My ancient leisure life

"Don't look at the pig and don't say the price?" Xu Nuo said inexplicably, looking at Cheng Ge and Er Dan.

"I don't know!" Er Dan didn't understand even more.

Cheng Ge looked at Xiao Er who turned around and entered the restaurant with deep eyes, and said, "The store is a big bully, so I don't think they can give too high a price."

"Hi." Xu Nuo rolled his eyes, "It can't be too high, but it can't be low either. I'll ask how much it is."

Promised not to be stage frightened, he went directly into the restaurant, no matter how worn he was, his aura was no less than others.

I saw Xiaoer who told them to go to the back just now, talking to a man in his 30s at the counter.

Xu Nuo guessed that the man should be the shopkeeper. He was tall and thin with a shrewd face, but at the moment his face was a little impatient.

"Twenty cents a catty, if they don't sell it, they'll leave." Shopkeeper Zhao told Xiaoer, "Go to the back and have a look, and say that you can't pay too much. If you come to us to ask for a living, there is no such thing as taking advantage of it."

Xu Nuo stopped in his tracks immediately, these words should be related to their sale of wild boars.They are selling wild boars and not begging for food. What kind of attitude is this?The price of [-] Wen is not counted, and you have to look for it on the scale.

"Bah." Xu Nuo turned around and left, taking Cheng Ge and the others away before anyone noticed him.

"Even if I throw away the pig, I won't sell it to them." Xu Nuo said angrily, "What kind of thing is that? It wants to squeeze our hard-earned money."

Erdan was taken aback by what he said, and finally used his modest IQ to choke out a sentence: "Don't throw it away, we can eat it if we can't sell it!"

The corners of Cheng Ge's mouth curled up slightly. These two are simply a pair of living treasures. It's hard not to feel happy listening to them.

It was still early when they first came, although some people were watching, but a few of them were curious.But when we arrived at the restaurant, there were more people in the street market. Seeing them pulling a big wild boar, I couldn't help asking curiously: "Why did you go, aren't you selling it to the restaurant?"

"What are you selling!" Xu Nuo was still angry, "They lowered the price to [-] cents, and they also made up for it from the name. Such a fake business, I will not sell it even if I throw it away."

"Ouch!" The passer-by was curious, "Such a big restaurant still does this. This is the largest and most prosperous restaurant in the town."

"Bah." Xu Nuo spit out, "I think it's just a vain show, even if you earn some money, you come here by oppressing others."

They walked in front, followed by a group of people.While watching the excitement, they discussed Mingshan Restaurant, saying that they were not real and oppressed the poor.

At this time, someone gave them an idea, "You go to Yuanxiang Restaurant, it was newly opened last year, and the owner is a foreigner, so you can't bully us locals."

"That's right. Although there are several restaurants in our town, the business is not as good as that of Mingshan Restaurant. But this Yuanxiang Restaurant has only been open for less than a year, and the business is as prosperous as Mingshan. You should go there and have a look."

As soon as Xu Nuo heard this, he became interested, and asked, "Uncle, please point me to the restaurant, let's try our luck there."

"You're welcome." The man said, "Out of the main street, turn south. The first alley is there. You'll see it when you get there."

"Oh." Xu Nuo nodded, knowing that the place was behind the main street, heading south.After thanking the man, they walked towards Yuanxiang Restaurant.

Xu Nuo raised his head to look at the signboard, and there were gilded characters flying like dragons and phoenixes. Not only was the signboard majestic, but the facade decoration was also top-notch. Just looking at the exterior, it overwhelmed Mingshan Restaurant.

He signaled Cheng Ge and the others to wait outside, and walked slowly into the restaurant.The decoration inside is classical and simple, showing a warm and comfortable feeling everywhere, which belongs to the decoration of home.

"Guest officer, the restaurant is not open yet." Xiao Er came to meet him, and he didn't show any slights because of his shabby clothes.

"If you are tired and want to rest for a while, my little one will make you a pot of tea." Xiao Er greeted warmly with a smile on his face: "If there is anything else, just tell me, my little one will run errands for you."

"Tsk tsk tsk." Xu promised that he had never seen anything in the world or been to any high-end places. He was really impressed by Xiao Er's service, which was no worse than those high-end places in modern times, and he didn't look down on people with dog eyes.

"I have business with your shopkeeper." Xu Nuo sat down at a table at random, and said directly without beating around the bush: "I have a live wild boar to sell, if your shopkeeper is interested, come out and talk, if not, I will leave. Excuse me."

"Okay!" Little Er's legs were nimble, "Guest officer, wait a moment, I'll go and report to the shopkeeper." Turning around and running a few steps, he disappeared.

Not long after, a middle-aged fat man came along with Xiao Er, and promised that when he saw this man at first glance, he would think that this man was more Buddha-like, not like that treacherous and cunning person.

"Little brother." The shopkeeper had a smiling face of Maitreya Buddha, and said to Xu Nuo, "I am the shopkeeper of this restaurant, just call me shopkeeper Zhang."

Promising to do as the Romans do, he gave shopkeeper Zhang a little gift, "Boy promises, there is a wild boar for sale, do you know if shopkeeper Zhang can take it?"

At this time, Xiao Er brought tea, Zhang shopkeeper took a sip from the teacup and said, "I heard that it is alive, but I don't know where it is now?"

"It's just outside, shopkeeper Zhang can go and have a look." Xu Nuo didn't like the tea, so he stood up and motioned for the shopkeeper to come outside.

"Hey! It's still alive." Shopkeeper Zhang looked around the wild boar, "This wild boar is big enough, it must weigh more than 400 catties."

"I wonder if shopkeeper Zhang wants it?" Xu Nuo was in a hurry to sell and didn't want to practice Tai Chi with him.If he doesn't want it, he will have to find someone else to sell it.

"Yes, of course." Shopkeeper Zhang said quickly, "How much is the wild boar price?"

"You give me a price, and I'll sell it to you if it's not too low." Xu Nuo didn't expect to sell it at a higher price, as long as he didn't lower his own price.

"Yeah." Shopkeeper Zhang looked at the wild boar and said, "The price of wild boar is about 24 five cents a catty, but it's rare to come across it. I'll give you thirty cents a catty. What do you think?"

"Okay, thank you shopkeeper." As soon as he said the previous words, he promised that shopkeeper Zhang would not take advantage, and now he is even more overjoyed.

Invited Cheng Ge to send the wild boar to the backyard of the restaurant, and actively helped to weigh it. The wild boar weighed 450 pounds.He discussed with the shopkeeper again, wanting to bring back some wild pork meat, not saying that he was greedy, but saying that it was to honor the elders and give some relatives and friends a taste.

"Well, there is filial piety." Shopkeeper Zhang agreed and agreed, "As much as you want to keep, I will kill it later and keep it for you."

Xu Nuo made some calculations and said, "Forty catties."

"Okay." Shopkeeper Zhang nodded and said, "I'll pay you thirty cents per catty. I hope you will send me some prey in the future. The price will never be lowered by you."

"Don't worry shopkeeper, I dare not say anything else, there are definitely pheasants and hares." Seeing him on the road, Xu Nuo also intends to befriend him.

Shopkeeper Zhang settled the account and promised more than 12 taels of silver.Tell them that they can wait here to kill the pig and take the meat away, and if there are other things, they can come to pick it up after finishing.

"Then we'll come and pick it up later." He promised to visit the town, why did he stay here, and said goodbye to shopkeeper Zhang immediately.

"Let's go buy some food first, and we'll go for a walk after buying what we need." Xu Nuo doesn't want to face starvation again, and the main thing is to buy food first.

Of course, no one objected to his words. When I went to the grain shop, I found that white rice and white flour cost six cents a catty, polished rice and refined white flour eight cents, brown rice and rough noodles three cents, cornmeal two cents, and various beans one or two cents.

Promised to take a closer look, the direct difference between polished rice and white rice is not very big, but whiter and fuller.Compared with white flour and refined white flour, it is the difference between finer and whiter.

With a wave of his hand, he bought all the ordinary ones, five hundred catties of white rice and two hundred catties of white noodles, and didn't buy any other coarse grains.

Xu Nuo complained when the shopkeeper settled the accounts with a smile on his face: "It would be great if you would deliver the goods, so I can buy more. I don't want to tire my family Cheng Ge."

Cheng Ge turned his head silently, even if he bought more, he could pull it away, but he didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so he didn't say anything at all.

"Send it, why not give it away." The shopkeeper heard that he could buy it again, and immediately promised to deliver it to the door.

"Then double the quantity you asked for just now, and send it directly to my home."

"Okay, okay, I'll send it in the afternoon." Hearing this, the shopkeeper picked up the abacus and recalculated.

"The promised purchase is too much." Erdan heard that he bought so much food, so he couldn't help reminding him not to spend too much money.

"Not much. The most important thing in life is to eat and drink. This is the most basic thing." Xu Nuo bit his lip and almost said the word "play" after eating and drinking.

After leaving the grain shop, he went straight to the tailor's shop. He and Cheng Ge each had two sets of clothes, and Er Dan also bought one.The shoes and quilts were not left behind at all, and I bought a set of thin quilts and thick quilts.

By the time he got everything in order, half of the money had already been spent.Under Erdan's persevering persuasion, Xu Nuo finally stopped purchasing.This little money has not been warmed up yet, and he is a little bit reluctant to take out so much money in a blink of an eye.

He has a deep understanding that a penny can overwhelm a hero, he can no longer spend extravagantly, and now he has to save some money.

Because of the money, I promise that I am not very interested when I go shopping, it is just a novelty, and I can’t buy something I like, so there is no fun in it.

Cheng Ge glanced at him, and was a little displeased with the twitching little face, but it's better to be full of enthusiasm and smile, so he said back: "Buy what you like, why keep the money?"

"Ah?" Xu Nuo was a little at a loss when he took the initiative to speak, and when he figured it out, he caught up with Cheng Ge who was in front of him, grabbed his arm and said, "I can't spend it all, you earned it! You still have to keep us I will spend it later."

Cheng Ge: "Really?" He looked at Xu Nuo with puzzled eyes: "Didn't you stun the wild boar, why is it mine?"

"Yeah!" Xu Nuo stomped his feet and said, "Isn't that just a joke, why are you so stingy?"

Cheng Ge ignored him and turned away.Erdan laughed "hehe" and said, "At first I really thought it was you who scolded me, but later my mother said it must be my cousin who beat me, so I figured it out."

"Don't you even understand the joke?" Xu Nuo rolled his eyes, he was really stupid.He wanted to be so awesome, but unfortunately he didn't have that ability.

It was already afternoon when they got home, and the villagers they met on the road looked at them with envy.Some even approached them to ask how much they would sell for, only to be prevaricated by promising to buy all the food and household items.

After returning home, he promised to put away the good things, chopped off ten catties of meat with a knife, and gave it to Cheng Ge to send to his father's house.Another five catties were chopped off for Erdan, five catties for the village head's family, and one catty for each of the nearby neighbors' families.

He was used to generosity and couldn't change it for a while, Cheng Ge just let him arrange everything.Er Dan disagreed and stopped him, "It's too much."

He couldn't say anything to Cheng Ge, so he said that he and the village head's family, "You can give it to my house or not, and I can eat from you. Although the village head has helped you, it doesn't take so much. You can give it to me." Two or three catties is not much."

Promise is right after thinking about it, especially Erdan’s family, because Erdan brought food for the original owner from home, and was often beaten by the family. In the end, he could only save some from his own mouth, and his hungry stomach growled every day. No less suffering.

But it has to be given, mainly to give his brother face.He promised to change from five catties to two catties, and let him send it home.

The village chief and his neighbors went to send them off by themselves, and they had a lot of connections.Not to mention the individual care in the past, what happened to Mrs. Chen yesterday was thanks to their help.

"Why don't you go?" Seeing Cheng Ge not moving, Xu Nuo stretched out his hand to push him and asked.

Cheng Ge lifted his chin towards Erdan, "Let him carry it over."

"Huh?" Xu Nuo asked strangely, "Why don't you go by yourself?"

"I don't want to move." Cheng Ge didn't want to see his mother again, they had a bad fight yesterday and broke up.He doesn't want to get in trouble for himself, he decides his own life without anyone interfering.

"Oh." Xu Nuo nodded, "You are also tired today, go into the house and rest." He would misunderstand, and told Cheng Ge: "It's okay to take a nap, and I'll call you when dinner is ready."

Xu promised to pick up the meat and give it to Erdan, and let him take it back.Er Dan was a little hesitant to speak, and said under Xu Nuo's eyes, "Share the meat, and there are also the second uncle's house and the fourth uncle's house. Our grandma is at the fourth uncle's house, so we have to give some to show our respect. "

"Damn it." Xu Nuo said unhappily: "Why don't they give Cheng Ge something, they don't even come over to take a look, and they want meat, go away."

"Tsk tsk." Erdan was scolded by him and laughed, "You are getting more and more tempered now, no one cares anymore."

"That's right." Xu Nuo said triumphantly: "I'll go to the fight, Cheng Ge will go to the fight, who are we afraid of?"

Cheng Ge, who was lying on the bed in the east room, twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard the promise made outside, and he didn't feel disgusted at all. Instead, he felt very relieved. The promises were all for his own sake, and he stood on his side in everything.