Chapter 83

When Xu Qing saw Xu Ying, she found that she was thinner than the last time she saw her. Her face, which had no meat, was now slightly sunken, with unhealthy cyan color, and her exposed fingers were full of small wounds.

"Second sister." Seeing Xu Qing, Xu Ying is obviously very happy.

Over the past few months, Xu Ying has heard many villagers talk about Xu Qing. Although she is busy with her work every time, she can't join in the fun. After listening to what others say, she also knows that her second sister has a good life. She can even make moon cakes and sell them. It's really amazing!

"Why did you lose so much weight? Did grandma Xu not let you eat?" Xu Qing asked with a frown.

"No Maybe I've eaten more recently than before... " Xu Ying stammered, "I have food to eat."

Xu Qing knows that grandma Xu is only allowed to cook porridge every day, which is almost as strict as a grain of rice. If she is not satisfied, she can only be hungry, and there will be no extra food to take out.

Xu Ying used to have a small appetite, but she could barely eat enough. Now she has a long body and does more work. Of course, she is even more hungry.

But in fact, Xu Qing knew that her family was not so poor that she couldn't even eat enough. Instead, she lived a very careful life. In order to save money, she sold more grain and gave more money to her grandson, who was an apprentice in the city.

She was generous to her grandson and responsive to all demands, but harsh to her granddaughter.

See two elder sister facial expression not happy, Xu Ying says with a smile: "it's OK, wait for me to marry a person later."

"You are only fourteen years old. If you go on like this, you will be hungry." Xu Qingdao, she felt that she was not tall now. She probably suffered from starvation when she was a child, so that Li Changting could easily put his chin on her head!

With that, Xu Qing took out five small silver spindles from his pocket and put them into Xu Ying's hand.

Xu Ying looked at the five small Yuanbao in her hand, startled, and said, "second sister, what are you doing?"

"Take these five taels of silver or save them. In a word, don't be found by grandma Xu and your mother. If you have time to go to town, you can buy some delicious food for yourself

"But it's too much..."

"I'm not short of money now. Take it for you." Xu Qing gives Xu Ying money not because he is Xu Ying's sister, but because he really pities the child.

Xu Ying is such a big girl. She has never seen so much money before. The one time she got the most money was the red envelope that her father gave her during the Chinese New Year. There were three copper coins.

Xu Ying's eyes were hot and her voice choked: "thank you, second sister."

With this five Liang silver, she will be able to add a good dowry to herself next year! After going to her mother-in-law's house, no one will look down on her. She has to hide well so that her grandmother won't find out!

They sat together and said something.

Speaking of Xu Ying's marriage, Xu Ying originally wanted to marry Li Qinshu from the same village.

Li Qinshu again?

Xu Qing asked jokingly, "do you like Li Qinshu?"

Xu Ying shook her head: "I don't know, I just want to get married as soon as I can, as long as the other side is not a bad one."

"Then why is it Li Qinshu?"

"Other people don't like our family."

The threshold of Li Qinshu is low for Li Ling and right for Xu Ying.

Xu Ying did not like people, her biggest wish is not to work all day.

"No one in the same village will want to marry me. I think I can only marry to another village next year, but it's better to marry to another village. Stay away from grandma, she can't control me." Xu Ying said.

No one is willing to marry Xu Ying, not because Xu Ying is not good, but to Xu grandma, do not want to be in laws with such a person.

"Oh, the Li family came to propose marriage before." Xu Ying thought of something and said, "it's uncle Li's family who rented the second sister's paddy field. He came to propose marriage to his grandson Li Zhuang, but Grandma didn't agree because she thought his family was too poor."

Li Zhuang and Xu Qing met the young man who wanted to learn hunting from Li Changting. He looked very honest, strong and strong.

"Don't you like him?" Asked Xu Qing.

"I don't want to marry him. His family is very difficult. I'm afraid I can't have enough to eat when I get married. I still want to marry a better family." Xu Ying said.

"Don't worry, you will marry a good family." Xu Qing comforted, "next year I will choose a good partner for you, so that you can get married as soon as possible."

Xu Ying nodded with a smile: "Hmm!"

At noon, Xu Qing burned two big fish and another big pot of braised meat, so that Xu Ying could eat more.

Xu Ying has not eaten meat for more than half a year, and has long forgotten what meat tastes like.

If this big pot of braised meat was taken by grandma Xu, she would have to marinate it for several months, and each time she could only eat a few pieces of meat the size of her fingernail.

It's the first time in history to eat meat like this.

Xu Ying once again felt that the second sister really married a wonderful family!

Because I don't know when Xu grandma and Xu Laoniang will come back, Xu Ying goes home after dinner. She still has a lot of work to do in the afternoon.Xu Qing checked the ingredients for tomorrow at home.

"Four hundred copies a day. Is that too much? Can we make it?" Li Jinmei asked.

"Two people can't do it, and I don't want to make cakes all day, so I'm going to find some helpers." Xu Qing said, "just recruit a few people in the village."

"There must be a lot of people who want to come!" Li Jinmei said, "you don't know. Since we all know that you can make money with moon cakes, many people have come to inquire with me openly and secretly."

"Ask what? Do they want to learn from me? " Asked Xu Qing.

"They said that they were all from the same village. If they had the money, they would earn it together. I really thought about it! They all told them it was the ancestral formula. Didn't you see that Li Lian had stolen the formula and was put into prison? "

"You can write down what people say. We won't have such people in the future." Xu Qingdao.

"Of course! Do you really want to recruit? When we make cakes, they're right next to us. It's easy to learn from them, isn't it? "

"No, everyone does different things, such as firewood, peeling beans, washing utensils They just need to get the preliminary work ready one by one. Since it's something that doesn't need any technical content, I won't be paid very much. "

Li Jinmei nodded after hearing the speech: "it's all work that we find troublesome and boring. Asking others to do these things can really save us a lot of time."

At this time, there was a quick knock on the door.

Li Jinmei went to open the door. She was startled when she saw Xu Ying crying all over her face.

"What's the matter with you?" Li Jinmei cried, "ah Qing, come out and have a look!"

"Second sister!" Xu Ying grabbed Xu Qing's hand and cried, "you quickly think of a way to save the elder sister!"