The news soon spread in the village, not only Jixiang Village, but also the people in the surrounding villages were almost illiterate, as soon as I heard that I could write letters, and the price was cheaper than going to the market to find the fortune teller, I found it, so I simply set up a table in the courtyard and opened a stall, and helped people write letters and divination every day, and sometimes I could earn more than 100 yuan a day.

When everyone left, I collected the money on the plate and handed it all to Liu San'er.

He looked at me in amazement: "What is this for?" ”

"You take it."

"How can this work, you earned it!"

I laughed: "Then who earned the rice, vegetables, and fish I ate?" ”

"Huh?" He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly blushed a little: "These are two different things. ”

"It's the same thing!"

"No, no, no, it's absolutely not going to work. I can't ask for your money! ”

"Liu San'er, don't be polite to me, I don't be polite to you when I eat, drink and live here. It's just that now that you're injured, I can help you, so I'll help you. ”

I said I was going to shove the money into his hand, but he pushed it back firmly. I was worried that the wound on his hand would open, so I didn't dare to push too hard, and I heard him say, "I don't want it, I really don't want it!" I'll figure it out at home. ”

I looked worriedly at his unhealed hand: "But—"

He simply put his hands behind his back and said to me, "I won't ask for your money, and it's not like I can't open the pot at home." Besides, when fishing was closed before, I fetched a lot of firewood, which I was going to sell. It just so happens that there is a market in Qishan Village tomorrow, and I am going to go. ”

He is a little childish in front of me on weekdays, but now he looks like this, but he has a bit of a man's stubbornness. I also knew that it was not good to continue, so I smiled softly: "That's good." However, you must not force yourself, you are still injured after all. ”

"I know."

"Okay, you rest early, if you want to go to the market tomorrow, you have to get up early."

"Well, you get some rest early, too."

Nothing was said all night.

The next morning, as soon as it was dawn, I got up and freshened up, and I also heard the sound of Liu San'er washing in the yard, and I pushed the door out when he finished cleaning up.

When he saw me, he was taken aback: "Light, why did you get up so early?" ”

"I'll go to the market with you today."

"Huh? What are you going to do? ”

"I'm going to see the excitement."

"......" He looked at me stunned, as if he didn't understand that I would be in such a good mood, I smiled and said, "Let's go, it's not early, and if it's late, I'll have to catch up with the late market." ”

"Oh......"

He nodded, went out with me, and when he reached the entrance of the village, he said, "If you feel unwell, tell me, it's still a long way to go." ”

"I see."

Speaking of which, during these days, he didn't eat well and dress well at his house, but his body slowly became healthy, and after walking a long way, he was just a little breathing, and he was not too sad, so he went to the market.

Jixiang Village is a very remote small fishing village, there are dozens of families in total, and several villages around it are not big, so the morning market in Qishan Village is the most lively nearby, and there are stalls everywhere on both sides of the long street, and the shouts are also one after another. Walking all the way, I saw a golden fried ghost rolling in a big oil pot, a big white steamed bun just out of the cage exuding a faint sweet fragrance, and a candy man painted on the street corner.

Looking at such a lively market, I was still a little tired, but I was also refreshed at this time.

Liu San'er chose a corner location, wiped the bluestone pier on the side of the street, put a piece of cloth on it, and then said to me, "You can sit here." Be careful to cool. ”

"Hmm."

I nodded, sat down next to him, and waited for the buyer.

After a while, a guest came, picked and bought a load of firewood for a long time, Liu San'er took the money, carefully put it into the purse he usually used, tied the bag and carried it back.

I watched with a smile as he did this. When he put the purse back in his arms, he raised his head and met my smiling eyes, and suddenly felt that he looked a little like a woman, funny, and his dark face was a little red.

I smiled and asked, "Usually during the dry season, you do this?" ”

"Hmm."

"I can't make much money from this."

He nodded and sighed: "In previous years, I helped in Yifeng Inn, although it was a little harder, I could earn some money to subsidize the family. Not now. ”

"However, with the land behind Niangniang Mountain, it will be better for everyone, right?"

"Hmm. Speaking of which, thanks to that Lord Liu Yi, if it weren't for him, who put himself in the shoes of our people, how would we have this way out. He nodded vigorously, reached out to stroke the wound on his wrist, and said, "It's a pity that there are too few good officials in the court." ”

My heart moved slightly.

"What kind of official do you think is a good official?"

"You should be like Lord Liu Yi, dedicated to the people." He said, gritting his teeth: "But now these officials are the people who are single-minded. ”

I smiled indifferently: "I just hope that there will be a few more good officials like Lord Liu Yi in the future." ”

"That's not enough."

“……”

I was stunned for a moment, and then turned my head to look at him: "What did you say?" ”

Liu San'er stroked his injured arm with one hand, and a solemn expression appeared on his face: "I think it's too difficult to meet a good official just by luck." ”

“……”

"If the emperor wants Yangzhou to be good, he should have a good way to govern, instead of expecting one or two good officials to come down, we have experienced too much over the years."

“……”

I was a little surprised, I didn't expect him to say such a thing, but I was a little surprised.

At this time, there were more people in the market, and a few more people came to see the firewood, Liu San'er hurriedly greeted, I watched for a while, and there was no place for me to help, so I whispered to him: "I'll go shopping over there, and I'll be back in a while." ”

"Oh." He instructed, "Then be careful." ”

I nodded, got up and left.

The market was not big, and after a while I walked to the other end, and I happened to see an embroidery workshop, so I walked in.

The outfield of this embroidery workshop is not too big, but after walking in, it is a garden with a few holes, more than a dozen embroidery girls are embroidering flowers, seeing those snow-white slender jade hands like wearing flowers and butterflies threading needles and threads, it is very pleasing to the eye. I stood aside and looked, and the owner of the embroidery workshop came over, a middle-aged man in his forties, with a sheep's horn beard, and said politely: "Girl, what do you want to buy?" ”

I was looking down at an embroidery lady who had dropped a needle, and when I heard him say this, I smiled and said, "Boss, do you rent out work here?" ”

"You're here to pick up the job?" When the boss heard this, he glanced at me out of the corner of his eye and said, "Do you know how to embroider?" ”

I smiled and nodded.

"What do you embroider?" He said, pointing to the work in the hands of the embroidery girl next to us: "Is this going to happen?" ”

I looked at the colorful butterflies embroidered on the silk satin, smiled and said, "This eldest sister is also embroidered well." It's just that if you embroider butterfly wings, you still have more Hunan embroidery flowers, and Suzhou embroidery stitch boards, embroidering such flowers may not be good. ”

"Oh?" The boss frowned: "How do you say embroidery?" ”

After speaking, he handed a look to the embroiderer, and the embroidery girl stopped and gave me the needle, and I was not polite, so I sat down and embroidered slowly.

In fact, when I was in the palace, I didn't tell the truth, except for Shu embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Suzhou embroidery and Guangdong embroidery, I have all learned, and not inferior to the best embroidery in any embroidery workshop, but in the palace over the years, there has never been an opportunity to show what I learned, and those opportunities have been abandoned by me.

But I didn't expect that one day, I would use the skills I learned through blood and sweat to earn a living.

The corners of my mouth hooked a little smile, but my hands did not stop, and soon a lifelike colorful butterfly fluttered its wings on the silk satin.

The boss was dumbfounded, and the embroidery girls around him were also shocked, and they all came over to watch.

After a long while, the boss came back to his senses, looked at me and said, "Girl, are you going to take over the work in our embroidery workshop?" ”

"Hmm."

"Just take the job?"

I smiled: "There are still patients to take care of at home, so I can't come to the embroidery workshop." I come to the fifteenth day of every month to get the work to deliver the goods, and I will not delay a day. ”

"So, what do you do?"

"Except for Shu embroidery, I can take everything else."

By the time I negotiated the salary with the boss, I barely paid the deposit with the money I earned from writing letters these days, and got back the needlework needed for the first batch of goods.

When he saw the burden in my hand, he was stunned for a moment: "What is this?" ”

I just smiled and said, "I'll talk about it when I go back." It's not early, don't go back too late and worry about it. ”

Although he still had doubts, he didn't say anything, nodded and walked back with me, and when he got to the house and packed up the things he bought, he walked into the house and saw me open the baggage, and took out the embroidery thread, brocade and bandage, Liu San'er immediately said after seeing it: "You, you are-"

I smiled and said, "I took some work in the embroidery workshop." If you do it well this time, you will have better work in the future. ”

He looked at me stupidly, then at the things on the table, and was silent for a while before he said slowly: "Light, are you doing this to help me?" ”

“……”

"You, don't think it's to repay the favor or anything, I do these are what I should do."

“……”

"Don't tire yourself down like this."

The more he spoke, the more anxious he became, his face turned red, and in the end, his voice became quieter and quieter, I looked at his eager appearance, and my heart was also warm, and then smiled and said, "Don't think I'm repaying the favor or something." ”

"Huh?"

"Even if I really came to join your cousin, you are injured at this time, and you should do something for you."

"Uh......"

"Come, if you're afraid I'm tired, help me sort out the embroidery thread."

After saying that, he handed him a handful of embroidery thread. I thought that he took care of people's hearts carefully, and it must not be a problem to manage the thread, but in a blink of an eye, the embroidery thread had become a ball of embroidery thread, and he was in a cold sweat, and he couldn't pull it away with a red face, I pushed him out with a wry smile, and he was embarrassed to laugh, so he simply went to clean up the salted fish drying in the yard.

I sat down at the table and started embroidering.

Today I showed such a hand in the embroidery workshop, but in the end it was a living person, and the boss was not too relieved to me, so the work given to me was all embroidered with that kind of butterfly pattern, although I was not tired, but I embroidered back and forth, and after a while, my fingers were full of sweat, the needles were astringent, and my eyes were dry, and I was tired enough.

At night, Liu San'er couldn't afford to light an oil lamp at home, only a short candle flickered, and I had to embroider harder.

Usually he went to sleep a long time ago, but tonight he has been with me, holding a fan to help me chase mosquitoes, and at this time he couldn't help but come over and say, "Don't stay up late, it's not good for your health." ”