Chapter 45, Buy New Year's goods
Su Jiao and Sun Zhaorong were busy until eleven o'clock at night before finally getting everything done.
I slept for a while and then got up and started working again the next day.
The mother and daughter still had to go to town, and they still had some things to buy. The festival day at the end of the year was the busiest, and there were a lot of things. Su Jiao wanted to make a more substantial New Year's Eve dinner, so she went to buy some ingredients first.
On the morning of New Year's Eve, I will go to the pier and the fishermen in the next village to buy some shrimps, crabs, and marine fish.
When they went to town this time, she and Sun Zhaorong bought a pair of pig's feet, six pig ears, a big rooster, and some other side dishes. Since they didn't have a car yet and there were a lot of things, she and Sun Zhaorong were holding the cart.
The car came out.
There were so many people that Su Jiao and Sun Zhaorong had to squeeze out, breaking out in sweat in the winter.
"Mom, let's make money to buy a car next year, otherwise it will be a long time to go out." Su Jiao muttered.
Sun Zhaorong: "Isn't it? I'm too tired. After the Spring Festival, I'll ask your dad to go to the county to have a look. I don't know if those motorcycles are expensive."
Su Jiao: "Mom, that's called a motorcycle. But that car can't pull much. We have such a big family, so my dad has to pull it back and forth several times once we go out."
Thinking of this scene, Su Jiao almost wanted to laugh. If that didn't work, she might as well buy a car, a second-hand one would do, as long as it could fit their whole family at once.
Sun Zhaorong: "Yeah, why didn't Mom think of this? But that car is expensive, and your dad can't drive it."
Su Jiao thought about whether there is such a thing as taking a driver's license these days? It seems that there is no such thing. She can drive it. If not, let Su Pingshan find someone who can drive it and learn it for a few days.
"Mom. The Su Hai in our village doesn't know how to drive. When the time comes, I can buy it and let dad learn from him for a few days."
Sun Zhaorong was in disbelief: "Jiaojiao, that's a car. Can you learn it by just learning?"
Su Jiao: "Mom, you have to believe my dad!"
Sun Zhaorong pulls the trolley while Su Jiao pushes it behind. This scene is very common in this era, and it is also the same in other houses on the road, so even if Su Jiao wanted to laugh, she couldn't.
The mother and daughter talked all the way. Su Jiao had a good plan. Next year she would find a way to open a store in the county. There are many opportunities in the county and she would make more money.
When she got home, Su Jiao's inner clothes were all wet, so she quickly went to change. When she came out, Su Tianyu and others had already moved the charcoal fire in front of her: "Jiaojiao, hurry up, warm yourself up, don't freeze."
Su Jiao sniffed and felt a warmth rush to her nose: "Okay, thank you, brother."
Su Tianyu and Su Tiankun felt very distressed, and Su Tianyu said softly: "Jiaojiao, I will let my brother do this work from now on. He is a boy and has more strength."
Su Jiao shook her head: "It's okay, brother, your sister can do this job, and you don't know what I want to buy. If you make a list, you just buy it according to it, and you don't know how to choose. Mom and I will buy it."
Neither is satisfied.”
Su Tianyu scratched his head: "That's right, how about I follow you and help carry things when the time comes."
Su Jiao: "Then you get up early tomorrow and we go to the pier to buy fish together."
Su Tianyu: "Okay."
Su Tiankun had to help Su Pingshan pick up soil at home and fill in the road around the house, otherwise there would be too many potholes and it would be easy to fall when going out at night.
The next day is New Year's Eve. This is Su Jiao's first New Year here, and she takes it very seriously.
In her era, the flavor of the New Year has faded away, and she has no feeling for the Chinese New Year.
But Sujiahe was different. After Su Jiao returned to the village, she could smell a very fragrant smell every day. It was the food that every household was preparing for the New Year. There were some exquisite snacks that made Su Jiao greedy, so she just waited.
She could get a taste of it when she visited other people's homes during the Chinese New Year and exchanged gifts.
The ones she made herself were delicious, but everyone had their own specialty pastries, some of which Su Jiao had never seen or tasted before.
Su Jiao got up at three o'clock in the morning and wrapped herself up tightly. When she heard the noise, Su Tianyu got up as quickly as possible, got dressed, carried the bucket and went out with Su Jiao. Sun Zhaorong took a net bag.
, the three of them walked towards the next village.
Su Tianyu still pulled the cart and put the overseas goods up when the time came, so that Jiaojiao and her mother could rest for a while.
When I arrived at the place, I found that I was not the first, some people were already waiting.
The small boat has arrived at the dock, but the big ship has not yet returned. It is the big ship that Su Jiao is waiting for.
Big ships can go farther and carry better cargo, but they are more expensive.
Su Jiao is a wealthy family now, so she just wants to eat good food. The pollution is not serious at this time, and the seafood is large and fresh.
Soon the shadow of the big ship appeared, and the lights flashed. Looking at the draft of the ship as it approached the dock, Su Jiao knew that the ship must be fully loaded.
Su Jiao was not in a hurry. When the boat stopped, the fishermen on it put down the seafood one by one.
Looking at the lively shrimps, Su Jiao praised: "Good stuff!"
After hearing this, the fishermen said: "Isn't that right? Our boat has almost reached the deep sea for these goods. Today's seafood is the brightest. How many do you plan to bring, little girl?"
Seafood at this time was not expensive because this area was close to the sea. In the past, everyone was a fisherman, and every family would go to the sea to collect something to bring back to supplement their family income. The same was true for the ancestors of the Su family.
However, after the separation, the family's only boat was given to Su Lianshan, and Su Pingshan no longer thought about living on the sea.
He devoted himself to planting rice, and in his free time, he and Sun Zhaorong went to work for others. They worked day and night to raise the children.
Su Jiao: "Uncle, give me the biggest and best one. You don't have to worry about me not being able to pay."
The fisherman laughed loudly after hearing this: "Okay, then I will choose the most beautiful one for you."
Su Jiao ordered a total of five kilograms of prawns, boiled, four large hairtails, braised, and an eel weighing seven kilograms. She planned to go back to make grilled eels, and also ordered a dozen swimming crabs weighing one kilogram. Look.
When they arrived at the two big dragon fish, Su Jiao thought about it and decided to take it. These big fish were delicious and they were all natural.
The fisherman didn't expect that she was really generous. She probably made money this year. The little girl looked like she had a good family background and was pretty. Looking at the seafood she picked, she knew she was very shrewd.
Su Jiao ordered some conches, scallops, sea cucumbers, abalone, squid, and cuttlefish. She had been craving for dried squid for a long time, so she made it herself and ate it.
She took advantage of the New Year holiday to make snacks so that Su Tianwen and Su Tianhai could take some to fill their bellies when they went to school.
Su Jiao bought hundreds of kilograms of seafood during this trip. There were many people in her family, so she really didn't eat these things often. She probably had to go out and buy them again on the fifth day of the new year.
Su Tianyu didn't expect that there are so many ways to choose seafood. If he really let himself do it, the things he picked would probably not be fresh.
There is still a lot to learn!
After returning home with a full load, Su Jiao went home and put the seafood away, then went back to her room to sleep for a while, then got up at 7:30 to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.
Chapter completed!