Chapter 53 Itchy Ears
“Here are three fuel-efficient lamps and ten candles.”
Yan Funing took out her purse in advance, took out a bunch of copper plates, quickly counted them, and handed them over. .
“When you buy so much cloth, why don’t you buy the lamp next to it?” The shopkeeper introduced a copper lamp and opened the small door of the lamp with his delicately manicured nails. “This lamp is exquisitely made. It can be opened everywhere..."
Yan Funing smiled and shook her head: "No, we like it made of ceramics."
The shopkeeper said: "Porcelain is easy to break."
Her words seemed to be addressed to Yan Funing, but her eyes glanced at Fu Ciyi from time to time.
The owner of the shop is a young woman, more than 20 years old. Her hair was combed meticulously, her face was made up, and her lips were smeared with lipstick.
The way she looked at people made Yan Funing uncomfortable.
I unconsciously leaned against Fu Ciyi and said, "We will use it carefully."
The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows, thinking that he was stingy and stingy.
Take the copper plate, pick it with your fingernails, and count them one by one.
After a long while, he said: "A total of two hundred and ninety articles, that's right." After a pause, he asked, "Want a wick?"
Yan Funing shook her head: "I don't want it now."
The wick I bought last time can be used for a long time, so don’t rush to buy it.
The shopkeeper said "hmm" and took down three ceramic lamps and ten candles from the shelf.
She originally wanted to wrap them together so that she could save a piece of kraft paper.
However, there were a lot of lamps and candles this time, so she reluctantly took another piece of brown paper and wrapped two packages separately.
Yan Funing gently put the two paper bags into the backpack. Seeing the shop owner looking at Fu Ciyi again, she pulled his sleeves: "Husband, you are holding so much cloth, be careful when walking on the threshold."< br>
The piece of cloth stood up high, just blocking his sight, revealing his impeccable profile.
Fu Ciyi's ears suddenly itched.
When this woman introduces him to others, she will say that he is her husband, and she will also call him husband in front of her mother.
This is the first time for two people to address each other privately when they get along!
He had no idea that the female shopkeeper sitting at the counter had looked at him a hundred and eighty times.
The couple came out of the scented wax shop. The female shop owner took out a bronze mirror from the counter drawer and looked at it from left to right.
She touched her face, she looked pretty.
What made her depressed was that she thought they were brother and sister, but they turned out to be husband and wife!
He spat: "How can such a stingy woman marry a handsome husband?"
Remembering that the young lady just now looked so good-looking even if she was naked, she was so angry that she threw the bronze mirror Stuffed back into the drawer.
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Walking on the street, Fu Ciyi turned his head to the side of the cloth: "It's strange, I thought you would bargain every time you went to a store."
But that was not the case just now.
Yan Funing said: "The owner of the fragrant wax shop looks unkind. I don't want to waste words with her."
After saying this, she saw a vendor selling rapeseeds at a street stall. , then walked a few steps quickly and asked: "Old lady, how do you sell rapeseed?"
The old lady squatted on the curb beside the street, picking up a few small paper bags with trembling fingers.
"It costs five cents a bag, and there are more rapeseed seeds, which can be planted in an acre of land. Pumpkin seeds are less, only a dozen or so, and they all cost five cents a bag. There are many other varieties, all of which are made by our own family. The seeds from the vegetables are guaranteed to be planted well!”
Yan Funing knelt down and selected green rapeseeds, cowpea seeds, green bean seeds, pumpkin seeds, as well as chives and pepper seeds.
“Old lady, I want these six kinds.” She took out thirty cents and gave them to her, “Count them.”
After receiving thirty cents at once, the old lady’s face was filled with smiles. The folds on her face became deeper: "Girl, you are the first one to buy today, so my business has been opened."
"Just open it, and the business will get better."
Yan Funing put six packets of seeds into her backpack. As soon as she and Fu Ciyi left, someone asked the old woman to buy rapeseeds.
The old woman squinted at Yan Funing's back and said happily: "What a good girl, she really came to do business!"
Yan Funing saw someone walking down the street with a cloth in his arms. It was very inconvenient to walk away, so he suggested: "How about you go and sit in Li's car first, and I have to buy some other things."
"It doesn't matter." Fu Ciyi said.
"Then I will buy it faster." She first went to the roasted seeds and nuts shop and bought a pack of sugar-roasted chestnuts, which cost 20 yuan.
Thinking of a change of dishes, food, and enough food, I went to the meat stall.
The stall owner greeted her happily: "Girl, have you finished eating the ribs at home?"
"Not yet."
Yan Funing smiled, this person was staring at her. She buys ribs.
Also, few people buy ribs to eat.
"What should I buy today?"
"How to sell pork belly?"
"Pork belly costs eighty cents per catty."
Yan Funing was surprised: "Why is it more expensive than both fat and lean meat?"
"Young lady, you don't know. The thing used in school is pork belly. This period of time is over, it is when the school starts, and it is also the peak season for pork belly."
Yan Funing understood and said: " Then it’s still half a pound of fat meat and one pound of lean meat.” After that, she took out the copper coins and said, “Eighty-five cents, here you go.”
The stall owner handed her a bamboo basket and asked her to put the copper coins. Just throw it in.
Yan Funing smiled: "You don't want to count?"
"No need to count, just throw it away, I believe you."
He started slicing the meat with his knife.
Yan Funing stacked the eighty-five copper plates into four stacks, each with twenty, and the remaining five were stacked in the middle. Neatly stacked in the corner of the bamboo basket, people can know the quantity at a glance.
The stall owner saw how meticulous she was, so he gave her an extra piece of fat just like last time.
I looked into her backpack and found that there were already a lot of things, so I wrapped the meat in two layers of brown paper.
Seeing this, Yan Funing smiled and thanked: "Thank you, boss, my business is booming!"
"Xinglong Xinglong." The stall owner leaned over and covered his mouth with his hands and said, "Every time the girl comes, my business will get better. You have to come often."
"True or false "
"Really!" The stall owner nodded, "Look at how many people are looking at my meat stall."
Yan Funing turned her head and saw that there were many people buying it. The woman who was cooking looked at Fu Ciyi coquettishly and shyly.
Of course, many men looked at her.
After they left, the group of people swarmed to the meat stall.
The meat stall owner waved to her happily and pointed to the crowd, as if to say: [Am I right? 】
Yan Funing smiled and shook her head. Seeing that Fu Ciyi had been following her silently, she then said, "Just wait, I will buy it right away."
"Okay, no hurry. "He said.
Yan Funing bought some dried tofu at a tofu stall, and a pound of oiled tofu cost eighteen yuan. I bought two kilograms of taro and a handful of celery from a peasant woman for twenty-two cents.
Things were put into the backpack, which immediately became full.
Fu Ciyi asked her: "Can you carry it on your back?"
Yan Funing pinched her shoulders, pursed her lips and said, "Yes."
Fu Ciyi Frowning, how can such a squeamish person move his back?
Then he hugged five pieces of cloth with one hand, picked up the basket on his back, and strode away.
Walking quite fast.
Yan Funing trotted to catch up: "I can really carry it on my back."
(End of this chapter)