Mrs. Xu stretched out her hands: "Table."
The whole table stood at the door and called affectionately: "Sister!"
Xu Tianxin was picking bugs from the rice in the warehouse, but he also knew that there seemed to be a table full of grandma coming back.
Because the background music in the live broadcast room suddenly sang: "My dearest, how are you doing? You are fine without me..."
He was the only one who could make her miss him so much.
Xu Tianxin quickly put down the dustpan and said to Qin Niang: "Auntie, the table is full. Grandma is back. I'll go take a look."
Yu Qiniang nodded quickly, and she seemed to hear the movement.
When Xu Tianxin saw the table full of grandmothers, he was so shocked that he hid by the door and blinked twice.
It was so annoying that the background music in the live broadcast room was joking, and the music suddenly changed to: "Beautiful, cute woman who makes me blush..."
But in fact, the table full of grandmas now has nothing to do with being beautiful.
The unkempt hair that looked like it had been fried was dotted with small wildflowers of various colors, red, pink, and yellow.
There are two thin black stripes on the eyebrows, which may have been scratched on the temples while taking a nap on the road. Since I didn't have anywhere to look in the mirror to touch up my makeup, I added two more patches on the lower part, completely turning into a black frame with two lines.
His eyelids were smeared green.
I have heard it mentioned by the grandma all over the table before. She said that among the colorful colors, she only likes green, and people with green eyelids are frightened.
I don't know where I got the lipstick or red paper from, so I smeared two big red lumps on my face. Because it was smudged, it looked like I had rubbed two hands of blood on my face, with black fingerprints on it.
The lip color was also very red, but it expanded a lot due to drinking water, as if the corners of the lips were bleeding.
Xu Tianxin recalled what an elderly woman in the village said to her wife: "It looks like she's eating her child to death."
Xu Tianxin couldn't imagine what it would be like to eat a child before, but from now on he can finally picture it.
In the room, Grandpa Guan was also talking about the situation when he met the table full of grandma in the cemetery.
Grandpa Guan laughed and said, he just yelled randomly when they met: "Impossible, absolutely impossible."
It couldn't be that he met someone.
Hearing this, all the grandmas on the table laughed at themselves along with everyone. At the same time, they were a little embarrassed and asked her grandma: "Sister, am I really smelly and ugly now?"
The smell is a given.
But she thought she was well dressed, so she went out of her way to tidy up before going home. You said she had no place to take a photo, so she made trouble, which made her sister embarrassed in front of the villagers.
Xu Tianxin heard her grandmother say firmly:
"Who said that? Table, just remember, women who are serious about making money are the most beautiful."
Men who know how to care about women's hard work are also the most handsome, and these are rare.
The most beautiful thing about a woman is not her ostentatious appearance, but the sparkle in her eyes when she works, and the smile on her lips when she takes out her hard-earned money and throws it on the kang.
Especially at their age, who dares to go out and travel around? Who can't admire them?
Only then did Guan Ertu realize that he had made a mistake. No matter how old he was, he was still a woman.
And I want him to tell his true feelings, this age is not just about spending money, it doesn’t hurt here and there and asking for money everywhere, but it is a big treasure who can still go out to make money. Why do you laugh at others about their appearance?
He quickly stopped laughing and said seriously: "That's right, just wash it off. Isn't it better than me to come back with all my beard and tail? Old girl, this is you."
Guan Ertu firmly gave a thumbs up to the table full of old girls.
The only time he went out to do a blood test was to get beaten up.
Speaking of this matter, Guan Ertu was also aggrieved. Did he hope that it would be found out that it was his own child, or did he hope that it was not his child?
Although you can earn some hard money by getting beaten up, when you take up this kind of business in the future, you must ask what your demands are in advance to avoid thankless efforts.
"How much have you earned? Can you settle the bill?" Guan Ertuo was anxious to ask for money, not because he couldn't trust the two old ladies in front of him, but because he wanted to take advantage of the onset of winter to get some medicinal materials, and secondly, he wanted to use the money to buy medicine cabinets. Everything else can wait. If we don't open the medicine cabinet, it will be too late.
The whole table looked at Mrs. Xu with their eyes
Ask, can there be so many outsiders in the room talking?
When Mrs. Xu finished saying, "We are not outsiders," the whole table suddenly burst into laughter:
"Sister, I have not insulted the mission you gave me. After getting rid of more than thirty broken ones and samples that were shown to others, I sold all the rest, not a single one was left."
In fact, there weren't that many that were broken. Guan Ertu's skills in making money were quite good. He carefully crafted and selected all the sets one by one.
In fact, more than twenty of them were blown by tables full of them.
In order to make the girls in the brothel laugh up and down, so that they can help her say good things with more words. A girl asked her to blow a few times to see if there were any leaks, so she blew hard in front of everyone. When I blew it to the back, I didn't want to see if there was any leakage, but I wanted to make her look embarrassed and blow it out so that I could keep more of it.
It blew all over the table, and after leaving the brothel, I drank water for two consecutive days and it was dripping down my cheeks.
But the whole table didn't intend to tell her sister this, because she didn't want to make her feel sad in case she was embarrassed to accept the money.
She wasn't sure what kind of person her elder sister was before. Probably not much different from an ordinary mother-in-law.
But now she is confident that her elder sister can do something. Seeing her hard work, she is embarrassed to accept her own share of the money, so she throws it all to her if it is easy to change hands.
What's that for?
On this trip, the whole table was thinking more and more clearly on the way. What she wanted to do in the future was to make money with her elder sister. This was already a deep friendship. She couldn't have prepared for the fact that in her previous life, she should have been like a sister. It’s time to bind my sister with affection and rely on charity.
Therefore, Guan Ertu has a share, Laojie has a share, and she earns a share of the commission. No one should lose a penny.
Isn't that right? Since the old lady had spoken and there was no one else in the room, the whole table came to the kang and started pouring money.
I hid the broken silver in my crotch earlier, but took it out when I was almost at home.
At the moment, the whole table is using scissors to cut open the front of the shoes and pour out the broken silver from the inside.
Then she took off the colorful flowers on her head and opened her messy hair to reveal the hidden world.
Why do you get a piece of flowers to wipe on your forehead? Because there are a lot of copper plates hidden in it.
"There are two companies that buy odd and round amounts, so they can't exchange for broken silver.
I didn't dare to walk around when I went out. I was afraid that the more places I went, the easier it would be for someone to stare at me. I took these coins with me all the way, and it almost became a problem for me.
Especially these days, it's rainy and windy. You said the weather is so unreliable like men, always afraid that money will suddenly drop and someone will find it and snatch it away. "
There was a splash, a splash, the sound of money being dropped from the kang.
Fortunately, Liu Laozhu guessed that the day Mrs. Xu disappeared from the county for no reason was related to the business partnership with Guan Ertu.
What's more, he took a few baskets of goods with him when he set out. He hadn't looked through them and he wasn't blind, but he didn't know what he was selling until now.
But the Wan family, the Wang family, the fourth uncle and the seventh uncle were all dumbfounded: Oh my god, what have these three people done outside to make a lot of money?
They discuss how to spend money every day, and people put money in from all kinds of corners.
It was really a lot of money. The table was full and they took away 800 sets. As Mrs. Xu said, a hundred of them were samples, with holes, given away for free, and some that she had blown out and couldn't use. The remaining seven hundred were sold.
At present, except for the bare sample board, the total money of all the goods poured on the kang is twenty-three taels of silver.
In the early days, Mrs. Xu even made a single sale, selling three hundred sets and earning ten taels of silver. She and Guan Ertu each received fifty taels.
Her five taels had been spent long ago, but when she was most short of money for shopping in Fucheng, she didn't even think about touching Guan Ertu's money.
Therefore, plus the payment for the previous sale, Guan Ertu alone should receive sixteen and a half taels of silver.
"Grandpa Guan, you..." The smile on Mrs. Xu's face paused, what's wrong?
Guan Ertu's tears were silently falling down his face that was bruised and beaten.
With this money, he was finally able to make thick cotton coats for his grandson and daughter before winter.
This year I can also give gifts to my master and son-in-law, including
The cemeteries where he had picked up fruit for offerings all burned more paper money.
Finally, I had the confidence to say to my son-in-law who died early: "Don't worry there, my father-in-law will raise your baby well. He will not be hungry or cold without a father."
Guan Ertu still wanted to hide it, to save face, and didn't want anyone to see him shed tears, so he could only twist his body and cover his face with his sleeves.
But in order to save fabric, the poor family did not use long sleeves as the elegant and serious doctors did. Not only were the sleeves not long enough to cover the wear, but there were even skin wounds on the hands. His movements were very graceful, just as he should be.
Everyone in the room saw it.
Although everyone sitting here was curious about what they sold to earn more than 20 taels in a blink of an eye, why did Mrs. Xu seem to have robbed the money outside?
But after all, they are the most respectable people in the village. It involves money. At this time, they should have left without anyone rushing, not to mention that they cried.
The fourth uncle and the seventh uncle took the lead in standing up on crutches, laughing and saying:
"It's a great thing to earn some silver. It's so rare for farmers. It's hard to find it once in a lifetime, so let's chat about this happy thing first. As for other things, it doesn't happen overnight. , hurry up and let’s get together and explain it in detail.”
Liu Laozhu also hurriedly took advantage of these words. While helping his fourth uncle to go out, he asked other topics to avoid embarrassment:
"You and Uncle Qi really don't want to start a business?"
Uncle Qi said with a smile: "No, I and the boys in your fourth uncle's family have no big prospects. We have to be safe in a show of hands. I don't want to pay for the capital first for fear of losing money. My family was also flooded. If the situation really doesn't allow it, then We respect the children’s ideas. However, I’m afraid that if you guys make a lot of money first, they will be jealous and want to do it.”
Liu Laozhu said with a good temper:
"Don't be afraid. There is such a large area of land vacant there. We will build houses next year. If many people regret it then, we can just build more and start selling stalls. But we can't sell them on the Double Ninth Festival.
However, even if we don’t set up a stall and don’t know what kind of food to sell, I think the situation will be better next year, and we will also stock up some wasteland to grow vegetables. The wasteland next to our new house will no longer be sold to us cheaply, so we will stock up elsewhere.
At that time, everyone will help with planting, harvesting and pickling vegetables. As long as you work hard, you won't be afraid of not earning wages. "
When the fourth uncle heard this, he smiled and said:
"Thanks to that girl Tian Xin who had a good relationship with the high official and brought us the news that the caravan will come to the caravan every other day next year. She will not be idle that year. This news is so important that it is like trusting us. end.
So if those losers in my family don’t want to do business, then they can’t do it.
What's more, didn't you ask me and your seventh uncle to help take care of things, and said that you would also pay us bathing tickets? This is something I would never dare to think about.
Regardless of whether we have more or less, I didn’t expect that your seventh uncle and I would still enjoy such blessings when we grow old. Look, if I can get paid monthly, even my great-granddaughter-in-law will wish me a long life. "
Even if these three people left while talking, Liu Laozhu only said to Mrs. Xu before leaving: "I will take someone out to sell goods tomorrow."
Mrs. Xu nodded, indicating that she understood.
When the eldest brother of the Wan family, Wang Yusheng and others left, they said to Mrs. Xu: "Then let's leave first. We have to go home to discuss it. We can't fool around with cooking."
Because they think what Mrs. Xu said is right. In the past, it was planned that many families in the village would work together to sell food. At that time, they could sell some cheap rice. After all, there were more people doing it, so there would be more styles. Some of them were expensive and some were very cheap. Merchants have more choices.
But now they are the only ones taking the lead, which is equivalent to contracting this stall. In order to make money, they have to be willing to make money and have delicious food, and follow the high-quality route. ..
Moreover, they had cooked meat dishes with oil, and had a lot of chats at Xu's house tonight. They found that they really gained a lot after each chat, and they also had a lot of support.
As everyone went out one after another in tacit agreement, the whole table happened to hear Yu Qinniang asking Xu Tianxin what he was doing in the kitchen.
Tian Xin said that she wanted to cook for grandma on the table. She wanted to make dumplings and noodles in the car. She wanted to beat poached eggs to make braised meat and noodles.
The whole table felt warm after hearing this, but also pretended to be disgusted and said exaggeratedly
:
"Emma, baby, grandma doesn't need you to cook. You are slower than a boat docking, a turtle climbing a mountain, or asking for help. When will I be able to eat it?"
There is also a slow-witted guy who almost talks smoothly to the whole table. He must not utter such rude words to taint our clear little girl.
Shouting this, he also left the room.
Xu Tianxin's aggrieved voice came from the other side of the kitchen: "How could I have been so lazy?"
Yu Qiniang and the whole table laughed, and really wanted to say: Yes.
Tian Xin is very particular about cooking, wiping this and washing that. If I had to wash the dishes, it would be even worse, or I wouldn't do it. After I finished it, it would be dark, and I would like to clean all the salt shakers in the dish rack, so Yu Qinniang never used Xu Tianxin to wash the dishes.
In the room, in an instant, only Mrs. Xu and Guan Ertu were left, as well as dozens of taels of silver on the kang.
Mrs. Xu took the opportunity to find out the previous five taels of silver, divided the twenty-three taels of silver into two and gave it to Guan Ertu: "You should get five taels from the sale I made, and you should get eleven and a half taels from this one. A total of sixteen and a half, you can count them, and using what the table said just now, I will not disgrace my mission."
Guan Ertu choked with sobs: "Thank you."
From now on, the Xu family will be his only relative. In one word, love will last forever.
The reason why Guan Ertu was so excited was because he felt that Mrs. Xu gave him not only money, but also the confidence to regain his self-esteem.
Guan Ertu still remembers the time when he met Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin in the cemetery. Mrs. Xu said that she quarreled with the villagers and even sometimes went out to lie and brag out of self-esteem.
He said you still have that thing? He is long gone.
Now, seeing the money, he has it again.
So whoever asked him to straighten his chest and start a new life, he would just follow orders from now on.
Before Guan Ertu left, he suddenly smiled like an old naughty boy and bowed to Mrs. Xu.
Then his expression became serious, as if he was out of breath. He carried the money in his pocket and walked out of Xu's house with his back straight and his steps strong and sonorous. How old are you? He is still young!
The three members of the Xu family happened to meet Dali when he returned.
Guan Ertu: "If you have food, wait until I go out and show off before I give you the money for the wood."
With the news about Guan Ertu, it would be strange if every family in the village didn't go crazy that night.
At present, whoever gets involved with the Xu family will make a lot of money, so whose ancestral grave is covered in smoke.
And the whole table earned three and a half taels of commission money.
This is derived from Mrs. Xu's eleven-liang commission. After all, she should go out to sell, and she has no time to subcontract to the old sisters. She should pay for the wages, including the half a tael of food, travel, and accommodation expenses that she had given in advance.
But what Mrs. Xu didn't expect was that the half a tael of food, travel expenses and accommodation money had not been spent. The table actually gave her fifty-two coppers left.
"We've been traveling for more than a month and only collected a few copper coins a day. You haven't eaten?"
"That's not possible, sister. If you don't eat, you will starve to death. There were a few times when I helped the big car shop to cook or wash clothes and bedding, and my accommodation money was confiscated."
The whole table was telling the truth, but the truth was mixed with water.
She never ate a bite of food during these days outside, and only ate the cheapest dry food. Sometimes she even had no hot water and no dry food with her when she was on the road.
I also drank the milk from the foam condom, and even the milk soup and medicinal ingredients were not wasted. Drinking that kind of cool bubble water will make your throat feel cool, don't even mention it.
The whole table doesn’t want to suffer so much, but everything sold outside is expensive.
The food is expensive, but she won't eat it, and the white-flour steamed buns are expensive, so she won't eat it.
She thought that if she couldn't control the prices, she couldn't control her own mouth, so she stopped eating to see what happened to her.
Look, I saved fifty-two cents for my sister and brought it back. I happened to have too much money and didn't have time to buy anything for the baby, so I just bought some snacks for Tian Xin.
Mrs. Xu thought of the eighty cents of venison she had eaten.
She originally thought she was good enough to live a good life, but we have to admit that as modern people, we have a common problem. Sometimes, after seeing the world and thinking,
After becoming enlightened, I feel that I would rather spend more than miss out. I enjoy it first and then make money later. I really dare to spend money.
Now, compared with her old sisters, she felt inexplicably that she had spent eighty yuan just to taste the taste of venison, so she was not so thrifty and could not run a household.
At this time, Mrs. Xu looked at the fifty-two coppers she had saved so hard, and saw the table looking at her happily. She was stunned and couldn't say no more, like a casual compliment.
He silently accepted the money, and specially sealed the three and a half wages in red. He put his hands on the table and said, "This is the beginning."
Before he could sensationalize the story of friends leaving together for the rest of their lives, the whole table frowned and said:
"Emma, sister, aren't you wasting red paper? Tsk tsk." Then he poured out the money and laughed so hard that he hugged Mrs. Xu and couldn't help laughing happily.
Well, it seems that she has committed a common problem of modern people again. Mrs. Xu patted the thin body of the table: "It's not a waste if I leave it for you to put on your red lips. Come, follow me to take a shower, I'll give it to you Rub it well."
