Early morning in the town of Seremban.

The first one on the east side of Ganjingzi Hutong is the Tzu Chi Tang Pharmacy, which has not yet opened. Guan Xiaoduo, who lives next door to the pharmacy, carried a broom early to clean the door as usual.

The number of pedestrians on the street gradually increased, and the shops moved their doors to prepare for the opening. White smoke was rising from the door of the corner bun shop, and the first drawer of buns was about to be released this morning, and there was already a long queue outside.

Adults lined up to buy breakfast, and a few five or six-year-olds were playing on the side of the street. They formed a circle and kicked a bald shuttlecock back and forth. Guan Xiaoduo looked interesting, so he threw the broom to the wall:

"Take me one too!"

As she spoke, she lifted her obstructive skirt and tucked it into her waist, revealing her pink trousers and embroidered shoes with a red satin surface, and gathered among the dolls like a big child.

Guan Xiaoduo was twenty-eight years old, born white and clean, with a good skin, delicate facial features, apricot face and peach cheeks, and a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes. Even if he was just wearing an ordinary half-worn carmine floral skirt, with only an ordinary silver hairpin pinned to his black and shiny hair, his delicate face with a bright smile was still radiant.

She has a well-proportioned body, clean and neat movements, and a graceful posture looming between her legs and feet. The eye-catching red shoe upturned up and down, skillfully controlling the chicken feather shuttlecock within the range of his toes, which attracted a series of admiration from the children, and even passers-by also looked sideways, a picture of a beautiful woman with a vivid color.

No matter how dirty she is, she is also the most beautiful girl in Furong Town.

"Duo Ye! Duo Ye! Pass it to me! ”

"Give it to me! Give me! ”

The children laughed and screamed, scrambling to catch the shuttlecock she kicked. Guan Xiaoduo kicked three or two times in a row, and threw the shuttlecock high with a "then" in his mouth, and the children leaned their necks, but watched the shuttlecock being pinched in the hands of a thin scholar in Tsing Yi.

Then I saw the man proudly say, "Mine! ”

The young man dressed as a scholar was named Ma Xiaowu, who also lived in this alley, and was waiting at the door for Zhao Shi'an, the son of the Zhao family of Tzu Chi Hall, to go to school together.

"Xiao Duo, take me one too." Ma Xiaowu smiled sheepishly, leaned forward and accosted, "Let's play together?" ”

The smile on Guan Xiaoduo's face gradually retracted, and he coldly threw out a sentence: "It's early in the morning, don't look for it." ”

"Don't mind! Why don't you take me to play with them? ”

"Stay put."

Ma Xiaowu didn't care, shook the shuttlecock in his hand, squeezed his eyebrows and said, "Do you want it?" Then ask me for it! …… As long as you ask, I'll give you everything! ”

Ma Xiaowu is the youngest son of the boss of the Ma family in the corner dyeing workshop across the street, born with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and a flattering face.

Without waiting for Guan Xiaoduo to speak, the children blew up the pot first, and pointed at him one by one and laughed: "Ma Xiaowu, don't be ashamed!" Briefly! Don't be ashamed! ”

Guan Xiaoduo didn't want to pay attention to him, glanced at him, turned around and left.

"Go, go!"

Ma Xiaowu drove away the children who were coaxing, and when he saw Guan Xiaoduo gone, he hurriedly threw the shuttlecock into the distance, and chased two steps in a daze: "Don't go, Xiaoduo!" Why are you still angry? …… I have something to tell you! ”

"What can you do?"

"It's just like last time."

Ma Xiaowu lowered his voice and sneered: "If you agree, I will go back and tell my mother, and Ming'er will go to your house with a dowry to propose marriage!" It's a real thing! ”

Who knew that Guan Xiaoduo picked up the broom at the root of the wall, pinched it in his hand and shook it: "What's the matter, I'll respond?!" ”

Ma Xiaowu trembled a little when he saw this, hid half a step back, and said boldly: "What else can I do, mention my relatives!" Yesterday, my mother said that you are too wild, and you have offended all the matchmakers in a radius of 100 miles! Otherwise, how can you not talk about your in-laws?! ”

"Does it have anything to do with you?" Guan Xiaoduo laughed angrily: "Look at what you said - how old am I?" ”

She picked up the broom and felt that it was lighter, and it didn't hurt to hit someone, so she threw it on the ground and looked for something else.

Ma Xiaowu thought that there was a discussion about this matter, so he stepped forward again and said, "You are three years older than me!" Did you forget? You peed in my pit when you were a kid! Snort. My mother said that the female junior holds gold bricks, and this girl will have to be our daughter-in-law sooner or later...... What are you doing here? ”

At this time, I saw Aunt Zhao from the pharmacy move the door panel and put the bars of the latch door on the root of the wall. When Guan Xiaoduo saw it, he immediately picked it up and copied it in his hand - well, this amount is just right, and it will take at least 100 days to break his muscles and bones.

Ma Xiaowu looked a little stunned, and his expression twitched: "Duo'er, just talk well, what are you doing with it?" Strange bluffing. ”

"When I was a child, I had to pee on your pit and wanted to be your daughter-in-law, so I want to urinate on your grave, do you have to kneel and call me my ancestors?"

As he spoke, Guan Xiaoduo grabbed the door latch and threw it to the ground, staring at the fierce image like a door god.

"What are you talking about?"

Ma Xiaowu also stared at him fakely: "My mother said, the girl's family has to look like a girl!" You're so wicked and domineering all day long, beware of becoming an old girl who can't get married! ”

"Hey? My little temper! ”

Guan Xiaoduo was a newspaper of the present world, and he was so angry that he rounded the door latch and went to Ma Xiaowu's fart. Shares beckoned to the past. That Ma Xiaowu is not stupid, seeing that he is going to suffer, he holds his head and is short. He dodged the latch, turned around and ran.

Aunt Zhao held a handful of melon seeds in her hand, leaned on the door panel and said lightly: "Aim at the waist and fart. Strands, fart. strand leg punching. ”

"Walk you!"

Guan Xiaoduo held the door latch with one hand and threw it out like a spear.

Whoosh, smack-

"Oops!"

In the early morning of Furong Town, Ma Xiao's five figures fell down in the middle of the road, and his whole face was on the ground. The latch of the Tzu Chi Hall hit him hard on the back of the waist, and after he landed, he bounced again, and was hitting his buttocks, and Ma Xiaowu let out a muffled 'ah' again.

Guan Xiaoduo stood on the side of the street with a smug face: "Perfect." ”

Aunt Zhao sighed: "This girl is really good, and she has practiced a double shot." ”

At this time, Zhao Shi'an came out of the house, walked over with an expressionless face, picked up the latch, and handed it back to his mother.

Aunt Zhao said, "Go to the counter and get two plasters and give them to Xiao Wu." ”

"Ready."

Zhao Shi'an turned back again, and when he passed by Guan Xiaoduo's side, he still said in a expressionless and low voice: "Sister, I went to school." ”

"Slow down on the road."

"Hmm."

Zhao Shi'an picked up Ma Xiaowu from the ground, and the two limped to school.

"Come in and have breakfast, it's still hot." Aunt Zhao put the latch on the door, put out the signboard of the pharmacy, and beckoned Guan Xiaoduo to come into the house to eat.

"Thank you, auntie."

Guan Xiaoduo's current serious job is to do chores in this pharmacy.

Furong Town is not big, with a total of 100 households. This pharmacy is also small, and he can't afford to hire small workers, and Guan Xiaoduo, who lives next door, is usually busy helping to take care of it, and can earn pocket money of one or two taels of silver every month.

In the past, Aunt Zhao's father-in-law was sitting in the Tzu Chi Hall, and although his medical skills were mediocre, he could be cured if the neighbors usually had a headache and brain fever and needed to prescribe medicine. Now that the old man is gone, Aunt Zhao and her family sell some Chinese patent medicines according to the old prescription, and rely on acupuncture, scraping, and cupping skills to make a living.

Guan Xiaoduo had just picked up the rice bowl when she heard Aunt Zhao talking to someone at the door: "Dahuazi, go on an errand?" ”

"Hmm. What about Doer? ”

"Inside the house."

Hearing his brother's voice, Guan Xiaoduo put the bowl down, took a chopstick and skewered two big buns and ran to the door.

Guan Xiaoduo lost her father when she was young, and her brother Guan Hua was ten years older than her. The brother and sister are not biological, Guan Hua was asking for food to go to the door of Guan's house, and the old man Guan looked pitiful and took him in as an adopted son. It is also thanks to him that Guan Xiaoduo can grow up safely - otherwise, Guan Xiaoduo will have to survive in various accidents every day, and it is estimated that he will be disabled before he grows up.

Now Guan Hua is on an errand at the entrance of the town, and he is a small catcher.

Aunt Zhao: "Have breakfast and then leave?" It's not bad for this time. ”

Aunt Zhao persuaded him to enter the house, but Guan Hua waved his hand: "No, my brother is waiting for a shift change, it shouldn't be appropriate to be late." ”

Guan Xiaoduo stuffed the bun into his brother's hand: "Let's take it, eat it on the way." ”

Guan Hua took it, put on a straight face and instructed: "Stop, don't make trouble for your aunt." ”

"Got it."

Guan Hua nodded and walked away.

Aunt Zhao looked at Guan Hua's back and asked, "What about your mother?" How long has it been since you were home? ”

"Ahem."

Guan Xiaoduo sighed: "Last year, the youngest son of the rich man of Fuxing Town married his daughter-in-law, and he was the matchmaker she gave to her, so she helped to do the happy event together; A few days later, the eldest son's daughter-in-law gave birth to a child, and Wen Po sent her to pick it up; After waiting for the confinement period, she caught up with Old Man Dong for his 60th birthday, or her; In the spring of the new year, the old man kicked his legs and returned to the west, and the white thing was still her. ”

"With this family, you didn't escape from your mother's palm?" Aunt Zhao sighed: "This knife is really beautiful." ”

Guan Xiaoduo flattened her mouth, didn't answer, and went back to the house to eat with a depressed face. Guan Xiaoduo's brothers and sisters have grown up eating hundreds of meals in the alley almost since they were children, and they all rely on the uncles and aunts in the neighborhood to take care of them.

When it comes to the beauty of knives, it's really not an ordinary person.

If it were an ordinary family in Furong Town, her husband died in her early thirties, and she would have to rely on selling her property to survive in the future, and she would have to pull her two children to live. The main theme of life is basically the miserable tone of the miserable wind and rain, and the miserable tune of being able to cry anytime and anywhere.

However, the beauty of people's knives is not the same. Back then, Old Man Guan had just entered the ground, and she seemed to be able to finally indulge in making money justifiably, and she was bent on making money outside. From the daily necessities to the red and white affairs, there is no one to see all year round.

If a woman is too shrewd and capable, she will attract rumors such as not abiding by women's morals and disregarding integrity, especially a beautiful woman who has married from a foreign country.

So, the reputation of the knife beauty is not very good, but she is not afraid. She was born as a showman in the rivers and lakes since she was a child, and she doesn't know a few big characters, but her ability to scold the street is not false. Whoever dares to say this in front of her, she can chase people for a few streets with a kitchen knife, and she will never withdraw her troops without scolding her for a big victory.

'The number one shrew in Furong Town', this reputation is not for nothing - the real money earned by the old lady with her ability, whoever dares to talk nonsense will be scolded to the ancestral grave explosion.