What can Chang'an do? I can only continue to act.

Fortunately, she and her apprentice brothers and sisters finally had hot jujube cakes.

After finally finishing the third performance, as soon as I got home, two children came to the door.

It turned out to be two boys from Song Dashi's family. They wanted to buy today's carved paper album.

Song Dashi's family is the poorest family in the village. Although the eldest son is now making money digging wells with Song Sanshun, the kid is a thief and is only willing to hand over part of it to his father Song Dashi, while leaving the rest to his new wife to raise their children.

Song Dashi also has two sons. The second one is fourteen this year, and the third one is ten years old. They have not yet married.

Song Dashi was so afraid of poverty that he refused to let go of the money given by his eldest son. He said he was saving it for his retirement, and asked his two younger sons to find ways to earn money and marry a wife.

But what kind of money can two village boys earn?

So the two young men decided to borrow money from their eldest brother to buy a picture album of Chang'an and show it to others at the fair.

Just like a storyteller, you collect reward money in the middle of the performance, and then continue with the next plot.

Chang'an saw that Song Er and Song San were from the same village, so he charged them five hundred coins less and sold them to them at the consistent price of five.

Then she taught them how to move the paper figures in the picture album and how to dub them.

It's just that neither of them can read, otherwise there would be no need to go to such trouble.

After the two practiced it several times, they were already familiar with it. Song San even knew how to add a few interesting lines to it.

It happened that the next day was the hometown fair. Chang'an went with his aunt to the fair, in fact, to see how the two brothers Song and Song were doing.

It is the winter month now, the weather is a bit cold, but the water has not turned into ice yet. There are many people coming to the market, most of them are selling handicrafts, and some people are carrying firewood and pine needles to sell at the market.

The kang is about to be burned, and pine needles and pine cones are both good materials for burning the kang.

Chang'an held his aunt's hand and looked around.

She saw old Zhao again. She and her daughter Song Yufeng were setting up a stall selling wontons, while Song Jizu was sitting at the small table next to him, eating from a big bowl.

As soon as their eyes met, Changan saw that his sister-in-law looked at her aunt and him with hatred in her eyes.

Mrs. Wu held her niece's hand tightly and asked Sister-in-law Qian to go with Qiaoer.

"Bah! What the hell!" Ms. Qian said to Ms. Wu in a low voice, "Look at Song Yufeng's look. It's as if you owe her a hundred dollars. Whoever this kind of woman marries into will be unlucky!"

Wu smiled and said nothing.

My sister-in-law is already fourteen this year, and she should have talked to her husband's family long ago in other families, but old Zhao didn't know what he meant, so he dismissed all the matchmakers who proposed marriage.

Do they expect Song Xiyue to take them to the capital? It's a nice thought, but I wonder if Song Xiyue can do it?

However, the last time Chang An wrote to her mother, she still hasn’t received a reply. I wonder what happened?

"Aunt, look, there are many people over there!" Chang'an pulled her aunt and pointed in one direction.

Wu looked over and saw a lot of people gathered on three levels inside and outside in an open space next to the market.

People outside didn't know what was going on and wanted to jump up and watch, but they couldn't see anything.

Changan listened carefully and chuckled: "It's Song Er, Song San and the others!"

The boy's high-pitched voice was loud and he was imitating the Monkey King he had performed before.

Wu picked up Chang An and asked, "Can you see it now?"

Changan shook his head: "I can't see it."

There were so many people watching that she could only see the heads.

After a while, the people around them all retreated. It turned out that Song San was holding the big bowl to collect money. Many people were unwilling to spend money, so they chose to retreat.

But there are also many people who throw away a penny and continue to wait and watch. After collecting it in a circle, there was already a lot of money in the bowl. Song Er and Song San poured the money into their pockets and continued to demonstrate the paper carving album.

Wu smiled and said: "Your picture album is really wonderful, many people like it."

As soon as Song Er and Song San appeared with their picture albums, there were not even many people around the storyteller side. Everyone came to look at the pictures and texts.

Chang'an chuckled and thought to himself, it would be nice if the paper pieces were replaced with wooden pieces, which would be stronger.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw a group of teenagers coming over and pushing everyone around: "Get out of the way!"

Everyone was pushed incomprehensibly, and just about to have a fit, they suddenly saw a group of young people in brocade clothes, including the children of local squires. Knowing that they could not be offended, they all retreated away.

Several young men quickly came to Song Er and Song San and stretched out their hands towards them: "What do you have, show it to me!"

Song Er held the picture album in his arms and looked at the visitor with a wary expression: "We bought this at a high price and cannot give it to others."

"Hey! You're so brave! Are you even trying to refute our Mr. Xue's face?" A young man waved his hand: "Bring it to me!"

Several boys rushed out from behind them, trying to snatch the picture album in Song Er's hand.

Song Er bent down to protect the album, but was finally snatched away by the group, and the two brothers were trampled under the feet of several teenagers.

Song Er and Song San lay on the ground and cried loudly, trying desperately to get up, but their fists were unable to defeat the four hands. They could only watch the album being pulled back and forth by several teenagers, and it was torn in many places.

Chang'an was furious, pointed at those people and shouted: "Bad guy! I'm going to tell the county magistrate! You are robbing people of their money!"

What you buy with 1,500 Wen is just money.

Last time I went to the county town with my uncle and aunt, the county magistrate even invited them to dinner, so Chang'an was not afraid of the boy named Xue at all.

Wu was startled by her little niece's shout and was about to hug her and leave, but the group of teenagers had already surrounded her.

Xue Shaohua recognized Chang An as soon as he saw him. He came over and clapped his palms with a riding crop, and sneered: "Smelly girl, I didn't ask you to settle the score last time when I let the dog bite someone, but you actually took care of my business."

"You are the stinky girl!" Chang'an twisted his body and asked his aunt to put him down. He clenched his fists and glared at Xue Shaohua: "Your whole family is a stinky girl!"

Xue Shaohua's face turned green with anger, he pointed at Chang'an and said, "I'll see if I don't beat you to the point where your teeth are all over the floor today!"

Chang'an frowned and said, "Come on! Let's see whose tooth falls out first!"

Xue Shaohua: "."

Wu had no choice but to let go of her little niece.

I'm afraid this matter can't be solved, and I can't help but beat someone up.

The teenagers didn't know what Wu wanted to do. They rushed straight towards Chang'an, reaching out to beat her.

The other two people rushed towards Wu, trying to push her down.

Changan nimbly stepped aside, punched one person on the thigh, and then raised his foot to kick the other person's calf.

"Ouch" they both screamed and fell to the ground at the same time, rolling around on the ground holding their legs.

Wu also knocked out one person with one punch, and looked at the remaining few, wondering whether to take the initiative.

Xue Shaohua was stunned and subconsciously moved away from the Wu family. He turned around and saw his two young men lying on the ground wailing. Thinking that they were pretending to be in pain again, he stepped forward and kicked them twice: "What are you calling? Get up quickly!"

The boy screamed even louder and even shed tears: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Master, my leg is broken. My leg is broken."

"Broken leg?"

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