Farmhouse Green Plum

After everyone's persuasion, Li finally agreed to buy sugar paintings for Song Tian and Song Yuan.

She was so angry that she didn't take them there in person. She took out three copper coins and threw them to Song Tian, saying angrily, "Go buy it and hold your brother tightly!"

Song Tian cheered and promised again and again: "I will always hold his hand and never let go, not even when I buy sugar paintings!"

Song Yuan also quickly expressed that he would follow his brother well.

Shopkeeper Xu consoled him, "It's right across the street. You can see it if you turn your head. You can't lose it!"

After giving him some words of comfort, he continued to talk about fabrics, "Which kind of cotton are you going to buy? There is high-quality white cotton, which is very warm..."

After some inquiries, Li finally decided to buy cotton fluff at 55 wen per catty, and two taels, which cost 8 wen; he still used the cheapest coarse cloth.

Inquiring for prices is not just a simple inquiry. Li took the opportunity to bargain with Manager Xu. The conversation took a long time and Song Tian and Song Yuan had not returned yet.

Li was a little worried. She looked outside and said to Daya, "Go and see what those two little bastards are doing. They haven't been able to buy it back for such a long time."

Daya didn't want to go. This was the first time that new clothes were being made for her. She wanted to stay and choose the patterns herself. Although she could only buy coarse cloth, she wanted to pick the best-looking pattern for herself within the available options.

But she couldn't disobey Li's order. After thinking for a while, she said directly, "Don't choose my clothes yet. I want to choose the pattern myself."

"Okay, I'll wait for you to come back and choose." Li was happy to follow her wishes on this small matter.

Daya crossed the street, squeezed through the crowd, and soon found Song Tian and Song Yuan. The two were holding hands and watching the vendor painting sugar paintings with great interest.

"Have you finished shopping? Grandma is urging us."

Song Tian stared at the sugar painting vendor without moving his eyes away for a second, "Not yet, we need to choose carefully, you buy the cloth first, don't worry about us."

The vendors’ craftsmanship was superb, and Daya couldn’t help but stay to watch for a while, but she calculated the time and didn’t stay long.

"They want to stay there and watch." After returning to the cloth shop, she first told Li about Song Tian and the others' intentions, and then asked anxiously, "It's not my turn yet, right?"

"The little girl is very conceited," Shopkeeper Xu smiled and pointed to the row in front of Li, "This row is all the same price, you can choose first."

Daya understood what he meant. This was the price that Li decided to buy at, and she could only choose from these fabrics.

Compared with other cloths, these coarse cloths not only have poor texture, but also dull colors and very simple patterns.

Daya looked through them one by one, and thinking of her own red silk, she finally chose a piece of slightly brighter red cloth for the top and a dark blue skirt.

After choosing the fabrics, all we had to do was wait for Manager Xu to help us calculate the required sizes of the various fabrics.

The eldest girl discovered for the first time that her second aunt Yang was even more vain than she was. Li had already selected the fabrics for Uncle Song, Song Tian and Song Yuan, and asked Shopkeeper Xu to calculate the sizes and negotiate the prices, but Yang had not yet chosen her own fabric.

Li rolled her eyes. She looked outside and saw Song Tian and Song Yuan coming towards them one after the other. She urged, "Second wife, make a decision quickly. Tianwa and Yuanwa are back. If you don't leave here quickly, they might want it again after they finish eating."

As a mother, Yang naturally knew what kind of people her sons were. She became anxious and wanted to make a quick decision, but she felt that every combination was not quite right.

As Song Tian and Song Yuan approached, Li realized something was wrong, "Why are you crying?"

Yang's heart tightened. She didn't bother to choose the cloth. She turned around and walked out of the cloth shop. She greeted her two sons who were approaching and asked repeatedly, "What happened? Who bullied you?"

As he spoke, he saw that they didn't have the sugar paintings in their hands, so he guessed, "Did someone steal the sugar paintings?"

Song Tian wiped his tears and cried, "The money is lost!"

Daya: "..."

With so many people around, I'm afraid the money wasn't lost but stolen.

"Where did you lose it? Have you looked for it?" Yang felt dizzy and asked anxiously.

"I looked for it, but couldn't find it. When I was looking at the sugar painting, I touched my pocket and the money was still there, but in just a moment, it was gone." Song Tian cried as if the sky was falling.

Song Yuan was so angry that he kept wiping tears: "It's all your fault. I told you to buy the candy painting first and eat it, but you insisted on looking at it again and again. Now you've lost your money, and you have to compensate me for the candy painting!"

Li was angry and heartbroken. "Go and look for it again to see if it's in that corner."

"No, we have searched everywhere." Song Yuan cried even more sadly, and even complained to Li, "Grandma, why did you give the money to my brother? He is the most unreliable. Next time, give the money to my sister. My sister never loses money, she only picks it up."

Yang was not in the mood to pick fabric, so she dragged Song Tian along the way to look for it, but found nothing.

The last glimmer of hope was shattered, and Li was so angry that she yelled outside the crowd: "Who the hell stole my grandson's money? Have you never seen money in your eight lifetimes? You stole the kid's money to buy candy! Did you steal it to buy medicine?

Your father or your mother died, and you are short of those 3 cents to hold a funeral..."

Li kept scolding him for a full hour without repeating herself. Then, when she went to buy other New Year's goods, she had a stern face, which made Daya nervous, fearing that she would vent her anger on her.

Yang's face also looked unhappy, and she was so angry that she ignored Song Tian all the way.

At 3:30 pm, Second Uncle Song met up with them at Zhuangyuanfang. Seeing that his mother and wife had dark faces and his two sons had eyes as red as rabbits, he asked, "Are these two bastards causing trouble again?"

"No, I didn't. It was my brother!" Song Yuan described the incident with exaggeration, accusing Song Tian of being unreliable.

Uncle Song was so angry that he wanted to hit someone: "If you can't even do such a small thing, what can you do when you grow up?"

He grabbed Song Tian's ears and roared, "How many times have I told you to be more careful in what you do? You keep turning a deaf ear to my words..."

Seeing that he was about to beat the kid in the street, Li hurriedly stopped him: "This is his first time, he has no experience, he will learn his lesson next time. Boys need more experience, otherwise they will be inexperienced when they grow up."

As she spoke, she looked at Song Tian again and said sternly: "Remember this, thieves often commit crimes in crowded places, so don't keep turning your pockets over and over, for fear that others don't know where you put your money. Don't show your wealth to others, do you know..."

Experience?

Daya chewed on this word over and over again and understood some of her previous doubts.

The aunts and grandmothers in the village are very skilled and experienced in handling family affairs, but they are not so good at dealing with external affairs, so they have to be handled by the men in the family.

But among the children in the village, the boys are obviously more unreliable, and many of them are irresponsible and careless.

She really didn't understand how a boy who was so unreliable when he was young could handle such complicated things when he grew up.

Now I have the answer: experience.

They have the opportunity to try and experience, and they will naturally get it by doing it more.

It turns out that it's not just in terms of material things, but other aspects as well, where boys are favored over girls.