Chapter 234: The Little Widow with Her Beard Cut Off (9)
"So the eight hundred he gave is also a great profit, I stretched out my finger, just sneered and said: 'Shopkeeper, I also run errands for others, this double-sided embroidery on the market has always been priceless, if it weren't for your proximity here, I really don't want to step in, I really don't want to ask a price, I ran to the capital early, and the extra money is enough for me to travel all the way."
When the shopkeeper heard this, he was anxious, for fear that I would really go to the capital, so he was sweating and making amends to me, and then asked me to make an offer.
In fact, where did I know the price, and thinking that there would be opportunities for cooperation in the future, I didn't ask for the price, but only doubled and rounded up on the basis of the price he gave, and asked for two thousand.
After asking for it, I didn't dare to look at his face, and stared straight at the umbrella stall in front of me to support my momentum. My heart is nervous, two thousand taels is not a small amount, if the value of double-sided embroidery is not something that we can understand if we are satisfied with our stomachs.
I'm really afraid that you will mess up this matter for your sister, but I didn't expect that the shopkeeper only thought about five breaths, so he should come down and respectfully invite me back to the shop. ”
As he spoke, he carefully took out the silver ticket wrapped in oiled paper from his chest, and whispered: "I'm afraid that the silver will be too eye-catching, and the large amount of silver tickets will not be needed, so it will be troublesome to exchange all the silver tickets for ten taels and one small silver tickets." Girl, you count and keep it well. ”
Ran Jia's heart was full of joy, ten times more than she expected, and she took out a hundred taels of fortresses from it and gave it to the second sister.
Second brother-in-law Meng blocked it directly, and said with a smile: "Sister, you should run errands for you, if you look down on your second sister and your second brother-in-law like this." Besides, although the shopkeeper was a little insincere, he was definitely a real businessman, and when we had finished handing over the embroidery and silver tickets, he stuffed me with thirty taels of silver, saying that it was for my errands. ”
Saying that, he took out ten taels of silver and stuffed it to Meng Qigu, "Mother-in-law, I have errand fees, you have to get a copy too, otherwise your son-in-law won't dare to do things for you." ”
Meng Qigu stupidly took it and put it in her mouth and bit it hard, and she had a toothache for a while, before she looked at the two daughters and son-in-law happily, and saw them nodding with a smile, thinking that it must be in a dream, otherwise why did she easily earn ten taels? Burn your hands, right?
Ran Jia smiled and said, "Mother, take it, my embroidery can be sold at a high price, you and your brother-in-law have played a great role, this is what you deserve." ”
Second brother-in-law Meng also squinted and nodded: "This is called business, it is a rule, you can put it in your own small box as a coffin book with peace of mind." ”
Meng Qigu held the silver tightly at this time, sat in a surging mood, and secretly planned how to use the money. Since she earned it from Ran Jia, she has to spend most of it on Ran Jia, what is business, her own heart can't get over this hurdle.
She only knows that people are watching the sky, and she is just a person who is passing on things in the middle, and besides, they are a mother-daughter relationship, and they should not charge for running away. Even if ten taels of silver are nothing compared to two thousand taels.
Of course, the son-in-law is an outsider, and he does have the ability to raise the price of embroidery extremely high, and he is qualified to take 20 taels of running expenses.
Well, otherwise she would buy two acres of high-quality land for her daughter to raise, and when she turned around and found a good family, she would use it as a dowry.
"No one is allowed to say anything about this today, don't let anyone with a heart hear it and have bad thoughts." Meng Qigu specially instructed all over again.
All three nodded in agreement.
"Sister, the shopkeeper also asked me to ask if you would like to accept the job, the richest man in Fucheng, the daughter of the Jiang family, wanted a different wedding dress, and handed over a message to the embroidery shop in the entire Fucheng, who should take out the wedding dress that satisfies the daughter of the Jiang family, and promised a reward of 5,000 taels.
The shopkeeper said that they didn't want a penny for the shop, but they just contracted the clothes of the masters of the Jiang Mansion for three years. ”
Second brother-in-law Meng handed over a piece of paper with a bitter face, which explained the requirements of Jiang Funu.
Ran Jia looked carefully, the more rich and noble families like to compare with each other, face is more important than anything else, the original owner once followed his wife to see a lot of people with swollen faces and fat people, the family was so poor that they didn't have a meal, and they had to re-melt the gold jewelry to create it, and wear the most exciting dress to the banquet.
So she was not surprised at all by the simple and crude request that was the most expensive and enviable in the audience, take it, why not take it, some people are money boys, they have no reason to push it out.
After getting her letter, the second daughter of the Meng family hurriedly left to reply, and by the way, they bought everything again.
Meng Qigu asked the eldest girl to go home with the children first, and sighed slightly: "What do you think, girl?" Are you still going to find a husband in the countryside, or are you going to Fucheng to find a good man who is worthy of you in all aspects? ”
Ran Jia looked at the small courtyard where she had lived for almost three months, and chuckled and said her plan, when her brother died to save herself, she couldn't think about her life events without knowing her sister-in-law and nephew.
Maybe she will stay there and not come back, or maybe she will come back and continue to live her little life after taking a look at it. But either way, she will only look for a man who is sincere and responsible for herself, and can share weal and woe and wealth hand in hand.
On the one hand, she hopes that Ran Jia and her family will reunite and live happily together as soon as possible, and on the other hand, she hopes that she can come back and continue to be a mother and daughter with her, and then get married and have children.
"Mother, don't worry, no matter where I go in the future, you will be my mother. This family relationship will not be broken. Ran Jia smiled and held her calloused hand.
"So you'll leave when you're done embroidering?" Meng Qigu's eyes were red and she asked.
"Yes, if it's any later, it's winter, and it's not suitable for travel," she nodded.
The matter of leaving was put on the agenda, and her life was more fulfilling and busy, even the male protagonist next door was left behind, and she didn't deliberately inquire about him and Meng Meihe.
However, Meng Qigu is a know-it-all, she thinks that Ran Jia will get sick when she is bored at home all day long, in addition to letting the children come over to accompany Ran Jia, she often comes over to talk about the new things she heard.
An Xuning, like Ran Jia, will not take the initiative to change the day, he goes out to hunt early every day, and then sends the prey to the town on foot, and when he comes back, it is just in time for lunch, and he doesn't know how to deal with it, so he won't go out for the rest of the day.
However, he provoked Meng Meihe some time ago, this girl's temperament has changed greatly since she was fished out of the water, some people say that she was recruited by the river god to be a bride, and some people say that she was possessed by the river ghost. Everyone observed from afar for a long time, and found that Meng Meihe had no intention of harming others, except that his personality was stronger than before, and his clever mind and new ideas came out one after another, so he breathed a sigh of relief and watched the excitement.
Meng Meihe is a good cook, she uses the money to buy vegetables from her own vegetable plot at a high price, and then cooks and rides an ox cart to sell them outside the school in the town. The meals she cooks are willing to put oil and meat, salty and delicious, and the most important thing is that the price is cheap and the amount is enough!
Everyone watched her buy new clothes, buy oil, buy salt, buy white noodles, etc., and the people rented a small courtyard in the town within half a month, and then thought about how she went out every day with two buckets of vegetables and a bucket of rice, and when she came back, there was not a single grain of rice left, and it was clear that Meng Meihe had made a lot of money.
Her aunt immediately carried the burden to sell outside the academy, but her skills were not good and she was reluctant to put oil and meat, only a few cheap scholars bought a copy, and shouted to return the money as soon as she ate a bite.
The failed cases were the first, and the people who followed suit later also gritted their teeth and put aside the oil and meat, and they were the same as Meng Meihe's pricing or even slightly lower to attract customers, and people did divert a small half from Meng Meihe. They collected the money happily, but when they were busy for a few days and drank the accounts, instead of making money, they lost a lot!
Wave after wave of people are replicating Meng Meihe, all of them end in failure, everyone can only watch with red eyes Meng Meihe bought cattle, bought a yard with a shop next to the academy, and put food in the shop, and the business became even more popular.
Her business is smooth sailing, but the relatives in the family are dragging their feet, either today to eat rice, or tomorrow her father and mother are instructed by her grandmother to ask for money, and then a childhood sweetheart's cracked dates come out of nowhere to disgust her.
Although Meng Meihe is a weak woman, she has a strong personality, smart and alert, and she always solves it skillfully, once someone uses force to bully her, it is said that An Xuning will always happen to appear.
"Well, it seems that An Orion eats in Meihe Girl's shop at noon, so I said why I won't see him at noon," Meng Qigu shook her head and sighed and said, "You said that Meihe Girl's appearance is okay with you, why did you get into Ann Orion's eyes?" ”
An Xuning is really suitable for being someone's son-in-law, people will come to things if they have the ability, they are tall and handsome, they are not easy to mess with at a glance, and they will have face if they slip out.
It's a pity that they didn't mean it when they were young, and she couldn't help but look at the yellow mud courtyard wall with pity and sighed.
Although Ran Jia said that she would leave after completing the wedding dress, she had already begun to prepare at the moment, the ancestral homes of the Yun family and the Song family were in a not wealthy ravine in the south, and it was said that it would take half a day to ride an ox cart from the old house to the town, and there would be no one along the way, and you could see jackals, tigers and leopards when it was late!
So she definitely can't go alone, Ran Jia wants to ask the uncle-in-law of the dart bureau to help contact a few reliable people to go on a dart trip and escort her over with the clothes and food she bought.
In the end, the masters are people who have experienced great wealth and nobility, even if they are not blessed by their ancestors, they can live well with their skills, a girl like her, a set of kang screens can be sold for a lot of money.
All she could think of was that their quality of life would be affected by the inconvenience of access to the mountains.
It was when the vegetables were ripe, knowing that she was leaving, Meng Qigu said that she would dry some dried vegetables for her, and it was good to stir-fry or pickle them in winter.
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