Chapter 426
Chapter 426
River dam, dusk.
After the temperature drops, people go out of the house to enjoy the coolness of summer.
The old vegetable seller pointed to the number on the electronic scale: "It's exactly one and a half catties, and I'll charge you 13 yuan and 5."
According to Jiang Ning's spiritual judgment, the real weight is only one catty and two taels, and the electronic scale is a cheating scale of eight taels.
The price of 13 yuan and 5 yuan was far beyond Xue Yuantong's budget. First, she thought it was expensive, and second, it was too much.
Originally, she meant that the amount of ginger was not much, but the old vegetable seller purposely took a few more yuan. This situation is easy to encounter when buying vegetables, and some stall owners deliberately ask you to buy more. .
"Master, help me take away all these yuan." Xue Yuantong said.
The old vegetable seller was not very happy. Under Xue Yuantong's urging, he slowly removed about two-thirds of the ginger, leaving one-third on the scale.
Old man: "These are 9 yuan."
Xue Yuantong complained in his heart: "It's too dark!" '
The remaining one-third is actually more expensive than the other two-thirds!
Obviously something is wrong!
When she wanted to ask, Uncle Zhang, who was all over the place, came with a black-backed wolfhound. Residents of Heba bungalows often came to Heba for a walk.
Uncle Zhang is a pig butcher, he talks a lot, and he doesn't tie the dog on a leash at all.
Adults and children passing by were all terrified when they saw the big wolf dog following him. If this dog went crazy, it would probably kill someone!
Uncle Zhang trained the dog well, and the wolf dog followed him obediently, without sniffing around.
"Little Jiang, did you really touch the loach?" He moved closer, saw a bucket of densely packed loach, and said in surprise, "My good fellow, where did you catch the loach?"
There are so many loach, it should weigh two catties, and now the wild loach costs at least 16 yuan per catty.
The big wolf dog stretched out its dog's head to smell, Jiang Ning glanced at it, and the wolf dog clamped its tail and hid.
"No, it's in the ditch over there." Xue Yuantong pointed to the puddle under the river dam.
Uncle Zhang said he wanted to try it. It’s been hot recently, so he doesn’t have much to live, so he has a lot of free time.
After saying a few words, the old man interjected, "I've weighed it for you, hurry up and pay the money, I have to do business."
Uncle Zhang looked at the old man, and suddenly pointed at his nose: "Last time I bought two catties of cucumbers from you, and when I got home, the weight was wrong. You, Guisun, lied to me!"
Uncle Zhang became angry, it was really evil, and the power was astonishing.
The old man flinched, and retorted: "I do business with integrity!"
While he was speaking, he held the electronic scale with one hand as if nothing had happened.
Jiang Ning judged that there is a reset button over there. As long as the old man presses it, the electronic scale will return to normal. It is difficult to be found out if it is a lie, unlike a manual scale, which can be used if caught.
"Your grandma, how dare you talk back to me!" Uncle Zhang was about to hit someone.
Xue Yuantong still needs to buy vegetables, and cook loach to eat at home. She is willing to waste time here. She just wanted to talk to the old man and ask him to weigh the ginger again.
Xue Chuchu beside her suddenly spoke out, her voice was gentle: "Master, just now a catty and a half is 13 yuan and 5 yuan?"
Vegetable old man: "Yes, can we still lie to you?"
Xue Chuchu looked at the third ginger on the scale: "These are 9 yuan, right?"
The old vegetable seller nodded, "The little girl remembers it very clearly."
At this time, Xue Chuchu took out a 5 yuan note, and said simply and neatly: "Master, you can wrap up half of the money you just took away, and you don't need to change the money."
The old man's face changed, and he wanted to repent, then he looked up and saw Uncle Zhang with a swollen face.
The old man sullenly wrapped the ginger in a heartache.
……
On the way home, Xue Yuantong walked on the field path in the afterglow of the sunset, smiling and boasting:
"Chuchu, you know how to buy vegetables!"
Xue Chuchu was very modest, "It's not my credit, because Uncle Zhang is by the side, otherwise he would definitely not sell us."
Jiang Ning said: "You can think of it very well."
After Xue Chuchu was praised by him, she finally felt that she had made a contribution to the small group, and the feeling of indebtedness in her heart faded a little.
In the past, she often ate Jiang Ning's food, and she always felt ashamed.
Jiang Ning is in charge of getting the ingredients, Tong Tong is in charge of cooking, and where is she, Chu Chu?
She is responsible for eating. On the surface, Tongtong is a foodie, but in reality, she is a foodie.
The environment in which she grew up made Xue Chuchu unable to accept other people's kindness calmly. When she was a child at school, she borrowed a dime from Tong Tong, and she didn't pay it back after a day. She felt uncomfortable and panicked.
In fact, at school, many students are willing to treat Xue Chuchu well, give her breakfast, snacks, gifts, help her clean up, do homework, enjoy almost everything, and someone will always take care of it.
However, Xue Chuchu understood that those good intentions had already secretly marked the price, and she never accepted it.
It's not easy for her to refuse what Tong Tong and Jiang Ning gave, but she will always return it.
Xue Yuantong shook the bucket, and the loach twisted wildly again, she asked: "Jiang Ning, how many loach can you eat?"
Jiang Ning made up a random number: "5."
Xue Yuantong: "I can eat 6."
Jiang Ning changed his words: "I lied to you just now, I can eat 7."
"I lied to you too, I can eat 10." Xue Yuantong said solemnly.
Jiang Ning: "I should apologize to you, actually I made a slip of the tongue, I ate 17."
The two argued while walking, and when they were about to leave the house, Xue Yuantong even moved out to the Nth power, but in the end they still couldn't argue over who ate more.
Xue Yuantong: "Anyway, I will always have more than you!"
Jiang Ning coaxed her: "Have you seen the beard of the loach?"
Of course Xue Yuantong saw it, her eyesight was very good, and the five pairs of beards were particularly obvious.
"I'll tell you a secret, the loach has an effect, it will grow a beard after eating it." He threatened.
Xue Yuantong's expression suddenly became very exciting. She thought of the scene of herself looking in the mirror after growing a beard, and quickly shook her little head, unable to bear to look directly.
Jiang Ning said: "I'm not afraid of growing a beard, I can eat as much as I want!"
Xue Yuantong said firmly, "You think I'm afraid?"
Seeing the naive argument between the two, Xue Chuchu smiled and said, "Jiang Ning, who should eat less than Tongtong?"
Xue Yuantong immediately conceded defeat and announced that she had become a loner, and that even Chuchu had betrayed her.
……
They decided to eat loach at night, but they faced a problem. The loach caught in the pond was wild, lived in the mud, was very dirty, and needed to be handled carefully.
The best way is to keep the loaches in clean water for two days, and let them vomit all the dirty things in their bodies.
However, Xue Yuantong wanted to eat tonight.
Xue Chuchu said: "It can also be eaten. Treat it with salt, it can make the loach spit out the dirty things, and it can also eliminate the smell of earth."
Xue Yuantong thought about it for a while: "It seems to be handled like this."
Jiang Ning said: "You don't have to worry about it, just leave it to me."
Xue Yuantong was dubious: "Can you do it?"
Jiang Ning said lightly, "We'll wait and see."
After that, he picked up the bucket and poured half of the loaches, about twenty, enough for three people to eat.
Pour half a bucket of clean water into the new bucket, and the muddy loach, which was originally dirty, became clear and writhed in the water.
The two girls huddled by the barrel, admiring his handling.
Jiang Ning showed his right hand, which was a slender hand with well-defined bones, strong and beautiful lines, and contained a sense of strength.
After Xue Yuantong looked at it, she hid her little hand with low self-esteem.
She said, "Stop showing off, just get it done."
Jiang Ning pressed his palm to the surface of the water, posing as a master.
Xue Yuantong: "Hmph, playing tricks."
Xue Chuchu raised her spirits, ready to see what Jiang Ning was going to do. Logically speaking, he was very reliable and rarely teased them.
Suddenly, a low-frequency "hum" sounded, like a sweeping wave, and the entire bucket trembled.
The water surface in the barrel seemed to be boiling, and countless tiny water bubbles appeared, and unlike boiling water, the volume of those bubbles was so uniform that they were almost exactly the same.
Jiang Ning exerted his aura and controlled it carefully. The ring after ring of shock waves scanned the water repeatedly. With the pervasive spiritual consciousness, the loach in the water vibrated frequently.
At the same time, countless dirty things overflowed from the loach's body, like washing the marrow and cutting the bones.
After 20 seconds, Jiang Ning withdrew his hand, and the originally clear water had become turbid.
"Change the water." Jiang Ning ordered.
Xue Chuchu came back to her senses, and quickly changed a bucket.
Jiang Ning repeated the same trick, and after ten seconds, the bucket was only a little dirty.
"Okay, it's done."
He not only removed the dirty substances, but also got rid of parasites, bacteria, and earthy smell by the way.
The scene just now was so strange that Xue Chuchu couldn't help asking: "Jiang Ning, you..."
Jiang Ning: "A method handed down from the ancestors."
Xue Yuantong couldn't bear his condescending demeanor, and said disdainfully, "That's nothing, it's up to me!"
She moved a bucket with great difficulty, inserted her hand into the water, and stirred vigorously. After a while, a vortex appeared in the bucket. In order to show the effect, Xue Yuantong threw the origami boat, and the boat was immediately swallowed by the vortex.
Xue Chuchu: ...
'Forget it, don't care. '
Although Xue Yuantong disapproved of Jiang Ning on the surface, he did make a lot of dirty things just now, and it seemed that the loach was very clean.
To be on the safe side, Xue Yuantong sprinkled some salt into the bucket. When the loach came into contact with the salt, it was like touching poison. It writhed crazily and made a sound of "bang bang bang bang". Xue Yuantong quickly put the lid on the bucket.
After a while, she poured some cooking wine, and then took out the loach, beheaded, disemboweled, and smashed.
"Eat fried loach tonight!" Xue Yuantong decided.
Jiang Ning has no objection, he is only responsible for eating, while waiting for the meal, he leans on the small chair and plays with his mobile phone.
Although the summer vacation has started, the class is still full of 999+ messages every day, and there has never been a day when it is deserted, so it can be seen how strong the friendship between the students in the class is.
Dong Qingfeng: "I plan to visit the Nanshi Museum next week. Is there anyone in a team?"
Cui Yu: "No, next one."
Jiang Yanan: "Is it fun inside?"
Zhang Chi, who moved bricks all day, sneered: "See what's the use of that thing, why don't you buy something to eat."
Because Zhang Chi's character is very poor and his words are very aggressive, so his words were skipped by everyone.
Yu Wen: "My eldest sister is planning to go next week, and I will go with her."
Dong Qingfeng: "At that time, we will make an appointment for dinner. I know a private restaurant."
Duan Shigang supported his good brother Zhang Chi: "With that kind of money, it's better to go to an Internet cafe to play games."
Dong Qingfeng was not someone to be easily provoked, so he said: "The money you spend in the Internet cafe is enough for you to visit all the museums in the province."
Duan Shigang was dissatisfied: "Are you going online?"
"No." Dong Qingfeng replied.
Duan Shigang seized the opportunity, hit the nail on the head, and said, "Have you seen all the museums in the province?"
Dong Qingfeng: "I've seen it all, what's wrong?"
Duan Shigang: ...
Jiang Ning draws out the class with satisfaction.
Jiang Ning ignored the message from the weird clown girl's profile picture.
He searched in the school group and found a familiar name, which was Ding Shuyan's social account.
A smile appeared on Jiang Ning's face. Wei Zishan, Lin Zida, and Zhuang Jianhui were in the barbecue stall that night.
Presumably, Ding Shuyan probably knew Wei Zishan.
He thought of something interesting.
While talking, he tapped the screen and chose to add friends.
In the next second, Jiang Ning's smile froze, and a prompt popped up on the screen [The other party is forbidden to add friends].
……
Holding the spoon, Xue Yuantong turned the ginger, garlic, millet and pepper in the pot, and stir-fried the fried loach. The whole kitchen was full of fragrance.
While cooking, she swallowed her saliva, she was too stupid.
Xue Chuchu baked electric cakes and made dough pancakes, and the rice cooker made mung bean tea.
Jiang Ning contributed two tomatoes, which he picked in the garden of Huqi Mountain. After Xue Chuchu cut them up, he mixed them with sugar, and a cold tomato salad was ready.
Dinner is one meat and one vegetarian, three people eat, it is getting late, the kitchen is a little stuffy.
Jiang Ning turned on the light at the door, and moved the dining table to the main room, near the open space outside.
Uncle Tang, who was shaking his fan to enjoy the cool, greeted: "It's time to eat!"
Jiang Ning chatted a few words, and the dishes were served.
Xue Yuantong didn't eat the loach first, and pointed his chopsticks towards the tomato, which was brought back by Jiang Ning!
Xue Yuantong had been greedy for a long time, and kept eating three yuan with chopsticks.
She really enjoys eating, but it's so painful, she doesn't understand why Tongtong doesn't eat the fried loach, but just eats tomatoes.
Jiang Ning saw Chu Chu's reservedness, and said, "Leave her alone, let's eat."
Only then did Xue Chuchu pick up a piece of loach. Tongtong's craftsmanship was the same as before, spicy and delicious, delicious and delicious, without any fishy smell.
When she bit the loach, it was fragrant and crispy, even the bones were crispy.
Uncle Tang next door grabbed a handful of fried broad beans, looked at them, and said, "You three are firing together all day now?"
Xue Yuantong: "I cook the food!"
She moved her chopsticks towards the fried loach.
Uncle Tang laughed twice, shook his hands, and the fried broad beans fell to the ground. He quickly bent down to pick them up, and he rubbed them and continued to eat.
Seeing Xue Yuantong and the others looking over, Uncle Tang laughed and said, "Don't underestimate these broad beans. In our time, it was not easy to eat fried broad beans!"
Xue Chuchu quite agreed: "My grandfather did the same. He used to collect peanuts and bring them home, but they spilled them on the way, so my grandfather stopped to pick them up."
Uncle Tang felt that the little girl was sensible, so he chatted a few more words: "A few drops here, a few drops there, the accumulation of a little can make a lot, what is a saying?" There is no way to form a river and sea'."
Xue Chuchu nodded slightly.
Uncle Tang was happy and boasted: "Our generation is used to living a hard life, and we know how to cherish it best!"
Xue Yuantong curled his lips: "Last month you lost 50 in the fight against landlords. I heard you sigh at the door for a long time. How many broad beans can you buy for 50?"
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