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Published at 14th of September 2021 09:03:24 AM


Chapter 5: 5

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Li Mo's hand hurt, song Dashan simply won't let her into the kitchen, let her play with Xiaobao.

Li Mo suspects that in his heart, she and Xiao Bao are at the same level.

When Xiaobao is playing in the yard, she just sits by and looks at it in a daze.

At this time, a crisp voice came in: "is Dashan at home?"

As soon as the voice fell, a middle-aged woman entered the yard.

Li Mo stood up. Although he didn't know the comer, he politely called his aunt, and then said, "brother Dashan is at home. Sit down first, aunt. I'll call him."

The woman saw Li Mo and laughed, "are you Dashan's new daughter-in-law? It's a real sign. "

Li Mo pretended to be shy and lowered her head, and hurried to call people behind.

When she came out, the woman was teasing Xiaobao.

"Auntie, why are you here?"

"I heard that you are going to buy peanut seeds tomorrow? It happens that I'm going to the town tomorrow. I'll go to Xia Lao Zhu's house to make an appointment for a donkey cart later. I'll ask if you want to make an appointment for you as well. "

Song Dashan thought of it and nodded his thanks. "Thank you, aunt. It's not that you said I forgot to go to Lao Zhu's house to talk about it. Please tell me by the way, two seats. My daughter-in-law will also go to town with me."

The woman readily agreed, "yes, I'll go and say that you're busy. My aunt has gone."

"Auntie, take your time."

Seeing off the woman, song Dashan said to Li Mo, "that's aunt Zhao who lives next door. She has been taking good care of me and Xiaobao. You can go to see Aunt Zhao if you have anything to do in the future."

Li Mo nods, ask again: "that about what seat?"

Aunt Zhao's appointment is about donkey cart. In several villages nearby, Xia Lao Zhu's family has a donkey who can take people to the town. However, donkey cart seats are limited. Not everyone has a seat every time. Therefore, we should go ahead of time to say hello and leave a seat. Otherwise, we can only walk to the town.

After listening to song Dashan's explanation, Li Mo knows what's going on and wonders how much each person costs and how many people can sit at a time.

Song Dashan replied: "generally, adults pay 3 Wen for a round trip, while children pay 1 Wen. Children have no seats, so they have to be held by adults. 15 adults at a time. "

Li Mo's brain starts to move quickly. In this way, a trip is at least 45 Wen. Even if he has to go back and forth to the morning fair one day, he can earn at least 45 Wen. In the village, strong laborers go out to do odd jobs, and only 10 Wen a day. That's too profitable to pull a cart. If there's a donkey at home, can't you do it? Why is there only Xia Lao Zhu?

Song Dashan laughed and explained to Li Mo: "a donkey costs about 6 Liang silver, which is much more expensive than buying a cow. They are all farmers. They don't have so much money and they are reluctant to buy it. Even if they have so much money, they will definitely choose to buy cattle. Cattle can cultivate land, but donkeys can't do farm work except pulling people, so no one has bought them so far."

Li Mo understood and looked at Song Dashan. He felt that it was very suitable for song Dashan to do. His legs were inconvenient and his farm work was too hard. If he could pull a cart, it would be easy and he could make money.

If you can make money in the future, you can try.

At lunch time, I didn't expect aunt Zhao to come again. She didn't look well when she came in.

"Aunt Zhao, what's the matter?" Asked song Dashan.

Aunt Zhao sat down on the bench brought by Li Mo and breathed. Then she angrily said, "the old Xia Zhu family is not what it looks like. I went to make an appointment, but she told me that the seats are tight. One family only gives one seat, not two. Bah! Why didn't you say that before when the seats were tight? "

This is the only donkey cart in several nearby villages. He is very arrogant and arrogant. Once he is offended, he can't take his family's donkey cart. Not only that, the fare has increased from two Wen to three Wen. If we don't walk to the town, it's too far away. We don't want to take his family's donkey cart.

This time, there is a new one. The family only gives one seat. What can other people do.

Song Dashan's face was not good when he heard this.

Li Mo's heart is also very disappointed. It seems that he can't go this time.

Pulling song Dashan's sleeve, Li Mo said, "Dashan, I'm not going. Go ahead."

Song Dashan's face didn't get better. Instead of returning to Li Mo, he asked aunt Zhao, "aunt, when will the donkey cart leave tomorrow?"

Aunt Zhao replied, "wait at the entrance of the village tomorrow morning."

Qi returned to Qi, but remembering that there were still many things to do, aunt Zhao did not delay and said she would go home.

Although Li Mo is disappointed, it's not that he can't go forever. Just go again next time. Now leave it behind and don't think about it any more.

What do you think? Before dawn the next day, Li Mo was awakened by song Dashan.

"Brother Dashan, what's the matter?"

"Get up and clean up and go to town."

Li Mo a listen to, surprised, "isn't a family only give a seat?"? How can I get there? "

"It's OK. If I can go, I've discussed with a fellow villager who is just going to drive cattle to the town. I'll go in his ox cart.""Ox cart?"

"Well, the ox cart is too slow. It's estimated that it will be scattered in the morning market in the town, but it's OK to buy seeds. Just go to the grain store. When you get there, follow aunt Zhao, and you don't have to wait for me when you come back." Then he took out a bunch of copper money from his pocket and handed it to Li Mo, "when you get to town, you can buy it yourself."

Li Mo hesitated, "brother Dashan, it's business for you to go to the town. It's too late to take the ox cart. You'd better take the donkey cart. I won't go. It's the same next time."

Song Dashan patted her on the head, "it's OK, you can go with ease. You can't delay buying seeds by taking the ox cart."

"But"

"don't be, just get up and wash." Song Dashan then went out.

Li Mo had to get up and wash.

As soon as Mao arrived, song Dashan sent Li Mo to the entrance of the village and gave it to Aunt Zhao, who was already waiting there.

"Aunt, Li Mo will trouble you."

Aunt Zhao had heard song Dashan say that she would go by ox cart. Now she nodded, "don't worry, I will take your daughter-in-law."

Song Dashan accompanied Li Mo to the donkey cart of Xia Lao Zhu's family.

When the donkey cart took the man away, and there was no shadow of the cart, song Dashan began to walk towards the town.

In the car, beside Li Mo sat aunt Zhao, and on the other side sat a middle-aged woman whom she didn't know.

Aunt Zhao took Li Mo's hand and said, "girl, how old are you this year?"

Li Mo thought about the age of the original owner and replied, "I'm 17 years old this year."

Aunt Zhao nodded, "17 ah, it's much smaller than Dashan, but man, it's painful to understand."

Li Mo pretends to be embarrassed to bow his head.

Seeing that she was shy, aunt Zhao laughed and said, "girl, I'll tell you that you can't be wrong to live with Dashan. Aunt Zhao can make sure."

Li Mo smiles and nods. Song Dashan people are really good.

Aunt Zhao sighed at this time, "Dashan, I grew up watching him. He is a very good child, but his life is bad and he has suffered a lot."

Li Mo listens to Aunt Zhao to say so, think to have what story certainly, can't help but curiosity.

Seeing that Li Mo listened carefully, aunt Zhao couldn't help saying something in her heart: "when the imperial court recruited soldiers, the Song family didn't give up money. He pushed Dashan out to serve as a soldier. His family also thought that he couldn't come back. In order to make a good reputation, they said that they would leave him, but they didn't pick anyone. They found a woman with a bad reputation and got married in a hurry. Just a few days after getting married, Dashan left and never came back. His daughter-in-law soon found out that she was pregnant with a child, but she was not lucky enough to go when she gave birth to Xiaobao. "

Aunt Zhao sighed, "it's just pity for Xiaobao. I was making trouble at that time and invited the clan leader. Only the Song family agreed to keep Xiaobao, but Xiaobao's life was so miserable"

Li Mo knew what happened before.

The Song family must have asked song Dashan for alimony on the pretext of raising Xiaobao, that is, 8 Liang silver.

Thinking of Xiao Bao's thin and pitiful appearance, Li Mo was a little sad.

If song Dashan had a wife before, it's impossible to say that she didn't have a trace of resentment in her heart. She was afraid that he had another woman in his heart all the time, so that even if they lived together, they couldn't be totally indifferent. But now she was relieved to hear that song Dashan had no feelings with his former wife.

As he talked all the way, Li Mo learned a lot about song Dashan. He estimated that according to the modern time of about an hour and a half, he finally came to the town.

Aunt Zhao is going to the cloth shop to buy cloth. It turns out that her daughter is going to get married next month.

It's just that Aunt Zhao is not so happy when she talks about it, and she is very sad.

Li Mo doesn't understand, "is aunt reluctant to give up daughter?"

Auntie Zhao sighed and said to her, "you just came to our village. I don't know. My little daughter Qinhua was accidentally burned to her face by Mars a few years ago. After years of recovery, she hasn't completely recovered. There is still a little scar on her face. It's about to get married. Can I not worry?"

Li Mo doesn't understand, "is the other side don't know Qin Hua's face has scar?"

Aunt Zhao shook her head. "Qinhua has a childhood sweetheart. They have a baby kiss. He knows the scar on Qinhua's face. However, he has feelings for Qinhua and is willing to marry her."

"That's very good. Since he doesn't dislike Qinhua, why is his aunt so worried?"

"Well, he doesn't dislike Qinhua, but his parents are very dissatisfied with her. If it wasn't for his resolute attitude, Qinhua would not be a good parent. On the wedding day, the husband's aunts and aunts will go to see the bride and see the scar on our Qinhua's face. I'm not sure how to bury my daughter. Her father-in-law and mother-in-law have lost face in front of their relatives. How can they treat Qinhua well? " Aunt Zhao's voice choked.

Li Mo understood why aunt Zhao was so worried.

At this time, with a flash of inspiration, she suddenly thought of how she could make money.Yes, although there is no star here, she can make up for the bride once in her life. She must be willing to spend money on make-up.

Li Mo's heart jumped up quickly, feeling that he was hopeful of becoming rich.




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