Soul Travel: I was bought by the fierce man in the village to farm

The bridge has been surrounded since morning, and they still have to squeeze in when they cross. She doesn't understand, "Why are these people staring at a family of three? They are not performing juggling."

"That man is selling his wife."

"What?" Mao Xiaosui suspected that he didn't hear clearly.

Li Yunshan was not surprised and said, "Let's go."

When he walked through the crowd and turned around, he saw that the person was gone.

He sighed helplessly, moved the basket to the front, and squeezed in again.

Taking advantage of his height, he could easily spot Mao Xiaosui standing on tiptoes in the crowd to watch the excitement.

A woman behind her secretly reached into her basket.

Li Yunshan pushed through the crowd and strode over, asking politely, "Stealing something?"

The woman was startled by him and walked away in a hurry.

Mao Xiaosui looked back at him after hearing the voice, and followed his example and put the basket in front.

The people surrounded did not speak, and the people around them just stared.

The woman was wearing thin clothes and was holding an infant child in her arms. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying. The man was beating his head and saying "Ten taels of silver" from time to time.

Mao Xiaosui heard someone yelling, "You've already given birth to a child and you still pay the same price as a yellow girl. You're crazy because you're short of money."

The man didn't seem to hear him, and after a while he said again, "Ten taels of silver..."

Mao Xiaosui felt uncomfortable when he saw that the woman had just given birth. What was this man's heart made of? How could he do such a thing.

She wanted to watch again, but Li Yunshan forcefully pulled her out of the crowd.

Her face was red from the cold, and even her eyes were red. She had a grimace now, full of displeasure.

Li Yunshan sighed in his heart and said, "Let's go."

"What will happen to them?"

"do not know."

She looked back again, and Li Yunshan stopped to look at her. "There is a place in the town. There are many people who were sold there, including men, women, old and young. Some were sold by their family members, and some were sold by themselves if they could not survive. Their lives It’s worthless in this place, this kind of thing happens everywhere, it’s better not to look at it.”

She didn't say anything else and just followed.

Li Yunshan only turned around and looked back a few times as if he remembered something.

"I'll buy sesame seeds, you wait."

"Don't buy it." Mao Xiaosui held him back, "My pancakes are also delicious."

"You don't want to eat?"

She shook her head, "Expensive."

Sitting in the snow for so long in the dead of winter, she also realized how difficult it was to make money. Apart from meat, she could not spend money on anything else.

The bridge is not long, but it has many things that were not there before.

Mao Xiaosui stopped at a table with wooden boxes.

The stall owner was a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old. When he saw her stop, he immediately smiled and asked, "Do you want some ointment, little lady?"

"What ointment?"

The stall owner pointed to the piece that was smaller than an egg and looked like red mud and said, "This is lip balm." Then he pointed to another white piece, "This is soap paste, this is balm."

"Soap?" She leaned closer and smelled it, but it had no smell.

"How to sell it?"

"The lip balm and balm are more expensive, fifty for one penny, and the soap is cheap, one penny."

"Isn't this cheap?"

"The things in this town are naturally different from the soap nuts in your basket."

Mao Xiaosui was curious, "Can you sell this?"

"Of course I can. I sold four pieces of soap today."

"That means you made a lot of money."

The vendor stopped replying to her and just asked, "Little lady, please take some lipstick. It will look good if you put it on. Your man will also like it after seeing it."

She shook her head, "It doesn't cost a lot to make. It's very expensive to sell. I might as well make it myself."

The smile on the stall owner's face disappeared and he said disdainfully, "Then little lady, hurry up and go back to work. I will definitely take care of your business when you make it."

Mao Xiaosui didn't feel angry after hearing his strange words, but his eyes lit up.

Li Yunshan glanced at the stall owner, hugged her and left.

Mao Xiaosui's eyes were bright and he asked him, "Shall we also sell soap paste? It seems to make more money than selling soap nuts?"

"It's expensive. What he sells is not good. It costs fifty or sixty coppers to get the goods in the town."

"It's so easy to do it yourself."

Li Yunshan responded with "hmm" and didn't take it seriously.

I came back late today and almost fell down while going up the slope.

A thick layer of snow fell in the yard, and the two put their things away. Li Yunshan went to the main room to light the mud stove, and she went to the kitchen to light the brazier.

"Want to eat steamed buns?" she asked in the yard, holding a basin.

"casual."

Mao Xiaosui happily entered the grain house and dug out three bowls of millet noodles and then half a bowl of white noodles.

Mix the white flour with warm water and knead it into a smooth dough, put it in a jar and take it to the main room to seal and ferment. Use boiling water to scald the millet noodles, and then boil the water in the pot for steaming.

There were a lot of cabbage at home, so she took one and cut it, put a little pork in the pot, heated the oil and stir-fried the cabbage.

She brought the fried cabbage to the clay stove in the main room to warm it, and after waiting for a while to estimate that the steamed buns were almost done, she went to the kitchen to steam a second pot.

The steamed buns were very filling. After Mao Xiaosui ate two, he went to the kitchen to steam the rest.

After steaming two and a half pots of three bowls of noodles, she also made suet while the kitchen was warm.

Thinking of the soap she saw at the market today, she was ready to make a move.

Li Yunshan waited for a long time, smelled the aroma of oil in the kitchen, and got up and walked out.

In the kitchen, Mao Xiaosui used a wooden stick to stir something dark in the pot. The suet had just come out of oil now, and it would take a while to get better.

He didn't ask, and after a while he saw her put the sieve on the basin, filtered out the black stuff in the pot, and put the residue aside to settle.

He looked confused and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Making soap." She blinked.

He was speechless, thinking that if you could really make a living, you would make a fortune in the future.

The ointment in the town is all obtained from the county. If she can really make it, she can make a lot of money by selling it to the town even if it is cheaper.

He quickly shook his head again, wondering why he was starting to think about things that were there and not there.

The lard residue was boiled slowly over low heat. Mao Xiaosui poured out the precipitated plant ash water in the basin, threw in the salt and stirred it.

Li Yunshan didn't say anything when he saw her wasting salt. Then he saw her take a spoon and pour some of the hot lard into it.

Before he could say anything to stop him, he saw her pouring another spoonful.

"Don't waste gas."

"Nothing wasted."

Mao Xiaosui ignored him, stirred it vigorously with chopsticks and put it aside.

It was already wasted. Li Yunshan didn't say anything. After waiting for the oil residue to come out of the pot, the two of them returned to the main room.

The fried crumbs were crispy and fragrant. The two of them ate less than half a bowl and went to bed.

When he woke up again, the room was a little dark. Mao Xiaosui squatted on the ground and stared at the basin of soap in a daze.

Li Yunshan just thought she was fooling around and said, "Don't waste gas in the future." Then he went out.

Mao Xiaosui pulled him and asked eagerly, "Can you take it off completely?"

"I'm going to the hut."

After he went out and came back, he also started to study the basin. Finally, he turned the basin upside down and hit it several times with the bench.

Mao Xiaosui suspected that he was going to break the basin, and then he heard a "pop".

The soap paste was still broken, but fortunately most of it was intact.

She picked it up carefully, cut the whole ones into half-sized pieces, picked up the broken ones and put them away, then went back to bring a basin of water.

Li Yunshan didn't understand why she vowed, but he was also curious.

It was only when she put the white piece into the water and rubbed it into foam that she realized something was wrong.

He picked up the complete soap paste in the basin and smelled it. There was a pungent smell, but it was not strong. He put his hand in again and took some residue and rubbed it.

It's definitely soap.