Shu Qingai took out the oil paper and wrapped a roast chicken, and put a pound of meat into the basket he bought today, the basket is not big, and he plans to go to the mountains to dig up herbs and wild vegetables or something.

In fact, Shu Qingai wondered very much, why Limochen would even repair the bamboo house, but he couldn't make up something, otherwise he wouldn't need to buy a bamboo basket in the town to use it.

The basket was covered with a few canna leaves, and walking through the village, even if many curious people wanted to see what was going on, it was difficult to lift the leaves on it. Shu Qingai was in a good mood, because she found that along the way, there were still a few people in the village who greeted her.

No, I happened to meet a woman introduced by Qiu's family when I was in the market for the first time, Shu Qingai forgot what her surname was, and when she was annoyed that she didn't know what to call her, the woman stepped forward to greet her.

"Sister Shu is really you, I thought it was dazzling, I saw it wrong."

"It's a sister-in-law, it's a coincidence, I'm just trying to go to Sister-in-law Qiu's house, but I don't know which household, it's good to see my sister-in-law."

The woman was in her thirties, and the coarse cloth clothes on her body also had one or two patches, but they were cleanly washed, her hair was neatly combed, and her kind smile made Shu Qingai look at it and get a lot closer.

"Qiu's family and sister-in-law, my house is close to each other, and my sister-in-law will take you there."

Shu Qingai thanked her again and again, and followed the woman to the center of the village. Along the way, she also took a good look at the village, and when she passed by Dr. Yao's house, the woman also specially introduced Shu Qingai, thinking that if there is a typhoid fever headache in the future, she can also come to Dr. Yao, Shu Qingai remembered it in her mind, but she blamed herself a little, and she didn't think about bringing something to thank her for helping herself like that last time. But the days will be long, and those who are good to her, she will repay her.

After walking for a while, I arrived at the center of the village, and more than 20 families looked at it, almost all of them were mud and straw houses, but there was a big blue brick and tile house in the middle, which was particularly conspicuous.

"See, the big brick house belongs to our village chief Li Qiang's family, but it is magnificent, and many people in the village are envious! The courtyard in the middle is Qiu's family, although it is a mud-walled grass house, but the yard is quite large, the Qiu family is also living a good life in our village, and there is an uncle at home who is studying, if it weren't for Zhou Dahai's hunting ability, we countrymen, there are really few who can afford it. ”

Under the introduction of the woman all the way, Shu Qingai learned a lot about this Xinghua Village.

Xinghua Village has a small population, there are more than 20 households, and the woman only introduced a rough idea, Shu Qingai also remembered the location of her house, a dilapidated courtyard, with four rooms in a horizontal row, two on each side of the east and west. There are some chickens in the backyard, but there are not many.

It's such a small courtyard, but the three rooms of the woman's house are crowded inside, looking big, and it seems very crowded when more than a dozen people live in this house.

The courtyard door of Qiu's house is wide open, which is also the habit of most people in the village, and when you walk to the door, you can see the scene in the yard, two girls are carrying water in the yard, as if they have just come back from fetching water.

"Chun'er, is your mother at home?"

Qiu Shi walked into the courtyard with Shu Qingai, and asked the two little girls in a loud voice.

The girl who was called Chun'er and Xiang'er put down the wooden barrel she was carrying and turned around, Shu Qingai saw two little faces that were a little sallow. The two little girls are both good-eyed, but they are too thin, but they look much better than their own bodies.

"Aunt Xiu? My mother is in the backyard, I'm going to call her. ”

As the words fell, the taller girl called out to the woman, smiled, put down the burden, and ran to the backyard.

"The girl just now is Qiu's eldest daughter called Zhou Chun, and this one is a small one, called Zhou Xiang."

The woman introduced Shu Qingai, who looked at the fragrance in the courtyard and smiled at her.

"Xiang'er, I'm Shu Qingai."

To be honest, Shu Qingai really doesn't know how to introduce herself, after all, her body is only fifteen years old, and it looks like this body is less than a few centimeters taller than the big girl just now.

"You're Aunt Qingqing? It's still so small, isn't it? ”

Shu Qingai felt a crow flying overhead, how could she really be an aunt? Is she still a beautiful girl in the flower season, although she didn't want to admit it, but in the end she nodded awkwardly.

At this moment, Qiu Shi walked out of the backyard, a black apron on his coarse cloth clothes, wiped his hands on the black apron as he walked, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Shu Qingai standing in the yard, the smile on his face couldn't be hidden, so he walked towards her in three steps and two steps.

"Yikes! Sister Shu, you're here! You see that Chun'er girl said that her aunt Xiu'er was here, and she didn't say that you were also with you, hurry up, sit in the hall, what a rare guest! ”

Qiu's sincere joy, seeing Shu Qingai come to the door in person, it was really a little more intimate than seeing his own family.

"You Qiu family, in your eyes, you Shu sister, I'm such a big living person standing here, why don't you ask me to go in and sit?"

Qiu Shi apologized again and again when he heard it, "Fang Shi, you are not an outsider, what am I still polite to you?" You have to come here three times a day, do you need me to invite you? ”

Qiu's words fell, Shu Qingai also knew the woman's maiden surname Fang, and listening to Qiu's joking words, she also knew that their relationship should be very good.

Fang Shi smiled and waved his hand repeatedly.

"Forget it, Sister Shu has brought you home, I have to cook dinner for a large family when I go back, let's go."

Fang Shi turned around, suddenly remembered something, and turned back to Shu Qingai and said: "Sister Shu, you also know the door of my family, and you will have to come to visit the door in the future, but you must not be partial, only come to your sister-in-law's house, and your sister-in-law's house has to go." ”

Shu Qingai nodded, and just wanted to open her mouth to respond, but Qiu Shi stopped her.

"Don't, don't go, they have too many families, don't scare you if you go."

Shu Qingai was inexplicable for a while, but Fang was stunned, and then nodded in agreement with Qiu's statement, "What Qiu said is that in the future, come down the mountain and let Chun'er and them call me, and I will come to your house to accompany Sister Shu." ”

When the words fell, the Fang clan didn't stop and walked out of the courtyard.

When Shu Qingai just wanted to ask why, Qiu took her hand and walked towards the hall.

"Chun'er, go and make a bowl of sugar water for your Aunt Shu, it's over, you take Xiang'er to cook first, and your mother will sit with your Aunt Shu."

Chun'er responded obediently, and ran to the kitchen quickly, and soon walked into the hall with a bowl of sugar water, Shu Qingai looked at her little eyes that looked at the bowl of sugar water, and almost wanted to give her this bowl of sugar water to drink, thinking about it, she was afraid that her actions would be too abrupt and hurt Qiu's kindness, so she had to give up.

Although Qiu's home is a mud wall, it is very tidy inside and out. The three mothers are now at home, Zhou Dahai and his father went to the field to hoe grass, Qiu's mother-in-law also gossiped with people in the village and has not come back, but Qiu's little uncle is in the house in the east, saying that he is reading, because men and women are different, Qiu didn't think to alarm him to come out.

"Sister-in-law, I'll pay back some of this money first, and I'll pay you back the rest when I have saved enough."

After Shu Qingai took a sip of water, she directly took out the three taels of silver she was carrying in her arms and put it in Qiu's hand, Qiu hurriedly pushed her back, her voice was very low, as if she was afraid that the uncle in the east room would hear her words.

"What can you do if you don't have any silver on you, keep it first, and then pay it back later, I won't wait to use it here."

Shu Qingai saw Qiu's voice so low, and seemed to understand.

Stuffed the silver back again, "I still have some on my body, I can remember how good my sister-in-law is to me, why do I still keep it, take it back quickly, if I don't take it back, I won't dare to speak like my sister-in-law in the future." ”

Seeing that Shu Qingai said this, Qiu Shi was no longer polite, put away the silver, took out a purse from his arms, and opened more than a hundred copper plates.

"This is the copper plate that Ah Chen asked the sea to sell the prey in exchange for that day, and bought one hundred and fifteen Wen, I don't want to send it to you tomorrow, you are here, it just so happens that I don't have to run away."

Shu Qingai was not polite, put away the copper plate, said a few words of thanks, and took the roast chicken out of the basket.

"Ah, why are you still so expensive, this roast chicken is only sold in restaurants? I heard that it will cost one or two pieces of silver, so you can take it back and make up for it yourself. ”

Shu Qingai said that she really didn't know that this roast chicken was worth one or two silver, if she knew, she would have sold it in the town for silver, how cost-effective it was!

"Why is my sister-in-law still polite to me, this roast chicken was sent by the shopkeeper of "Chunfeng Building", I helped a little when I went to sell prey today, and they gave it to me, so I don't want silver, isn't this just thinking about bringing you a taste for my sister-in-law? ”

"What! Chunfeng Building! ”

When Qiu heard this, he was even more shocked! I was so shocked that I got up from my stool! waved his hand again and again, but he didn't want to accept it.

"The roast chicken in Chunfeng Lou is even more valuable, I heard that one costs more than a dozen taels of silver, and many people can't eat it in line! Quick, get it back, don't spoil it! ”

Shu Qingai was also surprised! She really didn't know that the roast chicken in "Chunfeng Building" was so expensive! So is the shopkeeper Hao, don't you see that she needs silver more? I knew that it was better to give myself such a valuable roast chicken, it would be practical to exchange it directly for silver!

Shu Qing loves her and really wants to say that she is not a high-spirited person, give her silver as a reward, she will never be hypocritical and polite to her, she will immediately take it into her arms, and there will be no shirk!

That shopkeeper Hao is too eyeless, can't she cook it herself if she wants to eat roast chicken? This is a chicken for a dozen taels of silver! Let her calculate, in modern times, it won't be tens of thousands of RMB!

Oh my God, two roast chickens cost more than 20,000 yuan, she, a poor and white village girl, really needs it urgently!