Zuo Gui was also very happy, and grinned: "Hehe, I still underestimate the generosity of others, I thought that such a bag of money, it would be more than 200 yuan in the sky, but I didn't expect that there was broken silver in it, hehehe." ――Yesterday I asked you and your mother to buy a quilt, your mother said you don't want to be stunned, I see you say this today, I know that you must not have slept well last night, this is not good, we have a little money now, let's go, go buy a quilt! ”

"Nope! I don't want it! Young Master Zuo stood still and didn't move, "Unless Dad, you also buy a quilt, and if it's cold this day, you can add another bed, otherwise I don't want to freeze to death." ”

"You kid!" Zuo Guile sighed, "Okay!" Then buy two beds, anyway, it's a matter of twenty dollars. It's not bad for this money, we have to take good care of our body, otherwise our grandfather will fall ill, and everything will be over. ”

Zuo Shaoyang was happy, he was also worried about sleeping at night, if he didn't sleep for another night, he would have to collapse. Now that Dad finally agreed, he doesn't have to worry about sleeping at night. Follow Zuo Gui to Washi, which is a commodity distribution market, and there are also quilts sold.

Although Zuo Gui decided to spend money to buy two quilts, he still tried to save as much as possible, asked the entire market, and finally chose the cheapest one, and spent 17 yuan to buy two quilts of kudzu.

Zuo Shaoyang found that the quilt had been sewn in a tic-tac-toe shape with a needle, a bit like a modern down jacket, he picked it up heavily, touched it, and found that there was a noise in the mezzanine, and asked Zuo Guidao: "What is it here?" ”

"Straw!"

"Straw?" Zuo Shaoyang was stunned for a moment, yes, there is no way to use the double layer of Ge linen cloth as a quilt, there must be something to be sandwiched in it, cotton in the Tang Dynasty is far from popular, rich people use silk cotton or animal fur, of course the people can't afford it, they can only add it according to their economic ability, the worst is straw, the second is broken flannel, and the better is the black old silk cotton. With the current situation of the Zuo family, of course, there is no choice.

When he returned home with two Ge Ma quilts, Zuo Gui asked Liang and Zuo Shaoyang to pay the rent to Zhao Sanniang. Zuo Shaoyang fell on the road and soiled his pants, hurriedly changed a pair of pants, and followed his mother Liang to Zhao Sanniang's house to pay the rent.

After Zhao Sanniang weighed it with a silver scale, the small pieces of broken silver weighed one or two or three coins, plus the one hundred wen, which was converted into a total of 1,500 wen. There are still 2,100 Wen left.

Liang begged Zhao Sanniang to slow down again, but Zhao Sanniang was ironclad, first thanked Zuo Gui for helping her treat her stomach pain, which was already great, but she did not let go of the debt repayment deadline, and said with a cold face, at noon on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the remaining two thousand and one hundred Wen could not be handed over, and she left by herself, leaving the medicinal herbs. She'll find someone to evaluate it and discount it to see how much it is still missing. The money owed still has to be pursued.

Liang had no choice but to take Zuo Shaoyang back to the pharmacy.

Zuo Gui originally thought that this time it should be easier to speak, after all, there was only 2,100 Wen left, but he didn't expect to let him at all. The family was disappointed.

However, on this day, when the bell doctor made a round, he earned more than a thousand wen at once, which is the most earned since the opening of the medicine shop, although such a thing is unavoidable, but it has added a lot of confidence to Zuo Gui, even if he can't pay the rent in Chinese New Year's Eve, he can support his family by this. So I wasn't as depressed as I was a few days ago, and I talked and laughed and ate.

Before eating, Zuo Shaoyang took the little squirrel out of his arms, the little squirrel was already squeaky with hunger, and Fennel was happy to see it: "Brother, what are you doing when you catch a squirrel back?" I can't eat it like this. It's better to fight a hare! ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "People give it away, keep it for fun." ”

Fennel smiled: "I didn't eat anything, and I fed the little squirrels to play, are you stupid?" ”

"How much can it eat? Moreover, he doesn't eat grain, only pine nuts and so on. Zuo Shaoyang said that he took out the pine cones picked on the road, smashed them open with a hammer, took out the kernels inside and handed them to the little squirrel.

The little squirrel's eyes are half-open and half-closed, and he holds the nuts with his front paws, but he doesn't know how to put them to his mouth. "Eat, little one." Zuo Shaoyang sent the kernel to the little squirrel's mouth, but the little squirrel still didn't react.

Liang said: "You see that its eyes are not open, can it know what to eat?" I'm going to feed it! ”

"Feeding? The female squirrel has been bitten to death by an owl, where can I find a female squirrel to feed? ”

"Find another milk." Fennel chimed in, "Like dogs, cats, or whatever." But it has to be fresh. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Yes, yes, this is a good idea, I heard people say that the tigress refuses to feed, and the breeder has to find the who has just gotten off, and the little tiger eats the milk of the with the paparazzi, hehe"

"Breeder?" Fennel said strangely, "What breeder?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang is talking about the news that is often seen on the Internet in newspapers and magazines, saying that it is rare for the keeper of a certain zoo to find a dog mother to feed the little tiger. Zuo Shaoyang didn't bother to explain, so he diverted the topic and said, "Do you know whose dog gave birth?" ”

"I don't know this, and I don't seem to have heard of anyone's dog just giving birth."

"What then?" Zuo Shaoyang looked at the little squirrel and kept blinking his mouth, his stomach was flat, he seemed to be very hungry, and he was even more anxious. "It's too small to eat pine nuts, and it won't be able to find a dog with cubs for a while. What can I do now? ”

Liang said: "Why don't you grind the pine nut kernel out of juice and feed it?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang's eyes lit up: "Good idea!" He smashed more than a dozen pine cones in one go, took out the nuts inside, found a juice pressing vessel from the concocted medicine room where he lived, poured a little water, and then put the nuts in to press, and soon pressed out a small amount of juice.

Holding the cup, pinching the little squirrel's mouth and pouring it in, but only poured a small amount into it, and the rest flowed out along the corners of the mouth, and the little squirrel was so anxious that he blinked his mouth, shook his head and squeaked.

Fennel said: "This can't work, let me come!" She ran into the kitchen, took a shallot, pinched off the two ends, put one end into the kernel juice of the cup, sucked it gently, sucked a small tube of kernel juice, then pinched the upper part with her fingers, let go of her mouth, took the lower end into the mouth of the little squirrel, slowly let go of the fingers pinched above, and the kernel juice in the green onion tube flowed into the mouth of the little squirrel, and it was not bad at all.

Zuo Shaoyang smiled: "Sister, your method is really good!" Let me. ”

Fennel smiled a little smugly, and in a moment fed the little bit of nut juice into the little squirrel's belly.

Seeing that this method was effective, Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly smashed the juice of other pine cones and fed them to the little squirrel. The little squirrel finally drank the nut juice, blinked and closed his eyes, and went to sleep again.

This time fennel found a cardboard box and made a nest for the little squirrel with rags, and Zuo Shaoyang put the little squirrel in the nest.

Liang smiled: "Okay, we should also eat." ”

The family made it and took the bowl and nibbled on the hard bun with mulberry bark.

Fennel said to Liang: "Mother, it's the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month today, 'twenty-seven to wash guilt, twenty-eight to wash sloppy', don't forget to take a hot bath later." ”

Liang said: "I remember, the water has been boiled, and you can wash it after eating." Do you wash one too and then go back? ”

"No, the family is still waiting for me to go back. I'll wash it when I'm done. ”

After eating, Liang heated a large pot of water, and there was a large wooden bucket half a person high in the kitchen, which was used for bathing. After pouring hot water, Zuo Shaoyang insisted on letting his father Zuo Gui and mother Liang wash first, and then he calmly took a hot bath.

He first spread out the bun, a long hair drooped down, so that he was a little at a loss, since he was a child to grow a lot of long hair, but he didn't expect that one day he was also such a long hair, really unaccustomed, he really wanted to find a pair of scissors to cut the light, refreshing and refreshing to leave a small flat head, but the skin hair of the parents, the ancients were men and women could not cut hair, only monks shaved their heads. It would be strange if he cut his hair and not be spurned as a disobedient son. I can only keep it.

Such long hair has to be washed first, otherwise you won't be able to sleep.

He touched his hair, it was a little knotted, it was so dirty that he couldn't wash it in a big wooden barrel, otherwise the dream of taking a good bath would be shattered, so he made a basin of hot water with a wooden basin, scooped some cold water from the water tank with a gourd scoop, and looked around for soap and other things to wash his hair, it was impossible to have soap in the Tang Dynasty, I heard that the ancients used soap powder to wash things, and sure enough, I found it on the washstand.

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