Chapter 18: Rushing to the Market
After dinner, Bei Sitian put away the dishes and chopsticks, returned to the east room and sat on the edge of the kang, picked up the dustpan and began to pinch the braids.
Seeing that she took the initiative to help, Qin was very happy, and the word 'Chuan' in the center of his eyebrows stretched out a little.
Luo Anguo leaned on the quilt stack and rolled his own cigarettes, although the family didn't have much money now, but the Qin family was unwilling to wronged him, so he would buy some tobacco leaves, and he would roll a roll by himself when he was fine.
Bei Sitian pinched her braids, and thought about what to say in her heart, after all, if you want to practice calligraphy, you have to buy things, and the rice paper and brush for practicing calligraphy cost money!
"Ping'an, you don't practice calligraphy well, what are you drawing?" Luo Anguo glanced at his notebook.
Luo Anping has always loved to write and paint at this age, Bei Sitian never painted before, but later he painted so well, of course he was itching.
"I've finished washing the words on three sheets of paper today!" Luo Anping took out Tian Geben, and it was full of numbers and simple deviations.
Luo Anguo took it and looked at it, it was a little better than before, but he still reprimanded a few words without practicing blind strokes.
Seeing this, Bei Sitian said, "Dad, I also want to pick up the practice again." After she finished speaking, she added, "Brush words." ”
Luo Anguo rolled a cigarette in his hand, looked up at her and said, "Do you know how to write with a brush?" What your dad taught you? ”
Bei Sitian nodded and pushed all this to the cheap dad, "Yes, I have practiced since I was a child, as long as I have time." ”
While sewing the upper of the shoe, Qin said, "Can Du Pao Leather give you time?" ”
When Bei Sitian heard the word 'peeling', she had an idea and said: "Writing can be sold for money, so she doesn't object." ”
"Money, money, money! She knows money! It's all gone! Qin got angry at the mention of her.
"Okay, everyone is married, what are you talking about!" Luo Anguo drank the Qin clan.
Du Chunmei took her daughter to marry in a neighboring village, and the original house was sold, although it was not far away, but it seemed that she had no intention of coming back.
"Xiao Tian'er, have you ever sold the words you wrote?" Luo Anguo asked.
Only well-written words can be sold, and Luo Anguo also wants to ask her level.
How dare Bei Sitian tell the truth, she was only twelve years old before she came to the Luo family, practicing calligraphy is not an overnight thing, a twelve-year-old girl, usually oppressed, how can she practice a good hand.
"No, before I tried to take it out, my dad ...... him" Bei Sitian's voice was lowered, and then he raised his head and said: "But my dad said that I have talent in this area, so I will have a chance in the future, practice hard." ”
Qin put the sewn shoes aside, without raising his eyelids, "What to practice, you can't chew too much, you can embroider your flowers well, I see that you have talent in this." ”
"Mother, my words may be sold for money." Bei Sitian also wanted to impress the Qin family in this regard.
But Qin didn't believe that she could write calligraphy at all, that thing, even if it was written by the master, it couldn't be sold, and she could sell it with a girl's writing?
Luo Anguo didn't speak, and said to the Qin family at this time: "Old woman, is my brush still on the left cabinet?" ”
Qin Shi put down the work in his hand angrily, "What can I do?" There is no ink at home, how can you say that the wind is the rain! ”
"Isn't there still a bottle of fountain pen water?" Luo Anguo said.
Pen water?
Bei Sitian was stunned, fountain pens and fountain pen water are both precious things, but they are precious, how can there be here?
She thought about it, and immediately thought of Luo Xudong's body, these things are only available in the army.
Sure enough, I heard Qin Shi say: "That's the award given to Xudong by the army, use a little less, no!" ”
That fountain pen and a bottle of fountain pen water were both prizes that Luo Xudong won from the outstanding pacesetter that year, how could such a precious thing be taken out to be a blind scourge!
And these things are all thoughts left by the Qin family, and when they are used up, they will be gone!
Qin's attitude was firm, and Luo Anguo had no choice, so this time Bei Sitian had to be disappointed.
Bei Sitian was not too disappointed, although there was no ink, but it was easy to say that with a brush, Luo Anguo likes self-motivated people, and it should not be difficult for him to borrow a brush when the time comes.
Bei Sitian decided to buy yellow paper herself, and she found a few handkerchiefs in the cabinet, the ones with blue or pink edging, but the embroidery on them was very rough, and she should be able to sell them for a few bucks with a little processing.
The yellow table paper is 2 knives and a dime and 5 cents, which is enough for her to use for a while.
In the future, you have to plan to be financially independent, otherwise you will be as constrained as you are now, and if the money is in your own hands, you don't need to be so troublesome.
It's not that the Qin family doesn't want her to control the family's money, it's just that the previous owner was a mud that couldn't support the wall, and if the money was given to her, maybe someone would be fooled away one day.
After the upper was embroidered, Bei Sitian pinched all the wheat nuts given by the Qin family into braids, and began to take the time to embroider handkerchiefs.
The day before she went to the market, Bei Sitian finished embroidering all five handkerchiefs, and the reason why it took so long was that she put in some effort.
These five handkerchiefs are embroidered on both sides, three are embroidered with two-tailed goldfish swimming vigorously, and the other two are embroidered with yellow moon season with chic green leaves.
There are only two colors in the hand, and the pattern is naturally relatively simple, but the embroidery is very exquisite, and the two goldfish shake their heads and tails, lifelike, and even show a bit of leisurely and free posture.
She is going to sell these three handkerchiefs for five cents a piece, and the other two are embroidered with a large blooming golden moon, and there is also a budding flower bone to be released, with a few green leaves, showing a bit of grace and luxury, which makes people love it.
She was going to buy eight cents for these two handkerchiefs.
This price is too expensive for handkerchiefs, but it is too cheap for the craft of double-sided embroidery!
If she can sell it as she wishes, she will be able to save some money in her hands, not to mention buying yellow paper, it is more than enough to buy ink.
The location of the market was in Mamiao Village, which was separated by three villages, and the Qin family got up at four o'clock to start cleaning up, and when Bei Sitian and Luo Anping got up at five o'clock, they were already ready to go.
Luo Anping was elated, for them children, it was like going to play, there were a lot of fun things in the market, just look at the mood will be happy.
The three of them walked all the way to the market, and there were also some people in the village who were driving donkey carts, but they all needed money, and now they couldn't wait to break a penny to spend it, so the Qin family took them over on foot.
This distance is not short, there are more than ten miles, and the three of them came out before dawn, and waited until dawn to rush to the set.
The noise gradually increased, and Luo Anping became excited again, and he walked bumpy.
Bei Sitian also looked left and right, wanting to see what was different about the market here.
In the blink of an eye, she saw a person.