When Li Ziyu said goodbye to the Fu family, Fu Xiaoshuang showed strong reluctance and repeatedly told her to come to see her when she was free.

When Li Ziyu and Mrs. Fu were talking about mutual cooperation just now, Fu Xiaoshuang didn't interject, just listened carefully quietly on the side, showing a good family education and self-cultivation.

Before leaving, Mrs. Fu gave Li Ziyu a return gift.

Six horses of fine printed satin in different colors, a set of fine porcelain tea sets produced in the official kiln, and a beginner's notebook.

These things are what her family needs the most at present, and Li Ziyu really feels ashamed.

The reason why he came to visit was because he wanted to use the power and influence of the Fu family. Although the few gifts she brought with her were not easy to find in the market, they didn't cost her a penny.

And the Fu family's return gift is really too valuable! Although she doesn't know much about porcelain, she also knows that this set of tea sets is very valuable. Six pieces of silk are not top-quality fabrics, but the price is at least ten taels of silver each, which she knows best. Because I once thought about buying two horses for the guests at home, but I gave up because the price was too expensive.

This book is the most satisfying to her, and the words of the sisters and brothers are always unsatisfactory because there is no guide from someone who knows how to do it. Now this book is like a timely rain, moistening their hearts.

Li Ziyu sincerely thanked Mrs. Fu before leaving the Fu family. Fu Sheng at the back door was more respectful to her than before, and said "Miss Li go slowly" again and again.

After Li Ziyu walked out of Fu's house, she hurried to the market. As I walked, I counted the things I needed to buy today.

Because there were a lot of things to buy, Li Ziyu was going to hire an ox cart, so she got on the cart and walked first.

In the carriage and horse shop, Li Ziyu saw the middle-aged coachman last time and decided that it was him. So the two negotiated the price, and Li Ziyu rushed to the market with an ox cart.

After passing through the bustling flow of people, Li Ziyu decided to enter the market through the north gate.

She wants to buy more grain today, and there is not much coarse and fine grain at home, plus it is going to be the New Year, so it is inevitable to buy more fine grain. And she also has a glimmer of hope, the young man from another county who sold her sweet potatoes last time doesn't know if he came today. She was eager to inquire whether his brother had gone to sea a few years ago, and whether he had bought the grain seeds from the foreign domains.

When she came to the vicinity of the north gate, Li Ziyu asked the coachman to find a place to tie the ox cart and wait here, and she went in to buy food and came out.

The coachman agreed to park the ox cart under a willow tree to the west, and Li Ziyu remembered the location of the ox cart and carried the bamboo basket into the market.

To the north of the bazaar is the grain market, where you can buy all kinds of grain. Rice, white flour, sorghum rice, sorghum flour, millet and other large-leaf grains are available, as well as soybeans, mung beans, red beans and other beans are also relatively complete.

There was a commotion everywhere in the set, and the voices were boiling, and all kinds of sounds were mixed together, as if a pot was boiling.

Li Ziyu went to a few stalls to buy fine grains, checked the quality of the grain, and first bought 100 catties of rice, 100 catties of white flour, 20 catties of soybeans, and 20 catties of red beans, and it cost a total of more than 400 yuan to buy several items.

Li Ziyu delivered the food she bought to the car first, and when she walked through the market with a few bags of grain, she received countless shocked eyes. She was very calm about this kind of gaze, and walked out of the market with a calm face.

When the middle-aged driver saw it, he was also frightened, and later turned to admiration. His gaze followed her all the time, as if she had three heads and six arms on her.

After Li Ziyu put the grain away, she went to the market again, and she also had to buy some meat and oil. It's the New Year, so you have to eat something good.

As she walked south through the bazaar, she heard someone greet her: "Sister Xiaoyu! Sister Xiaoyu! ”

When Li Ziyu heard it, why was it so familiar, and when she saw that it was the young man from another county, she couldn't help but be overjoyed.

When she was buying food just now, she looked around, but she didn't see him, she was very disappointed at the time, but she didn't expect him to come out on his own at such a moment.

Hurriedly shouted: "Big Tiger Brother! Wait a minute, I'll go over. ”

Li Ziyu squeezed through the crowd and walked up to Yang Dahu: "Brother Big Tiger, you just arrived, right?" I didn't see you here. ”

Yang Dahu smiled: "Ah, if you want to buy something for the New Year, I'll come over." I also want to give you a letter in case I run into you, my brother will come back on the twenty-first day of the lunar month, as if he has brought back a few seeds."

"Great! Big Tiger, thank you! Li Ziyu interrupted Yang Dahu's words, and her heart blossomed happily. Wish there were corn seeds, so she could do what she wanted.

"It's just," Yang Dahu said hesitantly, "I was very busy a year ago, and I didn't have time to come over, otherwise, Sister Xiaoyu, you can take a trip." ”

Li Ziyu looked at Yang Dahu with an embarrassed face, and said, "It's okay, then I'll go on the twenty-first day of the lunar month." Yang Erli Village, Nanhui County, right, no problem, I will definitely go then. ”

Yang Dahu saw that Li Ziyu was so happy, and he was a lot more natural, and told Li Ziyu the route he was taking, and then the two broke up.

Li Ziyu was in a good mood and continued to buy things for the New Year, or from the rough man's butcher, he bought ten catties of lean pork, ten catties of fat pork, and a set of pigs in the water. I don't know what this butcher's name is, I heard someone next to him call him just now, it turned out to be Cao Baoshan, nicknamed Cao Fatzi.

Li Ziyu wandered around and bought a few firecrackers, two packs of candles, two catties of mushrooms, and two catties of fungus, and wanted to buy a few catties of eggs, but I didn't see anyone selling eggs for a long time.

Li Ziyu put firecrackers, candles, mushrooms, and fungus in the bamboo basket, and carried the pork into the water in his hand.

Li Ziyu found the coachman, put the things she bought on the car, and put the bamboo basket on her back in the corner of the carriage, and then the two discussed how to go.

Normally, the ox cart should have followed the street east of the market to the south and went straight out of the city gate, but now the street is completely blocked, and it is impossible to pass at all.

The coachman said, "Little niece, why don't we go around?" ”

Li Ziyu looked at him expectantly: "Uncle, do you know how to go?" ”

The coachman nodded, pointed to a small alley, and said, "Just go north from here, then turn to Huating Street, and go directly to the south." ”

Li Ziyu said: "Then what are you waiting for? Let's go! ”

The coachman shouted, and the ox cart immediately turned north into a small alley.

The alley is so narrow that only one ox cart can pass through it. In the area close to the bazaar, the houses are quite similar, at least the brick structure. Later, the further you went inside, the more dilapidated the house became. On both sides are low, old bungalows, some even thatched. The walls are mostly made of adobe bricks, and are not about one and a half meters high.

Three or five children were playing outside in the alley, and when they saw the ox cart coming, they stood against the wall and made room for the ox cart. The children were dressed in tatters, and some of the cotton jackets were exposed to cotton wool. Their faces are also yellow and thin, and they are obviously malnourished.

Li Ziyu didn't expect that there was such a place in Shiyan Town, so he asked the coachman: "Uncle, why is this place the same as other places?" ”

The coachman sighed and said, "Alas, this is the North Street of Shiyan Town. ”

North Street? What do you mean? Li Ziyu thought that there are remote poor areas in modern times, could it be that this is the slum of Shiyan Town?