Early in the morning, people were burning paper and clothes on the street. The smell of incense, candles and paper money filled the city. When the wind blew, the ashes could be picked up and fall on people.
Tan Ran loaded up the water and ran to the dock to buy countless fruits - they were all good products just unloaded from the ship, and the price was much cheaper than buying them in the shop.
It's just that if you buy and sell without going through the guild, you have to take risks. If you are caught, you will not only be beaten, but also sent to the government.
Tan Ran hated the guilds deeply and didn't understand at all why there was a guild in between when he bought the fruits and the ship dealers sold the fruits, paying the money and delivering the goods.
As soon as the guild comes out, the price of the fresh fruit will double, and he doubled the price, but the ship merchants will make less profit. The best fruit will be taken by the guild to honor this and that.
Everything sold is dry goods.
Therefore, Tan Ran would rather take the risk of sending the goods to the government and board the ship directly at the dock to buy goods.
He wrapped the fruits in oil paper and put them in a basket with a layer of wild flowers on top. Fortunately, picking wild flowers from the roadside did not pass through the guild.
After selling two handfuls of flowers along the way, he took the fresh fruits back to the Song family and took them out one by one.
He took out the three fresh fruits of plums, pears and dates and gave them to Aunt Lin to wash. He also took out the candied hawthorn strips, lion candies, dried plantains, hazelnuts and other dried fruit preserves and gave them to Yuan Yuan to put on the plate.
"Hazelnuts are very expensive," Tan Ran told Yuan Yuan, "be careful."
A hand stretched out from behind and grabbed a handful of hazelnuts: "How expensive are they?"
As soon as Tan Ran saw Song Huiyue, he screamed inwardly, because Song Huiyue loved to go against him. As long as it was bought by him, he would pick the most expensive ones and eat them, which made all the flesh in his body hurt.
He reluctantly handed the bag of hazelnuts to Song Huiyue: "You can eat it."
Song Huiyue took it in her hand with a smile and pointed to the two wine jars at her feet: "This is expensive, Luo Fuchun."
Tan Ran asked nervously: "How much is a pound?"
Song Huiyue said: "Eighty."
"Eighty!" Tan Ran took a breath of cold air, thinking that Song Huiyue was going to live in vain. "It's too expensive. The sweet-scented osmanthus yellow wine is only 20 cents a pound. If I had known better, I would have bought it."
Aunt Lin scolded him in the kitchen: "This is a sacrifice to our master. Do you think our master is just like you, drinking eight cents a pound of rice wine is enough!"
Tan Ran was not convinced and was no match for Aunt Lin, so he could only whisper to Yuanyuan: "Then your master's drinking capacity is too great. He drinks two jars at once."
Aunt Lin kept three plates of the best fruit for sacrifice, and put the rest in a grizzly basket, placed it on the Eight Immortals table in the yard, and gave Song Huiyue a jujube.
"When my wife's medicine is finished, I'll make a pot of sugar and roll some dates in it to eat."
When Mrs. Song came out of Song Qinghui's house, she immediately saw the black dust and mud spots on the soles of Song Huiyue's shoes, and even on her skirt.
He must have left the city before dawn to find Yin Xiao.
Fortunately, this child loves his family. No matter how far he goes, the wind will blow back and his family will not be worried.
She saw that Song Huiyue had a smile on her face, but the smile in her eyes was not strong, so she guessed that she didn't want to spoil everyone's interest, so she sighed in her heart and walked forward.
"Mom," Song Huiyue grabbed a date and handed it to Mrs. Song, "You can eat it. Tan Ran bought it well and fresh."
Tan Ran added: "Fresh and cheap."
Mrs. Song smiled and praised a few words, and asked everyone to have breakfast first.
At this time, the sun has come out, and the white light is piercing the eyes. Fortunately, there is still a cool breeze. If it had been any later, this breakfast would have been impossible to eat.
Aunt Lin quickly led Yuan Yuan to transport the porridge and meat cakes from the kitchen to the table. Song Huiyue was already hungry. She drank a bowl of hot porridge in one breath. Her face quickly turned red, and her nose and lips were all covered with tears.
He was sweating heavily, his eyes were bright, and he showed a good face.
However, her words and deeds were still very rough. Mrs. Song gave her a piece of meat pie, and she didn't even use chopsticks, just pinched it with her hands and put it into her mouth.
"Mom, are you feeling better after taking the medicine?"
Mrs. Song nodded: "I don't cough so much at night."
Aunt Lin gave Song Huiyue more porridge: "It's better to wait until August or September. At that time, the weather is dry and coughing is most likely."
After everyone had breakfast, they went to their houses to escape the summer heat. Song Huiyue had nothing to do, so she fell into Mrs. Song's arms and acted like a baby, very lingering. Mrs. Song held such a big daughter in her arms. She couldn't love her enough in her heart, but she was scolding her on her lips.
Nothing is right.
Song Huiyue was not afraid of the stick or the nagging. As expected, she got out of Mrs. Song's arms and sat upright: "Mom, if I get married in the future, I will still come back to have dinner with you often."
Mrs. Song went to get a comb to put her hair up. After hearing this, she smiled and said, "You may not come back to eat with me every day now."
The mother and daughter talked to each other one by one. Mrs. Song combed Song Huiyue's hair, drank the medicine sent by Aunt Lin, and wanted to take a nap with Song Huiyue in her arms.
Song Huiyue yawned to accompany her. Suddenly, she saw Mrs. Song's face change dramatically, from rosy to pale in an instant. There was a huge amount of sweat on her forehead. She squatted down suddenly, holding her stomach and unable to move.
"Sister Yue, my - stomach hurts very much..."
"Mother!" Song Huiyue stretched out her hand to help Mrs. Song, and at the same time turned her head and shouted, "Tan Ran, go and call the doctor!"
Aunt Lin and Yuan Yuan heard the noise and hurriedly walked in. When they saw Mrs. Song curled up on the ground, they were startled and hurriedly stepped forward to help, first carrying Mrs. Song to the bed.
You Song ran in from outside the house. Regardless of the difference between men and women, he picked up Mrs. Song from the waist and put her on the bed. At the same time, he asked: "What's wrong, madam?"
"Madam! Madam!" Aunt Lin called out twice and said blankly, "Did you eat the wrong thing?"
You Song immediately walked out: "I'll go and talk to Tan Hui!"
"It hurts..." Mrs. Song is a person who doesn't shout out pain easily. She couldn't help shouting at this time. It can be seen that the pain is severe, and the cold sweat is seeping out layer by layer. After a moment, she even put on her clothes.
My sleeves were wet.
She tried hard to keep quiet, but the pain was so fierce and severe that she had the illusion that her intestines were torn out, and the blood was boiling in her stomach, so she had to curl up tightly to relieve the pain in her stomach.
pain.
She vaguely knew that her abdominal pain was unusual, so she turned over desperately, faced Song Huiyue, and raised her hand high: "Yue, Sister Yue..."
Song Huiyue held Mrs. Song's hand tightly: "I'm here! Mother!"
Mrs. Song struggled to squeeze out a sentence: "Okay, you... okay."
Song Huiyue responded with tears streaming down her face. She knelt on the edge of the bed and held Mrs. Song's upper body tightly in her arms: "It's okay, grandma. You ate the wrong thing, grandma."
Mrs. Song's pain was already extraordinary. Her body convulsed into a ball, and she kept moaning in pain. When the pain reached the extreme, her hands and feet were stretched straight, and her whole body fell from Song Huiyue's arms.
Got out.
She vomited medicinal juice, rice porridge, and black blood in her mouth. In the severe pain, she could not utter a single word, and her body twitched and spasmed.