Yoshida Mii

Chapter 198

After the 26th of the new year, more and more people come to the market to buy new year's goods every day, and the taste of the new year is getting stronger and stronger.In the past few days, Yuanshui Town does not follow the time rule of large and small gatherings. Every day, the streets are crowded with people. Many people live far away, and they all drive a donkey cart. The child brought the old man to the town to go to the market to do New Year's goods, and was very happy.

In addition to the usual stalls on the street, there are also many sellers of Spring Festival couplets, bright red candied haws, colorful windmill toys, and a toy made of thin glass, which can be sucked and blown with the mouth. It makes a crisp sound, the soil is called Liuli Buer, and it is a good thing to coax children. The disadvantage is that it is too brittle, and naughty children will become a pile of slag after playing for a while.

Mrs. Li now prohibits Dongbao and Xiuyu from going to the street. Every year at this time, there are girls who get separated from their families because of the crowd, or they will never be found, and they don’t know where they are sold by kidnappers. Either it was found, but was "bullied" by others, and the good old girl would be ruined.

The sisters Dong Bao and Zhang Xiuyu are also unwilling to go out. The street is too crowded, and the shop is getting busier. It is not enough to make [-] catties of tofu every morning, and the bean sprouts are sold out soon after opening. .Many people come to buy tofu and ask for fifty catties or one hundred catties.It’s now three or nine days. If you buy too much tofu, you won’t be afraid of spoiling it when you go home. If you put it out and freeze it overnight, it will become frozen tofu.

On the 27th, Mrs. Li hurried out of the shop with Dong Bao, and found the nearest New Year picture stall to buy couplets.There are two kinds of couplets, one is written in ink on red paper, and the other is written with white characters on a blue background. Dongbao’s family wants to buy this kind of couplets with white characters on a blue background. Paste the three-year blue couplet.

"You know how to read, let's see which couplet is written better." Li Shi asked Dong Bao.

The stall was a young man who was immersed in writing couplets. Hearing what Li said, he looked at Dong Bao in surprise. There was no other reason. There are few literate people these days, and even fewer literate girls.

"This is good, let's take this." Dong Bao pointed to one of the blue couplets and said, in fact, all the blue couplets probably have the same meaning, such as lasting fragrance through the ages, and remembering the feelings of relatives forever.

Mrs. Li said quickly: "Then I want this pair, little brother, and pick two for me to put on the door."

If red couplets are pasted, the New Year pictures pasted on the door must be two door gods. If blue couplets are pasted, then the door pictures with blue background and white characters that match the blue couplets can only be pasted on the door.

The young man who set up the stall quickly responded, rubbed his hands that were a little frozen, carefully rolled up the couplet and the door painting for Mrs. Li, tied them with a rope, and handed them to Mrs. Li.

"Pick two more door gods and post them for your aunt's house." Shi Li instructed Dong Bao.

For Zhang Qian and Lin Shi, the red pair did not need to be bought by Li, but the blue paper and white ink were not easy to buy, and the pair that Li's family wanted to post had to be bought by themselves.

On the way back, Mrs. Li asked Dong Bao to walk on the inside, holding Dong Bao's hand tightly, for fear that her daughter would get separated from her and be abducted by someone. Dong Bao was rather dumbfounded.

"Mother, do my grandparents have to post this kind of couplet?" Dong Bao asked curiously.

Mrs. Li shook her head, "I don't know about that, it's supposed to be posted, but our family is separated, and if they don't post it...it's okay! Regardless of them, let's post ours!"

That afternoon, after cleaning up the shop, Li Shi and Li Hongqin hurried back to Tagouji to make tofu. They were exhausted for the past few days.

"Oh, it's too early for a scholar lady to post?" Someone passed by Dong Bao's house and said with a smile.

There is a saying in Tagouji called "28, decals", which means that couplets should be posted on the 28th day of the year, but it does not have to be posted on the 28th day.

"Isn't this busy? It just so happens that I'm a little free today." Li said with a smile.

The visitor stretched out his thumb and praised: "You are a lucky person!" Mrs. Song always said that the mother and daughter of the scholar, mother and daughter, were broom stars, and they suppressed her son and blocked her son's luck, but the problem was precisely Yes, after the mother and daughter of the Li family were driven out by the Song family, life is getting better and better every day. From having nothing to opening a shop, they have no worries about food and drink. On the other hand, in the Song family, the second and third sons have nothing good , people with discerning eyes are laughing behind their backs, who is the bastard, who is blocking whose luck!

Taking advantage of this spare time, Li Hongqin hurried home, cooked a bowl of paste, and pasted up the inside and outside of the house. In the yard, there was a photo of spring, and on the livestock pen, a photo of six animals flourishing. Although their mother and child were three They don't live at home, but this is their home after all, and they can't save what they should have.

Mrs. Huang also went to the market that day, but she went by herself. Second Aunt Song and Zhaodi Song wanted to go with her, but Mrs. Huang refused. Mrs. Mao and Mrs. Mao also clamored to go, and Mrs. Huang also scolded and left. Two children, it's not that she doesn't want to take her two grandchildren to the market, but she is afraid that there are too many snacks and gadgets in the market, and the two children are crying and clamoring to buy them, what should I do?She doesn't want to waste money on this.

"Everything is more expensive this year than in previous years!" After Huang came back, she threw the basket under her arm on the table in the main room angrily, and sat on the bed sulking.

Old man Song looked up at the basket. Apart from the Spring Festival couplets and other necessities, there was only a small bag of white noodles, "I don't need to buy anything."

"What do you know?" Mrs. Huang was annoyed, and talked to old man Song, "This year, the pigs at home were so thin that they only sold for four taels of silver. They had to save up for San'er's education. The wheat was sold out. The autumn grain can no longer be sold, and there is no income throughout the year, and the whole family spends all their money! I won’t buy meat during the Chinese New Year, just a few days ago..." At this point, Huang's expression became unnatural, "I picked up that piece of meat. There is a lot of fish and meat, how can I pass this year."

"Hey!" Old man Song sighed, "The past few years have been hard, and when San'er passes the exam, our family will be able to survive."

Mrs. Huang nodded. She liked to hear these words.

If you want to preserve fish and meat for a long time, if you don’t have a refrigerator, you can only fry the fish and meat and put them in a cool and ventilated place. This can last for a week or two. Eat frugally, enough to eat until the tenth day of the first lunar month five.

"He has no conscience!" Mrs. Huang was chopping fish and meat in the main room, gnashing her teeth and cursing, "They eat delicious food and drink spicy food, and they don't even give us the scum. They eat mine and drink mine for years. It’s worse than raising a dog! If I had known that girl was so heartless, she should have been soaked in the dung bucket..."

Old man Song sat in the main room with his sleeves covered, stomping his feet. The Song family didn't have the money to build a brazier, and it was very cold in winter. He was getting old again, and his body was not as good as before, and his feet were often numb from the cold.

"Stop talking." Old Man Song said in a low voice, "What's the use of talking? They can't hear you either."

Mrs. Huang glared at old man Song viciously, and said with a straightened neck, "I feel comfortable when I say it, and I feel uncomfortable when I say it!" As long as Mrs. Huang thinks of the fish and meat of the Song family for the New Year, they will pick up Mrs. Li No, she was so annoyed in her heart.

What is Mrs. Lee!In Huang's eyes, Li is a sinner, the sinner who killed her son!What is Dongbao?Dong Bao is the tiger girl who killed her eldest son and lost money!Both of them are mud that can't support the wall, they are both inferior characters, and they will be trampled under their feet by her and the descendants of the Song family forever.

How dare these two people become rich, how dare they not give her money after earning money, how dare they deny them after becoming rich... What a rebellious thing this is!If it was possible, Mrs. Huang would have brought the mother and daughter of the Mrs. Li who "have no respect and lawlessness" to justice with a kitchen knife.

Old man Song couldn't persuade Huang's, he sighed, got up and took the basket hanging on the beam, and found the pack of tobacco leaves he treasured, which was bought by Dongbao from Anzhou for him.Although he smoked sparingly, there was not much left.Old man Song picked up some tobacco leaves, mixed them with hay leaves and smoked them.

In the rising green smoke, old man Song sighed silently, feeling that Mrs. Li and Dong Bao were too ignorant. It was a misfortune for the family to have such unvirtuous and unfilial daughter-in-law and granddaughter.Women have long hair but short knowledge, if Song Bai is promising, will they not be exposed?Just seeing how much money was paid to support Song Bai in front of them, why don't they think about how much they can benefit from Song Bai becoming an official?Dong Bao used to buy him tobacco leaves, but now he doesn't even visit his grandparents during Chinese New Year, because he was taught badly by Mrs. Li.

"No rules, no particularity!" Old man Song cursed in a low voice.

When it was almost noon, Mrs. Huang burned oil in the kitchen and started frying meat and fish, and the aroma wafted all over the yard.The five members of the second bedroom of the Song family were all beaming, thinking that the Huang family had bought fish and meat from the market.

Second Aunt Song even took Song Zhaodi to the kitchen with a positive attitude towards work, "Mother, I brought Zhaodi to help you!"

Mrs. Huang glanced at Aunt Song's mother and daughter with a sullen face, and said, "Zhaodi, you go and bring a bundle of corn stalks over here, and second daughter-in-law, you go and make noodles, and steam sorghum flour pancakes at noon."

"Okay!" Second Aunt Song grinned, and went out to scoop up the noodles. Before leaving, she reluctantly glanced at the fried fish pieces that were about to be cooked.

Although Second Aunt Song showed unprecedented enthusiasm when cooking lunch, there was no fish and meat that she had expected. After frying the fish and meat, Mrs. Huang put them in a bowl and locked them in the cabinet.

"Mom, don't we eat meat at noon?" Second Uncle Song couldn't help it, and asked with a salivating face.

Huang's heart was full of breath, and he opened his mouth and choked on Uncle Song, "Don't eat if you don't like the food! If you have the ability to earn money, go buy meat yourself!"

Song Yu resentfully lowered his head and took the sorghum flour pancakes and gnawed on them, muttering, "My sister-in-law is really mean and stingy. It's the Chinese New Year, and she doesn't even bring me something. Every day is cabbage and radish!"

(End of this chapter)