Xiao Xiao wanted to say it was not delicious, but her aftertaste did not allow her to answer without conscience.
She nodded.
Gu Huai: "Do you want to keep eating it from now on?"
Xiao Xiao wanted to shake her head, but her movements were faster than her thinking, so she nodded first.
Gu Huai: "I'll teach you how to recognize several kinds of herbs. You can pick these things after spring. You can keep part of the money from the sale and give the rest to me."
Xiao Xiao thought of Gu Huai's previous ability to make money and nodded happily.
It's just about recognizing herbal medicine. Since he wants to recognize herbal medicine, he will definitely not sell himself out in a short time.
Maybe Gu Huai just wanted to teach himself how to recognize herbal medicine, to blame himself for not being serious enough and not suitable to continue to stay in the Gu family, and then to achieve the purpose of selling himself.
very good!
He won't succeed.
Her mother had praised her before, she was really talented in reading!
Xiao Xiao secretly made up her mind that she must let Gu Huai know what a huge loss it was to sell her for ten yuan!
Gu Huai walked to the entrance of the village every day and bought a newspaper.
In an era before television, newspapers were the only thing he could use to pass the time.
Huang Cuicui did not stop him from buying newspapers.
She didn't know that Gu Huai spent a penny every day to sell newspapers. She only knew that using newspapers to cover the table was a very high-end behavior - it showed that their family was particularly educated.
On this day, when Gu Huai was buying newspapers, he met Yuan Qi, who was also buying newspapers.
Scholar Yuan Qi was already very familiar with Gu Huai. When he saw Gu Huai coming to buy newspapers, he was a little surprised: "Didn't you say you can't read?"
Gu Huai lied very frankly: "I really don't know him, I bought it for Xiao Xiao."
As he spoke, he scanned the newspaper and flipped through it at will.
Yuan Qi felt relieved when he saw him flipping through the pages so quickly, as if he was looking for something, or simply looking at the pictures above:
He really didn't know how to read.
It turned out that I was overthinking it.
Yuan Qi also asked the newsstand owner to bring him a newspaper.
Gu Huai had already finished flipping through the entire newspaper and was about to leave, when Yuan Qi stopped him:
"I'll go back with you and teach Xiao Xiao how to write."
These days, Yuan Qi keeps running to Gu Huai's house, firstly, because it feels good to be a teacher, and secondly, maybe he can meet the Gu family and cook fish soup.
Thinking of this and the taste of fish soup, Yuan Qi swallowed.
His worthless look was clearly exposed in Gu Huai's eyes. The latter thought of an idea and pointed to a submission address at the end of the newspaper:
"Yuan Qi, I think you are a literary star. How could you miss such a good opportunity? Why don't you try writing novels in newspapers, maybe you will achieve great success."
Yuan Qi was not interested at first. It was not until Gu Huai mentioned a great achievement that Yuan Qi raised his head and asked, "What great achievements can be achieved by submitting a manuscript?"
Gu Huai pretended to be surprised: "Don't you know? Nowadays, it is advocated to serialize novels in newspapers, and those who write these are called writers."
"Does the word writer fit your temperament very well?"
Yuan Qi thought, could there be any words that fit him better than these two words? These two words were simply tailor-made for him, okay?
The two hit it off immediately, and Yuan Qi stopped going to Gu Huai's house and planned to go home and start fulfilling his dream of being a writer.
But halfway through, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Isn’t Gu Huai illiterate? How could he point to the new content in the newspaper and talk to him?
After thinking about it, Yuan Qi thought that there was a very talented Xiao Xiao in his family, and Yuan Qi felt that it was not particularly difficult for Gu Huai to recognize a few words.
He went home confidently and boldly.
It's not that Gu Huai has never thought about writing a book to earn royalties, but writing a book requires too much energy and he doesn't have the time to do it. The current heroine Xiao Xiao is not yet an adult and is not suitable for this job.
Therefore, he simply reminded the scholar who was almost thirty years old and still thought of himself as noble to take this more pretentious path.
He feels that Yuan Qi's handwriting is not as good as Xiao Xiao's, but his handwriting looks very imaginative, which is very suitable for this profession that requires imagination.
Before he even entered the house, he was bumped into by the reckless Gu Xiaoliu.
Gu Xiaoliu felt pain, rubbed his nose, and looked at Gu Huai with tears in his eyes. He suddenly felt that his brother seemed to have grown a lot recently, and was actually almost surpassing him!
It seemed like he was half a head shorter than me a few months ago, right?
"Agu, why are you walking without looking at the road!"
Gu Xiaoliu, who felt that he had been surpassed, had a bit more complaining and anger in his tone.
Gu Huai said nothing.
It was obvious that Gu Xiaoliu was walking without looking at the road and running rampant. Who could blame him?
Oh, it was indeed his fault. He should have given up a few steps for her to fall onto the threshold and lose those two teeth.
Gu Xiaoliu was not overly entangled in this matter. She held up a lantern and narrowed her eyes at Gu Huai with a smile:
"Brother, look at the lantern dad made for me!"
It is an orange lamp with small flowers carved on it, emitting warm orange light.
Small and unique, very cute.
But Gu Huai has never been particularly interested in beautiful or luxurious things. He smiled perfunctorily at Gu Xiaoliu, walked into the room, and saw Gu Zhongyi holding the bottom of a wine bottle in his hand and carving a lantern.
Hexagonal glass lamp.
Gu Huai remembered that there was a temple fair in the provincial capital recently. If he could trick Gu Zhongyi into making a batch of lanterns and selling them there, he could probably make a lot of money.
Just how to hint him to go is the question.
"Agu, when daddy makes this lantern, I'll hold it for you to play with."
Gu Huai's status in the Gu family is so transcendent that even the lanterns are different from those of the two sisters.
As for Xiao Xiao, Gu Zhongyi also made it for her. The small green-skinned orange lamp was just for her.
Gu Huai looked at the lantern in his hand and opened his mouth: "I heard that there was a temple fair in the provincial capital recently, and a lantern like this costs fifty cents."
Gu Zhongyi's hand shook, and the carving knife broke a small corner of the glass. But he didn't care. He was more concerned about what Gu Huai just said: "How much do you want to sell it for?"
Gu Huai: "Fifty cents."
Gu Zhongyi ignored the carved lantern and lowered his voice: "Really fifty cents? A Gu, don't lie to dad about this kind of thing."
Gu Huai: "I was just talking to the scholar. He said that it was written in the newspaper that there was a temple fair in the provincial capital two years ago, and someone would sell very beautiful lanterns for fifty cents each. But I think, Dad, your lanterns are the most beautiful in the world.
, and we got into an argument with him.”
Gu Zhongyi's heart felt sweet and sour at the same time. He wiped his hands on his clothes and touched Gu Huai's ears: "Agu still loves daddy the most. Wait for daddy to take you to the provincial capital in a few days and buy something for you.
Eat the candied haws."
He said this because he had already decided to take Gu Huai with him to sell lanterns.
But that night, his mind changed.
That night, a fierce quarrel broke out in the Gu family, causing many people to stand in the corner.
Gu Huai sat aside and watched Huang Cuicui scold Gu Zhongyi unilaterally.