Chapter 38 Buying Straw Paper
Wait, from your own point of view, the sun can't hit the west, it doesn't mean that you can't change people, money can make ghosts grind.
Didn't my sister-in-law look at herself unpleasantly since she asked her mother's silver hairpin back? Now that I have money in my hand, I can bribe her in disguise, maybe my grandmother loves her the most, so she can coax a few pieces of paper?
How can you know if you can come to the paper without trying, star fruit will do it, she let Meizi stay in the house with her father, she took the money to go out to see, buy people's hearts This matter must come secretly, and it will be known by grandma when it is clear, and when the time comes, she will squeeze herself if she knows that she has money.
She wandered around the yard for a long time, first watching her grandmother go to the nice aunt's house in the village, and then pretending to continue to fiddle with the herbs, just in time to turn them over and dry.
After waiting for a long time, my sister-in-law didn't come out, and if she didn't come out to walk around, she should always go to the thatched house, and suddenly the door opened, and Brother Bao walked out in a hurry.
Seeing that it's getting dark, let's hurry up, anyway, whether it's my sister-in-law or Brother Bao, it's grandma's baby bump.
She beckoned to Brother Bao and said, "Come here, I'll talk to you about something?" ”
Brother Bao was puzzled, a little unable to believe that she would discuss something with her, should she continue to play tricks on herself? I'm a little scared of her, but it's better to mess with her less.
Star fruit was a little anxious, and said impatiently: "Do you want to give you money for nothing?" ”
Brother Bao listened, his eyes lit up, and he looked around to see that there was no one in the courtyard, but his father and mother were in the room, even if she deceived herself, as soon as she shouted that the people in the courtyard would come out to help her.
He took a few steps closer and stretched out his hand and said, "Bring it!" ”
Carambola pretended to be mysterious and said: "Don't worry, there is no free lunch in the world, how can there be a reason to take money for nothing and not work?" ”
"You don't want me to help you turn over the broken grass, do you? I don't want to do it, I can't give any amount of money? ”
After Brother Bao finished speaking, his face changed and he was about to leave, but Carambola hurriedly opened his mouth and said, "No, you listen to me, I want you to help do something, and I will give you money when it is done?" ”
"What do you want to do first? If I can't do it, I won't delay my efforts with you? "Brother Bao still has a little heart now, and he knows what to inquire about first.
"That's the case, I saw the handscroll embroidered by my neighbor Sister Cuihua today with a single color, I want to help her draw a few patterns, but I don't have paper and pencils, I want you to go to grandma to ask for a few pieces of paper for uncle's study, I don't want you to ask for it in vain, I will give you money as a reward!"
Brother Bao suddenly laughed when he heard this, and said, "Peach, you are really whimsical, and you still paint?" I know you want to please your eldest sister, and you want to marry Li Dazhuang if you want to get a good relationship with the Li family! ”
When the star fruit heard this, she was angry, how could she be kind but misunderstood, could it be that she did this in the eyes of others to seek benefits for herself in the future?
No wonder Li Cuihua is indifferent to herself, I'm afraid that she misunderstands that she wants to please her. But I really didn't mean that, purely to repay Uncle Li's kindness.
"Don't talk nonsense, I'm only ten years old, and when it comes to talking about marriage, my sister-in-law and big sister come first, just say if you want to come, I'm in a hurry, I want it this afternoon at the latest!"
Brother Bao listened to it for a long time and knew that she wanted uncle's rice paper, that couldn't be done, those things were grandma's treasures, although he was very favored, but once he touched his uncle's things, he was still beaten.
After thinking about it, he was a little embarrassed, and said: "I can't make your money, the rice paper locked in my grandmother's box is very expensive, I don't dare to ask for it, and I can't be scolded again." ”
Star fruit was a little depressed, but she saw Brother Bao open her mouth and said, "Didn't you just draw tricks for Li Dazhuang and his sister?" Just draw it on the straw paper, I have the straw paper, my grandmother bought it for me to study, what the hell to study, there is an uncle at home, I use it as butt paper. ”
What the? The straw paper that he couldn't find with all his hard work was actually used as a butt paper by him, this old-fashioned custom in the countryside is really a pit person, the patriarchal is too serious, the same people, why is there such a big difference between men and women, and he subconsciously cursed in his mouth, "loser".
"You don't care if I'm a loser or not, you just use it, if you use it, you have to spend money to buy it, I won't give it to you in vain."
Carambola glanced at him and said, "Then you can make a price!" Don't say that in the end, I bullied you and pressed your price. ”
In fact, star fruit just doesn't know the market, and if he asks him to make a price that he is satisfied with, he won't be fooling in front of others.
"In that case, then I'll have a penny a piece, and I still have a total of ten, do you want to?"
Brother Bao hugged his shoulders and got carried away and waited to see the reaction of the star fruit, and sure enough, the star fruit was surprised, Shen Shuisheng can say, the simple tricks are only a penny a piece, and he spends money to buy paper and makes a fart.
Star fruit was really angry, flicked her sleeves and yelled: "Get out, you rob, two pieces for a penny, if you don't sell it, you can keep it and continue to wipe your butt!" ”
Brother Bao wanted to take a hand, but seeing that the star fruit was so anxious, he didn't expect to be reduced by half of the star fruit bargaining, but this is okay, at least he made five cents, which is better than wiping his butt for a point.
"Okay, okay! You wait for me to go back and get it, you have the money ready. ”
Carambola watched him run back and hurriedly shouted, "And a pen?" ”
"No, straw paper is all things to wipe the buttocks, and the pen has long been lost without knowing where to lose, maybe it has already gone into the stove pit and burned it."
Paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other, I looked at the ten yellowed pieces of straw paper in my hand, and made do with the painting, which is better than not being strong.
What should I do if I don't have a pen, scratching my head and suddenly remembering that Brother Bao had just mentioned the stove room, so I simply took the black ash after the branches were burned to paint, although the conditions were a little harder, but I could draw it, and when I had a good market, I went to the town to buy brushes and good rice paper.
She thought that the tricks for Shen Shuisheng should be simple, and she couldn't draw them too complicated at once, so that she couldn't give too high a price, and if she was abandoned, she would not block the way to make money.
She first drew a simple picture of two magpies standing on plum branches, the predecessors thought that magpies symbolized festivities, and the two standing on the branches were equivalent to happy eyebrows.
Immediately afterwards, a magpie is drawn standing on a tree branch, symbolizing double happiness.
She also drew a dragon and phoenix Chengxiang and a mandarin duck playing in the water for Aunt Li, because she knew that Aunt Li's mind was to embroider a unique pattern for her daughter, and when the girl reached the age of talking about marriage, she always had to prepare things for her in advance.
On the second day, Shen Shuisheng came to collect the patterns according to the agreement, and the joyful eyebrows who had seen the star fruit painting were full of praise, and said: "It's really lifelike, and I have seen countless patterns, but Peach, your painting is really different, I don't know if this is a wolf or a sheep?" ”
Star fruit was a little shy when she heard it, Li Cuihua saw it in her eyes, with disdain in her eyes, and she really resented the peach in her heart, and she shouldn't come out to show off.
But he quickly restrained his disdain, and let a kind of shyness take his place, and lowered his head and fiddled with the corners of his clothes to listen to what Momoko explained.