After Wang Xuelan left, Chu Yue glanced at the silver pimple in her hand, and then handed it in the direction of Yun Cuihe.
"Mom, keep this."
Yun Cuihe pushed Chu Yue's hand back.
"This is from your milk, so just keep it. When I go to town tomorrow, there will be plenty of money to spend."
Chu Yue then took back her hand and hid the broken silver in her chest like a treasure. For her now, this was a huge sum of money.
At this time, Lu Xingping, who had delivered pork to several neighbors, had returned. In the basket, there were a few eggs and a small handful of wild vegetables returned by the neighbors.
He emptied the contents of the basket, put another larger piece of pork into the basket, and went out again to Zheng's house.
Lu Xinghe had already cleaned out the pig intestines. Chu Yue put the pig intestines in a basin and took some clean plant ash from the stove. The plant ash can not only remove odor, but also absorb dirt. It is economical and economical to use to treat pig intestines. practical.
When the pig intestines were washed and hung on the kitchen beams, the sky was already gray. In order not to get caught in the dark, the family finished washing early and returned to their respective houses.
Strictly speaking, this was the wedding night of Chu Yue and Lu Xinghe.
But because Chu Yue was still too young, and Lu Xinghe had no intention of doing so, the two of them entered the house. One sat huddled in the corner on the kang, and the other sat in front of the window, using the faint light to Concentrate on copying the booklet.
After a long time, until Chu Yue was about to fall asleep, she suppressed the nervousness in her heart and called softly: "Mr.
"Um?"
Lu Xinghe, who was copying a small book at his desk, responded naturally.
Chu Yue took courage: "Aren't you going to sleep?"
He turned around and looked at the little girl huddled on the kang, looking like a pitiful creature. He suddenly realized that this was her first night here, and felt a little unbearable.
"I'm going to town tomorrow, so I don't have to make another trip in two days. I'll copy these notebooks first, and you can go to bed first."
Chu Yue yawned.
"Then don't be too busy."
Seeing that she cared about him, Lu Xinghe raised the corners of his lips slightly: "Okay."
Chu Yue was really sleepy and fell asleep. She had no idea when Lu Xinghe got on the kang. She only knew that when she woke up the next day, Lu Xinghe had already gotten up.
Looking at the bright sky outside the house, Chu Yue hurriedly stepped on her shoes to get up, washed herself briefly, and then went to the kitchen to work on breakfast.
For breakfast, we cooked brown rice porridge, fried a bowl of wild vegetables, and baked a pancake for each person.
After breakfast, Lu Xinghe put the wild boar meat and the medicinal materials dug up in the mountains yesterday on the cart he borrowed early in the morning. He also took straw and platycodon and neatly spread them on the wild boar meat. Then he pushed the cart and set off with Chu Yue. .
The nearest town to Banpo Village is Nanping Town. Because Banpo Village is poor and the roads are not easy to walk, there is no way to ride an ox cart. It takes a full hour to walk from here to Nanping Town.
Chu Yue wiped her sweat as she walked, saying nothing during the whole process. Not far from the village entrance, Lu Xinghe stopped the cart.
"Would you like to come up? I can push you."
Chu Yue hurriedly shook her head: "I still can't. The things on the cart are already very heavy. I'd better go by myself."
Lu Xinghe did not force it, and just let Chu Yue put the basket in her hand on the cart. The basket contained the handkerchief that Yun Cuihe asked Chu Yue to take to the town to sell, and it was not heavy at all.
The two of them walked to Nanping Town without stopping midway.
Nanping Town is considered to be the most developed among the nearby towns. On both sides of the entrance of Nanping Town are two tall auspicious cloud stone pillars. There is a beam above the two stone pillars with the three characters "Nanping Town" written on it. It is grand. Magnificent.
Although there were soldiers guarding the entrance, they could only maintain the order of entering the town and not make it difficult for the people. Therefore, on such a hot day, they all sat far away under the big tree not far from the stone pillar to enjoy the coolness.
After Chu Yue followed Lu Xinghe into the city, she went straight to the largest restaurant in Nanping Town, Huayu Tower.
When Lu Xinghe catches prey, he usually sends it here. Huayulou's business is very good, and almost all of them refuse to refuse these game meats.
The two of them entered through the back door of Huayu Building and went directly to the manager of Huayu Building. The manager knew Lu Xinghe and was very generous, so he took all their wild boar meat for twenty-five cents per pound.
Excluding the small piece that was given away and reserved by himself, the remaining 130 kilograms of wild boar were sold for a total of 3,150 Wen. Chu Yue asked the steward to exchange 3,000 Wen for 30 taels of silver, and the other 100 kilograms. Fifty coins were strung together with twine and put into the basket.
After selling the wild boar, the two of them first went to the cloth shop and sold the thirteen handkerchiefs that Yun Cuihe had embroidered in the past two months to the boss of the cloth shop for eight cents each. They spent another eighty yuan. Wen pulled two pieces of cloth to make summer clothes for Chu Yue.
That is to say, Yun Cuihe's handiwork is good. If this handkerchief was embroidered by ordinary people, the owner of the cloth shop would only be willing to pay three to five cents.
After buying cloth, the two of them went to Wangchen Bookstore again. The books Lu Xinghe copied were thirty liters each, and there were ten books in total. A total of 300 liters were settled.
Before leaving, Lu Xinghe focused on one of the books in the bookstore.
“How do you sell that book?”
The bookstore boy hurriedly replied: "That copy of "The Biography of the Nations" costs three taels of silver."
Chu Yue was surprised, the books here are really expensive!
Upon hearing the price, Lu Xinghe immediately looked away.
"Is there no copying work to do these days?"
The boy shook his head: "I'm afraid they have disappeared recently. The batch of books you handed in today were ordered by a gentleman in the academy. This year's performance is not good, and there will probably be fewer students enrolling in the second half of the year."
If it weren't for Lu Xinghe's beautiful calligraphy, the job of copying books in this bookstore would definitely not have fallen to him.
Lu Xinghe nodded, thanked the boy, and then led Chu Yue to Chenji Pharmacy. He usually filled Yun Cuihe's medicine here. Chenji Pharmacy was considered a conscientious pharmacy in Nanping Town.
The two of them entered the drug store, and the shopkeeper who was working on his abacus behind the counter raised his head.
"Are you two taking medicine or seeing a doctor?"
"Shopkeeper, do you collect medicinal materials here? We picked fresh medicinal materials on the mountain yesterday." Chu Yue stepped forward and asked.
When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately said, "Can I show it to you?"
Chu Yue nodded and took out the medicinal materials from the basket. In addition to Bupleurum root, there were also two Panax notoginseng and several common medicinal materials. Although the quantity was not much, it was better because of the proper way of picking and processing.
An expert knows the doorway, and Shopkeeper Chen knew at a glance that he was probably meeting someone who knew the business.
"What do you call the little girl?"
"Chu Yue."
He looked at Lu Xinghe next to Chu Yue.
"Then who is this?"
Chu Yue's face turned red: "He is my husband-in-law, his surname is Lu."
Shopkeeper Chen was a little surprised. He originally thought that Lu Xinghe and Chu Yue were siblings, but they turned out to be husband and wife.
"The young lady is getting married at such a young age."
Chu Yue said vaguely: "My family is poor and there is nothing we can do."
The shopkeeper nodded. After all, it was his privacy, and he didn't ask any more questions.
"Did you handle this medicinal material?"
Chu Yue nodded: "Yes, what's wrong with it?"
"There's nothing wrong with that. Does Miss Chu know medicine?" The shopkeeper didn't mince words, "That's right, there's a lady who's been looking for female doctors everywhere recently. If the girl knows medicine, I might be able to recommend you to give it a try. According to the old man, Observe, her problem shouldn’t be too difficult to deal with.”
