punished Su Hongtu, Mingyue happily picked the black wolfberries full of two trees, decided to make tea for the whole family, looked at the depths of the forest out of sight, hesitated, wanted to step in to find some food to spend the winter, and was afraid of encountering jackals, tigers and leopards, and was hesitating, a slender figure flashed in front of him, and the birds suddenly roared, bringing gusts of autumn wind, frightened Mingyue Fei ran back to the edge of the village in one breath, and his heart almost jumped out. Looking back, the image was gone, and the figure that flashed by was gone.

Mingyue breathed a long sigh of relief, the depths of this forest, like an abyss, full of too many unknowns, especially the dark night after dusk, if people are in it, it is simply a kind of living sin, as if the charm of the ghost is coming at any time, which makes people tremble.

Mingyue suddenly sympathized with the black-haired monster even more, how much danger and suffering, it took him to practice his ability to leap and move, not afraid of beasts, not afraid of birds of prey.

Mingyue didn't dare to linger any longer, and hurried home.

At home, I don't know when, the Liu family has transported several large bundles of wheat straw and stacked them in the straw shed that the Han father and son secretly helped build.

Mingyue returned to the hospital, only to realize that Mingyue had sneaked out again, and Liu's thoughts were broken again.

Mingyang is not big, but he is carrying a bundle of wheat straw that is larger than her on his back, his face is flushed with exhaustion, and he does not see the slightest trace of sorrow, and he smiles even more when he sees Mingyue. The shoes under his feet, the big toes arched out disobediently, and the tips of his toes were red by the autumn wind.

After the golden autumn, the weather is thin and cold, the family is still wearing thin clothes, there is no sadness on their faces, the helplessness of life has become commonplace, and they have learned to endure it silently, this kind of cheap life of just trying to live makes Mingyue feel sour.

On the second day, Mingyue got up early in the morning, did not explain to Liu, carried the ten taels of silver in her arms alone, went straight to the town, and walked for a few hours, but did not feel tired, only felt so heavy.

ran to the cloth village, directly bought two large bundles of cotton, a green cloth, and two blue cloths, spent four taels of silver, and saw a small stall selling candy people on the street, loaded two small sugar people, and prepared to give one to the star and Mingyang.

The sugar man was afraid of sticking to one place, Mingyue was carrying a large basket of cotton behind her, holding three pieces of cloth in front of her, holding a sugar man in the palm of her hand, like a "behemoth" staggering forward on the street, her vision was also obstructed, and she accidentally kicked it on an object and scattered to the ground.

Mingyue hurriedly put down the blue cloth and looked at it, it was an old man in his fifties, sighing and picking up the soybeans scattered on the ground, the old man picked up the beans with a sad face, Mingyue apologized again and again, bent down and joined the ranks of picking up beans.

The two of them were busy for a while, and they could almost pick it up, and the old man was so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist, rubbing it vigorously with his hands, and his face was infinitely tired.

Mingyue shook the sour palm of the beans, supported the old man guiltily, and apologized repeatedly: "Uncle, I'm sorry, I didn't see the road clearly while holding the cloth, I mixed you, you always see if the beans are enough, and I will make up for the lack of how much." ”

The old man looked at Mingyue, sighed, straightened the bag of beans, and sighed mournfully: "Little girl, it's something that no one wants, how can you blackmail your silver?" My grandson has just reached the full moon, and he can't do that lack of virtue and leave karma for his descendants. Let's go. ”

Mingyue looked at the big and plump beans suspiciously, and really wondered how such good beans had become something that no one wanted? Soybean milk, tofu, and bean curd, just take out the same, all of which are popular foods for later generations.

Mingyue thought about it, so she asked the question. The old man had nothing to do when he was idle, and he was bored in his heart, so he simply sat on the side of the road, and talked to Mingyue about what happened.

The old man's surname is Li, his father-in-law runs an ancestral tofu factory, the tofu made is smooth and tender, and he loves to eat it in ten miles and eight villages, and he also made a lot of money.

Li Laohan was honest and didn't want to make money alone, so he mobilized his brother's family to also grow soybeans, and sold them to his father-in-law's house at the end of the year.

It's only to blame that my father-in-law died last year, and the tofu workshop was passed to the hands of my brother-in-law, who was a good gambler, and somehow let people get into the trap, not only lost the entire tofu workshop, but also lost the ancestral tofu making process.

The new buyer is the town's famous snake "jackal" ---- Chai Qi, the price of soybeans came to a halving, the price from eight cents a catty, a drop to four cents, the old man hated Chai Qi to make the pit have his own brother-in-law, and hated Chai Qi to take advantage of the fire to rob and buy soybeans at a low price.

The old man has nothing, the brothers who planted soybeans with him quit, all looked for the old man to settle accounts, the old man was quite righteous, with his own silver, all the soybeans that followed him were collected according to eight cents, and then he was already shy in his pocket, and changed to the family's grain and jewelry for soybeans, and gradually overstretched, the only property left was only a warehouse full of soybeans, if they didn't want to sell it, their family of more than a dozen people was afraid to live by eating soybeans.

In desperation, the old man carried a bag of soybeans on his back and prepared to try his luck at the vegetable market to see if anyone was ready to buy soybeans with raw bean sprouts in winter.

Eight dollars a catty, a bag of about 100 catties, but it is 800 yuan, less than one or two silver, if you give birth to bean sprouts, you can also make a moraine in winter and eat it as a vegetable.

Mingyue's heart is alive, and he wants to buy it, but he is worried because he doesn't know if he can hire a car to transport it back to Xiangyang Village, the old man heard that Mingyue wanted to buy soybeans, his mouth was so happy that he was about to crack to the root of his ears, and the folds on his face were as if they had been ironed open, and the clouds were long gone, "Little girl, if you want to buy, the old man's eldest nephew is a merchant, and he sells goods in various villages, if you really want to buy it, Ming'er will let the eldest nephew send it to Xiangyang Village, and the money will be given to him." ”

Mingyue nodded, took out a tael of silver and gave it directly to the old man, "Uncle, I'll give you this silver first, you are always righteous, trustworthy, and the extra will be replaced with beans, if you still need it, I will look for you again." ”

The old man smiled and agreed, although these two pieces of silver are not much, but they indicate a good start, at least they don't need to sell them to the enemy at a low price for four cents.

Mingyue hurriedly ran to the gate of the city, and happened to have an ox cart back to Liujia Village, passing by the fork in Xiangyang Village, Mingyue spent two cents and took a ride back home.

As soon as they entered the door, they directly stuffed the sugar man directly into the mouths of Mingyang and the stars who came up, and the young ladies laughed so much that their eyes were about to squint, eating sugar in their mouths, but their eyes and hands were not idle, happily touching and looking at three new cloths and a large bundle of cotton.

Mingyue stretched out her hands and stood in front of the kang in a big shape, asked Liu to make a padded jacket for herself, measured it herself, and laughed and asked the star and Mingyang to do the same, and finally measured Liu's body.

Liu's eyes flashed with melancholy, and he wanted to blame Mingyue, but he couldn't bear to blame, so he sneered for a long time before he said: "Mingyue, more than half of the money from selling pork was spent, right?" ”

Liu didn't know that Mingyue had exchanged all the pork money for salt, and the salt was given to the black-haired monster, Han Lin and Han Xing knew, but they were afraid that Liu's would worry, so they didn't dare to say it, so Liu always thought that the money from selling pork was still intact in Mingyue's arms.

Mingyue dared to say that it was a reward for catching Yuan Siniang, so she made a mistake, her eyes were clear and bright, and she nodded calmly, "Mother, wild boar is worth more than domestic pork, and I met a generous rich and noble family, and I gave four taels of silver, and there is a lot left." You can rest assured. The weather waits for no one, it's winter, you and I can stand up, but Mingyang can't stand up, so we have to hurry up and make cotton shoes and cotton clothes. If it freezes, it will fall to the root of the disease. ”

Liu Shi looked down at Mingyang's red toes, the cold wind was blowing outside, and when he got home, the kang head was burning hot again, this cold and hot, the itching was extremely uncomfortable, and now was not the most painful time, and when it came to the cold winter wax moon, it would freeze a layer of chilblains, and it was difficult to get close.

Mingyang raised his little face, looked at Mingyue and Liu indifferently, and replied with no trouble: "It's okay, eldest sister, every year my feet are so cold that my feet are uncomfortable, my mother will use a wheat pole to boil water to soak her feet, and when I sleep, I will also put my feet in my mother's arms, and I will let it go for a night, but it is hot." Yang Yang didn't feel itchy. ”

The star carefully touched the coarse blue cloth with his hand, his eyes were bright, his face was flushed, and he couldn't stop it.

Mingyue endured the sourness in her heart, took her two younger sisters in her arms, and choked with a thick nasal voice: "Let my mother make a big high-rim cotton shoes, and the soles of my feet are like stepping on a small stove, and no one is allowed to freeze." ”

Mingyue turned around, thought about it, and said to Liu: "Mother, Qingbu, you look at helping Uncle Han and Brother Han Xing make padded jackets, we can't let people help us do the work in vain." In addition, I made another set of padded jackets according to Uncle Han's size, and made one more pair of shoes according to Uncle Han's size, and I kept them for another use. ”

Mingyue thought of the black-haired monster Cheng Yue and wanted him to slowly turn back to human life.

Liu wanted to ask why, but seeing Mingyue's appearance that he didn't want to explain, he just did it.

The happy event is not over yet, early the next morning, a merchant surnamed Li knocked on the door and sent back two bags of beans, one large and one small.

Mingyue secretly picked her big finger, asked the merchant to put the beans and wheat together, asked the star to take a thin bamboo basket, grabbed a handful of beans and put them in, passed the water, soaked them with a cloth towel again, and wrapped them tightly on it, and finally put the basket on the kang, covered with a thick quilt.

Mingyang stepped forward, gathered around Mingyue like a little bird, and asked curiously, "Sister, will the beans hatch the little bean cubs?" ”

"Little bean cub?" The fog at the end of the bright moon.

Mingyang looked at Mingyue with hatred of iron and steel, and explained: "Eldest sister, the hen hatched is called a chick, and the beans hatched are naturally a little bean cub!" ”

Mingyue didn't feel it, Mingyang was young, and she rarely ate soybeans at home, seeing that Mingyue was covered tightly, she only thought that she was like Liu's, hatching chicks with eggs.

Mingyue nodded, and said solemnly to Mingyang: "It's not difficult to say that you want to let the 'little bean cub' be born, it's not easy to say, is this task handed over to Mingyang?" Can you do what your sister did just now, watering it and covering it with a quilt? If you succeed in hatching a 'little bean cub', my sister will make you something to eat. ”

"Really?" The eyes of the new snack seller are shining, obviously, the cold vegetables and meat that Mingyue made a few days ago have made her miss it to this day.