"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 mouses, Wen Jin and Wen Han prepared a lot of boxes to start selling fish, how could she tell her 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?

Wen Jin took back a pair of leather boots the next day.

Came to Songnian to try new fuel, it turned out to be dyed a piece of red, Wen Jin encouraged him to change careers to make women's boots, his craftsmanship is more meticulous, and Lin's is the kind of careful and ingenious, can help him make a color on the boots, he first made a pair of inferior leather for his wife, tried to look better, and then made two pairs of burgundy, Wang Jishan couldn't help but be overjoyed, sent to the provincial city for trial sale, and the price was doubled compared to men's boots.

He is not as good as the Wang family, all the leather depends on buying, if he can change to women's boots that save leather and are more valuable in the future, the profit margin will be greater.

It's a pity that the fuel is very difficult to master, and if it takes a long time to dye it, it will become black and not black and red, and it will be different shades. Lai Songnian is an only son, and he is now calling his sister's son Shen Gengxin to be an apprentice, and those times are just for his nephew to practice.

Wen Jin got such boots, he didn't need money to live or die in Songnian, Wen Jin repeatedly persuaded him: "The skin is not yours, besides, Brother Shen still has to eat and dress, right?" I'll give a cost. In the end, he left three taels of silver.

Webster's face is filled with a happy smile all day long, how many women don't care about their parents? Don't want to reach out to help your mother's family, so as to gain the pleasure of your soul and the respect of your younger brother and sister?

The next day, Wen Jin and Wen Han went out early, and Qian Xiancheng saw that they had taken a lot of rattan boxes, and he didn't know what was going on, so he turned around and asked his wife: "These two won't sell boxes on the street, right?" ”

Merriam-Webster twisted Nini and said, "Selling fish, the box contains fish." ”

After speaking, she looked at her husband nervously, lest he be unhappy.

Seeing the two children going to do business, Qian Xiancheng didn't speak for a while, and Wei carefully explained: "Even if you cultivate and read people's homes, you have to sell the grain after you collect it, this fish is raised by our family, and it is not sold to others for profit, so it is not considered a business." ”

"Well, yes, yes." Qian Xiancheng hurriedly replied, as if he was also thinking of a reason to defend the two children.

Wei Shi breathed a sigh of relief, she was very afraid that men and two children would not get along, Wen Han and Wen Jin had really worked hard this year, she often felt distressed when she saw it, especially Wen Jin, it was not easy to sleep in the middle of the night.

Wen Jin asked someone to help wash the fish by disemboweling it, and then marinated it with salt and spices and took it to the town to sell.

I heard that you can eat it when you take it home and steam it, and there is a box that is very generous, and someone's mind is open. The son-in-law here goes to the father-in-law's house, must bring a piece of pork belly, called "etiquette", poor people, or stingy people, spend less money, buy such a narrow strip, it looks really bad, now if you spend the same money, buy two fish to hold, not so stingy, the meaning is good, on the rattan box, Wen Han and Wen Jin also use paint to paint the pattern, very beautiful, look comfortable, and some people, don't know what to bring with relatives, feel that this fish is fat and big, the price is not expensive, and they are also tempted to buy a box, so, As soon as Wen Jin and Wen Han's stalls were opened, and after shouting twice, the customers came.

Didn't Wen Jin refuse to shout? Yes, it was Wen Han who shouted, and Wen Jin was responsible for collecting the money.

Wen Han didn't want to at first, so Wen Jin mobilized: "You still want to study and enter the office, maybe you can be a parent official in the future, don't you have the courage to say a few words in public, and you can be competent for such an important matter?" ”

One sentence made Wen Han's face flush, and he held back for a long time: "This is different." ”

"Brother, you have to practice first, otherwise, when you meet your boss in the future, or in front of everyone, you will look like a little daughter-in-law, that's not good!"

"You're just a little daughter-in-law!"

"Hehe, brother, I'm the little daughter-in-law, you're not, you're here to shout!"

Seeing Wen Jin playing tricks, Wen Han was helpless, so he had to nod.

When he arrived in the town, Wen Han couldn't let go of it at first, someone came to the stall to look through it, he was blushing and thick-necked when he received it, fortunately, on the first day, Wen Jin personally killed the fish, and the two only sorted out a dozen or so boxes, although they didn't shout much, they were still sold out in the afternoon.

The next day was a market day, and the two of them killed hundreds of fish at once, these don't shout, Wen Han's first sound, like a mosquito, but seeing other people's business booming, he was anxious, and somehow suddenly held back his throat, with the first sound, there was a second sound, and it was slowly natural.

Wen Jin lowered his head, just collected the money, looked at the goods, and relied on Wen Han to sell them from beginning to end.

Wen Han really deserves to be an elder brother, he didn't say a word of complaint, sometimes he was afraid that she would be tired of standing and when there were few people, he asked Wen Jin: "You sit on the futon for a while and rest your legs." ”

The more years ago, the better their fish sold, and on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, hundreds of fish were sold on not the market day.

The fish in the pond, found to eat, bad luck came, it was not easy to catch all of a sudden, on the twenty-eighth day, it took a lot of effort, Wen Jin frowned all day and wanted to recruit, on the twenty-ninth day, she asked Uncle Shi, who got up early, to help, sealed the ventilation port, and when Wen Jin Wenhan got up and opened the mouth, the fish rushed over all of a sudden, and there were those who turned their bellies, Wen Han praised Wen Jin while catching quickly. The Cheng Yu brothers, who came to help, quickly killed the fish, cleaned them, pickled them and threw them on a clean mat, and soon the fish were frozen into hard sticks, and they were busy until the end of the hour, and they put all the fish into boxes and put them on donkey carts and ox carts.

For convenience, Wen Jin asked Da Shanbo to help and bought a donkey with a more docile personality, Wen Han has now learned to drive a car, Cheng Yu's family has a cow, and he also set up a car to help, Wen Han and the two of them agreed to help sell the fish, take care of a lunch, each brother has ten copper plates, and give two fish, Cheng Yu brothers are very happy.

Qian Xiancheng sat on the kang for two days, and his heart was not calm, since there was no shortage of money at home, then he didn't have to make a tent for others, and it was best to study at home while plowing the fields. His son, nephew, and wife are busy every day, and he can't sit still.

After dinner that morning, Merriam-Webster had cooked the pig food, and he took the initiative to come and lift the barrel: "I'll come, I'll come." ”

"No, no, I'll do all this rough work."

"Damn, I don't want to be an accountkeeper in the future, just farm and study at home, do you say okay?"

Webster was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Okay, okay." She was reluctant to let her husband go to other people's homes, looking at people's eyebrows and low eyes, besides, they were separated for several months, and the days of missing were really difficult.

Afraid that her husband would not be able to do it, Qian Xiancheng carried the burden, Wei followed behind, and the two went to the pigsty together.

Qian Xiancheng picked up a bucket of pig food and prepared to pour it all into the trough.

"Wait." Webster hurriedly stopped, she picked up the wooden spoon, poured it in spoonful by spoonful, and taught in her mouth, "It's cold, pour it in at once, and it will be cold soon, and the pig can't eat it well, and it doesn't like to eat it." ”

"Oh! It turned out to be so troublesome. Qian Xiancheng said, took the wooden spoon in his wife's hand, and did the same.

"You go feed the piglets, you listen to the fierce screams over there, and you can't do it in a hurry."

"Hehehe" Qian Xiancheng obediently complied.

"Why do we only have one big pig?" Looking at a group of thirty or forty pounds of pigs squeezing around together, Qian Xiancheng was very strange.

"Everything else has been sold, what about the New Year."

"What about this one?"

"This is an old sow, there will be pigs in February, you don't see its belly boss."

"Oh, haha" Qian Xiancheng felt very fresh. After feeding the pigs, he walked around with his hands behind his back to inspect the land of his own, with Webster behind him.

"Hey,, how did you dig up the alfalfa? What are you doing with this big hole? Qian Xiancheng was taken aback.

"Wen Jin sees that raising ducks makes money, and wants to raise more next year, anyway, the fresh eggs can't be sold, so they will be pickled into salted duck eggs, and Wang Shanren will have as much as he wants."

"This kid, he has an eye for money, why is his mind full of money?"

Wei Shi was stunned for a moment, feeling that it was difficult for the man to speak, and she patiently defended her nephew: "Wen Jin said that working hard to produce is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people, in short, there is food and meat, so that the people will not starve." ”

Qian Xiancheng couldn't refute it, no matter how high he was, he had to eat grains.

Wen Jin said that expanding production is not just for our family to make money. Work hard to run forward, and take the lead for the neighbors, they can learn from the same, and they can also get more food, if the whole country is like this, won't the four seas be peaceful and the people happy? ”

"This kid, at a young age, the sea knows how to have the world in mind!" Qian Xiancheng sighed a little, feeling that his realm seemed to be much higher than his own, and he seemed to be fake and high.

Wei didn't know what the man was thinking, and continued to relay his niece's words: "Wen Jin said that there is nothing wrong with making more money, and if the neighbor is in trouble, he can also reach out to help." ”

"yes."

"I didn't expect ......," Qian Xiancheng was suddenly very ashamed. Do you think she loves money? In this town and village, she has helped a lot of people. For example, if you come home, you almost can't get by, and now, you see it, right? How prosperous, my son has been sent to school. There is also this tofu historian, after a year, the money she helps earn is not as good as more than one percent of what she invests, Wen Jin said that she just wants to make the human body live decently, and she doesn't expect the Shi family to help make any money. ”

"Huh?" This also subverted Qian Xiancheng's impression of his nephew, and he was stunned.

"The child said, I don't know or can't help, then forget it, since she knows that the Shi family is in trouble, she has the ability to come up with a move, and she will never see death and not save her."

"That's right." Qian Xiancheng stood and struggled for a long time, his opinion of Wen Jin changed greatly, and he paused for a while before saying, "This kid is good, but he still shows some love for money." ”

Merriam-Webster felt the same way, so he didn't say anything.

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