Red apricots make spring

Chapter 58
As the head of the prison came out of the cell, Ruan had to entrust him to take care of Aunt Liu as best he could.

The head of the prison actually disapproved of the Zhao family. Although his family was rich and powerful in the city, all the money was spent on managing the county masters, and it was not their turn to work as errands.When Mrs. Liu was imprisoned, the Zhao family only sent a butler over to say hello, and took ten taels of silver to buy wine and eat for the brothers. What is that little money enough for?If everyone shares a point, what they get is only one or two taels of silver, which is not as generous as the little girl in front of me.In their line of work, all conscience and morality can be completely forgotten. As long as there is continuous money to manage, everything can be done with a blind eye. The description made it a little bit bleak, so you can be vague as much as possible, and you can get more money in private, so why not do it?So he only thought about it for a while, and then he agreed.

"Speaking of which, we are paid by the royal family, and we look at the scenery from the outside. In private, there are many embarrassing things! I am kind-hearted, and I can't let go of one begging for another. I often show kindness to take care of these prisoners for others. , the brothers under my hand are all muttering in their hearts. In the end, I have to pay for it myself every now and then, buy some wine and buy some meat to fill their mouths. What a place!"

Hearing what he said, Rourou naturally understood that this was asking for money in disguise again, she smiled wryly in her heart, and said: "Don't worry, the official, I will naturally pay for the money for wine and meat."

"Then—" the prison head picked his teeth with a thin bamboo stick in satisfaction, hiccupped and said, "You go back, this sister-in-law Liu, I will take care of it for you."

With a gentle thank you, she turned around and left the prison, only to be illuminated by the dazzling sunlight outside, and only then did she feel that she had seen the light of day again.Not to mention the damp, dirty and smelly environment in the cell, just the extremely oppressive atmosphere made her feel panicked, and she had seen all the ugly faces of these officials who only cared about asking for money. As a commoner myself, I only dare to be angry but dare not speak out, and I even have to put down my figure to accompany a smiling face.Life is not easy anywhere!She misses the lonely but free days of living in modern times more and more. Unfortunately, there is basically no possibility of going back, so she has to force herself to cheer up and try her best to live in this completely unfamiliar world to her.

I really hope Mrs. Liu can have a chance!After all, she is a quick-witted person who does things quickly and neatly, and as a married woman, doing everything is much more convenient than being an unmarried woman. If she can help her, maybe the future life can be easier Save a little effort, if there is any trouble, there are more people who can discuss it, at least, you don't have to be as tired as you are now.

Thinking of the present day, Rourou really can't help but sigh, the "mother" in her family is someone who can't be relied on, it's already pretty good if she doesn't hold her back, and the "brother" is too young, so he can't share anything for her, As for Xiaohuan, she is an unmarried girl and a fugitive slave, so she can't show her face at all. Besides, Xiaohuan has experienced such miserable experiences one after another. She didn't cry all day long and hang herself. Can't help her much either.Then, the only person who can show her face and shoulder everything on her shoulders is herself.

Forget it, don't think too much about worrying things, and no matter how much you think about it, it will not help you at all except to add to your heart.People always have to look forward, and there are always ups and downs in life. Who knows what will happen in the future?But it's all about taking one step at a time and doing the things in front of you well, that's the most important thing!Today's sunshine is so good, maybe I should take out the bedding I'm sleeping on and expose it to the sun. When I sleep at night, I should be able to smell the warmth and fragrance of the sun.

When returning home and passing by the market, Rourou caught a glimpse of a tofu shop, and suddenly she went in and bought a lot of tofu. After bringing them home, she went to the old widow to find Xiaohuan, and whispered to her to visit Mrs. Liu What happened, coaxed her to smile, and hurriedly went home to rummage through the boxes and cabinets.Mother Wen was worried, she put down the sewing work she was doing, followed the attic to have a look, and said anxiously: "What are you looking for? Look, you messed up everything!"

"Mother, I remember seeing a piece of summer white cloth when I moved, where did you put it?" Rourou continued to flip through it without raising her head.

"Why are you looking for it?" Mother Wen muttered in a low voice, "That was my dowry at the beginning, and I haven't been willing to cut a piece of clothes yet!"

"It's all in a mess, can you still make clothes?" He smiled softly and said, "I'm afraid a light poke with your finger will poke a hole, why would you want to wear it outside?"

Mother Wen had no choice but to pull her behind her and said, "Don't turn it over, I'll get it for you!" She opened a box and groped for a long time before she found the piece of Xiabai cloth from the bottom layer and went to it. Rourou stuffed her hands, and went downstairs in a fit of anger.

Really!The cloth turned yellow when pressed against the bottom of the box, but she still holds it as a treasure!Rourou glanced at the cloth, secretly amused, but remembered that it was getting colder, and Mama Wen and Wen Gang didn’t even have thick clothes to keep out the cold, and even she was wearing Mama Wen’s old jacket, it seems that I’ll have to talk about it another day When cloth came back, I bought some cotton and asked her to sew two winter clothes.

With the cloth, Rourou went downstairs to look for scissors again, just "clicked" to cut the piece of summer white cloth, and mother Wen became anxious when she saw it, and rushed over and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"I didn't do anything, I'm going to cut these cloths into small pieces, clean them and use them for wrapping tofu." Rourou cut one end and said the other end.

"What? Make tofu!" Mother Wen really wanted to scold Wen Rou for being a prodigal, but then she thought about it, now that the family has no worries about food and drink, it's because her daughter said she learned a few fresh dishes in Zhao's mansion, and sold the recipes to big restaurants outside She only earned it back, and she saved her whole life, but in the end she almost starved her son to death, so when the words of the prodigal came to her lips, she really couldn't spit them out, so she had to go back to her sewing with a dull head.

Rourou said that she wanted to wrap tofu with cloth, and she really used it for wrapping tofu. She used a small piece of washed damp cloth to wrap the tofu piece by piece, then put it in a basin, put a heavy cutting board on it, and put it aside. After thinking about it, I turned around to look for straw, picked out the straw, washed it, and put it in the sun to dry. After doing all this, I hummed a song that was slightly out of tune, and went into the house to take the quilt out to dry.

Mother Wen was sulking and didn't want to talk to her, but she kept peeking coldly for a long time, but she didn't know what she was going to do. Finally, she couldn't help but asked, "What are you going to do with tofu? What are you doing? Isn’t it sold outside?”

"Huh?" Wen Rou brushed off the quilt, and replied casually: "I don't make tofu, I make stinky tofu!"

She really wanted to make stinky tofu. Originally, she wanted to eat it, but then she thought, this thing can be sold to make money!But I don’t know if the people here can adapt to the stinky smell. Besides, there is no chili, so the taste will be a little worse. It can be accepted, so people outside should also be able to accept it, and then consider whether to set up a low-cost stinky tofu stall.It’s just that she has always felt that Shaoxing’s stinky stew fermented with amaranth stalks is more delicious, and the stinky tofu tastes better, but it takes at least half a year to soak the stinky stew, and she doesn’t have so much time to spend. Switch to another simple method and try to do it.

(End of this chapter)