Things are often like this, a good start is half the success, with Xiao Pingshan's confidence, the Gao family and his wife are also very smooth in the remaining villages, and they can exchange many cow beans and copper coins every day, of course, the copper coins are only a few dozen Wen at most, most of them are Huang Cancan's cow beans, Rui Xue specially asked Zhang Dahe to build a large wooden box in the corner of the stove to store cow beans.

I have to mention that with the increase in demand for tofu, Zhang Dahe has been officially hired as a helper, coming early every day, pushing and grinding, filtering the residue, except for being mentioned by his daughter-in-law to avoid the slurry, he is doing the rest of the work.

This greatly reduced Ruixue's workload, although there was a sister-in-law Zhang to help a few days ago, but the store and the family were busy, but she was still tired and sore, and she slept at night and hummed.

Zhao Fengnian was distressed and wanted to help grind, Rui Xue didn't let him, helped to light the fire and burned the soy milk, and heard that Rui Xue couldn't sleep well in the middle of the night, so she had to secretly get up and rub her legs and beat her back, Rui Xue sometimes found that when she woke up, she looked at him, and when she wanted to speak, she couldn't help but be tired, and fell asleep, and when she got up in the morning, she saw Zhao Fengnian still with an indifferent look, but wondered if she was dreaming of spring last night...

At the wharf, at the end of the winter month, a large number of cargo ships were finally ushered in, and the laborers were so busy that their feet did not touch the ground, but the purses began to bulge accordingly, and the men were not as careful and stingy as the women, so they often gathered together in the afternoon at leisure, and asked for a pot of grain wine, two plates of dried beans and salted peanuts, and drank two cups of delicious food before going home, and the shop was closed later and later.

On this day, Rui Xue finally took time out of her free time and explained that Sister-in-law Zhang had closed the shop earlier and went home, so she hurriedly took a carriage to transport goods into the city, inquired around, found the largest calligraphy and painting shop in the house, and walked in, chose three pieces of paper, four ordinary ink blocks, endured the pain, and paid more than 200 pieces of tofu worth of silver.

remembered that there were only three or five books in Zhao Fengnian's bookbox, and they were all broken by looking through them every day, so he pulled the young man and asked, "Little second brother, do you have a book like a travelogue in this shop?" ”

Seeing that she was buying cheap paper and ink, and was in a hurry to pick up things and close the door, Xiao Er pointed to a wooden shelf on the left with some impatience and said, "All the books are there, you can pick them yourself." ”

Rui Xue raised her eyebrows, she was about to close the city gate, and she chose the type she wanted in thousands of books, I'm afraid it would take half an hour, isn't this guy embarrassed, she was slightly annoyed, she wanted to change shops, and felt that walking was a waste of time, so she said loudly, "Is your boss here, should I ask him for advice, what is hospitality, what kind of customer is on..., no, customers are food and clothing?" ”

The young man had seen many peasant women buy pen and ink books for their children before, all of them were cautious, accompanied by smiling faces, wanting to give themselves a few pennies cheaper, or find some affordable and easy paper and pencils, even if he was lazy, they did not dare to speak out, but I did not expect that today, this young woman dressed very ordinarily, but refused to suffer a little grievance.

Remembering that the boss was in the back, he was about to come out, if he knew that he was neglecting the guests, the job would be lost, so he immediately stepped forward and said with a smile, "This sister-in-law, don't be angry, the little one was busy sorting out the old books just now, and I didn't hear my sister-in-law's question clearly for a while, so I snubbed my sister-in-law, and I hope my sister-in-law won't be surprised." ”

Rui Xue heard the words old books, her eyes lit up, she bought books to pass the time for Zhao Fengnian, he was not in good health, he couldn't do heavy work, it was cold and he couldn't go out, two more books to read, and finally had a livelihood to do. This is not a gift, it doesn't matter if it's old or new, and I'm afraid that old books are cheaper.

"What's in the old books, but there are travelogues?"

The young man didn't expect her to suddenly turn the conversation to the old books, was stunned, and said, "This is a poor scholar who came to sell it in the morning, and the little one is about to be carefully sorted out, so I don't know if there are any books that my sister-in-law wants." ”

Rui Xue ignored him, took a few steps forward, stood in front of the board where the old books were placed, and flipped through them carefully, but there were really three titles on the books that looked like travelogues, one "Wuguo Landscape Miscellaneous", one "Zhi Weiye Ji", and one "Twelve Kingdoms Travel", Rui Xue was overjoyed, but her face was still indifferent, picked up these three books, and asked, "These three books, how many hundred dollars?" ”

The young man grinned and couldn't help but say loudly, "A few hundred dollars? This sister-in-law, this is a book, not a grain leaf, and the thinnest book in our store costs one or two silver? Are these three? ”

It is not the first time Rui Xue has entered a calligraphy and painting shop, so she is naturally very clear about the price, but she is also in business, asking for prices all over the sky, and paying back the money on the spot, which is counted.

"This is an old book, I don't know how many times it has been groped by, how can it be the same price as a new book." Rui Xue turned her head to see that there was no one in the store, and said in a low voice, "Besides, you just took back this book, and your shopkeeper doesn't know the price, and it's not as much as you say." ”

"That's not good, the price you gave is too low, I just collect it, and I will need one or two silver for three books." The young man was a little annoyed and disagreed.

Rui Xue smiled secretly in her heart, she set out his purchase price so easily, so she pretended to be generous and said, "In this way, it's really not good for you to lose money, then I'll give you a tael of silver." As he spoke, he took out a tael of silver from his purse and handed it over.

The young man received these old books, originally planned to report dozens of more articles with the shopkeeper, and he also landed some benefits, but he didn't expect to be cut off by Ruixue like this, it would be difficult to report more, he naturally refused, and refused to let go of the price of one or two halves, Rui Xue smiled, and gently threw down a sentence, "Then, let me negotiate with your shopkeeper, and by the way, I will also ask a few words about hospitality." ”

The young man heard what she had just said, and immediately deflated, and took a tael of silver with a sad face, "Okay, I'll collect these three books for you." ”

Rui Xue looked at him drooping his head, a little funny, and felt that he was a little too much, so he took out another twenty yuan and stuffed it into his hand, "Since it's to help me collect it, I can't let you work in vain, this is a thank you gift, buy some snacks." There will be old books of this type in the future, help me keep them, I will come here every other month to read them. ”

The young man thought that he couldn't get half a penny today, but he didn't expect that Rui Xue was so good at bargaining, but he was not stingy when he gave a thank you gift, he immediately became smiling, and responded one after another, collecting old books and reselling them, and it was the boss who made money, and he would not share half of his money, so it was more cost-effective to leave a few copies for Rui Xue to earn money.

Rui Xue turned around and waved at Xiao Er, who was standing at the door to see her off, and walked out of the city with the package, she couldn't help but smile and bend the corners of her mouth, the strategy of sticks and carrots is really useful, not to mention saving more than two taels of silver, there will be people to help Tao Shu in the future. Thinking that Zhao Fengnian must have been happy when she saw these books, her steps became faster and faster.

It's a pity that God seems to be in a bad mood today, and he is specifically against her, and the wind and snow that have stopped for most of the day suddenly began to blow again, and there are signs that it is getting bigger and bigger.

The cold wind blew on his face like a knife, and the snowflakes fell on his neck, causing Ruixue to hit him fiercely, and he walked backwards on the mountain road for half an hour, and there was still more than half a distance from Lijia Village.

Ruixue was a little deflated, touched her hungry grunting belly, and turned into a ruined mountain temple on the side of the road, thinking about filling her stomach before continuing on her way.

Since ancient times, it has been a truth, the people have a good life, the incense of each temple is vigorous, and the people are still unable to fill their belly, so naturally they can't take care of the gods, not to mention this kind of small mountain god who is in charge of a barren mountain.

The name is called the mountain temple, in fact, it is an adobe house built many years ago, wooden doors and windows, mottled with paint, crumbling by the cold wind, as if it will fall down at any time, there is a stone offering table in the middle of the hall, except for a lonely clay statue of the mountain god on the offering table, not to mention offerings, not even a copper incense burner.

In such a place, it is not possible to live permanently, but it is still enough to shelter from the wind and snow temporarily, Ruixue opened half the door, which made the hall a lot brighter, found a still intact futon and sat down, took out two fires from the package, slowly pulled and ate one, felt a lot better in the stomach, and was about to eat the second one, but suddenly heard a faint voice in the corner, "I'm hungry..."

Rui Xue's body stiffened, and then she jumped up in fright, ran out of the door, and instantly remembered countless ghost stories she had heard in her previous life, all of which were bloody things in the barren mountains and wild temples, ghosts and fox spirits eating people's hearts and livers, as terrible as they were.

She bought cheap and good books today, and she only cared about rejoicing, and actually forgot about it...

Running out of dozens of meters in one breath, blown by the cold wind, Rui Xue suddenly felt that her hands were empty and cold, so she remembered that she had just thrown the package and gloves in the temple, she stomped her feet in annoyance, and finally was reluctant, and quietly returned to the mountain temple, and bravely lay on the door to look inside.

As a result, I saw a twelve- or thirteen-year-old half-grown boy lying in the middle of the hall, with ragged clothes, unkempt hair, and black hands and face, who was clutching the fire she had thrown down, and stuffing it into his mouth with all his might, and from time to time he was choked and rolled his eyes because he was in too much of a hurry.

Ruixue let out a long breath and patted her chest fiercely, this is a person, not a ghost, it's really good.

She walked in gently, picked up the package and held it in her arms, as soon as she looked up, she was attracted by a pair of black and white eyes, the corners of her eyes that were slanted like a phoenix, long eyelashes, and a little shame hidden in her dark eyes, three points of stubbornness, and the remaining six points were full of desire.

Rui Xue frowned, got up and glanced at the rotten and blackened straw pile in the corner, this kid was probably hiding there just now, she didn't find it, and was scared half to death. Looking down again, he was still lying on the ground staring at the package in his arms, and couldn't help but say, "No, the one you just ate was the last one." ”

When the kid heard this, Danfeng's eyes immediately overflowed with disappointment, and then turned into resentment, but Rui Xue could feel that this hatred was definitely not directed at herself. She sighed softly, hardened her heart, walked out of the temple gate, and walked home.