Chapter Ninety-Nine: Divergent Opinions
Zhang Dandan was about to cry, in her opinion, going to the county town to open a shop is equivalent to Liu Meiniang leaving.
The county seat is so far away from Liuhe Village, if she goes to open a shop, Liu Meiniang will definitely not go home.
Looking at Zhang Dandan, who was entangled, Liu Meiniang didn't have the heart to coax her, Liu Meiniang's negative emotions seemed to have all exploded today.
Why can't the Zhang family understand her, afraid that she will go to the town to open a shop and not come back? Liu Meiniang suddenly felt that this period of time together made her a little confused.
Do the people of the Zhang family not believe her like that?
Maybe this is the difference in thinking, in modern society, children go out to study, a year and a half or even three and a half years or even three or five years have not returned home has become a normal phenomenon, some people are forced by the pressure of life, and even a few years can not go home for the New Year, in the eyes of ancient people should be difficult to accept.
They have not yet departed from the way of life of the group tribe, there is a saying that it is not said that the parents are here, they do not travel far, and if the father and mother are still alive, it is an unfilial behavior, and it is no wonder that Liu Meiniang will have conflicts with the Zhang family because of the matter of opening a shop.
Until the evening, Liu Meiniang basically did not communicate with the rest of the Zhang family except for talking to Zhang Dandan.
Tomorrow I went to the town to see the shop, and when I met the right Liu Meiniang, I was ready to go straight down, and after returning to the room, Liu Meiniang took out the money bag and began to count the money.
During this period of time, the money earned from weaving, as well as the supply of vegetables and recipes to Chunmanlou, earned money Liu Meiniang probably knew in her heart, and the change she earned Liu Meiniang put it in the drawer under the table in the living room.
And whole numbers like one hundred and fifty taels were stored in a small wooden box in her room. The most earned is the dividends from Caiyige.
Liu Meiniang pried open a piece of floor on the ground, pulled out a wooden box, opened it and counted, the silver ticket turned out to be 1,100 taels, or dozens of taels of broken silver, I didn't expect to make so much money recently, Liu Meiniang was also very surprised, this money should be enough to make a good shop in the town.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Sister-in-law." Zhang Jihan's voice came from the door.
"What's the matter?" Liu Meiniang opened the door and asked.
"Sister-in-law, are you going to the county seat tomorrow?" Zhang Jihan saw Liu Meiniang and asked with some embarrassment.
"Yes." Liu Meiniang nodded.
"I'll go with you." Zhang Jihan plucked up the courage to say.
Liu Meiniang glanced at Zhang Jihan suspiciously.
"You can't drive..... Zhang Jihan held back for a long time before he spoke.
Liu Meiniang thought about it, she didn't know how to drive, if she walked to the county seat, it would be dark, and she would see what shops.
"Sister-in-law, do you really don't think about the matter of the shop anymore?" Zhang Jihan asked.
"I don't want to, there's nothing to think about."
"But my mother's side ......."
"Let's talk about it over there." Liu Meiniang sighed.
Regardless of whether Zhang Li likes it or not, she must open the shop.
"Rest early." Liu Meiniang closed the door after speaking.
The next day, Liu Meiniang got up early in the morning, warmed breakfast for everyone, and after cooking porridge, she and Zhang Jihan ate casually and prepared to go.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I turned my head, I saw Zhang Dandan and Zhang Tongtong standing at the door of the kitchen neatly dressed.
"Why did you get up so early?" Liu Meiniang asked in surprise.
"Sister-in-law, my third sister and I also want to go to the county seat with you." Zhang Dandan said timidly.
"The county seat is too far away, you two should stay at home." Liu Meiniang said.
"Sister-in-law, you can let us go together." Zhang Dandan approached Liu Meiniang, tears rolling in her eyes.
"I went to the county seat today because I have something to do!" Liu Meiniang's attitude is still relatively resolute, she must be very busy today, and she has no time to take two little ghosts to play.
"You're busy, I'll just go shopping with Dandan by ourselves." Zhang Tongtong said impatiently.
"Alright then, then you guys have breakfast and let's go." Liu Meiniang shook her head helplessly
Zhang Dandan had a smile on his face.
Liu Meiniang went out to load a car with Zhang Jihan, and just went to the county seat, so she sent the cloth woven in the past two days to Xue Wuyi.
"Sister-in-law, the rent of the shops in the county is very expensive." On the way, Zhang Ji said while catching the car.
"I know." Liu Meiniang looked at the trees on the side of the road and didn't know what she was thinking.
Zhang Jihan saw that Liu Meiniang didn't want to speak, so he had to stop asking.
Liu Meiniang was still thinking about other things in her heart, if she wanted to open a supermarket, at least in the first month of the supermarket's opening, the supply to Chunmanlou might not be able to keep up, so she had to go to Boss Gao in advance to say it.
The shops on the main street of the county have all been rented, and there is no one, and the supermarket is a thing, if it is opened in a remote place, and the flow of people is small, the business will definitely not be good.
"The two of you will go to the meeting by yourself, and you will meet here in the afternoon, Tongtong, you are optimistic about Dandan, don't get lost." Liu Meiniang told the two girls.
"I know sister-in-law, you go and get busy, I'll just go shopping with the third sister by ourselves." After Zhang Dandan finished speaking, he pulled Zhang Tongtong and ran away.
Liu Meiniang is not very worried, the thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl in ancient times is no longer a little girl, and she can already stand alone.
And when they came to the county seat before, Zhang Dandan and Zhang Tongtong often went shopping alone.
Because the streets in Qingshi County are still very big, Liu Meiniang and Zhang Jihan said a word, and the two began to act separately.
"Sister-in-law, I inquired about a shop over there." Zhang Jihan ran over from the other side of the street, panting.
"Where?" Liu Meiniang asked in surprise.
"It's down the next street." Zhang Jihan took Liu Meiniang over.
The street next door is not the main street of Qingshi County, and it is not as wide and prosperous as the main street. But the government is on that street, so the location is not bad.
Zhang Jihan found a tailor shop. The pavement is not big, more than 100 square meters.
The shopkeeper's eyes lit up when he saw Liu Meiniang coming in.
"Shopkeeper, do you want to sell out your shop?" Liu Meiniang got straight to the point.
"The little lady wants to buy my shop?" The shopkeeper was a middle-aged man with a goatee, with a pair of triangular eyes shining with fine light.
"Don't worry, I'll take a look first." Liu Meiniang is not as ignorant as she seems on the surface.
After Liu Meiniang finished speaking, she walked around the tailor's shop.
The tailor shop is too small, if you open a supermarket, you can't put many things at all, and Liu Meiniang still wants to build a second floor, if you can find a better place, of course Liu Meiniang will not choose here. If you can't find a shop, this tailor's shop will do the trick.
"Shopkeeper, how many silver plates?" Liu Meiniang turned around the tailor shop and asked.
"Little lady, if you sincerely want to buy this shop, I won't ask you more, five hundred taels, how about it?"
When he heard the price, Zhang Jihan's eyes widened in surprise.
Liu Meiniang is still quiet, although five hundred taels is a bit much, the price of the shopkeeper is indeed fair.
But......
"Shopkeeper, five hundred taels, are you bullying me for not understanding a woman's family? I want five hundred taels for this shop of yours? Liu Meiniang sneered, and sure enough, the shopkeeper's expression was suffocated.
"Hehe, little lady, I'm making a sincere bid, if you think it's unreasonable, we can discuss it again, and besides, I still have a backyard in this shop, do you want to take a look?"
As soon as she heard that there was a backyard, Liu Meiniang's eyes lit up, if there was a backyard, the area of this tailor's shop would be more than 100 square meters.
Liu Meiniang Zhang Jihan followed the shopkeeper to the backyard, not to mention that the backyard is really big, there are two houses to live in, and there is a tree in the yard.
But...... The soil beneath the trees seemed to have been turned over.
"Shopkeeper, I won't do anything about your shop." Liu Meiniang walked around the backyard and shook her head and said.
"The little lady is too expensive, if the little lady sincerely wants to discuss, the price can be negotiated again, can it be negotiated again!" The shopkeeper's face was flattering.
"It's not because of the price, is the shopkeeper going to travel far away after the store goes out?" Liu Meiniang asked thoughtlessly, not only the shopkeeper, but even Zhang Jihan was a little puzzled, when he found this store before, the shopkeeper only said that the store was going to be out, and did not say the reason why the store was going out.
"How does the little lady know that I have to go to another county to put the store out," the shopkeeper looked surprised.
Liu Meiniang's eyes changed.
"I'm sorry, shopkeeper, I won't do this shop, it's too troublesome for you." After Liu Meiniang finished speaking, she pulled Zhang Jihan out of the tailor shop.
What else did the shopkeeper want to say, Liu Meiniang and Zhang Jihan had already disappeared on the street corner.
"Sister-in-law, that shop ......" Zhang Jihan is not a fool, Liu Meiniang was obviously still interested when she first entered, and she directly urged him to leave quickly, no wonder Zhang Jihan didn't think much about it,
"Did you just smell something strange?" Liu Meiniang asked.
"It seems to be, it smells." Zhang Jihan thought about it for a while, and there was indeed a faint smell in the backyard of the tailor's shop, as if something was rotten.
"That shop can't be plated." Liu Meiniang whispered.
Zhang Jihan asked why, but Liu Meiniang did not answer.
Zhang Jihan also smelled the stench, which proved that she was not wrong, the stench was too unique, it was the smell of a corpse decomposing.
A tailor's shop is not a butcher's shop, how can there be a smell of rotten meat.
Liu Meiniang remembered the various murder and corpse cases she had seen in her previous life, and couldn't help but shudder, if it was really like that, the shop would be the beginning of big trouble.
Besides, the anxious appearance of the shopkeeper made Liu Meiniang more and more suspicious, but Liu Meiniang still decided not to tell Zhang Jihan about this kind of thing, in her eyes, Zhang Jihan is still a child, and it is not good to know too much about this kind of thing.
The owner of the tailor shop was so angry that he stomped his feet after Liu Meiniang left, and the store was about to be sold out, and he didn't know why Liu Meiniang didn't want it.
"Hey, when will I be able to redeem Xiaohong." The shopkeeper of the tailor's shop sighed.
It turned out that the shopkeeper of the tailor's shop was in a hurry to take the shop out, just to get money to redeem his good friend in the Qinglou, because there was a tigress in the shopkeeper's house, and when he married his daughter-in-law before, he took a fancy to the daughter-in-law's family with money.
The daughter-in-law of the shopkeeper of the tailor shop looks five big and three thick, her personality is very pungent, and her mother's family is still very strong, the shopkeeper of the tailor shop has swallowed her anger for many years under the high-pressure life of her daughter-in-law.
During this period of time, the daughter-in-law returned to her parents' house, and the shopkeeper of the tailor shop wanted to take advantage of this time to redeem Xiaohong, and then take Xiaohong away and fly away.
Whether the shopkeeper's doing so is ungrateful, we don't know, and we don't dare to ask.
As for the smell that Liu Meiniang smelled, it was the death of a dog raised by the shopkeeper of the tailor's shop, and the shopkeeper liked the dog very much, so he buried it in the yard of his house.
I have to say that this is really a not-so-beautiful misunderstanding.