The rain was a little lighter that day, and Chungui wrapped some brown sugar and half a piece of ginger for Daddy Li. Zhiyuan was still a little reluctant when he left, lying on Daddy Li and quietly looking at Zhiping, Zhiping Zhimin stayed at the door until he couldn't see anyone before coming in.

Chun Hui didn't hide it from them, and said at the dinner table that Zhiyuan would be like Xiaobao in two days, and often came to the house to read and read together. Zhiping immediately cheered: "Sister-in-law! I love this brother! He's so well-behaved, even better than me! ”

Zhixing didn't look at it: "That's my brother, a few years older than you!" ”

Zhiping immediately changed his words: "Then I like this brother!" ”

Chungui only said this matter, as for letting Zhiping go to study with her after the year, she didn't say anything, and when she had saved enough, it would not be too late for her to speak.

As soon as the days were clear, she thought about going to the shopkeeper Qi, and she had sixteen paintings on hand, which were two sets of pictures of the four seasons, and the four pictures were put together to form a complete set of pictures. The two sets of drawings are divided into colored and uncolored. Zhixing and Qi You also wrote a total of eight poems.

The paintings are all ordinary painters can paint, the spring return is just a little careful to stimulate consumption, everyone has a collection habit in their hearts, looking at the four fans to make a complete painting has a full sense of achievement.

She didn't think about taking a few small ones with her on this trip, after all, it was tiring to walk for two quarters of an hour on the mountain road. She originally planned to let Zhixing and Qi You, the two big ones, look at a few small ones, but she didn't expect Qi You to propose that he wanted to go to the street with her.

Chungui looked at Qi You's legs, frowned, and said, "Can you walk for so long with this leg?" "Two quarters of an hour is not too long, but it is a mountain road, and it is inevitable to bump.

Qi You nodded and said, "It's almost better, Ben didn't hurt my muscles and bones, and I also have something to buy this trip." ”

Chun Gui's face was happy: "Then it couldn't be better!" "Although it didn't hurt my muscles and bones, it was already winter, and it was really difficult to feel inconvenient for my legs and feet.

The legs and feet are good, and this period of time has passed, and several children are very happy, looking left and right around Qi You's legs.

Qi You raised his eyes and smiled comfortingly at Chungui, and the last trace of uneasiness in Chungui's heart was also dispersed.

-

After dinner, Father Li took his two grandsons to send half a basket of eggs to the spring home, more than a dozen of them, and he also brought his two grandsons to recognize the door.

A few people said that they were going to the street tomorrow, and Daddy Li hurriedly said: "Tomorrow, my family Zhicun is going to catch up with the small workers, and by the way, he sold a bunch of skins that Zhigao had saved, and he borrowed the donkey cart of the village chief's family, which is just right to send you away!" ”

Daddy Li's eldest grandson is called Li Zhicun, he learned carpentry at the age of fifteen, and now he is twenty years old, and he often takes jobs in the town, and the second grandson is called Li Zhigao, who is now eighteen years old, and learned hunting with the two brothers Chen Shi. The two grandsons have no intention of taking the imperial examination, and only want to earn money to support the family.

Chun Gui was overjoyed and looked at Qi You: "That's really thank you, Brother Li!" ”

Li Zhicun was tanned and thin, a little embarrassed, touching his head and shaking his head.

Several people set a time, and the Li family left.

Just after dawn on the second day, Li Zhicun waited at the door of Liu's house. He sat in front of him in a donkey cart, Chungui and Qi You sat at both ends, the mountain wind in winter was biting cold, and the two of them were still a little unbearable when they were dressed thickly, Qi You looked at Chungui who was spitting cold air, and deliberately turned sideways to block it, but despite this, Chungui was still so cold that his hands were red.

Fortunately, it was supposed to take two quarters of an hour to walk, but the donkey cart arrived in a quarter of an hour. Qi You looked at Chungui's hands for a long time, sighed and didn't say a word.

It doesn't matter if she returns in the spring, she doesn't have to walk to save her feet and makes her happy for a long time, she rubbed her red hands and thanked Li Zhicun.

The three of them parted at the entrance of the market, Qi You explained yesterday that he had something to buy, and after Chungui asked if the money was enough, he followed him, and the two made an appointment to wait at the meat stall.

There were people on the street, and Chun Hui was holding a basket of drawings, and he intended to find a few readers to look at the folding fans in his hands. It's a pity that there are few people, so she had to do the right thing first, and followed her memory to the door of "Qingzheng Yaju".

The shop opened early, and unlike when I came back, two of the three layers of fans were replaced by the four flowers of the gentleman she had drawn.

The heart she was carrying was put down, and if the shopkeeper could display the fan she had painted, then the folding fan would definitely sell well!

She took a closer look, and there was a brocade box with four fans embedded on the top floor, and the fan handle exposed outside was carved with the four characters of Meilan, bamboo chrysanthemum and four flowers, and the fan pendant of the fan handle was also a wooden flower.

Chungui shook his head and smiled, as long as a business person clicked through one door, the rest of the doors would naturally open.

As soon as she wanted to call someone, the second child from the last time came out.

Xiao Er yawned, and as soon as he looked up and saw that it was the spring return, he woke up immediately from drowsiness, and ran into the room before he could say hello to her, shouting as he ran: "Shopkeeper!" Last time, that girl came! ”

Seeing his excitement, the last bit of uneasiness in Chungui's heart disappeared.

This fan must be selling very well!

Sure enough, the shopkeeper ran out after a while: "Where! Go and pour tea for that little lady! ”

ran to the outside room and saw someone, and the shopkeeper immediately smiled and narrowed his face: "Oh, the little lady!" I've been waiting for you for a long time! ”

Chungui made a small salute and asked intentionally: "Shopkeeper Qi, is business good?" ”

The shopkeeper clapped his palm: "The little lady, your painting is really amazing!" ”

Chungui smiled and said modestly: "The shopkeeper Qi has a business experience, this pendant, the carving of the fan handle is wonderful. ”

The shopkeeper Qi said "hi" and waved his hand: "It is also the unique way of selling the little lady's packaging, so I thought of this trick with the icing on the cake." ”

That day, he directly took the painting sample to find the painter who cooperated on weekdays, the painter looked like he was taught, took the original painting and looked at it for a long time, and was stunned to copy more than a dozen pictures overnight, but a few days of effort, more than a dozen sets of fans were made, put on the shop but in the morning, a reader Lang saw it and called another, he explained the meaning of the four-flower gentleman fan with the same person, and immediately there was a son-in-law brother who bought a whole set, he set a fan of fifteen wen, and the price of the ordinary fan was twice as high, and those people did not hesitate to buy.

There are also some scholars who praise the poems on the folding fans, and also use the meaning of the four flowers to write poems.

The reading lang in this town is not worse than the township life, although the two places are only separated by two quarters of an hour, but a mountain is separated by more than the economic level, the knowledge and action of the mountain and Qi You to the fan in order to make money, the reading lang outside the mountain to buy a fan vassal elegance.

More than a dozen sets of fans were sold out in two days, and then the shopkeeper came to the business and began to make a fuss about the box, fan pendant, and fan handle of the fan. These hardcover fans made him make a lot of money in a few days, thinking of this, the shopkeeper Qi couldn't help but look up at the girl in front of him again.

Now there are a number of fans that are still in a hurry, and those have already been ordered.

The shopkeeper looked at the basket in Chungui's hand, and his eyes lit up.

"This is the new painting of Yue Niangzi?!"

Chun Gui hurriedly lifted the basket up, nodded and said: "I'm really sorry, it was supposed to be sent earlier, but the younger brother at home injured his foot when he went up the mountain, and it was in time for winter, and the child was prone to typhoid fever, so he delayed it for a few more days." As he spoke, he spread out one of the four-hour scenes.

Shopkeeper Qi didn't mind at all, and got up to watch it in a hurry.

A picture is divided into four, but it is also a scene of four hours, and the division and combination are all paintings.

Shopkeeper Qi couldn't put it down, and his eyes were amazed.

"Lady Yue, your ingenuity is really admirable!"

Spring retreats to the side, admired by him.

"A total of eight pictures, so let the two younger brothers in the family make eight poems, because the shopkeeper Qi replied, the uncolored ones are also accepted, and I also painted eight ink samples."

Shopkeeper Qi nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, all of them will be collected." ”

Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum four sets of fans, not to mention the colored, not to mention the colored, also swept away. The four poems were recited many times by a group of students.

"Lady Yue, do the two younger brothers in your family want to take the road of the imperial examination?"

Speaking of Zhixing and Qi You, Chun Gui eased his expression: "Shopkeeper Qi said well, not that I boast, my two younger brothers, one is the top of the children's list in the last college exam, and the other is in the top ten, so I thought of letting them compose poems." ”

The shopkeeper immediately clapped his hands: "I said, you don't know how many students are full of praise after reading this poem!" ”

Looking up again, the shopkeeper Qi clicked on the table and sighed: "Yue Niangzi, how many ideas do you have in your head!" ”

Painters are easy to obtain, even if the painting skills of Chungui are far beyond ordinary people, painters can always draw a little similarity, but this head full of ingenuity is rare, how many painters have come and gone over the years, and they have not opened any sales for his shop.

Shopkeeper Qi cautiously looked at the set of pictures again, as if he remembered something, and then looked at Chun Gui when he raised his hands towards her, and asked, "Does the little lady know the Guo family of merchants in this town?" ”

Chungui raised his eyes and shook his head, but his eyelids jumped: "It's the first time I've come out to sell this noodle map, and it's the first time I've done business with people, how can I know the market in this town." ”

The guy had already served a cup of tea, and the shopkeeper Qi took the tea bowl one step ahead of her and put it in front of Chungui.

Chungui looked at the tea bowl, and then looked at the shopkeeper Qi who showed some etiquette to her from time to time, the businessman is different from the scholar, regardless of the man or woman who can bring benefits, she faintly moved in her heart: "The shopkeeper Qi clearly said that it is." ”

Shopkeeper Qi shook his head with a smile: "Yue Niangzi doesn't have to panic, it's a good thing." ”

Only then did he write about the big and small things that he had been writing for more than a month.

"In the past month or so, I have made more than 40 sets of fans, and the first ten sets have been sold to the scholars or students in this town. After more than 30 sets of brocade boxes, replaced the fan pendant, carved the fan handle, originally intended to sell the whole set as you said, but once it was put out, all of them were ordered by Miss Guo's family, and I paid a lot of money for half a month not to allow me to sell this gentleman's fan, half a month later. It's been less than half a month, and I've put it back on. ”

He smiled embarrassedly: "I'm a businessman, and the price given by Miss Guo is really high, so I agreed." ”

Chungui was stunned, I didn't expect this kind of thing. No wonder this shopkeeper was so happy to see her, thinking that the price given by Miss Guo was not low.

bought all the fans, and monopolized it for half a month, and the buyer was a merchant lady, which was clearly looking for another high-end market.

She came back to her senses and said, "Shopkeeper Qi doesn't have to mind, I have already done business with you, and you will dispose of the fan." It's just that this Miss Guo is ........"

The shopkeeper Qi hurriedly said: "You don't know, Yue Niangzi, this Guo family has been in business for many years, and what is in demand will be sold. I came to us last year because of the death of my old man. ”

"I see, she's taken a fancy to your doorway."

Shopkeeper Qi sighed and was happy at the same time, looking at Chungui and beating drums in his heart.

"To be honest, I haven't called you here for more than a month, and I thought you were directly leading the way with Miss Guo."

Chun Gui had a number in his heart, and said sincerely: "Whether you like it or not, my current business is to be in charge of the same business as you." ”

The shopkeeper Qi suddenly felt a lot in his heart: "Look at your thoughts, don't worry, you have relieved my difficulties, how can I hinder your way to make money." ”

"I'll still accept this face, but I still need you to answer me." Shopkeeper Qi closed his voice and looked at her seriously.

Chungui nodded.

"I'm just a small shop, and this fan can't be sold anywhere else, if Miss Guo finds you one day, I hope you can draw some more pictures for me when you are free."

He is a businessman, and he is the most keen, so Miss Guo can break the fan for half a month at a high price, and he has already felt that he is out of the door.

Chungui was silent for a while, and suddenly laughed: "Shopkeeper Qi, you have high hopes for me." ”

After a long time, seeing that he only smiled lightly, Chun Gui then smiled: "Don't worry, you also know what is going on in my family, you can earn more if you can earn more, how can you refuse to come to the door." ”

After she finished speaking, the shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief, and raised his hand to make a gesture to her.

Chungui took a sip of tea, and was interested in Miss Guo. There are fewer rules in the merchants, but in this era, it must be informal to let a young lady of the family come out to do business.

The shopkeeper Qi ordered some drawings, eight colored pictures in two sets, eight uncolored ones, and read eight seasonal poems. Compared with the price of the previous time, it should be 600 Wen. He had already prepared the silver money, ordered six hundred wen, and Chun Guizheng took it, and there was an extra ingot and a tael of silver in his hand.

She hurriedly raised her eyes, a hint of doubt flashing in her eyes.

Shopkeeper Qi smiled: "You let me make a good fortune from Miss Guo, this should be yours." ”

Qian Duo is not hot, and Chungui immediately smiled: "Then thank you to the shopkeeper!" ”

The sky was already full bright, and Chun returned out of the shop, and a few Tsing Yi scholars entered the shop and went straight to the fan on display. Someone ridiculed: "Shopkeeper Qi, it's been more than half a month, and you finally took out this gentleman's fan again!" I thought you were going to hide for the winter! ”

She took a few steps and looked back at the corners of her mouth.

She is on the right track.

One or two six hundred yuan, plus the two dollars at home, she has a total of one or eight dollars of silver on hand, and if she catches up with a batch of fans, she can make up enough for two taels of silver. If Miss Guo is really interested, and sees that the shopkeeper takes out one or two to reward her, then Miss Guo must be generous.

Three months into her life, she barely managed to stand on her feet.

-

When there were few people, the streets were already full of people. Thinking about the winter, she went to the pharmacy to buy nearly thirty pieces of ginger, and then went straight to the meat stall, seeing that Qi You had not yet arrived, she picked a piece of pork belly, and Zhiping, who promised that day, made roast meat, and finally made pork ribs, and gave him a surprise today.

The butcher shop owner still remembered her, after all, it was rare to buy a bunch of big bones and ribs. Seeing that she still wanted a bunch of big bones today, he wiped her with change.

In the winter, things were easy to store, and I finally bought a whole pork belly, two ribs, a whole piece of fat, and a large piece of bones. It took nearly 100 articles before and after.

She paid, turned her head, Qi You was already there, holding a stack of books in her hand and waiting for her not far away. Seeing that her basket was full, she hurriedly stepped forward and carried it by hand.

Seeing this, the boss said more: "The little lady is married to a good one, and she will be considerate!" ”

Chungui laughed out loud and said busily: "Boss, this is my brother!" ”

Looking at Qi You again, the young man's expression remained unchanged, but his ears were red, and his eyes turned his head hastily when he met her, obviously embarrassed by his thin skin.

The boss also laughed: "Forgive me, your brother is a good one!" I'm blessed to be a sister! ”

Chungui nodded amusedly, Qi You turned his head to look at her, and was silent.

Chun Gui didn't ask him what he had done, he just swept the stack of books in his hand, and wanted to take the basket, but Qi You didn't want to, so the two decided to go home.

I sat in the car when I came, and I had to walk when I went. Fortunately, the sun has risen, and it is not as cold as before.

Chungui was afraid that he would be embarrassed, so he chatted casually, talked about the radishes and sweet potatoes that were about to ripen in the yard, pointed to the big bones in the basket, and planned to go home to Zhiping and stew radish bone broth, and then from bone broth to sweet potato syrup.

Chungui said, Qi You asked how to cook sweet potato sugar water while listening, which attracted Chungui to make a tirade.

When she was tired, Qi You picked it up in time, and the two quarters of an hour journey naturally passed quickly.

It wasn't until he was almost home that he walked at the gate of the courtyard and returned to Chun Gui that he thought of the stack of books in Qi You's hand.

"I forgot to ask, are you a new book?"

Qi You raised his hand to look at her, Chun Gui glanced at him and took it open, this time it was full of blank pages, only the bottom one had words, it was a complete book.

Chungui raised his eyes and looked at him suspiciously.

Qi You explained: "When my father and mother were here, I often copied books to earn some money, and today fortunately, the owner of the study still remembered me, so I took some books again." On weekdays, when it's empty, copy some.

Domestic........ As soon as he finished speaking, Chun Gui understood, and she deliberately teased: "What's the matter, you want to share the family expenses for my sister and me?" ”

Qi Youcai's ears turned red again, and he paused before saying, "...... It's just a little bit of earning, and Sister Chun doesn't have to work so hard. ”

He said casually, but there was a hint of persistence in his eyes, and he thought that he had made a decision early.

After speaking, he looked into the distance again, turned around and took out the money bag from his arms, and said seriously: "At the beginning, Sister Chun refused to accept it, but I hope that I can accept it now." ”

It's still the three taels of silver that Li Zheng gave.

Without waiting for Chun Gui to react, he continued: "Since Sister Chun has let me live here, I hope that I am the same as Zhixing Zhiping. He rubbed his fingertips nervously, but his face was not visible.

How could Chungui not understand what this meant, this is entrusting himself to her. After splitting the family and writing a letter of severance, the three taels of silver are all the money.

A child who was kicked out of the family mustered up the courage to trust her for the first time, can she not accept it, no. In this era, children who have passed the age of fifteen have gradually formed complete personal beliefs, but they still stubbornly want to use these three taels of silver to seek a safe one.

Chungui's heart ached, but he still teased him: "I said, why are you going to go to the street, this has been planned for a long time." ”

Qi You smiled with red ears.

There are still more than two months to go to private school, so there is plenty of time.

She said seriously: "Okay, just pay attention to your body, if you are not in a hurry, copy it slowly, you don't have to squeeze time to do it." ”

"Also, give some to Zhixing, don't let him go, practice his patience well."

After speaking, he took the money bag in his hand, the young man's eyes flashed slightly, and after a moment of relief, he solemnly waved at her.

Chungui glanced at him with a smile, took the basket in his hand and entered the house.