Li Yan told Uncle Zhou what had just happened at the village entrance. Uncle Zhou couldn't help but sigh, "This child has a miserable life. His mother died of complications during childbirth. Some time ago, my eldest son got into an argument with someone over selling grain and got beaten up. Luckily, he wasn't seriously injured!"
"Tietou went out alone today, also wanting to see if his uncle had returned, but he didn't expect..." When he said this, Uncle Zhou couldn't help but tear up.
Li Yan touched the child's head and said, "If Tietou and the others don't want to play with you, you can go to my sister's house. There is a brother who is about the same age as you. If you are bored, you can ask your uncle to take you there."
Tietou then raised his little face, looked at Li Yan with red eyes and asked, "Really?" No one had ever invited him to play, and Tietou's face was full of anticipation.
Li Yan nodded: "Really, you can come to my house with your uncle tomorrow."
Tietou looked excited, forgetting the sad moment just now.
After comforting the little guy, Li Yan asked, "Does Uncle Zhou have any fish at home? I want to order some fish. Can you help me deliver it to my house tomorrow morning?"
"Yes, yes, come with me. I have a lot of fish in the small pond in my backyard that I haven't sold yet. What kind of fish do you want?"
Li Yan said, "Give me three bighead carp weighing about five kilograms, and three big black carp weighing about three kilograms."
Uncle Zhou nodded and said he would send it to you tomorrow morning.
Li Yan asked, "Uncle Zhou, how much do you want for these fish?"
Zhou Bo said, "The silver carp are six coins a pound, and the black carp are ten coins a pound. You can pay me after they are weighed."
Li Yan silently calculated in her mind and then paid a deposit of one penny of silver.
After the two finished their conversation, Li Yan prepared to go home. It was already dark, and Uncle Zhou was worried about her going on the road alone, so he said to his youngest son, "See Miss Li off."
Tietou also wanted to go with them at this time, so Zhou Erlang carried his little nephew and Li Yan to Lijiazhuang.
As it was getting dark, when they reached the main road, Li Yan asked them to go back first, but Zhou Erlang refused. Only after seeing Li Yan enter the house did the uncle and nephew turn back.
When they got home, Mrs. Lin had already prepared the meal. The three of them sat under the dim oil lamp and had dinner, which was particularly warm.
After dinner, Lin asked, "Yan'er, what dishes are we going to make tomorrow? Do you want to make a list first?"
Li Yan thought for a moment and said, "I prepared cold shredded radish, pickled cabbage, stir-fried beans, scrambled eggs with green onions, stir-fried pork liver, minced meat and eggplant, fish head and tofu soup, pickled fish, braised fish, boiled dried bean curd strips, and braised spareribs."
Li Erlang estimated that there were more than ten dishes and decided, "Okay, let's arrange it this way."
After discussing it, the few of them washed up and went to bed early.
The next day, at dawn, Li Yan went to the next door to ask her cousin to help her go to the town to buy vegetables. She had a lot of work to do today and she really couldn't leave.
Li Yan said to Daya, "Go to town for me and buy five pounds of spare ribs, five pounds of pork belly, a piece of pork liver, ten pounds of tofu, and ten pounds of dried shredded vegetables. I'm worried you can't carry them all by yourself, so I just asked Xiu'er to go with you!"
Daya took the three hundred coins that Li Yan handed to her, put them away carefully, and went out with a bamboo basket.
Li Yan ran to find Wu again and asked her for cabbage, radish, eggplant, onion, ginger, garlic and about twenty eggs.
Since today was a wedding banquet, Wu said readily, "You go back first. Your aunt and I will bring the things over later."
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