Chapter 276: The Couple's Revenge
Erya knew the reason for the matter, knew that Zhang Yunfeng's life was not good, and he still owed a lot of debts. Originally, she thought that she was generous, honest and kind, but today she found out that she would be crooked and gloating.
Before, she was still thinking about how to set a trap for her after learning about Zhang Yunfeng's situation, so that she could take out all her savings to invest in the workshop and get out of the embroidery house and work alone. Then wait for her own mechanical knitted sweater to suddenly hit the market at an ultra-low price, forcing her to lose and then have nothing. Lose the wealth she relies on the most, and see what she still has to think about the yin people behind her.
However, judging from her current miserable situation, it is even more sour than spending her time to fix her, and she really doesn't need to set any more traps and traps in this move! What we really have to guard against now is that this Zhang Yunfeng is not forced to jump off the wall in a hurry, and it is the most important task to come and entangle Daman.
The eldest aunt won't talk about it there, lest the eldest aunt go to Zhang Yunfeng because of Qingzhu, and she won't have to cry and faint.
That night, I discussed a number of countermeasures with Xiaohu, and Xiaohu said very pertinently: "No matter how many countermeasures we want, the key is still in Brother Daman, if he can withstand it, we don't need to do anything, if he can't withstand it, then the more we do, the more people will hate." β
Erya didn't see it that way: "Then we have to help, they are originally husband and wife, and their relationship is not very bad, how can you let Brother Da Man withstand it?" It's just that we can figure out how to keep them from facing each other. β
Xiaohu asked annoyantly, "What do you think?" Is it possible to let Brother Da Man go back to the Northland again? β
"Oops! It's almost the New Year, if you drive Daman to the north for no reason. The eldest lady must be sad in her heart. I think the best thing to do is to let Daman go out to do things, so that he is so busy that he doesn't have time to go home or listen to those gossip. When he went to the Northland in the spring, everything would be fine.
It just so happens that in the past two days, the grandfather has been worried that many people in Zhuangzi can't sell their ducks. My opinion is that let Daman take the manpower and set up a few points in the county seat and the capital city to sell roast duck. Thirty wen a roast duck, I believe it will definitely sell well! β
Xiaohu also thought this was a good idea, and immediately agreed: "Okay! I'll talk to Daman tomorrow. If he agrees, I will go to the kiln to order a few more ovens and jars to come back, and you can see at home whose boy to follow Daman. β
"Hmmm! I'll have to inquire. Who is willing to help us kill the duck and lift the duck feathers? It is estimated that no one in these villages around us wants to come, and they are living a very good life now, and they can't afford these two hard-earned money. β
"Let the uncle and the second uncle find this! They know where people are pleased! β
County College, Wu Zhicheng, who is in the same dormitory as Xiaolong and Anzi. The family's financial conditions are not good. But because he was smart and studious since he was a child. An old Xiucai in another village knew him, and said that if this child could be sent to study, he would definitely be able to be admitted to Xiucai.
Although Xiucai can't be an official, he can be exempted from taxes and labor for a family, and if he is lucky, he can be invited home by a rich man to be a gentleman who takes offerings. The Wu family discussed and discussed, so they saved a little money from the rations for Wu Zhicheng to study.
Wu Zhicheng himself also knows how difficult it is for his family to study, and he lives more economically in the school than his family. Xiaolong and Anzi, because he always eats only one meal a day. He knew that his family was in difficulty. The two often pretended that the rice had been beaten and the food was not delicious, and begged Wu Zhicheng to help eat some. lest you fall and be scolded by the husband. Therefore, the relationship between the three of them is more iron than others!
When he contracted an eye disease this time, Xiaolong and Anzi were taken away by his family, but he could only drink the decoction that the academy spent money on in the academy, and passed the meal a day. He wanted to go home, but he couldn't! At least the academy here spends money to get soup and potions to drink, and when he goes home, he can only dry up, and the family will never be able to come up with a penny to cure him.
Unexpectedly, he was right in the academy, and the day after Wang Xiaolong and Wang Xiaoan were taken home, they came to tell Dean SΓΉ about the treatment of eye diseases. These poor students, who were still in the academy, were the first to get better. Those who returned home were able to get better by asking the dean to bring letters one by one and pass on the treatment to them.
Now that Xiaolong and Anzi are back, he can follow and eat something good. In the past two days, it is no longer a half-full meal a day, and the body has gradually become harder. The sun had already set, so he laid the quilt that had been drying all day on his bed. While he was busy, the son of the village chief came to their dormitory to see him.
"Yikes! Zhicheng! How could your grandfather be willing to get you such a thick new quilt? β
Wu Zhicheng replied embarrassedly: "This is not what my family did!" It was my classmate Wang Xiaolong's quilt, and his sister-in-law prepared a new quilt for him, and he gave it to me. β
"It's that Wang Xiaolong again! I heard that he has no parents and only an older brother and sister-in-law, why don't I believe it! How can a sister-in-law treat her brother-in-law better than her parents treat her son? Besides, I've only seen his uncle come often, but I've never seen his brother and sister-in-law come before. If you want me to say that he is afraid that people will look down on him, he will brag there! β
Wu Zhicheng retorted with a red face: "Wang Xiaolong is not bragging, our eye disease this time was cured by the method given by his sister-in-law." His sister-in-law also gave each of us a towel, a piece of soap for washing towels, and a piece of soap for washing our faces and baths. Also, his sister-in-law and his brother wanted to come, but Wang Xiaolong didn't let them come. β
"Cut! What kind of soap, soap, how do I not know this thing in the world? You're just taking that little bit of stuff from other people, so you're here to help people say good things. β
Wu Zhicheng's eyes were red at the words of the village chief's son, and he hurriedly argued: "If you don't believe it, ask Wang Xiaoan in your class, the one who sells roast duck at the gate of our college is from their family!" The man would deliver a roast duck every day for us to share it with. β
The person Wu Zhicheng said about selling roast duck at the gate of their academy is indeed from the Wang family, and he has been selling it for four or five days. The students and gentlemen in the college buy roast duck at a special price, only 20 wen a piece. It can also be bought by several people. But if outsiders buy it, it is 30 wen a piece, and not a single penny is missing. Xiaolong and Anzi are in the same dormitory. You don't have to buy it, Wang Shougui, who specializes in selling roast duck here, will give one to Xiaolong every day.
As for why Wang Shougui bought roast duck here, it was because Erya considered that young people were too competitive and impatient. This kind of thing that is going out to do business for the first time, and no one has any experience, can easily be messed up by young people. So in the end, Erya thought about it, and chose middle-aged people like Wang Shougui, who are serious, down-to-earth, and kind. Soon to gain a foothold in their respective fields. In four or five days, you can easily sell hundreds of roast ducks, and those who haven't caused trouble come to find trouble.
And Wang Shougui at the gate of the college. Sell even more. There were two peaks of roast duck sales for lunch and dinner, and then there were bits and pieces from the surrounding homes and merchants, and seventy or eighty ducks could be sold.
Judging from the consumption of several roast duck stalls in their county and prefecture, it is time for the New Year. You can definitely sell all the ducks of each family.
What was the big guy worried about before? Slaughter ducks every day and eat them! Later, I invited my relatives to eat duck at home, but no one came, and they all hated to eat enough! This is good, not only can it be sold at a good price, but it is also very good, and now it is a pity that the duck ate too much some time ago. What a pity!
Xiaohu never told Daman about Qingzhu Niang, and he made it difficult for him. Let him supervise a few people to sell roast duck in the county seat and Fucheng, and others will specialize in squatting and selling while roasting. He drove the carriage to replenish the goods, and by the way, he looked at it so as not to let people make trouble and make trouble. Back and forth, busy from morning to night. He also didn't have a chance to listen to other people's gossip.
Just when the Wang family was busy selling roast duck and the sale was in full swing, Xiaohu took a letter in a panic, ran back, and shouted at Erya: "Daughter-in-law! Broken! Hurry up and tell Brother Da Man, withdraw all the people, our duck will not be sold! β
Erya looked at Xiaohu inexplicably and reproached, "What's the matter?" You can make it clear! β
Xiaohu handed the letter in his hand to his daughter-in-law and said, "The urgent letter from General Qin, let's send another 20,000 ducks that have been slaughtered and marinated with seasonings, 10,000 fish of more than two catties, and at least five boxes of large white shrimp, which must be delivered before the year." How can we have 20,000 ducks in our house now? β
Erya glanced at Xiaohu, "My family can't collect it from someone else!" In several villages next door, we are worried that the ducks are not selling, and if we help them solve the ducks, it will be too late for them to be happy. Roast duck continues to be sold and cannot be taken back. Here, we first generalize our own ducks, and then buy other people's ducks if they are not enough. Fortunately, it is as cold as freezing now, and we don't need to go to the north to slaughter, just slaughter and clean it up at home, and hurry up on the road, it should be no problem before the year. β
Xiaohu scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, and said with a smile: "I don't know why, I'm always rough and rough in front of you, and I can't hold my breath." It seems to have become a habit! β
Erya smiled: "You! It's just a habit I developed before. However, don't dwell on these senseless things now, hurry up and call the eldest uncle and the second uncle to go to those villages and call two or three hundred people with good hands and feet and good health, and we will slaughter them overnight. I went to ask Uncle Tang and the third uncle to drive the carriage to Liujialing to pull all the ducks over, and then went to the town to ask the eldest cousin and cousin-in-law to pull the ducks there too. If it's not enough, let's close to our own family first! Tomorrow you will continue to be busy slaughtering ducks at home, and I will go to Liujialing to preside over the fish. Let's do our best to do things well and neatly. By the way, the duck entrails and eiderdown are all left as before. β
The couple spun at high speed like a spinning top, but their efficiency was really high, and in just three days, the convoy full of ducks, fish, and prawns set off steadily. This time, Daman was unkind to Xiaohu and his wife, and was assigned to lead the convoy away.
Zhang Yunfeng was really unlucky, the only person who could help her and was willing to help her was arranged and missed by Xiaohu and his wife again and again.
Xiaohu's ducks and other Wangjiazhuang's ducks were sent away, and the surrounding villages benefited. Their ducks are sold to Wangjiazhuang for 20 yuan, and Wangjiazhuang is reprocessed and goes to the county seat and Fucheng to sell roast ducks.
Of course, the Wang family earned hard-earned money, and the family who sold live ducks did not suffer a loss but also earned more. Here, the selling price of a live duck is five cents per catty, and a duck is no more than seventeen or eighteen cents. They were all sold to the Wang family, which could not only get an extra two cents, but also sell them all at once without trouble or time. It's better to insure a lot than selling one today, selling one tomorrow, and not necessarily being able to sell it the day after tomorrow. They are all smart people who can settle accounts, and they don't sell well when they get cheap. In order to thank the Wang family, everyone took the initiative to help slaughter and lift the hair. Erya didn't prevaricate politely, and accepted everyone's kindness very happily. And when they left, Er Ya gave a big bowl of fragrant duck liver after boiling, and they all went back with surprises. (To be continued......)