Chapter 13: A Small Fortune (2)

"Big brother, what's the matter? Is it easy to sell? Ziqing was anxious to know if her idea was good?

"Mother, you see, I said that my sister must be eager to ask about it. Qingqing, it's a little money fan. Zifu quipped.

"I hate it, big brother hates it the most. Mother, you see, the eldest brother knows how to bully me. Ziqing twisted her body and grabbed the corner of Shen's clothes, not realizing that she was coquettish.

"Okay, I won't tease you, today the eldest brother and your second brother sold all the couplets, there are too many people in the city, those who do New Year's goods, those who sell New Year's goods, those who sell vegetables, and those who buy vegetables, tsk, it's too lively. Next time the eldest brother takes you there, this time the eldest brother bought red paper from the city is cheaper than the one in our town, and I will replace the more than 3,000 copper plates I earned with paper and ink, and I will not sell them after these are sold. Zifu touched Ziqing's head and said.

When the family entered the house, Shen took out the fabric they bought, bought a red chintz for Ziqing, a pink blue cotton cloth for the boys in the family, a dark red one for Tian, and a dark blue one for the old man Zeng, except for Zeng Ruixiang and Shen's, Ziqing felt sour when she saw it.

Shen asked Zifu to send the cloth to the old man and Tian's family, "Just say that you bought it with the money from selling couplets, and honor your grandfather and grandmother." Ziqing hurriedly followed.

When Tian saw the fabric sent by Zifu, he smiled like a chrysanthemum, hurriedly took it, and said: "My eldest grandson is really capable, he will make money at such a young age, and it is rare that he still knows that he is worried about his grandpa and grandma, and tell grandma, how much money do you earn?"

"Grandma, there is not much money, enough for my younger brothers and sisters to make a new padded jacket for the New Year. It's all spent today. Ziqing didn't even blink when she watched her eldest brother lying, but she didn't expect that her eldest brother was quite attentive at a young age.

"Zifu, didn't you buy anything for my sister-in-law? Sister-in-law is good to you. Qiu Yu saw that Zifu's hands were empty, and hurriedly asked.

Zifu flashed a trace of embarrassment when he heard this, and was about to say something, the old man and Zeng Ruiqing came in, and the next day was Xiao Nian, so Zeng Ruiqing went home for the New Year on vacation, and when he met the old man on the street, he came in together.

Tian shook the fabric to the old man to show off, and repeated the words of Kua Zifu, just as he was talking, Zhou and Ziping came in again, the old man was naturally happy, originally he valued this eldest grandson the most, and now he was even more proud, but Zeng Ruiqing and Zhou's faces were not very good-looking.

At this time, Ziping asked, "Why don't you eat, I'm starving to death." ”

"Eat, eat, eat, you are a rice bucket, you will eat stupidly, look at people, you will be tempted by such a small age, and if you don't do anything all day long, you will make money for your family. If you are like you, you will be like your mother, you are so busy all day long that you are tired, and no one says that you are good. However, father, mother, then again, our family hasn't split up yet, shouldn't the money earned by Zifu be handed over to the father? Zhou's words made the old man who was immersed in joy and Tian stunned, and he didn't react for a long time.

Ziqing pushed Zifu, and Zifu hurriedly took the words, "Auntie, I didn't make much money, I spent it today, and my mother saw that my younger brothers and sisters' padded jackets were torn, and I didn't have money to buy new ones for the New Year, so let's try it." ”

"That's it, children are foolish, how many children can have, and it will cost them all besides, forget it." Tian finally reacted.

"Okay, what's the noise, let's eat. Don't bother others to wear new clothes, I also bought fabric for your mother and wife when I came back this time, and you also wore new clothes for the New Year. Zeng Ruiqing's words made this lunch start in silence.

The next day, Xiao Nian Shen was very busy, he had to kill chickens early in the morning, make breakfast, and make all kinds of sweet glutinous rice nuts with Zhou's, some fried and some steamed, and the children were thrown out, afraid of stealing them. After doing a good job, you must first sacrifice to the god of the stove, and after the sacrifice to the god of the stove, the old man worships the ancestors. In the end, Tian gave each child a piece, and the rest was hidden and I don't know what to keep it for.

Zeng Ruixiang didn't go out all day, hiding in the Zifu house to write couplets. Zifu said that the twenty-five bazaars will be sold for one day, and the rest will be sold in Anzhou City on the twenty-sixth.

Early in the morning of the twenty-sixth morning, Ziqing was woken up by Zifu while still asleep, because the night before, Ziqing finally begged Shen to agree that she and Zifu would go to the city, leaving Zilu to see Zixi, fortunately, it was her aunt's own car, otherwise Shen would not have agreed.

In the drowsy and hazy Zhongziqing still felt that he hadn't walked for long, and he heard that Ziqing looked at the high city gate in front of him, and the Nanjing and Xi'an ancient city walls that he saw from TV in his previous life were almost the same, after entering the city, most of the houses on both sides of the street were bungalows, and most of the shops in the commercial street were two-storey, and the farmers' market was at the intersection of the commercial street, and the people inside were really shoulder to shoulder, and it was very noisy, Xiao Fusheng sent them here, and made an appointment to go back to the time and place to do their own things.

Zifu took Ziqing to set up a stall with ease, and today he brought more than 600 couplets, it is estimated that it will take a while to sell out, Ziqing wants to go around alone to see if there are any new crops, after all, the family will be completely separated after the New Year, and he must plan to plant some cash crops. Zifu didn't dare to say anything, and he didn't dare to agree to her to go shopping alone. Ziqing had no choice but to settle down and shout, so that she could sell quickly, and sell well early and have time to do something else. I finally came to Anzhou, but I couldn't go back empty-handed.

Everyone saw a five or six-year-old little girl shouting, combing a simple bag and bun, although the clothes on her body were old, but very clean, the little girl's voice was crisp, sweet, not stage fright at all, very surprised, immediately surrounded by a lot of people, seeing Ziqing handed over the couplet, I couldn't bear to refuse, the couplet was sold quickly, Zifu was dedicated to collecting money, the two cooperated tacitly, and it took more than an hour to sell out.

Ziqing saw that Zifu's cloth bag with copper plates was too heavy, so he poured the copper plates in the cloth bag into the basket, there were still a lot of copper plates in the basket, Ziqing spread the cloth bag on the basket, Zifu picked up some straw and put it on, the two of them carried it laboriously, Zifu said that he would first find a nearby money village to exchange for silver, fortunately, there was one out of the market, the two of them counted the copper plates for a long time, Ziqing was only responsible for counting to ten, and remembered a classic cross talk line: "My Wang Lao Wu has never seen so much money." "This is the first pot of gold that Ziqing earned for the first time, and it is really a bit of a sense of achievement.

It was easy to count five thousand, and exchanged a silver ingot of five taels from the bank, Ziqing didn't dare to look carefully and put it in the basket and hid it. Zifu didn't dare to go to the market again, after all, for the two children, five taels of silver was really a huge amount of money. Ziqing saw a big grocery store next to it, so she dragged her brother into it with her.