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"Yes, beautiful elder sister. Do you want to buy firewood?"

"Yes, but where is your firewood? "You're not allowed to coax me." The wife looked to be around fifteen or sixteen years old. She had only been married for a short time, so her face was a little thin.

The daughter-in-law nodded and turned to walk to her left side. "Let me see how your firewood looks like. If it's rotten, it won't burn."

"Alright, if you're so good at doing business at such a young age, what will happen in the future? "How much are you selling this firewood? My family wants them all."

She said this apparently after careful deliberation.

Liu Dao Xiang thought, this firewood was something she did not need to spend her money on, it was just a slight delay, after calculating for a bit, she said: "I will not hide it from this sister, today's market will sell for 6 copper coins each, and, their firewood will not be delivered to our doorstep yet."

"Six copper coins each?" The wife was a bit hesitant. There were a total of six burdens, which meant they had thirty-six pieces of money.

For an average family, it was not a small amount. It was enough for them to exchange it for three catties of rice.

"This sister, who told the heavens to not open their eyes! "The firewood right now is worth this price. Look at the sky, I'm afraid it's going to rain for a few more days."

Liu Dao Xiang had asked around yesterday, and during the spring in Lianshan Town, it had basically been raining for two months. It had only been a month, which meant that she still had the chance to sell more firewood.

"It's cheaper, thirty-six pieces of paper is really a bit too much."

"Good elder sister, this really isn't much. How about, you take less and I sell it to the other neighbors. I'm sure they also lack firewood for cooking."

At this moment, the woman came out. "Why haven't you bought it yet?"

"Mother, there are six loads of firewood here, for a total of thirty-six pieces of money." The woman answered in a low voice.

When the old woman heard this, she narrowed her eyes and looked at her daughter-in-law. She said, "Buy it first. As for the firewood, don't forget that the shop where your father-in-law works also needs firewood."

Liu Dao Xiang looked at the old granny in surprise. The old granny smiled and said: "If you send more dried wood here, I will charge you the same price. I calculate that I still lack twenty buckets."

"Twenty?" And that was 120%. To Liu Dao Xiang, who was so poor that only had a rotten set of clothes, this meant that she could secretly buy some white noodles to stealthily cook and fill her stomach.

"Well?" Seeing her lower her head in silence, the old woman continued, "Our old man's boss needs a large amount of firewood every day, so you should just send this number. Of course, you should only wait for the spring rain."

"Deal, every two days, call my dad to send it over."

"Sure, I'll be at home around the clock."

Liu Dao Xiang guessed that this old lady was trying to earn some money, but she did not expose her reason for doing so. She could not earn enough money in this world, she did not have that kind of method, so she might as well earn some money from this old lady.

That old woman straightforwardly gave her thirty-six pieces of money, then told her daughter-in-law to carry the firewood back to the house.

Liu Dao Xiang was a good girl, hence when her aunt called out to her, she also carried a few bundles of firewood with them and stayed until the six bundles were all carried into the house. Seeing that it was getting late, she quickly dismissed this old woman and went out.

"Little girl, my surname is Zhang, and I am called Zhang Zi. Let me try, if the firewood is good, when you return, there might be a surprise."

Zhang Zi's words caused her eyes to light up, and she immediately smiled while thanking her.

After leaving the two, she ran back to the poultry shop, thinking that she should go back home and gather more firewood as soon as possible.

When she went there, there were still two people selling firewood. She estimated that the humidity of the firewood was very high and that it required a lot of talent, but it was still raining every day, so she didn't know how long it would take to dry it. Those who could come out to buy firewood were probably from families that were running out of firewood to cook.

She first asked around, all the chicken cubs here were basically worth fifty yuan each, and for some reason, Liu Dao Xiang did not know why they were so expensive.

When the chicken seller heard this, he smiled and said, "Little girl, you don't understand. When this hen holds an egg, only half of the eggs are bad. The hatched chickens can't be guaranteed to only live.

Liu Dao Xiang knew that Lianshan Town's eggs were worth one and a half taels, according to him, these chicken eggs were not expensive.

When she saw that an aunt had also squatted down to pick out the chickens, she asked embarrassedly, "Auntie, I wanted to ask if I could pick out some good chickens. My mother told me to buy them, but I was too happy to come to town, so I forgot to ask her."

When the aunt heard this, she smiled and picked out a chicken from the bamboo basket, saying: "Good chick cub s are very moving, and look at their watery eyes, they look very strong, and these yellow fur are also very clean, and look at the chicken, it's not white anymore, and when I touch its stomach, it's very soft, meaning that the chick cub is not bad."

Hearing that, Liu Dao Xiang picked up a small chicken and stared at it …

The aunt's chick cub s had already been picked out and paid for, but Liu Dao Xiang still did not move from her position.

"Little girl, you don't know how to pick?" It seemed that this aunt was also a warm-hearted person.

"Aunt, I stared at him for a long time. He was also looking at me like that, not moving at all. I really can't tell if this chicken cub is good or bad."

Don't think that the other person seemed to understand what he was saying. In fact, it was completely different from what he was saying.

At least Liu Dao Xiang thought that she did not have the ability to pick up chickens.

The aunt laughed and asked, "Forget it, forget it. Let me pick one for you. How many do you need?"

"I want five." She did some calculations and found out that she had only bought five chickens for fifty cents apiece, which cost her twenty-five cents apiece.

He still had eleven cents left, so he should be able to buy some brown sugar.

The aunt quickly picked out five of them, and seeing that she didn't have anything to hide, she said, "Look, we bought twenty for you all of a sudden. Why don't you give us something for the little girl to pack?"

The chicken seller was straightforward. He turned around and fished out a small bamboo basket. "One coin, take it."

Liu Dao Xiang thought, after buying the chicken cubs, she only had eleven coins left.

"No, aunt, I think it's better if I take them back. These chick cub are still young, I'll just carefully hold them in my hands."

The aunt glanced at the chicken, scolded Liu Dao Xiang for being stingy, and handed the chicken over.

After Liu Dao Xiang thanked her, she turned around with the chicken and walked into the crowd. She had to find a place to carry the person and store the chicken in the Store.

Just before she bought the chicken, she had already asked her small bird in her heart. The chicken could enter the Store to rest.

She sighed at how she hadn't gotten into this high-tech era and instead came to this ancient era. She complained at how irresponsible the transcendent gods were, not leaving even a WeChat, making her want to return the goods.

She found a place without people and stored the chick cub properly before going to a general store in town. The red sugar was one catty each, and was really a bit expensive, Liu Dao Xiang touched the copperplate in her pocket, and the money came quickly, and went even faster.

She weighed two taels of brown sugar and spent ten cents. In the end, her total deposit was: one copperplate.

He was finally out of poverty, it really wasn't easy!

"Yo, Dao Xiang, come sit over here quickly, you're finally here."

From afar, he heard the enthusiastic Li San-mei calling for her.

"Stupid girl, why aren't you running? We've been waiting for you for half a day. If you don't come back soon, we'll have to report to the authorities."

Old Wang also shouted. "I thought you were chased away by the kidnappers."

Liu Dao Xiang felt embarrassed, but did they really think that she was that stupid in everyone's eyes?

Knowing that he had delayed everyone's return, he first called out to his aunt, who was standing by the car in a good mood, and then said that he had missed his first trip back to town.

"That's enough, that's enough. You're such a young child, speak less. Quickly come up and sit by my side."

Li San-mei rather liked Liu Dao Xiang, so he called out to her while he carried the small basket by his side.

A woman who didn't like him said, "I said, why do you treat her better than your own daughter?"

"I say, aunty, isn't it just to give this child a seat? Is there really a need for you to say something like this?" "They're all from the same village, and the child is too weak to walk steadily on the oxcart. If he falls off the cart, then he will be dead for the rest of his life."

Once she said that, the people on the carriage all looked at the old granny, probably feeling that Li San-mei was usually like that.

She sweetly called out, "Third Aunt, thank you."

"There's no need to be polite, you're the same age as me, Cui Hua."

Li San-mei treated her as if she were his own daughter.

Liu Dao Xiang remembered this kindness in her heart. Li San-mei was a straightforward aunt, and Cui Hua had a straightforward personality, he heard that her family's grandfather had moved over from the north.