Chapter 44: Busy work
While it was still the first month, Chen Chunhua was busy. The village is a bit far from the town, and it takes hours to go back and forth.
After waiting for a few days, everything in the shop was ready, and Chen Chunhua and Dong Niang were discussing the opening of the shop.
"Chunhua, why don't you live in this backyard?" Dong Niang also knew that this town was far away from Zhaojia Village. Chen Chunhua also thought about this, and now there is no one in the shop, just her and Dong Niang.
"Cheng, I'll go back and discuss this with my family!" Dong Niang doesn't know how to speak local dialect, and there are people in the town who have never been to the county seat, and when she speaks, she will inevitably react, and it is very laborious.
Dong Niang nodded and said. "I see, this day is set for the Lantern Festival!" The Lantern Festival is a good day, and the town is very lively on that day.
"Okay, it's eleven, and there are four days!" In the past few days, she has to weigh more soybeans in the village.
discussed with Dong Niang about buying soybeans, Dong Niang also trusted Chen Chunhua and stuffed silver money into her. "If it's not enough, come back to me and get it!"
Chen Chunhua was not hypocritical, took the money, got into the hired ox cart, and staggered back to the village.
The three brothers waited and waited, and after looking through their eyes, they saw Chen Chunhua coming back from there. Chen Chunhua has been busy running around the town these days, the eldest stays to watch the house, and the second and third follow the second pillar to work.
The third child had time to go to the shop to see, and also saw Dong Niang, if it weren't for the fact that the owner was a woman, they wouldn't worry about their daughter-in-law leaving outside.
"Daughter-in-law, why did you come back now, it's dark!" The second child was in a hurry, so he got off work early today, and asked the third child to go to the shop to call the daughter-in-law to come back together, and the daughter-in-law said that it was too busy, so the third and the third came back first.
"It's nothing, I'm not discussing the opening of the shop with Dong Niang!" Chen Chunhua said and entered the house, rubbed her hands, and quickly went into the kitchen, opened the lid of the pot, and took a hot nest. She was really hungry, she didn't rush to the town early, she went to that meeting, Dong Niang had lunch, and she was not embarrassed to speak, no, she was starving until now.
Seeing Chen Chunhua's fierce appearance, the third child brought all the dinner in the house to the table, and then brought out a bowl of scrambled eggs. "Daughter-in-law, come, sit and eat!"
Chen Chunhua ate half of the nest, choked, hurriedly drank water and swallowed, and said. "The time is set for the fifteenth Lantern Festival, Dong Niang is set, these days, the village is called soybeans, and the town is entrusted with a day in advance."
"Cheng, I Ming'er will talk from house to house in the village!" The boss answered, pushed the egg in front of Chen Chunhua, and said. "Daughter-in-law eats eggs!" In the past few days, I have seen my daughter-in-law run here and there, the three of them are not distressed, let her go early, but the business in the house in the morning can not be broken, after the busy work, hurry to the town, how can you not be tired!
After eating, Chen Chunhua got on the kang early, these days, she was very tired, running from the village to the town, dozens of miles, back and forth twice, walking on the feet soft.
Seeing that the boss was on the kang, Chen Chunhua propped her eyelids and said. "If the shop opens, I can't run back and forth, Dong Niang said, let me live in the yard behind the shop."
"Live in town?" Hearing this, the boss fell silent.
"How can this be, or let the third child stay in town with you." The second child is busy in the second pillar, and he will be embarrassed to say that he will go for a while, but the third child is following the second pillar to read and write, and he is too busy to take a hand.
The third child moved to Chen Chunhua's side, grabbed her foot wrap, looked at her red and swollen feet, and gently kneaded them. "I'm idle, daughter-in-law, do you want me to stay in the shop with you?"
"Cheng, there is no one to work in this shop, Dong Niang doesn't put that piece to live!" Chen Chunhua can't be busy alone, grinding beans every day, and working in the morning, Dong Niang made it clear, she is in charge of the accounts, and she has to rely on her for external affairs.
"It's decided, I'm watching the house in the house, and after this Lantern Festival, I should also turn over the ground."
Chen Chunhua didn't care if they liked it or not, she fell asleep and fell asleep. The eldest discussed for a while, and then lay down to sleep.
Early the next morning, Chen Chunhua went to the village chief's house, and the last time the eldest aunt said that she had soybeans in the house, when she wanted it, she must be the first to go to her house.
"Auntie, are you in the house?"
"Yes, yes!" The eldest aunt came out of the house, and when she saw that Chen Chunhua was coming, she hurriedly said. "Spring flowers, why are you free today?" What I said last time, the eldest aunt has been thinking about it in her heart, seeing that Chen Chunhua didn't come, she didn't go to her house to chat.
"Auntie, do you still have beans in the house?"
"Yes, I told you last time, and I haven't moved!" The eldest aunt was overjoyed and led Chen Chunhua into the house to see.
Looking at the several large bags in the utility room, Chen Chunhua nodded and said. "The village chief is not in the house?"
"He's walking on the front foot!"
"Cheng, I'll put it in your house later!" came out of Chen Chunhua's house and went to the second aunt's house. The second aunt knew that Chen Chunhua was busy in the town these days, and when she saw her coming, she put down the busy work in her hand and said. "Chunhua, how is the busy work in the town? When will the shop open? ”
"It's almost, it opens on the fifteenth!" Chen Chunhua sat down and looked at the second aunt. "Second aunt, do you still have beans in the house?"
"There are still two bags, you didn't finish weighing last time, and I didn't move!"
"Cheng, you have these two bags in the house for me, by the way, are you free, second aunt?"
"I'm free, I'm not busy working for a while, what's the matter?" The second aunt took the pastries and melon seeds and put them on the table, and said. "Come, eat!"
Chen Chunhua wanted the second aunt to help in the shop, and after thinking about it, she still said later, if the shop business is good, with the second aunt in hand, she must be very busy. "It's nothing, I thought, on the day the shop opened, I called you to have a meal!"
"Chunhua, why are you so polite, on the fifteenth day, I'll go to the town to take a look!" This Chunhua went to the town to do business, and the people in the village were all envious, and there were many people who came to her to talk about it, and she didn't say good or bad about it.
"Chunhua, is this owner easy to get along with?"
"It's easy to get along, it's a woman, everyone calls her Dong Niang, she came from the county seat, it seems to be called Qingcheng." Where Qingcheng is, Chen Chunhua doesn't know, but he knows that there is a difference in language between outsiders and locals here. Dong Niang speaks similar to Mandarin, but it is also transliterated, so that it does not violate the harmony.
The second aunt was also worried in her heart, this matter was a line for her man, if it was difficult to get along with each other, it would not become a two-way problem, but now after listening to Chunhua's words, she was relieved. "It's easy to get along, your business must be hot, and now, many people come to my house to ask you, don't you know what!"
"Alas, second aunt, if someone comes to your house and asks, you tell them that I want to call Dou'er, if there is any, keep it for me!"
"Done!"