"Mother, sixth aunt, Tang Gongzi has passed just now, let's go quickly. A young woman sitting on the pier of the door with the soles of her shoes shouted at the courtyard, and as soon as the words fell, two middle-aged women and four or five children rushed out of the courtyard.

The two little servants of the Tang family, who were walking in front, squeezed their eyebrows at each other and grinned when they heard this. This kind of situation has been common in the past three months, and after a while, there are hundreds of people behind him, led by his own sixth young master, all the way to the north of the city.

The young master of the Tang family is an old man, and the big house has a wife and three concubines who gave birth to a total of five girls, until the first day of the Lunar New Year ten years ago, the waffle added a son-in-law, so far the project of cultivating the next generation in the big house has come to a successful end. As the only young master Tang has been pampered since he was a child, he is ten years old and still walks around the street with a small servant all day long, which is called a chivalrous battle, but Tang Gongzi is a lone ranger and never plays with other little gentlemen. The Tang family's big house has 300 acres of land, two shops, and the family has money to support him, and the other people in the Tang family talk about it behind their backs.

Three months ago, the three of them walked to the slum in the north of the city where they had never been, and accidentally saw a three-year-old girl doll in front of the Du family setting up a stall in front of the door to sell tofu, and there was no adult around her.

Young Master Tang was curious for a while, and the three of them went to the street to inquire only to know that the old man of the Huwei Dart Bureau married three wives in his life, and the old wife in the first room left a son and went, the wife in the second room was divorced because she had not given birth for five years, and the wife in the third room brought a daughter, and after getting married, she added three sons to the old master, and the three sons were all Aiwen and did not love martial arts. Since then, the old master has loved the little lady as a eyeball, and even the one girl and three men born with her are much more favored than the eldest son.

The eldest son Mao Jiaxiang has learned a good kung fu with his father and master Wu since he was a child, and the son inherited his father's business to support the Huwei Dart Bureau.

Mao Jiaxiang serves the second elder to filial piety and loves his younger brothers and sisters, but he is very stubborn in marriage, regardless of the opposition of the family, he must fulfill the baby kiss set by his mother. Six years ago, he married Du Niangzi, the only daughter of Du Ji Tofu in the north of the city, after marriage, it was also a harmonious husband and wife, respecting each other, but half a year later, the old Du husband and wife passed away one after another, Du Shi was hit hard since then, the body was weak, perennial lingering sickbed, three years at the end of the year, because there was nothing to do, Mao Jiaxiang was forced to take a concubine by his father and the little lady, the concubine is the distant niece of the little lady, and she looks like a charming and lovely person who I see pity. Who knew that on the day of the concubine, the young lady's old family picked up a baby girl in the old house, and the young lady actually went to the old man Mao to ask for a letter of divorce in front of the old man with the support of the old lady.

The lively wedding banquet was disrupted by this accident, and the guests whispered endlessly. The little lady was so angry that she wanted to abandon the Du family on the spot, and threatened to drive the Du family out of Ping'an Town. Helpless, Mao Jiaxiang was unwilling to divorce his wife, and finally under the coordination of the old people in the clan, the little lady's maiden niece was changed from a concubine to a flat wife, and the two ends were on an equal footing.

Half a month later, the old master asked Mao Jiaxiang to go to the north to escort the darts, and on the second day, Du Shi left the Mao family with his little daughter Du Qingqing, and went to live in the old house of the Du family in the north of the city.

The old house in the north of the city was transferred to their old Changgong before the death of Du Lao and his wife, Du Mama's family of four was already nervous, after Du came, Du Changgong took his two sons back to his hometown in the countryside, leaving Du Mama to take care of Du Niangzi's mother and daughter.

The three of them have old and young people, and they will spend all the savings of Mama Du's family after a year, and Du Niangzi's health is getting better and better, and she can usually grow vegetables in the yard to feed the chickens. On the day of the Lantern Festival, the Mao family sprinkled money on the street, and Mao Jiaxiang's Mrs. Ping was happy to add a son.

The next day Mama Du went to a big family to work as a maid to earn money, Du Niangzi started a tofu business with her ancestral business, and every day she just made a plate of tofu to sell on the street, but there were always street ruffians who came to entangle, and Du Niangzi also knew that someone was deliberately manipulating her. In desperation, I had to start a tofu business at the door of my home, counting on the old neighbors to patronize the business. Fortunately, whether it is the vegetables grown or the chickens raised in his yard, they are better than other parents, and Mama Du often takes them to the master's house in exchange for some money. The only regret is that Du Qingqing has not spoken since she was almost two years old, and the neighbors also suspected that Qingqing was a mute girl, and some people even said it to her face. Du Shi and Du Mama loved this child as always. In addition to not being able to speak, Du Qingqing is a smart child. Every day when Mama Du comes back from work, Qingqing will help rub her shoulders and pinch her back. Du Niangzi made tofu, Qingqing guarded the stall at the door of the house to collect money for people, saying that tofu is never wrong, so Du Niangzi can rest for an hour every morning.

Young Master Tang's chivalrous feelings were stimulated again, and he took out a piece of ten taels of silver from his body and handed it to Du Qingqing. Du Qingqing shook his head, pointed directly at the tofu, and stretched the palm of his left hand.

Young Master Tang scratched his head, and someone on the side said, "The dumb girl said that she can't charge you more, a piece of tofu costs five yuan, and a plate of tofu costs two hundred yuan." ”

The three of them searched all over their bodies and found the smallest piece of silver, about a tael of silver.

Qingqing went back to the yard and took out three ropes, one long, one short and one medium, signaling people to stand three meters in front of him, showing everyone the rope, short, medium and long in his hands one after another, all folded and held in his hands, and then shook hard, stretched his hands, and became three ropes of the same length, and then showed three ropes of the same length one by one, everyone was surprised, and finally held the ropes in their hands, and when they took it out again, it was still a long and a short one, and Young Master Tang applauded excitedly. can't enjoy watching it, so let Qingqing perform over and over again, and every time the performance makes the onlookers novel.

The more people surrounded, the more and more people surrounded, and in the end, no matter how Young Master Tang told Qingqing, he shook his head and stopped performing for everyone. I also used my hands to perform for five cents once, and if I don't buy tofu, I won't perform, and I can buy tofu again tomorrow.

Young Master Tang was provoked to be competitive, and gave a plate of tofu to the onlookers, saying that he would go home and think about it, and come back another day, so that if he came every two or three days, the onlookers could get a piece of tofu for nothing.

After this incident, the tofu stall became famous, and people from other parts of the town also came to buy tofu, and asked Qingqing to perform rope juggling. Now Du Niangzi can sell out two plates of tofu a day, and today Young Master Tang came to the door. This time, I bought two plates of tofu first, and then asked Qingqing to perform a rope, and he took out the prepared rope himself and performed it once. The people standing behind him understood that when the rope was pulled, the short rope was sleeved around the middle and long ropes, the middle rope was not pulled, and the long rope passed through the short rope and became two. The length of the middle rope needs to be exactly equal to half of the long rope, and the end of the rope should be added, and there should be feints on the hand to cover it. Once you know what's inside, you find that it's very simple, how did you be fooled in the first place.

Young Master Tang did not give away the tofu this time, but motioned for all the little servants to carry it home, and invited the people in the house to eat tofu today, sharing the joy of Young Master Tang solving the puzzle.

When Young Master Tang stood up to leave, Qingqing ran over and grabbed the hem of his clothes, motioned for him to sit down, brought an empty cup by himself, poured tea, put it aside, and took out two coins from his pocket, knocked them several times, and finally knocked on the empty copper coins with both hands.

"Where's the money?" Young Master Tang was dumbfounded

"Please drink tea!" The soft and glutinous little voice startled everyone, and Qingqing could speak.

"Qingqing, go home for dinner." Du Niangzi greeted outside the human wall

"Mother, come. Qingqing doesn't care about others, she is small and drills out of the crowd, "Mother, today's tofu is sold out." The mother and daughter returned to the courtyard hand in hand.

Everyone was talking, and Young Master Tang picked up the teacup and saw that there was not a drop of tea in it, only two pennies.

What a god!