bookrebus Chapter 108 Buying Meat
Chapter 108 Buying Meat
Zhou Guo turned her head and stopped thinking about it. She went into the city. This was her first time visiting a county town in the few years since she came to this world. She was very curious about what the county town looked like in ancient times.
When she entered the city, she was dumbfounded.
The street was deserted, with no one around. The streets on both sides were empty. The houses and shops that I remembered lining the streets were gone. The houses on both sides were dilapidated, with their doors closed. The street was still a dirt road. How could it not be a brick road?
"The people in this county are so lazy. They don't get up until noon, and their whole family doesn't eat or drink?" Wang Fugui looked at the deserted street with disdain, "They really don't know how to live."
Zhou Guo asked, "Can we still buy meat if we go into the city now?"
The head of the village waved his hand and said, "Yes, this is the city gate. It's early in the morning, so it's normal that it's a little deserted. Let's go inside. There is a street inside."
After hearing this, several people continued to go inside.
Zhou Guo walked all the way inside and saw that the houses on both sides were gradually becoming neat and tidy, and there were houses and shops gradually appearing on the roadside, some selling cloth, some selling tea, and some selling groceries. Only the tea shop was open. The waiter yawned as he opened the door, and when he saw them, several people widened their eyes as if they were seeing something strange.
There were still few pedestrians on the street at this time, and if there were any, they were just passing by in a hurry.
"Grandpa Village Head, was it like this when you went into the city yesterday? There aren't many people in this county?" Zhou Guo asked as they walked.
The village head said indifferently: "Maybe it's still early. There were a lot of people on the street when we entered the city yesterday, and the shops along the street were all open. Why bother with so much? Let's go directly to the butcher's shop."
She nodded and didn't care. She just thought that it might be because the county was remote, the economy was not good, and the development was not very good.
Several people came to the butcher shop, which was open early.
When the shopkeeper saw so many of them, pushing a cart, and wearing tattered clothes, he was surprised and became wary. "What do you do?"
The head of the village said with a smile, "We are here to buy meat. Don't you recognize me, brother? I came to buy meat from you yesterday. I bought a big piece of fat meat. Do you remember?"
The other party took a closer look and saw that it was true. His expression relaxed and he asked, "How much meat do you want?" without saying a single unnecessary word.
Zhou Guo was the first to come forward and asked for two pounds of pork belly. He didn't know what to order for the rest. Zhou Dacang came up and pointed at the fattest piece of meat and said, "Two pounds of this. No lean ones, all fat ones."
Zhou Guo glared. How could they ask for that? If they wanted all the fat, wouldn't there only be lean meat left?
After the two people had made their choices, the village head came on stage. He cleared his throat, looked around, and asked for four pounds of fat meat.
Several people came forward one after another, choosing their own first and then choosing others'.
Finally it was Wang Fugui's turn. He stepped forward and asked for his own meat, then told each family the amount of meat they wanted according to their requirements.
The other party didn't take it seriously at first and was about to chop the meat with a big knife, but when he saw that the other party had not stopped after saying four or five pieces, his eyes widened slightly, and when the other party had said more than twenty pieces and still did not stop, he could not close his mouth.
After waiting for a long time for Wang Fugui to finish speaking, the other party was stunned!
Who else but wealthy families would cut meat like this these days? And look at the way these people are dressed, they must be refugees... Do refugees really have the money to buy so much meat?
You won’t not pay me in the end, right?
Seeing that he was hesitant, Zhou Guo took out a silver ingot and shook it in front of him, "Look, what is this? Don't worry, just cut it, I won't let you down."
As soon as he saw the silver, he raised his knife and started cutting it, shouting, "Sanniang, Sanniang, come out and help me."
Soon a woman in her twenties came out, wearing a thorny hairpin and a cloth skirt, smiling and saying, "Here I come."
He started to weigh the meat on the skewers skillfully.
It will be fine if the meat is not too big.
After that, Zhou Guo stepped forward and asked, "Do you have a big bone for me?" "Give me a big bone, or some internal organs."
As she turned her head, Wang Fugui also turned around.
"Girl, I didn't expect you to be a good eater." Wang Fugui said with a smile.
She said, "I have many patients at home, and I want to make some bone soup for them." Then she turned around and asked the others, "Do you want these bones?"
Several people, including Li Zheng, shook their heads and said, "No, no, we've already bought meat."
Who wants bones when there's already meat? What's the point of eating without any meat? It's no use wasting money.
Zhou Guo nodded, looked at the other party firmly and said: "I want two more big bones."
Seeing that they bought a lot, the proprietress Xu took out a few large bare bones from the corner and piled them in front of her, saying, "Here, the remaining bones have been taken. We reserved these four for our own consumption and are giving them to you."
Zhou Guo was stunned, shook his head and took out the money, "How can that be? I'll buy it. How much is it?"
If it doesn't cost money, and there are only a few of them, everyone would want them. Don't let there be a quarrel later. It's better to spend money.
Wang Fugui understood, "Yes, yes, it's not easy for everyone to run a small business, how can we not charge money? We have to charge money, I also want a heart, do you have one?"
The proprietress looked at the crowd of them and said nothing more. She took out a heart from the corner and handed it to Wang Fugui.
She took out half a pig's lung and handed it to Zhou Guo, saying with a smile, "This is free, it's a gift from your aunt. You bought so much, I can close my shop right after it opened."
With this purchase, they sold all the meat for the day, leaving only the pig's head, four legs and internal organs.
Zhou Guo took a look at it, took it with a smile, but secretly left some money in the corner of the chopping board.
A group of people were walking down the street with their loads of meat.
As the sun rose higher, more and more people walked on the roadside. Everyone's eyes drifted over from time to time, looking at the ragged people pushing a cart full of meat, and they couldn't help but feel curious.
Zhou Guo felt that it was not a good idea to push the meat on the street so conspicuously, so she asked the two young men and Wang Fugui to guard the cart in the corner, and the three of them took the money into the shop to buy salt. After buying salt from all the shops, she used the remaining money from buying meat to buy salt, estimated to be ten kilograms, anyway, this stuff would not be wasted.
Finally, the group entered the needlework shop. As soon as she came out of the shop, she smelled a strange fragrance, rich and sweet, and she sniffed her nose.
Zhou Dacang also smelled it and sniffed, "Hmm? What smells so good?"
Upon hearing this, the village head also closed his eyes and smelled it.
The three of them just stood at the door of someone else's needlework shop, closing their eyes and greedily sniffing the fragrance in the air, as if no one was around.
"Hehehe... Mom, look, they are just like dogs." Passersby couldn't help but snicker when they saw this.