Chapter 235 Shazhu's Dream
As she spoke, Qin Huairu's eyes turned red and she was about to cry again.
"Speaking of which, Dongxu is still unlucky."
Yi Zhonghai saw this and advised:
"Huai Ru, stop crying. We still have to move forward."
Yan Bugui suddenly remembered something and asked:
"By the way, Jia's sister-in-law, what are you going to do at the funeral?"
Jia Zhang said:
"It's just twenty bucks, what else can I do?"
"Just do it in the yard."
She held the stack of banknotes and said:
"I'll go buy groceries tomorrow morning and ask Zhuzi to help me cook it in the afternoon."
Yan Bugui glanced at Sha Zhu, only to see Sha Zhu nodded happily, so he didn't say anything else.
"Okay, that's it."
……
The next morning, before daybreak, Jia Zhang got up.
She put on her clothes quietly and put her feet into her shoes silently.
Qin Huairu was a light sleeper, but she woke up immediately.
Jia Zhang was groping in the dark with her butt sticking out, about to open the door. Just as she touched the bolt, she heard Qin Huairu ask:
"Mom, why are you up so early?"
Jia Zhang rolled her eyes and said:
"Isn't this a banquet for Dongxu today? I'm going to buy some food!"
Qin Huairu looked at the sky:
"It's so early, the morning market hasn't opened yet, right?"
Jia Zhang said:
"I'm going to the toilet first, you can sleep now!"
"Oh, by the way, I emptied the chamber pot and spittoon. You...you don't have to go out. Just make breakfast in the room."
Qin Huairu blinked her sleepy eyes and said:
"Oh, I know."
After Jia Zhang closed the door, she giggled secretly in her quilt.
Jia Zhang carried her own chamber pot and walked towards the public toilet with her fat body twisting and turning.
Soon she came back after pouring the pot, put down her own chamber pot, and started pouring the other one.
Although the distance from the yard to the public toilet was not particularly far, she was fat and didn't do much work, so after running a few times, she began to pant.
There were more than a dozen households in the yard. After working for a long time, Jia Zhang only managed to fill up one-third of the houses.
As the sky was getting brighter, Jia Zhang sat on the threshold of the yard, panting with exhaustion.
"Who the hell is so wicked and uses such a dirty trick!"
"Oh my, I'm so tired!"
Suddenly, she caught sight of the pond in the yard and an idea came to her mind.
She quickly stood up, and while the people in the yard were still asleep, she rushed over quickly, picked up a chamber pot, and poured it directly into the pool in the yard.
……
When Jia Zhang entered the room, Qin Huairu had already gotten up.
"Mom, why did you take so long?"
"I'm going to the bathroom."
"Is the meal ready?"
Qin Huairu said as she combed her hair:
"I'm just about to do it."
"Hurry up! I'll take a nap for a while."
After saying that, he got back into bed.
After breakfast, Jia Zhang went out to buy groceries.
Qin Huairu suggested that she go instead, but Jia Zhangshi wouldn't let her and insisted on going herself.
Qin Huairu had no choice but to let her do it.
Shazhu also woke up.
He sat on the bed in a daze.
Last night, he had a dream. In the dream, for some reason, he and Qin Huairu started living together.
The two of them lived a happy life. Shazhu was still busy cooking, Qin Huairu and Xiaodang were helping him, and Banggeng was still running around like a monkey.
In the dream, Qin Huairu kissed him while Xiaodang and Banggeng were not paying attention.
Now that he's awake and sitting on the bed thinking back on this scene, Shazhu is still a little agitated.
He scratched his bird's nest-like hair:
"How could I have such a dream?"
We won the fight yesterday and helped the Jia family prepare a banquet. After Sha Zhu got up, he washed up and started to get busy.
He pulled the stove into the yard, cleaned the big pot and put it on the rack, and then he waited for Jia Zhang to come back from buying vegetables so that he could start working.
It was almost noon when Jia Zhang came back.
She carried several bags into the yard. The bags were bulging and no one knew what was in them.
Seeing that Sha Zhu had already set up the big pot, Jia Zhang simply threw the bag aside.
Qin Huairu helped pour out the contents.
When everyone saw it, they were dumbfounded.
Jia Zhang bought a lot of things, several bags filled with cabbage, radishes, potatoes, and a small bag of sweet potatoes.
In addition to several large pieces of tofu, the most valuable thing was a basket of eggs, probably about a dozen of them.
When people in the yard saw what Jia Zhang brought back, their faces changed.
Especially those who contributed money last night, their faces turned green.
Qin Huairu was also confused:
"Mom, you were gone for so long, and this is all you bought?"
"anything else?"
Jia Zhang spread her hands:
"That's all."
"Is this not enough?! I can hardly carry it anymore. I carried it all the way back here, I must be exhausted. It's your turn, try it!"
Sha Zhu was also troubled when he looked at these things.
My goodness, there is nothing fishy about this.
Oh, no, there are still a dozen eggs.
How could a chef like him start cooking?
Even though it's not the He family's feast, wouldn't it damage his reputation as a chef by doing this?
Although not all households contributed yesterday, there were still dozens of people who contributed.
These dozen eggs are not enough for each person to take a bite.
Sha Zhu couldn't help but say:
"Oh my god, this thing you bought is too... monotonous."
Sha Zhu thought about the wording for a long time and finally came up with this sentence.
"No, what dish would you like me to make for tonight's dinner? Stir-fried shredded potatoes, or cabbage stewed with tofu?"
Other people in the yard were also talking about it.
Everyone felt that what Jia Zhang did was extremely unkind.
She collected almost thirty yuan in share money yesterday, so buying these things today would cost her less than ten yuan in total.
She also knew that everyone would have opinions, and had already thought of her own arguments:
"I...I wanted to buy meat."
"But I can't buy it. You know meat is hard to buy now."
Qin Huairu also felt that her statement was untenable.
Although meat is hard to buy now, you can still buy it if you really want it, such as by going to the pigeon market.
Besides, even if I really can’t buy meat, buying more eggs would be a sign of sincerity.
The things I bought now really don’t look good.
Qin Huairu bit her lower lip, her face full of embarrassment and difficulty.
Sha Zhu saw it, stood up, brushed off the dust on his pants, walked over to her and said:
"Don't worry, I'll go out for a walk."
Qin Huairu chased after him and asked:
"Zhuzi, why are you going?"
"Never mind it."
Sha Zhutou didn't even look back and left quickly.
