Chapter 5 The stepmother doesn't want to run away, right?
Li Tannian put away the wolf skin and put most of the wolf meat in his backpack: "Which one of you wants to go to town with me?"
Qingshi Town is not far from Lujiacun, it can be reached by walking for a while.
Li Tannian knew the way, she just asked them by the way.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she asked this question, the expressions of the three little ones all changed.
"Does the stepmother want to run away alone?" Erbao whispered.
"How about I come over and have a look?" Sanya put down the vegetable leaves and discussed in the same low voice.
When Dabao saw this, he stopped her and said, "Don't go. She might want to lure us to the town and sell her."
Li Tannian saw only three little bean sprouts gathering together and muttering something, with obvious resistance and panic on their sallow little faces.
She couldn't help but shrugged, picked up her backpack and walked outside.
The Lu family is at the end of the village, so every time they go to town, they have to pass through the entire village.
When she arrived at the entrance of the village, there were already many people gathered under the old locust tree at the entrance. Seeing her carrying most of the wolf on her back, everyone had different expressions, but no one spoke.
As soon as she was far away, the older girls and younger wives quickly started talking.
"Isn't that the lady of the Lu family? Where is she going? The wolf skin she is holding is not a wolf skin. It looks like it is a whole piece. It is not a gift for her scholar cousin."
"Shh, please keep your voice down. Lu Zhi's wife is very difficult to deal with. It's a pity that Lu Zhi gave birth to such a good-looking woman, and it's a pity that his four children were born."
Li Tannian had a very good ear, and he could hear everyone's comments in his ears.
She didn't have time to argue with these people, so she couldn't help but quicken her pace.
In just a quarter of an hour, she finally arrived in the town.
Went to the market today and there were quite a lot of people in the town. Li Tannian went directly to the meat market carrying the wolf meat.
Although it was said to be a meat market, there were actually only two pork stalls. Li Tannian carried the wolf meat to the nearest stall.
Before she could say anything, the meat stall owner's eyes suddenly lit up when he saw the wolf skin in her hand.
"Girl, I want to sell wolf meat. How about I give you eight cents per catty?"
The owner of the meat stall was a middle-aged man with a big belly. Seeing that Li Tannian was young, he deliberately deceived her.
Although Li Tannian didn't know the price of wolf meat, he also knew that pork was sold for twelve or thirteen cents a pound, so there was no reason why wolf meat was that much cheaper than pork.
So, without saying anything, she went to the meat stall opposite.
The stall owner opposite was a serious person, and when he saw the sales coming to his door, he immediately beamed.
"Girl, I'll give you fifteen cents per catty, and sell me the wolf skin as well."
Nowadays, when it is warm and cold, it is still the season for eating wild animals. He can make a lot of money by buying wolf meat and selling it.
"How to sell wolf skin?" Li Tannian asked again.
"How about I give you fifty cents a piece?" the butcher stall owner asked quietly.
Seeing his cheerful smile, Li Tannian deliberately glanced in the direction of the first meat stall.
When the stall owner saw this, he was afraid that she would go back again, and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, I'll charge you eighty cents for a wolf pelt, and seventeen cents a pound for wolf meat, okay, girl, that's all I need."
The price is high, I really can’t pay more.”
"make a deal."
Li Tannian happily threw half of the wolf meat on the chopping board. The stall owner weighed it carefully and found that it weighed thirty-eight kilograms. Including the wolf skin, the stall owner gave her a total of seven hundred and twenty-six cents.
After taking the money, Li Tannian went to the grain store.
It is better to be called a grain stall than a grain shop, because it has no shop surface, and grain vendors only need to put various rice grains on the street to start selling.
Rice at food stalls is generally cheaper.
Among them, brown rice is the cheapest, and japonica rice is the most expensive, followed by flour and corn flour. Li Tannian bought some as well, and added seasonings such as oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar.
After leaving the shop, there was a lively alley. The vendors in the alley were shouting and drinking, making it very lively.
Li Tannian was already a little hungry after walking such a long way with her things on her back. Seeing a bun shop not far away, she went straight over and bought three drawers of buns.
There are six drawers in one drawer, and eighteen drawers in three drawers.
As soon as the boss heard that she was taking it away, he quickly put the buns into three yellow paper bags.
At this moment, a curse came from the alley: "Whose kid from your family is so careless and ill-mannered!"
When Li Tannian turned around, he saw a familiar figure running hurriedly towards the end of the street.
She frowned and followed quickly, when the man turned and looked in her direction.
"Lu Sanya!" After Li Tannian shouted, Sanya seemed to be frightened and rushed forward in a hurry.
Li Tannian felt a throbbing in her temples. She quickly went up and grabbed Sanya's collar, feeling depressed: "Why are you running?"
"You want to hit me, but I won't run away?" Sanya couldn't break free from her shackles, so she simply accepted her fate.
Li Tannian almost laughed out of anger: "Who said I would hit you?"
Lu Sanya looked at Li Tannian in disbelief and forgot his reaction for a moment.
Li Tannian handed her two yellow paper bags filled with steamed buns and went into the nearest cloth shop. She planned to buy some mattresses.
Lu Sanya looked at the bun in her hand, couldn't help but swallowed Xingzi, and hurriedly chased after him.
There are ready-made mattresses for sale in cloth shops, but there are not many styles, just a few.
The mattress can be filled with corn straw, rags, duck down, and kapok.
Among them, kapok has the highest price.
It is not the modern cotton, but the fruit grown on a shrub called the kapok tree, which can be sold for an average of forty or fifty cents per pound.
Kapok felt so good that Li Tannian was a little moved, but when she thought about her financial constraints and the fact that there were so many mouths waiting for food at home, she had no choice but to give up.
"Show me a mattress made of rags." She prefers rags to duck down ones.
After hearing this, the shopkeeper hurriedly got the goods for her.
Li Tannian was about to flip through the pages when he heard a thin and soft voice coming from outside: "Sister Nian, is it really you?"
When Li Tannian turned around, he saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old woman, as delicate as a willow supporting the wind, looking at her with a worried expression.