Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 291 Liability and Good Fruit

That's right, it was the Zhao family who borrowed household items last time, but this time I went to Zhao's family not to borrow household items.

Zhao Da's wife, Mrs. Zhang, besides being a media protector, sometimes acts as a middleman, helping people to be witnesses and charging some middleman fees.Her natal family is a farmer in the west of the city, and her family is fairly well-to-do. Apart from growing crops, she also raises a lot of chickens, ducks and livestock.

Zhang's family has fields and livestock waiting to be served, so they rarely have time to come to the city to sell chickens and ducks, and even if they come to sell chickens and ducks, they don't have time to wait for a long time, and wholesale sales to chicken dealers will be priced down, which is not worthwhile.

Later, old man Zhang thought that his daughter was in the north of the city, and his yard was not small, so he simply entrusted it to his daughter.

Mrs. Zhang is a matchmaker herself, and she usually works as a matchmaker and has met a lot of people, which is considered a wide network.She is also in this business, and people who want to get married will buy meat from her if they want to have sex. First, let her say goodbye to her daughter (son), and second, buy whoever is not.

So although the Zhao family is not a professional chicken dealer, their business has been good.

Coupled with the proximity, sometimes people in Houtong Lane suddenly come to her house, or those who want to buy chickens and ducks temporarily will often go to her house.For example, Wen Shu could only go to her house under such circumstances, because the chicken dealer in the West Market had already gone back in the afternoon.

While speaking, Wen Shu had already reached the door of Zhao's house, and Wen Shu raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Tuk Tuk."

"Who is it?"

Just bought dinner from outside, the Zhao family who were about to eat stopped, and Mrs. Zhang glanced at the sauced elbow on the table, twisted her waist and walked out.

"Auntie, it's me."

Mrs. Zhang paused, why did this voice sound like that girl from the Wen family?
With this in mind, his pace quickened a bit.

"Yo, it's really you, why are you here at this time?" Mrs. Zhang's mood when she saw today's celebrity.

"Come and ask, do you still have chickens at Auntie's house?"

"Chicken? Yes, yes, you want to buy a chicken." Mrs. Zhang answered, and warmly welcomed Wen Shu in, "Have you had dinner yet?"

"not yet."

"Then let's eat something here, Dalang, and quickly add a pair of bowls and chopsticks."

"No, no, don't worry about it, auntie, the house is already done." Wen Shu repeatedly refused.

"That's it." Mrs. Zhang rubbed her hands, pointing to the chicken coop in the yard and asking, "What kind do you want, a rooster or a hen? How big do you want?"

Wen Shu looked at the chicken pen. At this time, there were more than a dozen chickens standing or lying on the ground in the chicken pen. Except for one rooster, the rest were all hens. six catties.

"These two don't look very energetic." After a while, Wen Shu pointed to the two hens lying on their stomachs in the corner of the chicken coop.

Mrs. Zhang smiled, "It's hot. My mother's father just brought these chickens in the morning. At that time, these two chickens were kept in the innermost room, maybe they were bored. If you buy them, my aunt will give you a cheaper price per catty." If you are worried, choose another one, look at the hen that is ashen." Mrs. Zhang pointed to a fat, strong, energetic hen and said, "...you have a lot of energy, if you don't rush Eat it, and it will be able to lay eggs for another half a month."

Wen Shu pondered for a while and said, "I can't trust my aunt, so I'll just take one, the smaller one." She pointed to the one squatting on the farthest side of the chicken coop, and then pointed to the other one that was ashy. : "This one was also caught."

"Hey, buy two at a time, can you finish it?" Mrs. Zhang said, "Don't spoil it when it's hot."

"I'm not afraid." Wen Shu smiled, "It's not like eating for a day. Today I'm just making the little one. I want to raise the ashes again."

Mrs. Zhang paused, and immediately said: "Let me tell you, yes, if you think it's inconvenient for you to raise it, you can bring it back. Auntie's courtyard is big, so it's not a problem to help you feed it for a few days."

Wen Shu nodded and thanked with a smile.

Mrs. Zhang weighed the two chickens, and the young one who was mentally ill was only five catties, while the one with ashes weighed eight catties.Chicken usually costs thirteen coins a catty, but because the little Mrs. Zhang said that she was given three coins for each coin, she was only charged fifty coins in the end.

The big one weighed eight catties, and it was supposed to cost one hundred and four Wen, but Mrs. Zhang made the decision to wipe the change and only charged one hundred Wen.

The last two chickens cost Wen Shu a total of 150 Wen.

Seeing Wen Shu walking out of the house carrying two chickens, one big and one small, Mrs. Zhang sighed repeatedly, the Wen family is really getting up these days!I don't see her buying chickens at home, but today she bought two.

Sure enough, climbing high branches is different, and the standard of living has risen in a straight line.

While sighing, she closed the door and went back to the main room, where the father and son were waiting for her, Zhao Da asked curiously: "The girl from the Wen family came to buy chickens, and she bought two chickens, but is there a visitor?"

Mrs. Zhang gave him a blank look, "No, I asked, and I said that one will be eaten today, and the other will be raised for a few days."

"Wealthy and powerful." Zhao Da sighed and smacked his lips.

Even their chicken sellers dare not say that they eat a chicken every few days.

Speaking of this, Mrs. Zhang became even more angry: "Why, I'm so greedy. It's too late to say that the girl from the Wen family is good-looking and smart. It would be great to be assigned to Dalang as a wife. You must say that Wen Tai is a burden, now it's okay. Now, those dignitaries are all vying to marry him."

"Hmph, let's talk about it after we get married." Zhao Da shook his head and took a sip of his wine.

"What do you mean by that?" Mrs. Zhang asked.

Zhao Da said with a half-smile: "The dignitaries care about their face, how could they let her marry her father, so in the end, either those people gave up their minds and gave up marrying her, or she gave up Wentai and climbed high."

"Ah, it can't be, the Wen family girl looks like a filial piety."

Zhao Da disapproved: "It depends on when filial piety is done, and it may not be so when you get married."

"If that's the case, it's really worthless for Wentai." Mrs. Zhang said.

Back then, not long after they moved in, she thought about arranging a marriage for Wen Tai, hoping for some matchmaking money.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she mentioned it, Wen Tai flatly rejected it, saying that Wen Shu was still young, and he was afraid that marrying a stepmother would be bad for her.She was a woman too, thought she was.

But later, when Wen Shu was ten years old, the widow Wang in the next street wanted to remarry. Seeing that the Chinese family's population had changed easily, she asked her to ask for a message.

She thought at the time that she would be right this time.

First of all, Wen Shu is already grown up, with a naughty temper and great strength, even if she has a stepmother, she can't be bullied again.Besides, Wen Tai has been vacant for ten years. As a man, why not want a woman to warm the bed, not to mention that the widow Wang still has a lot of dowry (dowry).

No matter how you think about it, this is a happy event that is impossible to refuse.

She was full of joy to mention it, but she didn't know that before she opened her mouth, Wen Tai refused again. It was the same reason, Wen Shu was still young, and wanted to wait until she got married.

Mrs. Zhang "."

From then on, she understood that Wen Tai really had no intention of remarrying.

At that time, all the matchmakers in this area said that they didn't know what kind of fairy Wentai's original wife was, who could keep him guarding him for more than ten years.

When the women were curious and regretful, they also admired his rare affection, and even thought that if they had left earlier, the one in their room would last for a few years.

I'm afraid half a year is enough.

It's not that they don't trust their own officials, but that there are too many examples of this kind. It's common for a man to marry a bride and enter the house within a hundred days of his wife's death.

When the women lamented the man's misfortune, they admired Wen Tai's deep affection even more, and at the same time hoped that he would get a good result.

(End of this chapter)