"No, no, sister-in-law, I'll get it for you whatever you want to buy!" Wang Jindou quickly stopped Sister Ye and asked.
"Do you have any good wine at home? Bring me two jars." Sister Ye said, "We had guests today, and it was almost time for dinner when I realized we were out of wine."
"Sister-in-law, you're here." Wang Jindou quickly took down two jars of wine from the high shelf and said, "The wine brewed by Zuihualou in Beijing not only has a winey aroma but also a subtle floral fragrance. It has a mellow taste and is not intoxicating.
"It's just that the price is a little high. Sister-in-law, if you really want it, I won't be polite to you. Just give it to me at the original price."
Wang Jindou and his wife just bought this grocery store last year. They spent a lot of money to buy goods during the Chinese New Year, but they didn't sell well and now they have a lot of goods in stock.
Things like pastries that cannot be stored for long have been sold at low prices, and other things that can be stored can only be sold slowly.
Now that he saw that Mrs. Ye wanted to buy good wine, Wang Jindou immediately thought of the two most expensive jars of wine in the store.
These two jars of wine alone accounted for a lot of the family's income, so even at the original price, Wang Jindou wanted to sell them immediately.
Mrs. Ye often went to the capital to prepare banquets, so she naturally knew about Zuihualou’s wine, which was quite famous in the capital.
But the price is indeed not cheap. If you go directly to Zuihualou to buy it, it costs 225 coins per jar.
In a place like Rongxi Village, I guess except for the village chief, other people would not be willing to drink it.
"Okay, I'll take these two jars." Mrs. Ye took out half a string of coins and put them on the counter, then was about to walk out with the wine.
Wang Jindou and his wife didn't react at first. They quickly counted the copper coins and found that there were only five hundred coins. Yan quickly grabbed two strings of money from the money box and chased after him.
"Sister-in-law, it doesn't cost that much!" Yan said as she was about to stuff the copper coins into Sister-in-law Ye's pocket. "Sister-in-law, I won't tell you anything empty. Our purchase price is 200 coins..."
Upon hearing this, Sister Ye took back a string of money from her hand and said, "Okay, it's not easy for you to go to the capital to purchase goods and ship them back. I'll give you the retail price from the store.
"This way I can save trouble, and you won't suffer any loss.
"If you keep on nagging me, the food in my pot will get burnt."
Yan had no choice but to say, "Okay, then I'll listen to you, sister-in-law. If you need anything in the future, just tell us. My husband will bring it back to you when he goes out to buy some."
"Okay, I'll definitely come to you if I need anything." Mrs. Ye finally returned home with two jars of wine. She put the jars down and rushed into the kitchen to check on her two pots of rabbit meat.
Sure enough, there was not much soup left.
Fortunately, Meng Yu kept adjusting the heat and turning the pan over from time to time, so nothing stuck to the bottom.
Mrs. Ye opened the lid of the pot of braised rabbit meat and began to collect the soup.
She opened the other pot and took a look. She picked up a piece of rabbit meat, handed it to Meng Yu and asked, "How about you try it?"
Meng Yu blew on it a few times and couldn't help but take a bite. It was so hot that he kept inhaling but couldn't bear to spit it out. After eating half a piece in one gulp, he gave a thumbs up and nodded repeatedly.
After a while, Meng Yu finally managed to speak.
“It’s so delicious, tender, smooth and fresh.
“No wonder the old man always said, ‘There’s nothing better than a dove in a bird’s flight, and nothing better than a rabbit in a beast’. If you cook a rabbit on a plate, even an immortal would be greedy.
"With such delicious rabbit, everyone should have a couple of drinks."
"Don't worry, I just bought some wine from Zuihualou, you can eat and drink as much as you want at noon!
"There's plenty of rabbits and plenty of wine."
Only then did Meng Yu realize that Mrs. Ye had gone out to buy some wine.
"Oh, Madam You, I just said that. If you don't have any wine at home, then forget it. Why did you go out of your way to buy some?
"But you can actually buy Zuihualou's wine in your village? It's extraordinary!"
"Well, it's the couple from the grocery store. They were too greedy before the New Year and thought they could make more money during the New Year.
“Although we saved his family before, they also gave us a piglet.
“Come to think of it, if it weren’t for that little pig, I would have been in a dilemma if I had drawn the roast suckling pig in the cooking competition.
"So, good people are rewarded, so we should do more good deeds. You never know when the rewards will come back to you and your family."
While talking to Meng Yu, Mrs. Ye poured the rabbit meat from the pot into a basin, and then put two large bowls aside.
The soup from the braised rabbit meat is almost done.
Mrs. Ye used a spatula to turn it over evenly inside and out, and the red sauce was evenly wrapped on each piece of rabbit meat, which looked very appetizing.
Meng Yu couldn't help swallowing and asked, "Madam You, why did you serve this separately? Is anyone at home not coming home at noon?"
"No, this is for someone to take away." Mrs. Ye said, and served the braised rabbit meat in the same way as before, but the bowl used for the braised rabbit meat was a size bigger.
Mrs. Ye and Meng Yu brought two pots of rabbit meat into the house and also brought over the two jars of wine they had just bought.
She called Ye Lao Er and Ye Lao San over and said, "Those of you who are drinking, eat first. I will go with the second and third sons' wives to pick up the children and take the rabbit meat to our aunt and Lu Fei."
Meng Yu didn't know why she had to go pick up the child, but after hearing this, she still said, "Madam You, we are not in a hurry. I will go with my second and third brothers to pick up the child.
"When you guys come back from delivering the rabbit meat, we can eat together."
Meng Yu still has his own persistence in this regard.
If Mr. Cen came, it would be fine to have someone accompany him to eat first. After all, the old man is ahead of him in terms of age and seniority.
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