In order for Yun Niang to live in a new house as soon as possible, Yan Gou also took extra care in designing the drawings, but it was done in three or five days.

Xianghua looked at the house on the drawings and liked it very much, but he didn't study the house structure, so Cheng Linchang asked a few experienced masters to take a look, and they all felt that there was no problem, so he started work.

According to the usual practice, the Cheng family chose the land, set off firecrackers, and sacrificed to the mountain god, and Cheng Linchang and Yan Gou took people to start construction.

The salary is calculated in this way, the original house of the Xianghua family was small, and it was impossible to cook food for so many people, so they said that everyone went home to eat, and the meal money was counted in the salary, one hundred wen per person per day, which was twenty wen more than what other families gave.

The people who came to help felt that the two families were doing things authentically, and they couldn't eat anything delicious when they usually helped others, but the steamed buns and pickles were full, and they would be worth seven or eight cents at most. So those who came late complained a lot.

Counting the deposit of preserved eggs, Xianghua only had less than fifty taels left in her hand, and she had to buy materials to start work, and she only then understood what Qian Xiaoman meant by letting her know in her heart.

Money, it's really too useless.

Fortunately, at present, she still has two "cash flows", such as bean curd rice and preserved eggs, and has a fixed monthly input.

Yun Niang was originally also a young lady from a scholarly family, and she read and read a lot, and Taro helped to go, so Xianghua asked her to try to teach Xiangmiao and Donglin.

The weather is slowly getting hotter, the stars are bright and big at night, and the whole sky is sprinkled, and the frogs in the pond are croaking, and everything is lively.

July 7 is the Tanabata Festival, and it is also the birthday of Xianghua.

Xianghua wore a tooth-white shirt with a pink flower branch skirt, and she was as beautiful as a hibiscus out of the water, with a bit of girlish taste.

In the morning, Cheng Linchang made a bowl of noodles for Xianghua and added two eggs, which is a must-eat thing for children in Qingshan Village on their birthdays.

Cheng Zhang and Vanilla also came over, and specially sent Xianghua a new dress made of fine cotton, with fine stitches, and Vanilla embroidered a peach blossom on her chest. Xianghua thanked her sweetly, threw herself into Cheng Zhang's arms and sprinkled Jiaojiao for a while, making Vanilla and the others laugh.

After dinner, Taro called Xianghua to go to the river for a walk.

Donglin wanted to follow, but was pulled back by Xiangmiao's eyebrows.

The two listened to the rushing water in the river, walking one after the other.

After more than half a year, the taro was a lot taller, and Xianghua stared at his wrists and ankles with cuffs exposed, thinking that if he made money this year, he should buy him some Yuebai Shiqing material to make a few long shirts, he must look good in them.

At this moment, Taro suddenly said, "Close your eyes." ”

Xianghua walked behind him, and she was not afraid of what he would do, so she obediently closed her eyes and asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

I thought I wanted to surprise myself, this stupid boy didn't know what to do, she really had some expectations.

"Are you alright?" She asked, with her hands cocked.

There are a lot of fireflies by the river at this time, so he must have made a firefly lantern, right?

Taro smiled and said, "Okay." ”

Xianghua opened her eyes slightly, and immediately saw Taro raising her hand and holding a small cloth bag like a lantern in her left hand.

Hey, you guessed it.

Taro's face was crystal white by the bright light from the cloth bag, his eyebrows and eyes were straight, his eyes were like stars, Xianghua felt that it was really good-looking, and his heart became more and more beautiful.

"Open it and take a look." He smiled and nodded at her.

Xianghua gently pulled the strap on the cloth bag, and the fireflies in the bag suddenly flew out, like a flashing fountain, and Xianghua looked up and was stunned.

"It's so pretty......"

She smiled with crooked eyebrows, and when she looked back at the taro, she saw that he was still holding a wooden hairpin in his hand.

"I'll send you." "That's the big thing," he laughs. ”

It was a gift he had spent months of his evenings pondering, and every bit of it was his heart.

Xianghua took a look, this is a polished shiny wooden hairpin, the whole body is round, and the hairpin head is also carved with a delicate small flower.

"Lotus?"

Taro was a little surprised: "Do you know?" ”

Xianghua smiled: "Although we don't have it here, we have seen it because I was born in July?" ”

Taro smiled and nodded.

He didn't say that the lotus flower was his favorite flower.

Xianghua took it and looked at it carefully, and asked curiously: "Who did you learn to make hairpins with?" ”

Taro smiled: "I used to learn to play." There's no good material here, so I'll make it from peach wood. ”

He deliberately chose the peach wood.

Xianghua sniffed it in front of the tip of her nose, and said with a smile: "It's the smell of peach trees, I like it, thank you!" ”

Taro looked at her with a smile.

She doesn't need it yet. When she reaches the age of twelve, someone may give her a golden hairpin, but I don't know if that person is still him.

Xianghua didn't know what she thought of when she held the wooden hairpin, and she couldn't stop laughing.

"You're so thoughtful." She said with a wicked grin.

Taro was shocked, could it be that she saw it?

"What are you talking about, I don't understand." He pretended to be confused.

Xianghua took the peach hairpin and shook her head and read: "'Vote for me with a peach and repay it with Qiong Yao.'" Bandit retribution, always think it is good'. That's the idea you're fighting? ”

The taro was stunned for a while.

He tossed and turned for several days to come up with this poem, and cleverly hid this intention in the hairpin, she is a fiery eye? That's it.

"Who did you learn this poem from?"

Xianghua laughed, "You've been busy these days, I don't know that Yun Niang is teaching Donglin and Xiangmiao the Book of Songs, and I just learned this sentence yesterday." ”

Taro was dumbfounded.

Xianghua thought it was funny, clapped her hands and smiled: "But I said it." 'Always think it is good,' you have said so, how can I not agree? ”

Taro came back to his senses and asked slowly, "...... Do you know what this means? ”

Xianghua said: "Isn't it the meaning of courtesy and always being good friends? ”

Taro thought to himself, that's what he meant, what did he bother to hide?

Xianghua saw that he seemed a little unhappy, and asked, "What I said is wrong?" ”

Taro said: "Yes, very right. ”

It's just not right.

Could it be - Xianghua thought secretly in her heart - this stupid boy is talking about the "good" of "men and women are good"?

Tut-tut, this kid has a lot of thoughts, but she doesn't hate this kind of shy little brain, hehe.

Xianghua wants to wait for him to be older, if he still thinks about it, then she doesn't mind picking it out, she likes it if she likes it, she doesn't have so many scruples.

She accepted the hairpin first.

It was built from June to September, and the small villa was finally completed.

After letting go of the firecrackers, Cheng Linchang said happily: "Little flower, I'll go and ask your grandmother and uncle to go up the mountain to see it." ”

When Xianghua heard this, she was not very happy: "Grandparents should naturally go, what are uncles and aunts going to do?" ”

Cheng Linchang was embarrassed: "If you don't invite them, will they not be able to get over in person?" ”

Xianghua smiled coldly: "Did they think about this sentence when they did things?" After making trouble so many times, sooner or later there will be a time to tear your face. ”