peasant woman headed home

Chapter 69

After Hongxiu finished copying the book, she accompanied Liu Jing to the town to return it. Of course, returning the book was just an excuse, she mainly wanted to relax.These days, she has been tangling about the doll, feeling like everyone is looking at her belly. She thought about not going out to play, so she made herself nervous.Liu Jing also had serious business to do - selling tiger skins, Liu Huang didn't say anything, and only asked the three of them to come back early after finishing today's quantity.

When he arrived in the town, Liu Rui continued his small business. Liu Jing accompanied Hongxiu to return the book and received a tael of silver.

"Ma'am, these batches of writing are really fast these days. I see those scholars are always procrastinating, and only return the books after three urgings. If it weren't for the kindness of the shopkeeper, how could they give the jobs to those sour scholars." The little guy was probably offended by the noble face of the scholar. Scholars, it's normal to look down on such a little guy. The words inevitably brought out something. The guy also has a temper, but it's not easy to express it in front of others. After coming out, Hongxiu looked easy to talk to, and she didn't mean to underestimate him, so she said a few words to her.

Hongxiu just smiled: "Where did you say that, I'm just a little woman, I have a lot of free time, and I have time to copy books. Those people are going to take the exam for fame. The provincial exam is coming soon, so they naturally hurry up and read books."

The young man curled his lips and didn't continue to say anything. If they got the honor in the provincial examination, they would be the masters of Juren, so how dare they talk small things.Take out the paper to be used this time: "Madam, these two books have been selling very fast recently, this time I copied ten copies of each of the two books. The stock is a little short, but I need to copy faster." He pointed to the "University" and "The Doctrine of the Mean".

Hongxiu took the books and paper, "Okay, I'll deliver them in twenty days." He bought some paper and pens for Liu Yu and went out with Liu Jing.Liu Jing took what was in Hongxiu's hand, and took her right hand, "But I'm very tired. I see that the words in these books are densely packed, and there are countless words."

"It's okay. I don't have a lot of work to do at home. It's great to have time to copy books and practice handwriting. I'll be tired anyway. Let's sell this tiger skin to Uncle Zhang that my father told me." , I have to go to Huichun Hall to get some medicine later."

Liu Jing took Hongxiu to an inconspicuous storefront in an alley at the end of the street: "Is Uncle Zhang here?"

The old man who was busy dealing with the fur raised his head, "I am, what's wrong. Is there any good stuff?"

"Uncle Zhang, I'm Li Erniu's daughter, and my father said that if he wants to sell furs, he has to find you." Hongxiu took the words with a smile, "A while ago, we got a tiger skin, and I think the quality is very good. "

"Hey, old man Li's daughter is so big. When I saw you before, she didn't reach my waist. I didn't expect to be married in a blink of an eye." Zhang Shu straightened his waist, pointed at Liu Jing and said with a smile: "You Good boy, what a blessing to have such a good wife."

Liu Jing smiled and nodded, took Hongxiu's hand, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

"Come on, the young couple brought something good and give me palm eyes." Zhang Shu really couldn't stand the tiredness of the elderly, and coughed twice to interrupt the eye contact between the two.

Liu Jing immediately took out the tiger skin from the package and handed it to Zhang Shu with both hands.As soon as Zhang Shu saw the tiger skin, his eyes lit up. You took the tiger skin and stroked it with both hands, "Tsk tsk tsk, this is the best white tiger skin. The color is still so complete, how did you get such a superb product."

"I saw it when I went up the mountain to hide from the rain in the cave, so I took it down the mountain." Liu Jing touched his head with an embarrassed expression.

"You guys are really lucky. This skin can be worth 80 taels of silver at least. Are you sure you want to sell it?" Zhang Shu asked with wide-eyed eyes while holding the tiger skin tightly.

"Well. We really want to sell it. Uncle Zhang, please give me a price. We believe you."

Seeing that the old man Zhang immediately hid the tiger skin in, he couldn't tell that this was the speed of an old man in his fifties.He took out a cloth bag, which contained a 50 taels of silver bill and broken silver, "I won't cheat you, to tell you the truth, if this tiger skin was in the city, someone would have collected it for 150 taels, but this is a small town." , I can’t afford this price, how about 100 taels of silver? This is the most I can offer, you can ask other stores, the price must be around 80 taels..."

Liu Jing took the cloth bag, "Uncle Zhang, we still can't trust you." "That is to say, Uncle Zhang, my father asked us to come to you by name, how can we not trust you." Hong Xiu also chimed in.

(End of this chapter)