Qingliu Town is more than 40 miles away from the county seat, people have to walk for a day, take an ox cart for half a day, and the carriage is faster. Tourists, scholars, merchants, and dart bureaus from the south to the north all have to rest here, and Qingliu Town has this convenience, which is richer than other places.

The bazaar is a set every two days, every single day, the big girls and little daughters-in-law from ten miles and eight towns have to come to the market, some bring their own products to sell, and there are also a few dollars in their hands, and want to buy a red rope, half a piece of rouge to dress up their own.

On important days such as the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, the 3rd Jade Emperor's birthday temple fair in March, the 8th Buddha's birthday in early April, the Yulan Festival on the 15th day of July, and the Double Ninth Festival on 99th, the town will also raise funds and invite the county's opera troupe to sing and juggle, which is more lively than usual.

This day was just an ordinary market day, and Song Haonian went out early in the morning to sell feather dusters.

Aoyagi Town is along the river, a wide and smooth road passes through the middle, which was ordered to be repaired by the imperial court, and countless small roads are connected to the main road from all directions, forming a crossroads and T-junctions.

Song Haonian told Lily that he was going to sell dusters, but he didn't sell them himself, but went to the town to find his sworn brother Wang Xiaofu and entrusted him with dusters and shuttlecocks.

Wang Xiaofu is a merchant who walks the streets and alleys, born thin and smart, there is no one in these ten miles and eight towns that he doesn't know, and there is nothing he doesn't know about who has big or small things.

He naturally knew what the daughter-in-law of Brother Yi's family was like, and when he saw Song Haonian sending something, he laughed: "Brother Haonian, you came just in time, I haven't gone out yet." Have you eaten? If you haven't eaten, let my mother scoop a bowl of vegetable paste for you. ”

Song Haonian smiled: "After eating at home, the things will be sent to you, and when they will be sold, according to your rules." ”

Wang Xiaofu will not only go to the county seat to buy goods, but sometimes he will also collect some things nearby, this kind of collected things, even if they are consigned, he does not have to pay cash, just look at how much money is sold in the end, and he and the people who make things are divided fifty-fifty.

This is also the simple atmosphere of the countryside, everyone knows each other, and only by virtue of credit and memory can business be done.

Even if the righteous brother is his own brother, how can Wang Xiaofu make more money in Song Haonian? However, he knew that his brother was a simple man and refused to take advantage of others easily, so he didn't say those beautiful words to coax him, but just said: "Okay, I'll tell you when I sell it." ”

I made up my mind that he would never take a head when selling feather dusters, and all the money he got was given to Song Haonian.

After saying goodbye to Wang Xiaofu, Song Haonian went up the mountain to see the traps and traps dug a few days ago.

The lily went down to the ground, and she couldn't be idle. She saw that the thin quilt she had covered was covered with a layer of gray sweat, and she had already had the heart to wash it.

I didn't have the strength before, but now I took advantage of the good weather to quickly remove the cover, dry the thin cotton tire and the mattress that was out of shape a few steps on the fence, put the cover in a wooden basin, and go to the well to fetch water.

She carefully observed Song Haonian's work of fetching water, and she must ensure that the barrel mouth is facing down into the water before it can be fetched. I tried it twice, and sure enough, it came to the water.

The quilt cover is two pieces of blue cloth, the one for the face is slightly brighter, but it has long been washed to the dust, and the one for the lining is a little bigger and dirtier than the face.

Soaking the quilt in clean water is not a problem, so it can't be cleaned. Lily thought about it, there was no laundry detergent for her to use this year, and honey locusts were only available in spring and summer, and after thinking about it for a long time, she remembered how she had seen her grandmother wash clothes when she was a child.

She went to the kitchen, scooped out two shovels of plant ash from the stove, stirred it with half a basin of water, and clarified it. When the ash sinks to the bottom, the upper layer of gray water can be decontaminated. In the era when there was no laundry detergent, the countryside washed clothes and bacon like this.

Grass ash stain remover powder is naturally not as good as washing powder, fortunately, there is very little oil and water in the food they eat, and there are many sweat stains, but there is no oil and sweat, more bubbles, and it will be barely clean after rubbing for a while.

Sweating, she soaked her quilt in grey water and sat next to her in the sun. Suddenly, a sharp and piercing voice came into his ears: "Okay, Li Baihe, my second brother is not at home, you are so lazy!"

Song Haonian's house is in the west of the village, a little distance from other people's homes, Lily has not seen anyone else except Li Caifeng these days, and was suddenly startled and quickly opened his eyes.

But I saw a person standing outside the fence, this person was not very old, he looked like he was sixteen or seventeen years old, with a big face, a collapsed nose, and his eyebrows and eyes were a little delicate, but with a very unreasonable bluntness, a thick braided back of his head, and he was looking at her with his hands on his hips and his toes proud.

Lily frowned and thought about it, and then remembered who this person was - Song Haonian's sister, her sister-in-law, Song Xiuxiu.

Song Haonian was separated from the family, but his sister-in-law was still his sister-in-law. Since ancient times, sister-in-law is difficult, and being a sister-in-law is inevitably weak in front of the sister-in-law, the eldest girl of the Li family is the daughter-in-law "bought" by Song Haonian, and she is timid, so she can't raise her head in front of Song Xiuxiu, the sister-in-law.

Previously, Li Mingjiang asked Erniu to make a bed in the town and give a new quilt to Lily, but Song Xiuxiu snatched it home, saying that it was to cover her mother.

After the girl jumped into the river, Song Xiuxiu was afraid that others would think of her snatching the quilt, so she shrank at home for several days, wanting to wait for the limelight to pass.

After a few days, I didn't hear that the girl died, and today is a set, she can't stay at home anymore, and her mother asked for two money, go to the set to look east and west, and suddenly heard others talk about the smell of meat in the West Song family in the past two days, so I flew to see what Lily was doing.

If you want to say that Lily kills chickens and eats meat by herself, Song Xiuxiu doesn't believe it, her second sister-in-law is so timid that she doesn't dare to say it loudly, let alone kill chickens.

But she stood outside and counted, and found that there were fewer chickens in the house - she regarded the chickens raised by the lily as her own property, and kept a close eye on them.

Some people are lazy, and they can't see others idle, and they have to say a few words when they see people not working. Lily doesn't work, just closes her eyes under the sun, although she is so thin that she has a handful of bones, somehow, Song Xiuxiu sees a bit of a leisurely taste in her.

couldn't help it at the moment, so I scolded this lazy woman.

"It's you......" Not long after Lily took over this body, she hadn't made up her mind about how to treat Song Haonian's family, so she said hello lightly.

However, Song Xiuxiu was accustomed to seeing her "second sister-in-law" trembling, and suddenly saw that Lily didn't take her seriously, and sat there with a loud horn, and her heart was on fire at the moment, and she accused Lily loudly: "I called you, why did you ignore me? Are you deaf?"