peasant girl allure

Chapter 46

When Shen Chengyao returned to the street, he found that the original place had become an old man selling puppies. Mrs. Liu and the children did not know where they had gone, so he decided to go to Tongdetang to sell the herbs first, and then Come back to them.

This time the herbal medicine is not as much as last time, but because it has been processed in the sun, it sold for 110 yuan. In the past, he worked as a part-time worker outside during the slack season, and he was exhausted. Five hundred wen, as expected, knowledge is wealth. The more you know, the easier it is to make money. Labor is the least valuable.

Shen Chengyao thought so in his heart, and made up his mind to let his children study and read no matter what. He felt that now he understood a little bit why his father was so persistent and must confess a scholar.

Jing Rui saw Shen Chengyao coming in a bullock cart from a distance, waved his hands hurriedly, and shouted loudly: "Father!"

Shen Chengyao drove the ox cart to Jing Rui's side, "What about your mother?"

"Mother and the others are in the restaurant, Dad, let's go in first." Jing Rui pointed to the largest restaurant in the town, Taste Hall, and said.

Shen Chengyao drove the ox cart to the entrance of the restaurant, and the clerk inside stepped forward to take the ox cart with a wink, and took it to the backyard for safekeeping.

"Xiao'er is talking about opening a toy store together with the two sons I met on the mountain last time. My mother and younger brother are upstairs." Jing Rui explained briefly, and led Shen Chengyao into the restaurant. The private room on the second floor knocked lightly on the door, and Xiao Fuzi opened the door for him to walk in.

Seeing her father coming in, Xiao'er hurriedly stood up and moved out of the way.

Shen Chengyao bowed his fists to the two, and Shangguan Xuanyi nodded lightly. In fact, what they didn't know was that Shangguan Xuanyi was able to nod in response to his salute. There are not many who can get him to nod in response.

That's it, Shen Chengyao didn't think he was rude, and his overbearing aura made people feel that he should have done nothing if he didn't respond. This is probably the superiority engraved in his bones.

Xiao Fuzi was very puzzled that his master treated the family so courteously.

"Senior, stay safe." Di Zhaowei was much more down-to-earth, and greeted Shen Chengyao with a smile.

"I can't be a son to call senior Caomin." Shen Chengyao feels uncomfortable being called senior by a master. This is probably caused by the deep-rooted feudal thinking in ancient times.

"Shouldn't you call me Senior anymore? Now that we're in a cooperative relationship, I'll just call you Uncle Shen. You guys don't want to call me Mr. Zhao, just call me Zhaowei."

Shangguan Xuanyi intended to have a good relationship with Xiaoer, so he also nodded: "My name is Shangguan Xuanyi."

Although the two of them said so, how dare they really call their names directly.

The matter of the shop has also been negotiated, and Shen Chengyao has also returned, so Xiao'er blessed her body and prepared to leave: "My lords, I will send the first batch of toy design drawings and the plan for the shop the day after tomorrow. Let's take our leave now." gone."

"Brother Xuanyi."

Xiaoer: "What?"

"Call me Brother Xuanyi."

Dizzy, Xiao'er felt that she couldn't yell, so she thought about it and yelled, "Brother Shangguan."

Shangguan Xuanyi frowned, but said nothing.

He yelled once, but the second time he said it more smoothly, "Brother Shangguan, Brother Di, let's take our leave first."

"Leave after dinner, little Fuzi."

"This way please, everyone, a table of food has been prepared in the other private room." Xiao Fuzi opened the door of the private room and made a gesture of invitation.

Xiao'er: ...This person is too domineering. I'm used to giving orders, but I'm not his servant or why should I listen to him, but Xiao'er dare not say it. Dog bullying, but I happen to be hungry, so I don't eat for nothing.

Several people came to another private room, this private room was not as finely furnished as the one just now, the interior of the private room just now was all made of chrysanthemum pears, it can be used not only for receiving guests, but also for For meals, there is also a chaise table for rest, as well as a desk and bookshelf, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, everything is ready for temporary office use.But now this room is only for eating, and there are steaming hot meals on the table. Seeing the hot meals and dishes on the table, several people feel hungry.

Xiao Fuzi brought the man over and said goodbye: "Mr. Shen, Mrs. Shen, please take your time, Mr. and Miss. If you need anything, you can ring the bell to ask someone to make arrangements. The villain will leave first."

"I'm sorry." Shen Chengyao replied.

Their family didn't have the habit of not talking when eating or sleeping, so during the meal, Shen Chengyao asked what happened, and Jing Hao told the story vividly.Shen Chengyao felt that such a big pie fell from the sky and made him dizzy. Recently, there have been a lot of good things in his family, and then he remembered what Liu Shi said to him about Master Yunfa. Is it really a blessing for his children? Let him happy and worried.

"Father, have you found that contractor?" Xiao'er asked when she recalled what Shen Chengyao had done before.

"I found it. It just so happens that the job he is working on is finished in two days. He will be able to help us build the house the day after tomorrow. Try to finish it before the end of the year. We can move into our new home for the New Year."

"Then there are a lot of things to be busy in the future. Tomorrow, Dad has to ask someone to clear out the wasteland where the house will be built, sell bricks and tiles, beams, and order furniture..." Xiao'er said the same thing.

"We haven't told our parents about our buying land and building a house yet." Mrs. Liu suddenly remembered and said it.

The family was silent, and then hurriedly speeded up their meal, and had to rush home to work.

After dinner, Mrs. Liu also nursed the little sister, and the family left the restaurant to go to the cloth shop, where they had to buy some cloth and rags to make dolls.After hearing this, Mrs. Liu said: "There are four cloth shops in the city, why don't we collect all the rags from several cloth shops." This morning she saw that silk flowers and dolls made of rags are very profitable. , and it’s not tiring to do some needlework. Now that Xiao’er has signed a contract with someone, she needs more rags to make a model.

After hearing this, Xiao'er said: "Then father and mother drove the ox cart to a cloth store farther away to collect rags, and my brother and brother and I went to the cloth store last time to buy some cloth, and you will pick it up there after you collect it." How are we?"

After hearing this, Shen Chengyao agreed, and took the three brothers and sisters of Xiao'er to the largest cloth shop in the county, and then drove to the other three cloth shops with Mrs. Liu in a bullock cart.

The three brothers and sisters entered the auspicious cloth shop. Xiao'er took a serious look at the cloth here, picked out a piece of thicker cotton cloth to make the down liner, and then pulled a middle-priced satin for one person and two to make the outer shirt. They picked rose red and lavender, purple red and autumn fragrance for Mrs. Liu, navy blue and general blue for Shen Chengyao, and silver gray and lake blue for the two brothers. The figure bought a set of ready-made clothes for each of them.

Seeing that Xiao'er bought a lot, the shopkeeper squinted her eyes with a smile. The business has been very good recently. The year is approaching. Many people come to buy cloth to make clothes. They have sold a lot of their ready-made clothes, and there are more rags than usual. I knew quite a few. When I heard Xiaoer asked for rags, I only charged 20 Wen for five bags of rags. Xiaoer bought a total of 330 taels and [-] Liu Wen.

After buying the cloth, after waiting for a while, Shen Chengyao drove over in an ox cart with ten bags of rags on it. Xiao'er thought that she still had five bags here, so she couldn't help thinking that this was too much, right?Forget it is always useful!But it seems that they have to take a bullock cart to go home, which means they don't even have a place to sit.

The clerk of the cloth shop helped to load Xiaoer's purchases into the ox cart, Shen Chengyao tied them up with hemp rope, and asked Liu to take the child to the gate of the city to take the ox cart home, and then left first.

At the gate of the city, there are usually some households with ox carts, who come out to carry passengers on the day of the market.Generally, it is people who carry people back and forth between the town and the county seat. Each ox cart can hold ten people, and each person costs five yuan. That trip can earn fifty yuan.

When Xiao'er and the others arrived at the gate of the city, there was an ox cart waiting, but there were already eight people sitting in the cart, four of them in total, Liu thought that three of them were children, so she wanted to ask You can squeeze, it just so happens that there are two people in the same village on the bullock cart, so it should be no problem.Who knows that other people in the bullock cart have no objection, and the young woman in the village has a rich daughter-in-law and has no objection, but Aunt Wang from the same village disagrees fiercely.

"No, coachman, there are already eight people sitting here, and you insist on squeezing twelve. Are you trying to squeeze me flat? There are four of you in total, plus those on your back, but five people can sit in half a car." The bullock cart is gone, won't you wait for the next one? What do you want to squeeze into this one? In case I squeeze out, will you be responsible for the problem?" Aunt Wang put her hands on her back, full of shrew swearing at the street.

Everyone looked at the gate of the city. At this time, the people who went to the market were almost gone, and there would be another ox cart.

"Aunt Wang, isn't it because this is the last bullock cart that I want to squeeze?"

"If you don't have an ox cart, then walk. Why do you have so many people!" Aunt Wang just saw Shen Chengyao driving an ox cart and bought a lot of things on the ox cart. Although she didn't know what it was, she still saw it. But she couldn't be more jealous, so now she is deliberately embarrassing Liu Shi and the others.

The coachman was also an honest man, although he wanted to earn more money, but Aunt Wang got into the car first, so it was not easy to drive her off, so he didn't make a sound.

Seeing Aunt Wang's reluctance to give in, Mrs. Liu was about to tell Jing Rui to let Xiao'er and Jing Hao go home in a bullock cart, while she walked back with him.

At this time, a carriage pulled over and the driver was Di Zhaowei's servant. Xiao Fuzi jumped out of the carriage and came over, and bowed to Mrs. Liu, "Mrs. Young Master, please get into the car and give you a ride along the way."

(End of this chapter)