The gentleman is knocking on the door

Chapter 18 The Dreamer (1)

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"Okay, you can go back quickly, your mother will look for you later." Ye Shi said to Qiaomei.

Mi Congcong can see that grandma is not preventing her from dating Qiaomei, but is worried about Qiaomei.

As for what to worry about, it should be Qiaomei Niang, right?
"Okay, Grandma Ye, then I'm leaving." Qiaomei waved at Mi Congcong: "I'll come see you again when I'm free."

"Let Cong Cong find you." Ye said.

Mi Congcong glanced at his grandma, and thought about it.

It seems that grandma also knows that Mi Zhian, that scumbag, has ulterior motives for Qiaomei.

Qiaomei bared her canine teeth: "Okay."

Sending Qiaomei away, Ye sighed and said, "It's not easy to have Qiaomei with younger brothers and sisters. I can't ask for anything from her in the future."

"Grandma, I know, I only asked for it when she was angry just now." Mi Congcong smiled and changed the subject: "Grandma, where did uncle go this early in the morning?"

"Go down to the ground with breakfast."

what?
Uncle is going to work in the fields?
Mi Congcong was surprised at first, but after thinking about it, he felt it was normal.

For several generations, the Mi family has been a peasant household facing the loess and back to the sky. When the family was divided, each house was divided into a few acres of land. The cousin was studying in the town, and the biggest labor force in the family was the uncle.

Mi Congcong originally wanted to ask his uncle to take him to meet the original owner's grandfather, so as to find out why he could see things that ordinary people couldn't see?But the uncle left the field, and Mi Congcong didn't want to delay his work, so he planned to go to the town to buy some food and come back.

When I went to the town last time, I encountered dirty things. Mi Congcong didn’t plan to walk to the town again this time. It’s still early, and there are still bullock carts available, so I talked to Mrs. Ye and went to the village entrance to wait for the car up.

When leaving Guo's house, Mr. Guo gave her a piece of silver as a reward. On the way back, the uncle gave her two more pieces. Adding the one left from last time, she had four pieces of silver in total.

The uncle said that the rewards given by ordinary people in Wushan Town are only a few copper coins. If the Guo family is so generous, it is considered lucky to meet them once a year. She needs to save this money.

Mi Congcong has never been short of money in his previous life, and now he is really upset to ask her to break one silver into two.

Fortunately, with the 50 taels of silver note given by Master Xu, Mi Congcong felt a little safe.

Mi Congcong got into the bullock cart not long after arriving at the entrance of the village. Today, no one from Damo Village went to town except Mi Congcong. Two women from other villages were sitting on the bullock cart.

The people here are very simple and enthusiastic. Not long after Mi Congcong got into the car, the two aunts chatted with Mi Congcong.

They were talking and laughing, and the time passed very quickly, and they arrived in Wushan Town soon.

"Goodbye, two aunts." Mi Congcong said goodbye to the two women with a smile, and went to buy food.

Mi Congcong went to the grocery store and bought a lot of things, including salt, brown sugar, soybean oil, ten catties of brown rice and two catties of rice, and then temporarily stored the things in the grocery store.

Jiang was in confinement, and she and Mi Lanlan were still growing, and both needed nutrition. Mi Congcong wanted to buy two catties of meat from the butcher stall.

Before I got to the meat stall, I saw an old woman stopping by the road a few meters away from the meat stall with a chicken coop, and there were two chickens locked in the chicken coop.

Mi Congcong hesitated and walked over, and asked tentatively, "Old lady, do you want to sell this chicken?"

"Yes, yes, little girl, do you want to buy a chicken?" The old woman seemed very happy. Someone asked her just after she came here, and the chicken would definitely be sold today.

"If it's too expensive, forget it." Mi Congcong smiled a little embarrassedly.

Although she has some understanding of the prices here, she doesn't know how the chickens are sold here?

"Little girl, these two hens of mine are old hens that can lay eggs. If my eldest grandson was not sick and needed money urgently, I would be reluctant to sell these two chickens. You see, one is worth five or six dollars." It’s heavy, if you want it, I’ll sell it to you cheaply.” Afraid of scaring Mi Congcong away, the old woman hurriedly pulled her to bend over to look at the chicken.

Forgive Mi Congcong for not being able to tell the difference between a rooster and a hen. Only after listening to the old lady talking about it did I realize that it was two old hens.

After listening to the old lady talk for a long time without saying how much a chicken costs, Mi Congcong couldn't help asking: "Old lady, how much does a chicken cost?"

The old lady thought for a while and asked, "Little girl, how much can you pay?"

Uh?
Mi Congcong was embarrassed.

Shouldn't this old lady make an offer first, and then let her counter the price?

Seeing that Mi Congcong did not bid, the old lady thought for a while and emphasized again: "Little girl, my old hen can lay eggs. Do you think a 45 Wen can make it?"

"Ma'am, can you have a little less?"

Mi Congcong is also not good at bargaining, so he just asked a question, secretly estimating that a catty of meat costs more than 20 Wen, and this chicken weighs five or six catties (if the old lady didn't lie to her), and it can Laying eggs is not expensive.

"Little girl, the price is really fair. If my eldest grandson hadn't been sick, I wouldn't have sold these two chickens."

The old lady looked sadly at the chickens in the coop, and then gave Mi Congcong a sad look, which made Mi Congcong's cheeks burn.

A lesson can be learned from the world, she really didn't mean to take advantage of others' dangers to lower the price desperately, she just didn't know how to counter the price...

"Little girl, my wife didn't lie to you. My son died, and my daughter-in-law ran away with someone. This grandson is the hope of our two elders' survival. I just want to sell the chicken to someone who can give the child a doctor to look at." Look..." the old lady wiped her tears as she said.

really poor...

Mi Congcong's heart became hot, and he said, "Old lady, don't cry, I want these two chickens."

The old lady couldn't believe it, tears were still hanging on her wrinkled face: "Do you want both?"

"Yes, I want it all." Mi Congcong counted out more than a dozen copper coins from the half string of money he found from the grocery store, and handed the rest to the old lady: "Old lady, hurry back and ask the doctor for the child Bar."

When the old lady took the copper coin, Mi Congcong also calmed down.

Ah, impulse is the devil!
I still have a big family to support, but I still have the heart to sympathize with others?

"Too many, give too much." The old lady counted the copper coins twice, and there were a full 100 coins.

As soon as the old lady opened her mouth, Mi Congcong's heart was swept away: "Old lady, the rest of the money should be used to buy your chicken coop."

The old lady is a real person, and Mi Congcong felt that it was worth spending an extra 10 Wen.

"This chicken coop is made by my old man himself, and it doesn't cost money." The old lady said hastily.

Mi Congcong picked up the two chickens, waved to the old lady, and walked to the meat stall.

"I really met a noble person today." The old lady wiped her tears again and hurried home.

When Mi Congcong came out after buying the meat, he suddenly heard someone shouting behind him: "Girl, your chicken has escaped!"

Mi Congcong was startled, looked down, and found that the lid of the chicken coop might have been dropped at the meat stall, and a chicken had escaped.

"Girl, over there is your chicken!" A woman in front of the meat stall picked up the chicken coop cover for Mi Congcong, helped her cover it, and shouted pointing to the middle of the street.

What is this called? !
Mi Congcong carried the chicken coop and chased after him depressed.

The chicken was frightened, and there were so many small stalls on the street, the chicken ran around everywhere, and Mi Congcong disappeared when he chased him to the street.

Mi Congcong's heart was bleeding, this chicken cost her 50 Wen!
"Girl, is this your chicken?" A clear male voice sounded from the front.

Mi Congcong looked up and was stunned.

If this is not the young storyteller in the tea house in the county seat, who is it? !

(End of this chapter)