After Liu Man'er and the others sat down, Dong looked at the doll in Liu Man'er's hand and said, "This is your child?" ”

"Yes." Liu Man'er nodded and handed the child to Dong's to see, "Her name is Rourou and she is a girl." ”

"It's so good-looking." Dong took the child, and the smile hidden in the folds on his face was more, "This doll is better than when you were a child." ”

Liu Man'er also pursed her lips and smiled, and asked again: "By the way, mother, what do you mean by what you just said outside the door?" ”

"Don't you know, the people in the village say that you owe someone else's debt, and the whole family has sold yourself to others, I asked your eldest brother to go to your house secretly, and he really doesn't know the people who live in it." Dong Shi teased while holding the child, and casually explained to Liu Man'er.

"Those people are just talking nonsense." Liu Man'er shook her head and said, "I don't owe anyone money now, you said that the family who lives in my house is a house bought by my family." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be a misunderstanding, so the mother will be relieved." When Dong heard Liu Man'er say this, he didn't even raise his head, still teasing Rourou, and his eyes were full of relief.

"Mother, this is my sister-in-law, she has always wanted to come to our mountains to play, so I brought her over this time." Liu Man'er pointed to Ye He and introduced.

"Hello auntie." Ye He greeted Dong very politely.

Dong also smiled when he saw the well-behaved Ye He, and asked Fang by the way, "Is your mother okay?" ”

"My mother had a serious illness some time ago, but now she is better." Ye He replied.

"That's good." Dong nodded and said, "I'm blocked from the news on the mountain, and I can't go to see your mother, it's really rude, let your mother not be surprised." ”

"It's okay, my mother can understand it." Ye He replied.

"Why didn't you see my eldest brother and sister-in-law?" Liu Man'er asked, "I heard that their children have also spoken out, so they must be able to walk by now." ”

"Alas, the boy is unlucky." Dong shook his head, a touch of sadness appeared in his eyes, and said, "Your eldest brother's child had a fever some time ago. ”

"How so?" Liu Man'er also felt a little unacceptable, "I haven't met him yet." ”

"Forget it, don't talk about these unhappy ones." Dong returned the child to Liu Man'er, stood up, walked to the stove in the corner of the house, and said, "Your brother and sister-in-law and your father have gone to work in the mountains, I think they should come back later, they will be happy to see you." ”

"Hmm." Liu Man'er nodded, sitting in the room like a guest, quite reserved, but Cao'er had already stood up and started to help clean the room.

Although she has been living in Liu Man'er's house for the past two years, she is still a member of the old Liu family, she goes home to really go home, and Liu Man'er goes home to her parents' home, which is a big difference.

Dong's method of hospitality is still to cook the most simple egg soup, and Liu Man'er did not push her around this time, accepting Dong's wishes.

Finally, when her daughter went home, Dong was busy cooking and killing chickens, Liu Man'er took out all the rabbit muntjac they caught on the road and handed it to Dong, and took advantage of Dong's cooking to take out the gift to Dong.

Of course, it is indispensable to give Dong some money, Dong accepted Liu Man'er's gift, but this silver money was never accepted, and said: "It's not easy for you yourself, you always give me money, how embarrassing is this?" ”

In fact, it was also because Ye He was here, and the Dong family was worried that Ye He would go back and tell the Fang family that Fang would say that Liu Man'er turned her elbow outward and always brought things to her mother's house.

Who knew that Ye He also followed Liu Man'er to persuade the Dong family, and said: "Auntie, you can accept it, this is all my sister-in-law's heart, if you don't accept it, my sister-in-law will definitely be sad." ”

After hearing this, Dong looked at Ye He, saw the sincerity on her face, hesitated for a moment, and thought that the family really needed money, so he accepted it ruthlessly.

Liu Man'er saw her accept the money, so she said: "If there is any difficulty in the family to come to me, our family may go to the county town after a while, and I don't know when we will come back." ”

"What are you doing in the county town?" Dong asked puzzled.

"Something." Liu Man'er didn't want to explain more to Dong's, but fortunately, Dong saw that Liu Man'er didn't want to say more, so he didn't ask more, but was busy cooking.

Liu Man'er took advantage of the Dong family's cooking time to take Ye He and Ye Tianchen around to take a look, and took them to enjoy the scenery in this mountain, they rarely come to this mountain, and they are quite curious about all this.

The clear stream is flowing, and a small waterfall not far away also attracts their attention, under the waterfall is a small pool, Liu Man'er and the three of them walked over, and they felt a burst of cold air rushing to their faces, Liu Man'er told them: "We used to wash clothes in this pool, and many boys would come to bathe in the summer." ”

Seeing that Ye He and Ye Tianchen were too close to the waterhole, she reminded again: "You guys be careful, don't fall down." ”

"Got it." This small waterhole is crystal clear, not far away is the splash of the waterfall, which is different from the river in the village, quite a scene, Ye He and Ye Tianchen couldn't help but squat on the edge of the waterhole to play in the water, stretched out their hands to touch the water, and they felt cold.

After playing for a while, Cao'er came over and asked the three of them to go back to eat, and the three of them followed Cao'er to the house, and the old willow head and Liu Guisheng had already returned, and when they saw Liu Man'er, they all had some joy in their eyes.

After eating, and gossiping about homely things, Liu Man'er packed up and prepared to go back, Cao'er stayed at home for two more days, Liu Guisheng will go to the mountain to buy some daily necessities in a few days, and will bring Cao'er over when the time comes.

In the county, I am busy every day, and it is rare that no one comes to disturb me at home these days, and Liu Man'er spends more time in a daze in addition to writing a script and taking care of the children.

I thought carefully about how my business should develop next, but the more I thought about it, the more troubled I felt, and now I still have a little goal to make money, but what to do when I have money? suddenly felt that this strong woman was not easy to be.

She likes money, but she doesn't like to put all her time into making money, and she doesn't want to make it her fun.

But what could she do?

You can't stay in this small village with children for the rest of your life, those days are too boring, alas, it's better to make some money first, and when you have money, it's good to go to the great rivers and mountains of this Liang country.

If the mountain doesn't come, I'll go over, and if he doesn't appear, I'll go to him, and when the time comes, I'll lead the handsome, ride a horse, wander all the way, and pursue all the way, which is not a beautiful thing.

She has never been a person who puts love first, but now love is more and more important in her mind, and even the child grows up day by day, and she misses him more and more, after all, a child can't live without a father.

I really hope that he can suddenly appear in front of her like before, but helplessly, until she left the countryside again and went to the county seat, there was no news from him, and he seemed to be really dead, and there was no news.

Liu Man'er led the family back to the county seat again, and Steward Wu also found a place in the county town, Liu Man'er entrusted the child to Fang's care, and she went to the county town with Steward Wu to take care of the newly opened restaurant.

With the experience of opening a teahouse for the first time, this time it is not a difficult thing, decoration, signboards do not need to cost anything, as for Mr. Storyteller, Xiao Er can be recruited anywhere, the book Liu Man'er wrote it, and now Journey to the West has also spread in this county, but after all, the stories that have been circulated are all pirated, Liu Man'er played a signboard and said that she was here to tell the follow-up story first, and after a few days, the listeners were eager to do it.

This county town is more prosperous than the county seat, but it is also a safer place than the county seat. And in the county town, you don't have to worry about people coming to make trouble, the government will have special people to patrol and collect taxes, and these ruffians also have their own special territory, as long as you pay them money, they will not come to disturb you.

In this way, Liu Man'er's teahouse turned out to be exceptionally smooth, and even a month later, the second one was successfully opened, and the business was full every day.

With money to make, Steward Wu is smiling all day long, and he is now running a teahouse with Liu Man'er, but he is at ease.

It's just that Liu Man'er didn't want to spend all her time in this teahouse, so she bought some literate subordinates in the county town, trained them in some shopkeepers, and let them work in this teahouse.

This county town is much bigger than the county seat, so there are many more opportunities, seeing that it is summer again, Liu Man'er went back to the county seat again, and asked Liu Yunsheng to open her snack shop to the county seat, and it was opened next door to her teahouse, which Liu Man'er had bought at a high price.

Thanks to the blessing of this printing workshop and teahouse, Liu Man'er is not so short of money now, if she wants to open any shop, just buy it directly, so convenient, it can be regarded as accumulating some real estate for herself, and she will have a dowry when she marries her daughter in the future.

After a few years, Liu Yunsheng has also grown a lot, and has grown into a mature man, he has helped Liu Man'er a lot during this time, Liu Man'er needs him to come over, so he didn't hesitate to come over.

It's just that after the shop opened, he and Liu Man'er euphemistically expressed their desire to return to the county seat.

Liu Man'er asked him to come over, that is, to let him teach the people in the store, and now that the store has been opened, it doesn't hurt for Liu Yunsheng to go back.

It's just that Liu Man'er asked him to be the shopkeeper of this snack bar, no matter how many branches are opened in the future, he will manage it, and Steward Wu is in charge of all the teahouses, and Han Shixin is in charge of the printing workshop.

Now the business of the printing shop is getting better and better, every day is too busy, the Korean style has expanded the printing shop a lot, and most of the guys working in the shop are some people bought by Liu Man'er, she thinks that the people bought in this way are more reliable, anyway, the people in this era are cheap, and she is not short of this money now.

As for Liu Man'er herself, in addition to occasionally looking at these three places, she will often go home to see Fang Shi and the others, her main job now is to write a script and train the second child, ready to reserve the shopkeeper.

Now Liu Man'er bought a large courtyard in the county town, bringing some modern training concepts to ancient times, she trained a group of shopkeepers, these boys and women have both men and women, their appearance is quite upright, their smiles are kind, and their lips are red and their teeth are white.

After training, the two are gentle and polite, and then go to the post for two months of internship, you will be a qualified little two, and if you are a little more powerful, you can be the shopkeeper.

Liu Man'er doesn't have so much patience, and after the accumulation of original funds, she feels that it is not so difficult to open this shop.

It may be that everything is difficult at the beginning, but now that her head has been opened, the next thing she needs is expansion.

Poor mountains and bad water are a lot of people, Liu Man'er now feels that this sentence is still a little reasonable, she thinks that it is better to open a shop in the big city, even if there is a land snake in the big city, but there are all kinds of forces and exist in the county, there will not be a situation where one family is dominant, but it is more suitable for her to survive and grow in the cracks.

When summer came, she already had five snack shops and three teahouses in the county town, and Liu Man'er asked a few girls to come over and teach them the skills of cooking food.

If someone really leaked it, she was not afraid now, after all, her signboard had been played, not to mention, she still had so many ideas in her mind, she was not afraid of anyone to open a store here compared with these pedantic ancients, she had so many routines and so many promotional methods that she had not used.

Of course, she hasn't thought about it yet, and she doesn't want to destroy this antique society until she has to, nor does she want to use routines to trick these simple and simple people.

Compared with the county seat, there are more rich people in the county town, this Fengyang County is originally a big city, but also the city of silk, the capital of embroidery, in these cities of this big beam, it is quite famous, but also quite rich.

People here are also looking for pleasure, taverns and tea shops are everywhere, and even at night, some dark alleys are brightly lit and full of vocal music, so in this summer, they can have a variety of ice food entrances, even if it costs a lot of money, they think it is worth it.