"Mother, have you been here before?" Liu Man'er asked.

"Well, I've been here before." Fang Shi nodded, "I come to this Guanyin Temple once a year. ”

"Mother, you are really sincere, God will definitely pity you with sincerity and will give you good luck."

Liu Man'er said this, but in her heart, she thought that people like herself, who don't believe in Buddhism and God, and are still thinking about how to make money at this kind of event, God will definitely not like her.

However, she has always disbelieved in this, and she has never cultivated the afterlife, even if she is reborn once, so what? All the beauty of life must be fought for by oneself, and the so-called Buddha is just a spiritual harbor that the escapee finds for himself.

"Mother, on the day of the temple fair, will there be anyone selling things around here?" Liu Man'er asked suddenly.

"Absolutely." Fang Shi nodded and said, "There are a lot of people who sell gadgets, as well as those who sell those feng shui instruments, and those who sell paper money incense sticks. ”

"And what about the others?"

"Others, there are also some snacks to sell, some beautiful things that you girls like, bracelets, silk flowers, bead flowers, bead hairpins, etc." Fang replied.

After all, in this temple fair, women and children still account for the majority, usually some big families, women do not go out of the door, but on this day, they can also come out to participate in this kind of temple fair.

When Liu Man'er heard Fang Clan say this, she was already thinking in her heart about what she should sell.

What to sell? Selling silk flowers? Then she's going to buy some cloth.

Selling snacks? It seems that this is a good idea, but I don't know if the Fang clan will come to help him.

Along the way, Liu Man'er was thinking about what she should sell, such a grand festival, with so many people, she didn't want to miss this good opportunity.

You can also sell those illuminated gadgets, but you can't do it yourself.

"Mother, let's go to town and buy some things." Thinking that they were about to embark on a fork in the road, Liu Man'er hurriedly asked them to take another path, "I made a lot of money selling silk flowers yesterday, I plan to buy some more cloth, and then I will sell them at this festival, what do you think, mother?" ”

"But you can." Fang Shi nodded, and said, "It's just that at this festival, there are a lot of people selling silk flowers, silk, embroidered handkerchiefs and other things, and there are not ten stalls but also eight. ”

"Ahh Liu Man'er exhaled, "Let's go to the town first, buy some rice and noodles later, and then think about what we should sell when we are ready." ”

"You're all in the eyes of money now." Ye Yuan laughed at her on the side.

Liu Man'er retorted, "Why do you say that? There are so many people in this family, if I don't work hard to make money, will I let my mother and children go hungry? And at that time, Ye Qing and Ye Feng will also spend a lot of money to study, and I plan to let Fusheng go to school next year. ”

"And our family, I also want to repair the house, in case this Ye Qing marries a daughter-in-law, where will he live?"

When Fang heard Liu Man'er say this, he also helped her speak, "Yes, Yuan'er, it's not right for you to say Man'er like this, now it seems to me that Man'er, as the eldest sister-in-law in the family, thinks about the family everywhere, and it is really God's mercy for me to have a good daughter-in-law like Man'er." ”

She couldn't have imagined that she would spend five cents to buy a stupid daughter-in-law in the mountains, and now that she is not stupid, she is so smart and capable.

"Okay, it's me who is wrong." Ye Yuan lowered his head and said, "It's because I didn't make any money, but I wanted my wife to worry about the family's livelihood all day long." ”

Ye Yuan's voice was a little low, and Liu Man'er felt that her words might have hurt his self-esteem, so she leaned closer to him and said, "But you are the pillar of the family, it is precisely because of you in the family that my mother and I will be so confident!" ”

"Yes." Ye Yuan's voice couldn't hear his joy and anger.

"Of course." Liu Man'er nodded and said, "As for making money, as long as our family is all of one heart, are you afraid that you won't be able to make money, the family and everything will be better and better." ”

"Yes, home and everything." The way also nodded on the side.

The family walked forward lively, and when they were almost in town, Liu Man'er finally thought of what she should do to sell.

"Mother, Ye Yuan, I thought about it, how about we make some lotus flowers to sell?" Liu Man'er looked at Ye Yuan and then at Fang's, and said, "Don't these good men and women all have to go to the incense, if they throw a lotus flower into the incense burner by the way, doesn't it seem more sincere?" ”

"Lotus?" Fang was a little surprised.

"yes." Liu Man'er smiled slightly, "Borrow flowers to offer Buddha." ”

"Borrowing flowers to offer Buddha? That's a good idea. Ye Yuan also nodded and said, "The lotus has always been a pure and elegant thing, I think it is feasible." ”

"Yes, I also saw the lotus pond just now, and I remembered this lotus."

Liu Man'er pointed to a pond not far away, where the lotus leaves of the fields happened to be out of the water, and it looked very elegant.

"It's not like there are no lotus flowers at this time, I think it's good for me to make some lotus flowers then."

"I'll support you in whatever you're going to do anyway." Ye Yuan turned his head to look at her and said, "If you need help, just say it." ”

"Hmm." Liu Man'er nodded and said, "When the time comes, you can still find me some thin wires, and then find some thin straight small wooden strips, after all, I am thinking about it now, I don't know if I can make it on the day of the temple fair." ”

"I'm sure you can, you're so smart, you've never made silk flowers, aren't you going to do it too?" Ye Yuan encouraged.

Liu Man'er also nodded, and as she walked, she imagined in her heart how to make a lotus flower.

Speaking of which, the kind of person who makes a paper shop will be better at these things than her, but it must not be difficult for her to have experience in making silk flowers.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, Liu Man'er went to the bookstore to buy a stack of ordinary white paper, then bought pink paint, and bought a brush.

Ye Yuan bought some rice noodles in the town, and the family went home.

After returning home, Liu Man'er began to make her lotus flower, as usual, she first drew the pattern of lotus petals on paper, and then she asked Ye Lotus to help cut the paper, and she took a brush to draw red lines on the petals of this lotus.

There was some leftover from the fabric I bought last time, and Liu Man'er wrapped another circle of cloth petals outside, and when she pinched these petals together with her hands, it looked like a lotus flower.

It looks good, Liu Man'er thought about it and made a flower heart out of paper inside, this flower seems to be perfect, Liu Man'er used rice milk to glue these petals to a thin nail, and then handed it to Ye Yuan, he used the nail to nail these petals into the thin wooden strips.

After eating the lunch, Fang's also participated, the family worked together, Ye He cut the petals, Liu Man'er painted, Fang's glued it well, and Ye Yuan was responsible for nailing it.

Under the division of labor and cooperation, the family made more than 100 flowers in one afternoon, filling three flower baskets.

After all, it was the first time to try, so she planned to make these 100 flowers first, and if it sold well at the festival by then, she would make more, of course, the main reason was that she had run out of paper to buy.

As for these flower baskets, they are made of rattan, anyway, Ye Yuan's process is very simple, so Liu Man'er asked him to go to the mountain first and cut two bundles of rattan down to make a few rattan baskets.

This rattan basket is not very difficult to make, almost all the men and women in the village can make it, and Ye Yuan will naturally do it, but in one hour, he made several of them.

After doing these two handicrafts, Liu Man'er is already very experienced, she has already thought about it, whenever there is any festival in the future, she will go to sell things, and then there is the Qingming Festival, she can make some flowers and sell them to others to worship ancestors.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, she can make some sachets by hand and sew some sachets. Although she doesn't know it now, but in her previous life, she had seen several patterns of weaving on the Internet, but she couldn't remember it all of a sudden, and she would be able to become proficient when she bought some silk threads and came back to practice in the future.

On the seventh day of July, it is customary for men and women to put lanterns, and then they can make many lanterns to sell.

It's a joy to think about, as if to see countless pieces of silver flying towards her with wings.

But now, she still sleeps in such a dilapidated house, worrying every day about whether spiders and centipedes will come to her.

"Let's work hard to make money and build a new house!" Liu Man'er said suddenly.

"It's a nice house." Ye Yuan said, "If you build a new house, you need a lot of money, if it is a yard like ours, it will cost at least twenty taels." ”

"This house costs twenty taels?" Liu Man'er looked around incredibly.

"Of course, it's just that we've lived in this house for a long time, so it's a little dilapidated, and if we want to build a new house, we definitely can't build it like this again, in your opinion, at least all of them must be built into big houses with blue bricks and black tiles, right?"

Ye Yuan quite understood Liu Man'er's thoughts, "Just the two tiled houses in our main house cost five taels of silver." ”

"To be so expensive?" Liu Man'er bit her lip, she thought that this ancient land was vast and sparsely populated, and it shouldn't be expensive.

"Of course, as for a room like our wing, three taels of silver is enough." Ye Yuan said again.

"I don't want to live in a thatched hut anymore." Liu Man'er hurriedly waved her hand and said, "You're right, if I want to build a house, I must build a tiled house, this village is rainy and rainy, I feel that our house is full of musty smell." ”

"When it's sunny, I'll dry the turf on top of the house." Ye Yuan hurriedly said.

"Man'er, if you are not used to it, your mother will change with you, you and Yuan'er live in the main house, and I will live in that side room." Fang said when he heard it.

"How can you do it, if you live in such a low and damp house, it is easy to have sore legs and feet." Liu Man'er said, "It's not that I can't stand the suffering, I just want to make our family's life better." ”

"I know your child's heart."

Fang patted Liu Man'er's hand, but her eyes were inexplicably a little moist, she turned her back and rubbed the corners of her eyes.