Chapter Ninety-Six
Lin Baoru was checking the newly blended beauty soap that she had dried yesterday, when she heard Li Lang waving at her through the wooden door on the upper half of the fence.
"Girl, are you busy?" Li Xianglang said as he took out a few pieces of maltose from the small jar in his burden and handed them to the Cairu sisters and brothers who were picking stones at the door.
It's just that although Cairu was greedy, she didn't reach out to take it, but shook her head and said in a crisp tone: "We don't want it, if we want to eat candy, the eldest sister and my mother will buy it for us." ”
This made Li Lang laugh, and while laughing, he said, "This is what your eldest sister bought." After speaking, he couldn't help but say, and stuffed the candy cube into the hands of his sister and brother, and one piece of one person was not biased.
At this time, Lin Baoru also came over, she looked up at Cai Ru a few times, and said with a smile: "Then thank you, Brother Li." As she spoke, she rubbed Cairu's head and said, "Go to the back of Chai Heduo and call our mother back, and say that Li Lang is here." ”
Cai Ru happily answered and trotted all the way, but she had a large piece of malt candy in her hand, but she didn't really want to taste it.
Lin Baoru asked Caihe to take Xiaoshan home, and beckoned Li Lang into the courtyard by the way.
Because the Wang family was not in the house at this time, Lin Baoru was not rash and let Li Shanglang enter the house. But it's a good day, and there's no wind, so even in the yard, it's not cold.
Li Shanglang obviously thought of this, so he didn't need Lin Baoru to explain, so he hurriedly said: "Sister, don't be busy, I carry a burden, and it's not good to rest, let's just say a few words in the yard." ”
Lin Baoru saw that he didn't feel slighted, so he put his mind at ease.
"Sister, the soap beans I ordered the day before yesterday, are you ready?"
This time, Lin Baoru didn't need to speak, Caihe, who was eating maltose with Xiaoshan on the side, nodded and said happily: "It's done, we helped the eldest sister make it together, there are so many seeds in it, or I gave the eldest sister the idea." ”
Li Xianglang saw that Lin Baoru's sisters dared to be kind, so he smiled and praised her.
As he was talking, the Wang family, who was wearing old clothes and tied up a few handfuls of firewood, also took Cairu's hand and came back.
She looked at Li Xianglang smiling and saying this to his daughter, and even gave up a few pieces of maltose, knowing that he must have earned a lot of money with soap beans. Perhaps, he sold this soap bean, and he really got more sweetness than when he came to the grocery store.
Probably she was also influenced by Lin Baoru a lot, and she was calm in the face of outsiders at this time, just politely said a few words. Then he asked Cairu to help move a bench over, and the family sat in the courtyard together.
It's not that she has any difference between Li Xianglang and Shopkeeper Sun, but in the past, Shopkeeper Sun himself brought his buddies, and his son was still at home. It's just that people meet, and you can't say anything unpleasant when you gossip.
But now, the son is not in the family, and there is no man, so a seller who walks the streets and alleys to do business comes into the house to talk to the woman and the girl who is suitable for marriage. If you let the people who love to chew the root of the tongue see it, I am afraid that they will have to fall into the handle.
What's more, Wang himself knows that his life is getting better and better. Seeing that the family does not have to worry about food and clothing, and can slowly save money.
And she looked at her daughter's posture, she was going to do a good job in this business in the future, and there would definitely be more belongings to be added to the family. Buying it back from large and small will inevitably provoke some people's eyes.
If you let those who have a heart mutter, I am afraid that they will have to suspect that the objects they buy or the money they earn are not coming from the right way.
Therefore, no matter what it was for, she couldn't beckon Li Lang into the house.
Li Xianglang didn't care about these things, he saw that the Wang family was coming, hurriedly said hello, and said happily: "Auntie, I was talking to Baoru sister just now." I didn't know in the past, but now I know that you and my mother are both from Wangjiazhuang, if you pull it up, we can still be regarded as having a kiss! ”
In fact, the original land of these ten miles and eight townships is not large, and if you look at a large village, there are one or two hundred households, which is considered a large population. What's more, there are many people with the same surname in the village, even if they are separated by their surnames, as a neighbor, they can also call their sister-in-law and aunt.
Carefully put it together, nine out of ten people must be able to hang some relationship.
However, for the Wang family, a native and daughter-in-law who married from a foreign village, when it comes to relatives in her mother's village, it feels very different.
When she heard the people of Wangjiazhuang at first glance, she was naturally happy in her heart.
"Where is your mother? After Baoru's father is gone, I rarely go back and walk around, but I don't know if we can still have this relationship, if I had known, I would have bought some things from you. ”
Li Shanglang said with a smile: "My mother is the first two rows of Uncle Shulin's house, and if you want to count, she is more than ten years older than her aunt." ”
Saying this, the Wang family remembered that the family was close, and when she was not married, she naturally often went to the eldest sister's house at the back. Later, the eldest sister got married, and when she went back, the two of them held hands and said some intimate words.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but widen her eyes and asked, "Your grandmother's family is also from the Wang family, Uncle Sledgehammer's family?" Could it be that your mother is Sister Xiu'er? ”
Li Lang heard that she still remembered, and his heart was also happy, and he hurriedly said: "But no, isn't my mother Ming'er called Rongxiu?" I heard that this name was given by the famous old Xiu of our Wangjiazhuang! ”
As soon as these words came out, Wang's memory was hooked, she suppressed the excitement in her heart, nodded again and again: "That's the case, for that matter, many people in Wangjiazhuang are envious of your grandmother's tightness." ”
It is said that in a foreign country, over the years, the Wang family has never inquired about Wangjiazhuang, and has never dared to go back and walk around. Therefore, when she suddenly heard the people and things she was familiar with before, she also had mixed feelings in her heart.
"How have you been all these years? I didn't know that we were so involved, but if I knew, I knew that Sister Xiu'er was sick in the seventh episode, so I should take Baoru to take a look. She said with emotion, "When Baoru was a child, your mother didn't hug you less. I remember that at that time, you were still a boy with no broom, and you were still angry for your mother to hug Baoru! In the blink of an eye, you're so old that your aunt can't recognize it at all! ”
Lin Baoru saw her mother's rare happiness, so she said: "This matter is simple, now we are close to the concubine's family, and the number of times we will return to Wangjiazhuang in the future is indispensable." At that time, no matter whether it is the mother herself, or with the concubine, you can go to the Li family to visit the aunt for a while. ”
When Wang heard this, how could he not accept it. The girls have this heart, and their lives are up, but they don't have to be afraid of this and that.
A few people gossiped for a while, and Li Lang got down to business. He knew that if he wanted to make his current business bigger, he had to rely on the Lin family to produce soap beans. They all said that they were obedient and listened to the sound, and he also heard it, the inconspicuous daughter of the Lin family, and she was still thinking about bigger and better things in the future.
So at this time, he couldn't hide it, so he simply told him about selling soap beans in the past two days.
Of course, the seller outside wanted to sell goods together, and he also said a few words. Even if he was a little worried in his heart, he was afraid that Lin Baoru would cross the river and tear down the bridge, but after thinking about it, this matter could not be hidden, but if those merchants had the heart to inquire, sooner or later they would inquire about the Lin family.
Lin Baoru said with a smile: "Brother Li, we are not outsiders, you helped run down this deal, and I can't let you suffer." After a pause, she said again, "That's it, if you want, let's continue to follow the method discussed in Uncle Zhao's restaurant before, but in terms of price, I'll let you have another five cents per piece." In the future, if a merchant wants to sell, let him buy from you. If you meet a shop outside or Brother Li can't eat, you can ask them to find me to buy or sell on behalf of me, and I will naturally not sell lower than you in terms of price! ”
In other words, the purchase price of three cents and five cents, as long as there are no accidents and incidents on the side, will definitely be the lowest price for her shipment. No matter how this business is done in the future, Li Shanglang can take advantage of the big one.
The two of them agreed on this matter, but they read that everyone was sincere, so they didn't decide on the paperwork again.
After he paid the remaining fifty yuan, Lin Baoru asked Cai Ru to bring the twenty soap beans, and then after thinking about it, he gave him a piece of his newly made beauty soap.
"This is my new beauty soap, the most nourishing skin, you take it back to your aunt and sister-in-law." If you feel that it is difficult to wash your hands and face like this, you can also roll it into powder and put it away, and wash your hands and face in the future. ”
To be honest, this beauty soap is also a basic version. If you can have some flowers and skin-nourishing herbs, maybe the effect will be better. But even if it's just like this, compared to ordinary people's homes that use rice and water to wash grass and wood ash, or even a little more generous people who wash their faces and hair with noodle soup, the effect and sense of use are definitely much better.
Li Lang didn't shirk it, and took it happily. got a good object, and Li Lang didn't feel sorry for the maltose that gave a few children before. Even when he left, he left two more flowers for Sister Lin Baoru.
Because Xiaoshan was sleepy at this time, Wang took him back to the house, and only asked his own Baoru to send Li Shanglang out.
When he arrived at the door, Li Xianglang hesitated for a moment and said: "Sister, just because you give me a deal, I also have to persuade you, if you can withdraw from your family, let your aunt help you return your family." ”
He glanced back and saw that Wang had not come out, so he carefully talked about the jokes that were coming out of the town now.
"A few days ago, the young master of the Liu family went to Chunxianglou to eat flower wine, and somehow, the two girls in the house were disheveled and cried for a long time. I heard that he snatched all the girl's beaded flower coats......" When Li Shanglang said this, his expression was still a little awkward. After all, it is really difficult for an unmarried girl to talk about that kind of pickled and fragrant place.
However, in good faith, he continued: "I see that my aunt and you are not people who covet the money of the Liu family, why bother to tie up with that young master and let the whole town see your jokes!" ”
Chunxianglou, even if Lin Baoru has never been to this place, he can guess what it does. Thinking of what Liu Shu said at the beginning, he used to like to eat flowers and wine and visit the Qinglou, Lin Baoru felt more and more that person was unbearable.
If it weren't for the fact that she didn't have a better choice right now, she wouldn't have said so many good things for that person against her will. What a pure heart, what a hot-blooded youth, to put it bluntly, is just to appease and appease the Wang family.
But right now, in front of outsiders, she didn't want to show anything, she just sighed and said: "This matter is far away, and now everyone knows about my family affairs, especially if we say retreat." ”
When Li Xianglang saw what she said, he couldn't bear it in his heart, so he could only persuade a few more words and say more.
Lin Baoru sent Li Lang away, and thought about it at the door for a long time, until she adjusted her emotions and then went home.
The so-called soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, even if Liu Shulai is unbearable, he has saved her after all. She just dislikes it in her heart, and she won't say that he is bad in front of outsiders.
Besides, as long as they don't quit for a day, he is considered his own person compared to outsiders. In this case, she can't let people hear derogatory words from her own mouth, otherwise what's the difference between that and hitting herself in the face?
After thinking about this, Lin Baoru was no longer entangled. Let's talk about the future. Now her primary goal is to earn money and save money.
At this time, a few little ones were happy to eat candy, while Lin Baoru and the Wang family were happy because they had made money again, and naturally the meal was also a lot richer.
In addition to Wang's porridge and stewed meat dishes, Lin Baoru also went to the unmelted snowdrift urn in the corner to take a dozen frozen dumplings, and prepared a few children to make potstickers.
Now that there is sugar, broth and various spices at home, the mouths of the children raised are upset. At this time, Cairu saw that the eldest sister was taking sugar and scooping broth, and they all came over happily.
"Eldest sister, I'll light a fire for you with Caihe." Cai Ru cracked her mouth, and she squatted in front of the small stove with Cai He and got busy.
The hill that came steadily on the other side kept spinning around her legs, seeing that she couldn't do anything, and she couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved.
Lin Baoru looked at Xiao Shanba's appearance, took a green onion and said, "Xiao Shan helps the eldest sister peel the green onion!" ”
Wang, who was busy on the big stove, couldn't help but laugh when he saw it.
This is the day, it's not a lot of wealth, but a few children are sensible. Even if it's work, the big guys can get together and have fun.