Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 53 Unteachable

Seeing that Cao Xueqin told Liu Huilan to pack her things and prepare to go out, Mai Xiang suppressed her curiosity, returned home, and told Zhao and Ye Dafu what Cao Xueqin had said.

When Mrs. Zhao was happy, she supported the edge of the kang and was about to get off the ground, but after more than 20 days of bed rest, her feet had no strength, as if she was stepping on cotton, and she felt dizzy.

Mrs. Zhao became impatient after walking two steps, but Ye Dafu hopped back and forth along the edge of the kang several times until Mai Xiang stopped him.

"Da Ya, aren't you going to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha today?" Seeing Mai Huang coming back with a basket of grass, Yu asked.

"Go, let's go." Mai Xiang knew that if she didn't take Qiaohong to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, the grandparent and grandson would probably stay in her house forever.

It happened that there were no kites at home today, and Zhao Yuanjiang and Yang Dalin took home the two kites they made last night as samples.Mai Xiang just wants to take Zhao Qiaohong to see how she sells green grass. The reward for this is usually no more than [-] Wen, so let her learn if she wants to learn.

Mai Xiang still took Mai Huang and Zhao Qiaohong to cut a basket of grass alone, and then took the grass and turned directly from the ridge to the official road. Once on the official road, she ran into Cao Xueqin and his younger brother driving a carriage, Liu Huilan Sitting in the car with the woman holding the child in her arms, Liu Huilan opened the car curtain and said a few words to Mai Xiang.

Mai Xiang was a little puzzled, today is Cao Ji's full moon, who is Cao Xueqin taking the child to see?This road seems to only lead to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha and Biyun Temple in Xiangshan and the Royal Jingyi Garden.

"Sister, let's go, what are you thinking?" Seeing that Mai Xiang lowered her head in a daze, Mai Huang gave her a push.

Seeing that Mai Huang kept pouting and didn't talk to Zhao Qiaohong, Mai Xiang knew that she was very dissatisfied with Yu's behavior, so she said, "Okay, be happy."

"Can you be happy?" Mai Huang still pouted.

Yesterday afternoon, when Ye Dafu taught Zhao Yuanjiang and Erfu how to make kites, Mai Huang was not happy. She was worried that her family's livelihood would be robbed, but Yu brought Zhao Qiaohong again this morning, and pushed Zhao Qiaohong again. Followed out, is it not obvious that he wants to steal his own livelihood?
"Erya, don't be upset. Mammy told us that we will go to Biyun Temple and Xiangshan Temple to do business in the future, and we promise not to come to the Reclining Buddha Temple." Zhao Qiaohong is also thirteen this year, and she still can't tell Mai Huang's little thoughts.

"Cousin, I didn't say anything." After hearing this, Mai Huang's face softened a little.

Mai Xiang listened with a smile, after all, she is an eight-year-old child, and her mind is still pure. How can she say what will happen in the future? Mai Xiang can support her family because of selling these things. here.

The three arrived at the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, and Mai Xiang took them to the grove beside the temple wall with green grass.

"Brother, does your horse want grass?" Mai Xiang asked a kind-hearted boy.

"Go, go, don't." The other party waved his hand.

Mai Xiang asked five or six questions like this before selling the grass, and the other party grabbed five copper coins for Mai Xiang.

"You go and try it first." Mai Xiang said to Qiaohong.

"I don't dare." Zhao Qiaohong saw that Mai Xiang was rejected so many times and only earned five cents, and it was not as easy as her mother said, so she was a little reluctant to show her face and do a small job.

Mai Xiang had already seen it when she brought Zhao Qiaohong out to mow the grass just now. Zhao Qiaohong probably didn't do much farm work at home. The skin on her hands was much thinner than Mai Xiang's, similar to Jiufeng.

This is also why Mai Xiang didn't understand the situation when she first came here. No matter how bad the Zhao family and Ye family were, they had been in the Qi family for several lifetimes. The biggest characteristic of the Banner family is that they value women over men. This girl was pampered when she was a girl. Because she was going to participate in the draft, she naturally couldn't do any rough work. Moreover, she might become a noble lady one day, and from then on, she would rise to the top, and even the whole family would follow suit.Can such a person not be protected by his family?
"Cousin, you'd better try it, this person's luck is different from others." Mai Xiang persuaded.

Seeing that Zhao Qiaohong was still hesitating, Mai Huang said, "Sister, I'll go first."

Mai Huang kept in mind the lesson of the last time he was beaten, and his mouth became sweeter. Either his brother or uncle called these carriage drivers, asked several people, and finally sold the basket of grass. The other party asked her how much At the time of money, she didn't know what to say, and looked back at Mai Xiang.

"Little brother, you can just give it as you see, no matter how much, we are also poor, and we want to make some effort to supplement the family." Mai Xiang saw that the clothes on this man's body were quite rich, and guessed that the conditions of the master's family must not be bad, so she went Lowered his posture a little.

Hearing this, the other party grabbed a handful of copper coins and handed them to Mai Huang. Mai Huang took the copper coins and counted them. There were actually eight coins, a few coins more than Mai Xiang, and he jumped up when he was happy.

"Sister, I can do it, I can do it too."

"Good sister, thank you little brother first, my sister knows you can do it." Mai Xiang reminded Mai Huang.

Mai Huang hurriedly turned around to thank him, but the other party just smiled and waved his hand.

Both Mai Xiang and Mai Huang looked at Qiaohong, Qiaohong had no choice but to carry the basket and start looking for the target, but after all she was three years older than Mai Xiang, these coachmen were all men, she was an authentic ancient, shy It's inevitable that when she walked in front of the other party, she blushed before she could speak, which made these idle young servants happy.

"Cousin, you still don't want to go." Mai Xiang took the basket in her hand and exchanged her empty basket for her.

Mai Xiang carried the basket and was about to find the target, when a boy of seven or eight years old rushed over and bumped into Qiaohong. Looking at the other party, he gave him a handy push, and the child fell down.

"Whatever it is, a little monkey boy wants to bully me."

Mai Xiang hurriedly helped the child up, and drank Qiao Hong, because Mai Xiang found that this child was not something they could afford to offend.

"Come on, go and tie up this girl, you dare to bully me." The child ordered the servant behind without even raising his head.

"Young master, let me accompany you on her behalf. She was also fooled for a while, so don't be as knowledgeable as her." Mai Xiang hurriedly apologized, and dusted the other party's clothes, but was caught by a servant. Carried away.

"It's not her, it's that one." The child raised his head to look at Mai Xiang, remembered that it was Mai Xiang who helped her up, and pointed to Zhao Qiaohong.

"I'm her..." Before Mai Xiang finished speaking, she was interrupted by the other party.

"It's you? The kite seller, I've been looking for you several times. Where's your kite? Do you have any?" The child immediately changed his expression when he saw Mai Xiang.

It turned out that this was Mai Xiang's first kite customer. Mai Xiang remembered that he couldn't put it down when he took the kite, and said that he especially liked the pig on it. For this reason, the adult also rewarded Mai Xiang with a tael of silver.

"Sorry, I don't have any today. I brought two of them yesterday and sold them."

"No, I want it now, you go and get it at home." The child looked rather domineering at home.

"Girl, our young master really likes your kite and has been looking for you here several times. Why don't we take you back and get one now, do you think it's okay?" the boy stepped forward and asked.

"But, I really don't have any kites at home, how about this? I'll make two and bring them to you in three days. What kind of animal patterns do you like?" Mai Xiang asked flatteringly.

"What other patterns do you have?"

"That's more." Mai Xiang learns stick figures mainly to learn how to draw animals.

"I also want a pig. Well, I want another sheep. I want to draw it more beautifully. My pig was taken away. I have to make them angry again this time." The child seemed a little unconvinced.

"Okay, I'll definitely send it here in three days' time." Mai Xiang looked at the other party's pursed mouth and smiled.

When the boy heard that he was about to leave with the child, Mai Xiang suddenly remembered the basket in his hand, and said, "Young master, let me feed this grass to your horse."

The other party glanced at Mai Xiang, not understanding what it meant, and the servant hurriedly whispered something in his ear, and he nodded. The servant took the basket and walked to his carriage. The one I went to.

Seeing that another basket of grass came over, the boy looked at Mai Xiang, and Mai Xiang hurriedly said: "Your family's horse has already bought our grass, sorry, let's go."

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if you feed a little more, don't forget to bring the kite back in three days." After finishing speaking, the boy poured the grass in front of his horse, and grabbed a lot of copper coins for Mai Xiang.

"Thank you, see you in three days." Mai Xiang bowed her knees and left with Qiao Hong and Mai Huang. Qiao Hong kept looking back at the boy's clothes.

(End of this chapter)