Afterwards, Bai Dashan said to Li Chengcheng, "Chengcheng, you should have a good rest at home these two days and don't go up the mountain. When there is a big market on the 15th, I will take you to the market."
Li Chengcheng's eyes lit up when he heard "Big Fair" and he was very much looking forward to going to the market.
In her previous life, she also went to the market during the Chinese New Year, but she really didn’t know what the market was like in this era!
After dinner, Baiyunshan invited Grandpa Zhao Fugui over. After everyone chatted for a while, the date of the banquet was set on July 12th. There were still five days left, which was just enough time for them to prepare things.
During the few days of preparations for the banquet, Bai Shanshan never came. Maybe she was afraid of offending Bai Dashan, which would not be of any benefit to her in the future!
There are only six chickens at home, including the three including Bai Laosan. Bai Dashan is reluctant to kill chickens for outsiders to eat, so he does not kill his own chickens, but goes to the river to catch some fish, pick up some large field snails, and
Went up the mountain to catch a few turtledoves and sparrows.
As for meat, a banquet requires a lot of it. He doesn’t have that many tickets now, so he didn’t buy meat. The day before the wedding, he went to the supply and marketing cooperative early to queue up and bought a lot of bones. It’s also good to stew winter melon with the bones. In addition, he also bought meat.
Two pairs of pigs came back from the water.
After Bai Dashan bought it, he immediately asked his second aunt to come over and help him deal with it. It was difficult to deal with pig waste. If it was not dealt with in advance, there would be no time to deal with it the next day.
When the second aunt came, she also brought her fourteen-year-old grandson and eleven-year-old granddaughter. Because there would be delicious food tomorrow, the two children were very excited, playing and laughing in the yard.
Yes, but they were very sensible and did not step into the vegetable patch.
Seeing Li Chengcheng come out, brother and sister Bai Shuli and Bai Shuyan were a little shy because it was the first time they saw Li Chengcheng. "Hello, aunt."
Their father is Bai Dashan's cousin, so Bai Dashan is their uncle, and Li Chengcheng is naturally their aunt.
"Hello." Li Chengcheng smiled at them and said mysteriously, "Come inside with me."
Bai Shuli and Bai Shuyan followed Li Chengcheng to the main room. Li Chengcheng poured them each a glass of cold water, and then grabbed a handful of candies for them. "It's almost July and a half, so have you all taken summer vacation?"
Bai Shuli nodded, "It's already summer vacation. I just have to go to school in a few days to get the transcripts for the final exam."
Bai Shuyan said, "I'm in elementary school and it's summer vacation."
"Then do you usually have time?" Li Chengcheng asked.
Bai Shuli and Bai Shuyan nodded repeatedly.
"It's still some time before the early rice is harvested. How about you help me pick wild fruits and I'll give you a penny per pound? I want all the wild fruits that are edible, but I have to share them one by one.
open."
Li Chengcheng picks wild fruits by himself, and can only sell them for one or two yuan at the end of the day. But if he can find a few helpers to help him pick them, he can make more money.
"Aunt, if you like to eat, we can pick it for you. We don't charge for it." Bai Shuli is already a fourteen-year-old boy, so he is naturally sensible.
"Your time is also valuable. If you don't want money, then I don't want your wild fruits."
Bai Shuli and Bai Shuyan actually wanted to earn pocket money, but they were embarrassed to earn their own pocket money. Seeing Li Chengcheng's insistence, they accepted the price Li Chengcheng gave, one penny per catty. If they pick wild plums as big as plums,
It is easy to pick ten kilograms of fruit and earn ten cents easily.
"Auntie, do you really want all kinds of wild fruits?" Bai Shuli asked uncertainly.
Li Chengcheng nodded, "Yes, I want all kinds of wild fruits, but I don't want bad fruits and rotten fruits, and don't want all kinds of wild fruits mixed together. Such small and soft ones are easily crushed."
Even if it is sour plums, red bayberries, and small, astringent wild peaches that no one eats, Li Chengcheng is now willing to take them because she now has a cave where she can buy them at a low price and put them in caves and tunnels for preservation.
Wait until you have the capital to process them.
Bai Shuli said confidently, "Then I will go pick wild fruits tomorrow."
"Just pick at the outside of the mountain. The outside is enough for you to pick for a long time. Don't run into the deep mountains. It's very dangerous in the mountains, you know?" Li Chengcheng warned, if they want to make some pocket money, let them pick.
It's not worth it if you get hurt yourself.
Bai Shuli and Bai Shuyan are not just children, so they naturally know what they can and cannot do.
Now Li Chengcheng specially reminded them not to go to the deep mountains, so naturally they would not go to the deep mountains. The wild fruits in the periphery alone were enough for them to earn pocket money.
In the future, I don’t have to ask my family for money, and my family can feel more relaxed.
The second aunt took care of the pig waste, then went to the kitchen to cook it, and then went home with Bai Shuli and Bai Shuyan.
Bai Dashan asked them to have dinner here, but they refused, saying that they would come over for dinner the next day and don't hold a banquet then. If there wasn't enough food, it wouldn't look good.
Every household is having a hard time these days, and life more than ten years ago was even more miserable.
Bai Dashan's parents survived the three-year drought, but not the disease. After the two passed away, the relationship between Bai Dashan, the four brothers and their other relatives and friends was effectively severed.
There were quite a few people, including grandparents, uncles and aunts, but none of them had the ability to help them.
The grandparents had not done anything to help them, so naturally they would not ask for their filial piety. However, when Bai Laosan joined the army and received a subsidy, the grandparents came over to ask for their filial piety, but Bai Dashan pushed them back.
It was so hard back then, and they didn't give me a grain of food or a penny, so they weren't a family, so what qualifications did they have to be filial?
What's more, the subsidy was earned by Bai Laosan at the risk of his life. What qualifications do they have to ask for it?
Bai Dashan originally gave the other members of the Bai family two choices. One was to cut off the relationship, and the other was that there was no filial piety in the interactions between ordinary villagers.
Everyone did not lend a helping hand to the four siblings when they were in the most difficult time. In fact, they felt a little guilty. After all, they were not heinous villains, so they chose the second option. Everyone interacted with each other like ordinary villagers. No one
Cross the line.
Bai Dashan divided the stewed pig offal into bowls and put the rest in basins, hanging it in the well to keep it cold. The temperature of the well water was lower and it would not lose its flavor. It could be eaten the next day after heating it.
Although he had obtained the certificate, Bai Dashan did not stay with Li Chengcheng at night a few days before the banquet.
Because he is afraid that he will lose control and break through the bottom line in advance. After all, he is the person he likes. Who can stay calm?