After saying goodbye to Zhang Li, I led the donkey to the boat. When the donkey was tied and entered the cabin, he saw that there were already people sitting inside, two women, one old and one young, who seemed to be mother and daughter.

The woman was dressed in a white-washed gray linen gown, and carried a basket on her arm, covered with a coarse cloth of broken flowers, and she did not know what was in it.

The girl looked about my size, wore an apricot-colored muslin skirt, had a narrow waist, and had a delicate face, not a beauty, but she was also of the upper class. When she saw someone enter the cabin, she first ducked behind the woman, and when she saw that I was a woman, she looked at me curiously.

I grinned at her and sat down on the deck across from her. The girl smiled back when she saw this, then looked at the burden in my hand and asked, "Are you also going to the city to sell things?" ”

The woman hurriedly tugged at the girl, then smiled apologetically at me, and said, "This girl is a confused person, and when she sees anyone who wants to say a few words, the girl will ignore her if she is annoyed." ”

"Don't bother, don't bother," I said busily, "there are only three of us on this boat, if we don't speak, we won't have to die of fun!" As I spoke, I looked curiously at the basket that the woman was holding and asked, "What are you selling?" ”

The girl was about to speak, but the woman gave her a fierce look, and she pouted and stopped talking.

Then the woman smiled at me and said, "Take the cloth you have woven at home, take it to the city and try it, and see if you can eat it for some salt." Is the girl going into the city too? Why didn't I see my family with me? ”

I could feel the woman being wary of me.

Do I look like a bad guy like that?

I sighed and said, "My parents are gone, and I don't have any family." I'm going to Shengjing to find my aunt. ”

The woman's eyes suddenly felt a little more pity in her eyes, and when she spoke again, her expression became much lighter. I talked to the girl next to her, and she didn't stop me.

The boatman waited a little longer, and when no one came, he shouted, untied the cable and propped it offshore, and rowed straight to the other side of the river.

When the woman saw that there was no one else in the cabin, she became more active, and did not sit upright, but leaned on the cabin and questioned me from head to toe, and I only said that I was the daughter of a carpenter's family in the Pigpen Mountain, and that my father and mother were gone, so she came out to join her family, and she sighed and believed it.

I asked her if she had ever been to Shengjing, and asked her what the name of the girl on the side was, and after getting acquainted with each other, I learned that this woman was a peasant woman in a village downstream of the river, also called Zhang Li, and she only had three daughters under her knees, and the two eldest ones were married to the town on the other side of the river, leaving only the youngest daughter Yunfu to be married at home.

This Zhang Li's husband worked as a maid in a tofu factory in the town, and only went home once in three or two months, and this time he didn't come back for three months.

"I'm counting the days, it's a market in the town today, so I brought some home-woven cotton cloth to sell, anyway, it's just our mother and son at home, and we can't wear it out." Zhang Li patted the basket in his arms and said: "This market is open once a month, and people around Fangyuan go there to buy things, but it's lively, the little fairy girl should also go and see it, you live in the mountains, but you can't see this kind of liveliness!" ”

I thought about it, then nodded approvingly.

I'm fine, it's better to just go and see, in this way, it's not in vain for me to come to this world.

Talking and laughing along the way, I felt that time passed quickly, and it didn't take long for the boat to dock, and when the boat stopped, I jumped off the boat first, and the Li family slowly moved down with Yunfu. There was already an ox cart waiting on the shore, and the black-faced man who was driving the car saw Zhang Li and hurriedly greeted him and called his mother, and called Yunfu his little sister, so Zhang Li happily pulled Yunfu into the ox cart and said goodbye to me.

Seeing off Zhang Li's mother and daughter, I stepped on a donkey and walked slowly along the flow of people.

On this side of the river was a small wharf, and I counted roughly about a dozen boats on the side. There are also a lot of people coming and going on the wharf, some unloading and some loading, and some carrying bags and baskets, as if they want to take a boat to catch the waterway. On the open space on the side of the wharf, there are several oilcloth sheds, some selling tea and some rice, and the fireworks are lively.

It seems that the boats in the vicinity of this radius are all coming in and out of this pier! It's much livelier here than the little trestle bridge in Xianrentun'er!

I got on my donkey and hurried in the direction of the town - I wonder what the town's bazaar would look like.

I urged the donkey to run quickly, but a gray figure came out of the side, and the donkey couldn't hold back for a while, and almost trampled on the person.

The pedestrians around me stopped when they saw this, and I hurriedly jumped off the donkey and made a stack of compensation, and then stretched out my hand to pull up the gray-clothed man who fell to the ground, but the man waved my hand, spit out the ashes in his mouth, and climbed up by himself, and said while crawling: "Which one is not long-eyed, dare to fall your third grandfather's ......?"

He raised his head while scolding.

Then, we were both stunned.

The man in gray looked at me with his mouth wide open, and then shivered involuntarily.

I immediately believed my eyes, straightened my waist and shouted angrily: "San'er! ”

The man in gray was thrilled when he heard this, and then turned around and ran away.

Belch?

Am I born so scary?

Seeing this, the people around said: It turns out that they know each other!

Then one by one they scattered.

I squinted my eyes and snorted in the direction San'er had fled.

The dead rabbit actually bumped into me again!

It's really not long-sighted!

But this time, I'm not going to let you slip away again.

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The human market is really lively! It's almost noon, and the streets are still full of people.

I led the donkey around, small buns with vegetable filling, and a pack of iced beans for three cents, and soon my hands were full.

I sat down in a tea shed for a long time, asked for a cup of mint tea like a mortal, poured it beautifully, and then slowly consumed the snacks in my hand.

The young man who made the tea refilled me three times, and seeing that I didn't mean to leave, his face was not very good-looking.

I glanced at him, and before he could get out of the way, I slapped a large sum of money on the table. The guy pursed his lips and took it, and then asked, "Does the girl still have water?" ”

Without waiting for me to speak, he added, "You've renewed it all three times!" You drank a cup of mint tea for more than half an hour, and the mint leaves were tasteless, right? ”

"Well, it's tasteless, then you can change it for me."

As I spoke, I slapped another big coin on the tea table.

The young man's eyes turned red suddenly, and he said, "It's gone, the girl should go and drink somewhere else." ”

"There's no rabbit tea anywhere else!" I grinned.