Chapter 1325: General, I'll Help You Feed Your Family (21)
The day after the "haunted", Qian Qianhuan happily went up the mountain to dig out all the grain she had buried before, and moved back to her dilapidated house.
On this day, Qian Qian officially started cooking on fire and made himself a very simple bean cake that was the same as in Zhao's house. However, she didn't eat for a day or two nights, and she ate this simple bean cake with cold water.
After eating and drinking, Qian Qian tucked the broken firewood knife she bought and went up the mountain as usual, she was still under the route planned by 7788, cutting a lot of firewood with great efficiency, and then carrying the firewood as high as a hill directly into the city.
She didn't use this firewood to burn, but she used it to sell, although it didn't sell for much money, but no matter how small the mosquito leg was, it was still meat, wasn't it? A load of firewood is not worth a few dollars, and only urban residents with ordinary economic conditions will buy firewood for charcoal, so she was busy all morning, and she only earned four cents.
However, Qian Qian was not too little, she directly asked 7788 to guide her and went to Qianjinfang. Qian Qian, who has seen the world, is naturally not like the stupid original owner, going to the shantytown on the outskirts of the city to make money by washing clothes and mending socks for the long-term workers on the docks.
Qian Qian, who has been a noble girl for many lifetimes, naturally knows that the large-scale family is serious about washing and sewing the work, and it is naturally not the turn of the outsourced low-level servant women to do it, but the clothes of the second-layer servants and third-layer servants also have to be taken care of.
Moreover, there are usually many servants living in the back alleys of large families, and some servants with heads and faces are also living a good life at home, serving people as servants in the house, and hiring people to serve as old ladies when they return home, these people live in the back alleys of the master in order to serve convenience, and the home is not so spacious, and they can't support many people, but they are not short of money, and they will temporarily hire some people to do things.
Qian Qian was dressed up neatly and spoke politely, and soon a neatly dressed grandmother came to talk to her, and carefully inquired about Qian Qian's origin. Qian Qian has nothing to hide, to tell the truth, he is a Wujiapo person, and his husband is dead to make a living. Seeing that she answered like a stream, and she was polite, she thought that she was from a down-and-out family, and she was very satisfied with her, so she turned around and took a dozen identical cyan robes to wash her, and the salary was very good, but she had to be in a hurry.
Qian Qian agreed, found a package and carefully wrapped the dozen or so robes together and carried them on his back, and then directly asked 7788 to guide the way, and went to Jinshuifang, where civilians gathered, and bought soaphorns in Jinshuifang, and went to a grain store and fruit shop, bought a bucket of millet rice, and three catties of dried red dates, and hit the cheapest soybean oil for five cents at the oil seller, and spent two cents to buy a bamboo steaming drawer.
Millet is considered a coarse grain, this year is a good year, the price of millet is low, and you can buy a bucket for 20 yuan. And the red jujube of the fruit shop is not cheap in this year, but it is not a very expensive food, jujube is drought and waterlogging, it is an extremely easy to feed cash crop, it belongs to a very common woody plant here, in the famine year, there is even a saying that jujube chestnut saves the people.
Therefore, three catties of red dates are really a lot, but they only cost about ten dollars. Although a bucket of millet and three catties of dates are not expensive, but Qian Qian is poor, these things still cost her a lot of property, Qian Qian is not good, 7788 has begun to feel distressed and bared his teeth.
"Money skewers, save some." 7788 looked sad: "I don't ask you to make money to support the male protagonist now, but you have to support yourself, it's autumn, you have to have money to spend the winter, your broken house is leaking everywhere, if you don't have a decent cover, you will freeze to death in winter." ”
"One step at a time." Qian Qian is calm. She asked the owner of the rice grain shop to divide the millet into two halves, and the other half spent an extra copper coin to grind the rice flour into fine millet flour with the grinding disc of the rice grain store, and carefully packed it in a cloth bag.
When Qian Qian entered the city, he was carrying firewood on his back, and he couldn't straighten his waist, and he didn't feel much easier when he returned to Wujiapo, carrying a large bag of clothes to be washed, grain, red dates and a large steaming drawer, looking like he was returning with a full load. However, her efficiency is quite high, Wujiapo is close to the west gate of the eastern capital, that is, a distance of a few miles, Qian Qian entered the city early in the morning, and it was only noon to rush home.
In order to save time and living expenses, Qian Qian decided to follow the farmer's custom, two meals a day, one morning and one evening, so that he could save one meal of food. Therefore, when she returned home, she went to the river to wash clothes with a wooden basin and soaphorn and her newly received clothes.
Although it is autumn, the afternoon sun shines warmly, and many girls and daughters-in-law take advantage of this time to go out to wash clothes, and everyone laughs and chats while working, so the river is very lively.
When Qian Qian approached, the surroundings suddenly fell silent. Rumors of the haunting of the deserted house on the slope have spread throughout the village, and everyone says that Mizune's daughter-in-law recognized the old ghost as her grandfather after she was divorced. When these girls and daughters-in-law saw Qian Qian come out to wash clothes, they remembered the latest rumors, and couldn't help but be afraid and curious about her, staring at her one by one, as if she could suddenly "bang" in place and become a ghost.
Seeing the posture of the people around him, Qian Qian almost collapsed the laughter at the beginning. She tensed her face hard, walked straight through the crowd to the river without squinting, put a basin full of clothes beside her, and began to get busy.
The women around looked at her blankly for a while, and finally someone couldn't help but come up to talk, and the first person who came to greet her was her former neighbor Aunt Zhang. Aunt Zhang leaned over and stretched out her head to look at the dirty clothes in the Qian basin, and when she saw that there were more than a dozen identical cyan robes, she knew that she must have been picking up work outside. These robes are all made of high-quality fine-grained green cloth, and most of the ordinary peasant families have never bought such good clothes even if they are married to their daughters-in-law.
"Yo!" Aunt Zhang's tone immediately contained a little jealousy: "Such good clothes, Mrs. Yao, you dare to take such a job, you can't afford to pay for it if it is washed!" But you have a wide range of roads, and the price of washing such expensive clothes is probably a lot, right? ”
"It's just begging for a living." Qian Qian smiled at Aunt Zhang, with a kind look: "It was also my luck to go into the city to look for work, and I happened to meet the housekeeper of a big family, and when she saw that I was pitiful, she took the initiative to help me do the laundry." ”
"Tut-tut......" Aunt Zhang smacked her lips loudly: "Look at this luck!" People can also trust you to wash their clothes? If you lose one and a half pieces, you can't afford to pay for it! ”