The four of them went out, but when they came back there was a civet cat. Uncle Chu looked at the civet cat that he had just stretched out his hand to touch, then jumped out of the cart and wandered in the yard as if patrolling the territory and asked. : "Where did the cat come from?".z.
Chu Yi looked at the cat and replied with some humor: "It was raised by the master in Qichan Temple. For some reason, it kept clinging to A-Zhu. The master was kind-hearted and asked us to bring it back."
Uncle Chu thought it was novel, and looked at the civet flower again, and then joked: "I didn't expect that it is only a cat with Buddha's fate. Now that I have brought it back, let's raise it and raise it, and it will not disappoint its love for deer and bamboo." "
While talking, Shen Luzhu had already picked up Zhengzheng who was left in the yard next door. The young couple went out after feeding Zhengzheng. It took more than an hour to go back and forth. As soon as Zhengzheng was brought in, Shen Luzhu was in his mother's arms and began to rub his little head on Shen Luzhu's chest. It was obvious that he was hungry and could not care about anything else. Shen Luzhu hugged Zhengzheng and ran to the house, intending to feed little Zhengzheng first.
By the time Shen Luzhu had fed Zhengzheng, Cihua had already turned around the front and back yards and even the main room and the west wing. She didn't see Shen Luzhu when she returned to the front yard, so she raised her head to look at the person who had just been tied up from the back yard. Chu Yi, the cow, meowed twice and seemed to ask again: "Where are the people?"
Chu Yi looked at the door of his and his wife's room, and then at the raccoon flower on the ground: "Zhengzheng is still too young, so you can't enter the east wing for the time being, so stay in the west wing first."
After saying that, he bent down and picked up the raccoon flower on the ground, and sent it to the west wing. Then he turned around and returned. Unexpectedly, the moment he opened the door of the east wing, something suddenly rushed in from his legs. After leaving the house, Chu Yi hurriedly entered the house and saw that Lihua was already squatting on the ground and meowing at Shen Luzhu on the kang!
Regarding civet flower, Shen Luzhu and Chu Yi have the same idea, and they must take good care of it. However, Zhengzheng is still too young at the moment, and she is not sure whether it will have any adverse effects on the baby. For the time being, It was the best choice not to let it into their bedroom, but after Chu Yi tried several times to carry Li Hua to the west wing, only to have it run back again, the young couple finally gave up.
"Chu Yi, why don't we give it a wash and let it stay in this house? Maybe it's a little scared of the new environment. I'm by Zhengzheng's side most of the time. I'll look at the civet flowers. Yes, don’t let it get too close to Zhengzheng.”
Chu Yi nodded: "Listen to A Zhu, then I will go to the kitchen to fetch some hot water and come back."
After the young couple put her to sleep and had a full meal, Zhengzheng began to give Cihua a bath. She thought it would resist, but unexpectedly, Cihua turned out to be a kitten who only loves bathing and enjoyed the whole process.
After Shen Luzhu found an old piece of clothing to dry Cihua's hair, he whispered to it: "It's cold outside. You just took a shower and you can't go out. Just stay in the house with me."
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Hua shook her fur, walked forward a few steps and then jumped onto the kang. Just as Shen Luzhu was about to call out to it, she saw it jumped again and stood directly on the kang cabinet. Then he lay down in a ball, closed his eyes and dozed off.
The young couple observed for a while and saw that Cihua had no other movements, so they gradually felt relieved. Shen Luzhu remembered that this cat was very understanding of human nature, so he came to the kang cabinet, pointed at him and whispered, "That's right. He is still young and needs more rest, so don’t disturb him.”
In this way, the young couple started a life of raising a baby and playing with the cat. At the beginning, Cihua only stayed on the kang cabinet. Later, her range of activities gradually expanded, and sometimes she would even lie directly on Shen Luzhu’s legs. On the bed, sometimes they would get close to Zheng Zheng's rocking bed and imitate Zheng Zheng's sleeping posture. The cat and the cat were lying on their backs with their legs in the air, their bellies bulging and they were sleeping soundly. The young couple observed After seeing the two little guys getting along well for a long time, I was completely relieved and acquiesced to Li Hua's behavior.
Until the middle of March, the paper money shop in front of Chu's house opened again, and the civet flower had more places to go. If he was in a good mood, he would pester Chu Yi to take him to the shop, or take him to the shop. Nestled on the counter, or lying next to Chu Yi's legs, or sometimes directly nestled in the money box under the counter, eavesdropping on various gossips in the village, while stretching his head and looking around.
This year's Qingming Festival, without the malicious competition from the Hu family and the harassment from Uncle Chu's family, Aunt Jiang's family took over Uncle Zhang's family's job of making copper coins and burning paper. The young couple's business this year started from the beginning.
Zhang, it went very smoothly.
One day at the end of March, Zhao Cheng, who was supposed to deliver paper money in the afternoon, did not show up until the evening when Chu Yi locked the door of the shop. Chu Yi felt very strange and took advantage of the time before dinner to call Chu Ping. , the two of them went to Zhao's house to find out.
Shen Luzhu waited until Chu Yi came back after dinner. At that time, a man and a cat were sitting around Zhengzheng, trying to teach him how to turn over. Seeing that little Zhengzheng, who was almost three months old, he liked to sit around recently. He was twisting around in the bed, as if he wanted to turn his body sideways, but his hands and feet had not yet developed a tacit understanding, so he could only turn half of his body to the side every time, and said to the mother in front of him, "Ah, ah, ah "Speaking in baby language.
This was what Chu Yigang saw as soon as he entered the room. He was lying on the soft quilt on the kang. His little head and upper body were turned to one side, but his lower body was still lying on his back. His legs and feet were staring at each other randomly. It appeared that he was trying hard, but it was still in vain. Shen Luzhu clapped his hands on one side to attract his attention.
Cihua seemed a little anxious, and suddenly stretched out her front paws, gently pushed Zhengzheng's little buttocks, and helped little Zhengzheng, who was less than three months old, complete the first turn over in his life.
Chu Yi looked a little funny, and the haze in his heart cleared a lot, and he stepped forward and hugged his wife gently.
Shen Luzhu noticed the movement behind him, turned to look at Chu Yi who was standing on the ground and asked with a smile: "Chu Yi, are you back? I left you food to warm on the stove. Why have you been gone for so long? But Zhao Chengjia What's the matter?"
"You're not hungry yet. Let's go and eat later. Zhao Cheng and his grandfather are seriously ill. He has been sleeping all day today with no sign of waking up. The doctor in the village has already asked the Zhao family to prepare for the funeral."
Shen Luzhu was a little puzzled. Although the Zhao family's grandfather had always been in poor health and had been bedridden since his son was beaten to death for gambling debts, it had been almost ten years. Why now: "Why is it so sudden?" ?」
Chu Yi sighed: "It's not sudden. Zhao Cheng said that things have been getting worse since the Chinese New Year, but he just didn't mention it to us."
"The Zhao family needs our help?"
"It's not necessary for now. Zhao Cheng said he would tell us when there is news. I'm afraid it will be in the next day or two."
Zhao Cheng and his grandfather finally went there. He needed help from the village for the funeral, digging the grave, and carrying the coffin for burial. Chu Yi even closed his shop for two days and rushed to Zhao's house with Chu Ping to help.
On the second day of April, after the funeral for Mr. Zhao, Chu Yi and Chu Ping returned home. Looking at the copper plates that Chu Yi took out from his clothes, Shen Luzhu was a little strange: "Where did you get such copper plates?" return? "
"The Zhao family gave us the land. Chu Ping and I helped dig the soil yesterday, and today we carried the coffin. We have rules. We can't use people to do unnecessary work. We even borrowed things from other people's homes. You have to give me a few copper coins."
This was the first time Shen Luzhu had heard anyone mention this custom. When the grandma of the Shen family passed away, she didn't need to take care of these things. She was too busy and sad at the time to pay attention to them.
As if thinking of something, Shen Luzhu asked, "Is this true for every family?"
"Well, it's a lot of physical work to build a funeral shed, dig a cemetery, carry a coffin, and scatter paper money along the way. It's rare for someone to prepare for this kind of thing at home for several days. It requires many people to work together to complete it as quickly as possible, even if there is a large population. Families who cannot do it themselves have to hire people to help. Not only that, they also have to hire people to play music and mourn on the day of the funeral. The whole thing not only costs a lot of money, but also requires a lot of favors. "
Ever since she became pregnant with Zhengzheng, Shen Luzhu has been thinking more than before. When she has nothing to do, she always likes to think about things that are not there, especially the things that happened after they got married, which makes her I feel more and more that only by earning more money, supporting my younger siblings and her son, reading more books, gaining more knowledge and horizons, and giving them enough confidence can they be successful in their future lives. Be more wanton and don't need to be bound by too many unnecessary worldly things, let alone Lin Qiuyi's family, Uncle Chu's family, Wang Cuier and others, who were trapped in the trivial matters because of a little money, and finally went astray.
Shen Luzhu hopes that life at home can be more prosperous, so he has been thinking about how to expand the family recently.
Our business, our own paper money business, is now the first choice for villagers in several nearby villages to buy paper money. Due to location and scale restrictions, if we want to continue to expand our audience, it is almost impossible to develop new customers.
Developing new types of paper money does not seem to have much effect. No matter how many types of paper money are made, the total amount of paper money needed by the nearby villagers is certain, so there is only one way left, to use it in their own shops. Add some new items.
Now after listening to Chu Yi's words, my eyes suddenly brightened. What if they formed a team of their own? A funeral team dedicated to helping people do these mundane tasks, specifically helping families who have died in the village, and dealing with things such as The hard work of mourning sheds, digging graves, and carrying coffins is managed and charged uniformly.
Since Daqian has the custom of helping people with useless work and not doing it empty-handed, then there will be a market for them. After all, if they only spend money to discuss business, compared with having to spend money and run around asking for favors, The former is lighter and more convenient.
Shen Luzhu brought the hot food in the kitchen to Chu Yi, and then talked about his idea of forming a funeral team: "Chu Yi, what do you think, is it feasible?"
Chu Yi looked at his expectant wife and was really a little confused. What did his wife grow up on? How could she have so many novel ideas? Ordinary conversations can also make her think of ways to make money.
