Food for the people

There are many shops on the street, one next to the other, selling everything.

Qiao Yu was almost dazzled.

He felt that he was a person who had seen the world anyway, and unexpectedly, he was fascinated by the street market in the ancient dynasty.

If it weren't for the 73 jingling coins in his pocket, he would have bought everything he saw, played with it, and tasted it.

A small stall was set up closest to them. There was a stoneware stove on a wooden cart, and a few pieces of charcoal were burned in it. A pot of sticky and sweet syrup was slowly boiling on a low fire. Next to the syrup was a piece of It is a flat and smooth porcelain plate, with a stack of straw tied in front of the plate, and a few animal-shaped sugar figurines are inserted. The sugar figurines are crystal clear, and they look very beautiful under the sun.

The one who drew the sugar figurine was an old man with a gray beard. Seeing the two people looking over, he immediately looked at Qiao Yu and said, "Two pennies for one penny, buy it for my brothers to try, my lord."

Qiao Yu turned to look at Qiao Ling, Qiao Ling hurriedly took a step back, waved his hand, signaling him not to.

He also said: "I don't want to eat it, if brother wants to eat it, just buy one."

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "I'm not a child, what do I eat this for? I'll buy you one."

Qiao Ling shook his head like a rattle, but didn't speak.

How could Qiao Yu not know what he meant, and immediately sighed, and said, "Let's go, go and see other things."

Only then did Qiao Ling come forward and grab Qiao Yu's clothes again.

The old man sugar man asked very regretfully: "One penny and two, very cheap, young master really don't want to eat?"

Qiao Yu didn't look back, Qiao Ling turned around and gave the old man an apologetic smile, waved his hand and left.

After walking two steps, Qiao Ling stopped again and raised his head to look at Qiao Yu, and said, "If you want to eat, brother, you can buy it."

Qiao Yu was a little amused, "If I want to eat, I'll buy it. People don't think too much, but they are not small. Don't think so much, they won't grow tall."

Of course he knew what Qiao Ling was worried about, and he also knew why Qiao Ling didn't want it. He had to pay more attention to these gaudy things. Few children really didn't want them.

Not two steps away from the sugar figurine stand, there is another stall for buying cakes. I don’t know what kind of cakes they are. They are wrapped in long and thin leaves and look a bit like rice dumplings. After pouring it on top to eat, Qiao Yu stood by and took another look, and the cake buyer greeted her again and again.

In the end, I still didn't buy it.

The outermost stalls are full of food, sour, sweet, spicy, salty and so on.

Although it doesn't look particularly delicate, it all gives people a very appetizing look.

Qiao Yu didn't plan to buy it to eat, but he checked every stall twice.

Finally, the food stall was about to run out, so I bought a bunch of candied haws for a penny.

Compared with all kinds of candied haws that he ate in Tian/Chao, the one in his hand now looks very authentic and very conscientious.

There are big, red and ripe hawthorns on the top and bottom, wrapped in a layer of crunchy sugar coating, scattered with fried sesame seeds, there are eight of them, the bright red appearance is very attractive.

There was no bag, only a piece of hay leaves that I don't know what it was wrapped in, and held in Qiao Yu's palm.

Qiao Yu unwrapped the package and brought the first one to Qiao Ling's mouth.

Qiao Ling shook his head and was about to speak when Qiao Yu stretched out his hand and stuffed the candied haws into his mouth, and heard the candied haws hit Qiao Ling's teeth crisply.

Qiao Yu had a smirk on his face: "You can eat as soon as you are told, there are so many words."

Qiao Ling glared at him with rounded eyes, biting a crunchy and sweet hawthorn bitterly.

Only then did Qiao Yu withdraw her hand and bit one by herself, squinting her eyes and sighing, "It's delicious. When I have money in the future, it's not bad to buy it every day."

Qiao Ling only thought he was talking to himself, and ignored him as he chewed the candied haws.

After eating a bunch of candied haws, the two of them started shopping for new year's goods in earnest.

In fact, there is nothing to buy, there are many things for sale, but they have limited money, and there are not many things they can afford.

After spending twenty wen on two buckets of rice, a bowl of soy sauce, a bowl of vinegar, and two bowls of wine, I went to the butcher's shop to buy half a catty of pork and a piece of suet.

It wasn't until here that Qiao Yu realized that vegetable oil is much more expensive than animal oil.

It may be because vegetable oil is more difficult to refine than animal oil. A piece of suet costs fifteen yuan, while a catty of vegetable oil costs thirty yuan.

Although eating too much animal oil will affect your health, but in this situation, Qiao Yu can't control that much anymore.

After going back and forth, the fifty renminbi was gone, and more than half of the 73 renminbi was gone, but there were still very few things to buy.

Qiao Ling looked at the jade gourd on his chest several times with Qiao Yu behind his back, his expression was very tangled, and he could tell what he was thinking at a glance, but when Qiao Yu looked over, he still tried his best to pretend nothing had happened, Qiao Yu looked relieved and distressed.

What is gratifying is that Qiao Ling seems to really regard him as an elder brother, but what is distressing is that he has to worry so much at such an old age.

Qiao Yu didn't break Qiao Ling's mind, she just acted like she didn't see it.

In fact, he already has a preliminary plan for the future.

But the most important part has not yet come up with a countermeasure.

However, Qiao Yu did not grow up so smoothly in his previous life. He has experienced many things, and he has become a lot calmer. He has always believed that the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge. He has hands and feet, and he has skills and culture. Could it be possible to starve to death?

As long as he doesn't starve to death, the big things are nothing to him.

After shopping, Qiao Yu didn't intend to go home directly, but wanted to walk around the surrounding shops. When passing by a clothing store, he dragged Qiao Ling into it.

Inside the shop was a middle-aged man who was setting the abacus. He had shrewd small eyes and a chubby figure. When he saw someone coming in, he immediately put on a smiling and enthusiastic look.

"You two young masters, do you want to buy some clothes?"

If the smiling boss knew that Qiao Yu only had 23 copper coins left in his whole body, he probably wouldn't be smiling so enthusiastically at them, and maybe he would chase people away like flies. go out.

Although the Qiao family's fortunes have fallen, the attitude they have cultivated since childhood cannot be changed in a short time.

It's like Qiao Ling, although he doesn't have much now, his demeanor doesn't have the low self-esteem of people who are used to poverty. Like a down and out man.

Qiao Yu sighed inwardly.

It's really down and out.

Qiao Ling didn't know what he was doing here, but he knew that Qiao Yu's money was definitely not enough to buy cloth and clothes.

However, Qiao Ling these days has begun to follow Qiao Yu's lead. He neither refute nor talk back to what Qiao Yu said, and does whatever he is asked to do. He is extremely well-behaved.

Even though they knew that Qiao Yu didn't have much money in his pocket and they couldn't afford anything, Qiao Yu said to come in, so he followed him in.

In fact, Qiao Yu didn't want to look at the clothes inside, he just needed a mirror.

They didn't have a mirror at home. Qiao Sheng had been ill for so long, and he didn't want to see his sickly face. Qiao Ling was still young, and he wasn't old enough to care about his appearance.

So after being in this world for so long, Qiao Yu hasn't looked in the mirror once, only looked at it vaguely through the water surface a few times when washing his face, and it's not very clear.

His inexplicable soul has been worn on another person for half a month, and he still doesn't even know what his own face looks like, which is fun enough.

"Boss, is there a mirror?"

The man with a shrewd smile was stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses, and while bowing to invite people inside, he said, "My lord is talking about bronze mirrors, right? There are some, my lord, come with me."

He took people to the inner clothing store and revealed a large brass mirror.

Qiao Yu took a big step forward and looked at his strange face in the mirror.

Qiao Yu has looked pretty good since he was a child. Even if he can't score [-] points for a face, it's okay to score [-] points. In addition, he is very good at grooming himself, and he has a good figure. The acquired nurturing is enough for him to gain the confession of many girls and become the "male god" in the eyes of many people.

And now the face in the mirror is not ugly, even frankly speaking, it is a little better than his original face, even if it is a little sick, it doesn't look sluggish.

But Qiao Yu still didn't feel right no matter how he looked at it.

Slightly slanted phoenix eyes, white skin with no pores visible, a body that has been too thin due to serious illness and has not been maintained until now, and an unbelievably thin waist.

If it grew on a little girl, it would be perfect.

But growing on Qiao Yu's own body, he felt a little bit wrong no matter how he looked at it. To be honest, he was a bit too motherly.

Qiao Yu stared at the mirror twice, then waved to Qiao Ling who was behind her.

Qiao Ling walked up to him in a few steps, looked up at him, and asked him what's wrong?

Qiao Yu looked at the shop owner standing on the side who was bored and didn't know what he was going to do. He lowered his head and whispered in Qiao Ling's ear: "I have never asked you before? Your brother... That's me, how old is this year?"

Qiao Ling didn't know why he asked this politely, but he replied honestly: "My brother is nine years older than me."

Qiao Ling is eight years old this year, and Qiao Sheng is nine years older than him, which means...

Qiao Yu's eyes darkened, and she almost fainted on the spot.

That is to say, he called Qiao Ling's little luotou for several days, but in the end he himself was still a minor.

......

In his previous life, he managed to survive until he was 28 years old and had a successful career, but in the end he died in an accident, not to mention, he finally came back to life and turned back to 11 years old in a blink of an eye.

This is so humane!

Qiao Yu felt so shocked that she didn't even care about this strange face anymore.