Wear it quickly! My mad dog-like host!

"Dahua, are you feeling better?"

"Looking at his pale face, he must not be healed yet."

"This Mrs. Li is also guilty of evil!"

While waiting at the entrance of the village, the women nearby asked and expressed concern, but it was unclear how sincere they were.

Even though they knew that Li Dahua would not live long, most people felt sour when they saw that she could live in a large house by herself and would not have to serve the family in the future.

"Dahua, are you going to the market?" someone asked.

Mei Qianghua lowered her head pretending to be shy and whispered, "Go to the town and see if there is any work I can do."

If the village is full of people with mixed surnames, no matter how well you live there, you need to be strong, because in this case, even if you are doing well, there are still people who want to bite you, let alone if you are not living well, I'm afraid. I'll gnaw all the bones clean for you.

But Lijia Village is different. You can tell by looking at the name of this village - Lijia Village. Almost all people in this village have the surname Li and are all members of Li Dahua's family. Not to mention that Li Dahua is almost an orphan now. If an orphan girl who was "rescued" becomes assertive, it will inevitably make people think that she is a villain and make people feel unhappy.

Mei Qianghua doesn't care whether the Li family treats her well or not, but she must not let the Li family side with Old Man Li.

The women looked at each other. To be honest, everyone still hoped that she would have a job so that she could support herself. If nothing else, would every household have to take out food from their mouths to support her? She is a good member of the tribe, but she is still a girl, and she is a girl who will not live long. The food given to her is no different than water!

"As long as you have this intention, we will help you see what jobs are suitable for you when the time comes."

Mei Qianghua blushed and nodded.

After a while, the patriarch's wife came over, took Mei Qianghua's hand, and smiled at the others, "But you are bullying the little girl while I am away?"

"Look what you said, do we look like that kind of people?"

"That's right, we just asked Dahua what he was doing in the town!"

"Yes, yes! Don't accuse us unjustly!"

Others laughed and retorted.

"Take her to the town to have a look. Stop talking, the ox cart is coming!" The patriarch's wife took Mei Qianghua and got on the ox cart first. She handed the driver four copper coins, "The fare for Dahua and I to go back and forth." .”

The uncle took a serious look at Mei Qianghua, as if to remember her appearance, and then shouted to the others: "Is there anyone else? If not, just leave!"

After a while, the cart was filled with people. The uncle raised his whip and the cart moved forward.

***

Baijing Town.

It took almost two hours of sitting on the bullock cart to reach the town gate.

The bullock carts did not enter the city because entering the city required an entry fee of two copper coins, but ordinary people walking into the city did not need to pay the entry fee.

The town is not big, just two streets, cross-shaped.

However, there are restaurants and pawn shops, rouge and gouache shops, ready-made clothing shops, cloth shops, grain shops, butcher shops, and many snack stalls. Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs.

Some of the passers-by were full of joy and seemed to have gained a lot, some were looking at the passers-by with sad faces, and there were also children who dragged their adults to stay in front of the snack stall and refused to leave.

Many people are in a hurry and want to take advantage of today to take home what they will need for the next month or more.

It was the first time I saw such an antique scene with my own eyes. It was completely different from those film and television cities or tourist attractions. It was more real. Mei Qianghua's eyes were filled with wonder.

"Is it fun?" the patriarch's wife asked with a smile.

"Yeah, yeah." He nodded obediently.

"Let's go, follow me to the embroidery workshop. Although you don't know how to embroider, you can do it if you can take on a simple job." After saying that, he looked at Mei Qianghua's hands again. Not to mention they were rough. The crack looks like the hand of an old woman in her fifties or sixties. If she doesn't take good care of her for half a year, she might not be able to touch the embroidery tools. "Your hand...forget it, if the stitches are good, you can also make some money." I'm afraid. I don't have time to take care of it.

Mei Qianghua nodded and followed her to a "Jingming" embroidery workshop.

Jingming Embroidery Workshop not only collects and sells embroidery samples, but also makes garments and sells cloth. There are also several embroiderers in the backyard.

As soon as they entered, the patriarch's wife said, "You first look at the various patterns and stitches in the embroidery workshop, and I will hand over the embroidery samples."

Mei Qianghua nodded and walked to the cloth area far away from the counter to browse.

Each piece of cloth has a single color and is dark, with bright reds, purples, and greens. There are also pink ones, but they are closer to rose pink, and there are no gradient colors. I don’t know if they can’t be sold in small towns, so I don’t have them. The restocking is still not available in Dajingguo.

But I think it’s more likely that the products won’t be sold or the goods won’t be available in small towns.

There are only linen and a small amount of satin on the surface, and the better ones should not be on the surface. After all, the most important thing in the embroidery workshop is embroidery.

It wasn't until the patriarch's wife came to Mei Qianghua that she came back to her senses and asked with a smile, "Is everything done, Grandma Sun?"

"Okay, are you going to go to the town to see if there is any work?" The patriarch's wife said a little embarrassedly, "I thought the embroidery workshop would need a handyman, but unfortunately, there was a handyman yesterday. The embroiderer’s niece applied for the job.”

"It's okay, I'll just go somewhere else and take a look."

The patriarch's wife looked a little worried, "Can you do it alone? I have to go to the grocery store to buy some odds and ends."

Mei Qianghua was overjoyed, "It's okay, you go about your business first, I can do it myself."

"Then remember to meet us at the gate of the town before you go!"

"Mmmmmmm!"

The patriarch's wife walked away with some worry on her face. Mei Qianghua straightened the hat on her head and tied the strings left on both sides into a knot at her chin to ensure that the hat would not fall off easily. Then she walked towards the patriarch's wife as she left. Go in the opposite direction.

Perhaps because today is a market day, outside many shops there are people from various villages under Baijing Town selling things they have made themselves, or game they caught in the mountains, wild fruits and the like.

I spent eight copper coins to buy a half-person tall bamboo basket with a lid, and walked around.

I bought a hatchet, a new kitchen knife, and a small iron pot at the iron shop for more than five taels. The blacksmith said he would give him change and accepted a small silver ingot. Well, he didn't give himself change. That is to say, one silver ingot is worth five taels of silver, and there are still seven in the space, which is thirty-five taels.

Not counting copper coins, I got one hundred and forty taels of silver from Old Man Li's house.

These two old guys are indeed rich, no wonder they dare to provide Mr. Li with books for so many years.

I put my things into the space in the backpack and continued shopping.