Splendid Pastoral: The Strong and Hot Wife

Chapter 7 Going to the market ([-])
The father and son were eating black food, hearing the sound of Xilihulu, Xu Xiaomi felt strange.

Although her family was not rich since she was a child, she still ate white rice and white noodles!If you eat this kind of mush, you will get hungry soon if you don't work. If you work...not to mention nutrition.

Gotta get some money fast...

Xu Xiaomi has been here for three or four days. She still doesn't know what the name of this village is, so she catches a fair every few days.

So, Xu Xiaomi asked his father while eating: "Father! When are you going to the market?"

"Tomorrow is the day to go to the market! What do you want to buy?" Xu Erqiang said vaguely.

Xu Xiaomi thought for a while and asked: "It's the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month today? Our family has no rice to eat during the Chinese New Year. I want to go to the drugstore to see if the Wuniangteng can be sold. If I can sell it, I can exchange it for some rice and go home. Chinese New Year."

When Xu Erqiang heard his daughter's words, his heart suddenly felt as if he had knocked over a five-flavored bottle, and tears rolled around his eyes in pain.

In the past few days, the family has almost eaten up all the black noodles. Every day when the door is opened, the family of five will have to eat.

It’s almost Chinese New Year and no one wants a short-term labor. People like him who have only strength and no craftsmanship can only go to the mountains to chop firewood in winter and buy it for a few salt money. No one wants to work for others.He was also worried about how his family would live this year?
Seeing that her father was in tears, Xu Xiaomi just clicked and didn't say anything.Just asked again: "Today is the twelfth lunar month?"

Xu Erqiang hurriedly wiped his tears with his sleeves and said, "Today is 26, go to the market on one day, and go to the market the next day!"

Listening to her father's crying answer, she also knew that her father was also anxious, but he was too honest and ignorant, so he could only be anxious in his heart.

As a man, you can't talk about this with your wife, let alone your children.After Xu Xiaomi finished eating, she washed the dishes with Er Niu, and a drop of water fell on her face when she walked out the door. She looked up and saw a string of fish hanging from the eaves.

Only then did I remember that there were still a lot of fish that hadn't been cleaned up last night!This should have been packed by mother Zhou Yuqing in the morning.

She looked at her mother who was sitting at the door and said nothing.When she went to the back of the house, she still wanted to get some firewood, but she didn't know if this was her home?

He ran back and asked his mother who was sitting at the door: "Mother! Does the forest behind the house belong to our family?"

Zhou Yuqing gritted her teeth and said, "No, what are you going to do?" After Zhou Yuqing finished speaking, she looked at her daughter with puzzled eyes.Seems like he wants to see what she really wants to do?
Xu Xiaomi said seriously: "I want to chop some firewood back! Do you know who owns this forest?"

"I don't know, I haven't heard of anyone who bought it." Xu Erqiang said with red eyes when he came out of the back room.It seems that a person hid in it and cried.

"Father! I'm going to chop some firewood, do you want to go with me?" Xu Xiaomi asked distressedly.

In her heart, Xu Erqiang is the same as her previous father.Although she has only been here for a few days, the family of four is already the closest to her, and she doesn't want to see them sad.

She silently swears in her heart that she must do her best to let her family live a good life.

"Okay! I'll go too, I'll get the machete." Xu Erqiang walked quickly with his head down and came out with the knife, only to say to the silent Xu Xiaomi: "Go!" Then he walked to the back of the house without looking back. .

One afternoon, Xu Xiaomi asked Xu Erqiang to cut a lot of branches, and asked Xu Erqiang to weave a cage for the little pheasant that was caught.

I made a fence for the chickens with larger branches.In this way, when the pheasant grows a little bigger, it can be fed in the fence.

In the evening, Xu Xiaomi took his younger siblings to his wheat field to find some tender rapeseed leaves for the little pheasants to eat.If there is no grain to feed chickens, they can only feed wild vegetable leaves.

Because he was going to the market tomorrow, Xu Xiaomi made dinner early and simply washed up after dinner.She washed the faces and feet of her younger siblings again.The whole family lay down and fell asleep.

The next day Xu Xiaomi got up when his belly was just pale. After making breakfast, he washed himself first, and his parents also got up.

It was too early and it was winter, and they didn't wake up the two little ones.During the meal, Xu Xiaomi asked how far Xu Erqiang's market was from here.

I learned that it took more than half an hour to get to Qinglong Town, the nearest market.

After breakfast, it was still dark before Xu Xiaomi asked Xu Erqiang to bring the motherless vine that he stepped on yesterday.But she carried the burden her mother gave her the day before yesterday and followed her father to Qinglong Town.

The stars in the sky are slowly falling, and the sky is bright, and the mist forms dewdrops on people's eyelashes.The sun slowly rose over the mountain.

The winter sun shines warm on the body.The fog also slowly dissipated.After walking for an hour on the mountain road, Xu Xiaomi had never walked such a long distance before.

My younger brother Xu Erniu's cloth shoes with the toes on the outside are still on, and they are a bit short, with the heels on the outside.

After walking so far, several blisters appeared on my feet.It hurts!But she couldn't speak, she just limped along behind her father.

There are more and more people on the road, most of whom are walking or carrying or carrying forward.There are also ox carts and wheelbarrows.

The road is getting more and more lively, and you can see the towering city walls made of blue bricks in the distance.There are also tall wooden city gates... Well, this small town also builds city gates?Isn't this so funny!

Xu Xiaomi was thinking about hearing the pleading voice of the people waiting to enter the city gate: "Master, please charge less! I haven't entered the city. I haven't sold anything and I don't have any money! Please do me a favor." Let's go! I'll sell it later and give it to you, okay?"

"No! I won't be on duty in the afternoon! You can go in if you give, or leave if you don't. Don't hinder others from entering the city." A tyrannical voice said.

Xu Xiaomi and the others were getting closer and closer to the city gate, and saw that the person speaking just now was wearing patched clothes like them, a tall and thin old man in his 60s, with dark skin and a goatee, coughing non-stop while speaking , looks sick.

He carried a basket on his shoulder and didn't know what was in it. Anyway, anyone who saw the situation would feel sympathy for him.

Xu Xiaomi pulled his father's clothes from behind and asked softly, "How much does father go in alone?"

"One copper coin per person. You can go in alone later. I'll wait for you here..." Xu Erqiang also quietly said to his daughter.

The father and daughter talked as they walked, but the old man at the city gate had no money to enter the city gate, so he had to carry the burden and prepare to leave, and the people who were going to enter the city behind took another step forward.

When it was their father and daughter's turn, Xu Erqiang took out a copper coin from his bosom and put it in Xu Xiaomi's palm, put the Motherless Vine on Xu Xiaomi's shoulder and said, "Don't be afraid, go in!"

Xu Xiaomi tightly held the copper plate with his father's body temperature, walked over and handed the copper plate to the man in the soldier uniform reluctantly.

The man snatched it away and said viciously: "Get out!"
(End of this chapter)