sbdcsierra Chapter 156 Meat Buns
Chapter 156 Meat Buns
The group had no choice but to walk back.
Zhou Guo remembered that he hadn’t bought the vegetable seeds yet, so he went to go buy some.
When the aunts heard this, they thought, "Oh, the seeds they brought with them have all been eaten up, so they have to buy some. If they plant them now, they will be able to eat their own vegetables in a month or so."
The boy from the grain shop came out to greet us.
Zhou Guo said directly: "We want some vegetable seeds, do you have any?"
The waiter nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, what kinds of vegetables do you want?"
"What do you have here?"
"That's a lot." The waiter began to count on his fingers, "There are cabbage, sunflower, radish, leek, broccoli, carrots, cucumber, long beans, coriander..."
Before she finished speaking, Zhou Guo waved her hand and said, "Give me some of the vegetable seeds you mentioned above." Quite generous.
"Hey, don't be busy, don't be busy. Why are you in such a hurry?" Li stopped her.
Zhou Guo looked at her in confusion. She wanted to eat all of these.
"How much would it cost if you bought all these vegetables? I have already discussed it with your aunts. We can buy one type of vegetable each and share a few seeds. That will be enough."
"Yes, Guoguo, it's not the right way to buy vegetable seeds. If you are not familiar with the villagers, you don't need to buy them in the shop. You can just borrow them from the village. I don't think we have ever bought vegetable seeds in a shop before."
Zhou Guo opened her mouth. The aunts were still smarter than her.
Every household in the village must have common seeds like radish and sunflower. After discussing it, the Li family decided not to buy them and instead borrowed some from people in the village.
Each family bought a bag of other vegetable seeds, which was enough to share among seven families. Everyone went to the city gate with the vegetable seeds in their arms.
Zhou Guo followed behind and saw a bun shop on the side of the road. He remembered that he had promised to bring back some delicious food when he left, so he bought some buns.
The owner of the bun shop was a middle-aged couple. The woman showed no impatience when she saw her. Instead, she opened the steaming cage, took out a white bun and handed it to her gently.
Zhou Guo stared at the steamed buns handed to him and was stunned. After a while, he blinked and said, "Auntie, I want to buy some buns."
The woman's hand froze, and she withdrew her hand awkwardly, "Oh, oh, you want to buy some buns? How many buns do you want? You looked at me with a bad look, and I thought you were a little monk who came down from the mountain to beg for food."
Zhou Guo touched his hair, shook his head nonchalantly, pointed at the meat buns in the steamer and said, "I want twenty meat buns and ten steamed buns."
She licked her lips. It had been so long since she had eaten meat buns.
"Okay, meat buns are three cents each, and steamed buns are three cents each."
"So expensive? Three cents for a bun?" Li heard the price as soon as she turned around and asked in surprise. She looked into the steamer again. The buns were not big, about the size of a child's fist. How could such buns cost three cents each?
I think at that time in their county, a meat bun was only two cents each, and a vegetarian bun was one cent each, which was much more expensive than this.
The woman said helplessly, "There's nothing we can do about it. These days, all food prices have gone up. Flour has gone up to twelve cents a pound. In a few days, grain prices will go up again. My steamed buns will cost two cents each."
That's right. These days, there are disasters and wars everywhere, and refugees are coming in batches. No one is farming the land, so isn't food expensive?
Zhou Guo took out some money, took several large packages of buns and steamed buns wrapped in oil paper, and paid seventy-five coins.
This amount of steamed buns and steamed bread costs seventy-five cents. If I bought white flour myself, how many buns could I make? It's a pity that the ones she made are not that delicious.
"Guoguo, you bought so many buns? Can you finish them all?"
Zhou Guo stuffed the paper bag into the bag in front of him and said, "We can eat it all. We have a big family, and I have to bring some delicious food back to my brothers and sisters at home." After saying that, he felt that the bag was really practical, but it was a little small. He would ask Yang Niang to sew a new one for him when he got home.
When the women heard this, they thought of their children who were still waiting at home, so they gritted their teeth and bought one for each of the children. The adults bought a few steamed buns. They didn't bring any dry food with them today, and they were hungry now. They had to find something to eat. It was such a long way back, and they might as well not faint from hunger.
After buying the cloth, quilts, cotton, farm tools and vegetable seeds, everyone turned and headed towards the city gate.
When we arrived at the city gate, Zhou Dacang and others were waiting with their carts.
The two groups met up and went straight out of the city gate.
Zhou Guo opened the oil paper bag in his hand, took out a meat bun and a steamed bun and handed them to Zhou Dacang, "Uncle, here, eat."
He took another one and gave it to Li, "Mom, you eat it too."
Li said, "You guys eat the meat buns, I'll eat the steamed buns." She wanted to put the buns back.
Zhou Guo tilted his hand holding the paper bag, "What are you eating? I bought 20 meat buns, one is more than enough for each person. As for steamed buns, they are three cents each. We must try them. Everyone has a share."
After saying that, she also took a meat bun and took a big bite. Half of the mouthful was filled with stuffing, sizzling with oil, fresh and delicious. It was so delicious that she sighed in her heart. It had been a long time since she had eaten meat buns. Meat buns were so delicious!
Zhou Dacang saw her taking the bun and biting the filling one bite at a time. She finished the filling of the small bun in just three or two bites. Then she bit the soft meat inside the bun next to the filling. Finally, only a layer of skin was left on the bun. She ate the skin in just two bites, finishing it all.
He found it funny and broke off the outer skin of the bun in his hand and ate it, then handed the remaining soft bun to Zhou Guo.
Zhou Guo took it subconsciously, and took a closer look, and found that it was a bun with only the soft skin and meat filling left. He looked up at Zhou Dacang in surprise, and saw that he had already started eating the bun in big mouthfuls.
Her heart softened at that moment. She felt so happy to be loved by someone. She picked up the reprocessed bun in her hand and took a big bite. It seemed to be even more delicious than the one just now.
Others also started eating steamed buns. Although one or two steamed buns were not enough to fill them up, it was better than eating nothing. After eating, they drank some water, which filled their stomachs.
When we came here, we took a car, and when we went back, we walked back leading the cow. It takes more than two hours to walk from the village to the county town.
By the time Zhou Guo could see the village entrance from afar, the sun had already moved westward and it was evening.
Smoke began to rise from the roofs of some houses in the village, and the river at the entrance of the village was flowing eastward. If she hadn't been so tired and hungry, she would really like to stop and appreciate the fireworks of the people living by the small bridges and flowing water.
The car went all the way to the end of the village. The number of people around us gradually decreased, and the things in the car were moved away one by one.
When they arrived at the door of their home, Zhou Guo and his companions did not stop the car, but drove it directly to the door of Qian's house next door.
When the other children of the Zhou family saw the car coming back, they rushed over and helped them unload the things and move them into the house. Then they carried the car back to their own home.