Chapter 120 Two sisters were sold
"It's really delicious. It's so delicious. Pingmei, Yanzi, you two should try it. Fubao should try it too."
The meat pie was all oily.
Zhu Yingqiu didn't let them do it.
She tore off a piece from each and put it into their mouths.
“Chew, chew, chew—”
“Baji, Baji——”
"How come this meat pie is so delicious? It smells so good that I almost fainted. Sister-in-law, you are really good at making meat fillings. I admire you!"
Sun Pingmei gave a thumbs up.
Gave affirmation.
"It's delicious, sister-in-law, you are such a good cook."
Zhang Yanzi also followed suit and gave a thumbs up.
"Aunt, the meat in the meat pie is so delicious. Grandma, the dough you knead is also delicious. Second aunt, mom, the dough you roll is also delicious. You are great!"
Jiang Fubao gave two thumbs up.
Double the praise.
Everyone burst into laughter.
"Give me a taste."
Jiang Siyin put down the bucket and took a piece of meat pie to eat.
He nodded repeatedly, speechless over the delicious food.
"Xi Le, the rest is all yours. You must be exhausted. Let me wipe your sweat. My hands are all greasy. I forgot. Here, the towel is at my waist. Use it to wipe your sweat."
Zhu Yingqiu also did not forget her daughter-in-law.
She took the remaining meatloaf to the kitchen.
I just wanted to take out a handkerchief to wipe Qian Xile’s sweat.
I remembered that my hands were covered in oil.
"It's okay, Mom, you go ahead and do your work. I'll put this pot of mung bean soup into the jar and cook another pot, and then you can rest."
Qian Xile has been a "old cow" in her mother's family for so many years.
She is never pretentious.
I saw her wiping the sweat with her sleeve, and then continued to use the ladle to scoop the mung bean soup from the pot into the jar.
She still had the meat pie her mother-in-law gave her in her mouth.
"Mom, how about the meat pie? Is it delicious? Can you sell it?"
Jiang Eryong also came over following the smell.
"Sure. Go out and shout that you can sell a pancake for ten cents. Let's call it big egg and meat pancake. If someone buys it, we will fry it again. Otherwise, the meat pancake will not be crispy."
Zhang Jinlan replied while kneading the dough.
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Jiang Eryong let down the curtain and walked to the door.
He cleared his throat and shouted.
"Don't miss it if you pass by, take a look, Jiang's Snack Shop has new food, egg and meat pancakes, freshly fried, bursting with fragrance, only ten cents per pancake, fried with lard, with lots of eggs and meat inside, guaranteed to be so delicious you'll want to swallow it!"
In fact, Jiang Eryong has never tried it.
I have no idea what meat pie tastes like.
Just as he was preparing to think of some more words to praise the meat cake, the customer who was sitting in the shop drinking mung bean soup waved at him.
"What's the matter, sir?" Jiang Eryong asked puzzledly.
"Is that meat pie you mentioned delicious?"
Jiang Eryong didn’t know whether it was delicious or not, but since the customer asked, it had to be delicious even if it wasn’t.
"Mm, it's delicious!"
Jiang Fubao likes to raise his thumb when he compliments others.
Everyone in the Jiang family learned this trick.
Jiang Eryong is no exception.
"Okay, give me one."
Seeing him so sure.
The guest asked for meat pie.
None of the guests sitting at the same table was short of money.
I want them all.
As a result, no guests came in.
I asked for ten tickets from the shop.
Jiang Eryong smiled happily.
He opened the curtain and shouted to the backyard: "Mom, give me ten big meat cakes——"
"Okay——" Zhang Jinlan replied.
The meat pie has been rolled out long ago and is just waiting to be put into the pan.
It is called frying, but in fact, after putting half a pot of oil, it is no different from deep-frying.
Put them in the pot one by one in the order they were placed.
One pot can fry five pancakes at the same time.
A few minutes per pot.
Just a quarter of an hour.
All ten are done.
One hundred coins were received.
The meat pie is thin and large, and it feels crispy and crunchy when you bite it.
“Crack, crack—”
When one eats, the noise is not loud.
But ten people can eat together.
The whole shop was filled with the sound of the meat cakes crisping.
Other customers who didn't buy meat pie also asked for it.
It's a bit breezy today.
The aroma of fried meat cakes wafted from the backyard to the street ahead.
Plus Jiang Eryong's shouting.
More and more people lined up.
Finally the mung bean soup was sold out.
The big pot in the kitchen was temporarily requisitioned.
Fry the pancakes in two pans.
The speed has increased a lot.
In two hours, they sold 300 large meat pies.
Zero cost, just a few taels of silver.
On the way back, the wind was sweet.
Everyone in the Jiang family had a smile on their face. It was still early, but not yet midnight.
Because I didn’t have lunch.
They sat on the ox cart, each holding a large piece of meat pie in their hands and eating it with great relish.
At that time.
In the alley of Wanlu Street in the town.
Zhou Xiufen, who had spent the whole morning selecting, sold her two granddaughters to a human trafficker for two taels of silver each.
Both granddaughters are not ugly.
Seven or eight people came to ask for the price in the morning.
But a living deed costs eight hundred yuan, and a dead deed costs only one and a half taels.
Zhou Xiufen thought it was too little.
It's only now that I've found the right one.
"Grandma, please don't sell me and my sister, please. Lai Di will be obedient in the future. I will eat less. No, I won't eat. I will just drink water. Grandma, please don't sell me and my sister.
My sister is still young, only three years old, she doesn’t know anything. If you really want to sell me, please sell me. My sister doesn’t know anything. Grandma, please, I know I was wrong, please don’t sell us, okay—”
Sun Lai Di knelt on the ground.
Crying miserably.
Before dawn, she was woken up by her grandmother.
He said he was bringing her and her sister to the town to eat meat.
In fact, there is no meat at all.
Grandma bought a coarse flour steamed bun and broke it in half for her and her sister.
Sun Lai Di begged all the way, but grandma ignored her.
It seemed that grandma was about to put her fingerprints on it.
Sun Lai Di panicked.
She cried so hard that she couldn't stop crying.
Although Sun Simei, who was standing by, was unaware of the situation, she was also infected and burst into tears.
The two children knelt on the ground and kowtowed again and again.
None of this softened Zhou Xiufen's heart.
He pressed his fingerprints and took four taels of silver.
Zhou Xiufen then lowered her head and looked at them.
"Master, I need to talk to them. Please be accommodating."
The human trafficker put away the paper contract and nodded. He turned around and walked five meters away to wait.
"Remember, what Grandma signed was a death contract. I don't know where you will be sold. Remember your names and don't forget. If you are lucky and are released by the master one day, you must save your monthly salary and return to Sunjia Village. Remember?
Your home is in Sunjia Village, Lianshan Town, Qixi County, Ruling Prefecture, Xishu Province! Don’t forget the way home! Remember firmly in your heart that grandma, your parents, and your younger brother are waiting for you at home, understand? You must please the master and get more reward silver... "
Zhou Xiufen also didn't know where her granddaughter would be sold.
Maybe we will never see each other again in this life.
She told her granddaughters the way home.
I’m afraid that after they earn money, they will forget who they are.