Young rich peasants

The shopkeeper crackled on the small abacus for a while, and said, "One hundred cash for a towel."

Mei Xiaopai stretched out three fingers, "Three hundred Wen."

The shopkeeper was taken aback, and quickly shook his head and waved his hands, "No, no, it's too much. You know the price of ordinary scarves. The price of a scarf without embroidery is around [-] Wen, and that with an embroidery worker is about [-] Wen. One hundred Wen is already much more than an ordinary scarf. La."

Mei Xiaodi disagreed, "In the past, the simple embroidered scarves were indeed twenty or thirty cash, but today is different. Look at the scarves on the street that imitate Gui Ada, which one is less than fifty cash? There are more than a hundred words or even worth thousands of dollars. The pattern of my jujube embroidery is definitely unique, and the craftsmanship is unquestionable. Everyone believes in the embroidery of "Zao Ada", and it is accompanied by these small poems. , the higher price is worth it, I only charge this price for your favor, if you are not satisfied, I can go to another house to try..."

"Don't! Hey! Meah is so eloquent!" The shopkeeper wiped his sweat, "This, 280 words?"

Mei Xiaodi said with a confident look: "320 Wen, that's it, Zaozi, let's go."

Zaozi couldn't grasp what Xiaopai meant for a moment, he hesitated for half a step, the shopkeeper hurried to the door and stopped them, "I'll give it!"

After selling three headscarves, Zaozi has a tael of silver in his arms.After going out to the street, the father and son took Xiaosong to the teahouse. Zaozi loves the sweet-scented osmanthus cake from this teahouse, which was the one that Lei Shounuo bought before.

Taking a bite of the fragrant sweet cake, Zaozi asked the little dad worriedly, "Are you afraid that the asking price was too high?"

Mei Xiaopai just laughed and said nothing, Xiaosong whispered: "That shopkeeper is still making a lot of money."

Zaozi tilted his head and asked, "It's 320 Wen a piece, if he can't sell it, it will be a disaster."

"Don't think so, Zao Ada," Xiaosong said anxiously, "You embroider very well, and you will definitely sell for a high price, and the shopkeeper will definitely not lose money."

"Really?"

Mei Xiaodi said: "Xiaosong has said so, you can rest assured. If you want to continue selling, just continue to embroider, and the shopkeeper will definitely have more."

Zaozi has always been skeptical about this, but everyone has said so, and the things have been sold, so he can't continue to struggle.After eating the pastries, the three set off for the village.

When I got home, the sunset had already lit up, and the whole sky was full of colorful colors.They smelled a strange smell, and there were a few screams in the kitchen.

Zaozi and Mei Xiaopai looked at each other, walked into the kitchen, Awei and Lei Guanjia hid from the stove with gray faces, and Lei Guanjia coughed so much that he couldn't straighten up.

Little Daddy Mei was stunned for a while, then rushed over and pulled Ah Wei and Housekeeper Lei out, "Why did you fill the room with stove ashes!"

Ah Wei shook off his clothes and found another handful of ashes, Xiao Song hurriedly pulled him to the corner.Detonator's ears were red, and he could see it through the ash, he said: "I want to try cooking a meal."

"Shouldn't you just say no?" Lei Shounuo came out of the room holding little Ah Yue, turned his head and said to Zaozi, "My son is clamoring for you, let's give you a hug."

"Okay, give it to me." She hugged little Ah Yue who had already protruded half of her body.

Mei Xiaopai sighed helplessly, and said, "Master Lei, don't you only know how to settle accounts with pen and ink, what kind of food do you cook?"

Housekeeper Lei flicked his sleeves twice, "You are the ones who take care of these things on weekdays, seeing that you are not free today, I just want to help..."

Mei Xiaodi said: "The more you help, the more busy you are. The dishes in the kitchen are all dirty and we have to take the trouble to wash them again."

"I'll wash it for you!"

"No need." Mei Xiaopai pushed him out, "If you are asked to intervene, then you don't have to eat tonight."

Little Ah Yue clapped her hands and laughed, Lei Shounuo scratched his little face, "Little guy."

Within a few days, good news came from the shopkeeper in the county seat, and all three headscarves were sold.How much did you sell for?The shopkeeper didn't say anything, Mei Xiaopai asked other acquaintances, and it was said that it cost a few thousand dollars.The jujubes are astounding, and the price has been quadrupled. People in the city deserve to live a richer life, and they can afford to buy them at such an expensive price.

It is said that the three headscarves were bought by rich men, and they envied others, so other rich men went to the shopkeeper every day to ask when new headscarves would be available, and the shopkeeper came to tell Zaozi: " The threshold is about to be trampled! Zao Ada, are you still doing it? Can you embroider a few more this time?"

"Okay, but I can't embroider that much, try my best."

Mei Xiaopai told him that he could embroider slowly and not rush too much, Zaozi should be.I just started in the last two months, and the pattern ideas are all new, so I almost put my heart and soul into it, and there is no gap at all.Now that you have direction and purpose, it's time to relax a bit.

At noon that day, Zaozi carried little Ayue on his back to coax him to sleep while walking back and forth on the green path in front of the house, occasionally embroidering a few stitches with a bamboo frame in his hand. I slept soundly.Lei Shounuo came back to eat, sat down on the steps of the courtyard gate with a large bowl in his hand, and said, "Zaozi, do you think Uncle Lei and our little dad are getting a little close?"

"Near? No, the house is so big, why go so close?"

Lei Shounuo choked on a mouthful of soup and rice, and said calmly, "It's not that close, I mean they seem to be a little ambiguous."

Oh oh oh, Zaozi suddenly realized, thinking carefully, "I didn't realize..."

Lei Shounuo drank half a bowl of soup with a snort, "Maybe I'm overthinking."

Little Ah Yue woke up when she heard the sound of eating, struggled behind Zao Zi, Zao Zi untied her straps, Lei Shou Nuo came up to pick up her son in time, and the family of three simply sat on the steps to bask in the sun.Zaozi said: "Little Daddy has been alone for so long, it's nice to have a companion, right?"

Lei Shounuo was noncommittal, "It's hard to say."

Zaozi said, "You hate Uncle being a stepfather?"

Lei Shounuo frowned, "That's not what I mean, anyway, I don't know what I think." Asking his heart, it's not that he really doesn't understand the situation, on the contrary, he understands and understands it very well, but he just cares more or less.

"Brother Lei, Zaozi may not be appropriate to say this, but I think my little dad has the right to pursue his own happiness." Lei Shounuo looked over, and he continued, "Look, you married me, and you have a little girl again." Ah Yue has her own little family, but what about my little dad? I have given someone else the son I have always depended on, and I am still a widow, so lonely."

Lei Shounuo wryly smiled and said, "You've hit the spot, Zaozi has become smarter." He put his arm on Zaozi's shoulder and rubbed his neck.

Zaozi rubbed her calloused hands back, "Because I stayed by Lei Ge's side for a long time."

"You are very reasonable." Lei Shounuo stood up and put away the dishes.

After dinner in the evening, Lei Shounuo called his little dad to stop him.

Mei Xiaopai helped pull up the weeds in the vegetable garden casually, and asked, "Is there anything you want the two of you to talk about alone?"

"Daddy," Lei Shounuo said, "Did you...have a crush on Uncle Lei?"

Mei Xiaopai was stunned, and suddenly laughed, "You kid, what did you think you were going to say, is this it?"

"Little Daddy, Zaozi and I support you, so..." "Stop, stop, you're making a mistake."

Lei Shounuo was puzzled, "I made a mistake? But recently you have indeed gotten closer, and Uncle Lei always helps you with things."

Little Daddy Mei came out with a handful of grass, closed the fence, and fed the grass to two squawking white geese, "That's because he stepped on and broke one of my hairpins last month."

Lei Shounuo moved to the side, and sure enough, the carved winter plum wooden hairpin that Mei Xiaodi usually wears the most has turned into a plain bamboo hairpin.The colors and styles are all the same, the only difference is the picture of cold plums, which is usually hard to find if you don't pay attention.

"He was walking while holding a book that day, bumped into me, and the hairpin fell to the ground. He stepped on it in a panic, so he felt guilty. I refused to accept his compensation, so he had to do everything. They all help me."

"Daddy, do you have any intentions for him?"

Mei Xiaodie raised the corners of his lips, and smiled faintly, "Love, love, has already gone away, I have you enough, what is more important than relatives?"

Lei Shounuo had mixed emotions, "I don't know what Uncle Lei thinks."

"Hahaha, what can he think? You two children think too much!" Little Daddy Mei couldn't help laughing, "I have known him for more than ten or twenty years, and we have always only had brotherhood. That guy's love is all in the book When he was young, he used to say that there is beauty in the book, and everything is fulfilled with the book. It is also because he loves books so much that he has invested his love for people in books. No amount of beauty and wealth can shake him. That's why the Lei family trusts him so much."

Lei Shounuo's emotions became more complicated, he was educated by Zaozi to prepare him mentally, but in the end there was nothing between the two elders.

"Okay, don't think about it, I won't hide anything from you... go in."

Lei Shounuo went back to the room and threw Zaozi down, and repeated what his father said, Zaozi let out a long oh.

"I'm just worrying about it." Lei Shounuo said.

Zaozi didn't think there was anything wrong, so he poked Lei Shounuo's head and said, "Compared to that, Brother Lei, your beard needs to be trimmed, it looks messy." Lei Shounuo touched his chin, it was a bit long, Said: "You cut it for me."

"No, I won't."

"Just cut it short."

"Cut ugly, you will be laughed at when you go out."

"Ugly is just right, I like that."

"……All right."

Zaozi is not being polite, he really doesn't know how to trim his beard, this place doesn't grow a beard, and his hair can't be cut casually, he picked up the guy and could only imagine that he was cutting the thread.

When it was getting dark, Lei Shounuo spread out the big characters on the bed, with his head resting on Zaozi's thigh, "Is it okay..."

Don't rush me, I'm nervous!Zaozi thought in his heart, shaking his hand, and there was a click——

"What kind of cut is it? Let me see..." "Don't!"

Zaozi hugged Lei Shounuo desperately, forced a smile and said, "Ming, let's see it tomorrow."

Lei Shounuo touched it, and immediately understood, "That's fine."

Zaozi breathed a sigh of relief, but Lei Shounuo knew that his beard had been cut flat just by the feel of his hands.But Lei Shounuo didn't mind, so it didn't matter what it was.