Linxian is a small county town in the interior of the Northland. The whole county is even said to be a river, not even a lake.

So Li Miao really doesn't understand, what does it mean to pull a waterwheel to sell mussels?

I couldn't help but walk over.

When it's far away, I don't feel anything. After getting closer, I finally smelled that the water in this waterwheel actually exuded a fishy smell?

What does this mean?

"Miaomiao, what are you looking at?"

Li Hua also came over with her daughter, she had never seen such a waterwheel or such a way of selling.

However, after thinking about it carefully, after glancing at the sign next to him again, Li Hua smiled: "What's so rare about this? This is a seaside grower who took his own mussels and sold them." When I was in Linxian before, you seem to have seen it. The small stall on the street, killing mussels on the spot, taking pearls on the spot, the one who sells pearls?"

As soon as she mentioned this, Li Miao remembered.

When she was in Linxian County, she had seen something like that. But the mussels at that time were all dead.

But this lady seems to be alive?

This made Li Miao puzzled, so she pointed to the big water tank with a length of two meters and asked, "Auntie, why do you want to sell it like this?

These words amused the eldest lady: "Little girl, the method you said was a few years ago. The eldest lady is not afraid to tell you that most of the things about digging pearls in the dead mussels are fake, and they are not pearl mussels at all. It's just that some people buy ordinary dead mussels, and then put some synthetic beads into them, and lie to you that they are real pearls. ”

Later, we farmers couldn't sell it, so we had to pull the mussels of the sea together. This pearl mussel is the most squeamish, if you hurt it a little, it will die in less than half a day. If you look at it alive and dig it up yourself, there's no going to be a fake, right?"

This lady has just arrived here with the car, and she has been standing for about ten minutes, but there is not even a person who came to see, let alone buy it. So when I saw Li Miao coming over at this time, I was so enthusiastic that I hurriedly greeted and explained, and my attitude was so good that I could enter Zhongnanhai.

Li Miao also understood the meaning of this lady's words. If you think about it, it's the same thing.

In fact, Li Miao is actually not very interested in things like pearls, not that she doesn't like it, there is no woman in this world who doesn't like jewelry. But the problem is that she doesn't have any money, so she doesn't think about it this way.

If this kind of thing had been put in the past, Li Miao wouldn't even look at it.

But today, she came over. There was no other reason, it was because of the coolness that suddenly burrowed into her body just now.

Previously, in fact, Li Miao couldn't be sure if this chill was drilled from this waterwheel. But as she approached and got closer and closer to the waterwheel, the feeling seemed to become more and more obvious.

In November, although it is already cool in the morning and evening, it is still quite warm at noon. Especially after walking this way, Li Miao's body was already sweating. But since she got to the side of this water wheel, Li Miao felt that she felt like she had walked into an air-conditioned room with high power, and her whole body was cool and comfortable.

It's an amazing feeling!

It's been a month since I found out that something was wrong with me. Li Miao didn't find a trace of vein. Today, I finally have a clue, and of course she won't give up.

So, after thinking about it, she asked the eldest lady: "Auntie, how do you sell this thing?"

The eldest lady saw the little girl's expression and knew that she was tempted, and immediately said: "I just came today, girl, you should open a show for me, you can pick the mussels in this tank, fifty yuan each." ”

"Fifty?"

To be honest, Li Miao felt that the price was a bit expensive.

She didn't have much money in her pocket, and she had to plan carefully for every penny before she got a job. Especially now that her mother came to Nanshi with her, she doesn't even have a place to live. Spending fifty yuan to buy a mussel that I don't know where it came from, Li Miao flinched a little.

Seeing that there was a hint of retreat on her face, the eldest lady hurriedly went back to make up for it: "Count you thirty-one." Little girl, what is the use of these thirty yuan now? It's the money for a bowl of noodles. But if you get a pearl out of it, you'll make a fortune. What's more, my mussels are not those new mussels that have been raised for a year or two and then pulled out and sold, the least of my mussels have been raised in the sea pond for three years. ”

After speaking, seeing that the little girl's face was still hesitant, the eldest lady hurriedly added: "I'll put my words here, if the girl you come out of the mussel for a while, there are less than two beads in it, this mussel and the beads inside, Lao Wang, I will give it to you for nothing, how about it?"

It's all said and done, and Li Miao shouldn't seem to be a little bit like that anymore.

Thirty dollars! That's enough for her to eat at school for two days.

Li Miao was still a little hesitant, but she heard her mother next to her: "Let's play, isn't it just thirty yuan, let's try." My Miao'er must have a good luck, Mom believes in you. ”

Since Li Hua saw her daughter again in the hospital, she saw that the child always had a sad look on her face. Although Miao Miao always tries to laugh at her, she has been a child who can't lie since she was a child. How can you hide it from her?

Today, seeing that Miaomiao finally got into a childlike heart, looking at those water mussels with bright eyes, Li Hua suddenly felt soft in his heart.

Her Miaomiao was always too obedient, and when she was very young, she behaved like a little adult, and after eating, she obediently moved a small bench over, and sat on the edge of the table waiting for her to feed. When it's a little bigger, take a small spoon and sit there and eat it little by little. A little bigger...... Well, when I was about five years old, I had to learn to wash the dishes myself.

Other people's children are seven or eight years old, and the family dog is angry. But her Miaomiao, who was seven or eight years old, had already helped her when she was cooking. Choosing vegetables, washing rice, picking beans, and doing all kinds of work.

In her life, there may have been too many sad things. But if Li Hua is allowed to live again, she will be able to go again in order to get a daughter like Miaomiao again.

And Li Miao had no scruples after getting her mother's permission.

She is only eighteen this year, and when she was still very young, she was full of curiosity about many things. After taking out thirty yuan and handing it to the lady, the lady took out a big net bag from the side of the car.

As soon as the net went down, twenty or thirty pearl mussels of various sizes were fished up.

"Come, girl, whichever one you like, which one is yours. ”