Chapter 488 Buying Fish and Meat

Vegetables are not worth much money, and Liu Yinyin never thought about making money by growing vegetables at the beginning.

Besides, the family only has one mu of land, and the vegetables grown are barely enough for the whole family to eat. How can there be any extra vegetables to sell to the people in the courtyard?

Zhou Xiaomei said unhappily, "They are all ignorant people who just can't stand seeing others doing well. Just ignore them."

This place is remote, and most of the people who come to join the army come from rural areas.

There are many people who love to take advantage of others.

Zhou Xiaomei doesn't like to deal with them, and she doesn't have many friends in her family compound.

Liu Yinyin said angrily: "I told them that the food at home was not enough."

Zhou Xiaomei nodded: "That's what we should do. If you don't say this, it will never end."

There was snow on the ground. Along the way, Liu Yinyin pushed the bicycle to Dongpo Mountain.

Zhou Xiaomei had already inquired about it. Tomorrow is Chinese New Year, and someone in the village will definitely kill a pig today.

This place is remote and not many people come to buy pork. After they kill a pig, they cannot sell the meat.

It can only be made into bacon and kept for later sale.

Therefore, the villagers were happy to sell fresh pork to them.

Zhou Xiaomei took Liu Yinyin to the home of the villager who killed the pig today.

They all brought grain and cloth to exchange for the pork.

Zhou Xiaomei bought two pounds of pork fat, two pounds of pork belly, and a piece of pork elbow.

Liu Yinyin bought more than her, five pounds of pork, five pounds of ribs, two pig's trotters, and two pig's ears.

The butcher saw that they were frequent visitors to the village and gave them some offal.

Liu Yinyin got a piece of pig liver. After thinking about it, she bought a pig stomach and stewed it in soup in the evening.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon. In addition to pork, we also need to buy chicken today.

Liu Yinyin's family hasn't eaten chicken for a long time.

We went to Aunt Gao's house again.

Liu Yinyin bought an old hen but no eggs.

Aunt Gao got two more pieces of cloth and told them with a smile, "I heard that the nearby village is clearing the pond these two days and there is fish and meat to exchange."

Upon hearing this, Liu Yinyin and Zhou Xiaomei looked at each other.

Fish is a must for Chinese New Year. Originally, Liu Yinyin was thinking about going to town early tomorrow and buying two fish.

Now... since there is a village pond, we naturally cannot miss this opportunity.

So the two of them followed Aunt Gao and hurried to the nearby Sangou Village.

Aunt Gao has relatives here, so she went directly to her relatives' house to buy fish.

The management of the mountain ditches is not strict, and every household got a lot of fish during this pond cleaning.

Aunt Gao's relative is Xu Xiaohui, who is her cousin.

When Xu Xiaohui saw Liu Yinyin and Zhou Xiaomei, he was a little confused at first.

When he knew they were here to buy fish, he immediately put on a smiling face.

Aunt Gao: "How many fish did you get this year?"

Speaking of this, Xu Xiaohui was even happier: "There are a lot of them. The harvest has been good in recent years, and the fish in the pond have grown very fat."

Xu Xiaohui gave Aunt Gao two grass carps for free.

When Aunt Gao came, she also brought him some things, a basket of eggs and a piece of pork.

The two of them were interacting with each other, which was considered normal visits to relatives.

Liu Yinyin and Zhou Xiaomei are different, they come here specifically to buy fish.

Xu Xiaohui asked them: "I have grass carp, silver carp and black carp at home. What do you want to buy?"

Liu Yinyin endured the pain and only ordered one black fish and one grass carp.

This time, Zhou Xiaomei was very generous and bought four grass carps in one go.

The fish pond not only has fish, but also shrimps.

However, Xu Xiaohui's family did not get any shrimps, so he introduced another family.

With his help, Liu Yinyin bought another two kilograms of prawns.

Now we have pork, fish, chicken and shrimp, so we don’t have to go to town to buy things tomorrow.

They both returned with a full load.

When I got home, it was almost noon.

Liu Yinyin unloaded the scattered items and placed the pork, fish and shrimp directly in the yard.

The weather was cold, so a large vat was placed in the yard to store things.

Gu Cheng is making lunch.

For lunch, we had fried pork with peppers, scrambled eggs with black fungus, and stewed cabbage with frozen tofu.

The lunch for several children was vegetable and lean meat porridge.

With Gu Cheng at home, Liu Yinyin felt much more relaxed.

After class in the afternoon, Gu Cheng took a few children out to ski.

While the triplets were sleeping, Liu Yinyin picked a basket of vegetables and sent it to Zhou Xiaomei's house.

Zhou Xiaomei is busy planting vegetables.

Thinking of something, he said to Liu Yinyin, "Yinyin, can I go to your house to pick some vegetables in two days?"

"Jingnan and Jingbei are studying in the town. After the New Year, they will go to the town to pay New Year's greetings to their teachers."

"I thought, let them each bring a fish and some vegetables to the teacher."

So, today when she was in Sangou Village, Zhou Xiaomei bought four fish in one go.

There is no need to send something too expensive. Vegetables are not worth the money. In this cold weather, you just want to eat something fresh.

Liu Yinyin nodded: "Okay, auntie, you can pick as many vegetables as you want."

Before Liu Yinyin's family didn't grow vegetables, Zhou Xiaomei would always send her a basket of vegetables every day.

Now that she needs help, Liu Yinyin naturally would not refuse.

Speaking of the school in the town, Liu Yinyin thought of what Gu Cheng had said before, that he would send Gu Yanyan to school tomorrow.

I don’t know if Gu Cheng has thought of a solution.

That night, Liu Yinyin mentioned this matter to Gu Cheng.

Gu Cheng pondered and said, "I will go to the town in two days to discuss it with the principal."

Liu Yinyin said, "Oh," and then said, "And Chen Xiaofei, when school starts, let him go to school."

It’s not that she is unwilling to teach Chen Xiaofei, it’s just that things like studying are more appropriate in school.

It is not only about learning knowledge, teacher-student relationship, and classmate relationship...

Children should go out and meet more people.

Just like Gu Yanyan, if he just wanted to learn knowledge, Liu Yinyin could teach him herself.

Why bother sending him to town to study?

Gu Cheng thought thoughtfully, "Is Chen Xiaofei willing to go to the town to study?"

Liu Yinyin was not sure either: "Maybe. He has become much more cheerful recently. Besides, I taught him the knowledge of grade one and grade two. Even if he doesn't get full marks, he will definitely pass."

"If we can arrange for him to go to school in town, then we can let him take the advanced examination and go directly to the third grade, so that he won't feel uncomfortable in the first or second grade."

Gu Cheng was happy to see Chen Xiaofei go to school.

"I'll teach him how to ride a bike these few days. When he's familiar with it, I'll let him help pick up Yanyan."

Liu Yinyin was slightly stunned: "...He is still young."

We had a light bicycle for women at home, but it was still too tiring for a teenage child to ride it back and forth to town every day.

This is nothing, the main problem is that it is unsafe.

Just like Zhou Xiaomei's two sons, they live in the school dormitory because they are afraid that they might encounter any accidents on the road.