25 Preparation
At Qin Chuchu's insistence, the family settled in a small courtyard located in Yongping Lane.
Thanks to the face of the fat shopkeeper, I will stay first that night, it will not be early, and I will talk about other things tomorrow.
The house is old, but it is very clean, and if you put a little luggage in, you will be home.
"There's no such noisy guy anymore." Liu Zigui sat down on the stone bench in the courtyard, today he was out of the city and moving, and he was a little tired.
Because of the few copper plates in hand, those who rented carts without livestock were only pushed by manpower.
Although Liu Zigui is in the prime of life, the temperature is pressing, and it is enough to choke.
Before it was completely dark, Fang Erniang poured all the copper plates on the stone table, carefully lest she lose one.
She and Liu Zigui counted twice, deducting the cost of rice and grain, car rental cloth bags, etc., and earned 300 wen in the afternoon!
In fact, the profit was even higher, because Qin Chuchu took five hundred wen from Fang Erniang, and they thought they had bought all the rice.
Buying from farmers for a pound and a penny is about the same price.
About 900 copper plates, stacked on a small stone table, are particularly eye-catching.
"If we had this income every day, we would wake up laughing in our dreams!" Liu Zigui was very happy, rubbed his hands and said, "Chu Chu~ Where did you buy all that rice?" ”
"It's not every day." Qin Chuchu glanced at him and said, "Once every three days, we will catch up with the day to buy and sell." ”
She said that the old man who sold rice was in a remote village, and the price of selling grain to others was very low, so the village negotiated to transport it together, and considering the high rent of warehouses in the city, they chose small huts outside the city.
First, it is cheaper, and secondly, they don't have to go into the city, saving a while.
Of course, these farmers were broken by Qin Chuchu, but Liu Zigui and the others did not doubt it, because this kind of thing is very common.
In villages not close to Yang'an City, the crops produced in the fields will be sold to the buyers, and those buyers who have made a special trip to the countryside will try to lower the price, and the farmers will hardly make a profit.
After a whole season of hard work, anyone who has a way is not willing to sell it cheaply to the person who buys it.
Therefore, some villages will raise money to buy a donkey cart to transport grain, rice, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, everything, set off early in the morning, go to the city to sell in bulk to hawkers, and rush home before dark.
The speed of the donkey cart is not fast, the road is impassable, and it is difficult for the peasants to have a silver income.
"It's done once every three days, and it's not a shop, so you have to go outside the city to pull goods." Liu Zigui touched his head.
His eyes squinted to the side to look at Qin Chuchu, he didn't expect this stepdaughter to grow up so quickly, and she was about to lose control of it.
Her strength made him jealous, he had been thinking about the fat for so long, and he couldn't swallow it, and his heart was like being scratched by a cat, and he was always uncomfortable!
Fang Erniang said: "When you don't sell rice, make more silk flowers, the begging festival is coming soon." ”
July 7 is the Qixi Festival, the women who have not come out of the cabinet are begging, from July 1, the street is lively.
Buying and selling begging goods, people come and go, cars and horses are blocked, until July 7, it is an unprecedented grand occasion, and the liveliness is not stingy with the annual Spring Festival.
Even the people in the villages outside the city will also enter the city during the day, Fang Erniang comes every year, so knowing the situation in the city, there are only a lot more tourists.
This three-dimensional silk flower is deeply loved on weekdays, and on a lively day like Tanabata, it will be sold out quickly.
When Liu Zigui heard her say this, he suddenly became energetic and wanted to do more.
"Now I see other people selling silk flowers on the road, just like us." Qin Chuchu touched his chin.
Silk flowers are not difficult to do, at this time the women are also good at female red ingenuity, it is estimated that there must be a lot of peers during the Chinese Valentine's Day.
Fang Erniang didn't care much about this: "No matter what you do, someone will follow suit, there are more vendors selling lanterns, why don't they worry about selling them." ”
"The truth is true, but the Qixi Festival is not to be missed, of course, you have to make a good profit." Qin Chuchu had an idea in his heart.
Liu Zigui's eyes lit up: "How to fish?" ”
"Let me think about it, let's get ready for dinner first."
Fang Erniang carefully put away all the copper plates, Liu Zigui said that he would hide it, and she did not object.
Moving here, Qin Chuchu rarely had his own room, but Qin Ruoruo was still young, and he was used to following his sister, so he didn't want to separate.
"Then come and sleep with my sister, and when I grow up, I will have my own room."
Qin Ruoruo shook his head: "Don't, don't, don't!" ”
“…… Okay, you stay first. ”
The little girl's mind always says that it will change, and it will not necessarily be after a while.
Qin Chuchu thought about it, and simply transformed another hut into a bathroom, there must be a place to bathe.
The weather is so hot, the ancients all have long hair and long clothes, and sweating is inevitable.
Everyone changes their clothes every day, but they don't bathe, they just scrub their bodies and feet with wet cloths.
After a long time, there will be a strange smell, not very heavy, and some parts of the body will hide dirt and dirt.
Not every household will have a bath bucket, first, there is no place to put it, and second, it is not so particular.
It's just that Qin Chuchu doesn't have it at home, at most, it's a small wooden bucket to flush it with water.
Now she wants to use another hut to prevent the bath bucket, Fang Erniang didn't react much when she heard it, there are so many rooms in this small courtyard, if you don't live in it, you can't use it as a firewood room without authorization, just take a bath.
"Chu Chu has always loved cleanliness, girls are different from stinky boys~" Liu Zigui seemed to think of something, and laughed loudly.
Qin Chuchu glanced at him coldly, and the latter restrained his smile and didn't say anything.
"I will find a way to earn back the money for the bath bucket, and then my mother and sister will also have to take a bath every day, so that I can reduce my illness." She turned her gaze to the two of them.
"I love to play in the water!" Qin Ruoruo smiled, full of anticipation.
Fang Erniang frowned and said, "A bundle of firewood is not cheap......
"In the summer, you don't need much hot water, even cold water can be washed." Qin Chuchu said.
When she said this, Fang Erniang didn't object much, and Liu Zigui's opinion was not in the reference.
It was completely dark, and the few people who had eaten went back to their houses to rest.
Qin Chuchu sweated a lot today, and he just talked about taking a bath, and he suddenly couldn't bear it.
Put Qin Ruoruo to sleep first, and then carry the well water into the house by herself, with a travel suit in hand, everything is not too convenient.
Qin Chuchu soaked in warm water and calculated in his heart: Building a house is not a sloppy thing, let alone preparing twenty taels of silver.
She can't take that much on her face, and the Qixi Festival is a great opportunity.
Selling silk flowers will definitely be popular at that time, and in addition, she is also going to get some lanterns out.
There are two main points of lanterns, one is beautiful appearance, and the other is that they will shine.
Unlike river lanterns, they are not put into the river to make wishes, so the workmanship should be more delicate and there is no need to consider the weight.
Qin Chuchu planned to follow the practice of three-dimensional silk flowers, make it bigger, at least the size of a plate, and then place a glowing bead in the middle.
The glow-in-the-dark beads she used to play with a lot when she was a child, something that the twenty-first century has, and it makes no sense that other planes don't.
Qin Chuchu turned on the system and contacted the seller from the future world, who was the person who owned the solar series.
[Well, this time I want beads again, glass crystals and luminous beads.] 】
The other party's avatar flickered for a moment, and then said: [Why are they beads again, those broken things can't be eaten, I almost thought the translator was broken. 】
[Useful, tell me what you want, right?] 】
[Hmm...... What else do you have besides beautiful woodwork? 】
Qin Chuchu thought about it, the other party's science and technology are developed, and the relative environment is also seriously damaged, resulting in many plants being unable to grow, so ......
Do you need seeds? Or is it a flower tree seedling? 】
【!! 】
He looked very excited, and several exclamation points in a row: [This is it! There is a possibility that you may not be able to grow a seed, but please exchange it for me! 】
Haha~ Qin Chuchu laughed silently, [No problem, pack some more for you, and you will live with a lot of experiments~]
[Mmmm, wood products are also needed, you have to look at the robots in my store, no, you can do housework and farm work, and you can also provide special services! ] 】
【…… No, thank you. What special services are she thinking? Do robots have this function too......
The other party did not force it, but only told her to come and find her if she needed it, so he sent her a bag of glass crystals and luminous beads.
Even Qin Chuchu didn't have the seeds at hand now, it was impossible for her to go out at night, and it would be tomorrow at the earliest.
But they did it out of trust, and the beads were worthless to him.
Qin Chuchu picked up a luminous bead and looked at it, there were actually three colors, fluorescent green light, blue light, and white light.
It's not a particularly bright light, but it's hard to ignore its presence.
However, the size of a thumb nail cover, Qin Chuchu is going to string it in the center of the lantern to make a stamen, and get a few of them together, it is estimated that the effect will be very good.
As for the origin of the beads, Qin Chuchu had his own plans.
When she got up early the next day, she asked Liu Zigui, who was in charge of the money, to take out 500 wen and said that she was going out to buy something.
"What do you do?" Liu Zigui only had a penny or so in his hand, and he was suddenly asked to go halfway, not to mention the pain of the flesh.
"You have to think of a way before the Chinese Valentine's Day, how can you bump into the opportunity if you don't walk around." Qin Chuchu said lightly.
Liu Zigui's eyes rolled: "Where are you going?" Daddy is with you. ”
Qin Chuchu stopped talking, and only stared at him until he obediently handed over five hundred yuan.
Seeing that she took the money and turned around and went out, and there was no one in sight, Liu Zigui scolded and scolded: "Is this like a word?!" ”
"Who is the head of the family now, and if you have a lot of strength, you won't put your father in your eyes......" Liu Zigui secretly broke his thoughts, his eyes were full of unwillingness: "Such a piece of fat meat is not going to be taken by a man in the end, it is born to owe a groove!" ”
He felt that he couldn't let it go on like this.