Outside Lihu Town, the sky was just dawning, and an old ox pulled a cart of people swaying on the road.

On the ox cart, everyone looked at the faint morning light, and when the light mist dissipated, the faint city not far away appeared in their sight, and their hearts were all relieved.

"Finally back~"

It is not known in the car who opened the topic first.

Immediately afterwards, everyone who was gossiping also picked up.

"Who says it's not, the wind in the county has been too tight in the past two days, and there is a lot less work, not to mention, even prices are rising. If you stay a few more days...... I'm afraid that all the money I made some time ago was not spent~"

"Otherwise, in previous years, a lot of things were brought from the south at this time, such as tea and salt. This year is good, the waterway has been stopped, although it is safe to take the land official road, but it is far away, the price is ......"

"Forget it, it's a market in the town today, hurry up and buy some things and go back to prepare."

Mei Dahu sat in it, and on his side was the master who took him to the county to work, and on the other side was the eldest daughter Mei Lian, who happened to come back with him.

"Dad, do we want to go shopping when we go back?"

Mei Lian could also hear what the people in the car were saying, and a trace of sorrow flashed between her eyebrows.

Because a large number of fabrics and silk threads ordered by Xiufang in the county from the south have not arrived because of the problem of the river, the work in the hands of these embroidery girls cannot be carried out, not to mention, and because Xiufang raises them on weekdays, these embroidery girls are all covered with food and housing.

The cost of not being able to get in and out every day is very high.

The owner of the show simply put them home and rested for a month and then came back.

"What to buy, you're still learning a craft, where did you get the money?"

Mei Dahu specially emphasized Mei Lian's current "situation".

"Well, when I went back to the town, I sold the handkerchiefs I used to practice my hands in the cloth house." Mei Lian thought about it and said softly, "If you haven't gone back for a few months, you won't bring anything, and your milk will be unhappy." ”

Merlin knew that her father was getting deeper and deeper about his grandmother's current mustard, and he was not willing to hand over all the money.

It's just that Mei Lian doesn't know the face of her?

She had come back to rest, and she didn't want to come back and suffer from her milk.

"Then you go sell it, go back and buy something, not too much." Mei Dahu glanced at the master next to him who was already chatting with the man next door, and whispered, "When the time comes, buy half a more roast chicken and a small pot of glutinous rice wine to my master's house, and I'll wait for you to go back." ”

"Okay."

Mei Lian was not dissatisfied with Mei Dahu's arrangement.

Although she learned knitting and sewing skills from her grandfather in the town since she was a child, her father's master, Li Carpenter, was the matchmaker when she embarked on the road of embroidery.

According to her father, he was also a reckless man who didn't know anything when he first started his apprenticeship, and if it weren't for the fact that his master had seen so much over the years, he might have been like his two brothers.

Just thinking about it, Mei Lian remembered that she hadn't asked her father about the second and third rooms in detail.

Why did her two uncles suddenly break up?

***

When Plum Berry and her father arrived outside Yeosu Town, the sun had just fully risen.

Because today is a big gathering, people and merchants from the villages within a radius of fifty miles have rushed over, and the whole town is full of people.

And in the Mei family who came to catch the market this time, there were three traversers.

It was the first time I saw the scene of this ancient market, and the appearance of those who had never seen the world looked very funny.

Plum Berry: Mom! A lot of people.

Mei You: There are so many living people

Mei Berry looked left and right, looking at these people who came to the market one after another, and his face wrinkled like a bun for a while.

With so many people, she couldn't see what she was selling at this big gathering.

The chaotic shouts of selling vegetables and eggs in my ears made me even more confused.

"Third child, I'll take Berry Bao to buy something, and we'll meet at the tea shop here when we get back."

Mei Youqian took the first step to push aside the crowd and left with his daughter.

With his own father opening the road in front, Mei Berry and his father squeezed into the tide of the market.

"What shall we buy?"

Last night, Rao is plum berry's mother nagged on the kang all night, and she still felt dizzy and didn't remember everything.

On the contrary, her father reacted quickly, and when he heard Mei Berry's question, he took out a soft yellow paper from his arms, and Mei Berry could see the handwriting on it clearly.

Her dad didn't know when he had already listed the things he was going to buy today on this piece of paper with charcoal.

Looking at the simplified Chinese characters of "missing arms and legs" compared with the current traditional characters, Mei Berry said without thinking: "Let's buy another copy of "Thousand Character Text". ”

It is still important to be able to read and write.

And the family also needs a valid reason to be "literate".

"Okay, you said you wanted to buy it, let's buy it when we got back."

Mei Youqian's request that his daughter does not involve the bottom line is basically responsive.

If it involves the bottom line, he can also move the bottom line down _(:3"∠)_

"Let's go buy the spices and things your mother said first, they are all in the store, and the flow of people is much larger than the stalls on the side of the road."

Mei Youqian was not happy to crowd the crowd, and went into the grocery store to protect his daughter's small body, and when Xiao Er asked them what they wanted to buy, Mei Youqian was full of momentum and asked the boss to come over.

When the grocery store owner appeared, Mei Youqian took out the half-pocket dried mushrooms in the basket without saying a word.

"It's ......"

Lin Shoucai is not someone who has never seen the world, he has collected a lot of items from the north and south in this shop, especially some mushrooms in the south, which are especially popular with the cooking masters of the landlords' families.

One of the dried shiitake mushrooms, Lin Shoucai leaned close to the tip of his nose and sniffed it gently, and the fine plum berries that flashed in his eyes were clear to his father.

"Ahem."

Lin Shoucai pretended to cough lightly, put the mushrooms back, glanced at the mushrooms in his pocket a few more times, and said as if he was very picky: "These mushrooms are quite miscellaneous, and they look average~"

If it looks good, do you dare to eat it?

Plum Berry couldn't help but roll her eyes secretly.

This person doesn't think their family doesn't understand anything, does he?

Talking about the appearance of mushrooms here?

"But it's delicious." Mei Youqian showed a kind smile, as if he hadn't heard the other party's complaints, "You can make a price." ”

"Five pennies of silver."

After that, Lin Shoucai saw that the crop man in front of him suddenly lost his expression, and directly put away half a pocket of mushrooms and was about to leave.

"Slow, slow! A tael of silver, a tael of silver! ”

"Three or two!"

Mei Youqian held up three fingers.

"You want to go crazy with silver, right?!This mushroom is all over the mountain, and you are asking me for a price?!" Lin Shoucai listened to Mei Youqian's lion open mouth, and he was stunned directly.

Mei Youqian was not polite, and said directly: "There are mushrooms all over the mountains, then you go and pick them?" How many people can distinguish all non-poisonous mushrooms these years? ”

"Besides, your family's second-class dried shiitake mushrooms dare to buy 50 Wen/tael, I here, just the shiitake mushrooms, it's a lot better than your second-class family! Besides, this half pocket has ten pounds! ”

"Then you sell me three taels for ten catties, and it's expensive......"

Lin Shoucai was still reluctant to let go, but there were two more hesitations on his face.

"What's expensive? Are you kidding me? If you take a closer look, I have a lot of mushrooms here, and many of them are precious! ”

Mei Youqian deliberately shook it off in front of the other party, and Mei Berry could see it clearly, and the amazing color flashed in the person's eyes.

"Oh, my chop here is quite expensive, it's over, the price is lower...... Your mother will definitely scold me when she goes back, no......"

After saying that, Mei Youqian's face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly put away his pocket and was about to pull Mei Berry away.

At this time, Lin Shoucai was really anxious, reached out and grabbed the other party's pocket, and said with a smile: "Don't be so impulsive, don't be so impulsive, let's go inside to talk, go inside to talk." ”

"Li Goudan, take good care of this little girl!"

Lin Shoucai ignored Mei Youqian's "struggle" and took the person to the inner room.

"Obediently, remember to buy spices for your mother!"

"Oh!"

Plum Berry was given a new assignment by her father, so she carefully selected the spices her mother needed in the grocery store.

After a while, Xiao Er carefully helped Mei Berry pick out and pack them one by one, and asked her if she needed anything else with a smile.

"That's right~ I want to know where to sell gauze? The kind that is light-transmitting, breathable. ”

Plum Berry remembered the problem with the window in her house yesterday, so she asked.

"I don't know this little one. But isn't the cloth village next door? You can just ask. ”

When Plum Berry heard that it was next door, she immediately took action.

It's just that the blind spot of the vision that turned around and Mei Berry directly bumped into a person head-on.

Two exclamations came out one after the other.

"Ouch!"

"Ahh

Mei Berry slammed her butt on the threshold of the cloth village, and instantly bared her teeth in pain.

Knowing that she had bumped into someone, she wanted to say sorry, but every time she opened her mouth, she gasped in pain, and she didn't have time to say it for a long time.

"Sanya?"

Hearing such a familiar voice, Meiberry was also stunned.

When she looked up, she saw that she had been bumped into by herself, and the girl sitting opposite her was also stunned.

The girl with a melon seed face and fair skin made Mei Berry stunned for a while, and she didn't realize who the girl in front of her was.

Looking at the other party's familiar eyebrows, Mei Berry searched in the memory of the original body for a long time, and then shouted uncertainly, "Big sister?" ”

"It's me, Sanya, you're here to catch the market?"

The same melon seed face and slender eyebrows are a little mean on Jiang's face, but the sixteen-year-old girl in front of her looks as beautiful as a white lotus in the clear pool.

Huh~ The fragrance of tea is overflowing!

It's not a plum berry stereotype, it's really the original author who set her up as the lobby sister, and that's what she is.

Seeing the other party smiling at herself, Mei Berry suddenly felt that her teeth were sore......