Chapter 21: Growth
Lin Xu Ao disappeared with the man.
For several days, Qingyun went to the cave in Dongshan to check, and the food was frozen into a hard lump, and the bedding was put there properly, and he was not passive at all, and there was no sign of life.
On the seventh day, Old Man Sun, who hadn't seen her for a long time to pick up the goods, came over to see her in a carriage.
"Something happened at home, and there was no errand runner to greet you, so you had to worry a lot."
Old Man Sun asked curiously, "What about Xiao Linzi?" What did he do? ”
Qingyun smiled bitterly, "He's back to his hometown." ”
"When did you leave? Didn't you say you couldn't remember where you were from? ”
"Maybe you remember?" Qingyun had been comforting himself like this, presumably he remembered something and left.
But he didn't even say hello to himself, which hurt Qingyun very much.
After knowing the situation at home, Mr. Sun helped her find a young man who knew the bottom line to help her deliver and pick up the goods, and hired a sister-in-law to help sell the goods in the store.
It wasn't until the end of the New Year, when Doubao was ten months old, that she was able to stagger and walk under Ziling's teasing, and Qingyun's mood eased a lot, and she gradually forgot the shadow that Lin Xuao brought her.
In the spring of the new year, Qingyun earned three hundred taels of silver by selling sauce meat. She took it all out, asked Yang Da to help her buy another 60 acres of land, and rented it all out, just let Yang Da and his family help collect the rent.
The city's vigilance began to loosen as farming began to loosen.
At the end of March, Liu Wang, who had been dormant for more than half a year, began to hang around in front of Qingyun's house again.
In the four or five months when Liu Wang's illness occurred, another incident occurred in Liujia Village, which became the talk of the villagers after tea and dinner.
Wang's eldest daughter-in-law, Zhou, and the fat sister-in-law partner in business, Zhou's female red does a good job, and the fat sister-in-law has a clever mouth, specializing in embroidering some painstaking embroidery work for the ladies and ladies of the rich families in the city, making some unique styles of silk flowers, jewelry, I heard that many of them are sought-after goods.
A few years ago, Zhou received a lot of orders, and he couldn't be busy alone, so he found a clever girl from his mother's side to come over to help.
It's up to this girl.
She is the second daughter of the third uncle of the Zhou family, she is fifteen years old, her eyebrows and eyes are crooked, she is shy and ashamed, and her demeanor is graceful.
Because she is the youngest daughter in the family, her father and mother are distressed, so she has been staying at home and not allowing her mother-in-law's house.
Xiao Zhou's family lives in his cousin's house, although Zhou's has long been separated from his in-laws, but it is only in a courtyard, the main house is divided into partial houses, and he can't look up when he looks down, and the atmosphere is delicate and extremely embarrassing.
After the Chinese New Year, Liu Changchun finally remembered that he still had an old lady who was sick for three days, so he went back to the village to send holiday gifts to Lao Ziniang.
Liu Changchun fell in love with his sister-in-law's sister-in-law, and he brazenly came to the door that night to say goodbye, and Xiao Zhou cried a lot, threatening that he would only be big and not small, so that the county official would die of this heart.
Liu Changlin was afraid, so he handed the words to his wife and asked her to persuade her younger brother not to fight Xiao Zhou's idea.
Liu Wang's family has been sick for several months, and the eldest daughter-in-law doesn't even take a look at her all day long, let alone serve her with tea and water at the bedside, and now she even saves the face of her second son, and it is the blessing of their Zhou family to be able to look at her.
The old woman was angry, so she naturally refused to let go, and she also pleaded with the boss to put on a show, and used drugs to stun Xiao Zhou, so that the second son Overlord would be the bow and make raw rice for mature rice, so that Xiao Zhou would not make trouble.
As a result, Zhou knew about it, and she was angry and stood under the window of her in-laws for most of the day, and then ran to the city to find Tang Xiuzhi.
But let Qingyun have a good year.
Liu Wang's family had just recovered a little vitality and came to find trouble with Qingyun again, provoking Ziling to be like a firecracker that could explode when she followed all day long, and when she saw Liu Wang's approaching, she stared at her fiercely.
Qingyun had no time to take care of her actions, the business of the sauce butcher shop was getting better and better, and the big shopkeeper of Fumanlou came to her, hoping to buy sauced meat from her at a low price, so that the kitchen of Fumanlou would be disbanded and he would specialize in alcohol.
Qingyun is waiting for this day to come, although retail is highly profitable, but it takes a long time, and there is no guarantee that customers will come to the door every day.
There are several branches in Fumanlou, all of them are full of guests, now the weather is good, many people are willing to eat and chat in the restaurant, the shelf life of the sauce meat is also long, and there are fixed customers to save a lot of time, why not.
So Qingyun began to prepare to build three more rooms outside the courtyard as a workshop, and then recruit a few neat female workers to help make sauce meat.
Liu Xigui came forward to Zhang Luo, and it took only three days to build a spacious workshop, which built six cauldrons, and added two meat dishes of braised chicken feet and sauce elbows, and after the materials were prepared, a recruitment notice was posted under the ancient tree in the center of the village, and Qingyun went home to work.
Liu Wang's family walked around her house like a lonely ghost day by day, scolding when she was free, and was criticized by Liu Xigui for a few words, and threatened to go to the city to tell her son that the fox fake tiger might annoy Liu Xigui.
Liu Xigui moved out the older people in the Liu clan and jointly wrote a letter to sue Liu Changchun's mother and son for having no respect for their elders and conniving at Liu Wang's family to run rampant and oppress the weak in the village.
Liu Wang's frightened kneeling and kowtowing to the old man in the clan on the spot, her son has not had a good time recently, I heard that Shangfeng is very dissatisfied with his political achievements, this juncture to make trouble for him, isn't it a lack of heart?
So Wang was locked up at home by Liu Xiqing and was not allowed to go out to cause trouble, and when she got the letter Song Qingyun to expand business and recruit people to do things, it was already the fifth day.
Wang sat on the kang with the soles of his shoes, and his mouth was not idle, after scolding Qingyun and scolding Zhou, he didn't even let go of his two grandsons, and the angry Zhou stood under the window and scolded her before stopping.
The fat sister-in-law looked at the angry blushing Zhou coming in, and said with a smile, "This old beggar doesn't have a few days to live, if you want to be really annoyed, send it to the county government in the city, can the county master still ignore his wife?"
"Humph! She had to have the guts to do the same. ”
As soon as the fat sister-in-law heard what she said, she hurriedly turned around and sneered, "I heard that your younger brother and sister put Yinzi money outside and took eight cents of interest, but the entire Yuxian County is not as tall as her, so you are not afraid of being caught by others and cutting off your brother-in-law's official road?"
Zhou was angry when he thought of Tang Xiuzhi's lofty face, and begged her to let her participate in the tea party of the rich ladies in the city as a sister-in-law so that she could sell her embroidery.
"Now it seems that it is better for Song Qingyun to be my brother and sister."
The fat sister-in-law's eyes lit up, and she whispered, "You haven't found out what chance she had?" Are you sure that kid isn't your brother-in-law's? ”