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Chapter 6 The Prodigal Girl

"That's because if the price is not reduced, the landlord will probably not accept our jade pendant. We will always give him some sweetness."

Ye Anlan whispered to Ye Jinkui, "Although we can also go to other silver buildings to ask for prices, the problem is that we don't have time to inquire about the details of other silver buildings. If the other party sees us wearing shabby clothes, they are just black-blooded, or they simply accus us of stealing jade pendants..."

The respected old doctor only recommended Fangjia Yinlou to them, which shows that in the eyes of the old doctor, Fangjia Yinlou, the most kind thing to do business is.

Now that the world is not good, the common people may fall into a trap if they are not careful. They have no power and power. Instead of causing trouble for twenty taels of silver, Ye Anlan felt that it would be better to sell the jade pendant to Fangjia Yinlou.

After she explained this, Ye Jinkui stopped talking.

Ye Jinkui actually understood what Ye Anlan said, but he just couldn't think of so much for a while.

"Eighty taels are enough for us to live for the time being." Ye Anlan lowered his voice and happily told Ye Jinkui about his preliminary plan. "I have inquired with the little doctor in the clinic and know where there are cheap salt, grain, iron, cloth and cotton in the county town. We can buy these things first."

When Ye Jinkui thought of his wife and children's skinny appearance, his mood of buying food suddenly became three more anxious than Ye Anlan.

The father and daughter drove the donkey cart all the way according to the news that Ye Anlan asked about.

But soon, Ye Jinkui and Ye Anlan had serious differences on what to buy and how much to buy.

Ye Anlan wanted to stock up on as much salt as possible, but Ye Jinkui was discouraged by the price of salt.

Ye Anlan wanted to buy some soy sauce and vinegar, but Ye Jinkui felt that these two things were expensive and useless.

Ye Anlan wanted to buy two jars of wine to keep for the New Year. Ye Jinkui... Ye Jinkui smelled the fragrance of the wine and said that although he was also very envious and moved, "Isn't buying such a useless thing equivalent to wasting money in vain?"

Ye Anlan wanted to buy fifty kilograms of white flour, fifty kilograms of japonica rice, and fifty kilograms of millet. Ye Jinkui said, "It's better to buy all the grain noodles, that's the cheapest."

Ye Anlan wanted to buy cotton cloth to make inner clothes for his family, and wanted to buy forty kilograms of cotton to make cotton coats and quilts. Ye Jinkui strongly opposed it, "Just buy coarse cloth. You don't have to buy that much cotton. It's almost the same as twenty kilograms. Your mother and I can use the old ones."

Ye Anlan:......I was still stinging with eighty taels of silver, making herself live like a beggar. This is not her style of conduct.

In the end, Ye Anlan, under Ye Jinkui's strong disagreement, bought five kilograms of salt, two kilograms of sugar, thirty kilograms of white flour, twenty kilograms of japonica rice, twenty kilograms of millet, one hundred kilograms of mixed grain noodles, three pieces of fine cotton, six pieces of coarse knot cloth, and thirty kilograms of new cotton.

When passing by the wine shop, braised pork shop and various stalls on the street, Ye Anlan also bought two small jars of wine, two pieces of braised pork head meat, a bag of malt sugar cubes, four strings of red candied haws, and twenty freshly cooked white flour pork buns.

In addition, she also bought two books, a knife and a pair of bows and arrows.

Both the knife and the bow are very expensive, and they spent about eight taels of silver in total. Ye Jinkui was bleeding when he paid the money. As a result, he got the things. Ye Anlan said regretfully, "Although it's not so good, he can only use it first."

Ye Jinkui:...

The eldest daughter, who had been well-behaved and obedient for more than ten years, suddenly became a prodigal son. If it weren't for the concern that the eldest daughter was actually not his eldest daughter, he would have slapped her on the back of the head.

The father and daughter piled up donkey carts and drove them out of the county town with different thoughts.

Ye Jinkui was afraid that the cart of things was too eye-catching, so he made a turn and drove the donkey cart directly to the foot of the mountain.

"You are here looking at the donkey cart, and Dad moves things to the cave."

Ye Anlan bit the candied haws and said vaguely: "Call Erlang down so that I can move with you."

Ye Jinkui suddenly felt that his well-behaved and sensible eldest daughter was back. He waved to Ye Anlan, "You don't need you."

Although the daughter is born with divine power, in order to hide her daughter's true identity, Ye Jinkui and his wife never used Ye Anlan's good power.

Ye Anlan sighed - There is a pair of parents who care too much about you. Sometimes it is really a happy and troublesome thing.

She sat in the donkey cart and waited for about two quarters of an hour before Ye Jinkui brought Ye Song over.

The father and son divided the labor and cooperated, one moved the heavy ones and the other moved the light ones. After three trips, they moved all the things on the car into the cave.

Afterwards, Ye Jinkui took a small jar of wine and a piece of braised pork meat to Laoli to return a donkey cart while it was not dark, and asked him to help choose a new piece of land to build a house. Ye Anlan held the hand of his third sister Ye Wei and went home to hand out candied haws to his younger brothers and sisters.

She first gave four strings of candied haws to each of her younger brothers and sisters, and then divided four icing hawthorns to Ye Jinkui and Li.

Li could not persuade her, so she had to put the four hawthorns with a stick cut by her with a knife in a bowl, waiting for Ye Jinkui to come back and eat them together.

Ye Jinkui came back a little late. After returning the ox cart, he followed Lao Li to choose his own homestead.

"The land assigned to us is at the end of the village, very close to the foot of the mountain." After washing his hands and faces, Ye Jinkui wiped the water droplets with a cloth towel. "Because it was a wasteland, two acres of land, Uncle Li Zheng only collected six taels of silver for us."

Li asked while cleaning up the dishes, "Then when will we build a house?"

Ye Jinkui said: "Uncle Li Zheng helped me look through the calendar and said that it would be a good day in three days."

Li breathed a sigh of relief. In this case, they would not have to live in the cave in winter.

She asked Ye Jinkui, "Will we build adobe houses? How many?"

"Three main rooms, three wing rooms, just the same as before."

Ye Jinkui didn't want to spend too much money to build a house, one because their family is now just spending nothing, and the money is less, and the other is because he is afraid that his family will become a refugee, bandits and even officers and soldiers will be in the eyes of him.

In this world, if your fists are not strong enough, it would be better if you are poorer than if you live a wealthy life.

Li steamed the buns and brought them to the table, and then served a bowl of rice soup with a few grains of millet floating at the bottom of the bowl. "Then I'll ask Aunt Su tomorrow to borrow their yard to cook."

When the villagers build houses, in addition to hiring craftsmen to spend money, more than 90% of the other laborers who do hard work are acted as the villagers. These people are voluntary support. If you help my family today and I will help your family tomorrow, it is considered a "change of work". There is no need to pay extra money, but it is inevitable to manage food.

The Ye family now lives in the mountains and it is not convenient to entertain villagers who help with their work to have dinner, so Li took the idea of ​​other families in the village.

The first thing I thought of the Su family was because the Su family was at the end of the village when they came, which was convenient for the Ye family to deliver food to the craftsmen and villagers who worked. Secondly, the old lady from the Su family was very happy, and the young daughter-in-law of the Su family had a very good relationship with Li. If you borrow her yard, Li didn't have to worry about someone making trouble for a little advantage and making trouble.
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