"Mother, I have something I want to ask you, I haven't cleaned my body yet, what should I do?" When Zhang saw his mother, he seemed to have returned to the past when he was a daughter, and he had to ask his mother if he had any troubles.

Grandma Luo asked her about her situation carefully, and asked her to take off her pants, take a look at the dirty things on the menstrual belt, and then squinted her eyes and thought for a while, and said: "By the way, there is a lantern grass also called motherwort, ask the red dates to pick a handful outside the ground, put them in the pot and add water to boil, drink the water inside after boiling, and keep and drink for three or four days." ”

"There aren't enough eggs at home, right? I brought some here, and I can boil some eggs with lantern plants to eat, and I can still get milk, I'm afraid you don't have milk......"

Grandma Luo remembered the things she brought when she came, squatted on the ground and took out the things in the basket and the cloth bag, including twenty eggs, cucumbers that had just been formed in the vegetable field, a piece of water-blue cloth, and half a catty of millet and yellow rice.

"Mother, come here from Shuangya Village, why do you still bring so many things, I have everything here, I don't lack anything, you take it back and eat it yourself." Zhang couldn't help but be moved to tears when he saw Grandma Luo's somewhat clumsy figure.

"I'm so old, I haven't eaten any good things, these are what I have at home, and I don't have to spend money. Okay, don't cry, don't want to cry again. Grandma Luo put the things she brought, turned her head and saw her daughter shed tears, and quickly persuaded her to accept it.

Zhang wiped the corners of her eyes, half stopped her tears, and continued to talk to her mother about the short period of time in the family, when it came to Liu Chongshan's desire for Liu Hongjube to recruit a husband at home, she hesitated a little and said, "Mother, what should I do if you want you to be me?" The four daughters will all marry in the future, and Chongshan and I will have no hope at all. ”

"You, confused, such a good girl with red dates, you can't bear to let her be wronged?" Grandma Luo sat cross-legged on the edge of the kang, stretched out her hand and nodded Zhang's head, and said slowly: "My mother eats more salt than you eat rice, and I have long known that many things cannot be forced, you have hope for her to stay at home, how will she live her life?" If you recruit an honest person, you can make do with your life, but if you have a bad temperament, you have no place to regret it. ”

"Xiangxue, listen to my mother's words, people can't be too strong in their lives, they should have everything in their lives, they don't have in their lives, and it's useless to toss and toss. Do you remember that there is a girl named Chunni in our village, she is the only daughter in the family, sitting in the mountains at home to recruit husbands, what happened later, recruited a man who eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and then lives without knowing how much she lives. ”

"Chunni? But the one at the foot of Shuangya Mountain? "Zhang's family can't remember his mother's family clearly.

"Yes, her man got along with a widow outside, took the family's money and ran away while it was dark, and when Chunni noticed that everyone had run to the city, who would still be looking for it? She gave birth to a boy, but the family owes a lot of debts, and I don't know how to pay it back to the Year of the Monkey. ”

What Grandma Luo told Zhang Chunni was to persuade her not to be so obsessed with keeping red dates at home, this woman, getting married is the most important thing, and whether she lives well or not in the second half of her life depends on who she marries.

"That's not a good job, is it? My red dates won't be this fate. Zhang's mouth is still a little hard-mouthed, thinking that Chunni is unlucky, if she gives red dates, she will definitely recruit an honest and capable crop man.

"Okay, you can think about this matter again, and I'll go out and solve it." Seeing that she couldn't move this eldest daughter, Grandma Luo sighed silently in her heart.

That night, Grandma Luo rested in the west side room, and Liu Guiyuan sisters huddled together, they slept on the kang against the wall of the hall, a total of two meters wide, usually Liu Hongzao and Liu Guiyuan slept at this end, Liu Huahua slept in the middle and the head was facing that end.

Tonight, Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua squeezed together and slept outside, Grandma Luo slept on the inside with Liu Guiyuan in her arms, Liu Guiyuan liked this kind grandmother in his heart, so he took her hand and wrapped her around her to talk about what relatives there were in her hometown.

Grandma Luo squinted her eyes, patted her back gently, and said slowly: You have an eldest uncle, a second uncle, your mother is ranked third like you, and you also have an aunt, who is only nineteen years old this year, married in the next village two years ago, your uncle's family has three cousins, and your second uncle's family has ......."

On the morning of the second day, Grandma Luo, who had breakfast, said that she would go back, and Zhang and her three granddaughters kept her for another day, but she just smiled and said: "The work at home is inseparable from people, and I have seen that your mother and daughter are all fine, so I am relieved to go back as soon as possible." ”

At this time, Liu Huahua stretched out his elbow and poked Liu Guiyuan on the side, Liu Guiyuan quickly understood, stepped forward to hold Grandma Luo's arm, and begged: "Grandma, ask me and the eldest sister and the second sister to send you a while, okay?" We'll take you to the fork and then want to go to town for half a day, okay? ”

"This ...... All three of you go to town? Zhang asked from the side.

"Well, I caught a lot of snails, and asked the eldest sister to help me carry them, and the second sister hasn't been to the town yet, so it's better to go together and come back in the afternoon." Liu Guiyuan said the excuse he had come up with.

"How many of you go, no one has beaten the pigweed at home, why don't you call the red dates at home, you and your second sister will go on a trip?" Liu Chongshan on the side heard what he said, and he was no longer as opposed to Liu Guiyuan going to the town from time to time to sell snails for money, but he still remembered in his heart that the work at home could not be delayed.

"Dad, the three of us made pigweed yesterday afternoon and sent it to the third uncle's house in advance, so let the eldest sister go too, she should be relaxed when she goes out for a walk." Liu Guiyuan slandered Liu Chongshan, a lazy father, who was bent on asking people to work, and never said that he was considerate and considerate of his daughters.

"Chongshan, Xiangxue, just let her sister go, right? It's all small, and it's nothing to go out once or twice once in a while, and besides, the pigweed has been beaten, so I can't delay the business. ”

Grandma Luo saw Liu Guiyuan's eyes asking her for help, and smiled and opened her mouth to intercede with them, sure enough, Liu Chongshan had nothing to say, and the Zhang family would not stop her.

Along the way, the three girls talked and laughed, walking forward around Grandma Luo, until they reached the three forks and went west, and Grandma Luo didn't want them to go forward, so they stopped.

"Okay, don't send it, you won't have the strength to go to the town if you send it again, I'm leaving, your sister should be obedient at home, be careful when you go to the town to play, don't be abducted by a kidnapper, my house is gone." If you have time to come to your grandmother's house to play, your grandmother will make you something to eat. ”

Grandma Luo waved her hand at the three of them, walked with a pair of small feet, and went home in good spirits.

Liu Guiyuan looked at the figure of her grandmother, and suddenly felt a little sad, her grandmother was good to her, and she remembered it in her heart.

"Let's go, it's not too early, we have to go to the town to get down to business." Liu Huahua wiped the corners of his reddened eyes and took the lead in walking back.

The three sisters walked back for half a mile, then continued to walk south, walked for about half an hour, and finally arrived at the bustling and lively Qinghe Town.

Qinghe Town is a big town, not only because there are many ship merchants in Qinghe through the wharf, but also it is a military town with heavy guards, so it is larger than the general town.

Liu Guiyuan led the two sisters to Sun Jingxuan's residence, knocked on the door, and a teenage boy opened the door and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

"I'm looking for Sun Jingxuan and Sun Xiaoge, my name is Liu Guiyuan, they are my eldest sister and second sister, and I came here today to sign an agreement on the snail powder business." Liu Guiyuan said in a straight voice.

"Oh, you're Liu Guiyuan, are they your eldest sister and second sister? Looking for my brother, he pickles bamboo shoots in the backyard, you come in with me. Sun Jinglun opened the courtyard door, and then trotted all the way to the backyard, shouting as he ran: "Brother, here, they are here, Miss Liu is here with her eldest sister and second sister!" ”

Tsk, Sun Jingxuan has a calm and calm personality, I didn't expect his younger brother to be so out-of-the-box, and he is also a talker!

In the backyard of Sun's house, Sun Jingxuan is learning to pickle sour bamboo shoots, in previous years, his family did not eat this, so he didn't know how to pickle, this time he bought some dried bamboo shoots from the dry goods store, and planned to try to pickle them first, if it was successful, he would pickle them himself, and he could save some money.

Sun Jingxuan put down the half-pickled sour bamboo shoots and got up to greet them, only to see two girls standing behind Miss Liu, one was tall and tall, with fair skin, handsome eyebrows and eyes, and the other was slightly shorter and had a similar appearance, but the complexion was a little dark.

"Little Brother Sun, this is my eldest sister Liu Hongjuo, next to me is my second sister Liu Huahua, today they came to sign the agreement on my behalf." Liu Guiyuan still introduced generously.

Sun Jingxuan nodded, not despising her two sisters because of their young age, but invited them to the house to talk, and at the same time called her mother Zhou to accompany her.

"This is an agreement that I drafted, I'll read it first, you listen to it, if there's anything wrong, you say I'll change it." Sun Jingxuan guessed that they were not very literate, so he kindly read it out to them.

Liu Guiyuan nodded secretly while listening, Sun Jingxuan is indeed a good partner, and she mentioned Sanchengli and selling snails to his family before.

Sun Jingxuan read the agreement and handed it to the eldest girl of the Liu family.

Liu Hongzao couldn't help but be a little nervous when he saw the snow-white paper and black characters for the first time, but thinking of what they had discussed before, even if they didn't know the words, they had to pretend to know each other, and read them slowly word by word, otherwise they would be manipulated on the agreement.

There are two agreements in total, and Liu Hongjube is almost looking at each other, so she looks very slowly, for fear that something will be missed, and Liu Guiyuan, who is standing behind her, has already gone through the agreement at a glance. As Liu Guiyuan coughed, Liu Hongzao knew that this was the code for reading the agreement, so he put down the blank paper and pretended to have read it.

"Eldest sister, Brother Sun is a trustworthy person, let's sign it quickly, I see that there is time here, and you can press your handprint."

Liu Hongzao glanced at her, nodded slightly, dipped one hand in the ink and pressed it the paper, in duplicate, a total of two times.

Sun Jingxuan glanced at her strangely, he just looked at the agreement of the eldest girl of the Liu family for a long time, and thought that she was literate, but he didn't know it, but he didn't plan to break it, nor did he plan to do anything with the agreement, but happily pressed his own handprint on the paper.

Liu Hongjube was glanced at by Sun Jingxuan, and the other party may have seen that he couldn't write at all, and couldn't help blushing a little.

After the agreement was signed, the family took a copy, and the two families were complete partners, at this time, Liu Guiyuan finally stopped hiding his secrets, and revealed the recipe and secret of making snail noodles that he knew.

"It turned out to be crooked meat, no wonder the soup was so fresh." Sun Jingxuan heard her talk about the trick of boiling snail soup, and couldn't help but sigh a little, how could he not have thought of such a clever method.

"That's right, when you cook the soup, you add some powder directly into it, not only the soup tastes fresh, but others can't steal your soup base, so that even if there are other families doing this business in the future, your snail noodles will still be the first in Qinghe Town."