Yoshida Mii

Chapter 12 Clothes for Working

Mrs. Li was surprised, and then smiled and patted Dong Bao on the back. This girl probably came to the city and saw a countryman carrying a burden to do business. What is it easy to do? What kind of business do you do? Where do you do business?" If it doesn't work out, the money from the sale is not enough to pay taxes. These are all practical issues. Dongbao is a child after all, so he can't think about it so much.

"Let's try..." Dong Bao almost couldn't wait to express his thoughts. Although he couldn't directly talk about selling tofu, he could gradually introduce Li Shi to the tofu business step by step.Not only can she make tofu, but she can also sell all kinds of tofu snacks and bean sprouts... These are the necessities of people's life. She has the skills, Li is hardworking and capable, and she can make a fortune without worrying about paying off her debts.

"Dong Bao! Dong Bao! What are you doing in the lazy house?" Huang's sharp voice rang out from outside, interrupting Dong Bao's words.

Mrs. Li hurriedly got up from the bed, and said, "Mother, what's the matter?"

Dong Bao got up from the bed, gently opened the window a crack, and saw Huang standing outside with her face stretched out, her brows frowning and her face pursed, she pursed her mouth and shouted, "What's the matter? You don’t see anything wrong! I’m so lucky to be on the bed as soon as I enter the room!”

Li Shi quickly got up from the bed, and Dong Bao hurriedly put on her clothes, just entered the room and lay down for 10 minutes, Huang Shi couldn't see that the two of them had time to take a breather.

Standing in the yard with her hips akimbo, Mrs. Huang ordered Mrs. Li to weed the wheat in the field. When Mrs. Li went out with her hoe, Mrs. Huang dug out a bamboo basket from the grain storage room and handed it to Mrs. Dongbao, the bamboo basket has been used for many years, and the color has become dark brown, with two ears protruding from both ends, tied with hemp rope, so that it can be carried on the back.

"Go, get a basket of pigweed." Huang ordered, and then scolded: "The pigs have nothing to eat, and they are screaming when they are hungry. You can't see it with your eyes. You just know that you fell asleep..."

Dong Bao didn't bother to listen to her babbled and crazy cursing, so he carried the basket on his back and went out. Although the basket was not high, it was wide enough to fit two Dong Baos in it.

"Come back!" Seeing that Dong Bao turned around and left, Huang quickly stopped her.

Dong Bao held back his eyebrows that were about to frown, turned around and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter, grandma?"

Mrs. Huang got up and went into the east room. After a while, she took out her things and said to Dongbao: "This is the clothes your aunt wore when she was a child. You change into this one. The clothes on your body are not for work. Take them off. , milk for you to wash."

Dong Bao took a look at the blue coarse cloth clothes on his body. They were worn by the Wang family, a wealthy family in the city, for the maids who did rough work. In the eyes of the peasant family, they were already good clothes. At least they were clean, and the cloth was thick and wear-resistant. What's more, there is no previous patch.Dongbao originally had a thin jacket full of patches that she wore in spring, but she changed it when she entered Wang's house, and she was too hasty to leave. She had just entered this body, her eyes were darkened, and she forgot to take back the worn jacket. clothes.

Dongbao couldn't believe it when Mrs. Huang actually said that she wanted to wash her clothes, but Mrs. Huang watched covetously from the sidelines. Dongbao could only pick up the clothes and go to the house to change, and Mrs. Huang followed in. .

Her aunt's clothes were not good either, there were patches piled on top of each other, but the fabric of the patches was all worn out, they had been in the cabinet for many years, and they smelled damp and moldy.

After Dong Bao changed his clothes, Huang took the blue cloth clothes that Dong Bao had replaced, "Go and hunt pigweed, grandma will wash your clothes for you at home."

It is already February, and although the planted vegetable seedlings have just germinated, the tenacious weeds and wild vegetables have already grown.As long as you pick wild vegetables with soft leaves and cut them home, chop them up and feed them to the pigs, the pigs will eat them. Otherwise, the farmer's family can't afford to feed the pigs with only bran and vegetable leaves.

Auntie probably didn't have much cotton wool in her clothes, Dong Bao felt a chill surrounding her when she wore it, and walked quickly with a big basket on her back for a long time before she felt some heat on her body.

Dongbao followed the place in his memory to the ditch on the west side of Tagouji, where there was a large piece of wasteland with hogweed that could be cut home.

The countryside in early February is already full of greenery. The poplars and willows are all sprouting tender buds. After a while, the elm trees will also grow elm coins. Squeeze them down, wash them, mix them with noodles, steam them, and mix them with sesame oil and garlic. , is a delicious dish, and it has a special flavor when eaten raw.

Looking at the bare elm tree, Dongbao swallowed, as if seeing the green elm trees all over the tree beckoning to her, she felt that she was thinking too much, not to mention sesame oil, even the fine noodle Huang would not For her to eat, it would be nice to have elm money to chew.

The reason why Tagouji is called this is because there is a white pagoda on the mountain at the east end of the village. The white pagoda has collapsed for a long time, leaving only broken walls on the mountain. There is a large ditch at the west end of the village, which is not small. It is full of miscellaneous trees and weeds. The adults say that there are snakes in the ditch, and children are strictly forbidden to play in the ditch.

There is a wasteland close to the ditch, where Dongbao used to hunt pigweed.At this time, the wild vegetables didn't grow much. Dongbao took the sickle to pick up the slightly larger wild vegetables and cut them. After running a long distance, she managed to cut enough for a basket of pigweed. She didn't dare to press down. If As soon as the basket was not full, it was uncertain how Mrs. Huang would curse at people after returning home.

After cutting the hogweed, Dongbao sat on the ground and looked down at the ditch. Looking down from her direction, the ditch was as big as two or three football fields, and it was lush with trees and weeds. The water will still rise in the river, but she is timid and never dares to go down the ditch.

"Dongbao." A familiar voice sounded behind Dongbao.

Dongbao looked back and laughed, "Brother Dashi, are you here to cut pigweed too?" The 14-year-old boy has already raised his figure, with handsome eyebrows and gentle expression, the sun shining on his side face, It coated his childish cheeks with a layer of warm golden light.

Dashi nodded, he had been standing behind Dongbao for a long time.At noon, when his mother said that he wanted Dongbao to be his daughter-in-law, he was flustered. Originally, he regarded Dongbao as his younger sister. People in the village said they were close friends. The difference between men and women was at most one or two years. He was four years older than Dongbao. Thoughts in this regard, but when his mother said it, he felt as if someone had touched his heart, and he was too shy.

What the mother wanted was to tell Dong Bao to Quan Zi. For a moment, his heart was empty, as if his things had been robbed. He remembered Dong Bao's clean and white smiling face and the touch of his palm when he met at the door of Song's house today. Seeing the soft touch on the top of her head, Lin Shi felt itchy in his heart, just like the beautiful little white cat raised at home when he was a child, he likes to hold it in his arms the most, it is clean and soft.

This kind of messy mood has been bothering him, causing him to not sleep well in the afternoon, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, Dongbao is going to the city to marry Shan's family as a young mistress!Besides, Dong Bao's life experience is pitiful, he lost his father at such a young age, he has to look like an older brother to take good care of Dong Bao, he is four years older than Dong Bao, and his age is not appropriate...

Unable to sleep, Lin Shi has always been diligent, so he simply carried a basket and came out to hunt pigweed, but unexpectedly met Dongbao again.

Looking at Dongbao's clothes, he has changed into old ones, but his smile is still clean and beautiful. After all, she is a talented girl, and she is different from ordinary girls in the village, Lin Shi silently thought.

Lin Shi had already cut a basket of pigweed, and was about to go home. Seeing that Dongbao was carrying such a big basket, he poured his own basket of pigweed into Dongbao's basket, and pressed down hard. , carried it on his body, pulled up Dong Bao, and said, "Let's go, the sun is almost going down, I'll take you home."

Dong Bao felt very sorry, at this time the pigweed hadn't grown yet, everyone had pigs to feed, she couldn't just take advantage of others because of brother Dashi's kindness.

"Brother Dashi, you should take back the pigweed you killed. Your family also has pigs to feed." Dong Bao said.

Lin Shi shook his head and smiled, "I beat a lot yesterday, and I can't eat pigs today, so let's take it to your house."

Dong Bao had no choice but to thank him, picked up Lin Shi's empty basket, followed Lin Shi, and walked slowly home.

Lin Shi looked at the little girl next to him who only reached his chest, and secretly sighed, Dongbao is still young, so he can only be a younger sister, and if he wants to say it, he has to say it to a boy as old as Quanzi.He remembered that when Dongbao was just born, she was soft and tender, and he hugged her. In a blink of an eye, the little girl wrapped in swaddling clothes grew into a clean, white and tender little girl, looking forward to brilliance with every smile and frown , also tugged at his heartstrings.A few years ago when Dongbao was young, he was very timid. He held Dongbao with his left hand and Quanzi with his right hand, and played with Dongbao in the village. Now that he and Dongbao have grown up, they understand the difference between men and women. I can no longer be as unrestrained as I was when I was a child.

Dong Bao couldn't guess what Lin Shi was thinking at all. Her Da Shi brother was the most outstanding young man in the entire Tagou collection. Like other frizzy boys, they swear and fight at every turn.Seeing that pigweeds were rarely mowed at her age, he dumped all his pigweeds to her without saying a word. He is really a kind boy.I'm afraid that in two years, the people who come to the door to say that the matchmaker will propose a marriage will break through the threshold of Aunt Qiuxia's house.

Aunt Qiuxia's family is very good, even the youngest Quanzi is a lively and lovely character, and she throws away the stubborn Da Mao dozens of times.I don't know who is lucky enough to be Brother Da Shi's wife.Dong Bao silently looked at Da Shi's handsome back, and sighed in her heart. She thought of her so-called "fiancé" Shan Liang, and she felt bad thinking about it. If Dan Liang could be as good as Da Shi, she wouldn't have to. worried.

Dong Bao remembered that Lin Shi went to a private school for a year, and then he stopped studying and went home to work. Seeing that there was no one else around, he asked, "Brother Da Shi, which dynasty are we now? The emperor is Which one?"

(End of this chapter)