Jinyi Music

Chapter 89

Jia Silian can see it, the parents are in a quarrel, but Jia You said that they will not treat their son badly, no matter how hard it is, they will only hurt their sisters, and it is definitely not the case of Jia You. So if I and my two younger sisters want to get married in the future, we can only rely on ourselves to have more good stuff at the bottom of the box!

Jia Silian quietly told her two younger sisters about her thoughts,

"Now you have seen this family. If you get married in the future, the dowry will not be too much. If you want to marry into your husband's family, you will not be looked down upon by others. You have to prepare this dowry yourself!"

Wulian nodded repeatedly,

"Fourth sister is right, we still have to rely on ourselves..."

Liulian laughed at her,

"Fifth sister, don't you say that you won't marry in the future, why do you still have a dowry?"

Wulian replied,

"If you don't get married, you have to have money. Look at Jia Laoqi, does he take care of us?"

Speaking of Jia Laoqi, the sisters all curled their lips tacitly. After they got married, they went back to their parents' home to visit their parents. Do you support your sisters?
"Fifth Sister is right..."

He glanced at Si Lian again,
"Fourth sister is right, we still rely on ourselves..."

Wulian frowned again,
"But Mother keeps an eye on us every day, even if Bingyinzi is made, we can't sell it outside!"

This Silian had already expected it,

"It's easy to handle. Now that the business is slow, there won't be so many people on the stall. The sun will be high in the afternoon, and my mother won't keep guarding it. At that time, we will spare two people to sell outside. It will be a good job to come back before the sun goes down." ..."

As for the bought ice and everything else, put them at the third sister's place, let the third sister participate in it, as long as no one says how many sisters are, mother will never know!

After thinking about it, Silian told the two younger sisters,
"Not only do you have to hide this matter from your mother, but you also have to hide it from your father..."

"Do you want to hide it from your father?"

Liu Lian asked, the two sisters were silent for a while, Wu Lian responded,

"If you don't want the money we earned to end up in Jia Laoqi's pocket, you have to listen to Fourth Sister..."

Liu Lian immediately understood, nodded heavily,

"Okay, even dad will keep it a secret!"

The so-called ice drinks are the favorites of high-ranking officials and dignitaries down to peddlers in summer, with complex flavors and endless patterns, such as sweet bean soup, coconut wine, bean water, deer pear syrup, bittern plum water, ginger, etc. Honey water, papaya juice, tea, agarwood, lychee paste water, bitter water, kumquat balls, snow foam shrink skin drink, plum wine, Wuling Dashun powder, perilla drink, etc.There is another man who likes to drink wine-flavored pear juice, coconut wine, plum blossom wine, or papaya juice, soap water, sweet bean sugar, mung bean water, spleen-reducing drink, stewed plum water, river tea, Drinks with different flavors such as Wulingsan, Dashunsan, Lychee Cream, White Fire, Lactose Zhenxue, etc.

Rich and noble families will also specially invite the cook to make crispy mountain with cow and goat milk. Two silvers is really not something poor people can afford.

The Jia sisters don’t know how to make those expensive iced drinks, but they can still make ordinary mung bean water, rose water, osmanthus water, etc. The sisters secretly tried it at home a few times while Xiangshi was out looking at the stall. If there is no ice, put the prepared water into the earthen pot, hang it into the well water to freeze it, and it tastes cool and delicious.

Jia Silian went out secretly to look for Sanlian again, and when it came to selling ice drinks, Sanlian was really in charge.

"There is a well at the back of our shop, which can store ice cubes, and there is also a stall in front of the street to sell things. It's just the mother's place, do you really want to do it behind her back?"

If Xiang Shi found out, I'm afraid he won't spare his sisters lightly!

Silian smiled bitterly and said,

"Third sister, when you got married earlier, you knew how much dowry you had. You didn't come home for a while, but you didn't know. Now father and mother have fallen out. Although father brings back the salary every month to support the family, But he is so stubborn that he refuses to give me half a penny... My mother gets up early every day and sets up a stall with us. I remember every penny clearly. Put them all away, and don't even show us..."

All the work in this family belongs to the three sisters, there is not a single copper coin, and the parents hold the silver in their hands and refuse to take it out. Seeing that Jia Laoqi is growing up day by day,

"Jia Laoqi is much smaller than Liulian!"

When Mr. Jia is going to get married and marry a daughter-in-law seven days later, his parents only care about him, and there will not be too much left to the three sisters. When the older sisters get married, the dowry will be pitifully small, and it will be even less when it is their turn. Well, the few of them always have to think for themselves, this didn't delay the family's business, and didn't take care of anyone less, they were worthy of the family,

Sanlian also sighed for her sisters when she heard this.

"Forget it, I'll discuss this matter with my mother-in-law, and let her just say that it's our family's business outside..."

The second elder of the Wang family treated her very well, and she also learned to take over the business in the shop. This is planning to rely on her daughter-in-law to support her in the future. Except for marrying a fool, the rest of Sanlian's marriage is pretty good!

After the two sisters made an agreement, the business started quietly. As expected, Mrs. Xiang was exactly as Silian expected. Her fat body was exposed to the sun for a few days, and she complained of being dizzy and went back to lie down. A few days ago, I went to the medical clinic on the street to grab two packs of medicine and took them back.
"The doctor said that he was suffering from heatstroke, so he couldn't bask in the sun outside, and he couldn't be tired!"

At dinner that day, Mrs. Xiang babbled on the table to her daughters. Jia Jincheng just buried his head in eating and didn’t speak. Wulian and Liulian didn’t speak. Seeing it in her eyes, Shi Lian felt chills in her heart, and just about to start swearing, Si Lian answered,
"It's very uncomfortable to bask in the sun. My mother is not in good health, so I don't want to go out of the stall. From now on, I will go with my two younger sisters. Mother, you can cook and do laundry at home!"

Seeing that the fourth daughter who had always been against him, Xiang Shi seldom said a thoughtful word, and finally felt a little better in his heart, but when he heard that she was asked to cook and do laundry, he immediately became dissatisfied, and stared and said,

"Why did my mother give birth to you two, and I also need my mother to wash and cook!"

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the indifferent Jia Jincheng and saw that his eyeballs did not even roll, and felt aggrieved again. After a few mouthfuls of food, he presumed that he was dizzy, and went back to his room to lie down!
Silian and the others finished eating, cleaned up the dishes, and put hot water in the stove. Wulian sat in the stove and lit the fire. At this time, the weather had already begun to heat up. Sitting in front of the stove and lighting the fire, the flames were so scorching. Sweat trickled down his forehead, his back was sticky, and Xiang Shi was screaming inside.
"Why isn't the water ready yet, and those cheap hooves have been dodging again!"

Liu Lian took the wooden bucket and came to fetch water, muttering,

"She knows the heat, but don't we know it? In such a big sun, don't we also bask in the same way?"

Whenever Xiang's mother is a little sick, she can torment her daughters vigorously, but she doesn't want to think about it. Like her, her daughters go out early and come back late, and they are also basking in the sun. After falling down, I didn't see her pity her daughters.

Silian came over and pushed Wulian away,

"Bring the water over here, I'll light the fire!"

In this kind of weather, the heat is hot, but it is not the hottest. It is not possible to bathe in the cold water in the well, but the water needs to be heated up.

Wu Lian and Liu Lian brought the water over and waited on Xiang Shi, Jia Jincheng, and Jia You to pass the washing, and then it was their sisters' turn. Si Lian asked the two younger sisters to wash first, and finally entered the house after cleaning up.

The three sisters slept side by side, Wu Lian asked Si Lian,
"Fourth sister, mother is not going out, can we make ice drinks tomorrow?"

Silian hummed,
"I'll talk to the shopkeeper tomorrow to see if I can buy some cheap ice..."

Large pieces of ice are used by rich and noble families. They don’t need that large piece of ice to make iced drinks. It shouldn’t take so many copper coins to buy some crushed or small pieces, right?

On the second day, the three sisters went out of the stall. In the afternoon, when the sun was shining, Xiang Shi would not go out. Jia Silian went to the ice shop. The business was in full swing, and the shopkeepers were busy moving in and out. Busy with counting, no one paid any attention to her.

Jia Silian thought for a while, then went around and knocked on the back door of the shop,

"Who is it?"

Someone opened the door and poked her head out to see, it was an old woman, and when she saw it was a little girl, she asked,
"Girl, what are you going to do?"

Silian replied,

"Grandma, I want to buy ice..."

The old woman said,

"You went wrong. If you want to buy ice, go to the front. Ask the shopkeeper. This is the backyard..."

After saying that, she was about to close the door, Jia Silian hurriedly took a step forward,
"Grandma, I don't buy the big ones, I just want to ask... is there any crushed ice..."

The mother-in-law thought about it,
"Come in!"

Let her in now, the mother-in-law said to her,
"I'm just a woman who washes and cooks, but the manager of our backyard is here, you can ask her..."

The steward in the backyard is a middle-aged woman. Hearing that Jia Silian wanted to buy crushed ice, she thought for a while and said,

"I can sell you some..."

Jia Silian was overjoyed,
"I don't know how many copper coins to count?"

The middle-aged woman thought for a while,
"I'll charge you five coppers per bucket!"

As she spoke, she pointed to the wooden bucket in the corner. Jia Silian looked at it, and found that it was the same size as the bucket used to carry water at home, but it was quite big. She nodded immediately,
"it is good……"

So I made a deal with the woman that tomorrow I would bring a bucket to buy ice, and Jia Silian would bring the bucket before dawn the next morning, but the woman didn't cheat her, and poured a bucket full of crushed ice into it. It was all broken in the ice cellar, and the handymen would go in to clean it from time to time. If they didn't clean it in time, they would be trampled by the guys who moved the goods. They went in to clean it, but the guys didn't have much work. People in the backyard share a share of copper coins. Although there are fewer mosquitoes, they are still meat.
(End of this chapter)