Chapter 43: Calculation
If someone had told Kou Xi in the past that economic status determines family status, she would never have believed it.
Now that she has completely stripped off her in-laws financially, and from time to time she uses the house to stimulate her father-in-law, and the status of the family has risen.
Although Huo Dagui has no obligation, he must buy a house for the two of them, build a house, and decorate the house. But in this era, the old man who has a son to get married has to prepare to come out of the house. It stands to reason that the two sons are married, and Huo Dagui wants to split up. The two sons live in the same courtyard with the old man, and they also eat in the same pot, which is rare in Hongqi Town.
Li Cuilian is just a hard breath on her lips at that moment, if her family usually doesn't know, it's just that, now she knows that Wang Yazhi has made money by making an inconspicuous little dried fish. It's itchy in my heart, who can be afraid of money and bite my hands.
Especially Zhang Yao and his family came to the house empty-handed, and they only brought their mouths to the house, and the expenses increased all of a sudden. Two meals a day didn't seem like much, and the speed at which the rice bag was falling in a few days made Li Cuilian angry.
It's only been a few days since she came back, and she's already pasted a big pot of bud rice flour flatbread. Huo Lu Gaoliman was embarrassed to say, that Huo Tianyi was a child who refused to take a bite at all, and shouted: "It's not delicious, I can't swallow it." ”
Li Cuilian is used to children, so she cooks noodles and gnocchi soup for her grandson, and adds a poached egg to the noodles. But the rest of the people were miserable, in the morning the big cake was pickled with pickles, and in the afternoon the big cake was potatoes and cabbage.
However, the smell of stir-fried vegetables wafted out from Kouxi's house from time to time. It would be six o'clock for her to cook dinner after work, and Huo Tianyi ran over to have dinner with her. When he came back, he showed off, ate this today and that tomorrow, and choked Zhang Yao's hunger.
In winter, Old Man Kou followed Kou Dewang to get small dried fish. By the way, I brought a lot of dried vegetables and pickles to Kou Xi.
The dried potatoes, dried eggplants, and shredded beans that Kou Xi asked for had already been delivered. Later, I brought her dried sweet potatoes and Kanto candy as snacks. Two sacks of round radish, green radish, carrot, gourd, green onion, potato, sweet potato, and Chinese cabbage were sent. It's enough for Kou Xi to eat until the beginning of spring, and she didn't send any of these to Westinghouse.
Zhang Yao saw it and couldn't help but put on small shoes for her in front of her mother.
"Look at so many dishes in her house, and don't say that they will bring them to honor you, but hide in your own house and eat them. If I cook a good meal or a good dish, I'd rather not eat it myself than serve it to my in-laws. Zhang Yao listened to Huo Tianyi say that Kou Xi also made sweet potato cakes to eat yesterday.
"That potato, cabbage, and big radish, don't you have it at home?" Li Cuilian disagreed, and now she didn't dare to say that Kou Xi's was not. My family's noodle business now relies on Kou Xi to come out to turnover, and if I offend this big Buddha, I will be beaten and lose a lot of money.
"That's what I said, but I can't do it like this!" Zhang Yao was very disappointed with her mother's current attitude, and couldn't figure out why she didn't take out her mother-in-law's money to rectify Kouxi. She is a new daughter-in-law, even if her mother's family supports her, what can she do. If you want to say that her mother's family supports her, isn't she and Kou Xi also half a catty? If she wants to do it against her mother-in-law like this, she doesn't even think about it.
"You don't understand!" "It's about to be New Year's Day, which is not a big day in the Northeast. Kou Xi brought back the words, saying that there have been a lot of materials and supply and marketing cooperatives from various places recently, so let's make them quickly.
There were three large pots of noodles on the floor in the room, all of which were kneaded and coiled and awakened inside.
Li Cuilian kept cutting the wrapping paper with a guillotine, just waiting for these trivial tasks to be done and the noodles were ready.
"Isn't it just relying on her to sell noodles!" Zhang Yao disagreed: "This is her own family's business, she doesn't want to do it?
"It's because of your attitude that she is domineering at home. Zhang Yao looked puzzled: "Since she has a way, why don't she sell more at a price? People sell a pack of three cents, and our wholesale price is two cents and a half, and it's not a matter of her words." ”
Li Cuilian also felt that the price of one cent and eight cents was a bit low, and she didn't dare to say that two cents and five cents were two cents, and she made a lot of money. But Kou Xi didn't agree with this, and Huo Dagui's dead man was even more unhappy.
"We don't understand this business. Don't mix it up!" Li Cuilian walked over, and Zhang Yao pouted: "I see, she must have sewn in the middle." said that it was sold to others for two cents. She earns two cents for one pound, and ten pounds is two cents. She sells 1,200 catties for a sentence, hmph, I don't know how much money I made from you. ”
Li Cuilian snorted coldly: "You still need to say it!" She glanced at her daughter with an appointing tone: "How can that be done? We can't sell so much by ourselves!"
Zhang Yao encouraged Li Cuilian: "Do you want to let Jiangang push the cart and bicycles to sell them below?"
Just like Huo Dagui sells tofu, how can a village sell twenty packs.
"Can he do it?" Li Cuilian was very skeptical.
"We give you two cents a pack, and we sell it ourselves for three cents. Twenty packs a day is two yuan, and a month is sixty yuan! He must be willing to do it!" Zhang Yao's face lit up, as if the thick stack of tickets had already arrived.
Li Cuilian sneered: "Just now I said that Kou Xi is calculating, you can also play with my heart." I'm going to sell it to me, and I still want to go it alone after a long day!"
Zhang Yao was confident: "We give more money than Kou Xi, and besides, we don't have any money." Kou Xi can do it, why can't we do it!"
Li Cuilian sneered: "You eat me and live in mine, Kou Xi doesn't eat me and doesn't live in me." ”
Zhang Yao's face turned pale, and tears of anger fell out. "I know you look down on me, don't you just see that I don't have money. If you find me a good mother-in-law, I won't go back to my mother's house to trouble you. Now I'm having a hard time, you're my mother, help me what's wrong!"
Li Cuilian said angrily: "Did I let you follow him in the first place? Didn't I give you the money to go out? We didn't agree at first, did you listen?"
Zhang Yao sobbed: "You can only talk about me, why don't you want to think about why I have to follow him." I've been sending people under the fence for so many years, and everyone treats me as a drag oil bottle. Then Huo Jiaojiao and Huo An are gone, can I still stay?"
Li Cuilian was anxious: "Who picked you up? Did your father pick you up or did I get rid of you? At the beginning, your father also said that he wouldn't let you follow him, and he had to find a person with similar conditions in front of him." You are looking for such an errand runner, who do you blame!"