Chapter 33: Don't Love Money (Happy New Year!) )
Mingshan came to pick up Wen Jin, Wen Jin was outside the house, told Wei, and followed him to the town.
Baoshan and Mingshan both felt sorry for Wen Jin, as long as they instructed how to do it, they didn't need her to do it, Wen Jin had something in her heart, so she asked Baoshan to wash a few pairs of sewer with alkaline soil, and used the noodles to absorb the odor on it, and planned to go back.
"I have to go back in advance today, you two cut these, winter bamboo shoots, green onions, and ginger are all cut according to what I said, and tomorrow morning, I will fry them."
"Wen Jin, what's the matter?"
Wen Jin didn't say anything, that's a family ugliness, how can it be publicized?
"My second uncle is back, his feet are frozen, give me a handful of herbs prepared by your family."
"Okay, wait." Mingshan ran to get a basket, "boil it in hot water, soak your feet, once a night, for five days, and you can go to the roots." ”
"Oh, then I'm leaving."
Baoshan cut a piece of large intestine and gave it to Wen Jin: "Stir-fry a dish for Second Brother Qian." ”
"Hmm!" Wen Jin answered, beckoned, and left.
The two of them had never seen Wen Jin so wilted, and they looked at each other in surprise, but no one could guess what was going on.
Wen Jin gave the herbs to Wei's, and also cooked two dishes, but the person was silent than usual, and after eating, Wen Han took her hand, which was considered comforting.
There is a relative in the Wang family who understands medical skills, and the effect of herbal medicine is very good, after Qian Xiancheng soaked it, his feet were not so itchy, and he couldn't help sighing.
"You put your child's kindness and give it away." Wei sighed with emotion, this year, she can more or less tactfully refuse some unreasonable requests.
Qian Xiancheng didn't say anything, why didn't he say it at the time, this was the child's mind? After hearing this, I guess I won't ask for it anymore, right?
Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and Wen Jin took back a pair of suede boots for the second uncle, which Lin Shan learned to do, and it looked far worse than what Tie Shan and Lai Songnian did, but it was no problem to keep warm.
"When you get there, you boil the herbs yourself, soak them for another three days, and your feet will be fine." Wen Jin said in a muffled voice, she was angry with the second uncle's indiscriminate temperament, but she couldn't watch him get frozen, I don't know when, she had already regarded the second uncle's family of three as relatives connected to each other, and seeing them suffer, she felt even more bitter in her heart.
Qian Xiancheng was stunned for a while, his heart was sour and soft, and he was very moved, he wanted to say something, but he felt that he couldn't express it, so he finally went out like that.
Fortunately, he hadn't given away his squirrel fur coat yet. That's the cloth woven by Webster, and the other party probably didn't notice that there was something else in it.
Wen Jin looked at the back of the second uncle, standing at the gate stunned, Wen Han pulled her: "My father has that temperament, let's talk to him more in the future, it will be fine slowly, don't be angry." ”
"I'm not angry anymore." Wen Jin raised his hand and pointed to the pond, "Our fish, it's time to get out of the pond, it's going to be a moon soon." ”
"Okay!" Wen Han clapped his hands, "That's another income." After thinking about it, he gave Wen Jin a thumbs up respectfully, "At that time, you were willing to change the land, I was worried for a long time, but I didn't expect that it was rice and ducks, plus fish, it was much better than farming." ”
"Brother, what do you think, they all say that Jiangnan is good, where is it good? It's just that there is a lot of water, if we have water, won't we also live the life of Jiangnan people? ”
"Hehe, praise you for being fat and gasp!" Wen Han saw Wen Jin's smile and relaxed, so he was relieved.
Wen Jin's little brows furrowed, and while following Wen Han home, he muttered: "You say, is it okay to make our fish a gift?" Although they sometimes fish from the stream, they are all small fillets, not as big as ours. For the New Year, it is also very meaningful to take fish as a festival, and it is more than auspicious. ”
"It's good, but it's not good." Wen Han imagined the scene of a straw rope and two fish strung into someone else's house, and couldn't help but shake his head.
Isn't that easy? Wen Jin was too impressed by the excessive packaging in the previous life, and she could deal with this problem by pulling a way out.
"Brother, why don't you ask the people in the village to make some rattan boxes and put them on? It doesn't have to be as tight and meticulous as they weave baskets, otherwise the head will be bigger than the body, and the box will be bigger than the fish. ”
"Cheng Keming's family has a lot of rattan cores, let me tell him, two boxes are a penny, do you say okay?"
"Wait a minute, brother, we have to measure the length and width of the fish first, there is no size, what should people do?"
"Oh!" Wen Han patted his head, took the rope pocket for fishing from home, and waved his hand to Wen Jin: "Let's go together, catch two and have a look." ”
This kind of regularly fed pond fish is the easiest to catch, sprinkle a handful of fish food on the open ice mouth, and the fish will scramble to drill over, Wen Han saw the opportunity, a pocket down, it is two, Wen Jin took the big one, put the small one, Wen Han is again, still pick out a big one, the two of them carried it and went home.
In the next two days, Wen Jin went to fry fat sausages in the morning, and designed boxes with Wen Han in the afternoon, which was busy and fulfilling, making her forget the unhappiness brought by her second uncle.
Qian Xiancheng's proprietor, seeing that the account room came home empty-handed, was slightly dissatisfied, he tactfully expressed that he also wanted a pair of boots, and said that he would pay five taels of silver, but this, I don't know if he didn't understand, or he was afraid that he wouldn't give money, so he didn't bring it.
Is he scarce for five taels of silver? Hum!
Qian Xiancheng saw that the owner was in a bad mood, and his mood was even worse, he was a good person, but he was calculated by others, and he was even complained.
The account office works hard, does not make any small moves, treats every penny of the owner as money, and never has a trace of waste, such an employee, the owner is still reluctant, he kept it twice, but Qian Xiancheng has made up his mind.
The proprietor regretted a little that he shouldn't have taken a small bag of lotus seeds and put those boots on top. The son said that the boots were in the provincial capital, and the price was eighteen taels of silver.
But Qian Xiancheng said that it was defective and worthless, and he felt that he had raised the lotus seeds and wrote him the cultivation method, which should be able to offset it.
In fact, he knows very well in his heart, how can he top it? He had already prepared a cart of lotus roots, just waiting for Qian Xiancheng to speak, and seeing that he was not displeased, he deceived himself into thinking that it was enough.
Webster thought that her husband would definitely arrive home at the end of the month, at that time, it was the end of the year, and he had to take account, who would have thought that on the day of the new year, he would see him wearing a fur hat and a cloth scarf woven by himself around his neck, in the wind and snow, appeared in front of him.
"Dad, come into the house, it's so cold."
"Oh, it's a good year." Qian Xiancheng is not pretending to be relaxed, he just doesn't love money, and he resigned, just because he was wronged, it turned out that his family was still counting on money to save his life, and he often didn't get anything, not to mention that his family now has no shortage of food and clothing.
Seeing that her husband's demeanor was natural, Webster didn't think much about it, and quickly helped him clean the snow off his body, and when he entered the house, he helped take off his coat and let him sit on the kang, and then helped him take off his boots.
In the stove, the fire was lit with a wheat coat cage, which was slowly burning, and there was a large teapot sitting on it, and there was hot water in it at any time.
"Come, drink a bowl of warmth and warmth, and I'll go cook right away."
"No, I'm not hungry, I've eaten on the way." Qian Xiancheng patted his side, "This is what Wen Jin said?" He already felt a hot breath coming up from under his legs, and he was very comfortable, so he asked with a smile.
"Well, this rice seedling is used in the spring, Wen Jin is careful, I am afraid that we will be smoked and burned in the kitchen stove." There is only a narrow passage between the east wing and the upper room, Wen Jin opened the kang hole in the east room, and then built a passage, one side is connected to the kang, and the other is connected to the kitchen, and the fireworks in the stove will enter the kang in the east room along the passage, and the flue of the kang hole will be discharged, and the kitchen will cook, and the kang in the east will be warm.
"Okay, okay, this kid, hehe."
After drinking the warm and fragrant oil tea, Qian Xiancheng raised his head and spoke: "What about the child? ”
"The two of them went to town to catch the market." Merriam-Webster took the bowl to the kitchen and washed it, and soon returned.
"Is Wen Jin still selling fried fat sausages?"
"No, Wen Jin gave up the business to the Wang brothers, and today is to buy New Year's goods for our family with Wen Han."
"Well, it's good not to do business, our children, even if they don't take the exam, they have to study heirlooms, and they can't go into business."
Wei lowered his head and continued to deal with the two mountain rat skins, Wen Jin and Wen Han prepared a lot of boxes and prepared to start selling fish, what about her
What do you tell your husband? Alas!
"It's cloudy today, rest for a while, be careful that your eyes are tired." Qian Xiancheng was considerate and authentic.
"Well, right away." Wei Shi said as he flew the needle and walked the line, "Wen Jin, this kid, I don't know where I got so many ideas, this winter, each of our family has a big leather jacket, which is really warm." ”
"So what are you still doing?"
Webster was a little embarrassed: "I made it and sold it, ten taels of silver a piece, and I sold two pieces this winter." Webster stopped, knotted the thread, and cut it with small scissors, she started sewing in the summer, and her family had it when it was cold, and if she made it in the winter, she could sell it.
"How much mouseskin does this cost?" Qian Xiancheng looked at the small piece the size of a palm and sighed.
"It takes a lot, a few big mountain brothers, every time they go up the mountain, they collect hundreds, saying that the front mountain is scarce."
"We, are we taking other people's rat skins for nothing?"
"No, Wen Jin and Wen Han often go together, and they also peel the skin together, and they are not stained. Oh, the Wang family has a lot of talents, and they also pay for sewing, and a coat is given for 500 yuan, and the women in the town rush to do it, and no one is lucky enough to get a job. Jiao's tried to ask for it, she saved a private room, who knew that the Wang family found an excuse and didn't give it, Jiao's saw the clue, and then stopped going.
"That is to say, what about his family to make money with this?"
"Well, someone went up the mountain, learned the wire cover of the mountain, and ran to the Maoerling in the west of the county to set the prey, and there were also people over there who were making a mountain rat skin coat, originally Wang Shanren gave eight taels of silver, and the people over there came to buy ten taels, Wang Shanren was in a hurry, and quickly handed us a message, and it also rose to ten taels."
Wei Shi is very happy, she has never been so rich, when Wen Jin was panning the kang, she made a dark box on the ground to save money for her, there were already rows of ten silver bills of five taels, as well as a few taels of broken silver, a lot of copper coins, some worn, some scattered.
Qian Xiancheng frowned slightly, he didn't want to listen to his wife's money and silver, he felt that it was too vulgar, but the family had no worries about food and clothing, and he was no longer entangled and in a comfortable mood, this feeling was quite contradictory.
Before eating, Wen Jin and Wen Han came back from the town and bought firecrackers, New Year paintings, muslin, glutinous rice, white noodles, big meat, and prey given by the Wang family, and loaded a donkey cart.
Qian Xiancheng took the New Year's painting, and Wei Shi carried the cyan muslin into the house: "Dad, this leather robe I sewn in my hand, I want to make a dress for his aunt, okay?" ”
"Okay!" Qian Xiancheng replied very refreshingly, and Wei was worried for a long time, and he was immediately down-to-earth. She married into the Qian family, first because she was not at home, she had nothing in her hand, and then she was poor, and she couldn't give her mother's family any decent gifts.
"Give Wen Jin five taels of silver, and get a pair of leather boots for his uncle." Qian Xiancheng thought about it, waved his hand, and said to his wife.
Now, the brother-in-law won't nag him, right? He is a loving person, he doesn't accompany his wife to Yue's house during the New Year, and he is very reluctant to go, if he really can't stand the accusations of his wife and brother, how can he be willing to stay at home in the second year of junior high school? Every time he stayed in the house and didn't go out, lest others ask him why he didn't go, what a shame.
"Oh, okay." Webster was very moved, she firmly believed in her husband's character, and one day she would be able to drink with her younger brother and let go of her previous suspicions.
Wen Jin was speechless to the second uncle, he was a person who didn't love money, as if those would bite him a piece of meat.
In the future, if the second uncle doesn't go out to do accounting for others, will he be constrained everywhere and interfere with himself?