Wu Yun appeared on the counter out of thin air, wagging his tail twice, "Master's current accumulated money is three yuan and sixty cents. Have you decided what candy you want to buy?"
Since there is still a lot of flour at home, Lingbao did not take out the space for the 20 kilograms of flour harvested this morning, but sold it directly to Wuyun.
She asked curiously: "What kind of candies are there for sale?"
"Because the supermarket hasn't been upgraded yet, there are only two kinds of candies now." Wu Yun waved his cat's paw casually, and two kinds of candies appeared on the counter, one was sesame paste candy and the other was bean root candy, both of which were the cheapest from the supply and marketing cooperative.
affordable sugar.
Sesame paste candy is dark brown in color, rectangular, has no packaging bag, and is made of sesame paste. Bean root candy is made of soybean flour and brown sugar. It is as slender as a thumb and is packed in a large bag.
Although they are relatively cheap, they need to be purchased with a ticket like other candies, so they are also very rare candies for most people.
"The price of sesame paste candy and bean root candy are the same, 60 cents per catty. Master, how many catties do you want to buy?" Wu Yun asked.
"This one weighs two kilograms, and this other one weighs two kilograms too." Xiao Lingbao clapped his fingers a few times and wondered, "How much money is left after buying it?"
"There are still one yuan and two left," Wu Yun recommended. "The supermarket also sells biscuits, one pack per catty, one yuan per catty. Master, do you want to buy a pack?"
After it finished speaking, the biscuits it just mentioned appeared on the counter, wrapped in gray-brown wrapping paper, square in shape, with two circles of red paper ropes tied around the outside, cross-tied into a cross shape.
Lingbao looked at the biscuits for a while, tilted his little head, "Are the biscuits delicious? I don't know if my parents and brothers like to eat biscuits."
"The owner can try one piece first, and then decide whether to buy it," Wu Yun finished, and a biscuit appeared on the outstretched cat's paw. "If the owner thinks it tastes good, your family will definitely like it too."
Lingbao picked up the biscuit and took a bite. It tasted sweet and salty, with a hint of sesame.
"Is it delicious?" Wu Yun asked.
The little baby nodded, "It's delicious!"
She pointed towards the biscuits with her white and tender hands, "I want a pack of this too."
"Okay, two kilograms of sesame paste candies, two kilograms of bean curd candies, and a pack of bulk biscuits, a total of three yuan and forty cents, and there are still two cents left in the space supermarket."
Lingbao left the space carrying the purchased cookies and candies.
After she piled the things in the corner, she walked to her fifth brother and pushed him with her little hand, "Fifth brother, get up, fifth brother..."
Wu Chaozi yawned sleepily, put one hand on the table and rubbed his eyes with the other, "Strange, why did I fall asleep?"
"Did you get up too early in the morning?"
"I went to see the pigs slaughtered early in the morning. It was indeed a little earlier than usual." After saying this, Wu Chaozi squinted his eyes and yawned again, then raised his hands and stretched. "But I slept well this time."
It’s so comfortable!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed something seemed to be placed on the ground in the corner, and said "Huh" in confusion, "Lingbao, what do you think that is?"
Little Lingbao looked in the direction of his finger, pretending to be ignorant, and said cutely: "I don't know, what is it?"
"I haven't seen it before, it's strange," Wu Chaozi said, stood up and walked to the corner, "This is..."
The two large paper bags were tied with brown rope, and the slightly smaller paper bag next to them was folded squarely and tied with red rope.
After hesitating for a moment, Wu Chaozi knelt down and untied the red rope first. In an instant, a nice smell of oil, noodles and sesame came to his face.
"Cookies?" His mouth opened wide in surprise. He was afraid that he had seen the wrong thing, so he couldn't help but rub his eyes several times, "Are they really cookies?"
He had seen biscuits through the glass of the supply and marketing cooperative, but had never eaten them. He heard that when people in the town visit relatives during festivals, or give wedding gifts as wedding gifts, the most expensive things they give are these paper-wrapped biscuits.
As for the high-end biscuits in tin cans, the village supply and marketing cooperatives did not sell them. Wu Chaozi had only seen them on the advertising paper posted on the walls of the supply and marketing cooperatives.
"Brother Wu, do you like biscuits?" Lingbao walked up and asked.
"Of course! This is a biscuit. I have never eaten it. I heard it is delicious, sweet and crispy." Wu Chaozi stared at the biscuit and swallowed involuntarily. "I don't know what it tastes like."
Son."
He remembered that his elder brother said that a pound of biscuits on the black market cost two yuan, and since then he has not had the luxury of eating biscuits.
"You'll know after you try it," Lingbao squatted down, grabbed a biscuit with her little hands, and handed it to her fifth brother, "Hey, fifth brother, eat it."
"Ah? This... I, can I eat it? These are biscuits..."
The little baby smiled and asked, "Why can't you eat it? Didn't Brother Five also eat the white noodles that appeared in Lingbao's room before?"
"Yeah, but," Wu Chaozi couldn't help but feel a little uneasy because the biscuits were so precious. "These biscuits are so rare that I don't dare to eat them. I'd better ask my parents first."
After leaving these words, he hurried out of the room, ran to the kitchen in one breath, and gasped: "Dad, mother, there are cakes in Lingbao House..."
Just when the word "Qian" was about to pop out of his mouth, he was shocked to find that besides his parents, his uncle and second uncle were also in the kitchen. So he hurriedly swallowed back all the words that followed and asked instead: "Uncle, second uncle,
Why are you here?"
Uncle Jiang did not answer his question, and his tone was somewhat probing, "Wuchaozi, what did you just say? What is in the Lingbao House?"
"Ah? I mean..."
Wu Chaozi felt guilty and embarrassed. He scratched his head and said, "I mean, there are fleas in Lingbao's house. They bit Lingbao, but they were crushed to death by me."
"Flea? No, why did I hear you say the word 'cake'? It's definitely 'cake'," Uncle Jiang asked the second brother beside him, "right?"
His second brother nodded, "Yes, I heard it too."
Shen Su'e saw the panic on her fifth son's face and interrupted their conversation, "Eldest brother, second brother, I just said that my family's fat meat is not enough to feed the family for several meals. I will not sell it or exchange it. If you are okay,
Just go home!”
After she said this, Uncle Jiang's attention returned to the fat meat, "Dad Dong Niang, why are you so stingy? I will buy half a catty. If you think my price is low, why don't you add more?
How about three cents and a half catty?”
Worried that his younger siblings would disagree, he turned to his fourth brother and said, "Fourth brother, please say something. Your sister-in-law is nice to you, right? She wants to eat lard bibimbap, so you have to express your gratitude, right?"
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"Brother, what you said is funny. My sister-in-law wants to eat lard mixed with rice. How can I express it? She is your wife, not mine."
Jiang Qingshan's words made his elder brother almost furious, "Why are you talking? Have you ever talked to your elder brother like this?"
"What else do you want me to talk to you about?" Jiang Qingshan sneered, "The market price of pork is only 74 cents per catty. On the black market, a pound of meat is sold for two or three yuan. You want to buy half a catty from me for 30 cents."
?Are you kind?"
"We are brothers, do we need to be so clear-cut?"
With that said, he walked towards his fourth brother and continued: "Now everyone in the village knows that your family has received the most fat this year, so why don't you sell it to me cheaper? You have been paralyzed in bed these past few years, and I have been here every year.