Chapter 56: Li Zhu buys cloth
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Li Zhu cooked, and when he saw the old man Li and Li Yu's family coming back, he beckoned him to come over and eat together, Li Yu saw that it was late, Li Tian licked his lips, and beckoned to eat in the courtyard of Li Zhu's house. During the meal, Li Zhu told the whole family about Li Dao. Old Man Li was happy when he heard this, and said: "This calf, there is one at home, there is one by his side, we are not a rich family, a peasant family, even I am almost not full, and I have a wife or a concubine." In the past, Wu bought it on the side of the road, to help her family, and to accumulate virtue. Now this flat wife, what is it? If you don't get started, you're not a yellow flower girl, which is not a good one. When she enters the door, what is she going to do with our family? Old Man Li coughed angrily, and Li hurriedly put a bowl on Old Man Li's head and knocked it with chopsticks to relieve it.
Li Yu didn't feel very comfortable after hearing this, and he asked, "You told Wu's second sister-in-law." Li Zhu nodded honestly.
Old man Li looked at Li Zhu, and saw that the work of seeing the heavens and the earth did not damage Li Zhu's handsome face, tall nose, and bright eyes, no wonder Mama Li saw Li Zhu and thought of selling her son for money. Old Man Li sighed, thought for a while, and said, "Alas, he is just coming back for a walk, and he should return to the neighboring town soon." Everyone, if your family is lost or hurt, don't come out. Fishing, your family is busy, don't come out. Forget it, they haven't come back yet, so I'll let him run around in the neighboring town, and don't carry him home. Such a bad woman, the door of our old Li family can't let her enter like this. What about the dean's daughter, the Min family is a double lifter, and the in-laws are also the dean. We have to take care of this measure. Don't be like Wang, you can't hold it, it's not a good one. ā
Li Zhu and Li Yu nodded when they heard this, and Li Yu said, "Dad, let Uncle Zhang send you tomorrow." After hearing this, Old Man Li nodded, and said embarrassedly: "Uncle Zhang sent me there, what about Old Man Yu?" "If the people in Lijia Village have something, if it is a big event, they must invite Uncle Zhang and Old Man Yu, otherwise the two old men will make trouble again, which will not be beautiful. Li Yu frowned in embarrassment, and Li Zhu said: "I want to go to the town to make up the quilt, Uncle Yu will send me to the town." Old Man Li nodded with satisfaction after hearing this.
After Li finished eating, he helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and after helping to make them, he went to Li Zhu's room to chat with Deng for a while, and said happily: "Today, Aunt Zhang told me that there are just five piglets in the neighboring village, and the food is happy, so I want the sow to feed it, and I will go to pick it up after a week." Today we opened an acre of land and planted some vegetables, so that our family can eat at that time. Deng nodded after hearing this, thinking to himself, Li is a person who can live.
Li asked, "Have you heard about the second brother?" Deng nodded. Lee asked, "What are you going to do?" Deng looked at Li suspiciously, Li patted his head, and said, "Second brother marries a flat wife, how are you going to give this gift?" Our family doesn't have that much money to spare, and I'm going to give it together with your family. Deng nodded and said, "That's the idea!" Li said: "The old man will go tomorrow, and I plan to let the old man take it." What are you going to give? Deng Shi thought for a while and said, "When Zhu Ming'er goes to the town, let him pull the old man Pibuto and bring it over, and put some eggs." Are you okay? After hearing this, Li nodded and said, "It's a good idea." And worry-free. I'll bring twenty eggs over, and your family won't have this egg, and your family will eat a little of this egg every day, so let's stay. Let's pay 60 yuan to buy this cloth, your family is also this number, and the cloth bought by this number is not too bad. Deng nodded after hearing this, thinking that after eating the eggs at home, the sister-in-law would have to bother to make up for it, so she would simply not fill this head at home, and there would be no eggs, so that the sister-in-law would not need to take a hard-boiled egg to Binbin from time to time.
After Li and Deng discussed it, they hurried home to get the money. Deng waited for Li Zhu to serve the three little ones, and then told Li Zhu about it, Li Zhu had no feelings for this second brother, and the daughter-in-law said nothing, nodded and wrote down the matter of buying cloth tomorrow. Li Hai heard next to him that he was going to take sixty yuan to buy something for the second uncle Li Dao, and he was not happy, this child was young and energetic, and he was a ghost, so he plucked Li Bo and asked Li Bo to go to Deng's and said: "The second uncle eats rabbits, and the rabbits have not been returned." As soon as Deng heard this, he made a straight face, wanted to hit Li Bo and felt distressed, and finally dropped his hand, not willing to fight, and said to Li Bo: "Bo'er, I'll ask your father to catch another rabbit for you, although the second uncle is not good, but we have to respect him, your second uncle marries the second sister-in-law, this is a serious matter, we can't get it, the ceremony still has to come, otherwise it's ours." ā
Lehi asked, "Then our family will not participate in the affairs of the second uncle's family in the future?" After hearing this, Deng Shi thought of Li Daoxin's wife's preferences, nodded and said, "Yes, don't touch the second uncle's things in the future." Lehi whispered unhappily, "If we don't touch him, he can touch us." Deng shouted: "Hai'er." Lehi pursed his lips and didn't say anything more, and he didn't like these two uncles very much.
Now that the bamboo screen in the kitchen at home has been installed, Li Zhu cleaned up and went to the kitchen to take a bath. Although more than thirty days have passed, Li Zhuao couldn't do it when the moon was full in Binbin, so she washed it once. Now she can't be washed, and she can't be washed until seventy-seven forty-nine days later. Hamahama washes it with goat's milk every day and then rinses it with water. Therefore, the water at home is enough to boil only one pot, and only Brother Li Hai uses it. Li Zhu uses cold water. Li Zhu quickly cleaned up. Went to Old Man Yu's place overnight to say hello, indicating that the child went to the town with the car, Old Man Yu was very happy after hearing it, this is the old man and son-in-law, and he made an appointment with Ming'er for the time and place, and Li Zhucai went home.
Nothing was said all night.
Because he wanted to buy cloth for Old Man Li to take to Li Dao, on the second day, Li Zhu got into Old Man Yu's car one step ahead of Old Man Li, and said to Old Man Yu that he was in a hurry, and Old Man Yu hurried up, and the five-hour road was shrunk into three hours, and there were many small roads in the middle. As soon as he went to the town, Li Zhu went straight to the cloth shop.
Li Zhu came early today, and when he saw a lot of people gathered at the door of the cloth shop, he curiously asked the female shopkeeper what was going on. The female shopkeeper looked at Li Zhu's eyes and said enthusiastically: "This is the cloth left over from the small shop to make clothes for people, and there are some dirty cloths, all of which are good, but not very beautiful." We'll put it out in the morning and sell some at a special price. We operate on a small scale, and we can lose a little bit. Usually it is sold out at this time, and there are more dirty cloths today, so there are still people to pick them. When Li Zhu heard this, he was a little moved, and said to the female shopkeeper: "Is there anything else besides those dirty cloths?" The female shopkeeper looked at Li Zhu suspiciously. Li Zhu looked embarrassed, but still said clearly, "I also want to buy some back, but there are some little daughters-in-law around, and I am embarrassed to go up." The female shopkeeper was amused when she heard this, and said, "That's right, I'll get you a horse, I'll make sure you're satisfied, our price is real." ā
After the female shopkeeper finished speaking, she went to the place where the shop was arranged, and took out a black dirty cloth below and handed it to Li Zhudao: "This cloth is placed on the very edge of the carriage, it has entered the water, and it has been splashed with mud, and now it is dirty like this, and you can't see it, but this is really good." We sold this cloth at a loss, so you can give fifty cents. As soon as Li Zhu heard this, he paid for it, a piece of linen cloth costs fifty yuan, and this cloth looks like cotton, no matter what the color or picture is, it is earned.
The female shopkeeper was a little embarrassed to see Li Zhu so refreshing, this cloth was stained like this, it was already good to be able to sell it, not to mention that she made fifty yuan.
If it was really good, the daughters-in-law of that group would have caught it a long time ago. It's not like it can't be sold for a few days. If the cotton cloth is not treated, it will not be washed away. No one likes a stained cloth as if it hadn't been washed. It's too expensive and not sturdy to use for insoles, which is really not a good thing.
After Li Zhu bought the cotton cloth, he chose a navy blue cloth on the counter. Because the female shopkeeper had just made a big bargain for Li Zhu, she gave the real price of this cloth one hundred and twenty yuan, and gave another beige cloth. Li Zhu saw that there was a stain on the right side of the beige cloth, which was one meter long, just enough to make Hamahama's clothes, so he happily accepted it. Li Zhu took out an embroidered handkerchief of the Deng family and sold it for twenty yuan, and then left to dismantle and mend the quilt.
There is only one company in the town that helps people mend quilts, and the price is fair, but it costs 20 yuan to help loosen cotton, and if you want to make up cotton, you will be counted separately.
Li Zhu took two quilts and said to the cotton beater that it was 130 yuan. He put the cloth here and sold it at the market with the bamboo chopsticks he had made at home in the past few days. A bundle of fifty pairs, a bundle is five cents. Li Zhu brought more than 30 bundles over, wanting to try his luck.
When Li Zhu arrived at the market, he saw a crowd of people, so he chose a place on the side and put the wooden chopsticks on the ground. In these days, most people make their own wooden chopsticks, and a pair of these things can be used for a long time. Li Zhu was a little discouraged after two hours, thinking that he would not be able to use it back at home, so he planned to give it to Brother Quan. Brother Quan smiled as soon as he saw this wooden chopsticks: "You can let me sell this thing, someone else buys it, and I'm still thinking about where to get the goods, isn't this just right." Li Zhu was very happy when he heard this, so he left the wooden chopsticks to go to the quilt repair shop and wait for Mr. Li.
Old Man Li arrived at noon, brought a basket of eggs, a jar of pickled radish, and a bag of rice, and saw that Li Zhu was a little embarrassed, and said: "Your second brother's family is crowded now, and I can't eat so much, watch him send some." Li Zhu didn't say anything, nodded, and handed the navy blue cloth to Old Man Li. Old man Li saw that the cloth was cotton, with hidden threads, light and comfortable, and it was a good thing at first glance, and he couldn't help but be happy in his heart. The displeasure of hearing the two brothers buying gifts at home was thrown away.