Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 58
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When Mai Xiang saw Liu Huilan coming in person, she thought she was looking for her urgently, so she hurriedly lifted the curtain and welcomed her into the house.

Liu Huilan put down the basket in her hand, and seeing that there were quite a few people in the room, she smiled and said to Mrs. Liu first, "How is Auntie?"

"Okay, you're confinement now? My house is in a mess these days, so I didn't go to see you. I'm really sorry." Mrs. Liu is still very grateful to Cao Xueqin, after all, he saved several members of her family life.

"Auntie is too polite. I'm here today to see Dafu brothers and younger siblings. There's such a big incident at my aunt's house, so I can't go out. No, I just came to see it now. There's nothing good, this basket of eggs Save it to make up for the younger siblings, and I made a suit of clothes for the children, there are no good materials, so don't dislike it." Liu Huilan took out the package in the basket and opened it as she spoke.

On the package was a pair of tiger-toed shoes, and then a set of light blue baby jacket. Only then did Liu realize that the other party was here to give the child a full moon gift, and she couldn't help feeling a little ashamed, because she didn't prepare anything when the child was full moon.

"Hey, what is this?" Qiaohong asked looking at a new set of clothes in the package.

This is a pink calico jacket and emerald green cotton trousers.

"This dress is for Mai Xiang. Mai Xiang has helped me a lot these days, and I have never done anything for Mai Xiang." Liu Huilan said while stroking Mai Xiang's head.

In fact, Liu Huilan has long wanted to make clothes for Mai Xiang. The clothes on Mai Xiang are not only old and worn out, but they are also too short. However, Mai Xiang deals with wives and young ladies from rich families every day, so it is easy to be mistaken. Beggars chased away.

"Why is this so embarrassing? Your wife is wasting time to see a doctor for us, and we can't give you anything. How can we let you spend more money?" Seeing that these clothes and eggs cost at least two or three hundred cash, Mrs. Liu felt uncomfortable for a long time. .

"Auntie, if Mai Xiang and Dafu brothers hadn't hired a stable woman for me on the day I gave birth, I'm still not sure what would have happened? What are these things?" Liu Huilan wisely didn't mention Mai Xiang's gift to her family. .

Seeing Liu Huilan finished speaking, Mrs. Liu showed Mai Xiang the clothes to try on, so she couldn't say anything more, the clothes were already ready, so she couldn't blind the other party's wishes in vain.

"Then I'll thank you for Mai Xiang. If there's anything I can't do at home, just ask. I don't have anything else in my family. There are still a few people." Mrs. Liu thought about asking Wufu to chop a car of firewood to send to the next door one day. Go, because she saw Liu Huilan bought firewood a few times.

"Thank you auntie, auntie seems to know what I'm thinking." Mai Xiang put on her clothes and said with a smile.

This solved Mai Xiang's big problem, otherwise, she really didn't have the courage to let her wear the clothes on her body to deliver goods to Tong's house, and let her spend money to buy cloth, but she couldn't just buy herself, Mai Huang was still on the sidelines Waiting helplessly.

Of course, Mai Xiang is not reluctant to spend the money to make a new suit by herself. The problem is that now that the Zhao family and the Ye family are staring at her, wanting to find a way to make money by herself, how can Mai Xiang dare to show her wealth?

Seeing Mai Xiang leaning over in her new clothes acting like a spoiled child, Liu Huilan pinched Mai Xiang's nose affectionately. This action made Mrs. Zhao very tasty, and felt that Mai Xiang seemed closer to Liu Huilan than to her.

As soon as Liu Huilan left, Yu also pretended to forget that she was leaving, she was still thinking about asking Zhao Qiaohong to accompany Mai Xiang to deliver the kite, to see how much the kite could sell for?
Seeing that she didn't mention that she was going to leave, everyone couldn't urge her anymore.

But when Mai Huang came back and saw Mai Xiang's new clothes, she was awkward for a long time. Mai Xiang took her out, explained for a long time, and gave her another task.

The next day, it rained, and Mai Xiang couldn't go to the Reclining Buddha Temple to do business. It happened that Ye Dafu's kite was ready, and Mai Xiang still took the kite to the next door to paint, because her own paint brushes were not complete.Besides, Mai Xiang didn't want them to know that the painting on the kite was painted by herself.

Cao Xueqin didn't go out that day either. He was surprised to see that Mai Xiang drew a very vivid pig with a charcoal pen in a few strokes. Mai Xiang's technique is very skilled, obviously learned.

Seeing Cao Xueqin staring at her, Mai Xiang also guessed that she had aroused his suspicion, and said with a smile, "Mr. I don't know. I used to drive the pigs out to mow the grass every year at this time. The grass pigs are not full yet, so I have nothing to do when I have nothing to do, so I draw on the ground with branches and play, most of the paintings are pigs, sheep, cows, cats, etc., does it look like it?"

"Like, it's so similar. It's a pity, I didn't expect you to have this talent, it's a pity, it's a pity." Cao Xueqin believed it was true, and sighed deeply.

Mai Xiang didn't expect that she made a few random words, which made Cao Xueqin think about how to help herself out of poverty.

"Mai Xiang, I think your paintings are a bit interesting, especially the lucky cats, lucky pigs, happy goats, etc. I think those rich people will like them. They are interesting and meaningful. Why don't you paint what you know? Draw a picture of several small animals, and I will ask Dun Min to find a place to sell it for you someday."

"Really? Can someone want this?" Mai Xiang was delighted when she heard this.

"Don't get too excited, I might not be able to sell yet." Cao Xueqin poured cold water on seeing Mai Xiang smiling so happily.

Mai Xiang first drew a few pictures, Lucky Pig, Lucky Cat, Pleasant Goat, and Beautiful Goat. Liu Huilan looked at these pictures and said with a smile, "It would be good to embroider this on a handkerchief for my son."

"Since Auntie said so, let's embroider and try it. I'll sell it and see if I can sell it for a good price." Mai Xiang also smiled.

Thinking of this, Mai Xiang suddenly thought of the young master, doesn't she just like these things?If Ye Dafu knew how to make up these small animals and painted and colored them himself, would he still be able to sell them?

Thinking of this, Mai Xiang couldn't sit still anymore, threw the kite at Cao's house, ran home in the rain, took a portrait of a lucky pig, and asked Ye Dafu to try it, Ye Dafu was making wall shoes at home, that day The hundred pairs of wall shoes are not finished yet.

"Your fifth uncle knows how to weave these small animals. My skills are not as good as his." Ye Dafu looked at the painting and said.

After hearing this, Mai Xiang ran to look for Wu Fu again.

Yu Shi reacted quickly, guessing that Mai Xiang thought of some way to make money again, but she didn't see clearly the painting just now.

"Uncle, what did Da Ya ask you to make up?"

"It's just a pig. Children don't have much to play with, so what they think of is what they want." Ye Dafu replied lightly.

"Grandma, why are you always asking about everything? By the way, grandma, how is my uncle's kite making? Have they learned it yet?" Mai Huang asked, remembering Mai Xiang's instructions.

"That's right, I should go back and have a look, but it's raining again today." Shi Yu really wanted to go home and have a look, she couldn't leave any of them behind.

"Grandma, just now I heard from the aunt next door that she has a few fresh patterns. Would you like to send them to my aunt? I heard that things embroidered with these fresh patterns can sell for an extra penny or two." Mai Xiang came in, thinking that it would be better to do some kindness to Mrs Yu and let her go back quickly.

"Really? Is there such a good thing?" Yu Shi believed it to be true.

"Of course, if you can't sell it, I'll sell it to my aunt." Mai Xiang believes that she still has the ability to fool around.

When Mrs. Yu heard this, she was immediately tempted. Mai Xiang ran to the next door and drew four different fish with simple strokes by herself, and wrote the words "every year there are fish". When she came back, she said to Mrs. : "Tell my old aunt not to embroider handkerchiefs, this embroidered purse is better, and the purse can be sold for a few more money."

"That's not true, she also makes a few purses from time to time, but she just doesn't look good." Yu accepted the trick and was happy.

Unexpectedly, the rain continued until the morning of the next day. Mai Xiang had no choice but to wrap the kite in oiled paper, put it in a basket, and covered the basket with an old cotton-padded jacket, and then went out with the basket. house door.

Originally, Yu wanted Qiaohong to follow Mai Xiang, but she was still curious about how much money Mai Xiang could get, because she felt that Mai Xiang was hiding things from her.

But before going out, Yu looked left and right, and there was no extra umbrella at home, because Mai Xiang and Mai Huang secretly hid before going to bed the night before.Yu Shi had no choice but to watch Mai Xiang go out with the only broken umbrella.

In fact, Mai Xiang wasn't very sure that the young master would come, she was just taking a gamble and didn't want to lose this opportunity to make money.

Sure enough, when Mai Xiang arrived, there was no one in the grove next to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, so Mai Xiang had to wait under the tree with an umbrella, because the rain at this time was only light rain, and there was no thunder and lightning.

Mai Xiang didn't know how long she had been waiting. While waiting, she took a branch to practice calligraphy on the ground. There were too many strokes in these traditional characters, and she really couldn't remember them.

It was written that when Mai Xiang heard the sound of the carriage, she hurriedly dropped the branch and looked up, only to see that the young master raised the curtain and was about to jump down when he saw Mai Xiang. It was the owner of the white horse that day.

The other party didn't seem to recognize Mai Xianglai, because children from a family like them would never keep their eyes on a village girl like Mai Xiang.

It's better not to remember, Mai Xiang saves embarrassment, but when she saw him, Mai Xiang unconsciously felt a little nervous, afraid that if she accidentally said something wrong, she might offend him somewhere.

The man got out of the car first, and then hugged the young master out of the car. Mai Xiang looked at their facial features and faces, and his doting on the child, and some guessed that they might be brothers.

The man stood in front of Mai Xiang, glanced at Mai Xiang, Mai Xiang hurriedly smiled flatteringly, but unfortunately the other party's eyes didn't seem to stay on Mai Xiang.

Mai Xiang secretly slandered that this man was only fifteen or sixteen years old. In Mai Xiang's words, he was a very noble and cold-faced young man, and it was not easy to deal with such a person.

　Although it is not Yitong's first book on the shelves, Yitong is still a little uneasy. This book is not very ideal according to the previous clicks and collections. I hope that friends who like it will support it. I will write it with my heart.The update is still the old habit of the past, one chapter each in the morning and evening, those who have followed my article know that the quality of the product is guaranteed.

　　
　
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