Chapter 31 So poor?
Making meat sauce is time-consuming and laborious.
Yu Tingwan was watching from the side. When Hui Niang had prepared everything properly, she picked up a wooden stool and sat down by the stove and lit a fire.
When the oil was hot in the pan, there was a sizzling sound. Hui Niang first fried out the shrimp oil, then poured the shrimp meat into the pan and fried it until crispy.
She took it out and cut it into small pieces of the same size, and then went to deal with black fungus.
The air was already filled with a tempting aroma before the meat was processed.
Yu Tingwan worked very seriously. When Hui Niang asked her to add firewood, she added it. When she asked to lower the fire, she used the long-nosed iron scissors on the side to pick out a few pieces of firewood.
The firelight reflected on the teardrop mole at the end of her eye, making the little girl's eyebrows and eyes more radiant.
Hui Niang stirred the spatula and talked to her.
"Wan Niang, how old are you now?"
"I'll be eighteen after the Chinese New Year."
"Oh, then it's time to look for a husband at this age."
This sentence made Yu Tingwan agree.
She nodded heavily.
Hui Niang asked casually, and soon she started talking to Yu Tingwan about other things.
"I learned how to make this meat sauce from my mother before I got married. It's a pity that she passed away early, and I only learned the basics of her good craft."
It's like this, and it's just the basics?
But Yu Tingwan couldn't help feeling sad when she heard this.
She whispered: "My mother passed away early, too."
"She can embroider and sing, and I learned from her."
Yu Tingwan seldom talked about this with others. People in the village didn't like to mention her mother, and even if they did, it wasn't good things.
But she always felt that Hui Niang was different from others.
She stared at Hui Niang closely, her hand pinching the hem of her clothes inadvertently.
Hui Niang paused, her tone was surprised, and she looked at her with a smile: "Wan Niang can also embroider. Not many of us country people can do needlework, and we can only do some ordinary sewing and mending. You have this skill, so you won't have to worry about the future."
Yu Tingwan's eyes lit up.
Hui Niang: "You can earn some money by embroidering some handkerchiefs and taking them to the embroidery room. When you get married in the future, your in-laws will look up to you."
Yu Tingwan: "But my skills are not good enough."
"Don't be modest."
Yu Tingwan is really not modest.
"I have no patience, and my mother is worried about me and doesn't want to teach me."
How can she not be worried?
The little girl is spoiled by nature, and she has not suffered much since she was a child. She tried to tiptoe and raise her hand to get under her mother's eyes, for fear that she would not see the bleeding fingertips pierced by the needle. She
even spoke shamelessly.
[Mother, do you want to stew a chicken for Yaoyao today? ]
Unfortunately, she is no longer a childish little girl, and no one is willing to indulge her.
"But I can sing."
Yu Tingwan's tone is calm, but if you listen carefully, there is a little pride that is well hidden: "Every time I want to sing, my father immediately takes out money, praises my good voice, and asks me not to sing."
Wei Zhao: ...
Can't you hear the sarcasm?
The aroma of meat sauce filled the room, and Hui Niang was sweating from the heat.
Yu Tingwan went to wash her hands and helped put the sauce into the jar.
Wei Shouzhong came back at this time. A lot of snow fell on his body, which brought a layer of coldness.
He shivered outside before coming in.
"A Lang."
He called first.
No response.
Wei Shouzhong was used to it.
Hui Niang asked, "Have those outsiders been arranged?"
Wei Shouzhong stepped forward quickly: "I was just about to tell you about this."
"The head of the village originally wanted to settle three people in our house, five people in Doctor Qian's house, and the rest in Shagu's house."
But would old man Qian agree?
He turned hostile on the spot and said that he was not short of money!
The village head was very nice.
[“Just help. It’s so cold outside, you should help the dying and the wounded.”]
Old man Qian was also stubborn and said directly.
[“That’s easy, when they are about to freeze to death, you can come to me and I will see if I can save them.”]
Now he is very confident.
[“I was the one who saved the kid from the Wei family. If it weren’t for me, he would have died long ago. It shows that I have this ability.”]
Wei Shouzhong was thinking about something and was absent-minded: “In the end, there was no other way, the village head had to find someone else. But it was arranged properly.”
As he said that, he glanced at Wei Zhao who was in a daze not far away, with an unknown emotion flashing in his eyes. He was a little worried about Yu Tingwan beside him, and walked out after a moment of hesitation.
“Hui Niang, come out with me.”
Hearing this tone, Hui Niang was suspicious.
She asked Wei Shouzhong to wait, and after working with Yu Tingwan to pack the meat sauce, she wiped her hands.
The two walked out one after the other.
After leaving the house, Wei Shouzhong asked Hui Niang to go to the corner, and said in a low voice without saying anything.
"Among these outsiders, there is a matchmaker, and she brought five girls with her. They were all bought from the north and were going to be sold to the south."
In this world, poor people are everywhere, and selling girls for money is the most common thing.
"Before coming to our Linxi Village, bandits targeted this group of people, and all the money on the matchmaker was robbed. Those girls also suffered a lot along the way. They were all very thin, and some died of illness. She wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible, and sell as many as she could."
Upon hearing this, Hui Niang stopped breathing.
She understood what Wei Shouzhong meant, and grabbed his arm: "How much silver?"
Wei Shouzhong: "One tael."
Hui Niang's eyes darkened.
What the family has saved over the years, plus what the eldest wife took that year, all together add up to only five taels, and they will have to go to the county town for medical treatment in the future.
Hui Niang was very confused: "Let me think about it."
The two were talking outside, and Yu Tingwan walked to Wei Zhao in the kitchen.
A shadow fell on the top of his head, and Wei Zhao did not react.
Yu Tingwan could not help asking: "Why are there stones and tiles in the basket?"
She couldn't figure it out!
Seeing that Wei Zhao did not respond. Yu Tingwan pursed her lips and had to test: "You have been in the military camp for so many years, you are quite skilled."
Wei Zhao did not even look at her.
Yu Tingwan discussed with him in a good tone: "Next time you throw, can you throw it to the right?
You hit the same place every time, and you can still do so even though you are injured like this, which shows that your aim is good. It's just that the location is much deeper than the surrounding ground, as deep as an arm's length.
Every time Yu Tingwan has to dig in the snow for a long time.
She is also very tired.
Wei Zhao didn't want to pay attention to her.
Yu Tingwan: "Keep the medicine for yourself, I don't need it."
Seeing that Wei Zhao showed no signs of being angry, Yu Tingwan turned around and forgot what Old Man Qian had said before.
She even made another request.
"Can the throwing time be fixed? "
She wanted to eat hot eggs.
Wei Zhao raised his eyes slowly, without any emotion in his eyes.
He seemed to have always been very imposing, as if he was born with it. But he was sick, which made others feel that he was not a threat.
Yu Tingwan pursed her lips: "You threw those away willingly. I didn't steal or rob. Although I picked them up and ate them, I won't pay you."
"Even if you want, I don't have them."
"But when I have money in the future, I..."
Wei Zhao finally spoke before he finished speaking.
It was very unpleasant to hear, even harsh to Yu Tingwan.
His voice was light.
"Are you so poor?"
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