Chapter 47 A Trip to the County Seat

With others and herself, Aunt Yun has only one son, if her son separates from her, I am afraid that life will not be as comfortable as it is now, so I can't help but blame Shen Lan for her separation, after all, at this time, it is important to be close to the family, and Shen Lan's behavior can be said to be unfilial.

"Cousin doesn't know, if Lan Niang doesn't separate, I'm afraid that I will end up with a corpse and two lives, no matter what, isn't there still me and Xiaoquan, how much help her will be able to live, I hope Wen Xiang can come back as soon as possible to give Lan Niang a support." Shen Zhao explained.

Hearing this, Aunt Yun looked better, but she still felt that she shouldn't split up the family, but thinking that now that the family is also divided, it is not good to entangle these anymore, and she lost her husband when she was young, and she has also experienced the difficulty of living alone, and the persecution of the family almost caused their mother and son to be displaced.

"What does Lan Niang rely on to make a living now?" Aunt Yun asked.

Shen Zhao was stunned for a moment, it seemed that his daughter's way of making a living was not suitable for disclosure to others, so he was stunned for a while.

"Auntie, I want to make some needlework and take it to the county to sell, and I don't know if it's suitable or not, so it's better for my niece to see if my aunt is well-informed." As she spoke, Shen Lan took down the cloth bag hanging on her body, and took out the small dolls and pendants she made from it.

Aunt Yun looked at it carefully, the needlework was just passable, the appearance was novel, and there was nothing special about the others, so she was speechless immediately.

Shen Lan can also see people's faces, from the fact that Aunt Yun just looked at it casually, and didn't take it up seriously and look at it carefully, she knew that Aunt Yun was not eye-catching. I was a little disappointed in my heart.

"Hey, Lan Niang, when did you do this? What are they? What is it for? "Shen Zhao hasn't seen what Shen Lan has made, but it's a little new.

"It's a doll and a pendant, this doll is for a little girl to play with, and the pendant can be hung on the waist or on a mosquito net. Just a picture of an auspicious and festive. Shen Lan explained with a smile.

Hearing this, Aunt Yun couldn't help but look at Shen Lan. Indeed, she made red peppers, huā sheng, and gourds, and the strange fruit, although she did not know the fruit. But the chili pepper symbolizes the prosperous life, the huā is a long-lasting fruit, the gourd is a representative of auspiciousness, and the doll is strange. But before Shen Lan took it out and gave it to her two granddaughters, the granddaughters looked happy and knew that they were used to coax the children. Looking at it like this, she was really a little blind.

It's just that these things are easy to make, which family doesn't know some needlework, as long as you can do it with some effort, I'm afraid it's not easy to sell.

"You might as well give it a try." Finally, Aunt Yun spoke. After all, the thing is very novel, and there are really people who want to buy it.

"Mother is too worried, this doll made by Cousin Lan is really cute. It's much better than the cloth tiger on the street, why can't it be sold? Qian, who came in with tea, said with a smile. The two little girls in front of me got a new gadget, so they couldn't wait to show off with her, and I don't know what this cousin thought, she could make such a strange puppet, and she looked very pleasing.

After listening to her daughter-in-law's words, Aunt Yun did not refute, but beckoned Shen Zhao and Shen Lan to drink tea, and then asked her daughter-in-law to take the money to buy some vegetables on the street and come back to entertain guests.

Later, Aunt Yun followed Shen Zhao to talk about family life, Shen Lan listened on the side, and didn't say much, so the time passed slowly, before dark Shen Xiaoquan and Wang Wenhuan entered the door with their front and back feet, in fact, Shen Xiaoquan came back first, he drove the ox cart back, the bamboo and sorghum on the ox cart were gone, it seemed that it had been sold, and when he unloaded the ox cart, he led the cow to the yard to tie it, Wang Wenhuan also came back, saw Shen Xiaoquan was stunned at first, and then called Uncle affectionately.

Shen Xiaoquan did not come empty-handed, but cut a piece of wuhuā meat, and added a bag of brown sugar and a bag of snacks, which are usually gifts for relatives, but it does not look cold.

Soon after the two men came back, the Qian family also prepared the meal, so they brought water to wash their hands for everyone, and began to have dinner, the Wang family is not a rich family, dinner is just brown rice, and the dishes are mostly vegetarian and pickles, but there are bowls of stewed eggs and fried meat slices, and the meat is naturally not the meat brought by Shen Xiaoquan, but the Qian family bought before.

This is the first time Shen Lan has eaten meat in this world, she has never thought that meat can taste so good, remembering that she didn't like to eat pork at all before, mainly because most of the pork has lost its original meat taste, not only raised with chemical additives, but most of the meat that is sold is also injected with water, and the aroma of meat cannot be fried at all, and there is always a disgusting feeling in the mouth, so Shen Lan usually only buys beef, mutton or live poultry, but pork rarely gets involved, at most it is to buy some pork bones when boiling soup.

But at this moment, the pork she ate in her mouth did not have any peculiar smell, only the aroma of the meat itself, Shen Lan felt that it was good to cross for the first time, and the things she ate were completely organic and pollution-free.

After dinner, Shen Lan was a little tired, Qian arranged for her to sleep with the two little girls of the Wang family, and Shen Zhao was in a bed with Aunt Yun, Shen Xiaoquan was arranged in the guest room, Shen Lan sat in the car for almost a day, plus she got up early, and everyone would talk about some family things after dinner, but Shen Lan couldn't stand it, and yawned for a while, so Qian took her back to the room to wash and sleep first, as for when the others slept, Shen Lan didn't know anything.

When I woke up in the morning, I found that there were two more small radishes on the bed, and then I looked at the decoration and found that it was not my own home, so I remembered that she was now staying at my aunt's house in the county, so I hurriedly got up, and I didn't dare to alarm the two little ones, so I hurried out of the room.

"Cousin Lan is up, but I'm not used to it, why don't I sleep more?" As soon as he went out, he ran into Qian, and Qian asked softly with a gentle smile on his face.

Shen Lan replied with a smile: "In the past, I was at home at this time, I don't know if my father and mother got up?" ”

"Uncle and aunt have already gotten up and are talking to my mother, cousin is waiting for a while, and my breakfast will be ready soon." Qian said and walked in the direction of the stove, and Shen Lan also followed, preparing to get some hot water to wash.

Seeing that Shen Lan followed into the stove room, Qian asked with a smile, "Cousin, do you want to wash?" ”

Shen Lan nodded and said, "I just want to get some water to wash." ”

Qian immediately turned around and brought a wooden basin in, and quickly gave Shen Lan hot water, Shen Lan knew that she was going to spend the night, so she brought her own toiletries when she went out, and she used her own cloth towel last night, so after Qian put the water on the washstand, he didn't take his own spare cloth towel, but went back to the stove to do his own business.

Shen Lan rinsed with hot water first. , and then began to wash her face, in ancient times, she didn't like washing the most, there was no toothpaste and facial cleanser, even the wooden basin was usually shared, which she was still quite tested in her heart, but the environment made it simple, she could only do it first, and wait until she made money to talk about replacing toiletries.

Wang Wenhuan was going to a private school to take classes, so the Wang family's breakfast was usually used before Chenshi, so not long after Shen Lan washed up, the Wang family's breakfast was served on the table, and Wang Zhilan and Wang Zhiyan were also shouted from the bed, everyone had breakfast around the table, and then Qian sent Wang Wenhuan out, and Shen Lan and Shen Xiaoquan asked Aunt Yun to resign, saying that they would go to the street first, so they would drive the ox cart back.

Aunt Yun naturally kept it, but Shen Lan and they really couldn't stay longer, so later the family of three still drove the ox cart out, and after going out, Shen Xiaoquan took Shen Lan and Shen Zhao to the street.

It is said that the county seat is actually not big, in Shen Lan's impression, he only thinks that this county is very small, and it is not prosperous, which is really a little disappointed for Shen Lan, who is used to seeing big cities, and ran so far to rush over, only to find that the so-called county seat is just a few more shops, the house is stronger than the house in the countryside, and the others are no different at all, how can this not disappoint Shen Lan?

According to her observations, the daily flow of people in this small county town can be two or three thousand, which is already very good, and the gap with the busy scene she imagined is too big, what market can such a county have?

I don't have much confidence in the doll in my hand, but in line with the idea that since I have made it, I still want to get rid of it, Shen Lan still took the puppet and found a cloth shop, at this time most of the people's clothes are made by themselves, and there are also entrusted to the cloth shop to do it, independent embroidery workshops are only available in larger cities, but there are no small counties like Jixian County, if you want ready-to-wear clothes, one is to go to the pawnshop to buy old clothes, and the other is to entrust the cloth shop to do, so the cloth shop also operates the work of the embroidery workshop.

Shen Lan, who originally planned to sell it, felt intuitively that it was not a good idea after seeing the situation in Jixian County, it was better to take the things to the cloth shop and see if they could be sold in the store, of course, the best result was to persuade people to buy the things, so that she didn't have to think about setting up a stall.

Since she had such a plan, Shen Lan simply pulled Shen Zhao into a cloth shop, which according to Shen Zhao's said to be the largest cloth shop in Ji County, and the fabric in it was also the most and most complete in Ji County.

So the mother and daughter walked in, the store was still quite large, and the fabrics in the store were indeed several times more than the fabrics that Shen Lan saw in Mrs. Wen's shop, and the person who watched the store was a thin old man, who looked like an experienced shopkeeper. (To be continued)