In the evening, snowflakes fell outside, and the next morning, the small courtyard was covered with snow about two fingers thick, a piece of silver light, reflecting in the sunlight and some eyes could not be opened.

When Hua Ronghua got up, Widow Jiang was already clearing the snow, and after looking around, she didn't find any other broomsticks, so she went to grab the one in her hand, "Sister Jiang, I'll sweep it for a while!" ”

Small table. The broom was waved down, and Widow Jiang really felt a little hot on her body, so she handed it to Hua Ronghua.

Widow Jiang looked at the sky from the side, "When the wind blows in Ming'er, it should be cold!" ”

"Well, I'm sorry for the firewood I hoarded a few days ago!" Hua Ronghua responded.

"Ha, that relative of yours before is really real, just his kind of firewood can be sold for ten yuan, and he still needs seven yuan!" Widow Jiang said with some amusement.

Hua Ronghua glanced up at her, "Knowing that it's not easy for people to make money, Sister Jiang, are you still bargaining?" ”

Widow Jiang was a little embarrassed, "Hey, isn't I used to bargaining?" Besides, it's just a relative of your former husband's family, why are you so concerned? ”

Hua Ronghua straightened up, put his hands on the broom, and said with half disgust: "Look at what Sister Jiang said, I just said it casually, how did I become obsessed!" ”

While the two were talking, Jiang Wen came out of the house, "I'm really sorry, I got up late in the morning." Came to Hua Ronghua's side, "Aunt Hua, give me the broom!" These are the jobs that men should do. ”

As soon as Widow Jiang was about to speak, Hua Ronghua handed over the broom, and praised with a smile, "What a hard-working little man!" ”

Jiang Wen's face was slightly red, and he took the broom and began to sweep the yard. The broom was a little big, and Jiang Wen had some difficulty holding it in his hand, and his face blushed after a while.

Widow Jiang's face slowly sank, stepped forward to take the broom in her son's hand, and said distressedly: "I'll come, Wen'er go and rest for a while, where have you done this kind of work?" ”

Hua Ronghua always felt that Widow Jiang swept the yard again, and her strength was extraordinarily great, and she couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, she knew that she wouldn't give the broom to Jiang Wen just now, and thought that he really did all these jobs before!

Hua Ronghua began her life alone, in addition to three meals a day, she struggled with those needles and threads, and diligence could make up for her clumsiness.

It's just that there are drawbacks, the back of her neck is often sore, although it is uncomfortable and tight, but she has to insist on it in order to wrap her abdomen. Every time at this time, she can scold herself half to death, when she had a silver ticket in her hand, the money earned in the shop turned a blind eye to Mrs. Lu A lot, she knew that there was this day, she had to keep all the money in her hands!

Thinking of the shop, Hua Ronghua suddenly remembered that she also spent half of the money to buy the shop! It stands to reason that Lu Wenping should pay back fifteen taels of silver. However, there was no name on the deed! Sue? Heh, as long as Lu Wenping doesn't admit it, he has no evidence at all!

Except for Widow Jiang in the same courtyard, no one in the neighborhood has spoken to Hua Ronghua, but according to her observation, there are almost no people who talk to Widow Jiang, and occasionally a few are still old or frivolous men.

It's not good or bad with Widow Jiang, the landlord, and occasionally gives each other some meals, but now that Jiang Wen is back, she almost doesn't come to her side, and she makes up for her son every day.

At the age of twenty-seven, Hua Ronghua took his embroidered purse and went to the shop to sell it.

This time, there are less than a hundred, but there are more styles, there are men's purses embroidered like last time, there are also brightly colored women's purses, and Hua Ronghua's fluffy purses sewn with rag heads and broken skins.

The shopkeeper has gone home for the New Year, and this time it was the shopkeeper who received the goods, and the shopkeeper was more interested in the fluffy purse.

The purse is half the size of a palm, the outside is furry gray or white rabbit fur, the inside is lined with plain cloth, and there are two thumb-sized pompoms at both ends of the closed drawstring.

"This kind of lotus hair is very rare." The shopkeeper does not say whether to accept it or not, only that it is rare.

Hua Ronghua smiled and said: "This is still a few days ago from your shop bought from the broken skin piece by bit sewn together, but it took a lot of effort, more than embroidery, if the price is too low, I won't sell it." It did take a lot of effort to sew these five plush purses.

The shopkeeper glanced at her, "I didn't say no, what are you anxious about?" ”

"The shopkeeper is giving a price!" Hua Ronghua tugged at the corners of his mouth.

"These embroidered words and embroidered nine texts, this kind of plush one will give you fifteen texts." The shopkeeper saw that Hua Ronghua did not make a counter-offer and began to count the accounts, "There are fifty-five embroidered characters, a total of four hundred and ninety-five texts, and five plush seventy-five texts." ”

After the shopkeeper counted the money, he counted out an additional thirty Wen to push her, "Your embroidery is good, but when embroidering, the line is not fine enough, and the color matching is not flexible, and then practice well, next time I will give you ten Wen, these thirty Wen is a red seal for you during the New Year." I directly exchanged half a tael of silver for you for 500 yuan, which is easier to get. ”

After getting more than thirty Wen, Hua Ronghua was overjoyed, and thanked him after putting the money away, "Thank you to the shopkeeper." ”

The shopkeeper smiled, "Thank you for not needing, but if you have a fluffy purse like this, you must send it to me!" ”

But it turns out that this is the reason for giving more than thirty articles! Hua Ronghua was stunned, but he still smiled and said, "That's certain." ”

Walking out of the shop, Hua Ronghua calculated the account in her heart, originally she went to rent a house to buy things, and the money left was less than two taels of silver, these days she began to embroider purses at dawn, until it was dark, and the money she earned also bought a lot of things, but in the last calculation, her own silver deposit is still worth two taels!

Alas! Hua Ronghua sighed, it seems that embroidered purses can really only solve the problem of food and clothing! There is no hope of getting rich. Why don't you embroider a screen or something to make more money? It's said to be worth a lot of money.

Hua Ronghua came to the bazaar while pondering, and it was approaching the end of the year, and there were many people selling and buying things. Suddenly, she was hit hard.

"I'm sick!" Hua Ronghua stumbled and fell, turned around and scolded the back of the person running around the crowd, secretly screamed bad luck, and was about to continue to move forward, when suddenly his heart sank, and he subconsciously touched his waist, and his face turned white as soon as he brushed the ground.

When she went out today, Hua Ronghua deliberately put on her only remaining long skirt, because she was afraid of the cold, she wrapped two more circles of protection in her belt, and she did not hide the money bag in her sleeves as usual, but hung it on her belt, but at this time, her waist was empty, only half of the cut belt.

That guy just now!

Hua Ronghua shouted angrily, "Catch the thief!" He raised his leg and chased in the direction where the man had fled.

When the people around heard that there was a thief, they all subconsciously grabbed their money bags, and saw Hua Ronghua shouting and showing sympathy, but they didn't take the initiative to help.

That's more than half a tael of silver that I just earned! Hua Ronghua wanted to strangle the thief to death, so even though she couldn't see the thief anymore, she still refused to give up, and only looked for people in gray cloth clothes one by one, and the thief was dressed in gray just now.

However, although she remembered the color of the thief's clothes, she did not see the appearance clearly, and this search angered many people.

"What are you doing?"

"Thieves? Who do you say is the thief? ”

"Hey, do you want to be ashamed? Pull men on the street! ”

Hua Ronghua was about to cry, ignored the abuse of the people around her, and continued to look for the thief, but she didn't find anything, but more and more people had opinions about her.

Suddenly, a big hand grabbed her arm and dragged it back, Hua Ronghua's body turned uncontrollably and met a familiar face, the sword eyebrows were slanted, the starry eyes were half-narrowed, and the corners of one side of the mouth were slightly raised as if there was some sarcasm, "Hey, what are you doing here?" ”

Seeing Gong Xichu, Hua Ronghua's tears came out as soon as he brushed the ground, "I lost my wallet!" ”

"If you lose your wallet, you can't catch men all over the street! Hey, what are you crying at me? I didn't steal it. Gong Xichu saw that she shed tears, and his hand retracted suddenly.

Hua Ronghua wiped his eyes with his sleeve, sniffed, and said in a muffled voice: "It's okay, I'm just uncomfortable." ”

"Oh." Gongxi Chu responded casually and looked at Hua Ronghua for a while, "You've lost weight!" After speaking, he couldn't help frowning, in fact, he didn't want to say this, he wanted to say 'deserved', but somehow his heart suddenly softened, was it because she shed tears just now?

Hua Ronghua was uncomfortable now, how could he have time to answer whether he was fat or thin, so he only hummed, hung his head and said, "I'll go back first." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.

Gong Xichu looked at her back and pursed his lips slightly, how annoying he was staying at home these days.

It's not interesting to watch the excitement of the Lu family in the West Courtyard, in fact, the Lu family is not very lively now, it is basically a single performance by Mrs. Lu; Occasionally, in the county office, he won with those head-hunting soldiers in a few tricks, and when he went shopping, he couldn't look down on the things in this small county; Occasionally drink or get drunk less.

But just now, when I saw Huarong Hua wandering around the street, a touch of interest rose in my heart, and I felt that the sleeping blood in my body woke up in an instant.

Since he was interested in staying, Gong Xichu rarely wronged himself, and watched Hua Ronghua turn around to leave, suddenly stepped forward, grabbed her arm and pulled it aside, and stopped when he came to a street corner where there were few people.

"What are you doing?" Hua Ronghua wanted to struggle but couldn't do it, he was annoyed, and he felt that it was not appropriate to go out today.

"You follow me!" Gongxi Chu got straight to the point, "Follow me, you don't have to worry about eating and drinking, not to mention glory and wealth, at least you can worry about food and clothing!" ”

Hua Ronghua's face turned red, half angry, half ashamed, and shouted at him with his eyes open, "I don't sell my body!" ”

Gong Xichu misunderstood, and explained: "It's not for you to be a maid, it's for me to be a woman!" In the past, you always disagreed, but now you have also seen that it is not easy for you to live alone as a woman! It's good that you just met a thief today, and if you run into the robber from last time, you won't have any place to cry! ”

"You're sick!" Hua Rong pushed him hard, but he was pressed against the wall.

This posture...... Hua Ronghua looked at the face that was almost close to his face, gritted his teeth and asked, "What do you want to do?" ”