NOVEL NEXT Chapter 4 The Murderer
"Sister, I want candied haws on a stick." The greedy little Douzi grabbed the hem of Mian Xi's trousers.
Mao Xi spent two cents to buy two.
"The other one is for Ajiao, don't eat it secretly."
"Sister, you're so kind!" Xiaodouzi only saw candied haws in his eyes.
Mao Xi walked around the market and came out, and got a rough idea of the fruits, vegetables and snacks commonly sold in the market.
Glutinous rice cakes, roasted pork offal, sugar and snow water, crystal dumplings...
There were even more types of these snacks than in the food courts she often visited. Shuang Xi thought about planting the fields at home with crops first.
Setting up a stall to sell snacks still requires long-term planning.
Crossing Guanyun Bridge, Mao Xi saw a familiar figure. His second uncle Liu Yongde was whispering to a cattle dealer on West Street.
"My cow!"
Mao Xi's heart tightened, and she saw that the figure looked similar to the cattle thief that night. The second house and his family were usually at odds with her, "Follow me first and take a look."
"Xiaodouzi, don't call your second uncle when you see him later, you know?" Mao Xi warned his younger brother.
The younger brother is smart and seems to understand: "Listen to sister!"
Xiaodouzi had eaten half of his candied haws, and Mao Xi followed his second uncle to see him enter the grocery store again.
The second uncle had just left the shop. After he had gone away, Mao Xi went into the store and lied about buying something. After some trickery, he found out that the second uncle wanted to make a custom-made pair of scissors from a few years ago, and he also asked that the word "jade" be engraved on the scissors.
Mao Xi made a plan and decided to get his cattle back.
After returning home, Mao Xi went back to the back room first, entered the space when no one was around, opened the mall, and spent 50 Wen to buy two buckets of rice, which is equivalent to more than 20 kilograms, leaving 10 kilograms in the space, and the rest Fill the rice jar at home.
After the transaction, the mall shows that the upgrade was successful.
*** Mall L1 *** Upgrade completed
Reward: Unlock cooking skills＜100 home-cooked recipes＞
Mao Xi opened the mall, and eggs and sweet potatoes were added to the purchasable items. The myrtle, milk fungus, and bamboo fungus sold at the market stall today can also be traded.
Wei Xi seemed to understand the trading rules of the mall.
The medicine stove was on fire, and Xiaodouzi was cooking two medicines for Grandma with the fire spreading.
The custom of the Huai Kingdom is to have two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, which makes Shu Xi, who was used to three meals a day, a little uncomfortable.
She washed the rice and prepared to steam it.
"Sister, it's not afternoon yet." Xiaodouzi came over and was surprised to see the rice, "I didn't buy any rice today."
"There are some more. I'll buy them tomorrow." Shu Xi simply lied.
Grandma hugged her little sister and got out of bed, planning to come over and help with the cooking.
"Ah Shao, are you hungry?"
"Auntie, you lie down first. From now on, we will eat three meals a day."
After unlocking the system's home-cooked cooking methods, Mao Xi's mind seemed to be opened up, and she was able to handle the ingredients very smoothly.
When the steamed soup of "Pork Belly and Myrtle Stew" was almost ready, she started to stir-fry.
The ingredients were limited, so Mao Xi only cooked two dishes: stir-fried wild vegetables and stir-fried wild mushrooms.
Slice pork belly and add minced garlic to fry in oil, then add washed milk mushrooms. Sprinkle with celery powder before serving. A simple and delicious farm-style stir-fry with fragrant aroma.
Xiaodouzi fed Ajiao with candied haws.
Attracted by the aroma, Makihara took out the steamed soup and firewood rice, and helped set up the bowls and chopsticks.
"Ah Xiao, have you bought rice?" Grandma was confused. The family has been without rice for three days. Recently, she has been relying on batter and gnocchi to barely fill her stomach.
"I found another small half bag in the warehouse. All the bamboo fungus picked in the mountain today was sold. I will go back to the mountain tomorrow morning."
Mao Xi scooped up a bowl of pork tripe soup for Chen. Seeing that the food had improved significantly, Chen was at a loss: "How much bamboo fungus did you sell today?"
I usually earn no more than 20 yuan a day from selling wild vegetables.
"More than 300 articles. Grandma, you need to be healthy and recuperate. The doctor said you should rest and recuperate. He also asked me to buy a chicken and stew ginseng for you to eat."
Muyuan looked at the myrtle stewed pork belly in the bowl, which was a bit difficult for him to swallow.
It was the first time he ate this kind of wild fruit stewed pork belly, and he was a little repulsed.
"Brother Mu, this is our farmer's method. It can replenish blood and help restore the body."
Mu Yuan drank the soup first, and the pork belly was stewed until it was soft and fragrant. Then he tried the fruits in the soup. The sweet and salty mixture created a new taste experience.
After the meal, Mao Xi brought the golden sore medicine and Shuhen ointment bought from the drugstore to Muyuan.
Muyuan's eyebrows tightened: "If you ask the doctor to get medicine, has he written a medical record?"
"Yes, I fell by the stream last night. The doctor prescribed medicine for me. You need to heal your injury first."
Mu Yuan collected the golden sore medicine and returned the Shuhen ointment to Shu Xi.
Mao Xi also has her own plans. She will soon be plowing the fields to plant the second crop of rice. She is not strong enough on her own, so she hopes Muyuan can stay and help.
"If you go to the bamboo forest to pick mushrooms tomorrow, I will accompany you!"
Mao Xi returned to her room, opened the mall, bought some sweet potatoes and eggs, and stored them in the space first.
"It would be nice if the mall could sell some medicine." The upgrade button in the mall was still gray, and Shu Xi guessed that it was because his transaction volume was not enough.
At the moment, he has more important things to do!
He was going to his second uncle's house to retrieve his cow.
After applying Shuhen ointment, Mao Xi specially wrapped the wound on his head with gauze and went to the second room alone based on his memory.
The second and third bedrooms have not yet separated from my grandpa. They live with my grandpa and step-grandma.
When she saw Ah Shi with gauze on her head, her stepmother Ke Shi thought she was here to beg for food, so she blocked her at the door and refused to let her in.
"You little bitch, why are you here when you're not at home to take care of a sick loser?" Ke's words were venomous, and he cursed twice in one sentence.
Second uncle Liu Yongde heard the sound and came to Ke's side, holding the door together.
"Grandma, Second Uncle, my cow is lost, can you lend me your cow?" Mao Xi tested the two's reactions.
“We don’t have enough cows to plow our fields,” the second uncle roared, holding the door open with his hand.
Ke Shi put his left hand on his hips and pointed at Mao Xi with his index finger on his right hand: "Your family was divided, and the cows were given to you, and they came to us to ask for them. They are so delicious and lazy to cook!"
Some of the village aunt's scolding tactics were familiar to Mao Xi in TV dramas in her previous life. They were just being mean and cheating. She had her own way of dealing with such evil women.
Mao Xi collapsed to the ground and sat at the door of the uncle's house, crying and shouting: "I don't know who has a bad heart and stole my cow. My father and brother joined the army." , Grandma is also sick. You ask me to plow the fields with a child, but Grandpa doesn’t even want to borrow an ox... Wu~ Wu..."
The crying attracted the neighbors. Seeing more and more people watching, Mao Xi continued to cry:
"Grandpa, you are so partial. I just wanted to borrow a cow, but you refused! The cow is gone, and our whole family will starve to death without any income this year..."
The neighbor's fat aunt came forward and tried to help Shu Xi up: "Ah Shu, stop crying!"
Mao Xi refused to get up and sat on the ground kicking the dirt in front of the door with her feet, making dust fly.
The fat aunt took a step back and turned to Grandpa: "Liu Laowang, your granddaughter has nothing to eat. Why are you so stingy about borrowing a cow for your family?"
Stepmother Ke Shi stood in front of grandpa Liu Wang: "Their family has already been given a cow, but they lost it themselves, and they still want us to take it!"
Mao Xi continued to cry: "I don't know which black-hearted cattle thief used scissors to cut the rope that tied the cattle. If there is no food, I will kill myself with the cattle thief's scissors, wu... wu..."
The second uncle heard the meaning of Mao Xi's words and quickly pulled Ke into the house and whispered a few words in her ear.
"Auntie, when I went to take care of the cows last night, I might have left the scissors at my boss's house!" Liu Yongde whispered.
After hearing this, Ke slapped his second uncle's right face: "I asked you to do something, why are you so careless!"
The fat aunt heard Ma Xi's dejected words: "Bah, bah, bah! You little girl, you committed suicide. You lost the cow and found the scissors, didn't you? We report to the official, what are you doing to yourself!"
Mao Xi wiped away her tears, stood up and patted the ashes on her body: "Okay, just listen to Auntie."
"Don't go, don't go, I'll lend you the cow!" Ke rushed out of the door, "But you have to wait until the land at home is plowed first, and then you can borrow it next month."