This is the life of poor people. All household expenses come from their mouths! Among the original three cakes, one must be for the son, the other is for the grandson, and the remaining cake is for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law! Now that Mrs. Zhao Sun has brought out one more pancake, her son and daughter-in-law can eat more. As for myself, an old woman, why do I eat so much!
After breakfast was made, it was already getting light, and my son and grandson had already gotten up and washed themselves. They didn't push the thin pancakes around each other during the subsequent breakfast. Zhao Sun's son finished one and a half pieces of pancakes calmly!
This is not to say that he is greedy, but that he knows that as the main force of the family, he must not cause any problems! Being able to eat enough is an important part of ensuring his good health! And eating more means you have to work more today and earn more money!
Because the price of food dropped some time ago, all the copper coins at home were used to buy food, and now I don't have much money at all. The more families like them, the more they need to save some copper coins in their hands for emergencies.
After breakfast, Zhao Sun's son and daughter-in-law went to work respectively. Even his little grandson picked up a blunt and unseemly hatchet to go out to collect firewood.
After seeing them off, Zhao Sun returned to the room again and took out a blue cloth bag from the bottom of the bedside cabinet. He opened the blue cloth bag and found a dozen copper coins inside! She counted it twice and determined that there were 15 copper coins inside!
After much hesitation, she took out eight copper coins and put them in her belt. He wrapped the other coins and put them away. But instead of putting the cloth bag back into the box, she stuffed it behind the water tank! In this way, if a thief breaks into the home, I'm afraid no one will go behind the water tank to dig out. Read the book
Then Zhao Sun held the belt around her waist and walked out. There were eight copper coins hidden there! As she passed the gate, she picked up a long wooden stick from beside it and used it as a crutch. The village is still more than thirty miles away from Datong City, and it is difficult to walk there without a cane.
When she left the village road and walked onto the official road, she suddenly found that the official road was much busier! She couldn't help feeling that she had stayed in the village for too long! But then she burst into laughter. She had no money to do anything, so she might as well embroider a few more handkerchiefs in the sun!
He walked slowly with the flow of people and finally arrived at the gate of Datong City. Normally, she should pay city fees. But the soldiers guarding the city were not blind. One look at the patches on her body and they knew that she must not be able to pay for it, so they impatiently waved their hands at her and motioned for her to come over quickly!
Zhao Sun kept saying words of thanks, but she used all her strength to walk into the city gate as fast as possible! When she walked out of the city gate, it was as if she had entered another world! All kinds of hawking sounds came and went, and all kinds of smells rushed into her nostrils. It was a bustling scene!
However, Mrs. Zhao Sun was completely unmoved and threw away all temptations and rushed towards the set goal. The reason was simple: she had no money!
She turned a few streets and came to a busy street. The official salt shop she wanted to go to was on this street. And when she stepped onto this street, she could faintly hear the sound of firecrackers just ending. It must be that a new store had just opened!
But all this has nothing to do with Zhao Sun. She just wants to buy some salt as soon as possible, so that she can go back before sunset and embroider handkerchiefs in the sunshine. So she quickly came to a shop. There was a plaque hanging on the door of the shop with the word "official salt" written on it!
The difference between this store and other stores is that this store is not for people to walk in. Instead, there are three wooden barrels directly behind the door, with salt piled in the barrels. The quality seems to be good and high-grade.
When Mrs. Zhao Sun arrived, there was no one in the whole store. Even the waiters were dozing off against the door! But it’s understandable when you think about it. Although everyone needs salt, you can buy it once and use it for a long time, so it’s normal to be left out in front of the door!
Mrs. Zhao Sun hesitated while wiping the eight copper coins on her waist, but she still walked over on crutches. When she got closer, the guy was awakened and said lazily: "Want to buy some salt?"
Zhao Sun nodded silently after hearing this. The guy could tell by looking at her clothes that she was a poor girl and was impatient.
Annoyed, he stretched out his hand and said at the same time: "How much do you want to buy?"
Zhao Sun hesitated again and again, his face flushed with shame, but he still handed over the eight cents in his hand! Before the clerk received the eight cents of money, his face was full of disbelief. Then he looked at the money, then looked up at Zhao Sun, and then carefully counted the coins in his hand. Then he suddenly smiled and turned to face the inside of the shop. He said loudly: "Shopkeeper, come and see what's new! There is an old woman who actually bought salt for eight cents!"
After saying that, he turned back to Zhao Sun who was blushing with shame and said: "Old lady, do you know how much a pound of salt in Datong City is now? One hundred and twenty-two cents! What can you do with eight cents? How much do you want to buy?"
At this time, Zhao Sun had the urge to get the money back! But she knew that she had not had salt for a long time, and her son was already staggering a little! If you don’t eat salt anymore, you won’t be able to bear it anymore! So he clasped his hands and said, "Brother, do me a favor. This old woman doesn't know how to settle accounts, and she doesn't know how much salt can be bought with eight cents? It's just that this is the money at home, so you should try to sell as much as possible!"
But the waiter muttered: "How much salt can eight cents buy? It's a joke!"
Just then someone in the room said, "What's wrong? Isn't eight cents money money?"
The waiter immediately changed his attitude when he heard the voice, and said happily to the person who came out: "Shopkeeper, this eight cents is definitely money, even if you can buy as much salt as you want, it won't count!"
When Zhao Sun heard that the shopkeeper wanted to sell him salt, she was naturally extremely surprised. She clasped her hands and bowed to the shopkeeper again and again, and kept saying words of thanks!
However, the shopkeeper ignored Zhao Sun. Instead, he counted the eight cents he took from the waiter and stuffed them directly into his sleeve after confirming that it was eight cents. Then he turned around and picked up a piece of oil paper and placed it on the salt pile. Then he raised his right hand, pulled up his sleeve with his left hand, gently grabbed a small handful of salt on the salt pile, and then let go of the oil paper, a small handful. The grains of salt fell into the oil paper!
The shopkeeper took a piece of oil paper and pinched it, then handed it to Mrs. Zhao Sun. At the same time, he said in a condescending and rewarding tone: "Take it!"
