There is only one boy in the whole generation of my cousin's family, Chu Ping. He has loved to follow Chu Yi since he was a child. This cousin treated him very well. He took the blame for him when he was a child. When he grew up, he planned for him and worked with others. There's nothing wrong with my dear brother.
Knowing that Chu Yi's family will move to the town in the future, as a cousin, Chu Ping feels that he should be the most happy for them, but when he thinks about it, he may not be able to be like now in the future. , even lying on the wall, chatting for a few words, and feeling a little bit more reluctant to leave.
"After all, I won't be able to see my cousin and cousin-in-law every day from now on, but serious things are more important. At worst, I will buy a bullock cart and come back tomorrow. Then I will go to the town every day to deliver paper money to the shop." !」
Chu Yi shook his head with a smile, glanced at his cousin and said, "You think buying a bullock cart is just for buying cakes? You can just buy it if you just say it? Besides, there are a lot of things to prepare for moving to the town, not to mention half a year." It always takes a year or several months, so it can’t be that fast.”
As the main labor force in farming, cattle are not a scarce resource in Daqian, but they are not bought and sold at will. If you want to buy a strong and healthy one in its prime, you will definitely have to wait for a while without any luck or patience. Can't buy it.
Being thrown cold water by his cousin, Chu Ping said with a bit of a rogue joke: "I don't care, then my cousin will just keep your oxcart. Then I will drive Xiaoshuang to see you every day."
Shen Luzhu smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll just leave a room for you and Yuan Shuang in the yard and prepare it for you."
As agreed, Chu Yi would go to Yaxing in the town every ten days, following him through the streets and looking around at the shops he found. However, after visiting them for nearly two months, he was about to go to Zhongxing again. It’s Yuan Festival, but I still can’t find anything I’m satisfied with.
There are not many shops for rent in the town, and even fewer in good locations. The few shops that are built on the main street are too small, let alone a family moving there. Even the demand for stocking goods in the shop cannot be met.
A larger location is okay, and there is one with a yard. There is a boss on the east street who is opening his own bistro. In front of the bistro is a shop that is equivalent to three main rooms side by side, passing through the restaurant It is the kitchen. After walking out of the back door of the kitchen, you will come to the small courtyard at the back. Although it is not big, it has the main room, side rooms, toilets and kitchen.
The house facing the street was passed down from the owner's ancestors, and he has been doing the tavern business. However, the current owner's business ability is really limited. Now that the shop cannot make ends meet, he can only plan to sell the tavern.
Chu Yi was originally quite satisfied. Although the furnishings and layout were somewhat different from what he had originally envisioned, if there was nothing else that better suited his requirements, it would be a good idea to rent this place and renovate it. But who would have thought that the owner of that tavern, There are other requirements for renting this shop.
If you want to rent a shop, you have to spend money to take over all the furnishings, furniture and employees in the tavern. Not to mention the tables, chairs and benches, the Chu family will not use them at all. Even if business is booming and they need to hire people, they will not be able to rent a shop. Take over and continue to use the landlord's principles.
But before Chu Yi could express his position, the boss actually refused after learning that Chu Yi was in the paper money business, saying that he still wanted to find someone who could continue the tavern business. People who were in the paper money business still felt a little uncomfortable. auspicious.
Chu Yi, who was already a little hesitant and was thinking about how to discuss the furniture and staff issues with the boss, had no intention of renting after hearing this, so he left the tavern with the lonely people.
After hearing what Chu Yixue said, Shen Luzhu felt a little funny for a moment: "It's no wonder that the owner's ancestral tavern can't continue to operate. With such a temperament, it's really not suitable for business."
"Fortunately, that shop doesn't particularly meet our requirements. The location is still a bit out of the way. The most prosperous shops in the town are concentrated on the two main streets. Shops like this one on the side roads are very popular. It’s all worse.”
As Chu Yi spoke, he pushed the cart in front of him back and forth, coaxing his fat son to play. It had just entered July, and Zhengzheng's child was now six months old. Recently, he could lean on his back. Things like walls or quilts, in his father's eyes
With the help of grandma, I sat and played with various dolls.
Chu Yi took advantage of the free time before the Hungry Ghost Festival to make a stroller for his fat son, imitating the wheelchair he made for his third uncle Chu, with fences on the front, back and left. It's just enough for him to sit firmly inside, which not only makes it easier for his family to take care of him, but also eliminates the need to hug this little meat ball covered in sweat in the hot summer.
Shen Luzhu looked at his fat son who was having a great time, and the corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously: "Chu Yi, how about we stop renting and just buy a shop? The money at home should be enough. That's it. He Yaxing said that whether it is for rent or for sale, he can take us to have a look, so there should be more choices available. "
They have been doing paper money trading for three or four years. Although they never treat their own family harshly in terms of food and clothing, and their expenses are much higher than those of other families in the village, it is nothing compared to what they earn. Now Naturally, I have also saved a lot of money. If I want to buy a shop in the town, it should be more than enough.
In fact, Chu Yi had been thinking about this issue on the way back: "It's not bad to buy a place. Although it costs a lot more money at one time, in the long run, it is more cost-effective to buy it. But Ah Zhu, what do you think if we don’t go to the town and go directly to the county?”
"Go directly to the county?"
Chu Yi nodded and explained to his wife seriously: "Well, Ah Zhuke still remembers the last Lantern Festival. Didn't we go to the county to go to the lantern festival together? The county was many times more prosperous than the town, and there were more people. If there are more, if we move the business directly to the county, the business should be good."
"We just wanted to make our business bigger and make more money, so that we could take the whole family to enjoy the happiness, and at the same time, we could broaden our horizons for our younger brothers and sisters. There is really no reason why we have to stay in the town. If it’s just for these reasons, the county is naturally better than the town! But the prices of the shops in the county are probably much higher than those in the town. If we buy them, I don’t know if we have enough money.”
Chu Yi comforted his wife and said, "It doesn't matter. We won't decide right away. After the Ghost Festival, we will find some time to go to the county. If there is a shop we like, we can rent it first if we don't have enough money." , saving slowly will always be enough."
During this year's Ghost Festival, the Chu family's old house is obviously much busier than in previous years. Uncle Chu will stay in the backyard and look after the paper ingot workshop as always. In addition to the still popular paper money business, the funeral team's work is also intermittent. Yes, fortunately Chu Xiuxiu and Chu Li can now take charge of their own affairs.
Otherwise, we have to take care of the business on both sides and take care of Zhengzheng's children. Even if we divide it into two halves, I'm afraid it won't be busy enough. At this time, the stroller made by Chu Yi plays a greater role. Just sit inside and give him stuffed animals. When business gets busy, even if you can't pay attention to the child for a moment or two, there won't be any problem.
What's more, there's Cihua, an expert at coaxing babies, by his side. Even if it's a boring game of you and me, one cat and one baby can play for a long time every time. If Zhengzheng does any dangerous behavior, Cihua will still play it. Meowing.
The paper money shop's business stopped as usual two days before the Ghost Festival. After a day's rest, on the Ghost Festival, the young couple took Chu Li and Zheng Zheng to visit the graves of Chu Yi's parents to offer sacrifices.
As usual, when a baby is born in the family, the young couple should take Zhengzheng to the grave to worship him during the Qingming Festival. But Zhengzheng is still too young and the weather is cold, so the young couple really don't dare to take him out of the house. , and then waited until the Hungry Ghost Festival to take Zhengzheng to worship his grandpa and grandma for the first time.
On the day of the sacrifice, the young couple were still in the cemetery at the end of the village, and they bumped into Uncle Chu's family who had also come to pay homage to the Chu family's ancestors.
After not seeing each other for more than half a year, the young couple's life is getting more and more prosperous. Their clothes, appearance and appearance all show how nourishing their life is now. But Uncle Chu's family is just the opposite. They all look gloomy and depressed, especially Uncle Chu. It is said that he became seriously ill after moving out of Kaoshan Village. It was not until recently that he got better, but his face is still full of illness. , his cheeks were sunken and his complexion was sallow, his eyes were cloudy and dull, and he was so thin that even his cheekbones, which were not very obvious in the past, seemed to be about to grow out.
Wang also appeared
It was a bit miserable. I don’t know if he had another stroke later or if the sequelae of the previous one were getting worse. The symptoms of crooked eyes and mouth became more obvious. For some reason, it seemed that even walking was a bit difficult.
The members of Uncle Chu's family were probably still brooding over what had happened before, especially when the two sides compared each other at this moment. They felt even more unhappy. The men's already serious faces became even more gloomy, and if their eyes could kill, Wang and Chu A Nai's hateful eyes may have turned into poisonous sharp arrows and shot them at Chu Yi and Chu Yi.
When both parties saw each other, they were both stunned subconsciously at first. No one spoke, or didn't want to speak at all. After a while, the young couple were the first to react. Shen Luzhu held Chu Yi in one hand, as if nothing happened, and took Chu Yi with him. Li and Zhengzheng left directly.
In the past, when they lived in a village under the same roof, the young couple really had no choice. Every day when they saw them behaving in various ways and coming up with various ways to take advantage of themselves, Shen Luzhu would always be emotionally affected. , I have come up with various ways, even if I lose eight hundred to myself, I still have to injure the enemy one thousand to take revenge.
But now he sees that family appearing in front of him again. Even though their faces are still hateful, it seems that as they were forced to move out of the backing village, all those things in the past have disappeared.
Now, in the eyes of the young couple, Uncle Chu's family has long become insignificant strangers, and can no longer evoke any other emotions.
