Chapter 686: Being Beaten
Chu Fei cut a large piece of pork into five kilogram pieces, and put them under the basket. Then she scooped up the remaining hot water with Chu Cang and washed the pig offal again, especially the pig intestines and belly. She used salt Rub it twice.
Pick out the pig heart and liver, and when Chu Cang comes back, let her cut it into small pieces and make pig liver soup at noon to replenish the blood of the princess.
Chu Cong said, "The princess got a lot of Ganoderma lucidum on the snowy mountain. They are all in the car. I wonder if they can be put in pig liver?"
"If you go and ask, you will know." Chu Fei said.
"We'll ask after the prince has finished washing." The prince never lets them serve as maids when he takes a bath. The princess takes care of them personally. If the princess is away, there is no need for anyone to wait on them.
When they were busy in full swing, at noon, the village chief's wife came out of the utility room and entered the kitchen with her fat buttocks.
Seeing the basket full of meat, her eyes lit up, "Ah, where did this pork come from? There are also chickens and ducks. Who in the village raises ducks? Why didn't I know?"
She started yelling, her voice was sharp, as if someone had stolen her chickens, and her eyes were blazing, brighter and hotter than the sun in June, and she wished she could take back the basket of pork. Get up on your own stove, devour the food, and eat it into your belly.
Oh my god, how much money does a whole basket of pork cost? Her family only buys three kilograms of pork for the Chinese New Year and holidays throughout the year, but you see, they sell it for a basketful, as if they don't need any money.
There were only six of them eating, how could they eat so much?
The village chief's wife rolled her eyes and asked Chu Cong with a shy smile, "Miss Cong, there are only six of you. Can you finish eating so much meat? Or sell some to me?"
She asked Chu Cong because Chu Cong was always as gentle as water, smiling slightly, and seemed easy to talk to, but Chu Fei always had a cold and distant expression, so she didn't dare to ask.
The reason why she didn't say to buy more, but only bought three or two catties, she thought, if she didn't buy more, if she bought more, she would have more money, and people would definitely reach out to her for money. If she bought less, she wouldn't have much money. If you don't even get a bunch of money for dozens of pennies, you will definitely lose face and be embarrassed to ask for money.
Just asking for it, she gave them one ingot and five taels of silver to see how they changed the money, hum...
Are they embarrassed to ask for it?
The village chief's wife just wants to bully the little girl who is thin-skinned and get some advantages.
It is obvious that she is a shrewd person who is good at calculating and taking advantage of others.
Unfortunately, today, her wishful thinking is about to go wrong,
Chu Cong smiled softly, "Okay, how much do you want to buy? I'll calculate the money. My master bought these baskets of meat from other villages after traveling across mountains and rivers. It's not easy."
Speaking of this, Chu Cang paused deliberately. When the village chief's wife heard that money was being calculated, she had a long face. She spoke more gently, and the smile on her face became a little deeper, "This is the travel fee." , I don’t count it as yours. We live here and cause you a lot of trouble. Let’s do this. I only calculate the price of the meat and don’t increase it, not even a penny. This pig is from Wangjia Village next door. Widowmaker wife raising a family Yes, I planned to sell the money to marry a step-brother during the Chinese New Year. It was not yet the new year, so my master bought it. My master paid a total of three hundred taels of silver. This pig got a total of more than 200 kilograms of meat. , a total of one and a half taels of silver and a catty of meat. If you want to buy two catties of meat, fine, I will cut it to you. A total of three taels of silver. Do you want to take the silver first, or give you the meat first?”
Chu Cong asked, then he took a knife and put a five kilogram piece of meat on the chopping board, as if he wanted to cut it off and sell it to the village chief's wife.
The village chief's wife's throat was filled with a lump in her throat. She couldn't move up or down, and her old face turned more purple than the pig's liver on Chu Cong's chopping board.
You can buy meat for 20 cents per catty at the market, but when it comes to her, it only costs 1 tael and a half silver per catty, which is a loss she can afford.
One tael and a half of silver, fifteen hundred wen, is enough for her to buy half a fan of pork. She is crazy to use one tael and a half of silver to buy a pound of meat from her.
The village chief's wife was so angry that she wanted to eat meat. She gritted her teeth and said, "Isn't it just pork? It's more expensive than gold. Although it's raining and I can't go to the town, and meat and vegetables are hard to buy, it's not so expensive. Yeah.”
Seeing that the meat was no longer available, the village chief's wife felt very distressed, but if she really wanted to ask for it, she was not that thick-skinned.
She could only watch helplessly as people cooked meat, but she still boiled a large pot of cabbage.
Chu Cong twitched the corners of his lips and raised his eyebrows, "It's not that expensive, but my young master spent so much money to buy it."
"Auntie, you want to buy it, but I didn't add a penny, but you can't ask us to pay for it. My master spent three hundred taels of silver to buy the pork. You can't think of it for twenty penny a penny. Buy it by the pound?”
"Even a fool would not do this loss-making business."
"It's not easy for anyone to make money here. One tael of silver is still money. I work as a maid for my wife and serve people day and night. My monthly salary is only one or two taels of silver."
"Auntie must have made dozens of taels of silver in the past few days. It's so easy to earn money. Why can't aunt be willing to use a few taels to buy a few kilograms of pork to give teeth to the family members?"
Chu Cong smiled and mocked the village chief's wife. After that, he threw the piece of meat on the chopping board back into the basket. The village chief's wife was so angry that her face was twisted, but she couldn't do anything to her.
She really didn't dare to offend others.
She was also a bully and fearful of the strong, and only dared to bully others in the nest. Seeing that Chu Cong was not an easy fool, the village chief's wife did not dare to pester her anymore. Her eldest daughter-in-law came in to light the fire. When she saw the basket full of meat, the greed in her stomach rushed to her throat. Her eyes were so wide that she almost dropped the basket.
That's a mouth watering thing.
She glanced at her mother-in-law, and when she saw that her mother-in-law looked unhappy, she turned around without saying a word, walked out of the kitchen, went to the utility room, and muttered something in front of her sister-in-law, who knew nothing about heaven and earth.
After a while, Daya blew into the kitchen like a gust of wind.
When she saw the meat in the basket, her mouth immediately drooled, dripping to the ground.
She raised her hand, wiped a handful of saliva, and then wiped a handful of saliva, until her sleeves were wet with saliva. She was so greedy that she couldn't bear it any longer, so she said, "Oh, Sister Chu Cong, how come you have There's so much meat, you guys definitely can't finish it. So, let's kindly help you eat some. It just so happens that my brother Wen didn't come out to eat in the morning, so he asked my mother to make some more braised pork at noon, and I gave it to brother Wen. Send it over.”
Saying that, regardless of the situation, he reached for the largest piece of pork belly.
When her hand was about to touch the flesh, something suddenly bit her on the back of her hand. It hurt so much that she quickly retracted her hand.
I looked down and saw that there was a bruise on the back of my hand. It was not bitten by something, but hit by something. It was so hot and painful that it felt like a broken bone. Tears came out.
She cried and howled, "Ah, my hand hurts so much, mother, look quickly to see if the bone is broken, wuwu...it hurts so much."
"Ouch, my good girl, what's wrong with you? You were fine just now, why do your hands hurt?"
The village chief's wife hurried over, picked up Da Ya's hand and looked at it. She saw that the bone was not broken, but that it was bruised. She didn't know if she had been hit by something.
The face of the village chief's wife darkened and she said angrily, "What's going on? Who hit you? Tell your mother, she will support you."
She was just an old girl, and she was never willing to lay a finger on her. But now, under her nose, the old girl was beaten.
That's okay.
"I don't know, wuwu, I don't know. I was just about to get the meat when my hand suddenly hurt, wuwu... It seemed like something had bounced it. Mom, it hurts. It's really not a broken bone. Why? It’s like breaking it, it hurts me so much.”
One arm was almost numb with pain.
It would be okay if the pain was numb, but it doesn't.
The village chief's wife glared at Chu Zang and Chu Fei, "Did you play with something?" in a very definite tone.
Chu Cong looked innocent, "Mom, I'm here on the stove. I have nothing in my hand except a cutting knife. I'm going to hit her with whatever I want. You can't wrongly accuse a good person."
"That's right, we didn't do anything." Chu Fei's expression was even more innocent than Chu Cang's, "Besides, aunt, you said Da Ya was bounced by something. Why doesn't it look like that to me? If something bounced, It hurts like that, what is that?”
For people without internal strength, even if they take an iron bead and flick it at such a close distance, it won't hurt. What's more, it's not an iron bead, but a small bone the size of a fingernail.
The village chief's wife thought about it carefully and suddenly froze.
Yes, what is so powerful that just one flick can cause Da Ya to hurt like this?
A rock bigger than your fist?
However, there are no stones here either.
The village chief's wife searched around and looked in the basket, but found nothing. Her daughter kept crying and screaming in pain, and her head suddenly became as big as two heads.
Chu Fei's gloomy voice suddenly sounded, "Actually, I just caught a glimpse of it. It seemed that there was a dark figure standing next to Daya. When Daya went to get the meat, the dark figure stretched out his hand. I pinched Da Ya, and then...it disappeared automatically."
Seeing the village chief's wife's expression change, her eyes shrank, as if she was afraid of something.
Chu Fei kindly explained, "Auntie, actually, I have been able to see things that others cannot see since I was a child."
The voice was eerie, like a devil coming from hell. It scared the village chief's wife and Daya to the point of trembling with fear.
Da Ya was so scared that she forgot to cry. She leaned closely against the village chief's wife, trembling all over.
3000 words
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