182 The gap between expectations and reality
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To be honest, the money box made by Li Datou is a bit too big in Li Hui's opinion, and the money sold today is not even completely covered by the bottom of the money box, but even this appearance is enough for Li Changgen and the pillar to be happy, especially the pillar has recently followed Qiu Lao not only to read and read, but also to learn arithmetic, and today's collector earned fifty-eight yuan after removing the cost, which is like a dream for the pillar who has never earned money. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Good~~!Good~~~!It's a good thing to have income!" Although the business on the first day is not much, there is still an income, and the current position of my family can be said to be unique, so there is no need to worry that this business will not be able to continue.
After a family of three sat there and chatted happily for a while, Li Changgen went to rest, and the pillar and Li Hui shifted positions and came to the ear room of the main house.
"Brother, you write down our expenses today in a notebook, and then record how much we sold today, so that when we compare the two sides later, we will know how much money we have earned!" Li Hui reminded the pillar.
"Yes~~! is to keep accounts~!" Zhuzi also thinks that the advice that my sister said is very good, and the family is not like there are no two pens in the past, but there is really no account book for special accounting, but this does not matter, there is paper in the house now, let my sister bind a booklet first.
As soon as the pillar said this, Li Hui smiled and took out a small book that had already been bound, and the pillar picked up the pen and planned to record today's income and expenditure in the notebook.
"Brother, what do you think we should remember?" Li Hui said as he leaned on the edge of the table and seemed to be unintentional.
Li Hui asked the pillar directly with this sentence, he would keep accounts there, "This~~~, I don't know!"
"Why don't we remember it today?When Grandpa Qiu comes here tomorrow, we will ask Grandpa Qiu how to keep the accounts!" the pillar scratched his head and said to his sister.
"That's not good~!We can't trouble Grandpa Qiu for everything!" Li Hui said as he slapped his hand on the table.
Sure enough, Li Hui said that the pillar also felt that this was not good, but he really didn't know how to keep accounts, and the pillar thought about it for a long time and said: "Otherwise, let's figure out how to keep accounts ourselves, anyway, let's read this account book ourselves!"
"Hmm~~!hmm~~~!" Li Hui nodded hurriedly, indicating that she also agreed, and then she grinded ink on the pillar while discussing with the pillar in a whisper how to record this account.
Li Hui looked at the bookkeeping written by the pillar on the booklet and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, she had ulterior motives for tossing so much just now, although she didn't know how to keep accounts in this world, but she also felt that the bookkeeping method here must be very backward, so she took the trouble to induce the pillar to keep accounts in her own way.
"Okay~~!" the pillar took the recorded ledger in his hand and looked at it, he didn't know how the real ledger was recorded, but now it seems that he and his sister have figured out this way of accounting is also very good, a page is evenly divided into two parts, half of the materials are remembered, and the other half is remembered today's receipt, after the total amount of the price on both sides is calculated, today's income is directly obtained after a subtraction, which is really very convenient!
"Ah~~~!" Li Hui yawned, "Brother is not early, hurry up and rest!
"Okay~~!" Zhu also knew that it was getting late, but he didn't plan to sleep now, "You go back to sleep quickly! I'll go check the situation in the store first, and then sleep!"
"Okay~~!But brother, don't be too late!Otherwise, you won't have the energy to open a store tomorrow!" Li Hui herself was too sleepy, and she would rest in her room after settling down the pillar.
The pillar first went to the east house with the oil lamp, and after repeatedly making sure that the doors and windows of the east house had been closed, he went to the kitchen again, and checked all of them, and after making sure that there was nothing missing, he returned to his room, but he did not go to rest immediately, but took out a pen and paper and wrote a big word in the dim light of the oil lamp before going to sleep, the pillar knew very well in his heart that he was not as smart as his sister, and he was now older, although he did not plan to surpass his sister's idea, but he couldn't drag his feet there because of himselfSo he had to go the extra mile!
In this way, the pillar is busy in the store during the day, and Li Hui will always help in the kitchen to Qiu Laolai to class, Qiu Lao will teach Li Hui alone in the future, and then stay and eat with Li Changgen's family, after eating, Qiu Lao left alone, and Li Hui replaced Qiu Lao to teach the pillar homework, after the homework is completed, the pillar will also write the day's income and expenditure in the account book, and then will rest, such days have passed for more than a month, from the hot summer to the harvest of the golden autumn, and the temperature has slowly decreased。
"I think this dress will be finished in two days!" Xing'er said to Li Hui, biting off the thread.
Now that the day has begun to get colder, it won't be long before the weather will completely cool down, so Xing'er will come over every day to help Li Hui make cotton clothes in the past two days.
"Sister Xing'er, you said how would I live without you!" Li Hui threw the cotton in his hand and hugged Xing'er's waist directly, burying his face in Xing'er's arms.
"Look what you're talking about! Why wouldn't you be alive without me?" Xing'er was angry and amused by Li Hui's words.
"I'm not alive~!" Li Hui didn't look up, he shook his head directly in Xing'er's arms and said, "If it weren't for you, I would have frozen to death this winter, so I won't live!"
Hearing Li Hui say this, Xing'er slapped her on the back, "Bah~!Bah~!Bah~!Why do you talk nonsense about everything! Don't you dare to say that in the future! Hang death on your lips all day long, that's not okay! The river god will blame!"
"Got it~!" Li Hui got up from Xing'er's arms and put away the cotton and fabric on the table.
Although the weather is not too cold at the moment, the work of making cotton clothes is urgent, especially the pillar, he only has the clothes he wears when he comes, if this cotton clothes are not prepared early, he will have no clothes to wear as soon as the weather turns cold. And Li Hui also wants to make a cotton coat for Qiu Lao, how to say that Qiu Lao can be regarded as a teacher for himself and the pillar, but people teach themselves dutifully, so it is natural to make a cotton coat for others.
"That's right~~!I found the gray squirrel skin you asked me to find for you last time! I've seen the thing, it's very good! The price is not expensive, so I just bought it first!" Xing'er spread out the cotton clothes in her hand and checked it, and after making sure that there were no problems, she folded it and put it aside.
"It's all bought!" Li Hui really didn't expect that he had mentioned it at Xing'er before, but Xing'er had bought everything back in the past few days. But since you bought it, why don't you take it?
"Well~!, it's all bought, I bought it according to your instructions, it's just enough to make two clothes, this leather is not good for making clothes, so I didn't mention it to you, my mother is doing it at home now, and I'll bring it to you when it's done, anyway, I know the size of Qiu Lao and Uncle Changgen, I can't make a mistake!" Xing'er knows that Li Hui's needlework is average, and she has to be busy with things in the store every day, and there is still time to make clothes, so it is better to help her directly here!
"Thank you so much for that and Aunt Li!" Li Hui heard Xing'er say this and hurriedly thanked her, her own ability is clear, although she said that she came to this world and worked hard to learn needlework, but in the end the time is short and young, this needlework is not only average, but also very slow, now she has to be busy with the things in the store every day, and she has to follow Qiu Lao to study, although she also tries to squeeze out the time to do needlework, but if you want to make the family's cotton clothes before the cold, it is completely impossible, but fortunately, Xing'er and Aunt Li have helped themselves solve this matter, otherwise they really don't know what to do!
"Thank you, thank you, we are the ones who want to say thank you!" The gratitude in Xing'er's tone when she said this couldn't be hidden, now she only needs to make those dolls at home every day to bring a lot of income to the family, and the kind of medicinal candy made by her two younger brothers is now also open to sales, and now she can sell a lot every day, and the number of people in the family has directly increased several times compared to the past, and the life of the family is much better than before, and all of this is brought by Li Hui, so don't say anything about Li Hui, Li Dazhuang and their family are grateful!
"Why do you mention this again!I don't like to hear it~!" Li Hui directly shook her hand at Xing'er impatiently and said, in the eyes of others, all she saw was that she helped Aunt Li and her family, but only Li Hui knew in her own heart that in fact, it was Aunt Li who helped her at the beginning, at that time she had just come to this world, Aunt Li did not help herself less, and if she hadn't heard a lot of things with the help of Aunt Li's mouth, I was afraid that I would have already exposed my stuff, so if I want to say gratitude, I should actually be grateful to Aunt Li and them!
Of course, Xing'er didn't know what Li Hui was thinking, so she only thought that Li Hui didn't want their family to be grateful to her, Li Hui was really too kind, so Xing'er secretly vowed in her heart to be more kind to Li Hui and repay Li Hui's kindness.
"By the way, how is the business in the store these days?" Xing'er picked up another cotton coat and continued to sew.
"It's okay~!The weather is a little cold for a while, and the business is better than before, but it's still the same as in the past, and no one on the dock has come to eat!" Originally, the main reason why she wanted to open this shop was because she thought that it was close to the dock, and there were so many coolies on the dock, and these individuals alone could help her support the store, but what she didn't expect was that it had been open for so long, and none of the coolies on the dock had come to have a meal, which was a very serious blow to Li Hui's previous idea.
"I've already told my eldest brother about this!" Xing'er glanced at Li Hui, put down the needle and thread in her hand and said, "My eldest brother said that the person carrying the big bag on the dock is a poor person, and he has no idea of going to the restaurant to eat at all!"
"The price here is not expensive! It's much cheaper than the ones selling food outside!But they just can't do it!" Li Hui muttered, he had taken into account the situation of those coolies at the beginning, so the specially ordered meals were cheap and affordable, and he thought that such a thing would definitely be welcomed by those coolies after it was launched, but he didn't think that the other party would not come even if he followed, just like he was not selling food here, but eating people.
"I also told my eldest brother, and my eldest brother said that when he found a suitable time, he would bring his brothers over for a meal!" Xing'er picked up the needle and rubbed it on her hair, and continued to help Li Hui sew cotton clothes.
Li Hui didn't take what Xing'er said to heart, she just thought it was Xing'er comforting herself.
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Although the current income in the family has greatly improved, Li Dazhuang and his two sons have not given up their previous work on the dock, but continue to carry bags here every day, but the changes in the family have brought them a lot of differences, the most obvious is that Li Tie and his younger brother Li Tong are more strong.
"How is it? Can you still hold on?" Li Tie patted a dark and thin man beside him and asked.
"It's okay~~!" the man wiped the sweat from his face and replied, just now they had just unloaded a shipload of goods, and before they could catch their breath, another cargo ship entered the port, so everyone didn't care about resting, and hurriedly went over.
Although these coolies on the dock are all running to find work on their own, but they are not alone, but a few people or a dozen or twenty groups of large or small, there is a leader in this group, he will take everyone to find work on the dock, and everyone will also closely unite to prevent being bullied by other groups, and it is normal for such groups to have more mutual competition, like now there is a cargo ship, so the group is crowded in the hope of getting a job, and the group's direct pushing and abuse are normal!