With a smile on her face, she leaned next to the small charcoal basin and sat down next to Lin Piao affectionately, and now she trusted Lin Piao the most in her heart and felt that the best was Lin Piao, and it was also because she said that she wanted to talk to Lin Piao's brother, so her mother allowed her to come to the wing room after dark.

The four of them got together, Lin Piao was a brother, Shen Hong was a young boy, Zhou Xishan realized that he was a man, and after eating a few ginkgo fruits, he excused himself and went back to the room first.

The charcoal fire is long, the charcoal basin is not big, the heat is transmitted to the feet but does not pounce on the face, the three of them sit around and do not feel hot, the roasted ginkgo skin is crispy, the inside is soft and glutinous, but the ginkgo buds are poisonous and can not be eaten more, every time Lin Piao will pull out the buds one by one and peel off the buds and then stuff them in his mouth, so that he can eat two or three after half a year.

After Shen Hong ate a few, he sat aside and peeled the ginkgo and handed the peeled ginkgo to Lin Piao and Yu Niang to eat.

The three of them sat around the small charcoal stove and ate for a while, Yu Niang saw Shen Hong peeling ginkgo seeds for herself to eat, remembered what she had heard in her father's place just now, and thought of saying something good to flatter Shen Hong as a reward, so she praised him again and again It is really great to be able to go to Ludong Academy, her father also thinks it is amazing, and her mother also thinks it is amazing, although she doesn't know why it is amazing, but in short, it is amazing.

"Thank you."

Shen Hong responded to Yu Yuniang's kindness with the above two words.

Lin Piao thought that speaking was also an art, after all, Shen Hong got the opportunity with a few words, and he couldn't help but praise: "Shen Hong has always been very smart, he has a better brain than anyone else, and he is the smartest child in our village." ”

Yu Niang chuckled when she heard this: "Those old gentlemen in Ludong Academy are very fierce, and they are scared to see everyone who looks annoying, but I didn't expect that there are people in this world who they will like." ”

Yu Niang's description made Lin Piao feel like a gentleman fell in love with Shen Hong, a prodigy who cried ghosts and gods at first sight.

In the praise of the two, Shen Hong glanced at Lin Piao, and suddenly said: "Actually, it is very simple, the old gentleman is embroidered on the cuffs of his shirt with things that they like and praise, there are things like Meilan, bamboo, chrysanthemum, mountain and stone to show their ambitions, and sometimes they will be exposed to see some, ask me which sentence I like in the Analects, the cuffs of the gentleman are bamboo, his clothes are imitation of the ancient Holy Master's dress, not angry, not offended, is the first master loves his disciple Yan Hui, the words he said when expressing his appreciation are also the standard of Yan Hui's life. I didn't see his embroidery pattern when I asked the poet, but I guessed it was a plum blossom with someone else's pattern, and the crown is said to have been born poor, and loved plum all his life. ”

Lin Piao: "......"

Jade Lady: "......"

Shen Hong held the small pliers in his hand, fiddled with the ginkgo on the iron net, and looked at the heat and flipped over the ginkgo fruit: "Okay." ”

As he spoke, he put the ginkgo on a small plate on the side.

His voice was the immaturity of a teenager, but it shocked the two people on the side, Lin Piao knew that Shen Hong was powerful, and it would not be a fuel-efficient lamp in the future, but he didn't expect him to show this extraordinary, unattainable ability to observe and wait for opportunities now.

Lin Piao couldn't laugh a little, he was only thirteen years old, how could he control it when he was a little older.

But if he finds out that he has bad intentions and just wants to live next to him, Shen Hong is still fooled when his brain is not turning, but if he uses his brain against him in the future, it will be over......

Lin Piao was even more worried, but Shen Hong still sat aside, lowered his head and carefully peeled the ginkgo seeds, peeled the peeled ginkgo seeds, peeled off the painstaking heart, and put them in a small plate for him and Yu Niang to eat.

He peeled it for a while, and when he saw that Lin Piao didn't speak, he turned his head to look at Lin Piao: "Sister-in-law, are we going to buy winter clothes tomorrow?" ”

Chapter 39

Lin Piao didn't expect Shen Hong to suddenly ask this: "Buy, why don't you buy it, I was delayed by that little two today, tomorrow, let's go to another store and choose again." ”

Shen Hong nodded, quietly peeled the white fruit and stopped talking.

The three of them sat for a while, and the girl came to ask Yu Niang to go back to the house to rest, and the three of them dispersed.

Early the next morning, Lin Piao got up early in the morning, said hello to the girl, and went out with Shen Hong and Zhou Xishan.

But the girl stopped him: "Don't go out yet, this morning's snack has just been steamed, and there are meat buns, eat some before you go out, otherwise you will have to find breakfast to eat when you get to the street." ”

Lin Piao thanked her for her kindness and ate a few buns and snacks in the courtyard before going out.

The maids on the side got up early to take care of the small yard, and saw that they were sitting in front of the house eating, and the girl specially brought a food box over, and a group of people sat on the porch to eat and talk and laugh, and the early sunshine spread into the yard, so unhappy.

The girl beckoned to her: "Lin'er, come and eat something first." ”

Lin Er glanced at Lin Piao, but smiled: "No, you can eat, we are not the masters who are maids, and we don't eat and take decently." ”

The girl paused for a moment, and hurriedly looked at Lin Piao's expression, seeing that Lin Piao was still twisting the pastry in his hand, and he still had such an expression, she should not be angry.

"You Nizi, if you don't want to do it, go down, I'll clean it later, what's the matter." The girl didn't know what medicine Lin Er was taking today, and her whole eyes were not eyes and noses were not noses.

Lin Er sneered: "You love to serve you, I am happy to be idle." ”

Lin Piao ate the pastry, saw that the girl was holding her breath, and was so frightened that she didn't know what to say, and patted the pastry on her hand: "People are valuable in their own knowledge, and they are seeking their jobs in their positions, so don't be happy to be idle as a maid, otherwise you will delay your leisure in the future." ”

The girl had his mouth to support her waist, and her expression was much more relaxed, and she snickered in her heart when she saw Lin Er being blocked and unable to speak, throwing her broom away in anger and running away.

Deserve.

Lin Piao's mouth, when he doesn't scare people, he sees everyone with a sweet mouth, and he is not a vegetarian when he scares people, isn't this a blind hit on the muzzle of a gun, the girl thought to herself that she could learn this skill, and next time she would never ask Lin Er to make her depressed with two sentences.

Lin Piao looked at this girl named Lin Er, she looked delicate, very slender, half a head taller than the girl, she could be regarded as a beauty by virtue of her figure, I don't know where she provoked her, or did someone in the mansion already get used to them staying in the county mansion like this?

Lin Piao patted the pastry crumbs off his hands, and when Lin Er turned to leave, he looked at the girl: "It just so happens that we are going to go shopping, and we will go back when we have all the things we have bought and say to Mrs. for me." ”

The girl looked at him in surprise: "Didn't you say that you would stay for one more day, if you leave like this, the little sister will definitely be sad." ”

Lin Piao thought for a while: "You tell Yu Niang, let Yu Niang remember my words, communicate well, don't always cry." ”

Saying that, Lin Piao stood up, and the three of them walked out, the girl was very embarrassed, and hurriedly persuaded her, but she could only be anxious if she couldn't persuade her, and she couldn't pull Lin Piao to prevent him from leaving.

After the person left, she remembered the strange words that Lin Er said, thinking that it must have been what Lin Er said that made Lin Piao feel that it was not good to continue to live, and suddenly her heart was on fire, and she turned around to find Lin Er.

Lin Er was picking up ginkgo seeds in the yard and carrying them in a small basket to be sent to the kitchen for washing, when she looked up and saw the girl walking towards her menacingly.

immediately sneered: "What are you doing like this, who stepped on your tail." ”

"I'm just going to ask you what you're doing like this, Lin Piao and Shen Hong are Madame's guests, and they said that they would stay for one more day and let them talk to the little sister, you go up and eat Hu Qin, how can people continue to stay, how can I explain when Mrs. asks later?!"

"They're gone?" Lin Er's eyes lit up and she became happy.

"That's right! Let's go! You're glad to be! ”

"Could it be that I am wrong, the Communist Party came to the county government twice, and both times they lived in our house, and each time they didn't eat and take, they were the mud legs in the village, and they were not even poor relatives, but they came to live comfortably, and that Lin Piao, a brother, a widow who had no hope, you all treated him as if he were a treasure, and the lady liked him too, and you liked it too, and I had to laugh at him in the face, and I couldn't get used to it."

The girl was so angry with her: "The food is not yours, the food is not yours, what are you anxious about here, as if this mansion is your house, this is not allowed to come to that, Mrs. and little sister are happy to be with other people, and I am willing to be with other people."

Lin Er didn't expect the girl to say this about herself, and suddenly turned red and looked at the girl with cold eyes: "Although he is a brother, he is also a bit of a man, and he is also handsome, don't think about men." ”

"What are you bastards!" The girl was so angry with her: "You wait, I'll tell Madame, I'll see what else you can say later." ”

"You go and sue yourself, even if I don't say it well, there is no big mistake." Lin Er was so angry that she slapped the basket cloth, she just couldn't get used to seeing Lin Piao, she felt that it was an eyesore when she saw Lin Piao, she sold it from the countryside into the county mansion, and worked diligently for many years, and now she is not inferior to others, but she is still a maid who calls people to call back and forth, and the people next to her never look at her more because of her beauty, but why Lin Piao came to the county government, and everyone who saw him praised him for his beauty, and when he said that Lin Piao was 'that beautiful widow', he went to the county government to sue the official so embarrassingly, but in a blink of an eye, he became a guest of the adults. Let all these maids go and serve, and make his bed, and bring him food.

It's not that she didn't give her lady eye medicine, saying that adults are so good to a widow and see if something is wrong, but Mrs. only pressed it and didn't have a seizure, and later saw that Lin Piao couldn't love it well, saying that at such an old age, she was a few years older than Yu Niang, and she was still a child.

The old lady liked him, and he came from a village, and he rode her head for some reason, and he didn't rely on his own ability to get a good little uncle, and he said all kinds of strange things that made her feel so comfortable.

Lin Piao went out of the county mansion here, and went to the largest ready-to-wear shop in the county government with Shen Hong, picking and choosing among many styles, and each chose two autumn clothes and two winter clothes.

The choice is a darker color, but the material is dirt-resistant and spiritual, the tailor-made clothes look very spiritual, there is also cotton in it, the cotton in the autumn clothes is thin and even, the winter clothes are very thick, similar to the bed quilt, Lin Piao chose two more materials, the color looks darker, the price is cheaper and affordable, but the pattern on it is auspicious, with the interweaving of flowers and clouds, although it is still a little rough in Lin Piao's view, but it looks very satisfying in this store.

A few things were bought for half a tael of silver, Lin Piao cut the price for a while, and the shopkeeper bit the little one to death, at most ten lines of money cheaper was the money to invite them to eat wonton stew, and finally promised to give them two small bijia made of leftovers, and when it was cold, he was dressed to ensure that he was warm, and Lin Piao paid satisfied.

Immediately, under the guidance of the guys in the store, Lin Piao found a shop that sold cotton and sewing quilts, and looked at the snow-white cotton that was being played in the store and thought passively.

When you touch it, the cotton is layer by layer, as white as snow, not yet tight, fluffy and soft, and as soon as the hand falls in, the tentacles are warm and warm.

The guy who played cotton saw that he was touching the quilt, and said neatly: "The best cotton quilt, this cotton is white and warm, you know that this is a good thing when you touch it, buy a bed and go back to spend the winter, and you can't stand the cold for a winter!" ”

"I remember there were thick quilts at home, but there weren't any such thick ones." The quilt may have been enough for them in the past, but Lin Piao still wanted a thicker winter quilt, so that he could spend this winter comfortably by lying on the hot kang and covering it with a thick and warm winter quilt.

Lin Piao thought about it, and finally added the winter quilt to the winter supplies of the two, and decided to buy two thick and soft cotton quilts to cover them.

Shen Hong didn't have any opinion on this, Zhou Xishan wanted to have an opinion, but he couldn't say it, he wanted to persuade Lin Piao not to spend money so lavishly, but after all, people spend their own money, and when he talks like this, it only seems that he is not magnificent.

The two of them bought all the things, and Lin Piao remembered Zhou Xishan's previous trip to the blacksmith shop: "Didn't you go to the blacksmith shop to see the style before, did you look at the style you went to see?" ”

"I've already agreed with the blacksmith brother, I'll buy one, I'll pick it up today, and when the time comes, I'll go back and find the village blacksmith to make it according to that mold."

Lin Piao and Shen Hong followed Zhou Xishan to get a sample, only to find that it was a kind of improved plough in this era, Zhou Xishan and the blacksmith communicated on the side, Lin Piao himself went to see the finished ironware, there were big iron pots, big shovels, and some small charcoal stoves, which were used by the little sisters of large families at a glance.

Lin Piao remembered that last night Yu Niang came to them to roast ginkgo seeds, the small charcoal stove with charcoal burning on it, supported by iron nets, whether it is to dry hands, roast ginkgo seeds or roast meat is very convenient, if it is made a little higher, just like the coal stove in the early modern years, it is about half a high, and it is also very convenient to set up a small pot or kettle on it.

Lin Piao's mind moved, and he turned his head and asked the blacksmith: "Is there a small charcoal furnace like this, is there a higher one?" ”

"Taller? The charcoal stove is all like this, there is no higher one, what are you going to do with it? ”

"The kind that burns charcoal and burns fire."

When the blacksmith heard this, he laughed: "Don't you ask nonsense, you use a charcoal stove to burn charcoal, a large brazier to burn a fire, or you don't need a brazier in the countryside, just burn a few firewood on the ground and in the stove, where can you use a charcoal stove to burn firewood?" ”

"Why can't the charcoal stove burn firewood, the bowl can only hold rice and vegetables, and you set all the rules in the world?"

The blacksmith's words were not polite, but he didn't expect this brother to be more polite than him, his temper was so pungent, and he opened his mouth so neatly, but he didn't dare to say anything more.

Lin Piao was too lazy to deal with these people, knowing that they were from the village, he began to speak with a dog's eye and a taste of looking down on people.

Lin Piaozi pulled Shen Hong to stand aside and waited: "When we go back to the village, we will go to the blacksmith to make a big charcoal stove, so that we can use hot water and wash our faces in the morning, and then build an iron mesh shelf on it, so that we can still eat barbecue at home in winter." ”

Shen Hong nodded, he knew Yan Hui and Wang Mian, but he didn't know charcoal stoves and barbecue, his knowledge of food in the past ten years or so was barren, and it was all a method that his sister-in-law thought of, changing tricks to make new things for him to eat.

The two discussed it almost completely, and Zhou Xishan also bought farm tools and finished visiting the things that should be visited.

The three of them walked out of the blacksmith shop, and Lin Piao thought about buying some rice: "This year's rice is still a few days away, and there is no rice at home for a long time. ”

Zhou Xishan was numb to Lin Piao's wild buying today, and resigned himself to following his ass into the rice shop.

But seeing that Lin Piao had to buy glutinous rice after buying rice, he couldn't help it.

Lin Piao...... It wouldn't be a little too much......"

"Where there is a lot, rice can't help but be eaten, and glutinous rice is not grown at home, so it is always necessary to keep it and get some to eat from time to time."

"This is too expensive, in fact, wouldn't it be good to save this money for Shen Hong to use in Ludong Academy in the future."

"People live to eat and drink, and if they live at the moment, they will not have any sweetness at all, but only point to the days to come, and people will have no life to live, and they will not be able to support the future."

What's more, even if you bite your breath and wait for the future, when you get to the end, once that breath is gone, you will not be able to rush in the future, it is better to live a long time, and if you can not treat yourself badly, you will not treat yourself badly.

Zhou Xishan's face was red and white for a while, he didn't think there was anything wrong with his thoughts, but Lin Piao didn't listen to him for anything, and the words of the two were put there, showing how stingy he was and how stingy he was to pick the door.

Lin Piao looked at his expression and comforted him back: "But it's not wrong for you to think like this, it's just that you and I are in a different situation, the family has to support the elderly, and I always think about it later, Shen Hong is still young on my side, and I always have to give him food and drink when he is older. ”

"Yes." Zhou Xishan got his words, his expression was much better, he didn't say anything anymore, and just honestly helped move things.

Lin Piao asked for half a bag of rice, half a bag of glutinous rice, and half a bag of wheat flour.

After all, there are so many children who come to them every day that they can't just eat by themselves, but if they eat together, they can't eat a few meals.

"We can only satisfy our cravings, buy some glutinous rice, and when the time comes, we will make glutinous rice, glutinous rice pot to eat, and wheat flour to make noodles, so that we can eat fresh back and forth."

Lin Piao had bought everything at this bar, and after thinking back and forth twice, he felt that it was almost over, and when the sun was at noon, the three of them found a small wonton stall with a thick cloth shed on the side of the road and asked for three bowls of wontons to eat.

The wonton owner shouted, "Okay, three bowls of wontons, coming soon." He grabbed three handfuls of the wontons in the bag and threw them in, and he didn't need to count them to know that it was thirty.

Very soon three bowls of wontons were served, the skin of the wontons was thin, the meat filling inside was bulging with color, the clear soup was a spoonful of soy sauce and a handful of chopped green onions, some lard and sesame oil were ordered to taste, the mixed oil aroma was tangy, this wonton was not small, Lin Piao bit two bites and ate one, dissipating the heat in the middle of the filling, and the mouth was full of fragrance in his mouth.

After eating the wontons very quickly, the three of them rested for a while, and when they passed by the county government again, Lin Piao patted Shen Hong on the shoulder: "We will leave now, you go to see if the county lord is not in the house, and say goodbye to him." ”

Lin Piao wasn't quite sure if the maid was a broken mouth or if someone in the house was already impatient with them, but it was not good to live in someone else's house for a long time, which would make Shen Hong go and say goodbye, and he could see what the county lord meant without being rude.