The little girl's clothes were torn in several places, revealing blackened cotton wool, and she carried a basket with a small layer of grass in her hand.

"Big girl." Qi Shiyi called someone, "We're waiting for my brother." ”

"Didn't your brother go to a private school today?" The eldest girl asked rhetorically, her eyes full of puzzlement.

"My brother will come back every day after that." Qi Shiyi explained, "Brother, he doesn't worry about us. ”

The eldest girl nodded, then looked around secretly, made sure she didn't see anyone, pulled away the grass on the basket, picked out a few small eggs from it, and stuffed them into Qi Jiuli's palm, "Give it to you to eat, make up for your body." ”

Qi Jiuli looked at the little black hands that were full of dirt in the fingernails, and the thin ones that had chicken feet were fighting, and there was something unpleasant in his heart, "Big girl, you keep it for food." ”

"Jiuli, you have one less word, I am your eldest sister." The eldest girl said seriously, "I'm three months older than you." ”

Qi Jiuli twitched the corners of her mouth, she thought that she should always be older than her, and she kept calling herself Jiuli, so she didn't care about it, but now she understands that she is smaller than others, "Sister Big Girl." ”

The eldest girl showed a satisfied smile, "Take it, this is the wild bird egg I found when I went to pick wild vegetables today, it is very replenishing, you eat it, the body will be fine, and people will be happy." ”

"Okay, I'm going back, Jiuli, I'll come back to see you next time." The big girl waved her hand and ran away with the basket.

With three wild bird eggs in his palm, looking at the thin body of the big girl in the distance, Qi Jiuli was a little at a loss, "Eleven, what can I do?" ”

"After eating, when you see the eldest sister in the future, you will give her some food." Qi Shiyi said, "You used to give it occasionally, and the eldest sister also remembered you well." ”

"Oh." Qi Jiuli nodded, "Eleven, it's so cold now, the ground is still freezing, can you pick wild vegetables on this mountain?" ”

"The eldest sister and stepmother are amazing, don't go out to look for it, there is no food." Qi Shiyi said sadly, "It's pitiful to have no mother." ”

"After that, we will be nicer to the eldest sister." Qi Jiuli touched the top of Qi Shiyi's hair and said, she knew that Qi Shiyi was a little empathetic, after all, now they are also people who have no mother.

"Hmm." Qi Shiyi nodded, although Qi Daya was trampled by her stepmother, she was kind-hearted, her eldest sister was sick, and she was so difficult that she could find wild bird eggs and send them without eating, it was really good.

"Brother?" Qi Jiuli saw a figure walking in the distance, and before he could see the person clearly, he called out loudly.

"Nine miles? Why are you waiting here for the big night? Qi Qizhu heard Qi Jiuli's voice and quickened his pace.

"Jiuli is well?" There was another voice, and Qi Jiuli saw clearly that there was another person next to Qi Qizhu, but the jacket that person was wearing was black, and she didn't see it clearly just now.

"Brother, eighth cousin." Qi Shiyi called someone.

Seeing Qi Shiyi, Qi Qizhu breathed a sigh of relief, "Jiuli, don't come to the village to wait for me in the future, it's not safe at night." ”

"I'm going to eat at my uncle's house today, I'm afraid you don't know." Qi Jiuli explained, "Brother, eighth cousin, let's go quickly, there are good dishes tonight." ”

The four of them didn't walk for a while.

"Dad, mother, Qizhu is back, and Basong is also back." Qi Sansheng has come out to see it a few times, and now he has finally waited for someone, and his own brother is also here, so he is even more happy.

"Okay, come into the house and warm up, and we'll start eating right away." Chi Lingmiao greeted him with a smile and went to the kitchen to serve the dishes in person.

The roast chicken was cut into pieces, and the potatoes were stewed in a large pot, and six eggs were scrambled, and a pot of cabbage vermicelli soup was made, which was steaming hot and fragrant, and the staple food was pure sorghum rice and dry rice, and it was a hard rice and hard dish.

"Wow, how can there still be chicken." Qi Basong looked at this food and swallowed his saliva angrily.

"Today, the nobleman gave it to Jiuli." Chi Lingmiao said with a smile, "Eat quickly, I'll tell you when you eat well." ”

A large pot of sorghum rice was all eaten, the three pots of vegetables were empty, and everyone in the room touched their stomachs with satisfaction and burped.

"Mother, what happened here?" Qi Basong asked curiously.

Making charcoal, selling charcoal, and making a long-term appointment with Qiu Zhai, all things Chi Lingmiao has a vivid image, and 1510 makes sense, Qi Basong was very surprised when he heard it.

"Mother, do we have someone in our family who can make charcoal?" Qi Basong asked in surprise.

"It was Qizhu and the four of them who made it up at home, and after teaching it to us, it took a few tries to make it, I used to think it was difficult, but I didn't expect it to be so simple after I knew it, it just took some firewood and water." Chi Lingmiao said.

"Look, this is earned by selling charcoal." Chi Lingmiao took out all the broken silver and copper coins in the purse, "All the charcoal has been sold today, and I earned three taels and four hundred and twenty wen." ”

These silver money pool spirit seedlings have been counted three times, and they remember it very clearly.

"Qizhu They made four baskets, we made three baskets, this ......" Chi Lingmiao suddenly couldn't divide it.

"No, we sold two, and the price is not the same, eh, I think these are for us, you can take these back, after all, this method was figured out by you, and it stands to reason that we don't deserve these silver dollars." Chi Lingmiao said.

"It's just right to make you a coil, and there is a bundle."

"Auntie, this yard is one yard, and the money from selling charcoal has to be counted carefully." Qi Jiuli disagreed, "I'd rather not be entangled enough later, and we will borrow it from you again, the reason is like this." ”

Qi Qizhu nodded in agreement, his expression resolute.

"Then the two baskets of the grocery store are ours." Qi Shan said.

"Where there is such a thing, we do more, count it as ours." Qi Jiuli said.

The two were at a stalemate, and finally agreed that the family would be counted as a basket.

"Yu Ji grocery store got 540 wen, our two families divided half of it, that is, 270 wen, from Qiu's house got 2 taels and 880 wen, and we also got half of it, that is, ......"

"Hey, this can't be half, you made an extra basket." Qi Shan interrupted, "Jiuli, Uncle can see that you are a good calculator, you can calculate carefully, you have three baskets, and we have two baskets." ”

"A total of two taels and eight hundred and eighty texts, five baskets, one basket is five hundred and seventy-six texts, we have three baskets, uncle, you two baskets, then we have one tael and seven hundred and twenty-eight texts, uncle, you are one tael and one hundred and fifty-two texts."

Qi Jiuli finished silently calculating in his heart, said the number, and when he looked up, the whole room was looking at him, Qi Jiuli realized later, "What's wrong?" Am I not right? Then I'll do the math. ”

Qi Jiuli counted again, "That's right." ”

"Jiuli, you can do arithmetic?" Ren Xue'er asked incredulously.

"It's just a simple ......" Qi Jiuli reacted, there is no ninety-nine mantra yet, they are all plans, and this is a special case, "I don't know if it's right." ”