"The money I earned will be asked to leave again, and no matter how much I earn, I can't keep it" Chen Qing frowned and said, even if he spared no effort, it was a bit unbearable to work all day long, and there were more than 50 taels of foreign debts left, which could not be repaid by working for a short time.

"Then you can't stay!" the eldest aunt glared.

"Ah Qing should go find a few labor-saving jobs, if you really can't do it, go to the town to try your luck, maybe you can find someone with a lot of wages and not tired. Otherwise, there is not even any meat to eat during this festival, and I am afraid that people will laugh at it, our Chen Ping is a scholar again, so we can't lose face," Grandpa Chen sighed and said.

Chen Qing is pulling out the cold in his heart, when is this coming, and he still cares about the face of the reader, that is, he goes to the town to write a word and read a letter to earn more money than he earns more money than he works hard, but Chen Ping is the treasure of the family, and he is the coolie of the family. This is really in response to that sentence - everything is inferior, only reading is high!

No matter how aggrieved he felt in his heart, Chen Qing still turned around and left the house, endured it for another two years, and waited for Ah Bi to get married.

Chen Bi's wedding date is set for the summer of the following year, which is the tenth day of agricultural leisure. It's only a year and nine months, and no matter how much he endures, when he helps pay off his family's debts, no one can instruct him.

Chen Qing thought that a good day was coming, and he calmed down, but he also lost a little anger.

If you have a short job, you will work, and if you have no work, you will go up to the mountain to collect firewood, and the days will pass quickly. At the beginning of another year's cat winter, Chen Qing and Chen Bi are still nesting at home doing embroidery work.

This house was newly built when Daddy got married, and it was only a dozen years old, Chen Qing repaired it everywhere and was not airtight, and he had just renovated the thatch before winter, and it looked much stronger than the old house of the uncle's family.

The eldest aunt is not worried about this house for a day or two, but Chen Qing has a resolute attitude, unless Abi marries, he will not give up the house, these are all good things that were said before, and the eldest aunt does not dare to rob it.

"Brother, my embroidery is almost finished, you can take me to the town to play and hand over the embroidery by the way~" After Chen Bi ran to the town a few times, she always wanted to go to the town to play.

Chen Qing knew that children were playful and didn't always circle her, so he nodded and agreed.

Chen Bi got the approval and immediately sped up, and the three-day work was completed in two days, and even the embroidery to be handed over to the family was also embroidered.

Chen Qing's own embroidery was completed two days earlier, and he waited for Chen Bi's embroidery to be sent in pieces. Thinking that the family also saved a lot of silver, enough to buy a decent dowry for Chen Bi, Chen Qing secretly estimated that he needed to buy supplies.

Before filling in the bridal gift to 10 taels, and gave the matchmaker 1 tael of silver for ventilation, after the flood, he did not steal money to buy food. It was calculated that it was nearly 20 taels of silver.

The remaining 65 taels of silver in the family is not a small amount, and an ordinary peasant family stuffs a few taels of their own money, plus a dowry, and a dozen or twenty taels is enough to be decent.

But who is Chen Qing, how could he let his sister marry so shabby? At least he had to buy a set of head noodles, a dresser, an eight-treasure jewelry box, a set of four treasures in the study, a few brocade quilts, a few sets of new clothes, and a few rolls of cotton cloth......

Chen Qing counted more and more, and he couldn't wait to stuff all the things that his sister didn't have in these years to her. In the past few years, he can't even make a new dress for his sister, how can he steal more money, and he doesn't dare to spend it on his sister?

Just a set of heads costs twenty taels, which is still the cheapest silver jewelry, and if it is gold, it will cost hundreds of taels. Affordable jewellery is inlaid with silver and jade, including a hairpin, a pair of earrings, two butterfly hair ornaments, and a pair of jade bracelets.

The better the fineness of the jade, the more expensive the jewelry, the ordinary 30 taels set, the slightly better 50 taels set, Chen Qing inquired about the price in the town, and was more satisfied with the 30 taels of jade stone face.

But if you buy this set of noodles, I am afraid that you will have to save a few other things, and Chen Qing will be fascinated by it, which will inevitably cause Chen Bi to be dissatisfied.

"Brother~ in a daze again!" Chen Bi poked Chen Qing with her finger and called him with a pout.

The old people in the village often say that if you are in a daze, you will become a fool if you don't pay attention to losing your soul, Chen Bi is afraid that no one will call him after he leaves, what if his brother really loses his soul?

The little girl's worry Chen Qing didn't feel it at all, sighed, thinking that she might as well take advantage of the winter to take two more embroidery jobs, so that she could prepare her sister's dowry.

Early the next morning, the brother and sister got up early to wash, made breakfast and ate it by themselves, and the rest was warm in the stove room.

The winter air is exceptionally cool, and when you take a breath into your lungs, you feel a chill in your heart. Chen Qing still walked by Chen Bi's hand as he did when he was a child, and it was not until he entered Qingping Town that Chen Qing let go of his hand and took Chen Bi straight to a breakfast shop.

"Didn't you have breakfast?" Chen Bi asked in surprise.

"You can't eat, I'm hungry after walking for an hour" Chen Qing grinned, this little girl is more careful than herself, occasionally taking her sister out to eat fresh food, it has always been Chen Qing's wish, of course you can't miss it if you come out early.

"Well, I'm hungry too" Chen Bi didn't expose it, and followed her brother into the store with a smile.

The two ordered a bowl of bean curd, two baked cakes, and a bowl of wontons with thin skin and big filling. After eating, Chen Bi rubbed her bulging stomach and laughed silly.

"It's so delicious to send it away, I'm afraid that one day someone will cheat her," Chen Qing tapped her forehead and teased her.

Chen Bi sat with a smile for a while, and then went with Chen Qing to Aunt Liu's to deliver embroidery.

"Abi is also here, come and sit" Liu Xiulian took out a plate of pastries and handed it to Abi to satisfy her hunger.

Abi rubbed her stomach and shook her head, "Auntie, I just finished eating, I can't eat"

"What's delicious here, look at the girl's support!" Liu Xiulian embarrassed her cheeks with amusement, and then packed a few pieces of pastry and handed them to Chen Bi and asked her to take them back to eat.

"Auntie, is the new embroidery alive?" asked Chen Qing while taking the embroidered embroidery to Liu Xiulian.

"It's early, I'm waiting for you to come over, this time it's ordered by the wife of the old man's family, I ask for more, embroider it carefully!" Liu Xiuniang took out a cloth bag, which contained only a piece of moon-white brocade, and the tentacles were silky and high-quality.

Chen Qing picked up the note contained in the package and looked at it, and his face couldn't help but be stained with a trace of shame.

"Hehe, what are you shy, isn't it just a belly pocket? You haven't worn it!" Liu Xiulian slapped him with a smile.

The corners of Chen Qing's mouth were bitter, he just didn't wear it, so he would be embarrassed to hold a woman's things.

Chen Bi coughed lightly and hid her smile. The little brother has to wear a belly pocket like a woman, but the little brother who is a master doesn't need to wear it, Chen Qing has been a master since he was a child, and of course he didn't wear it.

Aunt Liu didn't know why, thinking that Chen Qing also wore her belly pocket when she was a child, "What are your requirements?"

“…… Closing the moon and shyness" Chen Qing spit out four words with difficulty.

"What are you shy about?" Liu Xiulian also blushed, she didn't know much about words, and she was still praising Chen Qing for a good-looking woman.

"It's literal, let me embroider a pattern of a closed moon shy flower" Chen Qingyang raised the pattern drawn on the letter, and saw that the bright moon above was mostly covered by clouds, and a pool of lotus flowers was waiting to bloom.

Liu Xiulian and Chen Bi both came over to take a closer look, and got together to discuss where to start.

After enough discussion, Liu Xiulian raised her head and asked Chen Qing, "Brother Shan, let me bring you a message, saying that the shopkeeper wants you to take the time to go to the county, saying that there is a big job and you are not in a hurry, and ask if you want to take it."

Chen Qing was short of money, listening to this good thing, he nodded hurriedly and said, "Take it, just let Uncle Liu help me pick it up, this ...... It will be embroidered very quickly."

"No, I heard that it's very difficult to live, you have to go by yourself, some details are not clear on the letter" Liu Xiulian directly said Liu Hengshan's original words.

"Nacheng, I'll go to Uncle Liu for a ride now, do you want to go to the county seat to have a look?" Chen Qing asked the girl with a smile.

"Think, shall we leave now?" Chen Bi immediately jumped up, happily picked up the pastries and planned to go out to the county seat.

"Okay, if you want to go, hurry up, so as not to miss the hour for a while" Liu Xiulian didn't expect Chen Qing to be in such a hurry, seeing that Liu Laohan was about to get on the road, and hurriedly urged the two to find it.

Chen Qing pulled Chen Bi to trot all the way, and finally arrived before Liu Laohan set off, riding in a carriage all the way, Liu Laohan began to tell Chen Bi interesting stories about the county again, which was not much different from what he said to Chen Qing at the beginning, but there were two latest interesting things that happened in the past two years.

Chen Qing has not been to the county seat for three years. Since Shen Shucheng learned that Chen Qing would not go to the county seat in the future, he occasionally asked Liu Laohan to bring a letter to Chen Qing.

The two communicated with each other and did not break contact. After the township test last year, Shen Shucheng sent him a letter, telling him that he had won the ranking and became a lifter, and that all the hardships were not enough to express, and he thanked Chen Qing for his help. Later, another letter came in January, saying that he should work hard to prepare for the exam, and that he could not correspond with him often, and that he would contact him again after the imperial examination.

Chen Qing didn't know Shen Shucheng's address, so he couldn't reply to the letter, but he could feel his joy from the letterhead, Chen Qing was also happy for Shen Shucheng, this kind of genius, as long as one pedal can fly, and he just helped him a little, he would not ask for credit or expect anything in return, I just hope that Brother Shen can sing all the way and get what he wants.

As soon as he entered the county seat, Chen Bi's head never stopped, looking around dizzily, and his mouth kept asking questions. Only then did Chen Qing realize that his appearance when he first came to the county seat was really calm, and Chen Bi should be the first time he entered the city.

Chen Qing saw that passers-by occasionally cast disdainful glances, but others couldn't help but disturb Chen Bi's interest, so he hurriedly broke the girl's little brain, and whispered, "Calm down, just ask me in a strange whisper."

Chen Bi blinked, nodded her head, and felt that she was too startled just now, anyway, her brother wouldn't laugh at her, so she asked directly, "Was my brother as curious as me when he first came?"

"Well, yes, I think everything is quite fresh" Chen Qing touched his nose and lied, so as not to hurt the girl's self-esteem.

"Hee-hee...... So what does this restaurant sell? "Chen Bi began to ask in a low voice.

"Selling food, but you see that his face is so big, he must only receive distinguished guests, we can't go now, and when I have money, my brother will take you to try it" Chen Qing answered in a low voice, the brother and sister quietly communicated, Chen Laohan looked interesting, and also lowered his voice to correct what Chen Qing said wrong.