The grain was consumed faster than Jinhua expected.

In less than two cycles before the Chinese New Year, the small half bag of white noodles has been bulldozed by the mouths of the two people, leaving only a thin layer of flour, covering the white cloth pocket.

Jinhua raised her hand and shook the noodle bag, and after pouring the last bit of flour into the bowl, she glanced at Gao Wenxuan who was following behind her, she was in no mood to pay attention to him, and only did things silently.

These days, she has put a lot of thought into it, and even thought about returning to her old business and digging graves in the middle of the night, but because the soil is not good to dig holes in winter, she has found another way to make money.

On the second day when everyone was making trouble, she took the pancakes she made by herself and found the woman in blue, the woman in blue was named He Liu, the third daughter-in-law of the He family, and she was a figure with a head and a face in the village on weekdays.

The He family lives in the west of the village, there are three big houses, all of them are soybean mud walls, the mud is made of good soybean milk and system, the pulp is from the ground, the iron piece is crossed over, a piece of smoothness, like a topaz stone carving in general, there is a bamboo forest next to the house, the snow has fallen one after another to take advantage of the Xiaoxiao bamboo leaves, it looks very elegant.

Jinhua chatted with He Liu's for almost an afternoon, and probably figured out some of the situations in the village, and there are three families in the village who can be in charge, namely He, Liu, and Song.

The He family is the leader of the village, and it is said that in the Qing Dynasty, the He family was a famous Xiucai old man's family, and there were many children's test students in the family.

In the words of He Liu's family, the He family is a big family with the top of the head in the village, and it can also be called a famous family in the county. The other two families are the Liu family and the Song family, and the Liu family is the maiden family of He Liu's family, and they are the old residents of the village. No one knows how long this family has existed, some say that they were entrenched here in the Qin Dynasty, and some say that the Liu family has some relationship with Liu Gaozu.

Jinhua listened to He Liu's words silently, and did not answer, the silence gave a lot of opportunities to think, and when He Liu finished speaking, she had already made a good plan. He Liu revealed two very useful pieces of information. First, the He family has a great prestige in the village, and that triangular eye is the son of the He family, which makes Jinhua very jealous, and it will be a big trouble to see the battle of the triangular eye in the future. Second, this year's harvest is poor. They also had to go to the royal compound in the town. Borrow seeds from a young squire surnamed Wang.

Jinhua paid close attention to this royal compound. She had a premonition in her heart - this Wang family compound was likely to be an opportunity to change her and Gao Wenxuan's current life, because she was eager to get rid of this predicament, so she was a little more enthusiastic about He Liu's words: "Eldest sister, why don't you tell me what is the origin of this Wang family compound?" ”

Ho Liu is just a woman. The farthest range of her two little feet is only to reach the head of the village, she has never walked out of the village in half her youth, so she knows very little about the Huang family's compound, she looked at Jinhua and shook her head: "I don't know about these." ”

Jinhua didn't ask He Liu again, she hurried home before the sun the size of the copper basin set.

In the days that followed, because of the continuous rain and snow, Jinhua hardly went out again, and she and Gao Wenxuan lived for more than half a month by relying on that bit of surplus food.

"Jinhua."

After mixing less than half a bowl of flour into a batter, Jinhua turned his head to look at Gao Wenxuan: "Just wait a while." ”

"I didn't say anything about eating." Gao Wenxuan's slightly furrowed brow indicated the irritability in his heart at the moment.

"And what do you want to say?" Jinhua stirred the batter into a large boiling pot.

Gao Wenxuan didn't speak, he looked at Jinhua for a while, and handed over the object in his hand.

Jinhua looked at the things in Gao Wenxuan's hand, and suddenly became dumbfounded, she took the money from Gao Wenxuan's hand, and asked in a low voice, "Where did you get this money from?" ”

Gao Wenxuan didn't speak, just pushed the money into Jinhua's palm, and the silver dollar lay heavily in the palm of his hand, which was a lot of money in terms of their current situation.

After looking at Gao Wenxuan for a while, Jinhua still couldn't think of a reason, Gao Wenxuan stood in the shadow of the window with a quiet expression, and his side face was easily reminiscent of an old and dull antique painting.

Seeing that Gao Wenxuan didn't answer, Jinhua stood up from his side, she looked at him very seriously, and said very seriously: "A gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way." ”

Gao Wenxuan didn't wait for the excitement on Jinhua's face as expected, he was a little unhappy when he looked at her preaching, his eyes stayed on her for a while, and finally he spoke: "My money is clean." ”

Jinhua saw his gentleness, saw his increasingly clear eyes, his heart seemed to be suddenly stuffed into a ball of cotton, his heart softened again, and asked him in a suppressed voice: "Then how did you sue me, I can rest assured." ”

Gao Wenxuan looked at her, suddenly pursed his mouth, he leaned over and kissed her without any defense, Jinhua heard his low voice, similar to whispering: "I took the wrench." ”

"What did you say?" Jinhua was like a swift leopard, in a momentary flow of time, she quickly turned her back, her hands and waist were leaning on the stove, and she looked at Gao Wenxuan with a shocked face: "The wrench is very important to the wrench, didn't I tell you before?" Until the end, we can't take the wrench off. ”

There was a bright change in Gao Wenxuan's eyes, he shook his head, stubbornly stuffed the coins in his hand to Jinhua, he looked at Jinhua, and said clearly: "Take this money and spend it, there will always be a way in the future." ”

In the past few months, he has been in contact with Gao Wenxuan for a long time, and Jinhua knows that his spirit is good and bad, but he doesn't know what is wrong with his current body, and he doesn't know if his current mind is comparable to the past, and whether he can make her give 100% trust.

Holding the money in hand, I thought about it for a long time, if I think about it realistically, the two of them really need money, and the money from the pawn wrench can indeed solve the urgent need.

But according to the thoughts in his heart, Jinhua was not happy with Gao Wenxuan's pawn wrench.

Not to mention the extraordinaryness of the wrench he had told her, not to mention. He once told her that seeing the precepts was like seeing people.

She knew very well in her heart that when she returned to Xiangxi, that wrench was where she could show her skills.

"Wenxuan, tell me the name of that shop, and then wait for me to come back at home."

After holding the pawn ticket and silver dollar, Jinhua kissed Gao Wenxuan's forehead, and finally decided to redeem the wrench. Gao Wenxuan is not sober now, and she has to make every plan for him.

Still the same as when she went to the town before, Jinhua once again took the ox cart on the road, and she was worried that someone would disturb Gao Wenxuan after she left. Before leaving, he specially instructed him. Don't open the door when anyone shouts.

Gao Wenxuan did not agree obediently as before, his attitude was a little impatient, Jinhua looked at his demeanor in the past few days, and saw that he had a little bit of the appearance before he was not stupid. It was a pleasant surprise.

Now sit on the ox cart. She was still thinking about him with all her heart.

In Jinhua's view. What she and Gao Wenxuan lack now is the passage fee back to Xiangxi, and she has another purpose in addition to wanting to redeem Gao Wenxuan's wrench. It is to go to the Wang family compound to find out the reality.

Since she learned about the squire from He Liu's mouth, she still had this thought in her heart, it can be said that she was thinking about this matter all the time, she didn't plan to stay in the village for too long, the time to return to the original cost of farming was too long, the efficiency was too low, it was really troublesome, she decided to deal with this squire surnamed Wang, and borrow a sum of money for the journey.

After thinking about it, Jinhua inadvertently pinched the blade in her hand, the smooth knife surface made her feel excited, those faint excitement seemed to be lying in ambush in the tiny pores of her body for a long time, she felt that the cells in her body were shouting - there is no money, you can grab it, that squire is simply a good opportunity to send.

The ox cart was moving along the narrow path, and the sky suddenly turned gray and yellow, and the wind blew, and it was the eve of the storm.

Four hours away, the ox cart finally arrived at the county seat, the county town is different from the countryside, full of sound and prosperity, men's high-mindedness, women's smiling and soft words, children's foolish and coquettish, constitute the main theme of the county music.

Jinhua stood outside the county seat at the moment, pinched the silver dollar on her body, and decided to go to Gao Wenxuan's shop as a wrench first, she also thought about the wording on the road, and knew how to speak to the shopkeeper, and at the same time, when she was in the car, she also inquired with the coachman about the location of the Wang family's compound.

Squinting her eyes, Jinhua strode towards the green brick road in the county town, she had indescribable happiness in her heart, she told sù that she was just borrowing some silver from the squire surnamed Wang, and did not realize that she who was once a good seed had gradually turned into a bad embryo.

The pawnshop is on the most prosperous street in the county, the location is very conspicuous, and when it passed, Jinhua saw the place where Gao Wenxuan was the wrench, and went straight to the direction of the yellow paint brand.

The shopkeeper is a middle-aged man, with splayed eyebrows, a sheep's horn beard, round eyes, a round face, and a kind appearance.

Seeing Jinhua come in, the shopkeeper glanced twice and beckoned: "Miss, be a thing." ”

Jinhua took the tea from the porter, waved his hand, and took out the silver dollar on his body: "No, I'm here to redeem something." ”

The shopkeeper lowered his head again, and his voice showed a hint of laziness: "What about the ticket?" ”

Jinhua touched it in his pocket and handed it to the shopkeeper, who took the pawn ticket and looked at it, and wanted to return the silver dollar that Jinhua took out, and said apologetically: "Miss, you are dead." ”

Jinhua took the pawn ticket from the shopkeeper with some suspicion, and really saw the death written on the pawn ticket, thinking that Gao Wenxuan was afraid that he was deceived by the pawnshop, she glanced at the shopkeeper and said, "Call your host." ”

Hearing Jinhua's words, the shopkeeper pinched his beard, and there was some imperceptible contempt in his voice, and he asked, "Miss, are you going to call our host?" ”

Jinhua nodded, and the shopkeeper laughed: "Even if you call the owner, it's useless, what is saved is a dead pawn, and the wrench will belong to the pawnshop, this is the rule in the shop, and the rules can't be broken!" ”

"The rules are set by people, if there is anything, let's talk about it when I meet the owner."

The shopkeeper looked at Jinhua for a while, and suddenly fiddled with the abacus loudly: "Girl, I said, you are also here with a dead face, what kind of person is our owner, you can see people casually." ”

"Isn't your owner a girl in the embroidery building? I've only heard that the girls in the embroidery building can't meet people casually. ”

The shopkeeper glanced at Jinhua through the wooden fence: "Our owner is naturally the youngest of the Wang family."

"The Wang family? Wang's compound? Jinhua thought about it in his heart, and felt that he was really lucky, and he couldn't stop that sentence.

The shopkeeper raised his head and looked very proud: "That's nature, our owner is the only one, the only one." ”

Jinhua looked at the exaggerated expression of the shopkeeper and patted the counter lightly: "Then your boss really has to talk to me, to be honest, I came to look for him this time." ”

The shopkeeper was skeptical and continued to do a good job of review: "What is the matter?" ”

"Something important."

The shopkeeper grinned, and a contemptuous smile appeared on his face, like an arrogant ostrich, and he said: "I have seen a lot of women like you holding our host, and it takes a lot of effort, today our boss has a date with Miss Song." ”

Jinhua didn't expect that this gentleman of Wang's hometown would have such a loyal shopkeeper, and suddenly remembered the former shopkeeper Qin, and she was also at this moment, she suddenly wanted to know whether the shopkeeper Qin was still in charge of the shoe store, and whether Shanghai Beach was still the same as before.

"Uncle Song, I'm not here, I heard what this young lady said." Jinhua was walking in her mind, and suddenly a familiar voice sounded in her ears, and at the same time, a hand also wrapped around her waist when the voice sounded.

Looking up, Jin Hua raised his eyebrows in some surprise, this person is an acquaintance.

"You're not in Beiping?"

"It seems that Miss Rong still remembers me." The man didn't answer the question.

"Of course I remember you, Mr. Wang." Jinhua let go of his hand from his waist.

"Rong Jinhua, why did you come here?"

Jinhua saw him leaning over and jumped off the chair: "Wang Kun, why are you here?" ”

Wang Kun smiled, and Jin Hua found that he was whiter and more imposing than in Beiping, wearing a silver-gray robe and gown, a gold-rimmed pocket watch, and bookish gold-rimmed glasses, which looked full of style.

"I'm from Hubei, so naturally I'm staying in Hubei, I don't know why Miss Rong came over?"

"I can come as I want, it's my freedom."

Wang Kun wrinkled his nose and laughed a little maliciously: "I asked you why you came to the pawnshop." ”

Jinhua handed him the pawn ticket in his hand: "I'm here to redeem something." ”

Wang Kun looked down at the pawn ticket, waved his hand at the loyal Uncle Song, and saw Uncle Song leave the counter with a bitter face, and then came back with a silk box in his hand.

"Now, sell your personal favor. In return, come with me to dinner at the Hibiscus House in the evening. ”

As he spoke, Wang Kun handed over the box. (To be continued.) )