The older generation often said that people have a number of lives, and their lives are determined by days.

Shen Qingqing is also a believer in fate in a certain aspect, since she has come here, there is a reason for her to come here, no matter how it is useless to escape.

When Shen Qingqing was thinking about it, he saw Xiao Douding standing at the door of his house, as if he was looking at something outside.

In just a second, Shen Qingqing understood, the child was greedy for fun, probably because she wanted to go outside to play after eating but didn't dare to say it, she smiled and sorted out the cyan coarse cloth clothes on her body: "Haohao, just after eating, will my mother take you for a walk?" ”

"Good!" Xiao Douding jumped three feet high, just as he wanted.

The summer days are long, it is cool, every family has nothing to do, sitting at the door of their own house to talk about homely things, an old elm tree under the crowd gathered in twos and threes, talking and laughing, the sound of slapstick can be heard not far away.

"Yo, Qingqing is out." A woman saw Shen Qingqing holding Xiao Douding's hand, and as she spoke, she winked at the others.

Shen Qingqing was undoubtedly the center of the conversation in the village, and the women were holding melon seeds in one hand and scratching their backs with their clothes in the other: "Qingqing, have you eaten?" ”

Shen Qingqing, who was overly enthusiastic, couldn't accept it, and nodded with a smile: "I just ate it." ”

Who knows, after this sentence was finished, there was a burst of laughter: "Ouch, I see that your family is too poor to open the pot, how can you have eaten it." ”

The woman in the west of the village was louder than thunder: "Her aunt, you can't say that, Qingqing's family has no food to eat, but you can go to Lin Nan's house, didn't Qingqing cry and shout to marry him a few days ago." ”

"Auntie......" Shen Qingqing felt funny, and as soon as she opened her mouth, all the eyes under the big elm tree were focused on her, thinking that the original owner's temper was hot, and she was afraid that she would be annoyed according to what she was looking at.

The woman who had just spoken stuffed the tomato in her hand into her mouth: "What? Can't say a word? ”

Who knows, Shen Qingqing didn't laugh angrily, and her words were gentle and gentle: "Auntie, I still smell your stewed chicken when I cook today, I guess your son is blessed." ”

The people next to him were all shocked, and the big men who were waiting to see the excitement also looked at each other, is this still the Shen Qingqing who has to ignore people and ignore them?

The woman felt that there was nothing, so she found an idle place under the big elm tree to do it, and Xiao Douding leaned on her arms very obediently, and it was very cool under the shade of such a tree after taking a bath and eating.

The people in the village would look over here at first, and seeing that Shen Qingqing didn't make any moves, the topic slowly moved to other places.

When Shen Qingqing was thinking about how to change the items in the house, Aunt Wang sat next to her: "Qingqing, have you really eaten it?" ”

"Aunt Wang, look at what you said, the cabbage and rice were borrowed from your family, and Lao Shizi has never eaten them." Shen Qingqing spoke.

Aunt Wang's eyes wandered around her, most of the cucumbers in her hands had been gnawed, and the dark and red skin on her face with messy hair made people feel a little funny.

Shen Qingqing tapped the folds on his clothes: "What's wrong?" How does my aunt see me like this? ”

Aunt Wang is already a village woman, and she doesn't have any bad intentions, so she goes straight to the point: "What the aunt in the west of the village said just now is so ugly, you are not angry?" ”

It turned out that this was it, Shen Qingqing smiled indifferently: "Don't be angry." ”

Yo he, it's a big strange thing, shrew Shen Qingqing has changed.

Aunt Wang is not stupid, she sees Shen Qingqing's changes in her eyes: "I see that you don't have anything at home, I'll go to the market tomorrow, you go with me." ”

"Rushing to the market?" Hearing this, Shen Qingqing's eyes lit up suddenly, and she was just worried about what to do with so many things that needed to be bought in the house.

Aunt Wang looked at her and laughed, and Gao Yuanhong's face seemed to be blooming: "Yes, there is a meeting in the town every three days, and I happen to be going to make an ox cart tomorrow, or you will go with me." ”

Shen Qingqing hurriedly said: "That's natural, then Aunt Wang will call me tomorrow." ”

Aunt Wang still wanted to say when, a woman next to her had a family affair with her, and Qingqing didn't have any room to interject, but she was very interested in catching up with the rally.

I've long heard that the gatherings in ancient towns were very lively, and this time I need to take a good look at it.

Xiao Douding was also very excited, it was slowly getting dark, the crowd dispersed, and Shen Qingqing pulled Xiao Douding home to sleep.

The village is quiet and the air is good, and Shen Qingqing slept surprisingly soundly this night.

The next day, when Shen Qingqing was just in a daze, he saw that Xiao Douding had already gotten up, standing by the bed and looking at her, his eyes flickering.

"What's wrong?" Shen Qingqing rubbed her eyes and thought something was wrong.

"Mother." Xiao Douding's voice was as low as that of a mosquito. "I'm hungry."

The child is growing and hungry quickly.

Shen Qingqing had no choice, there was nothing to eat at home, only the leftover fried cabbage and rice from yesterday, and she hurriedly made a fire.

There were few meals, although Xiaodouding was chewing slowly, it was not enough to eat, and Shen Qingqing couldn't bear to grab food with a child, so he gave all the meals to Xiaodouding, and he thought it was all weight loss.

Just finished eating, when Shen Qingqing was about to wash the dishes, Aunt Wang got up and shouted through the fence: "Qingqing! ”

"Hey!" Shen Qingqing hurriedly responded. "What's wrong with Aunt Wang?"

Aunt Wang was washing rice, and she was afraid that Shen Qingqing would forget to remind: "Don't forget to bring a few copper plates when you go to the market today." ”

This woke up Shen Qingqing, and he was so happy that he forgot to bring the silver taels.

Shen Qingqing's eyes looked left and right in the room, although the family was poor, but if there was no copper plate, she would never believe it.

"Haohao." She shouted, eyes narrowing. "Where did my mother put the silver taels before?"

Xiao Douding was playing with earthworms, and when he heard Shen Qingqing speak, he nodded quickly: "Mother, Hao Hao didn't take the money from the family, and when his mother hid the money before, she let Hao Hao out." ”

Yes, it's useless to ask him, it seems that you have to rely on yourself.

Shen Qingqing paced in the room, thinking about where the original owner and a woman could put the money, but there were not a few guys in the house, so she had no choice but to look for it from the boxes and cabinets, but after looking for half an hour, she didn't see half a copper.

Shen Qingqing wiped the sweat from his face, and when he was thinking about it, he suddenly looked up and saw Fang Liang.

They are a thatched house, the beam itself is not high, Shen Qingqing can stand on a stool to be able to reach it, is it possible to make the silver two on the beam?

Thinking like this, Shen Qingqing simply moved a stool and touched it on the beam, Xiao Douding saw it and hurried over to help, and after a while, Shen Qingqing was really touched by a string of heavy things.

I was overjoyed in my heart, and I took it down to take a look, but Shen Qingqing sighed, a string of copper plates, only three hundred words.

The table with paint off in the house, the chair with missing half an inch leg, the bed supported by bricks, and a few missing bowls in the kitchen, Xiaodouding is full of patched clothes, and this bun costs a copper plate, where is there enough for 300 yuan.

Shen Qingqing was about to cry without tears, but Aunt Wang had already rushed over after eating, carrying a small bamboo basket in her hand, urging: "Qingqing, okay." ”

Shen Qingqing looked at her and then looked at the three hundred wen in her hand, and felt that something was wrong, so she hurriedly pulled Aunt Wang to sit down and poured another glass of water and handed it to her: "Aunt Wang, sit down, I have something to tell you." ”

Aunt Wang looked at her suspiciously, thinking that there was some kind of moth coming again.

Shen Qingqing smiled shyly: "Aunt Wang, I don't have a good memory these days, I always forget things, and I want to ask you about some things." ”

"You say."

Shen Qingqing coughed: "Aunt Wang, when my ex-husband was still alive, was the family very poor?" ”

Shen Qingqing didn't believe that there were only three hundred wen in the house, it must have been spent somewhere, and it was better to ask about the money.

"No, no, no." Aunt Wang hurriedly shook her head. "Iron bull hunting is good, and your family was the richest in the village at that time."

"Then my ex-husband passed away two years ago, what happened to my family?"

Since it is rich, then there must be money saved, or something happens to the money, and the money is gone.

The previous owner was a man who didn't have a door, and Aunt Wang was also a sincere person, so she told everything one by one: "After the iron ox left, the burial banquet was a large sum of silver, and your family was divided, but you got a lot of things, a thatched house and a field." ”

Shen Qingqing instantly felt that there was a doorway, since there was a field, it meant that there was a source of income: "Where is the field?" ”

Aunt Wang glanced at her: "You sold it!" ”

"I sold?" Shen Qingqing's eyes were as if they were copper bells, and he couldn't believe it. "Since it's sold, there's always a silver tael."

"Oh." Aunt Wang seemed to have remembered something. "You showed me at that time that the field was sold for six taels of silver."

Six taels? That's not a lot.

Aunt Wang is another picture of hating iron but not steel: "Qingqing, it's not that my aunt said you, you were lazy before, you didn't work at home, you didn't talk about it, and you were better than your daughter-in-law in the east of the village everywhere, and you were squandered in less than two years." ”

This answered the question in her heart, Shen Qingqing scratched her head with an embarrassed smile: "What did you say, there is a lot of running water in the house, and the expenses are large." ”

Aunt Wang didn't want to worry so much about her, so she stood up with a bamboo basket: "Let's go, the ox cart is waiting for us at the entrance of the village." ”

In the village, there are all capable people who pull ox carts, which is a tight job, and they can sit if they don't sit on others, and the ox carts can't afford to wait for them. And now that you know where Yinliang went, it's useless to be entangled and melancholy, so let things go over like this.

Shen Qingqing washed Xiaodouding's face, followed Aunt Wang's example, took a small backpack and arrived at the entrance of the village.

The oxcart was pulled by a man in the prime of life, with dark skin like soy sauce, and he looked very strong.

It takes two hours from Anning Village to Jiudaoguan Town, starting from the entrance of the village, you can enter the mountain road by walking along the stream, although the village is leaning against the mountain, but the mountain road is not steep, and the mountain goods in it are also one of the sources of income for the people in the village.

The sun slowly hung obliquely in the sky, and the ox cart walked slowly.