The Sweet Little Fulang

Not all girls are good at embroidery. Handkerchiefs and sachets are not good. If the embroidery is not good enough to make people laugh, it is better to buy them.

In addition, handkerchiefs are very useful for wiping sweat and hands and face. Everyone should have one on their body, and it is also cheap. For those who have a little money in the town, they can easily replace it with a new one when it is old.

Along the way, the handkerchiefs in Lu Gu's bamboo baskets were the best sellers. Because of the beautiful embroidery patterns and delicate stitches, they were most loved by the wives.

He sold it cheaply, only three pennies a piece, and he didn't back down when he encountered a bargain. When he came out of Thrushcross Alley, all the 23 handkerchiefs he brought were sold out.

This Thrushcross Alley is considered to be a place where rich families gather in Fenggu Town. The girls in the boudoir are not easy to show their faces outside. Usually, a woman or grandma will bring a handkerchief sachet embroidered by the embroiderer to their home, and let them go. Pick and choose, there are cheap ways to sell cheap, and there are expensive ways to sell expensive ones, and the prices are different.

It is also because Lu Gu embroidered things are good, it looks like they have put in a lot of work, and people are willing to buy them if they are not perfunctory.

He was lucky today, as soon as he entered the Thrushcross Alley, he started hawking, asking for three pennies a piece, and the woman in the middle of the house was just about to enter the door with a vegetable basket, when she heard the price, she turned around to look, and wanted to buy her a flowered handkerchief for herself. , Seeing this, she recruited the husband of the family she was serving, and bought five of them as soon as he saw that the things were good.

In fact, small rich families are not much different from most ordinary people. At most, they live affluently and can afford servants, unlike the rich and powerful families who have all kinds of rules about not going out.

Lu Gu and the others were talking in the alley, and two or three nearby families heard it, and they all came out to watch.

Lu Gu smiled naturally when he met a talkative person, he knew how to speak without Shen Xuanqing's help, and sold two or three sachets and zippers.

He has a grandma and aunt, who are well-behaved, fair-looking and good-looking, and the clothes on his body are clean, making the elderly aunt and husband feel pleasing when they look at them. This business is much easier than before.

A sachet was [-] cents, and when it was finished, he gave the grandma a handkerchief, so happy that the grandma told him to come next time and wanted to buy it.

After coming out of Thrushcross Alley, he was obviously much happier.

In fact, not all the aunts and grandmas were pleasant just now. There was a woman in gold and silver who looked down on his things, raised her chin to look at people, and said a few harsh words, but he was busy doing business with others Well, I can't take care of my grievances when I put away the money.

It was also because of this that he suddenly felt that the words of others were nothing. If the business could not be completed, then he would change to someone else. There would always be someone who would appreciate his embroidery work. When I was still there, people in the town once asked for it by name.

Shen Xuanqing saw that he was so happy, the joy of earning money was almost written on his face, and he was too guessing, so he asked with a smile: "How much did you earn?"

Just now when Lu Gu was selling things, because they were all women and husbands, he stepped aside and waited beside him.

Lu Gu mentioned that Qian’s eyes are bright, he turned his head and thought about it, and said, “One sachet was sold for 22 cash, and 66 handkerchiefs were sold, and the last one was given away for [-] cash. The four small ones are worth twenty Wen."

"Yeah." He paused, and after calculating in a low voice, he raised his head and said to Shen Xuanqing: "These are 120 six cents in total."

"That's a lot." Shen Xuanqing smiled. The firewood he pulled for the cart only sold for sixty renminbi, and he said, "You earn a lot today."

The compliment made Lu Gu a little embarrassed, but the smile on his face did not disappear. After the winter break, he was doing embroidery work at home, and most of them were worn for the family. It was cold and he didn’t go to town, so the sales were less. Alley sold more than 100 Wen, and I was happy and excited.

He didn't know how to express his joy, his brows and eyes were curved, and he stretched out his hand to gently tug at the corner of Shen Xuan's Qingyi.There were many people on the street, so he tugged lightly twice to avoid being seen, and quickly let go.

Someone came leading the cow from the opposite side. The cow swung its tail while walking and pulling it, and it fell to the ground with a slap. The people on both sides quickly avoided. Finally, the two avoided the cow dung on the ground to find Shen Yaoqing.

After returning home, the sun was setting and Li Wanyun was decocting the medicine again. The strong and bitter smell of the medicine wafted in the wind, and several nearby families could smell it.

Firewood, Shen Xuanqing, and Shen Yaoqing all fought, and each of them had half of the [-] Wen, which was a clear calculation without so many twists and turns.

The wild vegetables were dug by Wei Lanxiang and Shen Yan. Shen Xuanqing gave the 74 copper coins for selling wild vegetables to Wei Lanxiang fifty, and the remaining 24 to Lu Gu. He didn't let Lu Gu suffer. He gave Lu Gu all his thirty liters of money for firewood.

Because the Dongchun fish was the fish cage that Shen Yaoqing set up, he didn't want it, so he will go to the fish cage tomorrow, and he can sell it for the money and keep it for himself.

The handkerchiefs and sachets sold by Lu Gu do not need to be divided. He bought the needlework and embroidered it himself. It has nothing to do with others. Shen Xuanqing asked him how much the things in the basket sold for on the way back, and divided the money when he came back. I didn't move those.

After dinner, Lu Gu went back to the house and lit candles to count the money.

The wild vegetable money is 24 copper coins, and Shen Xuanqing gave him 120 coins. Besides the 23 liuwen, he also sold five small nets one after another in the town. The two that went out were paid at four Wen, a total of [-] Wen.

Two hundred and three copper coins were piled up on the table, and they rattled as soon as they moved, which really sounded crisp and sweet.

"Don't put it in the big bag?" Shen Xuanqing asked when he saw that he came over with a smaller money bag.

"No, I'll take these to Mrs. Gu to buy needles and threads tomorrow." Lu Gu grabbed a handful of money and stuffed it in. He didn't have enough embroidery thread in two colors, so he had to make up for it. He also had to buy silk for handkerchiefs. Buy more Some can be done for a long time.

Due to the high price of the sachet, only one was sold today. It is better to make more handkerchiefs and tie some ties.

He was thinking about earning money, Shen Yan called the water to boil in the kitchen, put away the purse and went out to wash with Shen Xuanqing.

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The drizzle was like silk, and the mountains and forests were foggy.

It is said that spring rain is as expensive as oil. Don't underestimate this rain, but after a while outside, your body will be completely wet. Lu Gu came back from outside with a basket of shepherd's purse.

He was wearing a bamboo hat but no coir raincoat, and his back and two sleeves were wet.

It's been raining for the past two days, Shen Xuanqing thought that Lu Yuan didn't let him go to the town to sell wild vegetables, and the family didn't lack that little money. He digs these today because he wants to eat wild vegetables. If it's raining, don't do anything else, why don't we get some eat.

The wild horse-tooth vegetable behind the house has also been sent out. When it rains, it will grow wildly in the future, and then it can be eaten as a horse-tooth vegetable bun, which is also fresh and refreshing.

When he ran back, he saw the pup playing in the yard without fear of the wind and rain, his body was drenched, and he couldn't help sighing in his heart. He didn't let the pup follow him out just now, because he was afraid of getting wet, so he couldn't stop him live.

The dog is not afraid of getting wet, but is afraid of it running over and rubbing against it.

"Go." Seeing it running excitedly, Lu Gu hurriedly chased it away.

The boy is often disobedient, like now, when he rushes over and rubs his calf.

The wind was quite cold when it blew, and Lu Gu couldn't stop it. Fortunately, the pants and clothes were wet, so he didn't care too much about changing them later.

Unexpectedly, the pup was about to shake his hair when he was standing next to him, and the water splashed all over his body. He wanted to run away but before he could, he was thrown all over by Shen Yan's laughter.

"Brother Guzi, it's your turn now." Shen Yan stood under the main room to watch the fun, the dog dumped her all over yesterday afternoon, now she couldn't stop laughing when she saw others "suffering".

Lu Gu wiped the splashed water on his face with his sleeve, full of helplessness but still smiled, put down the basket and went to change into clean clothes first.

The shepherd's purse had been beaten by the rain, and he was afraid that it would not be good to eat. He washed it twice and then blanched it in boiling water. When making the noodles, Ji Qiuyue came into the kitchen. A few days ago, when she went to see a doctor, the herbal doctor specially asked her to use these cold wild vegetables Be careful what you eat, you can only watch it now.

"Want to mash garlic?" She took another look at Shen Yan who was peeling the garlic, and when she thought of the wild vegetable steamed buns dipped in garlic vinaigrette, she was so greedy that she couldn't eat it.

The wild vegetable buns haven't been made yet, and the more she thinks about it, the more she gets greedy, but she knows that she can't eat it, maybe it's because of her pregnancy, her eyes are moist when she looks at it, and she wants to cry.

Shen Yan had a small barbed wound on his finger. Because it was very small, he didn't pay attention to it when peeling the garlic. The wound was a bit hot and painful at the moment, but he could bear it. He looked up at the finger and wanted to talk to Ji Qiuyue. , I saw her eyes wet without thinking about it.

"Sister-in-law." Shen Yan said carefully.

Ji Qiuyue was a little ashamed when she found her, thinking that for a person of her age, her eyes were wet because of a stutter, she was really useless, so she couldn't help laughing again, and said: "It's okay, I'm just greedy, who knew that there are so many things after a body?" I can’t eat any of them, what a pain, but tomorrow the baby is born, and I can eat a whole basket, so don’t snatch it from me.”

She showed her smile again, and Shen Yan and Lu Gu were instantly relieved.

"Well, it's all yours, we won't eat it." As soon as Shen Yan opened his mouth, Lu Gu nodded in agreement, and said, "We will also mash garlic to make sour vinegar."

Ji Qiuyue didn't dare to listen any more, she hurriedly escaped from the kitchen, she didn't know what she said to Shen Yaoqing in the main room, Lu Gu only heard him laughing, and then begging for forgiveness, she also knew that she was beaten.

The wild vegetable buns with more vegetables than noodles are soft and fresh, steamed and dipped in garlic vinegar sauce while hot, it is really refreshing.

The ones Lu Gu made were small and could be finished in two or three bites, while Shen Xuanqing only felt satisfied after eating seven or eight in a row.

Shen Yaoqing ate a few, smiled and broke off a small half of the wild vegetable steamed bun, dipped it in the juice, got up and sent it to Ji Qiuyue who hid in the room, it didn't matter if he just took a small bite, and waited for him to buy a black-bone chicken tomorrow for his wife If you can't eat wild vegetables, you can eat meat. If you can't, go to the mountains to dig some spring bamboo shoots. After the rain, the bamboo shoots are at their most tender. After blanching and stewing black-bone chicken, it is also a fresh vegetable.

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The weather cleared up, and many people were digging wild vegetables in the wild fields on the mountain. There were also people fishing for winter and spring fish by the river, and people who had been hiding in the eaves after the rain came out.

The same is true for Lu Gu, the mountains and forests are empty, and he lives a stable and full life day after day.

At noon this day, he had just returned from digging purslane, and took a branch to hang the mud on the soles of his shoes in front of the courtyard gate. The rain stopped but the ground was not completely dry, and a lot of wet mud stuck to it after walking around in the field.

"So many." Wei Lanxiang came out of the courtyard and took the bamboo basket in his hand.

Before they could go in, the two saw Quan Ziniang coming out of Zhang's house in a hurry, saw Wei Lanxiang at the door, and said in a low voice when she came, "Lao Zhang's sister-in-law is gone."

As soon as the words finished, Li Wanyun's crying sounded in Zhang's courtyard.