If you want to go through the back door, you're not the only one with the Li family! Xiaocao's second aunt is a bitter person, and she cares about everything, but she is not a person who is afraid of the heavy. She heard from her cousin who married into Dongshan Village that the Zhou family's workshop first recruited workers in Dongshan Village, and her heart immediately moved - if the Zhou family's workshop was full of people in Dongshan Village, then there would be nothing to do with her?

This Hu family carried his father-in-law and mother-in-law behind his back, and forced Xiaocao's honest second uncle to accompany her to Dongshan Village. Why didn't she come by herself, she felt shameless!

When Yu Xiaocao's family came out of the family, Xiaocao's grandmother gave a few taels of silver, and she talked about it for a long time. Every time she met the Liu family and the Yu family, she emphasized that she was yin and yang.

As the saying goes: leave a line in everything, and see each other in the future, this sentence is too reasonable. Unexpectedly, the Yu family turned over in a few months, not only paid off the silver, but also made friends with rich businessmen in the town. She hasn't been tempered like the Li family, why is she embarrassed to come to ask people like that?

The Hu couple got up early in the morning, and when they arrived in Dongshan Village, it was already three poles in the morning. The two people who went to the Yu family's old mansion pounced. When I asked Yu Hang, who was harvesting seafood next to him, it turned out that the watermelons in the field were ripe, and the family was busy working in the fields!

"Second uncle, second aunt, you sit in the courtyard and rest for a while, it's almost noon, and my mother is about to go home to cook......" Yu Hang greeted with a smile and politely.

Hu Shi waved his hand impatiently and said, "No, no!" We just went to the field to help. Xiaosha, you're busy with yours! ”

At the beginning, Liu Han came to help prepare the land, and knew where the Yu family's three acres of sandy land were, so he didn't need anyone to lead the way, and took his mother-in-law to the melon field.

Hu Shi whispered: "Dad, do you see the long queue of seafood sellers?" Your sister-in-law's family, I'm afraid that this alone has earned a lot of silver, right? ”

"People make what they earn! Our village is not near the sea, and if you want to make money, you don't have that blessing! "Liu Han is honest and honest, which makes people not sound comfortable.

Hu Shi glared at him and said, "Our family can't collect seafood over there, but when they can't be busy, they can come over to help!" You see, your brother-in-law's cousin, I don't believe he's here to help for free? It's kind of a good thing, right? ”

"It's so close to people, it's easy to come and help!! Yu Jiang is a good person, a real person. My brother-in-law didn't choose the wrong person! Liu Han didn't understand what his daughter-in-law meant, and he was so angry that Hu's teeth itched.

"Humph! Your sister is also a bad family! If there is anything good, I can't think of my mother's ......" Hu finally said his heart.

Liu Han glared at her and said, "Our family is not like your mother's family, my brother is not doing it, and he always wants to scrape some oil and water from his married daughter!" Look at your sisters, they are all so troubled by your mother's brother that they can't go on! If it weren't for the generosity of our father and mother, would you be able to have a good life at home? ”

Hu's voice suddenly softened, and he said, "Aren't we talking about your sister, why are you talking about my family?" I don't want to have such a brother......"

Liu Han glanced at her and said, "We all know what my sister-in-law was like when she split up." Her family has just been doing better, let's be brothers and sisters-in-law, we can't add to the chaos! When I met Mu Yun, I told me about it. She can help, but if she can't help, you can't say anything ugly, remember? ”

Hu Shi just has a bad mouth and is a little selfish, but she can still listen to her old man's words: "I remember, we are here to ask for help after all." I'm sure I'll keep my mouth shut! ”

As he spoke, he came to the edge of the melon field. On the green melon vines, large watermelons have sunburned their bellies. The Yu family was in the melon field, bending down and gently tapping the watermelon, finding the ripe and picking it. On the ground, the watermelons were already piled high.

"Oh Mom! This is a watermelon, and it grows really big. One is less than ten or twenty pounds, right? Not to mention our small village, even the town rarely sees this rare thing, right? Dad, how much do you think it costs a pound? Hu strangely gathered around the watermelon pile, and his mouth was full of slurp.

Yu Xiaocao held a large ripe watermelon with a little difficulty, and walked over crookedly. Seeing this, Liu Han hurriedly greeted her and took the watermelon in her hand.

"Second uncle, why are you here? In the morning, I told my mother about you and my uncle! Although Yu Xiaocao doesn't like the Hu family very much, she doesn't have any ill feelings towards this slightly wooden second uncle.

Liu Han put the watermelon in his hand in the watermelon pile, rubbed his hands, and said shyly: "Your second aunt wants to go to the Zhou family's workshop to work, I don't know if they have enough people?" I accompanied her to ask. ”

Yu Xiaocao glanced at Hu Shi, who was staring at the watermelon, and said, "There are still a few workers who are needed to dry vermicelli, and they need careful and patient people, and there is no limit to men and women......"

Liu Han smiled and said, "Your second aunt doesn't look very good, she is a good worker!" ”

Hu Shi listened with his ears on the side, for fear of missing something. Hearing this, she nodded desperately on the side.

Yu Xiaocao lowered her eyes and thought for a while, and said, "Okay, I'll accompany my second aunt in the afternoon." However, the fan workshop has to sign a confidentiality agreement, and if the method of being a fan is revealed, it will lose money and go to jail! ”

Hu Shi hurriedly swore a bet: "Xiaocao, don't worry!" I will never say half a word in the workshop! …… Just now, you said that you were looking for your eldest and second uncles, is there anything wrong? ”

Hu's gaze looked towards the piles of watermelons. Over there, the Liu family was busy weighing watermelons for Wang Ergou.

Speaking of Wang Ergou, since Xiaocao promised to let him sell watermelons on credit, he has been very interested in the melon fields of the Yu family. When Xiaocao and Yu Haiye were watering, they would also rush to help pick up a few loads of water. In the evening, he will take the initiative to come over to help watch the melons, so that Yu Hai can go home and rest for a few days.

In the past few days, he has been visiting the melon field almost every day. Knowing that the Yu family picked melons today, they came to help before dawn. Although he didn't know whether the melons were ripe or not, he helped transport them to the ground one by one. In the morning, I was busy sweating, and I was more concerned than doing my own housework!

He had already repaired the trolley at home and was going to push one to the dock today to explore the market. He knew that the Yu family was going to open a melon shop in the town, and he originally planned to go to the town to sell melons, so he stopped thinking about it. When it comes to selling things, eight of him can't compare to one Yu Xiaocao. The daily passenger flow of merchants and passenger ships coming and going from the south to the north on the wharf is not bad, and there should be a lot of rich people. So he followed Xiaocao's advice and went to the dock to open up a market.

"Xiaocao, you said that I don't know the scales very well, what if I lose money?" Wang Ergou used to be an unlearned and unskilled person on the cliff, but since he married his daughter-in-law, he has been a little more restrained. His daughter-in-law is quite capable, and there is hardly anything that can disappoint her. However, isn't his daughter-in-law carrying the baby? Why is he willing to let his daughter-in-law run back and forth to the docks?

Yu Xiaocao smiled at him and said, "It's so simple! The larger watermelon has about 20 catties, and you take the melon from here and give it to you at a wholesale price of 150 wen a catty, and the cost is 3 taels. When you get to town, you sell it for five taels of silver! The smaller ones sell for four taels, and the smaller ones look like ten catties, and sell them for three taels, so you can't get it! ”

Before Wang Ergou could react, Hu Shi exclaimed: "What? A melon costs five taels of silver? Five taels of silver is enough for a family to eat and drink for half a year? Can it be sold? ”

Liu Han pulled down his daughter-in-law suddenly, glared and said, "If you can't speak, don't speak, no one will treat you as a dumb person!" ”

Wang Ergou smiled disappreciatively and said: "Sister-in-law of the Liu family, people like ours are reluctant to spend a few taels of silver to buy a watermelon." But there are a lot of rich and noble men who are not bad at the wharf, our watermelon, with a lot of water and sweet taste, is the only one, and there is no place to buy it elsewhere! Don't say five taels, no matter how expensive it is, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell it!! Xiaocao, you have a good idea, I'll do it! ”

The Liu family has already weighed the melons almost, Wang Ergou's trolley is not big, and it can hold twenty watermelons at the top.

"A total of three hundred and sixty-eight catties, give you a whole number, even if it is three hundred and sixty catties. Xiaocao, calculate how much money it will cost you to Uncle Ergou! "Liu's arithmetic, compared with a few children, is a little weaker. With such a big number, she didn't have the confidence to calculate it.

Yu Xiaocao silently calculated in his heart, and soon the answer came out: "Uncle Ergou, a total of fifty-four taels of silver!" I'll write you an IOU, and you can take the watermelon with a handprint! ”

The IOU has already been written, just fill in the catty and money of the watermelon. Yu Xiaocao used a quill pen with ink to fill in the numbers on it. I read it carefully again and gave it to the illiterate Wang Ergou.

Wang Ergou happily dipped his index finger in ink, printed his fingerprints on it, and said, "Don't read it, if you don't believe others, can you believe you?" After a while, my daughter-in-law came, and you said that I went to the docks. ”

According to the size of the watermelon, Wang Ergou loaded the weighed watermelon on the trolley and pushed it away energetically!

The shop in Yu Xiaocao Town will open tomorrow, so I will transport the watermelons to the store today and store them for stock. She rolled up her sleeves, laboriously lifted a watermelon, and struggled to load it onto the donkey cart. Seeing this, Liu Han hurriedly said: "You put it away, I'll pretend!" ”

Hu Shi also picked up a watermelon with a lot of eyes, and said, "Xiaocao, how can you move with thin arms and legs?" Isn't it just to put it on the car? Just leave it to your aunt and uncle! ”

Xiaocao was not polite to them, and said to Liu Han while helping: "Second uncle, there is not much work in the field at this time, why don't you also get a cart of watermelons and sell them in the town!" As long as this watermelon is not dropped or touched, it can be stored for at least five or six days, and if it is not sold in one day, it can be sold again the next day......"

Liu Han moved a few watermelons silently, and then said solemnly: "A watermelon costs two or three taels of silver, and I'm afraid of smashing it in my hand...... Besides, we don't have a car to ship this stuff either. ”