Chapter 22 The third brother lied!
It's embarrassing to say that Cai is already an adult, and she had lived a hard life since she was a child, and she had never eaten luxury goods like meat buns.
Is this what meat buns taste like?
It smells so good! It tastes so good!
Suddenly, Cai's eyes became moist.
The little kid panicked, "Mom, don't you like it? I'm sorry, Mom, I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have forced you to eat..."
Cai held the milk dumpling in one hand and took the meat bun in her mouth with the other hand, sniffing and eating, "I love it, mother loves it. Mother has never eaten anything so delicious."
Dabao and Sanbao both agreed deeply with this statement.
The mother and her children felt like crying while eating meat buns.
If it weren’t for their sister, they don’t know when they would be able to eat such delicious meat buns again.
This reminded Xiao Yuanbao, "Maybe my second brother hasn't eaten it either. Let's buy him some meat buns later!"
"good."
Buy again.
Only then did Cai and Dabao start eating to their heart's content.
After eating the meat buns, Xiao Naituanzi bought some candied haws, egg pancakes, and wontons...
Cai and the others refused to eat with the little girl no matter what she said.
Only bought for Sanbao and Xiaonaituanzi.
Little Yuanbao's belly was full from eating too much. She couldn't eat any more, so Dabao and Cai took over and finished for her.
Sanbao felt that this trip with his sister was not in vain, as he ate all the things he wanted to eat in his life.
I am so happy today!
While eating and walking, Cai and her friends bought oil, salt, sugar, soy sauce and other seasonings at the market. They also bought two pounds of pork, a pork bone, a piece of tofu, and brought meat buns and a small sugar man for Erbao.
When passing by a pastry shop, Xiao Yuanbao wanted to eat some pastries, so Cai reluctantly bought him a bag of peanut cakes.
After buying so much food, the Cai family felt very painful. The old Tang family only bought this much during the Chinese New Year.
After buying food, the bulk of the shopping is about daily necessities.
Knives for cutting vegetables, pots for cooking, rice bowls, water boilers, wooden basins, chopping knives, etc.
In the end, the biggest expense was buying mattress covers and quilts. The whole family slept in a straw nest and there was nothing else in the house.
I couldn't bear to buy it, so I bought two beds.
Cai and Xiao Yuanbao slept on the same bed.
Three boys slept on one blanket.
The next step is to buy new clothes for Xiao Yuanbao.
The four children in their family had never worn new clothes since they were young. They only wore old clothes given to them by others or things that others didn't want.
Every piece of clothing on his body was thickly patched.
The point is, which poor country family had surplus? They would mend and patch up their clothes until they could no longer be mended and the tattered ones were thrown away. Cai would then pick them up and give them back. The clothes were no longer in shape, but were made of tiny pieces of cloth that were mended again.
Only one piece of clothing to wear.
That's it. The eldest baby wears it and gives it to the second baby. The second baby wears it and gives it to the third baby.
Little Yuanbao was better dressed. Granny Li had a granddaughter named Li Xiaocui. Xiaocui's old clothes were given to Cai, who altered them for little Yuanbao, unlike Dabao and the others, whose clothes were so tattered.
However, Xiao Yuanbao was the most favored child in their family, so he should be the first one to be given new clothes, and no one objected.
Sanbao suggested, "The New Year is coming soon, buy your sister a festive new cotton jacket, it will be warm and pretty to wear."
Cai thought so too.
Little Milk Ball looked at Sanbao, who was snotty from the cold in the middle of winter, and asked, "San Ge, why don't you wear a cotton jacket?"
"Third brother, you're not cold." Sanbao only had two sets of thin clothes and a thatched straw coat on the outside.
"Third brother is lying! Mother, buy new cotton-padded jackets for eldest brother, second brother, and third brother!" The little kid is the one who has the final say again.
After Little Naitian spoke, Mrs. Cai really felt sorry for her sons. None of them had a cotton jacket and they all wore straw clothes on the outside. When the wind blew, they felt cold to the bone.
"Okay, all of you wear new cotton shirts. Mom will buy some cloth and cotton and sew them for you herself to save money."
I gritted my teeth and bought the cheapest coarse cloth and thick cotton to make cotton-padded jackets for the boys.
The one I bought for Xiao Yuanbao is a more expensive piece of fine cloth. It is softer and more comfortable for a baby to wear.
After buying everything here, the shopkeeper saw that the children were wearing straw shoes in such a cold weather. They were frozen red and swollen, which looked really pitiful. So he sold Cai some scraps of cloth at a low price. Cai took them back and used them to make cotton shoes for the children.
The owner of the cloth shop wanted to recommend that Cai buy one for herself, but Cai refused.
In the end, only two or three taels of silver were left out of the ten taels.
Cai felt very painful.
But the rewards were plentiful.
Dabao and Sanbao were competing to carry the things and they didn't feel tired at all.
Little Yuanbao got down and walked by himself, while Cai was also carrying a lot of things on her hands and shoulders.
They put the goods on Uncle Wang’s ox cart and the family returned home with a full load.
It feels so good to have money to spend!
When Cai thought of this, she hugged the little girl and kissed her again and again.
It’s all thanks to Xiao Yuanbao.
They actually lived a good life with food, drink, clothing and shelter. This was the blessing she had earned in several lifetimes!
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I took the things back home.
When Erbao saw so many things, he was both happy and incredulous.
The whole family is happy.
Even though there was an outsider, Wang Tiangou's presence did not affect the warm atmosphere in Xiao Yuanbao's home at all.
At noon, I ate the meat buns I bought.
In the evening, Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang brought a large piece of pickled bacon as a meal for Wang Tiangou, and at the same time, they set off fireworks to celebrate Xiao Yuanbao's family moving into their new house.
Moving into a new house, celebrating fireworks, and most importantly, the excitement.
Cai was very welcoming.
The two families had dinner together, and Cai chopped up all the fresh meat that he had just bought today to make dumplings.
I bought some household items, new pots and new bowls, so I don't have to worry about not having enough food to eat when there are too many people.
The whole family, young and old, came together to make dumplings, and the atmosphere was quite lively.
Xiao Yuanbao has joined the army of making dumplings.
I made a crooked little dumpling and felt a great sense of accomplishment. I laughed happily.
Wang Tiangou remained calm, also made an ugly dumpling, placed it in front of Sanbao when no one was paying attention, and quietly stopped.
Dabao is not very good either.
Erbao is not interested.
Only Sanbao's cooking looks decent.
Sanbao sighed, "We had meat buns for lunch and dumplings for dinner. Today we ate better than during Chinese New Year!"
Everyone agreed with this.
you do not say!
At Lao Tang’s house, dumplings are also a must during the Chinese New Year.
However, they could only make dumplings. When it was time to eat, it was good enough for the five of them, mother and children, to get ten dumplings. Sometimes, two dumplings per person could not even fit, and the dumplings were the smallest ones, so they could only taste the flavor of the dumplings.
Now there are so many, everyone can have enough to eat, and just thinking about it makes me feel so happy.
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