"The shopping mall counters are out of season, and there are one hundred sets of branded sportswear, which are really worth the money. One hundred, one hundred, you can't buy it and suffer a loss, you can't buy it and be cheated. If you pass by, don't miss it!"

The two siblings stopped and looked in the direction of the sound. It was a stall selling clothes. Dozens of sets of clothes were hung on the nets on three sides. A man held up a loudspeaker and shouted vigorously.<

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After some haggling, one person bought a set for eighty yuan.

Under the strong recommendation of the stall owner, each person spent 30 and bought another one to wear underneath.

At the shoe stall next door, each person bought a pair of sneakers for 100 yuan. The shoe stall owner saw that the siblings had no socks, so he gave each of them a pair of socks.

Put on the sneakers, your feet are soft, the ground is not so harsh, and you feel like walking on clouds.

After walking through the night market, the siblings had a lot of things in their baskets. They bought roast duck for fifteen yuan each, roast chicken for twenty yuan each, a jar of honey for fifty yuan, and apples for three yuan a pound.

Ten pounds.

The apples are big and red, and look like the purple apples they have eaten before, but the apples are bigger and the flesh is crispier and sweeter, leaving a fragrance in your teeth and cheeks after one bite.

When they saw a foldable bathtub being sold, the two of them stood there and looked at it for a while. After learning how to use it, they bought two so that they could boil water for bathing when they got home.

Someone was peeling chestnut balls on the roadside, and a stall was set up next to him. A shout came from the loudspeaker above the stall: "Authentic sugar-fried chestnuts, twenty-one pounds!"

Lin Erhu asked: "Boss, what are you doing peeling off the thorn ball? This thing hurts people."

The boss laughed, "What else can you do? Peel them and sell them! I collected these at the foot of the mountain today and they are fresh. If you buy them raw, I also have a shelling machine here, and you can help peel them for free."
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Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu's eyes lit up when they heard this, "Can this be eaten?"

The boss was unhappy when he heard this. He looked at the two of them as if they were fools, "You don't know Lizi either? Have you never eaten roasted chestnuts? I think you are just here to cause trouble, right?"

Lin Xiaoman waved his hands hurriedly, "No, no, there are so many mountains in the back of our house that we don't even know we can eat them. Boss, can we only stir-fry this with sugar?"

When the boss saw that she didn't look like she was lying, his expression softened a little, and he pointed at the sugar-roasted chestnuts next to him, "I'll tell you if you buy a pound of sugar-roasted chestnuts."

Lin Xiaoman hurriedly took out twenty yuan and handed it over sincerely. Seeing that she was happy, the boss felt a little embarrassed and waved his hand: "I just said it, as if I was forcing you to buy it. Collect the money and I'll tell you

How do you eat it?"

Next, when no one bought chestnuts, the boss told the siblings how to eat chestnuts, including frying them, boiling them, peeling them and stewing them with chicken... The siblings swallowed their saliva after hearing this.

After the boss finished speaking, Lin Xiaoman asked the boss to weigh two kilograms of sugar-fried chestnuts.

This time the boss didn't refuse, he weighed two kilograms and put them in a paper bag and handed them over.

The two siblings thanked each other and walked back. They pinched a roasted chestnut and took a bite. It was really sweet, soft and glutinous, and extremely delicious.

When passing by a grilled sausage stall, Lin Xiaoman gave Lin Erhu fifty yuan and asked him to buy grilled sausages and fish balls.

Perhaps it was the first delicacy they ate here, and the taste made them unforgettable.

After returning home, Lin Xiaoman cooked a pot of gruel. The sister and brother sat at the table and took one bite of the porridge and one bite of meat, and then ate a roasted chestnut with sugar.

"Sister, I didn't expect these chestnuts to be so delicious. There are so many mountains behind us, so I won't worry about going hungry when I pick them back."

Lin Xiaoman seemed not to have heard anything, and her face said that she had something on her mind.

"Sister, this roast chicken is so delicious. I have never eaten it before. The roast duck is also delicious. Let's go buy it tomorrow."

Seeing that Lin Xiaoman still didn't respond, he stretched out his hand and pushed her, and Lin Xiaoman came back to his senses.

"Erhu, do you think it's okay for us to talk to Grandpa Er about the fact that the thorn balls are edible? Then we can pick them back and share them with each other, so we won't be afraid of starvation."

Lin Erhu also agreed very much after hearing this, "I see that since Uncle Daqiang became the patriarch, the hair on his head has become less and less. Dad said it is all because of worry. We told him about the pricking ball, and he

Don’t worry, your hair will fall out less.”

After the siblings agreed, each of them put a handful of fried chestnuts in their pockets and went straight to the patriarch's house.

It was already getting late at this time, and everything was pitch black. The two siblings walked deeper and deeper.

When they arrived at the patriarch's house, the lights had been turned off. Lin Erhu called out from outside the courtyard: "Second Grandpa, Uncle Daqiang, have you all gone to bed?"

There was a response from the room, and not long after, the doors of the two rooms in the main room were pushed open almost at the same time, and Lin Youwang and Lin Daqiang came out wearing clothes.

"It's Xiaoman and Erhu. If you come here so late, is your grandma acting like a monster again? Grandpa Er will take you to vent your anger."

Lin Erhu chuckled and said, "Thank you, Grandpa Er. This time it's not Grandma's fault."

"What's that? Let's go into the house and talk."

Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu followed the two men into the house, and the second mistress also lit the oil lamp.

People in the village are reluctant to light lamps and boil oil, and usually go to bed when it gets dark. Old man Lin and his family will only light the oil in the house all night long when the first cousin comes back from school.

But Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu heard from Lin Goudan that their cousin lit the lamp not just to read the books of sages. Once Goudan saw with his own eyes the book his elder brother had hidden under his pillow, and the men and women in it were all

No clothes.

Lin Xiaoman wanted to wait until she and Erhu saved enough money to buy a house and land there, and then they could light up lights like that at night.

The siblings took out chestnuts from their pockets and put them on the table, "Grandpa Er, Uncle Daqiang, these are the thorn balls that Er Hu and I found when we were picking mushrooms in the mountains today. We fried them with sugar and they turned out delicious.

, try it and see if it can be eaten as food?"

Lin Daqiang frowned, "Nonsense, why do you dare to eat anything? Aren't you afraid of getting poisoned? If you don't have enough food, just come over and tell me, I can still make you hungry... Oops, Dad, what did I say wrong?

Yes, why did you hit me?"

Lin Youwang took back the slap he had just slapped on the back of Lin Daqiang's head, "How many families in the village can have enough to eat this year? The two children are also kind-hearted, they can't just wait to starve to death like you, right?"

Lin Daqiang did not dare to disobey his father, so he could only shut up aggrievedly.

Lin Xiaoman explained, "Uncle Daqiang, this is really not poisonous. My mother made it for us when we were young. I have eaten it since I was a child."

After saying that, he crushed one and handed it to Lin Youwang.

Lin Youwang took it and ate it into his mouth without hesitation. His eyes immediately lit up, "I didn't expect the thorn balls everywhere on the mountain to be so delicious? This time we don't have to go hungry anymore.

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The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and at the end he slapped his son on the back of the head again, "Daqiang, early tomorrow morning call all the people in the village over and let's go up the mountain to pick thorn balls together."

Lin Daqiang heard Lin Xiaoman say that her mother had done it when she was still alive, and he no longer doubted it.

The whole village knows that Xiaoman’s mother-in-law owns a restaurant, has good cooking skills, and can cook more delicious food than country people like them.

Goodbye, his father ate it, and he took one himself, and followed Lin Xiaoman's example by squeezing it and eating it.
Chapter completed!