jdhmnovel Chapter 416: Bringing People Back to the Village
Chapter 416: Bringing People Back to the Village
The other party nodded in understanding, "Then can you please invite your boss over so I can talk to him."
Lu Xiaocao said with some embarrassment, "Boss Chai, it's not that I don't want to invite you, it's that my boss is not in good health and is not suitable to go to the town at the moment. You can tell me your needs, and I will tell our boss about our encounter after I return to the village today. How about bringing back the message tomorrow?"
"Is that so?" The shopkeeper surnamed Chai said these four words and didn't say anything else.
Lu Xiaocao did not rush him. She and Wang Baoyu waited for him to say the next thing. He did not let her wait too long. "I am afraid it is too late. I have to rush back to Xinzhou Prefecture early tomorrow morning."
"Is that so?" This time it was Lu Xiaocao's turn to think.
She didn't let the other party wait too long. "Why don't you tell me first, if you take the soap you bought this morning back to Xinzhou Prefecture, do you think anyone will buy it?"
Shopkeeper Chai was amused by Lu Xiaocao's question. "Hahaha, if the price is still this high, let alone 100 yuan a day, even if it's 300 yuan, I can guarantee that it will be sold out. But the premise is that you can supply so much to our shop every day?"
Lu Xiaocao's eyes widened instantly. Three hundred yuan? Every day? She vaguely knew how many soaps could be made from a pound of lard. Wouldn't that mean that Sister could actually make more money?
Lu Xiaocao was a little uneasy when she thought of this. What if Sister Meihua was there and she had someone to discuss things with? Baoyu and Xiaoxiu were not familiar with the situation of the shop.
Lu Xiaocao thought for a moment, and said impatiently, "You do have a lot of needs, and I can't make the decision. If possible, how about you follow me to our village in the afternoon? We are from Niutoushan Village, you can talk to my boss in person, but it's only an hour's journey from here to our village. You can take our donkey cart on the way there, and on the way back..."
Lu Xiaocao hesitated. The little black donkey of her elder sister's family was still a half-grown cub. It was hard enough to pull the cart to the town every day. If she had to send someone back to the town again, she would be reluctant to do so.
The other party laughed and said, "Don't bother me. I have my own mule cart."
Seeing that the other party had a car, Lu Xiaocao was delighted. She looked at the sky outside and thought that Wang Xiaoxiu had not returned from buying vegetarian noodles. It was time for lunch, so she asked in a negotiating tone, "Then we should leave in 25 minutes?"
After sending him away, Wang Baoyu took Lu Xiaocao's arm and said, "Xiaocao, isn't it inappropriate for us to just bring him home like this? And will you and Xiaoxiu go back first? Or should I take him there?"
Lu Xiaocao patted her hands and said, "Sister said before that if Sister Meihua and I can't make up our minds about making a living, we can bring someone home. But you can't take a stranger home with you, it's not safe. So, I'm going to drive the donkey cart to the west of the town to get the offal pig head, and it will be almost the agreed time when I come back. You wait here for Xiaoxiu to come back with the vegetarian noodles, and you two can share my portion. If you want to eat any stewed food, just go to the pot and serve it yourself."
"You don't want to eat? Besides, there's still a lot of food in the pot. What will happen to the food if the shop closes?" Wang Baoyu raised his chin towards the braised meat shop.
Lu Xiaocao had just thought about this problem in her mind. If she didn't go back, Wang Baoyu and Wang Xiaoxiu would definitely not be able to drive away the donkey cart.
She could let Wang Baoyu and Wang Xiaoxiu sell the things in the shop and then take the village ox cart back, but she was also scared to let a woman like her go back with a strange man for such a long journey.
She could only drive the donkey cart and find someone to accompany her back to the village, leaving one person in the town to continue looking after the shop, as she was still worried.
The original flavor is normal. Wang Baoyu and Wang Xiaoxiu have just arrived in the town and are not familiar with braised meat. How can she be at ease?
"Sell as much as you can during this period, and take the rest back. I will explain the reason to Sister, and I will also tell Sister that I will bear the cost of any waste. As for food? I'll just go next door and buy two buns to fill my stomach."
As Lu Xiaocao spoke, she walked quickly toward the backyard. Seeing Wang Baoyu following her, she waved her hand hastily, "Sister Baoyu, you look after the shop. I can handle it alone. There is one more thing you need to pay attention to. I think the Shen family will arrange to send some pig fat to me soon. If I don't come back, you can keep it for me."
Even though Lu Xiaocao is the youngest of the three, he has been following Gu Qingqing for some time and has seen many people and things in the town, so he has subconsciously imitated Gu Qingqing's way of doing things.
Wang Baoyu kept this in mind and said, "Don't worry, I will keep it if it is delivered to me."
After Lu Xiaocao knew that everything had been explained, she ran to the backyard and saw that the little black donkey had almost finished eating the grass prepared for it. So she brought it a basin of water sprinkled with wheat bran for it to drink.
Then he harnessed it to the car and went out of the backyard toward the pork stall.
Lu Xiaocao left and came back quickly. When she came back, she looked at the pot and saw that there were about seven or eight spoonfuls of offal, a braised chicken, and a few other side dishes.
"There are a lot of things left over today." She whispered to Wang Xiaoxiu.
“Not so good. Are we closing now?” Wang Xiaoxiu asked.
Lu Lu Xiaocao nodded, then turned to look at Wang Baoyu and asked, "Has the lard been delivered?"
Wang Baoyu smiled and nodded.
"Then I feel relieved. Come on, let's pack up and go back to the village. Today is special, Sister Baoyu, you can come with us." Lu Xiaocao said as she helped close the shop door.
By the time they loaded the remaining unsold braised meat into the car and locked the doors and windows from the inside, Shopkeeper Chai had also arrived, and the group headed towards Niutoushan Village.
When passing by the old ox cart at the town entrance, Wang Baoyu did not forget to greet the other party, saying that he would go back first today and there was no need to wait for her.
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In Niutoushan Village, in the vegetable field outside the Wen family, Wenrou and her mother were separated by a bean rack. While picking beans, she curiously asked, "Mom, are the oil-dregs bean cakes delicious?"
Gu Qingqing kept picking long beans and answered without thinking, "It's delicious."
"Wow, if mom says it's delicious, it must be delicious." Wenrou was delighted.
Gu Qingqing felt a little embarrassed. In fact, she had no idea whether it tasted good or not. She thought it should be delicious, after all, she ate vegetable pancakes made of shredded pumpkin when she was a child.
It is called vegetable pancake, but it is just to roll the leavened dough into a large sheet of dough with moderate thickness, then spread the tender pumpkin shreds on the dough, roll it up twice, pinch the mouth tightly, and put it on the steamer to steam it like steamed buns. After it comes out of the pot, whoever eats more can cut it into a longer section with a knife.
Just put it in a bowl when eating, otherwise the vegetable filling will fall out from the other mouth.
She had eaten it when she was very young, and today she suddenly remembered it and wanted to eat it very much.
The pumpkins in the field were just blooming, so she couldn't eat them even if she wanted to.
Recently, the family has accumulated a lot of fried food, and she wanted to eat it all, so she thought of making it with long beans.