Chapter Forty-Six: Trouble Returning Home
Shen Chengyao returned to the street and found that the original location had become an old man selling puppies, and Liu and a few 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. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
This time the herbs are not as much as last time, but because they have been dried **, so they sold 1,116 Wen, he used to do short-term work outside during the slack time, tired and half-dead, only to earn 300 to 500 Wen per month, sure enough, knowledge is wealth, this understands more things, it is much easier to make money, and labor is the least valuable.
Shen Chengyao thought so in his heart, and he was even more determined to let his children read and read no matter what, and he felt that he now understood a little bit why his father was so persistent and had to provide a reader.
Jing Rui saw Shen Chengyao coming over in an ox cart from a distance, hurriedly waved his hand, and shouted loudly: "Dad!"
Shen Chengyao drove the ox cart to Jing Rui's side, "What about your mother?"
"Mother, they're in the restaurant, Dad, let's go in first. Jing Rui pointed to the largest restaurant in town, Taste Xuan, and said.
Shen Chengyao drove the ox cart to the door of the restaurant, and the guy inside stepped forward to take the ox cart with great eyes, and took it to the backyard for safekeeping.
"Xiao'er is talking to the two sons I met last time on the mountain about cooperating in a toy shop, and my mother and brother are upstairs. Jing Rui simply analyzed, took Shen Chengyao into the restaurant and went to the private room on the second floor, knocked lightly on the door, Xiao Fuzi opened the door and let the two of them walk in.
Xiao'er saw her father come in, and hurriedly stood up and got out of the way.
Shen Chengyao hugged his fists and saluted the two, Shangguan Xuanyi nodded slightly, in fact, what they didn't know was that Shangguan Xuanyi could nod in response to his salute It was very embarrassing, there were more people in this world who could salute him, but there were few who could get him to nod and respond.
That's it, no one thinks Shen Chengyao is rude, he is full of extravagance, and it makes people feel that he should not respond, which is probably the superiority engraved in his bones.
Xiaofuzi was very puzzled by his master's courtesy.
"Senior, don't come unharmed. Di Zhaowei was much more down-to-earth, and greeted Shen Chengyao with a smile.
"Don't call the grass people seniors. "Shen Chengyao felt uncomfortable being called a senior by a big son, which was probably the deep-rooted feudal ideology in ancient times.
"I shouldn't call you a senior anymore, now that we're a cooperative relationship, I'll call you Uncle Shen." Don't shout at the son, just call me Zhaowei. ”
Shangguan Xuanyi intended to have a good relationship with Xiao'er, and nodded: "My name is Shangguan Xuanyi." ”
Although he said so, how dare they really call them by name.
The matter of the shop has also been discussed, and Shen Chengyao has also returned, Xiao'er is blessed and ready to leave: "Two sons, the day after tomorrow, I will send the first batch of toy design drawings and the shop's planning book, now we will leave first." ”
"Brother Xuanyi. ”
Xiao'er: "What?"
"Call me Brother Xuanyi. ”
Dizzy, Xiao'er felt that she couldn't scream, so after thinking about it, she opened her mouth and shouted, "Brother Shangguan." ”
Shangguan Xuanyi frowned, but didn't say anything more.
called out once, and the second time it was much more agreeable, "Brother Shangguan, Brother Di, let's leave first." ”
"Eat and then go, little Fuzi. ”
"A few of you here, please, the other private room has already prepared a table of meals. Xiaofuzi opened the door of the private room and made a gesture of please.
Xiao'er: ...... This person is also too domineering, he is really used to commanding, but he is not his servant or subordinate, why should he listen to him, but Xiao'er doesn't dare to say it, it is really a tiger falling Pingyang and being bullied by dogs, but his stomach is just hungry, so he doesn't eat in vain.
A few people came to another private room, this private room is not as fine as the one just now, just that private room, the layout inside is all made of Huanghuali, arranged so that it can be used as a guest, and can be used for eating, and also put a concubine collapse, as a rest, also placed a bookstand and bookshelves, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, everything is ready, can be used as a temporary office. And now this room is only for eating, and there is indeed a steaming meal on the table, and when they see a table of hot meals, several people feel hungry.
Xiao Fuzi brought someone over and said goodbye: "Shen Gongzi, Mrs. Shen, the two sons and young lady, please use it slowly, if you need anything, you can ring the bell to call someone to arrange, and the villain will retire first." ”
"I'm tired. Shen Chengyao replied.
Their family has not yet had the habit of not saying anything when eating and sleeping, so when eating, Shen Chengyao asked what happened, and Jing Hao told what had happened. Shen Chengyao felt that a big pie fell from the sky and smashed his head dizzy, he had a lot of good things in his family recently, and then remembered what the Liu family had said to him, is it really a blessing for his children, it really makes him happy and worried.
"Dad, have you found the contractor?" Xiao'er asked as she remembered what Shen Chengyao had done before.
"I found it, and it just so happened that the work he had on hand would be completed in two days, and he would be able to start building our house the day after tomorrow, and try to build it before the end of the year, so that we could move into a new house for the New Year." ”
"Then there will be a lot of things to be busy with next, Dad will have to hire someone to clean up the wasteland where the house will be built tomorrow, and he will sell bricks and tiles, beams, and furniture...... Xiao'er said the same thing.
"We haven't told our parents about buying land and building houses. Liu suddenly remembered and said it.
The family was silent, and then they hurried to speed up their meals, and had to rush home to get busy.
After eating, Liu also fed the little sister, and the family left the restaurant to go to the cloth village, and they had to buy some cloth and rags to go back to make dolls. When Liu heard this, he said, "There are four cloth shops in the city, or let's collect all the rags from several cloth shops." This morning, she saw that silk flowers and dolls made of rags are very profitable, and she is not tired of doing some needlework, and now that Xiao'er has signed a contract with someone, she needs more rags to make a model.
When Xiao'er heard this, she said, "Then my father and mother drove the ox cart to a cloth shop farther away to collect rags, and my brother and I went to the cloth shop last time to buy some cloth, and you will pick us up there after collecting it, okay?"
Shen Chengyao agreed, and took the three Xiao'er siblings to the largest cloth village in the county, and then drove the ox cart with the Liu family to the other three cloth villages.
The three brothers and sisters entered the auspicious cloth village, Xiao'er took a serious look at the cloth here, picked a relatively thick cotton cloth to prepare to make a down liner, and then pulled two medium-priced satin shirts, Xiao'er picked rose red and lilac herself, and picked purple red and autumn fragrance colors for Liu, Shen Chengyao picked navy blue and plain blue, and the two brothers picked silver gray and lake blue, and then compared the figure of Old Man Shen and Shen Zhuang to buy a set of ready-to-wear for each of them.
The shopkeeper saw Xiao'er buy a lot, smiled and narrowed his eyes, the business has been very good recently, the New Year is approaching, many people come to buy cloth to make clothes, their own ready-to-wear have sold a lot, look at the rags are a lot more than usual to know, heard Xiao'er want rags, five bags of rags only received 20 Wen, Xiao'er bought a total of 22336 Wen, the shopkeeper saw Xiao'er Shuang also received 6 Wen.
After buying the cloth and waiting for a while, Shen Chengyao drove over in an ox cart, and the cart was loaded with ten bags of rags, Xiao'er thought that she still had five bags here, and couldn't help but think that this was too much, right? But it seems that they have to take care of an ox cart to go home, and there is no place to sit.
The men from the cloth shop helped to carry the things Xiao'er bought onto the ox cart, and Shen Chengyao tied it with hemp rope and asked Liu to take the child to the city gate to take the ox cart home, and then left first.
At the gate of the city, there are generally some farmers with ox carts, taking advantage of the day to catch the market, come out to pick up passengers. Generally it is to carry people back and forth between the town and the county seat, and each ox cart can seat ten people, each person can earn 50 yuan.
When Xiao'er and his group arrived at the city gate, there was an ox cart waiting, but there were already eight people sitting in the car, there were four of them, Liu thought that three of them were children, so he wanted to ask if he could squeeze it, and it happened that there were two people in the ox cart who were from the same village, thinking that it should be no problem. Who knew that the other people on the ox cart had no opinion, and neither did the young woman in the village who had a rich daughter-in-law, but Aunt Wang from the same village did not agree.
"No, coachman, there are already eight people seated here, and you have to squeeze twelve, do you want to squeeze me flat? There are four of you in total, plus the five people on your back, you can sit in half an ox cart, won't you wait for the next one? What do you want to squeeze into this car? Are you responsible for squeezing me out of the problem?" Aunt Wang supported her waist with both hands, and she was full of shrews and scolded the street leader.
Everyone looked at the gate of the city, and at this time the people who rushed to the market were almost finished, and there would be the next ox cart.
"Aunt Wang, isn't this because this is the last ox cart that I want to squeeze it?"
"If you don't have an ox cart, then walk, who let you have more people!" Aunt Wang just saw Shen Chengyao driving an ox cart by, and the ox cart bought a lot of things, although she didn't know what it was, but she also saw the fabric, but she was jealous, so now she deliberately embarrassed the Liu family.
The coachman is also an honest man, although he wants to make more money, but after all, it was Aunt Wang who got into the car first, and it was not easy to drive her out of the car, so he didn't make a sound.
Seeing that Aunt Wang looked unwilling to give in, Liu was just about to say to Jing Rui that he would let Xiao'er and Jing Hao go home in an ox cart, and he would walk back with him.
At this time, a carriage pulled over, and it was Di Zhaowei's little servant who drove the car, Xiao Fuzi jumped out of the carriage and walked over, and saluted the Liu family, "Mrs. Shen, two sons, Miss Xiao'er, my son-in-law please get on the car and give you a ride along the way." ”