"I started a little late today, and I'm hungry when I get here. Apart from selling drinks, what else can you do to fill your stomach?" Li Mi saw the little girl staring at his monkey again, and he also thought
Can't help but laugh.
It's already noon, and it's time to get hungry.
Song Qiu hurriedly said: "Nowadays, we are selling yinzi noodles. The food is a little bit rough, but it depends on whether the guest likes it or not. Today we only have sauerkraut noodles."
She had been keeping the leftover jelly in the ice pan from yesterday. The ice cubes had almost melted by late afternoon, and it was still cold inside. After being left there overnight, it was not damaged.
"Soy seed noodles? Okay, then give us five bowls and seven pieces of iced watermelon." Li Mi nodded.
He often traveled around, camped in the open air, slept on the roots of big trees, stayed in farmers' houses, and ate everything from roasted rabbits to roasted fish and all kinds of coarse grains. Although the prince was a noble man, he never stuck to trivial matters.
He can also eat any kind of noodles from this small tea shed.
Song Qiu responded and hurried down to cook noodles. Old Yuan helped cut the watermelon and asked Zhang Lihua to serve it to him.
In the same way, three people each get one piece, and two monkeys get two pieces each.
This monkey is really smart. Old Yuan and Zhang Lihua secretly watched them eating watermelon, and they were really curious about it.
This is not a monkey. If it weren't for the monkey face and monkey cheeks, they would believe it if they said it was a human being.
Five bowls of steamed noodles were served on the table, one bowl for each of the three people, and one bowl for each of the two monkeys.
The monkey wants to eat noodles too.
Now, even Song Qiu couldn't help but stare over there.
I saw that the monkey didn't catch it with his hands, but followed it with the chopsticks. He was not familiar with opening and closing the chopsticks, so he just wrapped noodles on the chopsticks and fed them to his mouth. It was also very smart.
Although the sun was bright, there was a carriage, and Li Mi and his party didn't wait long. After paying the bill, they set off.
Song Qiu paid special attention, but remembered that they had come up the official road from the east, and after stopping, they headed towards Baishui Town.
But today, coming from the direction of Baishui Town, this walk is heading towards Panshi Town.
I can't help but wonder what these people with two such spiritual monkeys do.
Curiosity was nothing more than curiosity. Song Qiu withdrew his gaze, helped clear the table, and prepared to put down the noodles and eat by himself.
It's already noon, and I'm already hungry.
Three bowls of noodles were cooked. It was no coincidence that the three of them sat down and ate quietly.
After eating the noodles, the afternoon heat wave was even more dry, making me drowsy while lying on the table.
After a rest, after a while, during the hottest part of the afternoon, people slowly passed by on the official road.
When those who came in to rest, the tea stall suddenly became lively again.
"Here are three bowls of herbal tea!"
"Here are two pieces of iced watermelon!"
"Here are two bowls of mung bean soup!"
"here……"
After busy working until about midnight, Song and Qiu cleaned up the stall as usual, and then took their belongings home. Today, the day ended like this. It was really a busy, fulfilling and satisfying day.
…
As soon as the big family came back, the seemingly ordinary Zhang family couldn't get up anymore.
Mr. Zhang didn't sleep well last night, and when he got up early this morning, he couldn't sit still, so he couldn't help but call Mr. Deng to come in for discussion.
The door was closed and no one knew what they were talking about.
"How much more money can you get from there?"
Zhang Laodou is a good face person and advocates that men should take charge of the outside world and women should take charge of the house. Women should keep quiet about important things outside. The miscellaneous things at home are women's one-third of an acre.
Therefore, the money in the family has always been locked up with Old Deng. If there is any need, Zhang Laodou will just open his mouth and let Old Deng fish out the money.
Old Mrs. Deng knew him well and knew that what he decided could not be changed. Just like last time, the fifty taels of silver were not taken out yet.
Although she doesn't think much of anyone who enters the palace to serve the emperor or not, they are ordinary people. How can they bear such wealth?
The apricot blossoms grow well, but with so many girls in this Mandarin calendar, can the apricot blossoms still grow flowers that are better than others?
It's a pity that the man insisted on having his own way and had to be optimistic, so she shut up.
"You still don't know how much money we have at home? We just took out fifty taels not long ago. Now I can only get more than a dozen taels in my hands. This is all the savings of the old Zhang family."
Although Zhang Laodou doesn't care about money, he is also very careful about it. He asks questions, but in his heart he pretty much knows his family background.
"More than a dozen taels, plus the thirty taels borrowed from the eldest daughter-in-law's mother's family, there is still a gap of a hundred or dozens of taels."
Worried in his heart, he clenched his cigarette stick tightly and took puff after puff, making the whole room smoky.
Old Deng took his breath away without any trace, not liking the smell.
"It's not that I have to say that we have such a spacious blue brick house that many people can live in. We have to buy a house in the county. Our family doesn't have the ability. We can buy it in the town instead.
I can just grit my teeth and still be able to do it."
This is true. If you buy a house in the town, you can buy it for two taels. It only costs 70 or 80 taels, so it’s still bearable.
How could Mr. Zhang not know this truth? He couldn't help but said: "If Song'er becomes a scholar, can the town still keep him? Didn't you listen to the boss? Mr. Ge is going to recommend him to study in the county. Which one?"
Master Xiucai still rents a house? Our old Zhang family cannot afford to lose face like this. Since I agreed to this house, I must buy it."
After all, it’s not about saving face?
Old Mrs. Deng muttered in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. She was used to following Mr. Zhang's words in everything, so she followed along and said: "Just buy it. I didn't say not to buy it. It's just such a big difference."
How are you going to get the money? You are the head of the family, so I will listen to you as long as you decide."
Zhang Laodou has been thinking about this matter seriously all night. Although he still has no idea at the moment, he has thought about it.
"If we sell the shop in the town, it won't be a problem to sell it for eighty taels, but it's not enough, and it will be even more difficult to sell our house, so it's better not to sell it. After all, the business of the shop is not bad, so we can keep it just in case in the future.
How can it be sold for a higher price?"
"I guess that Lao San and the others couldn't get much money out of Xing'er last time, so I won't ask them."
"On the other hand, the second brother and the others still have something to think about."
Zhang Laodou said, staring at Old Deng.
Old Mrs. Deng was listening, thinking that the old man was not stupid yet, and his brain was not so hot that he didn't care about anything. But when he said "double" suddenly, her heart suddenly jumped.
Second child, what can the second child have in mind here?
Seeing Mr. Zhang staring at him, she said with a displeased face: "What the hell can come out of him? His pockets are cleaner than his face. Over the past few years, which year's wages have not been sent back immediately to him on the first day of the new year?"
I won't allow them to hide money secretly."
This is true, Zhang Laodou knew it in his heart, and he was also staring at it. Those two people really couldn't get a penny out of their hands. If the Cheng family hadn't taken care of food and housing, it would have been very difficult.
But he didn't feel bad at all.
"They can't get a penny out of it, but the Cheng family can think of some ways. After all, the second son and his wife have been doing this for more than ten years, and the Cheng family trusts them."