flstandardbreds Chapter 168 Shopping in the County
Chapter 168 Shopping in the County
Xuyuan woke up early in the morning.
There is still some residual warmth on the earthen kang.
He put on a thick coat, went downstairs, opened the door panel, and used a fire tongs to put the still burning charcoal inside into the fire basket.
He picked up the fire basket, closed the window in the room, and walked out.
It was still snowing outside and the sky was gray as usual.
I went into the kitchen, opened the lid, and touched the water with my hand. It was still a little bit warm, but it was almost as cold as cold. It was the charcoal fire left in there last night. I added half a pot of water and let it slowly warm up for washing up the next day.
He scooped a spoonful with a ladle, went into the bathroom, and quickly rinsed his mouth and washed his face.
I accidentally touched the water in the tank and it was so terrible that it made me feel cold to the bones.
Fill the pot with water and light a fire. Add water to the pot on the other stove, go down to the cellar and steam some sweet potatoes.
After sitting in front of the stove for a while, Xu Zhi also got up.
"Sister, do you want me to go to the county town with you later?" Xu Zhi came to the stove and touched the cover on it. It was a little warm, so he opened it and scooped a spoonful with a ladle.
"No need. It's cold outside. I'll go. You stay at home and look after your brothers." Xu Yuan didn't need to bring anyone with him this time. He would take a shortcut to avoid catching a cold.
Smoke was coming out of the pot of cooking sweet potatoes. Xu Yuan stood up, opened the pot, picked up a sweet potato with chopsticks, and started eating quickly.
"Sister, do you want me to make you a bowl of noodles? Can you be full with just one sweet potato?" Xu Zhi came out after cleaning up and happened to see Xu Yuan eating a sweet potato, so she suggested.
Xu Yuan shook his head and said, "No, the sweet potatoes are eaten faster. I will try to go and come back early."
This time, in addition to buying some pork for storage, I also have to buy some brown noodles.
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Unexpectedly, the snow in the county town was so tiny. Compared with the heavy snow in the mountains, it was not worth mentioning at all.
Looking at the ground in the yard, you can still count the white snow visible to the naked eye, but you have to look quickly. If you look too slowly, you can only see water stains left by the melted snow.
Xuyuan came to a corner of the wall, and there happened to be a big tree outside the wall. He took off his thick raincoat and hat. He couldn't help but shiver. He was really cold. He stamped his feet, exhaled, rubbed his hands, and was about to choose a better climbing point. Unexpectedly, there was a wooden ladder there by chance.
Good people have a safe life.
Xuyuan set up a ladder, the length of which was just enough to reach the wall. He quickly climbed up the tree and then climbed down.
He took out the lock-picking tool again, fiddled with it for a few times, opened the door, put on the straw raincoat he had just taken off, put on his straw hat, put the wooden ladder back in place, brought Dahua out, and locked the door again.
Chasing the big flowers to the market.
No matter how cold the weather is, there are still people setting up stalls on the street. There are not many pedestrians on the street market, and most of them are walking in a hurry, wrapped in thick clothes. Xu Yuan rushed to the meat stall with Dahua, but the face of the stall has changed, and it is not the uncle from last time.
We arrived a little early, so no one is at the stall now.
There are two or three meat vendors on this street market, but this one is closer and the prices are more reasonable, although the hygiene on the ground is not very good.
"Auntie, has the owner of this shop changed? Why isn't that uncle selling meat anymore?"
"Girl, no, he's the boss of my family. I went back to visit my parents some time ago, so I asked him to take care of the shop. Recently, the boss fell ill, so I asked him to take a break and let me take over. Don't worry, the price is still affordable and the food is very fresh."
It turned out to be the case.
Xu Yuan looked at the neatly stacked pork on the chopping board. The table was clean and tidy, which was very comfortable to look at.
"Auntie, you still have to come. This countertop looks much more comfortable and tidy."
"Haha, I'm bored standing here, so I'll be more comfortable if I clean up. Girl, what do you want?"
Xu Yuan looked around. He weighed two pounds of pork bones, each of which had very little meat on it, plus three pounds of pork belly and two pounds of fat pork, which he was going to take back to make oil. He also saw a cut pig tongue on the side, so he weighed another piece of it.
The auntie smiled happily, quickly weighed the required amount, took out a large lotus leaf, put these things in it and wrapped them up.
"Girl, pork bones are ten cents a pound, pork belly is thirty-six cents a pound, fatty pork is ten cents a pound, and this piece of pig tongue is sold by the piece, twenty cents." The aunt picked up a rag on the side of the table, wiped her hands clean, took out an abacus, and started clacking away.
"One hundred and sixty-eight coins together."
Xuyuan calculated in his mind and found it was correct. He paid the money when he took out the purse from his pocket. He took away three large bags of things wrapped in lotus leaves and turned to leave when he suddenly saw two buckets of pig offal placed on the table.
It has been cleaned and looks quite clean, which is really rare.
"Auntie, how much do you sell this pig's offal for?"
The aunt was surprised to see that the girl actually wanted to buy pig offal, but she didn't say anything and hurried forward to entertain her.
In the past, these pig offal were thrown on the ground by the head of the household and then either eaten by themselves or taken away by poor people who could not afford pork. They did not charge for it, after all, because they had no time to clean it, so it was the best if they could take it away. Anyway, they would be thrown away if no one wanted it.
He felt that it was a bit of a waste to throw it away, as it was meat after all. So since he had been taking charge of this stall, he had simply cleaned the offal himself. After they looked less terrible, he put them in buckets. If someone wanted to buy them, he could make some money.
"This bucket is sold by the piece, and each one is three cents. That bucket is sold by the pound, and each one is two cents. What do you want to order?"
Xu Yuan looked at one of the buckets of pig offal, which contained pig lungs, kidneys, livers, and stomachs. The other bucket was filled with pig large and small intestines.
He ordered a pig's stomach and pig's large intestine, paid for it, and put the packed things in the backpack. At this moment, more and more customers came to the stall. Xu Yuan didn't stay there for too long, and took Dahua away from here and walked towards the food store.
When I passed by the grocery store, I remembered that I didn’t have much paper at home, so I had to stock up.
Yes, it is the kind of toilet paper you use when you go to the toilet. Toilet paper is at best straw paper, made of rice straw and wheat straw. Although it is a bit hard, it is also cheap, and it is better than using leaves and toilet sticks.
After going in and buying, I came out and rushed to the last destination.
From a distance, he saw a lot of pedestrians walking towards the grain shop. Xu Yuan looked at the passers-by carefully and slowly drove Dahua over.
When he arrived at the grain shop, he stopped in a sparsely populated area of the shop. Without getting off the ground, he called out to the lazy clerk standing next to the shop and asked him to pack ten kilograms of coarse flour and come over.
After buying the rough noodles, he continued walking forward, took a longer route, and returned to Gu Qinghan's yard.