The butcher saw that other people were just asking but not buying, and kept complaining that the food was too expensive, so he naturally wanted to open a shop quickly as well.
"Big sister, how much do you want?"
Mrs. Ye thought about it and said, "I want the tendons from both hind legs, and cut me five pounds of rib meat."
When the butcher heard that this was a big customer, he immediately smiled and said, "In that case, I'll give you 28 wen per pound, and give you some bones to make soup with. What do you think, sister?"
"Okay!" Mrs. Ye was quite straightforward.
The butcher picked out the tendon meat from the two hind legs with his knife, and then cut out a large piece of rib meat.
After weighing them, I found that the shank meat weighed a little over six pounds, and the rib meat weighed just five pounds.
The butcher was also very happy and said directly: "Big sister, I will give you eleven pounds. I will give you these two corn bones as a gift. Go back and smash them in the middle to make soup.
"Just drink it, it tastes amazing!"
Seeing that Mrs. Ye had bought so much meat, the other people who had been watching became anxious, fearing that if the process dragged on, all the meat in the good places would be bought up.
"Cut me a pound of front leg meat!"
"I want two pounds of ribs!"
When the butcher saw that Mrs. Ye's business had actually helped him to expand his sales, he happily gave her another piece of meat.
After buying the donkey meat, the two men bought some vegetables and left the market and went straight to the grain store in the city to buy corn, beans, rice, millet and flour.
The cart was soon filled with things again. Seeing that it was getting late, the two men found a roadside stall, each had a bowl of hot noodle soup, and then went home.
After arriving home, I found that Old Mrs. Ye was taking a nap, and I didn’t know where the second and fourth sons of the Ye family had gone.
So Boss Ye and Sister Ye put the food, donkey meat and vegetables in the kitchen first, and then prepared to go back to the house to rest for a while.
But when she returned to the room and saw things all over the floor, Mrs. Ye couldn't sit still anymore. She asked Mr. Ye to go to the kang and rest, and she started to put things into the furniture.
"Hey." Halfway through packing, Sister Ye suddenly pulled out a box from her luggage. "Isn't this the gift that Madam Qin gave to Qingtian? Look at my brain, I actually forgot about it."
When Qingtian heard his name, he immediately came up and asked, "Mom, what's the gift?"
Mrs. Ye handed the box to Qingtian and said, "Take a look for yourself. It might be a toy."
Qingtian's attention immediately shifted away from the puppy. He took the box and sat on the kang to fiddle with it.
She pondered for a long time before she finally opened the lid of the box.
But when I saw what was inside, I was immediately disappointed.
"Mom, it's not a toy."
"Isn't it a toy? What is it?" Mrs. Ye raised her head from the pile of luggage and was stunned when she saw what was in the box. She grabbed it and closed the lid with a bang.
Qingtian was startled and thought he had done something wrong. His hand remained in the same position as he was holding the box, and he stared at Mrs. Ye without blinking.
"What the hell? Look how scared you are of the child." Boss Ye quickly stepped forward, picked up Qingtian and coaxed him, "Don't be afraid, your mother doesn't blame you!"
Mrs. Ye was a little suspicious that she might have made a mistake.
He lifted the box to his eyes, opened it a crack, took another look, and immediately closed the lid again.
"Master, we really accepted the wrong gift.
"I shouldn't have been embarrassed at the time. I should have just opened it and taken a look!"
"What is it?" Boss Ye took the box curiously, and was dumbfounded when he opened it.
There turned out to be a set of silver jewelry in the box.
In the middle is a silver lock with a chain, with a few words engraved on it, but I don’t know what they are. The surrounding area is full of very delicate patterns, and it looks like it is made with exquisite workmanship.
There are also a pair of bracelets and a pair of anklets next to it.
It was indeed a gift for the child, but the farmers had never seen such an expensive gift.
Boss Ye weighed the items one by one and estimated that the total was about seven or eight taels of silver.
And looking at the exquisite patterns on it, the labor cost must not be cheap.
"What should I do?" Mrs. Ye said in embarrassment, "They have helped me so much, and I actually accepted such an expensive gift from them. What kind of thing is this?"
What Mrs. Ye didn't say was that today, on a sunny day, she would give the other person a walnut as a return gift.
At that time, she didn't think of the box at all, otherwise she would never have asked Madam Jiang to bring a walnut back to Young Master Qin.
I don’t know what others will think after receiving it.
Boss Ye's face was also a little solemn. He said: "After the family is settled, I will go to the mountains to see if I can hunt something and peel off some good skins to send to the Qin family. It can be regarded as a return of favor."
"That's all I can do." Mrs. Ye sighed. "I have to repay this favor, or I'll feel really bad."
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