Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 37
"Mother, have you been here before?" Liu Man'er asked.

"Well, I have been here before." Fang nodded, "I will come to this Guanyin Temple once a year."

"Mother, you are really sincere. God will definitely take pity on your sincerity and bring you good luck."

Liu Man'er said this, but she thought in her heart that someone like herself who doesn't believe in Buddhism or God, and still thinks about how to make money in front of such a grand event, God will not like her.

However, she has never believed in these things, and she has never practiced afterlife, even if she is reborn, so what?All the good things in life must be fought for by oneself. The so-called Buddha is just a spiritual haven that escapers find for themselves.

"Mother, on the day of the temple fair, will there be anyone selling things around here?" Liu Man'er asked suddenly.

"Of course there are." Fang nodded and said, "There are many sellers of gadgets, as well as those who sell Feng Shui instruments, and those who sell paper money and incense sticks."

"And what else?"

"Others, there are some snacks for sale, some beautiful things that you girls like, such as bracelets, silk flowers, pearl flowers, pearl hairpins, etc." Fang replied.

After all, in this temple fair, women and children still account for the majority. Usually, in some big families, women do not leave the door without leaving the door, but on this day, they can also come out to participate in this kind of temple fair.

When Liu Man'er heard Fang's words, she was already thinking about what she should sell.

what to sellSelling silk flowers?Then she has to buy some cloth.

Sell ​​snacks?It seems that this idea is good, but I don't know if Fang will come to help me do it.

Along the way, Liu Man'er was thinking about what she should sell. She didn't want to miss this great opportunity for such a grand ceremony with so many people.

It is also possible to sell those consecrated gadgets, but I don’t know how to do it myself.

"Mother, let's go to the town to buy some things." Thinking about the fork in the road, Liu Man'er quickly told them to take another road, "I made a lot of money selling silk flowers yesterday, I plan to buy some more Cloth, when the time comes to sell it at this ceremony, what do you think, mother?"

"Yes." Fang nodded, and said again, "It's just that at this ceremony, there are a lot of people selling silk flowers, nets, embroidered handkerchiefs, etc. There are eight stalls if not ten."

"Ah!" Liu Man'er breathed out, "Let's go to the town first, buy some rice noodles later, and I'll think about what we should sell later."

"You're taking advantage of money now." Ye Yuan laughed at her from the side.

Liu Man'er retorted, "Why do you say that? There are so many people in this family, if I don't work hard to make money, won't my mother and the children be hungry? And Ye Qing and Ye Feng will also spend a lot of money to study , I plan to let Fu Sheng go to school next year."

"And our family, I also want to repair the house, what if this Ye Qing gets married, where will he live?"

When Fang heard what Liu Man'er said, she also helped her speak, "Yeah, Yuan'er, it's not right for you to say that about Man'er. Now I think that as the eldest sister-in-law of the family, Man'er is always thinking about the family. I can Having a good daughter-in-law like Man'er is really a mercy from God."

She never thought that she would spend five cents to buy a stupid daughter-in-law in the mountains, and now that she is not stupid, she would be so smart and capable.

"Okay, it's my fault." Ye Yuan lowered his head and said, "It's because I didn't make any money, but instead wanted my wife to worry about the family's livelihood all day long."

Ye Yuan's voice was a little low, Liu Man'er felt that her words might have hurt his self-esteem, so she leaned closer to him and said, "But you are the pillar of the family, it is because of you that my mother and I are able to Will be so emboldened!"

"That's right." Ye Yuan's voice couldn't hear his anger.

"Of course." Liu Man'er nodded, and said, "As for making money, as long as our family is of the same mind, why not make money, the family and everything will be better and better together."

"Yes, family and everything are prosperous." Way also nodded repeatedly.

The family walked forward again bustlingly, and when they were about to reach the town, Liu Man'er finally thought of what she should do to sell.

"Mother, Ye Yuan, I thought of it, how about we make some lotus flowers and sell them?" Liu Man'er looked at Ye Yuan and then at Fang's, and said, "Aren't these good men and women going to offer incense? When the time comes, throwing a lotus flower into the incense burner by the way, doesn't it appear more sincere?"

"Lotus?" Fang was a little surprised.

"Yes." Liu Man'er smiled slightly, "Borrowing flowers to offer Buddha."

"Borrowing flowers to offer Buddha? This idea is not bad." Ye Yuan also nodded, and said, "Lotus has always been a pure and elegant thing, I think it is feasible."

"Yes, I saw that lotus pond just now and thought of this lotus."

Liu Man'er pointed to a pond not far away, where there happened to be fields of lotus leaves protruding from the water, which looked very elegant.

"Isn't there no lotus at this time, I thought it would be good if I made some lotus at that time."

"Anyway, I will support you whatever you want to do." Ye Yuan turned to look at her, and said, "If you need help, just ask."

"Yeah." Liu Man'er nodded and said, "At that time, you still find some thin wires for me, and then find some thin and straight wooden sticks. After all, I'm thinking about it now. Made it in a day."

"I believe you can do it, you are so smart, you have never made silk flowers before, wouldn't you know how to do it?" Ye Yuan encouraged.

Liu Man'er also nodded, and while she was walking, she imagined how to make a lotus flower in her heart.

Speaking of these things, people who make paper shops would be better than her, but it shouldn't be difficult for her to have experience in making silk flowers.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, and talking and laughing all the way to the town, Liu Man'er went to the bookstore to buy a stack of ordinary white paper, then bought pink paint, and bought a brush.

Ye Yuan bought some rice noodles in the town, and the family went home.

After returning home, Liu Man'er started to make her lotus flower. She first drew the pattern of lotus petals on the paper, and then she asked Ye He to help cut the paper, while she took a brush and painted on the lotus petals. , draw a red line pattern.

The fabric I bought last time had some leftovers, and Liu Man'er wrapped a circle of fabric petals around the outside. When I pinched these petals together with my hands, it looked like a lotus flower.

It looked pretty good, Liu Man'er thought about it and made a flower center with paper inside, and now the flower seemed perfect, Liu Man'er used rice paste to stick these petals on a thin nail, and then handed it over to Ye Yuan, he nailed these petals into the thin wooden strips.

When lunch was over, Fang's also joined in, the family divided labor, Ye He cut petals, Liu Man'er painted, Fang's glued it, and Ye Yuan was responsible for nailing it.

With such a division of labor and cooperation, the family managed to make over a hundred flowers in one afternoon, fully filling three flower baskets.

After all, it was her first attempt, so she planned to make a few hundred flowers first, and if they sold well at the Fa Conference, she would make more. Of course, the main reason was that she had run out of paper to buy.

As for these flower baskets, they are made of rattan, anyway, Ye Yuan's process is very simple, so Liu Man'er asked him to go to the mountain to cut two bundles of rattan to make several rattan baskets.

This rattan basket is not difficult to make, almost all the men and women in the village can make it, and Ye Yuan can naturally do it too, but within an hour, he made several.

After doing these two crafts, Liu Man'er is already very experienced. She has already thought about it. In the future, whenever there is any festival, she will go to sell things. Next, there will be Qingming Festival where she can make some flowers and sell them to others. Come to worship the ancestors.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, she can make some nets by hand and sew some sachets.Although she still doesn't know how to do it now, in her previous life, she also saw several patterns of weaving on the Internet, but she couldn't remember them all at once. In the future, she will be able to become proficient after buying some silk threads and practicing them.

On July [-]th, the custom here is that both men and women will go to put up lanterns, and then they can make a lot of lanterns and sell them.

Thinking about it is really happy, as if seeing countless silvers flying towards her with wings.

But now, she still sleeps in such a dilapidated house, worrying about whether spiders and centipedes will come to her every day.

"Let's work hard to make money and build a new house!" Liu Man'er said suddenly.

"This house is pretty good." Ye Yuan said, "It takes a lot of money to build a new house. If it is a yard like ours, it will cost at least 20 taels."

"This house costs 20 taels?" Liu Maner looked around in disbelief.

"Of course, it's just because we have lived in this house for a long time, so it is a bit dilapidated, and if we want to build a new house, we must not be able to build it like this again. In your opinion, at least all of them must be built with green bricks A big house with black tiles, right?"

Ye Yuan understood Liu Man'er's thoughts quite well, "Only the two tile-roofed houses in our main house cost five taels of silver."

"Is it so expensive?" Liu Man'er bit her lip, she thought that the ancient land with sparse population should not be expensive.

"Of course, as for a room like our wing, three liang of silver is enough." Ye Yuan said again.

"I don't want to live in a thatched house anymore." Liu Man'er waved her hand quickly and said, "You are right, if I want to build a house, I must build a tile house. It's musty."

"When it's sunny, I'll turn the turf above the house to dry." Ye Yuan said hastily.

"Man'er, if you're not used to it, Mother will change with you. You and Yuan'er live in the main room, and I'll live in the wing room." Fang said upon hearing this.

"How can I do that? If you live in this kind of low and damp house, your legs and feet will be sore easily." Liu Man'er said, "It's not that I can't bear the pain, I just want to make our family's life better."

"I know your child's mind."

Fang patted Liu Man'er's hand, but her eyes were inexplicably moist. She turned her back and wiped the corners of her eyes with the corner of her clothes.

(End of this chapter)