The grand occasion in front of the paper money stall was not relieved until a day or two before the Midyear Festival, and the stall was closed at noon on July 13, and after eating, Shen Luzhu added some sugar to the mung bean soup that had been cooled in the stove room, the weather was too hot, although Chu Yi had set up a pergola in advance, but it would still be unbearable to be outside for a long time.

Shen Luzhu took the soup and gave it to Grandpa Chu who was still in the hall, gave a bowl, and sent a bowl to Chu Li, watched him drink and fall asleep, and then went back to the house with Chu Yi, who happened to send soup to Uncle Chu.

"There are fewer people who come to buy paper money this morning, and when I am free in the morning, I quietly calculated in my heart, I am afraid that we will earn thirty or forty taels in half a month!"

This is still Shen Luzhu's approximate estimate, the actual number should be a little more, I thought of it before, this wave of the Midyear Festival is estimated to make a profit, and I know that it is indeed a lot of sales when I hold the money box every day, but the number that can be estimated still makes Shen Luzhu fiercely surprised!

Seeing Shen Luzhu's eyes narrowing with a smile, Chu Yi also felt happy: "Our Azhu is awesome!" ”

Shen Luzhu smiled and lay into Chu Yidi's arms, Chu Yi always likes to say "we Azhu, we Azhu" recently, Shen Luzhu thinks it is better than any love words, at least she is very useful!

Chu Yi adjusted his posture to make his wife lie more comfortable, and felt that the person in his arms seemed to have lost a lot of weight recently: "Since there are not many people, why don't you stop tomorrow and rest for a while?" ”

"Okay, everything that should have been bought should have been bought, what we stocked up before and what we came in later, and it was almost sold, when the second brother came to deliver the goods in the afternoon, don't take the yellow burnt paper back, they are tired enough for more than a month, so they just stop for a while, and everyone has a good rest!"

"Okay, go to sleep!"

In the afternoon, Zhao was like usual, pushing a small cart to Chu's house to deliver copper coins and burning paper, and Chu Yi unloaded the goods with Zhao Cheng, and told him about the stall that would be closed the next day.

Chu Yi took the money and handed it to Zhao Cheng, "Have a good rest these days, and I'll look for you before I leave the stall." ”

"Well, you and your younger siblings should have a good rest!" Zhao Cheng collected the money and was about to say goodbye to the gate of the courtyard, when he saw Shen Luzhu walking in from outside the courtyard.

"Chu Yi, give the paper money to Brother Zhao and get a few knives to go back, as well as the candles I bought at home, I'm so busy these days, I'm afraid I haven't prepared anything for the Midyear Festival!" Shen Luzhu suddenly thought of this, and when he saw that there was no one left, he told Chu Yi and Chu Xiuxiu to take care of them first, and then entered the courtyard by themselves!

"No need, brother and sister, the family must have prepared it!"

"This time is so busy, how can I have time to prepare for this, my own family is doing this business, can't I let others go out to buy it again?" Shen Luzhu has always been a love-hate character, whoever treats her and Chu Yi well, she naturally has to be sincere to others.

"Azhu is right, wait for me." Chu Yi patted Zhao Cheng on the shoulder, signaled him to wait, and then entered the empty house where the goods were released.

Zhao Cheng pushed five copper coins to burn paper and a small bundle of candles, step by step to go home, only to feel that his heart was hot, this more than a month, his family just by making this copper money to burn paper, he earned more than seven taels of silver, which is equivalent to working in the town for a year!

Although Chu Yi has always said that it is impossible to lose himself and make money for others, Zhao Cheng knows in his heart that such a lucrative job is no different to Chu Yi, but Chu Yi gave it to him, and he really wanted to pull him as a brother!

After that, Chu Ping from the next yard also came over, and Chu Yi also told him about the stall, and also brought him burning paper and candles, and asked Chu Ping to take it back.

Although Chu Ping has been a lot more diligent in the past month, he is still that lazy character, and when he heard that he could finally rest, he instantly felt that any fatigue was gone: "That relationship is good, cousin, why don't we rest for a while?" I think this mid-year festival has passed, and no one will need to buy paper money for a while, so let's take a break directly and take a break until August, how about it? ”

Without waiting for Chu Yi to speak, Chu Ping's mother's Qian's big voice came over: "Take a fart, I want to depend on you, you can't wait to take a break until August next year!" You don't make trouble for others there! ”

Qian saw that his son hadn't come back after going out for a long time, thinking that he was lazy in the yard next door and refused to come back, so he hurriedly stepped on a stool and leaned on the wall to look over, and just came up, he heard Chu Ping say that he wanted to rest until August!

"Auntie."

Chu Ping's front foot was yelled back by his mother, and the second brother Shen Songjie on the back foot also arrived at the stall at the courtyard gate. It just so happened that there was no one, so Shen Luzhu chatted with his second brother for a while, and by the way, he talked about his plans for the future, and when Shen second brother left, he also greeted Chu Yi and asked him to go to Shen's house for dinner the next night.

I still didn't eat the wine on the second day, because Grandma Chu was sick. When Grandpa Chu got up in the morning, he found that his wife, who was usually supposed to get up, didn't get up, and he didn't respond when he called, and he found that Grandma Chu was hot, and she seemed to be talking nonsense, so she hurriedly asked Chu Yi to invite Lang Zhong from the village.

When Lang Zhong arrived, Grandma Chu had already woken up, only feeling weak and dizzy.

Lang Zhong looked at Grandma Chu's situation, gave the pulse again, sat aside and began to write the prescription: "The old lady is overthinking, she didn't rest well, and she caught a little cold at night, so she got hot, it's not a big deal, I will prescribe a few medicines, drink a good rest, and you will be cured in a few days!" ”

Grandma Chu was sick, Shen Luzhu and Chu Yi naturally went to the Shen family to eat and drink at this time, so they could only ask someone to go to the Shen family's courtyard and say that there was something wrong with them temporarily, and they would go over another day.

Shen Luzhu boiled the medicine, and waited for Grandma Chu to drink, and then went back to the stove room to make breakfast for the whole family, and saw that the mung bean porridge on the stove had to be boiled for a while, but Chu Li was going to go to the school in a while, thinking about simply boiling a few more eggs, and carrying him to eat on the way: "Xiuxiu, you help my sister-in-law watch the fire, I'll pick up a few eggs, Xiuxiu, Xiuxiu?" ”

"Sister-in-law, you call me?"

Shen Luzhu saw that she was stunned, and reached out to touch Chu Xiuxiu's forehead: "What's wrong Xiuxiu, isn't it uncomfortable?" ”

"No, sister-in-law, it's not uncomfortable."

"Then you help my sister-in-law look at the fire, I'll pick up a few eggs, and we'll have porridge with boiled eggs for breakfast in a while!" As he spoke, he unbuttoned his apron and walked out of the stove room.

Chu Xiuxiu took the stove hook and poked the fire in the stove, and continued to think about what happened just now, Lang Zhong said that grandma was overthinking, she thought that she might know why grandma was overthinking, but, should you tell your cousin-in-law?

Soon Shen Luzhu returned to the stove room from the backyard, cleaned the eggs, and put them in a porridge pot to cook together. Chu Xiuxiu thought about it and decided to talk to her cousin-in-law: "Sister-in-law, Lang Zhong said that grandma is overthinking, I may know what grandma is thinking!" ”

"Just thinking about this?" Shen Luzhu remembered Chu Xiuxiu's reaction, and knew that she was usually a timid and honest person, so he guessed that she was really entangled in this matter.

"Well, grandma has been standing in the courtyard and looking at the stall at the door lately, and she always muttered, I knew this, I wouldn't let them do it alone. Sister-in-law, the stall has made money, and grandma doesn't seem to be so happy. ”

Although Chu Xiuxiu is only twelve years old this year, she can no longer be regarded as a child in the countryside, not to mention that after Uncle Chu broke his leg, the third aunt at that time left the Chu family, Chu Xiuxiu had to learn to help the family work at a young age, although she doesn't like to talk, but her ideas are much more mature than many of her peers.

Shen Luzhu has been too busy recently, and she hasn't paid much attention to Grandma Chu's movements, but she also knows that she will definitely regret not agreeing to the family to do this business at the beginning, but Grandma Chu regretted that she had started her illness, which she really didn't expect!

"Sister-in-law knows, thank you for Xiuxiu, but this matter, it's good for the two of us to know, huh?"

Shen Luzhu planned to forget about this after hearing this, the old people love to think more, the left and right things are already like this, and they can't change it, Xiuxiu can just say it without feeling uncomfortable in her heart.

"Hmm!"

The second day is July 15th, the Midyear Festival!

In the afternoon, Uncle Chu and Uncle Wang took their youngest son Chu Zhi back to the old house, and as soon as they entered the hospital, they heard that Grandma Chu was sick, and the family of three was busy visiting the house.

Grandma Chu drank the decoction for two days, and lay down in the house to rest for two days, at this time the fever had subsided, and her body was much better, but in the end, she was old, not as young as when she was young, and her spirit was still a little weak. When he saw his son's family coming, he half-leaned on the kang and talked.

Uncle Chu was originally a little awkward because of the paper money business, but when he heard that A-Niang was sick, he couldn't take care of it: "In the summer, why is A-Niang still cold?" The third brother said that Lang Zhong said that it was overthinking, but what bothered A-Niang? ”

"It's nothing, it's just sweating and blowing the wind in the middle of the night, take Ah Zhi out, your daddy is still waiting for your help." When Grandma Chu thought of this now, she felt panicked in her heart, and she didn't want to say more than half a sentence, so she sent him out.

Uncle Chu took Chu Zhi to the courtyard and helped prepare the candles for a while, because he had to light two candle strips from outside the courtyard gate and extend them to his own yard.

There is a lot of wood in the yard, there is a wind today, burning paper money in the yard is afraid that it will point the wood on the side, Chu Yi took Chu Li outside the courtyard gate, dug a soil pit, burned paper money in the pit, and blocked the wind outside, and avoided lighting the wood in the yard, and then backfilled the excavated soil after burning, it is also convenient.

was busy outside in an orderly manner, but the eldest aunt Wang stayed in the name of taking care of Grandma Chu. After so many years of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, before Chu Renzhongxiu separated, the two had been fighting for many years, and her mother-in-law had just sent her husband away, she didn't believe it at all.

It's just that what is the matter, everyone who can be worried has a fever? Wang's eyes rolled, and after washing a handkerchief, he guessed a rough idea!

For a while, it was still a matter of paper money trading, she and Chu Ren and his father, when they saw this stall so hot from a distance that day, they were in a trance for several days, not to mention the people who watched in front of them every day!

I must regret that I didn't agree to this business at the beginning, not to mention my mother-in-law, she will regret dying, I knew that I should have persuaded my family to agree, no matter how bad it is, when the Shen family said that they wanted to give silver, it would be better to ask for more, how is it better than watching the money go into other people's pockets and doing it in a hurry!

A-Niang wiped her face. The third child said it, Lang Zhong said that A-Niang was overthinking, A-Niang, you don't say it, and the daughter-in-law can guess it, it's still for the sake of that stall! ”

"If you want to go out if you have nothing to do, I don't need you to serve!" What annoys Grandma Chu the most about the Wang family is that she is so energetic and has no eyes, if she hadn't given birth to a capable eldest grandson to the old Chu family, she would have cleaned her up a long time ago!

I am looking at Chu Ren's face, and I have only turned a blind eye to her over the years! She's good, and she's rushing to make herself blocked!

"Auntie, don't worry, I want my daughter-in-law to say, regret it's too late now, people have made money, they have tasted the sweetness, how can they give the business to the family again, instead of being in a hurry, it is better to think about how to make some more benefits!"