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"It's worth it. Our sixth son went out to look for work in winter, his hands and feet were frozen, and he couldn't earn more than 200 coins."
Sister Qian asked in a low voice: "Can I learn how to make beads from you?"
Mrs. Wu: "Sure, let's go to the mountains to look for it when we have time to see if there are any woodworms."
"That's great." Sister Qian patted Wu Xiuying's hand happily: "If we find woodworms, we can go to the market together." Mrs.
Wu smiled and nodded.
The ox cart didn't return to the village until the evening. Song Sanshun led the ox to return it to someone else's house and gave the owner of the ox ten coins as a fee for borrowing the ox.
The man refused in various ways, but finally accepted it.
Song Sanshun bowed to the owner of the ox and said goodbye to go home.
As soon as he walked to the door of his house, he saw his father Song Baqi standing not far away with his hands behind his back, looking at him coldly: "Where have you been? Why are you back so late?"
"I went to Tieniu Town to attend the temple fair." Song Sanshun said with a pleasing look.
As soon as Song Baqi heard this, he started to scold: "Isn't there a market here? Why are you running so far? Are you bored?"
Song Sanshun was speechless.
Seeing that his son was so reckless again, Song Baqi shouted: "Don't you know to fill the water tank at home with water before you go? What's the point of me giving birth to you?"
"Dad." Song Sanshun couldn't hold back his anger, and asked back with his neck stiff: "Can't Song Jizu carry it? At the very least, my younger sister and sister-in-law can also carry two buckets, right? If I die, your family will have no water?"
"You rebellious son!" Song Baqi took off his shoes and hit his third son on the head: "Even if you are still alive, you have to fetch water for me!"
Wu heard the sound and came out, pulled her husband back home, slammed the door, and let the old man Song jump and curse outside.
Song Laoliu from next door said in a weird tone at the door: "Uncle Baqi, your son Song Jizu is taller and stronger than Sanshun, can't he even carry a load of water?"
"He hasn't recovered from his injuries yet, what can he carry?" Song Baqi didn't want to argue with the unruly Song Laoliu, so he kicked the wooden door and went home angrily.
Before leaving, he left a sentence: "Song Sanshun! Fetch water for me before dawn tomorrow! Otherwise, get out of the old house! I won't let you live in this house even if I keep it to raise rats!"
Song Laoliu pouted, spat on the ground, and cursed: "Old fool, you treat your own son like this, if you have the ability, you will never ask for help from your son in your life!"
In Song Sanshun's house.
Wu poured all the money from selling beads on the kang and called her unhappy husband to come and count together.
This time, she sold 24 strings of beads and got a total of 112 coins. After deducting the 10 coins for the ox cart, there was still 102 coins left.
Seeing so much money, Song Sanshun also smiled and whispered, "I didn't expect that beads made of wood thorns could be exchanged for money. Let's go to Xi'aozi tomorrow and pick all the remaining wood thorns."
"Yes." Wu used a thin hemp rope to string the copper coins, ten in a string, a total of ten strings, and two copper coins were left, so she gave them to Chang'an to play with.
Chang'an also strung it with a thin hemp rope and hung it around her neck, her eyes smiling into crescents.
She also had money, and when the peddler came, she would go buy candies to eat, one copper coin could buy five.
Wu put away the copper coins, got up and went to the kitchen to cook.
She scooped out a bowl of wheat flour from the flour bucket and prepared to make pastry.
Song Sanshun came to help light the fire, and chatted with his wife: "I'll find time to pound the pulp, and I can use it for washing clothes and hair in the future."
"Okay." Wu said while kneading the dough: "There are still some wood nuts at home. If we peel them, we can string them into 40 or 50 strings. Tomorrow, Sister Qian said she wants to go into the mountains with me. Let's go together." If
her husband stayed at home, he would only be asked to work by his father-in-law. It would be better to let him go with her to pick wood nuts.
Song Sanshun hummed in a muffled voice and lit the stove with a flint.
Dinner was extremely simple. Water was added to the middle of the pot, and the dough cakes were attached to the edge of the pot. When the water boiled, the cakes were cooked.
The family of three finished dinner with the only dried radish left in the house. Wu boiled some water and used it for Chang'an to wash his feet. Changan's little head had begun to doze off little by little, and when she was tucked into the bed, she had a sweet dream.
She finally saw the little goldfish again, and she was so happy that she quickly shared her experience with the little goldfish.
"Today, my uncle and aunt and I went to the big market! Aunt sold a lot of beads and made a lot of money. A few days ago, I also picked up a small yellow stone, which was collected by aunt."
She talked a lot of nonsense, and finally remembered the small sapling in her hand, and showed it to the little goldfish: "The beads only have three leaves left, will it grow again?"
The little goldfish took a look and said softly: [It's easy to make them grow leaves. You can make the leaves grow a little bit if you learn a skill. ]
Changan's eyes widened: "What can chicken do?"
Another little goldfish threw a water bead on her forehead: [It's because you are too stupid! That's why the leaves can't grow! ]
Changan covered his forehead with his hands in grievance, and said in defense: "Changan is not stupid!"
[Since you are not stupid, can you recite a passage of the Three Character Classic for human cubs to listen to? ]The blue-haired little mermaid was spinning in the water.
Changan was at a loss.
She didn't know what the Three Character Classic was. She twisted her fingers and thought for a while, and said: "I can sing to sell dementia."
[Sing it. ]The golden-haired little fish encouraged with a smile: [One or two sentences are fine. ]
Changan cleared his throat and began to sing: "Sell your dementia, sell your dementia, sell dementia for thousands of strings, give more when they are sold out, come to me if you want to buy on credit, old men and women don't need money, give dementia for thousands of years." The
blue-haired little goldfish laughed: "Who wants to buy your dementia? Who doesn't have these two things?"
Changan was stunned and looked at the blue-haired little goldfish in the water carefully.
The little goldfish was scared by the little baby's gaze, and threw beads at her: [Don't look! ]
Changan was not angry, she leaned over to pick up the two beads on the ground and smiled.
It turns out that the beads of the blue-haired fish are blue. Eating steamed buns made of them can make you stronger.
Although it can only last for half a day, it is still amazing.
I beat my cousins because I ate the steamed buns made of blue beads that day.
The golden fish also smiled and threw her two green beads: [This is a reward for you. Tell me what you learn in the future.]
"Oh."
Chang'an happily picked up the beads on the ground. Before he had time to say goodbye to the little goldfish, he suddenly woke up. It was
already bright at this time.
Uncle and aunt had already got up to cook.
Chang'an put on his jacket and trousers, slid off the kang and put on his cotton shoes.
After going to the toilet outside, he picked up a willow branch and chewed it. When
Wu saw her niece got up, she hurriedly called her over to wash her face and rinse her mouth.
"Today you play with Goudan and Qiaoer at home, while Uncle and Auntie go to pick mulberry and come back in the afternoon." She
cleaned her niece's face and took her to the small square table to eat.
"When we are not here, you don't go anywhere, just stay in the house with Qiaoer and Goudan, do you hear me?" Wu also sat down and picked up the porridge bowl to eat.
Chang'an nodded obediently: "I heard it."
(End of this chapter)