Chapter 28 028. If You Can’t, Kiss Me
Pickled five-color peppers.
One of the characteristics of Zhou Yi’s hometown.
It is really hard for people who have never eaten it to imagine what it tastes like. People who like it will have some to chew as a snack even if they don’t eat or drink.
Zhou Yi is one of those people who particularly likes it. If he is not afraid of getting a sore throat, he can eat half a jar a day.
Lei Li found it very strange.
Everything is wrong.
Different from the overbearing spiciness of fresh five-color peppers, pickled five-color peppers are spicy, salty, sweet, crispy, and leave a tingling sensation on the tongue.
Above.
Going straight to the top of the head.
Lei Li directly requisitioned this jar to pickle five-color peppers. When he went to the town market to sell vegetables and baskets, he also went to Xiaohua to buy the remaining two pots of five-color peppers.
Thirty cents.
There is also a large jar worth twenty cents.
Heartache.
Fortunately, the ten cents worth of soy sauce he bought last time was still there, so he didn't have to buy more, otherwise Lei Li would have been even more heartbroken.
"I actually spent fifty cents on this thing. I have to sell twenty-five eggs to make it back..."
It was the first time that Lei Li spent so much money on food. Apart from the snakes he picked up in the mountains or on the road, he usually couldn't afford to buy pork at seven cents a pound.
Lei Li carefully held two pots of five-colored peppers while glaring at Zhou Yi, "It's all your fault. You kept telling me about all the dishes, making me ravenous."
"……It was my fault."
Zhou Yi felt a little embarrassed.
He didn't want to be like this, but that was the custom in his hometown. They might not be willing to buy clothes worth hundreds of dollars, but they would eat a fish worth hundreds of dollars without hesitation.
If the food is delicious, we will invite friends to eat it, so people in my hometown are a bit poor and spend all our money on food.
Zhou Yi was in the army and saved a lot of money, but it was useless. He didn't bring his bank card when he traveled through time, and Dayou Dynasty couldn't use electronic payment.
But Zhou Yi reflected on it.
Lei Li's family was already extremely poor. If they continued to eat like this, they would really go bankrupt. He discussed with Lei Li about doing some other business besides selling medicinal materials.
It really doesn't work...
Selling kimchi?
All the money earned from selling things at the town market was invested in these two pots of flowers and the jar. When Lei Li and Zhou Yi got on the ox cart, Liu Xiaocao was a little surprised.
"Brother Li, when did you start liking flowers? Before, whenever I said flowers were beautiful, you said they were delicate and worthless, and told me to just go up the mountain and pick a few weeds if I really liked them."
"My husband likes it."
Lei Li calmly put the blame on Zhou Yi, "You know, he used to be the son of a wealthy family, and he just loves flowers and plants."
"What a loser."
Liu Xiaocao glanced at Zhou Yi and had a bad impression of him. A grown man who liked fancy things must have some cunning intentions.
Thinking about this, Liu Xiaocao tugged at Lei Li's sleeve and whispered, "Keep an eye on Zhou Yi. I'm afraid he might go out and have an affair."
Zhou Yi: “……?”
How did he get to the stage of stealing people?
Lei Li laughed heartily after hearing this, his laughter unbridled and unrestrained. "Him? My husband is someone like him. He wouldn't even dare to say a word when I went out to cheat on him. What the hell is he capable of?"
His husband, who is suffering from a mental illness, even asks him to find another man, as if he is afraid that he is not smart enough and will not cheat.
“You’re amazing.”
Liu Xiaocao exclaimed in amazement upon hearing this, "Even a husband like yours can be controlled so well that you don't even have to act coquettishly with him..."
"Why am I acting like a spoiled child with him?"
Lei Li glanced at Zhou Yi and said, "A good beating will make him obey. If that doesn't work, give him a couple of kisses. My husband can't stand this kind of... embroidered pillow."
Only Zhou Yi and Lei Li understood the threat posed by a kiss.
After hearing this, Liu Xiaocao felt that the two of them had a good relationship. "Then when are you going to have a baby? If you give birth to a little boy, you can even arrange a baby marriage for him to my son Tao."
Another child marriage.
Zhou Yi couldn't understand why people here were so fond of child marriages. Instead of saying they were free to date, they just said they had no plans and would wait until they had a child...
Liu Xiaocao might be having her third child?
"How can it be so fast?"
Lei Li looked at Zhou Yi with a gloomy gaze, then said to Liu Xiaocao, "We just got married, so we need to save more money to raise a child... Didn't you say last time that the cloth from the town market is not good? The cloth from the county town is indeed a few cents cheaper."
"Yeah, I told you about that cloth shop owner. He said the pattern was out of date, but he insisted it was from this year... When did you buy the cloth?"
"Last time, I went to the county town to deliver medicine and brought you two pounds of pork."
"Oh, that time..."
Liu Xiaocao snorted, "You should have asked me to go with you. I might be good at picking out patterns. If you have a new pattern, I can take a look at it, go home and think about it for a few days, and then I can embroider it myself."
"If you find something you like, tell me secretly. We can buy a piece of plain cloth and embroider the pattern ourselves. This will save a lot of money!"
"No need."
Lei Li shook her head and said, "I don't like patterns. The ones I bought are all solid linen, and it's hard to embroider patterns on them."
"You can also embroider headbands."
Liu Xiaocao fiddled with hers and showed it to him, "Look how long you've been using your headband. You should get a nice new one after you get married. I only change mine every few months."
Liu Xiaocao's headband is lake blue.
It is embroidered with auspicious cloud patterns, and the workmanship is very beautiful. It should have been embroidered by him. There is a small grass pattern at the very end.
Zhou Yi suddenly remembered that when he went to the county town to buy cloth, Lei Li also bought a dark red headband, which was plain and had no patterns.
Want to embroider your own patterns too?
But Zhou Yi had never seen him embroider it, nor had he seen him use it. It was as if he had never seen the headband again since he returned home.
"No need."
Lei Li shook his head and said, "I still have work to do. What if I ruin such a beautiful pattern? Headbands are expensive too. That little bit of fabric only costs three cents."
“But it’s beautiful.”
“It looks good but no one is watching it.”
"Look at it yourself. I look at myself in the mirror every day. I can also show it to my husband. My husband likes me to dress up. Ershu said I look good in a headband."
"I don't like dressing up."
Lei Li's expression was calm.
But Zhou Yi inexplicably felt that Lei Li was not very happy and did not want to continue this topic, so he changed the subject and asked about Liu Xiaocao's rice fields.
"It's pretty good. The seedlings are growing well. But there are too many snails in the fields. They keep eating the roots of the seedlings. I have to go to the fields frequently to pick them out..."
When developing the rice-fish-duck symbiotic system, Zhou Yi asked Lei Li whether he needed to tell others, since the problem of snails and weeds was a common problem for everyone.
Lei Li was not stingy and told the village chief the next day.
But the village chief was a little hesitant, because fish eat rice roots, and when the rice is ripe, they will eat millet. Ducks eat snails and fish. He couldn't imagine what it would look like to put these three together.
So the village chief decided to observe first. If Lei Li’s family thought the crops were good, he would do the same when they planted Akita, and then lead the villagers to do the same.
Zhou Yi expressed high praise for the village chief's approach.
A reckless and impulsive village chief is not a good thing for the entire village.
A good cadre is one who is cautious, down-to-earth, hardworking, believes in evidence, promotes what is right and prevents criticism of what is wrong.
Because Niu Dali was scolded and criticized by the village chief, he has not abused Miao Fulang in the past month, although he still cannot go home due to gambling.
Get off the ox cart.
Lei Li held two pots of five-colored peppers and said to Liu Xiaocao, "It's not that my husband likes flowers, it's that these flowers are edible, but the taste is a bit strange. I don't know if you and the village chief will like them."
"Can these five-colored flowers be eaten?"
Liu Xiaocao was very surprised because this flower had been introduced from the north many years ago, and no one had ever said it was edible.
——Maybe it’s because I’m poor.
Who would eat ornamental flowers that cost dozens of cents a pot for no reason? If Xiaohua and Lei Li didn't have a good relationship, she wouldn't sell it to Lei Li at a discount.
"able."
Lei Li nodded. "If you're not in a hurry, I'll get you a bowl. We don't have much at home, so this is all we can give you."
"Hmm."
Liu Xiaocao waved her hand nonchalantly, "Just a taste is enough. You can't eat something this expensive. But if it tastes good, leave me some seeds and I'll try to grow it myself."
"become."
Lei Li said as she walked in, "I'll pull out two seedlings for you. My husband planted them."
It just grows slowly.
It takes 70-90 days from sowing the seeds to ripening the fruits, and including soaking in soy sauce, it takes three or four months.
Now that this jar of brewed tea has been finished, and the seedlings have not yet bloomed, Lei Li couldn't help himself and bought two more pots.
Being greedy is harmful.
Zhou Yi took two five-color peppers to plant and dug up two seedlings with soil.
Lei Li was picking out the brewed tea, but after thinking for a while, he decided not to fill the bowl. Looking at the little tea left in the jar, he sighed in his heart.
I'll send them more after the ox horns are soaked. There are also a few uncles and aunts who haven't received any yet.
Human relationships and social conventions can be harmful.
Liu Xiaocao quickly took the pickled five-color peppers back, and later he said it was quite delicious.
Because it happened that Dashu's wife's family members came, and those family members were not good people. Because her younger brother was going to get married, they came to ask her for money.
"When my eldest sister-in-law gave birth, she asked them to come when the baby was 100 days old, but they said a daughter who is married off is like water spilled. They were too lazy and afraid of having to pay for the child, so they didn't come."
Liu Xiaocao was indignant, but then she laughed. "They came this time to ask for money, and even took food and things with them. My sister-in-law and grandma were very unhappy. I happened to be carrying the five-colored peppers you gave me into the house when they saw me and just grabbed a handful and ate them."
"It was so spicy that their faces and necks turned red, especially my eldest sister-in-law's younger brother. He ate the most and suddenly broke out in rashes all over his body."
"They thought I was going to murder their family's great ancestor. They were threatening me while crying and howling as they went to find Doctor Niu. I was so amused, hahahahahaha!"
Lei Li felt only pity after hearing this.
He saved his own food, so the village chief's family didn't get to eat it, and instead gave it to others.
What kind of rash?
He thought it was the retribution for the wild boars not being able to eat the bran and wasting the food!
"That's right."
After laughing, Liu Xiaocao said, "Do you still have those pickled five-color peppers? I have a very annoying aunt, and I want to give her some too..."
“It’s gone, it’s gone!”
Lei Li hurriedly sent the guest away, "Xiao Cao, did you hear that? Your Tao Ge'er seems to be crying, and crying very loudly. You should go back and comfort him."
"Ah? Why didn't I hear that? Is Tao Ge'er really crying?"
“He really cried…”
Tao Ge'er stopped crying.
I'm afraid I'll beat you and make you cry.
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