Early in the morning, Sister Lu walked out of the courtyard with a bamboo basket. This is the time for the citizens to get up from the kang and prepare breakfast. After breakfast, I went to work if I had a job, and everyone who had a little bit of a livelihood was busy with their own livelihood.

Sister Lu gets up early every day. In order to eat fresh vegetables and vegetables, Sister Lu went to the vegetable market almost every day or two. The winter in Mukden is different from spring, summer and autumn, when there are few varieties of green vegetables, the quantity is also small, and they are relatively more expensive, and most of them are still in the other season. The merchants tried their best to store the fresh vegetables well, so that they could be sold at a good price when the vegetables were not produced. But this season, how to say, the greens are so few that they can't be less.

Sister Lu is a maid hired by Jing Zhiguo, and she has changed her way to make Jing Zhiguo and Chen Guo eat better and have delicious food. Chen Guo didn't have any preferences for food, but Jing Zhiguo was different. Jing Zhiguo has a bit of a tricky mouth in the meal, and he likes to eat fish and shrimp. I love to eat, and I can't eat it every day, but I still have to eat it often. Every time Sister Lu returned to the vegetable market, she had to go to the stalls selling fish and shrimp. On this day, as soon as I walked to the front of those stalls selling fish and shrimp, the man nicknamed Sea Cucumber waved to Sister Lu from afar, and shouted:

"Big sister! Over here! New arrivals! Fast! ”

Sister Lu glanced at the sea cucumber and replied:

"Good! Let's get over it! ”

As he spoke, he bent down to look at the frozen shrimp on a stall in front of him, asked the price, and walked towards the sea cucumber. The sea cucumber saw Sister Lu coming over, smiled, and said in a thick voice:

"Eldest sister, look, the new arrival! Isn't this exactly what your husband loves to eat? One, two? ”

"A pound of money?" Sister Lu asked.

"Oh, big sister! You're an old customer, how can my brother talk to you more? Come on! One or two? ”

Sister Lu took a look at the seafood sold in another stall next to her, which were also fish and shrimp, and said:

"Then pick a bigger one! Our husband is not bad, he loves to eat this kind of fish! This fish is really good fish, especially the teriyaki, it tastes really good! ”

"Look at our eldest sister, she comes to our stall every day or two to buy a fish, it's really this!"

The sea cucumber is busy weighing the fish, and the mouth is not idle. As he spoke, he hurriedly stretched out his hand and straightened his thumb in front of him. It's not easy to do a small business, in the winter, the sea cucumber wears a pair of red brick-colored rubber gloves, and a gray apron on the cotton jacket, which is already half wet, and some of the ground is frozen with ice stubble. The seafood seller next to him looked at the sea cucumber, and then at Sister Lu, and didn't know what he thought, so he said:

"Eat stubble!"

Sister Lu didn't think anything was wrong, the sea cucumber probably thought that this was a bit ridiculous, the smile on her face stiffened for a moment, and then she laughed again, and said:

"Rich! What a stubble! ”

In today's Manchukuo, in an inland area like Mukden, you can eat fish every now and then, what kind of family does it have to be! Sister Lu glanced at the sea cucumber, then at the stall owner, stopped talking, paid the money, put the index finger of her right hand into Ma Lian, who had passed through the head of the fish, carried the fish, and went to other vegetable stalls to go around, and then went home.

The Northeast region is vast. If you go all the way north from the southernmost side of Kanto Island to the northern edge of Heilongjiang, it will be far away! The southwestern part of Heilongjiang is the Songnen Plain. There is a place in the northwest of the Songnen Plain called Jianglun County, and there is a tunzi called Yao Tun in Jianglun County, and there is a private school Mr. in Yaotun, surnamed Xu. When Mr. Xu's son grew up, he first learned the three-character scripture of the hundred family names in Mr. Xu's own private school, that is, those Zhao Qiansun, Li Zhou, Wu Zhengwang, who were originally good, and occasionally studied the classics of the Four Books and Five Classics. Growing up, Mr. Xu felt that it was a little difficult for his own son to be taught by his own knowledge, so he sent his son to a school in the county to learn more deeply. When he was old enough, Xiao Xu worked as a buddy in a grocery store in the county town. The shopkeeper in this store is surnamed Liu, and the wife of the shopkeeper Liu has passed away a long time ago. Shopkeeper Liu and his wife have a daughter, who is in the prime of life, and is waiting for the word boudoir. Shopkeeper Liu saw that Xiao Xu was smart and clever, and his heart was good, and he felt that it was reassuring to entrust his own daughter to Xiao Xu, so he entrusted someone to be a matchmaker, and wanted to marry his only daughter to Xiao Xu as his daughter-in-law. Xiao Xu, how can he be unwilling, this matter can be done. After marriage, Xiao Xu and his daughter-in-law were affectionate and loving, working hard to keep the house, and the family of three relied on a grocery store, and their lives were still delicious. But people have good and bad luck, and maybe when the disaster comes! Xiao Xu's father-in-law once drove a big cart to the countryside to load goods, walked on a mountain beam and did not sit firmly, and rolled off the eaves board at once. When the toss arrives at home, people are no longer good. The old man died, leaving Xiao Xu and Xiao Xu's daughter-in-law. It is said that Xiao Xu is diligent, good and good, and has read a lot of books, the old man is gone, and there should be no problem with leading his daughter-in-law to live a good life, but I don't know what's going on, but this Xiao Xu is not a piece of material for trading! The grocery store was in Xiao Xu's hands, and he saw that it didn't work, and in less than three years, there would be nothing left! There's nothing left, there's no trick, you have to live and eat, so you hold on, and after less than a year, you can't hold on a little bit! But at this moment, there was a turning point. One day, a decent person came to the store, who looked like him, dressed up well, and bought a few bundles of incense and some burnt paper in the store, as well as some memorial supplies such as gold horns and silver horns. From the items bought, it can be seen that this is a rich master, who chooses the first-class to buy. Look again, a trailer is waiting outside the store! While selecting the items to buy, I chatted a few words. Nag, this person turned out to be a person from Karerling, two miles away from Xiao Xu's hometown Yaotun, and he came back to see off his father on purpose. My father had just passed away, and I bought these items for my father's funeral. Besides, this person is now doing things in Mukden in the south. Fengtian, Xiao Xu has never been there, but he knows it, and he knows that it is a big field. Hearing the man say that he was doing things in Mukden, Xiao Xu's eyes widened and flashed with light. continued to chatter, and the man listened to the Jianglun county where Xiao Xu had arrived from Yaotun and how he had become the shopkeeper of the grocery store. continued to chatter, and knew that Xiao Xu's grocery store had been in deficit, and it had not closed down yet. Hearing this, the man lowered his head and was silent for a while. When he raised his head again, the man looked into Xiao Xu's eyes and said, Brother, you are a businessman, come to think of it, you must have read some books, right? Xiao Xu is also a clever person, otherwise his daughter-in-law's father would marry his own daughter to him! When I heard it, I knew that there was an opportunity in front of me, so I told that person all the books he had read and where he had read them. When the man heard this, his face lit up, and he said, "Oops! Brother, I don't know if you're still a scholar! I've been reading books for so many years, and I've been in such a grocery store all day -- ah, if it's all right, it's okay, but the current situation in your store, if you continue to grind like this, I'm afraid it's hard to turn around. We're working in a school in Mukden right now, and if you want, we can help you do something in that school!" When Xiao Xu heard this, he was depressed and had been in the mood for two years, and he was cheerful all of a sudden! But this man's proposal was a bit sudden, and he was stunned for a moment. The man saw it in his eyes and said, Brother, you don't have to worry about this matter, let's finish the funeral for our father in a few days, and we have to leave from Jiang Lun when we leave. As for you, you have been pondering for the past two days, if you feel that you can do it, you will be ready, and you will follow us when we leave. You go over and take a look first, look at it, settle down, and then go back and take our brother and daughter-in-law over, don't you think? At this time, Xiao Xu had already followed the man in his heart, but this matter was really not a trivial matter, and he and his daughter-in-law and son both went to Fengtian, and I am afraid that this grocery store could no longer be kept, but this grocery store was still the property of someone's daughter-in-law's family. And, more importantly, whether the daughter-in-law is willing to go or not is still a matter! He said yes, "Okay!" Thank you big brother for your love! That's great! We're worried that there's no way out! That's it! Let's go back and tell our family, we'll decide when the eldest brother leaves!

Xiao Xu said that the family is his daughter-in-law, the Northeast dialect.

Xiao Xu pondered, as the saying goes, if you can go to Fengtian, no matter what you do, it is better than nesting in this Jianglun. Since I was young and have studied for so many years, maybe I can really survive in a desperate situation!