Chapter 18 Picking up Food
Bai Erzhu hurriedly said: "Don't tell me, I might actually be able to pick up food when I enter the city this time."
Seeing his serious face, the old lady Bai didn't seem to be lying, so she hurriedly asked, "What's the matter? Let's talk about it."
Bai Erzhu leaned into the old lady's ear and deliberately lowered her voice: "Mother, when I was working in the field today, I went to the grass halfway for convenience. I heard two people who came from the city to collect mountain goods. They said that tomorrow The Xu family bun shop in the town opened and prepared a hundred steamed buns, and asked five people to compete to eat steamed buns, and whoever ate the most would be rewarded with a bag of flour."
"Mother, this is a bag of flour, how long will it be enough for our family?" Bai Erzhu smiled, as if the bag of flour had already been delivered to the door of their Bai family.
The old lady Bai looked incredulous, "There are still such good things in this world? I don't want money to invite you to eat steamed buns, and after eating, I will give you a bag of flour, so the boss of Xuji steamed buns shop has got water in his head?"
Bai Erzhu said: "People don't have water in their brains. Participating in the competition is also conditional, and it is not an individual who can participate. You have to pay first."
The old lady Bai asked, "How much?"
Bai Erzhu stretched out a palm: "Not much, fifty cents."
The old lady did the math and said suspiciously, "These fifty cents are enough to buy ten big steamed buns. Will you come back after the game?"
Bai Erzhu smiled and said, "Of course, as long as you win the game, you will not only get 50 pennies back, but also give away a bag of white noodles for free. What a deal!"
It was indeed a good deal. The old lady nodded: "Okay, then you can go to the city tomorrow, but you must carry the white noodles back. Our family has not tasted the taste of steamed buns for a long time."
Bai Erzhu smiled and hurriedly stretched out his hand to the old lady: "Take the money."
The old lady went back to the house to withdraw money, and Bai Erzhu hurriedly followed him in. Seeing that the old lady took out a handful of copper coins from the locked wooden box and counted them one by one, he smiled and said, "Mother, give me sixty coins, and I will bring them here. I have a spare on my body to ensure that there will be no random flowers."
The old lady was thinking about the bag of white noodles, thinking that ten cents was not much, so if you give it to him, give it to him, so she simply counted sixty cents to him.
In the kitchen, Mrs. Liu grabbed two handfuls of rice from the vat and washed them. Seeing her husband squeezed in, she hurriedly asked, "Why did you wince just now?"
Bai Dazhu glanced behind him and saw that no one was following, so he said in a low voice, "After cooking the porridge for a while, hide the thicker porridge in a bowl. Let's eat it later when we're hungry."
Liu Shi was stunned for a moment, then widened his eyes and said, "It's incredible to let my mother know."
Drinking gruel and swallowing vegetables all day long, without a little oil and water, you will be hungry in the middle of the night. If you can really get some food and hide it until the evening, it is naturally excellent.
Bai Dazhu smiled lowly: "You stupid woman, you are cooking today. You put an extra handful of rice and hide a bowl when they're not paying attention. Who knows?"
Liu Shi gradually began to smile: "That's right, okay, listen to you." The unhappiness in his heart when he was assigned to cook dinner also disappeared at this time.
Seeing Bai Dazhu turn around to leave, she hurriedly shouted, "Hey - didn't you say you wanted to fight me? Where will this go?"
Bai Dazhutou didn't reply: "You still need me to fight you with just such a little work? Do your own work, I'll go to bed, the sun outside at noon is too poisonous, and it's mosquitoes and flies, so I didn't sleep. Well, I won't be able to open my eyes for a while, so remember to call me when the meal starts."