Hard times have room

Chapter 37 Inquiry
After buying these things, Pauline only had a dollar and a half left.

In her hand, Paulin carried the straw basket that the fishermen gave when she was shopping, which contained a pound of prawns and ten abalones.

"Paulin, are you ready?" Li Cao looked at Baolin who was carrying the basket and asked with concern.

In fact, she only bought a pound and a half of sea fish herself, and waited for the two to eat at noon. She was used to being frugal without money, and she was reluctant to spend extravagantly on buying things.

After shopping for an hour, I was so addicted, I just sat here waiting for Pauline. She didn't expect Pauline to walk for so long.

Moreover, Bao Lin didn't buy anything when she saw it. She only had the bag and quilt she was carrying before, and the straw basket she was holding in her hand, so she couldn't hold anything at all!

Forget it, don't think about it, maybe it's a child's temperament. It's the first time she saw seafood and was excited and fascinated. She was such an adult just now, and she was shocked when she saw those weird octopuses with inkjet juice. Oh, the things in this sea are really scary, strange shapes, and everything.

"Well, I've bought it." Bao Lin glanced at Li Cao with a guilty conscience. After all, she didn't know how long it took her to buy things.

"By the way, sister, I'm hungry, let's find a place for lunch by the river!"

"Well, okay, I'll make fish for you at noon."

"I bought shrimp and abalone. Let's cook and eat the shrimp together. The abalone is still alive, and I will keep it for the soup to drink at night."

This is something she deliberately left outside and did not receive in the space, otherwise it will be in the space, and now it will definitely die if she takes it out.

"Okay, let's have a good lunch today, make up for it."

At about 1:[-] pm, the two of them sat under the big tree with their stomachs covered and rode the wind. Looking around, the scenery was beautiful, the trees were green and the sky was green. Listening to the chirping of cicadas and birds, the two gradually closed their eyes and enjoyed this leisure time.

It had been an hour since the two woke up again.

"What are we going to do next? Are we going to the aunt here to inquire about the situation?" Pauline stretched her waist, thinking about the purpose of the two of them coming to this place.

"Well, Pauline, you are here to guard things. I will go to the village to inquire about the situation. These things are my dowry. I have confidence."

"I don't want people to see these things and be deceived by people's thoughts, or some people pretend to deceive me because of these things. I would rather find a poor and lame person. After I have hands and feet, my life will be better. I don't want to find a cowardly wife beater, or a wicked mother-in-law at home, I'm tired of being dominated by others."

"So Pauline, keep these things here and wait for me?"

When Li Cao said the words that depended on others, his eyes were cold and light, and then he narrowed his eyes, afraid of scaring her, he touched Baolin's head, and looked at her with sincerity.

"Well, I'll keep these things here. It's just that you have a crush on someone. You can't easily promise to live with him. You must let me see it before you can, okay? Sister, promise me." Pauline promised at This is waiting, only the person she is in love with, Pauline, must see it.Paulin really treats her as a sister, and naturally hopes that she will find a good one and spend the rest of her life happily.

"Don't worry, you are my younger sister, the only relative, I will agree to you if you nod your head. Come on, stop frowning, like a little old lady." Li Cao replied and rubbed Bao Bao. Lin's head, I don't know why, after getting along these two days, the two became more and more intimate. Sometimes Li Cao likes to rub Paulin's head to tease her. Seeing her turning her head impatiently, she feels very cute.

Seeing Li Cao's disappearing back, Paulin put everything next to her into the space, carrying a basket with half bamboo shoots and half mushrooms in it.

She plans to go to the dock again, maybe she can change something into the space, and within an hour, she will definitely return to the original waiting place again.

When we arrived at the pier, there were very few people strolling around. There were only one or two people who were going around in the market. Under the shade of the trees, there were only a dozen scattered stalls.

There are not many things on the stall, just some snails and oysters, and some sea fish, shrimp and crabs that are not very fresh, have been sun-dried or are about to die.

Today's big sun makes the temperature of the pier very high at this time. These fish, shrimps and crabs in the sea are only placed in water basins or buckets. Of course, they can't stand such temperature. It doesn't look very fresh after all.

Paulin went up to ask the price. At this time, these things were extremely cheap. Bamboo shoots and mushrooms in the basket can be exchanged for oysters and conch shells. The oysters are the kind of seaside rocks that are pryed. Paulin is half the size of a palm. , but the taste is good, the size of the conch is big and small, there are five or six varieties, and they are all non-toxic and edible.

The fish, shrimp and crabs at several stalls next to Paulin were also rounded up. The two baskets they gave were about ten catties, and it was only [-] cents. It was a lot cheaper. You must know that there are more than one catty of shrimps in them. .

The basket is woven from palm leaves. It is woven into two layers. It feels very thick and has a strong bearing capacity. It can hold a lot of things in it. Seeing this thing, Pauline has no choice but to sigh, people at this time are really ingenious!
Paulin carried two baskets by herself, and asked the stall owner who sold the most oysters and conch to help deliver the items to the place where the two of them cooked at noon. There was no one around. When the stall owner arrived, Paulin took an extra bundle. Bamboo shoots came out to pay him.

"Uncle, here, take it back and soak it in salt water, you can eat it in a few days, add some peppers, this sour bamboo shoots, fish and snails are delicious."

There are a lot of these things in Hecun, you can still find them if you look carefully in the bamboo forest. Besides, if you eat fresh bamboo shoots three times, you will be injured. It's good to stew with other things.

"The uncle took it, thank you, come to me next time to buy seafood, and I'll give you something cheaper." The uncle smiled and took the bamboo shoots. This thing is common in this place, and they are rare. Good, who told them that there are no big bamboo forests in that place, and no good bamboo can grow.

The soil at the seaside is not good, and there is nothing to grow. This seafood is not boring to eat every day, so a few villages near them come here every month to change things, at least to improve the food.

"By the way, little girl, is it safe for you to keep this thing? What about your adults?"

"Oh, it's okay, my family doesn't belong to this village. My dad went to the village to see my auntie. It's not easy to take this seafood with you, but I'm afraid you'll all close the stall when you come out of my auntie's house, so I asked me first. Buy something good and wait for him here." Pauline thought for a while, this nonsense will come with her mouth open, and it's well-founded and not suspicious at all.

The uncle nodded to show that he knew, then turned and left. He was not a nosy person at first, so he asked this question for the sake of the bamboo shoots he sent.

(End of this chapter)