Autumn ends and winter begins.

The weather will be cold day by day. Lin was irritable, ate two glasses of hot wine, threw duck neck chicken neck, and made a mess all over the ground.

She looked at her son lying on the spring stool, humming a small tune in the Qinglou on tiptoe, looking indifferent, unable to stand it and scolding.

Wei Chunfang couldn't stand it, and grinned back with buckteeth: "What's there?" Ya Po came to the door after a while, with autumn patterns on the front foot, and silver on the back foot. Emperor Lao Tzu did not dare to guarantee that there was a profitable business in the world. ”

Wei Chunfang is not good at business. As soon as the old father Wei Ye died, he tossed the medicinal herb shop he left behind. Not to mention the closure, he owes a butt of loan sharks.

Lin snorted coldly and took a sip of him.

"You're a loser, and you don't admit it! After selling the autumn pattern, we have to do all the work ourselves. You are filial, you cook for me, wash my clothes, and pour the spittoon! ”

Lin cursed enough, and Fang shouted Qiuwen.

In the well, squatting a girl in a coarse cloth skirt. She is about fifteen or sixteen, with a duck egg face and beautiful eyebrows. Because of too much work, the face is full of dishes, but a pair of eyes are sparkling, and they are still smart.

Hearing Lin's call, Qiu Wen spat on his clothes and dried it casually. With a basket of unpeeled kidney beans at his feet, he simply poured half a liter and fed it to the chickens.

"Here we are."

Autumn grain is fifteen years old. She was brought by Wei Ye from the health hall. is called an adopted daughter, but in fact she is a maid. Before Wei Ye died, he had some savings, so he invited Mr. Private School to teach his son to read. Wei Chunfang was not motivated, but Qiu Wen, who was serving tea and pouring water on the side, secretly recognized a lot of words.

Autumn pattern is clever and self-taught. Needlework and embroidery, spinning and cleaning, cooking and cooking, just a few glances. Although he is in tattered clothes all day long, he looks beautiful and clean.

She's not stupid.

Since the beginning of the medicinal herb shop, the family's livelihood has become increasingly embarrassing, and since the Lin family sprinkled her anger, Qiu Wen knew that she would have to be sold by her sooner or later.

She was ready.

At first, I wanted to escape. The usurpation of the throne by the Emperor of the Cloud Kingdom is regarded as the legality of buying and selling people. If he is caught, he will be executed. She thought of something else. Lin seemed to see some signs and began to be wary. There are days and nights, deliberately working with her, so that she doesn't have any strength on her feet.

But there is a way to have autumn patterns.

After being angry for a few years, the fool has also realized a little way to survive. She is obviously respectful, and secretly has her own way of getting angry. Boiled tea is not boiled. Flies and cockroaches deliberately rushed into the house. A hole is poked in the rice jar to make it easier for rats to get in and out. In the small vegetable garden she cooks, half of the vegetables would rather be given away quietly than cheaply for the mouths of the Lin mother and son.

Because she is usually obedient and obedient, this kind of abnormality, Lin didn't suspect her at all.

Autumn Moon washed his hands, smeared them with hala oil, and went into the house. Hara oil was begged for by her at the herb shop with a cabbage. Every winter, her hands were frostbitten, purulent and bloody. If you don't heal again, you're afraid of being wasted.

She hid the hala oil in the corner, just to cherish herself.

"Peel the naan for me." Lin knocked on the fruit plate.

"Yes."

"Go to the kitchen to make hot tea and prepare green nuts."

"Yes."

"Come here, light a cigarette with me."

"Yes."

The Lin family sent the autumn tattoo feet without touching the ground, and the group turned.

Autumn Pattern was silent. As soon as he turned around, his hand quickly stuffed a full filament into the pipe.

Lin inhaled, choking on tears, coughing so much that he almost didn't breathe.

"You dead girl, this is to kill me, is it deliberate?"

Autumn Pattern bowed her head and did not answer.

Wei Chunfang gave Lin a look.

Lin held back his anger and closed his eyes: "That's it, what do I have to do with you." There is a matter of calling you here. Now your brother has been collected for debts and has lost twenty pounds in a month, which is also pitiful. Since you are a girl, you should be compassionate and compassionate. The family is really poor, and I can't support you one more mouth. This will only sell you. After a while, Ya Po will come to the door, you can be obedient and gentle, don't always make a face and make me ugly. ”

Autumn Pattern was silent.

She can endure any hardship. Whatever is difficult, you can bear it.

But if it is sold to the land of fireworks and willow lane, and is used as a thing, it is better to die.

"Mother is really going to sell me?" She spoke in a calm tone, hiding her resentment and beating her spirit. was so sad that he even smiled lightly, "If I don't have it, I'm afraid the family will be busy for a while." After all, I make three meals a day, and I sew shoes and socks. I also picked up that vegetable patch. Mother has to think about it. ”

Lin glared.

She lifted her pipe and tapped the sole of her shoe.

"Are you still the opposite? If you are filial, you should kowtow to me, thank me for my nurturing grace, and follow Yapo with joy, which is serious. ”

Wei Chunfang was impatient, he was counting the time.

"Mother, what should she do? If I hadn't been in a hurry to use the money and raise her for a few days, I would have contacted the old bustard in the Yanhong Courtyard, and the price would have been higher. ”

When Autumn Wen heard it, he was not sold into a prostitute. The heavy heart was slightly relieved.

Since she was three years old, she knew she had picked it up. In the past ten years, she has lived carefully and walked on thin ice. I never expected to be understood and cared for by the Wei family.

I have been a cow and a horse for so many years, and the grace of the report should be reported in the morning.

Rather than still being sold, it is better not to pick her up in the first place and let her continue to stay in the health hall.

There was a "squeak" sound, and the courtyard door was pushed open.

A voice like a broken gong.

"The eldest lady of the Wei family is here? I'm here to receive people. I didn't see it clearly last time, but seeing that the girl was neat and neat and quick in her work, I didn't think it was much worse. ”

Yapo's surname is Wang, and Jiangcheng Shili Eight Street is very famous.

A clever mouth can blow a crow into a phoenix, and a dead loach into a live carp. She buys and sells people, and she also talks to people. Just rely on one mouth, buy land and land, and live a prosperous life.

When Lin heard this, he immediately came to his senses.

Wei Chunfang's ears pricked up, tied up his loose shoes, and went to greet him with a gown. Wang Po is short and fat, forty years old, her hair comb is oily and slippery, a big red peony is inserted in her left temple, a pink begonia is leaning on her right sideburns, she is holding a water-red silk handkerchief in her hand, and she is wearing a garnet-red coat skirt, which makes her look a little younger. A pair of green and gold-toned embroidered uppers are spotless.

"Hello Aunt Wang."

Lin smiled and asked her how she came? Donkey riding or sedan chair? Have you ever had lunch? While inviting her to sit down, she drank the tea and snacks on the autumn pattern.

Wang Po took the teacup, staring at the autumn pattern with a pair of eyes, up and down, left and right, full of half a pillar of incense.

This made Lin and Wei Chunfang a little panicked.

"Auntie, don't you look down on my sister?" Wei Chunfang flatteringly helped her blow loose naan, and scolded Qiu Wen, "Is this a thousand knives on your neck, do you want to hold your neck to death, and don't look at people directly?" ”

Wang Po shook her head.

"Big lady, but my family's autumn stripes are shabby, and the people who led them out to throw you away? She has good clothes. It's just that she has a weird temperament and always likes to pick up the old ones that are worn out. I really can't. ”

Lin pretended to cherish Qiu Wen and brushed her hair.

Qiu Wen was disgusted, and he endured it and didn't refuse.

Wang Po smiled, pursed her lips, and took a sip of tea.

"Sister-in-law Wei, it's all to the point of selling people, don't talk to me about insincere scenes. Your girl has a good face and body...... It's a pity if it really sells. ”

Wang Po told Qiu Wen to take two steps. Then he asked her about the female red needlework.

Lin hurriedly brought a basket of bits and pieces. Wang Po took a look at it and said that it was good. She raised her eyebrows: "Then let's not talk darkly." I have twenty taels on hand. I'm in business after all. Steward Li, the historian of the weaving house, although he is a subordinate, is also well-informed and walks around. I said that it was useless, in the end it was going to get into the eyes of his old brother. You want an extra one or two, and I really don't have any. ”

Autumn Pattern is obedient on the surface, and the heart is tumbling and surging: at home is to be a slave. If he really went to the historian's house, he would also be a slave. Dead horses have the right to be a live horse doctor. Instead of being abused to death, it is better to sell yourself as a maid, and maybe you can break out a different way of life.

Thinking about it this way, she was a little more respectful to Wang Po. Seeing that her tea bowl was empty, she took the initiative to continue. and put it close to her side to drive away the mosquitoes and flies in the hall.

is so well-behaved, which provokes the princess to feel great pity.

Wei Chunfang hesitated.

He had a smile on his face: "Auntie, yesterday, didn't you say that you were thirty taels, why did you change your hexagram again?" ”

Wang Po pouted her mouth and shook her handkerchief, and the mother and son of the Wei family didn't dare to turn their faces: "Don't sell and pull down." I'm busy today. The Fan family on West Street is busy saying goodbye; Cai's butcher's house in the south has to set a secret marriage. She took out a silver ticket from her bosom, "If you don't agree, I'll leave." ”

Lin was in a hurry and hurriedly stopped him.

Wei Chunfang raised his finger: "Auntie, is twenty-five taels feasible?" ”

"You can't have one more. If you still want to, tell the girl to pack up, take a baggage, and go to the carriage with me. ”

Lin and his son muttered together.

"Okay. Twenty taels is twenty taels. Lin stomped his feet, grabbed the silver ticket, and carried it in his arms, like carrying a precipitated gold ingot.

Recently, due to the locust plague at the border pass, the deserted people swarmed into Jiangcheng. In order to survive, it is common for poor families to sell their children and daughters. Local households, some of whom were unable to turn around when they were in a hurry, also learned from the hungry people and sold their daughters. or into the hook bar, or as a concubine of a large family, or as a maid, it is not uncommon.

Autumn Pattern knows: In this world, she is not the most miserable.

She stood aside and looked at the courtyard where she had lived for fifteen years. As soon as he turned his head, he immediately followed Wang Po.

Wang Po was very satisfied.

She's made a good deal today. The old man of the Shi family has been promoted, and the family needs to increase manpower. Any dyeing mill, kitchen, garden, must be added to the manpower. She had a good friend with the old steward. Just this business, one person, she can make ten taels of snowflake silver from changing hands.

Before leaving, Lin still wanted to embarrass the autumn pattern. He ordered her to kowtow from the house to the outside of the yard to thank her for sixteen years of nurturing.

She thought that when Qiu Wen heard this, she quickly knelt down as usual. Unexpectedly, this girl held her chest up, pulled her feet and walked forward, turning a deaf ear, and taking her words as a deaf ear.

Lin Shi was on fire: "If you are sold, you will not be able to learn a lesson?" One day is a mother, I am your mother for life! Mother-in-law and adoptive mothers are all mothers! ”

She found a feather duster and tried to beat her leg.

Previously, Autumn Pattern was just hiding. Today she is not hiding. Thinking of the pain of the past, she snatched the feather duster, restrained Lin with her backhand, pulled her hair, and made Lin scream.

Lin stomped his feet with a wail: "My heavenly mother, it's the other way around......"

Wei Chunfang pounced fiercely and searched for sticks all over the yard.

The princess pushed him back.

"Brother, since she is sold, she is not your sister-in-law. When I came in, you told me that she had been so long, and she had always had a good temper. Rare. It can be seen that he is also a good material for being a slave. If you break it, how can you tell me to sell it? If it's broken, according to the deed, you will pay me back three times the money! ”