Xie Jiaojiao took a look and saw that it was a pink jacket with a white skirt underneath.

"Mom, are you buying this for me?"

Sun Ruhua smiled and said, "Since you are here, I will buy you two a set of clothes. The clothes you wore before were all picked up from your sister-in-law's or mother's old clothes and altered."

Of course Xie Jiaojiao agreed. After all, it was rare for Sun Ruhua to take the initiative to spend money, right?

Xie Jiaojiao touched the material. It was made of coarse linen. It might not be very comfortable to wear, but it was good at keeping warm!

Sun Ruhua was about to pay the bill, and Xie Jiaojiao pulled Sun Ruhua aside: "Mom, buy two more pieces of fine cotton cloth. I want to use them to make underwear. Then the three of us can make one each!"

Sun Ruhua subconsciously refused, but when she saw Xie Jiaojiao's eager eyes, she swallowed her words and turned back to the boss and said, "Boss, bring two more pieces of fine cotton cloth."

"Come on!"

The boss was extremely happy. The clothes of the three people who came in were covered with patches. He thought they might just come in to take a look, but he never expected that they bought two sets of clothes and also asked for two rolls of fine cotton cloth!

Sun Ruhua bargained with the boss, and finally asked the boss to give her a roll of thread before she paid the money happily. This time she spent nearly two cents of silver, and Sun Ruhua felt the pain in her heart.

Xie Jiaojiao comforted her: "Mom, if I don't have this money, I can still earn more!"

Seeing that they had made a lot of money today, Sun Ruhua felt uncomfortable for a while. Seeing that they had almost sold out, Xie Jiaojiao said, "Mom, shall we buy some more meat and bones? Zhiyi is eight years old now, but compared to Aunt Wang's Niu Er, he is much shorter and looks pale and skinny..."

"Okay, okay, we've made some money anyway, so what's wrong with eating something good?"

Xie Jiaojiao nodded vigorously: "That's right! Isn't the reason we make money to eat well and dress well?"

Xie Zhiyi clapped beside him: "Wow, we can eat meat again!"

Several people arrived at the butcher's stall. The boss had a deep memory of Xie Jiaojiao. He was so flattered by her last time that he even gave her two bones. How could he not remember her?

As soon as Xie Jiaojiao saw the boss, she immediately started praising him. After this round, the boss was tricked into giving them two more bones.

Xie Zhiyi whispered: "Sister is really amazing!"

Sun Ruhua planned to buy some more salt. There was only a spoonful of salt at home, which she dug from the old house, and she used it all up when cooking two days ago.

When buying salt, she saw the white flour. Thinking about how Xie Zhiyi and Xie Jiaojiao ate buns today, Sun Ruhua couldn't help but buy two kilograms of white flour. While buying, she comforted herself in her heart that Jiaojiao was about to get married, so she had to feed her to be plump and white. Zhiyi was still growing, so he should eat something good.

After buying these, it was already noon and the three of us were ready to go back.

On the way back, when leaving the town, Sun Ruhua saw Wang Po and hurriedly went up to greet her, only to see Wang Po talking to a man carrying a load on his shoulder.

Xie Jiaojiao followed and called out "Aunt Wang".

The man carrying the load put a piece of tofu in a banana leaf for Mrs. Wang.

While giving them money, Mrs. Wang said to them, "You guys are coming to town too?"

Sun Ruhua nodded: "Why are you in town too?"

"Isn't it winter now? The hens in this house don't lay eggs anymore, so we can take them to town to sell while the market is going on."

Sun Ruhua nodded. This was indeed the way farmers raised chickens. As long as they raised a lot of chickens, they could take them to the town to sell in the winter and earn some money to supplement the family income.

The tofu seller looked at Sun Ruhua and the other two and asked, "Auntie, do you want this tofu? I'll sell it to you at a low price."

Sun Ruhua was about to say no, but Xie Jiaojiao stepped forward and asked, "How much is the discount?"

The man moved his shoulder pole away, only to see that there was a whole bamboo board underneath that had not been sold yet: "This is the only old tofu left. You can give it as much as you want. Sell it when you see money, otherwise it will go bad if you take it back."

Sun Ruhua took one look and said, "So many have not been sold."

The tofu seller was also worried. He had thought of making more tofu today as there was a big market, but he never expected that there were far fewer people buying than usual.

Mrs. Wang smiled and said, "Why don't you buy one too? The tofu here is delicious. I always buy one whenever I go to town."

As soon as she saw the tofu, an idea came to Xie Jiaojiao's mind. Before Sun Ruhua could speak, Xie Jiaojiao said, "Boss, if we want all your tofu, how much cheaper can you give us?"

When Sun Ruhua heard this, she immediately frowned: "Jiaojiao, stop talking nonsense. There are so many, how can we finish them all?"

Xie Jiaojiao whispered in Sun Ruhua's ear: "Mom, buy them all. I've thought of another way to make money."

Sun Ruhua looked at Xie Jiaojiao with some disbelief.

Xie Jiaojiao winked at Sun Ruhua: "Buy it, Mom, I won't waste food."

When the tofu seller heard that all of them were wanted, he immediately made an offer: "If you want all, just give me 50 cents!" At least he could keep the money for the beans.

Xie Jiaojiao thought it was very cheap, but Sun Ruhua felt that tofu would turn sour if left for too long, and it was really not worth buying.

Seeing Sun Ruhua hesitate, the tofu seller immediately lowered the price: "Big sister, if you really want all of them, 45 cents will be enough!"

Xie Jiaojiao immediately made the decision: "Okay, we want both!"

The tofu seller immediately smiled happily and started loading the tofu for them. Then he saw that there was also a bamboo chopstick on the other shoulder pole that had not been moved!

"Boss, if you don't move these two, give them to us along with the bamboo chopsticks. It will be difficult for you to pack them up."

The boss agreed in the blink of an eye. After all, the bamboo chopsticks were not expensive and could be woven in a short time.

After the boss finished pretending, he looked at Sun Ruhua, and Xie Jiaojiao pushed Sun Ruhua: "Mom, give me money."

Sun Ruhua couldn't say anything in front of outsiders, so she could only give the copper coins reluctantly. If she had known this, she wouldn't have come up to say hello!

When Xie Jiaojiao got the tofu, she thought about the method her grandmother used to make fermented tofu when she was a child, and decided that she must study it carefully when she returned.

On the way back, Xie Jiaojiao was thinking about how to make fermented tofu. Sun Ruhua and Wang Po were talking, and they would look at Xie Jiaojiao with resentment from time to time.

However, Xie Jiaojiao was so busy thinking about the steps and walking attentively that she completely ignored Sun Ruhua's gaze.

When we reached the village entrance, we separated from Mrs. Wang, and now our two families no longer live in the same direction.

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