That was money. She had never seen it before when she was so old. Now she actually had money hidden in her poor house without even a bed?
She still had a sense of unreality, just like the moonlight tonight, illusory, absurd, as if in a dream. She was shaken, and she confirmed and emphasized again with a trembling voice in disbelief, "Really hide it well" Already? Is it hidden well?"
"Oh, don't worry, eldest sister. As long as you don't tell anyone, no one will know."
"I won't tell! No one will tell!" Taohua covered her mouth with her hands and shook her head.
Cao Ya looked at it and thought it was funny. She stretched out her hand to hold the eldest sister's hand and joked: "Sister, you are not as good as me. I have never been so nervous."
Taohua was ashamed and angry, and took out her hand in annoyance. She pointed her finger on Caoya's forehead and pushed it, "You have always been brave. Who can compare with you?"
Cao Ya chuckled and took Tao Hua's hand again, "Sister, our family is rich. In the future, I can do business with Brother Ping An to make money. When you get married, I will definitely prepare a thick dowry for you. Even if you marry into Brother Xiaoshan’s family, you can straighten your back.”
"Why are you talking about this? You are not young anymore. Girls are not ashamed to say this!" Taohua blushed, but her attention was diverted. She was no longer thinking about the silver. "Besides, you are It’s not that I don’t know that Mrs. Fang is a good woman, I won’t be punished if I get married. If you are worried about me, you might as well worry more about yourself.”
"Stop talking, go into the house and go to bed!" When the topic came to her, Cao Ya didn't like to talk anymore, so she hurriedly walked into the house after finishing her sentence.
Looking at Cao Ya's back, Tao Hua stamped her foot silently.
After a silent night, Cao Ya opened her eyes at dawn and looked at the others who hadn't woken up yet. Pretending to be unintentional, she quietly went to the place where the money was hidden last night and stepped on it. She didn't find that there was anything there. Only when something was wrong did I feel relieved. However, as soon as she turned her head, she was startled by the figure sitting in the darkness.
After she calmed down and saw clearly that it was the eldest sister, she said speechlessly: "Sister, why didn't you make a sound when you got up? It scared me to death."
"Don't you wake up and make no noise?" Taohua yawned and glanced at the sisters who were still lying in a row. Seeing that they were not awakened by their voices, she put on her shoes lightly, "One night I haven’t slept well, I’m so sleepy, I’m going to wash my face and wake up.”
"I am coming too!"
So the two sisters went out and washed their faces with cold water, then squatted and looked at each other and laughed.
"Didn't you laugh at me last night?" After a pause, Taohua imitated Caoya's tone last night, "Sister, you are worse than me. I have never been so nervous."
Cao Ya quickly stood up, picked up the bucket and ran away, "I'll go get some water and come back!"
Peach blossom eyes rolled, this girl did this again!
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In the next few days, Caoya and her team were busy learning to make jelly. As their techniques became more and more proficient, Li Ping'an also prepared a suitable ratio of rice milk, and the jelly they made received unanimous praise.
Li Ping'an, who had been sweating profusely in the fields under the scorching sun for several days and got a tan, asked his parents to take a day off. It was already half July and he had to seize the time to find a market for the jelly.
This was also an important matter. Li Erlin immediately agreed. He also went to Li Jianghe's house to find Li Yinshan and asked him to take Li Pingan for a trip. Li Pingan was unfamiliar with the place and he felt uneasy without a local to lead him.
Li Yinshan readily agreed, and after agreeing on a departure time tomorrow, Li Ping'an immediately asked Cao Ya to make the jelly before the time.
Early the next morning, Zhang Xiaoshan arrived at Li Ping'an's house with a bucket of jelly. As soon as the two met, they rushed to Li Jianghe's house. Li Yinshan had already prepared it, and when they arrived, they left the village together.
"Uncle Yinshan, how long does it take to get to the county seat?" Li Ping'an asked as soon as he walked out of the village.
He has been here for a while, and has never been to the county seat of Mingxia County. When he first settled in, the county clerk went to the village to do the work on-site, and handled the household registration documents and house title deeds for them all at once.
Li Yinshan replied: "About an hour and a half."
That's quite a distance, probably more than twenty miles.
Li Ping'an asked again: "Do you usually go to the county seat often?"
"Not much," Li Yinshan shook his head. "There is a grass market there in half an hour's walk. There is a big market on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. Usually we go there to buy or exchange whatever we want to buy."
Li Ping'an nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and immersed himself in walking. Half an hour later, he saw the grass market that Li Yinshan had mentioned. Today was not the first day of the lunar month or the fifteenth day of the lunar month. There were not many people in the grass market, and there were only three shops among a dozen shops. The doors open include a meat seller, a grain seller, and a grocery store.
There were about a dozen stalls, but they all sold ordinary things, such as wild fruits and eggs from the mountains.
"It will be the first day of the new year in about ten days. If you have time then, you can come and see the big market. There will be a lot of things then, and there may be hunters selling animal skins." Li Yinshan said.
"I will definitely come when the time comes."
Continuing to walk forward for an hour, I finally saw the county seat. The city walls in Mingxia County were higher than those in Qingfeng County where Li Ping'an often visited before fleeing famine, and many places looked very new.
Li Yinshan explained that the original city wall was severely damaged during the war, and they repaired it after the war by doing corvee work every autumn harvest.
There is no need to pay or check when entering the city. As soon as he walked through the city gate, Li Ping'an asked: "Uncle Yinshan, there are restaurants and restaurants in the city. Let's go there first."
"Of course, but are you sure we really want to go to those places?"
Li Ping'an nodded, "Go to the restaurant first!"
There are too many places where they need money now. He had already thought about it before coming here. He would try his luck at restaurants and restaurants first. If he could get a fixed order, it would be better than setting up a stall for retail.
Of course, Li Ping'an couldn't give up setting up a stall. No matter how small the mosquitoes were, they were still meat. It's just that someone can open a restaurant in the county town, and the shopkeeper is also a well-known person in the county. It is impossible for him to set up a stall first, and then use the leftover jelly to talk to others about cooperation. That way the negotiation is 100% impossible.
Li Yinshan said no more, and while taking Li Pingan and Zhang Xiaoshan around the city, he introduced that there was only one restaurant in the county, but the firewood sellers said that both the shopkeeper and the manager were easy to talk to. , I won’t look down on rough guys like them with muddy legs.
Li Ping'an was secretly happy that he was easy to talk to, but he was worried about bumping into someone who was hard to talk to. The worst fear was that he wouldn't be able to get in through the door.
The most important thing when discussing cooperation is to meet in person first. It doesn't matter whether you know him or not, but at least you have to have a chance to talk.
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Li Yinshan say he's here.
