The courtyard next to it was busy early in the morning, and I kept hearing the sound of porcelain bowls falling to the ground and breaking, probably practicing walking.

"Granny Zhang, I'm busy. ”

"Yes, sir, come to teach the girl?"

"yes, I got up early in the morning and walked slowly. Ding Sanniang said hello with a smile and walked into the small courtyard of Fang Yanqing.

Seeing that Fang Yanqing was holding his head, he didn't touch the flowers on the table, shook the fan in his hand, and asked, "The girl doesn't arrange flowers?"

"I feel stuffy and a little uncomfortable. Fang Yanqing pinched the flowers and leaves that had withered all night and said.

"Oh," Ding Sanniang stood in the yard, listening to the sound of broken bowls coming out of the yard next to her, and asked, "But it's too noisy?"

Fang Yanqing shook his head slightly, "It's stuffy in the courtyard." ”

"Oh. Ding Sanniang nodded as if she understood, "I won't learn flower arrangement today, go outside and buy some things to see." ”

"So, let's go. Fang Yanqing got up and walked towards Ding Sanniang, who was standing in the courtyard, "First go to the account room and pay out some of my monthly money this month." ”

"Why don't I borrow you first. Ding Sanniang looked at Fang Yanqing and said.

"No, I'm having to find a reason to get the money out. Fang Yanqing said, walked out of the yard, passed by Liu Yunfang's yard, and saw her with a porcelain bowl on her head, practicing walking, Granny Zhang was standing next to her, holding a cork branch in her hand, looking very scary. looked back and saw Ding Sanniang looking at herself.

"If I get married in the future, I want to learn this too?"

"This is serving tea, and on the day of the wedding, the number of ceremonies like the elders serving tea is naturally inescapable. Ding Sanniang said slowly, "Look at Miss Liu's appearance today, she should have to break a few bowls, and breaking a bowl is a branch." ”

Fang Yanqing immediately recalled the cork strip in Granny Zhang's hand in his mind, and asked, "Where is it?"

"Of course, it's the palm of your hand, and you will touch it no matter what you do, so you can remember it for a long time. After speaking, seeing that Fang Yanqing lowered his head and did not open his mouth, he asked again, "Afraid?"

Fang Yanqing nodded and said, "Well, some, I've been afraid of pain since I was a child, and it should be difficult to handle it when the time comes." ”

"What are you afraid of, the rules for marrying in the future are probably taught to you by me, I naturally have light and heavy things in my hands, and it won't hurt. ”

"Isn't Granny Zhang here to teach?"

"How could you let her teach," Ding Sanniang laughed, "Your aunt is bent on sending you to the high branch, but everything depends on me, and it is not her turn to teach." ”

Gao Zhi, Fang Yanqing thought in his heart, Gao Zhi in this Rong City can count them with his fingers, and he circles left and right in this small city.

There was a plaque hanging in the room in front of her, and a girl had just come out of the door, and when she saw Fang Yanqing and Ding Sanniang coming over, she stopped, bowed and saluted, "Cousin, Mr. Ding." ”

Fang Yanqing nodded and asked, "Are there many people inside?"

The girl turned her head, glanced at the room, and said, "There are a lot of people, and now it's better." ”

"Well, got it. Fang Yanqing crossed the threshold and entered the small courtyard.

The bookkeeper is sitting in the room dialing the abacus, these days because of the preparations for the wedding, the servants are here to pay money, the bookkeeper is also very busy.

"Mr. Shen," Fang Yanqing knocked on the door and shouted softly.

The bookkeeper paused for a moment with his hand on the abacus beads, and then looked up to see Fang Yanqing and Ding Sanniang standing outside the door, "Miss Yan, come to pay the monthly money?"

"I went out shopping. Fang Yanqing entered the house and said.

"Miss Yan's monthly money is three taels and two dollars this month, how much does Miss Yan take?" Mr. Shen asked as he flipped through the ledger records.

Although silver dollars are now circulating in many places, they are still very troublesome to exchange, and most people still prefer to use silver.

"Just take it..."Fang Yanqing thought about it, more than half of this month has passed, and his monthly money has not been withdrawn so far, so it seems that taking half of the monthly money is about the same, "Just take one or two or six dollars." ”

"Got it. Mr. Shen took the brush and wrote the numbers on the account book, then put the brush down, turned around and went into the hut, and after a while, took out a small brocade bag and handed it to Fang Yanqing, "Miss Yan, the money is inside." ”

Fang Yanqing took the money bag, thanked him and went out with Ding Sanniang.

"Three taels a month. Out of the door of the account room, Ding Sanniang shook her fan and said, "Your Fang family is so big, you are really stingy in terms of monthly money." ”

"Uncle is an official who does not enter the stream, and he is a festival envoy who transports salt, and there is not much money, but fortunately this is a fat difference, otherwise, there would not be such a big house. Fang Yanqing opened the door, walked out, and continued, "Besides, the girl is only ten taels of silver a year, and less than one tael a month." I don't have much money on a daily basis, I have clothes, food and other things in the house, and this money is only for a small amount, which is enough for me. ”

Ding Sanniang also went out, there happened to be an alley outside, there were few people, Fang Yanqing turned around and closed the open door again.

"How can you compare with them, you are the master. Ding Sanniang frowned and said.

"Master?" Fang Yanqing smiled when he heard Ding Sanniang's words, "Don't say it, I'm almost forgotten, I'm a master." ”

Outside the alley are small vendors, people coming and going are very lively, Fang Yanqing uses a fan to cover the light, and walks next to Ding Sanniang. "I asked Sanniang to ask, Sanniang felt that she was willing to say and answered, and if she didn't want to say it, she didn't hear it, but it was good. ”

"Girl, excuse me. ”

Fang Yanqing blinked his eyes and asked, "How much silver can Sanniang have in a month?"

"January?" Ding Sanniang thought for a while, "I haven't calculated this carefully, but the ones who came to me were not less than one hundred and fifty taels, but I didn't care about the money, some of it looked good, and I took it." ”

Fang Yanqing didn't expect Ding Sanniang to really tell him the number, and he paused for a while before he spoke, "So much." ”

Ding Sanniang laughed, "The people who came to me were all people, of course, they all took a fancy to my identity in the palace, so they didn't treat me badly." ”

"Then you said you don't care about the money..."

"The lady I served before was extremely kind, and gave me a bunch of silver tickets when I came out, so I was not short of money. Ding Sanniang looked at the stall in front of her, pointed to the clay sculptures, and turned to look at Fang Yanqing, "Do you want to buy clay sculptures?"

Ding Sanniang gave herself the feeling that she was always quite mysterious, and she always felt that she had a secret hidden in her, but when she asked it, she told you frankly, which was unpredictable, Fang Yanqing looked at the middle-aged man sitting on the stool pinching the clay sculpture, and frowned at Ding Sanniang who was looking at the clay sculpture, and asked puzzledly, "How do you know that I want to buy a clay sculpture." ”

"That day, I saw the word clay sculpture written on your paper, so I guessed. Ding Sanniang covered her mouth and smiled.

It should be that day when I was bored in my heart and the Hu painting on the paper was seen, Fang Yanqing thought for a while, and determined that it should be Liu Yunfang who saw the flowers on the table when she came to look for herself.

"Don't worry, I'm going to buy something. Fang Yanqing looked at the fork in the road not far away and said, "I'll buy this clay sculpture when I come back later." ”

"In that case, do I need to go elsewhere alone?" Ding Sanniang heard Fang Yanqing's words, and looked around.

Looking at Ding Sanniang's movements, he obviously knew what he wanted to do, but he still had the heart to sing a double reed with him, and he was worthy of seeing a big scene in the palace, "You have told me so much, what else do I hide from you." ”

"Miss Yan, this is willing to have a heart-to-heart relationship with the old slave. Ding Sanniang looked at Fang Yanqing and said.

"That naturally depends on Sanniang's willingness to pay me a few points. Fang Yanqing said, "Let's go, hurry up and buy things, and you can go buy some snacks again." ”

Rongyuan Bookstore is in the third door of the left turn of the fork in the road, the door is a little narrow, all of them are newspapers, scripts and the like, there is a guy standing on the counter, Ding Sanniang has been in Rongcheng for a long time and has not heard of such a place, some curious turned over a book, picked up to see the things written inside.

"Yo, it's actually the West Chamber. ”

The bookstore here was also discovered by Fang Yanqing by chance, and the school emblem of Nanjing University was painted in a dignified manner, but fortunately, most of the people in Rongcheng did not recognize it, otherwise this bookstore would not have lasted long.

Fang Yanqing watched Ding Sanniang flipping through the book happily, and didn't bother to call her, knocking on the table, "Man, be generous to yourself." ”

When the guy heard Fang Yanqing's words, he glanced at Ding Sanniang, who was still flipping through the book not far away, and said quickly, "Bo Yi blames people." ”

"Can you enter the book?" asked Fang Yanqing.

"Entered, just a young master went into the hut to talk to the boss, girl?" asked the man.

When Fang Yanqing heard the guy's words, he turned his head to look at Ding Sanniang, and asked with a smile, "Sanniang, I'll pick up the book, will you go?"

Ding Sanniang shook her head, "No, I see that the words outside are quite interesting, pick a few." ”

Fang Yanqing heard Ding Sanniang's words, nodded, the guy pushed open the small door at the counter, lifted the thick cloth curtain, and Fang Yanqing walked in.

The small room was also piled with books, and a man in a long shirt and a man in a school uniform were standing with their backs to pick up books.

The student's uniform was familiar with the dialect, just like the one in his own school.

Peking University, Jinling University, Nanjing University, Tsinghua University, most of the student uniforms of these schools are the same, I used to study at Peking University, this student uniform has not been seen for two years, I see it in a daze, and there is a feeling that things are not people.

"Sir, this girl has come to choose a book. The man spoke.

The two turned their heads together, and the man in the long shirt was the owner of this bookstore, named Zhou Dong, who was said to be a student of Nanjing University and a native of Rongcheng.

"It turned out that Miss Fang was here," Zhou Dong said with a smile when he saw that it was Fang Yanqing, pointing to the man in student uniform next to him, "Wei Chao, I am half the boss of this bookstore." ”

The man in the student uniform had short hair and a neat appearance, pursed his lips, and stretched out his hand like Fang Yanqing, "My name is Wei Chao." ”

Fang Yanqing looked at Wei Chao's outstretched hand, and didn't react for a while, after all, from the day he arrived in Rongcheng, he began to pay attention to the difference between men and women, and he had already forgotten about the handshake ceremony.

Just as he was about to stretch out his hand, Wei Chao's hand retracted.

Then I heard Wei Chao speak, "I thought Miss Fang knew this, but I was abrupt." ”

Fang Yanqing shook his head, "I'm sorry, I didn't react." ”

Zhou Dong probably felt a little embarrassed, so he changed the topic and said, "Miss Fang, in addition to "Poems" recently, "Mr. Yan" has also been newly added, do you want to see it?"

"I haven't heard of Mr. Yan before. ”

Zhou Dong took out a book from the shelf, "Oh, it's new, a literary club established by students from several university clubs." ”

Fang Yanqing took the book and turned two pages, which included commentary on current affairs, prose appreciation, and personal columns, although it was not thick, the content was quite rich.

"It's priced at two cents. ”

"I want a copy of this and "Poems", help wrap it, thank you. Fang Yanqing said, took out three coins of silver from the brocade bag, and put them on the counter.

Fang Yanqing handed the silver coin to Zhou Dong, who put oiled paper on the outside of the book, tied a belt, and wrapped it like a medicine bag. It was handed to Fang Yanqing's hand.

"Mr. Zhou's book-making skills are getting better and better. Fang Yanqing said with a smile, "I also bought the book, so I'll leave first." As he spoke, he glanced at Wei Chao, bent his eyes, and lifted the curtain.

Miss Fang walked slowly. ”

Wei Chao watched Fang Yanqing walk out, looked at Zhou Dong and said, "This is the new thought girl you said often comes to buy books?"

"Well, it's her. ”

"I'm willing to buy a book for two dollars, and sell six or seven copies of this book, which will be enough for you to rent this house for a month. Wei Chao glanced at the books in the room and said.

The books in the bookstore are probably only a penny, and this "Mr. Yan" is not printed much because it is made by school students, and the cost is more expensive than ordinary books.

"You, how can you calculate money like you, my purchase cost, labor, not all money, besides, there are still very few people who are willing to buy books. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the man outside shouted, "Sir, come out quickly! There's a girl here who wants to buy a lot of books." ”