"What? Want to give me processing money? Yu Shu held down the abacus and looked at Cao Zixin, who was drinking tea on the other side of the counter.

"Well, I'll give you another ten cents a day."

"For what?" encountered such a good thing as a salary increase, Yu Shu did not get dizzy, the pie in the sky is not credible, and he has to have a reason first.

Cao Zixin said: "Look, after you came, I hired one less guy in the store and one more person to settle accounts, which saved me a lot of trouble, and I should have counted two coins for you, right?" ”

Twenty copper plates a day, only hexagonal silver a month, for a store with a monthly income of dozens of taels, it is not too much to spend hexagonal silver to ask one person to help.

Yu Shu's eyebrows moved, and he stretched out his hand to him, "Then do you want to make up for my salary some time ago?" ”

She meant to be joking, but Cao Zixin nodded, "You do the math." ”

Yu Shu knew that he was telling the truth, he was half a beat slower, so he went to dial the abacus, snapped a string, and said while calculating: "It's enough to give me seventy wen - but, you used to pay me half a month's salary to buy paper and pencils, deduct the seventy wen, and you can continue to pay me four days later." ”

"We don't count it like this, what should be buckled is buckled, what should be haired," Cao Zixin put down the teapot, took a string of money from the money box and untied it, counted some peels, re-knotted it, and handed the rest to her.

How could Yu Shu not see that Cao Zixin was deliberately helping her, although she was a little unhappy to be sympathized, she didn't pretend to be high, she took the money happily and thanked her.

Cao Zixin saw that she was willing to accept it, so she tucked back the lines that were ready to be persuaded and teased:

"You've been wearing this robe for a few years, and the sleeves are almost down to your elbows, and I have a few old clothes there, if you don't dislike it, I'll bring it to you tomorrow?" You take it back and find someone to change it to a smaller size and you can wear it. ”

Yu Shu shook his head resolutely this time, and said seriously: "Your clothes are too fancy, either yellow or green, I can't get used to wearing them, and when I have money when I turn around, let my aunt sew one for me, and I won't pick up your old clothes." ”

The salary is in exchange for her labor, and taking other people's clothes for nothing becomes charity, the meaning is different, she still has some principles as a person.

She refused like this, Cao Zixin didn't mention it again, continued to drink his tea, and greeted the guests when they came.

Yu Shu's abacus is fast, and when there are many guests, she has to take a hand, and when she has free time, she will let Cao Zixin teach her to read and write, and all the words she copied on a piece of paper are the words she took from "Qimen", so Cao Zixin could not help but see something, she deliberately picked out the words that were not on the page to ask.

When it closed, the kite vendor across the street was still there, and Yu Shu took advantage of Cao Zixin's closing time to bargain with people in the past, and spent 20 yuan to buy a beautiful eagle kite, and asked the family to build a bundle of kite strings and handles.

Cao Zixin locked the door, saw her happily fiddling with the newly bought kite, walked over and asked, "Ready to go out to Qingqing?" ”

"Yes, with my brother," Yu Shu told him truthfully, just taking the opportunity to ask for leave, "Shopkeeper, you can find a free day and let me rest for an afternoon, my brother is too tired to study every day, I want to take him out to play." ”

Cao Zixin thought for a while and said, "Then tomorrow, I happened to be going to visit a friend, and I closed the door in time, so you don't have to come over tomorrow afternoon." ”

"That's great," Yu Shu clapped his hands and thanked him with a mouthful of white teeth, "Xie Lu Xie shopkeeper." ”

Cao Zixin saw her smile brightly, revealing a sharp little tiger tooth at the corner of her mouth, her carefree appearance was very contagious, and her mind moved, and she couldn't help but raise her hand to pat her head, but she changed direction halfway through, pointing to the intersection:

"I'll go get a pot of wine, you can go back quickly."

"Then I'll go, I'll come early the day after tomorrow afternoon." Yu Shu waved his hand at him, left briskly, did not go home directly, but took the rest of the money and went to South Street to buy a few cakes, ready to eat them tomorrow during the outing.

***

After dinner, Yu Shu sat on the bed and counted the money, and Yu Xiaoxiu sat at the table intently writing, not disturbed by her tinkling sound.

"Fifteen, ten, fifteen, twenty"

Not long ago, she got a tael of silver from Ji Ershao, who was cheating with a concubine in her stepfather's yard, to buy snacks, and the rest, plus the money earned these days, there are five corners of silver and an extra copper plate.

Thirty yuan will be returned to the old shopkeeper of the bookstore tomorrow, Sister Zhao's wontons are two bowls of silver for one dime, and the day after tomorrow I will go out to play, and it is enough to bring two dimes of silver and these changes.

Yu Shu divided the money into two parts, one was put into a small bag sewn by Aunt Liu, and put it into the copper jar where she usually put things, and took out the kite that had been hidden before, walked behind Yu Xiaoxiu lightly, raised his hand, and stretched it out in front of him.

"Minor repair, give."

Yu Xiaoxiu stared at the gray eagle that suddenly appeared in front of him, reached out to take it, turned it over and touched it, and lowered his voice in surprise: "Where did the kite come from?" ”

Ancient children had nothing to do, especially the poor, as far as Yu Shu was concerned, the temptation of a kite was equivalent to a remote-controlled airplane.

"I paid my salary to buy it today, didn't I say that I was going to go out to play, I can't just run errands and do nothing." She also bought pastries and would take him to ravioli when she came back in the evening.

"Out of the land to play?" Yu Xiaoxiu's face was dazed.

"You forgot?" Yu Shu lifted his legs and squeezed him to sit down on the bench, "Didn't we say that we were going to go out for a walk the night before yesterday, I told our shopkeeper that I wouldn't go to work tomorrow afternoon, don't say you don't want to go out." ”

Of course Yu Xiaoxiu didn't forget, but Yu Shu had said many times before that he would take him out of the tank to play, usually because he needed him to do bad things, so he would coax him, and he didn't cash in once, and after many times, he stopped believing it, and didn't want her to be serious this time.

"What's the matter, talk, are you going?" Yu Shu gently bumped Yu Xiaoxiu with his shoulder.

"Go!" Because he was in too much of a hurry, Yu Xiaoxiu turned his head embarrassedly and fiddled with the kite in his hand, and whispered: "But I don't know how to fly a kite, I've only seen others play." ”

"It's okay, I will," Yu Shu stretched out his hand to put his arm around his thin shoulder, and said affectionately: "Don't be afraid, just run more, I'll teach you tomorrow." ”

"Hmm." Yu Xiaoxiu touched the kite in his hand again, secretly confirmed that it was not fake, and couldn't say how happy he was in his heart, but he wanted to cry a little, his eyes were sour, and he didn't know what was wrong with the road.

"Then you go home early after school tomorrow, and we'll go out after dinner, I've inquired, there is a big open space by the river in the east of the city where you can fly kites, by the way, did you write your homework today, do you calculate whether it will rain tomorrow?"

"It's a sunny day," Yu Xiaoxiu paused, put the kite down, cautiously picked up the pen again, and drew the paper, "I'll do it again." ”

"Uh-huh, count it again.".