The willow catkins flew all over the sky, like falling snow, accumulating a thick layer on the side of the road, and the small bolt grabbed a handful on the ground, pouting and blowing on Li Jinglong's face.

"Phew!" Li Jinglong wiped the upper willow catkins from his mouth and scolded: "Are you hurting again and want to be beaten." ”

In response to Li Jinglong's threats and intimidation, Xiao Bolt turned a deaf ear, picked up a branch from the ground, and whipped the wild grass and flowers along the road.

Li Jinglong looked impatiently at Cuihua who was walking with his head bowed behind him, "You can't be faster, you won't be able to reach the county seat in the afternoon if you go like this." ”

Cuihua said timidly: "There are people who have been following us all the time, shouldn't they be bad people." ”

Li Jinglong looked behind him and saw that there were really two men silently from a distance, and he knew who it was with his toes, gritted his teeth and said: "That's right, those two bastards are bad people, if you don't go quickly, be careful to catch you and sell you into the kiln." ”

"Yikes!" Hearing this, Cuihua trotted to the front.

Xiao Shuan turned his head to look at Li Jinglong, "During the Chinese New Year, we went to the city and passed in front of the kiln, and the girls there were dressed in colorful clothes, and their faces were white and fragrant. Sister is not good-looking, she is not wanted in the kiln, why do you want to scare her. ”

"He's a fucking little ghost." Li Jinglong slapped him on the back of the head casually, "But one thing you said is wrong, in fact, the girls in the kiln are just like that, they all rely on the dress of powdered eyebrows, if Cuihua dresses up, it is much better than them." ”

Li Jinglong took over Chang Mao's mantle, and he was also well-informed in the Qinhuai River, so he naturally distinguished the beauty and the ugly.

Xiao Shuan leaned over and whispered, "Really, are you willing to marry my sister?" Grandma said that if you become my son-in-law, no one will dare to bully us in the future, but you are too lazy, I don't want you to be my brother-in-law. ”

"Your grandmother is really a good plan, it seems that she is willing to take me in not only to accumulate taxes, by the way, now the agricultural taxes of the imperial court are not high, and the taxes of Xuyi and Fengyang are even lower, how can your family owe so many taxes."

Xiao Shui shook his head, "I don't know much about this, the family's harvest has paid off Erlaizi's old accounts, I heard my grandmother say that the accounts can be paid off this year, and the taxes of the imperial court can be paid off slowly." ”

"Hehe, your family is bold, but they dare not owe others, but they dare to owe the court."

Cuihua turned around and said: "Although the tax collector is powerful, if you want to collect grain in our Zhuangzi, you have to accompany a smiling face, otherwise what will a Zhuangzi person do with her husband's relatives." Erlaizi is much more vicious than the tax collector......"

The county seat is not far away, the three of them walked while talking, it was not yet noon, although the country was established for many years, but the city wall of Xuyi has not been repaired, the city wall is mottled and potholes, and you can vaguely see the beacon fire of the year.

"It seems that Wei Guogong fought a lot of vicious battles back then." Li Jinglong muttered in a low voice, this was once Deng Yu's territory, and after his stepfather and brother died in battle, Deng Yu led the army to Zhu Yuanzhang.

The gatekeepers yawned against the walls, lazily watching the passers-by, and if there were any goods or horses entering the city, they would stop and call the tax collectors to collect their taxes.

If this bear-like look had been pulled down by Guo Ying and whipped in Yingtian, Li Jinglong didn't think that they would send him back to the sky, as long as Lao Kong showed the waist card of the Cao Guogong Mansion, Xuyi County would have to give some face, he felt that it was better not to be bored.

The city walls are intimidating, and the city is full of life, bustling with people, although it is far less prosperous than Yingtian, but it is also quite lively. Xiao Shuan looked at a stall selling sesame baked cakes and salivated, turned his head and said, "Sister, quickly return my money to me, I want to eat baked cakes." ”

"Put it at home, and when you have a bracelet, I'll sell you baked cakes." Cuihua pointed to a small door in front of her, "There is a pawnshop in front, and my father is also a bracelet here." ”

"I still need you to say, I have already seen that big signboard, let's go in and take a look." Li Jinglong took his sister and brother into the pawnshop, and there was a guy sitting behind the high counter, and when he saw the three of them coming in, he said nonchalantly: "There is something to be done." ”

Xiao Bolt couldn't wait to take out the copper bracelet from Li Jinglong, tiptoe to the counter, "We want to be copper bracelets!" ”

The guy only glanced at it, took it in his hand and said, "If you live for forty wen and three points a month, if you die, you will have fifty wen." ”

Cuihua hurriedly said: "Why is it so little, my father has to give sixty wen for all his work, you are looking at us as a small bully." ”

"It's just such a market right now, if you don't want to, go to another house." The guy has a bad attitude, it's not that he's mean, it's really that pawnshops are such a way of hospitality, unless they meet customers with large mortgages.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard two bangs, and saw two boots thrown on the counter, Li Jinglong patted the counter and said: "The dog's eyes look low, these boots are exchanged for three taels of silver for Lao Tzu." ”

The soles of the boots are stained with thick mud, the boots are full of mud stains and can no longer see the true color, and the boots are even more sour smell. ”

Cuihua and Xiao Shuan also felt that Li Jinglong was messing around, and pulled him to prepare to go to other pawnshops, Li Jing shook off their hands, spat and foamed at the mouth of the boots, and wiped them with their fingers to reveal a little yellow and clear bright color, "See clearly, this is a gold thread, not a golden thread." ”

The shopkeeper was called over, wiped it on his boots with a wet rag, looked at the cloud mark on it, and said with a smile: "That's right, look at this workmanship mark, it is Yingtian Jin Yunzhai's thing, we are a small place here, you can take care of it if you don't know the son." ”

"It's good to know the goods, and you have to get three taels of silver quickly."

"Where is three taels enough, go and wrap five taels of silver for this son." The shopkeeper rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "If there are other good things in the son's house, even if you bring them to the small store, I will give you a fair price." ”

Touching the white flowers and heavy silver, Li Jinglong had a joy in his heart that he had never had, he also liked money in the past, but he never felt that money was so important, thank Lao Kong for not taking off his boots, but unfortunately he spent thirty taels of silver when he bought the boots, not to show off his wealth, but to play football, he can become one of the top scorers in the school, a good pair of boots to contribute a lot.

Out of the pawnshop, Cuihua said with a happy face: "I didn't expect your boots to be so valuable, and the shopkeeper was also a kind person, and he gave an extra two taels of silver." ”

"Good fart, he's ready to cast a long line to catch big fish, not to mention that he's already made enough money. Have you ever heard that the car and boat shop should be killed if you are not guilty? ”

Cuihua nodded her little head and said, "I've heard of it, what's the matter with the pawnshop?" ”

Li Jinglong waved his hand hatefully, "The pawnshop is going to punish the Nine Clans!" ”

With the silver, Li Jinglong's psychology suddenly became steady, he was really hungry these days, so he went to the restaurant to fill his stomach first. I don't know how long I have to stay here, I still have to save money to spend, and a bowl of ordinary Yangchun noodles made the gentleman on the Qinhuai River swallow his tongue.

When you leave the restaurant, you have to buy some food, what kind of baked cakes, rice cakes, tea dumplings, and dim sum are all served, and the cheeks of the small bolt are bulging like a marmot, and the mouth has not stopped.

Two copper coins were thrown to the vendor, Li Jinglong picked up one of the most beautiful head flowers and gave it to Cuihua, which was regarded as making amends for him eating up the rice at home a few days ago, looking at Cuihua's red face, Li Jinglong said in his heart: "This girl shouldn't like me." ”

Of course, he didn't forget the most important task, he found a grain store and bought 20 catties of rice and white noodles each, not because he had no money to buy more grain, but he couldn't carry it because he bought too much.

Li Jinglong handed the heavy money bag in his waist to Xiao Cui, carried the two bags of rice noodles to his shoulder, licked the dim sum residue on his hand, followed behind and helped Li Jinglong hold it with both hands, and the three of them went home satisfied.

Just walked past a green building, and heard someone behind him say in a weird way: "Ouch, isn't this Cuihua and Xiaozhuo, how can you get rich?" Why don't you pay my debts if you have money! ”