Butcher and little girl

Seeing that her seedlings are growing fast and well, Mu Dingxiang's original heart is slowly letting go. The vegetable plot that was planted earlier is ready to eat, and Chu Yu is no longer able to eat it. Need to buy green vegetables from the county? Come back, but Zhuer said how much is there in the vegetable field? There are still some insects to deal with, so Mu Dingxiang started thinking about raising chickens.

Chu Yu himself is a butcher. He kills pigs every day, and the meat is rarely cut off. There is no need to raise pigs? It is necessary. Raise more than a dozen chickens and put them in the field. They can eat insects and lay eggs. In this small valley, chickens don't know how to cross the river. When the time comes, let the old vines pay attention to it, so you won't be afraid of losing the chicken.

Turn around and ask Chu Yu to build a chicken coop, just enough to keep out the wind and rain.

In the valley of the Chu family, a little further up, there is a small forked river, which is blocked all year round and has accumulated a lot of silt. This place is quite far from the rice fields of each family, but it is very close to the Chu family. , Solved the problem of insufficient fertilizer in the field at once, did it make up for it? The shortcomings of farmyard manure irrigation, wood clove fixed? Pick one every day? The longer the seedlings, the better.

Later, Chu Yu saw it. Because she was young, she was worried that she would not grow taller if she kept picking like this, and she had small arms and thin legs, so she asked her not to pick it. She would pick it in the afternoon when she came back from work. .

Chu Yu gets up before dawn every day to get it done? A pig of two to three hundred catties must be physically strong? It takes a lot of energy. How can Mu Dingxiang be willing to let her go home? Picking a few loads, and after being told by Chu Yu several times, I had to put this job in the afternoon, and wait for her to come back to do it together.

Except for the seedlings, the weeds are all cleared up in the field now. After crossing the stone bridge and looking at a large area of ​​neat plants in front of you, it makes people feel relaxed and happy. The only drawback? No one? It smells like fireworks, and Chu Yu is even more determined to build a house.

That's all the work in the field. There is no more wood lilac. I was so busy before. When I saw Chu Yu came back, I talked to her about raising chickens. Of course, Chu Yu had nothing to say. After taking a nap at noon, I went Going to get chicken coops, Mu Dingxiang took her changed clothes and was going to wash them by the river.

There is spring water on the back mountain, but the water flow is not strong. Next, it is barely enough to eat, wash dishes and take a bath in the water tank. However, if you want to wash clothes, the water flow is too small to rinse and rinse, so you still have to wash clothes every time. To the river, fortunately, only a few steps away.

Since Mu Dingxiang came over, Chu Yu didn't let her do the laundry for her at first because of her hand injury, but when her hand recovered, she felt a little embarrassed about obscene clothes and underwear, so she kept insisting on herself Washing, recently the two have made up their minds to build a house together and plan their future life together. Mu Dingxiang felt that there was no need between the two of them. Why did they see each other, so she put the clothes she just changed at noon in the wood. Take the pot to the river.

When Chu Yu finished fixing the chicken coop, he saw that the clothes were gone, so he knew that this person had been washed.

A few long bamboo poles were set up outside the cave, which were specially used by the two of them to dry clothes and quilts. Chu Yu watched Mu Dingxiang skillfully shake out her clothes one by one and spread them out on the bamboo poles to dry. Especially when I got a few small clothes to dry, my face flushed for a while, and I hurried over and said, "I'll dry these by myself."

Mu Dingxiang glared at her: "I've done all the washing, so you're embarrassed to hang the clothes?"

Looking at the little girl ten years younger than him in front of him, Chu Yu still felt a little embarrassed, and forced his eyes to move away from those little clothes, cleared his throat and said: " Did you wash the whole family's clothes at Mu's house?"

When she thought that Mu Dingxiang would help her father and brother wash such close-fitting clothes, she felt very uncomfortable.

"What do you think? Every day I go out early in the morning to work in the field, and when the work in the field is finished, I go to help others harvest pigweed to earn a few copper coins, and I go home to sleep at night, how can I get it? Just help them wash their clothes." Mu Dingxiang didn't know that Chu Yu would mind this kind of thing so much.

Added another sentence: "My mother would like to let me help with the washing, but I refused. I would rather be in the cold winter than to be scolded for touching their clothes. Why bother to do such a thankless thing, so apart from my own, I have only washed your clothes."

Chu Yu felt inexplicably relieved when he heard that, but he still couldn't help emphasizing: "Then you can only wash my clothes and your own clothes from now on."

Mu Dingxiang laughed loudly: "Why are you so domineering? I will naturally only wash the clothes of the two of us now, and I will follow you from now on. There will only be us? Do we have? No? Child, who else can I give it to?" Wash clothes."

When it comes to "children", Mu Dingxiang can't help but think of Zhu'er's childlike words in the morning, and can't help being a little ashamed. This little bamboo monster is really a big kid.

Chu Yu looked at Mu Dingxiang's suddenly rosy little face, coupled with her whitening skin and fleshy body in the past few months, the whole person looked a little more charming. She looks good, and now she has such a look, Chu Yu forgot to look away for a while.

Mu Dingxiang was stared at by her fiery eyes, thinking it was impossible to pretend to ignore it, so she had to turn her back and finish drying the rest of the clothes, letting the man's eyes glued to the back on the shoulders.

Seeing Mu Dingxiang turn around, Chu Yu realized that he was staring at the little girl for a long time like an idiot, and felt a little embarrassed, touched his nose and went into the cave, burning a pot The tea was put on the stone table, and when he saw Lilac was busy, he called her in.

After pouring tea for the two of you, take out the money you earned today and pile it on the table.

There are two ways for butchers to kill pigs in this area. One is that the butcher is responsible for killing pigs. The fee is fixed at [-] renminbi, but the owner of the house has to go to the county to sell the meat together to collect money, and the butcher helps deboning and weighing the meat. , the owner can set the price by himself and collect the money, and the butcher will earn as much as he sells.

The other is that the butcher buys the whole pig, pays the pig by the catty, saves some offal after slaughtering, and then pulls the whole pig to a butcher shop to sell.

Chu Yu and Shiman used the second method, so they also have high requirements for live pigs. The pigs grow well, and the fatter they are, the easier they are to sell. The top one good pig, after so many years, it has already spread word of mouth. Every time the meat is sold, it is sold out early. People go to her butcher shop to buy meat. Don’t you worry about buying it? Dead pigs, sick pigs For the meat of old sows, sometimes the adults are busy, and a four or five-year-old child is given a dozen or so copper coins to carry a catty or two of pork back. There has never been a mistake.

Although the second type is more risky, it also earns more money. Every time a pig can earn? Seven or eight hundred cash.

At the beginning, Chu Yu insisted on equal splits, but Shiman knew he didn’t? Chu Yu couldn’t do this job at all, but Chu Yu was different. Without Shiman’s partner, he could start working normally. Man insisted on following the current division, until now the two partners have not made the slightest mistake for so many years, and Shi Man can earn two to three hundred a day with Chu Yu, I have long been satisfied in my heart. If I didn’t have Chu Yu back then, he doesn’t even know where he is still begging for food.

There are many butchers selling meat in the morning, and the copper coins they collect are thrown into the baskets. At noon, Shiman divides the money and takes his own share to go home. Sometimes he is too tired to count, so he packs them all up. It is a common occurrence that one person takes it back, counts it at night and gives another one to the other person the next day.

Mu Dingxiang looked at the small cloth bag on the table holding a large lump of copper plates, and couldn't help but her eyes sparkle.

"Little money fan, open the count to see how much money you made today."

Mu Dingxiang opened the bundle with great interest, looked at the huge pile of copper plates in front of her, and started to count. She counted very quickly, and she would finish counting in a while.

"Three taels plus 350 Wen! Chu Yu, that's a lot of money."

"It's not much. You have to subtract the [-] Wen that I took out in the morning. What's left is the money earned by this pig today. How much money is there? Four cents are full, and the rest It's mine." Chu Yu said with a smile

Mu Dingxiang's brain turned quickly, and she took a pen and paper to tap? Tap? Draw a bit and draw a result: "This pig earned 850 Wen, yours is 510 Wen, and Shiman's is 340 Wen."

Chu Yu was amazed by Mu Dingxiang's ability to count. She herself is a rough person. The most troublesome thing is counting money and counting. Shiman is worse than her. Every day, she pushes back and forth to close the stall. Counting money, it seems that she won't need it in the future? I have to worry about the calculations, after all, there is an extra housekeeper at home.

"Xiao Mumu, how did you calculate it so fast?"

"I won't tell you." Mu Dingxiang is quite authentic, and it's rare that she has a place that is much more powerful than Chu Yu.

What Chu Yu saw was the result, but he just sighed. In fact, he didn't bother to find out how the little girl calculated it. Anyway, it's enough for someone to do the work in the future.

"I left [-]? The copper coins will be used as a deposit tomorrow, and the rest can be saved."

Mu Dingxiang happily went to find out the big money pot at home, put five hundred coins in it, and put the remaining ten coins in Chu Yu's palm and said: "These ten coins will reward you, tomorrow is only? Go Buy two? Biscuits to eat."

Chu Yu chuckled: "You are smart enough to reward me with the money I earned. If we were in a big family, you, the head of the family, would be absolutely dead."

Mu Dingxiang blushed, raised her chin and said in disbelief, "Which one is the big family? Be the head of the house? The mother wants to do the work by herself. Why don't you unify the money in the family and distribute it slowly? Is there a problem with me doing this?"

After joking, Chu Yu hurriedly flattered her and said, "No problem, no problem. How much incense did the Chu family burn in their previous life before I could get it? Such a good lady, who manages the house well and orderly. I'm too unhappy Well."

"Look at how much you say against your will." Mu Dingxiang said so, but her hands were not vague at all. She stood up and raised her chin to seal the money jar back and put it away.

Chu Yu looked at her white and slender neck, and his heart suddenly tightened. His throat felt a little dry for no reason, but when the other party looked over, his eyes bumped into him. He hurriedly lowered his head, and gently Taking a sip of tea, he pretended to be nonchalant and looked away, but he didn't know that his heart skipped a beat.