"Are you still going shopping?" Yu Xiangnian asked.
“I met some fellow villagers selling them on the way, so I bought some.”
In those days, local villagers often secretly sold what they grew to supplement their family income.
Cheng Jingmo bought twenty eggs, each costing six cents, spending a total of one dollar and twenty cents.
There was a small basket of clams, probably weighing four or five pounds. He bought the clams and the basket together, and the fellow villager asked him for eight yuan.
Yesterday I thought I wouldn’t need the money, but today I need it.
He never spent money recklessly before, but when he saw the clams today, he thought Yu Xiangnian would like to eat them.
Most people here in Nancheng like to eat seafood.
Yu Xiangnian didn't know what Cheng Jingmo was thinking. In her mind, buying things was a normal thing. She said, "How about this, you ask Yu Xiangyang to come to your house for dinner tomorrow, and I'll ask him to bring back some bananas."
"Don't tell him yet. Bring him here directly after work, otherwise he will go shopping again." She added.
"Um."
"Eat, I've prepared everything."
Cheng Jingmo: “...” He ran so fast just to get home to cook, how come he’s already done?
Yu Xiangnian brought out the freshly cooked meal from the kitchen, and the three of them sat at the eight-immortal table to eat.
Cheng Jingmo only ate rice soaked in cucumber soup, and occasionally ate some tomatoes from the braised fish.
Yu Xiangnian saw that Cheng Jingmo wanted to save the fish and shrimp for her and Xiaojie to eat.
She put the shrimp she had just peeled into his bowl and picked up a large piece of fish for him.
Cheng Jingmo paused as he looked at the things in the bowl.
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