Farm Gate Business Tycoon

Chapter 9 Settle Accounts (1)
On the [-]th watch, she heard movement in the east, and then the door opened in the main room. She was curious, she didn't know who got up so early, she couldn't help but sat up, and wanted to go out and have a look.

But seeing Ma Yunshang also put on his clothes and sat up, said softly: "His fourth uncle always gets up early, he must have gone to help the family fetch water to the east of the village, you sleep a little longer, I'll make breakfast."

Gu Qingmei said: "I can't sleep, let me help you."

She has always slept less. In her previous life, she slept no more than six hours a day at most.

"Don't, you have an injury on your head, you have to take good care of it, it's best not to do any hard work for a year or so." Ma Yunshang stopped her, put on her clothes and got off the kang, Start a fire with flint, light an oil lamp, and then lightly fetch water to wash your face and brush your teeth.

Gu Qingmei put on a padded jacket and sat leaning on the kangqin, feeling bored to death. When she saw that Ma Yunshang was about to turn off the oil lamp, she hurriedly whispered: "Second sister-in-law, don't turn off the light, I will light it up, look Pretty."

Ma Yunshang brought her the kang table and put it in front of her, then put the oil lamp on the kang table, poured her a bowl of hot water, and went out to cook.

Gu Qingmei took out a stack of flowers wrapped in a handkerchief from under the kang qin. She saw it last night before going to bed, but she didn't know what it was. She took it out and took a look, only to find that it was flowers.

Since she plans to make money by painting flowers in the future, she naturally has to study what the flowers here look like.

She took out the patterns and looked at them one by one, only to find that they were just patterns of "mandarin ducks playing in the water", "a happy marriage for a hundred years", "dragon and phoenix bringing prosperity" and the like.

She sat beside the kang table, resting her cheeks on her hands, looking at the three flower patterns that she spread out on the kang table. The other one is "Longfeng Chengxiang". She was thinking, how to make some changes in these patterns, so that the original ordinary patterns can become different.

But she had a severe headache and couldn't concentrate at all. After reading it for a long time, she didn't have a clue, so she had to forget it.

Gu Qingyang came back with water, poured it into the vat by the stove, went back and forth several times, filled the vat, and it was almost dawn.

Gu Yunbai and his wife who lived in Dongli Room also got up, and Gu Shaotong coaxed his younger brother to get dressed, then folded the quilts sensiblely, put them into the kangqin, and tidied up the kang.

Ma Yunshang made a pot of stick noodles, and boiled a pot of porridge with stick stubble. There are ready-made pickled radish sticks and mustard lumps at home. She put a plate of pickled radish sticks from the pickle jar, and cut a small slice. Shredded mustard greens on the plate, mixed with sesame oil, eaten in the Dongli room earlier, but prepared a separate portion for Gu Qingmei.

After eating breakfast, Ma Yunshang boiled medicine for Gu Qingmei again, served her to drink it, and told her to take good care of her body, then packed her things and left with Gu Qingyang.

One of the two of them was a cook in the escort agency, and the other was studying in an academy. They thought that Gu Qingmei was dead, so they hurriedly asked for leave and came back. Now that Gu Qingmei is fine, they naturally have to go back early to avoid wasting time.

The Gu family had a donkey cart, and during the off-season, Gu Yunbai would go to the city to earn money, so Gu Yunbai sent them there.

Before leaving, Ma Yunshang took away the red hijab of "mandarin ducks playing in water" that Gu Qingmei had embroidered halfway, saying that he wanted to finish the embroidery for her.

Gu Qingmei breathed a sigh of relief, she doesn't know how to embroider.

After sending them away, Mrs. Gu Liu came to Gu Qingmei's Xili room, sat on the edge of the kang and muttered: "Your second sister-in-law is really rare. When she was leaving just now, she gave me two taels of silver to let you I'll make up for you. She works in the bodyguard bureau in the city, and she only earns two taels of silver for a month. Yesterday, she took two taels of silver for buying medicine for you, and spent five or six cents for wine and vegetables. Now I give it to you My two two, this is her monthly money for more than two months."

Gu Qingmei said casually: "Second sister-in-law gives it to you, you can take it, and she will enjoy it in the future."

She has always been like this, she treats whoever treats her well.

Qin Bihua opened the cotton curtain and walked in, holding a needlework basket in his hand, sat on the edge of the Kang and said, "Meizi, I'll come and sit and talk with you, so that you won't be bored by yourself."

Gu Liu said: "Daughter-in-law Qinglei, you came just in time. Your Second Aunt Wang's family is going to marry a daughter-in-law, and she asked me to come over to help make some quilts today, and you can take care of Meizi for me."

"Second Aunt, don't worry." She watched Gu Liushi leave, saw a lot of flowers on the kang table, and said: "You are sick now, don't touch these jobs, don't tire yourself."

"I know, thank you, Second Tang Sister-in-Law, for your concern." Gu Qingmei said with a smile, looking at her slightly protruding belly. "You should be more cautious when you are pregnant with a child. Don't be too tired. How many months is this child?"

"Almost six months." Qin Bihua caressed her belly shyly.

Gu Qingmei said casually: "It's a pity that I bumped my head and forgot how to embroider. Otherwise, I would have made a few bellybands for the child."

"It's not just a bellyband, you've even made him the cotton clothes you'll wear next year in the winter." Qin Bihua took off his shoes with a smile, sat cross-legged on the kang, took out a flower frame from the sewing basket, and put it on the flower frame Hooping a piece of red silk, she arranged the thin thread, threaded the needle, and embroidered the flowers stitch by stitch. What she embroidered was a pattern of "a good marriage for a hundred years".

Upon hearing this, Gu Qingmei asked, "How much can such a handkerchief be sold for?"

Qin Bihua replied: "Three taels of silver!"

"How long does it take to embroider? How much does it cost?"

"My hands are slow, and I have to embroider for a month." Qin Bihua replied, raising his eyes to look at her, a trace of pity flashed in his eyes. "You really forgot everything. You taught me to make money by embroidering hijabs in Xipu."

Gu Qingmei said with a bitter face: "I don't forget everything, but hitting my head this time really hurt me."

Qin Bihua shook his head, and said to her: "To embroider this hijab, you need a tael of silver to buy red silk cloth, and silk thread. Good embroidery work must use good silk thread. The fine silk thread from Tianxiu Palace costs ten copper plates." One piece, silk threads of seven or eight colors are needed to embroider a hijab, and it takes about a hundred copper plates, and the net profit is only one or two to nine renminbi."

Gu Qingmei couldn't help laughing, "Based on this kind of calculation, wouldn't we be able to save a lot of money in a year?"

"Where can I save much money?" Qin Bihua laughed.

"You have to pay for Brother Yang to study. The academies in the city, including food and lodging, cost three taels of silver a month, as well as pens, inks, papers and inkstones. Which one is free? Buying a book casually costs at least one, Two taels of silver, a slightly better rice paper costs two hundred copper coins, and you have never been willing to subdue brother Yang, and wear the same clothes as the students in the city, lest others despise him. "

(End of this chapter)