Wu Fan sent Li Ziyu's sister and brother away, and saw a man in black come out of the corner and pointed up at him. Wu Fan nodded, turned around and went up to the "Ziyun Zhai" on the third floor. "Ziyun Zhai" is specially decorated for Ren Xiaohang, and the floor, tables and chairs are made of low-key dark silver-red small leaves of red rosewood. The wooden floor is covered with a geometrically patterned Persian carpet, and in the corner is a pot of ivy. The ivy branches are fine, and the long branches and leaves are either climbing up or hanging down, and the posture is beautiful, and Ren Xiaohang likes it very much.

Wu Fan walked into the house and asked respectfully, "My lord, what do you command?" ”

Ren Xiaohang asked, "Who was that little girl just now?" ”

Wu Fan was stunned and immediately replied, "Li Ziyu." ”

"Where's the people? What's the situation at home? What do parents do? What do you do for a living? ”

"Probably someone from a nearby village, it seems to be an Orion" Wu Fan was asked by Ren Xiaohang, he didn't know why Ren Xiaohang became interested in Li Ziyu. Although Li Ziyu said that her facial features were quite delicate, she had not opened her dry eyes yet. When the adults wanted to ask, he had to try his best to find out. "My lord, I'm going to check it out now."

Ren Xiaohang groaned for a moment and waved his hand: "Forget it"

Li Ziyu walked on the street with Xiaowen, seeing that her seven-year-old brother had already put away the excitement of entering the city for the first time, and followed her sensibly, feeling very uncomfortable.

"Xiaoshan, let's go, my sister will take you to buy pancakes."

Xiaowen couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he heard this, but sensibly refused and said, "Sister, don't buy it, I don't want to eat, keep it to repair the house." ”

"It's not just for you to eat," Li Ziyu kept walking forward, "Let's buy one by one, and also taste the taste of white flour cakes." ”

At this time, Huating Street was full of people, and the cries of street vendors came and went. Li Ziyu paid close attention to the observation, there were a lot of dry goods sold, walnuts, hazelnuts, jujubes, peanuts, pine nuts, melon seeds, etc., but she didn't find chestnuts, mushrooms, fungus, etc., which made her faintly excited, does it mean that these foods in this dynasty have not been excavated? I don't know if it's edible? There's a mountain behind her, and you might find it if you look for it. Moreover, there are very few vegetable sellers. There are a few servings of cabbage and turnips, which are ridiculously expensive. It's no wonder that Li Ziyu's family doesn't even have pickles, the limited land can only grow food, where is there a place to grow vegetables? I can't afford to use salt for pickled vegetables, and there are no vegetables to pickle. Maybe she can try to grow vegetables in winter, in her previous life, she had several vegetable greenhouses at home, but thinking about the investment in the early stage, she suppressed the excitement in her heart and took Xiaowen to the pancake stall.

"How much is a pancake?"

"One piece of Sanwen, how many does the little girl want?"

"Bring me six."

"Good Ratcha. You wait a minute, right away. ”

The pancake was served by a woman in her thirties, neatly dressed and wearing an apron around her waist. On the pancake stall, Li Ziyu unexpectedly saw green onions. All the way just now, she didn't see any green onion sellers. I couldn't help but ask: "Auntie, did you buy this onion from your own family or did you buy it?" The woman replied, "Where did I buy it, I grew it myself in my yard." I planted too much and didn't eat it, so I saved it. Li Ziyu nodded, green onions are best preserved in winter.

In fact, the so-called pancakes are just white noodles with salt, chopped green onions and water, spread out in a pot, and turn them over. Soon, the six pancakes were ready, Li Ziyu took the pancakes wrapped in oiled paper and put them in his arms, counted eighteen copper plates and gave them to the woman, and left the pancake stall with Xiaowen.

Li Ziyu didn't hang out anymore, and took Xiaowen directly to the "hometown grocery store". The last time I came, there was only one guy in the shop. When I came in this time, the young man was still there, but there was a man in his forties who looked like a shopkeeper next to him. The variety of goods in the shop is quite complete, Li Ziyu bought five candles and spent ten yuan. When I asked how many pieces of window paper I needed, the old shopkeeper replied, "The windows are big and small, and the paper here is the same." The little girl looked at the paper and touched it. As he spoke, he took out a bundle of window paper. At this time, the window paper was thin and dark yellow, and it was really the kind that could be broken when you poked. There are also good oil paper, paper that is not afraid of rain and snow, but Li Ziyu is shy in her pocket, so she can only buy this.

Li Ziyu spread it out and estimated: "Buy six." "The windows in their homes are all the same size, and five is not enough for six, so they have to buy six. Thinking that there was not much salt left, I bought another bag of salt. Let the shopkeeper calculate, six pieces of window paper cost six wen a penny, and a pack of salt is more expensive and cost twenty wen. Li Ziyu asked the shopkeeper while paying: "Uncle shopkeeper, do you have rapeseed here?" ”

"What rapeseed does the little girl want?"

"What canola do you have here?"

"That's a lot, cabbage seeds, radish seeds, leek seeds, green onion seeds, spinach seeds, celery seeds, cucumber seeds, which one do you want?"

"Two taels of each. In addition to these, is there anything else? ”

"No more. Little girl, I am glad that you bought so much, but you still have to use it next year, isn't it too early? ”

Li Ziyu smiled: "Uncle, I just have spare money in my hand, so I will buy it first." I use it morning and night, and I don't spend money in vain. ”

As soon as the old shopkeeper wanted to settle the account, he heard a voice outside the shop shouting:

"Fu shopkeeper, did I let you collect the leather for me?"

The shopkeeper of Fu hurriedly greeted him out, motioned to the guy to calculate the accounts, and laughed while walking out: "If you take it, you will receive it all raw skins."

At this moment, a man of about twenty years old walked in from outside, this man was wearing an indigo blue velvet robe, a velvet brocade cotton shirt, and a pair of deerskin boots. The man freely bowed his hand to the shopkeeper Fu as a sign of respect, and the shopkeeper warmly led him to the backyard. Looking at the backs of the two, Li Ziyu frowned, feeling very weird, and couldn't say what was wrong, so she had to stop thinking about it.

At this time, Xiao Er calculated the accounts, and all kinds of rapeseed were a total of one hundred and four wen, and one hundred wen was calculated. Li Ziyu paid the bill, put the window paper, candles, and rapeseed in the bamboo basket, and went out of the grocery store with Xiaowen.

After coming out of the grocery store, Li Ziyu went to the "people's grain store", she had to buy some sorghum rice, and she had to use it to boil rice soup tomorrow. In the "People's Grain Shop", the two guys still recognized Li Ziyu, and when they saw her coming in, they hurriedly greeted her.

"Little girl, are you here again? What to buy this time? We have the most complete food here, you see, this rice is bright, this is all new rice, how fragrant do you smell? ”

Li Ziyu laughed "poof": "Two little brothers, the rice is fragrant and you have to cook it to know if it is fragrant, right?" ”

"This little girl doesn't know the Tao inside when she hears it, I tell you, you have to look at the color first to buy rice, if there is a bright light, it is good rice, and if there is no old rice. And there's more."

"Little brother, weigh me fifty catties of sorghum rice."

"Okay, I'll do it in a minute."

Fifty catties of sorghum rice, eight wen per catty, cost a full four hundred wen. smacked his lips in distress.

Li Ziyu put the sorghum rice into the bamboo basket on her back, and in the courteous greeting of the two juniors, she turned around and walked out of the city.

On the way back, because the snow had stopped, a path had been stepped out, and there were a few pedestrians. The sister and brother hurried home, both with an indescribable excitement. Koyama was excited because he bought pancakes and could eat them. Li Ziyu is happy because it is possible to grow vegetables after buying rapeseeds. By the time they got home, it was almost midday, and the hill had already cooked sorghum paste.

Li Ziyu took out the things from the bamboo basket, put the rapeseed and window paper in the box, and put the candles on the top of the box. Xiaowen looked at his sister's arms with a smile and looked at everyone mysteriously. Everyone looked at him with a strange look, they didn't know what was going on, and they thought they had seen something rare when they entered the city. Li Ziyu couldn't help but smile and shook her head, took out the still hot pancakes from her arms, and put them on the kang. Immediately, the aroma of pancakes spread out and entered everyone's noses. Xiao Wu shouted first:

"Wow, it smells so good!"

Xiaohu and Xiaolan, who were sitting on the kang, went straight to the pancake bag, and Xiao Wu also climbed from the ground to the kang. Xiaoshan looked at the open oiled paper bag, and was also a little excited: "Sister, did you buy pancakes?" Li Ziyu hummed: "Let's eat, one piece per person, it's just this mush, eat it quickly, if you don't eat it, it will be cold." Xiaoshan wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything, picked up a pancake and took a bite. Now that I have a few taels of silver in my hand, it's not like I used to have enough to eat. Li Ziyu puts a sufficient amount of noodles or rice in every meal, she will never let her younger siblings go hungry anymore, even if the rice noodles almost have to fill their stomachs. Everyone was well fed at this meal, and Xiaohu was burping.

After eating, Li Ziyu brushed the pots and bowls. So he took out the purse containing the money from the box, made a noise, and poured the money in the purse onto the kang. "Wow, that's a lot of money." Everyone gathered around with joy.

Li Ziyu knows that the two big literaries are also literate, including herself. It's just that now the conditions at home do not allow to buy pen, ink, paper and inkstone, which is also a pain in her heart. Her younger siblings are all good and have bright minds, and she must let them go to school sooner or later, and she can't delay them.

Today, she is going to settle the score, count some money, and see how much money she still has. Let a few small ones recognize the money, and by the way, let the big ones help you count the money, and bring a few small ones. Today, it cost 688 wen to sell pheasants and hares, and 548 wen to sell sorghum rice, candles, rapeseed, and window paper, leaving 140 wen. The last time I sold roe deer meat, there were 52700 wen left, and there were 53 wen at home pressed at the bottom of the box, and now there are 52,893 wen of silver at home.

After counting the money, everyone looks at me and I look at you, and after a while, I cheered: "Yay, get rich!" Never go hungry again! ”

Li Ziyu's heart was unusually warm at the moment, she put the purse containing the silver money in the box and locked it, turned around and went to the Westinghouse. The house will be repaired tomorrow, and the Westinghouse hasn't been cleaned up yet, so she has to clean it up quickly. Xiaoshan and Xiaowen also helped her clean up, and the bamboo baskets, hemp ropes, sickles, hoes, and iron pickaxes were temporarily put on hold in the east room. Just as he was cleaning up, Li Ziyu saw the skin of the robe in a broken bamboo basket, and said in surprise: "Hey? How did I forget it? Who left it here? Xiaoshan glanced at it and said, "I put it aside, I saw that you didn't bring it with you when you sold roe deer meat, and I thought it was worthless, so I put it there." Li Ziyu laughed: "Good thing, when I finish tanning, I will make robes for you." As he spoke, he quickly carried it to the east room and put it next to the box.

After cleaning up, although the roof was leaking, several people were smiling. After cleaning up the Westinghouse, Li Ziyu took out the finished soles, uppers and sewing baskets from the box, and decided to spend more than half a day in the afternoon sewing the two pairs of shoes. So, Li Ziyu was bored and doing needlework, and the children sat around, watching quietly, and no one spoke. The roof above was still leaking, and the window paper was whirring, but the room was very quiet and warm.

The next day, Li Ziyu boiled brown rice porridge early and let everyone eat. I also used sorghum flour mixed with white flour to make a few pieces of mixed dough cakes, put the mixed dough cakes in a basin, cover them with a wet cloth towel and put them on the kang head, so that there is no need to cook dinner. Then, add more than half of the pot of water to the pot and bring it to a boil. Take out the newly bought porcelain bowls and wash them one by one, and place them on the table in the east room.

In the middle of the morning, the old village chief Zhao Qing came to Li Ziyu's house with more than a dozen strong men in the village, and He Shigui drove the ox cart full of wood, and followed behind the eldest son He Dashan and the second son He Dahai.

Li Ziyu had already untied the cloth strip on the courtyard gate, welcomed the old village chief and them into the courtyard, stood in the courtyard with Xiaoshan and Xiaowen, and called sweetly one by one: "Grandpa the village chief!" Uncle Zhao! Second Uncle Zhao! Uncle Zhou! Uncle Yang! Uncle Wang! Uncle He" screamed, Li Ziyu said in her heart, why are there so many people?