Chapter 17: Does Mother Want to Free Meals Again?
"Mom!" the little beggar suddenly shouted.
mother?
Gu Xiaoxi was stunned for a moment, but before he could react, the little beggar ran away.
The little beggar ran a short distance and grabbed an old man's hand, and the two disappeared into the crowd.
Gu Xiaoxi did not stay for long. Now that her mother was following her, it was not convenient for her to go look for them.
However, she guessed that the two beggars probably lived in the town. Next time she came, she would look for them carefully. Today's favor was quite big.
She turned around and picked up her mother, and the mother and daughter went for a walk in the town.
Chai made fifty cents from the sale today. She originally wanted to save the money to pay off her debts, but thinking that the rice jar at home was almost empty, she went to the rice shop.
Gu Xiaoxi asked about the price. Brown rice was eight cents, and fine grains were twelve cents. His mother had sold fifty cents today. No wonder she was reluctant to ride the ox cart. This money was too hard to earn.
Chai bought five pounds of brown rice, spending forty cents, leaving ten cents to warm her pocket.
Gu Xiaoxi took a look and saw that many people bought several kilograms of food like her mother did. The waiters seemed to be used to it and would just weigh as much as her mother wanted.
"Oh, money is not enough these days!" Chai stuffed the food into the backpack and walked out with emotion.
Gu Xiaoxi asked the waiter to weigh another 20 kilograms of coarse grains and put them in the backpack before chasing after him.
After leaving the rice shop, she went to the drugstore to inquire about what medicinal herbs the drugstore sold and their prices.
Chai didn't understand these things, but seeing that her daughter seemed to understand them very well, she accompanied her with a smile on her face.
After coming out of the pharmacy, the two came to the street.
It was almost noon. They hadn't eaten in the morning and were already hungry. Seeing the wonton stall next to them, Chai couldn't help swallowing her saliva.
"Mom, you must be hungry! I haven't eaten wontons for a long time. Let's have a bowl of wontons!" Gu Xiaoxi was also hungry, so he pulled his mother to sit down at the wonton stall.
Seeing her daughter wanted to eat, Chai smiled and said, "Okay, eat if you want. There are still ten coins!"
Gu Xiaoxi asked the stall owner, and he told her that a small bowl cost eight cents and a large bowl cost ten cents.
Upon hearing the price, Chai couldn't help but frown, but even though she thought it was expensive, she didn't say anything.
"Give me two big bowls." Gu Xiaoxi shouted.
"No, no, no, Mom is not hungry, Mom..." Chai didn't say the rest of the words, her stomach growled even louder.
"Mom, my daughter has money and can also make money." Gu Xiaoxi patted her mother's hand, turned her head and nodded to the stall owner.
Seeing this, the stall owner started to cook wontons.
There were quite a few people at the wonton stall because you could actually taste meat in the wontons and they tasted pretty good.
Soon, two bowls of steaming hot wontons were served on the table. Chai stared at the wontons in a daze.
"Mom, eat it. It tastes better while it's hot." Gu Xiaoxi stuffed the spoon into his mother's hand.
Chai came back to her senses and looked around, then whispered, "We'll eat later, you go first."
Gu Xiaoxi...
Does mom want to dine and dine again?
No!
Mother doesn't believe that she really has money.
In order to let her mother eat wontons with peace of mind, she stood up and gave twenty cents to the stall owner.
When Chai saw that her daughter really gave the money, her eyes suddenly became red.
She picked up the spoon and ate bite by bite, not even realizing that her tears had fallen into the bowl.
"Mom, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying while eating wontons?" Gu Xiaoxi wiped her mother's tears.
Chai said with a smile through her tears: "My daughter has really grown up and knows how to feel sorry for her mother."
Gu Xiaoxi looked at her mother and quickly found out from her memory.
The original owner asked her mother for money to buy hair ornaments and clothes when she was at home, and after she got married, she asked her mother for money to support that scumbag.
From childhood to adulthood, I have never given my mother even a handkerchief, let alone let her eat more meat. If there was any meat, it all went into her mouth.
"Mom, I want to make a lot of money so that you and Dad can live a good life." She couldn't help but tell her promise to her mother.
Yeah yeah yeah!
Chai nodded suddenly, picked up the spoon and started eating in big mouthfuls.
The big bowl of wontons was quite filling, but after finishing one bowl, Chai offered to serve another bowl of hot soup.
"Mom, why don't you have another bowl?" Gu Xiaoxi was worried that her mother was saving money for her.
"No, no, no, that's enough, Mom. I just like drinking this bone soup." Chai was not lying about this.
Seeing that her mother was smiling happily and didn't seem to be lying, Gu Xiaoxi didn't insist. However, the wontons in this restaurant are really delicious. Next time she brings her two children to town, she must come here to eat.
After lunch, the two men walked back with their backpacks on their backs. When they reached the entrance of the town, they saw an ox cart parked there.
Gu Xiaoxi really didn't want to leave, so she pulled her mother towards the ox cart, but her mother pulled her back forcibly.
"That won't do. If the villagers knew we had enough money to ride in an ox cart, it would be troublesome for us to go back." Chai had a lot on her mind.
All right!
For the time being, Gu Xiaoxi can only listen to his mother.
After all, more than one hundred taels of silver is a lot of money. Although she now has a hundred taels in total, it is impossible for her to give it all away. She has to find a way to make money quickly.
So, the mother and daughter walked back quickly with the baskets on their backs.
There was no need to rush back, so we walked and stopped along the way, and arrived at the village in about an hour.
As soon as the two entered the village, an aunt came forward to inquire.
"Gu He's family, are they going to town?"
"Yes, I bought some mountain products these days and sold them for some food. Now the jar is empty." After saying this, Chai took down the backpack and showed it to the aunt.
When Gu Xiaoxi saw this scene, she was glad that she had not put all the food in one backpack.
Their family owed too much money and too many people, so the villagers were all keeping an eye on them.
Moreover, this village is quite diverse. There are not only people with the surname Gu, but also people with the surname Luo, Ma, and Zhang.
When there are too many people, there is chaos, it’s the same everywhere.
In addition, the people living on both sides of their house are gossip lovers, and everyone in the village knows what they do.
It seems that when I have money in the future, I will either move out of this damn place as soon as possible or build a house somewhere else.
The aunt looked at the little food and then looked at Gu Xiaoxi with strange eyes.
"Xiaoxi, when are you going to tell others about this?"
Gu Xiaoxi...
I really want to greet this person's eighteen generations of ancestors.
Without waiting for Gu Xiaoxi to speak, Chai spoke up: "I'm not worried at all, why are you so worried? Isn't your daughter still married?"
The aunt rolled her eyes when she heard this, pouted and said, "How can they be compared? My eldest daughter is still a virgin, and Xiaoxi has already given birth to two girls. Tsk tsk tsk tsk, it's really not easy for her to find a husband!"
"So what if they are just two little girls? Weren't you raised as a little girl?" Chai glared at the aunt angrily and walked forward with her daughter.
Hahaha……
The villagers who were watching the fun nearby all laughed, and the aunt started cursing at the villagers.
After walking for a while, Chai began to comfort her daughter: "There are too many gossipers in the village. Don't take anything they say to heart. These people are too idle to worry about anything!"
"Mom, I'm not stupid!" Gu Xiaoxi felt that he was sometimes quite thick-skinned.
Before the mother and daughter reached home, a villager came running towards them, carrying a child on his back and crying.
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