The prosperity of Changzhou is not at all the same level as Ming County, and the long shop surface can't be forgotten at a glance, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going.

Probably Changzhou is the state of fabrics, and there are many cloth shops, which are a bit similar to wholesale markets.

However, for Lin Qiao, who only buys one or two pieces, it is still very expensive, she thought about it in her heart, and simply brought a piece of clothing to each of the Lin family and the Song family, except for the Song Wang family.

More than a dozen pieces of clothing cost nearly ten silver, and the clothes of the others were fine, and the most expensive was only more than 400 yuan a piece.

The most expensive thing is Song Tingfan's clothes, with two more cowhide knee pads, and he can start to hunt in the mountains.

After clearing it and not missing it, she carried her things back to the inn.

……

Several days passed, and at noon that day, Old Man Zhou came with a letter, "Ting Fan, someone has sent you a letter again." ”

Seeing that Song Tingfan ran out and took it over, he was curious: "Who wrote it for you?" ”

"My sister-in-law." Song Tingfan opened the envelope anxiously, and then suddenly shouted happily into the house, "Grandma, sister-in-law is coming back." ”

"Really? When will you come back, let your grandpa weigh some meat and come back. Song Qin ran out in a hurry, but he couldn't read the words on the paper.

Song Tingfan said to her, "My sister-in-law said that she was already in Shaozhou when she wrote the letter, and Shaozhou is only five or six days away from here, and it takes three or four days to send the letter, and my sister-in-law will go home in two days." ”

However, Lin Qiao had already arrived in the town, and it rained heavily two days ago, and the letter could not be delivered at all, so he started to deliver it when the rain stopped.

This is almost the same as Lin Qiao's carriage.

After getting off the carriage, Lin Qiao's whole body was sore, and then she took the donkey cart from the neighboring village back to the village, but she got off at the fork in the road between the two villages.

It didn't take long for her to walk back, and on the way she met a few people from the village who were rushing to the market, and she looked like a strange thing.

Lin Qiao didn't have to guess to know the gossip hotspots of the people in the village during this time.

Widow Song ran away, Widow Song ran away with someone, Widow Song died and other topics.

She remembered a sentence on the Internet, my sister is not in the rivers and lakes, but there are still legends of my sister in the rivers and lakes.

After lunch, he went to water the vegetable field and pulled the grass by the way.

After finishing all this, he took all the dirty clothes at home and Lin Qiao's quilt to the river to wash.

The women by the river didn't think it was interesting to wash clothes, so they began to surround Song Tingfan and ask, "Tingfan, do you know where your sister-in-law has gone?" ”

"My sister-in-law didn't run away, she went out for something." Song Tingfan pursed his lips and explained seriously.

The women didn't take it seriously, and continued to ask, "I heard that your sister-in-law followed a rich man, Ting Fan, have you seen it?" ”

Song Tingfan didn't want to deal with them, so he buried his head and continued to wash his clothes, and when the women saw that he didn't speak, they began to say bad things about Lin Qiao as if he didn't exist.

When Lin Qiao arrived here, she happened to hear them say that she ran away with someone else.

It's a shame that these people don't become storytellers.

Suddenly, the young man's angry voice sounded, "Why do you like to talk nonsense, my sister-in-law didn't run away with others, she went out to work." ”

"You just can't see my sister-in-law!"

He suddenly caught a glimpse of something, and his originally angry expression was suddenly happy, "Sister-in-law." After speaking, he didn't care about his clothes, and ran directly to Lin Qiao.

Lin Qiao's eyebrows curled, "Uncle." ”

"Sister-in-law, why did you come back today, I thought you were going to spend two days." Song Tingfan took what was in her hand.

Lin Qiao blinked, "Then I'll go out for two more days?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Song Tingfan shook his head anxiously, "Don't!" ”

Lin Qiao couldn't help laughing, and then glanced at the women watching them by the river, she smiled and said, "The aunts' mouths are really idle. ”

Speaking ill of the Lord was heard by the Lord, and none of the women by the river spoke up.

Seeing that they were silent, Lin Qiao "cut" in her heart, and knew that she was being bullied softly.

After that, he ignored them and took Song Tingfan home.

In the hall, Song Qin's family was squinting his eyes to do embroidery work, and when he heard the footsteps, he subconsciously looked up, saw Lin Qiao, was stunned for a moment, and then got up happily, "Qiao'er, you're finally back!" We thought you'd be back in two days. ”

Looking at her sincere expression, Lin Qiao's heart warmed, "Grandma." ”

Song Qin came over and pulled her, looked her up and down for a while, her eyes became more and more red, and she choked up: "Qiao'er, you have lost weight." ”

"No, I'm fat." Lin Qiao has indeed lost weight, after all, he has been in the carriage for more than 20 days, and he basically eats dry food.

"I can see that you have lost weight and you have suffered." Song Qin didn't want to cry, but he couldn't help it, Qiao'er, this kid would go out for them.

She cried, and Lin Qiao was a little sour, "Grandma, no." ”

Song Qin thought of something, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, "Niu Niu, your sister-in-law must be hungry, you go back and weigh some meat, weigh more, I'll go to the kitchen to steam rice." ”

This noon was a cold meal in the morning, and there was no leftover meal.

"Okay." After Song Tingfan put his things in his sister-in-law's house, he hurriedly ran out again, and soon came back with unwashed clothes, and then ran out again.

Lin Qiao didn't stop him when she wanted to shout at him, she couldn't cry or laugh for a while, but she was really hungry.

When Song Qin was about to enter the kitchen, he turned around sharply and stood at the gate of the courtyard and shouted, "Old man, come back and burn the fire!" ”

Song Rong, who was cooking vegetables at the back of the house, hurriedly agreed when he heard it, and before he entered the door, he said, "What are you doing with the fire?" ”

When he saw Lin Qiao, he said happily: "Qiao'er, you're back, you're thin, you're thin." ”

"Grandpa, I'm not thin, you just haven't seen me for a long time."

Lin Qiaobang wanted to help him take over the hoe, but Song Rong smiled and said, "There is mud on the hoe, don't get your hands dirty, go and take some breaks." ”

"Old woman, didn't Niu Niu buy rice crackers a few days ago, you can take them out and give them to Qiao'er."

Song Qinshi hurriedly said "oh oh" twice, "I'll get it." ”

After the family of three was busy, Lin Qiao couldn't shout, so she had to help get it together, but Song Qin's family didn't let her get it, so she was "fiercely" kicked her out of the kitchen and let her eat rice crackers.

Lin Qiao bit the rice crackers, glanced at the yard, and found that the lotus flowers in the clay pot were about to bloom, it seemed that there were more than before leaving, it should be where Song Tingfan went to get them.

After a while, Song Tingfan came back with several catties of meat, but he didn't see his sister-in-law, he shouted several times in a row, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law......"

Hearing the sound, Lin Qiao in the house hurriedly walked out, "Here." ”

Song Tingfan grinned stupidly and shouted again, "Sister-in-law." ”

Lin Qiao wanted to laugh a little, but she still cooperated, "Why do you weigh so much meat." ”

"I have money."

Song Tingfan took out the money bag from his arms and handed over the money he had earned these days, "Sister-in-law, I have saved more than two hundred questions from hunting." ”

"So much? Uncle is getting more and more capable now. Lin Qiao confiscated it and motioned for him to keep it alone.

"I'll be more capable." Song Tingfan wanted to say that he would not let his sister-in-law go out to work in the future.

He thought about his sister-in-law for many days.