"Mom, buy it. You'll have to buy it sooner or later."
Zhou looked at the boss again and said, "Boss, this lock is too expensive. How about this? I buy a big one and you give me a small one."
"You're really calculating." The boss waved his hands repeatedly. "No, no, no, my small lock costs 300 wen each. If I give it to you for free, I'll lose money. No way." The boss looked at the two of them. "If you really want it, this is it, one big and one small, the total price is 850 wen. No less."
"If I just want a large one, 550 will do?"
The boss shook his sleeves, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "Sister-in-law, the price is not calculated like you did. One is 700 wen, and I'm giving you two at cost. You two should consider it carefully. It doesn't matter if you don't want it. You're welcome to come again in the future."
The two had no choice but to think that the small lock could be used in the kitchen, so they gritted their teeth and spent 850 coins to buy two locks.
"If you ask me, you shouldn't buy this lock now. With 850 Wen, you can buy a lot of other things." Zhou was still muttering after leaving the lock shop, "I shouldn't have mentioned the lock to you earlier if I had known." She didn't feel bad about spending money on other things, but she felt very bad about spending money on this lock.
"Mom, I've already bought it. If I don't buy it now, I'll have to buy it later. It's more cost-effective to buy it early so that it can be used longer."
Zhou thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. She said nothing more and said, "Let's go. We've bought almost everything. There's no more room. Let's go back to Dashan. It's time to go back."
Both of them were carrying a lot of things. Zhou went to the cotton workshop to get a mattress. The owner kindly tied the quilts for them with ropes and sent them out of the workshop.
Chunxiao and Zhou tied the quilt to the backpack and went to the market to find Zhou Dashan.
Zhou Dashan had sold some of his dried radishes but not all of them yet. Seeing the two of them, he asked, "Have you finished buying your stuff? It'll take me a while. These dried radishes are so hard to sell."
"I'm not selling it anymore. Let's go back."
Dashan was stunned. "It's not closing time yet. Do you want to wait a little longer?"
"It's hard to carry so many things with us. Forget it. The dried radish can be stored and sold next time." Zhou looked at him and said, "Take the basket from your sister's back. I'll put my 7-jin quilt with you, and we'll take the 4-jin mattress."
Yan Dashan took Chunxiao's backpack and said, "What did you buy? It's quite heavy."
Chunxiao took off the mattress behind him and fixed the mattress behind Zhou, "Okay." Chunxiao then took off Zhou's backpack, "Mom, I'll carry this, and you carry the backpack with the radishes." After fixing the light mattress on the backpack, the three of them left the market together.
"Have you bought everything?" Dashan asked.
"How can I buy everything? But I've bought all the important things. Let's make do with it for now." Zhou looked behind him and said, "If you're tired, give me the quilt. My backpack is still empty."
Dashan smiled and said, "Mom, you are underestimating me. This is how heavy I am. Don't worry, I will definitely carry you back home." He looked at the sun above his head and said, "It will be afternoon when we return. I should have brought some dry food for you earlier."
"Let's go. It's no big deal if we're hungry for an hour or so. We still have to clean up when we get back.
The three of them were walking on the road, resting after walking for a while, and walking for a while. After walking for such a long time with heavy loads and the sun being overhead, their bodies were all hot. It was not like modern times here where they could take off their clothes at will when it was hot. Chunxiao felt uncomfortable with the heat and hoped to arrive quickly. Fortunately, after walking for about an hour, they finally reached the village entrance.
"Dashan, let's not go through the village entrance. Let's go directly along the ridge of the village field to the end of the village." These things were originally placed at the end of the village. If we take them back, we have to leave them outside the village. Then the villagers will say something. Zhou wanted to go directly to the end of the village.
A few of them then took a small path around the fields, and went around the ridge to the end of the village. When they went up the slope, they saw Chunxiao's house. Now it had a fence and was repaired. From a distance, it looked like someone was living there. Chunxiao hadn't been there for three days. When she entered the yard and saw the repaired kitchen next to it, she felt a little happy. She wondered what else was done inside besides the bed. Now that the bed was ready, people should be able to live there. This would be her home from now on.
Zhou opened the door to the main hall. When she left, she had planned to come directly here after shopping, so she brought the key with her. When the door opened, Chunxiao saw the table and two benches in the main hall.
She ran to the left side of the main room. This room was her bedroom. The bed was placed against the wall opposite the window. There was a simple cabinet with compartments in the corner next to the window.
"Mom, the cabinets and tables are ready, and the bed is ready too. We can move in now." Chunxiao was a little excited. "I'll move in as soon as the bed is ready."
Zhou also looked carefully and saw a basin and a bucket in the corner of the room. It seemed that Yan Laowu was indeed very fast.
Dashan put the backpack on the ground and said, "Mom, this place is indeed cleaned up and can be lived in." The place was already cleaned up yesterday, and today they just added a table and a few other things.
"You go back first and ask your wife to heat up the meal. Chunxiao and I will clean up and then go back."
"I'll help you."
"There are only two backpacks full of things, why do we need so many people? Go back first, or you'll have to wait for us to eat."
Dashan thought so too, so he went back first.
Zhou spread the thick mattress on the bed, which was slightly too wide. Wider is a good thing, better than narrower. "Take this cloth and this thin mattress home to make a cover. Your sister-in-law and I will bring it out for you tonight." After putting the mattress in place, Zhou took out the bag of grain. "You don't have anything else in your cupboard, so put this in there first."
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