Liu Xiaomei chatted with Chrysanthemum for a while, and when she saw that it was noon, she put away her needlework and went to tell her, and agreed with Chrysanthemum that they would go to Xiatangji together in two days. Chrysanthemum did another needlework, until she finished sewing a pair of gloves from Zheng Changhe, and then got up and prepared to cook. As soon as I looked up, I saw Zhang Huai carrying a large package and coming in from outside the courtyard gate with a smile on his face.

The big black dog with the newly caught little greyhound was lying in the yard basking in the sun, when he heard the sound of footsteps, jumped up from the ground with a "poof" and rushed to the courtyard gate; The fat little greyhound followed closely behind it, moving its little short legs like a gourd, and running straight away. The big black dog greeted the visitor vigilantly, and when he found that it was Zhang Huai, he wagged his tail and relaxed his vigilance, and rubbed his head against his legs, obviously not taking this guy who often came as an outsider. Zhang Huai just came back from Xiatangji and helped Chrysanthemum bring a package, to be exact, it was for Aoki, which was brought to Aoki by Liu Yunlan Tuolaixi, and inside were shoes. Huaizi is now in the sausage workshop, specializing in managing a piece of the external area. Needless to say, he must be contacted by him, that is, he must supervise the procurement, and Li Changyun is responsible for the specifics.

Now that the workshop has been built, of course, it can no longer be the same as last year - only buy pork and sausages in the village, for this reason, the workshop has set up a pork purchase point in Xiatangji to buy pork from ten miles and eight townships. The sausages produced are also shipped out through here, some of which are handed over to Li Changyu for sale in Qinghui County, some are sold to Qinghui Restaurant, and the rest are operated and sold by Fang's macro delivery warehouse.

As early as August, Chrysanthemum and Aoki sold the sausage method and recipe to Master Fang, only five hundred taels of silver, saying that it was to thank him for his support in the rice threshing machine project, and he couldn't ask for more. Actually, she wasn't even going to ask for silver. But in business, if she didn't want money, maybe that Master Fang would feel unreliable, so she asked for five hundred taels, believing that this price must be lower than that set by Master Fang himself, so he quietly sold a little favor to him, and the most important thing was to leave a good impression of the simplicity of the villagers in his heart. Sure enough, this price made Master Fang, who was ready to pay another two thousand taels of silver, very surprised, he thought that the other party would be the same as last time, and asked him to bid, but who knew that people didn't want him to bid this time, and he set a low price.

This amount of money was nothing to him, but he did have a good impression of this simple villager, and faithfully kept his promise not to do sausage business in Huzhou. Not only that, but he also instructed the shopkeeper Song to sell Qingshan sausages on behalf of the Hongfeng Warehouse in Huzhou. This saves Zhang Huai and Li Changyu a lot of things. With such a large market, the little goods from the workshops in the village are simply not enough to sell. Therefore, Li Changyun lived in Xiatangji to buy pigs, and Zhang Huai often went to Xiatangji because of this. Chrysanthemum was busy for a long time, her fingers were cold, she put away the needlework and sundries, rubbed her hands, and then stuffed it into her sleeve to cover it, while looking at the package handed over by Zhang Huai and asked, "What is this?" He asked, but he didn't reach for it. Seeing that she was afraid of the cold, Zhang Huai hurriedly opened the package for her with a smile and said, "Your sister-in-law asked Laixi to bring it, it seems to be shoes." Woohoo! So many pairs! His eyes were straight. I saw that there were four pairs of cotton shoes of all sizes wrapped in the baggage, two pairs of single shoes, and I knew that the whole Zheng family had a share by looking at the size, and the two pairs of single shoes belonged to the Yang family and Zheng Changhe.

Chrysanthemum's eyes lit up when she saw it, and now she would save her energy Sister Yunlan actually made so many shoes, she didn't need to tie the soles anymore. As soon as I was happy, I took out my two hands, picked up the shoes one by one, and examined them carefully, and the more I looked, the happier I became—much better than what I had done, and look at how even the stitches were. Zhang Huai saw her looking through her shoes with a smile, especially holding her pair in her hand and looking at it non-stop, it seemed that she wanted to try it. He looked at her quietly, smiling, not speaking, and said in his heart, look at your sister-in-law helped your brother make shoes, and she also helped you and Uncle Zheng and Aunt Zheng to do it, you can't help me make a pair

Chrysanthemum looked at it for a while, and suddenly felt that Zhang Huai beside her was not moving, looked up and saw him smiling at herself, didn't speak, and glanced at the shoes in the package, just smiled, her eyebrows raised slightly, her eyes were shining, but she could read his eyes, and clearly felt that he was saying: "Look, people have made so many pairs, why don't you help me make a pair?" The old god of chrysanthemum glanced at him on the ground, and learned from him, but also smiled, ignored him, put his shoes away, and tied his baggage. Huaizi saw her eyes wandering, slid over her face, and clearly said: Compared with others, can you compare? People have already made a marriage, you are still early!

So, he sighed lightly without resentment—but he felt less complaining and more happy and sweet—and smiled helplessly at Chrysanthemum, and asked, "Your brother hasn't come back yet?" Didn't you say that you want to start the fish pond, but when to start the pond "Chrysanthemum felt that the fish pond was too cold at the end of the year, so she discussed with her father and mother to get up the fish pond earlier, and catching fish was secondary, mainly to clean up the pond—-— clear the silt from the pond to make fertilizer, and then dig the pond bigger. At this time, when he asked, he smiled and said: "Of course, I have to find a time when you all have free time, otherwise I won't even be able to pull someone to help, is it possible that I and my mother will go down too?" Huaizi couldn't help laughing, and told her not to worry, saying that the small fish pond was cleaned up very quickly, and if it weren't for the lotus root in it, the lotus root seeds should be dug out carefully, and many people would not need to help at all. After speaking, he looked at the sun, and wanted to say goodbye a little reluctantly, but suddenly remembered something, turned back to Chrysanthemum and said, "Laixi also brought a letter saying that your grandmother asked you to live for a few days." Chrysanthemum nodded to indicate that she understood, and when she saw that he was leaving, she stopped him again and said, "Wait a minute—" and went back to the room and took out a pair of gloves and handed them to him—"This is for you." When she helped her father and brother make gloves, she couldn't help Huaizi make a pair according to her own wishes, there was no reason, she just did it if she wanted to. Zhang Huai saw that Chrysanthemum took the initiative to give him gloves, and he was a little confused: he didn't ask her to help him make it in advance, and he didn't ask her just now, but she quietly helped him do it, so he gave it to himself. He took the gloves, and instead of being ecstatic or excited, he just stared at the chrysanthemum for a moment, then lowered his eyelids, and a suspicious flush appeared on his wheat-colored cheeks.

After all, he was involved in love at the beginning of his youth, although he used to look forward to reading the chrysanthemum every day to be good to himself, but that was his unilateral prayer, and now suddenly the chrysanthemum also made it clear that this affection was made, and the eye contact in an instant penetrated into the heart like spring rain, and the heartstrings fluttered at the same time, feeling sweet and shy, and a little overwhelmed.

Chrysanthemum looked at the peasant boy, dressed in a half-new short brown and jacket, standing in the winter sun, as tall as an oak tree in the back mountain. A smile spread across his face, some happy, some stable, and some shy, like the warm winter sun, which made her feel warm and real.

After being quiet for a while, she caught a glimpse of the blush on his face, and her heart was young and not as thick-skinned as her sister, she suddenly became narrow-minded, and deliberately called him: "Brother Huaizi, Brother Huaizi, what's wrong with you?" Don't like this glove? I've never been good at needlework······"

Huaizi hurriedly raised his eyes, and at the same time squeezed the gloves in his hand, and said in a loud voice: "I like it, I like it so much." Sister Chrysanthemum ······" He paused and looked at Chrysanthemum and laughed silently—he had already realized that Chrysanthemum was deliberately teasing him. He was about to say something, when he heard the voice of his mother He named Zhang Yang from next door: "Yangzi, hurry up and help my mother, and carry this bucket of radish seedlings to the back to feed the pigs." This call woke him up from his tenderness, and he hurriedly said to Chrysanthemum: "I'm going back to feed the pigs." I'll talk to you next night. After saying that, he smiled apologetically, and when he saw her nod, he turned around and strode away. When Chrysanthemum saw him go, she was in a good mood and was ready to go to the kitchen to cook, but when she turned around, she almost tripped over the little greyhound under her feet. This puppy is just like the big black dog when he was a child, and he always likes to lie at the feet of the chrysanthemum.

Chrysanthemum was tripped by it like this, full of beautiful tenderness was tripped away, looking at the little guy's fat body, the waist and belly even fell heavily, walking flashing, couldn't help but be angry and funny, scolded: "I know how to come to me all day." If you step on your foot, you can squeeze your intestines out! "She's really scared, if she stepped on it—belch! What kind of bloody picture would that be?

The big black dog lay in the yard, leisurely looking at the chrysanthemum and scolding the little greyhound, thinking that he was gloating in his heart: boy, I don't understand at all, and if I want to make love with my master, I have to see when it is. We have been scolded since childhood, and it is hard to understand some eyes, and now that you are here, you are just scolded for me! The little greyhound was scolded by the chrysanthemum and dodged aside, and after a while, he confronted the cat and got into a fight. At noon, when the Zheng family went out to work, they came home and saw a large bag of shoes brought by Liu Yunlan, all of them smiled, and they were busy comparing and comparing them, and they couldn't wait to try them on.

Aoki stepped on soft shoes, the soles of his feet were warm, his heart was soft, he hadn't seen her for a long time, and he didn't know if it was good or not, so take a moment to go to Liujiatang to take a look! Well, just two days later, I got up the fish pond, and by the way, I sent some fish to my grandmother and uncle, and also sent some to her.

Yang saw that his son was bored and tried on shoes, but he didn't speak, but he had a faint smile on his face, glanced at Chrysanthemum, and said with a smile: "Aoki, the fish pond will be raised in two days, you send some fish to your grandmother's house, and by the way, send some to Yun Lan, see if she is okay!" When we are free in the first month of next year, we will discuss with our in-laws and set the family affairs at the end of next year, just in time to take over for the New Year! ”