Chapter 79: Chatterbox
Chu Hong and Xiao Yu'er were holding hands on their way home. Xiao Yu'er looked at Chu Hong eagerly and asked timidly in a childish voice, "Aunt, can I still go to see Brother Chu with Sister Chu Chu tomorrow?"
Chu Hong teased her: "Do you want to visit the patient? Or do you want to eat something delicious?"
Xiao Yuer answered her seriously: "Chu Chu will be scared, I will go to protect her."
Chu Hong also praised her seriously: "Xiao Yu'er is so well behaved."
In fact, she almost couldn't help laughing. It was so funny that a six-year-old kid said he wanted to protect a nine-year-old girl.
Even though she rode the ox cart back and forth, Chu Hong still felt tired. After returning home, she would lie down on a rocking chair covered with old clothes for a while.
Xiao Yuer was very diligent, sweeping the floor with a broom that was taller than her.
The floor of my house is also mud, which is compacted by stone rollers. This kind of mud will not raise dust after being stepped on for a long time.
When they walked in from outside, the mud on the soles of their shoes was particularly obvious on the ground.
Chu Hong didn't stop her.
It is a good thing that children nowadays like to do housework. She will love Xiaoyuer, but doesn't want to spoil him.
After Xiao Yuer finished sweeping the floor, he came to Chu Hong and whispered, "Aunt, can I go feed the rabbits?"
Chu Hong closed her eyes and said, "Then close the gate first, and then go check if there are any leftovers in the rabbit nest. If not, feed them some dried radish leaves."
Xiao Yuer agreed happily.
Chu Hong yawned and lay there lazily, but she was thinking in her heart: lotus root dumplings and taro dumplings have good profits, but it's a pity that they only bought half a pound of meat today, so they can't make much.
Thinking that I could add some bacon in it, I quickly got up and took down the bacon hanging on the beam, put it in the pot, and boiled some water to soak it.
This way it won’t be too salty later.
She thought to herself that if she could get some taro, she would make taro dumplings, which would not require meat.
If I can’t buy fresh meat tomorrow, I’ll go to the black market.
Next time when Chu Dan is in town, she can go buy meat earlier.
However, when he thought that he only had 1.7 jin of meat coupons in his hand, all those extravagant thoughts in his mind disappeared instantly.
Oh, it’s another day when I’m looking forward to eating braised pork.
Then I thought that there were only about two pounds of bacon left, and the deliciousness of the bacon stewed with bamboo shoots made me drool.
She didn't know how long she had been thinking about it, but Chu Dan came in with a basket: "Sister, do you have any brown sugar at home? Uncle Man has a few crucian carps at home. He wants to exchange them for brown sugar with us, is that okay?"
Chu Hong watched her carry in a basket of taro and asked her, "Are these all from Uncle Man's house?"
Chu Dan leaned close to her and whispered, "Yes, but they want candy or cookies."
Chu Hong was a little surprised: "Uncle Man's family doesn't have any children, and the New Year is over now, why do they need to change these foods?"
In the eyes of farmers, sugar and biscuits are luxury foods. Except during festivals, they are reluctant to buy these because they think they will be gone once they are eaten and it is not cost-effective and not worth it. It shows that they do not know how to live.
Chu Dan sighed, "It was said that someone came to visit Xiaoyan, and their family has finished eating all the food they bought for the New Year, and it's too far to go to town to buy more."
"I happened to be there to exchange taro, so I asked if I could exchange some to help save the situation."
Chu Hong thought of the various delicious foods that Gu Ci had sent yesterday. She first lifted the basket to shake the weight of the taro, then grabbed two handfuls of milk candies, three handfuls of hard candies, and most of a bag of brown sugar: "That's all, you take it to them."
Seeing so much candy, Chu Dan couldn't help but smack his lips: "Sister, can you give me some candy later?"
Chu Hong rolled her eyes at her: "Okay, you can't be so greedy when you go to someone else's house."
Then he realized what was happening and asked her, "Xiaoyan is the same age as you, right? Why do you want to meet her?"
Chu Dan couldn't help laughing: "Sister, Xiaoyan is already nineteen this year. She is older than me and started school later, so she is in the same class with me."
Chu Hong waved her hand: "Go quickly and come back soon, let's make the taro dumplings today."
Chu Dan poured more than ten pounds of taro into the large wooden basin beside him, then picked up the basket and took an enamel basin from his home and left.
When Chu Dan came back this time, there were more than ten crucian carps of different sizes in the basin.
Seeing Chu Hong washing taro, she came over to wash them too and asked her, "Sister, should we take these crucian carps with us? We can make my specialty, crucian carp tofu soup."
Chu Dan had a tendency to be a bit chatty, and she didn't even need Chu Hong to agree with her. She looked around and asked again, "Sister, why haven't you gone to buy chicken yet?"
"If you don't know who has chickens for sale, then I should go buy them?"
Chu Hong couldn't help but glare at her: "Wait until dark to buy it. You're walking around the village with a chicken in broad daylight. Are you afraid that others won't know?"
Chu Dan chuckled: "You are still thoughtful."
Then he asked, "Sister, what are you going to give her with the twenty dollars Aunt He gave her?"
"We can't be too greedy, can we?"
Chu Hong sighed helplessly: "I know what I'm doing. If you continue to betray me, do you believe I will beat you up?"
After feeding the rabbits, Xiao Yuer also wanted to help wash the taro, but Chu Hong was worried that her hands would itch if she touched the taro, so she sent her out: "Go and see if Chu Chu is back?"
It is a big job to peel more than ten pounds of taro after washing it. Fortunately, Chu Tong also came back with an iron spoon to help scrape it.
She also brought back good news: "Grandpa went to the brigade headquarters earlier and said that our second uncle's house has lotus roots and asked us to go get them after dark."
Chu Hong was a little curious: "Second uncle's family hasn't finished eating the lotus roots before the New Year?"
"How could that be possible?" Chu Tong said with a worried look on her face. "It is said that my second uncle secretly went to the pond in Lingzhong Village to dig lotus roots and planned to sell them on the black market."
He sighed again: "Second uncle is really too brave."
Many villages do not release water every year to catch fish and dig lotus roots.
Chu Dan also muttered: "He values money more than his life. What if someone..." Perhaps he felt that what he said next was unlucky, so he didn't dare to say anything more.
Chu Hong, however, admired her second uncle very much, he was really good at scheming.
But in this special period, she didn't dare to encourage it.
When they started to cook taro, Xiaoyuer happily pulled Chuchu home and said, "Aunt, Chuchu is here."
"I've told Chuchu that Auntie will take us to see Brother Chu tomorrow."
After saying that, he looked at Chu Hong with a look of accomplishment and asking for praise.
Chu Hong first praised her: "Not bad, Xiao Yuer is becoming more and more capable."
Then he smiled at Chuchu who looked nervous: "Don't worry, your grandparents, they are all fine. They just don't have to work in the hospital and they have nutritious meals, so they will stay for two more days."
Chu Chu's eyes were red with joy: "I'm glad that you brothers are okay."
Chu Hong took them to her room and gave each of them two candies.
Then he took out a bag of things wrapped tightly in a cloth bag and said, "You guys play here, I'll take these to Grandma Chu."
These were the ones that Gu Ci brought for her. She decided to take fewer and send them to Old Chu and the others.
When she went over, she saw Grandma Chu had lit a brazier and was using a bamboo cover to dry Gu Ci's clothes.
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