The ox cart drove slowly into Niujia Village on the side of the mountain, and as far as the eye could see, the dogs barked and the chickens barked, most of the women's stoves were smoking, and the men came out of the fields and prepared to go home for dinner.

Jumping out of the car under the old locust tree at the head of the village, Luo Shi stuffed the silver bills into the grandmother, of which two hundred big money was returned to her, and wanted to ask her to find a carpenter to make a hand-pushed Taiping cart, and buy a few larger pickle jars and jars.

"Where do you use so much, I just borrowed a string of money from you, counting the fennel spices that I bought before......"

"Grandma, you have been taking care of me since I lived in Niujia Village, thanks to you I didn't starve to death, I remember you for saving your life, where is this money, you can rest assured that you will take it!"

Grandma listened to it very heartwarmingly, with a smile on her face, and she had to accept it when she saw all kinds of excuses.

"Eh, good boy, then I'll do something for you, I'm familiar with the carpenter and the shop, I'm sure to do it for you, keep it and save money and good, and I'll send you back the rest of the copper coins!"

Luo Xi smiled and sent the grandmother away, thinking to herself: She is a poor foreigner who took a silver coin to do things, and it is difficult to ensure that people will cause a lot of right and wrong, so she is more relieved to hold her grandmother.

But she never thought that how could the grandmother have such a cautious mind as her? I am full of thoughts that Luo Shi is a child who can make money and has a good heart, and I have to talk and praise everyone I meet, but I hate that this girl is not a child of my own family, so filial and considerate of her wife.

Doing bad things with good intentions, and when Luo Shi walked back to the village slowly with her pocket, the people who greeted her politely on the road sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

"Yo, isn't this a lotus! Radiant, let's all see it, can these spicy bean skins be sold for a silver bill? That's a lot of money! ”

"That's it, my old cow goes to the city to work, and it's only twenty yuan a day, which is not as much as she earns a day when she works for a month! I can envy us."

The three or two mothers-in-law who were waiting for the man to come home saw Luo Shi and hurriedly surrounded her, chattering and talking, with envy in their eyes that could not be hidden.

"Hehe, where did you hear about it, although the business is good today, but I don't know the rules and annoyed the poor master who patrols the street, telling him to rob a full tank of small fish and a lot of big money for nothing, what is there to envy"

Luo Shi dodged, but he could only bite the bullet and say perfunctorily.

"Really? Did you really want him to snatch it? The fat woman swallowed melon seeds, and when she heard that there was such a thing, she suddenly became interested, and she couldn't hide the happy look in her eyes, and said with a fake comfort in her mouth: "This is terrible, but it's normal, who can make money so easily."

"Don't lie to us, it's spread all over the village, saying that the old lady of the blacksmith Zhang's family is going around praising you for what you can do with a silver bill! Why don't you tell us the recipe and know that we are all from the same village, and we have money to earn together."

Luo Xi sighed secretly: "You guys are wrong, Grandma Niu went into the city today to see Niu Chang Gung, the silver coin was given by the owner of Niu Chang Gung Wharf, and Grandma went to the village to buy some things, there was no way, grind the soybeans, boil out a layer of bean skin, and put some dogwood peppercorns."

Luo Shi knew that the method could not be hidden for a long time, so it was better to tell them generously, but the most critical chili pepper was that none of them had it.

"Hmph, I said it earlier, with her girl's snack, she can make so much money, just you girls who are coaxing seedlings all day long, it's not fun!" A thin, squiggy woman snorted and walked away with a sneer.

The rest of them were bored, scattered as birds and beasts, and went home to take care of the stove.

Luo Shi and Douzi looked at each other helplessly, and they also went home.

When she got home, Luo Shi asked Douzi to go to the stove room to light the fire first, and she went to the backyard to collect the dried chili peppers.

As soon as I entered the backyard, I saw that the big basket of dried peppers had fallen to the ground, and more than half of the dried peppers were dried in it, and even a few peppers planted were uprooted!

Who did this!

The first thing that came to Rash's mind was Niu He next door.

She hurriedly looked along the low courtyard wall, which had collapsed for a while, and was short and unreliable, and the taller man had climbed in as soon as he had climbed over. Luo Shi thought that it was probably Niu He who came in and stole it over the wall.

Suddenly, her feet slipped! I sat down on the mud and looked up, only to realize that there was a huge dog hole at the root of the north wall! The hole is covered with weeds, and you can't find it until you look closely.

She ran to the back of the courtyard according to the position of the dog hole to look, and saw the vegetable field that Niu He had given her, and the handful of vegetables that had just been planted on it were trampled on.

She patted the dirt on her clothes, looked up and looked around, and suddenly saw a familiar figure, which looked like Niu He.

"Ushiga?"

He was wearing a short shirt and carrying a backpack, and was striding towards the door of his backyard, when he heard Luo Xi calling him, he was very panicked, and he ran away without looking back.

Sure enough, it was him!

Luo Shi was angry and caught up, okay, it's just a scoundrel on weekdays, and now he is starting to learn to steal things! Look at me and let everyone know that if you are yellow, which girl is willing to marry you, it will be regarded as her voluntarily entering the fire pit!

"Catch the thief! Catch the thief! ”

As soon as he heard this, Niu He's legs became even weaker, and he tripped over the mud terrier, and fell half a foot away, and his back basket fell to the ground, rolling out a lot of white songs and cowpeas.

Luo Shi hurriedly chased after him and picked up the back basket and rummaged carefully, but he didn't see the shadow of the pepper, which was strange: didn't he steal it? So what does he run?

"Don't shout, don't shout, I just took some vegetables, just think this vegetable plot is still mine"

Niu He is a scoundrel, but he is the most disdainful thief in Niujia Village, and he will be poked in the backbone for a lifetime, and his children and grandchildren can't raise his head, so he is not afraid when he robs people's houses, and he panics when he steals.

"You stole and trampled on my food!"

"Good girl, please don't shout, I'll replant it for you, I'll replant it for you, you can take it all away"

Luo Xi remembered the chili pepper in her heart, and she didn't have the heart to entangle with Niu He, she put the vegetables in the back basket and took them away, and extorted ten dollars from him to pay for the vegetable fence and hurried away.

I went to the backyard and moved stones to plug the dog hole little by little, and calculated how much it would cost to rebuild the courtyard wall. She also planned to fill in the pit, wrap up the vegetable patch outside, and build a high wall.

In the future, if she really wants to make money by pointing to chili peppers, today's incident can be regarded as a wake-up call for her. If you can even drill into a dog hole for money, what else can't you do? Interests are smoking, villains are difficult to prevent, not many hearts, but they made wedding dresses for others in vain.

Today she didn't catch it, and she couldn't toss it with great fanfare.

There are not many people who know chili peppers, if she yells at it herself, with her current ability, she doesn't let anyone hold it, forcing her to hand over the chili pepper seeds and spicy dishes?

However, if someone steals her chili peppers, they may not necessarily make spicy strips, and even if they do, the taste is not right, which she is not worried about.

It's just that it is imminent to make money, she needs a sum of money to repair the courtyard wall, tidy up the vegetable field, even this house is also to be repaired, look at the current adobe thatched roof, two wooden doors leaking wind, with wooden bolts inserted, all to prevent the gentleman.

There are also padded jackets, bedding, charcoal fires in the oven and so on.

Luo Xi sighed secretly: Don't mention earning money to go back to pay off debts, just saying that in ancient times, you don't have to worry about food and clothing, and you have a long way to get rich!

……

Tomorrow she still has to go to the city to catch the market, she has paid the money for the ox cart in advance, and hurried to make the things that will be sold tomorrow, and she will make some simple things at dinner:

Coarse japonica rice was steamed in the rice retort, a hot and sour cabbage was fried, and a lotus root soup was put on the small fish.

Brought to the square table, pulled the chopsticks and pulled the stool, hurriedly ate with the pocket and cleaned up the dinner, and began to prepare to make spicy strips and spicy lotus roots.

The pickle jar that Grandma bought had been dragged back, and it stood by the door of the stove, three big black ones, and the rest of the pots and pans of different sizes. These cost about 100 yuan, counting the Taiping car and the money to repay the grandmother, and the remaining three or four hundred eldest sons were returned to Dao Luoxi's hands.

Luo Shi replaced the notch bowl for eating, and planned to spend money to raise the nest chicks when he went to the market tomorrow, and just used this open-mouth bowl to make a chicken feeding pot.

She originally wanted to make spicy beef strips to sell, but unfortunately the cost of beef is too expensive, and it is not suitable for the upfront investment cost to tinker. Therefore, I plan to raise the chickens by myself, first, I can pick up some eggs to make up for my pocket, and secondly, I can kill the chickens in the future, and I can also make spicy chickens, which is more cost-effective than buying whole chickens in the market and coming back to make chickens.

Familiar with the method of making spicy strips, Douzi is now considered to be perfect with practice, and he can use a stone mortar to pound chili powder to help Luo Shi share some of the work.

The two of them just do it together, you grind soybeans, and I will pound chili powder; When the bean skin cooled down, the two of them went to clean up the small fish and lotus root together; There are several things left and right, and they can be done in an orderly manner.

Because the process was familiar, this time it only took half of the original effort.

Luo Shi sealed the three jars of spicy food that she was going to sell tomorrow at the mouth of the altar, put them in the back basket in turn, and put them on the edge of the stove.

As for the Taiping car, Grandma said that she had already paid a deposit to the carpenter, and it would take about a few days to make it. When she has a cart, she will bring more to sell at a time, so that she will not have to work as hard as she is now, and she can go to the market during the day and cook at night, so that she can go once every other day to give herself a rest.

Tidying up the things, Luo Shi saw that his pockets were full of spicy powder, so he urged him to wash them quickly:

"Don't rub your eyes, go to bed, we'll have to hurry up tomorrow"

"Got it"

The weather was cold fast, and the cold wind was blowing outside in the room, and Luo Shi was shivering with cold as she lay on the bed.

With a bed of tattered futon that the grandmother helped me when I first came, I am afraid that it will not be able to support it for a few days. Fortunately, she still has some money in her hand now, and she will go to the clothing shop tomorrow to see if there is an old quilt to sell, and spend money to play a new bed of cotton.

The next day, before the rooster crowed, the rooster got up.

Eat two cakes on the road, pull your pocket and go to the old locust tree at the entrance of the village, yesterday and the uncle who drove the car said okay, this time here to wait.

But when I got closer, the ox cart was not there, and the uncle who drove the cart was nowhere to be seen.

There was an old man with gray hair under the tree, who was carrying a dry tobacco stick and spitting out big smoke bubbles, he knocked on the smoke pot, and saw that Luo Shi was dressed as if he was hitchhiking to catch the market, so he dragged a long voice and said:

"The ox cart leaves early, you're late!"

"Uncle, when did the ox cart go, can't it, I paid the order yesterday and said that it is now, who will he pull if I don't come?"

"Is that the money you booked? Ah, how can I see the osmanthus daughter-in-law of the Baoshan family hitchhiking? Are you not with her? ”

“……”

Aunt Osmanthus?!