Not long after Miss Guo left, Father Li also came to the door, he saw that someone in the Liu family was waiting at the entrance of the village, and only after Guo Ruyi's carriage left did he come to pick up Zhiyuan, unlike those onlookers, Father Li didn't ask anything, only took the child away.

When he left, Chungui divided the remaining shredded sweet potatoes and sweet potato balls on the plate, and specially packed more for Zhiyuan.

Sweet things are also loved by old people like Daddy Li and his wife.

The rest was packed up by Cai.

Due to some delays, the dinner of the spring return was made simpler, with Cai's help and the pickled bean skin sent by Daddy Li earlier. For dinner, I simply had a pickled bean skin, a scrambled egg, a few pieces of meat stewed with radish, and the rice was still mixed with sweet potatoes.

When cooking, Chungui thought that since everyone had seen Miss Guo's door, there was nothing to hide, so he told Cai about the fan painting in the past two months.

"After this sugar water stall is taken care of by you, Sister Cai, I also have time to draw the fan of the shopkeeper, so I had this idea. It's just that now that Miss Guo has come to the door, Sister Cai will have to take care of the stall in the future. ”

Cai's face was already full of admiration: "After the drought has passed, you are not idle at all, you have turned the yard upside down, not to mention raising fish, chickens, grass and vines, not to mention, but also taking over this craft work, and doing some famous!" ”

"Tsk....... Spring return, I really don't know how to praise you, it seems that I don't know anything! ”

Chungui was amused by her reaction: "Who said that Sister Cai doesn't know anything, the flowers on Sister Cai's handkerchief are embroidered like the real thing!" ”

The two made the meal while talking, and after eating, Cai took his son home, and sent people away in the spring, and this day was over.

The five taels of silver given by Guo Ruyi are not too much or too little, add some more, and the spring return is embarrassed to accept it, and any less is not sincere for Guo Ruyi's identity. These five taels are just right.

She hid the five taels and the one tael given by the shopkeeper of Qi, Qi You's three taels of silver could not be moved, not counting the fragmented copper plates, so that the family had a full six taels. Chungui closed the money box and let out a long breath.

Zhixing Zhiping's bundles for the coming year have been saved in advance.

After coming out of the inner room, the spring returned to a few children to boil hot water, and Zhixing became more and more excited after Miss Guo's incident, and pulled Qi You to write poems.

Chungui laughed while listening to the conversation between the two, their family could be regarded as catching up with the era of Chongwen, and the two children's casual works could be a small fire in Kyoto.

When she was getting up and wanted to go out of the kitchen, Qi You suddenly said lightly.

"Zhixing, our poems can be seen by borrowing the east wind of Sister Chun's fan, don't be dazzled by these fame and fortune before the hospital exam."

He spread out the fan left by Guo Ruyi: "Sister Chun means today that I am thinking about the day when the two of us will go to Kyoto in the future, and these fame and fortune are the convenience of future communication, not the comfort nest at this moment." ”

Chun Gui's hand lifted the curtain for a moment, and his heart was full of emotion, Qi You was so smart, she only mentioned today's sentence, and he thought of her intentions.

The fifteen-year-old child was not blinded by a little aura in front of her, but was able to soberly analyze the current situation, which made her raise a child with a sense of accomplishment.

Zhixing is not a child who doesn't understand human feelings, and when he heard Qi You say this, he understood, and immediately put away the smugness on his face and nodded solemnly.

Only then did Chun Gui open the curtain and said with a smile: "The water is boiled." ”

On the second day, the fried sweet potato balls made a big pot, because there were sweet and glutinous meatballs, the sweet potato syrup was not made, and now there is only a big pot of balls and brown sugar ginger paper packets lined up in the stall, and Cai's alone can be busy, and after the spring return is done, he went into the house to ponder the new fan noodles by himself.

The people who inquired by buying sugar water were not in vain, and the Cai family had already been instructed by Chungui to tell the story of Miss Guo's door-to-door cooperation through her mouth.

Sooner or later, this matter will be known to everyone, she is down-to-earth and earns money by her ability, and when the red-eyed person comes, she will speak reasonably.

In less than two days, the spring return to paint the fan to attract the town lady will spread all over the matter, now there is a stall at the door of the house, fresh food attracts the children of the four towns and eight villages to ask for it every day, the spring return has his own and ability, and there are two children at home who can study. Clear-eyed people see that after this great drought, only the spring return family is living more and more prosperous.

Because of the time-consuming painting of the fan, the purchase of ginger and daily necessities fell on Cai's head, and Cai's also worked hard, running back and forth in the village and town, and the handkerchief in his hand also took the time to embroider more than a dozen sheets.

A month later, the Chinese New Year is approaching, and with the silver money distributed here in the spring, Cai's has saved more than 500 Wen.

Wherever Cai went, he was full of praise for Chungui.

Although it doesn't snow often in the south, there is always a cold wind in winter, so I took a few days before the New Year, and I launched several large and small cleaning houses in the spring. The straw shed should be reinforced, the doors and windows of the house should be pasted with new paper, and the family was very busy. After cleaning up the Liu family, the Cheng family's old house was not forgotten, and after cleaning it inside and out, the family returned to the Liu family.

A few days ago, Chungui and Cai's went to the town to buy enough things for the New Year, but it didn't cost much to eat daily, and the countrymen's chicken and duck meat for the New Year can be basically self-sufficient, and there is a pond of fish here in Chungui, although several have died in the past three or four months, but there are enough live fish. In addition, the Chen Shi brothers sent a pheasant from time to time, and there were more than a dozen chickens in the grass shed.

After eating in the spring, she only added dozens of pork and daily condiments, and spent a lot of effort in the garment shop in the town, and she directly bought five ready-to-wear clothes according to the size of the children in the family, and spent a little one or two silver.

Each piece is made of thick cotton with a filling, and it doesn't take long to warm up when worn on the body.

Because of these five ready-to-wear clothes, she was muttered by Cai's for a while on the way here.

"A few days ago, I was praised for my good embroidery work, but now I have lost so much money to buy ready-to-wear clothes, can't you spend two or three hundred yuan to buy two pieces of cloth and hand them over to me? It will take me half a month to make you a thicker winter coat. ”

Chungui begged for mercy while walking: "Sister Cai, the day after tomorrow is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, is it possible that you still have to carry the lamp to make us new clothes on Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

Cai Shi glanced at her: "Can you just say no to me ten days in the morning!" ”

Chungui nodded again and again: "Next year, next year, I will buy three or five pieces of cloth, and our family's clothes will depend on Sister Cai!" ”

Cai scolded with a smile: "Phew! You're going to exhaust me! ”

When I got home, the bundled cotton clothes were untied, and they were soft. Zhimin's girl's family wears a little more joyful, it is a faint pink, and the collar is embroidered with plum blossoms, and the one that returns to herself in the spring is similar to Zhimin's, but it is embroidered with orchids and plain clothes. As for a few boys, the family fields are all tenant out, Zhixing Qiyou earns family work is to write poems and copy books, and in the future, he will also take the road of the imperial examination, and the spring return to them is all scholarly fabrics, the moon is white and cyan, and you can see the difference with others when you walk on the road.

Zhiping was crazy with joy when he saw it, running in circles around the spring return, and his mouth was cooing.

Chungui hugged the person with a smile and hurriedly divided the cotton clothes. The size is all good, wear it on the body, and change it in the middle of the spring, comb her hair again, and look at the water in the basin, the seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl is good-looking, the age is there, and the water and soil here raise people, when she first came, the appearance of yellow muscles and thin skin has long faded, and now her face is white, her new clothes are warm, and the whole person is spiritual.

When they came out again, several children were also replaced, and the row looked like well-looking little people.

Chungui took Zhimin, who was embarrassed to purse her lips, straightened her collar, pinched her ruddy face and praised: "Minmin is so good-looking!" ”

The Liu family and his wife are both pure and kind people, otherwise they would not raise a child daughter-in-law as a daughter. There are no old people on the husband and wife, and they have exhausted their efforts and love for several children, so the children have retained their pure nature. On the other hand, Qi You, who is young but has a good idea of planning, and his temperament is also calmer, all of which have been trained by the environment.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, a snow fell, and a layer was laid on the ground overnight. A few children leaned on the door and window and looked out and wanted to go out to play, but they were banned by the spring return. It's not enough to ban it, everyone was detained and poured a whole bowl of ginger tea without sweet potatoes, which was so spicy that people were refreshed. At noon, the snow stopped, and Chungui took a few shovels and shovels out, and shoveled snow at the gate of the courtyard with Zhixing Qiyou.

During the Chinese New Year, people come and go, and it is not easy to walk after piling up snow. Although they have no relatives to leave, the closest Liu Quan's branch has already torn his face, and now the face of the head and end of the village is nowhere to be seen, but there are many good friends with the surrounding villagers. Not to mention the two families of Village Chief Liu and Li Zheng, the Chen Shi brothers must also come over for a walk, plus the Cai family and Daddy Li, after careful calculation, there are many people.

When I went out, I saw that every household was shoveling snow at the door. After seeing Chun Gui go out, he also shouted a few times from afar, and several families chatted about the year-round progress.

They have all gone through the hardships of the great drought, and those who can save money in the family this year have good skills, and when it comes to money, everyone can't help but look at the spring return, this short three or four months, not to mention the noodles, is the worst estimate of the stall in front of it, and there are more than ten cents of input every day.

Fortunately, there are not many people who sell land for grain, and these families in the village who still have land to plant have some confidence, and they have to think about farming after the New Year, and in the end they can continue to save money. When it comes to farming, there is a lot to say.

"We still have some land, but it will be difficult to survive next year if we sell the land like Daddy Li, but Daddy Li is relieved, and I don't see how anxious he is."

"The cousin of Liu Quan in Tianshui Village, that is, the cousin who is far away from the spring return, is in a hurry, he sold the land to gamble for money, he has survived this year, and it will be difficult to do it next year, and he will have to cry at the door of the head of the Liu family when he can't keep it even."

A few women chattered, but they didn't avoid the spring return.

"What's the use of the head of the Liu family, I'm old, and I don't know what to do with the elderly, didn't anyone stand up when the children of the Chungui family were robbed of food by Liu Quan, originally Liu Quan's matter was dealt with in the clan, and in the end, the head of Lizheng Village came out and said something."

The more everyone talked, the more excited they became, as if they were talking to Chungui, and there was a bit of grievance for Chungui in their tone.