What Sun Jingxuan thinks, Liu Guiyuan doesn't know, she is picking out skirts with her two sisters in a ready-to-wear shop at this time, and she originally planned to take time to water in the ground today, so Liu Yao's family made such a fuss, they can only hide in the town first, and then go back later.

The three sisters walked around the ready-to-wear shop for a while, and finally picked out a fine-pleated skirt with twenty-four pleats, embroidered with two-inch flower and bird patterns on the skirt, which looked particularly good when walking, and there were just three colors, red, green and yellow.

When he arrived at the door of the house, Liu Yao's had already left, Liu Guiyuan opened the door of the hall, sat at the door and continued to work, not long after, Liu Jindi also came from home, she preferred to sit with Liu Guiyuan and wash the loquat, if she was in her own home, her mother had to ask her to rub the pulp, that work was too tiring.

"You bought a new dress, it's so beautiful, how did you embroider this lace? Got a lot of money, right? Liu Jindi saw the butterfly play on the side of Liu Hongjujube's skirt at a glance, and couldn't help squatting down to touch it, she couldn't embroider this kind of embroidery.

"Isn't it? When I bought it, I also told the store that the most expensive thing about this skirt is the embroidered lace, and a little pattern will cost 20 yuan more than the skirt next to it. Liu Hongzao felt a little distressed when he thought about it, he only earned more than four taels of silver, and three skirts cost five hundred yuan, can you not feel distressed.

"Eldest sister, you forgot what I said, you can earn it if you can spend it, and if you earn it, we have to spend it." Liu Guiyuan didn't think so, her eldest sister was good at everything, but she was too diligent and thrifty to keep her family, so she bought a new skirt, and she couldn't stand it.

"Gui Yuan is right, eldest sister, don't feel distressed, make more ice powder for a while, sell a few more buckets, and the skirt money will be earned back soon." Liu Huahua rubbed a pot of ice powder in the hall and was about to send it to the fourth grandmother's house, when he heard them talking, he expressed his opinion as he walked, and Liu Hongjujube, who provoked him, laughed behind him.

Now is the time when the sun is strong, Liu Guiyuan does not plan to water in the field with his two sisters, it is too sunny, and he will go after about three o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun is not so poisonous.

I ate a few steamed buns in the town before, and I was not hungry at this time, and my sister didn't plan to cook for the time being, but the lotus seeds had to eat, and the four grandmothers helped bring the children for a long time, whether they ate or not, they needed to make more. After thinking about it, she first cooked a bowl of rice noodles, then a bowl of boiled noodles, and then called the fourth grandmother to come over to eat.

The fourth grandmother came with a smile and a lotus seed, saying that she had eaten it and that she didn't have to waste food, but she was happy in her heart. Now the dog baby is busy working in the town every day, not only earning a lot of money, but also becoming much more mature and stable after this experience.

Liu Guiyuan stood on the pot table and began to cook pig food with pot water, after the water boiled, add some wheat bran and leftover loquat pomace, and add a little vinegar and salt, this is the pig's favorite pig food, these days the pomace and pigweed are constantly fed, the piglets began to grow bigger, looking very gratifying, that is, they are a little short in the pigsty, which day there is time to build a higher point, the pigs in the province grew up and ran out.

This pigsty is about four square meters large, covered in the vegetable field on the west side of the fence ten meters away, this length is just right, too close to people can smell the smell of pig, too far away and afraid that someone will steal at night, to say that there is no courtyard wall at home.

Liu Guiyuan was thinking about when to build a courtyard wall for his home, and with a shout, two merchants, one fat and one thin, came over with a cart, and when he saw her, he asked: "Hey, little girl, do you know which one sells ice powder in this village?" ”

Liu Guiyuan smiled, pointed to the side, and said: "Then, just in front, how much do you want to buy, just tell me, just buy a bowl for one penny, if you buy it in a bucket, it is cheap, only one hundred wen, no two prices." As he spoke, he walked ahead with a barrel and led the way.

The fat and thin merchants glanced at each other, and when they arrived at her house, the fat one looked around quietly, and the thin one had a match and talked with Liu Guiyuan, and said for a while that the ice powder was expensive, and the wild loquat was everywhere, and it was worthless.

Liu Huahua scrubbed the wild loquat in the hall, she has always been in the house, she is afraid that people will see it outside, and when she hears the sound and hurriedly goes out to see, she sees that these two merchants are very familiar, very similar to the two that I saw in Songdian yesterday.

"Hey, it's you, you're here to buy ice powder?" Liu Huahua was a little excited, and said to Liu Guiyuan: "The merchant I met yesterday was the two of them, but I didn't expect it to come, I thought I missed it in the morning." ”

The fat merchant had sharp eyes, and at a glance saw that Liu Huahua still had a trace of mucus on his right hand, and he didn't have time to think, so he drilled into the hall without saying a word, and at the same time explained in his mouth: "Oh, I'm tired of standing outside, I'll go in and sit." ”

"Hey, don't go in, you can't go in!"

Liu Huahua hurriedly hurried to the back, but it was still a step too late, and the fat merchant looked around the hall with wide eyes, and quickly locked the wooden basin filled with fruit washing water on the ground, and the crushed pulp squeezed on the side.

Liu Huahua hurriedly ran to the front, holding the wooden basin and hid in the west side of the house, and at the same time shouted that this house could not be entered and quickly out, the fat merchant saw that the goal was achieved, his eyes flashed, and he went out with a smile, and Liu Huahua hurriedly closed the door of the hall in the back.

"Look, I didn't know you were making ice powder in the house, blame me for being reckless."

The fat merchant apologized slowly, Liu Guiyuan realized later, these two guys didn't really come to buy ice powder but came to steal the teacher, no wonder they just said a lot of nonsense just now, but they didn't pay for it, and the person who came was not good.

"Let's go, our ice powder is no longer being taken out, let's go!" Liu Guiyuan suddenly didn't want to do their business, she thought that the skill of making ice powder with wild loquat could be hidden for a long time, but she didn't expect to be discovered by these two merchants so soon.

"Why don't you sell it? We came all the way and said that if we don't sell it, we won't sell it? The thin merchant heard that he was not complimented, and he was still waiting to buy a half-barrel and go back and do it.

Liu Guiyuan suddenly smiled, spread his hands and said, "Isn't that right, our own things can be sold if we want to, and we can sell them if we don't want to sell them, can you still manage it?" If you really want to buy it, the price of ice powder has risen, a bucket of silver or two, whether you like to buy it or not. ”

"It was still a hundred wen just now, and now it will cost one or two silver, why don't you grab it?" The thin man's face was tense, and his tone was not good.

"That's the price."

You've come to steal my secret recipe, and I'm stupid enough to sell you ice powder, and I'll pay you a bucket for 100 yuan, and I think it's so beautiful.

"How can you little girl do this business, don't talk about honesty at all, I don't think your ice powder business will last long." At this time, the fat merchant had a smile on his face and said: "Don't be angry with this girl, my brother is a little quick-tempered, don't take it to heart, but then again, we just asked the price for only 100 Wen, and now it has suddenly risen to 1,000 Wen, it's really unreasonable, right?" ”

Liu Guiyuan looked at the fat merchant's smiling appearance, like a smiling tiger, he couldn't help but snort, and sneered: "Each other, didn't you deliberately enter the hall just now just to steal the teacher?" But I also tell you that you have to add a blind introduction to make this ice powder, otherwise it will not take shape, and as for what the introduction is, I will definitely not be able to tell you. ”

It is true that lime water is needed to make ice powder with litch fruit granules, but it is not necessary to use wild loquat fruit to make it, Liu Guiyuan deliberately said this in order to fool them and confuse their thinking.

The thin merchant rolled up his sleeves and shook a big hand, and asked in a rather horizontal tone: "What kind of introduction do you say, let's consider buying your ice powder for a tael of silver, how about it?" ”

Liu Guiyuan was furious, where these two people are merchants, they are clearly scoundrels, and they are estimated to find out that their adults are not at home, so they deliberately came to coerce and lure. At this time, Liu Hongjube went to Liu Jindi's house, there were only two sisters in the house, Liu Guiyuan thought in his heart whether to take something to drive them away, or lock the door and leave directly?

Liu Huahua on the side saw that this was wrong, and hurriedly stood in front of Liu Guiyuan to protect her, as long as they dared to do it, she shouted loudly, and then fled with Guiyuan, but fortunately, a familiar voice came from outside at this time, interrupting the somewhat tense scene at the moment.

"Why did the ice powder primer tell you, what are you doing, dare to come to our Huashi Village to find trouble!"

Liu Guiyuan looked up and saw that it was Tian Rubai, who had come to return the ice powder bucket, and his two cousins were followed behind him.

Liu Guiyuan pulled the second sister back, pointed to the two merchants and said unceremoniously: "Yes, you two bad sellers, I saw that you have bad intentions!" Then he complained to Tian Rubai a few times: "Brother Xiaobai, Brother Xiaosong, Brother Xiaohuai, you came just in time, they are not good people, just now they had to break into the hall to see how we make ice powder, and asked us to introduce ice powder, it's too bad!" ”

The thin merchant saw the three boys' fierce eyes, pointed his finger at them and said, "Don't meddle with your boys, otherwise my brother's fist is unreasonable, and you can hit your ass with one punch, hurry up, you know?" ”

"Hey, who are you scaring about? Bullying us Huashi Village people in the territory of Huashi Village, and still beating us? Let's go, come with us to the village chief, my eldest uncle is the village chief, see how he cleans you up. Tian Rubai glanced at them coldly, not afraid of their threat at all, but wanted to drag them to see the village chief.

Only then did Liu Guiyuan know that the village chief Tian was Tian Rubai's uncle, haha, now look at these two tricky merchants, you must know that the village chief has a very high status at this time, you are a person from another village who enters the village to make trouble and disturb the people, and the village chief has the right to call someone to beat you out, and if it is serious, you will be sent to the official.

"Xiaobai, what nonsense to talk to him, you are guarding here, Xiaohuai and I will go to the house to call the eldest uncle now." Tian Rusong behind Tian Rubai is a quick temper, seeing that the two merchants are so arrogant, he said that he was going to go back and call people, of course he was not stupid, at this time Tian Rubai's side was weak, so he just shouted and shouted, and his feet did not move.

"Don't, we're not bad people, I used to come to your village to sell candy cubes, don't you remember us? I wanted to buy ice powder just now, but the price was too high to negotiate, and there was a little misunderstanding, so I left. The fat merchant saw that the situation was not right, and he was about to slip away with the thin merchant, but the thin merchant was not convinced, and he still wanted to find trouble, so the fat merchant scolded in a low voice: "Second son, don't leave yet, if you make a big fuss, you have good fruit to eat?" ”

The fat and thin merchant left in a hurry, Liu Guiyuan breathed a long sigh of relief, and sincerely thanked the three of them for their help, Tian Rubai and the three of them said that they didn't need to take small things to heart, and the kid named Tian Ruhuai didn't forget to say when he left: "Next time, let's get ice powder, and give us a little bit." ”

"Okay, next time you come again, our ice powder will be enough for you!"

A little ice powder is not valuable, but relying on a little ice powder to win over a few children of the younger generation of the Tian family is too cost-effective in Liu Guiyuan's opinion.

Tian Rubai walked happily, and Tian Ruhuai was talking all the way, how much money did they make by selling ice powder this summer, if it weren't for this, they wouldn't be so kind to protect the Liu family.

"Longan, I really do bad things with good intentions, I want to know that they are so tricky, and I don't tell them that my family sells ice powder." Liu Huaanhua's face was full of self-blame, she knew that she would not go to Songdian to sell ice powder, otherwise she would not have met the two of them.

"Second sister, what does this have to do with you? They don't have the right mind, even if you don't tell us where our house is, they will find out sooner or later. ”

Liu Guiyuan was right, about three days later, the two merchants may have tried out the trick of making ice powder at home, and even pulled a small push station to put away the wild loquat at the entrance of the village, and the price was the same as what she had set before, ten cents a catty. Liu Huahua was angry when he saw it, and he was about to go up to pick up people with a bamboo pole, so Liu Guiyuan persuaded her: "Don't go to the second sister, there will be competition in business, you have to learn to adapt, and he can't affect our family's business." ”

They have been making ice powder for so long, and they know how much water and how much pulp to knead the best ice powder in the mouth, those two merchants must not have the patience to experiment, even if they make ice powder together, it can't be compared with their family.

"Then let them collect wild loquat outside? Why don't I tell them to pick them up somewhere else? Liu Huahua was still angry.

"Peanut, why are you so mouthful, he accepts him, what do we care about him? How many children in the village earn pocket money by picking wild loquats, and if you tell him to leave, the people in the village will be unhappy. ”

Liu Hongjube is careful, she thinks more than Liu Guiyuan thinks, so Liu Huahua doesn't propose to go and leave, and leans against the wall and hits the wall again and again, which is visible to the naked eye.

The two merchants will not stop if they don't accept it for two or three days, Liu Guiyuan was afraid that her second sister would get hot for a few days, so she came up with an idea: "Otherwise, you will go to the town with Brother Dog Wa tomorrow to sell ice powder for two days, business has been good recently, and he can't be busy there." "Anyway, in addition to raising pigs and feeding chickens at home, and then washing loquat to make ice powder, these two things have the help of Gu and Liu Jindi, and she is not bad, so let her go out for a walk.

"Okay, then I'll get up early tomorrow!"

As soon as he heard that he could go to the town to play, Liu Huaanhua's mood immediately improved, and he jumped into the house, saying that he was going to wear the veil embroidered with colorful butterflies to go out, as well as the green pleated skirt he bought a few days ago.

"Look at you, it's not as steady as Guiyuan, not an adult at all." Liu Hongzao scolded her with a smile, and Liu Huaan, who provoked her, half-pouted, and glared back at her.

Her two sisters, since Liu Chongshan and his wife are not at home, have become more and more lively, originally, teenagers should have the appearance of children.