Xu Yuan woke up naturally from sleep, she opened her eyes, but her eyes were still dim, and she couldn't help but exclaim: "My mother, I won't sleep until night, right?" ”

Xiao Lan next to him also nested in the quilt, and said quietly: "No...... It's that we sleep too short. ”

Xu Yuan was stunned, turned over and got off the kang, opened the door and looked out, the sun was slowly rising not far from the horizon, it was early morning. Probably because my heart has been tense, but I don't have a long rest at night.

"It's still early, shall we sleep again?" Xu Yuan sat back on the side of the kang and asked.

Xiaolan shook his head, also crawled out of the bed, and said, "Miss, it's actually not early, most of the farmers have to get up and work at this hour." If we had to take a car to a nearby town, we would have gone about the same now. ”

Xu Yuan was surprised: "Is it so early?" "It turns out that the days in the countryside are so hard, Xu Yuan is speechless.

Xiaolan replied: "In the village, I can't light the lights at night, so I don't have to rest early, so I get up early in the morning and work in the fields while it's cool. ”

Xu Yuan suddenly realized, and flipped through the purse again, and there was no copper coin in it left and right, and there was no broken silver, only Lu Yin and the gold leaves that he asked from the Xu family before, which was really eye-catching in this small village. Her eyes rolled, wondering if she was going to exchange points with the Li family later? But exchanging gold leaves is a bit too exaggerated, and this Li family doesn't look like it can spread gold.

After the two cleaned up, they went out of the room, and saw that Li had also gotten up and was watering a small vegetable patch in front of the house, and it seemed that he had been up for a while. Xu Yuan leaned over cheekily and said, "Auntie, your dish looks really good." ”

Li straightened his waist, raised his eyebrows at Xu Yuan with a water scoop, his eyes were full of pride, and said: "That's not it, in these ten miles and eight towns, I am a well-known good hand at serving dishes." ”

After Xu Yuan exchanged a few polite words with her, Li was coaxed into a smile, but Li was not a child anymore, knowing that Xu Yuan must have something to say, he asked with a smile: "I really know how to speak, let's say, what do you want to do, little girl?" ”

Xu Yuan didn't squirm at all, continued to carry forward the cheeky spirit, and said: "My little sister and I plan to take the car to the town to buy some things for our parents, but we only have broken silver on us, and the clothes we wear are too eye-catching, so it's really inconvenient to take the car......"

"Look at the eldest lady's figure, it's better than our girl's family, I want to exchange two old clothes and a few big dollars with you, and we will leave these two clothes to you."

Li Shi had carefully looked at the two people who came to her family before, the clothes on their bodies were new, they were indeed good materials, and they didn't look like they had been worn for a few days, and they had changed two coarse cloth clothes and a few money, and Li felt that it was very profitable, and it was good to keep these two clothes for the New Year or sell them for some money. But she didn't show joy on her face, but said lightly: "Okay, they are all people from the mountains, so it's convenient for you to go this time." I'll go and get you clothes and money. ”

Afterwards, Xu Yuan and Xiaolan changed into Li's coarse cloth clothes, which were slightly big but okay. Xiao Lan folded the changed clothes and handed them to Li neatly.

Li touched the clothes, and the smooth feeling was really good. She nodded, took it and put it away, and then touched the copper coin from under the mattress and handed it to Xiao Lan. Seeing that Xiaolan was about to count, Li said: "You don't need to count, it's exactly twelve." In the east of the village, there is an ox cart that goes to the town every morning, and the two girls collect six dollars, and there is still some leftover. ”

Xu Yuan and Xiaolan thanked each other again, and then went to the east of the village in the direction pointed by the Li family.

The village where the Li family is located is not small, Xu Yuan looks around, there are houses and vegetable patches everywhere, and the crops by the river look very spectacular.

It seemed to be a big village, and the two walked for more than a quarter of an hour before they saw the ox cart that Li was talking about. There were three or four people standing beside the ox cart, apparently waiting for the ox cart to leave.

By this time the sun had climbed halfway uphill, and the warm light shone through the clouds on their faces. It must have been too early, Xu Yuan and Xiaolan hurriedly walked a few steps and rushed to the side of the ox cart.

The coachman was a middle-aged man sitting in front of a cart pulled by oxen, dressed in gray linen and holding a whip for driving oxen, and when he saw two little girls coming, he counted again: "One...... Five, five people, just right. The old rule is that children pay two cents, women pay three cents, and men pay four cents, and they get on the bus after paying the money. ”

Today is not the first day of the new year nor the fifteenth day, there is no big gathering in the town, and there are not many people out of the village. Xu Yuan and Xiaolan carefully followed behind the people in front of them, waiting for them to pay.

When Xu Yuan took out the money, she dared to ask the coachman: "Uncle, our two girls' families are together, we are both very light, is it okay to pay five cents?" ”

The coachman was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed with the rest of the people who got into the car, and said, "The little girl is really calculating, seeing that you are young and small, it is cheaper for you to come back." As he spoke, he took the five copper coins handed by Xu Yuan.

The two of them got into the car quickly, and Xu Yuan said loudly as if she was afraid that the coachman would regret it: "Thank you, uncle!" ”

The coachman said, "Sit tight!" With a flick of the whip, the old cow "mooed" and walked slowly.

A chubby woman in the car stopped laughing, pouted and said, "Cut, Chen Jinzhu, you are not authentic!" You gave this little girl a free penny, and you didn't see me save half a penny when I rode your ox cart all day. ”

Without waiting for the coachman to return the favor, the lean man next to the fat woman laughed out loud and said, "Brother Chen doesn't charge you much money, it's good, good guy, you are a two-person person, and I am afraid that it is because the villagers do not embarrass you." ”

The fat woman didn't spare the man, and immediately sarcastically said: "I'm a blessing, where to go, where to go!" Not like you, the sharp-beaked monkey gills, one stop on the ground, not as tall as my corn cob! ”

The two of them had a verbal battle, Xu Yuan was so happy to watch the excitement on the side, and it could be seen that the fat woman and the thin man were acquaintances, and this verbal battle had the feeling of a turn-based game. Xu Yuan sat on the slow ox cart with Xiaolan's hand, the warm but not scorching sunlight made her squint her eyes slightly, and she felt a rare feeling of being quiet.

Xiaolan seemed to be lazily illuminated by the sun, leaning against Xu Yuan, and the head of the bag just rested on Xu Yuan's neck. Xu Yuan didn't feel pricked, but felt very comfortable being scratched by Bao Baotou, she looked at the villagers who were also on the ox cart with envy in her eyes, it was really a comfortable thing to be surrounded by such a breath of life.

Xiao Lan raised his head to look at Xu Yuan, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Are you dizzy?" I still have two slices of mint in my hand. ”

Although the road was not smooth, because the ox cart was very slow, Xu Yuan did not feel dizzy. She shook her head, cleared her mind, and continued to squint her eyes to enjoy the moment.