farmhouse ditty

Chapter 66
Shopkeeper Tian picked up the pen and ink, twirling his wrist like that, and wrote a full chapter of small characters on the white paper. When he was done, he put down the fine brush, picked up the paper and glanced at it.

He shook his head and blew on the paper, handed it to Xiu Niang and said, "Sister-in-law, is it okay now, we can write clearly in black and white now."

Xiu Niang took her hand in response, and Xingyan read the paper up and down.

Shopkeeper Tian sat back at the table, took a sip from the tea bowl, and secretly cast a glance at Xiu Niang. She was really an aunt from a small family in the country. With such a big shop, he might still depend on her for a while. Two pieces of silver?

He said just now that if she wanted her to bring two baskets of dried medicinal herbs every month, that meant that she would round up all the Erbao vines in the future, but this peddler still came out with extra thoughts and insisted on writing something. a contract.

Xiuniang looked it over carefully, and boasted to Ren'er in her heart, this Tian shopkeeper is worthy of being in business all year round, and what she thinks is Jing Dao, everything written on Ren'er's paper makes you feel that it is profitable , but it does not allow you to take advantage of it.

In this way, what she was thinking about early in the morning was to make a contract with Tairen Pharmacy, so that she would send it here as soon as she collected the Erbao vines. There would be a regular buyer and a regular income. no.

But this matter has to be brought up first, if she speaks up on her own, people will definitely ignore him, and then shopkeeper Tian's drugstore is very big, and the price will be raised, so it is sure.

She finished reading and said with a smile, "Oh, you scholars can write and make things, it's over, that's it, let's book for two months first, every time I come over with some papers, you have a look at it Accept it, and let me tell you the price, if it’s good, it’s higher, if it’s bad, it’s lower.”

Shopkeeper Tian nodded with a smile, and stretched out his hand to put it on the table. There were three taels of silver there, "Sister-in-law, this is the money from the basket of Erbaoteng just now, you should collect it first."

Xiu Niang watched as she picked up the extra four liang of silver on the table, and then she picked up two empty bamboo baskets, laughed and left.

In fact, when it comes to signing the contract, Xiuniang didn't think of it at first, but after what happened with Chef Wang, she thought about being more careful.

Besides, the promise in this business cannot be settled just by the two people's lips touching each other, there has to be a form.

Back then, Cook Wang and Chu Ge talked about ordering mountain goods for the second half of the year, but after a month or so he turned back. Chu Ge was talking to him at the time, but Cook Wang just complained. Just wanted to turn this thing over.

"Oh, Chu Ge, I don't want to say anything, the regular customers don't want to eat it, I can't do anything about it, you sell it on the same day, if you can't get it, you can keep it and eat it yourself Yes, but for me, I still have to lose some money for firewood..."

"Chu Ge, you know that you have to cook all these mountains to eat. It's a waste of firewood. I still have a backyard piled up in mine. It's going to rain now. What do you think I should do..."

When Chu Ge came back that day and told her, he became angry at that moment, cursing at Cook Wang in his heart.

This restaurant is also open for business, just like Chef Wang, his regular customer had ordered mountain goods for half a year earlier, so it's impossible that Chef Wang didn't ask for a fixed amount of money, this guy No, the money went into the pocket of that chef Wang himself.

But Chef Wang was like this, pretending to be confused, pretending to be ignorant, pushing everything, holding the money and not wanting to give it to Chu Ge, anyone can understand this.

Chu Ge knew it well at that time, but he didn't say anything at that time, he just went out to tie the cattle rope, and talked with Cook Wang again in front of the restaurant before returning to the village.

Xiu Niang was very angry at the beginning, but later she felt that Chu Ge was right. At that time, Chu Ge and Cook Wang were just a verbal agreement. Can you make a fuss about it? There is no reason for this matter.

Moreover, she found out now that Chu Ge looked at him in a daze, but his stomach was full of pepper seeds, so he didn't know if he touched it, he would definitely choke him to death, and he had a lot of stamina.

That day, Chu Ge chose to chat with Cook Wang about this matter at the entrance of the restaurant. At that time, many fellow villagers brought their goods to the town for a walk. There were people coming and going, so I asked some of them to listen. went in.

If this came out during the time when those peddlers sell mountain goods, what would they think at that time? People will definitely say that it is not about Cook Wang. Who would dare to do business with him in the future? Even if there is, people will say I have to think about it too.

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When Xiuniang left Tairen Pharmacy, she didn't take a shortcut to find Chu Ge and the others, but walked around the street.

She walked here, looking at some stalls on the road to see if there was anything she wanted to buy.

Waiting for the sweet bean stand, Xiuniang saw that only Chu Ge and the two little ghosts were waiting for her, and the stall owner had already taken it away.

Xiao Xiang'er smiled, "Brother, sister-in-law is here."

Seeing the person, Chu An waved his arms and complained, "Sister-in-law, why did you come here? We have been waiting for a long time."

Xiu Niang carried the two baskets together, and patted Xiao Xiang'er's head, "I know you two are in a hurry, so I came here in a hurry."

Chu An curled his lips in a mature manner, and said with his hips on his hips, "It's good to know, let's go shopping quickly, sister-in-law, or we will be late later, and we will not be able to go back to the village."

Xiao Xiang'er looked at Chu An, wrinkled her nose and talked to Xiu Niang, "Sister-in-law, brother is in a hurry to play, he just muttered for a long time... ouch."

Chu An tugged Xiao Xiang'er's pigtails, "Young girl has a long mouth, and the girl has a lot of mouths. When the girl grows up, she will be a little girl!"

Xiu Niang looked at it and smiled, and chattered to Chu Ge, she knew that this idiot wanted to ask something.

"I just took a short-cut and arrived at Tairen Pharmacy in a short while. It's just that the shopkeeper Tian was busy. He wasn't there when I went, so I just waited there for a while."

Chu Ge looked at the diabolo basket in Xiuniang's hand, and knew that those Erbao vines had all been taken out, so he wanted to boast, but now he was on the street and he was too embarrassed to say so.

He answered muffledly, meaning he got it, went to the side of the road and led the old cow, and said to Xiu Niang, "Where are we going now?"

Xiu Niang thought about it and cast a glance behind her, "Front Street."

Chu An was still talking about Xiao Xiang'er, but when he heard what Chu Ge asked, he raised his head, "Back alley!"

The former sentence and the latter sentence were said together, but Chu Anxing shouted loudly.

Xiu Niang looked at Chu An and asked, "The back street? What are you doing in the back street?"

Chu An frowned, "It's not a back street, it's a back alley, just make a turn in front."

Xiuniang didn't know where the back alley was, she looked at Chu Ge, "What is that back alley for, why is Anzi going?"

Chu Ge put his mouth on his mouth, and took a look at Chu An, "The back alley that An Zi said is a small street behind the morning market, and it's full of children's things."

Chu An frowned when he heard this, lifted his trousers and started talking, "Brother, what are you calling a kid's thing? That's not a place that sells rattles. Didn't you listen to the owner of the bean stall just now?" , there are many things in the back alley, there are pottery statues, clay figurines, masks, grasshoppers..."

Both the clay figurine and the mask knew that the grasshopper was a cricket made of bamboo sticks, but the clay figure...

Xiu Niang listened and thought for a while, oh, the original is a clay doll, similar to that clay figurine, but this one will be reheated and fired, usually shaped into chickens, kittens and puppies. .

Seeing Chu An chattering non-stop, Xiu Niang said, "Okay, okay, my sister-in-law promised you earlier that she would ask you to buy some for fun, and you can buy a clay figurine mask if you want."

Chu An was wringing his fingers and muttering, listening to the words, he raised his head, "I still want to buy a doughnut, it's much better looking than a clay doll, and it's pretty."

Xiu Niang pursed her lips and sighed, and said to Chu Ge, "Chu Ge, why don't you take An Zi and Xiao Xiang'er to the back alley."

Chu Ge asked, "Xiu Niang, what about you?"

Xiu Niang shook her hands with the two empty bamboo baskets, and said, "I'm going to go shopping again. I was looking for it when I came here. There are many pastry shops and fruit stalls on the front street, and I happened to buy some. "

Chu Ge searched for the time, "Why don't we go together, Anzi and the others can buy those things later."

Xiu Niang hurriedly said before Chu An, "Forget it, you can take them there, it's hard to come here, don't spoil their interest."

Chu Ge couldn't think too much about it, and was still thinking about what to say, Xiu Niang babbled, interrupted him, and pointed to a shop diagonally across.

"That one has a wooden table. I'll go over to have a look later. We'll see you and Anzi Xiaoxiang after you've done your shopping, so we can ask Lao Niu to bring a table."

Xiao Xiang'er looked at Xiu Niang and said, "Sister-in-law, shall I go with you?"

Xiu Niang looked at her, thinking that what was being carried in the back street was a boy's stuff, and it would be no fun for the girl to go, so she agreed to come down.

As she spoke, she put a diabolo basket on the cart, picked one up by herself, took Xiao Xiang'er with her hand, and left.

"Okay then, I'll go to Qianjie with Xiao Xiang'er...Chu Ge, take this basket and put it in it if you buy something, if you throw it on the bullock cart, it will fall off...Chu An, you If you keep following your brother, you know, if you get lost, you won’t be able to buy things...Okay, go play around, we're leaving..."

Chu An shook his head, thinking about what Xiuniang was nagging about, why did he feel that something was wrong there, why would he not be able to buy things if he got lost, why didn’t she say that if he got lost, he couldn’t go back to the village? .

Chu An was bored, watching Xiu Niang holding Xiao Xiang'er and swinging a basket as he walked down the aisle, he stared at Chu Ge in a daze, "Brother, why did I think my sister-in-law said she was going to buy it?" Why are you more affectionate than me?"

(End of this chapter)