Chapter 61
Xiaoyou remembers whether to eat or not, she immediately salivates when she sees the candied haws brought back by her elder sister, swallowing her saliva and asks, "Sister, is this for you to eat?"

"Yes, one for each of you and Zhaozhao." Xiaoruo handed the candied haws to the two little Doudings.

Xiaoya took a big bite of the candied haws, the sweet and sour taste made her squint her eyes happily, she didn't have the listless look in the morning at all.

Xiao Zhao, who took the candied haws, didn't start to eat, but sighed looking at Xiaoyou's heartless and happy appearance, and inserted his candied haws bamboo sticks on the haystacks that are usually used to dry medicinal materials.

"Why doesn't Zhaozhao eat?" old man Cen asked.

"Save it for you to eat." Xiao Zhao shook his head with his hands behind his back.

This is one of the few joys that he can give this twin sister now, and the candied haws will be left to her, and he should go back to the house and recite the three scriptures more.

After walking a few steps to the room, he suddenly turned his head and said solemnly: "Save this string for dinner, otherwise you won't be able to eat."

This little adult made others dumbfounded.

The next day the government really put up a notice listing the number and names of the rescued children, and asked those who had lost children to go to the Yamen to identify them.

Old man Cen squinted his eyes and looked at the bulletin board for a long time. He counted eighteen children on the list.

"It's a crime, if these dolls are not rescued, how many families will cry for the new year." Old man Cen sighed.

He is here today with Xiaoruo and Xiaoxun to buy red paper, horses and other new year necessities. Tomorrow will be the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. They plan to go back to Jingzhu Village for the Spring Festival this year. .

There are stalls selling New Year's goods everywhere on the street, scattered all over the place, and the stalls are interdependent.Those who sell Spring Festival couplets, those who sell picture frames, those who sell Buddhist flower offerings, those who sell cups, pots, pestles and mortars...the list goes on and on.

"Old man, do you think this piece of fabric can be used to make a small gown for Xiaozhao?" Xiaoruo called old man Cen not far away, holding a piece of Sichuan brocade with green bamboo patterns in his hand.

Old man Cen stopped looking at the notice, turned around and walked towards Xiaoruo.

He stroked the Shu brocade, the fabric was smooth and finely woven, it was a good material, and the green bamboo pattern was also very suitable for scholars to wear.

"Okay, this material is good." He nodded affirmatively.

Seeing something interesting, the peddler hurriedly began to sell: "Guest officer has good eyesight, this Shu brocade is a good thing, but the end of the cloth is stained a little, that's why it's sold at my stall, otherwise it must be a good cloth with this quality. Shelves in the shop!"

Xiaoruo unfolded the cloth, and sure enough, she saw a small white stain at the end of the cloth, but Xiao Zhao is small, the width of the cloth is wide enough, so it doesn't affect making clothes for him.

"Boss, how much is this piece of cloth?"

"Originally, it cost [-] pieces of iron money, but if there is a stain, it will be folded in half. You can give me [-] pieces of iron money."

Ten guan iron coins cost ten taels of silver, which is really not cheap, but Xiaozhao is already considered a scholar, although he said that he is a scholar, but he will still be laughed at if he doesn't have some good scholar gowns in the private school.

Besides, the family doesn't need to live a tight life now, isn't she making money just to spend it for Zai Zai?
In the end, Xiaoruo bargained and bought the green Shu brocade at eight taels of silver, and asked the peddler to sell her a smoke cage gauze with peach blossom embroidery at a discounted price of five taels of silver, which was to make Xiaoyou a little girl. For skirts.

After buying the clothes for the two cubs, they bought rice noodles, bacon, snacks, candies, imperial calendars, etc. These things are cheaper in the bustling Qinzhou than in Shangxi Town, and they can be stored well. Follow them back to the well in a carriage Zhucun is not afraid of bad things.

As for incense candles and gold and silver paper, Xiao Ruo planned to go back to the town to buy them again. The prices of the sacrificial supplies were not much different, so they would save space in the carriage when they went back.

When the shopping was over, it was already dark, and almost all the stalls on the street were put away. The three of them carried or hung them on their bodies. They were full of New Year's goods, not counting the shopkeepers sending them directly to their homes.

"Oh, I haven't bought these old New Year's goods for many years. We will definitely have a lively New Year's Eve when we go back!" Old Cen smiled from ear to ear, and Xiaoruo also bought two sets for him and Zheng Dongyang. He hasn't bought new clothes for many years.

"The old man hasn't been to our Jingzhu Village, has he? Let Niao Niu take you for a stroll, this little girl knows a lot of interesting corners in the village." Xiao Ruo also replied with a smile.

The Spring Festival is the most important, solemn and distinctive traditional festival in China. The word New Year has a unique meaning for the Chinese people. It is a family reunion, a summary of past hard work, and the beginning of hope for the next year.

Everyone, young and old, is looking forward to its arrival.

When the two cubs heard that they were going back to Jingzhu Village during the Chinese New Year, their little faces flushed with excitement, and Xiaoyou ran around the yard with her little hands raised.

"Sister, sister, when are we leaving?" The little guy came to ask Xiaoruo every day when he got up.

According to the plan, Xiaoruo decided to set off on the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month, so that she could arrive in the village on the seventh day of the 26th, and just have two or three days to clean up the old house and welcome the new year.

It's a pity that the sky failed to fulfill people's wishes. From the night of the nineteenth night of the twelfth lunar month, heavy snow fell in the sky.The flakes of puffing snow were as big as quail eggs, and the branches were bent overnight, and the snow accumulated on the ground reached the insteps.

"Girl, it's snowing too much. I'm afraid it's not safe to go on the road. Why don't we wait for two days until the snow melts before we go?" the coachman said.

He was wearing a bamboo hat and a coir raincoat, and there was a thin layer of snow on his shoulders when he spoke.

Xiaoruo also felt that the road was slippery in the snow and it was not safe. There is no road rescue in this world.

She could only say hello, and made an appointment with the coachman to leave in two days.

The snow fell intermittently, and continued on a sunny day. The snow on the ground turned into water before dissipating, and was trampled and frozen, turning into slippery ice again.

Until the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, Xiaoruo and the others still failed to set off.

Facing the disappointed expressions of the two cubs, she could only comfort her: "Papa and mother's tablets are all by my side, why don't we celebrate the new year together as a family, and when the spring is warmer, my sister will take you back to visit your parents' graves .”

Fortunately, the two cubs are sensible, they didn't cry or make a fuss, they seriously went to the room where the Xiao family's father and mother tablets were kept, burned incense and kowtowed, Xiao Zhao also reported his studies carefully, and let Xiao's father Mother don't worry.

Xiaoruo also went to offer incense. She knelt on the futon in front of the memorial tablet, clasped her hands together, and silently recited what she had always wanted to say.

"Father and mother, I should call you parents if I have taken over this body. Don't worry, Xiaoyou Xiaozhao, I will take good care of them until they grow up."

"Xiao Zhao's reading is very good. The master praised him as a genius. He will take the exam in April next year. You have a spirit in heaven. Please bless him with success..."

"Xiaoyou is a clever little girl, but she is a bit mischievous, but as long as she is safe and healthy, I will find her a good family that she likes when she grows up..."

"There is also Xiaoxun. Although Xiaoxun is not from the Xiao family, he is very kind to all of us and loves you and Zhaozhao very much. If possible, can you also bless him, keep him healthy and safe, May he find his past as soon as possible..."

(End of this chapter)

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