After it was dark in the summer, the Qin family rushed to the county town to find a hotel to stay at. Qin An also had to memorize what his master had taught him. After he asked Su Yan to go to bed, he took the book by himself.
Carrying it in the corridor.
In this way, the lights will not be lit and the wife will not be able to sleep.
It wasn't until midnight that he came back quietly, went back to the bed, hugged his wife and kissed her twice, feeling somewhat satisfied.
There were many people going to the morning market in the county town. At dawn, people were coming and going outside. The noisy sound woke up the Qin family.
Su Yan held Qin An's shoulders and said, "You can sleep a little longer." After saying that, she got up and went down to close the window, her voice quieter.
Then she sat by the bed with a cattail leaf fan and fanned the man, "Sleep for another two-quarters of an hour."
Before he could say anything else, another hand covered his eyes.
Just like that, the woman sat by the bed and fanned herself, while the man fell asleep again. It wasn't until Su Yan asked the waiter to bring breakfast that she woke him up.
After the two finished eating, they checked out of the hotel with their things. First they went to buy the spices they needed in the shop, and then they bought the cloth for their children's clothes. Qin An picked carefully and touched it again and again with his big hands, and finally bought cloths for his wife and children.
As soon as the hour passed, the two of them were about to rush back to the town. As soon as they left the county town, a couple stopped the carriage and said, "Brother, give us a ride and we will give you money."
Su Yan and Qin An thought they could make some money by going back, so they asked them to get on the carriage. Su Yan and Qin An sat outside, and the other two sat inside.
There was a fork in the road back to the town that was not an official road. Not long after the carriage turned around, the woman suddenly said, "Stop right in front."
Looking at the barren mountains and ridges, it was so quiet that it was unusual. There should be birds chirping and cicadas chirping today. Qin An frowned slightly and touched Su Yan lightly with his finger. The two of them were alert at the same time.
The next moment, the carriage turned around and the rough man said in a deep voice, "We're going the wrong way."
Soon they reached the official road and stopped the carriage to let them get off. As soon as they got off, Qin An kicked the man over and said gloomily: "What do you want to do!"
Then he punched him hard and said again: "Say!"
When the woman saw this, she ran away, obviously showing a guilty conscience.
Qin An picked up the man with one hand and threw him over the mountain ridge by the roadside. He would not die, but would only suffer some flesh injuries.
He didn't dare to stay here longer, so he got on the carriage and walked in the opposite direction, detouring for half an hour before returning to the town.
In the afternoon, Su Yan heard Goudanfu say that the rice seller in the town had been robbed, and several hundred kilograms of rice and the carriage were stolen.
Su Yan was a little thankful after hearing this. Fortunately, Qin An responded quickly, otherwise they would have been in trouble.
"Sister, please tell Brother Wang and others to be careful when visiting the county town."
The shop needed to buy groceries, but Su Yan didn't trust anyone else, so she asked the two Wang brothers to do the shopping.
"I told them not to go that way." Goudandamang nodded quickly.
She quickly added: "These people have many hands and feet. They insist on robbing things. I don't know when the government will solve it."
Su Yan thought that it was not the same thing. She was pulling food every now and then, and it was fine if she was robbed of food. She was just afraid that something would happen to someone.
She thought for a moment and went to the mayor to tell him the matter in detail. The mayor shook his head and said: "This matter was mentioned two years ago, but the county did not take it seriously and never let the officers and soldiers investigate.
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"Whatever you want to buy, go through the official route. If there are many people, go together. There was something you didn't know the day before yesterday. A couple selling jars in the next town went to the county town to bring their goods and were robbed. The woman was also raped."
"The day after they came back, the couple hanged themselves in the yard."
Upon hearing this, Su Yan's heart sank. The government didn't pay much attention to the death of these two people. There was probably nothing they could do except be careful.
But I would rather the shop sell less money than let people take risks.
shop
She called the grocery shopping helper over and said, "From now on, we won't buy vegetables from the county. Go around and see if anyone has a lot of vegetables for sale."
When the weather gets hot, many restaurants don’t sell the vegetables, so they keep them for home-cooking.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t buy it from the county town.
There are not enough vegetables at home for the shop to sell, and I feel a little sad when I think about it.
The helper thought for a moment and said, "The Ma family has a lot of food, but they just won't sell it to our shop."
Hearing this, Su Yan subconsciously asked: "Why?"
The helper was a little embarrassed, "The Ma family is old-fashioned and superstitious. They said that the owner... used to be a widow and sold it to us, so the vegetables didn't grow well."
When she heard this, Su Yan was not angry, but just a little helpless. The widow was almost a sinner. She was lucky, and other widows didn't know what they were like.
"Okay, you can look for someone else, and I'll give you half a tael of silver for running errands."
night, yard
Su Yan was sleeping on the recliner, "Ms. sir, if I hadn't married you, I probably wouldn't have had a good life right now."
Qin An was sitting next to him reading. When he heard this, he turned to look at her and said, "Nonsense."
He knows better than anyone how smart and capable his daughter-in-law is. She earns most of the money in the family and he has not been of much help.
He is often glad that he did not ask his wife to move away at that time.
It was his wife who made his life easier.
Su Yan was waving a cattail leaf fan with one hand, her eyes fell on the man's sharp profile, and she asked curiously: "Ms. sir, why don't you dislike me for being a widow?"
She is not from here and has no deep-rooted thoughts. Qin An grew up here, so it stands to reason that he should be somewhat shy about widows.
Qin An frowned slightly, "Why do you dislike it?"
He pursed his lips and said seriously: "If you weren't a widow, I wouldn't be able to marry you."
So he burned incense for the Li family every year.
Su Yan couldn't help but sit up, kissed the side of his face, then patted her belly gently, "Tell daddy that it's time to go to bed."
Immediately, the rough man got up and went to close the courtyard door, then led his wife into the house to sleep.
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The helper searched for several days but couldn't find one that could serve food, so Su Yan had no choice but to plan a trip to Ma's house.
Knowing that they were superstitious, she went to the temple to burn incense and then bought a Buddha statue that had been burned with incense.
Goudanfu went with her, "These people have a lot of trouble making money. They also have money. I don't care who sells it."
"How about I say I bought it?"
It's not just once or twice. The Ma family will know sooner or later. Su Yan doesn't want more things to happen in the future. "Go and ask first. If it doesn't work, then think of something else."
The Ma family lives a mile outside the town, and the land for several miles around is his vegetable plot, which is quite a lot at a glance.
I heard that it was grown on the mountain land reclaimed by the Ma family.
Speaking of which, he is still a hard-working person.
As soon as the two of them arrived at the door, a woman in commoner clothes came out with a hoe. She thought they were buying vegetables, so she smiled and said, "Buying vegetables? My eggplants and cowpeas have grown well and are very tender."
"You go in and choose, they are all freshly picked in the yard."
Su Yan did not go in, but said kindly: "That eldest sister, I am the wife of the owner of Le'an Shop."
Upon hearing this, the woman did not embarrass her. She shook her head and said, "If my father-in-law doesn't sell it to you, you can find other homes."
"No one around here can cook better than yours. Can you please let your father-in-law come out?"
Su Yan handed him the thing in her hand and said: "The Buddha statue I asked for in the temple."
