Chapter Twenty-Three: Disguise and Ugliness

Mo Daojun traveled in a hurry, and the vehicles and people traveled all the way. In order to gather in the early morning, I occupied the stall and sold things to buy things.

It was not yet dawn that day, and the Shi family got up early. Uncle Shi packed the corn stalks cushions, straw mats, straw sandals and other things in a big basket. In another basket are all kinds of strange knick-knacks knitted by Situ Ming, small animals and insects, and the lid of the pot made by her and Aunt Shi from sorghum stalks.

Most of these things were made by Situ Ming around the clock during this time, hoping to sell them at the market in exchange for some cloth to make some winter clothes and quilts.

"Old stone, do you slow down, can you move?" Aunt Shi said to Uncle Shi who was taking the flat burden.

"This straw stuff doesn't weigh much, it's light!" Uncle Shi said as he tied the rope on the basket to the head of the flat shoulder.

"You have to be careful, too, and walk slowly. This thing is something that our daughter has worked so hard to make, so be careful not to wrestle and drop a few things. Aunt Shi instructed again.

"You old woman, I thought you were worried about me, it turns out that you feel sorry for me to pick these things." Uncle Shi said strangely.

"Look at what you said, I'm worried about you, you're the pillar of our family." Aunt Shi said kindly.

Mi'er rubbed his eyes that didn't wake up, and ran to the yard to go to the market with his father, he hadn't been to the market yet.

"What are you going to do, your father is there to sell things, not to go to the market to play." Aunt Shi asked him to go back to the house and continue to sleep.

"But why can't I go, when the second brother can go?" Mi'er looked reluctant.

"The second brother is going to help your father, good son, don't make trouble, hurry back to the house, and run out without wearing any clothes." Aunt Shi wanted to carry him back to the house.

"Don't, I'm going to follow my dad to the market." Mi'er often listened to Shi Zi'er tell him about the scene in the market, which was lively and fun.

"Mi'er is the most well-behaved, can you listen to your mother's words? You're too young, you don't know that although the bazaar is fun, there are a lot of bad people. Can you tell the good from the bad when you press a group of people? You're so cute, and you're taken away by those bad guys and sold, but what should you do? Situ came over and told him.

"What are they doing with me, I'm not a chicken or a duck that can be sold for money, and you want to coax me." I don't believe it.

"Don't you know that there is a kind of person who specializes in catching children to eat? It is said that the meat of a child is fine and tender, and it is better than fresh carp. Shi Zi'er lied to him, and after speaking, he licked his lips with his tongue.

Shi Zi'er wanted to eat fish, he had only eaten fish once when he was so big. At that time, he was still young, and I remember that it was a good harvest year.

Because Jizhou is an inland area and not near the sea, the food in the sea is extremely precious to the people here. There are also fish and shrimp raised in the fish pond, of course, the price is also very high, and only the rich can eat it.

When he heard his second brother say this, he remembered that the monsters in the story would eat children, so he thought he was really scared.

"Shizi'er, you don't talk well, what do you scare him about." Situ said strangely.

"But there are a lot of bad people, and although they don't eat people, what they do is much more terrible than cannibalism." Situ said again.

What behavior is more terrible than cannibalism, Mi'er thought to herself, since her sister said this, it must be reasonable. He no longer clamored to follow.

Uncle Shi and Shi Zi'er packed up and walked out of the house, and Situ Ming also followed.

"What are you doing here?" Aunt Shi hurriedly called out to her. Then Little Feet ran up to her and dragged her back to the house.

Because the sky has not yet dawned, it is almost impossible to see people's faces from a distance. When Aunt Shi walked in and saw it, she was suddenly startled.

She clutched her chest and said in shock:

"You little girl, why has your face changed?"

I saw that Situ Ming's originally white and slippery face had become a little dark and rough, and her curved willow eyebrows, which were like smoke, drooped down like a dead caterpillar. Gao Gaoqiong's nose enlarged, and the color of the cherry red mouth was a little gray.

It's just that yesterday Aunt Shi said that her little girl shouldn't go out to show her face, and her appearance is too outstanding and too attractive. She came up with a way to think that sometimes being ugly wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

She got up earlier than Aunt Shi today, just to get ready.

She went to fetch some ashes from the bottom of the stove, and applied a few drops of cooking oil evenly on her face, and even applied a layer of carefully to her neck. For this reason, she took a basin of water by candlelight and took a serious photo, and praised it in her heart:

This little girl does have clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, she is a beautiful embryo, and she looks better than herself in her previous life.

Repeating this like this, it won't be too dark on the face and look fake.

I felt that it was very inappropriate to raise my eyebrows like this, so I took the thin stick of firewood left over from the burning and drew my eyebrows. The lady in the boudoir used Shi Dai to draw her eyebrows, in order to make her appearance more outstanding and beautiful, she was good, and changed the original extremely good-looking eyebrows to a scary look.

After doing so, he glanced at the water in the basin a few more times.

This mouth was not in order, so he took some grass ash from the stove and applied it to his lips.

In this way, the originally beautiful face was covered a little.

She also took two small cloth bags, one containing some extremely black pot bottom ash, and the other containing some gray grass and wood ash. He tied two cloth bags around his waist, and inserted the thin sticks of the thrush into his hair, and of course the hairstyle was still boyish.

Then he took the straw hat that the adult had brought and fastened it to his head. Hidden a pair of eyes as bright as a dripping star under a straw hat. Originally, I planned to secretly follow Uncle Shi and them to the market when she coaxed her to go back to the house, but she didn't expect to be caught by Aunt Shi.

"Mother, you just let me go. Who would have recognized me as a woman in my dress. She grabbed Aunt Shi's sleeve and shook it coquettishly.

"Your trick is just to deceive yourself, whether others recognize it or not, the fact that you are a daughter cannot be changed." Aunt Shi did not let go.

"Besides, are you pretending to be like this to go out and be scary? The same will be eye-catching. ”

"I put this straw hat on my head, who can see it. Besides, mother, you are also too careful. There are more people in the bazaar, and we are not young ladies and young masters of famous nobles, and we are dressed the same as many people, and no one will notice. Situ Cheng tried to convince Mrs. Shi.

"My daughter, why don't you understand what I say. Mother doesn't mean that you're afraid of being recognized or anything, but that you're a woman and can't go out and show your face. This is the rule of our ancestors and cannot be changed. Aunt Shi sighed.

"I'm just a kid now, can you take me for two years? If you think so, you will treat me as a son. Situ Cheng just didn't understand why he had to abide by these rules, and he only restrained women.

"The first time Daddy did this business, there were many doorways in it that I didn't know. For example, choosing a location, pulling people to shout, settling accounts for discounts, bargaining, and so on. I didn't go out for fun, mother, you just promise me. I promise not to sell at the market anymore, but to help behind my father, okay? I promise you'll promise me that one day. "Situ Cheng is soft and hard to soak.

Aunt Shi's ears were also soft, and she nodded helplessly.