Blessed Peasant Woman of Time Traveling

Chapter 13

Seeing Ding Xiang's momentum, Chen and Qi must have listened to Ding Xiang's words.

Mrs. Qi quickly lowered her head, feeling that what she just said was really inappropriate.But Mrs. Chen raised her head and said, "Ding Xiang, look at you, did your third aunt and I say something wrong? Let alone your sister, you used to be docile and well-behaved, but since you got sick, you It's a little weird, whether it's working or talking, it's completely out of tune. Let me see, you are still confused after being ill, and then you were taught by Haitang and Zikui."

"I'm not confused. My sister is your niece after all. I call you two aunts and three aunts. Even if the family is separated, it's still a family. Don't you feel blush when you speak ill of your own family like this? Are you confused? It should be you."

Facing Ding Xiang's questioning, Chen Shi and Qi Shi were really speechless.Although the other two women didn't say anything, they laughed in their hearts, thinking that what Chen and Qi said about their niece just now was really too much.

Ding Xiang said again: "Also, you'd better make it clear to Rose and Narcissus, and tell them not to go out with me in the future. Fortunately, I didn't promise to take them to the town just now, otherwise you will say it again I taught them badly!"

Ding Xiang left after finishing speaking, feeling really flustered in her heart. She was afraid that she would quarrel with her second aunt and third aunt if she continued speaking, which would not be conducive to the unity of the whole family.

Thinking about how ignorant the Chen family and the Qi family are, they are still elders. After all, Haitang is also their niece, and they are still a family after the family is separated. No matter how bad the niece is, just complain in my heart, why What good would it do them to spoil their nieces with outsiders?
As he walked, Ding Xiang became angry again.She is not a native of this place, just try to live a happy life for herself, and there is no need to be angry about such trivial things, not to mention that Chen and Qi are just people who have never seen the world and have no high-quality people. Only their own small family, as long as their interests are hindered, they will not have any good words, let alone have any good looks.

More importantly, Ding Xiang also has to think about her own future, but she can't do everything according to her temper.The reputation of the girl to be married has a great influence on the future marriage. She doesn't want to be notorious early on. At that time, there will be no good people to propose marriage, so she can only marry some old bachelors.

Although there are only a dozen villages in Qingshan Town, and the total population is estimated to be no more than 5000 people, the power of word of mouth is far beyond Ding Xiang's initial imagination.If she quarreled with her second aunt and third aunt here, within five days, half of the villages in Qingshan Town would probably know about it. The girl and her aunts were arguing in the village, and the third girl fought and fought with others at every turn.

Forget it, she doesn't want to be known like that.

She has learned that if something strange happens in the village, it will not only spread to Qingshan Town, but also spread to other towns, and maybe even spread to the county.For example, the story of Haitang, I am afraid that not only the people in Qingshan Town know about it, but also how many people are spreading it with gusto. The more exciting it is.

The villagers' daily lives are really monotonous, and they can only satisfy their curiosity and entertain themselves and others by passing on some strange things.Ding Xiang quite understands that no matter in ancient times or modern times, people need to have some sense of existence in life. People here often don’t have enough food and clothing, and live in such a lowly way. If they don’t have anything to entertain, they will really live like ants. up.

Ding Xiang enjoyed the scenery all the way, came to the town leisurely, and took the medicine according to the prescription.These medicines are only for miscarriage, but Haitang is malnourished. Ding Xiang knows that she needs to nourish Haitang's body, but she really doesn't know what to buy for a while.She had no choice but to ask Dr. Wu for advice. Dr. Wu said that pregnant women who are malnourished should eat crucian carp stew, mushroom stewed old hen, meat and eggs.

Of course, it doesn't mean that you can eat it once or twice in a few months, at least you can eat it two or three times a month.Doctor Wu knew that most of the villagers were poor and could not afford these things, so he was just talking.

But Ding Xiang listened very seriously, thinking about it too. The villagers usually only eat meat dishes during festivals and New Years.Originally, being a vegetarian would not lead to malnutrition, but the variety is too single. Dingxiang has been here for more than half a month, and has only eaten Chinese cabbage and cabbage, and another meal of leeks, pickled radish and potherb mustard pickles, as well as tasteless So good for some old wild vegetable soup.

She didn't understand. There were eggs in the house, so they should have raised chickens. Why didn't she see any of them?Instead, I saw one or two families in the village who seemed to be raising chickens.You can also raise pigs, but it’s really strange why the family didn’t raise them!As for crucian carp, I'm afraid they can't buy it this season. The villagers have filled fish cages wherever there is water in the village, and some small fish and shrimps have been caught clean.

Ding Xiang visited more than 20 shops in the town and bought a catty of pork and a catty of red dates.The thirty Wen that Haitang gave besides the medicine left six Wen, but the meat cost eight Wen a catty, and the red dates also cost eight Wen a catty, so Ding Xiang took out ten Wen from her own fifty Wen to add .

Ding Xiang didn't tell anyone how she got the fifty Wen, and Haitang also forgot that Sun Hong sent the medicine package that day.The more Ding Xiang thought about it on the way back, the more she felt that what she did was a bit of a villain, so she decided to tell Hai Tang when she asked her questions.

After returning home, Ding Xiang showed Haitang the medicine she bought, "These medicines are boiled ten times, one can every three days, and each can is divided into three meals. The medicine costs 24 Wen. A catty of red dates costs [-] Wen. You can eat three or five cabbage a day. By the way, I also bought a catty of meat. When we separated in the morning, you were too embarrassed to grab the meat from everyone. You only ate some Chinese cabbage. You haven’t eaten it for months. Let's have some meat, I'll chop the meat and make dumplings for you later."

It is true that Haitang hasn't tasted meat in a few months. Everyone rushed to eat meat in the morning. She has a big belly, so she has the nerve to stretch out her chopsticks to grab it.

Sure enough, Hai Tang asked Ding Xiang why she bought something worth [-] Wen with [-] Wen.Ding Xiang took out her remaining forty Wen and handed it to Haitang, and told Dr. Wu exactly what she had sold the medicine given by her cousin.

Haitang poked Ding Xiang's forehead and said, "I didn't expect you to be quite clever. You didn't get angry and threw away the medicine. You can keep this money. It's the pocket money my sister gave you."

Ding Xiang is not polite, she said with a smile: "Then I will thank my sister."

Ding Xiang collected the money, then took out the medicine pot to boil the medicine, scooped out some white flour, chopped the meat finely, and chopped some Chinese cabbage, planning to make dumplings stuffed with pork and cabbage, which recruited the purple sunflower who was chopping firewood outside.

Zikui was almost drooling, and swallowed in her throat, "Second sister, you are going to make dumplings, remember the last time I ate dumplings, it was on New Year's Eve last year, I remember I ate six dumplings at that time. , the taste is really delicious. But... the family only got ten catties of white flour, which is to be kept for the New Year. If you scoop out these white flour to make dumplings, and spend money to buy meat, will your parents scold you when they come back? you?"

Ding Xiang was chopping quickly in her hands, she only chopped half a catty of meat, and the rest would be saved for tomorrow, so she couldn't eat it all in one meal.

"Zi Kui, didn't you eat meat this morning? Why are you hungry again? We and our parents can only eat four at most in the evening, and the rest is for my sister. Don't worry, my parents won't scold you." , Tomorrow morning, I will cook an egg for my sister, our family is not too poor now, and we will build a new house in a few days."

Zikui thought that the family had eight taels of silver, and felt that what the second sister said was right, since she had money, why should she live such a hard life.

Speaking of this, Ding Xiang wanted to ask the question in her heart obliquely, it would be awkward to ask directly, as if she was not from this family. "I asked Dr. Wu, and he said that if my sister could eat old hen stewed with mushrooms, crucian carp stew, meat and eggs two or three times a month, my sister's body would not be weak. Well, if there are chickens at home How good a pig should be, so I don’t need to buy it.”

Zikui lowered her head and picked the cocoon skin on her palm, and sighed: "That's right, if the chickens, pigs, and shiitake mushrooms I picked up were not sold, my sister would have eaten them. But all year round, I just hope that these can be sold for money." , otherwise penniless and unable to live a life, if not for selling these, this time the division would not be worth a hundred cents. There is no crucian carp, so can dried fish work? Our family also got a catty of dried fish Woolen cloth."

"Well, dried fish should also be able to make up for the body." Ding Xiang finally understood that there were chickens and pigs in the house, but they were just raised to sell money, so there were only some eggs left in the house. As for the chickens and pigs? Willing to stay. "Zi Kui, I remember that there are two chickens in Lingzhi's house that have not been sold? You can go to her house later and tell her not to carry them to the town to sell, but just keep them and sell them to our family."

Zikui nodded when she heard this, and Haitang, who was sitting on the bed, suddenly said, "Second sister, I don't need to eat old hens, and it only costs twenty yuan to buy one, it's too expensive."

"Sister, if you don't make up again, you might get dizzy again. What if you faint and fall on your stomach? Don't you have to give birth to the baby? Since you want to give birth, you have to take good care of yourself, unless you don't want it. This baby."

Lilac got involved in the child's head, Haitang fell silent, of course she wanted to have this child.

Ding Xiang pinched her fingers to settle the bill for Haitang, "Eating two old hens is only forty yuan, and there are eggs and dried fish at home, so you don't need to buy these two. From now on, you can buy pork twice a month until you How much does it cost to give birth to a child? It’s only one or two hundred yuan in total. If you take care of your body, your baby will be born healthy. If you are malnourished, your baby will be born here. Good and bad, don’t you want to die in a hurry?”

Haitang thought about it too. She had eight taels of silver at home, and she took out five taels of silver to build a house, and there was still three taels left. In addition, she still had seventy taels of money in her hand, and she got a hundred taels of money when the family was divided. Even Lilac There is also forty penny pocket money.The family is no longer as poor as it used to be, so that every penny has to be broken into two pennies to spend, why should she suffer herself?

Haitang nodded and said: "Okay, then it's up to you. Not only do I need to make up my body, I will cook more for every meal in the future, and I will buy food when I run out!"

Thinking about it, Haitang was also frightened of hunger, no, her stomach was already growling.

(End of this chapter)