Before the news came back, Xu Laosan and Lao Si had just returned from buying porcelain jars from Xishan Town.
By the way, I also brought back two big geese and a basket of eggs.
"Where did the goose eggs come from? I didn't let you buy them. I just collected the chickens and eggs a few days ago." Mrs. Xu asked while helping her granddaughter make yellow cypress.
"Blacksmith Wu from the town gave it to Tian Xin.
Blacksmith Wu said that he never expected that he would help Tian Xin get some scrap iron from the snow, and he would actually ask the town and pavilion to send people to his place to order it.
The town asked for twenty as soon as they asked for it, so it was quite satisfying to give the money to the Yamen.
Isn't that right? If you pass by his house, you may recognize our ox cart.
His old wife grabbed the goose by the neck and stood astride the egg basket, forcing us to force ourselves into the car and force us to bring back whatever we didn't want. "
Mrs. Xu laughed and said, "Are there only two of the geese left in Blacksmith Wu's house? Okay, that's how human relationships are. The more they move around, the thicker they get. Let's leave them there. It just so happens that we didn't stock up on geese this time. If Tian Xin doesn't eat them, , I’ll stew it and sell it, and with the money, I’ll buy her something else to eat.”
Xu Laosan saw a bed of yellow cypress. He had just arrived home. He was obviously freezing but could not sit still. He said, "I'm going to see if the caravan has come. I'll pick up some yellow cypress and save it."
I heard from Uncle Guan that one bag is worth two taels of silver. Taking home ten bags is equivalent to a net income of more than twenty taels. If you have nothing to do, just pick it up.
Mrs. Xu glared at her, as if she was heartless.
Medicine halls are not allowed to accept cork of unknown origin, and the government is on guard against picking it up casually. After all, no matter how much ordinary people pick up, it won’t be used as medicine, so why bother saving it?
And there are many doctors who know how to use it as medicine. If someone reports him, he will be arrested if he is found out.
To put it bluntly, if someone dares to recycle and give money, will it be the third child's turn? Just Guan Erbald could make the tree balder than his hair, and he would have become rich long ago.
Mrs. Xu handed over the medicinal soup that her granddaughter had specially prepared for the two uncles and said, "Just stay at home. I don't dare to walk around without looking at you. All the stalls in the village have been thrown away. I have to let your grandma watch." The caravan is coming soon. If you are too cold, drink some hot soup."
Xu Lao San and Xu Lao Si became nauseated as soon as they were told to drink hot soup.
Ever since Xu Tianxin announced that he would study medicine and bought those expensive books, the oldest to the youngest in their family are now drinking tonic medicine.
It is said that the three brothers drank Sanhuang Decoction, which can disinfect all the way from the stomach to the small intestine.
And not only do you drink soup during the day, but you also need to take medicine at night.
Although I feel better, this is too much...
Life and death, destiny and wealth are in heaven.
Xu Laosan suggested that his niece learn fortune telling again. Then let him do the math and see if it's worth it. If his fate is very serious, he will go to the battlefield and behead people, let alone spend money on medicine. Last time I heard the soldiers say that if you kill a very small official, you can get fifty taels. He killed a hundred or so and brought them back to his mother.
Xu Laosi frowned and drank the decoction, while speaking seriously to Mrs. Xu:
"Mom, there is something I have wanted to say for a long time. If Tian Xin insists on studying medicine, we will wait until she is almost done and doesn't want to make any more money. By then, our family will have enough money to support her.
After that, it is better to go to Fucheng to find a decent gentleman somewhere else.
I am not being particular about my Uncle Guan, but take a look, our good girl has been picking up rags in the village every day since she followed Uncle Guan.
Uncle Guan is famous for picking up all kinds of excrement, chicken droppings, cicada shells, centipedes, peanut skins, corn silks, and even egg skins as treasures.
In his eyes, fingernails and hair are medicine.
I am really worried that after a few years of learning from him, our nice girl will have flies all over the house.
And our family is no longer in the difficult days it used to be, so why bother. Even if Tian Xin doesn't earn a penny so far, we can afford it if we spend a little less.
Guess what I heard Uncle Guan say to our Tian Xin that day? "
"What did you say?"
"Uncle Guan is still complacent, saying that he only started picking up rags when he was in his thirties, and Tian Xin started doing it at the age of 13, so he had 20 years less detours than him."
The key niece responded and said with a smile, Grandpa, then I started at a higher level than you.
Speaking of her niece, "Where is Tian Xin, making hemorrhoid cream at home?" Alas, Xu Youyin really hoped that her niece would just play with flowers and plants.
Xu Youyin asked if his niece was in the village because he did not dare to occupy the new shop now for fear that the caravan would arrive at any time. He had previously occupied Wang Yusheng's house and hurriedly made the fragrant rice noodles before vacating it. Wang Yusheng's kang has not yet been opened. Allow to dry completely.
The niece arranged for twenty soap-making girls and twenty old men to work at the house of the lonely old man in the village and paid the rent. There, one group of people were boiling sophora japonica and the other group was boiling the base of facial oil.
However, Tian Xin has changed from his normal behavior and is always running away recently.
Just like when I was clearing snow before, my niece obviously didn't need to suffer the consequences of stealing tree bark at the border. They can just steal it. And there is time to teach everyone how to ski.
Mrs. Xu didn't take her younger son's complaint seriously.
The granddaughter greeted her and said, "Grandma, I'm going to go to the village with Grandpa Guan to collect garbage. Don't be dissatisfied with it. That's what learning Chinese medicine is like. It's learning."
Because once you study medicine, you can't just treat rich people to make money. Why not do something else? Therefore, if you want to treat more ordinary people, you must master a lot of local methods. After all, for most people, it is better to spend less money and have slow curative effects of home remedies than to directly prescribe expensive medicines and have a more cost-effective operation.
When her granddaughter said something like this, how could Mrs. Xu still dislike picking up rags and making scraps?
Just pick it up. Fortunately, her granddaughter can make money and her family's current conditions are good. If she can't help but go to other people's houses to pick up trash, others will think that Tian Xin has a new way to make a lot of money, and she won't pay attention to other things behind her back.
When she heard the fourth child wondering why Tian Xin kept running out recently, Mrs. Xu glared at the fourth child.
Xu Laosi looked confused. What did he say? It's just troublesome.
Mrs. Xu thought to herself: It's really annoying, why are you so thoughtful?
What could be the reason? for live broadcast.
You can't just make hemorrhoid ointments and facial creams in Zibo in one day. It was her suggestion that her granddaughter go out for a run and ski, and then sneak something to stimulate her at the junction of the live broadcast.
Yes, the few taels of silver earned from live broadcasting are no longer so important.
But no matter when the time comes, the family members in the live broadcast room are very important, and it is always worth it for them to put down their livelihood of making money to broadcast new scenes.
In Mrs. Xu's view, without her family, she wouldn't be where she is today.
However, at this time, Mrs. Xu really didn't know where her granddaughter had gone. Just as she was about to reply that she must have gone back to the village, she heard a distinguished guest arrive outside.
Yes, Mrs. Xu immediately understood where her granddaughter had gone.
You must have heard the background music in the live broadcast room change, and some distant guest asked you to stay. The young man stood at attention and said that the girl was beautiful, and the mother vomited something like that in the northeast. After that, she hitched the sledge and ran away. The bullock cart is not at home, he just came back.
And why not let someone else greet the guests? At present, those dogs only recognize her granddaughter.
On weekdays, Liu Laozhu is able to feed, but sometimes Liu Laozhu can't control where he runs. He often goes on a spontaneous trip. He doesn't know where he will go, depending on the mood of the dogs.
Every time Liu Laozhu drives the dog and sledge out, he has to take two big pancakes with him in advance.
That's too far.
Mrs. Xu hurriedly packed up the yellow cypress and stood up, asking the third child to carry him away quickly.
Come on, come on, they are really coming.
"How many people came?"
No one expected that Budai, who was only eight years old, would be the fastest kid in the village to learn to ski.
Thinking about the secret signal sent back by Sister Tian Xin using the suona, she told everyone: "About three hundred people."
After a stick of incense:
"Welcome, gentlemen, please come inside!" The bathing team, the fire-making team, the cooking team, the livestock team, and the unloading team, from oldest to youngest, stood in two long lines to greet the guests. They lined up on the avenue and made gestures to invite people in.
Erdaohe Village, next to the one-eyed snowman.
To be honest, when the guest officers saw Xu Tianxin driving a sledge truck with ten big dogs, and then standing on the sledge truck and blowing the suona into the distance, they were a little scared at first.
It seemed as if he was sending a message to someone in advance, as if the next step was to rob their goods.
But he still followed firmly.
Because the road signs everywhere are not as clearly written as here. Basically, every ten miles line will tell you how far you still have to go before you can get there.
It was too cold. It all depended on how many miles we had left to hold on.
Therefore, they felt that if it was fake and marked in such detail, the Zhenbei General Mansion would not allow it. ap.
In addition, it started snowing after passing Shanhaiguan. They had never seen the road cleared of snow so cleanly. Looking at the signboard, if you understood correctly, it was Erdaohe Qing, who was escorting them and wishing them well. A long journey ahead.
You have to come, no matter how good or bad it is, you must at least stay for one night, and get warm first.
Now, finally, the tea merchants were a little surprised by the enthusiasm.
Along the way, I have never seen such a big car shop in a village or an inn in a major city.
This team of tea merchants consisted of 200 mule carts, with a total of 300 people escorting and following the carts.
Mrs. Xu didn't waste any nonsense and didn't say any polite words first. Under Liu Laozhu's introduction, after getting to know the biggest leader of the caravan, whose surname was Zhang, she made an invitation gesture and gestured to follow her into the house to warm up. , while asking first, should you feed the mules and eat your own food for chewing, or should you use ours. We'll take good care of you.
In fact, Mrs. Xu already has the answer in her heart.
The caravan is so cold and suffering such a serious crime, are you here for fun? It is better to load more carts of tea than to load more carts of fodder. For such a big deal, of course I bought it.
Sure enough, here is different from modern times. The animals must always be arranged to eat and rest first. Leader Zhang knew the roads well at first sight and asked you how to sell fodder?
"The daily cost of a mule is 200 cents. Each mule is fed 45 kilograms of fodder, roughage, corn straw, corn stalks, and wheat straw. Five kilograms of concentrate. The concentrate includes corn, sorghum, soybeans, and black beans. . Feeding water, simply scrubbing, and taking care of it are all done by us."
Calculate the cost, you are not a fool, the cost alone is 165 Wen. We collect fodder money from fellow villagers, and they deliver it to their homes. There is also five kilograms of fine material and wages for hiring someone to feed it.
And this caravan has 200 mules, which requires many people to work, and they can earn five taels after a busy day. The five taels of silver are still given to Liu Laozhu, the Xu family, the Meizhuang family, the Wang family, the Wan family, etc., and even the Bai family, who contributed the money and land to build the livestock sheds, share the five taels of silver.
A long livestock shed like Xujiagai can only be divided into one and two halves.
So it's no wonder that Team Leader Zhang showed a slightly surprised expression. Although he didn't want others to see it, everyone knew in their hearts that Erdaohe was not that bad.
Do you know how much money they spend just feeding livestock in Fucheng for a day? Exactly doubled.
Even if the store is worth a lot more than here, it can't be doubled.
And along the way, the cheapest ones are those done by people in the villages along the road, which are also two taels more expensive than the prices here.
Team Leader Zhang: As expected, this is the first merchant that has always seemed very considerate since entering Zhenbei. This was his first impression of actually meeting the people of Erdaohe Village, and it was excellent.
I feel that these people can be fed realistically without sitting on the ground and raising prices because they see that they are tired and don't want to rush anymore.
"Sorry for the trouble, store, I'll feed you."
Liu Laozhu immediately organized the mule team, hurry up, help unload the truck and unload the goods, and let the mules into the shed.
As a general leader, Leader Zhang is very tired. He can leave all other matters to his subordinates, but the goods are the most important.
So while the truck was being unloaded, Leader Zhang took the initiative to ask if there was a room with inventory to hold his more than 60,000 kilograms of tea. How much money would it cost to store the room? He wanted to be in charge of the key, and it was best to have five people in the room. Stay and see the goods.
Mrs. Xu understood that she had done nothing as soon as she got her. She just built a spare room for the boss and built so many wooden partitions to set up a kang. Her second son would be exhausted. It was time to get back to the basics:
"This room
Putting the goods down should not be a problem.
These locks are also all new, you can choose one, and the windows can be inserted backwards.
This house costs three taels of silver a day. To be honest, all it costs is hiring someone to burn the house and firewood.
Otherwise, I can rent it out. Isn't this a mutual trade? Even though we are a village, I can make a lot of money by renting it out for a year.
In addition, I see that the goods you brought are tea. I will ask the helper to bring in some more water to try to make this room as humid as possible. Our northern land is dry. If the Kang and the fire wall heat up, it will be drier. "
"I didn't expect this store to know how to store tea leaves?"
Mrs. Xu waved her hand and said modestly: "Before you came, I asked around and asked the children to read the books to get a better understanding. I'm afraid that the goods of you distinguished guests from afar will be ruined. I heard that tea that is too dry is not allowed. Yes, it tastes tasteless."
Mrs. Xu looked at Leader Zhang again and smiled and said, "Why don't you tell me, it's really a distinguished guest. The children are right. Tea merchants have been trading with each other since ancient times. I heard that it is better to go without food for three days than to go without tea for one day. They eat meat, which makes them tired. What’s more, as the saying goes, three glasses of wine are enough to make a world of mortals, and a pot of tea is enough to achieve great things. Even a little old lady like me knows that tea is indispensable when talking about important matters."
"You're so flattering. Compared to those in the back, such as grain merchants, salt merchants, and silk and jewelry merchants, I don't care. There are too many caravans in the back. I guess they will all settle here."
Mrs. Xu burst into laughter, "It's so good, please come quickly."
What Mrs. Xu didn't know was that Liu Laozhu and the others were dumbfounded by what she had just said. She must have been tutoring behind their backs.
And the team leader with this seal was gesturing to his men to move the goods after selecting the keys.
While deliberately going outside, he squinted at the plaque and said, "It's you, aunt, your surname is Xu. Do you own all these shops?"
He wanted to make friends because there was so much horse dung outside the wall.
The horse is for military and official use, and with Mrs. Xu's manner of speaking, no one would believe her if she said she had no background. He was also a caravan from out of town, and he might not come here more than once in the future.
He had already seen that the aunt in front of him had the final say here. The one who is upright, step aside.
"Yes, my husband's surname is Xu, these are my family's shops."
"I've noticed these two plaques since I came in. The Western Fish Promise and the promise of one's body. What does it mean?"
Mrs. Xu: The meaning is that you have never learned Pinyin, Xiyu, Xu. Jiangyou happens to be in the west of the village, and his family mainly sells fish. The restaurant got its name.
Very casual.
As for committing yourself to each other, that's a bathhouse. If you don't give your body to us, how can you take a bath?
Taking advantage of the situation, Mrs. Xu led the largest group of tea merchants to visit the big bathhouse.
Liu Laozhu once again admired Mrs. Xu's usual generosity.
In recent days, even though the caravan clearly did not come, Mrs. Xu still asked everyone to turn on the boiler. The bathhouse must be filled with hot air as soon as you enter the room. She also ordered a large pool to be filled with bubbling water to make people feel comfortable. Warm at first glance.
Liu Laozhu tried to persuade him, saying that our hall was too big, and it would take a lot of water and firewood to burn it. Moreover, there were about twenty and a half young men who hired people to burn the fire. They could go in from the side of the house and burn it underground. How much would it cost for a day's work? .
When the caravan arrives, let's burn it again. It will warm us up in more than half an hour. If you live your life without planning, you will suffer from poverty.
Tian Xin Nai took what he said as fart and didn't listen to him. Look, you're right for not listening to him.
If people see that it's freezing in the house, it's better to go to the hot kang and wait for the meal. Then can you still take a bath?
Mrs. Xu was introducing: "This is a cabinet for storing clothes. The several pools together can wash more than 70 people. Each person has a key and cannot open other people's cabinets. We don't have spare keys, so we must Don't lose it, you can store your changes of clothes in the small cabinet."
Xu Laoer: Do you know why he hasn’t shown up for several days? I couldn't finish the carpentry work at all, so I started working for my mother again.
Although he did not build these cabinets, he was working for his niece at the time.
But those wooden door locks and wooden keys were all made by him. He was also forced to
I have learned a lot, and after being reminded by my niece, I set different buckles on the wooden core, otherwise a lock will open the whole door, and the distinguished guests will not be able to safely store their things.
While Mrs. Xu was talking to Leader Zhang, the members of the bathing team were also behind, lobbying the caravan to follow other people who came to watch the fun.
The reason is very good, look at it, it's all steaming, look at your eager little eyes. The meal will have to wait a while.
"It's a cold day, and my hands and feet are freezing. What can I do? Why don't I take a shower, rinse first and then soak, talking and laughing. Come on, gentlemen, please come inside!"
Leader Zhang and the other leaders smiled and washed their feet. Their feet were stinging from the cold. They had to hand over the goods tomorrow, so they had to wash them thoroughly.
Mrs. Xu quickly took advantage of this to get busy. The bathers here have to be trained and know how to answer questions. Just call the second brother and the fourth uncle to collect the money.
"How many letters per person?"
Liu Laozhu's voice came from inside:
"We have package tickets.
The large package ticket is 150 yuan per person, which includes tickets, massage, and fragrant soup.
Let me talk about this fragrant soup list, first of all, it includes the medicinal bag soaked in the big pool to relax the muscles and activate blood circulation. There are also toothbrushes and toothpaste, and the toothpaste contains precious salt. Anyone who uses it will know that it is very good.
It's all there for you to wash your hair, bathe your body, and apply facial oil on your face after washing. In addition, it also includes cupping, scraping, massage, and refreshments.
The small package includes washing and rubbing, priced at 70 cents per person. There was a medicine bag in the pool, but nothing else.
There are also comfortable singles, just bubble. "
Liu Laozhu said with a smile on his face and a handkerchief on his arm: "Finally, there is a super rich man, one hundred and seventy per person, and he will wash your clothes from inside to outside."
