Originally, the New Year that Yiyu was looking forward to was just plain, and the Spring Festival here was different from her previous life, with the same oldest customs, but not as rigorous as she imagined.

Lu Jun has been wilting for a while since Liu Xiangxiang left the mountain village, and when Yi Yu watched him feel sad for his first love, he couldn't help but think back to the sunshine in the middle of the afternoon that day, and Liu Xiangxiang's sentence full of unclear meaning.

But when the first branch bloomed in spring at the entrance of the village, Lu Jun returned to his original lively state, probably like this for children, easy to be sad and easy to recover.

The weather warmed up in March of the lunar calendar, and there was only one snow at the beginning of the year, and Yu Yu was almost frozen to get out of bed in the days when the snow melted, so she was teased by Lu Zhi a lot.

The situation in the fields is very good, and most of the villagers in the mountains are planted with spring wheat, which is sown in late autumn and harvested in late spring, so in two months, it will be time to harvest grain again.

Yi Yu thought that she had come here at this time last year, and before she knew it, she had been here for a full year, and things that she couldn't think of before were constantly happening to her, making her inevitably sigh for her experience.

In the end, she still didn't advance the plan of using blood abilities to make a fortune, and found a high-sounding excuse to convince herself, just thinking about growing up for a few more years before she could act, but there were other reasons buried deep in her heart.

Yu Yu didn't know, her decision saved her life, because of the mistake when crossing so that she had this ability, but it is not necessarily a good thing, she almost had an accident when she put more than a dozen drops of blood to save the drought that day, if she has used a lot of blood in recent years, she will definitely die again, but this is a later story.

However, after a few years later, Yi Yu also called Lu Jun to accompany him to the back mountain, and when he was not paying attention, he watered the blood diluted with water on a dozen hawthorn trees there. It is too conspicuous to use her hands and feet in other places, this hawthorn has been ripened twice a year by her, and it will not make Lu feel too strange to ripen it three or four times now.

Before the summer came, the relict finally had the opportunity to go on a long trip, and the Lu family planned to go to the county seat to sell a batch of embroidery with good patterns and complex textures, and I don't know why he planned to bring the relict jade with him.

Lu Jun, who originally liked to join in the fun as soon as he heard about going out, also went to Qingyang County to run ground because he sold sugar gourds a while ago, and he didn't make trouble this time.

So one morning at the end of May, although Lu didn't get up to prepare as he did in the days when he sold rock sugar gourds, he got up for the first time, and dressed himself before he dressed the dazed Yuyu who was still sleeping, and didn't wake her up until he picked her up in the ox cart that Lu Jun had put on and went out.

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The remnant jade was awakened on the road, and the ox cart was not running fast, and the Lu family had the heart to get to the county seat early, and the small whip in his hand gently waved it twice, although it was not painful, so that it sped up a few steps, even if the remnant jade was nested in Lu's arms, it could still feel a sway.

"Mother, have you arrived?" She opened her eyes, and when she looked up, she could only see Lu's white chin.

"No, are you still sleepy?"

Lu's hearty voice came from the top of her head, behind her was the unique warm fragrance of her mother's body, her little head rubbed in Lu's arms, and said coquettishly: "I'm not sleepy, I'm shaking badly, I can't sleep." ”

Lu Shi touched her little head, laughed softly, and said, "Didn't your second brother say that he would have the ability to buy a carriage for you in the future, go back and urge him." ”

Yi Yu suddenly laughed, remembering a bunch of "empty checks" from his second brother.

Lu Shi took out the dry food and water bags prepared in advance, and the two chatted while eating, and it took more than an hour before they arrived at the gate of Qingyang County.

Lu Shi drove the ox cart into the county seat, and when he passed, because the scalper also paid an extra five cents in tolls, Yu Yu knew that there was a fee to enter the city, and even a child as old as her had to pay five cents to bring it in.

After entering the city, the Lu family got out of the car and walked to the front to lead the cow away, and the widow Yu, who was still sitting on the cart, looked at everything in front of him curiously.

Directly opposite the gate was a wide street that could accommodate ten people, and in the middle of the road was a long paved pavement of stone, which occupied a third of the street, and the rest of the ground was already trampled by passers-by.

On both sides of the avenue are shop fronts, mostly one floor but there are also individual two-story buildings, which are still a mix of wood and stone, but in terms of appearance, it is a little more delicate than that of Zhang Town, all the inlaid wood places are evenly painted with vermilion, and the stone part is also exquisite, and the walls are stone bricks of the same size, and there is no abrupt one.

These shops have been opened to welcome customers, all kinds of signboards are hung on the door beams, and the names of the shops are clear at a glance, such as those who buy cloth are called "so-and-so cloth shops", and those who sell grain are called "so-and-so grain stores".

Along the main road of Qingyang County, the further you go, the more people there are, and Yi Yu carefully looks at the various shops while looking at the clothes of the people around her.

Compared with the people in the mountain village and Zhangzhen, the clothes of the residents here have obviously improved by more than one grade, and the women wear standard upper and lower skirts, combed with folded twisted buns, and wear jade rings. Men wear deep leather belts, dark curtains on their heads, and calf-deep boots or cloth shoes on their feet.

It is not like the cowardice that the men and women in the countryside can't get rid of, and the people in this city all hold their heads high, especially when they look at a peasant woman like Lu Shi, who is obviously from other places, they seem to have a little more arrogance and contempt on their faces.

Yi Yu pouted secretly, and said in her heart that if she was really an original country child, she would be really timid, but the soul in her body has lived in a modern society with advanced technology and abundant materials for twenty years, even if the life is not rich, not to mention the people here, even if it is the capital Chang'an, there are probably few people who can compare to her.

After walking for about ten years, she couldn't see the city gate clearly when she turned around, but the front was not at the end, but the street was very long, but Lu Shi didn't continue to go straight, and when she didn't know how many intersections it was, she pulled the cow's head into a cross in the east of the road.

After entering this small street, the road became narrow, although Lu led the ox cart to the side as much as possible, but after all, it occupied most of the aisle, which still made other passers-by feel unhappy, and many of them cast unkind eyes on the two of them.

Lu continued to walk forward without squinting, stopped in front of a shop with "Niyun Clothes Shop" hung, pulled the noose around the cow's neck and tied it to a poplar tree in front of the store, and then took the rucksack and carried the jade from the car board.

"Mother, I'll go by myself." Yi Yu was hugged by her and twisted twice, and then said, Lu Shi did not object, so he put her down and took her little hand, and entered the "Niyun Clothes Shop"

When I entered the door, I saw a half-person-high brown wooden counter placed against the wall, and at the end of the counter stood a square-faced, thick-eyed man, holding a wooden ruler in his hand, measuring the indigo clothes spread out on the counter.

"Shopkeeper Lee." Lu Shi walked two steps to the counter and stood still, then shouted.

The shopkeeper Li looked up and saw that it was the Lu family, so he grinned and greeted, "Yo, Mrs. Lu is here." ”

Lu Shi nodded with a smile, stepped forward and took off the bag on his shoulder, put it on the counter, and untied the bag in the spare space, and Shopkeeper Li stretched out his hand to look at it.

Yi Yu stood aside and looked at the furnishings in the store a little bored, and saw that there were four or five low tables in the open space on the left side of the counter, each half a zhang long, with neat stacks of ready-to-wear stacked on them, some of which were spread out on the table, but on one of the low tables were some delicate accessories, such as some splendid lotus bags and jade leather belts.

Lu Shi met this shopkeeper Li when selling sugar gourds last autumn, when she was selling on the street, when the shopkeeper Li was buying things for his son, he saw the fine embroidery on Lu Jun's clothes, and after inquiring, he pulled Lu's business, bought her handmade embroidery, and sometimes asked her to make some fine objects.

When a mother-daughter couple entered, Yi Yu was staring at an unfolded pomegranate-colored dress on a low table, so she didn't notice the disdainful look on the look of the seven or eight-year-old girl when she glanced at her mother.

The little girl saw Yiyu's "stunned" expression, pouted and tugged at her mother, and said, "Mother, let's not buy it here." ”

"Why are you leaving before you see it, don't like it?"

The little girl shook her head, glanced at the mother and daughter again, and said, "I just don't want to be here." ”

Yi Yu had already heard this delicate little voice, and heard their conversation, and saw the little girl's eyes when she looked at herself, how could she not understand what it meant, this is not looking at them.

"What do you want to buy for the two guests, but look inside, most of the ready-to-wear clothes in my small shop are made of fine brocade and delicately embroidered girls, if you need anything else, guests can also leave a size and accommodation, and we will send them to your door when they are ready."

Lu was negotiating with the shopkeeper Li, and when he suddenly stopped to greet the guests behind him, he was not angry, but he only looked back and saw a pair of mother and daughter dressed in extraordinary clothes standing at the door looking at her, to be precise, looking at her and then at his daughter.

She shook her eyebrows invisibly, then turned her head to Shopkeeper Li and said, "You greet the guests first, I'll wait a while." After speaking, he pulled the jade and moved two steps to the side, out of the way.

Shopkeeper Li nodded, then walked out of the counter to greet the mother and daughter at the door, and invited the two to the front of the low cases to introduce them one by one.

The little girl didn't say anything about leaving, the two looked at it for a while, picked out a few things and went to the counter to settle the bill, and when they walked to the door, Yi Yu heard the tender little voice again.

"It's annoying, hillbilly." The term hillbilly does not refer only to the countryman, but mostly refers to a person who behaves in a vulgar and disgusting manner, which is obviously a particularly insulting phrase in this era.

Lu's face changed, Yi Yu frowned, and even the shopkeeper Li couldn't hold back his face, and only when they walked away did he greet Lu with a slight apology: "Lady Lu, just according to the price you said just now, I will take the money for you." ”

After speaking, he avoided Lu's eyes, turned around and took out a few strings of money, counted them in front of her, and then pushed them over. After Lu Shi collected the money without saying a word, he said a simple goodbye to the shopkeeper and left with the remaining jade.

Yu Yu was not hit by what happened just now, she suffered a lot of white eyes from others when she was an orphan, this level was not enough for her to be at the moment, but she looked at Lu Shi's somewhat unnatural expression, and her heart was inevitably a little sad and distressed.

After getting along for so long, she can roughly surmise that the living conditions of the Lu family, whether it was in her mother-in-law's house or her mother's house before, must have been good, although she has been a peasant woman for a few years, but after all, it is a little more difficult to go from luxury to simplicity, and she has only lived four or five years of poor life than herself, even if she can adapt, after all, she will remember the life of fine clothes and jade food in the past. When she was in the countryside, she was fine, but when she was blinded by people in the city, she would definitely feel uncomfortable.

Yu wanted to comfort her, but she didn't know what to say, so she could only pester her and point to the more novel things on the street to distract her, but it didn't have much effect.