Chapter 41 New Year's goods
After the winter solstice, it enters the wax moon, which is a month to prepare for the New Year's goods. Dong Xiaoman has been very happy recently, and his life in his mother's house is very comfortable.
Bacon and dried sausage made a steady profit of six taels of silver this month, although there is no income from dim sum, but there is still a fresh dish of spicy cabbage. Dong Xiaoman kept it and began to sell it on the twentieth day of the lunar month, and there will always be three or two fresh food on the table during the New Year.
Sauerkraut is a very easy thing to make, and Dong Xiaoman plans to use it when he opens his own restaurant in the future. Originally, Dong Xiaoman was going to sell some Spring Festival couplets, blessing characters, and New Year paintings, but Erlang forcibly refused.
Erlang means that they have already made a lot of money, so they should stop robbing other people's businesses. In addition, I don't want to freeze in the cold, Dong Xiaoman has to suffer outside.
Dong Xiaoman knew in his heart that he would not pursue Erlang's crime of "committing the following crimes", but the fact that life is prosperous here does not mean that the people over there are also happy.
"Erlang, it's not a way for you to live in Chief Yue's house all day." Mrs. Zhang sat at the dinner table and knocked on her chopsticks, and said with a click.
"Didn't you say it, it's good to build a house in the spring." Erlang buried his head in eating vegetables, this sister-in-law really slammed the door to death. I scooped so much meat from home, why can't I make more for my parents? I came over once every half a month, and this meal was not as good as what my daughter-in-law usually cooked.
"That doesn't make sense, why don't you move into the room next door to us. I can't let people say that I'm driving my daughter-in-law back to my parents' house. Mrs. Zhang put a piece of bacon in her mouth, chewed it twice and said, "Are you good at making this and selling it?" You move over and everyone does it together, save you a trip in half a month, it's hard for my mother to see you! ”
Li Shi also smiled: "Yes, Erlang, I will ask your eldest brother to build a stove in our yard." Let's do it together, and we can make money for the New Year! ”
Erlang raised his head and said, "We signed a note with the restaurant in the city, and we will send it once a month, and people don't want it." ”
Li Shi rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "That's easy, let's find another restaurant." Find a few more and make several times more money. When the time comes, we will have a restaurant, you will have a restaurant, and everyone will make money together. ”
Erlang shook his head and said, "No, when I signed it, it was booked that only their family would use this meat." Let's eat it ourselves, and don't give it to others to learn from it. When the time comes, we won't be able to make any money, not to mention, we will have to accompany other people's money. ”
Mrs. Zhang glared and said, "Whoever has this reason, I will sell it to whoever I want." Why does he care about me? Hmph, who came up with the idea? Eighty percent is your daughter-in-law with a brain that lacks roots! ”
Li glanced at Erlang and knew that he didn't like to hear this. At this time, he wanted to talk to the couple, and immediately changed the topic: "I look at my younger siblings' ability, you look at the bacon and the cabbage, tsk, it's really a coincidence." ”
Mrs. Zhang pouted and said, "I just think about those useless, it's serious to have that kung fu to have a child." Speaking of which, Mrs. Zhang was very energetic, she felt that this was a good opportunity to rectify Dong Xiaoman.
"You've been married for almost four months, why hasn't her belly bulged yet? Whether it's a man or a woman, give me one. Hmph, don't be a chicken that doesn't lay eggs and only crows. This is vulgar, and Old Man Zhang can't listen to it anymore.
I saw him put down his chopsticks and slammed down his chopsticks and said, "How often does Erlang come back, as long as it's a meal, your mouth will be endless." How do you let your daughter-in-law give birth? If you don't make trouble with that moth, the two of you will be good morning. ”
Mrs. Zhang was unconvinced: "Why are you talking about this again, isn't this a rush to say this." After a long time, she didn't say to come to see my mother-in-law, hmph, I almost forgot what my daughter-in-law looked like. ”
Erlang patiently quickly cleaned the rice in the bowl, thinking that next time he came back, he would put down his things and say a few words and leave. Otherwise, the meal will not stop, and at this time, Zhang Chengjie, the third man on the side, said: "Mother, you don't have to say a word." This meal is not allowed to be eaten, and the noise makes my head big. ”
Mrs. Zhang immediately whispered and coaxed: "Oh, it's my mother." Mother don't say it, you eat, you eat more. As he spoke, he took a piece of meat and put it in San Lang's bowl, and turned his head to Li as if he remembered something: "Erlang scooped up some meat for me, and let Bao'er eat with his uncle in the future." He should also start reading, and the male doll should be enlightened earlier. ”
As soon as Li heard it, he knew that Mrs. Zhang was not going to give the bacon or something to her family, so she immediately lowered her face and said: "Just talking about early enlightenment, how can we have that spare money?" I really thought we had the ability of the second uncle to make money! ”
After speaking, he angrily pinched Da Lang and said: "You are also useless, look at how capable the second uncle is!" ”
Mrs. Zhang didn't like to hear others say that her son was not, so she stroked her face and said in a deep voice: "If you are capable, you are not the prosperous husband of the Erlang family!" You have been married for so many years, and I haven't seen you make any money for the family, look at the people who know the cold and the hot and the cold can still give my son ideas to make money. ”
Li's arrogance disappeared suddenly, and he muttered in a low voice: "Isn't it just to make a few dishes, if there is something, I will too." ”
Mrs. Zhang sneered: "You have the ability to learn from Erlang's family to make bacon and sell it, and you have the ability to calculate how to join with others all day long!"
These words gave the Li family a revelation, yes, isn't it bacon, I have seen all the things in the Erlang family, and I can earn it myself. Li began to have pictures of how to make bacon and dry intestines, and he didn't care about what Mrs. Zhang said.
Anyway, Dong Xiaoman also plans in his heart, and he needs to prepare the New Year's goods in this month and list them to Erlang. It's just that before I returned to Zhang's house, I started to have a headache, and I couldn't help but laugh when I thought about it.
"Did I really let him get spoiled?" Dong Xiaoman shook his head, and heard a sound at the door, and knew that Dao Erlang had returned from the old mansion.
Dong Xiaoman personally lifted the cotton curtain for Erlang, looked at the snow on Erlang's body and complained a little: "It's so big outside, how dangerous it is to walk back and forth." Stay at home for one night and come back tomorrow when the weather clears and the snow stops. ”
Erlang patted the snow on his body, walked to the kang, took off his shoes and got on the kang. Father Dong glanced at Dong Xiaoman, smiled and handed Erlang a cup of hot tea and said, "She has always been stupid, just get used to it." ”
Jiro tugged at the corners of his mouth, silently lowered his head and sipped tea. Dong Xiaoman was confused, did he say something wrong? I really don't understand how to get involved in my own stupid question.
Dong Xiaoman went around and walked around, and when he came back, he handed Erlang a note written by himself. Erlang took it and saw Dong Xiaoman list some New Year's goods, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll just hurry up and buy it." ”
Dong Xiaoman said: "Don't worry, you let Xiaohu sell more." Is he willing to sell a shop or willing to sell to the common people, you are his owner, you don't have to be so busy. ”
Erlang frowned and said, "Wouldn't I be able to sell it out quickly if I do more?" ”
Dong Xiaoman said: "Business is such a thing, and money is inexhaustible. Our desired result is to sell these spicy cabbages in one day, as for the process of how to sell that is not important, what matters is our results. ”
Erlang nodded thoughtfully, Dong Xiaoman knew that he would figure it out, and ordered: "You just buy the New Year's goods I want, and let Xiaohu have a good experience." When it comes to the Chinese New Year, we will give him a big red envelope. ”
Erlang was absent-minded, but he also listened to Dong Xiaoman's words, and then echoed: "It's true, such a young child has also suffered a lot with us." ”
From the twentieth of the twentieth lunar month to the twenty-ninth of the lunar month, Dong Xiaoman's spicy cabbage has been selling very well in the past ten days. Dong Xiaoman sometimes even wonders, is he hanging? How can everything sell well? But it was Erlang who explained her puzzles: "This cabbage is really cheap, ordinary people can afford it." It's good to go back and eat with it or fry it. ”
Good quality and low price, small profits and quick sales are the sales route of spicy cabbage. Tomorrow is the thirtieth day of the lunar month, Dong Xiaoman, as a bride, cannot celebrate the New Year at her mother's house, early in the morning, Dong Xiaoman followed Erlang back to her old house where she had been away for more than a month.
Li saw Dong Xiaoman sitting in the donkey cart from a distance, and he was wearing a quilt and said in his heart: Squeamish! Erlang hurried the donkey cart over, and Li said sourly: "Oh, see who is coming back?" ”
Dong Xiaoman got off the donkey cart with a tense face, and Erlang naturally went over to help her. The couple scooped up the things in the car, and San Lang happily greeted them with the two children: "Second sister-in-law, you are finally back." I miss you to death! ”
Dong Xiaoman pinched Bao'er's nose and Yun'er's face, and said with a doting smile: "Do you miss me, or do you miss my food?" ”
San Lang said with a smile: "I want to do everything, I want to think about everything." ”
Dong Xiaoman didn't stay in the courtyard much, and followed Erlang into the hall. When I entered the door, I saw Mr. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang sitting on the main seat, and I knew in my heart that this matter still had to be decided.
Scooping up his newly made clothes, pants, shoes and socks, he stepped forward and bowed and said, "My daughter-in-law is not sensible, I bumped into my mother-in-law a while ago, and I lived in my mother's house for a while because the house was too broken. Today's Chinese New Year's Eve, the daughter-in-law specially prepared new clothes, new pants and new shoes and socks for the second elder. ”
Old man Zhang finally relieved himself when he saw Dong Xiaoman coming back, and said with a smile: "It's good to come back for the New Year, what clothes do you usually scoop up at home!" ”
Mrs. Zhang pulled her face and took the clothes and said, "Isn't it right for a daughter-in-law to make clothes for her in-laws!" After speaking, he didn't look at Dong Xiaoman, twisted his face and said, "What are you still doing?" Still not cooking? ”
Dong Xiaoman agreed, turned around and got into the kitchen, it was a moment to be able to dodge.
The time of eating on this day is very similar to that of the previous life, that is, around three o'clock in the afternoon, that is, at the time of Shen, and at ten o'clock in the evening, that is, at the time of Hai, after eating and then observing the New Year.
Li Shi watched Dong Xiaoman coldly from the side, thinking that she would not help if she said anything, anyway, wouldn't she be able to do it and willing to do it