Chapter 25 025. Kissing 2 to the power of (n-1)
It seems quite cheap.
But that was just a pot of five-colored peppers.
Not to mention ancient times, even in modern times, if someone spent 180 yuan to buy a pot of chili peppers, Zhou Yi would think that this person was a jerk.
The five-color pepper is not as widely cooked as the millet pepper and the erjingtiao pepper. The best way to cook it is to soak it in soy sauce and marinate it into a dark sauce color. It is salty, spicy and numb, and the refreshing feeling goes straight to the top of your head.
Zhou Yi likes to eat very much.
But not worth it.
And he is poor.
Facing Lei Li's calm and deep gaze, Zhou Yi couldn't open his mouth. He felt ashamed of being a spendthrift who lived off his wife and bought luxury goods.
Seeing that they were silent, the flower buyer smiled again and said, "How about one hundred and eighty wen? I've been raising it for two years and it hasn't been frozen in the winter, which is why it's grown so beautifully. If the price is any lower, I'll lose money..."
"Eight."
Lei Li didn't even bat an eyelid, and said, "I don't have any more, I'm willing to sell it or not."
"Eight, eight cents?"
The man who bought the flowers was stunned. He had never seen anyone bargain like this.
Is this a fracture or a robbery?
Zhou Yi was also stunned.
Two hundred coins, directly reduced to eight coins. Lei Li dared to say it, but Zhou Yi didn’t even dare to think about it.
"The minimum is one hundred and seventy wen."
"Six coins."
"One hundred and sixty-five, that's really the lowest..."
"Five cents."
"This is really not okay..."
The flower seller was so angry that he almost laughed. "I see you're pulling an ox cart and carrying so many baskets. You must be doing business. I'm also doing business. Why are you making things difficult for each other?"
"Well, just to make a friend, one hundred and sixty coins for the flowers and the pot is a really good price."
“…”
Lei Li stared at the flower vendor for two seconds, then pulled Zhou Yi and turned away, "It's too expensive."
“…”
The flower seller gritted his teeth, glanced at the five-colored flowers, and called out to them, "Eighty cents, eighty cents for some five-colored flower seeds."
"Eight."
"The minimum is eighty wen."
“No.”
“…”
The flower seller finally couldn't help but curse him as a lunatic.
Zhou Yi had sharp ears and when he heard the scolding, he looked at the back of Lei Li's head who was holding his hand, and for some reason, he suddenly laughed.
Lei Li was confused and asked, "What are you laughing at?"
"nothing."
Zhou Yi smiled and shook his head.
He just thought it was... quite interesting.
Because it's interesting.
So happy.
—
The county town is very big.
Lei Li didn't plan to finish the tour all at once, so he asked Zhou Yi to get familiar with the county town. He went to the cloth shop and bought two pieces of linen. After thinking about it, he bought a hairband.
Deep red.
Zhou Yi suddenly remembered that Lei Li was wearing such a bright red dress on the night of her marriage.
—
The sun sets.
It’s time to return to Sanlihe Village.
There was no need to pay to leave the county town. The guards were too lazy to even do a routine check. They just took a look and waved their hands. Lei Li and Zhou Yi drove the ox cart out of the city gate.
Coincidentally or not.
We encountered the ox carts carrying people that were there this morning. They were all from the neighboring villages.
When those people saw them, they whispered to each other, and some of them even looked at their ox cart, wondering what they were doing in the county town.
"Is he delivering herbs?"
"He must have bought a lot of things. He also slaughters pigs and raises chickens at home..."
"I just heard from my aunt's uncle's niece's son-in-law that Brother Li from Sanlihe Village just got married. Could he be pregnant and come to the county town to buy things for the baby?"
"Are you pregnant with a boy?"
"How could I know? It's possible they're twins..."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but glance at them, then lowered his head and asked Lei Li, "How could they spread such outrageous rumors? We've only been married for a few days. Even if you're pregnant, you can't even feel the embryo..."
"Fetus?"
Lei Li half-guessed the word, "a little bud in the womb"? Should it mean a little baby?
While guessing, he thought Zhou Yi was making a fuss. "Some people are like that. When they have nothing to do, they just like to make random guesses and speculate. They talk about this and that. Who knows what they will end up spreading."
"My mother said that there was a younger sister from her uncle's family, a distant aunt of mine. She married and moved to the next town. One time, on her way back to her parents' home, she accidentally fell and broke a piece of her face."
"Then people said her husband beat and scolded her every day, and that she was beaten because she couldn't have children... She was pitied for many years."
Lei Li rolled his eyes. "That concubine has three children, one brother and two men. Her husband treats her well and even bought her a pair of silver bracelets."
“…”
Zhou Yi sighed and was overwhelmed.
Then he said, "It's really not a good habit to just follow what others say. No matter what kind of person they are, you have to get to know them yourself before you know if they are good or not."
Lei Li looked at him seriously, "So what do you think of me?"
"fine."
Zhou Yi also looked serious. "Especially since you didn't force a kiss on me all day today, that's great...it would be even better if you could keep it up."
"oh."
Lei Li looked at him faintly, "What if I buy you that pot of colorful flowers?"
"Then I thank you."
“…”
Lei Li didn't want to talk to him anymore. He turned his head to look at the road and tried to overtake the other carts carrying people with his ox cart. Then he heard an aunt calling him,
"Brother Li, are you free tomorrow? I have a few piglets that need to be slaughtered..."
"I'm free tomorrow afternoon."
"Liu Saner's home in Silihe Village."
"become."
Lei Li nodded.
Even though the aunt had just told him gossip, he still took the job without batting an eyelid.
Who would refuse silver?
"She asked me to butcher a pig. When the time comes to slaughter the New Year pig, she'll also ask me to come over. Butchering the pig is considered a deposit."
"Should I come with you?"
Zhou Yi asked again.
Lei Li glanced at his lower body and said, "Why are you watching a pig being slaughtered? Do you want to be slaughtered too?"
"...Of course not."
Lei Li's car was light and strong, and it moved faster than the others, slowly leaving them behind.
But Lei Li did not go back to Sanlihe Village directly. Instead, he took a detour and went to the town market.
Today is not a market day.
Zhou Yi was a little confused, "What's missing?"
"One."
Lei Li got out of the car after saying that.
Not long after, he came back with a pot of plants with colorful berries hanging on them, and stuffed it into Zhou Yi's arms, "Here, the flowers you asked for cost me fifteen cents..."
"Five-colored peppers..."
Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment, then realized, "Did you go to find Xiaohua?"
"yes."
Lei Li jumped onto the oxcart and hurried on. "Merchants from the north were selling things everywhere. Xiaohua's father saw that Xiaohua could take care of these things, so he wandered around and picked up unwanted flowers. He asked Xiaohua to raise them and make money for him..."
"This thing is useless except for being pretty. No one wants it, so I asked Xiaohua for a pot for a low price."
Then he muttered, or cursed, "He wanted to sell it to me for eighty wen... He's trying to rob me."
“You’re amazing.”
Zhou Yi praised him sincerely.
If he knew that the five-colored pepper cost fifteen cents, he would not be embarrassed to ask for eight cents, especially when the other party asked for two hundred.
Moreover, fifteen cents was considered very expensive for Lei Li. It was expensive but useless, so it should be considered a luxury item. Even luxury items were bought for him.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yi thanked him sincerely again, "Thank you, Lei Li."
"Are you thanking me sincerely?"
"Yes, thank you."
"Give me a kiss, and I'll see if you're sincere."
“…”
"You can't even say one for fifteen cents?"
"...I think I've done all these days' work, so I'm still entitled to fifteen cents."
"hehe."
Lei Li looked at him coldly, "Have you ever seen a husband working and being paid by his husband? And you are the husband, shouldn't you earn money for your husband to spend?"
“…”
That makes a lot of sense.
Zhou Yi was unable to refute it.
"...Then I'll owe it to you first, okay?"
"Okay."
Lei Li said straightforwardly, "I owe you one today, two tomorrow, four the day after tomorrow, eight the day after tomorrow, and sixteen the day after tomorrow... Which day do you want to pay me back?"
“?!”
Zhou Yi was shocked by this 2 to the power of (n-1).
—
The sun was halfway down the west mountain.
A black shadow flew out from the forest with a whooshing sound. Upon closer inspection, they were all bats and birds calling cuckoo, their calls long and deep.
The not-so-wide mountain road was quite scary when it got dark.
"The first time I killed someone was here, around this time."
As they turned a corner, Lei Li suddenly said, "He suddenly rushed out. I was so scared that I almost knocked him off the mountain. I missed him, but I only cut his neck."
"Blood splattered out all of a sudden, like a fountain. It was the first time I saw a fountain, and the whole mountain road was covered in blood."
Lei Li turned to Zhou Yi and smiled, "Do you want to see it with your own eyes?"
"I don't want to."
Zhou Yi said, "You should be watching the road right now. I'm afraid of two lives being lost in one car."
This mountain road is really deep.
“…”
Lei Li curled his lips and said, "I wanted to scare you a little bit."
Zhou Yi looked at Lei Li with a serious expression, "I think your sudden forced kiss is quite scary, especially the power of your kissing."
“……?”
What Fang?
—
The ox cart slowly arrived at the village entrance.
He returned the ox cart to the village chief and cut a piece of pork given by Mr. Zhu. Liu Xiaocao refused it for a while before happily accepting it. She also gave Lei Li a handful of cucumbers.
Father Lei Dashan and mother Liu Ye'er were waiting at the door early. They were relieved to see them return safely and told them to wash their hands and eat quickly.
The purse should be kept by Liu Ye'er.
Zhou Yi cut off the fruits of the five-color pepper, left the small ones and waited for them to grow up. He transplanted them into the yard, watered them, washed the fruits, put them in jars, and marinated them with soy sauce.
I also bought soy sauce at the town market.
It cost ten cents.
Lei Li doubled the kisses he owed him. Today he owed two, and tomorrow he owed four. When Zhou Yi heard this, he fell into deafening silence.
Although he paid for it, Lei Li was still skeptical about Zhou Yi's pickled five-color peppers. They didn't smell like anything edible.
Seeing the expectation on Zhou Yi's face, I made a conclusion about him in my heart.
——His husband really likes things with strange smells.
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