For several days, Qiao Xi was dragged into the mountains by several aunts or aunts in the village, day and night, even the meals were eaten at other people's houses, and the days passed day by day, but this also has a benefit, now the people in the village are much more enthusiastic about their three brothers and sisters of the Qiao family, unlike before, when they saw it, they didn't see it, and no one paid attention to it.

In this way, ten days have passed, and the day when Qiao Song leaves home is getting closer and closer, she has to walk for half a day to go to the county seat, she wants to buy some things to go home before her eldest brother leaves home, and the eldest brother will be ten days and a half months away.

"Big brother, you are going to the county school in three days, I want to add some food before you leave." Today, it was rare to relax, and the three of Qiao Xi's family sat in the hall and talked.

"I was also about to tell you about this, my eldest brother will be gone for ten days and a half months, I'm afraid you won't have enough food." Now that my little sister has a place to hide things, buy more, let her hide it, and take some out when it is almost gone, so that they don't have to worry about their bad life at home.

"We thought of going together. I also want to buy a few chicks to raise, so that when they grow up, they can lay eggs and kill and eat. "Now it's big enough to raise some poultry.

"You can raise it if you want." Now that the family is slowly getting better, I can still lay eggs with some chickens.

On this day, it happened to be a fair, and the town came and went more than twice as many as usual, and many people carried it on their shoulders and in their hands, but not a single one of them had empty hands.

It seems that this is a market day, and they should exchange their things at home for money, and then buy some daily necessities to go back.

Farm produce that is generally not worth much, but it is enough to exchange some daily necessities.

Like this, those who can exchange things for money are either those who have a few acres of land planted at home, or they are more industrious, and those who produce more things in the field will take them to exchange for money, and those who are lazy and have a rich family will have to get by.

"Big brother, today is the day of the market, there should be farmers who come to sell chicks, let's find out." Now that it is spring, it is the most suitable for hatching chicks, and some people take them to the town market to sell, as long as you look for them, you can still buy them. If she can't buy it in the town, then she will go to the village and ask, and now that the relationship has eased, people are willing.

"Okay, then we'll go find out."

The three brothers and sisters searched for a long circle and were found by them in a corner. "Big brother, I saw that there are chicks selling over there, let's go over quickly."

"Slow down, this little chick can't still run." Looking at the little sister who ran away, Qiao Song shook his head with a smile, and pulled the little brother to follow.

Qiao Xi came to the stall, looked left and right, she was a layman when it came to choosing chicks, she didn't know how to look good or bad, all she could know was whether they were sick or not.

Seeing that the eldest brother had arrived, he pulled the eldest brother's sleeve, "Big brother, will you pick chickens, it's best to pick a mother to raise." ”

“…… I won't either, or I'll take a look first and see how people pick them. Qiao Song was asked by Qiao Xi, he had never done such a thing as picking chickens, and as he spoke, he pulled his younger siblings to the side.

The market is like this, crowded with people, and once the seats are vacated, they will soon be occupied.

No, they had just stepped aside a little bit, and someone came in front of the stall.

"Sister-in-law, you little chick looks very energetic, I don't know how to sell it?" A middle-aged woman is dressed very unpretentiously, her hair is neatly combed, her clothes are very clean, and she looks like a neat person.

"That is, these chicks are carefully cared for, not expensive two pennies a piece, you can ask, everyone is at this price."

"Two pennies is not expensive, and eggs are only one penny, isn't an egg a chicken." The middle-aged woman said that it was expensive, but her eyes did not change at all, and her eyes were firmly fixed on the little chicks in the fence.

"Little sister-in-law, what you said is really funny, that's right, but it is not possible to hatch eggs into chicks in a day or two, and not every egg can hatch into chicks, so if you calculate it like this, it is really not expensive at all, if you don't believe it, you can go back and incubate it yourself, it would be good to have half of it." As soon as these words came out, the woman did not speak again, and I think she agreed with this statement.

"That's it, bring me ten, but I'll have to pick my own."

"What's wrong with this, you can look at it casually, pick it at will, my chicken boy is the best."

Qiao Xi's three brothers and sisters were fascinated when they watched the woman pick a chicken, wow, just buy a chicken, and there is such an operation, and they obeyed.

"Let's go over and pick ...... too"

"Well, we also have to pick those spirits, and we have to pick a big ......" After watching it for a long time, she has grown knowledge again.

The brothers and sisters were picky and chosen, and finally bought ten chicks.

After buying the chickens, they went to the grain store, it was rice again, and it was white flour, and they bought a lot, and when they passed the grocery store, Qiao Xi asked the eldest brother and the younger brother to wait outside for a while, and she went back as soon as she went.

When she went to the grocery store, she bought several seeds, including celery and cowpeas, and she actually found seeds of watermelon, tomato and pepper, and asked the boss to pack some more of these two seeds. After buying these, they rushed home.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Qiao Xi prepared a lot of things for Qiao Song, from what he wore to what he ate.

"Big brother, you have all this money, and you can't say you want to use it." Qiao Xi handed over the prepared twenty taels of silver to Qiao Song's hand, and it was inevitable that he would invite his classmates to have a meal or something in the county school, don't be shy and can't take anything out of his pocket, this is a normal interpersonal relationship.

Qiao Song opened the package and saw that it was a full twenty taels, how could he be embarrassed to take it, the money sister who went to the county school to study had already given ten taels, and now he took another twenty taels, how could there be any money left in the family, "There are too many little sisters, I can't use so much, you gave them to me, what should you do with your little brother?" ”

"Brother, I still have money in my hand, you can just take it. I'm not going to leave myself without money. "I gave her eldest brother twenty taels, and she still has three hundred and forty taels, of which more than three hundred taels her eldest brother doesn't know, half of them are earned by buying medicines, and half are from others, these two things can't be said, just hide them in the bottom of your heart.

"Well, I'll take ten taels, and keep the other ten taels at home." Qiao Song knew that his sister still had some money in her hand, but not so much, if she didn't take any money, her sister would definitely not be at ease, so she could only choose a compromise way and take half and keep half.

"Well, don't put all the money together, it's not safe, it's hidden everywhere." Ten taels of silver are put together, if it is stolen, it will be stolen all at once, and if it is placed in different places, the security will be high, and if it is stolen, at least there is still money left in the hand.

"Got it, little sister, if you continue to talk, the eldest brother probably won't have to go out today." Qiao Song pretended to be relaxed and teased.

"Wow, it's so late, don't say it, don't say it, big brother, be careful all the way. Stay safe. ”

"Got it, don't send it." Qiao Song is afraid that he will be reluctant to leave after a while, his sister and younger brother are still so young, but his current ability is even a problem for his sister and younger brother's food and clothing, this family is supported by his sister, the only thing he can do now is to gain fame, so that every month the yamen will give a fixed amount of food and money, although it is not much, but at least he can prove himself.

He will study hard, strive to come back with a top score, and become a sister and younger brother to rely on.

The parting now is for a better future in the future, and all the reluctance and longing can only be pressed in the bottom of my heart.

Qiao Song walked out of the house, turned around, and his eyes instantly turned red, as if tears were rolling in them.

Qiao Xi and Qiao Bo didn't send their eldest brother out, and when they couldn't see their eldest brother, the two sisters and brothers cried silently.

"Sister, I miss my eldest brother." Qiao Bai said with a choked voice.

"Well, I also think that we must be strong and let the eldest brother study with peace of mind and no worries." Qiao Xi hugged his younger brother and said with relief.

"Sister, I will study hard in the future, and I will give you a top score." Qiao Bai looked serious.

"Okay, then sister is waiting." It didn't matter if he was a champion or not, and he wasn't studying for her, but she wouldn't say anything to discourage him.

"It's a deal."

"Okay."

The eldest brother is gone, and the days will go on.

The day after Qiao Song left, Qiao Xi was ready to start embroidering, at first she only planned to embroider handkerchiefs and purses, and her target was those rich people in the town, as long as the people here were women, they would hold a handkerchief in their hands, which should be similar to the necessities of the Celestial Empire - bags, practicality is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also for the love of beauty.

But if you want to make money, it is not easy, the women here are more or less popular, and when they have nothing to do, they will embroider some handkerchiefs, purses and other small objects for themselves.

If she wants to make money from embroidery, then she has to innovate and embroider something eye-catching or novel.

However, she didn't know the specifics, so she could only embroider some small objects and try to sell them.

As soon as she said to do it, she took out a piece of fine fabric that she had bought, and after a while, she cut it into small squares of equal surfaces, and it took about twenty or thirty pieces before she stopped.

After that, she began to remove the stitches, one strand two strands and three strands, and the different threads were split into different strands.

Qiao Bai watched from the side, but he was dizzy and couldn't understand what his sister was going to do? Her mother's embroidery is not as complicated as her sister's.

If he doesn't look at it, he won't look at it, so he'd better go find some little bugs for the chickens, it's a little more interesting.

"Sister, I'll catch worms for the chickens."

"Well, go ahead." Qiao Xi replied, but did not look up.

Qiao Bai didn't expect his sister to look up, but only to tell him where he was, so that when she remembered, she wouldn't be able to find him.