It was raining, and there were no markets, so there were not many people on the street. Yuzhi followed Wang to her meat stall, and found a big umbrella on the stall. brown.
Mrs. Wang walked over and looked at the strips of pork hanging on the iron hook above the meat table, and asked Chen Yaozu who was taking a knife to split the buttocks: "How much did you sell for?"
Chen Yaozu said while cutting the meat, "It's a bad day, and it hasn't opened yet!"
Mrs. Wang looked at the pile of meat on the meat table, and was also worried: "In this case, it is estimated that half a piece of pig will not be sold out today, and the meat will not be fresh tomorrow"
Yuzhi walked over without making a sound, picked up a sharp boning knife, and began to pick the meat off.
At this time, a middle-aged woman wearing a gray-blue trousers and a black skirt came over with a big bamboo basket on her back, followed by a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, who was carrying a big umbrella.
When Mrs. Wang saw the woman, she laughed: "Ms. Zhao is here! Why did you come out so late today?"
Mrs. Zhao wore a round bun on her head, and a silver hairpin stuck in her head. She had no makeup on her face, but her big eyes were clear and bright, and she looked very energetic.
She smiled and said: "There is something temporary at home - thank you for the few leg bones you gave me the day before yesterday. Our mother and I boiled the bones, stewed a pot of radish vegetables, and we have the vegetables for two days."
Wang smiled: "My family, why be polite!"
She looked at the girl again: "Xiulan, you are here too. You two didn't come yesterday. My Yuzhi misses you!"
The girl named Xiulan was born neatly, with an oval face, slightly dark skin, willow-leaf eyebrows, Danfeng eyes, and a high nose bridge, quite beautiful and dignified.
She agreed with a smile, and greeted the three members of the Chen family. Then she opened the umbrella and put it on the east side of the Chen family's meat stall.
Yuzhi smiled slightly, but didn't say much.
Then Mrs. Zhao put down her back cage, and with Xiulan's help, spread out a rectangular oilcloth under the umbrella, and then took out small cloth bags from the back cage and put them on the oilcloth¡ª¡ªthat's when Yuzhi discovered Mrs. Zhao and Zhao Xiulan The mother and daughter turned out to be selling spices such as star anise, cumin, pepper, Sichuan pepper, sesame pepper, and red pepper. They couldn't help but had an idea in their hearts.
She has always been thoughtful in doing things, although she has thoughts in her heart, she doesn't say them out, but plans silently in her heart.
After her stall was set up neatly, Xiulan walked to Yuzhi's side, stood next to Yuzhi, and asked softly, "Yuzhi, why didn't you come over the day before yesterday?"
Yuzhi glanced at Xiulan with a hint of worry in her eyes, and said in a low voice: "Something happened at home"
Xiulan took a look at Chen Yaozu on one side, moved two small stools, sat down with Yuzhi, and then whispered: "Is it the case that the garrison master in the city bought someone?"
Yuzhi looked up at Xiulan.
Xiulan sighed, and said: "That toothmaid, Mrs. Han Jiu, also went to my house, pestering my mother to say that it is not easy for a widow to guard her son and daughter, and she wants my mother to sell me into the city and promise to live in the guard's house and get money for me. My brother married a wife, and said that if I entered the defense mansion, I would be able to eat delicious food and drink spicy food every day, and if I could raise a man and a half woman, I would definitely be promoted by the defense master to be my aunt¡ªmy mother didn¡¯t want to listen to her. Get out!"
Only then did Yuzhi realize that she was not the only unlucky one, and that Xiulan was with her, so she held Xiulan's hand and said in a low voice: "Your family is good, at least your mother is the master of the house; my grandma is the master of my family. "
People in the northern countryside of the Great Zhou Dynasty all called their grandfathers "Ye" and grandmothers "Nai", not as particular as officials and eunuchs.
Xiulan raised her eyes to look at Chen Yaozu, who was cutting her head, and then at Wang Shi, who was whispering to her mother, and said in a low voice: "Yuzhi, you can't agree, my mother asked someone to inquire, and the garrison master is guarding our place." It¡¯s been ten years, I¡¯ve done the math. If a person wants to be such a senior official, he must be at least forty years old, right? He¡¯s been guarding our place for ten years. We should be in our fifties, if we enter the garrison mansion, we are afraid that we will die in a few years, and will the lady not sell us? Who knows where we will end up in the future!"
Yuzhi didn't expect Xiulan, a little girl, to have such insight, so she took a deep look at Xiulan, full of worries, and couldn't help but want to laugh.
But she can't laugh, it makes sense that she should be sad.
Yuzhi brewed her emotions, and said in a heavy and sad voice: "I think so too, I am only thirteen years old this year, if I am really going to be sold into the garrison, my whole life will be ruinedbut I am the only one in my family. My mother loves me, my father is looking forward to selling me and counting the money to my grandma so that my little aunt?I sell my body as a dowry, marry a good family and live a good life My father only wants to let my little aunt live a good life, even if he pushes me into a fire pit, he is willing "
As she spoke, her voice seemed to be a little choked up.
After hearing this, Xiulan's eyes immediately became moist, she hugged Yuzhi, and did not speak.
While Yuzhi was talking, she glanced at Chen Yaozu from the corner of her eye.
Although her and Xiulan's voices were lowered, but there was no one on the street at the moment, Chen Yaozu should have heard what Xiulan and her said, but he still didn't respond. on the iron hook.
Yuzhi knows that there are insensitive and filial fathers in the world. Wasn't she sold by her own parents in her previous life?
But even so, she was still a little disappointed
Although Mrs. Wang was talking to Mrs. Zhao, she could still hear the conversation between Xiulan and Yuzhi clearly. She immediately shed tears, took Mrs. Zhao's hand, and complained: "There is such a man, I might as well Widowed like you!"
Mrs. Zhao took a look at Chen Yaozu who was still working on her own, and felt that such a man might as well be dead, but she is a person with a lot of experience in the world, but she is very good at talking. She shook Wang's hand vigorously, and said comfortingly: " It's okay, no one is a real fool, Brother Chen will wake up sooner or later!"
Not long after, the rain stopped.
Chen Yaozu went to relieve himself, and there were customers coming from the meat stall of the Chen family and the food stall of the Zhao family. Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Zhao were busy greeting the customers.
Yuzhi picked a snow-white thorn rose and played with it in her hand, seemingly casually said: "When my mother and I came over, we happened to meet Qin Rui."
She was talking, but her eyes kept looking at Xiulan.
Xiulan was originally picking a light pink thorn rose on tiptoe, but when she heard that she would not pick the flower, she turned her head and looked at Yuzhi with a smile, her eyes sparkling: "Qin Rui? Isn't Qin Rui right now? It¡¯s time to go to the school to study? Didn¡¯t he go to study today? Tenth is the school¡¯s holiday, he shouldn¡¯t have a rest today!¡±
Looking at Xiulan's sparkling eyes and blushing face, Yuzhi realized a problem - Xiulan likes Qin Rui!
Xiulan walked to Yuzhi's side, still wondering: "Qin Rui is so good at reading, how could he ask Mr. Xuetang for leave from studying Huh, Ma Jiuniang is a neighbor of the Qin family, she must know about it, But don't tell us!"
At this moment, Yuzhi has fully understood that the handsome young man named Qin Rui is the white moonlight in the hearts of all the girls in Xihe Town! (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com