Chapter 3 Is this it?

The next day, Qiao Yun woke up from the cold wind. She was no longer covered with the robe, but with thick straw. The young man who stayed with her last night in the temple had long disappeared.

She rubbed her eyes, stood up, pushed the pile of straw away, and got out of the straw nest. There were still a few straw tassels in her hair.

When she raised her hand to pick up the straw on her head, she found a flower-like white spot on the nail of her left ring finger, which was burning hot at the moment.

Qiao Yun touched her ring finger, and Xianyun's charming voice suddenly popped up in her mind: "You're awake! I asked the housekeeper to prepare breakfast for you. You can eat before setting off!"

Huh? This is...

Lu Zheqiu's voice also sounded: "Master, I taught her how to use the chat system. You should see the mark on your fingernail. If she has a voice message to find you, the mark will be hot. If she or

I have something I want to give you temporarily, and after putting it in the package, the mark will tingle to remind you."

It's so convenient... Qiao Yun grinned, but why was she torturing herself by thinking about it? Her fingers were either burning or hurting.

She looked at her nails. Although the marks on her fingernails were not big at the moment, they were quite conspicuous. She would have to apply some cinnabar to cover them up.

Qiao Yun asked in her mind: "What is there to eat?"

Xianyun seemed to have never heard Lu Zheqiu's words before, and said happily: "The breakfast at your house is too rich. The butler also said that it won't be the same for half a month, and you can order whatever you want. Did you eat like this every day before?

?Today is shredded chicken porridge, meat heart buns, southern milk jade mushrooms, spinach mixed with pepper oil, and sweet-scented osmanthus milk cake. I asked the housekeeper to leave some of each for you?"

Qiao Yun was happy. Xianyun had adapted well! She said, "No, just ask the housekeeper to bring two steamed buns and a bag of honey water."

Xianyun was having breakfast in the warm pavilion in the garden over there while admiring the snow, and said, "You can go find my grandma. My grandma is in Quwo County. I still have two uncles. My mother died just a few days ago."

, my two uncles probably don’t know yet!”

Qiao Yun thought for a while and replied: "That's fine. That's it." She touched her fingers again and hung up the call.

She doesn't want to go yet, so she should look around the county first to see if there are any opportunities!

If you really have no place to go, then consider moving to your grandfather's house.

Soon, Qiao Yun felt a pain as if burned by fire from her fingertips, and she knew something was coming.

She touched her fingernails and immediately saw the items in the package: a basin of hot water, a towel, a piece of spicy soup, a meat bun, and a pot of honey water.

There is also a bag of clothes, a black short jacket with arrow sleeves, a pair of thick crow trousers, and a gray short skirt that reaches the knees.

Qiao Yun took out her clothes. The clothes were made of very strong material, with ordinary burlap on the outside, white braided silk on the inside that was close-fitting and comfortable, and filled with light and warm velvet in the middle. The shoes were also newly made cloth boots, which were comfortable and warm.

It's just that the color is gray. After all, the original owner's parents passed away and she has not yet paid her respects. Even if someone sees this new clothes, they can't say anything.

Moreover, materials of certain colors are also very common, and women who can weave can weave them. It is not considered wasteful for farmers to save such fabrics for their children.

After washing her face, Qiao Yun untied the white cloth bag and put on her winter clothes and shoes and socks with a shiver. Suddenly, a warm current rushed to her limbs.

She was so moved that she wanted to cry. In her previous life, she was doted on by her parents before she was sixteen, her brother doted on her after she entered high school at sixteen, and her boyfriend doted on her in college. Growing up in a honeypot, she never knew what hunger and cold were.

On the contrary, it was only after traveling through time that she realized how valuable it was to be able to wear warm clothes.

I opened another bag and found that the buns inside were still warm. It seemed that the bag containing food taken out in the game actually had a heat preservation function.

The original owner of this body had obviously never had a full meal, and his stomach was always empty. Qiao Yun had long been so hungry that she felt panicked. She felt full after eating just one meat bun that was half the size of a palm for an adult. After drinking a few more

A big mouthful of fragrant milk tea is simply not too comfortable.

When I opened the temple door, it was dawning outside. Outside the ruined temple was an endless loess road, surrounded by endless fields.

The west end of the loess road leads to the dark mountains in the distance. It is the middle of winter at this time, and the mountains are covered with gray. Qiao Yun remembers that her father often went into the mountains for hunting, so it seems that Baihe Village should be at the foot of the mountains.

The road heading east leads to the county.

Qiao Yun rubbed her arms. The cold wind blew on her face like a knife, almost tearing open the flesh. This was the face. If she had been wearing the tattered woolen coat she had worn before, how frozen it would have been!

Fortunately she was wearing a duck down jacket, otherwise she would have froze to death for the second time on the way to the county town due to her thin body.

"Hey, isn't this the eldest lady of the Qiao family? Why are you here alone?"

Qiao Yun didn't realize that he was calling her, so she walked forward on her own. It wasn't until there was the sound of wheels behind her that she turned back and prepared to get out of the way. Unexpectedly, she saw an old man over sixty years old driving a donkey cart.

He stopped beside him. The old man had a smile on his face, but there was suspicion in his eyes as he kept looking at the brand new cotton-padded jacket he was wearing.

She remembered that this was Mr. Wu Liu at the entrance of the village. He raised a donkey. He had a stone mill at home, and all the millet and noodles in the village were ground at his house. When he was not working on the mill, he would also grind it.

The donkey cart runs to the county and pulls some people to the county. Each person can collect two copper coins.

Qiao Yun immediately put on a smile and said sweetly: "Hello, Grandpa Wu! My grandma asked me to go to the county town to buy two bags of salt and a pack of several colored silk threads. I thought you wouldn't come out in such a cold day.

It’s here.” She then showed him the sleeves of her coat, “Grandpa, look, this is the clothes my mother made for me before she was alive! This is the first time I wear it!”

Wu Laoliu dispelled his doubts. The Qiao family's life in Baihe Village was relatively better, and they could afford to make new clothes for the little girl. He also knew some things about the Qiao family, which must have been saved by Zhen.

There was a new cloth for the child inside. Thinking of the death of Mrs. Qiao’s parents, he also sighed for a while. Mrs. Qiao was such a stingy character, it’s strange that she would treat this girl well!

There is no grocery store in the village, so for daily necessities, we have to wait until there is a meeting in the county town to buy them together. No one has a good supply of needlework, let alone the neighbors. If this family has a shortage of thread, go to the next door to borrow it.

There is one roll, but why did Madam Lu chase Mrs. Qiao and run to the town to buy thread?

Wu Laoliu slapped his forehead and understood. What Mrs. Qiao was talking about just now was to buy silk thread, which was not something these poor folks could afford. It must be that Mrs. Lu wanted to cut silk clothes for her little daughter, but she had no silk thread to use.

That's why Mrs. Qiao came out for a run in the cold weather.

He followed Qiao Yun and pinched her new sleeve, feeling horrified - this Lu family is so cruel, why is there so little stuffing in this coat?

"Your grandma is really cruel. Your clothes are so thin. In the middle of winter, they don't even give you more grass wadding. How can they protect you from the wind? Get in the car. I just go to the county today to buy some New Year's goods.

, I can give you a ride along the way."

Qiao Yun snickered in her heart, the stuffing here is not grass wadding, but duck down! If the duck down jacket was made so thick, it would cause prickly heat in winter.

She looked ahead and saw that the county was nowhere to be seen! There was a car in front of her and it would be useless if she didn't sit on it.

"But, the money my grandma gave me was only enough to buy salt and thread..." Qiao Yun murmured, acting as if she didn't dare to get in the car.

"Hey, I'm not here to recruit people today, what kind of money do you want to give me? Come up here!" Wu Laoliu deliberately looked unhappy. Darling, Baihe Village is far away from Quwo County, Mrs. Lu

Why don't you give her money for the bus ride because you want her to come back at night?

Only then did Qiao Yun climb onto the cart. While she was glad that she had thought carefully enough not to make a long skirt, she thanked him obediently. The bell on the little donkey's neck jingled, and its four hooves clicked.

He ran very fast. Qiao Yun secretly wrote down all the scenery along the way.

Several villages near Quwo County rely on the market in Quwo County for daily business. One hundred and sixty miles to the northwest of Quwo County is the county seat. In addition, Quwo County is adjacent to the Huihe River.

There is a water transport terminal, so Quwo County is a large county.

At three o'clock in the morning, a small city gate finally approached gradually. Wu Laoliu said: "Then I will still be waiting for you here in the afternoon. You should be careful. There are many people in the county. Be careful not to be abducted by a kidnapper."

!" He said and parked the donkey cart under the city gate.

"Hey." Qiao Yun responded and jumped out of the car. She thought that only a ghost would take the initiative to go back. But at this moment, she didn't care to explain so much and hurriedly squeezed into the crowd.

She was busy looking for a pawn shop. She thought that if there was no pawn shop in the county, she would go to the city. After being guided by passers-by, she ran to the north of the county. Sure enough, a shop on the street had a sign with traditional Chinese characters on it.

The "canon".

The clerk in the store saw a little baby and wanted to chase her away, but seeing that she was wearing clean and brand-new clothes, he thought she might be a girl from the county and had something important to do, so he didn't stop her. Qiao Yun stepped into the pawn shop.

Only then did she realize that she was not as tall as the counter, so she could only stand on tiptoes. The waiter was so attentive that he moved a small stool for her.

She took out the silver hairpin and silver bracelet that Lu Zheqiu gave her from her sleeves, put them on the counter and passed them through the small wooden window. There were only a few jasmine flowers on the silver hairpin and bracelets, which were made of thin silver sheets. There were no precious stones, but the workmanship was better.

The shape is exquisite. The hair accessories made by the jeweler in the game are as if they were made by a modern hairpin girl. Not only are they beautiful in shape, they are also very strong. The copper wire and hot melt glue will loosen them, but the ones in the game look like they have been welded.

stable.

The shopkeeper was wary and asked: "Little doll, did you steal things from the house?"

Qiao Yun looked sad: "My father asked me to pawn my grandmother's belongings so that he could drink and gamble." She studied acting in her previous life and was a good actor.

Oops, what kind of pitiful little girl has such a drunkard and gambler father? The shopkeeper suddenly felt a little pity in his heart. It’s just that he has seen many such people. People who are addicted to gambling, not

He will not give up until his family fortune is ruined. Moreover, he is afraid that after all his family property is bought, his daughter will be sold next.

It's just that the shopkeeper has seen this kind of world a lot, so he took the silver jewelry without saying anything, examined and caressed it carefully, and gave her two large hanging copper coins, each of which was pressed very tightly.

"Your jewelry is too plain and not worth much money. Considering that the workmanship is pretty good, I'll give you two dollars."

Qiao Yun thanked her profusely, took two heavy strings of copper coins, and left the pawn shop.

Two guan! Two thousand taels of silver! The unit used here is guan, which is about two taels of silver.

Two thousand coins sounded like a lot, but Qiao Yun could only convert it into two taels of silver, and she felt it was so little.

That’s all, let’s make do with it!

She walked out of the pawn shop and threw the money into her system backpack by stuffing it into her sleeves. She took a deep breath and looked up. The dark clouds in the sky couldn't be said to be thick, but just a little gloomy.

Now let’s find a place to rest!

With money in her pocket, she has a lot of confidence.

Seeing the two-story house at the intersection not far away, there was a "sleeping" bar hanging outside the house, and the door was half open with a thick felt curtain, so she walked over there. As she walked,

While untying the string of copper coins, he separated out only one string of twenty coins, and threw the rest into the space.

"Squeak——"

Pushing open the door of the inn and lifting the curtain, a gust of cold wind rushed into the room. The waiter who was dozing behind the counter trembled and woke up.
To be continued...