from widow to dame

Chapter 8

"Sister and sister, sit down!" Wang Dalang looked at the thin Su Huiniang, afraid that she would fall off the car, and hurriedly said.

"It's okay, brother, don't worry." Su Huiniang smiled, holding the wooden board under her buttocks with both hands. To be honest, she was a little scared.

"Is this your first time making a bullock cart?" The sister-in-law who went to the town together next to her asked curiously.

Su Huiniang nodded.

"Then you get closer to me. If you are afraid, grab my arm. In fact, this car is quite stable and cannot fall."

This person looked familiar, after Su Huiniang thanked her, she couldn't help asking: "What's your name, sister-in-law?"

"Call me Mrs. Osmanthus, we met by the river yesterday."

When Su Huiniang heard this, she affectionately called Mrs. Osmanthus.

"What are you and Wang Jia Dalang going to town for?" Aunt Osmanthus asked curiously.

"Brother's doll accidentally fell down yesterday. Doctor Yu prescribed a prescription to go to the town to grab some medicinal materials. I can read a few words, so mother asked me to follow." Pi's narrow-minded, Fearing that the drug seller would fool Wang Dalang, he sent Su Huiniang, the only literate member of the family, to come with him.

"The baby fell, it's not a trivial matter! Our family has a distant relative, and his child is..." Sister-in-law Osmanthus seemed to be able to talk, and Balabala began to chatter.Su Huiniang listened with a smile on her face, and quickly glanced around. There were almost eight or nine people sitting in this bullock cart, some men and some women. Everyone had some dirt baskets on their bodies or at their feet, and they could vaguely see the Some eggs, vegetables, or wild game or something.

"Sit down..." At this moment, the uncle driving the cart shouted, and the whip in his hand slapped in the air. Su Huiniang only felt her body shake, and the ox cart started to move.The feeling of riding in the car was not very good. Not only was it bumpy and seemed to shake people's internal organs out, but it was also very slow. Su Huiniang and the others set off before dawn, but when they really arrived in the town, it was noon about.

"Two hours later, we will gather under this old locust tree at the entrance of the town. If anyone is late, we will shake off our muddy legs and walk back by ourselves." The driver, showing his yellow teeth, shouted angrily. road.Dahuo laughed and yelled, "Got it!" Then they dispersed, each going to his own business.

Wang Dalang and Su Huiniang went straight to the pharmacy in the town, and entered a medical center that said "Rejuvenation Hall", and grabbed the medicinal materials according to the prescription, and then Wang Dalang said to Su Huiniang: "Sister and sister, I want to go to the school to see Look at the second brother..."

Su Huiniang immediately said: "It just so happens that Wu Niang asked me to bring her some embroidery thread back home, so we'll split up and gather at the entrance of the town when we go back."

Wang Dalang said hello, and then gave her twelve eldest sons. '

"Ten pieces of embroidery thread are enough, and the remaining two, brother and sister, you can use it to buy a sesame seed pad to cushion your stomach!"

Su Huiniang glanced at the farmer in front of her, and she knew that she had spent almost all the money she brought when she bought the medicine just now, and after taking the fare for the two of them into account, this money should be the only money he had left.

He is an honest man.

"I'm not hungry." Su Huiniang smiled and stuffed the two eldest sons back into Wang Dalang's hands: "Brother, let's buy and eat."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Wang Dalang to reply, he turned his head, followed the flow of people, and walked away.

"There are rags in the frame at the door, you can choose what you want." The owner of the clothing workshop said without raising his head, lying on the counter and thinking.

"I don't want rags, boss, do you have any quilts here?"

Hearing this, the boss raised his head and looked at the woman in front of him, only to see that she was thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing torn and patched clothes, thin and thin, with a red birthmark on half of her face, she looked really ugly.

"You want quilts." The boss snorted, "Our quilts are all made of high-quality cotton balls, and they cost one tael of silver per bed."

Su Huiniang nodded, and said to him: "Boss, I want a quilt, half a piece of white interlining, and half a piece of blue cotton cloth. How much do you think it will cost?"

Seeing that the ugly girl seemed to really want to pay for it, the boss changed his attitude all of a sudden, and said with a smile on his face, "I'll give you a round number, three taels of silver is fine."

"It's too expensive!" Su Huiniang began to talk about the starting price decisively: "The price of two and a half is about the same."

"Little lady, I don't know, all the cloth in our house is from the south, and the color is much better than the local dyed ones," the shopkeeper boasted without changing his expression.

Lin Yuyan thought for a while and said, "How about this, you give me the leftover fabrics at the door, even the baskets, and our deal will be concluded, okay?"

"Okay!" the shopkeeper yelled with a smile.

Su Huiniang took out two taels of silver from her cuff, handed it to him, then put the quilt and cloth into the basket, carried it on her back and left, turning into a secluded alley, where there was no one around. People, Su Huiniang quickly entered the space and put everything in it.Then, she bought a wooden comb, a small mirror, candles, etc. in the same way.She also went to the embroidery workshop to buy needles, threads, braces, etc. She had asked, and these embroidery workshops also received embroidery handkerchiefs, sachets, etc. Su Huiniang was confident that with her craftsmanship, she would be able to earn some money with this She had already planned a way to make money, so she bought a large piece of high-quality red silk for four taels of silver, and planned to embroider a finished product.

After buying these things, Su Huiniang only had two taels of silver left in her hand.With the money, she bought ten white flour buns filled with meat, a pack of white sugar shortbread, and several large fresh peaches.She glanced at the sky, and then began to walk towards the gate of the town.When she arrived, Wang Dalang hadn't come back yet, but Mrs. Osmanthus Flower and others had arrived.

"Sister-in-law, are all the eggs sold out?" Seeing the empty soil basket on her arm, Su Huiniang asked with a smile.

"That's right! I'm lucky today, and it sold out in a short while." Aunt Guhua said with a smile on her face.

Talked for a while with the women who came in the same car, and after a while everyone came back one after another, and Wang Dalang also rushed to this side at a later time.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, the uncle driving the car shouted, and a car of people began to set foot on the way back to the village.

When we got home, it was completely dark, and Pi and the others were already waiting at the door, not caring about what to say, so the family hurriedly started to boil the medicine, and it took us half a night before we put it away. The bowl of black concoction was fed into the child's mouth.

"Da Lang, how much did you spend on the medicine?" Mrs. Pi asked with a painful face.

Wang Dalang was silent for a while and said, "It cost five taels of silver."

After hearing this, Mrs. Pi almost didn't spit out his hard work. You know, these days, you can buy an acre of land for three taels of silver.A few days ago, she just paid five taels of silver for that little bastard Wang Qilang, and now she has spent another five taels of silver.

"It's all you prodigal bitch!!" Thinking of the culprit, Mrs. Pi became furious again.

Tian Shi was already scared of being beaten yesterday, seeing Pi Shi coming towards her with red eyes, she wanted to hide behind her husband with a groan.

Wang Wuniang and Wang Liulang stood there laughing and watching the excitement, without any intention of dissuading them.Seeing that the family started to make trouble again, Su Huiniang shook her head, walked towards her room, entered the room, and plugged the door bolt with her backhand.

The firewood room was so dark that no one could be seen, but Su Huiniang stopped, frowned at the pile of firewood, and called, "Are you there?"

No one answered her.

Su Huiniang frowned even tighter.

"come out!"

After a while, there was a sound of rustling footsteps, and an extremely thin figure showed half of his body from behind the firewood pile.

He is there!Su Huiniang rubbed her forehead with some headaches.Ever since the "roasted chicken" incident, this child has always come to her room from time to time, making Su Huiniang afraid to enter the space now.

"If you come in quietly like this again, I'll tell your mother about you!"

"That old slut is not my mother." A moment later, a fierce voice like a wolf's cub sounded: "And this place was originally mine, and you took my property."

What he meant was, was this woodshed originally his shelter?
Su Huiniang sighed helplessly.

"But you have a good heart..." The wolf cub muttered, "I agree to let you live here."

"Thank you so much!" Su Huiniang gave him an angry and funny look, and then waved: "Come here."

The wolf cub hesitated for a moment, then walked over slowly.

With the moonlight outside the window, Su Huiniang took a good look at him, frowned and said, "Why is he injured again?"

The wolf cub shrugged his shoulders, looking indifferent.

Su Huiniang shook her head and said, "Wait!"

Then she opened the door and went out, carrying a bucket of water, taking this opportunity, she entered the space, made five steamed buns, a few pieces of shortbread, and took out the two candles she bought.

"What's the smell?" The wolf cub's nose twitched, his eyes stared straight at Su Huiniang's arms, as if he was about to pounce on him and grab him.

"Go and wash your face first." Su Huiniang said to him angrily, "You are as dirty as if you just crawled out of a mud pond."

The wolf cub gave Su Huiniang a fierce look, but the other party didn't care at all, with an expression of going to wash my face now, immediately, immediately.

"Be careful, don't get wet on the ground, the room is already damp enough."

"Humph……"

While the wolf cubs were fighting with the water, Su Huiniang lit a candle in the house. The firewood house was far away from where Mrs. Pi and the others lived, and a candle didn't have much light, so there was no danger of being discovered.

Finally bid farewell to the days of becoming blind at night, Su Huiniang was so moved that she almost cried.

Splash the dirty water outside after washing the wolf cub, and reinsert the latch.

"Here you are!" Su Huiniang smiled and handed him the food in her arms: "It's still warm, eat it soon."

(End of this chapter)