Chapter 44: Up the Mountain and Down the River
Qiao Zheng and Hua Banxia waited in the store for a long time, except for He's Buzhuang, no one really took the initiative to send samples over, and it seems that there are still doubts about Hua Banxia.
Also, Hua Banxia, a twenty-eight-year-old country woman, was already an ancestor who was able to pull more than 30 shops for the first time, or it may be because they really had no way out, and the dead horse was used as a live horse doctor, so that Hua Banxia picked up a bargain.
The price of the platform fee originally set for Banxia was ten taels of silver a month, but when it came to the end being cut to seven taels of silver by those profiteers, this month added up to only two hundred taels of water, and in addition to artificial materials and store rent, I didn't make much money in the end.
The more she thought about it, the more sad she became, and she lay on the counter to study ink in every possible way.
After a while, the door became lively again, and Hua Banxia looked at it in a blink of an eye, and it turned out that it was Qiao Da and they were back. Think about it, it's not much, one person will be over if you collect four or five.
Qiao Zheng couldn't sit still, after all, the first time he came into contact with the business in the city, he couldn't say it if he wasn't nervous, and he kept wandering around the house waiting for a few younger brothers to come back.
No, as soon as there was a sound at the door, Qiao Zheng strode outside. Qiao Da and the others rode back together, attracting a large number of people without accident.
"Banxia, this is a sample of the five families in front of the east, you can take a look", Qiao Da put down his backpack and excitedly took out the cloth and clothes to show Hua Banxia.
Even those merchants are smart, they wrap the samples of each store in a bag, and stuff a note in the bag, on which are written the requirements for shooting.
Spend Banxia letting them put their things down and go to rest, walk to the counter by themselves, and start recording every baggage.
Half an hour later, it took half a summer to finish the record unhurriedly. Because it took Banxia to open the letter and read the requirements of each merchant, and if there were special requirements, it also took a lot of time.
"Uncle and second uncle, we can pack up and get ready to go home", Hua Banxia saw that the requirements on the paper were not strange, probably because they felt that they couldn't do it even if they mentioned Hua Banxia, so they let her go.
Hua Banxia really thinks it's very simple, after reading those requirements, I probably have a number in my heart, these thirty merchants have clothes, jewelry, rouge, and can be used with each other, and there is no need to spend Banxia to buy it yourself.
In the next half month, the Qiao family followed Hua Banxia to run east and west, in Hua Banxia's words, it was framing, mountains, rivers, forests, fields, city walls, and the mansion rented by Hua Banxia who didn't know what method Hua Banxia used, anyway, they didn't let go of anywhere.
But the Qiao family has to admit that Hua Banxia's collocation is very exciting every time, even if sometimes they feel that some two things can't be put together, but after Hua Banxia's angle, it feels completely different.
Qiao's family doesn't care about the fields at all these days, even if there is a waterwheel now, the villagers will still go to see the situation in the fields, but they haven't seen Qiao's family for many days, which can't help but make the villagers curious.
After many inquiries, the people of Qiaoli Village knew that Qiao's family quietly opened a shop in the city, and it is not strange to open a shop, everyone knows how many problems this waterwheel has solved for the government lord, and the government government should be rewarded.
But everyone went to the city every day these days, and deliberately passed by the shop opened by Qiao's family, but they didn't see the shop open. So, there were rumors in the village that Qiao's family was poor and ghostly, and they finally had the silver, and they lost all the money they opened, which made the villagers who were beaten because of the waterwheel last time very happy.
But how did the Qiao family, who go out early and return late every day, know that the people in the village have spread them like this, but this is exactly what it means to spend half a summer, as long as they think that they are not doing well, they will not come to trouble themselves.
In the past half a month, I have followed Hua Banxia to "go south and north", I have seen a lot of things, and I have learned a lot of ways to express various emotions and things, which is like living a lifetime all at once, and I have seen many things that I have never seen before.
Now, even Qiao Da and Qiao Er, the two pillars of the family, who used to have a half-believing attitude, have now become 100% supportive, no matter whether they succeed in the end or not, it is not in vain that they have worked so hard.
"Okay, uncle and second uncle, everyone has been running around with me for a long time these days, you have a good rest in the past two days, and we will start to be busy for a while after two days."
Qiao's family didn't have a chair, and he just wanted to collapse on the chair after spending half a summer, but he could only drag his tired body to explain to them, and then walked back to the house and lay on the bed by himself.
Hua Qingqing was also too tired to get up, so she followed Hua Banxia back and collapsed on the bed. The Chen family Huaqiao outside competed for them, and they couldn't wait, and everyone dispersed in a hurry and returned to their own rooms to lie down.
The intensity of the work in the past few days is too great, and if it weren't for the fact that Banxia filled their kettle with Lingxi water every day, they might not be able to hold on.
In the middle of the night, Hua Banxia was woken up by mosquito bites, and tonight's sky is particularly dark and extraordinarily quiet. Hua Banxia didn't disturb anyone and sneaked into the space by himself.
As soon as I entered the space, I felt that the fatigue of my whole body had disappeared, and I couldn't be refreshed anymore.
I took out the memory card in the camera, plugged it into the computer, and started the work of compulsory classes, retouching, and puzzles every night.
Since the day of shooting, Hua Banxia will sneak into the space in the middle of the night and process the photos taken during the day, if the shooting goes well, Hua Banxia can also print it directly.
After finishing the work at hand, it took Banxia to stretch out, seeing that the time was almost five o'clock, Hua Qingqing's little girl usually got up at half past five, no matter what she said, it didn't work, who made the summer dawn early.
It took Banxia to save the pictures that had been typed, and checked the ink cartridges of the printer again, and the amount was still sufficient! I put a lot of blank paper, hurriedly clicked on it, and then quietly appeared on the bed again.
I don't know when, Hua Banxia woke up again, it was already bright outside, and the sun had come out.
Hua Banxia quietly took out the alarm clock from the space, glanced at it and threw it in. It's already past ten o'clock, so I guess Qiao Da and they all got up.
Hua Banxia got off the bed, put on her shoes, and when she passed by the hall, she saw Qiao Da and several people sitting comfortably against the wall, still rubbing hemp rope in their hands.
"Banxia, get up", Chen Jiahua raised her head and greeted Hua Banxia happily.
Hua Banxia didn't wash his face and brush his teeth, just nodded with a smile and walked out of the well to wash his face. Since the establishment of the waterwheel, the streams and rivers in the village have come alive, and the amount of water under the ground is sufficient, and there is naturally no shortage of water in the well.
"Banxia, what are we going to do next?" Qiao Da saw Hua Banxia sitting down leisurely and rubbing the hemp rope with them, and asked a little worriedly.
"Uncle, I've already taken those pictures to print, and when they're printed, we can bind them."
How can Hua Banxia be so unreliable, in the days of store decoration, I was often in the city, and I had already found a paper mill, but it was not printing, but a batch of rough paper, how rough and rough, how hard and hard, used to make covers.
I also found a dyeing workshop through He Ruocai, ordered a batch of lilac coarse cloth, and added more money for them to sew the coarse cloth and make it into a lucky bag with an opening, with ropes on both sides of the opening, which can be tied tightly with a pull, and is used for receiving and packaging, which is naturally printed with the signboard of 'Tanhua Express'.
Calculate the time, it should be delivered in two days. It's just that I've been busy filming for the past two days, and I don't have time to go to the shops in the city to watch, so I'm going to wait in the city for the next two days.
"Auntie, how much do we rub this hemp rope?" Hua Banxia wants to see if the hemp rope is enough, if it is enough, you can carry it directly to the city.
"Oh oh", Hua Banxia suddenly called Chen Jiahua, startling her, "Here, come over and see if it's enough?" ”
Chen Jiahua pointed to Qiao Zheng's house, Qiao Zheng has been living in the largest house in the family since he broke his leg to recuperate. Now it's okay and because I'm busy and I don't have time to change houses, I've been letting Joe fight for it. That's why Chen Jiahua moved the sundries to his house and put them away.
Hua Banxia went in and saw that there were bundles of hemp rope in Qiao Zheng's house, because the sisal was boiled and dried before it was kneaded into a rope, so it was not as rough and hard as Hua Banxia imagined.
There are some thin burrs on the rope that protrude, and light friction will not prick the hand, but the toughness is leveraged.
"Auntie, these are enough, our booklet is not big, we don't need so much", Hua Banxia saw the hemp rope that was almost one-third of the room, and hurriedly asked Chen Jiahua to stop.
"Cheng, when do you want it?" Chen Jiahua thought that she could do more if she could, so as not to be in a hurry when she got it, no, she would do it whenever she was free, so there were so many.
The filming was delayed for too much time, and if the shops in the city didn't open again, maybe those merchants would go into trouble with the yamen.
"Let's carry the hemp rope to the city this afternoon, and by the way, pack up our daily necessities, we estimate that we will have to stay in the city for a few days", Hua Banxia turned around and came out, and explained to the others by the way.
"Ah, you're going to spend the night in the city, aren't you tired?" Where did Tian Fuzhen think that he couldn't go home after doing a job.
Hua Banxia nodded, "Uncle Niang and Second Uncle, it's really hard for you to be busy with me, not just these days, if the booklet is completed, it may be even busier", Hua Banxia said with some guilt, if it weren't for the lack of funds now, and the people couldn't afford it, where would I be willing to work a few elders.
"Oh, we're fine, it's just that you're too tired these days, can't you eat?" Tian Fuzhen is afraid of tiredness, and he has done farm work all his life, and he has never suffered any hardships.
When Hua Banxia heard Tian Fuzhen's words, her nose instantly soured, "I'm fine, as long as the second aunt doesn't complain about me."
After having lunch early, everyone in the family carried their own special baskets, filled the hemp rope, and the whole family closed the door and went out.