There is another reason why Zipu refused to go to Yuxi City.
She has seen what Lide is in Lingyun City. He stretches out his hands and opens his mouth. Even in fights, he has to rely on his own maid to fight. It can be said that if you have no brains, you need force. . The rapid rise of such a person is definitely not his own credit, but mostly due to the group of women around him.
In other words, Li De's status in Yuxi City should be very low, and those who really make the decisions are those around him, such as He Yue, Fang Shisan, Bai Huang and the others. And Zipu is best at public relations, chatting with others about romantic affairs, and the number of times they go to bed while chatting is not uncommon. Every time, they can reach a consensus in good exchanges that are profound and simple.
Here comes the problem.
There is a saying that a good bird chooses a tree to live in. In this line of work, it is also important to do a good job of market research and figure out the target group first. Not only is it useless to hook up with Li De, but it will be even more terrifying if you offend the women in Yuxi City .
It's better to leave this dangerous matter to Yun Ye.
At this time, Yun Ye was already heading home in a cheap carriage.
It cost seventy copper coins to hire such a carriage from Lingyun City to the small village where she lived. Although Yun Ye was a little distressed, but because Zipu had to come back within two days, the carriage money became a necessary expense. . Otherwise, she could walk back, just like she walked out of the mountain with a small broken bag on her back.
Yun Ye, who was sitting in the carriage, held tightly the small purse Zipu gave her, and would open it every few minutes to look at it. She had already counted the money in it dozens of times. After paying for the carriage, she still had eight silver coins and more than forty copper coins left. She could have had a full meal at a small restaurant in Lingyun City, spent the forty copper coins as a change, and then returned with only the silver coins. But she didn't do that, because more than forty copper coins can buy a catty of meat.
Yun Ye remembered that in the past, during Chinese New Year, the family could only buy half a catty of meat, and after cooking, there was only a small piece in each person's bowl, so she never dared to stew it badly, it was the kind that could not be chewed. The family got together and did nothing for about half an hour, just chewing non-stop, until the last trace of meat disappeared, as if eating wood residue, and then swallowed with a gurgling sound.
Yun Ye put the money bag on her lap, took out the dry and hard pancake from the package, and tried her best to tear off a piece and put it in her mouth. While challenging the limit of the teeth, I silently do math problems in my heart. There are different types of people's intelligence. He Yue, who is in charge of internal affairs, is very good at arithmetic. After Lide taught her mathematics a few times, she improved by leaps and bounds, but Yun Ye has a headache for calculations. It takes a long time to calculate how many catties of pork can be bought with multiple copper coins.
Fortunately, she finally figured it out, and she could buy about twenty catties.
More than twenty catties! !
Twenty catties of meat, if made into bacon, would be about fourteen catties, which should be enough for younger brothers and sisters to eat for a year and a half.
Yun Ye shook her head, and after a short ecstasy, she calmed down again and realized that she couldn't buy all the meat. She took out the kettle, unscrewed the lid, and took a sip of water. The hard and dry pancakes had absorbed all the water in her mouth, and she had to drink water to send it down. After swallowing, she tore another piece of cake and put it in her mouth. She drank some water and kept thinking while chewing.
The family must also buy some needlework, cotton cloth, and make some clothes for the younger brothers and sisters. Now their clothes are worn in rotation, and there are no new clothes during the Spring Festival. Yunye knows a little needlework, but she must have raw materials. In addition to that, buy some oil. You can buy less meat, but there must be oil in the dishes. Boil the leaves with white water every day. If you eat too much, you will really feel nauseous.
Yun Ye counted silently.
She thinks that money is really a good thing, and nothing can be separated from it, but it also has a bad point, that is, it will be gone after being spent. Yun Ye couldn't help thinking of the stories she heard from other girls when she was in the messenger group, saying that those upper-class nobles like to use money to humiliate others, just to appreciate those girls who don't even have a little dignity for money look like.
Yun Ye couldn't help but think, if one day a handsome and wealthy nobleman stretched out his claws to her, she would definitely refuse him decisively, fend off his salty tricks, and then say in a calm and handsome voice, "I Not that kind of person." The handsome guy will definitely be taken aback for a moment, and then he will become interested in himself. Looking at the back of himself leaving, he said with deep emotion:
"What an interesting woman."
some type of.
Of course, these are just thoughts.
Yun Ye took another sip of water, feeling a little cold in her stomach.
Whether it was the cold cake or the water in the pot, although it helped fill her stomach, it didn't bring her any heat. However, Yun Ye didn't care too much. At the age of sixteen, she was in her best years. During this time, she could use her dreams and expectations to shine, even in a completely dark environment, even in a cold world. , and will not be depressed because of this matter. As long as she thinks of the smiles of her younger brothers and sisters, she feels that her body is full of strength, and she has returned to a full of vitality.
The carriage walked for most of the day, from sunrise to sunset, and turned into a rugged mountain.
The mountain road is so bad that even the coachman is unwilling to go on, and he has to ask Yunye for more money before he is willing to leave. Yun Ye was a little bit reluctant, after all, she had been thinking about what to buy with the money all day in the carriage. So Yun Ye got out of the car and walked back in the afterglow of sunset.
When the sun was completely down and the moon was getting brighter, Yun Ye returned to this small village.
The village dog barked twice, Yun Ye waved to it, and then ran back to the village at a brisk pace.
Although I have been away from here for two or three months, every plant and tree in the village is still so familiar. Yun Ye ran to the small yard of her house in one breath, and finally lost her strength, and began to walk home in small steps. The door was not locked, so she easily pushed open the outside door and entered the yard, where she could hear chattering voices coming from the main house.
Yun Ye weighed the money bag in her hand, opened it again to make sure that there was not a single copper coin missing, and then ran over and knocked on the door.
She was very red, her light gray hair stuck to her face, and her clothes were stained translucent with sweat. Yun Ye pressed one hand on her chest, breathing steadily, her heart beating violently.
At this moment, she is like a child who has won a certificate and wants to show it to her parents.
With a creak, the door opened.
Yun Ye raised her head expectantly, and there was a frowning middle-aged woman whom Yun Ye should call her "mother". After seeing Yun Ye, the woman was stunned for a moment, and then her expression suddenly changed. The expression on her face was not joy, but rage.
What was waiting for Yunye was not the "You are back" as she expected, but a sarcasm of yin and yang:
"You still have the nerve to come back?"