"Who says I won't buy it? Don't you come here to buy things, who thinks that you have the spare time to stand here and look at your old face on a cold day?! ”

"You, you, you ......" The woman has never been insulted like this, thinking that even if she is over forty years old, there are still many people who praise her charm, why is there only an old face left in the eyes of this hairy boy?" It's, it's too much! Who are you, so rude? ”

"Who do you care about me?! Get me two Blossoming Flowers, and then take this one to attract fortune! ”

Sun Chen slapped the copper plate on the wooden platform where the paper-cutting was placed, "It doesn't matter if you don't know how to cut paper, don't give me the wrong suit, you won't even know the four words of fortune and treasure, big ~ mother ~"

Hu Santao was so angry that she trembled, grabbed the copper plate and stuffed it into her pocket, picked up the window flower that her stepdaughter had just cut out, and handed it to Sun Chen. The hand was still trembling, and after Sun Chen noticed it, he suddenly had a feeling that he was a little too bad just now. But whoever makes her impartial and doesn't look for anyone, so she happens to use herself as a punching bag, and she can only blame her for her bad luck.

"Thank you for your patronage and wish you a prosperous new year." The paper-cut beauty who was working with her head bowed suddenly raised her head and smiled at Sun Chen, that smile was really bright like a peach blossom, and the people around Huang were dizzy, "Thank you for your insight and seeing that she is a big lady~"

"You, Liang Wensi, don't go too far, I don't say anything about stabbing me in a weird way, and now you're helping outsiders bully me! You must know that I am also your mother now, and he will be sad to go back and let your father know that you treat me like this! ”

"No, you're just an aunt, or a stepmother." Liang Wensi didn't feel ashamed at all when she was yelled at, but corrected with a smile, "If my mother knew that after she died, her husband found her own sister to fill the house, and her sister didn't treat her children very well, it wouldn't be as simple as being sad." Maybe...... When she has free time, she will come to you and talk to my dad in the evening? ”

"What nonsense!" Hu Santao seemed to be frightened, "I don't know how good it is to treat you!" My sister is relieved to see that you brothers and sisters are being taken care of by me! ”

"Yes, my mother is very relieved that our brother and sister can be taken care of by you and the oil bottle you brought! Even if you say that I want my talented girl to sell paper-cuts on the street, he can agree, and I don't know a trace of shame! It's so good to us, why don't you see you bring your own oil bottle to show up? ”

Most of the scholars in this era have some sense of superiority, and if they are not really sad, they will not let themselves and their children fall to the point of setting up stalls on the street under any circumstances. 'Scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants' are deeply ingrained in their cognition and even in the society as a whole, and such a class gap is difficult to climb. Therefore, although the income of the businessman is higher than that of other jobs, he is still despised by several other classes, especially the self-proclaimed scholars.

Of course, if you can finally make it possible to have thousands of acres of fertile land, it will be a different treatment.

Sun Chen was not so interested in the privacy revealed in the words of the paper-cut beauty, it was nothing more than a piece of bloody gossip that could be guessed. But the disdain for the small trader in her words made the good impression he had just accumulated for her disappear in an instant, hehe, it turns out that this is still a pretentious lord~

With his window grilles in hand, he emerged from the crowd and continued to buy what he needed.

Not far from the window flower stall, there was a stall for writing couplets, thinking of the crooked words on the account book of himself and Yang Shuping, Sun Chen stepped forward quickly and bought a pair of couplets pasted on the door and three blessing characters pasted on the door. Later, I heard someone talking about putting a small fortune treasure on the household goods that he would use to make money in the coming year, and he also bought one without hesitation, preparing to stick it on his merchant shoulder during the New Year.

The person who wrote the couplet to sell was a scholar about 20 years old, wearing a gray gown, looking like a gentleman, and he was also very talkative, and he could be said to be obedient to the customer's requirements, without a trace of impatience. The person who collected the money on the side was obviously his wife, who was in her fifties, and would look at him with loving eyes from time to time and help him polish his ink.

"Xiu'er, are you tired? It's so cold, do you want to take a break to warm your hands and write again? When he finished helping Sun Chen write the blessing word, the old woman spoke, and her tone couldn't hide her distress.

"Let me write more, Mother," said the young man, "and if I write a little more in a few days ago, we will be able to save some more money, and when my school is opened, you will be able to work a little less." ”

Sun Chen nodded in his heart, thinking that the conditions in their house would not be too good, but this person was really a very filial child.

"I would venture to ask, as a scholar, but you set up a stall here to sell couplets, don't you feel insulted and despised by you?"

Forgive Sun Chen for suddenly saying such a thing, he really can't forget what the paper-cut beauty said just now. The look on the young man in front of him made him especially want to know if he would think the same way as her-even if he was forced to do the work he despised, he still looked down on such a person in his bones.

"Why should I think that?" The young man frowned, "Wealth and nobility are what people want, and if they don't get it by their way, they can't get it anywhere." Poverty and cheapness are the evil of people, not to get it by their way, not to go, the gentleman is frank, I want to get money, in exchange for my labor, isn't it fair? ”

"I was presumptuous." Sun Chen was embarrassed, regretting that he didn't read more ancient texts at the beginning, and the ones he made up for the college entrance examination gradually ate into his stomach as he grew older. But he understood the last words of this young man, and he did not think it was such a shameful thing.

"It doesn't matter, many of my classmates think so, they always say that they are philistines and full of copper smell, but I think they are pedantic and high-minded, don't know how to be flexible, have different ways, and don't conspire with each other." The young scholar waved his hand and said disapprerovingly, "It's you, brother, who can speak so bluntly, but it impresses Zifeng." ”

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed." Sun Chen felt that if someone gave him a mirror at this time, he would definitely be able to see his popular face immediately. Not only is it because Wen Zou Zou's dialogue is not suitable for him, but the most important thing is that he was just stimulated by other people's unintentional words just now, and he almost walked into a dead end, and in the end, it was the scholar in front of him who made him suddenly understand.

When I just heard the words of the paper-cut beauty, I actually had a trace of inferiority, and I became the most humble businessman in the eyes of others, or a small merchant who could only carry the merchant to walk the streets and alleys. I have completely forgotten how much my life has changed compared to the life I used to live.