Chapter 28: Treating Unexpected Joy with Sincerity
Time into the wax moon, Liuli finally knew why modern people at the end of the year shopping spree to buy New Year's goods, it turned out to be handed down by the ancestors, although their own in the Great Zhou Dynasty in the history is not recorded, but the general customs and inheritance are similar.
Taking advantage of this special festival, the glazed rock sugar gourd also got a "Spring Festival big reward", full of five strings, only ninety percent of the total price, nine percent of ten strings, and eighty percent of twenty strings. In modern parlance, it is five strings of nine five folds, ten strings of nine folds, and twenty strings of eight folds.
Business is hot, and now you have to bring amber and corals to catch up with Liuli, and you can't be busy alone.
Zhang Cui never appeared again, and I don't know if her words that day played a role.
In the twentieth month of the twentieth month, the last trip of the year was over, and Liuli took advantage of the fact that the sun had not yet set, and went to the foot shop again.
The foot shop is also overcrowded, and it seems that the New Year is approaching, and people from all walks of life have to rush home.
The foot shop couple took a break from their busy schedules, invited Liuli to the inner room, took out the account book, and took out a purse and handed it to her: "Look at the numbers?" ”
Liuli actually didn't understand the ancient accounts, so he only looked at a rough idea, took the purse and opened it to take a look, Huo! Silver of white flowers.
"How are there so many?" Is this sticky bean bun business really so good?
Qian said with a smile: "Business is good in Layue. ”
"That's not that much, is it?" The silver taels in the purse add up to seven or eight taels.
"These two taels are this month's commission, and I was going to send it to you personally on the twenty-seventh day, but I didn't want you to come first, so I also estimated the first few days after that, and made up a whole." The owner of the foot shop explained: "The rest is the commission of the total income of the foot shop in the past three months. ”
"Total Receipts?" Liuli said, "There is no such clause in the contract. ”
"Erniang doesn't know" Qian's Dao - Liuli is the second in the family, and people who know her well also call her Erniang (here "Lang" and "Niang" are a kind of honorific titles for men and women from good families. "Since the sticky bean bun was sold in the foot shop, it has been loved by the merchants, because of its unique taste and easy preservation, many passers-by will buy a lot of it at once, and even sell the other meals in the store, that is, the income in these months is more than the first half of the year combined." I discussed with the owner, and I took out 10% of the income in the past few months with you, which should be a thank you. Erniang must accept it. ”
This foot shop couple is sincere, Liuli can't shirk it, and finally accept it.
With these more than seven taels, plus the money from selling sugar gourds these days, the silver money in Liuli's hand has broken through the twenty-two mark for the first time, and it can be used to pull out the bed, but Carpenter Chen must have no time before the year, and I am afraid that he will have to wait until the new year.
On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the sacrificial stove and the cleaning were cleaned.
The sacrificial stove must be a man, the family is the amber son, the cleaning is a piece of glass and coral, the inside and outside are cleaned, the furniture is newly purchased, and there is a feeling of new year and new atmosphere.
On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, Liuli took the two little ones to the town together to buy New Year's goods and food.
Spring Festival couplets and door gods are a must, in addition, the three of them each picked out a new set of clothes in the ready-to-wear store, Liuli and Coral each chose a new velvet flower, the coral is pink cherry-like, and the glass is red plum.
The Chinese New Year is to set off firecrackers, but here it is called "firecrackers", when you put it, you should first light a fire in the yard, and then throw the bamboo into it, the bamboo will make a "crackling" crisp sound after being burned, which is regarded as firecrackers.
In addition, there are all kinds of meat and fruit snacks, and the three of them are full of hands in large bags and small bags, and they are beaming. While strolling, the sudden amber pointed to a certain shop and shouted, "Second sister Sango, look! ”
Liuli looked for prestige, but saw a middle-aged couple arguing with several people dressed as men at the door of a pawnshop, and there was a stepping bed next to it.