Little husband's market life

In spring, the flowers are warm tomorrow, and in summer, the willows are dark and the wind is cool.As soon as the jujube flowering period was over, Sheng Yao took a boat to the north, bringing only ten catties of tea leaves, and 15 taels of silver for expenses. He eats less and cries less outside.

Only the Sun family knew about Sheng Yao's departure, not even Mrs. Sheng, they just went to accompany him for two days.

Sheng Yao left, but Qiao Zhishu didn't cry anymore, because Sheng Yao wasn't around to coax him anymore, so he was forced to grow up and be strong.

Because he was only eleven, the Sun family still only pampered him and Sun Sheng like children and did not let them do housework.

After being injured for a hundred days, after the injury on Sun Hongrun's butt was completely healed, the old man led Sun Sheng down the mountain to learn how to ride a horse.Before Sheng Yao left, he had explained to him that after the end of the Suyi Township Examination, it would be the end of the year, and Qiaoer would go to Su's house to learn calligraphy. He wanted to send some rice grains so that Sun Sheng could also learn.

Sun Sheng is an elder brother and cannot be sent to a private school.

Going down the mountain to learn how to ride, Sun Sheng went, Sun Hanyan also went, Sun Hanyan went, Sheng Huansheng also clamored to go, Sun Hongrun was not a patriarchal man, so he waved his hand and took them all.

In the golden autumn of September, the Sun family lost its lively afternoons, and the children all ran down the mountain to ride horses. Only Qiao Zhishu and his elder sister Sheng Ying were making pastries in the kitchen.

The baby in Aunt Dow's stomach is also six months old. She just woke up from a nap, holding the cattail leaf fan against the kitchen door, and standing chatting with Sheng Ying.

Sheng Ying: "Auntie, your baby must be a strong kid, bigger than the first two."

Dow smiled, "I hope so, but I'm also worried. My mother was so worried that she told me to move around more. I didn't dare to sit down except to sleep. When you were pregnant with Sheng, did you have a big belly?"

Sheng Ying thought for a while, "When I was pregnant with Huansheng, my belly was big too, but she was born lightly. She is very good, she doesn't cry or make trouble."

"Hanyan didn't like to make trouble when she was young, and her daughter's family was quiet." Tao looked at Qiao Zhishu, who was quiet and confused, "Boys are also quiet, but Qiaoer is, and the family is only better than noisy."

Qiao Zhishu raised his head in a daze, and looked at his aunt.

Tao repeated it again and said, "I heard from my husband that Qiaoer's longyou hair cakes sell very well in the county. What kind of cakes will Qiaoer make?"

Qiao Zhishu answered honestly: "I know, does my aunt like to eat sweet or salty food?"

Tao Shi covered his face with a palm-leaf fan, a little embarrassed, he was more greedy than before when he was pregnant with a child, "I want to eat sour ones, can you make them? If you can, just tell me what kind of fruit you want, and I will let your uncle eat it." Buy it back."

Sheng Ying smiled, "My aunt was also very strange in the first two months. She liked to eat bitter gourd, which worried my little uncle. Now that her taste has finally changed, the family can also think about it for you."

Qiao Zhishu was also very happy that he was able to make what his aunt wanted to eat. He had never made bitter pastry before, and he couldn't make it out of his brain.

"Then I'll make jujube cake for my aunt to eat. It just so happens that the mountain wild jujube is ripe, and I'll make the cake when it's steamed."

Sheng Ying asked curiously: "Is the wild sour jujube delicious? The fruit is so sour that the teeth fall out, and the tongue is still numb. It rots on the mountain every year and is only pecked by birds."

"Did that girl Shengxue make pastries with wild jujubes?" Dow also didn't believe that wild jujubes could be eaten.

"She doesn't have any, but the wild jujube is edible, and the ganger is still there..." Qiao Zhishu explained, glanced at his aunt, and changed his words again: "When he was in the village, his belly was swollen, so the doctor told him to eat it." I pick wild jujubes to soak in water for him to drink, drink more water every day, and he will stink."

"That's good. If the doctor says you can eat it, then you can eat it. Tomorrow, let your uncle hunt wild dates. There are many snakes and insects on the mountain. Auntie is worried about you going by yourself."

Qiao Zhishu nodded obediently, and when he mentioned Gang'er, he couldn't help but feel sad again, so he talked a lot less, and just kept his head on the fire and steamed the cake.

Sheng Ying and her aunt Tao Shi were talking and laughing, and when the cakes were steamed, the servants of the Sun family were asked to hold the steamer, and Qiao Zhishu helped Sheng Ying to go down the mountain together.

Tao Shi was pregnant so she didn't follow, she just took a plate of cakes to send to her mother-in-law, and went to talk to the old man.

At the foot of the mountain, at the gate of Shangjing Village.

Sun Hongrun taught his son how to ride a horse. His daughter, Sun Hanyan, led Xiao Huansheng to pick wild flowers by the side of the road. There were three daughters from villagers in Shangjing Village by her side. The five little girls had fun playing by themselves, and they were also very responsible in following Maojian. , followed them every step of the way.

After Sheng Ying came, she saw her daughter from a distance squatting in a small ball and pulling the grass on the ground. The little girl was wearing a small yellow flower with pistil on her head. Sheng Ying smiled and confiscated it.

"Return the Sheng."

Xiao Huansheng pouted her buttocks and looked back, seeing her mother hurriedly getting up on the grass, holding her two little hands in front of her while running and shouting: "Mother~"

Qiao Zhishu went to take the bamboo chopsticks from the eldest sister, so that Xiao Huansheng could be picked up by her mother, and she could also be fed hair cakes by her mother.

"Huan Sheng, your brother-in-law made the hair cake." Sheng Ying turned her head to Qiao Zhishu while feeding her daughter, and said, "It's the first time she eats your hair cake."

Qiao Zhishu also asked, "Is it delicious? Return the sheng."

Xiao Huansheng nodded and began to learn to speak, "Okay~"

The sweat on the little girl's brow from playing, and the fluffy temples sticking to her face, were all gently brushed away by her mother.

"Hanyan, come here and eat cake." Qiao Zhishu found a cool place and called nine-year-old Sun Hanyan back.

When Sun Hongrun drove his son around for a ride, jogged back, and brought back four or five little boys, Sun Hongrun was also generous, and gave each of the seven or eight children a little bit of cake.

The cakes made by Qiao Zhishu are better than the ones sold in the shop. The sales of Xiangxue sweet cakes have been reduced by a third compared to usual in recent days, but fortunately, her signboard has been advertised, so it doesn't matter. Daily Steam less than ten baskets, and the profit is just enough.

Because it was delicious, the children still wanted to eat it, but there were not many brought down the mountain. It was all divided up, and Sun Hongrun didn't even eat it himself.

The children chased after him and asked, "Uncle Sun, what is this called? Where did you buy this?"

"This is called fat cake, and my brother made it himself." Sun Sheng held up the chopsticks and passed them up, "Father, take a bite, a big one!"

Sun Hongrun, an old father, is happy. He has always loved the two children, protected the calf externally, and has no airs internally. He does not have the majesty of a father, but he is the children's favorite father.

After Sun Sheng coaxed his father, he happily gnawed on the cakes, and drove the children home hungry for cakes.

The children dispersed quite a bit. Sun Hongrun took her daughter on a horse for a jog, and Xiao Huansheng chased after holding a cake. She was not as tall as a horse's leg. After being thrown far away, she looked back at her mother with pitiful eyes.

Qiao Zhishu loved her, so he went to lead his brother's bay red horse, "Huan Sheng, do you want to ride a horse?"

Xiao Huansheng stared blankly at Da Ma with her little head held high, until her uncle asked again, and then she said shyly, "And!"

Qiao Zhishu was able to get on the horse proficiently. He sat on the horseback and reached out to take the little niece handed over by his elder sister.

The horse carried Xiao Huansheng slowly, and the little guy leaned against Qiao Zhishu to look at the horse's ears. Sheng Ying followed the horse on the ground and asked her daughter, "Is it fun?"

After Xiao Huansheng got used to the ups and downs of the horse's back, she bit her hair cake and smiled. She didn't remember what grandma and father looked like at all. Mother told her that this bustling place was their home.

In that dark alley, she once saw the adults sitting next to the children on their shoulders, and they all had happy smiles on their faces. She heard the adults say, "Ride a big horse, my son will be a general in the future. "

She watched and laughed, and then stumbled towards the adult at home, but the adult blocked her with his legs, and called out for his mother to come and take her away...

Now, she is riding a real horse.

The next day, Xiao Huansheng went to Qiao Zhishu's door when he got up together, and softly shouted: "Ah..."

Sheng Ying had just tidied up her daughter, and she hadn't had time to do it herself, so she just moved a bench and sat in the yard, calling her daughter while combing her hair.

Xiao Huansheng was disobedient, and continued to knock on the wooden door with her little finger, and the wooden door made her small body squeak non-stop.

Qiao Zhishu also slept well. After waking up, he put on his shoes and went to open the door. He picked up Xiao Huansheng and yawned, "Call me uncle."

Xiao Huansheng put his arms around his neck, giggling, and stuck to it.

Sheng Ying straightened her hair and got up without going to hug her daughter, "Qiaoer, I'll go to the kitchen to light the fire, if you're sleepy, hug her and sleep with her, huh?"

"Okay." Qiao Zhishu nodded, carried Xiao Huansheng into the house, but he didn't intend to sleep.

Little Huansheng was sitting on the edge of the bed, kicking and kicking with two short legs, looking at him with her eyes, and when he was dressed, she was so excited that she opened her arms to hug him, and shouted: "Time!"

Qiao Zhishu carried her out, watched her play with the puppy in the yard for a while, and then went to the table for breakfast.

This is much easier than staying in the Sheng family.

After breakfast and dinner, Sun Hongrun was going to inspect the tea fields as usual, and just about to go out, he bumped into Maojian who came in.

Mao Jian: "Master, someone from the same village brought a bowl of glutinous rice noodles and said they wanted to exchange a piece of hair cake with us. Do you see this?"

Mrs. Sun, who was still eating, put down the bowls and chopsticks, "Hongrun said that the hair cake made by Qiao Er is selling well in the county, and now I really feel it. But unfortunately, yesterday, a whole basket was steamed. I’ve run out of food, and I’ll definitely exchange it with him if I have it some other day. Hongrun, go and tell them in person, don’t tell Maojian to spread the word, a villager has no manners.”

"Yes, mother, I'll go right away."

When Qiao Zhishu heard her grandma's praise, she thought this was an opportunity, quickly put down the bowl, and before she could wipe her mouth, she tugged at her uncle and said, "Uncle, there will be cakes in the afternoon, and I'll go down the mountain to sell cakes in the afternoon."

"Grandma, do I sell hair cakes? I'll exchange rice noodles with the villagers first, it's free, okay?"

Old Mrs. Sun still smiled and praised Qiao Zhishu for being sensible.But she didn't support it, "It's okay, Yao'er told me to take good care of you before leaving home, but if you're doing business, you'll be exhausted every day, so just cook something for yourself every once in a while."

After finishing speaking, he coaxed the child, "You are only eleven, you can already think of business, and you are as smart and capable as your brother. But the family is short of those few silver coins. When you are older, at least you have passed the time of your hair." Years, okay?"

Qiao Zhishu shook her head, "No, no, grandma, I'm used to it, so I'm not tired."

"This kid, it's rare to see him being stubborn, but he's really cute." Mrs. Sun still had time to tease Qiao Zhishu with a few juniors.

Qiao Zhishu was in trouble, and the elder refused for his own sake, but he didn't know how to persevere.

Fortunately, Sheng Ying's determination to earn money to support her daughter is not less than his.

"Grandma, I will help Qiaoer, and I will never make him tired. Huansheng and I eat at home and live at home, and we don't know how to raise tea. We are idle all day long."

Sheng Ying was only sixteen when she got married, and now she is 23 years old. After witnessing her father's cold-bloodedness, she no longer counted on it, and was scared of being beaten by that man. She didn't want to start a family anymore. adult.

I also hope that my independent self can set a good example for my daughter.

The author has something to say: In spring, the flowers are warm and the sun is bright, and in summer, the willows are dark and the wind is cool. ——Quoting Song Dynasty poet Bai Yuchan's "Ti Danchen Academy Wall"