When the bean flowers were sold out, Jia urged Li Ailian to go to Tingfeng Academy, and she sold water tofu by herself. Li Ailian took Yuxiu and Sister Qiu to the door of Li Zhongquan's shop, and asked Li Zhongquan to help introduce the mountain chief in the lower academy, wanting Zhang Ruoxu to also enter the Tingfeng Academy to study.

Li Zhongquan led Li Ailian to the college, and Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu lit the stove and prepared to sell food.

There are many more students coming out today than yesterday, most of them bring their own bowls, Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu are responsible for collecting money, and the other is responsible for cooking and taking pancakes. When she was busy, Sister Qiu listened to the surprised voice of a boy in front of her, "It's you?!" ”

Sister Qiu raised her eyes, and the person who came was more than a head taller than her, wearing a clean green cloth thin cotton robe, with thoughtful eyebrows, and carefully examining her.

After thinking about it for a long time, Sister Qiu didn't think about where this person was.

Seeing Sister Qiu's puzzlement, the boy smiled and said, "I am a relative of the Wang family in Huyang, have you helped in the Wang family?" I've seen you. You are different from the previous top, and I only recognized you after looking at it for a long time. ”

After he said this, Sister Qiu vaguely thought, could this person be the little boy in a green cloth robe? The little master of the Wang family wants to send her to be a "person in the house"?

During the speech, Zhang Yuxiu had already served him a dish quickly, and two steaming pancakes were placed on the dish, and many people ate a lot of food, and one pancake was not enough, so he asked for two.

"It's you!" Sister Qiu said with a smile, glanced at his bowl, and said, "A total of four cents." ”

Samples, sets are almost useless, and no less money can be less!

The little boy in the green cloth robe immediately took out a copper coin, handed it to Sister Qiu, picked up the bowl and left. Sister Qiu counted, there were seven or eight copper plates, and when she raised her eyes and looked at the little boy, he had already walked a long way.

"Eh, wait a minute, there's a lot of money!" Sister Qiu shouted loudly.

However, the little boy didn't seem to listen to Sister Qiu's words, and walked forward desperately. Sister Qiu was anxious, and asked Zhang Yuxiu to support her alone, so she ran over with the money and grabbed the little boy in Xuanyi who was still walking forward.

"This ...... Big brother, if you give too much money, four cents is enough. Sister Qiu preached, panting.

The little boy in Xuanyi's face turned red, glanced left and right, and said softly: "Take what is given to you, it's not easy for you to do business." ”

Sister Qiu glanced at him in surprise, and felt strange in her heart, but she still put the money in her hand, stretched it out to him, shook her head and said, "This can't be, it should be as much as it can be." No matter how difficult it is for us to do business, we can't ask for more money from customers. ”

"Take it!" The little boy blushed and said, "I later heard from the servants of the Wang family that because of me, the young master of the Wang family drove you away, and I was worried about it...... I can't help it. He listened to a lot, the little lady was scared and didn't say anything, the whole person was about to leave the soul, and I heard that the little lady had no father, and went to the Wang family to work to pay off the debt, because of him, even the errand was lost.

Looking at the young boy talking, even

Her neck was all red, and Sister Qiu smiled slightly, she was really an honest person with a straight temper. "That's not okay, I don't want this money, you can take it back." Sister Qiu sent the palm of the money forward again.

"I ...... I don't have much money either. The little boy said crampedly, "Don't be too little, just take it, it's one of my pastries." ”

Sister Qiu shook her head with a smile and insisted on preaching: "If you want to compensate me, you can come to my house to buy more food in the future, I really can't ask for this money, if you don't accept it, I will ask your classmates to bring it back for you." ”

The words were all said and done, and the little boy in Xuanyi couldn't say anything more, so he took back the money and nodded: "That's good." That...... My surname is Zhou, and my name is Pingshan. ”

"Young Master Zhou, take care of my family's idea in the future, if you think the food is delicious, remember to recommend it to your classmates Xu more, and ask them all to taste it!" Sister Qiu said with a smile.

"Definitely." Zhu Pingshan smiled shyly.

When the number of students who came out to buy food gradually decreased, Zhang Yuxiu and Sister Qiu could also relax for a while, Zhang Yuxiu pushed Sister Qiu with her arm, and asked softly, "Do you know that student?" ”

Sister Qiu shook her head thoughtfully at first, and then nodded again, and said: "At the beginning of the year, didn't the Mei family ask human traffickers to take me to Huyang's rich and noble family to be a rough maid, the family I went to happened to be his relative, and I saw him. ”

"That's it." Zhang Yuxiu smiled and said, "I still think he is your uncle's classmate." ”

"My uncle?" Sister Qiu asked in surprise, and suddenly thought that the delicate Mei Qu with her eyes on the top of her hair was also listening to the wind academy, but she had all set up a stall here for two days, and she hadn't touched him, maybe she didn't come out, maybe she walked from the other side of the academy. "How is that possible? You see, that man is full of honesty, and he is definitely not a road number with my uncle. ”

Zhang Yuxiu nodded and teased: "Eh, it's been two days, if your uncle comes to us for dinner, do you ask him if he accepts money?" ”

Sister Qiu smiled, "Naturally, I accepted it, and my brother also counted the general account." It's just that my uncle is a golden nobleman, so people don't look down on our rough food. Sister Qiu also said it as if she was joking, if Meiqu really came to beg for food, she really couldn't collect money, but she didn't expect it to come true.

In the end, forty pancakes were sold out, and there were still a few spoonfuls of the dishes, and Sister Qiu didn't want to take them back, although she had already left two spoonfuls of vegetables for her uncle's family before selling the food, and the rest of the dishes were all given to her aunt Tian, Tian squinted at the bottom of the pot, muttered a few words "It's all leftovers" or something, and found a basin to ask Sister Qiu to put the dishes out, full of disgust, but he didn't mention a word about asking Sister Qiu to bring the dishes back.

When Li Zhongquan led Li Ailian out, the two of them were full of happy red light, and Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu were picking up the stalls, hurriedly greeted them, and asked how they were.

Li Ailian said with a smile: "The mountain chief in the academy is very good at talking, there is no problem in admission, if you want to take the exam, you will be divided into classes according to the results of the exam." I thought, when the wheat is harvested, I will be empty

Come to the Academy. ”

"That's okay, my brother works so hard in his studies, and the exam is definitely fine." Zhang Yuxiu also followed happily.

Li Zhongquan didn't expect him to take Li Ailian into the academy for such a moment, Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu had already sold out the food they brought, and said with a surprised smile: "The idea is so good?" ”

Li Ailian touched Sister Qiu's head and said with a smile: "It's still Sister Qiu's clever brain, what do you do!" She made up her mind, and her son studied in the town in the future, and her daughter followed Sister Qiu to do business.

Looking at the back of the servant walking away, Li Zhongquan touched the short beard on his chin and shook his head regretfully, "It's a pity, such a smart and capable person, if you give birth to a male baby, how good it should be!" ”

Tian Shi, who came out of the shop, happened to listen to the last sentence, pouted and asked, "How good should it be?" Fortunately, she was not interested in knowing the answer, so she dropped the sentence, "What are you doing standing by the door, and you don't go into the house to eat!" Then he entered the store, muttering as he walked: "I use so much firewood and coal every day, it's not money, isn't it?" After giving two spoonfuls of leftovers, she knew how to take advantage of the good people, why didn't she take advantage of her grandmother's family! ”

"It's okay!" Li Zhongquan followed the anger that was listening to the back and bubbled upward, "Is there a concubine like you?" With your two handfuls of firewood, you are all heartbroken like this, and the dishes people give you are not money? ”

"They just don't give it, they can't sell it, and there's the rest left!" Tian refuted it with a straight face.

Li Zhong shook his head angrily and was speechless, people don't eat leftovers by themselves, they get up from midnight to work tirelessly until noon, and people are happy to go home and cook by themselves! Isn't it right to be a little sister under the care of the eldest brother! He and Tian's husband and wife for many years, lazy to be reasonable with the unreasonable daughter-in-law, his father and mother died early, Tian has never been angry with his in-laws in his life, where do you know the duty of being a daughter-in-law!

When Sister Qiu and the others returned to the water tofu stall, there was only one piece of water tofu left, or Jia Shi didn't plan to sell it, and left it for cooking and eating in the afternoon, otherwise it would have been sold out early. When picking up the stall, Jia finally put away the signboard hanging on the stall, solemnly rolled it up, and put it in the pocket containing the money.

After Sister Qiu's unremitting persuasion, Jia now understands the importance of "honorary brand", and today she told every guest who came to the door about their "Bao Ji Water Tofu", asking the guests to recognize their home.

Before leaving, Sister Qiu said to go to the stone shop to buy another grinding plate.

"Sister Qiu, our family already has a grinding plate, what else do you want to grind again?" Jia asked puzzled.

Sister Qiu smiled and said, "Mother, don't you want to make more bean curd and water tofu, let's buy one more grinding disc and hire someone to grind some beans for us." ”

"This ...... What a hire! Jia Shi and Li Ailian glanced at each other, rubbed their hands and said with a smile, a little embarrassed, and a little unbelievable, the employer only hires people if he does a big deal, not to mention that the employer also has to pay the man.

"Forget it, don't hire anyone

It's here. Li Ailian said, "I'll work hard with your mother, just grind more beans." ”

Sister Qiu shook her head, "Then what's the matter, you and my mother work hard enough every day." Let's hire an individual, so we come early every day to grind 30 pounds of beans for us, and give her ten cents a day, and there must be more people who are willing. ”

Dealers rarely have other income, a day of ten cents a month is three hundred cents, is not a small amount, although the work of grinding beans is not easy, but for this rich reward, the decisive more is people willing to do this work.

Sister Qiu ordered a grinding plate in the stone shop in the town, and spent 200 copper plates, and the owner of the central store asked a guy to send them to Xiaohe Town, and pulled Zhang Yuxiu to buy 20 catties of vegetables in the market, and picked them home.

(End of chapter)