Chapter 8: Back to Town

Grape didn't talk to Shi Gui for a few days, and when she entered the house, she hung up her face, put the tent down, and said in a yin and yang voice that she would please people, but Shi Gui just didn't answer her, she had the heart to find fault, and she didn't get angry.

Out of the door Zheng Pozi refused to leave half a step, for fear that Shi Gui would turn her back on her eyes and ears to please Mrs. Zheng, the godmother was long and the godmother was short, and she beat her back and poured tea to burn her feet and pick her ears, and she was originally thrown to Shi Gui, but she refused to let her interfere.

Shi Gui didn't go to the front, the coarse cloth clothes sent down were blue and blue, she begged for some oily green cloth at her grandmother's house, and set the cuffs of this dress with the edge of the road, this side rolled, looked much better, and her own was ready, so she smiled and said to the grapes: "Sister's also bring it, I'll roll it for you." ”

Grape snorted, "You're the only one who can make these things." refused to let her do it, and bit her ear in front of Mrs. Zheng, saying that she didn't do her work, and she was patronizing.

After Mrs. Zheng accepted the money, she asked them to recognize each other as godsisters: "Fight for this idleness, and if you really go back to the old house in the future, you sisters will have to help each other." ”

This is just to put it bluntly, even Mrs. Zheng herself doesn't know if the eldest lady thinks of her day, what year can she go back, if she can't go back, she will have to change it in a few years, and the two little ones will take care of her.

No matter how reluctant the grapes are, it is useless, she is not Mrs. Zheng's own daughter, but she bought it two years early, and she can't go against Mrs. Zheng's will, so she only ignored Shi Gui behind her back.

Shi Gui still treats her as usual, just lives in a room, looks up and doesn't see anyone looking down, no matter how angry she is, she can't save much time, she stabs a few words from time to time, and after a few days, she looks at Shi Gui is still as diligent, and Mrs. Zheng didn't hurt her more for this, just like the original.

The two girls had nothing to do at night, the grapes shook the box and counted the fifty cents in the box, counted and sighed, she was eleven after the New Year, and she wanted to make a Hangzhou cloth skirt this season, who knew that she let the king steward drink a mouthful of blood in vain, sighed for a long time, and scolded the king steward for his black heart, and remembered the section of digging bamboo shoots, and pestered Shi Gui to dig bamboo shoots.

Shi Gui simply taught her to dry the bamboo shoots dug up, how to go out at home at will, there are always tender tips to dig in the forest, and she is not in a hurry at this time, so she settled down and learned to cut.

The clothes sent down did not fit, she learned to trivialize, and the shoes were changed again, and the grandmother saw her craftsmanship and sighed that the children of the poor family had already been in charge, Shi Gui also gave her the soles, she could not embroider, but she could draw, and she hooked a water lotus with red and green threads on the soles: "Thank you mother for mentioning me, I don't have much to do, and I made a thank you gift for this right." ”

Grandma Sun looked at the soles of the shoes, and saw that the needlework was fine and thick, and she had really worked hard, thinking that Shi Gui was so skillful, if she was in the old house, she could also earn a fortune, but here, thousands of tricks were useless, and she pursed her lips: "If this is in the old mansion, it is good to go to the needlework room." ”

looked at the insoles a few times, liked her more and more, and told her: "There are many flowers in the yard, you pinch some of them, they are not better than bamboo leaf tea." ”

She just looked at the garden, where there are flowers and where there are fruits, and she touched Shi Gui's head in the spring, summer and autumn. ”

Shi Gui was overjoyed, and thanked his grandmother for his son, hating that it would be autumn immediately, and when he went back, he took out the small box again, and saved 200 Wen in half a month, and 100 Wen of monthly money.

Shi family was also wealthy, Qiu Niang will weave silk, was originally for people to weave silk to get wages, Shi Gui calculated an account, a weaver, a good weaving of a hundred pieces of silk a year, if the family invested money in, can put a loom to come, deduct the silk money and chew mouth, a year can also earn forty taels of silver, these forty taels and then save two years to buy a flower building machine, more tricks to sell expensive.

How do you know that in the first year of waiting for silkworms to spin silk, they encountered such a day, people shivered from the cold, and even the silkworms were stiff, and none of the silkworms in a village could return to their capital, not to mention that the original capital of the Shi family was not rich.

It sounds easy to make a fortune, but it is done at the right time, in the right place, and when it is in the sky, there is no return, and then it can withstand the locust plague, but it will not be able to slow down for three or five years.

Now it's okay, when she left, Qiu Niang said that she came to see her, and if she had a tael of silver at that time, she would be able to buy land when she went back.

Shi Gui is willing to work hard and endure hardships, even if he almost buys it, he can also call him fertile, and the croppers have land, so they are not afraid that they will not be able to save money, Shi Gui also wants to raise silkworms and spin silk, and with spare money, he will go to the town to set up a small shop.

She had the idea of those flowers in the backyard, so she pinched two of them and put them on the grape table, and the grapes got up and combed her hair, and when she saw the two red flowers, she first flattened her mouth and glanced at her: "You entered the garden?"

Shi Gui shook his head: "Where do I dare, these two flowers are stretched out of the garden." ”

Grape cocked his chin: "I don't dare to miss you, you wait, it's time to pinch the flowers in two days, the godmother is going to send rose sauce to the eldest lady of the old house, let's go in and have a look." ”

Listening to her say that the flowers were blooming, Shi Gui also made a fascinated appearance, but what he thought about was how to bring this flower down to sell, this is not as good as dried bamboo shoots, the fresher the better.

Don't wait for the roses to bloom, you have to pick up the rat koji grass to make the rat koji kueh on the third day of March, these weeds are born in the yard, you can pick a handful of them when you turn around, chop them and boil them to make the juice, knead them in the dough, and add honey to make the dumplings.

Wang steward got a son, stayed in the mountains for a short time, his own money to buy a pound of red beans, asked Zheng Pozi to fry out the bean paste, made two boxes of dumplings to take away, the head was urgent, he also failed to bargain, asked Zheng Pozi to slaughter a knife, and when he left, Zheng Pozi steamed four, two of his own, one of the stone laurel grapes.

Shi Gui smiled and brought a bamboo partridge back: "There are bamboo partridges in the bamboo forest, I set up a net, and I don't know if I can put it on, I can't imagine that it is really set, make soup for the godmother." ”

Mrs. Zheng pinched the bamboo partridge legs to fatten, added snow cabbage and stewed it in a pot, cut spicy dices and added it, and ate until only soup was left, put down half a pot of noodles, and said while sucking: "On the third day of March, I will always eat cold food, and let the two of you go for a day." ”

This is an unexpected joy, there was a day off in January, Shi Gui immediately thought about going back to Sweetwater Town, found Mrs. Chen, and asked her to send a letter to her home, she found such a place for herself, not like the original village thought that she had to be beaten and scolded as a girl, eating cold rice scraps, sleeping on a broken mat, Mrs. Chen gave a word of advice to Mrs. Bai, and she really did her best.

Shi Gui has long started to set bamboo partridges, this thing is only slightly bigger than sparrows, it turns out that Lanxi Village is caught with a big net, not to mention this thing in the famine year, that is, the bamboo rats are dug out of the hole and skinned and eaten.

Although the body is small, the meat is tender, the grapes ate two bowls of noodles, and they burped until they ate, and they said that they hadn't tasted this taste for a long time, and touched their belly and praised: "It would be nice to catch a few more." ”

The bamboo partridge has long been set, it is raised on the side of the house, a handful of millet every day is enough, few people go to the end of the house, when Shi Gui digs bamboo shoots, he heard that there are wings fluttering, and he knows that there are wild bamboo partridges in it, so he quickly found a broken piece in the kitchen, and set up a stick, which is sprinkled with broken pieces of steamed buns, which can be set with one.

Shi Guitong has a total of three, this thing eats millet and drinks clean water, she wants to fatten up to eat, and if she can go out, she is ready to bring one to Mrs. Chen, so that she can also taste it.

She said this, Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Chen knew each other well, Shi Gui has been here for almost a month, and it is always possible to go out on vacation, but she is afraid that she will go to the town alone, and she will have to take a boat and walk, and she is still unfamiliar with the place and lost alone.

Grape eyes rolled, she came to the mountain, the number of times she went down the mountain can be counted with a slap, although there is no money in her hand, it is good to go to the town for a walk, she is a Chen lady will definitely refuse, Shi Gui picked her head, and hurriedly said: "Just ask Brother A Cai to send us there, I heard him say last time that he wanted to buy plasters for his feet." ”

After the decision was made, Mrs. Zheng responded to them, and the grapes revealed a "we", and asked Mrs. Zheng to order a little, in the end, the two of them sent it, and on March 3, they went out early in the morning.

Shi Gui wrapped four rat dumplings in oil paper, tied a bamboo chicken with a straw rope, and a few bamboo shoots, she was born small, so she looked like she was carrying a lot of things, spending two pennies to take the boat, and went to Sweetwater Town.

She still remembered which street and alley Chen Niangzi's family lived in, Ah Cai sent her to the mouth of the alley, and took the grapes to the town to catch the market, and said that she would come to pick it up at noon, Shi Gui carried something, and only then walked to the door, and heard the shouting inside: "You old pious woman who has suffered a thousand cuts, my body is clearly given to your son, you only ask him, ask him if he is!"

The neighborhoods are the business of the three aunts and six women, and if there is a noise, they don't take it seriously, and they are looking for death and life, and they don't really see the dead people carried out of this alley.

Shi Gui tapped the door and asked, "Is Mother Chen at home?"

The door was covered, never closed tightly, and opened with a beat, Shi Gui looked inside, only to see clothes thrown all over the ground, tables and stools were crooked, even the bamboo shelves for drying clothes fell down, dry and wet mixed together, and there was a woman lying on the ground, not a side, but a silver willow.

I saw that she had crooked sideburns, her hair was messy, her pink placket was torn apart, half of her snow-white breasts were exposed, and the skirt on her body was torn off, revealing the oily green silk skirt inside.

Yinliu was still scolding: "The old lady's innocent body was given to him, if he is still a man with eggs, he should ask me to enter the door, but he still wants to betray me and do your blue daydream!"