Yumei was scolded by Li Aihua for slashing her head and covering her face, and she couldn't lift her energy for a few days. She stopped doing housework, didn't talk to Li Aihua, and hung around the village with Yuzhu in her arms every day, and she expressed her dissatisfaction in this silent way.

Li Aihua had the heart to admit her mistake, but she couldn't pull her face to apologize, thinking that the child was forgetful, and it would be good if Yumei's anger disappeared after a long time. didn't know that this left a pimple in her daughter's heart, causing constant conflicts between mother and daughter in the future.

Yumei paid off the wages owed to He Zhaodi, and handed over the rest to Yulan to deal with.

Li Aihua wanted to ask Yumei to take money to pay off the debt several times, but Yumei treated her coldly, and she was embarrassed to say anything.

According to the supply contract, Yulan withheld a part of the funds for activities after the year, and handed over the rest of the money to Li Aihua.

Li Aihua looked at the more than 2,000 yuan in his hand, and his eyebrows wrinkled again, didn't he still have more than 3,000 yuan after paying the salary, how could he give her such a little?

Li Aihua's embarrassment, Yulan hardened her heart and didn't see it. She also wants to use it all to pay off her debts, but she runs out all at once, what money to use to buy materials, and what if there are no materials, what should I do with the contract?

She silently read in her heart: "A-Niang, I'm sorry, you can bear with me, give me another year, and next year we will try to pay off all the money we owe!"

Magnolia clutched her pockets, begging not to worry about it.

It's a pity that God didn't hear her prayers this time, and some people really remembered the money in their hands.

The reason is that He Ximei's A-Niang and a few people went to the city to buy New Year's goods, and saw the beckoning dog sold in the store, and a toy thirty or forty centimeters in size was priced at eighty or ninety yuan. She remembered that her daughter kept running to Yumei's house for a few days, saying that she was in a hurry to make rag dolls. He also said that those rag dolls are very distinctive, and you can see the difference at a glance.

When Ximei A-Niang went home and asked, she was sure that what was sold in the store was the batch made by Yumei and them, and then she inquired about the wages that her daughter had gotten, and her heart suddenly became unbalanced: "Okay, you Chen Yumei!

She rolled up her sleeves aggressively and prepared to settle accounts with Yumei, the selling price is so high, so can't the salary be added a little more?

Ximei had a headache, and she stopped the old lady who ran away, "Mother...... Can you be reasonable? The store is not owned by Yumei's family. Do you need money to buy goods? Do you need money to rent a store? Do you need money to hire people?"

A few want to throw money over, Ximei A-Niang regained her senses a little, but she was still skeptical: "According to what you say...... It seems like...... Makes some sense, too?"

Ximei nodded busily and said with certainty: "Auntie, you believe me, Yumei will not sell them more than thirty yuan at most." If you don't believe it, go ask Brother Zhao, it's the goods she and Yumei went to sell together. ”

Although Ximei A-Niang is not smart, she has an advantage, that is, she listens to her daughter. Hearing her daughter's analysis, she felt that Yumei was a kind-hearted person, and the salary she gave was reasonable, so she had nothing to say.

The mother and daughter would never have imagined that the kind-hearted Yumei had an unkind sister Yulan, and the high price could scare people to death. Fortunately, what Ximei A-Niang saw was only the selling price of the lowest-grade doll, and if she knew the selling price of the highest-grade doll, it would probably be upside down.

Ximei A-Niang was persuaded by her daughter not to find Yumei to make trouble, but the other person was not so calm.

This person is He Axiu's sister-in-law Li Sanmei.

Ximei A-Niang saw the price, and of course Li Sanmei also noticed it.

Li Sanmei went home and added oil and vinegar in front of her sister-in-law, and He Axiu suddenly felt uncomfortable. But she was thin-skinned, and she was embarrassed to mention it to Yumei, so she could only say it aggrievedly. There is still work after the New Year, and she doesn't want to be too stiff with Yumei.

The sister-in-law is nestled, but Li Sanmei refuses to suffer. Can't trouble Yumei, isn't it easy to add trouble to her?

Li Sanmei chose a place with a lot of people, pretending to inadvertently mention the rag doll made by Yumei, and deliberately omitted the price with a mysterious look.

Although a group of women have no culture, once it is related to money, everyone is good at counting.

Several people calculated in their hearts, and suddenly came up with a huge number.

Then you pass it on to me, I pass it on to you, and in less than a day, the whole village knows - the big girl of Li Aihua's family has made a lot of money!

As soon as they heard that they had money, the creditors of Li Aihua's family couldn't sit still.

If you have money in your hand, why don't you pay it back quickly?

Although the profits are rolling every year, how can an IOU be real with real money in your hands?

So, they all came to the door.

The person who came said it very well, saying: "Look, for so many years, we have never asked you for debts, and we all know that your family is not having a good time, anyway, the villagers in the township also believe that you will not repay the debt......"

Chen Li is an honest man, as soon as people say this, he can't resist it, and keeps accompanying the smiling face: "Yes, yes, yes, it's the villagers who take care of us." ”

Then, the person who came began to put his heart into his heart: "Look, let's be considerate of you, and you should also be considerate and considerate of us, right?" The old man has a headache and brain fever, and the child wants to buy something, and the parents can't take it out, and they don't feel good. Since your girl has a lot of money and can make money, why don't you write off my family's account first? Didn't you make 10,000 dollars? ”

Chen Li smiled bitterly: "It would be good if there were really 10,000 yuan, the child made a fool of himself, and he would sell it for handmade money, and he wouldn't hide it from you, it would be more than 2,000 yuan in total, and he would ...... it."

Someone came to interrupt Chen Li, "Two thousand yuan to pay me back, you can still have half of the thousand yuan left for the New Year, so that's it? I don't count this month's interest as yours, it's interesting enough, right?"

Li Aihua and Chen Li looked at each other, and finally could only nod helplessly.

Can you not nod your head? People just poked there, looking like a scoundrel who said, "If you don't pay back the money, I won't leave, and I will eat your house and live in your house."

The more than 2,000 yuan that Li Aihua took out from his daughter's hand didn't cover it yet, so he dispersed and exchanged it for three IOUs.

Yulan watched coldly at the people who came to ask for debts, and kept all the grievances, embarrassments and pain of her father and mother in her heart.

She felt she had to speed up the pace of making money.

Otherwise, every time she sees someone persecuting her father, her heart and liver will be crushed into slag as if she had been twisted by a knife.

At this moment, Yulan hopes that the time will pass early and she will grow into an adult immediately.

But this is impossible, and the only people she can borrow now are the eldest brother and the elder sister.

Sister Ah has now completely accepted her differences, but the eldest brother doesn't know if he will be frightened?

How to explain her special ability, Yulan can't care about it at the moment. Anyway, even if she changes her core, she is still Chen Yulan, God's gift, giving her a lifetime of experience, what is she afraid of.

After finally sending away the waves of people who demanded accounts, Li Aihua became angry at Yumei again: "You said that if you are looking for someone, you can't find a few reliable ones? The total is only more than 3,000 yuan, and which black-hearted thing is passed on to 10,000 yuan, and I am not afraid of rotting the root of my tongue! Now how do you ask me to explain to those who ask for debts? People still think that we have money and deliberately do not pay it back, are we wronged?"

Yumei glanced at the angry old lady, and stopped talking, anyway, at the end of the year, A-Niang will be like a cannonball, it will explode at one point, you can't mess with it, can't I hide?

With Yuzhu who stumbled and learned to walk, Yumei was a whole day, watching people make tofu, beat rice cakes, and make stove candy, Yuzhu was overjoyed, and Yumei gradually forgot the grievances of being blamed by A-Niang.

In the blink of an eye, it is the twenty-third day of the lunar calendar. The next day is the New Year, the day of the sacrifice.

As the saying goes, "If you don't sacrifice to the stove, the whole family comes." Therefore, most of the people in the village who are working outside are returning in the twenty-third day, and the peaceful small village is finally lively, and the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger.

At night, Li Aihua and his wife flipped through the ledger under the lamp. From the day of the festival to the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, there is an endless stream of debt collectors.

Yulan's grandfather, Chen Laogen, was a gambler and an alcoholic, who fell into the river and drowned in alcoholism, leaving a debt of more than 50,000 yuan.

The money was borrowed by Chen Laogen from various places under various names, and finally it was all filled on the mahjong table.

Chen Laogen is dead, but the debts are still there, and they all fall on Li Aihua and his wife.

The couple has been paying it back for a few years, and there are still 30,000 yuan left.

In the past, the family was poor, and the people who worked in the fields could only make ends meet all year round, and they couldn't pay back a few dollars at all, so they could only watch the profits roll in, and the money they owed was getting more and more year by year.

In recent years, the conditions have improved, and the two have taken advantage of the slack to work for others, earning a little and paying back for more than three years. It's just that the principal is not repaid, and it doesn't work at all if it is repaid little by little, and compound interest has to be added.

At the end of the year, just dealing with those who collect debts is enough to exhaust Li Aihua and his wife. Later, the two learned to be obedient, and at the end of the year, without waiting for the creditors to come to the door, they took the initiative to explain to those creditors.

If you can't repay what you should repay, you have to pay it back one after another; if you can't pay it back for the time being, the interest will become the principal, and the IOU needs to be rewritten; and if you occasionally buy things on credit, you have to pay them off one after another.

During the day, everyone is busy with their own things, and they are only at home at this time at night.

The couple still had to run one by one and write off the accounts one by one.

Life is as bitter as Coptis chinensis!

But no matter how hard it is, you have to grit your teeth and hold on! There are still old people and poor children at home, if they don't hold on, the sky at home will fall!

Compared with the couple's troubles, Yumei is much easier, now that she has found a way, she believes that it will not take long to pay off the arrears, so there is nothing to worry about.

The most important thing for her now is to recruit people, taking advantage of the fact that the people who are working outside are back, the plan for the next year has not been decided, and it is easier to recruit people, otherwise it will not be easy to recruit people when they have determined where to go.

Early in the morning of the new year, Yumei took Yuzhu to play under the pretext of quietly going to work with a few people she liked to finalize the time to go to work after the year.

Yumei was busy recruiting, and Yulan was not idle, locking herself in the room and smashing the design draft.

She racked her brain to think about the clothing features of this era. Their own design can not be too advanced, but also distinctive, it is not enough to make people shine, it must be liked from the bottom of their hearts, in order to occupy a place in the market.

She was busy for most of the day, and she only finished the draft of three summer clothes.

A set of skirts, the top is an emerald green cotton T-shirt with a wide round neck, five-quarter sleeves, and loose cuffs. The corner of the sleeves is embroidered with flowers, and the hem is slightly tucked, taking into account the elegant temperament of a lady and the advantages of loose and comfortable summer dress; the skirt is an A-line skirt with a high-waisted lace-up design, the length just covers the knee, and the skirt is irregular in shape, elegant and dignified, very beautiful.

The other two design drawings are a long skirt with white polka dots on a black background, a small V-neck with ruffles on the neckline, small flying sleeves, and a thin tight belt design around the waist, which is elegant and a little smart;

After thinking about it, I still felt that it was not enough, so I added another set of Beibei skirts, a sleeveless one-line neckline slim knee-length long skirt with a wide belt.

She has always used the old habit of drawing, from style to coloring, from hairstyle to makeup, from the accessories on the model's hands to the shoes on her feet, she draws them all clearly and clearly in color.

Unlike those abstract clothing designs that only professionals can understand, her designs are vivid, and at a glance, you can see models dressed in demure, elegant or playful towards you.

Yulan's original idea was to let Sister Ah go to the city to open a tailor shop, specializing in customizing mid-to-high-end women's clothing, and she was responsible for providing styles. But now I have to give up, the first is no money, the second is no money, and the third is still no money!

Moreover, Sister A's tailoring skills are all on her own, and she can't afford to take on the heavy responsibility before she is a teacher. For the time being, I can only sell design drawings, and when I think of the profits that can be brought by the clothes produced by these drawings, Yulan can't help but feel very painful.

Yulan almost wanted to look up to the sky and sigh, everything was difficult at the beginning! I was ruthless again, I had rolled around in the mud pond, what else was so difficult to fall on me?

She quickly stopped her divergent thinking, checked the details again, rubbed her stiff neck, shook her hands, put away the drawings, and jumped out to find Yumei.

Yumei took Yuzhu to watch the excitement at the entrance of the village.

Wave after wave of workers came back in bright clothes, one by one, wrapped in large bags and small bags, which opened the eyes of those villagers who had never been far away.

A fashionable woman with small curly hair, an energetic girl dressed in fashion, and a Lu man with a thick gold chain, all of them can make everyone talk about it with relish for a long time.

Magnolia's gaze fell on the fashionable woman with curly hair and heavy makeup.

The woman was wearing a black low-neck sweater with the hem of the sweater tucked into dark blue jeans, and the tight-fitting clothing showed that her waist was more slender and her figure was more slim. In the deep winter weather, everyone else is wrapped layer after layer like a ball, she only casually put on a thin black leather coat over the sweater, the zipper of the leather coat is open, and the amorous appearance makes others more bloated. She greeted the people around her familiarly, and spoke in a hoarse voice, with a special charm that was impressive.

The woman is graceful, but Yulan always feels that the other party has a strange sense of peacekeeping, which seems to be a kind of ...... The smell of wind and dust?

It's normal to look at the people around you, maybe you're wrong. Magnolia thought uncertainly.