After lunch, Aunt Chunhua came to Sister Qiu's house, all of them were acquaintances, and they were not polite to Sister Qiu's family, so she moved a small pestle to sit there to help Sister Qiu pick beans, and listened to Sister Qiu talk about wanting to hire someone to grind beans, patted her legs and said with a smile: "Ten cents a day is really a lot, if it weren't for the fact that there are a bunch of old and young masters in my family to serve, I would all be expected to do this work!" ”

"Does my aunt have any recommendations?" Sister Qiu asked, "The most important thing is to be honest and trustworthy." ”

Aunt Chunhua thought about it, turned her head and said to Jia's family: "How is Qiu Gui'er?" She is an honest person, and her physical strength is also great, and her mother-in-law and several sisters-in-law are all hard-working people, and she is willing to come out to earn a salary. ”

"Qiu Gui'er?" Jia Shi thought for a while, "Is it his daughter-in-law?" That's okay, Qiu Gui'er is a very clean and neat little daughter-in-law, she just wants to come. ”

Aunt Chunhua nodded, "If you want to feel it, I'll go and talk to her." "Aunt Chunhua is a quick-tempered child, so she got up and went to Qiu Gui'er's house immediately, and brought Qiu Gui'er in less than a moment.

Qiu Gui'er was the first time to come back to Sister Qiu's house, and she had no contact with Sister Qiu's family before, so she was a little cramped behind Aunt Chunhua.

"Come, this is your eldest sister Li, and this is Qiu Gui'er." Aunt Chunhua acted as an intermediary.

Qiu Gui'er was in her 20s, tall, her hair was neatly combed, her clothes were clean, and her hands were clean, and she said to Jia and Sister Qiu: "I ...... I am willing to come to my eldest sister's house to grind beans alive, and my mother-in-law and father-in-law are all happy. I'm determined to do my job, big sister, you can rest assured. ”

is from the same village, she naturally heard that Sister Qiu's family makes water tofu to make money, and she comes to their house to work, so she doesn't have to worry about not getting a salary, not to mention 300 copper plates a month, and it's just to get up in the middle of the night to grind beans for a while, where to find such a good errand!

Jia and Sister Qiu are not afraid that the hired people will not work hard, there is so much work, and it will be done within the specified time. They fear that the people they find will have unclean arms and legs, and that they will ruin the business on which they depend for their livelihood. It's just that since Qiu Gui'er is the person recommended by Aunt Chunhua, she should be passable in character.

Sister Qiu smiled and said, "Aunt Qiu Gui'er, don't worry. Aunt Chunhua told you, this job is to come to my house in the middle of the night to grind the beans into pulp, the beans are not much, you only need to grind 30 pounds, and you don't need to do anything else. ”

Qiu Gui'er nodded, "I know, Sister Chunhua came to tell me." "I heard that the youngest daughter of Mrs. Lao Xiucai's family is a clever person who understands things, and seeing her open her mouth to speak before the adult, Qiu Gui'er is not weird.

"Let's try to do it for two days." Sister Qiu said that grinding bean juice is also physical work, and she doesn't want Jia Shi and Li Ailian to do such heavy work, so it can be dispatched to the best, not to mention that it is really cheap to be a dignitary at this moment.

Jia Shi and Qiu Gui'er discussed the specific time for their family to grind beans, and asked Qiu Gui'er to go back first. When Qiu Gui'er left, Jia smiled at Aunt Chunhua and said, "It's an honest person." ”

Aunt Chunhua pursed her lips and smiled, more honest than her

Who can compare to Jia's family, others do business are all hated to give less to the guests, and earn more by themselves, but the Jia family is afraid of giving less, and the honest and honest ones don't say. However, it was Chunhua who thought about it, such a kind and honest old sister was bitter and bumpy for half her life, and she was almost thrown out by her husband's family as a sick ghost.

In the second half of the night, when Jia's regulations, Qiu Gui'er knocked on the door, and Sister Qiu listened to Qiu Gui'er's sound of calling the door in a daze, and Jia's family, who was already busy in the small kitchen, went to open the door. Jia's has always been heartbroken for his daughter, don't want her to get up so early, and wait until the bean juice is boiling before calling Sister Qiu to get up from the kang and some tofu.

There was a sound of a disc turning in the courtyard, and the Jia family lowered their voices, and the corners of Sister Qiu's mouth bent, turned over and continued to sleep.

When Jia asked Sister Qiu to get up from the kang, Qiu Gui'er had already gone back. Sister Qiu was slightly surprised, since the incident of Erniu's "cottage", she was very vigilant to outsiders, and the people in the village were more interested in their mother's method of making water tofu, if there was an opportunity to contact, she would not let it go, but she didn't expect Qiu Guier to go straight like this.

If it weren't for the fact that Qiu Gui'er was very pure, she hadn't thought about it; If it weren't for Qiu Gui'er's mind being very heavy, she wanted to win the trust of Sister Qiu and them before slowly exploring the secret recipe. Sister Qiu touched her chin and pondered, if the latter situation was the case, it would be tiring.

According to Jia's point of view, Qiu Gui'er can't find fault with her work, and she doesn't talk much, which is very much in line with her heart, so she will use Qiu Gui'er first. expected to want to go, but Sister Qiu didn't think clearly, she still knew too little about Qiu Gui'er, so she just put things aside for the time being.

At noon, Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu met Zhu Pingshan again at the door of her uncle's shop, and there was a tall young man who came to buy food with him, who looked like Zhu Pingshan was about the same age, 14 years old, with a thin robe and tied hair, only a long body and a slight plumpness, showing that he was very tall and strong.

"I, I want two pancakes and a spoonful of vegetables." Zhu Pingshan preached to Sister Qiu a little crampedly, and handed Sister Qiu four copper plates first.

"Wow!" Sister Qiu responded with a smile, glanced at the little boy next to Zhu Pingshan, and asked, "This big brother, what do you want?" Our pancakes cost a penny, and the vegetables cost two cents a spoonful, and they don't cost money if they don't taste good! ”

The tall little boy didn't react for a long time, Zhu Pingshan couldn't do it, he stretched out his palm and patted him, he reacted, his face turned red for a moment, and he snorted thoughtlessly: "With, like him!" ”

"You'd better ask for another pancake." Zhu Pingshan kindly reminded, "You eat more than me." ”

"Okay." The little boy readily agreed.

Zhang Yuxiu lowered her head and served him a dish, took a pancake, Sister Qiu accepted the money, Zhu Pingshan and the little boy went back with a bowl, and on the way back, the little boy still couldn't stop turning his face back frequently.

"Sister, is he looking at you?" Sister Qiu looked at the little boy's shy and shy appearance, and couldn't help but ask.

Zhang Yuxiu bowed her head and did not say a word, blushing

Gently twisted Sister Qiu, "Stinky girl, what are you talking about!" If you call my mother to know, I can't come out to sell food, and you will do it alone! "She is different from Sister Qiu, she is almost 13 years old, she should be engaged, if it weren't for this deal, Li Ailian didn't want her to show her face at all, in order to be able to say a good kiss, if she gave her mother a kiss and knew that a man looked at her a few more times, she would definitely not be allowed to come out.

Zhang Yuxiu is quiet and calm, she is also a little girl, her nature is to like to be lively, some time ago Sister Qiu followed Jia and Li Ailian to go out to sell bean curd, leaving her alone to look at the house, not to mention how much it is simmering, now she also has an idea to make, there is money to earn, so she doesn't want to go back to her previous life.

"I won't say it, I promise not to say it!" Sister Qiu couldn't help laughing, and swore with a full face, she really looked like the little boy was really watching Zhang Yuxiu, and it was not a big deal for the little boy to really watch Zhang Yuxiu, the age of the little boy was in the 21st century, and he was also a young middle school student.

When Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu returned to Jia's with the burden, Jia and Li Ailian's were also busy collecting the stall, and when they saw Sister Qiu and the two coming, Li Ailian picked up the burden, brought out two bowls of bean curd, handed them to the two, and said with a soft smile: "Eat quickly, I'll hide it, otherwise you two won't be able to eat it!" ”

Douhuaer's idea is too good, and it is not enough to sell every day, that is, Sister Qiu, they can't take the turn to eat a bowl of Douhuaer, and they rely on their own family to "hide" it before they can eat it, Zhang Yuxiu took Douhuaer and couldn't help laughing.

Today, they all shared forty catties of beans, and there were still two catties of water tofu left, and Sister Qiu planned to send one city catty to Lin Zhun's family and one city catty to Li Zheng's family. Since most of the beans are all ground by Qiu Gui'er, it has saved Jia Shi and Li Ailian's a lot of work, and the two of them are not tired at all today. Sister Qiu was also happy in her heart, and nodded gloomily, feeling that hiring someone to grind beans was a very correct decision. She didn't expect Jia and Li Ailian to exhaust their bodies because of making money.

Sister Qiu was holding the bean blossom, thinking about things in her heart, slowly stirring the marinade and bean curd, suddenly stopped the spoon in her hand, looked around in confusion, and looked at the corner of the wall A small flower child squatted there, staring at her fiercely with a pair of black and white eyes...... The bean blossom in his hand swallowed his saliva.

Seeing her look over, Xiao Huazi immediately turned her head very spinelessly, but it was the sound of swallowing saliva, and Sister Qiu felt that she was far away from this and could hear it all.

He was only six or seven years old...... Sister Qiu sighed slightly, if it weren't for them leaving the Mei family, maybe she wouldn't even be in the same situation as this little flower child!

Thinking about this, Sister Qiu couldn't eat the bean curd in the bowl, so she walked to Xiao Huazi's side with the bowl, squatted down and handed the bowl to Xiao Huazi, "Douhua'er will give you something to eat, and the bowl will be returned to me." ”

Xiao Hanako glanced at her, and immediately finished eating the bean curd with a bowl of lur, choking and coughing in the middle

After two strokes, just when Sister Qiu was worried that the child would choke on something, he continued to gobble it up, and in the end, he even licked the bottom of the bowl clean.

Xiao called Hanako looked unfinished, a pair of black and white eyes blinked at her, Sister Qiu's heart softened inexplicably, when she was a child, her parents were busy doing business, most of the time she was taking care of her little brother, and when the little brother didn't eat enough and wanted to ask her again, the pair of eyes were like this.

"What about your family?" Sister Qiu asked.

It was probably because of the bowl of bean blossoms that Xiaoxiao Hanako was not hostile to Sister Qiu, looked at her and shook her head, and said listlessly for a long time: "My father doesn't want me anymore, I have nowhere to go." ”

"Nonsense!" Sister Qiu laughed, "Where is there a father who doesn't hurt his son!" ”

Xiao called Hua Ziheng, playing with the stone in his hand unintentionally, and said: "He beats me every day, I don't do anything right, I have to beat him to death...... In short, I can't survive at home, and I have to run out to survive. ”

Sister Qiu was surprised, what she said was like a cruel and cruel poor child to her biological father. "That'...... Where's your mother? Sister Qiu asked.

"My mother? I don't know. Maybe she's dead, I don't remember her. "Little Hanako is full of nonchalant preaching.

It's really a poor child, Sister Qiu's heart softened, and she wanted to say something, so she looked at the shoes worn by Xiao Hanako, which were thin satin, although the top was dirty enough, she could still recognize the original bright material. And when the little flower child stretched out his palm to catch the stone and threw it up and down, he showed a lotus-like arm, white and tender. It's completely different from the little boys who run around with their bare heads in the village.

This little flower is still from a good family, at least it won't be a baby from the countryside, and the male baby of the Zhuang family doesn't have such fine skin and tender meat.

"So, you still have a home." Sister Qiu said softly, "Hurry home, your father is definitely worried about you." Go home and listen to your father, and your father will definitely not beat you. "It's not as good as wandering outside your own home.

She thought about her previous life, and she also held a grudge against her parents, and until she died, she did not go home to see her parents. Now that I expect it, I still have a light regret in my heart. I've died once and I want to open everything, maybe my parents don't love her, but they just love their little brother a little more.

Xiao Hanako was angry, "He won't worry, he beat me so badly, if I go back, he will definitely beat me to death!" After speaking, he stood up and turned his back to Sister Qiu, and pulled down his pants suddenly.

In Sister Qiu's stunned eyes, the two petals called Hanako treated themselves like this.

What is this...... Sister Qiu is almost messy in the wind.

The little boy was sad and angry, and turned his back to Sister Qiu and shouted, "Look at it! The top must be blue and purple! I didn't dare to sit or lie down, and I beat him into eight petals! ”

"You put on your pants first!" Sister Qiu covered her face and said, what is called embarrassment, she has experienced it today. The little boy's white and tender cheeks are indeed dark purple

A large piece, look like it's a ferocious beating.

The little boy twitched his nose, quickly lifted his pants, turned his face and still squatted on the ground, his eyes were still red.

Sister Qiu estimated that his stomach hurt badly, and she didn't see him sit on the ground for half a day. It's just not necessarily, this dead boy is not a banker at first glance, maybe it's a small teaching relationship, even if it's dirty now, if it's called a flower child, there is no habit of sitting on the ground.

"Are you naughty? Your father beat you? Sister Qiu asked.

"Nope!" The little boy originally lowered his head, immediately raised his eyes when he heard the words, and looked at Sister Qiu panting, as if he had been wronged, and shouted loudly, "I didn't do anything, my father beat me without asking, if I stay at home, I will beat him to death sooner or later!" ”

Sister Qiu looked at his little appearance, tears rolled in her eyes, but her expression was extremely angry, and her little tender hands were all clenched into two fists, it shouldn't be a lie. It's just that in ancient times, although the mountains and rivers were beautiful and pollution-free, it was a pity that there was no adult protection law, and the fate of children was completely in the hands of adults. Like Sister Qiu, Mao wants to sell her, and in a matter of minutes, he calls a human seller to come over and negotiate the price, and the money is clear. There is no need to talk about the father's discipline of his son, even if he kills someone, I am afraid that no one will pursue it.

"Sister, your bean curd is so delicious!" Seeing that Sister Qiu didn't say a word, the little boy called out and licked the bowl in his hand. "You want me to go to your house."

(End of chapter)