Chapter 165 Mengmeng, you are so annoying (15000 tomorrow)
"Dad, look, what a beautiful cannon." Mengmeng sat on Cao Shujie's shoulders, holding her father's forehead with one hand, and holding his hair with the other, asking him to look east.
Cao Shujie saw a shadow in front of his eyes, and he quickly said: "Mengmeng, please be gentle, you are about to hit my eyes."
This girl is really hopeless!
When Mengmeng heard her father's cry, she lowered the hand holding her forehead, hooked it around his neck, and continued shouting with her little mouth: "Dad, what a beautiful gun, hurry up."
I don’t know how she came up with this name. Cao Shujie saw that there were stalls selling fireworks in that row and called his wife to come to the stall to pay for them together.
When he arrived, he first corrected his daughter: "Mengmeng, these are fireworks, not pretty cannons."
"Oh, fireworks." Mengmeng said it several times and remembered the name.
After Cheng Xiaolin saw the fireworks on the stall, she also wanted to set off some, so she pointed at one of them and asked: "Boss, how much does it cost to get rich in all seasons?"
"This one can shoot four to five meters high, and it's very beautiful to drive. There are only the last two big sets left. If it's cheaper, sell them to you for 25, and if you can, take them away." The boss said as if you are taking advantage of him.
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Hearing what he said, Cheng Xiaolin didn't even bother to bargain. She took her husband's hand and went to the next stall.
When the firework seller saw that he was still doing this, he quickly called out: "Sister, come back quickly and I'll give you a cheaper price."
"How much is the cheapest price?" Cheng Xiaolin asked him directly.
"Big girl, how many do you want to buy? If you buy more, I will give you 20 each. I guarantee this is the lowest price in today's big sale. Big girl, do you want it?" The boss of the firework seller said "big girl" one by one.
, seemed particularly sincere.
But Cheng Xiaolin still took Cao Shujie directly to the next fireworks stall.
Cao Shujie looked at his wife's crispness and asked her: "Honey, how much do you think is appropriate?"
"About 15." Cheng Xiaolin pointed to the direction they came from and said, "You were just here playing with Mengmeng, but you didn't see that there was a stall over there. The same fireworks were sold for 19 yuan each, and the quantity was large.
The price can be reduced to 16 yuan.”
"This one was just 6 yuan more expensive than others. Why are we spending that wasted money?" After Cheng Xiaolin finished speaking, she pulled her husband's sleeve and walked forward without looking back.
The boss selling fireworks just didn’t look back no matter how much he yelled?
Cao Shujie praised her: "Wife, you can do it!"
"It's not bad." Cheng Xiaolin accepted the compliment with a smile, and didn't forget to say: "Unlike some people, they just know how to play after coming here, and don't pay attention to anything. They don't observe anything. If you really want to buy something, you deserve to be cheated."
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Cao Shujie touched his nose a little embarrassed, it was obvious that he was talking about him.
But Cao Shujie asked himself, if it was him just now, it would really be possible to buy those fireworks without bargaining.
The couple walked in together, and there were more and more people. Mengmeng sat on her father's shoulders, sitting high and seeing far away. From time to time, she would point in one direction and talk about fireworks.
It’s impossible not to buy some fireworks today. You have to set off some when you go back tonight, otherwise Mengmeng won’t give up.
When she came to another stall, Cheng Xiaolin pointed to a firework that was similar to the Four Seasons Facai just now and asked the stall owner how much it cost.
"Well, it's 22 each. If you want more, we can make it cheaper," the stall owner said.
Hearing what he said, Cheng Xiaolin looked back at her husband and cast a look, as if to say: "You see, what I said is right, right?"
Cao Shujie couldn't laugh or cry. He watched his wife and the stall owner start bargaining over the price again, abruptly lowering the price from 22 yuan a piece to 17 yuan a piece. The boss kept shouting: "Sister, at your price, I'm really losing money."
Hey, please don't tell anyone, otherwise I won't be able to do this business."
Cao Shujie felt that what he was saying was ironic. I am afraid that the boss wanted the couple to help promote the cheap and affordable fireworks at this stall.
"The boss is getting rich." Cheng Xiaolin bought 10 of them at once. Looking at the smile on the boss's face, Cao Shujie knew that he still made money.
She put the fireworks on the cart and continued walking inside. The further she walked, the more awkward she felt. The cart was full with 10 fireworks, and it was difficult to get other things she bought.
Moreover, the fireworks are square and square, which takes up a lot of space. Now that there are so many people, they use small carts to pull the fireworks inside, and they can’t squeeze in at all.
Having no choice, he found a roadside shop. Cao Shujie asked his wife and daughter to wait inside. He took the cart back to the car and put down the fireworks. Then he took the cart back to find his wife and children, and walked inside together.
Mengmeng thought it was quite lively, but Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin really didn't think it was that good.
There are people everywhere, and I can hear other people talking. It's really lively, but it's very inconvenient to buy things.
As I was walking, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "Hey, Cao...Cao...Cao Shujie, is that you?"
Cao Shujie followed the sound and looked over, only to find that a woman with shaggy hair and about the same age was greeting him in the northwest corner of where he was standing.
"Who are you?" Cao Shujie looked at her and felt a bit familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember who the other person was.
Cheng Xiaolin was standing next to Cao Shujie. She also saw the man who called her husband, and was wondering who she was? What does she have to do with her husband?
But when she turned around and saw the expression on her husband's face, Cheng Xiaolin no longer wanted to ask for the answer, and she felt inexplicably relieved.
After a while, the other party came over, stood opposite Cao Shujie, looked at Cao Shujie and said, "Old classmate, you didn't recognize me, did you? That makes me really sad."
"Hey, you are that...that Shen Yun, right? You are a wise man?" A nickname popped up in Cao Shujie's head.
Chen Yun, who had shaggy hair, laughed and cursed after hearing the nickname: "You still remember? I thought you had forgotten. You and Shao Guoyang gave me the nickname back then. I was so angry that I wanted to tell the teacher. How could you be like this?
He gives nicknames to girls."
Cao Shujie even forgot why he gave Shen Yun the nickname "Sophisticated". He directly introduced it to his wife: "Honey, this is Shen Yun, my junior high school classmate."
Then he introduced his wife to Shen Yun: "This is my wife Cheng Xiaolin."
"And my daughter Mengmeng."
After hearing this, Cheng Xiaolin took the initiative to shake hands with the other party. They exchanged a few words. Shen Yun personally broke the news: "Old classmate, you don't know, but Shao Guoyang and I are married."
"..." Cao Shujie had nothing to say.
He was very curious: "How did you two get together?"
"Who asked you two to give me a nickname? After he finished college, he went to work in a chemical factory in the county. I was working in the factory next door at the time, and I happened to meet him. When I thought about the nickname, I was ready to deal with it. He had a meal..."
"Then he failed to deal with it and got himself involved." Cao Shujie joked with a smile.
He found it quite fun to meet old classmates from junior high school at the party, especially old classmates who had some special social interactions.
I thought to myself: "If I hadn't gone to the capital and we met, would I have been miserable?"
Cheng Xiaolin obviously also thought about this problem.
Shen Yun bought a house across the street and opened a delicatessen shop. It happened to be crowded during the New Year, and she had to visit the shop.
The two sides chatted for a few more words, and Cao Shujie and his wife continued to walk in with Mengmeng. Cheng Xiaolin put her hand on Cao Shujie's arm and twisted it hard.
Cao Shujie grimaced in pain and sweated on his forehead, but he did not dare to scream.
Cheng Xiaolin looked at her husband's look and found it funny.
"Shujie, I really didn't expect that you would give girls nicknames."
"Now do you regret not coming back to your hometown to work earlier? If so, maybe you can form a good marriage with your childhood sweetheart."
Regardless of the crowd around her, Cao Shujie pulled her over and slapped her on the butt: "You bitch is so unreasonable. I think you deserve a spanking."
Cheng Xiaolin immediately became obedient after being slapped. She covered her butt with her backhand, for fear of being beaten again, and gritted her teeth at her husband. This bastard had no mercy at all.
She was itching with hatred in her heart when she suddenly heard her husband swear again: "Wife, let me tell you, I don't have a dime to do with her."
Who knew that Cheng Xiaolin then raised her eyebrows and said, "I know, didn't your female classmate just now say that she married your male classmate, what else are you thinking about?"
"Then why are you twisting me?" Cao Shujie asked him.
Cheng Xiaolin groaned and said, "You hit me, what do you think we should do?"
When Cao Shujie was thinking about talking, Mengmeng, who was sitting on his shoulder, suddenly shouted: "Mom, Dad, if you two fight, I'll tell grandma."
"What a scam!" Cao Shujie thought to himself.
He pretended not to hear and continued walking forward.
Cheng Xiaolin looked at the expression on her husband's face and wanted to laugh.
There were fireworks, and when they saw an old man selling handwritten couplets, Cao Shujie went over and bought a lot, planning to take them home and paste them up.
After paying the money and leaving, Cheng Xiaolin asked him: "Husband, the one next to the one with more beautiful printing, why don't you buy that one."
"Wife, you see, this old man just writes Spring Festival couplets and sells them to make some living expenses, right?" Cao Shujie asked his wife.
Cheng Xiaolin is thoughtful!
At Li Jiagan's place, Cao Shujie ordered 50 kilograms of beef and 20 kilograms of mutton in one go. He also ordered half a fan of grain-fed pork from him and asked him about the current price of meat.
Not surprisingly, the prices of pork, beef and mutton have increased to varying degrees in the past year, with mutton increasing slightly, followed by pork, and beef increasing the most.
There wasn't that much meat here in Li Jiagan, and Cao Shujie couldn't take so much, so he told Li Jiagan: "Uncle Gen, if you have time, send it home to me."
After he finished speaking, he added: "Uncle Gen, if you go at night, I will buy you another drink."
Li Jiagan would like to drink, but he is very busy recently.
The Spring Festival is approaching, and Li Jiagan kills endless pigs, cows, and sheep every day. He said that the killings made him want to vomit. This is an exaggeration.
Moreover, there are many people who specially bring their own pigs or sheep to kill them.
Throughout the year, you can earn more money during this time. Li Jiagan said that he would not drink at this time, as it would easily delay things.
In addition, if Cao Shujie hadn't bought a lot of meat, Li Jiagan would not have been willing to take on the door-to-door delivery job.
He felt that the time wasted on the road back and forth would be better off killing more pigs, cows, and sheep at home to earn more.
He said: "Xiao Cao, I haven't been drinking recently. I'll see if I can send it to you tonight or tomorrow night. If I can't make it, I'll ask your brother Xinwu to send it to you."
Having said this, he shouted to the young man next to him: "Xinwu, come here and see your brother Jie."
"Brother Jie." Li Xinwu, the young man next to him, shouted softly.
Cao Shujie responded.
Li Jiagan said to him: "Xinwu, have you not had enough to eat, or is there something wrong that you can't explain clearly?"
"Brother Jie." Li Xinwu shouted very loudly this time.
"Hey, Xinwu, are you on vacation?" Cao Shujie asked him.
"Well, we're on winter vacation." Li Xinwu said.
He seemed not good at communicating, or not good at communicating with strangers. After talking to Cao Shujie, he went to work
Cao Shujie didn't care. He counted out five hundred-dollar bills and handed them to Li Jiagan: "Uncle Gen, this is a deposit of 500 yuan. You keep it first. When you finish the calculation, send me a message later, and I will give you the rest.
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Li Jiagan was not polite, stretched out his hand, took the money, and put it into his pocket.
After finishing his work, Li Jiagan wanted to get Mengmeng a banana to eat, but Cao Shujie stopped him: "Uncle Gen, you are busy first, and we will buy something else."
In the winter, no matter what kind of fruit you eat, it will be very cold.
"Okay, you go and get busy." Li Jiagan waved to them, and after watching Cao Shujie and his family of three walk away, he quickly greeted other guests.
Seeing Cao Shujie and the others walking away, the owner of a nearby meat stall asked with envy: "Old Li, you can do it. I've seen him buy from you not once or twice, but every time it's a lot."
buy it."
"Hi, I know his father well, Lao Liu, you also know his father." Li Jiagan said.
"Who is it?" Liu Changgeng was stunned and did not think of this person.
Then I heard Li Jiagan say: "Cao Jianguo, do you still remember brother Jianguo? There was a stall selling kiwis and apples next to us, have you forgotten?"
"Speaking of which, you have eaten a lot of kiwi fruits!" Li Jiagan teased him.
Liu Changgeng suddenly remembered it, and he nodded repeatedly: "It's true, when you put it that way, he is quite similar to Brother Jianguo."
"Right. I'm just lucky. Brother Jianguo's son came to me to buy the meat the first time he came here. After getting familiar with it, he didn't go to other places to buy it." Li Jiagan said.
Liu Changgeng always felt that Li Jiagan was showing off.
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Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin continued to walk forward with Mengmeng, preparing to buy some vegetables and seafood. Cheng Xiaolin asked him: "Husband, why did you buy so much meat?"
"Give part to our parents, give some to brother Chao, and send some to uncle. The rest will be used to make braised pork, meatballs, and dumplings for the Chinese New Year, just to be happy." Cao Shujie said with a smile.
Hearing what he said, Cheng Xiaolin nodded: "Yeah, it looks like a lot, but one point is not much."
"Isn't it just that we will buy more shrimps and sea fish later with less spines for our grandpa and Mengmeng to eat? What else is there?"
Cao Shujie couldn't remember either.
Mengmeng responded: "Dad is so stupid, vegetable."
Cao Shujie slapped himself with his backhand and shouted: "Yes, yes, why did I forget again? We are still cute and smart."
Mengmeng laughed happily when she was praised. She smiled a little proudly. She almost fell off her father's shoulders. Fortunately, Cao Shujie kept holding her legs, which prevented her from falling.
Even so, Mengmeng was so frightened that she didn't dare to get carried away anymore.
As the end of the year approaches, many people working outside have also returned.
When Cao Shujie and others went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, they met three classmates.
Two of them brought their families with them and went out to buy groceries and prepare New Year's goods.
There are also people who, after returning from other places, just feel too bored at home and come to the market to have fun.
While they were shopping at the market, it was already past lunch time unknowingly. Mengmeng was so hungry that she kept holding her stomach and yelling.
Cao Shujie and his wife Cheng Xiaolin were also hungry. As they walked slowly, they saw a person selling mutton soup at the market. They smelled the aroma of mutton soup next to them, so the family of three went straight over.
Cheng Xiaolin went to a nearby stall selling large steamed buns and bought eight pure pork buns, and she had a delicious and delicious lunch.
While drinking the mutton soup, they could all feel the freshness of the haggis and mutton. In addition, the prices in the countryside were relatively cheap and the portions were large, so they ate very enthusiastically.
"Mom, give me another steamed bun." After Mengmeng finished eating the pork bun in her hand, she pointed to the big steamed bun on the table and asked for it from Cheng Xiaolin.
Cheng Xiaolin said to her: "You are really good at eating. You eat more than me."
Mengmeng looked up at her mother, rolled her eyes, then lowered her head and continued to eat the mutton and steamed buns.
It seems to be saying: "I don't even bother to judge you."
Cao Shujie looked at his daughter's appearance as a young adult. He couldn't help it and burst out laughing on the spot.
Cheng Xiaolin stared at him, causing Cao Shujie to droop his head and eat quickly.
After having lunch here, Cao Shujie took the two of them to other places to buy things they needed.
They played here until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and then they returned to the parking place and headed home.
In the car, Mengmeng kept saying, "Mom, Dad, let's go back and set off fireworks."
"It won't look good during the day. How about we go to the orchard to set off fireworks at night?" Cheng Xiaolin said.
Mengmeng scratched her head, a little confused, always feeling that her mother was lying to her.
Cao Shujie also said: "Fireworks look better when they are set off in the dark. You can't see the beautiful flowers when they are set off now. Dad will take you to set them off in the evening."
"Let's release them all today and buy them in two days." Cao Shujie said in an awesome voice.
Mengmeng was very happy to hear what he said: "Dad, okay, okay."
The car returned to Caojiazhuang, and Mengmeng was still talking about setting off fireworks when she got off the car.
Cao Shujie glanced at his wife and thought to himself: "Wife, you are such a good daughter."
