The news quickly spread in the village. Not only the people in Jixiang Village, but also in several surrounding villages were almost illiterate. As soon as they heard that I could write letters, and the price was cheaper than going to the market to find a fortune teller, they all started looking for me.

After I came here, I simply set up a table and a stall in the yard, and helped people write letters and divination every day. Sometimes I could earn more than 100 yuan a day.

After everyone left, I collected the money on the plate and handed it all to Liu Saner.

He looked at me in surprise: "What is this for?"

"You keep it."

"How can this work? You earned this!"

I laughed: "Then who earns the rice, vegetables and fish I eat?"

"Huh?" He was stunned for a moment and suddenly blushed: "These are two different things."

"It's the same thing!"

"No, no, this is absolutely not possible. I can't ask for your money!"

"Liu San'er, don't be polite to me. I'm not polite to you when I eat, drink or live here. It's just that you are injured now and I can help you, so I will help you a little."

As I said this, I was about to push the money into his hand, but he pushed it back resolutely. I was worried that the wound on his hand would split, so I didn't dare to use too much force. Then I heard him say: "I don't want it, I really don't want it."

!I will find a way to deal with things at home."

I looked at his unhealed hand worriedly: "But——"

He simply put his hands behind his back and said to me: "I won't ask for your money, and it's not like I can't open the pot at home. Besides, when fishing was banned before, I chopped a lot of firewood just to sell it. It happened that there will be some firewood in Qishan Village tomorrow.

I'm going to the market."

He usually looks a bit childish in front of me, but now he looks a bit stubborn like a grown man. I also knew it was hard to say any more, so I smiled gently and said, "That's good. But you must never

Don't force yourself, you are still hurt after all."

"I know."

"Well, you go to bed early. If you have to go to the market tomorrow, you have to get up very early."

"Well, you should go to bed early."

A night without words.

At dawn the next morning, I got up and finished washing up. I also heard the sound of Liu Saner washing up in the yard. I waited for him to finish cleaning up and then opened the door and went out.

When he saw me, he was surprised: "Qingqing, why did you get up so early?"

"I will go to the market with you today."

"Ah? What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to see the excitement."

"..." He looked at me blankly, as if he didn't understand that I was in such a good mood. I smiled and said, "Let's go, it's getting late. If it's any later, we'll have to catch the evening market."

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"Oh..."

He nodded and went out with me. When we reached the entrance of the village, he warned me: "If you feel uncomfortable, just tell me. It's still a long way."

"I know."

Speaking of which, I didn't have much food or clothing at his house these days, but my body gradually became healthier. I was just out of breath after walking a long way, but I didn't feel too sad, so I went to the market.
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Jixiang Village is a very remote fishing village, with only a few dozen households in total, and the surrounding villages are not big, so the morning market in Qishan Village is the busiest in the neighborhood, with stalls set up everywhere on both sides of the long street.

The shouts came one after another. Along the way, I saw golden fried ghosts rolling in a big oil pan, big white steamed buns that had just come out of the cage exuding a faint sweet aroma, and candy figures painted on the street corners. Children had already sucked them.

I waited with my thumbs up and eyes wide open.

Looking at such a lively market, I was still a little tired, but now I feel energetic.

Liu Saner chose a corner position, wiped the bluestone pier on the street, put a piece of cloth on it, and then said to me: "Sit here. Be careful of the cold."

"Hmm."

I nodded and sat down next to him to wait for the buyer.

After a while, a customer came. After sorting for a long time, he bought a load of firewood and left. Liu Saner took the money, carefully put it into his usual purse bag, tied the bag and put it back.
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I watched him doing all this with a smile. After putting the purse back in his arms, he raised his head and met my smiling eyes, and suddenly felt that he looked a bit like a woman, funny, and his dark face was also

Somewhat red.

I smiled and asked: "During the dry season, do you usually do this?"

"Hmm."

"You can't make much money from this."

He nodded and sighed: "In the past years, I worked as a helper at Yifeng Inn. Although it was a bit harder, I could still earn some money to support my family. But I can't do that now."

"However, with the land behind Niangniang Mountain, it will be better for everyone, right?"

"Well. Speaking of which, it's all thanks to Mr. Liu Yi. If he hadn't been so considerate of us people, how would we have had this way out." He nodded vigorously and reached out to touch the wound on his wrist.

Said: "It's a pity that there are too few good officials in the court."

My heart moved slightly.

"What kind of official do you think is a good official?"

"You should be like Mr. Liu Yi, who wholeheartedly serve the people." He said, gritting his teeth: "But now these officials are only focused on feeding the people."

I smiled calmly: "I just hope that there will be more good officials like Mr. Liu Yi in the future."

"This is not enough."

"..."

I was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at him: "What did you say?"

Liu Saner stroked his injured arm with one hand and showed a solemn expression on his face: "I think it is too difficult to find a good official just by luck."

"..."

"If the emperor wants Yangzhou to be good, he should have a good way to govern it, instead of expecting one or two good officials to come down. We have experienced too much over the years."

"..."

I was a little surprised. I didn't expect him to say such a thing, which surprised me.

At this time, there were more people in the market, and several people came to look at firewood. Liu Saner hurriedly greeted him. I looked around for a while, but there was nothing I could do to help, so I whispered to him:

"I'll go there for a walk and I'll be back soon."

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"Oh." He warned: "Then you should be more careful."

I nodded, got up and left.

This market is not big, so after a while I walked to the other end, happened to see an embroidery workshop, and walked in.

The outside of this embroidery shop is not too big, but when you walk in, you will find a garden with a cave. A dozen embroiderers are embroidering flowers. It is very pleasant to see those white and delicate hands threading needles like butterflies through flowers.

I stood nearby and looked around. The owner of the embroidery shop came over. He was a middle-aged man in his forties with a horned beard. He said politely: "Girl, what do you want to buy?"

I was looking down at an embroiderer dropping needles. When I heard him say this, I smiled and said, "Boss, do you rent out jobs here?"

"Are you here to take a job?" When the boss heard this, he glanced at me from the corner of his eye and said, "Can you embroider?"

I smiled and nodded.

"What can you embroider?" he said, pointing to the work in the hands of the embroiderer beside us: "Can you do something like this?"

I looked at the colorful butterflies embroidered on the silk satin and said with a smile: "This eldest sister is pretty good at embroidering the butterfly wings. When it comes to embroidering butterfly wings, the flowers from Hunan embroidery are more vivid.

It may not be good."

"Oh?" The boss frowned: "How do you say embroidery?"

After saying that, he gave the embroiderer a wink, and the embroiderer stopped and gave me the needle. I was not polite, so I sat down and started embroidering slowly.

In fact, I didn't tell the truth when I was in the palace. Except for Shu embroidery, I learned all Hunan embroidery, Su embroidery and Guangdong embroidery.

The opportunities I learned, those opportunities, were all thrown away by me.

But I didn’t expect that one day, I would make a living using the skills I learned with my blood and sweat.

I smiled a little at the corner of my mouth, but my hands kept moving, raising and lowering the needle. After a while, a lifelike colorful butterfly fluttered its wings on the silk satin.

The boss was dumbfounded, and the surrounding embroiderers were also shocked, and they all came over to watch.

After a while, the boss came back to his senses, looked at me and said, "Girl, are you going to take over the job in our embroidery workshop?"

"Hmm."

"Only taking jobs?"

I smiled: "I still have patients at home to take care of, so I can't come to the embroidery workshop. I come here every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month to pick up the work and deliver the goods, and I won't delay even a day."

"Then, what job do you take?"

"Except Sichuan embroidery, I can handle everything else."

After I negotiated the salary with the boss, I barely paid the deposit with the money I earned from writing letters to people these days, and got back the needle and thread needed for the first batch of goods. When I walked to the street, Liu Saner's

The load of firewood has been sold, and I bought a bag of rice to carry.

When he saw the baggage in my hand, he was stunned for a moment: "What is this?"

I just smiled and said: "We'll talk about it when we get back. It's getting late, don't worry if you go back too late."

Although he was still doubtful, he didn't say anything. He nodded and walked back with me. When he got home and packed up the things he bought, he walked into the house and saw me unpacking the embroidery thread and brocade.

He took it out and Liu Saner looked at it and immediately said: "You, what are you——"

I smiled and said: "I took some jobs at the embroidery workshop. If I do well this time, I will have better jobs in the future."

He looked at me stupidly, then looked at the things on the table. After being silent for a while, he slowly said: "Qingqing, are you doing this to help me?"

"..."

"You, don't think you want to repay a favor or anything. What I do is what I should do."

"..."

"Don't tire yourself out like this."

The more he spoke, the more anxious he became. His face turned red, and his voice became softer and quieter at the end. Seeing his eager expression, I felt warm in my heart. Then I smiled and said, "Don't think I'm repaying a favor or anything."

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"Ah?"

"Even if I really came to seek refuge with your cousin, if you are injured at this time, I should do something for you."

"Uh..."

"Here, if you are afraid that I will be tired, help me straighten the embroidery thread."

After saying that, he handed a handful of embroidery thread into his hand. I thought he was caring and would have no problem managing the threads, but in the blink of an eye, the handful of embroidery thread had turned into a ball of embroidery thread, and he broke into a cold sweat.

He came out, blushing and unable to pull away. I pushed him out with a forced smile, and he laughed sheepishly, so he simply went to clean up the salted fish drying in the yard.

I sat at the table and started embroidering.

Today I showed off my skills in the embroidery workshop, but I am a stranger after all, and the boss is not too confident about me, so all the work given to me is to embroider butterfly patterns. Although it is not tiring, it is still embroidering back and forth.

After a while, my fingers were covered with sweat, the needles felt astringent, my eyes were dry, and I was very tired.

At night, Liu Saner's house couldn't afford to light an oil lamp, so there was only a short candle flickering. I embroidered even harder.

Normally, he would have gone to bed long ago, but tonight he stayed with me, holding a fan to help me drive away mosquitoes. At this time, he couldn't help but come over and said, "Don't stay up late, it's not good for your health."
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