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Chapter 31 Revealed
Xiao Xiang'er went to the bamboo forest and looked around, looking for a way out, saw Xiu Niang sitting on the big stone pier beside the mountain road, she went over and said, "Sister-in-law, there are still many people in the forest today."

Xiu Niang slanted her body and was looking at the piles of small flowers below. She heard Xiao Xiang'er, "Oh, so they are digging?"

Xiao Xiang'er thought about it and said, "Mo (no), let's just leave it there and chatter."

She poked her head to look over to the forest, and saw a lot of aunts and aunts standing between the tall green bamboo branches, they just sat together and chatted, and some of them even peeked at her. Lie.

Xiu Niang followed suit with a smile, moved to the side, and called Xiao Xiang'er to come and sit down. Seeing this, those mothers-in-law and aunts didn't know what kind of work they were looking for, and they all left it there and waited for themselves. .

Anyway, she doesn't want to be busy in the early morning, and it's good to blow some air at the mountain pass with Xiao Xiang'er, to catch some fresh air, she doesn't want to teach others to make money when she's full.

I remember that it was also at this time yesterday, when she and Xiao Xianger came here, they saw someone coming in the woods, and she froze in a daze, wondering why the moso bamboo forest came all of a sudden There are so many people.

Afterwards, she looked carefully for a while, and finally understood, yes, this is really whispering through the wall, the former is afraid of the ventilation, and the latter is too much.

Look at the cats with their bamboo baskets on their shoulders, staring at the ground, looking for the bamboo shoots. Could it be that they are still digging mushrooms under the bamboo tubes?

That (time) she saw a lot of people and didn't know what to do, so she took Xiao Xiang'er away one by one.

Seeing Xiuniang leaving, the aunts and aunts in the woods were all joking together, so they were finally devastated when they saw Hu Mei Lizi. Damn, I can’t let Chu Ge’s family earn all the money. I have to find someone who is too good to eat, just that foxy raccoon who wants to eat alone.

Now that someone is talking, someone else is going to respond. In fact, what everyone thinks in their hearts is different from what they say, and no one wants to get a share.

But Xiuniang's going back was not what they thought, because there were so many people that she couldn't dig out the bamboo shoots and left crying. Ren'er was going back to wake up Chu Ge, and the way to get no money was found by Ren'er. Well, she has to ask Chu Ge to go to the town first. As for why, we will talk about it later.

When she was almost home, Xiuniang who was far away saw Mrs. Liu rushing to the entrance of her house, she just turned around and walked over, always looking into her courtyard.

She took the door with her when she went out in the morning, and Liu Shi kept walking back and forth at the door, guessing that Chu Ge and Chu An were still asleep in the room, or they opened the door to come out to wash their mouths.

Seeing Mrs. Liu like that, Xiu Niang pursed her lips, frowned, pulled her cuffs with her hands, her feet were on the ground, and she went to her house once, and then looked back.

What did she say like that? It’s like there is no hole in the hut at the head of the village. You want to go to the next one, but the next one is made by a man. You go in because you are afraid of being seen, and if you don’t go in, you can’t hold back. , I'm just not sure...

Hey, what are you talking nonsense about, how can anyone call their own yard a hut? Really, Xiu Niang buried herself in secret, and rushed over to say hello to Mrs. Liu.

Mrs. Liu didn't expect Xiu Niang to come back from outside, looking at what she and Xiao Xiang'er were bringing, she thought that she must have gone to the mountain to dig bamboo shoots.

Xiu Niang pushed open the door, smiled and asked people to enter the room for a chat. When Liu Shi saw the diabolo basket she was carrying, she felt more and more uncomfortable. As Xiu Niang entered the main room, Liu Shi told her to apologize. up.

A while ago, Xiuniang asked Mrs. Liu to join her in selling bamboo shoots, and she said that at that time (when) they went up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots, not to be sneaky, but not to be too conspicuous. People who come and go can also see it, but by the time everyone understands the taste, they will already be earning a full purse.

But, how did others know so quickly about the fact that the bamboo seedlings can be sold for money? I have to talk about it first. Once you catch it, you can't hide things, especially for girls who are more serious and taller, let alone.

A few days earlier, when Mrs. Liu had just received the money for selling bamboo shoots, she was going across the house to find Xiu Niang, when an aunt at the intersection greeted her, that person was a relative of Ji Lao Liu, It's good to compare with Liu's, but it's so annoying that people don't want to see it.

Back then Mrs. Liu wanted to get angry with her, and told others as soon as her head got hot, saying that her family would be able to bring back a few taels of silver when she went to the town casually. Do you live?

The two of them chattered and chatted, but of course the mother-in-law didn't believe it, Mrs. Liu was provoked and took out the silver for others to watch, nagging that it was Ji Laoliu who just rushed to the town to get it, but It didn't say that it took two or three days to make do.

Looking at the aunt's jealous face, Liu's anger was relieved, and she couldn't bear what that person said, so she just talked about everything in her head.

After going around for a long time, Mrs. Liu first said that the auntie was so annoying and unwelcome, she got angry and then followed her way.

But in Xiuniang's ears, she finally heard that it was Mrs. Liu who said it. Hey, she didn't say anything because she wasted a long time. She just asked Mrs. Liu to go back and get all the bamboo shoots at home. Come over, together with her family's baskets, I asked Chu Ge and Ji Laoliu to go to the town to sell them.

Xiuniang's reaction made Liu uncertain. Is she pissed off, or angry? Why didn't she even say a bad word? Is she going to stop working with her in the future? If so Well, what Xiuniang did was reasonable, after all, she was the one who messed up people's way of getting money.

Mrs. Liu is a straightforward person, she doesn't keep anything overnight, she just says what she thinks, she won't take the money from the sale this time, and she won't tell Xiu Niang to block her anger.

After hearing this, Xiuniang really didn't know what to say. She was angry at the beginning, and the bamboo shoots she found with great difficulty were just pried away by others. No one felt uncomfortable. She I hope to save some money from bamboo shoots so that I can repair the house.

But now that she can do something to Mrs. Liu again, alas, it's better to hold the money she can get in front of her first.

Xiuniang thought about telling Mrs. Liu that there was a reason why she was so anxious to call Chu Ge to go to town. Now that there are more people digging bamboo shoots, people have to be prepared before they can enter town, and the two of them said that You can walk as long as you want. Didn't you dig up two baskets of bamboo shoots a few days ago, so let's send them to Chef Wang first, and sell them at a high price first.

If the people in the village hadn't packed it up, and a dozen baskets of bamboo shoots rushed into the town, the price would have to be pulled down immediately, and by then, even a few strings of money would be gone.

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Xiao Xiang'er sat on the stone pier, "Sister-in-law."

Xiu Niang heard the voice, "Huh?"

Xiao Xiang'er looked at the person and asked, "Are we going to dig bamboo seedlings today?"

Xiu Niang pursed her lips and looked at Tian'er, then she smiled at Xiao Xiang'er, "Dig it, why don't you dig it."

(End of this chapter)