Chapter 4 Pawnshop
The next morning, Yu Ruyi repeated her old tricks and followed a vegetable farmer into the city.
Because she had already turned around yesterday, Yu Ruyi knew the layout of the whole town, and soon found the only pawnshop in the town, the shop had just opened, and the shopkeeper was dozing off on the counter.
"Shopkeeper, how much is my hairpin worth?"
The first thing that caught Wang Yizhi's eye was a golden hairpin, Yu Ruyi was too short, and only a hairy head came out.
Because my brother-in-law went to Yu'an City to run errands, I helped watch the shop for a day today, and it was too late to stay up late last night to study, and I was a little embarrassed to be caught by a child and dozed off.
Wang Yizhi scratched his head.
"Come on, kid, come here."
"Why do you want to pawn it, where did this hairpin come from?"
"This is my mother's marriage, and now our family has no rice to cook, and my mother is behind my father's back to let me be the one." Yu Ruyi lied without blinking, as if she had forgotten that the person who returned yesterday to take the sheep was herself.
"I see, did your mother say how much money it would be? To live or to die? ”
"My mother said that this was her dowry back then, and I hope that one day our sister and brother can help her redeem it."
"In this way, you want to live, so how much does it cost?"
"My mother also said that your pawn shop in the town has the best reputation, and you won't fool a child of mine." Yu Ruyi's delicate face was full of sincerity, and she blinked with a pair of big eyes that flickered.
"You kid, you're so cute. In this way, what do you think of this hairpin as two halves of silver? ”
"It's done, it's two in half." Yu Ruyi is also very refreshing.
Yu Ruyi took two halves of silver coins and walked out of the pawn shop, holding the silver coins tightly in his hands, which was the survival money of a family of four throughout the winter.
Yu Ruyi went to the ready-to-wear store first, wanting to buy some cloth first and change the family's clothes, so that it would be convenient to enter and leave the city in the future.
Yu Ruyi went straight to the ready-to-wear store. The proprietress is a middle-aged woman, dressed in a fancy way. The lips flipped and the cloth was boasted.
Seeing Yu Ruyi enter the store, he waved his hand with disgust.
"Where did the beggar come from early in the morning, it's really bad luck for the old lady, hurry up, where to stay cool......"
"The proprietress in the early morning has no business to do, and she actually pushes the guests out, what is the reason?" Yu Ruyi was not annoyed, and took out twenty copper plates from her chest.
"These copper plates are enough to buy cloth."
"Enough, look at me, I didn't wake up early in the morning, and my eyes are not good......" The proprietress sneered.
"Then I have to trouble the proprietress to help me pick a horse, my children don't know how to do it."
"No problem, no problem."
Yu Ruyi bought a batch of linen, a piece of fine cloth, cutting and cutting should be enough for a family to make a set of clothes, if it is not enough, make some first, and then plan later.
Yu Ruyi took the cloth and went to yesterday's bun shop. I bought some steamed buns, wrapped a few vegetarian buns in my arms, and went out of the city.
I found the mother and son under the tree yesterday, because they ate something last night, the mother and son looked pretty good, and they were very happy to see Yu Ruyi come back.
Yu Ruyi dragged the mother and son to the leeward place as usual, and no one dared to take out the steamed buns in their arms, Dabao Xiaobao saw the steamed buns and steamed buns unstoppable, last night's chicken was good, but there were not much, so they all tasted something, and the hot white and chubby buns were just watched others eat
Dabao and Xiaobao were reluctant to take the bun and tried their best to endure the saliva. Yuru's opinion was sad.
"Hurry up and eat, we have something big to do today." Yu Ruyi urged.
Liu took a steamed bun, ate it in small bites, and took advantage of the three children's inattention to carry the bun in his arms.
After eating, Yu Ruyi sat down next to Liu.
"Mother, I plan to do so, at the moment this Xiaping Town is still relatively rich, it is not easy for us to beg all the way here, and now winter is coming, if we beg here, we will be frozen even if we don't starve to death, and my brother and father don't know where to go, we have no fixed place to live and it's really hard to find, I think our mother can find a place to stay in the village near here, in this way, we are not also homeless, we can also go to the city, and we can take advantage of this autumn to save some food for the winter, What do you think? ”
"It's good, of course it's good to be able to find a place to stay, but, Nier, I'm afraid there is no village to accept outsiders like us!"
"Let's try it, think of ideas, I met a nearby villager yesterday, and said that there is a big mountain nearby, called Longfei Mountain, let's go over there."
"Cheng, my mother listens to Nier, I really can't come up with an idea for a woman, but our Nier is much stronger than my mother, my mother is really happy." Liu began to wipe his tears as he spoke......
Yu Ruyi was both distressed and helpless about the tears of this titular mother.
"Don't cry, mother, it'll be fine." Ruyi is helpless, and he didn't know how to comfort people in his previous life.
Dabao and Xiaobao, watching Liu's crying, also surrounded Liu's tears for Liu's.
"I can also go with my sister to beg for food, and my mother doesn't cry." Although the seven-year-old Dabao looked like a five-year-old because of the famine, the comforting words were more effective than the nearly thirty-year-old Ruyi.
"Xiaobao can also find food, don't forget about me......" Xiaobao was unwilling to be forgotten and squeezed in.
"Okay, our big and small treasures can also find food, as long as we are together as a family, there is no hurdle that we can't pass." Looking at the sensible child, Liu's originally anxious heart slowly calmed down, and he ate two meals in a row, and he looked more energetic.
A family of four began to march in the direction of Longfei Mountain with their only belongings.