Huang Cuicui was anxious to defend herself and started to argue with Gu's wife again. Gu Huai just watched the show quietly, as if the person she was talking about was not him.
The sound of firecrackers outside never stopped. In the blue smoke, Gu Huai and others returned home.
There were a lot of people coming and going, but Gu Huai didn't entertain them much. It wasn't until Gu Xian came to Gu's house that Gu Huai put down the newspaper in his hand.
Gu Xian: "Agu, look what I brought you."
He took out a potted plum blossom plant from his back, but it was not the one he saw when looking back to Huai, but a new one.
This time not only do the plum blossom patterns match up, but the patterns on the tree trunks are also very clear.
The potted plants are not painted, but they have a sense of vitality.
Gu Xian: "Your opinion is very good. I have been practicing recently. Look, this is the one I am quite satisfied with."
Gu Huai took the potted plant and felt that Gu Xian's hard work could be seen from it.
He must have molded at least a dozen potted plants like this during this period.
"Brother, thank you." Gu Huai had already arranged a place for this pot of plum blossoms.
Gu Xian looked at him and didn't leave for a long time.
Gu Huai felt a little strange: "Brother, is there anything else?"
Gu Xian asked what he had been thinking about for a long time: "Agu, I think you are very talented in this area. If you want to join me, I can take you as an apprentice without charging you any money."
Gu Xian was already a well-known carpenter from all over the country. As his disciple, he had to work for a year in vain and had to pay one yuan a month for food.
In this way, he didn't accept many disciples. He only accepted two disciples, and they were all his own relatives.
It was the first time for Gu Xian to ask someone if he wanted to be his apprentice.
Gu Huai was not interested at all: "No, I want to study."
Just stay in school for a few years and then decide what you want to do after that.
Gu Xian, who was rejected, looked very ugly when he walked out of the door, and the news that Gu Huai was going to study flew throughout the village as if he had grown legs.
When everyone sees Gu Huai, they will say something weird: "Hey! Gu Huai, are you planning to take the college entrance examination in the future?"
Gu Huai would smile and reply: "Ah, yes."
After getting the affirmative answer, everyone left with satisfaction.
They felt that Gu Huai wanted to go to school just to avoid being lazy at home.
He doesn't want to study, he just doesn't want to help the family with farm work.
For a time, Huang Cuicui became the object of everyone's ridicule.
So what if a son is born? What difference does it make if the son is born or not?
The New Year passed quickly, and Gu Zhongyi went back to work, while Huang Cuicui was still at home, yelling at Xiao Xiao to do things.
Gu Huai and Gu Xian have been very close recently. In the past few days, Gu Xian made a fishing rod for Gu Huai, so Gu Huai has been fishing by the river these days.
His way of fishing is also very strange - he does not hold the fishing rod in his hand, but sticks it in the ground. He lies on Gu Xian's newly made deck chair and closes his eyes to meditate.
When it was almost time, I opened my eyes, lifted the fishing rod slightly, and a fish landed on the shore.
Gu Xiaoliu also followed him.
It's not that she thinks fishing is fun, but she thinks boiled fish fillets are really delicious.
Gu Xiaoliu held her head up as usual, watching Gu Huai's fish float float up and down, and heard Gu Huai say to her:
"Go find Xiao Xiao."
Xiao Xiao was helping Huang Cuicui chop vegetables to feed the pigs. When she heard that Gu Huai was looking for her, she wiped her hands and went to the lake.
Gu Huai: "Go inside the house and take out the red brocade box under the bed. Tomorrow at eight forty, take out the brocade box at the entrance of the newly opened Jinfeng Company in the provincial capital and open the brocade box.
Then sigh."
Xiao Xiao was confused.
What?
What newly opened Jinfeng company?
Why sigh?
With a confused look on her face, she listened to Gu Huai finish his words, and then got into the car in a daze.
There were only three buses to the provincial capital. She took the second bus, and it was already evening when she arrived at the provincial capital.
According to Huai Huai, she found a better guest house, checked in, and slept first.
Although she was alone, maybe because the bedding in the guest house smelled like sunshine, or maybe the mattress was too soft, she fell asleep quickly and was in good spirits the next day.
Gu Huai had warned her that there were too many human traffickers out there who specialized in selling little girls like her, and told her to be careful and not to be abducted.
Xiao Xiao disagreed.
When her mother was insane, she lived in a bridge, so she was still afraid of going out alone?
Besides, I went to a provincial capital, not a remote place.
Ah Gu was really making too much fuss.
but......
He wants to come to the provincial capital alone with a box, doesn't he want to sell himself?
Xiao Xiao became energetic and hurriedly picked up the brocade box. After thinking about it, he opened the box.
Gu Huai told her that she must not open the box before seeing the black car.
But what if there is something bad in the box, or the person he wants to find is the buyer?
His idea of selling himself was not temporary. If he didn't look at it, he would not be able to be sold in such a confused way.
Xiao Xiao's hand became more and more steady when opening the box.
Inside the brocade box was a pot of wooden carved plum blossoms, and a piece of paper fell out.
Xiao Xiao picked up the paper and there were a few lines written on it:
Selling plum blossoms, not you
Five yuan will be deducted for breach of contract
Xiao Xiao:......
Gu Huai had promised to give her seven yuan this time she came out, but now she lost more than half of it!
Xiao Xiao really wanted to talk to Gu Huai for a reason, but felt that she was in the wrong.
If she didn't open the brocade box, Gu Huai wouldn't deduct her money, so she could take seven yuan back with her!
Who can you blame?
Doesn't she have to blame herself?
Xiao Xiao dejectedly went to the Jinfeng company that Gu Huai said.
She was so frustrated.
Thinking that the seven yuan she had originally received had turned into two yuan, she almost shed tears.
But she can't cry. At least she still has two dollars to earn. If things go wrong, she won't even have two dollars!
Xiao Xiao saw the black car parked in front of the company and walked over silently as Gu Huai said.
As the heroine, she has excellent looks, but she does farm work every day, so her skin is wheat-colored and her hands are rough.
But it doesn't affect that she is still a presence that can be seen in the crowd at a glance.
Walking to the door of the black car, Xiao Xiao paused for a moment, opened the brocade box, looked at the plum blossom sculpture inside, and sighed deeply.
Originally, her face wouldn't be so ugly.
But as soon as she opened the brocade box, she felt that a piece of paper would fly out the next moment, telling her that she was five yuan short. When she thought of this, her heart felt as painful as a knife.
"Little sister, are you waiting for someone here?"
A woman wearing large black circle sunglasses got off the black car. Her clothes were completely different from those of the villagers. Xiao Xiao only thought the clothes were weird and not good-looking.
According to the script, Xiao Xiao nodded: "I'm sorry, did I block your way?"
The middle-aged woman smiled and shook her head: "I see you don't look happy. Is there anything I can do to help you?"