Chapter 53: Catching Up with the Market (1)
Li Ziyu rode through the village in the old man's ox cart and drove along the official road towards Shiyan Town.
Today, on the third day of the lunar month, it is a big gathering in Shiyan Town, and there is an endless stream of villagers rushing to the market on the road. Carrying and selling local products, snacks, firewood, and pure markets, men and women, old and young, are very lively.
On the way, I also met several villagers from Yangcaogouzi Village, and they saw Li Ziyu sitting in an ox cart with large bags and small bags on the cart, so they greeted her one after another.
"Xiaoyu, are you going to the market?"
"Ah, yes, uncle, are you going to the market too?"
"Xiaoyu, what are you selling? So much? ”
"Huh? This"
"Oh, what kind of puppet is Xiaoyu making, you can make a lot of money." Some well-informed villagers said enviously.
"Oh, Xiaoyu, you go to the market, it's just right, my feet are numb, take me for a while."
As he spoke, a scruffy woman in her thirties caught up from behind and unceremoniously climbed into the ox cart.
Li Ziyu looked back and saw that it was the widow Zheng in the village.
Widow Zheng is the niece and daughter-in-law of the old village chief, and the daughter-in-law of the younger brother of the old village chief Zhao Qing. Zhao Qing's younger brother and sister-in-law died early, leaving behind the only seedling Zhao Zhenping. Later, Zhao Qingtuo's matchmaker told him that his daughter-in-law was the Zheng family in front of him. Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhenping died of illness ten years ago, leaving behind orphans and widows.
Zhao Zhenping left behind an only son named Zhao Zhongli, who is fifteen years old this year. This Zhao Zhongli doesn't know who he is with, hanging all day long, not doing his job, causing trouble, stealing chickens and touching dogs, people give him the nickname "Lai Gouzi", and he messes around with a bunch of gangsters in the town all day long, poking down an unknown number of baskets, and Zhao Qing wipes his ass with a shy old face.
Widow Zheng is also very famous in the village, and she goes from house to house all day long, telling right and wrong. And the butt is particularly heavy, where you go, you sit down with your ass, and you don't care if there is anything wrong with people, and you can't see the height of your eyebrows. But most of the big guys look at the face of the old village chief, ignore her, and don't have the same knowledge as her.
The village is talking behind the scenes that the old Zhao family's style is going to make Lai Gouzi ruined, it is really his mother who has his son, and Lai Gouzi is born and let her mother teach her badly.
Zhao Qing also once disciplined him ruthlessly, but he was beaten and scolded, and he still did his own thing, which made Zhao Qing have a headache.
Li Ziyu no longer deals with the people in the village, and she has heard of the name of Widow Zheng. According to the seniority in the village, she should call Widow Zheng and Aunt, so when she saw that she had already gotten into the ox cart, she politely called "Auntie".
Widow Zheng sat in the car, holding melon seeds and spraying melon seed skins on the car, not realizing how annoying her behavior was. She touched the soft cloth bag beneath her, thinking about how to speak. She also heard that there were a few people in the village who made things for a few orphans, but she didn't know what they were, and she heard that the wages were quite high. She set the words of a few people, but no one said what it was, only vaguely heard what it was. It's a pity that I can't do needlework, or I can earn a few pocket money to spend.
Widow Zheng was thinking about how to speak, when she heard Xiaoyu talking to someone, it turned out to be Wang Ruiqing's eldest daughter-in-law Li Lanying and her five-year-old tiger were walking by the ox cart, and Li Ziyu was letting them get into the car.
"Sister-in-law, you and Huzi come up, there is nothing in the car, it's very light, Huzi is still young, come up quickly."
Li Lanying looked at Huzi looking at her longingly, her heart softened, and she had to hold her son and get into the ox cart.
After getting in the car, Li Lanying sat quietly and didn't say much, and Li Ziyu was not a talkative person, so the car was a little silent for a while.
"Xiaoyu, what are you pulling in the car? I feel soft and soft, it can't be a cotton coat, right? After all, Widow Zheng couldn't hold back and began to investigate.
Li Lanying looked at Widow Zheng and did not speak. She knew what was pulled in the car, because the second aunt of the child in the family made this thing. Actually, Aunt Yang was looking for herself at first, but in the past few days, she had something to do, and she had to do the work urgently, so she let his second aunt do it.
Li Ziyu smiled at Widow Zheng and said, "Auntie, in fact, I just made a few rag dolls, and I want to sell them to see if I can sell them for a few dollars." ”
"Ragdolls? Hey, I thought it was something amazing. If you can't sell it, won't you lose money? ”
"If you lose, you lose, you have to try to know, right?"
"Oh, you girl is really lacking in heart, don't let people cheat you, where are you going to sell it?"
"Jixiangbu Village, not far away, just in the West Lane."
"Oh, you girl is really capable, you even know the people in Buzhuang! Then you have to take me with you if I buy cloth another day, why don't you buy a cheap cloth? ”
Talking and laughing all the way into the town, at the gate of the town, Widow Zheng and Li Lanying's mother and son got out of the car, and after Li Ziyu broke up with them, the ox cart rushed straight to Jixiangbuzhuang.
Because it is a bazaar, there are a lot of people in the cloth village, and they are crowded next to each other. However, there are more girls and daughters-in-law in the countryside.
Li Ziyu asked the old man to wait for a while, and then squeezed in from the crowd.
Sister-in-law Xiang was busy with the young man, and when she saw Li Ziyu coming in, she hurriedly shouted at her: "Xiaoyu, you wait a minute, I'll go over in a while." ”
"Good! Sister-in-law, don't worry, I'm waiting for you outside. After Li Ziyu finished speaking, he squeezed out again.
When she got outside, Li Ziyu said apologetically to the old man: "Grandpa, you have to wait for a while, Sister-in-law Xiang is too busy." ”
The old man looked at the sky, and his face showed urgency: "There are a lot of markets today, I want to make a more trip, or I will unload it at the door for you." ”
Li Ziyu also knew that it was not easy to do anything, so she had to nod her head in agreement.
The two were about to unload the car, when they saw Xiang's sister-in-law walking out sweating profusely, followed by two young men. Xiang's sister-in-law walked to the car and said repeatedly: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! There are so many people today that I really can't pull out. Come on, come on, unload the truck. ”
The two young men hurriedly moved things from the car, and they finished moving them in a few moments.
Li Ziyu gave the old man thirty wen for the car, but the old man said too much, and drove away embarrassedly.
Li Ziyu and Xiang's sister-in-law counted the number of puppets, and Xiang's sister-in-law signed the receipt, indicating that she had received sixty puppets. This was proposed by Li Ziyu when the two signed the contract last time, and she also wanted to have an extra layer of assurance, so that everyone could feel at ease.
Li Ziyu and Xiang's sister-in-law discussed it, first to see if the puppets could be sold as expected for the time being, and then Li Ziyu would come over in two days to see how the situation was, and then decide whether to make the next batch of puppets.
Bidding farewell to her sister-in-law, Li Ziyu strode towards the market.
Li Ziyu also wanted to go to the market today, and when she saw that she was about to enter the wax moon, she wanted to see if there was any fresh grain. After the New Year, she has to buy a few acres of land, and it is not possible to plant sorghum, she wants to see if there are any corn seeds. She didn't see where the sweet potatoes were sold, this thing was easy to grow and the yield was high, if it really came across, she would have to buy anything.
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