Chapter 220 Small Town

Su Zicheng said 'um', slowly shook the folding fan, and walked out of the post station side by side with Li Xiaoyao. Out of the post station, Li Xiaoyao narrowed his eyes and looked back at the slightly dark and mild sun. Su Zicheng then glanced back and glanced: "It's still early. It's still nearly an hour away from dark." Li Xiaoyao smiled and walked to Funan Town with the sunset with Su Zicheng on his back.

Funan Town is very small. The two streets are in a T-shaped shape. After walking from the post station for a quarter of an hour, the two walked along the T-shaped street from beginning to end, and it only took a quarter of an hour. Li Xiaoyao stood at the T-shaped intersection. Occasionally, he walked by one or two pedestrians on the street. When he saw the two people standing at the intersection, he dodged far away. The shopkeepers and the shopkeepers and partners With fear, he hid in the dark shop and peeked at the two and those strong guards. Occasionally, as soon as a two children ran out, they were fished back by an outstretched hand from nowhere. Li Xiaoyao spread out his hand and smiled and said, "Let's scare them. Forget it. Go back. There's nothing to go around. There are only two or three grain and oil grocery stores and a needle and thread shop. I don't know if the cooking cakes in that shop taste good or not." Su Zicheng quickly turned his head and looked over. Li Xiaoyao waved to Nanning and ordered him to buy some cooking cakes and take them back.

"This is a lively town. In a town, rice, oil and salt, sundries can be bought at any time. Many towns are in a hurry to meet the market. If you catch up with the market, the town will be very lively. Stalls selling all kinds of things can be placed all the way to the gate of the post station. There are still several meetings here a year. At the time of meetings Hundreds of miles away came to watch the bustle and buy things. Su Zicheng explained in detail that Li Xiaoyao was a little stunned. When she woke up on the road, she went to Taiping Mansion and fled all the way from Taiping Mansion. She was not in the mood to see these world conditions. Later, she went to Zhengcheng••••• Alass! It turns out that Zhengcheng is really a big city! Ordinary small towns are lively only when there are orders, doubles or five sets!

"I didn't think of this. I should find out with those women and stop coming if I'm not in a hurry." Li Xiaoyao looked at Su Zicheng with some regret in his tone. Su Zicheng smiled and said, "It's time to break up now. We don't buy anything. Isn't it better to walk quietly like this?" Li Xiaoyao nodded with a smile. The two gossiped slowly and walked along the ancient and narrow Qingshi Street in the direction of the post station. Out of the Qingshi Lane, a gentle and clear river winds out of the middle of the low and quiet stone house with cooking smoke. By the river, there is a flat stone platform every few steps. At this time, the stone platform Almost empty, there were only one or two women with laundry squatting on the stone platform. Li Xiaoyao stood by the river and did not approach. She tilted her head for a while, clapping her hands and smiled as if she had realized something important and said, "It seems that the rules here must be early to wash clothes!" Su Zicheng raised his eyebrows and suddenly laughed: "After watching it for a long time, have you realized such a big thing?"

"Isn't that a big deal? The housewives in this town must get up at dawn every day. They first comb their hair and clean their faces, sweep the court, then prepare breakfast, and eat rice to the riverside.

"I really don't know how you came here in the past ten years? How can you eat so early? People only have two meals a day, regardless of men and women. When they get up at dawn, men go out to farm and women do housework. After the beginning of the year, they eat the first meal. Only elderly people can eat one or two snacks when they get up early in the morning. Su Zicheng looked at Li Xiaoyao and explained patiently while laughing. Li Xiaoyao was stunned for a moment. It seemed like this. When she first arrived at Taiping Mansion, she got up early and ate it. It seemed that she was the only one. The eldest brother said she was not hungry. She felt that she ate lunch a little early•••••••

"I didn't pay attention•••••, look over there," Li Xiaoyao instinctively didn't want to go on this topic anymore. He looked around and saw the skinny woman sitting by the roadside resting around and the huge bamboo basket beside her, hurriedly pointing to the transfer. Topic: "That grandma is so thin and has such a big basket. How can she move it? Do you think she will enter the town or leave the town? Su Zicheng looked at Li Xiaoyao's finger and didn't wait for him to speak. Li Xiaoyao pulled him and smiled, "Let's go and have a look!"

Su Zicheng followed Li Xiaoyao to the mother-in-law. Her yellow eyes were full of panic. She subconsciously held the basket in her arms and wrapped her dry lips in it and trembled. Li Xiaoyao let go of Su Zicheng and squatted down in front of the mother-in-law with a smile. She curiously stretched out her head to look at the wild vegetables in the basket and looked at the mother-in-law. He smiled and asked, "Grandma, what's in this basket?" Can you eat it?" The woman was slightly relaxed by Li Xiaoyao's smile, and then pouted and smiled: "This is gray cabbage, this is pig mother cabbage, which can be eaten."

"Did grandma dig these wild vegetables and eat them by herself, or will they be sold?" Li Xiaoyao asked with her hand on the wild vegetables in the basket. The woman pointed to the wild vegetables in Li Xiaoyao's hand: "This is a gray vegetable. That's a pig mother vegetable. Eat it yourself. There are wild vegetables all over the ground. Who will buy it!? This girl has a beautiful smile!"

"Grandma, sell me this basket of wild vegetables. I also like to eat wild vegetables." Li Xiaoyao said with a smile, and the woman's smiling face was wrinkled into countless beautiful deep grooves: "If you want to eat, take it!" Sell wild vegetables for money and make neighbors look down on them!" The woman grabbed the wild vegetables and looked at Li Xiaoyao's Lingluo. She didn't know where to stuff it.

"Then sell me this basket, you see, or I don't have a place to put this wild vegetable!" Li Xiaoyao shook the basket and smiled. The woman looked at the dilapidated basket in her hand and hesitated to smile, "That girl can give me two big money. This basket is not as valuable as a new basket."

"Good!" Li Xiaoyao simply agreed. The woman pushed the basket and lowered her head to untie the thick cloth bag tied to the edge of the basket. Li Xiaoyao reached over and pinched the cloth bag and asked, "What's in it?" Soft."

" sachet." The woman untied the coarse cloth bag, pushed the basket to Li Xiaoyao's side, pulled open the mouth of the bag, and her fingers trembled and took out a sachet made of coarse silk to show it to Li Xiaoyao. Li Xiaoyao took it and turned it over and looked at it and asked with a smile, "Is it my grandmother who made it for sale? Well done!"

"It's not good-looking! In the past, when I was young, people in ten miles and eight townships knew that my sachet was skillful. I was old and my eyes were dazzled. My hands trembled, and the sachets I made could not be seen and could not be sold for money! When I was young, I couldn't sell it!" The woman was praised and suddenly began to talk more. Li Xiaoyao reached out and took the cloth bag and turned over the 20 or 30 incense bags inside and said with a smile, "I think grandma's incense bag is well made. I was about to buy a sachet. I just walked around the town and didn't see it. How much is this sachet? Sell it to me." The woman half opened her mouth and was stunned for a long time. Suddenly, her smiling eyes were squeezed in the wrinkles and could hardly be found. She stretched out her finger at Li Xiaoyao and said, "One money, one money, no, the girl wants all, one money and two. The girl gives ten big money, take them all."

"That's one money. Grandma is so old that I can't take advantage of her, not to mention my grandmother's wild vegetables for nothing!" Li Xiaoyao smiled and poured the sachet in the cloth bag on the wild vegetables. Together with her mother-in-law, she made it clear. Nanning had come over with a big purse full of brand-new copper money. Li Xiaoyao ordered them one by one, added two more, and handed them to her mother-in-law with a smile: "Grandma, this is sachet money and basket money. Grandma ordered one. Point!"

"No, I watched you count, old lady Xie. The girl is really a good person. No wonder the girl smiles so beautifully, just like the dragon daughter standing in front of Guanyin!" The mother-in-law took the golden and heavy copper money, carefully put them into the cloth bag one by one, held them tightly in front of her chest, and her smiling face bloomed. Looking at Li Xiaoyao, she didn't know how to praise them. Li Xiaoyao motioned Nanning to carry the wild vegetables with a sachet. She looked at her mother-in-law and asked with a smile, "How can she do it herself at such an old age? Selling sachets? Is your son and daughter not good to you?

"Good! All good! I can move. A Da and A Er are filial, and my daughter and son-in-law are also good. They will send me meat during the Spring Festival, a big piece! Several kilograms of meat! Life is difficult. I can move and make a lot of money. The girl is really a good person. The girl doesn't know that the fourth of my family is very smart. Look, I made 34 big money today and saved Xiao Si to study during the Spring Festival! The girl is such a good person!" The woman smiled incoherently. Li Xiaoyao listened attentively, said a few words to the woman, stood up, helped the woman up again, said goodbye to her, watched her go back happily, and then gently exhaled, turned to look at Su Zicheng, who had been looking at her, smiled and said, "Look, how good your people are! Take good care of them!" Su Zicheng couldn't laugh or cry: "Why don't you just give her a few taels of silver!"

"No wonder••••• Look at grandma, she is so old, and she has to make sachets and dig wild vegetables. It's also a strong thing. It's better to buy her things than to reward her directly. Alas, you don't understand this!" Li Xiaoyao explained a few words and waved her hand to explain to Su Zicheng again, but Su Zicheng only stared at her and asked, "No wonder?"

"It's no wonder that some people say that you can only kill people." Li Xiaoyao answered cheerfully. Su Zicheng raised his eyebrows angrily and looked at Li Xiaoyao and concluded, "What did Shuiyan say?"

"Originally, I was praising you, but I was praising you. When we all spoke, the second master talked about it. Although the second master is young, he is invincible in the war. In that poem, the second master is not bad at writing, but he is too lazy to write it. Otherwise, what can't he do with the second master? You said yes, didn't you?" Li Xiaoyao smiled plausally. Su Zicheng looked at her and gently 'hummed': "You all can't do without Shuiyan, and Lv Feng. Only you dare to be so presumptuous and say that you will have nothing but kill people, right? When I don't know?"