Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 104 Shen Rongshan Comes

"Aunt Wang, you guys found a basket so quickly."

"You are too slow. We found a lot of pea tips over there."

She dumped the wild vegetables out of the basket.

"Here, I'll give you some. I found a lot of amaranth, picked the tender ones, and stir-fried them for delicious taste."

Ji Wenhe took the basket and said, "Thank you, Aunt Wang. We dug some bamboo shoots. There aren't many. I'll give you half of them."

Wang Erfeng nodded with a smile.

After cutting the wild celery, everyone continued to move forward and unknowingly forgot about the time.

"Oh, it's almost afternoon." Miao Zhaodi looked up at the sun in the west, "We have to go back. We've run too far."

The people in front turned around and looked at the sky again.

Ji Wenhe stood up and patted his lower back. It was probably past three o'clock.

Immersed in the joy of finding wild vegetables, I forgot about time.

Zhang Qiu'e swallowed her saliva and said, "Let's go back. We can't look for it anymore. It's getting dark and dangerous. I'm dying of thirst."

The sun was strong at noon, and a few people rested for a while under the shade of a tree, then continued looking. The sun was so strong that it was so hot that people were dying of heat.

Wang Erfeng pinched her waist and frowned: "Okay, it's too late to go back. My mother-in-law will quarrel with me when I go back."

"Erfeng, your mother-in-law is still finding fault with you." Lan Qiuhua called Ji Wenhe: "Let's go, Wenhe."

She replied: “Hey, here I come.”

"Of course I'm not. She always looks at me with disdain. If I don't beat her up, she'll feel uncomfortable."

"Aunt Tao was a powerful person when she was young. Fortunately, you are not a soft-hearted person, otherwise you would have been bullied to death."

Wang Erfeng snorted, "I'm not afraid of her. If she makes me unhappy, she'll hit me. If I don't live well, she won't live well either."

Ji Wenhe and Shen Suya walked at the back and asked in a low voice: "Do Aunt Tao and Aunt Wang often fight?"

"When Aunt Wang first married into Shenjia Village, she quarreled with Aunt Tao every day. In the end, they started fighting and couldn't be separated."

"Later, everyone got used to it and stopped trying to stop the fight. They just let them fight. The village head tried to intervene, but it was useless."

"I heard from my mother that when Aunt Tao was young, she often quarreled and fought with her mother-in-law. She was a tough one."

"Nowadays, there are very few fights. Aunt Wang is very strong and beats Aunt Tao so hard that she can't fight back. Aunt Wang's husband is afraid of her and doesn't dare to help Aunt Tao."

Ji Wenhe nodded in understanding. After all the journey, they looked tired, except Wang Erfeng, who was still energetic.

It was a bit difficult for her to carry a stone weighing more than 20 kilograms, but she lifted it easily and it was like cotton in her hands.

Six people were walking on the roadside. When they were about to return to the village, a person came towards them from the opposite direction. Because they were far away, they couldn't see the person's face clearly.

"Hey, Xiaoya, do you think the person in front looks like Shen Rongshan?" The more Ji Wenhe looked, the more he looked like Shen Rongshan.

Shen Suya squinted her eyes and looked forward, silent for a moment: "Yes, it is a bit like him, mother, look in front, is it Brother Rongshan?"

The people walking in front responded and looked over.

"right."

After a while, everyone looked back with a smile.

Wang Erfeng teased, "Wen He, your Rongshan is worried about you and came here specially."

Then he continued, "Look at that young couple. When I got married, I went out with everyone to look for wild vegetables. That guy at home came to look for me, but he didn't even know I had run away."

Lan Qiuhua smiled and said, "My family is the same, but they love their wives as much as Rongshan does."

Ji Wenhe blushed and raised his lips slightly. He said he would come back early today, and the goods he brought out should have been sold out.

"Rongshan, come and find your wife." Wang Erfeng shouted loudly before the man came close.

Shen Rongshan called out to each of them and looked at Ji Wenhe: "Yes, Aunt Wang, I haven't seen you guys come back yet, and I was worried that you might be in danger, so I came here to find you."

Several aunts smiled with their eyes narrowed and joked around.

Lan Qiuhua coughed and said, "Alright, alright, let's go back. Xiaoya, come to your mother and don't disturb the young couple."

Shen Suya ran over with a smile, leaving the two of them at the end.

Ji Wenhe paused for a while, the slight blush on his face faded, and then he asked in a low voice: "Have all the goods been sold?"

Shen Rongshan walked beside her, matching her pace: "Yes, we sold them. We sold four bracelets and two hairpins."

"By the way, Wen He, an aunt asked if she could sell the raccoon alone. She wants to buy one for her child to play with."

"It's fine to sell them individually, but how do you set the price? Two cents is a bit low."

They carve, embroider and sew the hairpins by themselves. It is not easy to make money from handmade items.

Shen Rongshan pondered for a long time before replying, "Still selling it at three cents?"

"Difficult." Ji Wenhe shook his head, "People might find it even more expensive."

Shen Yuanshan had said before that a hairpin worth three cents was considered too expensive, and it was difficult to sell a cat head alone.

"How about this, Li Nu will make some small ones, three for five cents."

Today’s kitten’s head is slightly smaller than the palm of your hand, and its size can be further reduced.

"When I get back, I'll talk to Aunt Lan and ask her to make a few different styles and sell them separately. I won't make hairpins anymore."

Shen Rongshan looked at her sideways and said, "Five coins for three pieces, any style you want?"

Ji Wenhe nodded: "Well, I'll make a few more. There are bamboo leaves in the basket, and I picked a lot of them."

Stars, rabbit heads, little bears, one-eyed beasts, and so on, whatever you want we have.

She turned her head and looked him in the eye: "Brother Shen, go find Xiucai... No, forget it, I'll go there and ask the boss."

Seeing her happy look, Shen Rongshan couldn't help but ask, "What do you want to do?"

"Don't tell you."

Look at her proudly raised chin, her eyes doting: "Okay, I won't ask."

He'll find out sooner or later anyway.

When I got home, the two twins were squatting at the door, one on each side, holding their cheeks, like door gods.

Ji Wenhe smiled and said, "What are you doing? Thinking about life."

Shen Wenshan pointed at the words on the ground with sparkling eyes: "Sister-in-law, look, how are we writing?"

He walked to the door, put his hands behind his back, looked back and forth, and nodded with satisfaction: "Well, not bad."

They wrote their own names. Shen Rongshan told him that they would practice on the ground when they were resting on the road or had free time.

All three of them can now write their own names, but since the names have more strokes, the font size cannot be the same.

"Practice for two days and try to write each character in a similar size. I will teach you new characters in two days."

Shen Yuanshan happily agreed.

We are going to the market tomorrow, so Ji Wenhe went into the house to count the money.

After deducting the cost from the initial investment, I earned about 500 wen from 500 jin of black flour. Plus the rest, I had more than 6 liang in my hands.

A donkey costs nine taels, so if you want to buy a donkey cart you have to wait for a while.

Ji Wenhe came to the kitchen and looked at the man who was lighting the fire behind the stove: "Are you buying the same goods as last time?"

Shen Rongshan turned his head and said, "We only need five catties of fine noodles. Oh, and we need to buy three scales."

After purchasing the goods this time, the three of them went to sell the goods separately, which could speed up the sales process.

"How much does that scale cost?"

"The weight is eighty cents, plus the scale bar and the pan, I heard from the headman that it's one hundred and fifty cents."