Lin Xiuxiu saw that it was still early, so she hurriedly ran home, took five taels of silver, and went to the county seat.

When she arrived in the county seat, Lin Xiuxiu went to the grocery store with a familiar car, and as soon as Xiao Er saw Lin Xiuxiu, he hurriedly greeted him, "Little girl, you are here again, what do you need this time?" Lin Xiuxiu looked at Xiao Er and said, "Little Second Brother, do you still have the rice I bought last time?" I still need. ”

Seeing that Lin Xiuxiu still needed that kind of rice, she hurriedly replied, "Yes, how many catties do you need this time?" Hearing that Xiao Er still had that kind of rice, Lin Xiuxiu was much more relieved, and hurriedly said, "Then the little second brother, you give me 500 catties." ”

"Okay, you wait." Soon Xiao Er helped Lin Xiuxiu get 500 catties of rice, and invited a master to send rice to Lin Xiuxiu. Lin Xiuxiu looked at the things here again, asked for some jars and jars, and asked for three jars for a long time, two boxes of snacks, and some spices. A total of 600 Wen was paid to Xiao Er, one tael of silver, which was still more than Xiao Er bought when he saw Lin Xiuxiu, and he was reduced a little.

Sitting in the carriage, when passing by the distribution point, Lin Xiuxiu hurriedly patted the master and said, "Master, stop for a while, I'll buy something and I'll be back in a while." After the master had called the horse, I hurried into the cloth shop.

The shopkeeper in the store saw that someone was coming, so he hurried over to prepare for the reception, but when he saw that it was a little girl, he immediately went to most of the enthusiasm, "Little girl, this is not a place to play, hurry up!" ”

Lin Xiuxiu hurriedly said, "Shopkeeper, I'm here to buy things, not to play." The shopkeeper looked at the little girl carefully, and it didn't look like she was lying, and hurriedly said, "Okay, little girl, what do you need?" Lin Xiuxiu hurriedly said, "Shopkeeper, I need some plain fabrics, some fabrics suitable for babies after all, three quilts, and thirty catties of cotton." "There is no way, my brother and I have to keep filial piety and can't wear clothes that are too flowery. and my younger brother, from birth to the present, they have been wearing Aunt Cuihua's family. There are also quilts and cotton, which is coming to winter soon, so how can I do it if I don't buy them.

I wanted to buy so many things one day in the shopkeeper's day, and I immediately greeted me happily, "Okay, you wait first, I'll take it out for you right away." After saying that, he happily went to get something, and sure enough, the charm of money is endless.

The shopkeeper quickly took out the things, and I looked at it and said, "How much?" One day of the shopkeeper, he immediately smiled and dialed the abacus and said, "Well, girl, the cloth says two horses, Qingqing and Baise small flowers are five hundred Wen, and this cotton cloth is the most suitable for small babies, one cloth is one hundred Wen, and the three-bed quilt is six hundred Wen, which is ten cotton, but it is warm." Cotton, that is, fifteen wen a catty, a total of four hundred and fifty wen. I'll do the math on how much you're going to pay me. After speaking, you quickly pulled out the abacus and said, "Five hundred wen, one hundred wen...... Well, well, little girl, it's a total of one or two six hundred and fifty wen, you can give me one or two or six hundred wen. I thought about it and found that it was okay, so I agreed.

At the end of the payment to the shopkeeper, she took the money she had found, put it in her bosom, and helped me put the things in the car together. Before leaving, the shopkeeper also gave me a lot of rags for making clothes, and the next time I bought something, she would have to wait until she left, saying that she could give me a discount. I thought about it and it was cheap, so I agreed.

After the carriage, we soon arrived at home, and the master and I hurriedly moved our things in, but fortunately there was no work now, and the family was staying at home.

After the things were put away, Lin Xiuxiu hurriedly began to prepare to sew the quilt cover, the weather is getting colder day by day, it is better to cover it thickly, the previous quilt has been decades old, and it has long been knotted inside, and it is not warm at all. I finally sewed up the three quilt covers, and the quilt covers were not washed urgently. I hurried to the kitchen and got ready to start cooking.

I still dug up five bowls of rice and put some sweet potatoes in them to make sweet potato dry rice. The dish is that the leftover pork ribs and potatoes are stewed together in a large pot, and the bones are put into the pot and stewed in a pot of soup. But the meat in the house is almost gone, tomorrow we have to go up the mountain to get some chickens and rabbits back, after all, people do work for us every day, no money, but we can't cook and don't do a good job for others, or I'm sorry for others.

After the meal was ready, I hurried over and shouted for everyone to eat. The people who did the work put their things away before they came to eat. Seeing that everyone was eating well, Lin Xiuxiu was relieved, and hurried back to the pot to eat the rice she had served. After everyone finished eating, they also put the dishes and chopsticks in the pot with vegetables, which was really heartfelt.

In the evening, Lin Xiuxiu told her brother about asking Xiaohua to come over to help, and my brother was also very approveful. "Sister, the house will be built about the day after tomorrow, and all that is left is to put up the beams and make the windows. You're going to go to Carpenter Zhang tomorrow, and you're going to buy some beams, and you're going to have to ask him to do everything else in the house. Lin Xiuxiu listened to Lin Yi's words, and hurriedly agreed, anyway, someone will cook tomorrow, and there will be more time.

The next morning, Lin Xiuxiu and her brother Lin Yi got up, and after washing up, they found that the people who were working were coming, and Lin Yi also hurriedly ran over to work. Lin Xiuxiu was afraid that those who worked would not eat like her brother, so she specially dug out two bowls of rice, let the small flowers boiled into rice porridge, let them eat, and took the wine and pastries she bought a few days ago and walked to Carpenter Zhang's house.

Carpenter Zhang is the same as Wang Bricklayer, they are all craftsmen, and their skills are not passed on. And my father's carpentry trade was learned little by little in the carpenter's shop, not by others.

When she arrived at Carpenter Wang's house, Lin Xiuxiu stood at the door and tidied up her clothes, then knocked on the door, and heard a sound of home inside, so she pushed the door and went in. As soon as she entered, Lin Xiuxiu saw one lady after another.

"Yo, isn't this Xiuxiu?" Aunt Zhang is actually not very familiar with Xiuxiu and their family, but in fact, Lin Xiuxiu's family is not familiar with anyone in this village. Aunt Zhang knows Xiuxiu, mainly because Xiuxiu's father works in the county, and Lin Xiuxiu's father is a carpenter, so Aunt Zhang paid attention to Lin Xiuxiu's father, so she also met Lin Xiuxiu.

"Well, hello Aunt Zhang, I'm here to trouble Carpenter Zhang this time, is the carpenter there?" Lin Xiuxiu also asked Aunt Zhang politely, after all, do you have any requests for others.

Aunt Zhang listened to Lin Xiuxiu's words, and still asked suspiciously, "What are you looking for our old man?" Lin Xiuxiu was afraid that Aunt Zhang would misunderstand, so she hurriedly said, "Aunt Zhang, I came to Carpenter Zhang to discuss the matter of our family building a house, and I need Carpenter Zhang's help." ”

Sure enough, as soon as Aunt Zhang heard that Lin Xiuxiu was here to talk about business, she said, "You wait here, I'll call the one from our family to come over." Then he turned and walked out into the backyard.