The peasant's daughter-in-law of crossing

Chapter 15

Yingniang didn't know how far Xuejia Village was from the town, so she followed Bo Ming obediently.In his hand, Birming only carried a basket containing a few bags of food, which was very light, so he walked relatively quickly.

Yingniang is born with good legs, so she can naturally keep up.The two of them, one in front of the other, didn't dare to speak along the way, because there were many people doing farm work in the fields on both sides of the road.When they saw the new couple, they inevitably had to take a few extra glances, so Yingniang had to walk shyly with her head down.

Unexpectedly, it was quite close to the town, and they arrived after less than half an hour's walk.Just after entering the town, Yingniang saw many strong men carrying heavy stone bricks to a stone brick shop. They should be the short-term laborers that Birming mentioned.

Although they are strong enough, you can see that they are gritting their teeth and persevering from the look of their shoulders.

Bo Ming felt itchy when he saw this, "Ms. Ying, wait for me here for a while, I'll go to that shop and ask the boss if he still needs part-time workers."

Yingniang didn't want him to ask at all, "Let's go shopping first, don't waste time. Hey, what are they selling there?"

Yingniang led him to a stall selling snacks, and upon closer inspection, it turned out that they were selling big meat buns.Bo Ming thought that Yingniang wanted to eat meat buns, so he immediately took out his purse and said to the meat bun vendor, "Bring me a meat bun."

Yingniang hurriedly stopped him, "Why are you buying meat buns? You just had breakfast, how can you eat meat buns?"

You know, in Birming's eyes, this big meat bun is very attractive.Usually at home, it is rare to make meat buns a few times throughout the year. It is normal for Yingniang to want to eat.Although he himself didn't eat meat before, he knew the power of the meat buns from the way the three younger brothers enjoyed it.

Birming took out a penny from his purse. "You must have not eaten for a long time, just buy one."

"Don't buy it, I really can't eat it." Yingniang was telling the truth, she drank a bowl of porridge in the morning and ate a bun, and her stomach was still full.

The peddler thought that Yingniang was not willing to spend money, or that she didn't want to eat alone, so he said with a smile: "Why don't you buy two pastries, it's also a penny, so you two can eat one, wouldn't it be just right?"

The pastry was not very attractive to Bo Ming, so he insisted on spending a penny, "Just buy a big meat bun."

Yingniang dragged Bo Ming aside and said in a low voice, "Isn't the money dad gave you just enough? How can there be any extra money to buy meat buns?"

"Father was worried that the price of meat and sugar would increase, so he gave me two extra coins." Bo Ming also took out copper coins to show Yingniang.

"Don't buy it! Don't buy it!" Yingniang ordered him to be dragged away.Just now she just wanted to lure Boming away from asking about the part-time job, so she dragged him to the meat bun booth, but Bo Ming thought she really wanted to eat meat buns.

What's more, she did the math just now. It costs a penny to eat such a big meat bun, that is to say, it takes a load of more than 100 catties to walk four miles in exchange for it. How can she still eat it?

Seeing that Yingniang was not willing to eat, Bo Ming wanted to make money even more.But besides doing part-time jobs, he really can't think of any other way to earn money, but Yingniang doesn't want him to do this job, so what should he do?
Yingniang carefully looked at the town, there were only six stalls on both sides of the road, and about 20 serious shops, this is a very small town, and there are not many pedestrians coming and going.It stands to reason that because they have to work during the day, most people come to buy some needed things early in the morning.Since there are not many people shopping at this hour, it will be even more deserted in the morning or afternoon.

It seems that everyone is indeed relatively poor and has no spare money to buy things at all.Yingniang thought it was quite simple at first, thinking that she would set up a stall in the town, like in the novels she read before, she could make money by selling pigs or braised vegetables.Now that I think about it, that was completely fanciful and wouldn't work here.

It would be nice if everyone could eat their stomachs and occasionally wear a piece of unpatched clothes. How would you be willing to spend money on pig offal or braised vegetables? Although there are some affluent families, they are definitely a minority. With so few companies, the business cannot be done.

The two of them first went to a shop to buy four catties of sugar, and then went to a roadside meat stand to weigh four catties of meat, and they bought everything.Fortunately, there was no price increase, so I could pay an extra two pennies.

It was only about four miles from Xuejia Village to the town, and the two of them had to walk eight miles to reach Linjia Village when they left the town.

The basket in Birming's hand was a lot heavier now, but with his arm strength, he could still bear it.

"Yingniang, you don't even want to eat a meat bun with me, don't you think it's a hard day?" Bo Ming stopped and looked at Yingniang guiltily.

Yingniang couldn't help laughing, "Why are you so preoccupied, are you still thinking about this? I don't like meat buns at all, and I'm not hungry." She was telling the truth. In her previous life, she was really I don't like meat buns and almost never buy them.I don't know if she will become fond of it if she can't eat good food for a long time here, at least she doesn't want to eat it now.

Birming thought she was just comforting him, he had never seen anyone who didn't want to eat meat buns at all.He said to Yingniang like a promise: "Don't worry, I will work hard so that you never have to think about money when you want to eat meat buns."

Ying Niang smiled, "Okay, I believe in you, let's go quickly."

After walking for nearly an hour, the two of them arrived at Lin Family Village.When they came to the door of their mother's house, the two of them felt very strange, because there was no one there.Generally, on the day when the daughter returns home, the family must have prepared firecrackers early, and the whole family is waiting for the daughter and son-in-law to come.

But the Lin family didn't set off firecrackers, and no one was waiting in the yard, let alone came out to greet them.They entered the yard and saw that the door of the main room was open, presumably someone should be at home.

Yingniang knew that this family didn't take her seriously, and she didn't bother to care about these things. Anyway, coming here was just a formality, and she didn't have any kinship with this family.

She and Bo Ming walked into the main room and put down the basket again, only to see Li Xinghua come out of the room with a bitter face.

Bo Ming hurriedly called his mother, and Li Xinghua only responded lightly, "You two are here."

Yingniang saw that her mother seemed to have something on her mind, so she asked, "What's the matter, mother?"

Li Xinghua sighed deeply, "Yesterday I bought six chicks and brought them home, and one died just now."

Yingniang didn't say a word, it seems that the mother just received the wedding gift the day before yesterday, and she couldn't wait to buy chicken cubs yesterday and came back.

Seeing that his mother-in-law felt sorry for the chick, Boming comforted him, "Mother, don't worry, don't you have five more? When these five grow up, they will be able to lay many eggs."

Li Xinghua seemed to feel better after hearing this, and then she came back to see the door-return gift brought by Bo Ming. She pretended to smile and said: "Bo Ming, it's hard for you to send these home-return gifts." When she took out these gifts one by one, she felt that something was wrong, "Could it be that you forgot to give gifts to Yingniang's two uncles?"

Bo Ming stood beside him in embarrassment, knowing that his mother-in-law was too polite.

Ying Niang came over regardless, and took down two catties of sugar and two catties of meat, "These are for the uncle and the second uncle's family, and the rest is for our family. Bo Ming, let's go and take the two uncles together." Send it home as a gift."

Bo Ming was still in a daze, and was dragged out by Ying Niang, leaving Li Xinghua staring at the basket sullenly.Seeing that Yingniang and Bo Ming had gone out, she kept rummaging through the basket, rummaging over and over, that was all, and she couldn't find any more.

Angrily, she unpacked a bag of jujube cake, took a piece and ate it, probably since she hadn't eaten it for a long time, she wolfed down a piece of jujube cake in three mouthfuls, choking her so much that she went to the kitchen to scoop up cold water to drink.

Because the two uncles' homes are connected with her mother's, and the two aunts also visited Yingniang when she got married the day before yesterday, so she recognized them.The uncles have all gone out to work, only the two aunts are at home.Yingniang and Bo Ming delivered the presents, and after chatting with them for a while, they came back.

Li Xinghua was sitting in the yard choosing leeks, and when she saw the two of them came back, she said, "I know you are coming today, so I went to cut a lot of leeks and scrambled eggs with leeks later. I haven't eaten it yet. Yingniang, go wash the peppers and cabbage, there are three dishes to be fried at noon today!"

Yingniang understood, what she meant was to cook three dishes to entertain her daughter and son-in-law.

After all the dishes were washed, Li Xinghua was hesitating about one thing in her heart, whether to cut a little bit from the two catties of pork that Boming sent to stir-fry chili.But thinking that the Xue family only gave such a small gift, she couldn't bear it.

But the son-in-law brought the meat, and it seemed unreasonable not to fry it a little, so Li Xinghua found an excuse, "Bo Ming, you used to be a monk, so you definitely don't eat meat, right?"

Birming's face turned red. He just started eating meat yesterday morning, so he smiled awkwardly, "Well, I don't eat meat."

Li Xinghua heard what he said, and said happily: "Well, I won't fry the meat, the pillars and roots don't always grow, so let's cook them for them."

Yingniang knew that her mother was stingy and deliberately looking for such an excuse, and hearing such a weird conversation between the two of them, she felt that it was really embarrassing for Birming.

After Li Xinghua entered the kitchen, Yingniang quickly unwrapped the bag of longan, took out more than half of it and kept it in her sleeve pocket, which was actually just a handful.These Birmings are not willing to eat any of them at home, and Yingniang doesn't want her family to eat them so they don't remember Birming's goodness.

Seeing Yingniang like this, Bo Ming stepped forward to stop her, and said in a low voice, "Mother will be upset if she finds out."

"It's okay. She hasn't opened this bag. She didn't know it contained longan. You see, she only opened the bag of jujube cakes."

Bo Ming saw that Yingniang seemed to be doing something wrong, so he thought so, and saw Zhuzi and Genzi come back.As soon as the two brothers came in, they rummaged through the basket to eat.

Seeing that the two of them almost ate those things in a short time without even saying thank you, Bo Ming felt that there was nothing wrong with what Yingniang did just now.

Seeing that the two younger brothers were only eating, Yingniang said angrily: "Don't you two have eyes, and you don't even scream when you see your brother-in-law?"

The younger brother Genzi quickly wiped his mouth, and called Bo Ming his brother-in-law.

When Zhuzi saw that Yingniang scolded him for not having eyes, he gave his sister a hard look, then murmured to his brother-in-law and ran out to play.

Seeing that Boming was quite embarrassed, Yingniang comforted him, "Don't bother with such an impolite thing."

Li Xinghua thought of something, and ran over from the kitchen, "Yingniang, go to the kitchen and continue cooking. Bo Ming, you said the day before yesterday that you need to make up twenty Wen, did you forget?"

"Never forget, never forget." Bo Ming hurriedly took out the money that had already been wrapped and handed it to his mother-in-law.

Li Xinghua took the money with a smile, and suddenly asked: "Why didn't you bring something for your two brothers-in-law? According to the general rules, the brother-in-law is the oldest, so you have to pull some cloth for them to make clothes, or give them some red clothes." A string of money."

Yingniang was going to the kitchen, and when she saw that Boming was about to find out the remaining two Wen, she hurried forward and said, "Mother, Bo Ming's family has no money at all, and the twenty Wen is borrowed." Miles. The several packs of food just now were all bought for the pillars and roots at a considerable cost. You see, the roots are almost full, and I’m afraid they won’t even be able to eat lunch.”

Li Xinghua was very angry when she saw that her daughter was speaking for her husband's family, but she saw that the root was still peeling and eating peanuts, so she didn't say anything else.It's useless to think about it, the twenty coins are all borrowed, and it will not cost a copper coin.

Yingniang winked at Boming, telling him not to be so stupid as to have to take out the two pennies, but to save them and buy two big meat buns.

(End of this chapter)