Chapter 10 What is Silver?
Mu Xiyun lived in Xiao Song's house for several days, she didn't want to go, she really couldn't go, and Xiao Songniang's body was still bad.
Although Wen Xincao gave her a sigh of relief, tuberculosis is a disease of the body after all, she has been sick for so many years, her body has long been hollowed out, and she still needs to be slowly adjusted.
However, Xiao Song's family is really surrounded by walls, and there is no extra money to buy some nutritious things for her to eat, so she can only turn into a little fox and go up the mountain to catch a few pheasants and the like to come back to replenish her body, and by the way, she has to pick some more Wenxin grass.
On this day, Xiao Song Niang was a little energetic, and she actually stood up, Xiao Song was very happy, so she said to Mu Xiyun.
"Sister, it's been hard for you to go up the mountain every day to find food and medicine, so let me go today, I put a fish basket in the river a few days ago, and there should be fish soup to drink today."
Thinking of the delicacy of fresh fish, Mu Xiyun couldn't help but touch his belly, he really didn't eat anything good in Komatsu's house these days, except for the pheasants and hares caught on the mountain, there was a little bit of meat smell, basically a gruel made of wild vegetables mixed with a little cornmeal dug up by Sister Komatsu.
There was really no taste, which reminded her of the crystal grapes and Babao duck in Yanwang's Mansion, and when she thought of that delicacy, she couldn't help but swallow her saliva again.
When I sat at home and waited for Komatsu, my stomach was really hungry, and I drank the wild vegetable gruel every day, and I was really hungry very fast, so I went to get something to eat by myself.
After thinking about it, he explained to Sister Komatsu and hurriedly ran back to Qiyun Town. When I walked to the gate of Qiyun Town, I saw the guards at the gate checking the people entering and leaving the city one by one.
Squinting my eyes, isn't the portrait held by the guard at the city gate just me?
Okay, you are jade and clear, isn't it your concubine who fell into the lotus pond? Do you need to go to such great lengths to arrest me? Is the red lotus dead and you want me to go back to the funeral?
No, I resolutely can't be caught back by you, so I thought about it and quickly ran in the direction of Komatsu's house.
There was a small market on the side of the road to Komatsu's house, and Mu Xiyun, who was far away, smelled the fragrance, and couldn't help but run to the stall.
Looking at the steaming white round and soft things, and the smell of meat wafting, by the way, is this Xiao Song buying her sister something called a meat bun?
The boss saw a girl swallowing saliva standing in front of the stall, and couldn't help but ask
"Girl, do you want to eat steamed buns?"
"Yes! Want! Want! Mu Xiyun heard the boss say the word bun, and his eyes were shining.
The boss smiled and took out a bun and handed it to Mu Xiyun, she took two or three bites and swallowed it.
One was not enough, and before I could eat it, the taste was gone, so I took another one with the boss, stood on the side and devoured it.
After eating three big buns in a row, the belly finally stopped screaming, thinking about it and Komatsu them, I asked the boss for three more, and left happily.
"Hey, what's the matter with you little girl? Don't you pay after eating? The boss chased after him, grabbed Mu Xiyun's arm and shouted loudly.
"Money? What is Money? Mu Xiyun asked with a confused expression.
"Money is silver, you eat my buns and want to give me silver?" The boss continued to mumble loudly, and a large crowd gathered next to him.
"You all come and see, such a beautiful little girl, you won't give money for eating my buns!" The boss pulled Mu Xiyun and said loudly to the people watching the excitement next to him.
The people next to him were whispering timidly, and some were laughing, and Mu Xiyun's face suddenly turned red.
Does this mortal need money to eat? What is money? What is silver? Why didn't Yu Mingche tell me?
Suddenly, she remembered that Sister Komatsu told her one day that the pearl earrings on her ears were very beautiful and worth a lot of money.
"Oh, don't shout, I don't have the money, this is for you, okay?" After speaking, he took off the two pendants above his ears and handed them to the boss, and the boss's attitude changed in an instant.
It's not right to think about it, my sister said that it was worth a lot of money, how could my little fox suffer this loss, hurry up and get one back.
"That's enough. These earrings are kings. Forget it, the right is for you, that's what. After speaking, he glanced at the boss and hurried away.
The owner of the bun stall looked at the earrings in his hand and his eyes were straight, the pearl luster was full, revealing a soft light, he must be a valuable product, and he couldn't imagine that there were such rich people in this barren mountains and mountains.
Holding the hot buns, he trotted all the way back to Komatsu's house, and Komatsu had been standing at the door for a long time.
"Sister, where did you go? But I'm in a hurry, there are people from the Chiwu tribe coming to arrest people in the past few days, we have to be careful. ”
"Well, I went buy meat buns." He handed the bun to Komatsu.
Komatsu looked at the bun with a surprised expression.
"Sister, where did you get the money to buy buns?" Although this sister is dressed luxuriously, and the fabric on her body looks like high-quality silk, but in the past few days at home, Komatsu knows that she has no silver on her at all.
"Swap this for that." Mu Xiyun proudly took out the remaining earrings and shook them in front of Xiao Song.
"Sister, I'm sorry for making you suffer, and you have to exchange your jewelry for us." Xiao Song heard that Mu Xiyun exchanged earrings for meat buns for him to eat, and he was very sad.
"Oh, Komatsu, it's nothing, I've been in the palace for a long time." Mu Xiyun remembered the jewelry on the palace's own dresser, and said proudly.
"The palace? Sister, you are! Komatsu jumped in fright.
"No, no, I mean my family, my family, hahaha." Mu Xiyun accidentally slipped his mouth again, and hurriedly found an excuse to round the field for himself, and pushed Xiao Song to the kitchen after speaking.
In the evening, Komatsu grilled a few fish, made fish soup, and fried a plate of wild vegetables, plus the buns brought back by Mu Xiyun, compared to the previous few days this dinner is very rich.
Mu Xiyun immediately rushed over when she saw the grilled fish, grabbed one and gnawed it, and when she was halfway through the gnaw, she saw Xiao Song and his sister staring at her.
It's over, could it be that this mortal even has rules for eating fish? Doesn't it mean that mortals have a lifespan of only a few short decades? Why do you have to set so many rules for yourself in such a short lifespan, isn't it too tiring?
He gently put down the grilled fish and looked at the two of them as well.
"Sister, don't you know how to use chopsticks?" Sister Komatsu said in a milky voice.
Yes? This is seen, I have been eating roast pheasant or something a few days ago, and I don't need to use any chopsticks, but today it can be regarded as being discovered.
"Sister, it's okay, come, I'll teach you how to use it." After speaking, Sister Komatsu put a pair of chopsticks in Mu Xiyun's hand.
Mu Xiyun's eyes instantly had some mist, she didn't know how to use chopsticks when she was in the palace, those maids would only laugh at her behind her back, and never teach her to use them.
"Okay, thank you." After speaking, Sister Komatsu taught Mu Xiyun how to use chopsticks very seriously, and Mu Xiyun also learned very seriously.
When the food was cold, Mu Xiyun could finally use these two wooden sticks to pick up a little bit of vegetables, and he was very happy.
"By the way, Komatsu, what's the money? What is silver? Eating the dishes picked up with chopsticks, Mu Xiyun asked Komatsu.
"Sister, you don't know what silver is?" Komatsu was surprised.
"Yes, today's bun, the man pulled me and asked me for silver, I don't know what it was, so I took the earrings to him, and he let me go."
Although Xiao Song was very surprised in his heart, but in the face of this kind big sister, he didn't want to be too suspicious, maybe it was a young lady who ran out of a big family and didn't know the world, so he smiled and took out two copper coins that were the only two in the family and put them on the table.
"Sister, this is money, and when you want something from the market, you have to use money to buy it."
Mu Xiyun picked up one of the copper coins and looked at it carefully, oh, it turns out that this is money, and only with this thing can you eat what you want to eat.
After thinking about it for a while, he took out the bracelet on his hand, the hairpin on his head, and the remaining earrings, and threw them all on the table.
"Komatsu, you exchange all these for this money tomorrow, and we'll go buy meat buns to eat."
"No, no, this is my sister's thing, how can I go and change it." Komatsu hurriedly waved his hand and said
"Listen to my sister, I like to eat meat buns, you can buy me a few more tomorrow." As he spoke, he shoved all the jewelry into Komatsu's hand.
Xiao Song saw Mu Xiyun's firm face, so he no longer forced to accept those jewelry.