After wandering on the street for a while, Ye Chuqiu bought some more ingredients. This time, she bought more. She bought twenty kilograms of donkey meat alone. She also bought pig trotters, pig knuckles, lotus roots and other ingredients.
A lot
It's a pity that duck products are not easy to buy nowadays. It's not like in later generations. If you want to buy duck neck, then duck neck, if you want to buy duck wings, then duck wings. Now if you want to buy, they will sell you a whole live duck.
The thought of having to slaughter and pluck the ducks after buying them home made Ye Chuqiu find it troublesome, so he gave up the idea of making ducks.
Lin Erhu went shopping and bought a bunch of candied haws for each of his younger siblings, but he didn't spend a penny on it himself.
Wufeng also saved all his money, but Lin Sanhu and Lin Sihu were the same in terms of spending money. They were extravagant and spent all the twenty coins.
Let’s see what they bought, candy-faced people, lotus cakes, and they even bought a kite. Ye Chuqiu was thinking, where would they go to fly a kite in this winter? But they were in high spirits.
Yes, he said he would be able to put it away in a bullock cart later.
Ye Chuqiu ignored them. It was easy to spend money but hard to make money anyway. These dozens of pennies were not enough for them to spend.
On the way home after leaving the city, the two brothers flew the kite. One held the kite and the other ran forward. However, the cold wind blew and the kite failed to fly. The two brothers' hands were frozen.
"How? How?"
Ye Chuqiu didn't stop them, but waited for them to climb onto the carriage before asking a funny question.
"Mom, you are laughing at us."
Lin Sihu naturally heard the joking in her tone.
Ye Chuqiu quickly changed his words, "Mom didn't laugh at you. I admire your mobility. Who said you can't fly a kite in the winter, right? There's no such thing in the world. You dare to try. This is a good thing."
"That's right, why can't we fly kites in winter?"
Lin Sihu thought about it while talking, and finally seemed to figure out the reason, and then said: "I understand, because the wind is too strong in winter, and it is not blowing from the north at all. The wind sometimes goes to the west and sometimes to the west.
In the north, the kite is so dizzy, how can it still fly?"
Seeing his serious look on his face, Ye Chuqiu couldn't help but smile, "My four tigers are right."
"Then what should we do with this kite? My fourth brother and I bought it for five cents." Lin Sanhu said from the side.
"Then just keep it and wait for next year. If you are lucky next year and the bamboo strips are not broken, maybe it can still fly."
What Ye Chuqiu meant was that if you were unlucky and the bamboo strips were broken, the thin paper on them might also rot. Buying this kite would be a waste of money.
The two brothers didn't understand what Ye Chuqiu meant, so they had no choice but to fold the kite together, hoping that it wouldn't break in the coming year. Unexpectedly, the north wind was blowing on the road. They held the kite to look at it, but they missed it and the kite was blown away by the wind.
"My kite!"
Lin Sihu shouted anxiously, but when Lin Sihu stopped the cart and went back to pick it up, the kite had been blown far away by the wind.
He chased the wind to find the kite, and finally found the kite. However, the kite was blown by the strong wind and bumped into the trees on the roadside, and it was already broken.
Lin Sihu held the rotten kite and caught up with Ye Chuqiu and the others. After getting on the bullock cart, he remained silent and looked lost.
Ye Chuqiu turned around and rubbed his head, and said: "Mom once heard a saying that good things in the world are not reliable, and rainbows are easy to scatter and glass is broken. So next time, if you like something, you have to watch it carefully."
"This kite is too poorly made."
Lin Sihu said with a cry, "My third brother and I looked at it, and its rope broke."
"Then what should we do?" Ye Chuqiu asked.
Lin Sihu didn't answer, he just raised his head and looked at Ye Chuqiu with tears in his eyes. When Ye Chuqiu saw his small appearance, he just felt funny in his heart, "Sihu, if you were a few years younger, my mother would definitely hold you in her arms."
Take good care of me."
Hearing this, Lin Sihu was embarrassed to cry and just wiped away his tears, "I know I'm a big kid, I shouldn't cry."
"It doesn't matter. No matter how old you are in front of Mom, you will always be a child. When the weather is nice and sunny tomorrow, Mom will buy you a more beautiful kite."
"Thank you, mother." Lin Sihu nodded repeatedly when he heard this.
On the way, Ye Chuqiu vaguely heard Sanhu lowering his voice and asking, "Sihu, it's just a kite, why are you crying?"
"You are stupid. If I cry first, mother will be embarrassed to blame me. This kite costs five cents."
"Hey, you are still smart."
Ye Chuqiu was also shocked when he heard the three little ones talking in low voices behind him. Oh, these kids are really smart.
Five pennies is indeed not a small amount for a rural family. If it is broken, it is normal not only to be scolded, but also to be beaten.
But what did Lin Sihu do? He cried first as a sign of respect, and when he cried until his heart softened, it was naturally not easy to blame him.
However, since I am not the original owner, I will not beat or scold them for the five pennies. If they break it, they can learn a lesson themselves, and that is enough.
"Mom, you are back. Is it cold outside?"
Although the mountain road home has been repaired, it is still a bit steep. I am afraid that the cattle will be tired. At the bottom of the mountain, everyone got off the cattle cart so that Dahei would not have to work so hard.
As soon as she arrived at the door of the house, Zhao Hehua heard a voice and came out. Ye Chuqiu nodded slightly to her as a greeting. She quickly brought out a basin of hot water and said, "Mom, you can wipe the hot water with the freshly heated water."
Show your face."
Ye Chuqiu was not polite to her, so she washed her face with hot water and wiped her neck. The hot water vapor gradually relaxed her face that was stiffened by the cold wind.
After she entered the house, Zhao Hehua quickly lifted the kettle on the stove, made tea for Ye Chuqiu, and then used the tongs to poke around in the stove, then put away the bamboo basket on the table and put it aside.
"What are you doing?" Ye Chuqiu asked casually while holding hot tea.
"Didn't I get three skins last time? I want to make the waistcoat quickly." Zhao Hehua answered.
"Thanks for your hard work."
Ye Chuqiu took a sip of hot tea and said, "There are exactly three pieces of leather, so let us three make one piece each."
"Ah?" Zhao Hehua was a little surprised, "Do I have one too?"
"Of course, we are the only three women in the house. It's easy to divide them up. Let the men go there next time." Ye Chuqiu replied.
"How about giving my share to Dahu?" Zhao Hehua said subconsciously.
"Um?"
Ye Chuqiu raised his head and glanced at her. Zhao Hehua immediately stood up straight and said, "I'm talking nonsense. I'll wear it myself when I'm done."
"Um."
Only then did Ye Chuqiu lower his head, warming himself to the fire.