Chapter 30 A table of talents
"Look at you, you are always like this, there are no rules, no distance, no daughter's family, this will wait for your eldest sister to get married, how can you afford this family? What if you asked a few more sisters to learn from you? He Xiaomei smiled and blamed Mi Tao.
Mi Tao stuck out her tongue: "The eldest sister is just a small tea ceremony, and people don't get married." If she wants to get married, why do she have to wait for the three-year filial piety period to expire, right? Auntie, don't worry, my younger sisters are very promising, wait another three years, I'm afraid this family won't need me to be the master~~" As he spoke, he aimed at the cotton peaches and cherries.
"You, that's all there is to it! My aunt said I can't help you, why don't you tell me what this laundry job is all about? He Xiaomei smiled.
"Okay, okay, I can't do it if I don't speak?" Mi Tao stuck out her tongue again, retracted her body, and stood behind Cotton Peach and Cherry.
"This job" He Xiaomei took a breath and sighed: "It's also hard work." It's just that the money is stable. It's a good thing for your sisters, too. Although there is not much money to be made in this work, there are many people who can do what women can do. ”
Star fruit nodded: "I'm asking Mian Tao to go out to do work these days." Auntie, tell me how to do this job and how much money can I earn? ”
"That family also has a large population, and the thunder can't move two pots of clothes every day, and if there is a festival or a happy event, it may be more. It is required to be clean, neatly sunned, and scented. Naturally, she will give spices, but the clothes of that family are messy and cannot be washed together, for fear of dyeing. ”
"So, what about the price?" Mian Tao asked softly
"The price she gave was a pot of clothes, and if it was washed or dyed, she would pay according to the price."
"That's good! Washing a few pieces of clothes, a matter of time, there is an income of 16 yuan a day, and there is no capital, it is a good livelihood. Star fruit clapped happily.
Mian Tao also nodded: "Stable work, Bawen is good." We have many sisters, and the two basins of clothes will be washed in a while. ”
Cherries are not as happy as star fruit and cotton peach. After all, washing clothes is a tiring job, and if you accidentally dye it, you have to pay according to the price. Besides, the weather is getting colder and colder, and when it comes to winter, washing a basin of clothes will make your hands red from cold. In girls' homes, frequent contact with things that are too cold is also not good for the body. It's just that at the moment the sisters have no way out, and as my aunt said, this laundry job is also in demand.
"So, you're going to go?" He Xiaomei looked at the star fruit: "If you should go, when the tea ceremony is over, you will find a neat dress, dress up decently and cleanly, go to Shuanghe Village, and find me." I'll take you to her again. ”
"Okay. I rely on my aunt a lot. As she spoke, she was about to salute, but was stopped by He Xiaomei: "What is this doing, I am your aunt, my aunt is not here, my aunt is my mother." If there is something in the future, even if you go to me, you are not allowed to run out of food and make no noise, you know? ”
"Got it." Carambola nodded and grinned.
Mi Tao also laughed.
Cherry secretly calculated, although the income of sixteen wen a day is harder, but these are enough to provide the sisters' daily expenses. If you think of other ways slowly, there will always be a chance to find a way to make money.
After looking for someone on a good day, the Miao family sent the matchmaker to perform the gift. Then it was a question of name and Najib, and a small tea ceremony was completed in a few days. Things are low-key and simple, and they have won a lot of good words from the village.
It wasn't until Najib's day that Cherry saw the legendary Miao Chengye for the first time.
Miao Chengye is two years older than star fruit, tall, a little thin in his age, with a square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, he is a long-term talent in this small village. In particular, those eyes, which were shrewd and implicitly sleek, turned into a deep smile when they saw the eldest sister, as if if if there was no one around, he would run forward to shake the hand of the star fruit.
Miao Chengye's strength seemed to be inexhaustible, Najib's day, star fruit and Miao Sheng and Chengshi's daughter-in-law were talking in the house, and he had already turned around and split most of the firewood in the yard.
I don't know how he got along with his sisters before he came, but in this small courtyard, he was very popular. Even Mi Tao, who has always had a sharp mouth, said good things about him, and Mian Tao had to hand him a towel. The little walnut ran around behind his buttocks, and even Runsheng was reluctant to give him a sweet persimmon to eat.
"Cherry, I guess you'll have a scar on your face. No, this is a scar removal cream from out of town that I asked someone to bring from out of town, you can use it to try. If it doesn't work, you can ask someone to send me a letter, and I will ask someone to go to the capital to inquire about the ointment. Miao Chengye also specially asked for ointment for cherry.
"It's okay, peasant doll, which one doesn't have a scar on his face?" She really didn't care. There is a scar on her face, and her sisters love her just as much, and having a scar on her face will not affect making money and doing business.
Miao Chengye smiled and forced the ointment into her hand: "Girl, how can you leave a scar on your face?" Don't worry, Brother Chengye will heal the wound on your face. Also, if Liu Erzhu dares to make any moves next time, even if you mention my name to him, if he dares to make a mistake, see if I come back and don't unload his legs! ”
"Got it," Cherry grinned, covering her mouth. She only knew that Liu Erzhu was beaten by Brother Wen Hai, but she didn't know that Liu Erzhu was beaten by Miao Chengye again. Poor Erzhu didn't dare to go out for two days at home.
After "Mian'er" Chengye finished talking to Cherry, she pulled the cotton peach again, and she didn't know what to stuff in her hand: "I know that you still have the final say in this family, if there is anything at home, just tell me, I will find a way." ”
"How can this work? Brother Chengye, there is no shortage of money at home...... "Mian Tao stuffed things back, and it was a few small pieces of silver.
"The family is at home, this is given by Brother Chengye, you can take it!" Miao Chengye stuffed it back again: "I'm running a car outside now, and I'm more or less famous, and I know a few characters." It's not as hard to make money as it used to be. These are just small furs, you see, when I have saved enough money, I have to carry your sister into the door in a sedan chair! ”
"Brother Chengye is still capable!" Mi Tao also came over at some point, and deliberately pulled the tune: "I wish you, you can buy your own horse and car in two more years, and drive to meet my eldest sister!" ”
Cotton peach and walnut covered their mouths and snickered. Cherry bent her eyes and laughed. At the same time, he secretly looked at Miao Chengye, seeing that he was not an exaggerated person, and maybe he could really achieve something in the future. I hope the eldest sister can live a good life with him.
After the small tea ceremony, Miao Chengye began to enter and exit the courtyard of the Yue family in a proper manner.
He does all the heavy work at home, carrying water, chopping wood, and even repairing the roof.
After the tea ceremony, the two of them went to Shuanghe Village and settled the laundry work. Every evening, I go to Shuanghe Village, send the dried clothes, and then take the next day's washing.
After five or six days like this, Miao Chengye was leaving. If he drags on making a living outside for too long, he will lose business. But he will be back in two months at most, and he always has to go home for the Chinese New Year.
After Miao Chengye left, the five sisters of the Yue family continued to do laundry and embroidery for a living, and in addition to the food and drink they earned a day, they could save a few more. Carambola is very satisfied with the current situation, as long as there is money left, even if she saves slowly, she can slowly save a dowry for her younger sisters.
Cherry is always looking for ways to make money. At the moment, my hands are red when I wash a basin of clothes, and when the water freezes in the depths of winter, what is it for? This laundry business is still trying not to do well. On the other hand, she also kept an eye on things related to the fire, but unfortunately there was no clue, and no one had seen who had entered the courtyard of Miao Dawei's house that day.
During this period, Mita came to see again and left in a hurry.
Uncle Yuefu has been entrusted with the media several times in a row, and Wenhe's marriage seems to have been settled. The uncle's family began to work together for this faint hope.
The days passed plainly and reassuringly, and the time went by day by day, and soon it was winter. In the middle of November, the weather was too cold to wear a thin jacket, and the thick jacket was hot and hot, and most of the farmers wore their jackets and gowns.
On this day, there was nothing to do at home, cotton peach was boiling water, and star fruit and rice peach were doing laundry. Hot water laundry, clean is clean, and people don't have to suffer the sin of cold water freezing, but it is so troublesome and costly, and star fruit has been distressed several times. Helplessly, this is what Cherry insisted, and she also took over the work of collecting firewood at home, saying that she would pick up as much as she wanted to burn at home.
That is, he boasted of Haikou, and early in the morning, Cherry took walnuts and Akiyama up the mountain to pick up firewood.
There is a slight coolness in the morning air, but fortunately, if you wear a thick jacket, you don't feel cold. The wild grass on the mountain has basically withered and yellowed, and the branches are sparsely scattered, leaving few leaves, yellow, yellow, green and green, swirling with the wind. Some of the wild fruit trees still have one or two fruits hanging on the treetops, and they are fighting with the light wind, and no matter how they blow, they will not fall.
In addition to the trees and grasses on the mountain, there are mountain rocks one by one, and then there are some various plants under the trees that have not yet had time to wither, and there are many kinds of them, and people are dazzled to see them.
This is the second time Cherry has gone up the mountain. Last time, I followed Runsheng and Akiyama to pick wild mushrooms, but I only made a rough turn around the periphery, and most of my eyes were fixed on the ground, so I didn't take a good look at the situation in the mountains. This time I went up the mountain, and when I looked closely, it was very different from what I saw last time.
As she went deeper, she found that the resources on the mountain were abundant, and many of them were not used. For example, there are traces of hare activity on the ground from time to time, for example, most of the mountains are miscellaneous trees, and there are also a lot of pine trees, although pine wood is not of great use, it is excellent to put it in the closet to remove insects. For example, those wild fruit trees, if they are harvested, they should be carefully cultivated......
Akiyama stopped and walked all the way ahead, and somehow he got a lot of small purple berries and distributed them to Cherry Walnut and his younger siblings: "Sakura, there doesn't seem to be any dry firewood to pick up here, and it has been searched for clean." Why don't we go into the mountains? ”
"Deep in the mountains?" Cherry turned to Walnut and Akiyama's two younger brothers, one six and one five, both as big as Walnut, one with a long snot bubble under his nose, and his eyes were holding Qiuhong's hand.
Cherry shrugged: "They are too small, how can they follow into the mountains?" ”
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Thank you Yukinya for your support, hehe, I'm excited