Chapter 38: The Boot Business
"Whoever says an inch is careless, he will be rewarded with Sanchunhui......"
From the countryside came a burst of children's reading voices, the voice was crisp and bright, and in this village, the yellow trees and white snow had a special taste.
The old gentleman was wearing a cotton coat, although it was not thin, but he couldn't help but shrink his hands into his sleeves, and although the other children were lying on the table neatly, their hands and feet were already trembling when they couldn't stand the cold of winter.
Seeing this, Mr. could only clip a few more pieces of charcoal: "Let's get out of this class, let's move well, activate our muscles and bones, and avoid stroke." ”
"Master, it's good to get out of class."
The children's voices rang out, and the Master sat down on the podium.
In this group of babbling children, only Xiao Douding's body is just like a small green pine, his hand is put into the hot water bag, and the heat is transmitted to the whole body through his arm, and the whole person is warm.
The child was curious that he still saw his hot water bag, and asked, "Haohao, what are you doing?" ”
"This is a hot water bag that my mother made for me." Douding puts the warm water bag in the child's hand. "Look at it, it's not cold."
"Well, really." The child touched the hot water bag, and the whole body was hot.
So the whole class gathered around to watch, and everyone passed it on to each of them as if it were a treasure, and finally passed it to Xiao Douding's hand.
He put it on his chest: "This is what my mother made for me, my mother's hands are skillful, and she can make a lot of things." ”
How do children know this, they just think that others have a warm water bag, but they don't have a gap in their hearts, and this warm water bag is really a warm thing.
The child who was not short of money immediately took out a few copper plates and put them in Xiao Douding's hand: "Haohao, I bought this hot water bag." ”
"Don't, don't." Hao Hao hurriedly waved his hand and put the copper plate on his body, tightly protecting the hot water bag. "This is something my mother made for me, so I don't want to sell it to you. I want your mother to do it for you. ”
Shen Qingqing didn't know anything about this, and after delivering the glutinous rice dumplings from Shilixiang Restaurant, she bought some pig blood.
The cabbage watered by the spiritual spring water, in addition to growing strong, has a very sweet and crisp taste.
Shen Qingqing prepared to use pig blood and vermicelli to add cabbage, stew a pot of hot meals, and when the little bean came back, it was also warm to eat.
It's a home-cooked meal and it's very easy to make.
The cabbage is torn into small pieces to make it more flavorful, the pig's blood is cut into boxy, the vermicelli is soaked in cold water, the cold oil is put into the pot with pepper and star anise and other seasonings, and then the pig's blood vermicelli and cabbage are added, and finally salt is added to taste.
In less than half an hour, a pot of fragrant meals was out of the pot.
When Shen Qingqing just brought this thing to the table, it happened that Xiaodouding also came back, and he hurriedly threw down his schoolbag and sat down on the dining table without washing his hands.
He put his hands on the table and knocked slowly: "Mother, I'm so hungry, when will I be able to eat?" ”
"It's ready to eat now." Shen Qingqing smiled and put the rice in front of him.
The small beans were very sweet, but I put down the chopsticks when I just ate two bites.
"What's wrong?" Shen Qingqing asked.
Xiao Douding put the hot water bottle on the table: "Mother, don't you know that many students in the school today asked me to buy this hot water bottle, their hands and feet are cold, only I have a hot water bottle, and the whole body is warm." ”
"Really?" Shen Qingqing's eyes skimmed to the hot water bottle, and suddenly she thought of something.
This hot water bottle is not very complicated to make, and now the students of Xiaodouding are scrambling to buy it, so are the students in other schools not having this hot water bottle?
If this hot water bottle is made into a business, can it be exchanged for some silver taels to subsidize the family?
Thinking of this, Shen Qingqing's lips were red and his teeth were white, and he looked very good: "Why didn't I think of it for a long time?" ”
After eating, the sky was a lot, and no one came out for a walk in this winter, so I had already given birth to a pot of charcoal fire and my wife and children went to the hot kang head.
Shen Qingqing comforted Xiaodouding to sleep and went out.
She didn't go anywhere, but to the entrance of the village.
Sure enough, as he expected, he saw the figure in the forest in less than half an hour.
Lin Zhong was still dressed in leather clothes, his face was red from the cold, there were pheasants and hares in the basket on his back, and he was still holding a hunting knife in his hand, he was stunned when he saw Shen Qingqing: "What are you doing here on this winter night?" ”
Shen Qingqing smiled: "I'm waiting for you here?" ”
"Wait for me?"
Shen Qingqing kept looking at the hot water bottle business in his heart when he was eating, everything else is easy to say, but the skin of this hot water bottle is a difficult thing, and if you think about it, it is only in the forest, who often hunts, but because of the relationship between Aunt Lin, it is not good to go directly to the Lin family and wait.
Thinking that this forest has always come back very late, so I guarded at the entrance of this village, but I didn't expect to be really found by her.
After listening to Shen Qingqing's words, Lin Zhong just patted his head: "This matter is wrapped up in me, anyway, I can cut a lot of skins when I go to the mountains to hunt in the past few days, so I'll give it to you directly." ”
Shen Qingqing had long thought that Lin Zhong would say this, but the corners of his mouth twitched: "Let's say okay first, if you want to give me these skins, I don't want them, we will come whatever the market price is, otherwise I will never ask you for help in the future." ”
Lin Zhong was helpless by her, and finally said, "Okay...... Then I'll sell you this skin. ”
As he spoke, he took down the basket and took out a skin about one meter wide from it: "This is what I peeled off from my prey while hunting today, and it's still hot." ”
Shen Qingqing touched it and sure enough, this leather is smooth and delicate, and it is strong, it is the best prey skin.
Shen Qingqing took out a tael of silver from his purse: "Then I'll buy these skins." ”
"This ......" Lin Zhong looked at the silver in his hand, he really didn't know what to do.
Shen Qingqing didn't speak, took the leather in his hand and turned around and left.
Lin Zhong looked at Shen Qingqing's back and then at the silver two in his hand, and smiled, this woman is really stubborn.
After finishing the glutinous rice dumplings the next day, Shen Qingqing began to work on the sewing machine, and just sat down, when his butt was not yet hot, he heard a shout at the door: "Sister Qingqing, are you at home?" ”
Shen Qingqing only saw the figure through the window, and it was really a rare guest, it turned out that the Zhang family was here.
Since he met Shen Qingqing of the Zhang family at the entrance of the village and lent him some silver taels for emergencies, the Zhang family has come to visit the door from time to time, and the words of these two people are compatible, but they will not feel bored.
Shen Qingqing hurriedly got up and opened the door: "Yo, why do you have to be idle today?" ”
Zhang patted the dust on his body: "I don't think about winter, it's hot to come to your house." ”
This Zhang's mother-in-law is really vicious, and she didn't even burn some charcoal in Zhang's house this winter.
But this is also someone else's family matter, since the Zhang family can bear it, Shen Qingqing is inconvenient to say more gossip, just hurriedly invited her over and poured a cup of hot tea: "Hurry up and sit down." ”
Zhang looked left and right at Shen Qingqing's house, all the objects were clean and tidy, and a pot of flowers in the corner was placed in the corner, which was a beautiful scenery in this winter.
Zhang couldn't help but say: "Qingqing girl, you really know how to take care of housework, you look at your home, it's very warm." ”
"I'm also idle, just do whatever I want." Shen Qingqing was also polite.
The two of them gossiped a little more, and laughed a lot.
When the Zhang family was just about to leave, Shen Qingqing didn't know if he suddenly thought of something: "I heard that you have been short of silver in your hands recently?" ”
"yes." Zhang lowered his head and let out a long sigh. "All the silver I have been working as a female worker these days has been taken by my mother-in-law, and I want to add a little cotton wool to my body in the winter, and I have no money."
"It just so happens that I have a way to get money." Shen Jingjing said that this leather could be made into a hot water bottle. "I don't think there are very many people in this business, if we do it and sell it to others, we can exchange it for a lot of silver taels."
Zhang's heart was moved, but she didn't have any right to speak at home, so she touched the corner of her clothes and said, "Cheng, I'll go back and discuss this matter with my mother-in-law." ”
"Yes." Shen Qingqing was not in a hurry, so she let her out.
Shen Qingqing made four or five hot water bottles in one afternoon, and he didn't dare to make more, in case they didn't sell well, these were useless, and when Xiao Douding went to school, he asked him to bring them over.
Sure enough, after school the next day, Xiao Douding took out two coins of silver: "Mother, this is the money for selling hot water bottles, and these hot water bottles are popular with my classmates." ”
"Really?" Shen Qingqing touched Xiao Douding's hairy head, but she didn't think that this silver tael was very important, but it was very gratifying that the child knew how to share his worries at such a young age.
When Shen Qingqing was about to say something, he saw the door opened, and Lin Zhong came over with some skins in his hands: "Qingqing, I'll send these skins to you." ”
In this forest, she was given skins every day.
Shen Qingqing nodded, when he had just taken the skin, but when he looked down, he saw the feet in the forest.
The feet in the forest are very large, so they are very eye-catching, and even if the feet are made of charcoal in this winter, it is still too cold, but the shoes in the forest are just a piece of leather.
If you think about it, you can also know that this Aunt Lin must want to make shoes for Lin Zhong, which is time-consuming and costly, so she simply let it go. There was another man in the forest who would do such things.
"What are the dimensions of your feet?"
"What?" Some of the forest didn't react.
Shen Qingqing said again: "What is the size of your feet, you are tired of giving me leather these days, I want to make a pair of shoes for you." ”
Lin Zhong's face turned red, and he scratched his head and spoke.
Shen Qingqing was not ambiguous, and drove out a pair of shoes overnight, and gave him the shoes when Lin Zhong gave her leather again.