There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 415 Roasted taro, discuss the plan (two more)
A sneer flashed in Li Jiaoniang's eyes, she turned and walked back.

Luo Cheng walked out of the main hall at this time, nodded and smiled at her, "Jiao Niang, come and eat."

Li Jiaoniang walked over with a slight smile, "What's delicious?"

Although God made Mu Xuan a noble son again, it gave him a vicious character. A person like him didn't live long in the previous life, and he won't live long in this life.

And she, although poor, lived a safe and smooth life, and there were people who loved her.

In this life, Mu Xuan should envy her.

"Fifth son found it." Luo Cheng took her hand and sat down by the stove.

Finding that her hands were cold, Luo Cheng held them and rubbed them together.

Li Jiaoniang pulled her hand away with a smile.

She stretched out her hands to the stove to warm them, and the hands that had been stiffened by the cold wind just now became much warmer.

"Where's the food?" She smiled and looked around, "Where is it?"

"Inside the fire." The fifth son smiled innocently, "It's not a good thing, it's just a few dried yams. Luo Guanren insisted that it was delicious."

"Wow, roasted taro." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile, "I also roasted it when I was a child. I baked it in the fire, peeled off the skin, and dipped it in seasonings. If you like it sweet, dip it in sugar. Eat it, it's soft and glutinous, very fragrant."

She thought of her grandma in her previous life. During the Chinese New Year, her grandma would take her back to her hometown village. The old people in the village like to carry a small portable stove for heating to keep warm.

There is a charcoal fire in the stove, which can be used to dry hands and feet.

Children, they will find some sweet potatoes or taro that are small in size, such as peanuts and broad beans, and throw them in the stove to bake.

Peanuts and sweet potatoes have not yet appeared. At this time, there are only taro and broad beans.

"It turns out that Mrs. Li also likes to eat with sugar." Wu Zi smiled and said, "I still have some sugar at home, I'll get it."

The fifth son patted his robe, smiled and ran home.

"Brother Luo Cheng." Li Jiaoniang narrowed her eyes, looked at Luo Cheng and said seriously, "That Mu Xuan is a dangerous person. When you deal with him, be careful and don't confront him face to face."

Luo Cheng's eyes darkened, "Jiao Niang, why did you suddenly mention this person?"

Li Jiaoniang said, "Just now I was standing outside watching the snow scene, and I heard Mu Xuan and Li Peiyu talking."

"..."

"Li Peiyu was crying in fright, but Mu Xuan scolded Li Peiyu impatiently, warning her that if she cries again, he will cut off her tongue and throw Li Peiyu to a villager in the village."

"..."

"Li Peiyu is his fiancée, he is so cold-blooded towards his fiancée, he must be even more cruel towards others."

Luo Cheng held her hand and said in a gentle voice, "Jiaoniang, don't be afraid. I won't let him hurt you. This world still pays attention to the king's law. If he dares to hurt you, I won't let him go!" "

Li Jiaoniang held his hand instead, "He can't hurt me, I'm just worried about you!"

In her previous life, she had stumbled in the hands of Mu Xuan, how could she still be tricked by him in this life?
She was worried about Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng didn't know the insidiousness of that person, she was worried that Luo Cheng would suffer a dark loss.

"Don't worry, your family's official is a lucky person. What happened to the big storm? He can't figure me out." Luo Cheng comforted her with a smile.

"In short, don't be careless."

"Yes, lady!" Luo Cheng pinched her nose.

Li Jiaoniang withdrew her hand and sat looking at Luo Cheng, "Brother Luo Cheng, I have a plan. I can help Hu Lao Qi go back to the field and rescue the villagers, and I can also beat Mu Xuan."

Luo Cheng frowned slightly, "Jiaoniang, you reminded me just now not to conflict with Mu Xuan, why did you beat him again?"

Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "Not having a direct confrontation and beating are two different things."

Luo Cheng was confused by her, "Tell me."

Li Jiaoniang blinked and said with a smile, "As for us, we pretended to be here to buy New Year's pigs. I didn't know that Hu Laoqi had captured Mu Xuan, so we happened to be peacemakers."

Luo Cheng was stunned.

He pinched Li Jiaoniang's nose, "Cunning."

"Where am I cunning? Facing Mu Xuan and other treacherous people, my cunning is nothing compared to the big picture." Li Jiaoniang didn't think so.

The fifth son held a small jar and ran into the main hall with a smile.

"Here's the candy. This is the candy my third uncle gave me yesterday. I haven't eaten it yet." Wu Zi put a bowl-sized jar on the table and said with a smile.

Li Jiaoniang lifted the lid and smelled it, "It's sucrose, it smells so good."

The sucrose sold during this period, in some sugar shops, would add some milk powder to the sugar, which was sweet and fragrant.

People eat sucrose not as a condiment, but as a supplement.

Because sucrose is not only a food, but also a supplement.

The technology of making sugar is complicated, and the sugar on the market is not like the ones that can be bought everywhere in modern times, and the price is relatively expensive, several times more expensive than in modern times.

Wu Zi found another small bowl and poured some sugar into it.

Here, Luo Cheng picked up a small wooden stick and picked out the first three taro roots from the fire.

Li Jiaoniang couldn't wait, stretched out her finger to press, "It's soft, it's familiar. Come, come, come, one for each person."

Wu Zi smiled and said, "Then I'm not welcome."

"You're welcome, you're welcome." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile.

She was holding the taro to peel, but Luo Cheng snatched it away.

"I can peel it myself." Li Jiaoniang was speechless.

"Aren't you afraid of being hot?" Luo Cheng raised his eyebrows.

Li Jiaoniang laughed, she thought Luo Cheng was going to steal her food.

However, it was really hot.

"It's hot, it's hot." Wu Zi, who no one cares about, cheerfully shook the taro in his robe.

"I can't eat hot taro in a hurry, let it cool before eating." Luo Cheng said lightly.

The fifth son giggled, "I'll let it cool before eating."

Luo Cheng peeled a taro, blew on it, and handed it to Li Jiaoniang, "It's not hot anymore."

"Thank you Brother Luo Cheng." Li Jiaoniang smiled and took it in her hand, and began to eat.

The soft and fragrant taro, dipped in brown sugar, is even more articulate.

Li Jiaoniang quickly finished one.

She picked up the small wooden stick and pulled it up in the kang again, "Is there any cooked one?"

Outside the house, Mr. Hu laughed loudly and said, "Guan Luo, Mrs. Li, I heard that there are several companies that sell pigs, and the price is the same. It depends on which one you choose, I will ask someone to tie them up. "

Luo Cheng patted the taro skin on his robe, stood up and walked out.

Li Jiaoniang also got up and followed.

In that empty room, Mu Xuan, who was tied to a chair and couldn't move, his eyes shrank slightly.Officer Luo, Mrs. Li?

how are they hereWith the people who kidnapped him?

Li Peiyu was also surprised, what?Li Jiaoniang is with the kidnappers?
Could it be that Li Jiaoniang asked someone to kidnap her and Mu Xuan?
She can't spare Li Jiaoniang!
"Just pick any pig that is alive and kicking." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile, "If the pig is good, after I return to the city, I will ask which one still wants to buy pork, and the introducer will come to buy it."

The Lu family should buy new year pigs, and the tavern opposite the medical hall will definitely buy them too.

Mr. Hu was overjoyed, "Ah, if Mrs. Li helped introduce the buyer, then she would be the nobles of those families."

"Hey, it's too early to flatter me now, after I've done you a favor." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile.

Hu Laoqi smiled and said, "It's the same, haha, by the way, Guanren Luo, Mrs. Li, if you say you can pick one at random, then I will pick the one closest to my house and drive over. If it is snowing, chase the one that is too far away." Pigs are inconvenient. But why are the piggies making a fuss? All of them are disobedient."

"Okay, make up your mind." Li Jiaoniang said generously.

Hu Laoqi waved at them, turned around and walked outside the house, to drive the pigs.

But Li Jiaoniang waved at him, beckoning him to come into the room and talk in a dumb voice.

Hu Laoqi was smart, blinked, did not speak, and followed into the house.

Luo Cheng glanced at the empty room, and followed him into the room.

The fifth son has always been an obedient child. When he doesn't give orders to do something, he just sits quietly and doesn't ask about Hu Laoqi's affairs.

Li Jiaoniang went all the way to the back door, and then whispered, "Hu Lao Qi, I just discussed a plan with my officials, do you think it is feasible?"

Hu Laoqi cupped his hands at her and said, "Miss Li, please tell me."

"Let's sing the double reed." Li Jiaoniang said in a low voice.

Hu Laoqi couldn't understand, and asked with blinking eyes, "What is singing double reeds?"

Li Jiaoniang thought, is this another modern word?
She said, "It's very simple. Brother Luo Cheng and I will make red face, and you will be black face. We pretended to pass by here to buy New Year's pigs, and met Mu Xuan by chance. Then, I will be a peacemaker to negotiate terms with you."

As soon as Li Jiaoniang explained, Hu Laoqi immediately understood.

"I, Hu Laoqi, are the best at this kind of thing." Hu Laoqi chuckled, "Miss Li, that's a good idea."

Li Jiaoniang said again, "It's too early to implement the plan. Let's lock them up for a while in the afternoon. Let them be afraid, and they will cooperate honestly."

"Okay." Hu Laoqi clapped his hands in agreement.

After discussing, Hu Laoqi went to drive the pigs.

Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng went back to the stove, eating the baked taro.

The family that raised the pigs lived near Hu Laoqi's house, and after a short while, the pigs arrived.

The couple and the son of that family all came, still holding a large scale.

The whole family laughed.

The middle-aged man said, "Lao Qi, where is the buyer?"

Hu Laoqi pointed to Luo Cheng and Li Jiaoniang and said, "It's these two."

The two people's current attire is completely different from that of the villagers.

The middle-aged man and his family immediately said respectfully to Luo Cheng, "Ma'am, my pig has never been sick once, and it is jumping happily. We weighed it at home and it was 130 two catties. The old seven found another big pig." Come on the scale, look, and weigh again?"

Li Jiaoniang secretly thought, she is really a simple and honest family.

The more honest people she met, the more she couldn't bear to lower the price.

"Brother Luo Cheng, can you set a better price?" She asked Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng nodded to her, and said to the middle-aged man's family, "Re-weigh, I will calculate the money here."

"Okay." The middle-aged man nodded, calling for his boy to help tie the pig.

Pigs are alive and kicking, and they are big, so it is inconvenient to weigh them.

Several big men had to be tied up together, and it was only when they were lifted up that they could be weighed well.

Mr. Hu is seven strong, and he lifted the pig together with the middle-aged man, his father and his son.

The middle-aged woman pulled the weight, and kindly called Li Jiaoniang to check the scale.

Two catties is not bad, 130 two catties.

"Look, it's the same weight as what I weighed at home." The middle-aged man said with a smile.

Li Jiaoniang doesn't care about the 130 two catties of pigs, one catty more or one catty less.

She and Luo Cheng came from poor days, and they were helped by the villagers.

In today's world, a large amount of wealth is concentrated in the hands of the powerful. If you want to make money, it is better to earn theirs. How much money can you deduct from the hands of the poor?
"Brother Luo Cheng, do you want to calculate the money?" Li Jiaoniang asked Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng and Li Jiaoniang had the same idea.

This pig selling family is dressed in rags, and the whole family depends on this pig for a good year, right?

He didn't care whether he weighed a catty or a catty.

"Okay, let me do the math. The bulk pork in the market is now 35 yuan a catty. This is a hairy pig. The price is a little cheaper, because the internal organs and other things have to be removed. How about [-] yuan a catty? "Luo Cheng said.

People from the countryside and the city came to collect the big pigs, and they only gave half of the money, and they only charged twenty yuan a catty.

How much is this one asking for? !

The middle-aged man's family was greatly surprised, afraid that they had heard wrong, they looked at each other.

After confirming that the other party had heard the price Luo Cheng said, the whole family replied together, "All right, all right, it's okay, just use this price."

Hu Laoqi immediately smiled and said, "Guan Luo is really kind."

Luo Cheng shook his head, "Hu Laoqi is too famous."

The price is calculated, 130 two catties, 35 Wen a catty, that is 620 Wen.

Li Jiaoniang gave the money generously, four ten-peat bank notes, and the rest of the money was loose change, which was strung together with a string.

The boy from that family counted and said with a smile, "Father, mother, it's quite a penny, exactly 620 pennies."

Not a penny, not even a change?
This moved the family again.

Because, when other people come to the village to collect the whole pig, they will forcibly erase dozens of pennies.

In order to sell the whole head, they had no choice but to agree with heartache.

Tens of pennies can buy ten catties of grain, and if the pig receivers don't give it, they have nothing to do.

if not?If you can't sell the pigs, you can't change them into cash, so what can you pay taxes on?
Killing and selling, many people can't finish selling loose meat, and end up losing more.

Right now, Li Jiaoniang is willing to give money, a lot of it, and the middle-aged man is so grateful that he doesn't know what to say.

"Your official wants to transport the pig back to the city, please feel free to ask, I have a wheelbarrow at home to help transport it." The middle-aged man said.

Luo Cheng thought for a while and asked Li Jiaoniang, "Jiaoniang, why don't we kill this pig on the spot and transport it back to the city? Our backyard is not spacious, so it's inconvenient to kill a pig."

(End of this chapter)