"Haha, the village chief is willing to accept it. That's great. Lingkong, you can deliver this meat to the village chief's house."
Lingkong immediately stepped forward and bowed: "Yes, young lady."
Then Lingkong picked up the wolf meat and walked quickly towards the village chief's house.
At this time, Zheng Douqin came back from the mountain after digging wild vegetables: "Tangtang, I heard you guys are delivering meat?"
"Yes, Sister Douqin, I just had a lot of meat delivered to your house."
"Really? Grandpa?" Zheng Douqin asked the village chief next to her.
"Of course it's true. The meat that man just carried was heading towards our house."
Zheng Douqin immediately said, "Well, Tangtang is so nice to me. How about I come over to sleep with you at night?"
Ning Xiaotang was immediately interested in this proposal and said, "Okay, then come over to my house for dinner tonight."
"Okay, that's a deal!" Zheng Douqin immediately said goodbye to the village chief, "See you tonight."
"Okay, Yueman will send off the village chief and sister Douqin."
"Yes, Miss Zheng, the village chief, take care." Yue Man immediately stepped forward and politely said goodbye.
At this time, all the villagers in the village were very excited.
"This is great! The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. I was about to have to eat only brown rice and pickles. Now the Ning family has sent so much meat, it will be enough to eat for a few days."
"That's right, look at this meat, it's fat and lean, with some bones. If we boil it in a pot and add a little more salt, a spoonful of it would be enough for a whole family to eat."
Mrs. Qian immediately said with a gleam in her eyes, "You two are just thinking about eating. These ten kilograms of wolf meat can be sold for a lot of copper coins in Shuihe Town!"
The two people who had just said they were ready to eat saw the same signal in each other's eyes at the same time.
"That's right! If you sell it, it'll be worth a lot of coppers!"
Then the three of them got on Uncle Fang's ox cart together. On the cart, they talked about selling the wolf meat so that they could exchange it for a lot of brown rice.
The villagers also started selling meat.
Soon the ox cart was full of people. "We also want to go to Shuihe Town to sell wolf meat!"
"Isn't this the sour scholar, Chen Mingdong's father, Chen Er?"
Fang Baihan called out his name, and Chen Er immediately picked up the meat and said, "I just went back to put the bones at home. I still have a lot of meat left, so I took it to the street to exchange for some food."
Fang Baihan said, "Just squeeze in the front with me. The back is full of women, and it's not suitable for an old man like you to sit there."
Mrs. Qian immediately raised her eyes and said, "That's right! It's not suitable!"
The women who followed him also said with disdain: "I really don't want to be associated with his poverty!"
Chen Er was very helpless. Ever since his daughter-in-law and his own mother-in-law died in the same year, the Chen family was completely damaged. There were only three of them: Chen Er, Chen Mingdong and Chen Yilan.
As a son, Chen Mingdong brought his writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone to Shangshuihe Town every day to write for the girls and women, or to sell some calligraphy and paintings.
Everything depended on Chen Mingdong alone, but after deducting the large amount of paper, pen and ink costs, the remaining copper coins were only enough to buy a few steamed buns or brown rice to fill the stomachs of three people.
This also required Chen Er and Chen Yilan to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables to supplement their food.
Chen Er, an old man, has to take care of the few acres of fertile land. Sometimes Chen Yilan goes alone to dig wild vegetables. She is a poor little girl.
Fortunately, it is August now, and some crops are about to be harvested.
Fang Baihan glanced at Mrs. Qian and said unhappily, "Brother Chen Er, sit next to me. I'll give you a ride back and forth for free!"
This immediately caused the other maids to look at him sideways.
Mrs. Qian immediately held up two fingers and said, "Wow, I saved two copper coins!"
The other maids glared at Chen Er unhappily.
The Chen family
"Sister Yilan, are you here?" Ning Xiaotang took small steps and walked towards the gate of the Chen family's courtyard.
"Sister Tangtang, why are you here?" Chen Yilan was soaking some wolf meat bones in well water.
"Why are there only meat and bones? Didn't your family get any meat?" Ning Xiaotang said, staring at the meat and bones in the wooden basin.
"No, my grandfather got a lot of wolf meat, but he said that there was not much food left at home, so he took the wolf meat to the street to sell for some brown rice."
Ning Xiaotang nodded her cute little head and said, "That's fine too. Sister Yilan can eat more meat when we make this meat and bone soup tonight."
"Thanks to sister Tangtang, otherwise I would only be able to eat some wild vegetables." Chen Yilan poured out the water used to wash the meat bones, then carried the meat bones into the kitchen and put them into the pot.
"Sister Yilan, could you come to my house and sleep with me tonight?"
Chen Yilan immediately said in a silly and cute way: "Sister Tangtang, are you inviting me?"
"Yes, I came here in person to invite Sister Yilan."
"Then I'll quickly cook this pot of meat and bones. I'll come over once it's done."
"Then Sister Yilan, please don't eat at home. After you cook the meat and bones, change into a new set of clothes. We will sleep together tonight, along with Sister Douqin."
"Doukon is going too?"
"Yes, yes, Sister Douqin also comes in the evening."
"Okay, I'll be there in a minute."
"Then I'll wait for you at home." Ning Xiaotang nodded and walked out.
"Miss, do you want to invite your good friend to have dinner at your home?" Quan Yue said.
"Yes, now let's go back and tell grandma about the situation. I just need grandma to cook a delicious meal for us."
Ning Xiaotang was walking happily on the road when she saw Liu Liniu hurriedly passing by.
He didn't take it seriously. The lazy Liu Liniu wandered around the village every day and was used to it.
After Ning Xiaotang returned to the Ning residence, she told Luo Xiangqin that she wanted to invite her two good sisters to a small gathering.
Luo Xiangqin immediately started frying the crispy pork, and asked the kitchen to kill a chicken and steam the lean meat and egg custard.
Just after Luo Xiangqin finished her work, Ning Xiaotang asked Yueman to carry a few fish into the kitchen.
Luo Xiangqin said, "It's all fried, it smells so good!"
After a busy afternoon, everyone in the kitchen was alert and ready to serve.
Qian Fangcao smelled the aroma from the kitchen and said, "When can I finally eat some crispy pork?"
"Aunt Qian, it's almost done. Our embroidery will be finished soon. We will present it to the old lady tonight. It will definitely surprise her."
"Then hurry up! I'm starving, and the aroma is so strong I have no appetite for embroidery."
In Ning Xiaotang's courtyard, on the round stone table in the pavilion, there was a plate of braised pork ribs, a plate of crispy pork, as well as sweet and sour pork tenderloin, lean meat and egg custard, steamed pork with rice flour, and braised pork belly.
"Girl, here comes another dish of fried pigeon eggs." Yueman immediately came up with a plate of golden little pigeon eggs.
"Okay, put this here." Ning Xiaotang was small and could barely reach the table, but as a young hostess, she was still very responsible.
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