Chapter 25: A Night Visit to the Village Chief
Ling'er's aunt Qian arrived at Ling'er's house at 7:00, she was a little apprehensive in her heart, and Wang Dali only said that it was good to let her come. But she just wanted to break her head and didn't come up with a meridian, and later her mother-in-law Wu figured it out. She said:
"What do you think, Ling'er said that a good thing is a good thing, if you think about it, you will come up with it, what else will you do? Wouldn't it be okay to just let Wang Dali talk? You'll be there in two days, don't you know everything? Later, when I thought about it, I was right, so I settled down, and I came early in the morning. The Qian family knew about Zhao He's situation, but when he saw it with his own eyes, the impact in his heart was still not small. Seeing that the young ladies are living such a good life, I can't help but feel ashamed, seeing that the two children are living such a good life, and they can help her, but she, an adult, is not as good as a child.
"Uncle, you sit, there is no hospitality at home, just drink some boiled water." Min'er brought a bowl of hot water to Qian's, this day is getting cold day by day, this morning and night are very cold, and there can be two hours of hot exhalation at noon.
"It's not an outsider, this bowl of hot water is better than anything else." After drinking water, I felt a lot more relieved, but it was really cold in the morning. Then she opened the bag she was carrying and said:
"These are the pheasants and rabbits that your uncle and cousins put down when they went up the mountain, and these two were specially asked by your cousin to bring to you." I saw that she took out two pheasants, two rabbits, and two wild honeycombs.
"Alas, it's honeycomb, and now there's honey to eat." Ling'er immediately ran over to look at the two honeycombs. Min'er shook her head helplessly when she saw her unproductive appearance, turned around and went to the house to take out a burden and said:
"Uncle, this is the leather boots we have made these days, and there is a kind of cold-proof grass in them, and we have made a pair for each of you. The size is also estimated, it is estimated that it may be a little big, if it is big, put this grass into it, and wear it warm without chilblains. "The price of their skins here is not high, and there are many varieties, and almost every family has stock. Min'er asked Zhang Qiang to collect a lot of skins in Aunt Zhang's mother's house, Baiyanggou, and now there are more than 20 skins at home.
"Really? That's a good feeling, what kind of grass is this? I've never seen it before? Qian asked puzzled.
"This is Ula grass, and this grass keeps you warm." Ling'er saw that she didn't know her, so she guessed that it seemed that there was no Wula grass in Wangjiatun, or maybe there was just no one paying attention.
"That's what you say?" Qian didn't quite understand.
"Hehe, it's not like that." Min'er said, seeing Qian's puzzled look, she had to speak more clearly, and after filling her aunt's water bowl with water, she said:
"We asked you to come over to talk to you about the grass, and these two are the main point. We want to open a shop in the town, I wonder if my aunt is interested? Qian was stunned, he had only eaten for a few days, and he was going to open a shop again? Are you dreaming?
"In this way, we have this plan, but we don't open it now, we have to wait until the spring of next year. Now I just want to ask my aunt what she means, and if my aunt is interested, let's talk about this cooperation. But if my aunt is not interested, we can find someone else, but we are real relatives, don't we have to focus on our own people first? Min'er knew her mood when she saw Qian's appearance, to be honest, she was also surprised when Ling'er first told her.
"I'm a person, I can work, I can't open a shop? What if this is messed up? "Qian himself is a cool person, but he has been tortured by life for many years, and he has a low self-esteem.
"It's okay, if you want to do it, we naturally have a way, now I just want to ask if you want to do it? Why don't you go back and talk to my uncle? Ling'er saw Qian's scruples, in fact, she originally wanted Aunt Zhang to go, but after thinking about it, let's help her family up first, anyway, she will need a lot of manpower in the future.
"Well, I'll go back now, and I'll give you a letter tomorrow, what do you think?" My aunt felt that this was a big deal and had to discuss it with her family, although she was quite excited, but she couldn't make a decision on the second bar.
"Uncle, don't worry, we'll go to see grandma when we go to town in a few days, and you can reply to us then." Anyway, it's not about to open a shop right away, and I'm not in a hurry.
The two sisters sent Qian to the door, and happened to meet the Zhang family who came to work, and they said hello and got busy.
"Sister, come, I have something to tell you." Ling'er, who was originally tinkering with Zhang Qiang on the grass mattress in the house, now ran to Min'er's side and pulled Min'er out, so that the monk who was the second brother was confused, and then he didn't pay attention to it, and was busy with the work in his hands.
"You run slower and don't fall, what are you doing?" Min'er really has nothing to do with this girl.
"Sister, I think I have to give this grass product thing." Ling'er took Min'er to the grass shed in the backyard and pointed to the hay.
"What? Give it out? Clarifying. Min'er knew what Ling'er was thinking again, so let her make it clear. The two sisters make decisions about everything Min'er, but she is good enough to listen to what she says, as long as Ling'er is reasonable, she will adopt it.
"Sister, how much grass do you see? How much have we done in the days we've been working day and night? If the store opens in the future, will we be able to supply the goods? Ling'er felt that even if they were the ones who couldn't use one-third of the grass for the whole winter, and when the snow melted in the spring next year, the grass would have to be blistered, so it couldn't be used. So I have to find a way to open a factory, of course, I have to convince my sister first.
"We can hire people, not to mention the two hundred taels at home, but there are twenty-one taels in the public middle school, and it is only a few cents a day to hire people, which is completely fine." Min'er is now a veritable little rich woman, Zhang Qiang knew that Aunt Zhang was pregnant and didn't worry about Aunt Zhang's body, so he had to let Dr. Wang take a look at it, so Min'er asked him to bring all the rest of the frog oil over, and it was sold for three hundred and twenty-one taels, and the two families each divided one hundred and fifty taels, leaving twenty-one taels as public money. Ling'er proposed that most of the money should be kept in the public in the future and used to make money. As for dividends, half of the net profit will be distributed quarterly, which will also facilitate management and save money. The Zhang family and his wife naturally have no opinion at all, in their psychology, more than two hundred taels of silver are enough for their life's wages, even if they don't give them a penny in the future, they have no opinion. Hearing the two sisters laugh, Ling'er knew very well in her heart that people's hearts would change, and the thoughts at the moment only represented the present, and no one could say for sure what would happen in the future. That's why Ling'er will instill the general direction of future business to a few people at this time, of course, it is still Min'er, after all, Min'er is now a family member.
"I know I can hire people, but have you ever thought about how to explain where our family's money comes from if we hire people? How do you explain how you found this grass? And then there is, who of us can subdue the hired people? What if in the future we make money and someone is jealous and makes a bad move? There are many, many things that we can't solve, so we have to find someone to come out and push all these on him, give him some share, let him worry about it, and we flash out to do other business, so we still make more money, right? Ling'er took a deep breath after speaking, and she knew that she had listened by looking at Min'er's expression.
"So who do you mean you want to give this to?" Min'er also understands that what Ling'er said is right, she didn't think about it so much before, but now that she thinks about it, it's really true.
"I think the people of the village are the most suitable, who in the whole village disobeys him? He just had to say which book he read it in, and as for the grass, he said that he asked Uncle Zhang to go up the mountain to find it, and after finding it, he asked Uncle Zhang to experiment because he was not sure. After the experiment was successful, I explained to everyone that the workshop was built in the name of the village, and in this case, we just lent the backyard to them for grass and lent the house to his uncle for experimentation. In this way, there is nothing to do with the two of us at all, and when the workshop is built, we can still go to work and make money, how good is it? Min'er's eyes lit up when she heard this.
"Cheng, let's go in and discuss with Uncle Zhang and them now, let's go." As soon as Min'er and Ling'er said their thoughts, Uncle Zhang and the others were naturally very happy, after all, everything they said was reasonable.
"It would be great if I could do it, I would be annoyed to death by those few people, and if you have anything to do, ask me what is the matter with this grass?" Zhang Qiang now avoids people every day, for fear of being asked.
"Huh? So what did you say at the beginning? Ling'er was surprised.
"I said it was useful, and they asked what it was for, and I said that I would know it in the future, and if I wanted to make money, don't ask, if I asked, don't make money, and then they didn't ask, but who knew that the next day after getting the money, they started to inquire." Looking at Zhang Qiang's helpless appearance, everyone was really speechless, it's strange that you say that people don't ask. In fact, Zhang Qiang just didn't want to use lies to deceive these buddies who grew up together, and he couldn't tell the truth, so he used Toyan tactics.
"Nacheng, eat at my house tonight, and when there is no one on the road at night, let's go to the village chief together." Min'er is very family-oriented, and she has the final word.
In the evening, it was completely dark at 20:00, Zhang Qiang and the two sisters went to the village chief's house with brisk steps, which was a good thing, but it was quite sneaky for them to be so good. Ling'er muttered in her heart, how can this good deed be so weak at first glance?
"What are you?" The village chief looked at the three people who came with him in great confusion, and couldn't figure out why they called him up when he was lying down and preparing to sleep, and secretly came in from his backyard.
"Uncle, we have something to discuss with you." Zhang Qiang felt very embarrassed at this time.
"I don't know if it's wrong, are you here to feed the dogs when you're full?" The village chief said angrily, what can't be said during the day, is it not the whole thing? I almost didn't get bitten by my two dogs. Speaking of this, you really can't blame Zhang Qiang, he originally walked through the door, but Ling'er thought that knocking on the door at this time would attract the attention of the neighbors, so he proposed to go to the backyard, and if the door was locked, he would shout twice. If you go in without a lock, and call someone out again in the yard, Ling'er remembers that the village chief's dog was on a leash when she came last time, so she didn't take it to heart. Thinking about the big deal is to bark, just call people out, who knows that the dog is not leashed today, if it weren't for Zhang Qiang's quick response, they would have to let the dog bite.
"Who knew your dog wouldn't be on a leash?" Ling'er couldn't hold back her mouth to complain for a while.
"My dog has never been on a leash, okay, let's talk about what the hell is going on, it's not so godly and chattering." The chief can't say that since Zhao Shu ran away at home, the dog let go at night, and the backyard door was deliberately not locked, just waiting for those people to come to the door again.