"Don't be tired, the knowledge you learn belongs to you." Xiao Fang then turned to look at her and said seriously: "Studying is much easier than working in the fields. We can have such good learning conditions now.

, we don’t want to live up to it, it would be great to broaden our horizons when we go to college.”

Xiao Hong could only nod.

Okay, it's thanks to my biological sister that she feeds myself chicken soup for the soul from time to time, hoping to work hard myself.

She said: "Let's take the time to go to the city and buy a tape recorder? We can also improve our English by buying some English tapes."

In Zhaocun, it was useless to buy this thing because there was no electricity at home.

She found battery-powered recorders too bulky.

Xiao Fang was a little excited, but also a little worried: "Will it cost a lot of money? Why don't we borrow Xinning's tape recorder?"

"No, it's more convenient to have it yourself." What Xiao Hong didn't want the most was to get too close to the Xu family.

Putting herself in her shoes, if Xu Xinning was her son, she would not be happy to see him secretly borrowing money and valuable things for the sake of falling in love, delaying his own studies.
Chapter completed!