When they returned to the main room, the four little ones were still staring at the pancakes and tofu and crucian carp soup on the table.
Li Tannian saw them all smacking their mouths at the bar. They obviously wanted to eat more, but they still restrained themselves. He suddenly found it funny.
"Eat, why don't you eat?"
"We can't eat without you." Lu Dabao looked up at her.
Li Tannian didn't expect that they were waiting for him, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Stepmother, let me serve you some soup." Sanya said at the right moment. Li Tannian felt warm in his heart and nodded in response, "Okay!"
The crucian carp and tofu soup was very filling, and Li Tannian watched them drink two large bowls before giving up.
After dinner, when it got dark, Li Tannian took them to catch eels in the rice fields.
Lu Dabao originally wanted to follow him out, but Li Tannian refused him on the grounds of taking care of Lu Zhi and Xiao Sibao.
Just like the previous two days, they caught a bucket full of eels before they even finished crossing a field.
In addition, Li Tannian also found a lot of snails. Fortunately, Sanya brought an extra wooden bucket, and the three ladies worked together to fill another large bucket of snails.
On the way back, Li Tannian thought about spicy fried escargots and five-spice escargots, and couldn't help but lighten his steps.
However, there was a lot of sand on the snail's body, so Li Tannian was not in a hurry to eat it. Instead, he kept it in a clay pot with water and waited for it to spit out sand.
Li Tannian had too many things, so he simply put the eel in the space. Otherwise, Sanya and the others would notice something unusual, and she would wake up earlier than usual.
As soon as she arrived in the town, she first went to the April Sky Restaurant to deliver the goods. After inspecting the goods, the accounting office was very satisfied and immediately made an appointment with her to deliver the goods every three days.
The goods are delivered once every three days, and each time there must be at least dozens or hundreds of kilograms. Li Tannian is already very satisfied.
After all, this eel has just been promoted in the town, so the requirements cannot be too high.
Afterwards, Li Tannian collected the balance and went to the morning market.
Although the morning market and the restaurant are not far apart, they are clearly separated.
When she was walking down the street of restaurants and teahouses, the surroundings were quiet. As soon as she stepped past the archway of the market, she heard a shout that could be heard above the other.
Among them, the sound of selling sheep and scorpions is the clearest and most beautiful.
Li Tannian followed the sound and saw the Ninth Lady standing diagonally across from her, busy pretending to be a sheep and a scorpion for others. There was also a long line of people in front of her stall, which was unprecedented in the past.
Jiu Niangzi's face was almost broken with laughter. Seeing Li Tannian coming over, she proudly raised her chin towards Li Tannian.
Li Tannian set up the stall nonchalantly. As soon as she stood still and before she started shouting, the people opposite who were waiting to buy sheep and scorpions noticed her.
"Yeah, I remember that I bought the sheep and scorpion from that little lady yesterday."
"Isn't that right? That little lady's store smells good. It's not like this store. It doesn't even smell. No, I'm going to buy it from that store."
Afterwards, many people gathered around Li Tannian's stall.
Li Tannian laid out the pig head meat that he had cut out earlier for people to try: "Eat it for free."
"Oh, little lady, you won't be selling sheep and scorpions today?" someone asked.
"Well, I'll give you a change of taste. As before, if you like it, buy it. If you don't, don't buy it. It costs three cents a piece."
After Li Tannian finished speaking, those people stretched out their hands to grab the pig head meat and taste it.
There was a Jiu Niangzi who sold pig head meat in the town, so they didn't think it was new, and they didn't have much hope.
Who knew, after taking one bite, I couldn't stop.
"This pork head meat is softer and more delicious than the one from Jiu Niangzi's house!"
"No, Jiu Niangzi's pork head meat is smoked with smoke. It tastes a bit like smoke. This pork head is different. It's soft and chewy. It's really good!"
"Give me a piece, give me a piece!"
After a while, Li Tannian's pig head meat in a clay pot was sold out.
Sensing a malicious look from the opposite side, she raised her eyes and met the hostility-filled eyes of Ninth Lady.
Li Tannian glanced at the unsold pig head meat in front of her stall, couldn't help but curled her lips, and went to the mutton stall.
There was only a small pile of lamb scorpions on the mutton stall today.
Li Tannian thought that he would stew the snails at home and sell them with these sheep and scorpions tomorrow. At that moment, he paid ten more copper coins to the mutton stall owner.
When the mutton stall owner saw her, he looked embarrassed and said: "I'm really sorry, madam, these sheep and scorpions have been ordered by Ninth Madam. You can come again next time."
Is it settled?
Li Tannian frowned. She thought of the large pile of sheep and scorpions left in front of the Jiu Niangzi stall, and couldn't help but take another look at the mutton stall owner.
"Then boss, you have to collect the money early." There are so many sheep and scorpions left in front of Jiu Niangzi's stall that have not been sold. How can they come back and buy more?
"No, girl, what do you mean by that?" The mutton stall owner raised his eyebrows at her.
Li Tannian didn't comment and went straight to the meat stall to pick out two pig heads. The braised pig heads sold very well today. Since there were no sheep and scorpions, she sold the same braised pig heads.
It's just that braised pig heads are not as easy to sell as sheep and scorpions, nor are they as profitable as sheep and scorpions.
"Girl, you're here again!" The meat stall owner had seen Li Tannian when she went to buy sheep and scorpions!
Seeing her coming to buy meat, he greeted her particularly enthusiastically. Li Tannian chose the pig head meat and said, "Boss, give me two kilograms of meat."
"Okay!" The butcher stall owner picked up the knife and expertly cut off a piece of meat. It was exactly two kilograms and one tael of meat. He calculated two kilograms for her, plus the pig head, and charged a total of one hundred and eighty cents.
Li Tannian pretended to have finished the meat and was about to leave, but heard him laugh dryly: "Girl, have your men been going up the mountain recently? Have you hunted any good things? If you have good things, you must send them to me. The price here is
It must be fair!”
Li Tannian knew in his heart that this man must have thought that she was too skinny and skinny to look like someone who could hunt wolves, so he just suspected that it was her 'man' who had beaten her.
After a moment of silence, she asked him directly without explaining, "You accept everything?"
"I'll take it, I'll take it!" The wolf meat he sold to her last time made a lot of money when he resold it. It was no worse than pork!
Li Tannian thought for a while and then agreed, saying that he would send it over if he had it another day.
Tang Mairou was very happy and specially selected two stick bones to give to her. Li Tannian didn't want them, so he stuffed them directly into Li Tannian's back basket, while the potbellied boss of the meat stall next door blew his nose and glared.
Li Tannian did not expect that the meat stall owner would be so enthusiastic, so he simply stopped being polite, thanked him, and went to the nearest clothing store to buy two sets of clothing and two pairs of shoes for each of the four little ones.
In fact, it will be cheaper if you buy cloth for tailoring.
It's just that Li Tannian doesn't have the ability to tailor clothes. Besides, children's ready-made clothes are not expensive, and eight pieces of clothes only cost less than a hundred cents. Li Tannian doesn't feel bad at all.
Before leaving the house, she thought of Lu Zhi and went back to buy a change of clothes for Lu Zhi.
But when they saw that Li Tannian was carrying meat in his hand and seemed to be carrying something in his backpack, everyone's eyes flickered.
In fact, someone saw Li Tannian buying pork head meat yesterday. It is normal for people in this village to be dull occasionally, but if they eat it every day, they become ghosts!
"Daughter-in-law Lu Zhi, this meat is not cheap. Our family may not be able to eat more than two kilograms during the Chinese New Year. Are you getting rich? Why did you buy so much meat?"
"No, meat is so expensive. I heard someone said that if you hunted a wolf, could it be that you sold the wolf meat in exchange for the money?"
Everyone looked at Li Tannian with different expressions. No, they looked at the piece of meat in Li Tannian's hand. They wished that at this moment, the person holding the piece of meat became like them!
Li Tannian nodded and said nothing.
She had no intention of telling them about selling eels and scorpions, especially eels!
If they know that there is a restaurant in town that sells eels, people in the village will definitely rush to deliver eels to the town.
Seeing Li Tannian's indifferent attitude, those people became even more unhappy.
He didn't even say a word to her again during the whole journey that followed.
Li Tannian was happy to be quiet.
When she returned to the courtyard, there were no traces of the four little ones. Just when she felt strange, she heard intermittent whimpering coming from the east.
"Dad, wake up. I still have something to say. Please wake up."
"Daddy!"
When Li Tannian arrived at the door of the east room, he saw four little cubs lying on the bed. Their eyes were as swollen as walnuts. They had been crying for who knows how long.
If she hadn't known that Lu Zhi would not die, at this moment, she would have thought they were mourning for him.
Rubbing his throbbing temples, Li Tannian couldn't bear it anymore: "Why are you crying?"
The four little ones were silent at the same time, and all raised their little heads to look at her.
Sanya was the first to react: "Stepmother, daddy just woke up!"
Erbao wiped his tears and was also happy: "Stepmother, daddy was talking about you just now."