Chapter 48 Visitors on a snowy night
Han was still a little puzzled, but Su Tai didn't give her a chance to continue asking. She opened the package she brought back and said, "Mom and Dad, I bought a new set of clothes for everyone, including Brother Shen."
Shen Yi's pupils at the side trembled, and he looked at Su Tai suddenly. The shock in his eyes had not completely disappeared, "Is it for me?"
Su Tai nodded matter-of-factly, "You have helped me so much, what's wrong with me buying you new clothes?"
Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly showed a bright smile and looked at his own package expectantly.
Su Chunlin had already opened it first, took it out and made some gestures on Shen Yi, and couldn't stop praising, "My daughter has such good taste! It's not too big, not too small, and there's still a bit of room for it, and it fits her perfectly!"
As he said that, he hurriedly handed over Shen Yi's clothes, went to unpack his own parcel, showed off his clothes in front of everyone, and kept praising her, "Look how filial my daughter is, she knows how to give everything to her father." Mom is buying clothes!”
Mrs. Han on the side laughed, turned around and took out two packages from the side, and said: "Mom didn't buy ready-made clothes, but bought some materials. I originally wanted to go back and make clothes for you, but now I save money."
Everyone laughed in unison.
Su Ming was only thinking about meat buns.
Su Tai immediately opened the buns and divided one into each person. Shen Yi still had a portion.
At this moment, the bun in Shen Yi's mouth seemed to be the most delicious food in the world.
After the group had eaten and drank, Shen Yicai looked at Su Chunlin, "Uncle, I have bought grain seeds, peanuts and soybeans, and will deliver them to your home later."
"Ah! So fast!" Su Chunlin stood up suddenly, "Let's go and help."
Su Tai hurriedly said: "Dad, don't worry, we will talk about it later."
The two exchanged glances and left in tacit understanding.
After a while, Su Tai came back alone and informed Su Chunlin and the others to go back.
The whole family exclaimed again when they saw the cart full of sacks.
Over there, Shen Yi also drove a donkey cart to join them. The donkey cart was full of grain.
The group trudged back to Dongmen Village, all exhausted.
When Su Tai helped clean up, she realized that Su Chunlin and his wife left alone and bought more than ten kilograms of pork. No wonder the things were so heavy!
It was impossible to haul so much grain in one trip. Su Chunlin went to help, but Shen Yi took Su Tai away.
Su Tai sat on the donkey cart, curious about everything she saw, "Did you buy it?"
Shen Yi nodded, "Building a house requires a lot of stones and wood. I can't move it all by myself. With it, things will be much easier. Where should we go now?"
Su Tai thought for a while and said, "Go to town, hire two ox carts, and pull one more and that's it."
After the two of them added up, they quickly got all the seeds to the Su family.
Before Shen Yi left, Su Tai left a lot for him, which was prepared for his second aunt's family.
Shen Yi was so moved that he couldn't bear to look away from Su Tai before leaving.
Su Chunlin and Han were so busy moving things that they didn't even notice the hidden affection between them.
The next day, Su Chunlin sent the seeds that the Han family wanted, and then found Su Changxi and gave him the remaining grain seeds at home for arrangement.
Su Changxi did not show favoritism, but notified every household and asked everyone to exchange grain seeds for grain seeds. As for soybeans and peanuts, those who were willing to plant them could buy them with money.
Everyone saw with their own eyes that Su Chunlin's family had made a fortune growing these things, so they rushed to get them, even if they were trying to sell them, they couldn't miss it. Every household bought some more or less. On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Su Changxi sent the money from selling seeds.
After Su Chunlin gathered together, he took a large bag of copper coins and broken silver to the town that was so heavy that he could hardly lift it, exchanged it for one hundred and fifteen taels of silver, and hurriedly sent it to Shenjiazhuang.
Shen Yi prepared some mountain goods for Su Chunlin to take away. The money was hidden inside and went around in a circle before returning to Su Tai's hand.
Now she has more than one hundred taels in hand.
As the saying goes, if you have money in your hands, you don't have to worry. She can finally be a steady rice bug.
On New Year's Eve, Han took Ruan Xiaoyu out to make sticky cakes early in the morning, while Su Tai took over the job of steaming steamed buns.
After all, it was the Chinese New Year, so Han was a rare act of generosity and prepared two kilograms of white flour for Su Tai.
Su Tai looked at it and gave a helpless smile. One person could eat at most two or three steamed buns made from two kilograms of white flour. It was rare to steam buns, and it was winter. She could not hold on, so she transferred directly from the Gate of Time and Space. Take out ten pounds of white flour.
The flour was fermented in a basin. In order to shorten the fermentation time, she specially placed the wooden basin at the mouth of the stove.
Han and Ruan Xiaoyu haven't finished making the sticky cake, and the flour has already fermented.
Su Ming couldn't forget the meat buns she ate last time. She also had meat at home, so she cut two kilograms and chopped it into minced meat. Then she dug two immature cabbages from the ground and steamed a pot of cabbage and pork stuffing. Steamed buns, the rest are all steamed buns.
Before Mrs. Han entered the house, she smelled the strong aroma of steamed buns. She looked at Ruan Xiaoyu and rushed into the kitchen carrying a rattan basket.
"What to do?"
Han's eyes fell on those steamed buns, his mouth turned into an "O" shape, and his voice suddenly rose, "Girl! How much white flour did you use?"
Su Tai turned around and smiled sweetly at the two of them, "Mom, it's the Chinese New Year. Please make more so that everyone can have a good time. Don't worry, I asked Brother Shen to buy it for me. I didn't use the food in our warehouse."
"It's you who keeps talking, Brother Shen. Shen Yi has really spoiled you!" Han pretended to be angry and scolded, but she was more secretly happy in her heart. Shen Yi was the only one who could control her daughter if she didn't know how to live. As for her parents-in-law, I guess the spittle could drown her daughter.
Because Han didn't care about it, Su Tai became more courageous. After noon, she started to take Ruan Xiaoyu to make white noodles in the kitchen house.
If steamed buns are the bread and butter of food for poor families, then white flour noodles are something they would never dare to think of eating. After all, steamed buns are fermented and can be eaten more, but a bowl of noodles requires a lot of flour, and it doesn't even fill you up.
Ruan Xiaoyu watched with fear and hesitated to speak, but still did not dare to speak to dissuade him.
By the time Mr. Han found out, the noodles had been cut and they just needed to be put into the water.
Due to Su Chunlin and others' jokes, Han didn't pursue the matter at all.
In the evening, the whole family sat together to eat New Year's Eve dinner. Everyone had a large bowl of pork noodles in front of them, and a large pot of steamed buns in the middle.
Su Zhan and Su Ming were so angry that they cried out, eagerly waiting for Su Chunlin to say something.
Su Chunlin couldn't bear it anymore and waved his hand, "Eat!"
Everyone immediately picked up their chopsticks and ate.
At this moment, a knock on the door came from the yard, "Chunlin, open the door!"
Su Chunlin stretched his head and put down the bowl and chopsticks and trotted out. His exclamation came from outside, "Brother! You are really back!"
Mr. Han went out to help get things into the main room.
Su Chunsen and Suchuan looked at the new house and couldn't help nodding.