Chapter 69: Wearing the same pair of pants
Sang Luo had a good plan. She would make some sour jujube cakes these days and sell them in a few days.
I made the magical tofu before going to bed at night, and also processed the sour dates I picked in the afternoon, but the weather was not good and it started raining in the middle of the night.
Sang Luo woke up from her sleep and was startled at first, but then she remembered that the house had been built and the kitchen was big enough. The finished sour jujube cakes were no longer hung outside as before, but were hung in the kitchen and would not be moved to the drying rack in the backyard until daybreak.
She was glad in her heart, because if she had to hang the cakes on the tree branches outside the house like before, she would have been unable to keep the new batch of sour jujube cakes she made today.
The sound of rain was so loud that Chen An and Shen Ning woke up. Chen Ning rubbed his eyes and was dazed for a while. Then he realized that it was raining outside and woke up suddenly.
"Sister-in-law, the chickens and ducks outside won't get wet!"
As he said this, he was about to get out of bed, as if he wanted to go out and take a look.
Sang Luo hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't go out now. The roof of the chicken coop is wide enough and covered tightly with banana leaves. The layer close to the ground is raised with bamboo fences and covered with straw. Don't worry, you won't get wet. But if you get caught in the rain and get sick, it will be troublesome."
When Shen Ning heard this, he immediately became honest.
Being sick is very painful, and they can't afford to see a doctor. A few years ago, a child in the village died from a cold and fever.
The three of them sat on the bed, unable to sleep for a while.
Shen An: "Sister-in-law, it's raining so hard, can we still sell tofu tomorrow?"
Although everyone has given the money, they can just make the tofu and deliver the goods directly, but how can Aunt Tian and the others sell the goods?
Sangluo is also worried.
The beans have already been soaked, and you have to cook them. If they are soaked for too long, the beans will easily go bad even if you change the water frequently.
It can be made into dried bean curd, but it just takes more time and effort to make, and it can't be stored for very long. Besides, there are also fifty pieces of tofu that Manager Xu promised to deliver early in the morning.
This is the first business order, and it is a large order that comes every day. Qin Fangniang should not break her promise.
"Every household should have a straw raincoat. The tofu carrying pole is covered with a board, and the wooden barrel also has a lid. It should be fine if we cover the cart with something. But the road is difficult to travel today."
Ten miles on the road, Sang Luo murmured, "I hope the rain will stop when daybreak approaches, or at least get lighter."
Seeing that the two little guys were not asleep, Sang Luo told them to stop thinking and just have a good rest.
About fifteen minutes later, the even breathing sounds of the little brother and sister could be heard from the bed next to her. Well, these two kids were so worried about the rent and tax issue yesterday that they didn't dare to sleep at all. They got up early and competed with her to grind tofu, and they didn't rest during the day. How could they not be sleepy?
When the first cockcrowed, Sang Luo, who had been resting with her eyes closed since she woke up from the sound of rain and had not slept soundly, got up carefully without waking up the two children. She went to the kitchen, lit the oil lamp and started grinding tofu.
As a result, it didn't take long before the gate of the courtyard was knocked. Hearing the voice of Chen Youtian outside, Sang Luo ran over with a wooden board and opened the gate.
The only person who came was Chen Youtian. There was a shelter under the eaves of the courtyard gate, and the two of them stood there and talked.
Chen Youtian was worried that Sang Luo would find out that it was raining heavily today and didn't know whether tofu could be made, so he came early to inform her. The three families all knocked on the door to discuss the matter. The tofu would be made today, and the men would help pull the cart and deliver it to the gate of the county town.
Sang Luo laughed and said, "I'm working on it. If it's a little later, you can come and pick it up at the usual time."
Chen Youtian felt relieved and did not delay Sang Luo. He went back wearing his straw raincoat and hat.
When they got back home, Old Man Chen and Old Lady Chen were both awake. They were waiting in the main room with Tian Fangniang. When they saw Chen Youtian come in, they asked what happened.
Chen Youtian said, "We are already working on it. He guessed that we would not break our promise to Shopkeeper Xu, so we started working on it as promised."
As he took off his bamboo hat and raincoat and hung them on the wall, he said, "It's really hard for Alie's wife to earn this little money. It's only been a short while since the first rooster crowed. It's probably just a little after midnight, but the lights are already on in the kitchen and people are busy working."
In contrast, if it hadn't been raining, those who were selling things at the stalls could have slept an extra hour and a half.
Mrs. Chen sighed, "All the money we earn is hard-earned. It's not easy."
It is even more difficult without a man at home.
It’s just that Mrs. Chen didn’t say the second half of the sentence.
People's hearts will be biased. At the beginning, Sang Luo couldn't stand on her own feet. She felt that Sang Luo was a burden to Shen An and Shen Ning. At least if she hadn't come, the two children wouldn't have been separated immediately.
Later, Sang Luo became independent and treated Shen An and Shen Ning well. Mrs. Chen was happy for Shen An and Shen Ning, knowing that they could survive by relying on each other.
However, after getting along for a long time, Mrs. Chen treated Sang Luo more and more intimately. Seeing her being called "Grandma" affectionately every day, she really treated her as a junior, like her own granddaughter. When she heard her son say that Sang Luo was already busy making tofu in the kitchen at this time, she felt very uncomfortable.
If there was a man in the family, there would be no need for a woman to endure this.
Sang Luo said she was a widow, but in fact she was still a girl... Mrs. Chen stopped thinking about the following and dared not think about it anymore.
If they really wanted to continue to think about finding her another husband, what would Xiao An and An Ning do?
She knew in her heart that she shouldn't think about it, but her brain didn't listen to her. She went back to the room and lay down. Mrs. Chen also couldn't sleep well and tossed and turned.
Old man Chen turned his head to look at his wife: "What's wrong with you?"
Mrs. Chen couldn't say anything: "It's nothing, I just don't sleep well. I can't fall asleep after waking up. You can go to sleep."
How dare she say that she had just thought of letting Sang Luo remarry?
Alas, I can’t change my mind. I’m in a dilemma.
…
Sang Luo had no idea that the old lady had been sleepless for most of the night because of her and Shen Anchen Ning. She made the tofu and handed it over to Chen Youtian and others who were wearing straw raincoats and braving the rain. Seeing that the two children were still asleep, she simply didn't make breakfast and went back to bed to catch up on her sleep.
She slept until dawn. The rain outside seemed to have stopped. Sang Luo turned her head and looked to the side. It turned out that the little brother and sister had already woken up.
She lifted the quilt and stood up, and just as she walked out of the house, Chen An, who was outside the kitchen door, saw her, his eyes lit up, and he smiled, "Sister-in-law, you're up? Don't you want to sleep a little longer?"
The brother and sister realized they had slept late only after they got up. They quietly went to the kitchen and saw that many of the buckets and basins were gone, and there was a basin of freshly cooked tofu dregs on the table. They knew that their eldest sister-in-law had done all the work in the middle of the night.
I do feel guilty.
Just yesterday I said that I could work hard to help earn money to support the family, but today I overslept.
Sang Luo smiled: "No need to sleep, have you had breakfast?"
Shen An shook his head: "Aning has just finished making it, and is going to wait for the sister-in-law to get up before eating together."
Then he turned back to the kitchen and took out a few cleaned Imperata roots for Sang Luo: "Sister-in-law, go wash up. I'll go get the porridge and we'll be ready to eat soon."
Sang Luo thanked her, took the Imperata root and went out. Shen Ning was feeding her baby chickens and ducks outside, and she felt a little embarrassed when she saw Sang Luo: "Sister-in-law, my second brother and I overslept this morning."
Sang Luo laughed: "I didn't call you on purpose. You don't get enough sleep and you won't grow taller. You will be too short and look ugly in the future."
"Ah? Is there such a saying?" Chen Ning's eyes widened, and he said seriously: "Then sister-in-law, you should also sleep more."
Sang Luo: ...
A heart-wrenching blow.
The original body was only fifteen years old. Well, in two months or so, she would be sixteen. Well, she was not really tall. Sang Luo herself estimated that she was only about 1.58 meters tall at most. This was all thanks to the fact that the original body had been well raised since childhood.
She thought about it and realized that at the age of fifteen or sixteen, she could still grow taller. If she was lucky, she could grow for another two or three years.
Thinking about it this way, she nodded and said, "You are right. Let's start making the tofu early today instead of waiting until dark. The weather gets colder with each autumn rain. I think it won't be stale if we make it early in this weather. Besides, the tofu won't be sold for many days. After the last ten days or so, we should go to bed early and try to get more than four hours of sleep at night."
Chen Ning nodded happily, and said to Sang Luo in a serious tone, "We should go to bed early too. Sister-in-law, don't get up quietly when you wake up in the morning. Let my second brother and I get up. It's too painful to grind tofu by yourself."
Only those who have polished it will know.
Sang Luo smiled: "Okay, I just saw that you didn't sleep well last night, I will call you later."
In a family, of course everyone contributes together. Sang Luo does not have the dedication to be a housewife.
Shen Ning smiled with crooked eyes: “Then sister-in-law, hurry up and wash up, I made delicious food this morning.”
It was not until Sang Luo entered the kitchen that she realized what the delicious food Shen Ning was talking about was.
Tofu dregs cake.
"I used some of the leftover flour from last time and cracked an egg. I imitated your method of frying tofu dregs balls. This doesn't require much oil. Just apply a little bit and you can fry it. Try it, sister-in-law."
Sang Luo had to admit that this little girl Shen Ning really had some talent in cooking.
She had fried tofu dregs balls only once, on the day of the wedding banquet. Chen Ning was not there at the time, but he just thought they were delicious. Later he asked her how she made them. Today, he learned from her experience and made them using a different method to make pancakes.
Sang Luo tasted a piece, raised her eyebrows, and gave Shen Ning a thumbs up: "Delicious!"
Shen Ning was so happy to be praised that the smile on his face never faded: “Then I will do it for my sister-in-law in the future.”
There was only one small square stool that could be used at the table, so Sang Luo sat on it. The brother and sister ate while standing, and they enjoyed their meal very much.
After breakfast, Sang Luo stood for a while, then took out the pair of pants that she had not finished yesterday, and sewed them in less than half an hour. She let the little guy go in and try them on.
Chen An happily entered the house, and soon came out with a pair of brand new pants. He looked left and right, and was very curious: "Sister-in-law, these pants fit me very well. Can I go into the mountains with you today?"
"Sure." Sang Luo smiled and said, "I left a few inches of the pants tucked in. They are double-layered. When I'm taller, I can let them go down a little. We'll go into the mountains later. I think the sun is about to come out. Let's wait for a while until the moisture is not so heavy. Besides, this is the right season. It has rained, so some mushrooms should grow in the mountains. Let's go into the mountains and see if we can pick some."
She used to live in the mountains. If it rained when the rice was ripe, she could find black fir mushrooms in the mountains, and there were a lot of them. In her original world, good quality black fir mushrooms were sold at a high price, ranging from thirty to forty to fifty to sixty per kilogram.
I just don’t know if this thing exists in this time and space. Trees and plants are no different. Sang Luo feels that it is very likely to exist.
When Chen Ning heard about picking mushrooms, he was very excited and his eyes lit up. But then he remembered that he didn't have trousers that could be tied tightly, and he felt disappointed and looked at Chen An eagerly.
Shen An, who had been waiting for Jinshan for a long time, said: "..."
Looking at my sister's eager eyes, okay, I have to give in.
"How about I let you wear these new pants for a day?"
Sang Luo: “……???!!!”
Save her life, she was glad that she was in this time and place and this dynasty, no, in the previous dynasties, because there were already underwear for horse riding and archery. Although it was very different from modern underwear, it was indeed underwear, otherwise... the picture was too beautiful to imagine.
Moreover, Chen An's words reminded Sang Luo of the poor families in the past, where several brothers shared a pair of pants because the whole family only had one pair of pants that could be worn outside, so whoever went out wore it.
So, their family is now so poor that they have to wear the same pants as in the story? ?
Not really, not really. Miss Shen Ning, please go into the mountains next time!
No, she should work hard to get out of poverty quickly!!!
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