Chapter 167: Zhou's Strangeness

Chi Yue kept her promise, and the next day she sent two more jars of wine to Qu Lao, and also brought some out-of-season melons and fruits to express her gratitude.

She didn't forget to take the opportunity to compliment Qu Lao and remind him that when Concubine Liu came in a few days, he would have to remember to go to cheer them up again. Qu Lao didn't answer, but just lifted the lid of the wine jar, smelled the aroma wafting from it, and was intoxicated.

Before leaving, the little guy next to Qu Lao called Chi Yue and said to her: "Qu Lao likes to drink your wine very much, and he tastes it every day, and he doesn't pay attention to the wine next to him." I thought, we don't have to buy any other kinds of wine in the future, how about buying from you? You sent us five cans in January, but if you don't have the cans at a price higher than the market price, how about three taels of silver? ”

Chi Yue didn't expect business to be waiting for her here.

Drinking five cans of wine in a month, this old man is also a drunkard. Her own wine can suit the taste of this old man, and it is also her luck.

However, she can know that the wines that are usually sold in the market are also divided into three, six, nine and so on. The best wine is even worth thirty or forty taels, and the lowest one is only one or two taels of silver.

Since it is a business, and it is a long-term business, Chi Yue naturally thinks about his own interests, and he will never be willing to suffer a loss when he starts, so that the losses he will suffer in the future add up, which is not a small astronomical amount.

"Three taels of silver?" Chi Yue raised her eyebrows and said, "I think the wine that Qu Lao drank is not less than ten taels of silver, right?" Since my wine can dominate the crowd and be favored by Qu Lao, why should the price be higher than the rest of the wines? Little brother, is this bullying me for being a country girl, don't you understand the price market outside? ”

was poked by Chi Yue for bad intentions, and the little girl's face turned red.

He thought that Chi Yue was just a little girl who had never seen the market, even if he had done business, he probably wouldn't be familiar with the market of the wine that men drank, let alone the market of wine used by aristocratic men like Qu Lao, thinking that in order to save some silver taels and make a profit from it, he deliberately set the price at such a low level.

And there is no jar of three taels of silver, fifteen taels of silver in a month, this silver is extremely rich for a country girl, where is she not satisfied? I think I'm going to feel guilty that I can't bear it.

I fooled Chi Yue here, and when I went to report to Qu Lao, I only gave Chi Yue a dozen taels of silver per jar, and the two were fine.

But she didn't expect it, Chi Yue actually saw the joints in it so clearly, it seems that this girl is really extraordinary, and she can't be underestimated.

He looked uncertain and muttered, "If you are smart, then you say, how much do you want to price?" ”

Chi Yue thought about it for a moment and stretched out two fingers.

The little girl was stunned, and she didn't understand what she meant for a while.

Naturally, this price will not be two taels of silver, twenty taels of silver, and such a wild girl dares to ask for it?

He had never seen a countryman who dared to open his mouth and set things at such a high price at will.

Seeing the little girl's confused appearance, Chi Yue had no choice but to explain to herself: "Twenty taels of silver, thinking that Qu Lao can also afford it, right?" ”

The little guy is really blind.

Is this really an ordinary country girl?

In the end, the two sides settled on this long-term business at the price of twenty taels of silver per jar.

Chi Yue thought that just with this wine, he could get a hundred taels of income in a month, not to mention how happy he was!

When I went back to my house, I saw a cart parked outside the door, with a large bag of things tied to it, and there were three big bags in total.

Chi Yue approached and saw that it was full of out-of-season vegetables and fruits, the same ones he had brought back and stored in the cellar. She thought to herself, could it be that the Zhou family was going to take it to the market to peddle?

But look at the sun, it's almost noon, and it doesn't seem like this is the day to go to the market, right?

Zhou came out with a basket of black eggs in the crook of his arm. Seeing Chi Yue, she was full of a big wit, as if she was a thief, and hurriedly covered the black eggs with a cloth, not even daring to look at Chi Yue's eyes, and asked Ai Ai: "Yue'er, why did you come back so early?" ”

Chi Yue went out with Chi Xin early in the morning, she thought that Chi Yue had gone to work in the county workshop again, where did she think that Chi Yue would stop halfway and go to Yunxia Mountain?

"I went to visit Qu Lao, and I came back after sitting for a while." Chi Yue said, "Mother, where are you going now?" Why did you bring so many things? ”

Zhou became more and more nervous, and his speech became more and more stammering, "I'm going to visit your aunt and grandmother, she's not feeling well......"

When Chi Yue saw Zhou's appearance like this, she suddenly felt weird. Zhou is only so nervous when she lies, she is too familiar with her temperament as a daughter.

Did Zhou hide something from her? Chi Yue became curious, and she had to know.

"When I go to visit my aunt and grandmother, I don't need to bring so much food? Aren't we going to keep these and sell them for money? Mother, you are generous, and you don't need to give all your belongings to others. Chi Yue said bluntly.

Seeing that Chi Yue was suspicious, Zhou had no choice but to change his mind and said, "These are what I tied up and prepared to sell in the market the day after tomorrow...... I'm going to push the cart back into the yard. ”

Zhou didn't care if this lie was full of loopholes, so he pushed the cart back to the courtyard.

Pushing the cart back, Zhou said hesitantly: "I still have to go, it's enough to come with these black eggs." ”

Chi Yue didn't stop her, and let Zhou go out with a basket of black eggs.

Chi Yue pondered for a while, thinking that there were two other people who went to the market with the Zhou family to peddle out-of-season vegetables, Aunt Deng and Chi Cheng's, both of whom were workers in the workshop in the village, and were now working in the workshop, so she turned around and went to look for them.

Chi Cheng's family is from their Chi family, and they are closer, and they were arranged by Chi Yue to work in the sugar boiling room, and they are watching the heat to boil sugar at this time.

Chi Yue walked over, said a few words to her, and said intentionally or unintentionally: "My mother just pushed a cart of vegetables and fruits out of the door, I thought she was going to sell them in the market." But after thinking about it, this is not a collection, where is she going to sell it, and who is she selling it to? My mother is probably also confused, and she wants to split her life. ”

It was originally a funny thing, but Chi Cheng didn't laugh, but instead pouted, and said meaningfully: "Chi Yue, don't you know, it's not the first time your mother has done this, and she has to push a cart of food out every seven or eight days." At first, we thought she was going to sell it, but after asking, we learned that she was going to send it to a relative's house. When I asked her which relative she gave it to, she didn't speak, and we as outsiders couldn't ask questions. Why, could she have kept this thing hidden from you? ”

Chi Cheng looked at Chi Yue curiously, looking very gossipy.

In order to avoid these gossips, Chi Yue smiled: "My mother naturally won't hide this from her daughter, which relatives she wants to send to, my sister and I both know." Didn't she say she was going to visit her aunt? I thought it must have been given to her, but I thought I was too reluctant to do so, so I put it down and only took the black eggs. ”

"I don't think it's that simple." After all, Chi Cheng's family is twenty or thirty years older, and he is quite familiar with human feelings, and he only feels very naΓ―ve about Chi Yue's rhetoric, "It's just to visit a distant relative, do you need to give such a gift to a car?" I see. ”

She paused, "Either send it to the old mansion, or send it to her own mother." ”

Seeing that Chi Cheng's sworn appearance was quite sworn and obviously knew something, Chi Yue asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

"It's not her own dearest, does she need to spend so much to stammer?" Chi Cheng added some firewood and continued to say clearly, "Don't you know, your aunt is now bringing the child twice in three days, not only eating and drinking, but also bringing a lot of things back before leaving, that unkind appearance, as if all your things are hers." Last time, I said to your mother that your grandmother had some unknown disease, backache, and listlessness all day. From now on, your mother will go out more and more diligently, and the things she brings are also carts and carts. You say, she didn't go to visit her mother's house, but what did she do? ”

Chi Cheng's was also very unpleasant to Zhou Chen's eyes, thinking that Zhou was deceived and fiddled with by the Zhou family, like a puppet and very pitiful, so he intentionally informed Chi Yue.

When Chi Yue heard this, her eyebrows furrowed.

So many things happened in the days when she was not at home!

That Zhou Chen's family, even has the face to bring the child to eat and drink? The Zhou family actually lured the Zhou family to come to the door to deliver things repeatedly, and they took it in their hands one by one, they were obviously taking the opportunity to ask for it, intending to loot their home?

Wasn't it enough that she had taught them a lesson last time, that they had come to the door so much to bully!

Seeing that Chi Yue's face was hesitant, Chi Cheng didn't hesitate to add oil and vinegar, "Originally, the vegetables and fruits you sent in the cellar could be sold for fifty or sixty taels of silver in any episode, and you can always earn three hundred taels in a month." But if your mother pushes it out, if you want me to estimate it, there will be fifty or sixty taels of silver! Although this money is nothing to you, in the eyes of us countrymen, it is money that we will not earn in our lifetime! Your mother is willing to let the money flow out like that, and it all flows into the pockets of outsiders before she is willing, I really don't know what your mother thinks. ”

Chi Yue no longer listened to Chi Cheng's muttering, excused herself, and went out of the house.

Thinking that so many eggs laid by the black chickens she had worked so hard to feed were being sent by the Zhou family to the group of people who ate people and did not spit out bones in Zhoujia Village, she was angry.

Why is it that what she cultivates is enjoyed by irrelevant people? Does the Zhou family have the qualifications and power to decide where these things go?

Although Chi Yue never asked Zhou for the money from the sale of out-of-season vegetables, she only asked Zhou to take it, but can Zhou live up to her trust so much and do whatever she wants?

Chi Yue had an impulse to run to Zhoujia Village and intercept Zhou in the middle of the road.

But in the end, she endured this impulse.

In this way, it will only make her tear her face with the Zhou family, and the Zhou family will still break through the obstacles and rush to please them.

Who called Zhou a child who was not spoiled since childhood? As if fish need water, grass roots need mud, and Zhou's heart is also in urgent need of this long-lost maternal love from his mother.

What if all the knowledge is false? As long as she can be nourished, her heart will be happy.