After a while, the door opened, and it was Mu Xiaoyu who was dressed in coarse cloth patched old clothes, Mu Xiaoyu was only one year older than Mu Yunxue, she looked as thin and small as Mu Yunxue, and her yellow and sparse hair was tied into two purse heads with two rag straps.

"Sister Yunxue." The moment Mu Xiaoyu opened the door and saw Mu Yunxue, a bright smile immediately appeared on her face, and she reached out and pulled Mu Yunxue's hand and said, "Come in." ”

Mu Yunxue followed Mu Xiaoyu into the house, this thatched house was the same as the one where Mu Yunxue's family lived, dilapidated and simple.

"I'm sorry Sister Yunxue, I couldn't even go to see you when you were injured." Mu Xiaoyu took Mu Yunxue's hand and walked to the bench in the room and sat down, with a hint of apology on her face, "It's all my fault that the embroidery is so slow, my grandmother said that the embroidery I handed in did not meet her requirements, so I was asked to stay in the house and embroider until the embroidery was finished." After speaking, Mu Xiaoyu's face was a little sad.

Mu Xiaoyu is very talented in embroidery, it is said that it is because Mu Xiaoyu's mother Xu used to be a very good embroidery master, but later because of some things hand injury can no longer embroider, and Mu Xiaoyu inherited his mother's good embroidery talent, only nine years old Mu Xiaoyu's embroidery skills are already extraordinary.

Li even saw the value of Mu Xiaoyu, so since Mu Xiaoyu was six years old and could embroider, he has always asked Mu Xiaoyu to make embroidery and sell it, of course, Mu Xiaoyu can't get any money for selling embroidery. And Li often took a lot of embroidery to Mu Xiaoyu to embroider, and set a time to complete, if Mu Xiaoyu could not finish the embroidery within the specified time, or the embroidery was not satisfactory to Li, Mu Xiaoyu would only be greeted with a beating.

"It's okay, don't you think I'm fine now!" Mu Yunxue smiled, raised her eyes and saw more than 20 embroidered handkerchiefs in a bamboo basket on the kang bed, each embroidered handkerchief was embroidered with beautiful patterns, and there was a larger bamboo basket next to it with a pair of larger embroidery stretched, Mu Yunxue glanced at it, and on the white silk was a picture of a rich peony that was about to be completed.

"By the way, I have something for you." Mu Xiaoyu got up as he spoke, walked to the old wardrobe in the house, opened the wardrobe, and then took out an old cloth bag in the bottom corner of the wardrobe.

"Here's for you." Mu Xiaoyu handed the old cloth bag to Mu Yunxue.

Mu Yunxue was puzzled in her heart, took the old cloth bag in Mu Xiaoyu's hand and opened it, inside was a beautiful purse, the purse was embroidered with silk threads with lifelike blue leaf lotus pictures, the lotus flowers were embroidered very exquisitely, Mu Yunxue looked at the water droplets on the lotus leaves were also very realistic.

"What is this?" Mu Yunxue looked at Mu Xiaoyu suspiciously, not understanding what Mu Xiaoyu would do with such a delicate purse for herself.

"This is what I made with the leftovers of the previous embroidery, the pattern on it is embroidered by the mother, I thought that you must be in bad health when you fell into the water some time ago, you took this purse and sold it for some money, and then bought yourself some delicious supplements." Mu Xiaoyu said, "Some time ago, I heard that the third aunt begged for milk to give you a bowl of white rice porridge to drink, but she refused, and in the end, my mother said that she would save her own rations and exchange it for white rice porridge for you." ”

Mu Yunxue was taken aback! Thinking of the white rice porridge that only a few grains of rice I had just drunk, and the sound of my mother and third brother's stomachs growling every night, it turned out that my mother had exchanged her rations for white rice porridge!

But where is the clear water with only a few grains of rice being white rice porridge, if it weren't for the timely return of my father and eldest brother, I'm afraid that I, my mother, and my third brother would really starve to death.

"Thank you, Sister Xiaoyu, I will take this purse first, and I will sell it in the town tomorrow." Mu Yunxue put the purse into her arms, but in fact she put it into the space, thinking that she had no money now, but there was such a large wasteland in the space, maybe she could use the money from the sale of the purse to buy some farm tools and seeds to cultivate in the wasteland in the space, and when the crops were planted in exchange for money, she would return the money from selling the purse to Sister Xiaoyu.

"By the way, Sister Xiaoyu, do you still have hot water here? I'd like to get some hot water from you. Mu Xiaoyu said.

"It's my grandmother and my second aunt who are in the kitchen, and you're afraid that they will ask you to work together when you go, so you come to me to fetch water." Mu Xiaoyu poked Mu Yunxue's forehead with her finger and laughed.

"I can't hide anything from Sister Xiaoyu!" Mu Yunxue touched the forehead that was poked, and smiled, since the second sister was sold, Sister Xiaoyu has treated herself better than before, saying that she wants to shoulder the second sister Xiaoyue's share of caring for herself.

"You will find a place, my father and mother went to my grandmother's house, Brother Zhixu is afraid that I will be at home alone and can't go out, so I will boil a lot of hot water every day and store it, but I can't drink or use up this hot water every day, this jar of water is still hot, you take it back!" Mu Xiaoyu took out a small ceramic stall from a straw pile in the house and handed it to Mu Xiaoyu.

Mu Xiaoyu took it, the jar was not big, Mu Xiaoyu could hold it, and the water in it was not hot, but it was very warm.

"Thank you, Sister Xiaoyu, you are still the best for me!" Mu Yunxue hugged the jar and smiled, and then said goodbye to Mu Xiaoyu.

Mu Yunxue hugged the ceramic jar and walked thinking about Mu Zhixu in her mind, Mu Zhixu was only one year older than her eldest brother Mu Zhijin, and at the age of ten she was sent by Li to an apprentice in a shop that made ceramics in the town, Mu Zhixu is a hard-working person, and soon became a master from an apprentice, but these are all things that Mu Xiaoyu secretly told Mu Yunxue, and on the surface, Mu Zhixu still tells Li that he is still an apprentice.

The apprentice of the ceramic shop receives 600 yuan a month, and a master who has less receives one or two wages a month, and more one has to receive two or three taels of wages. According to what Mu Xiaoyu told Mu Yunxue, Mu Zhixu is now a Grade A ceramic master of the ceramic shop, so he can receive three taels a month.

However, Mu Zhixu was very smart, and he didn't want to be just a master of ceramics all his life, so he discussed with the ceramic shop that he would only do half a month a month, and receive one or two or five hundred literary wages, and then the remaining half a month Mu Zhixu went to a martial arts hall in the town to learn martial arts.

The tuition fee of the martial arts hall is 800 wen per month, and the tuition fee of the martial arts hall is originally collected once a year, and 20 taels of silver is paid a year, but Mu Zhixu does not want to raise 20 taels before he goes to learn martial arts, so he goes to ask the owner of the martial arts hall, and finally kneels in front of Mu Zhixu in front of the martial arts hall for three days The owner of the martial arts hall saw that Mu Zhixu was a resolute person, so he promised Mu Zhixu to collect the tuition fee every month, and Mu Zhixu only came to the martial arts hall to study for half a month every month, so he had the tuition fee of 800 wen per month.

So Mu Zhixu paid a monthly salary of 12,500 wen for being a ceramic master, paid 800 wen a month for learning martial arts, and handed over 600 wen to Li's family, leaving only 100 wen.

Mu Zhixu is not only smart but also very diligent, knowing that although he has learned martial arts, he will only become a reckless man with no force in the end, so Mu Zhixu used these 200 Wen to hand over the shackles of a private school in the town, and asked the master of the academy to allow him to occasionally audit.