Shen Zhengwen jumped off the mule cart and touched the black mule's head with his hand, with pride and love in his eyes.

"Isn't this longing for going to the city to play? The mountain road is difficult, Qingzhou City is so far, Nian Nian is still young, how can he walk so far. So I thought it would be easier to buy a mule cart. ”

"And these stinky boys in our family have never been to the city. Tomorrow is the Shangyuan Festival, let's go into the city to see the excitement! ”

"Yay!"

"Great, I can go to the city tomorrow!"

Dango and Yuanzi clapped their hands excitedly, and they almost jumped three feet high with joy.

"I heard that there are a lot of beautiful lanterns everywhere in the city's Shangyuan Festival, I have long wanted to see them, and I can finally go tomorrow!"

Huzi's eyes were shining with a different kind of light, and he wished he could go to the city now.

As the boss, Tiezi is a lot more introverted, but he is also smirking at this time.

Before his legs were ready, he sat intently on the bed and looked at the book he had borrowed from his master.

He didn't hear anything about what was going on outside.

Li Rulan stepped forward and touched the wheel of the donkey cart, a little in love.

"Such a big mule, and this cart is also new, it will cost a lot of silver, right?"

At the mention of silver, Shen Zhengwen's smile froze.

This mule cart cost him ten taels of silver!

Almost all of the money he saved by selling eggs last year was spent.

Now in the box under his bed, there are less than 500 yuan left.

But even if there was only this money left, it would be enough for the whole family to eat, drink and be merry in the city all day.

Shen Zhengwen told the truth and truthfully informed Li Rulan of the price of the mule cart.

Li Rulan was so shocked that she couldn't keep her mouth shut when she learned that the mule cart cost ten taels of silver.

She knew that a mule cart would cost a lot of money, but she didn't expect it to be so expensive.

She usually never cares about the family's money, and Shen Zhengwen is in charge of the accounts.

But she also knew what an astonishing number ten taels of silver was.

In previous years, Mrs. Shen had so many acres of land, and so many people in her family worked together, and she could only earn one or two taels of silver all year round.

This has to be done when there were no natural and man-made disasters and a good harvest.

She couldn't have imagined it before, but now her family can come up with ten taels of silver at once.

The feeling of being rich all of a sudden made her feel a little unreal.

Shen Zhengwen seemed to know what she was thinking, walked over and took her hand and put it on the mule's head.

"If you touch the fur of this mule, it is smooth and shiny, firm and powerful, and it will definitely become our family's right-hand man in the future."

Feeling the temperature coming from under her hands, Li Rulan showed a relieved smile.

Then he was a little worried: "However, ten taels of silver is too much......

Shen Zhengwen held her hand and promised, "Rulan, this is nothing. ”

"Wait and see, our family's good days are yet to come! In the future, I will never let you and your children suffer the slightest bit. ”

Li Rulan's eyes were a little shining, and she held Shen Zhengwen's rough big hand back.

"Ah, Shen Er! You bought such a beautiful mule! ”

At that moment, a loud voice interrupted the couple's eye contact.

Li Rulan was so frightened that she hurriedly let go of her hand and looked at the person who came.

At the door of Shen's house, several neighbors poured in.

When Shen Zhengwen came back with the mule cart, they all saw it from a distance in their homes, and their eyes were straight one by one.

In the entire Taoli Village, only Sister-in-law Wu's family has a donkey cart.

But her donkey is too old to pull heavy loads for long distances, and she never borrows them.

Now Shen Zhengwen has bought a better mule cart, which is the first in the village, how can people not envy it.

Zhou walked around the mule cart, and the envy in his eyes was about to overflow.

"If I had a mule cart like this, I'd be happy!"

Someone teased: "Tell your family Langjun to work harder to plow the land, and buy you one in the future." ”

"Alas......" Zhou sighed, "this kind of thing is not something that comes from hard work. ”

"The only way we can make money is farming. But after the grain collected last year was repaid and the taxes were paid, there was not much left, only enough for our family to eat, and there was no surplus grain to sell for money. ”

"If this continues, the year of the monkey will be able to afford a mule cart."

Zhou's words were reasonable, and everyone fell into deep thought.

Yes, it would be nice for them to work hard to farm and have enough to eat, where would they have extra money to think of other things.

Perhaps in order to break this somewhat dull atmosphere, a woman joked: "What, let's not be so pessimistic, maybe one day we will also pick up a little lucky star like Shen Er's family, and then we will be able to live a good life?" ”

The Shen family lived a good life because they picked up Xiao Niannian, and everyone knew it.

But the woman said it so bluntly, which made the atmosphere even more awkward.

When Li Rulan and Shen Zhengwen heard this, their faces changed on the spot.

They are not angry, everyone thinks that they are relying on their daughters to make a good living.

There's nothing to be angry about about this, because they themselves think so.

What they were angry about was that they had said hello early in the morning, asking everyone not to mention Xiao Niannian's life experience again.

But this woman not only said it, but also said it in front of Xiao Niannian.

They don't want others to know Niannian's life experience, and they don't want Niannian to know that they are not their own.

Nian Nian is their daughter, there is no doubt about it at all times.

But they were afraid that Nian Nian would be sad and sad when he found out about it, after all, no one wanted to have an experience of being abandoned.

They are even more afraid that Nian Nian will have a knot in their hearts after knowing about this matter, and they will no longer be close to them.

The thing they regret the most is that Nian Nian is not their biological daughter.

So they are always worried, afraid that their biological parents will come to the door and come to grab their daughter with them.

Shen Zhengwen and his wife silently looked at Xiao Niannian's expression sitting on the cart, for fear that their daughter would understand the meaning of the woman's words.

Fortunately, Xiao Niannian just stroked the mule's tail with a curious expression, and occasionally showed a cute smile, and it seemed that he didn't hear anything from the adults at all.

Xiao Niannian didn't know the hard work of her father and mother, she just pretended not to know anything.

But it didn't come out of her mother's womb, and it didn't matter to her.

Even if some people give birth to a child, they may not be very good for their own child.

For example, Mrs. Shen is very bad to her father.

And she is not the daughter of her mother and father, but they treat her better than her own.

So she doesn't regret it at all.

She already feels very lucky to meet such a family member.

From the expressions of Shen Zhengwen and the others, the woman realized that she had said the wrong thing, and quickly apologized.

"Ouch, that Shen Er, look at me, I said the wrong thing without concealment, don't mind."

The woman said, slapping her mouth twice as a sign of sincerity.

"I, I'm not intentional. Look at my broken mouth, I won't say it again! ”

The woman's words have all come to this, and it seems that it is indeed unintentional, and Shen Zhengwen and his family are not good at saying anything.

They are all from the villagers, and the usual relationship is good, and the atmosphere in the courtyard quickly eased.

Today's protagonist is still the big black mule.

People all came to the mule one by one, looking at the mule with envious eyes, and some people directly touched it, squeezing Shen Zhengwen and his wife away.

"Yo! Second Brother Shen bought a mule? Congratulations! ”

There was a sudden shout at the gate of the courtyard, and everyone turned their heads to look, and it turned out to be Cheng Guang, the eldest son of the Cheng Sheng family.

It's just the tone of those words, how sour it sounds.

The relationship between the Cheng family and the Shen family has never been very good, what's wrong today?

Everyone was puzzled, and the black mule standing in the crowd suddenly became agitated.

"Ahh

I don't know what the black mule was stimulated, but suddenly it screamed, and ran forward like crazy, so frightened that everyone around it dodged away.

"Nian Nian!" Shen Zhengwen exclaimed.

Oh no, Nian Nian is still over there, what if this falls!