Mrs. Wang went to the Chu family's old house angrily, but was kicked out of Shen Luzhu's shop by everyone, scolding and pushing her. She was unable to defeat four others with her fists. No matter how angry she was, she could only be defeated in the end. He walked back to his home from his old house.
Mrs. Li was alone in the shop waiting for her mother-in-law to return. When she saw someone approaching from a distance, she hurriedly went out to greet her: "What's the matter with my mother-in-law? Is the old house really so cheap?"
Mrs. Wang had just calmed down in her old house and was worried that she had no place to get angry. When she saw Mr. Li mentioning this issue again, she felt even more unhappy. She opened her mouth and cursed: "What are you doing out here? You haven't been able to show your appearance all day long." , if you look at the shop, you will run out of the sky and the earth, there are nails on your butt, you can't sit still, right?"
As soon as she saw Mrs. Wang's full body, Mrs. Li knew that most of the time she failed to take advantage of the old house and came back to make herself angry. No one is a weakling. She kept silent, but It's just that he feels that today is different from the past, and he really thinks that she is easy to bully.
"My daughter-in-law just came out to take a look. After all, it's broad daylight and Aniang is neither in the shop nor working at home. If someone asks me about this, my daughter-in-law doesn't know what to say!"
Mrs. Wang walked into the shop and sat down, took a big sip of tea, and then rolled her eyes at Mrs. Li who was acting pretentious in front of her: "You also know it's broad daylight! I didn't steal anything in broad daylight." I didn’t steal it, I just went out to do some errands, and I’m talking about you, you don’t know what to say?”
Mrs. Li sneered in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. She continued to look soft and weak: "Okay, my wife will go and tell grandpa now, grandma, you went to the old house to ask about the paper money." , that’s why I didn’t watch it in the shop!”
Mrs. Wang was choked so much that she coughed up a lot of the tea she drank: "Ms. Li! You... ahem... what do you want to do?"
It’s no wonder that the Wang family is so excited. After the family was divided, the last thing Mr. Chu wanted to hear was the news from the old house. The second thing was the unseemly things that the Wang family did. He always felt that the day the family was divided, the king Wang also lost an adult in his own family. After the family division, he even went for a walk less frequently. He was afraid of being criticized when meeting people in the village. He only recently started to go out for a walk again. If he knew what Wang had done recently Those things must eat the Wang family alive!
Li Shi smiled and stepped forward pretending to be concerned: "What's wrong with my mother? You should be more careful when drinking tea!"
Mrs. Wang finally calmed down and saw that Mrs. Li no longer mentioned the matter of going to see Mr. Chu, and she did not dare to mention it. She quickly changed the subject and said: "Where are the two people who wanted to refund the money just now? Let's go. Already?"
After all, the other party is her mother-in-law. Looking at the Buddha's face without looking at the monk's face, she and her mother-in-law will have to rely on Chu Ren in the future. Li knows how to point it out, so although she knows that Wang is changing the topic, Li still quite naturally We struck up a conversation!
"As soon as grandma left, they started making a fuss and insisted on refunding the money. My daughter-in-law had no choice but to refund the money to them!"
When Mrs. Wang heard this, she felt her whole heart skipping a beat, and she was so distressed: "Tell me about you! Why did you cancel the money with them! You bought them back in the morning, why should you come back to refund the money?" , who knows if they took out a few of them? If you just withdraw at your request, how can our shop continue to open?"
Li didn't know how many times she cursed in her heart, how could her smart and outstanding husband-in-law fall in love with such a stupid lady? She had just favored her, but she behaved like this again so soon: "They were making too much noise just now." Loudly, I called my grandpa here. My daughter-in-law was also afraid that grandpa wouldn’t know what to say when he asked. Since grandma thinks I didn’t do it right, I’ll call those two people and grandpa here now. alright!"
"Ms. Li!"
Mrs. Wang stared at Mrs. Li in front of her, and Mrs. Li looked back at her. After a long time, Mrs. Wang could only choose to swallow her breath first. She couldn't completely break up with Mrs. Li at the moment. After all, she couldn't even see her face at the moment. There is no one to discuss it, so there is a lot of paper money at home, so we still have to find a way to solve this problem first. Chu Fang, that damn girl, is absolutely hopeless. It's already good that she didn't go to him to settle the accounts. She will never expect to get a penny from him in the future!
Shen Luzhu originally thought that the aunt would have to struggle and suffer for a while before she could make a decision.
She was determined to lower the price. After all, the price she was offering now was exactly the same as Wang's purchase price. If she really sold it at their price, she would be admitting her loss. She guessed that Wang, who loved money so much, wouldn't be able to afford it for a while. This determination.
In order to eliminate the possibility that the Wang family would hold down the paper money in their hands and wait until they return to the original price before selling it, Shen Luzhu was already prepared for a protracted war. Fortunately, the purchasing price of their paper money raw materials was It’s a lot cheaper than others. The price is not yet a loss. It’s just that you earn less per piece of paper. Fortunately, the quantity sold has also increased a lot. With small profits but quick turnover, there is still money to be made. !
But who would have thought that not even two days later, she would hear people talking about the news that the shop next to the Chu family's new house had also lowered its prices. Mrs. Wang was not very smart and thought that Shen Luzhu would guard her tightly this time and insisted on calling her. She had lost all the money, but she didn't know if it happened too suddenly and no one could discuss it. She never thought that she could wait for Shen Luzhu to restore the original price before selling. She just thought about it. Hurry up and deal with it now before you lose money!
Just like that, after a few days of busy work, the Qingming Festival finally arrived. As usual, Chu Yi and his wife were preparing to close the shop a day early, thinking that they could finally have a good rest for a few days, when another news came from the village Gossip about Uncle Chu’s family.
Speaking of which, the fat aunt came here specifically to tell the young couple and several people to rush over to watch the fun. Ever since Chu Ping and Yuan Shuang started discussing their marriage, the fat aunt seemed to regard the young couple Chu Yi and the grandfather's family next door as their own. He is one of his own, so he comes to visit whenever he has nothing to do. If there is any news in the village, he will rush over as soon as possible to let him know.
"Lu Zhu, come on, come on, call your cousin and my sister-in-law Qian, let's go to the Chu family's coffin shop!"
Shen Luzhu, who was arranging the remaining paper money in the shop, asked strangely: "Fat aunt, why are you here at this time? What's going on over there at the coffin shop?"
"Aren't you no longer busy at work? If you are no longer busy, call the master and come with me. I will explain to you on the way!"
Chu Yi stayed in his shop and continued to clean up. Chu Li said that he would stay and help, so Shen Luzhu took Xiuxiu and his aunt Qian to follow the fat aunt to Uncle Chu's new house.
On the way, everyone also knew what happened over there. It turned out that several villagers who bought the paper money there gathered around Uncle Chu's shop today and asked for a return!
When Shen Luzhu and others arrived, Grandpa Chu and Uncle Chu were also attracted to the shop by the noise. They all looked confused at the situation in front of them.
"Folks, what are you doing! Why are you gathering around my shop?"
"Boss Chu, you have the nerve to ask! I thought the Hu family was immoral, but I didn't expect your family to be even more immoral. We all came to take care of the business because we thought you were old neighbors. But it turns out your family is doing better. Look at what you are selling. What the hell are they!"
The middle-aged man shook off the copper coins burning paper in his hand as he spoke, took out one of the pieces and thrust it in front of Uncle Chu's eyes: "Take a good look, this is the burning paper your family sold to us!"
Shen Luzhu stood a little far away and didn't see any problem, so he quietly moved forward and moved closer. Only then did he see clearly what was different about the paper money in the man's hand. In fact, the paper was all the same. The hollow copper coins engraved on them are no different. The only difference is that the stack of paper money that the middle-aged man took out has many creases alternately made vertically and horizontally, making the whole paper money look a little wrinkled. But I don’t know who came up with the idea. It’s quite clever. They mixed these creased paper money among other paper money. It’s easy to pass by without looking carefully.
Uncle Chu obviously didn't understand what the man was referring to: "Aren't these the same copper coins and paper burning? What's the difference? Our old neighbors have lived here for so many years. You can't make up nonsense to fool us. !」
"Fooling you? Look at who sells paper money and sells old paper money to others! Your paper money is obviously mixed with old paper money and new paper money. It is obviously your family that fooled us. Compensation, you pay me!" "
The eldest uncle, Mrs. Wang, shouted at the side: "What are you going to pay for? How many days have it been since you bought this at home? It was not enough to buy it once. Then I came to buy it twice. I didn't look at it carefully each time."
Yes, if there is a problem, what have you been doing? Today, you suddenly brought a group of people to the door to demand compensation, and you have the nerve to ask! "
"None of your family are embarrassed, so why should I be embarrassed? Tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, and it's already half afternoon. Where do you want us to buy new paper money now? If we don't buy paper money, we can't hold sacrifices tomorrow." How to fix it?"
Qian didn't quite see what was going on, so she turned her head and asked Shen Luzhu quietly: "Luzhu, why didn't I see anything wrong with that paper money? Do you think they are here to extort money?" !」
Shen Luzhu responded in a voice that only two people could hear: "The copper coins should have been bought by the aunt and they themselves. They bought yellow burnt paper and cut it out with scissors like window grilles. It will leave creases after unfolding."
"Huh? Why are you doing so much trouble?"
"The purchase price of yellow paper is much cheaper than that of copper paper. This can reduce costs and earn more! But Auntie, I also feel that these people may be doing this on purpose!"
When Qian heard this, she immediately became interested. She took Fat Auntie, Shen Luzhu and Xiuxiu and secretly moved to the back of the crowd: "How do you say it? How do you say it?"
"I just took a look at the ones with creases. They are not mixed much, and they are all sandwiched in the middle. If you don't look through them one by one, you won't notice them at all. But who would buy the paper money back? Just flip through the pages and read them!"
The fat aunt nodded and said, "That's right. They were all burned directly on the grave. Who would look through them one by one?"
"Well, plus what the aunt just said, that person came to buy several times early, and he looked at it very carefully every time. Why didn't he find it before, and only found it now? And the paper money is plain. It won’t affect the sacrifice at all!”
Qian stood on tiptoe and looked forward: "Don't tell me, those households seem to be relatives and neighbors of the same family. I heard that Wang and the others sold a lot during the Qingming Festival and saw no one else. Come here to see him, why did he come to his house at such a time! It seems like it was specially arranged!"
