When he arrived in the town, Yu Liniang returned to the cloth shop. Li Cheng, who was idle, enthusiastically took Qin Zijin to the only grain shop in the town, Wu Ji Grain Shop.
Qin Zijin, the owner of the grain shop, also knew this. It was Wu Kangan who blocked him on the street with Li Cheng. They could not get to know each other without fighting.
In Qin Zijin's memory, this place does not produce wheat or rice. In addition, transportation issues, the prices of flour and rice can be imagined.
For ordinary people like Hongtu Village, no one is willing to spend money on rice and white flour except for New Year holidays or greeting special guests.
And the conditions of their Qin family are not enough to eat even during the New Year.
Qin Zijin bought a bag of flour and rice, which were all 20 kilograms, so it cost about one tael of silver.
Thinking that since he had bought flour, Qin Zijin simply gritted his teeth and took out a tael of silver to go to the only pork shop in the town.
Li Cheng and Wu Kangan volunteered to help and became her followers. Each of them carried a bag of food and followed Qin Zijin.
Qin Zijin was lucky. He had just killed a pig in the shop in the morning, and there were many people around the door. The butcher was still chopping meat, while the boss was busy calling people meat.
The price of meat is indeed beyond Qin Zijin's expectations. Lean meat is actually cheaper than fat meat. Lean meat is only 30 cents per pound, but fat meat is actually 50 cents per pound.
However, after looking at the meat on the chopping board, Qin Zijin understood the reason. The pig was too thin and had no amount of oil and water at all.
Considering the living standards of people here, they are short of oil and water, so most people will naturally choose fatty meat when buying meat, so it is not surprising that the price is higher.
Qin Zijin wanted to buy meat and make dumplings, but she took a fancy to a piece of fat and lean meat. When the boss heard that she bought the whole piece of fat and lean meat together, she calculated for her forty cents per pound.
Li Cheng was not very satisfied with it, "It was obviously not much fat, it was still forty."
Qin Zijin didn't care too much. Her eyes were always focused on the pig intestine hanging in the corner. She couldn't help but ask, "Boss, how do you sell pig intestine?"
Li Cheng interrupted again, "What did you buy that one? It smells so bad. I remember you don't have cats or dogs at home."
Qin Zijin was stunned when she heard this. She wanted to buy food, but she swallowed it back.
The boss lady naturally heard Li Cheng complaining about the price being expensive before, and maybe she felt embarrassed, so she smiled and replied, "Miss, just take it, don't have any money."
In the end, the pig intestine was still in Li Cheng's hand. He covered his nose with one hand and carried the pig intestine with the other, with disgust on his face.
Wu Kangan, carrying two bags of food, shook the sweat on his forehead, panted and said, "Why should we change it?"
Li Cheng shook his head decisively. Compared to carrying food, he was willing to lift the pig's intestine and gloat. "You don't want to push a cart. Do you know how hard you have done now?"
The two of them followed Qin Zijin with their mouths, but no one gave up.
Qin Zijin also bought some wine and seasonings before borrowing a basket at Li Cheng’s restaurant and putting all the things into the basket to carry them.
The two of them sent Qin Zijin to the intersection outside the town, and Qin Zijin waved to the two, "Thank you, you go back."
Li Cheng said with some concern, "Your backpack is too heavy. Do you want us to send it to you?"
Qin Zijin waved his hand, "That's the most important thing? You two are too weak."
Li Cheng looked at Qin Zijin's back as he left, and said to Wu Kang'an on the side with a puzzled look on his face, "What is a weak chicken?"
Wu Kangan responded with a dark face, "That means you are not even as good as a woman."
On this hot day, even though Qin Zijin felt that the basket behind her was not too heavy, she still felt sweaty.
Qin Wenshi saw that she was carrying a basket on her back when she came back, so she went up to her back and asked while picking up the basket on her back, "What are you carrying? Why are you carrying a basket on her back and is back?"
After taking the basket, he couldn't help but cover his nose, "Oh, why is it so smelly?"
Mrs. Lu took a towel to wipe Qin Zijin's sweat. She couldn't help but cover her nose when she smelled it, and said, "Why is it like a pig going into the water?"
Qin Zijin wiped his sweat and responded, "It's just a pig who goes into the water."
Qin Wenshi looked disgusted, "Oh, why are you doing that? It's smelly and fishy, ​​and there are no animals in our family."
After wiping his sweat, Qin Zijin said while tidying up the things in his backpack, "Eat yourself."
Qin Wen sighed when he heard this, and his eyes were filled with pain when he looked at Qin Zijin.
Qin Zijin had no time to guess what Qin Wenshi had made up for, so she only took out the things in the backpack.
Qin Wenshi looked at the thing that was taken out of the basket, and she had no time to make up for it and only exclaimed.
After packing up his backpack, Qin Wenshi couldn't help but mutter, "How come you can't live at all, how much money does this cost? If you exchange for ordinary food, we can eat it for two months."
Qin Zijin responded helplessly, "Grandma, please rest assured. With those lumps, we will not be short of money in the future."
Qin Wen's family still had no choice but to keep saying that Qin Zijin wanted to be frugal.
When he saw Qin Zijin pouring white flour, white wine and salt into the basin filled with pigs, he felt even more distressed, "What are you doing? Oh, this is white flour. This can be eaten for several days."
Qin Zijin was helpless and looked at the Lü family who was begging for help.
Mrs. Lu was also distressed when she saw Qin Zijin's behavior, but she still followed Qin Zijin and helped Qin Wenshi and said, "Didn't Zijin say she wants to make cabbage and pork dumplings? Let's go, let's chop two cabbages in the field."
Qin Wen was taken to the vegetable field by Lu, and only Xiaobao was left in the yard, who was standing beside him and swallowing, and finally it was clean.
Qin Zijin guessed that if people here don’t eat pigs and go into the water, they would rather think that pigs are too smelly and probably don’t know how to deal with pigs.
However, Qin Zijin guessed that even if he knew, he would rather not eat it. I am afraid no one would like her to use white wine, salt, flour, etc. to clean the pigs into the water.
When Qin Wen and Lu came back, Qin Zijin had already washed the pigs in water, put ginger, garlic, star anise and cooked them.
Mrs. Lu walked to the edge of the pot, sniffed hard, and said in surprise, "It's not that smelly?"
Qin Wenshi was still feeling sorry for the white face, "I have been trying so many good things just for this."
Lu whispered, "How long has it been since the child had a good meal? Now that he can still make money by himself, you can say less and the child is happy."
After listening to Mr. Lu's advice, the family happily kneaded noodles and made dumplings.
Qin Zijin always remembers the kindness of his grandfather's family, and naturally he will never forget their family if there are delicious food.
The grandfather's family had a lot of people, so they chopped five kilograms of meat in one breath, mixed with cabbage, and made dumplings. They were almost busy until the evening.
Chapter completed!