The air is fresh after the rain, and the summer heat is gone for a minute or two.

Da Yucai was impatient to sit in the carriage and toss and turn like a ball, he patiently helped Qin Shumei into the carriage, and he followed the carriage on foot, walking with long legs, walking like flying.

In order to make it easier to find people, Qin Shumei didn't care about the tradition of female dependents not showing up, so she simply hung up the curtains on both sides, and when she sat in the car, she could clearly see the scene on both sides.

They went out early, walked a few streets, just in time for the morning market in Wenliangcheng, all kinds of food and gadgets are fresh, although the market is not crowded, but at least it is much more lively than the scene seen when they first entered the city.

The cucumber roots are verdant, the white thorns on the top are dense and distinct, and the roots are still decorated with some tender yellow cucumber flowers. The tomatoes are bright red, full and moist, and just by imagining, you can know how sweet and sour the juice is inside. I don't know which one has just baked the cake, and the rich aroma of the dough and the crispy burnt aroma are intertwined, constantly seducing the hunger of passers-by.

An adult carrying a child to pick vegetables and fruits by the vegetable stall, and the woman standing next to her carried the vegetable basket with a gentle face, and saw which one the child's short and cute fingers pointed, and then picked up which one and put it in the basket.

There are also buyers and sellers who can't stop bargaining, and the louder they go, but they stop abruptly when it sounds like they're going to quarrel, and the buyers are satisfied with the goods, and the sellers happily sit in the stall and count the copper plates.

The half-grown child ran around with a fruit in his hand, chasing a string of gluttonous little radish heads, and there was a flurry of chickens and dogs jumping everywhere he passed.

This is the most familiar breath of the world, and it is the most reassuring picture and sound no matter what world you are in.

Qin Shumei looked at it, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously curved upward.

On the other hand, Da Yu's eyebrows were tightly locked, and his expression was complicated, which was a little incompatible with this scene of living and working in peace and contentment.

"Yin Ren is really a good life."

The sentence he muttered unconsciously happened to be captured by Qin Shumei.

"What do you mean by that?"

Seeing her cast a questioning look, Da Yu glanced away.

"Isn't it a good life to be born in a land of rich plains, and to have abundant fruits?"

"No matter how vast the plains are, they may be painstakingly cultivated, and no matter how abundant the products are, they will depend on the hard work of man. It has nothing to do with whether life is good or not. A good life is earned by people. ”

Grain and fruits will not fall from the sky, and no matter how good the ground is, it must be watered by sweat. This year's year is good, and now it looks like it's eating and drinking, and everything is harvested, but if God is angry, let him be a prosperous world, then it is also said that there is no.

"Earn it by people. Hmph, to put it lightly. ”

Da Yu took out a dough cake from his bosom, which he had taken from the inn when he was leaving.

"Does Qin Niangzi know that in Northern Xinjiang, how much is this cake worth?"

It was the most ordinary dead dough cake, and it was actually a bit high.

Flour with water and flatten into a dough, whether you use branding, baking, or steaming, as long as it is cooked in either way. Wealthy families with conditions use pure white noodles, and some even add some lard and salt, which tastes somewhat similar to the baked cakes in the previous life. People who don't have the conditions can add some mixed noodles, and you can add bran and chaff to it.

The one in Da Yu's hand is bigger than a palm, although it is mostly white flour, but it also adds some sorghum flour, and there is no lard and salt, and it only costs a penny at most when it is placed in the market.

After analyzing it in his heart, Qin Shumei let go of his curled fist and silently stretched out an index finger.

"A penny?"

The corners of Da Yu's mouth twitched, and he wanted to pull out a smile, but this smile was covered under his dense beard, and when it fell into Qin Shu's eyebrows, it was only his thick beard that moved.

"Money is not as good as food. In a year of calamity, even ten taels of silver may not be exchanged for a loaf of bread. After all, noodles can satisfy the stomach, but money cannot. ”

"This piece of bread is worth at least one life." Da Yu's tone was heavy.

"Further north of Evenki, the land is barren and there is no grass. In winter, the cold wind blows off the skin, and in the summer, the heat is so bad that the ground is cracked, and we call the people over there 'Moro', which means, evil spirits. ”

"The funny thing is that there are so many of them. When they had no food to eat, and they could not hunt any animals, they went south to rob them, and when they did not succeed, they divided them among the people of other tribes. ”

Qin Shumei's body trembled slightly, and there was a chill on the back of his neck.

"Evenki men can ride their own horses, and they can resist foreign invasions. Even a woman can protect herself with a weapon. Not only that, but you also have to hunt and farm, how hard it is to live! ”

"Of all the ethnic groups in northern Xinjiang, no one is better than the other. Compared with the prosperity of Dayin, our days can be regarded as dire and miserable. Your emperor controls the mountains of gold and silver, and he has refused to give up a cent for many years, and now he uses us, but he greets him with a smile and promises to open a mutual market..."

When Da Yu said that later, it was not like he was talking to Qin Shumei, but more like talking to himself. His muscles tightened, and his whole body was dangerous.

Qin Shumei had never experienced such a tragic encounter in her life, she opened her mouth several times but closed it, not knowing how to persuade her.

In Da Yu's eyes, she is a person born in Rome, how to persuade others to be kind without suffering from others. No matter how much she tried to twist Yin Guo's impression in Da Yu's heart, he clung to the knot in his heart, it was in vain. Only when Evenki gets better and Northern Xinjiang gets better can the pain in his heart be relieved.

In silence between the two, the carriage jolted slightly, and then drove unusually smoothly. Such good road conditions, she only felt it when she was in a prisoner car in the capital.

Qin Shumei poked his head out, and the carriage had already driven onto a wide stone road. Behind the car is a street sign that has just passed by, with three big characters on it: "Renzheng Street".

Qin Shumei pursed his lips, this rich area is different, the privileged class, the infrastructure is good, and even the ground is so smooth.

The quality of the houses on both sides of the road has also been qualitatively improved, a few old houses are added sporadically in the blue brick mansion of a water, occasionally passing by a few, some of them have a plaque in front of the door, the gate is magnificent, quite a majesty.

"How do you find it?"

Da Yu found a street corner to stop the carriage, paid a copper plate for a few gossip teenagers to guard, and helped Qin Shumei down.

"Are Lang Jun and the lady looking for someone or a place?"

The young man who led the street was very clever, his big eyes were black and white, and his eyes were like black mercury.

"If you are looking for someone and a place, why not ask us, we are well-informed. When a lot of rich families didn't move here, we lived here, well, our family was over there. ”

He pointed to an old house, which looked a little crowded and abrupt under the cluster of the mansion, and some of the fallen walls and the plants climbing up the walls showed their age.

Originally, this house should be a little sad to say, but when it comes out of the mouth of the teenager, there is a kind of pride of "old home". Not only that, but the house added credibility to his words.

"Even if you don't know, a few of us will inquire for the two of you, won't it be faster than you can find it yourself? There are more than a few of us, and we are all waiting elsewhere! ”

At a young age, these words are old-fashioned, which makes people want to laugh when they hear it.

Da Yu felt that they were slippery, and they were not very suitable for this kind of business, so he simply turned his head and ignored them.

Qin Shumei felt that he could give it a try. With her current figure, it is difficult to stand for a long time, and it is even more impossible to knock on the door from door to door. These little energy beans can be called ancient cameras, they run outside all day long, almost nothing escapes their eyes, if there are more helpers like this, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort.

"Say the number."

She leaned back against the car, her voice was a little lazy, and she looked at the young man with a smile, and she was a little curious about what he would ask for.

A few teenagers didn't expect her to really ask the price, after all, there are few outsiders from Wenliang City, and they don't do much of this business. Several people's eyebrows went back and forth for a while, and the head swallowed his saliva, and his mercury-like eyes looked at Qin Shu's eyebrows fixedly.

"Fifty... Fifty Wen! ”

He was afraid that it would be too much, so he hurriedly stepped up to add a sentence.

"If you can't find it, you don't want your mother's money. After all, we have many brothers, and one person can only get a few pennies. ”

The boy spread his hands. "We can't be less, we don't have the strength to run."

There are five or six small radish heads in front of me, and if there are five or six more, one person will not be able to pay less than five yuan, and the asking price is quite reasonable.

Qin Shumei subconsciously wanted to reach out and take out the money, but his hand reached into the money bag, but it was empty. All her money was used to rent a carriage, and now she has less than ten cents on her.

When the money is used, you hate less!

Although there are still a few pearls, the teenager may not know the goods. Although the silver ticket is light, it is difficult to have a money village in Wenliang City, and its value is only worth a piece of waste paper of slightly better quality. Nothing is more convenient than cash.

Qin Shumei was ruthless, and simply pulled out a small silver hairpin on his head.

This silver hairpin was still inserted on her head by Tao Jiajia before leaving, this Nizi was too sad when she was separated, probably to show her reluctance, when she inserted it, she used a lot of force, this silver hairpin was tightly stuck in her hair, it was like rooting.

Qin Shumei remembered what Tao Jiajia, a crow, said when he inserted a hairpin in his mouth. "This is made of sterling silver, and if you need money urgently, it can be worth a while." This time it really made her a prophecy.

After being kidnapped and beaten, this silver hairpin is still firmly inserted in her hair, and it is the only jewelry on her head today.

Qin Shumei put the hairpin in the palm of the young man's hand.

"The whole hairpin is made of sterling silver, but it is definitely worth fifty yuan. I'm in a hurry to find someone, and I don't have time to go into the pawnshop to be verbose, and after the matter is done, you can exchange it for more. ”

The boy felt the weight of his hands, and his eyes widened, almost starring.

After listening to Qin Shumei's description of appearance and the basic information provided, the teenagers were eager to try and gear up.

"Lady, wait and see!"

Several teenagers scattered like birds, acted separately, and disappeared at various street corners in an instant. At the moment of the big business, they did not forget the previous small business, and dutifully left one to help watch the car.

"Wronged."

Da Yu took a sip, and he didn't like Qin Shumei's style very much. Seeing that she was almost unable to stand, he stretched out his big hand, drove Qin Shumei into the carriage, and rested against the carriage with his eyes closed.

"I see that the lady seems to have a disease, why don't you go to the hospital first? It's not far from here, just three blocks away. ”

The little baby left behind was even younger, and there were a few dirts on his little face like buns, but he didn't care, wiped his nose a few times with his cuffs, and looked in through the car window.

"I just have some skin injuries on my body, it's okay, just take care of it."

Qin Shumei was separated from the wall of the car, and he could hear the child's stomach sounding like a drum. She broke a piece of her own bread and handed it to him. The child smiled shyly and took it embarrassedly, but he refused her kindness to invite him to sit in the car, smirked through the car window, and ate cakes opposite Qin Shumei.

"There is no one who is not hindered. Liangzi is looking for someone, isn't it more important than treating the mulberry himself? ”

The child's mouth was stuffed with cakes, and his words were not very clear, and he had to say a sentence several times before Qin Shumei understood.

"Yes."

Qin Shumei smiled and gently poked this little clever ghost.

"Finding him is more important than healing my own wounds."