Chapter 13: Tax

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Chapter 13 Taxes
After lunch, I ate brown rice, and the shrimp was removed by Gu Chunzhu. I cooked it in lard with lard a few times, and burned it into a soup. I added a little salt water and cooked a bowl full of soup.
Both children served a large bowl of brown rice, mixed with shrimp soup, peeled shrimp, and ate very sweet.
Gu Chunzhu is just a pity that the clever woman is difficult to cook without rice. There is only a small pot of lard at home. She digs a little when she cooks the shrimp. If she can afford the heavy oil, this fried shrimp is absolutely fragrant and makes people tongue. Swallow it all.
After lunch, Gu Chunzhu took a thin bamboo pole and a wooden bucket to go fishing.
"Mother, An An also wants to go fishing. The shrimp is so delicious!" An An ran out of the house and looked at Gu Chunzhu's face with his small head, his big purple grape eyes blinked.
Listening to the soft voice of the younger daughter, Gu Chunzhu's heart was about to melt. He squatted down and pinched a small face of An An, and nodded, "Yes, then take An An to help."
While preparing to take An'an's hand, Gu Chunzhu felt a line of sight behind him.
She turned her head to see Xiao Cheng standing on the edge of the door frame, her delicate eyebrows revealed a trace of longing, and the lips of the little man were tightly squeezed into a line, dull and silent.
"Xiaocheng, the mother wants to hold her sister. She doesn't have a wooden barrel in her hand. Come and help me." Gu Chunzhu smiled with his head down.
The small achievement came over, and embraced the empty bucket with open arms.
"Is the barrel sinking?" Gu Chunzhu pulled Xiaoan away, and asked Xiaocheng.
"Not sinking." Xiaocheng changed his posture and hugged the barrel, accelerating his steps.
The mother and son walked to the river. At noon, no one was doing laundry.
Gu Chunzhu walked to the large bluestone in the morning for shrimp fishing. Just above the large bluestone was a large locust tree. The canopy spread like a big umbrella, spreading over their heads, shielding them from the sun.
"Just here." Gu Chunzhu sat cross-legged on the big bluestone.
This is a treasure. The sun in the winter is also hot. River prawns like to stay in a cool place. Maybe they can catch more river prawns in the afternoon than in the morning.
Xiaocheng and An'an are also not troublesome. They obediently watched Gu Chunzhu fishing for shrimp. From the excitement when she caught the first shrimp, to the hook of the shrimp getting faster and faster, both children were eager to try.
Gu Chunzhu also asked them to try it. Both children were very patient and did not delay the process of fishing shrimp.
Until the evening, I caught a wooden bucket of prawns enough to cook six or seven bowls. Gu Chunzhu poured half of the water in the bucket before moving it home.
Put the wooden barrel in the stove, Gu Chunzhu was busy in the vegetable field.
Fu's sister-in-law is a kind person. She collected Gu Chunzhu's shrimps, and the vegetables and seedlings were all crisp and tender. Looking at the vitality, Gu Chunzhu carefully recognized them. They are spinach and potato seedlings.
In addition to these vegetable seedlings, Fu sister-in-law also gave two garlic seeds, peeled out one by one garlic cloves, but growing garlic is simple, just put the garlic cloves into the soil.
There is another stubble of leeks, which are planted directly, and will grow more and more on the ground, and there are green onions. Some homely things were basically given, and Gu Chunzhu noted down the love of sister-in-law Fu.
Gu Chunzhu couldn't help but grow vegetables. After a while, the plants were planted. After the plants were planted, the sky became dark. I had brown rice porridge and boiled shrimp for dinner.
Gu Chunzhu knew that this pair was fat, so he deducted some meals. In addition, today, when she was tired of growing vegetables, her body was sore. She washed her face and feet and went to bed early.
She had to sigh with emotion. Life in ancient times could not tolerate her delusions. If she was accidentally starved, she would be frozen and sleepy. Gu Chunzhu would soon fall asleep.
She had a dream, dreaming that she sold a big price for the river prawns, and also built a big tile house for the Su family to feed the two children...
Gu Chunzhu woke up the next morning.
She deliberately lightened the movement or woke up Xiaocheng. Gu Chunzhu put her index finger to her lips and made a "hush" movement.
Xiaocheng nodded and did not say anything. He dressed and followed Gu Chunzhu out of the house.
"I'm going to sell prawns in the town now. You bring An'an at home. If you sell a good price, I will buy you delicious food." Gu Chunzhu squeezed a smile that he thought was brilliant.
After seeing Xiaocheng nodding, she put the wooden bucket in her back basket, carried it on her back, took half of the cold sweet potato and ate and walked towards the town.
When Gu Chunzhu walked to the town, the sun was already high in the sky.
The street is particularly lively. There are many vendors on the left and right of Shiban Road, some selling live chickens and ducks, and some selling pork, and the most are selling vegetables.
"Uncle, can I sell it here?" Gu Chunzhu looked at an uncle who was selling vegetables, and walked to his side, asking with a smiling face.
"Sister-in-law, the stalls in this town don't have to pay attention, you are here." The uncle who sold vegetables took the dry tobacco rod from his mouth and looked curiously into Gu Chunzhu's basket. "What are you selling?"
"Shrimp in the river." Gu Chunzhu listened to the uncle and put the basket down, and the bucket was placed in front of him. Fresh shrimp was squeezed in the bucket.
The uncle really looked at the probe a few more times, and said: "This thing is not easy to grasp. How do you plan to sell it?"
"The average big crucian carp is five pennies for five pennies. I'll sell five pennies for my shrimps too. I don't have scales, so I sell them in bowls. A small bowl has almost a pound." Gu Chunzhu's uncle who sells vegetables does not have scales or scales. It is made of iron, and the price is not low. Ordinary vegetable vendors cannot afford it.
"This price is also affordable, cough... but you sold it the first time, you have to yell." The uncle who sold vegetables took another sip of cigarettes. He was choked, and coughed for a while. After thinking, he wanted to remind Gu Chunzhu.
"Thank you uncle." Gu Chunzhu sincerely thanked.
Seeing people coming and going, she was a little timid. She thought about the two children at home. She took a deep breath and yelled: "Fresh shrimps, jumping shrimps. Some people don’t look at it. They sell it cheaply. A bowl of money."
This shouting made the vendors around couldn't help but come to see the bustle.
Gu Chunzhu was lively with him, and the people in this street turned away the crowd and stretched out his hand in front of Gu Chunzhu. "The newcomers haven't paid any money yet."
"Pay the money?" Gu Chunzhu looked at this man in a strong suit with some surprise.
"Sister-in-law, I forgot to tell you that we are setting up fifteen penny in January, ten penny in half a month, and one penny a day." The uncle who sold vegetables scratched his thin hair.
It turned out that she still had to pay money. Gu Chunzhu was very heartbroken. She had to go out before the money came in. She was a little unwilling.
"Then I will pay one month." Gu Chunzhu summed it up. Naturally, one month is the cheapest penny money. She can fish the shrimp every day in the river. Xu wants to stall for a long time.
The man in Guanjie took the money and left with satisfaction.