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Chun Fangniang spent a whole day chipping away at the fish meat paste on the jade ring noodles. She kept beating her arms with her hands and walking quickly towards home, thinking that she should go home quickly to wash the quilt cover and wipe the kang mat.

Everything is over and a new year is a new day.

When Chun Fangniang opened the door, she saw that the courtyard was already full of ropes and quilt covers hanging to dry.

Chunfang had already taken her sisters to clean the house and was washing the pots and pans in the kitchen. Even her youngest brother was wiping the water tank with a loofah pulp.

Chunfang Niang's heart suddenly felt very warm. She opened the door and said loudly with a smile: "My girls must be able to help the house and be considerate."

Chunfang turned her head and said happily: "Mom, you're back. It's not that we are considerate, but that our little boss is better than your boss and will give us a holiday from now on." Tian Xin said that we won't wait until her Zhentingbo is on duty. When will work start?”

Chun Fangniang followed her happily, but she understood in her heart why Xu Tianxin arranged it like this.

There was no place to work, so I rented two side houses in the village. Together, there were four rooms and two warehouses outside. And both houses had girls who were married out. If they couldn't guarantee the guarantee for the second and third grades of junior high school, they had to go back to their parents' homes.

During the Chinese New Year, it was very inconvenient for so many people to work and move around, plus the married daughter came back with her uncle. Moreover, some of the girls who work have to go to their grandma's house in another village, so why not give them a day off?

Of course, even without this reason, Xu Tianxin has always been the most generous one in his family. During the weekdays, I would be given a subsidized meal if I had to take a break and stay up late to work. I heard from my daughters that they had asked the old ladies from the two renting houses to help me make millet porridge and add eggs many times.

Sure enough, Xu Tianxin's little boss's New Year's gift arrived late, but it arrived.

The second daughter Chun Xing happily used a dustpan to pretend to be two New Year gifts and said:

"Mom, there are two happy things. The little boss promoted the eldest sister this morning, and ten of us workers were selected to do other jobs. Not only will clothes and shoes be given out in the spring, but also the eldest sister's salary will be paid in the future. , it’s eight hundred coppers a month.”

"Ah? Eight hundred." The eldest daughter can earn ten taels a year by herself.

That's right, Chun Xing can't be too proud. She has already planned to work as hard as her eldest sister in the future. The two sisters have laid a good foundation, which makes people feel that it is not in vain. They will strive to complete the construction of the new workshop next year and let the younger sister be selected to work with the little boss. Then the three sisters make money and send their younger brother to school.

"This second happy event is naturally a New Year's gift for eldest sister and me.

Mom, look, the hair tie. The eldest sister’s is pink, and mine is green. Each of us will cut off a section for the younger sister. When she is thirty, the younger sister will wear both pink and green.

There are two kilograms of jujubes, so my eldest sister and I have four kilograms, and two kilograms of brown sugar, which is also four kilograms, for my mother and younger brother to drink with water.

There are two other options. One is to choose facial oil, soap and hair shampoo. I heard they said there is even a tooth cleaning service. Another kind..."

Chunfang watched in amusement as the second sister was dragged out of the door by her mother and continued to show off: "Mom, look, the little boss gave us chickens, one for each of us. They were freezing, but they were very fat. Our family is thirty-one Only, eat one at fifteen!"

It is conceivable that if Xu Tianxin and Liu Jingdong go out to sell goods, can they not be popular?

They not only sell, but also shop themselves through "one-stop shopping".

As soon as we walked all the way, we rowed back all the domestic chickens from ten remote villages.

It's a win-win situation. One party can earn money to buy things in Erdaohe without having to go out in the cold, while the other party's family is short of chickens.

Xu Tianxin initially thought that if girls wanted skin care products, he would put the chickens in the shop and sell them. The Xu family is always short of agricultural and sideline products.

Unexpectedly, most of the girls chose to take the chicken home. Those who didn’t get the chicken also had to wrap more sugar, such as red dates. She said she would leave some candy for her father to carry with her so that she could make a cup of sugar water when she was hungry while working. She also asked Tian Xin to help her beat it. If her family members asked At the beginning, he said that the chicken was finished and he would get an extra half a pound of sugar.

There are five or six people like Hongzao who need to be covered up. Thanks to Xu Tianxin's good memory, if Liu Jingdong were to be the boss of the girls, Liu Jingdong would first make a mistake in his memory and tell the truth.

But at this time, Chunfang Niang was a little silent when she saw the two chickens.

The two girls could obviously have two sets of facial oil, but they didn't save one set, and replaced them all with chickens.

When Chunfang Niang entered the house, she discovered that red dates and wheat seedlings were also in her home.

When did the two little girls arrive?

It's been a day since I came to Chunfang's house since my casual workers were on vacation without even returning home.

Hong Zao and Mai Miao first helped clean the house, and then Chunfang and her siblings worked to warm the kang, while they sat cross-legged on the kang to sew bedding.

Hong Zao was sewing a quilt with cotton wool and said with a smile: "Aunt, I'm causing trouble to your family. After washing the clothes, I can only hang them outside to freeze while I finish sewing this quilt."

"What kind of trouble is that? When you pee in the middle of the night, you can just pick it up and dry it on the kang. Who are you making this for? I think it's all new cotton. Is it for your father?"

"No way, if you give it to my father, my aunt will also find out that it's time to celebrate the New Year and the chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven."

Mai Miao scratched her head with the other end of the needle and said, "We are helping Tian Xin'er make bedding for Mr. Guan. Auntie wants to help keep it a secret. We came to your house to do the work specifically so that Grandpa Guan doesn't know about it."

Chunfang Niang agreed. She looked at the facial oil and other things placed on the window sill. There was a large set, and she guessed that it was Mai Miao's New Year's gift.

Among these girls, even though Mai Miao's family is poor, they have many sons, so they are not good to Mai Miao.

It would be better if there was work to do in the village this time. Even Grandpa Mai Miao was bathing in the bathhouse to earn money. It would be better if Mai Miao took home a chicken. On the contrary, he always boasts that his granddaughter is successful, hangs out with Tian Xin, eats three meals a day, and helps the family a lot.

Chunfang came into the room and poured a cup of corn noodle porridge for her mother, "Mom, please warm up your stomach first, and I will steam the dry food...Mom?"

Chunfangniang suddenly put on the hat made of tangerine grass again and said as she walked out: "I remembered something and I want to go out."

Several girls looked at each other.

Chunfang Niang was walking on the way to Xu's house with a frozen chicken in her hand.

At least you should have a set of facial oil. When girls are older, who doesn’t love to be pretty?

If we wait until the family saves a lot of money to buy these things for our daughter, her face will be ruined, and she will not be far away from getting married.

Chunfang Niang felt sad when she thought that her eldest daughter had not been married for long. She had not lived a good life in her parents' family for a few days, and she was determined not to treat her children too badly.

So she decided to happily not think about it for now. She wanted to exchange for a set of facial oil and buy another chicken so that her children would still have meat to eat when they were fifteen.

You have to ask her why she is determined not to buy a set of skin care products, because Chunfangniang knows Xu Tianxin's kindness. Can the facial oil she sells be the price of a chicken? Find out how much money you get from selling it to the brothels. It's all with subsidies.

Another thing is that the Xu family is always short of chickens and meat storage. If she wants to buy another chicken for the family, she cannot secretly detain it.

I would rather spend an extra ten cents and eight cents to let the Xu family help carry one.

And there are quite a few people who have the same idea as Chunfang Niang.

At this moment, Chunfang Niang didn't expect so many people to be surrounded by the old Xu family.

Mrs. Xu asked her three sons to go home as early as possible to catch up on their sleep. They had to set off before dawn, and tried to arrive as soon as the city gate opened.

As a result, "Three You" couldn't sleep.

Grandma Song grabbed Xu Laoer's sleeve: "Liangzi, you go to town tomorrow to help my aunt deliver three chickens. They cost more than a hundred yuan each. You can buy them."

Xu Youliang said honestly: "Actually, my shop has them. If you only have three or five, go to the shop and buy them."

"That won't work. I heard someone said that the town doesn't open until the sixth day of the lunar month. And if we have several groups of customers here, we won't be able to buy anything by then. The little meat you have saved at home is enough for what. ?”

Zhang Ermanzi's daughter-in-law said: "Yes, your fourth grandfather said that our main purpose is not to think about the price difference of ten cents or eight cents. If the guests can't feed everyone, they will delay making money and they will cry. That's not ten cents. It’s a matter of Wen Ba Wen. So we all take a long-term view, and we would rather draw from the outside first, don’t empty the car, and don’t touch the village’s inventory.”

Xu Youyin looked at his second brother, raised his thumbs when he heard this and said, "Grandmas, look at this realization. It has to be you!"

"That's necessary. Hurry up, old sisters. Who else wants to buy chicken or meat? Let's make some frozen dumplings ourselves when we have time. We can store them and cook them when we're hungry. We won't delay our work."

Chunfang Niang hurriedly counted the chickens: "My family, my family, only one chicken, a hundred yuan or more is enough."

"Is there anyone who wants to buy eggs? Put together four baskets."

I don’t know when it started. Erdaohe Huihui has become a habit of not letting go of the car when he goes out.

More and more people gathered.

The second lazy daughter-in-law was grabbing Xu Youcang's sleeve: "Mistress, my aunt's family wants to buy four pig paws. Your uncle is willing to eat that. Don't forget it."

Waibali'er teased: "Oh, you still want to buy pig's paws, steam them and stick them on the fire. Think about the hard days a few months ago, what kind of family is this? You're so spoiled by the old man."

"Then you see, during the Chinese New Year, the donkey needs to eat something good, not to mention the gentlemen in my family. Besides, I will let him chew the pig's paws and scratch them, and he will give me more money next year. How many flowers do you have for me, will you settle the score?" It can be seen that the Chinese New Year that Liu Jingdong has been looking forward to for a long time has finally arrived, but troubles have also followed.

When they come back tomorrow, a dozen of them will help the village committee and the Xu family buy more than a dozen carts of food. How will they come back if they continue to help buy goods for so many years? Maybe even if you carry it in a sling, the cow would like to have a few pig paws hanging on its head before it can be driven back.

On the night of the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, Mrs. Xu never expected that a fourteenth group of people would come to give the general a New Year gift at this time.

While she was wielding a spatula to cook and earn money, her ears felt extremely hot.

Who is talking about her behind her back?

Thanks to her granddaughter’s annual gift, the women in the village didn’t dare to complain to their faces, but they couldn’t help but say sourly behind their backs:

"Look at the annual gifts my eldest granddaughter brought back.

If I could be thirty years younger, really, I wouldn't be afraid of gossip reaching the boss, and I would go work for my little boss.

Unable to stop being so angry, my eldest granddaughter asked me, "Grandma, what do you want?" I said that you, Grandma Xu, are afraid that we will be tired, and the Li Zheng family, Lao Wang family, Wan family, and Meizhuang family are also afraid that we will be tired. Our New Year gift is to hold two arms and two hands. "

The other women laughed out loud: "That's right. It would have been nice to be able to pay the wages in time, but people are afraid of comparisons. The granddaughters worked a clean and respectable job. Some time ago, they were given out clothes and shoes, but this time they were even given out haircuts. , it’s better for us, we can’t help but get upset when we look at nothing, it seems that we are not as capable as a child.”

"Ah!" Mrs. Xu rubbed her nose to make sure she didn't catch a cold.

Who is talking bad about her? Gu Sufen, is it you? !

In the kitchen of the Xu family, the old lady was gently making alkaline noodles, fearing that it would affect her grandchildren's sleep, who would have to get up in the middle of the night. She was muttering and cursing under her breath, because her ears were also burning badly tonight.

Gu Sufen, is that you?

It was designated that the eldest daughter-in-law was scolding her.

Maybe during the Chinese New Year, a little man would step on her in his shoes.

But this time the old lady really wronged Gu Sufen.

Wangdi will say when she comes tomorrow that her parents are afraid that Xu Youshu's marriage will be ruined, and they are afraid that it will be a complete mess, so they go early to send the gift money and write a wedding letter on a fixed date. They even hire an official matchmaker and add the gifts for a total of thirty-five taels. out. Although she had planned to marry in May so that her new daughter-in-law could help the family farm, Gu Sufen emptied her pockets and fell ill.

There is no time to prepare New Year's goods here. Mr. Xu has no intention of preparing New Year's goods and has not prepared anything.

So there is someone else who scolded the old lady.

They were the same people she took the bus with when she rushed to Xujiazhuang.

What the old lady of the Xu family said was good, but where was it? Erdaohe would come to sell New Year's goods, and would a car come to pick them up and take them to take a bath? Never came.

The key point is that these people went back to the village to have a good meal and promote it. It would be fine if they delayed their own washing. At most, they did not seek the auspiciousness and delayed other people's families. Especially those who are waiting for the red paper couplets and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and those who have children at home who want to see each other in the second and third grades. If you don't rub the mud on your neck every year, it won't be clean if you don't soak it for a while.

Human?

Even Baijiazhuang was delayed. Someone asked Aunt Bai: "Isn't Erdaohe coming to sell goods?"

"Oh, the first batch of goods has been sold out a long time ago. Didn't you come to our village to hang out?"

"Then tell me, do they still have any goods?"

"The couplets are gone, and meat, grain, and wine are also designated not to be sold. I heard that I don't have enough. As for other things, there is a little left. But it's the time now, and people like needles and threads are not in a hurry to sell, I'm afraid I can’t come.”

Some villages are getting smarter.

I heard that the villagers were stupidly waiting for Erdaohe, but they were deceived before they could wait.

Then I thought of the Li Zheng meeting held by Zhao Zhenting.

The town pavilion said that in the future, a meeting will be held every one and a half months, and everyone will report on what good things they have done for the villagers during this period. Even those who are far away will not be spared, and they will send letters and randomly check whether the reports are true.

Zhen Ting acted like if they could do it, they would do it, and if they couldn't, they would pull him down. This was coming true. He also got angry during the meeting and asked them why they could not do practical things with their regular salary. There are dozens of relatives living in a village who have been related to each other for hundreds of years. If they did not do anything practical, they would be embarrassed when worshiping their ancestors.

This thing is not just a matter of a dozen taels of salary, it would be embarrassing to take it down.

Therefore, on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, when everyone was coming back from burning paper, he organized everyone to shout: "Those who want to take a bath, and those who want to go to Erdaohe to buy new year's goods, take this car, Erdaohe won't come. We'll pick you up in the car and we'll go by ourselves. If you want to go into the city to buy Spring Festival couplets and Tusu wine, take that car."

If you do this, there will be a report at least one month later.

It’s the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, and there is only one day left in the countdown to usher in the new year.

It was past three o'clock in the morning.

Mrs. Xu teased the guests: "Dear distinguished guests, are you going to give New Year's gifts to the general? My sons are going to the town, do you want to follow them?"

Mrs. Xu kept a low profile and never told these people that the army ordered orders from her house and they were also in contact with the general.

She was afraid that she would not be able to collect money if she told her.

"Ah? Follow me."

In front of the Xu family gate, there are two oxcarts belonging to Liu Laozhu's family, and two cows put for sale by Liu Laozhu's brother, from the Wang family, the Wan family, the Sun family and the Cao family, and even the magnificent donkeys. After using it, plus the Xu family's, a total of twelve cars were filled with goods.

Ten carts were filled with buckwheat noodles, white noodles, sausages, and mules.

This is after clearing out all inventory and only delivering one-eighth of the goods when the warehouse is empty.

Mrs. Xu's three sons are still very heavy. They are carrying more than 700 taels of silver earned during this period, and they need to buy more than 700 taels of grain on their return trip.

It can be seen how much the camp consumes in a day. The general has no private treasury and cannot afford to subsidize welfare without digging gold mines.

Liu Jingdong was carrying money from the village committee, and the village committee also wanted to buy grain.

Liu Laozhu held up the torch and looked at his son, then looked at him again, a little worried, and asked for half of the silver from Liu Jingdong and gave it to Wang Yusheng, who was going with the car today. Each person took half of it, and lost only half.

In addition, having two cars free was a New Year gift.

Xu Tianxin gave Lu Yan a cart of 60 jars of high-quality liquor. As soon as the wine was loaded onto the cart, the cow almost kicked and didn't want to pull it. It was too heavy and they weren't given a holiday during the Chinese New Year.

There are also two jars of Tusu wine each from Lu Yan, Sui Feng and Sui He, and two jars each of canned peach and red cans. One each of her newly made rice soap, beeswax lip balm and facial cream, a kind of glutinous rice balls made by Mrs. Xu, and a piece of cookies made by Xu Tianxin himself.

Jialai was given the same amount of wine and cans as above, as well as a set of men's shampoo and shower sets, and a set of cookies.

After the two carts were full, General Huo Yunqian's New Year's gift box was placed on the top, and it was also equipped with an exquisite bamboo woven box, which was very similar to a modern hand-carried suitcase, with the locks being coiled.

The box was opened, and two small white porcelain bottles of Tusu wine were wrapped in satin, one on the left and the other on the right. There is no other New Year's gift.

And a red letter from Xu Tianxin. Without looking carefully, I thought it was a wedding invitation.

The content of the letter first contained a serious answer to Shangguan's question, saying that he had only read half of the previous book, and he was a bit dull and didn't have much experience.

But I was very excited about the new books sent by the general, and I was flattered beyond words.

Finally, I wish the general a happy new year.

While Xu Tianxin was writing, he was still holding his cheeks and thinking regretfully, if only Bai Muyan knew that she knew the general, Bai Muyan could help her write the letter, so as not to worry about the wording.

It's not good to say it's deep, we don't have that kind of friendship. To put it simply, it doesn't seem to be respectful enough. It's not enough to say too much. There are suspicions that men and women spread letters to each other privately.

Alas, she actually envied Liu Jingdong sometimes. If she didn't pretend to be a cultured person, she could just say: "Me too" more often, which would save her worries.

At half past five in the morning, the city gate had just opened, and Zhao Dashan was already waiting here. When he saw the goods, he almost slipped on his feet.

Is this called helping carry some goods?

His aunt's family is in charge of twelve trucks of high-end goods. (End of chapter)