Chapter 77: The weak old man
It's not good to eat other things in front of Jiang Xian.
On such a cold day, eating a piece of sweet roasted sweet potato will definitely make you feel happier than the gods.
After Wan Hongmei came back from her busy work, she saw that the two children had almost arranged everything in the house and the house was in good order.
"Thank you both for your hard work. I'm here to cook. Tell Auntie what you want to eat." Wan Hongmei said cheerfully.
"I can eat whatever I want, and whatever Auntie cooks is delicious!" Jiang Xian said obediently.
"Mom, I want to eat meat!" Yuntao wailed.
Although I could eat meat on the way out, I ate it secretly in space at night.
Her mother said it was bad to eat too much at night, so she wouldn't let her eat more.
Yuntao didn't have any other ideas, she just wanted to have a good meal of meat.
Wan Hongmei nodded after hearing this, "I'll steam the rice first and see what else is at home. Your father will definitely bring you meat back when he goes shopping."
Yun Huachun went to the street and soon found out where charcoal was sold.
The charcoal seller is a young man with an enthusiastic face who drives a donkey cart to sell charcoal in the corner of the alley.
"How many kilograms of carbon do you want, guest?"
Yun Huachun just wanted to ask for something fifty or sixty pounds, but after thinking about it, the carriage and his family were not here, and it was far from where he lived. He couldn't even move it if he bought so much.
"Twenty pounds, maybe."
"Okay, I'll get you some charcoal right now."
The young man selling charcoal immediately brought twenty kilograms of charcoal to Yun Huachun and put it in a small bamboo basket.
Yun Huachun paid the money and picked up the charcoal.
It’s over. It seems a little heavy. I bought charcoal and I need to buy other things. What if I can’t carry it back?
He put the basket down and looked at the charcoal seller with an awkward smile.
"Can I buy ten pounds less?"
The charcoal seller probably has never seen such a customer want to return the product after buying it on the spot.
Yun Huachun explained the whole story clearly, and the young man selling charcoal expressed his understanding.
"Guest, if you can't carry it, how about I help you take the charcoal home? I don't have much charcoal in the car, so I can close the stall."
"Okay, okay, sorry for the trouble, but I have to buy something else, please wait for me!"
"Okay!"
After a while, Yun Huachun took the charcoal seller back to the yard he rented.
There were no fresh vegetables in winter, so he bought two radishes, a piece of tofu and a piece of fish.
He also brought some candied haws and candied chestnuts from the street to take to his children at home.
The young man was unloading charcoal under the car. Yun Huachun put the things behind the door and hurried to the entrance of the yard.
"I think you don't have much charcoal in your car. Why don't you sell it all to me to save me a trip in the future?" Yun Huachun said.
The charcoal seller smiled happily.
"Thank you, sir. If you want to buy charcoal in the future, just go to the street corner and call me. I sell charcoal there on weekdays. Just call and I will send it over."
As the man spoke, he changed a large basket and poured all the charcoal into it.
After Yun Huachun paid the money and sent the man away, he looked at the baskets of charcoal at the door. He could always move it back by himself.
Hey!
Yun Huachun took the things he bought in his hands, lifted the big basket of charcoal with all his strength, and staggered towards his home.
"Yun Xiucai, what are you moving? Can you move it? How about I help you?" A woman's voice sounded in the yard.
"No, no, I can move it." Yun Huachun gritted his teeth.
It's not that he is weak, it's that his body is too weak.
When he was young, he was engaged in house decoration, but he could carry two wooden boards up to the tenth floor in one go.
The house where his family lives is a bit far away, and you have to walk through a wall and around a tree to get to it.
These dozens of kilograms of...charcoal...are really...really...not a problem for him!
Yun Huachun thought while panting.
Taking small steps, like a penguin, I finally took the charcoal home.
"Dad, you're back!" Yuntao said happily after hearing the things in the yard.
"Dad, are you tired?"
Yun Huachun just raised his back from the basket and hammered his waist, "I'm not tired, I'm not tired."
"Dad, you bought a lot of charcoal. Let me help you." Yuntao immediately came up and held the basket.
He picked it up with all his strength, walked across the threshold in three or two steps, and dropped the basket on the ground.
Yun Huachun stared slightly at this, was he really so useless?
Yuntao gasped, the things in this basket were too heavy, no wonder her father had a hard time carrying it.
"What did you buy?" Wan Hongmei came out with the stove and took a look.
"There is nothing for sale on the street. I bought a fish, a piece of tofu and two radishes."
"By the way, I also bought this." Yun Huachun said and took out the candied haws and chestnuts.
"I bought candied haws and chestnuts, one for each person."
The candied haws are wrapped in oil paper.
Yun Huachun took out three sticks from it, gave two to the two children at home, and gave the rest to Wan Hongmei.
"I think these candied haws are good. Don't you like hawthorn cake? We don't have hawthorn cake here, so I bought one for you." Yun Huachun said and handed the candied haws to his wife.
Wan Hongmei gave him a strange look, took a bite of the gourd, and stuffed the rest back into Yun Huachun's hand.
Chewing hawthorn in his mouth, he said vaguely: "I'll eat one to taste, and you can eat the rest yourself, or give it to the children."
Wan Hongmei picked up the vegetables Yun Huachun bought, and Ma Liu started cooking the fish.
The people standing in the courtyard looked at him with envy.
Some people envied the Yun family for having the money to go shopping on the street and bring back such a big fish.
The children were envious of Yuntao and Jiang Xian, and sometimes Yun Huachun bought them snacks.
The woman envied Wan Hongmei's good fortune, marrying a scholar, and being much better than the men in their family.
I originally thought that Yunxiu was just a lazy guy with an eccentric personality who never did any housework and left it all to Wan Hongmei.
If the men in their families can bring them something to eat when they go out, then the sun is rising in the west. Wan Hongmei is really lucky!
It is very considerate to have such a good husband as Yun Xiucai.
There were no vegetables in winter, so Wan Hongmei cooked a radish cube.
Fry the fish on both sides until a milky white fish soup comes out, then add the tofu inside.
The rice is almost done, waiting for Zhong Da to come back to start the meal.
When Zhong Da came back, he also brought a lot of big and small bags.
"Ms. Yun, I bought some things." Zhong Da said, handing a large pile to Wan Hongmei.
"There is a roasted chicken in here, and I also weighed a pound of snacks."
"It has been cold these days, so I also bought cloth and cotton. There is a shoe seller in the shop. I don't know your sizes, so I bought some half-made ones. I have to trouble Mrs. Yun to cut them yourself."
Wan Hongmei took the things from Zhong Da's hand and was very grateful.
"Uncle Zhong, you took the trouble to buy so many things."
"Ms. Yun helped me a lot along the way and took care of me. What do these things mean?" Zhong Da said.
It's about a piece of clothing and a pair of shoes.
Chapter completed!