Chapter 077: Preparation (Second Shift)
When she got home, Xiao Yao helped Jiang Xiaofen put away the dishes she had brought back.
To store the cellar, the pumpkin and winter melon are placed in a ventilated and dry place.
"Mom, how are these dishes? Is it enough, do you want to spend money to buy some? ”
Since the eldest brother's marriage was decided, my mother has been preparing food, and there are also people in the village who have given favors, although there is a hill at home, but think about the twenty or thirty tables of people, so many mouths, enough to choke.
Jiang Xiaofen shook her head, "Wait for your sister's two baskets of vegetables to come over and look at it, if it's not enough, I'll find someone to order it." Thinking about the people in the village a few years ago, I gave less money and took less things. It's my Xiao family's turn to do things today, and those people should also pay off their debts. ”
The mother and daughter took the hay to cover the vegetables, and then Xiao Yao went to the pond to wash clothes, and Jiang Xiaofen cooked at home.
In the afternoon, Xiao Yao and her eldest brother went to the town to help decorate the house after dinner.
The eldest brother's wedding feast is still a few days away, and the town's façade must be cleaned up before then.
Xiao Datie brought straw mats and quilts, and in the past few days, he and Xiao Yonggang have to build a floor in the town and decorate the façade as quickly as possible.
When the two arrived, Xiao Yonggang had already returned from the lumber mill and ordered a small coal stove to bake multigrain cakes.
"Second brother, why don't you go to the restaurant to order a bowl of noodles after being busy for a long time, didn't I give you money."
"I've got bread on me, what are you doing with that money?"
Xiao Yonggang has a mouthful of cakes and hot water, and there is a small courtyard behind this house, there is no vegetable field, but there is a well.
This is a good thing, in the future, they will open restaurants, and the effort to carry water will be saved.
Xiao Yao entered the door and put down the things she was carrying, "Second brother, I won't talk about you today, you and your eldest brother are here in the next few days, you should eat, don't worry about those two money." When you need someone, don't starve your body. ”
It's all about tight money, and when her business starts, these things are not a thing.
"Listen to you."
The second sister cares about him, and Xiao Yonggang is still very happy.
"By the way, I have already ordered the planks for the table from the lumber mill, and I will send them in the afternoon. And the little stools you mentioned, they can do it directly. In addition to the logs used to make the signboard, I packed two large bags of scraps from the lumber mill and gave them two cents......"
Xiao Yonggang mentioned the situation when he went to the lumber mill in the morning, although Xiao Yao and his two elder brothers came to do the decoration, but what they could do was limited.
In this era, this kind of rural town has nothing, Xiao Yao's noodle restaurant has nothing but tables and stools, and she wants to make a few small works of art, put a few plates of flowers, plant some grass or something.
As for the signboard on the door, she wrote large letters on logs and nailed them to the door beam.
"Second brother, I'm glad to be miserable."
Xiao Yao poured out the two packs of wood and decided to fiddle with a few postmodern art flower pots and arrange dried flowers at that time.
"Running away, what's the good thing."
Xiao Yonggang stuffed the hot cakes in a few bites, and took his brother to pick up broken stones outside the town and use the stove.
The two of them each picked up a load and went back, and it happened that the uncle Jiang Xiaobing came, and when he heard that the plank had not yet arrived, he also helped to do some work together.
"Yonggang, why did you rent this position? When I was doing carpentry work at school, I heard that some people wanted to rent it, but the government wouldn't give it to me. ”
Jiang Xiaobing felt unreliable when he heard that the eldest sister's family was going to do business, but if he opened a snack shop here, he thought it was okay, it was simply a treasure of feng shui.
"It's okay, I just got a friend to help."
Xiao Yonggang didn't say that this place was rented by Xia Jing, the second sister had already discussed it with him, and this was concealed in advance, no matter what, make money first, and only when you have money in hand will there be the next step.
"Oh, that's it."
Jiang Xiaobing could see that the little nephew didn't want to mention it, so he didn't ask again.
Three men halfway up the stove, the planks were delivered, and the tractor was used to deliver the goods.
Xiao Yonggang's boards and wood were all delivered, and the stools had to wait for two days.
With the wood, Jiang Xiaobing began to nail the table according to the picture.
Xiao Yao's design drawings are very simple, a row of rectangular tables against the wall, sawing the wooden planks, and installing a few legs.
Throughout the afternoon, Xiao Yao used waste wood to DIY a few weird things filled with flowers and plants, and when she looked at the sky, she had to go back to the village.
The three men had to stay here for the time being, and they would not go back until they had finished their work.
When I returned to the village from the town, there was no ox and horse cart to sit on when I didn't catch the market, and it was almost dark when Xiao Yao walked all the way home.
She has never suffered this kind of hardship, and she will be tired and paralyzed when she returns to her family.
I used to want to ask Xiaohua'er and Xiaozhi next door why they were crying in the morning, but now they are so tired that they don't have the strength to leave it behind for the time being.
The next day, Xiao Yao finished breakfast and prepared to go to town.
It rained last night and it cooled down today, so she took out the cotton clothes to give to her two brothers, and went over to prepare the things for the store by the way.
She wore bulky water shoes, stopped and walked several times, and was splashed with mud before going to town.
It is the first time that he has been so embarrassed for two lives.
Fortunately, she is a village girl who no one knows here, if she was in a previous life, this image would have dominated the headlines for several days.
The shop is no longer the same as yesterday, the table is almost ready, and the stove is ready, and it can be used when it is dry.
"Second sister, there is so much mud on the road, how good it would be to come back after lunch."
Xiao Datie was so distressed that he carried a stool for his sister to sit on, and poured hot water for her to drink.
"Brother, this is not cooling down, bring your clothes early, I'm afraid you will catch a cold."
Xiao Yao said while drinking, but she felt that her kindness was busy in vain, the eldest brother and the second brother were all working in short sleeves, and they were all about to sweat.
"What are we big men afraid of the cold?"
Xiao Datie smiled, happy on his face and in his heart.
At noon, Xiao Yao ordered noodles in the restaurant and sent them over, and after eating, she took her second brother to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy things for opening a store.
In fact, it's nothing, the tables and stools are there, the bowl is ordered, and the people will send it when they arrive, and what she wants to buy now is the coal used for daily use, and then the coal for the fire.
The pot and knives Xiao Yonggang have already gone to the blacksmith to order, and they will be picked up later.
Xiao Yao prepared fifty yuan to open the business before, but it didn't feel enough to actually spend it, and there was still a gap that couldn't be filled.
"Second brother, let's go to the city the day after tomorrow, why don't we go back to business?"
The points in her system are again, and she can exchange almost ten boxes of alabaster cream, and if she realizes it, it will be fourteen yuan, not only can she get more noodles on the opening day, but she can also make her hands more relaxed.
Xiao Yonggang also knew that the money was not enough to spend, and the money from selling alabaster was too easy to make, so he nodded and agreed without thinking about it.
The brother and sister discussed the matter of going to the city next time, and Xiao Yao touched five yuan to his brother before leaving.
"Later, my uncle will leave you to buy catties of meat and let him take it back to grandma, and the rest will be used as wages."
"Huh?"
They are all their own relatives, in fact, Xiao Yonggang didn't think about giving money!
"The meat is what I honor my grandmother. My uncle's family also has a family to support, and he may have to find help in the future. Every time I do day work, no one is happy. ”