C13 Grass Rope

"This deal is about money. I'll give you money, and you hardly have to pay anything." Xiawanqing looked at Xiawanqiu, "Didn't you learn something in the academy to become literate? As long as you teach me the words you've learned, I can give you money. "

"That sounds good. The question is, do you have money?" Xiawanqiu seemed to be somewhat disdainful. He knew that Xiawanqing was also a poor man.

"Of course I have the money. The question is, how many words do you know?" Xiawanqing was also unwilling to be outdone as he mocked: "In the future, teach me how to write ten words and I'll give you a piece of money. I want to see how much money you can earn from me."

"Ten words a coin?" "Deal!" Xiawanqiu proudly said after earning some money, "I've studied for a year and now I can write more than a hundred words. I'll write everything to you today, take out the money and give it to me!"

The Xiawanqiu walked over and extended his hand out.

However, the Xiawanqing said: "Write it to me first, I'll give you the money tomorrow."

"We'll exchange the goods in one go!" Xiawanqiu was very smart.

"Write it first, I'll give you the money tomorrow." Xiawanqing shook the grass rope in his hand: "Tomorrow is the day to catch up with the Ruins, after I sell these grass ropes, I will have the money to give it to you."

"Oh, I was wondering why you weaved grass ropes everyday. So you were just trying to sell them." The Xiawanqiu seemed to have found out a secret of the Xiawanqing.

"That's right, that's right. I'll reserve 20 words first. I'll give you 2 coins tomorrow." Xiawanqing slowed down her movements and said seriously: "Late autumn, this is our secret. You should know how to keep it a secret, right?"

"Of course, I've always kept my mouth shut!" Xiawanqiu proudly said: "En, if I tell you an idiom in friendship, I won't take your money. Tomorrow, we will work together happily."

The Xiawanqing waved his hands, "Quickly go and write. I've finished weaving all of these today, there should be a rather heavy grass rope."

Heh, after Xiawanqiu left, Xiawanqing started muttering in his heart. Xiawanqiu had read for more than a year, but he could only read for a hundred words, so if he had such a task to do today, wouldn't he have to learn more than two years' worth of words? Sigh, no wonder this scholar was so expensive.

Xiawanqing didn't know the use of studying, she only knew that reading was something that was respected, and she wanted to change her situation, so she wanted to be respected. But Xiajiawan didn't allow girls to go to school, and she also didn't want Taoshi to let her study either, so she could only think of such a method.

Ten gold coins for over a hundred words should be worth it, right? Thinking about it this way, the Xiawanqing's underlings increased their speed a bit. In any case, this straw did not require money, as she had a lot of it, the more money she had.

Fortunately, Xiajiawan was not far from Luohe Town, it was just three li away. Xiawanqing was afraid that Taoshi would return early today, so they jogged all the way to town.

Xiawanqing found a place to stay. There were already many girls carrying baskets on their back who came to sell grass ropes. It was only her turn after lining up for a long time.

This morning, when he came back carrying this grass rope, he felt a heavy weight on his back, but in reality, when he sold this grass rope, it was only nine pounds, three pounds, one coin. After working hard for several days, he only sold it for three coins.

Xiawanhee and Xiawanqiu had gone somewhere to play. Xiawanqing was very excited, she really wanted to see Xiawanqiu and learn the divine words from him. However, he was not home.

She felt somewhat regretful. However, if he was at home, she would be very busy in the morning and wouldn't be able to learn anything.

After lunch, the Xiawanqiu finally returned. In the afternoon, the Xiawanqing gave him two pieces of money, and he also gave her a piece of paper with words written all over it. Since Xiawanqing didn't recognize any of these words, she pulled him over to teach him.

Xiawanqing chanted it in her heart a few times, and then found a corner where no one was there. She used a wooden stick to write on the ground, and when she finished writing it, she would erase it again. This way, when the sun was about to set, Xiawanqing realized that she could write out all the words on the paper even without looking at the paper.

This made her somewhat happy. Could it be that she was a genius at reading books? Unfortunately, it was a girl.

Xiawanqiu's handwriting wasn't exactly good, it was crooked. In her previous life, when Xiawanqing saw Gujinyi's writing, she knew that his words were straight and very beautiful, so when she tried to write properly, she tried to write every single line.

When she lay in bed at night, Xiawanqing was still unable to sleep. She was both surprised and happy as she silently wrote the words on the paper again in her heart.

Taking advantage of the fact that both Taoshi and Xiawanhee were asleep, Xiawanqing crawled up from the bed. She pretended to go to the toilet and ran to the courtyard to write those words again under the moonlight, revealing a smile.

She then returned to her room. In the corner of the room, there was a shabby looking cabinet that specially held her clothes. She carefully took the paper out from her bosom and placed it at the bottom of the cabinet.

But what she did not know was that after she fell asleep, a little person also crawled out of bed. It was the Xiawanhee.

She tiptoed to Xiawanqing's wardrobe and opened it. She rummaged through the closet until she found something. She took it out and saw that it was a piece of paper.

Isn't this the paper from the Xiawanqiu? Xiawanhee thought, she had thought that Xiawanqing had hidden some treasure in secret at night, it turned out to be a piece of waste paper from Xiawanqiu! There were so many of these pieces of scrap paper in Xiawanqiu, and it made her feel like a treasure as she kept them all in her cupboard!

He rummaged through the cabinet, but Xiawanhee did not find anything valuable, so he threw the piece of paper into the cabinet and closed it!

On the second day, Xiawanhee went to the wardrobe to find clothes, and immediately found the piece of paper on top of the wardrobe. She was shocked, could it be that Taoshi found it? But when he thought again, it was impossible. He had secretly practiced while Taoshi was not practicing yesterday, and had already erased the traces on the ground. Xiawanqiu said that she wouldn't inform her family, and all night, she didn't see him say anything, so it definitely wasn't him! Perhaps she thought that there was something valuable in her closet, and came to rummage through it. Oh right, she knew that he went to buy grass ropes today, so she definitely wanted to rummage through their money!

In her previous life, she had tried to weave grass ropes to sell, but her money always disappeared without a trace. She suspected that it was caused by Xiawanqiu and the two of them arguing with each other, but the two of them refused to admit it and her money never came back. On the contrary, Taoshi pointed at his nose and scolded him a few times: Only you have money, you thief! He only knew how to weave grass ropes after a day of work, did he lose it now? Serves him right!

He was very sad when he heard it, so he had a quarrel with the Taoshi. Of course, the result was a meal of bamboo shoot fried meat. She used to be a girl who couldn't bear to save money, but after a few times they stole her money and she stopped knitting grass ropes.

It's silly to think of it now. I don't hide the money in another place, now that I've made the rope. But luckily she gave the money to Xiawanqiu this time, otherwise, she wouldn't be able to hide the three pieces of money.

But was her own family, her own brother and sister, the people she needed to be on guard against? She kept thinking that if she was nice to them, would they be nice to her? For example, now that she had taken over the household chores, the Xiawanhee did not need to do anything.

Now that she thought of herself as an adult, she naturally wouldn't be like before where she and the Xiawanhee didn't want to do housework together. In order to lighten the burden on the Taoshi, she had contracted all the housework, but in the past few days, she didn't see the Xiawanhee treating her well, so she continued to ignore her and instead went to look for the girls in the village to play.

Taoshi was the same as well. She did not reveal a smile on her face, but continued to scold her in that manner. Since she was young, she would always be on guard against her. Since she was a girl, she would definitely marry someone else in the future, at that time, she would marry her Gujinyi, and she would marry her own Shenzhanglin. The two of them would have less contact in the future, so they wouldn't owe each other anything.

But why was the Taoshi like this? Because the warmth of her words had made him remember them ever since, but no matter what she did, it was as if she was never in his eyes. Xiawanqing always treated her as someone who was older and did more work but endured it. She comforted herself that Taoshi loved her, but her heart was a little blocked!

Until that evening, when she saw the Taoshi affectionately hugging Xiawanhee and the Xiawanhee acting like a spoiled child on his body, this scene deeply pierced her eyes. Why was this so? Why was she the one who had done the most, why didn't she argue with her like she did with the Xiawanhee, why didn't she argue with him, and why did she follow their wishes, not cry or make a fuss, but why did she still dislike him? No matter what, even if Xiawanhee cried and did not work, she still loved her a little more.

Maybe, maybe this was because she liked someone, not because she was obedient, not because she could work, but because she was her. She liked her, helped her, had nothing to do with anything else.

After that, Xiawanqing and Taoshi spoke less. She silently finished all the work, and then came back to knit the grass ropes. This way, Taoshi would not cause trouble for her.

But Taoshi had nothing to hold back about. When she came back at night, all sorts of jobs would be done, and occasionally her face would finally no longer be gloomy, but she would never smile at her again, instead treating her like an invisible person. When she had time, she would just tease Xiawanhee and Xiawanqiu, and praise them for their good manners.