Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 6
Seeing Jiufeng tilting her head to look at herself, Mai Xiang secretly scolded herself for being too talkative again, making too many mistakes.

But who is this master? He was mentioned several times this morning, and I heard that he would see a doctor, and he was the one who took care of Mai Xiang's illness.Since he can see a doctor, why not call him a doctor but a master?But Mai Xiang didn't dare to ask any more questions.

"I mean, how do you know that it belongs to a rich family? I heard that rich people use fox fur. Who uses rabbit fur?" Mai Xiang changed the subject.

She still has this common sense, this rabbit fur is the cheapest thing, how can the really rich people use rabbit fur?Don't modern rich people pay attention to what mink and fox fur to wear?

After all, Jiufeng was still a child, and was stopped by Mai Xiang's question, and said: "I see that there are maids, carriages, and bright clothes, so this is not rich?"

"What's the use of that? It's not that the Master's family is rich. I heard from others that in the first year, someone saw that the wife of the Master's family gave the silver hairpin on her head to the pawnshop in the town, and exchanged it for some broken silver to buy some rice noodles for the New Year. With such a big belly, it doesn't look bright on the face, and it doesn't have any greasy water." Zhao curled her lips aside.

Mai Xiang didn't dare to speak any more, it happened that Ye Dafu had already made a pair of small wall shoes for Mai Xiang, and Mai Xiang was playing with it in his hand.

"Brother, make me a pair too, I think it's really fun." Jiufeng fell in love with it when she saw it.

Mai Xiang secretly smiled, whether this will become her first pot of gold, she is looking forward to it.

Under Mai Xiang's coquettishness, Ye Dafu made five pairs of small wall shoes for Mai Xiang. Mai Xiang specially learned how to tie knots from Jiufeng. It is the simplest Chinese knot, and is hung on the small shoes with a small red Chinese knot. Looks pretty much like that too.

In the early morning of the first day of the new year, it happened that Mai Xiang’s family was not cooking. Ye Dafu picked out two baskets of straw sandals. Small and exquisite, there are five pairs of wall shoes inside, and a handful of incense on it, which is used when preparing to worship Buddha.

Almost all the Ye family members were mobilized. On the road, Mai Xiang found out that the Temple of the Reclining Buddha was the most popular, and there were many tourists offering incense on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year. Therefore, the front of the temple became a market in these two days. Due to the nature of the temple fair, people from several nearby villages and towns will come.

Walking on the official road, Mai Xiang saw occasional carriages and sedan chairs passing by, and the number of pedestrians gradually increased. Seeing that the ice in the river had not yet melted, Mai Xiang guessed that it should be in the north. Moreover, the meals at home for so many days, Except corn paste, sweet potato paste and sorghum noodles, not a single grain of rice, not a single trace of green vegetables.

"Mai Xiang, you came out too? Didn't I hear that you were sick? Healed up so soon?" Someone in front greeted Mai Xiang.There are seven or eight of them in total, and they are all about the same age as Mai Xiang.Mai Xiang only knew one fat man, and he met him when he went to wash clothes by the well.

"Well, it's all right." Mai Xiang smiled.

"Sister Damei, what are you going to do today?" Mai Huang greeted a ten-year-old girl.Because this girl came over and held Mai Xiang's arm, she should be Mai Xiang's best friend, but it seems that the conditions are not very good, similar to Mai Xiang.

"My mother asked me to sell these pairs of socks." There were several pairs of fine cotton socks in Damei's basket.

Mai Xiang looked at her feet, it was a pair of coarse cotton socks, and the socks were patched a lot, and there was only one pair, which had not been changed since Mai Xiang arrived.

When Mai Xiang was getting close to everyone, the Temple of the Reclining Buddha arrived, and it felt like he had been gone for less than half an hour.

The Temple of the Reclining Buddha is halfway up the mountain, and there is a large open space in front of it. At this time, the vendors have spontaneously set up a cross street. There are people selling things, shopping and jugglers. It is indeed very lively.

Ye Dafu found an open space, unloaded his things, and urged Mrs. Zhao to take the children to worship Buddha first, and he had to go early to worship Buddha.

Mrs. Zhao also knew this truth, and hurriedly took Mai Xiang into the temple, and the second general Heng Ha entered the door. Mai Xiang didn't know the few Buddha statues offered inside, and just knelt down behind Mrs. Zhao.

Mai Xiang saw that Zhao threw a copper coin into the merit box, and the copper coin was tightly held in Zhao's hand, because Mai Xiang saw Zhao's distressed expression.

The reclining Buddha is in the back hall, and the one lying there is Sakyamuni, the Buddha. Mai Xiang knows this one, and has seen it many times in "Journey to the West".

"Mai Xiang, please tell the Buddha to bless you and be safe every year." Mrs. Zhao solemnly kowtowed, sent a copper coin in, and then gave Mai Xiang another copper coin.

Mai Xiang took the sweaty copper coin, feeling quite uncomfortable. It's not that Zhao doesn't feel sorry for herself, but it's because there are too many children and the conditions at home are too poor.

"Come on." Seeing that Mai Xiang was stunned, Mrs. Zhao urged her.

Mai Xiang followed the example of the people next to him, lit three incense sticks, knelt down, and began to chant: "Buddha has a spirit, please send me back, let the original Mai Xiang come back, please, send me back Well, the tears of my parents should be shed, right? The merciful and merciful Almighty Buddha, you must hear the voice of your heart? Please, you are the omnipotent Buddha who can save all living beings, you can’t just watch I don’t care if I suffer? I can’t just watch my parents die, can I? Also, let me be more greedy, please bless this family to have a better life..."

Mai Xiang closed her eyes and muttered in her mouth, a maid next to her heard it, chuckled, and said to another maid beside her: "Xiaoqing, look at this man, he is too greedy for talking so much. , but I also know that I am greedy."

A person who looked like a young lady glanced at Mai Xiang and said to the maid: "Shut up, you don't have any morals in front of the Buddha."

"Yes, Grid."

When Mai Xiang heard that she was a character, she opened her eyes and took a look at the other party. It was not the flag head and flower pot shoes on TV, but her hair was obviously not Han Chinese. The bright red satin padded jacket was covered with a three-quarter-sleeve gown made of animal hair of unknown origin. Mai Xiang had just learned the word gown.The clothes of the two servant girls are very ordinary.

"Yes, Grid."

Seeing the other party looking at her, Mai Xiang smiled at her.

"Mai Xiang, let's go, let's sell straw sandals for your father, he is an honest man, and he doesn't know how to yell." Zhao urged from the side.

"Mom, you go first. I'll take my sisters here for a stroll. Anyway, we won't be able to help if we go." Mai Xiang said hastily.

Mrs. Zhao was just about to start scolding, but when she saw that this was a Buddhist pure land, and there were several nobles standing beside her, she stopped and said, "Come back early, and don't lose the two little ones. Mai Huang, your maid of honor Walk."

Mai Huang didn't want to go shopping in the temple either, but wanted to go out with Mrs. Zhao. It was so lively outside, with food and entertainment. If Ye Dafu sold something, maybe he would give her a copper coin to buy some snacks .

Mai Qing and Mai Lu thought the same way, and the two little girls bounced away holding Mai Huang's hand.

Mai Xiang saw that it was just right, so she picked up her little basket and caught up with Ge Ge on the veranda outside. At this time, there was another woman around 40 years old beside Ge Ge. The woman was obviously a woman. Dress up as a deputy.

"Sorry, hello." Mai Xiang said cheekily.

Seeing that it was Mai Xiang, the other party stopped and looked at Mai Xiang with some puzzlement.

"It's like this. I have a few pairs of straw wall shoes here, which are hung on the wall. They are said to be able to ward off evil spirits. Do you want a pair?"

"Go, where did you come from, a little poor girl? Whether you have eyes or not, you dare to approach Gege with something you have picked up with dirty hands." The woman stared at him and pushed people away.

"Mom, it's okay. Let me have a look." Ge Ge glanced at the things in Mai Xiang's hands, but felt that they were novel and clean, so she wanted to have a look.

Mai Xiang gave the wall sandals to the woman, and the woman handed it to Ge Ge respectfully. Ge Ge looked at the things in her hands, and then looked at Mai Xiang's clothes.

"how much is it?"

Where did Mai Xiang sell this before, so she smiled and said, "You can give it whatever you want."

"Xiaoqing, grab some money for her."

"Yes." The maid named Xiaoqing grabbed a handful of copper coins for Mai Xiang from the purse on her body, and handed them directly to Mai Xiang without counting them.

Mai Xiang raised the basket to catch it, but Ge Ge fell in love with Mai Xiang's basket, it was small and exquisite, simple and unclumsy, and even made some tricks.The most important thing is that it is also very clean, and it looks like new.

"Do you sell this basket?"

"Sell, of course." Mai Xiang said quickly.

"how much is it?"

"You should still watch the reward."

Mai Xiang knew that the psychology of these rich people was that they were worthless things. Let her see that a reward is definitely more appropriate than asking for it. Moreover, the word "reward" more or less satisfied the other party's almighty mentality of giving.

Sure enough, just as Mai Xiang finished speaking, the other party smiled and said, "This girl is really smart, Xiao Qing, give her a small piece of broken silver."

Xiaoqing found the smallest piece of silver from the purse, weighed it, handed it to Mai Xiang, and said, "There are two or three coins here, and it's cheap for you."

"Xie Gege, thank you, sister Xiaoqing." Mai Xiang took out the other four wall shoes and handed over the basket.

When they were gone, Mai Xiang turned around and threw up the silver in excitement, only missing a whistle.

After getting excited, Mai Xiang thought about it, bent down and hid the silver in her socks, counted the copper coins, there were sixteen, Mai Xiang hid six more, and put the remaining ten in In the pocket of the cotton-padded jacket.

Unexpectedly, when she was about to get up, Mai Xiang saw the fat guys coming in from the outside. Mai Xiang didn't want to run into them, so she took a few steps back.

"Ouch."

It turned out that Mai Xiang bumped into someone else accidentally.

(End of this chapter)