Sister-in-law Gan interrupted this time, and she also woke up in the middle of the summer afternoon, ready to take a firewood knife to chop wood. When I turned my head, I saw Gan Erniang looking at the wall looking at this side, just facing the eyes of the first half of Xia, and turned her head calmly, "Ouch, my neck is a little stiff." ”

Banxia rolled her eyes, this Gan Erniang is okay with everything, but she is too gossipy.

"You want to go out?"

"Ready to chop wood."

"Don't, the firewood chopped after the rain is wet and heavy, and your little body is tired of moving. Didn't you say two days ago that you wanted to buy some chickens and ducklings, and the Wang Auntie's house in the east hatched two more batches, do you want to pick one. ”

Banxia has been busy for the past two days and forgot about this stubble, but now when I mention it, I immediately have interest.

"Then you wait for me, I'll go get some silver." Banxia entered the house to take the silver, looked at the huge amount of more than thirty taels of silver in the small box and touched it over and over again. Then I felt that it was not safe to put it in the cabinet, so I took it back to the beam of the house where the original owner had hidden the silver, and found several pieces on the beam, and it felt good to pick up the money.

After everything was cleaned up, he locked the door and went to buy chickens and ducklings with Gan Erniang.

When I was about to arrive, I happened to pass by the land of the Gan family and found that the two men were already ordering beans, so Banxia went over to ask a few words, and then walked over.

saw Gan Erniang's gossipy eyes again: "Tell me what you and Gan Xiucai helped their Tian family, that Hui Niang treats you as your own mother." ”

"My mother? I can't give birth to such a big girl. ”

"......" is the point here, the focus is on what she did to get Hui Niang to help her. Gan Erniang complained wildly in her heart, but she was embarrassed to stalk. Changed the subject.

"They said, this Hui Niang, she is hard-working, and no one who comes into contact with her will end well."

"Well, what?"

"Look, she was just born, and her mother fell ill and couldn't have children from then on, and you see that many people in this village say that his family is out of order." "When she was eight years old, her grandmother wanted to sell her to a big family in the city as a maid, but she fell into the river that night and was not rescued. If you look at it now, she has only been married for a month, and her mother-in-law and father-in-law are both sick. ”

"It's all just a coincidence."

"No, don't believe it, the whole village knows about these things. Otherwise, why do you think she married Tamura, Tamura is much poorer than us here, and she married her, and it is said that the dowry was not given......"

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, Auntie, tell me about this Aunt Wang." Banxia didn't like to hear this, so she hurriedly interrupted her to change the topic.

"She's the village chief's wife." Gan Erniang snorted lightly and looked left and right, "She was widowed when she was young, and she pulled the village chief and her sister alone. It is said that there are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door, but she doesn't care. Showing up and contacting the restaurants in the city, now they often send chickens, ducks, fish and meat over, not to mention that she has a lot of livestock, they are all prepared for the city. ”

"It's not easy." Banxia felt that this Aunt Wang was also a strange woman.

"It's not easy, it's not easy to keep to yourself at all, you see that the village chief doesn't want to live with her now, he must be cold. I'll go to the village chief's house and sit down, and you can buy it yourself. Gan Erniang saw that the village chief's daughter-in-law was drinking tea and chatting in the courtyard, and hurriedly joined in.

Banxia had to walk to Aunt Wang's house alone and knock on the door, "Aunt Wang, are you there, I want to buy a few livestock to raise at home." ”

After a while, footsteps were heard, and the door opened suddenly, and an old woman came out of the house. Aunt Wang's age is about sixty years old, which is relatively long in ancient times, she is wearing a cyan dress, her body is thin, but there are muscles on her arms, which is very powerful at a glance. Especially her eyes are particularly clear and thorough, and there is a kind of purity after seeing through the world. Banxia just looked at her and felt very eye-catching.

"Is the little lady here to buy livestock?"

"Yes, I'm going to buy a few chicks and ducklings."

"I'll take you to the house to pick it up."

Banxia followed Aunt Wang into the house, and there were about twenty or thirty chicks in the house, and Banxia felt that her ears were full of that kind of sound.

"Isn't it a little noisy? Newborn chicks are like that, they always like to bark. Those with small tails here are born for seven days, so it is easier to live. Pick which ones you want. ”

"I'm not very good at picking and I'm heavy on my hands and feet, I'm afraid I'll hurt it, so you can help me pick five or six."

Aunt Wang found a small basket and picked five or six chicks for Banxia, one of the three flowers was yellow and two were brown. Banxia looked at the chickens in the basket and thought it was so cute.

"The ducklings are in another room, let's go over there." Banxia cautiously carried the chick and followed behind Aunt Wang, and suddenly heard a "baa" cry outside the window.

"Auntie, you still have sheep feeding at home."

"Last month, my little grandson was born, and my daughter-in-law there didn't give milk, so Lang Zhong said that I could let the child drink some goat's milk, so I went to buy a goat. As a result, a few days after the sheep was bought, the daughter-in-law's milk came down again. The goat's milk was panicked, and no one at home liked to drink it. I waited to feed it bigger, killed it, and sold it in a restaurant. It's kind of getting the capital back. ”

Banxia listened to her, and it didn't look like she had an unfamiliar relationship with her son, but because she was not familiar with it, she didn't want to ask too much.

"Can you sell it to me, I'm weak, and the doctor asked him to make up for it."

"What about goat's milk?"

"It's okay, that's better than drinking medicine."

Aunt Wang saw that she really wanted to buy it, and she no longer persuaded her, "My sheep was bought for half a tael of silver last month, and I don't want you to pay a high price, you spend an extra 20 yuan as this month's forage money, what do you think." ”

"Thank you then, but I don't have enough money right now, can I send it to you later?" I live on the other side of the village, and I'm Gan Xiucai's daughter-in-law. Banxia was worried that Aunt Wang was unwilling.

Aunt Wang replied very bluntly: "Okay, let's go pick the ducklings first." ”

Banxia picked four ducklings, and Aunt Wang gave her one more.

"Don't let the chick and duckling out for a few days, let it get used to the environment. Put it in the basket at night and don't let the wild cats get it. I just fed it, so you can go back and feed some water later. In the evening, you can feed some millet, or vegetable leaves, and the vegetable leaves should be finely chopped. If it rains at night, don't let them get wet. You're buying it for the first time, and if something dies within three days, you can come and get a new one. ”

Banxia wrote them down one by one, and then went out with the basket to lead the sheep. Gan Erniang was still in the courtyard next to her, having a family meal with the village chief's sister-in-law. After a while, he praised other people's good clothes, and then said that the bracelet was beautiful, Banxia was secretly funny, and he didn't call her, so he took something and said hello to Aunt Wang and went home.

When I got home, I saw that Gan Sui had returned, talking to the two cultivators.

"You're back." Banxia greeted Gan Sui with a smile, and Gan Sui hurriedly took the things. "Look at the chicks, ducklings and lambs I bought."

"Daddy He, they're done with their work, and they're going to come and talk to you."

"It's so hard for you." Banxia thought that so much farm work had been done, and expressed great gratitude.

"It's not hard, it's not hard. If the owner still has work to do in the future, he can ask someone to bring us a message, and we will do our best. Taking advantage of the early morning, we went back to Nancun first to do the Tian family's pre-work. ”

"So be it, see you later."

The two walked away with their tools.

"You've gone to see how it's planted." Banxia asked.

"It's not bad, those two look old-fashioned, and they are very attentive in the field. Where did you bring the sheep back? ”

"Wang's mother's house in the east of the village is the village chief's mother. He has a lot of chickens and ducklings. Look at the few she picked for me, isn't it particularly cute. ”

Gan Sui was indifferent to these plush things, but he didn't want to win Banxia's interest, so he copingly said: "It's very good-looking." ”

Banxia didn't want him to like these things, so he took them in and packed them in baskets, and fed them some water with small saucers.

"I still haven't given Aunt Wang's sheep money, I'll go and give the money first, can you help me see where the sheep is fed?"

Gan Sui responded, and Banxia took the silver from the beam of the house and gave it to Aunt Wang.

Banxia gave the money, and was coming out of Aunt Wang's house when she met Gan Erniang. Banxia didn't want to listen to other people's small words anymore, and was about to pretend not to see it, when Gan Erniang came to hold her hand affectionately.

"I just looked like you went back, why did you come again?"

Banxia pulled out his hand without a trace, stretched out his hand and brushed his hair and replied: "I bought a sheep from Aunt Wang, but I didn't have enough money, so I went home and got the money." ”

"And how much silver did you buy sheep?"

"Half a tael of silver."

"You're crazy, spend half a tael of silver to buy this thing that only eats and doesn't make much money."

"Xianggong is weak, the doctor said to make up for it, I read the book about goat's milk to make up for people, I thought, buy it home and let Xianggong make up for it from time to time."

"Ouch, goat's milk, I've never drunk anything so expensive." He licked his lips as he spoke.

"If my aunt doesn't dislike it, I'll squeeze it and bring it to you when the time comes."

"That's embarrassing, but if you want to give it sincerely, I'll take it."

As she spoke, she began to talk about the parents she heard from the village chief's sister-in-law, and Banxia ignored her, she still talked with relish alone. Finally arrived home, Banxia breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said goodbye to her and entered the house.

"What's wrong, like you're being chased by a ghost?" Gan Sui was copying books, but when he heard her come in, he raised his head and looked at her frightened.

"It's more terrible than a ghost, Gan Erniang caught me gossiping for a long time, and it hurt my head when I heard it." Banxia poured a large glass of water and breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Then I don't have more contact with her next time."

"This neighbor doesn't look down and doesn't look up, how can there be less contact, but I will try to avoid it."

"Have you ever thought about living in the city?"

"In the city? But we don't have any money. We can't afford to rent a house in the city, buy food, and ask for everything. ”

When he said this, he was heartbroken, and he sat silently.

Banxia seemed to notice that he was a little ruthless, and asked, "What, you want to live in the city?" ”

"Today, Lin County Ling said that he could recommend me to study with Da Confucian in the academy for a year, and I will be more sure of the end next year."