Across the Market

Chapter 26

Just three quarters after Jiang Yin's time, Zhu Fu had lost sleepiness, and looked outside through a thin layer of window paper, but it was still pitch black.The room is also quiet, only the sound of the hourglass can be heard.Thinking of agreeing to accompany Shen Yuzhu to sell tofu the night before yesterday, Zhu Fu struggled for a while, but in the end it was the hardworking man who defeated the lazy man. She sat up quietly and began to reach out for her clothes.

Zhu Xi also had a light sleep, and couldn't fall asleep when there was any movement around her. She woke up in a daze, and felt that her second sister was getting dressed. She turned her head and looked outside. It was still early in the morning.

"Sister Fu, we have a pail in our house, so you don't have to get dressed to go out." Zhu Xicai didn't think that her sister would get up at this time, she thought that her sister was in a hurry to urinate, "Yesterday, my mother said that it was cold and it was inconvenient to get up at night." , just put one in our house, put it in the corner by the door, you go."

Zhu Fu had already put on his clothes in the dark, then carefully climbed off the wooden bed, and wrapped a square cloth scarf around his head.

"I promised Yuzhu the day before yesterday that I would accompany her to sell tofu. She should get up and grind tofu at this time. I'll help her." After speaking, she wrapped herself into a bear and walked to the small wooden table in the dark , Lighted the kerosene lamp, and the room became slightly brighter.

Zhu Xi was already sitting up in shock. The peach-red tunic he was wearing had been washed pink and white, with many patches on it. Under the dim candlelight, his hair looked unreadable.Zhu Fu's eyes fell on the middle coat worn by the eldest sister, and he sighed in his heart, since the elder sister looks so good, she should be wearing those delicate and beautiful clothes.

"Sister Fu, aren't you joking with my sister?" Zhu Xi didn't believe it, and she didn't agree. If she wanted to go out to work, she should go by herself. Don't make trouble, mother won't tell us to go, if mother finds out, she will be angry."

"Eldest sister, we are just ordinary people, and we are not ladies, so why are there so many rules?" Zhu Fu persuaded, "Mother loves elder sister and me, but I don't want to see my parents working hard. Let's talk , I just went with Yuzhu, and I will help her watch the stall when the time comes, she calls for selling, but I don't call for it."

Zhu Xi knew that the second younger sister had grown up, became sensible, and felt sorry for her parents. She should be happy, but she couldn't be happy in her heart.

It's all my grandma's fault, if it wasn't for her, my family wouldn't be living in such a difficult situation, my father wouldn't be so desperate to save money, and my brother wouldn't have yet to talk about a marriage.Ask her, how can a married daughter make up for her mother's family?Should not have given silver!
It's also because the parents are too soft-hearted and the people are too honest. They don't want to make the relationship too rigid, so they have been putting up with grandma.

The family used to be better, and saving a little money would free up a tael of silver every month, but now the family is different. My father is injured and can no longer do heavy physical work, and even my own food and clothing have become problems. How can I be filial? The grandma who lives in luxury?
Zhu Xi bit her red lips tightly with her white teeth, and there was a turmoil hidden in her misty eyes. She thought, next time grandma dares to come to the door and ask for money, she will definitely make trouble with her old man.

At worst, I will lose my reputation of being disrespectful to the elderly. At worst, I will never marry in this life, and I can't be bullied like this.

Seeing the gloomy complexion of the eldest sister, Zhu Fu guessed that she must have thought of that old monster, and hurriedly smiled and hugged the eldest sister and said: "Elder sister, you just let me go, Yuzhu serves me tofu flowers every day, how can I eat it?" Eating for nothing? I must help her!"

Zhu Xi lifted the quilt: "Then I will go with you."

"Don't go, Eldest Sister." Zhu Fu pressed Eldest Sister's hand, mouthed towards his younger sister Nuan, and said, "This girl is the most clingy to you and me, if you wake up and find that we are not here I'm sure she's going to cry. When she cries, Mother will definitely get angrier. Mother has been feeling bad lately, so don't make her angry."

While talking, he covered the quilt again, fearing what Elder Sister would say, Zhu Fu nimbly moved to the door, turned around and said, "I will definitely bring the silver back home." After speaking, he pushed the door lightly , A gust of cold wind hit her face, she couldn't help shivering, and then hurried out.

"Sister Fu..." Zhu Xi wanted to chase her out, but Nuan also woke up.

"Eldest sister, where's second sister?" The little girl's cheeks were flushed from sleep, and she had been sleeping with her second sister for the past two nights, so when she woke up and saw no one was hugging her, she started looking for someone.

Before I opened my eyes, I called my sister.

Afraid of sister Nuan's crying, Zhu Xi comforted her and said, "Sister Fu is out to celebrate, it's okay, sister Nuan, go to sleep."

"Oh." Seeing that the two sisters were still there, Sister Nuan's chubby body tilted and fell down again.

But Zhu Xi didn't feel sleepy anymore, she got out of bed gropingly, then sat down at the small wooden table beside her, and began to embroider.

(End of this chapter)