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Chapter 72 Villager Life (4)

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    Zhao Yanzi was walking alone on the road with a basket on her shoulders. Today is the time to hand in embroidery work. She has stayed up all night this month. Just for this rush work, she hopes to sell it for a good price!

    "The swallow is here?" Yang Xiuniang from the embroidery workshop greeted with a smile, "What good things did you bring this time?"

    "Hey, I don't know what to do with the new pattern, do you like it?" Zhao Yanzi handed the embroidery in the basket to the other party, feeling a little nervous!

    "Oh, this flower can be embroidered well, it's a peony!" Yang Xiuniang smiled and said, "I just said that Yanzi's craftsmanship is good, and everything she embroiders is different from others!"

    Zhao Yanzi smiled shyly and didn't talk to her!

    Yang Xiuniang took out ten taels of silver, handed it to her and explained, "Last time you still had two taels of final accounts for your embroidery, and this time I will tie it up for you! Do you want to go back and do some more embroidery work?"

    "I want it!" Yanzi carefully put away the money, carefully selected the embroidery thread, said goodbye to Yang Xiuniang with a smile, and left quietly!

    Put the basket back home, Yanzi took a tael of broken silver and carried the basket on his back and went out again. Today there is a big market in the village

    , she has to find something for herself!

    Walking along the road, Yanzi began to think about his past life!

    She was an embroiderer in her previous life. She started doing simple embroidery work at the age of five. Her family was poor. If she hadn't been a girl with some skills, she would have been sold by her parents.  The Orion in the village continued!

    Orion has a bad temper, loves to drink, and beats her when she is drunk. She is already weak, and she has never eaten a full meal when she grows up. Everything in the family belongs to the younger brothers. On the wedding day, she  Only then do I know what the taste of eggs is!

    After three years of marriage, she still has no news about her stomach. Orion is even more dissatisfied with her. He beats and scolds her every day. Her family doesn't care about her, and they even come to beat the autumn wind from time to time. She can only endure it, but after hearing her husband  When discussing with her natal family about selling her to Xiulou, she exploded!

    A meal laced with medicine wiped out everyone's lives, including her own. She thought she was going to hell, but she didn't expect that she would become the orphan Zhao Yanzi of Taoyuan Village!

    It took her three years to move out of the children's dormitory, and she chose a small courtyard to live alone. Although she had to pay the rent every month because she didn't meet the requirements, Yanzi was already satisfied.  Blessed herself!

    "Swallow, are you going to the market?" Uncle Xu, who was driving the ox cart, greeted with a smile, "Come on! It will be too late when you walk, there is still room in the cart!"

    "Alas!" Yanzi was a silent person and didn't have much to say. As soon as the wife and mother-in-law sitting in the car joined hands, her small body was directly pulled up!

    The car was very lively, everyone had unstoppable smiles in their eyes and faces, everyone was discussing how much food they had harvested from the field, how many purchase targets they had, what new dishes were in the cafeteria today, and what was there in the village  The new welfare benefits are very complicated, but people's interest is high!

    "Swallow!" Aunt Liu suddenly asked, "Is your loquat still available for sale this year? Your uncle has been coughing a lot lately. I want to boil some loquat paste for him!"

    "It's for sale!" Swallow said with a smile, "there are already some ripe ones these days, and auntie will pick them if she wants me to go back!"

    "Oh, that's a good relationship!" Aunt Liu said with a smile, "Has your goji berry come down? Gou Zi has studied hard recently. His mother said to buy some goji berry and cook him some chicken soup for supplementation!"

    "It's down! A batch has already been dried, and the aunt just needs to pick it up!" Yanzi's answer was still very short!

    "Alas!" Aunt Liu said with a smile!  If other people in the car want something, they can also make an agreement with Yanzi in advance, and they will pick up the goods when they go back in a while!

    The layout of Yanzi's house is that the house is small and the yard is large. The backyard is full of loquat trees and wolfberry trees. Except for some chickens and ducks, there are no other livestock!

    There is a vegetable field in front of the house, but the speed of the growth of the vegetables cannot meet the speed of the swallows, so I have to buy them!

    At this time, the people in the car were discussing the school in the village. They all said how hard their children worked and how many words they could read. After a while, everyone got out of the car at the intersection of the market!

    Swallow has always been a loner, and started shopping with a basket on her back!

    She does not work for the village, and she cannot enjoy many welfare indicators. She has to pay for everything she needs, and there are no discounts!

    But Yanzi thinks that this kind of life is already very good. This place is very safe and the people are very nice. Even if she is alone, she will not be afraid of anything. Here, she has nothing to worry about, not even among the neighbors.??Talky woman, she has never seen a bad guy, Yanzi remembered what Yang Xiuniang said, it was because all the bad guys in Taoyuan Village had disappeared!

    "How do you sell these eggs?" Yanzi stood in front of the booth and carefully selected them!

    "Two cents for one, five cents for three!" the old man who set up the stall said in a muffled voice!

    Swallow picked twenty-four eggs and paid forty Wen. The old man took some straw to cushion her, and put the eggs into the basket!

    There are also chickens at home, but the swallows are very greedy, and they have to kill one from time to time for a tooth sacrifice. They don’t last long, and the eggs are completely bought from outside.  When she arrived, she was scratching her heart and lungs with greed, and her appetite was so large that ordinary middle-aged men couldn't eat her, but she didn't grow any flesh and always looked malnourished. If she didn't have embroidery skills to support her, she wouldn't be able to survive.  Such a satisfying life!

    I bought ribs, pork belly, and two ribs, and I also bought some of the vegetables I needed!

    I told the clerk of the grain store the address, and I bought 100 catties of white flour, 100 catties of rice, 50 catties of sorghum cornmeal each, 20 catties of small yellow rice, 40 catties of glutinous rice the food at home was eaten.  Hurry up, that's two months' worth!

    I bought some condiments over there, scallions and ginger. There are several sauces that Yanzi likes very much, so I bought some of them too!

    ? In the end, I bought a few kinds of fruits after seeing the samples, and Yanzi, who was holding a big watermelon in his arms, spent two yuan and took a bullock cart to get home reluctantly!

    With a lot of effort, the rice and noodles from the grain store were delivered, and Yanzi, who was already a senior member, got a bag of ten catties of mung beans as a prize!

    After stewing the meat and ribs, Yanzi rushed to the cafeteria non-stop, bought a roast chicken, five steamed buns and a cold dish, and drank a bowl of herbal tea to relieve the heat while queuing up. It was cold and sweet.  The taste filled the mouth, and Yanzi decided to have another bowl after eating!

    Go back and wash your face, put the bought vegetables on the plate, the bones and meat in the pot are already overcooked, swallows quickly put them on the table, wash the pot, add water, and boil the bones on a low fire!

    Swallow sat on the table and began to eat!  She eats very fast, and the voracious eating is not unsightly, but Yanzi is very happy in her heart. Last month, because of the money to buy a house, she has been eating half full, and now she has the right of residence.  In the future, I don't have to pay the rent every month, and I can finally open my belly to eat!

    The houses in Taoyuan Village are all owned by the master, and the living area of ??each person is limited. It is relatively rare for a person like Yanzi to live alone in a small courtyard. Yanzi does not work in the village, so she is paid to live here!

    Last month, Yanzi bought the permanent residence right of this small courtyard for herself with the money she had saved for a long time, and she felt much more at ease!

    From now on, this will be my own home, my own home!  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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