Guan Wei said: "Tomorrow I will also go to sell mountain goods with my grandfather, let's go down the mountain together!" Nothing. ”

"Okay!"

"I'm going too, I'm going too, our family also has mountain goods to sell," Jiahui said.

Xie Qi said: "Then let's make an appointment, go and wait next to the big bluestone shaped like a table with moss on it, and then go down the mountain together." ”

"Okay."

After Xie Mi went back, he put the fruit candy on the table and said happily: "Grandparents, look at what this is." ”

"Where did you get so much fruit candy," Liu Yinglan asked.

"We really found a shortcut today, and the village chief knew about the reward for us."

"The village chief is too, that's worth rewarding you," Xie Shan said.

Liu Yinglan touched the fruit candy and said: "That's also a piece of kindness from the village chief, so put it away and eat it slowly." ”

"Grandma, take it!"

"This is your reward, you can take it to your room yourself!"

"I think it's okay," Xie Qi opened the bag, counted the sugar one by one and divided it into four parts, and one of us took one and ate it.

At this time, Xie Ming happened to come in, saw the fruit candy on the table, and immediately ran over with bright eyes.

"Grandparents, did you buy fruit candy?" As he spoke, he had to put it all in his pocket.

Xie Qi said: "This is the reward I gave to the village chief of the shortest road, didn't you see that it has been divided into four parts?" You just take a copy. ”

Xie Ming, a lone eater, wanted to take it all, but because the fierce mother-in-law and sister said so, he only took one copy, anyway, after he finished eating these, he could still eat his grandparents', and he couldn't suffer a loss after all.

Xie Ming took his share and went back to the house, Xie Mi peeled off two lychee-flavored fruit candies and gave them to his grandparents, "Grandma, you eat this flavor, this flavor is delicious." ”

The three of them ate candy, and Xie Qi asked, "Grandma, are we going to sell mountain goods tomorrow?" ”

Liu Yinglan said: "Since there is a shortcut, we have almost saved up the mountain goods, so let's carry them down the mountain and sell them tomorrow!" ”

Xie Shan said: "Then I'll go and put them out and put them in the hall." ”

"Grandpa, I'll help you."

From the temporary warehouse set up next to the yard, the two took out several bags of mountain goods, sun-dried mountain mushrooms, kudzu root slices, bamboo shoot slices, bracken, and fungus.

Prepared the back basket again, stuffed all the mountain goods into a few back baskets, and Liu Yinglan went to the house to sew herself one by one, and put three pairs of cloth shoes into the back basket.

Xie Mi also wrapped his manuscript in a cloth and packed it, planning to take it to the post office at the foot of the mountain tomorrow to submit it.

Everything was ready, and early the next morning, Xie Mi took his grandparents to Daqingshi to wait for Jiahui and Guan Wei.

After the meeting, the three families walked to the bamboo forest together, Xie Ming wanted to go to the market, but he didn't want to get up early in the morning, so he only told his grandmother to bring him some delicious food when he saw something delicious in the market.

When they arrived at the small market at the bottom of the mountain, the sky had already dawned, and the families in the market put white cloth on the ground, planted and picked on the mountain, and put all of them on the market to sell.

Xie Mi didn't remember the price of these mountain goods back then, so he asked his grandmother: "Grandma, how much do we sell these mountain goods for a catty." ”

"It depends on whether the loose weighed or sold whole, the loose weighed mushrooms cost six cents a catty, the kudzu root costs four cents a catty, the bracken fungus costs two cents a catty, and the bamboo shoot slices cost five cents a catty."

"Straighten it out!"

"A whole penny or two a pound."

"Then let's buy the whole thing!"

Liu Yinglan said: "Silly boy, I can't sell a lot in a day, so I'd rather sell it to those who collect mountain goods and buy them in the city." ”

Xie Mi looked at the people in this small market, these people seem to be from all over the mountains, these mountain goods are really not popular here, but some second-class dealers came, took them and sold them in the city to make the difference, which was also convenient for everyone.

"And what about the shoes you made yourself!"

"This is three dollars a pair."

"Three dollars, that's worth a lot."

"It's worth a lot of money, but it also takes a lot of effort, and it's a lot to make four pairs a month."

Miao Xiu said: "In the early years, I also loved to make cloth shoes to sell, but unfortunately now I can't, my eyes can't see the needle and thread clearly, unlike your age, my eyes are still good." ”

Liu Yinglan said: "You were young in those years, and you made seven or eight pairs of shoes a month, I'm afraid your eyes will be broken." ”

When Grandpa Jiahui heard this, he turned his wife with his hand and said, "Did you hear that?" People have to buy more than ten dollars for that shoes. ”

"You lazy woman, since you married into our Gao family, you haven't done much needlework."

This needlework does not mean that every woman is good at it, such as Grandma Jiahui.

When she was young, she was clumsy, and she really couldn't do the needle and thread, and she had a headache when she saw the needle.

When I was a child, I watched my mother, grandmother, and sister sew and mend clothes, and she also worked hard to learn from them, but her hands were as if they were frozen in winter, and she couldn't do anything if she didn't listen to the call.

At that time, her mother was also worried, she couldn't do needlework, and it was difficult to say that she was married, but then she married off in secret, and she became an old woman in a flash.

was exposed in public by the old man like this, and Jiahui's grandmother was a little annoyed, so she sprinkled her anger on Jiahui.

"You damn girl, I'm old, what needlework can I do, you should do it, and when I go back, you make me eight pairs of shoes every month, and sell them when I go to the market."

Jiahui didn't say politely to her grandmother and said directly: "Making shoes and clothes, it's not that you don't need to teach you to sew socks, and grandma, you haven't taught me how to make shoes." ”