Across the Market

Chapter 161

At the beginning of February, the spring is cold, and the early spring wind blows on people's faces, like a child's hand, although it is cold, it is soft and soft.The weather has also become a little longer. Zhu Fu gets up early every day, and he can see the rising red clouds in the east, and occasionally hear the chirping of insects and birds.

The ice in the river has melted, and every morning, the young woman will go to the river to wash clothes together, and the crisp laughter like copper bells, accompanied by the shouts of early morning vendors, come and go, endlessly... This new The day has already begun.

Stretching, Zhu Fu gently turned over on the small wooden bed, and then pressed against a soft little body, Zhu Fu held the soft piece in his hands, greedy for the good sleep in spring, and wanted to continue sleep again.

Sister Nuan was thinking about going out to play in the city today, and she was so excited that she stayed up all night. She finally looked forward to the dawn, and she wanted to get up and wash up long ago.This time, seeing that the second sister still wanted to sleep, she pushed her hard and said: "Second sister, don't sleep, you have to get up!"

Zhu Fu snorted softly: "No, the weather is too comfortable, I don't want to get up, I'll sleep for a while."

Sister Nuan didn't call her, but tried her best to pull her up to sit up, her little face was twisted into a ball, and it was bright red.

"I'm going out of town to play today, why don't you get up yet, the second sister is getting lazy now." Sister Nuan was only wearing a pink little dress, most of her body was exposed outside, fighting against her sister.

Zhu Fu shuddered suddenly, then hugged the soft little girl, kissed her, and said vaguely: "For a quarter of an hour, let me sleep for another quarter of an hour. Sister Nuan, be good, you...you put it on yourself first." Wash your clothes and go to breakfast, I won’t have breakfast for a while.”

"Then let the second sister sleep for another quarter of an hour." Sister Nuan thought of her sister staying up late last night to make a lot of chicken cakes in the kitchen in order to spare time to take her out to play. She quietly looked at her sister's peaceful sleeping face , suddenly felt distressed, patted my sister's shoulder lightly with her small hand, and helped her to lie down.

Then Sister Nuan started to dress herself and went to the kitchen to wash her face with hot water and cold water. She sat in front of the small copper mirror and applied fragrant cream and braided hair. She even compared the colors of the clothes in the dowry box and picked one After putting on the flowers, Duozhu took a good look in the mirror again and again, until she got tired of looking at herself before jumping out.

In the small courtyard, only her father and her brothers and sisters were there. She said "Hey", looked around, and asked, "Where's mother? Where's brother?" She was dressed up today and wanted to come out She was smug in front of everyone, but she didn't see her mother and younger brother.

Zhu Xi came over and took his sister by the table and sat down at the table. Seeing that the little sister was dressed coquettishly, she laughed and said, "Mother took my younger brother to grandma's house to play. Let's go out together today. Mother is afraid The younger brother knew that he would cry, so he sent the younger brother to grandma's house and asked him to accompany grandma."

Sister Nuan was a little discouraged: "Mother still doesn't agree to ask my brother to go out of the city with us? Poor Shou, when my brother grows up and his body is strong, I will take him to play with me personally." " Sister Nuan clenched her little fleshy hands, making up her mind.

Zhu Fu was fully dressed and stood at the door, but his eyes were still open, he yawned and said, "When you grow up, maybe your younger brother will protect you."

"Second Sister!" Sister Nuan yelled, and pulled Zhu Fu over to sit.

Zhu Da saw that his children were all ready, and greeted him: "Hurry up and eat, the weather is getting late, you should go back early, don't delay on the way, don't worry your parents."

Zhu Xi said: "Father, don't worry, we called the carriage, and Big Brother Shen and Brother are here, nothing will happen." Then he put a deep-fried dough stick for Zhu Da and put it in a bowl, "Father eats deep-fried dough sticks, eat more. "

Zhu Da picked up a large bowl, gulped down the sticky porridge, and ate a few deep-fried dough sticks in one go.

Now the family conditions have improved a lot, and they can earn tens of nearly a hundred taels of silver a month, so there is no need to spend on food and drink.

Zhu Fu told his parents that he can eat whatever he wants and buy whatever clothes he wants to wear. The money is earned, not saved.Wei Sanniang was quite open-minded, as soon as spring came, she took out ten taels of silver, went to the street to buy cloth, and planned to make some clothes for her own children and the elder brother's elder brother.

By the way, in the tailor shop, I bought a fashionable dress for each of the three daughters. Sister Nuan is wearing the newly bought green shirt today.

Zhu Fu had inquired that a courtyard with two entrances in this city would cost more than a thousand taels of silver. She went to see it herself, and the courtyard was very old, and it was not as spacious as she imagined, rather closed.She considered that her elder sister and younger sister were not married yet, and her elder brother and younger brother would have to marry their daughters-in-law in the future, so the two yards obviously wouldn't be enough.

Recently, she was thinking that it would be better to spend some money to invite craftsmen to build a small bungalow on the third floor according to her own ideas.

With such determination, only money was left, Zhu Fu slammed down a bowl of porridge, swallowed two fried dough sticks and an egg, and wiped his mouth.

A few days ago, Shen Yulou told Zhu Fu about buying cows to produce milk. Zhu Fu always couldn't get away to go to that family to have a look. Now that the weather is warmer, Zhu Fu thought, by going to work outside the city In name, I took my brother, sister and sister out for an outing.

It is not a good thing for people to be bored at home, and sooner or later they will break their health, and it is not a good thing to just keep their heads down and make money. You must know how to combine work and rest.

The carriage was already waiting outside, and Shen Yuzhu poked her head out from the carriage. When she saw the three sisters of the Zhu family, she quickly waved to them happily and said, "I got up early in the morning, and my neck grew long after waiting." She laughed Then he carried Sister Nuan into the carriage, looked at her carefully, and hummed, "Sister Nuan is so beautifully dressed, you must have delayed time, everyone is waiting for you."

Sister Nuan was so wronged, she twisted her round face and said, "It's not me, I got up early, I'm a good boy."

Zhu Fu stretched out his hand and patted his younger sister's buttocks, hugged her inside and sat there, then Zhu Xi and Shen Yuzhu got into the carriage, Zhu Lu outside acted as the coachman and drove, Shen Yulou had flames, so naturally he acted as the bodyguard and accompanied him on horseback.

The sun was rising high, and the small town was bustling with activity. There were market and business people coming into the city one after another, and the whole small town seemed to wake up from a deep sleep.

The carriage drove slowly on the official road, all the way to Lihua Village.

(End of this chapter)