4. Louder than the sound
Du Ruo: "Brother Blacksmith, do you think this is true? Go back and try it. If you can't do it, forget it. If you can do it, you will be counted as mine."
Blacksmith Feng nodded: "That's right, I'll try it out at home. If I can make it, I'll bring it to you."
Du Ruo: "Then thank you, Brother Blacksmith."
Du Ruo's words, a blacksmith called Feng, a blacksmith, had a red face and kept wavering his hands and saying no thanks. Du Ruo smiled secretly. As expected, no matter when he spoke dessert, he could do something.
Erxi took out a purse from Huailai and handed it to Du Ruo: "My sister's golden hairpin, gold earrings, I think it's a good thing. If it's a pity, it's a pity that I went to the pawn shop, so I went to the jewelry shop to find a familiar brother. I sold twelve taels of silver in total, and bought one taels of silver in the purchase of the things my sister wanted. There were still eleven taels of silver left here. I was afraid that my sister would be inconvenient to use it, so I replaced it with a scattered bag of copper coins, and put them in this bag. Sister, please put it away."
Du Ruo guessed that those two jewelry could be used as some silver. After all, it was a good workmanship. But he didn't expect that such a large cart of goods was only one tael of silver, which was too cheap. But he remembered that he once watched a program discussing ancient people's livelihood that said that although ancient people were in the silver standard, not many people could see silver. Most of them used copper coins. Even if the silver was scattered, it was only affordable for wealthy families. So it was normal to buy such a car of daily necessities for one tael of silver.
Du Ruo took out a larger piece of silver from the bag: "This Erxi brother went to the bar, which is also my sister's wish."
Erxi hurriedly said, "You can't ask for this Erxi."
Du Ruo: "If Brother Erxi doesn't take it, how can my sister be embarrassed to let you run errands in the future?" He said that and stuffed it to him without saying a word.
Erxi pretended to refuse. No one was interested in real money. When he stuffed it into his hands, he took it: "The big butler asked the young man to stay at the village at the foot of the mountain. From now on, I often go to the mountain for a few trips. If my sister wants to buy something, she told the young man that if there is no village at the foot of the mountain, the young man would go to the town. Anyway, it is not far away. It is only fifty miles away. The young man can get back and forth by car in half a day."
Du Ruo: "Aren't you working in the Lu Mansion's Outer Courtyard? Why are you staying here?"
Erxi: "Isn't it almost Qingming? The old man has to come to visit the grave. Every year, he will live in the village at the foot of the mountain for ten days and half a month. There are not enough people in the village here, so the butler left the young man and prepared for the old man to come and serve him."
Du Ruo nodded: "Then you have worked hard."
Erxi: "I'm not hiding my sister, the younger one is willing to be a businessman in the village. There are few people here and the rules are not as big as the mansion. I can still walk around if I have nothing to do. It's more comfortable than being a worker in the mansion. The younger one is looking forward to the old man living in the first half of the year in anger."
Du Ruo smiled: "Just be free."
Erxi was a diligent boy and couldn't help but send something over. When he heard that Du Ruo was going to grow vegetables, he simply pulled Blacksmith Feng to separate the vegetable beds, planted the rapeseed, and picked up the water tank. He also covered the broken shed with straw. At least it was not leaking. After doing a lot of work, he left with Blacksmith Feng.
Du Ruo looked around and said that he had to clean up the place, but it seemed a little cleaned up. The mute lady had already put the pots, tiles and basins into the shed. Du Ruo went to cook the rice and ate it, and went to the house to make the blue coarse cloth.
Du Ruo: "I just do carpenter work. I want to make a bench and table." Although I don't know how to do it at the moment, I always have to prepare all the guys. Anyway, I have time to study it slowly. No one can do this thing at birth.
Although Blacksmith Feng did not understand the second grandma, he still nodded.
When Feng Blacksmith left, Du Ruo threw the clip and hatchet into the bamboo basket and was about to go up the mountain. She had to find a suitable place to cut some firewood and carry it down. The mute lady wanted to follow her and was rejected by Du Ruo: "My mu, I'll just go up the mountain by myself. You'd better clean up the seedlings, and all of them were drilled out. Moreover, you don't know how to use this clamp?" The mute lady nodded.
Du Ruo carried a bamboo basket and climbed up the old mountain road. Because the mountain was private property, no mountain people came to chop firewood and hunt, and there were few people walking on the mountain road. In addition, the climate was humid, and the shrubs on both sides grew wildly and stood on the mountain road. No wonder the Ya Po's clothes on her body were much tattered every time he went up the mountain. I thought it was hung by the shrubs that were crossed on the mountain road.
Du Ruo took out the hatchet, cut off the branches of the shrubs that were stuck on the mountain road, and put them together. When he turned around, he used firewood to burn it. After packing it up, he heard the sound of water gradually becoming louder. Du Ruo went up and saw a mountain stream winding down the mountain. Because there was a protruding stone on the wall of the upper part, the stream water fell from above and turned into a small waterfall, and the sound of water became much louder.
Although Du Ruo walked not far away, it was difficult to walk on the mountain road. He also cut down many shrub branches. He was tired, hot and thirsty. Seeing the clear mountain stream, he simply took off his back basket, walked over, found a stone beside the water, and took a few sips of the stream. He held some stream water and drank it for a few sips. He lifted some water and patted his cheeks. He suddenly felt much cooler. Suddenly, he saw fish in the water, playing back and forth in the pebbles. He couldn't help but feel very excited. He took off his shoes and socks and put them on the stone next to him, rolled up his trousers and went down to catch the fish.
The fish were shuttled through the mountain stream all day long, very sensitive, and they were not something that Du Ruo could catch. Du Ruo took a long time to not catch any of them. Instead, the little fish began to tease Du Ruo, deliberately swimming around at her feet, pecking at her from time to time, making Du Ruo a little itchy and giggling. The laughter was crisp, which shocked the little fish in the water and dispersed one after another. Some ran away and some simply didn't come out under the stone.
Du Ruo had to go ashore. As soon as he stepped on the stone, he heard a man's voice: "Who are you?"
Du Ruo didn't expect that there would be someone in this wilderness. He was so scared that his feet slipped and almost fell into the mountain stream. He hurriedly reached out to grab the vine next to him before he stopped. He looked up and saw a man standing on the top. The man stood with his backlight and couldn't see clearly for a moment, but he just felt extremely tall.
Du Ruo narrowed his eyes and finally saw clearly. The man had thick eyebrows and big eyes, holding a bow in one hand and carrying a hare rabbit in the other hand. An arrow was inserted into the rabbit. Du Ruo suddenly understood and said that there was no one guarding such a large forest, and there would always be courageous people coming to poach. Sure enough, he guessed that this man must be a hunter at the foot of the mountain and sent in to poach.
Chapter completed!