Li Qiao looked at Li Dashan's back and smiled. This child was a little happy. Not only did he have a delicious breakfast, he also had dog food. He had eaten full early in the morning. He must have enough energy to work today.
"Let's eat quickly. When we're done, let Dashan knead the dough. I'll make the green dumplings and you make the rich cakes." He said to Tao Zhu with a smile.
"Um!"
Tao Zhu nodded.
After the two of them had breakfast, before dawn, Wang Xiuying came to fetch water, and soon Xiao Wu came too.
Xiaowu also brought the words of shopkeeper Wang:
I want to buy ten pounds of peach cakes.
Nowadays, peach cake has become the new favorite of shopkeeper Wang’s family, especially shopkeeper Wang’s old mother, who loves this most.
Mrs. Wang is old and her teeth are not very good. The Shaqima is too hard and she cannot bite it very well. She has to chew a piece slowly.
Dama Hua is barely chewy and chewable better than Shaqima.
But the peach cake softened quickly after being held in her mouth for a while, and she fell in love with it after eating it once.
Li Qiao's oven was too small to be mass-produced, so Shopkeeper Wang simply ordered it privately.
The last time he bought ten kilograms, he finished them in just two days. Today, Xiao Wu was asked to tell him that he wanted to buy another ten kilograms.
However, this time he specifically told her to put less sugar. His old mother was old and eating too much sugar was not good.
"Okay, I'll do it right now."
Anyway, it was still early and making peach cake was faster, so Li Qiao prepared to bake ten pounds of it for him.
After Xiao Wu left with Tao Su, Li Qiao started making Qingtuan, while Tao Zhu made Shaqima.
At noon, Wang Guihua came again.
One is to see if anyone is making trouble, but to see how maltose is being sold.
Yesterday, there were many people watching the excitement. The one who bought it for five cents and the one who bought it for ten cents sold a total of half a catty of maltose, which made her very happy.
There was no excitement today, there were few people, but a salesman from Xiaogang Village came.
This salesman usually travels the streets and is well-informed.
I knew that Sanliu Village sells maltose at half price, so I came here today.
The salesman naturally wanted to wrap up all the maltose, but Li Liang Wang Guihua had already thought of this situation.
The price of their maltose is low and they are retailed to the villagers. The couple can make money, and the villagers can also eat maltose at half price.
But the salesman cannot.
The peddler doesn't eat it for himself, he sells it to make money.
Wang Guihua and Li Liang are not that stupid. They don't earn money themselves but let the salesman earn it. They have already thought about it. The salesman can buy in large quantities, but the price is one hundred and eighty Wen per catty.
Although this price is much higher than what is retailed to the villagers, it is twenty cents lower than the price in the county town, and it also saves the peddler's errand fees.
So, the salesman gritted his teeth and bought three kilograms.
Before the news spread about the cheap maltose in Sanliu Village, he could still earn some copper by selling it in a village further away.
The shopkeeper bought three kilograms of maltose in one go and almost rounded up the maltose blocks made by Wang Guihua and Li Liang.
As soon as Wang Guihua came, Li Dashan handed her five hundred and forty copper plates, with a happy face: "Mom, it's a big business. It seems that you and dad will do more next time, otherwise it won't be enough for the salesman to buy." .”
"My uncle also gave me paper and asked me to make a ledger specifically to record our family's accounts."
"Yeah." Wang Guihua smiled, her smile was very light, and she took the coin.
"...Mom, are you in a bad mood?"
Li Dashan looked at her carefully.
"It's not because of you, Sister Chuntao."
Wang Guihua sighed.
Li Chuntao is seventeen years old and is considered a big girl in the countryside.
But in fact, Li Chuntao had made an engagement before, to her third uncle's cousin Zhou Mingsheng.
Because they were engaged since childhood, the two families have close contact.
Zhou Mingsheng, like Li Qiao, has been studying since childhood. He is two years older than Li Qiao. Like Gao Zhiyuan, he has passed the first two levels of the child-student examination and only has the last test left.
But Li Chuntao is getting older year by year and cannot afford to delay. Two years ago, Li Gu wanted Li Chuntao and Zhou Mingsheng to get married, but Zhou Mingsheng said that he would try the college examination again.
As a result, Zhou Mingsheng still failed the exam.
However, he was attracted by the daughter of the owner of a ceramics shop in the county town.
So, he rejected Li Chuntao's baby marriage and got married to the ceramic shopkeeper's daughter.
Li Gu and his daughter-in-law Zhou Jingui were naturally very angry. Over the years, their family would go to Zhou's house to help with the work every time the farm was busy, and every year they would give Zhou Mingsheng money to study.
But who knew that a white-eyed wolf would be revealed.
Zhou Jingui was not in good health at first, but was stabbed in the back by his nephew Zhou Mingsheng, who made him very angry and fell ill.
But she held on to her illness, and together with Li Gu, Li Liang, Li Dazhong and other men from the Li family, they went to the Zhou family to reason.
The Zhou family is in the wrong and is willing to pay Li Gu two taels of silver for the loss of Li Chuntao's youth.
This move almost killed Li Gu. He didn't ask for any money. Zhou Mingsheng was not at home at that time, so he beat Zhou Mingsheng's parents severely.
As a result, Zhou Mingsheng's parents turned around and started spreading rumors that Li Chuntao and Zhou Mingsheng had a physical relationship.
Such rumors were fatal to a girl. Li Gu was so angry that he rushed to the Zhou family with men from the Li family and beat up Zhou Mingsheng's father and mother.
But Li Chuntao's reputation could not be restored.
Li Chuntao could not prove his innocence at all, and people liked to read this kind of gossip, so Li Chuntao's reputation was completely ruined.
In the past two years, people have also come to Li Chuntao to propose marriage.
But either he is an old bachelor with a bad temperament or a poor family background, or he is a second-marriage man who is waiting for her to marry and take care of the whole family. Zhou Jingui’s originally not-so-good body is even worse because of these people’s popularity. Gotta take medicine.
Li Chuntao, on the other hand, became more and more silent. Whenever he left the house, he kept his head down and was no longer as cheerful and lively as before.
Just now, Wang Guihua went to Li Gu's house to borrow a bucket, and she happened to see a matchmaker coming to propose marriage to Li Chuntao. This time the matchmaker was talking about a family in the town.
Li Gu felt something was wrong, and repeatedly asked the matchmaker to tell the truth. It turned out that the man had killed three wives, and the people in the town who knew the truth did not dare to marry him, so they could only find girls from the countryside.
After hearing what the matchmaker said, Li Gu was so angry that he immediately kicked the matchmaker out.
Li Chuntao, on the other hand, remained silent and said that she was willing to marry as long as the man gave her a gift of twenty taels of silver.
"Ah? What do you think, little sister-in-law?"
Li Dashan was surprised.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu also came out of the shed and kitchen and looked at Wang Guihua in confusion.
"Well, Chuntao has had enough of being ridiculed. She would rather trade her life for twenty taels of silver and leave it to your second master and second wife."
Wang Guihua sighed.
"How can this happen!"
Li Dashan was startled: "Mom, you have to persuade my sister-in-law."
Li Qiao also frowned. Li Chuntao had such an extreme mentality?
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Chapter 37 Li Chuntao hired someone
Li Chuntao is the third Li family member Li Qiao met after traveling through time.
He caught a lot of fish on the day of the crossing. He originally wanted to deliver the fish to Li Gu's house in person, but he met Li Chuntao by the river, so he gave the fish to Li Chuntao.
After traveling for so long, he had not had much contact with Li Chuntao.
But in his impression, Li Chuntao was a very diligent girl. On the day he and Tao Zhu got married, Li Chuntao helped cook and worked very quickly.
Now Li Chuntao wants to die, but she can't worry about her parents, well...
"Sister-in-law, ask Chuntao if she is willing to come to my house to cook. She is only responsible for cooking three meals. The salary is 20 cash per day."
Wang Guihua: "..."
She frowned: "There is no need to force a cook into the family for Chuntao. Chuntao is not a fool. You are clearly planning to give alms to her. Let alone her, even our second uncle will not agree."
"Sister-in-law, I am not forcing you, let alone giving me charity. During breakfast, I was still discussing with Brother Zhu about hiring someone to cook."
"Mom, I can testify!"
Mentioning the breakfast full of dog food, Li Dashan quickly spoke: "My uncle thinks it is too hard for Uncle Zhu to cook every day, and I can't bear to let him work so hard. If Uncle Zhu doesn't think it is too high-profile to hire someone to cook, then how can I Come on, Uncle Zhu, this lunch is probably not cooked by Uncle Zhu."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but rub his arms.
He felt numb just repeating these words!
He has seen doting husbands, but he has never seen his brother-in-law like this, and he has never even heard of it. After all, there is no such plot in real life, nor in the drama, as a country man dotes on his younger husband.
Wang Guihua: "..."
She glanced at Tao Zhu.
Tao Zhu lowered his head, his cheeks burning.
There is also a trace of anxiety. Li Qiao treats him so well, will Wang Guihua be dissatisfied... His eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, and Wang Guihua is half of his mother-in-law.
Li Qiao was thick-skinned and hurriedly spoke to turn Wang Guihua's attention to him: "Cooking is really hard. Anyway, Chuntao wants to make money now, so just ask her."
"If she can make money on her own, it doesn't matter whether the money is given to her second uncle or second aunt or she keeps it herself. Wouldn't it be better than her being bored at home?"
"If a girl can make money by her own ability, she will have the confidence to stand upright and face all evil intentions. If Chuntao can easily earn 600 yuan a month, will she still care about other people's opinions? Are you afraid that no good man will come to ask for your hand in marriage?"
