The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, the rooster crowed again, Liu Guiyuan got up early to get dressed, and even Liu Hongjube and Liu Peanut, who were on the same kang, woke up, one was busy dipping the grate head, and the other got out of bed and poured the urinal.

Busy with the grate is the eldest sister Liu Hongjuo, today to the town to catch the market, she must accompany Liu Guiyuan, after all, she is a child who does not know the road at all, and Liu Huahua does not go out according to the convention, because of the pockmarks on her face, she never likes to go to crowded places.

Liu Guiyuan drank two sips of cold water, took out two cakes made of maize mixed with white flour from the pot, each the size of a palm, which Liu Huahua had baked in advance last night, and then followed her sister all the way south.

Needless to say, the walk was arduous all the way, Liu Guiyuan calculated the distance, walked about five or six miles, and spent almost an hour, and finally arrived at Qinghe Town, which she had in mind.

Qinghe Town built houses and lived around the Qinghe River, and there were many water activities, and Liu Guiyuan saw the large circular arch bridge on the river, and several Wupeng boats carried in the water, as well as the residents of different shapes on the shore.

She stared at the shops in front of her, there were paper horse shops, incense shops, pharmacies, such shops set up on the street, and there were also vendors who directly set up stalls selling pen and ink, calligraphy and painting, bows and arrows, and woodware.

Liu Guiyuan glanced at it a few times, then withdrew his gaze, concentrated on finding a restaurant similar to a food stall, and soon asked her to find a noodle shop with "all kinds of fresh fish noodles" written on it, with two tables and chairs outside, and a middle-aged man with a mustache was squatting on the side of the road to kill fish and remove scales.

"Shopkeeper, do you want snail meat in the store? Both meaty and in-shell are available. Liu Guiyuan didn't know what to call the man who was older than himself, so he had to call out to the shopkeeper vaguely, and said that he would lift the basket that the eldest sister was carrying in her hand to show him.

The man who killed the fish was not the shopkeeper, he was just a cook, but looking at the cleaned snail meat, he stretched out his finger and pointed behind him and said, "The shopkeeper is in the back, you go and ask him if he wants it." ”

Liu Guiyuan walked in front of Liu Hongjujube, and took the lead in the noodle shop, but did not see the shopkeeper, only saw a slightly younger woman, who was lowering her head and wiping the table, so he asked her with a smile: "May I ask you are the shopkeeper?" I want to sell some black snail meat, fresh and delicious in the noodles. ”

The young woman was still wiping the table, and did not speak, but tilted her head to look at the basket, and saw that the snails in it were clean, and asked casually, "You made all this?" It looks okay, how do you sell it? ”

"Well, I fished it in the river myself, vomited the mud and sand for a day, and washed it clean. If you add some pork bone broth and chicken soup together, and serve it with rice noodles, noodles and other side dishes, the taste will be even better. ”

Liu Guiyuan had the heart to mention the snail noodles she had eaten before, but the other party was obviously not interested, and shook his head vigorously and said: "This is a fresh fish noodle shop, selling fish from the Qinghe River, eat and kill, what do you want your pork bone soup and chicken soup for?" ”

Liu Guiyuan didn't expect to hit the wall for the first time, but he still didn't give up and lobbied: "Then do you want pure black snail meat?" It's fresher when you fry it in the noodles, I made it myself, and it only costs five cents a catty! ”

This price is what she asked Zhang's before she came, according to the price of a penny that can buy half a steamed bun, she priced five cents is not black, after all, it is really time-consuming and troublesome to clean up the snails.

Seeing that the young woman was unmoved, Liu Guiyuan had no choice but to carry the basket and go out, but before she reached the door, the woman opened her mouth and stopped her: "Hey, don't go yet, look at your villain is pitiful, weigh me a little." ”

When the young woman saw that she was dressed in shabby clothes, and that she was from the country, she suddenly stopped her kindly, took a handful of baskets from the counter, weighed a pound, and gave her five cents.

Liu Guiyuan saw five round copper coins for the first time, not to mention how excited she was, this was the first time she had touched a copper coin, and it was still a copper coin earned by her own ability! With this good start, as long as she continues to work hard, she can earn five hundred dollars or more!

"This is sold? Gui Yuan, you are so bold, the eldest sister will not say anything except following behind. Liu Hongzao was very embarrassed, she hadn't been to the town a few times in total, and when she saw so many people, she was instinctively afraid of life, where did she still have the courage to take the initiative to talk to people about transactions.

"It's okay, eldest sister, I'm a child, of course I'm not afraid of anything." Liu Guiyuan smiled and comforted the eldest sister.

Next, Liu Guiyuan painted a scoop according to the gourd, and when he saw a restaurant selling food, he went in to ask, and some of the shopkeepers didn't look down on her snails, waved her hand and told her to go, she was not annoyed and continued to go to the next one to ask, before noon, the small basket of snails was all sold, and a total of 16 yuan was earned.

Liu Guiyuan and Liu Hongjube didn't dare to spend the sixteen yuan, but went home on an empty stomach, everything in the town was expensive, but it was not something that their sisters could afford to eat.

Liu Guiyuan originally thought that after making money today, she could buy some brown sugar or something for Zhang's family, but when she passed by the food store and asked the price, she realized that a pound of good sand sugar would cost forty-three yuan, and the most inferior one would cost twenty-one yuan.

Back to Liu's house in Huashi Village, Liu Guiyuan was hungry and hungry, but fortunately, the second sister Liu Peanut cooked maize millet porridge, she drank a bowl of cushion to cushion her stomach, and then went to Huashi River with a homemade fishing net, this time she planned to go a little farther.

was busy until dusk, and every household was smoking, and Liu Guiyuan held the heavy basket and walked towards home with a satisfied face. Walking along the path to the outside of the fence, Liu Guiyuan's eyes were sharp, and he saw that her father Liu Chongshan was planting things in the open space in the east, and there was a shovel on the ground, which he thought was used to dig a pit just now.

"Dad, I'm back." Liu Guiyuan was in a good mood, and when she saw her father bowing his head and busy working, he took the initiative to say hello.

Liu Chongshan was holding a handful of gourd seeds in his hand, which he asked the old Tian family in the village who was good at growing gourds, just to be able to prosper his descendants. Although he had already invited his grandson gourd back from the town, he was afraid that his mana would not be enough, so he insisted on ordering another row of gourds outside.

Hearing Liu Guiyuan calling him, knowing that she had gone to the town to sell black snails today, he squinted and sneered: "The children's family, tossing blindly, how much money can they sell?"

Liu Guiyuan stopped squeaking, thinking that today you look down on me, and tomorrow you will not be able to climb high, so he strode into the house. Before entering the house, Liu Guiyuan looked around, and sure enough, on the square door frame, he saw two hanging purple gourds, hum, it looked strange.

The next morning, Liu Guiyuan still went to the Huashi River to fish for snails, she planned, every morning to fish for snails, after noon hot days to go home to clean up the snails caught the day before, after a night, the snails in the stomach of the snails have already been spit out, and then sent to the town to sell, can be sold for a while.

Liu Guiyuan held the net, followed the edge of the river to reach those snails, and saw that under a water weed, there were a lot of big and black snails, and he was about to fish, when suddenly there was a "poof", something fell into the water, and the snails sank to the bottom of the water when they heard the movement.

Liu Guiyuan looked up angrily, and saw that not far from her, there were two children, Liu Tiezhu and Liu Tiedan, one holding an earthworm in his hand and the other holding a stone in his hand.

It's these two rabbit cubs again, it's not good to run into them, I really want to beat them, but she still held back, forget it, she's an adult, what to fight with two children, change places!

Liu Guiyuan walked forward for dozens of meters, continued to stretch out the net to catch the snails, and made another "poof", only two snails were fished, Liu Guiyuan glared at them angrily, these two children were absolutely deliberate, and deliberately did not give them revenge for eating snails.

"What do you two want to do, I'm doing the right thing, and if you make trouble, be careful that I will beat you!" Liu Guiyuan waved his fist and looked at Tie Zhu and Tie Dan, one was three years older than her, and the other was a month younger than her, how could he be so confused!

"Hehe, the little fool fished for the black snail, and he couldn't find it when he fell into the river!" Tie Dan clapped his hands and sang, and grimaced at her proudly.

Liu Guiyuan got angry, deliberately fished out a handful of green moss in the water with a fishing net, and then splashed it on the two of them, and the iron pillar and iron egg instantly turned into little dirty children.

With two calls, Liu Guiyuan finally let out his anger, lowered his head to get the two snails in the net, and prepared to pack up and go home.

"I told you to splash me, and I killed you!" Liu Tiedan saw that his newly changed clothes were dirty, so he ran forward in a fit of anger, like a long-range launched steel egg, and hit Liu Guiyuan!

Liu Guiyuan was defenseless, and Liu Tiedan was much stronger than her, so he knocked him into the Huashi River, and the whole person was unstable on his feet, his head leaned backwards, and he fell into the bottom of the river, and drank two mouthfuls of water in a panic.

When she finally climbed up from the water, Liu Tiedan, who was standing on the opposite shore, was still arrogant: "No loss!" Who told you to splash me, I didn't push you down last time, but this time I pushed down, drowned you fool, haha. ”

Wait, last time? Which last time? The last time she fished for snails was the day before yesterday, when Liu Tiedan was standing far away and didn't touch her at all, could it be the time when she fell into the water and almost drowned before?

Okay, Liu Guiyuan thought that the second sister Liu Huahua said that she fell into the water, she thought that it was the original life, but she didn't expect it to be a good thing done by Liu Tiedan, a deflated calf!

This is not a trivial matter of throwing stones and messing around, this is a living human life!

Thinking of this, Liu Guiyuan found his own fishing net, endured the pain in his belly, went ashore step by step, danced at Liu Tiedan, who was beaten on the side, and hit his buttocks, thighs and belly, and Liu Tiedan, who was in pain, screamed.

How could Liu Tiezhu see his little brother being beaten, he was a head taller than Liu Guiyuan, seeing Liu Guiyuan chasing his little brother to fight, he hurriedly grabbed the fishing net, and hurriedly shouted: "Three fools, what are you doing?" Are you stupid again, beating my brother like this? ”

"Phew, you're only three fools, your family is three fools! Whoever calls me a fool, I'll beat him to death!" Liu Guiyuan was really angry, she only had one thought in her mind at the moment, and that was to beat people.

It's a pity that Liu Tiezhu's height is there, and Liu Guiyuan can't pull back the net in her hand when she is angry, she angrily drops the stick to pick up Liu Tiedan, but unfortunately he has run to safety.

"You big fool, I'm going to tell my mother and my milk, and tell them to beat you to death!" Liu Tiedan, who had successfully walked away, stood in the distance, baring his teeth and howling, while Liu Tiezhu broke the fishing net he had snatched, threw it away into the distance, and left.

Before leaving, Liu Tiezhu also put down his arrogance and said: "You are miserable, look at how my grandmother will settle accounts with you when I go back, so that you can, phew!" ”