Hongdou held the skirt in his hand and ran home in one breath before he dared to let go of his hand.

Fang just taught Xing a lesson, not to mention the dust that rolled all over his body, and the clothes on his body were scratched by Xing in a few places.

The only coarse cloth skirt was torn by Xing's with a long opening.

This can't be seen by Mi Shaodong.

I can't let my father see it.

Close the door and hurriedly find the needlework dustpan.

took off the tattered clothes all over his body, and it took a long time to reluctantly mend the mess.

Thinking of finally letting out a bad breath for Sister Wang, Hongdou still couldn't help it, and whistled a few happily.

As the weather gets colder, the business in Mihoujun's shop is getting busier.

In the morning, Mi Houjun asked Hongdou to cook more food for two people at noon.

He also asked Carpenter Wang to go to Linglong Town for him to cut two catties of pork and make a pot of wine.

Unlike the old man who looked at the shop first, he was frugal and did everything personally, this Mi Shaodong is very good at calling people.

When he saw that the carpenter was wrapped in a hand with a broken finger, and that he could not even go up the mountain to cut wood, and that he was wandering around all day, he often told him to run errands.

For example, go to the grain shop in the neighboring village to buy some good rice and noodles, and go to the town to buy some miscellaneous things.

Carpenter Wang's fingers are broken, but his strength is there, and he is also honest and honest.

Running errands for Mi Shaodong can earn a few pennies.

His wife didn't quarrel with him anymore, and the family simply regarded Mi Shaodong as a parent of food and clothing.

Hongdou Xiaoxiao came to the shop to cook rice in the afternoon, and saw Lao Yu settling accounts with Mi Shaodong.

Lao Yu held the dry tobacco pipe in his hand and sat there, his face full of happiness.

Mi Houjun saw Hongdou coming in, and hurriedly flattered Lao Yu and said:

"Look at it, look at it, I called An Xiucai Nizi according to your instructions."

Lao Yu took a hard puff of dry smoke, and suddenly both nostrils smoked together.

Still angry: "My lord, I didn't mean it...... this"

"The deficit of three or four taels of silver, only a few days? You're burying money like this? ”

"It's not easy to see you start a family in my eyes, and it's not easy to get a penny."

Mi Houjun looked at Lao Yu's ridiculous appearance, and couldn't help laughing: "Didn't I buy a small guy." ”

"Besides, I'm not as old as you, I have to eat good rice and noodles every day, and the wine and meat can't be broken......"

Lao Yu snorted: "Good rice and good noodles every day, how much more can you spend on wine and meat?" ”

After a pause, "How many times did you buy this little guy and give it to others?" ”

Mi Houjun smiled indifferently: "It's a widow's child, I saw that he was pitiful, and gave him two taels of silver." ”

Old Yu "Teng" stood up, thought about it, and slowly sat down again.

Seeing that Hongdou had already entered the kitchen, Dahuzi and the porter who came with him were tying up skins outside the shop.

Only then did he sigh and said, "Ye is too good at spending money indiscriminately." ”

"Don't say that such a child in the mountains is literate and clever in words, and he can buy it with eight or nine yuan."

Mi Houjun deliberately made a fuss and said, "Ouch, is it? This is a bit of a fool. ”

Then he smiled again: "Next time I buy a small girl, I will never suffer such a loss." ”

Lao Yu understands that the silver has been given to others by his own father, and it is impossible to ask for it.

said too much, but it was also white and this young master was angry.

After thinking about it, he asked again: "Which Chinese person did you find?" ”

Mi Houjun didn't expect Lao Yu to be so fine, but he snorted.

I had to prevaricate: "I'm just busy these days, and I haven't had time to find a Chinese person to set up a document." ”

Lao Yu took a puff of cigarette, and the two nostrils smoked together.

"Two taels of silver, don't take it to heart."

Mi Houjun nodded again and again.

Hongdou was busy in the kitchen behind the leather shop, while listening to Lao Yu and Mi Shaodong's long arguments.

I thought in my heart, it turned out that the money in and out of this shop, Lao Yu had to settle accounts with Mi Shaodong.

It seems that it is better for me to withdraw my wages with Mi Shaodong.

After packing up the lunch meal, I saw that Mi Shaodong and they were still busy.

Red Bean closed the door of the kitchen and walked away.

She didn't want to pull and pull with Mi Shaodong, who might leave her to eat in front of that old Yu.

On the way home, Hongdou thought about how to make more money.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and I have to buy some fabrics, cotton wool, and sew some cotton clothes and shoes for my father and myself for the winter.

The road behind the leather shop was a little detouring, and Hongdou had just turned a winter wheat mountain field, and suddenly a few children came out of the ditch.

Red Beans saw that there were red students inside.

casually shouted: "Hongsheng! ”

As soon as the red bean spoke, the rest of the children were like frightened hares.

With just one glance, there was a 'boom' and fled in all directions.

Leaving Hongsheng stupid, standing on the ridge.

Seeing Hongdou coming over, Hongsheng suddenly covered his eyes with his hands.

Screamed and cried, "Whoa...... Third sister, don't beat me to death! ”

Hongdou was angry and ridiculous, so he stepped forward and grabbed Hongsheng's thin arm.

"Who did you hear that the third sister was going to beat you to death?"

Hongsheng only cried, but he didn't dare to struggle.

After a while, he choked up and said, "Mother...... Mother said......"

Hongdou said angrily: "You go back and tell your mother, I will beat your whole family to death tomorrow!" ”

He also frightened in passing, "Tell your mother to prepare a water tank and receive blood water!" ”

Leave Hongsheng behind and go home.

Hongsheng was frightened, and the third sister was gone, so she ran home crying.

Hongdou went home and searched for a long time before finding a kitchen knife with an open mouth at home.

The next day, when I helped Mi Shaodong wash his clothes, he took it to the stone slab by the Linglong Pond to grind.

I don't know who went home, so I said casually: "An Xiucai Nizi is sharpening her knife by the pool." ”

happened to be heard by Hongsheng again, and his little face turned white with fright.

rushed home, shouting in horror: "Mother, mother, the third sister sharpens the knife and is going to kill my family......"

Zhang was terrified.

Panicked and asked Hongsheng: "Where did you see her sharpening her knife to kill us?" ”

Hongsheng stumbled and couldn't understand.

Red rice was frightened only from being pressed into the cold water of Linglong Lake by red beans.

I caught the wind and cold again, and I haven't recovered my spirit yet.

When I heard this, my whole body trembled.

Crying: "Mother, mother......"

I don't know where to hide.

The mother and child were frightened and hurriedly closed the courtyard door.

Zhang only hated that her husband was not at home every day, and she thought of her brother-in-law An Xiucai from her husband.

Hongdou is An Xiucai's Nizi, how can he let her be lawless like this?

I thought of the courtyard gate of Butcher Zhang's house so tightened.

There is also a big black dog guarding the door, hasn't he been kicked open by a red bean?

They can't hide from it.

asked Hongmi to take Hongsheng and went to the house next door to hide it.

She hurriedly went out by herself to find An Xiucai's theory.

After asking for a long time, someone said that the red bean was indeed sharpening his knife on the stone slab by the Linglong Pond.

It's still grinding there.

Some people say that when they saw An Xiucai getting up early and walking west, I don't know where it will go?

Zhang inquired around along the west, and finally asked An Xiucai's whereabouts.

When she arrived, she saw An Xiucai sitting outside the door of a family, writing a marriage letter for the son of that family.

Zhang didn't say why, and stepped forward and grabbed her brother-in-law's back collar.

He shouted and scolded, "Why do you want to kill someone? ”

An Xiucai was not wary, and was pulled back by Zhang's and fell down with the bench.

Fortunately, he didn't overturn other people's desks and poured ink to destroy the marriage book.

He is used to being bullied by the Zhang family, and he is ridiculously obedient to what is orderly.

He got up and stammered, "What is the second sister-in-law doing?" When will I kill someone? ”

Zhang pointed at his face and scolded: "Hongdou is sharpening his knife to kill my family, I will fight with you first!" ”

An Xiucai's anxious face turned red: "Yet, then......"

The person who wrote the marriage letter didn't know what was going on outside, so he hurriedly came out to see.

I saw a mother-in-law with her front teeth bared her feet jumping and scolding the gentleman who asked her to write.

He was so angry that he shouted: "Where did this crazy woman come from?" We want to do a happy event, what are you yelling at Mr. ”

A few people came out, and after a tug, they pushed Zhang away.

An Xiucai saw that Zhang's hatred left, and she didn't know if what she said was true or not?

hurriedly wrote a marriage letter for others, and received a penny less to make amends, and hurriedly took the rags and rushed home.

When I went home, I saw Hongdou sitting at the door, and the sole of the shoe that she had not finished before she fell into Linglong Pond.

An Xiucai was confused, I didn't know where the Zhang family suddenly found himself and started fighting?

He didn't dare to talk about it to Hongdou, for fear that he would really provoke his own Nizi and find Zhang's bad luck.

I just said that I didn't walk far today, and I found a family to make a living, so I came back early for lunch.

How did Hongdou know that her father was beaten by her second aunt for no reason?

So she cooked and told her father to eat first and go out.

He went to the leather shop and cooked Chinese rice.

came back and ate the coarse noodles and steamed buns that An Xiu left in the pot, and Hongdou went out with the broken kitchen knife.

Little Tiger is waiting on the road.

Seeing the broken kitchen knife in Hongdou's hand, he snorted and said, "Sister Hongdou, you can't chop wood with this knife." ”

Hongdou smiled: "It's okay, my sister has a lot of strength." ”

It turned out that Hongdou knew that Chen Lao Monong, the man of Aunt Chen next door, was free.

I have been chopping firewood in the mountains and selling it in Linglong Town.

Even the firewood burned in the leather shop was bought with Chen Laomo.

It's just that it's hard to chop wood, and it's very laborious to pick it up in the town.

People who have a few acres of mountain fields at home have to be idle to earn that little money.

The one who chops firewood and sells it for money in Longshan Pass has always been Chen Laomo alone.

Red beans have been thinking about it for the past few days, and the most costless business is to chop firewood to sell.

An Xiucai came home in the evening and saw two large bundles of firewood suddenly in front of his house.

asked the red beans, and the red beans did not change color, saying that they went up the mountain with Xiaohuzi in the afternoon to cut them back.

An Xiucai thought that the red beans were to prepare firewood for the winter, and she was secretly relieved

Although their family is too poor, they don't need much firewood to cook.

But prepare more firewood and grass, and when it snows heavily, it is also good to warm up by fire.

He's not used to doing these things.

So when it snows, you can often only freeze bitterly.

Thinking of the thin red beans, I don't know how she got these two bundles of firewood back?

I felt sorry for my own Nizi again: "It's enough to cut some casually, don't go to the mountains to cut it." ”

Thinking that the red beans digging wild vegetables fell down the steep hillside that year and almost died, An Xiucai was still frightened.

Hongdou smiled: "I know, Dad." ”

The next day, the two bundles of firewood at the door turned into four bundles.

Gradually, the stacks of wood were piled up.

Red Beans got up early in the morning and went to the leather shop to cook breakfast.

quietly explained to Dahuzi again, and then went out to find Carpenter Wang.

begged Carpenter Wang to join her, and spent five cents to rent a cart pulled by oxen from Li Dahu's house in a neighboring village.

With the help of Carpenter Wang, she, Xiaohuzi, and the three of them stacked all the firewood at the door on the ox cart.

Hongdou didn't know how to drive the ox cart, so he agreed with Carpenter Wang and drove the ox cart to Linglong Town to sell firewood for them.

If you get the money, pay him ten cents.

Of course, Carpenter Wang happily agreed.

You don't have to walk to drive the ox cart back and forth, it's easy and rich, and it's a fool not to do it.

Xiaohuzi has listened to Sister Hongdou's words these days, and has been hiding from his mother, following Hongdou up the mountain to chop wood every afternoon.

Seeing that the firewood he chopped was really going to be exchanged for copper coins, not to mention how happy he was.

The red bean and the little tiger climbed up the high stack of wood, and the carpenter Wang drove the big ox and swayed all the way.

In less than an hour, we arrived at Linglong Town.

Linglong Town is more than ten miles away from Longshan Pass.

It is said that it is a town, but there are more houses, and there are more people coming and going.

Hongdou looked carefully at those houses, there were also brick walls and tiles, and there were also mud and grass houses.

Some of them carry a banner signboard at the door, and there is no writing on the banner.

After asking Carpenter Wang, I found out that it was the tavern signboard and the cloth village signboard.

That is a teahouse for listening to books, and that is a multigrain shop.

Only the shops that make baked cakes and fried oil fruits are clear at a glance.

The fragrant sesame pancakes are piled on top of the warm charcoal stove, and the fried and browned oil fruits are packed in a bamboo basket soaked with oil.

Xiaohuzi said to Hongdou: "Sister Hongdou, after selling firewood, I want to buy a few oil fruits." ”

Hongdou smiled: "Okay, sister will buy you oil fruits to eat." ”

Xiaohuzi sniffed: "Sister Hongdou, I'll buy oil fruits for my mother to eat." ”

"When my mother gave birth to my little grass sister, my father was sick, and my mother was not willing to eat even a single oil fruit or an egg."

Hongdou looked at Xiaohuzi in surprise.

Such a big slug has such filial piety?

No wonder he followed him up the mountain every day to chop wood, grinding blood blisters with his little hands, and he didn't scream.

Carrying such a big bundle of firewood on his back, he walked more energetically than himself, a person who had practiced sanda.

Hongdou suddenly pulled Xiaohuzi closer to his arms, touched his head and said, "Good boy, your mother has your brothers and hopes." ”

The king carpenter shouted, and parked the ox cart at a three-way intersection.

This place is relatively empty, suitable for carrying firewood and grass.

Red Bean and Little Tiger jumped off the ox cart.

There was no need to shout, and soon someone came to ask about the price of firewood.

Carpenter Wang opened his mouth and said, "Twenty pieces of wen." ”

The person who asked the price made a look of disdain: "Brother, what about you?" ”

"What guy wants twenty wen?"

Shake your head and leave.

Carpenter Wang didn't force him to stay, but said loudly: "You have to know the goods when you buy things." ”

"Our firewood bundles are big, and they are cut on the mountain, boil the fire, can you buy a loss for twenty yuan a bundle?"

The man went away.