Bai Mengdie comforted her and said: "If it's broken, it's broken, the gardenia business is seasonal, even if no one grabs business with my mother and second aunt, it won't last long."

Those who rob the business have raised the purchase price, forming malicious competition, and then going to the city to sell gardenias, they can't make much money, grandma don't be angry. ”

The old lady nodded, looked at the mung bean cakes and sesame cakes on the dinner table, and asked, "Why did you buy so many mung bean cakes and sesame cakes?" ”

Bai Mengdie put her arm around her shoulders and said, "Didn't I buy some pens and books to sell at school, and I made money, thinking that tomorrow would be the Dragon Boat Festival, so I bought these mung bean cakes and sesame cakes for the festival." ”

The old lady said angrily: "Then you won't buy so much, you can't spend lavishly!" ”

"I'm not spending lavishly." Bai Mengdie explained calmly, "These mung bean cakes and sesame cakes are not just bought for me to eat.

My grandparents and my second uncle's mung bean cake and sesame cake each have a pack, and I plan to give the remaining two packets of mung bean cake and two packets of sesame cake to my grandparents.

If there is no such a point, will grandma still say that I bought too much? ”

The old lady laughed: "No more, no less! It's grandma who is confused and wronged our big baby. ”

The weather was too hot, Bai Mengdie went into the room to change her skirt and came out to prepare dinner.

The old lady took out nine salted duck eggs covered with mud and went to the pond to wash, and Bai Mengdie asked, "Has my aunt been here?" ”

They don't raise ducks and geese in this area, and if they want to eat salted duck eggs and goose eggs, they have to go to the town to buy them.

The original aunt Bai Ailan married in the mountains twenty miles away, where almost every household raised ducks and geese.

Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, Bai Ailan will send some salted duck eggs to her parents' house as a holiday gift.

So when Bai Mengdie sees salted duck eggs, she thinks of Bai Ailan.

"Hmm." The old lady replied and went out of the yard.

Bai Mengdie went out to pick vegetables with a basket, and as soon as she approached her vegetable garden, she saw Cailing's sister and brother sneaking into her tomato field to steal tomatoes.

Although there were people in the vegetable field next to it, no one stopped them.

In the eyes of rural people, stealing vegetables from people with foreign surnames is called stealing, like Cailing's three sisters and brothers stealing tomatoes planted by their grandmother is not called stealing.

Bai Mengdie deliberately said loudly: "Who asked you to pick my tomatoes?" ”

The three Cailing sisters and brothers were all startled, and when they looked up, they saw Bai Mengdie glaring at them angrily, and their pockets were full of red tomatoes and ran away.

Running in such a hurry that a tomato fell out of Cailing's pocket.

When she bent down to pick up tomatoes, she didn't forget to glare at Bai Mengdie unwillingly.

Bai Mengdie saw it in his eyes, but he didn't take it to heart at all.

Although the old lady spoke, she didn't let the second room family eat the vegetables she grew again.

But the vegetable garden is open, and Yao Cuihua has to come to steal it, and no one can stop it.

In order to prevent Yao Cuihua from stealing vegetables, the family should send someone to guard the vegetable garden.

However, when someone steals vegetables in the third room, they still have to roar, otherwise they won't have any worries about stealing?

Bai Mengdie walked to her vegetable garden, and the villagers in the vegetable fields on the left and right greeted her warmly.

Some villagers also enthusiastically said that if her red tomatoes were stolen by the three CRBT sisters and brothers, they would come to her house to pick them, and her tomatoes would not be able to be eaten.

Bai Mengdie smiled and declined.

Even if you accept a straw from others, it is still a favor, and you have to pay it back, and the trouble is dead.

It was only the beginning of June, and there were not many red tomatoes, but fortunately, Bai Mengdie's roar was timely, and the Cailing sisters and brothers had a few red tomatoes left for her.

Bai Mengdie picked all the red tomatoes and picked some other vegetables before leaving.

When she returned home, the old lady had already washed the salted duck eggs and came back.

The two grandparents sat on a small bench in the courtyard and chose the vegetables that Bai Mengdie had just picked together.

Bai Mengdie took out the red tomatoes and put them in the vegetable pot, and told the old lady about the Cailing sisters and brothers who had just stolen her tomatoes.

The old lady pursed her lips disdainfully: "The three sisters and brothers of the disgraceful Cailing stole it, Yao Cuihua also stole it, and I have been caught several times, but how can I stop it if people want to steal?" ”

The old lady saw that Bai Mengdie didn't come back from digging potatoes, and said, "I'll dig up a few potatoes and come back, and you can give your grandfather steamed tamales to eat." ”

"I'll go." Bai Mengdie stood up and asked suspiciously, "It's a holiday tomorrow, why does grandma buy meat to eat today?" ”

The old lady chose the dish and said, "The meat is divided in the village." ”

Seeing Bai Mengdie's confused face, she reminded: "You forgot, we had a conflict with Yuanyuan's mother last Sunday night, and the village chief sentenced Yuanyuan's mother to pay me for my medical expenses.

You didn't ask for it, you said that you would hand over the medical expenses to the village, and ask the village chief to buy some meat for the whole village, and the village chief bought meat with that money, and each family shared one catty, but not two catties for our family. ”

Bai Mengdie asked: "The more than a dozen families who are sad because of selling plums and our fellow villagers also share a pound each?" ”

"It's divided, it's all divided, no matter how easy it is for them to make enemies!" The old lady said, "I heard that the dozen or so villagers who were arrested were going to go to prison because they illegally obstructed the master who bought plums from leaving, so don't worry about what happened before." ”

The dozen or so villagers would be sued by the public security organs for stopping the car, which was very unexpected for Bai Mengdie.

"Those villagers are going to jail, how will their families react?" She was worried that the families of the villagers would unite against them, the Bai family.

The old lady snorted coldly: "What else can I do, like a frosted eggplant, I don't dare to play tricks in the village anymore, these people just owe the public security to clean up!" ”

Bai Mengdie put her mind at ease and took a small shovel to dig up some potatoes in the vegetable field.

The potatoes are planted near her gardenia tree.

Bai Mengdie looked up at the dozens of gardenias that had bloomed on the tree, and thought to herself, Tian Chunfang and her two no longer sell gardenias, so pick a few gardenias and go back to cook and eat.

There is no custom of eating gardenias in HB Province, but Bai Mengdie recognized a sister from Jiangsu and Zhejiang in her previous life, and she loved to eat food made of gardenias, and Bai Mengdie followed her to learn several dishes made of gardenias.

The food made of gardenias is full of fragrance in the mouth, and Bai Mengdie has never forgotten it until now, and today is just a time to satisfy her cravings.

She picked five or six blooming gardenias, and then returned home with the basket.

As soon as she entered the yard, the old lady smelled the fragrance of gardenias and asked, "Have you picked our gardenias?" ”

"Hmm." Bai Mengdie sat down on a small stool and peeled the potatoes with the old lady.

"Anyway, our gardenias won't be sold, so let's eat them and save waste."

The old lady asked in surprise, "Can you eat gardenias?" I only know that elm money and acacia flowers can be eaten, and I have never heard of gardenias. ”

Bai Mengdie said: "As long as the flowers are not poisonous and not bitter, you can eat them." ”

The old lady glanced at the gardenias in her basket and said, "Although our family doesn't go to the city to sell gardenias, this gardenia is not wasted, and ten flowers are sold to the gardenia sellers for four cents." ”

Bai Mengdie was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect that she didn't sell gardenias, she could sell gardenias to flower sellers, no wonder the old lady was a little distressed when she saw her picking gardenias.

"Then our family can now bloom thirty or forty gardenias a day, and we can sell them for one or two yuan a day." Bai Mengdie said with a smile.

The old lady nodded: "That's it." ”

Then I asked her how much she had sold at school this week.

Bai Mengdie said: "More than two hundred." ”

"So much!" The old lady was shocked, "If you continue like this, you can't earn more money a month than your father's salary?" ”

"Not really." Bai Mengdie threw the peeled potatoes into the vegetable pot: "Although I made a lot of money this week, it will take a while for people to buy a pen and notebook, and I don't know if I will buy it tomorrow and sell it at school on Monday." ”

The old lady was more open than she thought: "It's enough to earn two hundred yuan a month, don't be too greedy." ”

Bai Mengdie said "um" and asked, "Grandma, my mother and second aunt don't sell orange flowers anymore, so do they still do the cloth business?" ”

"Do it, why don't you do it! Your mother and your second aunt listened to your words and went to Hanzheng Street to approve cloth and sell it in the county seat, and they could earn 180 yuan a day! ”

The old lady finished speaking happily, and then sighed again: "I don't know how long I can do the cloth business, these years, as long as there is a business to make money, I don't know how many people will follow suit!" ”

Bai Mengdie thought in her heart, of course, it is easy to be robbed of business by others if you do this kind of business with no technical content.

If you do a distinctive business, people can't replace you, and you can't grab the cake if you want to.

Just like the old mother's chili sauce in the previous life, there are so many manufacturers in the world who can make chili sauce, but none of them can beat the old mother, is it not because the old mother's secret recipe is unique?

She has many recipes, but unfortunately there is no use for them now.

One day, if you use one or two of these food secrets, you may be able to create brilliance like your old mother.

An old lady can make a career, but she is not as good as an old lady as a young woman?

Bai Mengdie said: "You can do this cloth business for as long as you can, and if you can't do it, you just have to close the stall, and it won't affect anything." ”

The old lady said, "Your grandfather said the same thing." ”

Bai Mengdie gossiped and asked: "Now that the purchase price of gardenias is so high, is the third aunt's family still doing gardenia business?" ”

The old lady said: "Of course I don't do it, I can't make any money if I buy it at such a high price and sell it in the city."

Then he said: "But even if she can buy gardenias at a low price, her family's gardenia business can't continue." ”

Bai Mengdie asked puzzledly: "Why?" ”

The old lady said: "Yao Cuihua's mother and son went to the city to sell gardenias for two days in a row, and Yao Cuihua gave all the money she earned to her mother's family, saying that she borrowed her mother's money for rabies vaccination, and the money had to be repaid."

The three CRBT sisters and brothers saw that they didn't keep a penny in their hands for two days, and they refused to go to the city to buy flowers anymore. ”

Bai Mengdie said disdainfully: "Who told Yao Cuihua to go too far, even if she wants to pay back the money for the rabies vaccine, she won't give all the money spent on selling gardenias for two days to her mother's family."

Her mother and son sold gardenias for two days, and each of them only earned 50 yuan a day, and they could earn a total of 500 yuan in two days.

But Yao Cuihua and his wife only need one or two hundred rabies vaccines at most, and it is obvious that she wants to stick to her mother's house to find an excuse. ”

"We can't interfere in her family's affairs, let her mother and son make trouble." The old lady was powerless.

"What about the Yuanyuan family next door, do you still go to the city to sell gardenias?" Bai Mengdie asked.

"Their family has offended most of the people in the village, not to mention that no one sells gardenias that her family buys at a low price, and no one will sell them to her family even if they want to go to the city to sell gardenias."

The grandparents and grandchildren peeled the potatoes with their own cooking.

After taking all the vegetables to the pond and washing them, Bai Mengdie began to make dinner.

The old lady tells her, "Fluttershy, cook the rice that the two families eat." ”

Bai Mengdie responded.

The old lady said again: "In the future, I will cook for two families." ”

Bai Mengdie asked suspiciously: "Aren't you separated, why do you eat together again?" ”

Bai Mengdie can still accept a reunion dinner together every week, after all, the second room helped them plant the field, and it is appropriate to have a reunion dinner once in a while.

But if they cook the second room every day, is it too much of a loss for their big house?

Supposedly, the old lady wouldn't be so confused.

The old lady explained: "This week, your mother and your second aunt are selling cloth in the county seat, and the fields in our big house are all planted with the help of your second uncle and father, otherwise how can you rely on your grandfather to be busy?"

So for a week, I've been cooking the meals of the two families together.

Your second uncle and aunt are not like your third uncle's family, who only know how to be cheap, and if he and his wife don't want to go, they have to pay grain and oil.

Your grandfather spoke, and the family was separated, but the meal was still eaten together, which saved trouble.

Your second uncle and aunt offered to pay 200 catties of rations and 10 catties of oil each.

There are also soy sauce and vinegar, these expenses, and the money to improve life from time to time, buy meat, and buy soy products, fifty a month.

Give me and your grandfather back fifty dollars a month in pocket money.

Your grandfather and I both think that your second uncle and aunt have nothing to choose from in this arrangement. ”

"There's really nothing to pick about." Bai Mengdie nodded: "It's just that cooking for two families will make grandma tired." ”

"Tired? Cooking for one family is also cooking, cooking for two families is still cooking, and the hard work is not much. The old lady said nonchalantly, "Your grandfather and I are still strong now, and we can help you." ”

While the two grandparents were talking, Bai Mengdie had already made several dishes unconsciously.

When Shi Lei came back from school, he heard Bai Mengdie's voice from the kitchen, and he went into the kitchen without even putting his schoolbag.

At a glance, he saw the Swarovski crystal headband on Bai Mengdie's head, and asked, "Why did you buy a new headband, the previous one?" ”

Bai Mengdie was shredding a piece of ginger: "I didn't buy this headband, it was Chen Ziqian who broke the headband you bought for me, so he paid me a new headband." ”

Shi Lei listened, as if he had drunk a big jar of vinegar, his heart was sour, and he always suspected that Chen Ziqian deliberately damaged his headband, so that he could justifiably send Bai Mengdie's headband.

But he had no evidence, and he couldn't say anything, so he went out of the kitchen sullenly, always feeling that the cabbage he had carefully cultivated was targeted by a certain pig.

It's not that the pig can't get into his eyes, it's that he is reluctant to let his watery cabbage be arched by the pig......

I want to kill that pig!

Bai Mengdie didn't know anything about Shi Lei's inner drama, and just started making gardenia scrambled eggs, Tian Chunfang and the two came back after the sale.