Chu Ping looked at the door of the shop for a while, and when the middle-aged man walked away, he quietly followed.

"This person should be a peer!"

"Well, I guess I heard about it somewhere, and I came here on purpose."

After about half a burnt incense, Chu Ping, who went out, went back to the shop, and as soon as he entered the house, he didn't wait to sit down, so he explained what he saw after going out.

"The man obviously came in an ox cart, but he parked the ox cart at a long distance, and if I hadn't gone with him, I wouldn't have been able to see it, and it was clear that he was deliberately hiding, and the coachman probably was also in a group. And asked him why he had done so much? It's not a good thing! ”

Chu Ping's words confirmed the conjecture of the little couple just now, and Chu Yi nodded: "It's probably a peer who came to inquire about the news." ”

Hearing this, Chu Ping scratched his face and regretted it a little: "Shouldn't that be sold to him, my brain!" Just thinking about killing him, what can I do now? ”

Shen Luzhu didn't think it was a big deal: "It's okay, even if we don't sell it to him today, maybe Ming'er will come again with a different person?" Or ask someone in the village to buy it directly, we can't just prevent him, and the goods will not be sold in the future, because it is not okay to waste food because of choking! ”

"Will that have any effect on the shop?"

Seeing that his cousin still blamed himself, Chu Yi poured a bowl of herbal tea and handed it over: "It's just to see, it's okay." ”

"That is, as the saying goes, peers are enemies! Our shop is becoming more and more popular, and it will naturally attract the attention of peers, and people want to come and see, which is normal. Although the man was a little obscene just now, he didn't ask what was useful, and the cousin didn't have to take it to heart. ”

The ox cart pulled the middle-aged man and the stack of paper money more than half a person high, and drove towards the Wufang Village next door.

The one who drove the car was Hu Shun, who lived in Wufang Village: "Cousin, didn't you just go and see, inquire about the situation of his family, and buy something?" Why did you buy so much at once? ”

The middle-aged man, that is, Hu Shun's cousin Huang Liang, took a sip and scolded and said, "Damn, I was seen that I dared to kill Lao Tzu!" Is his family's business really as good as his aunt said? ”

"Of course, cousin, you haven't seen it, when I came to buy paper money with my aunt during the Midyear Festival, good guys, there was a queue in front of the shop! And the paper money in his house is indeed different from the side one, just the copper money burns paper, saying that the dead people like it, and it burns more than the average one! ”

"That's, deliberately saying it to lie to you villagers!" Huang Liang glanced at him with disdain, in the end, he is a native bun in the countryside, he has never seen the world, and everyone believes this kind of nonsense!

Huang Liang worked as a merchant when he was young, carrying a flat shoulder through the streets and alleys, and earned the first pot of gold in his life. Later, he felt that the merchant was unproductive, so he went to the grocery store where he often bought goods, and started a running hall in the shop.

Later, he married the somewhat disabled daughter of the shop owner and became a son-in-law! As soon as the old father-in-law entered the soil, he took over the shop, and it has only been more than a year, and now he has taken over the rich man who has taken over his father and mother by his side and married two concubines!

This year, it is just taking advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival, bringing my father and mother back, and gathering with relatives in the village, which can be regarded as returning home.

When chatting, I heard my aunt talk about the paper money shop in the mountain village, saying that the business was very hot, thinking about what kind of big business could be made in this rural place, which was not left and right, so I asked my cousin to catch the car and pull myself to take a look.

Seeing that his cousin didn't believe it, Hu Shun continued: "I also heard that his family has opened a workshop, and it is said that the female workers in the workshop can earn more than one or two silver a month!" Cousin, you say, is his family going to be overturned? ”

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, everyone in ten miles and eight villages knows about this, and many people are looking forward to his family recruiting again!"

If you want to say that this Chu family's paper money shop does have some things, but with that new style, you can make so much money in this village, Huang Liang didn't believe it.

Huang Liang was half-lying on the ox cart, with his head resting on the pile of paper money, and kicked Hu Shun's ass: "How did the shop start, start from the beginning, tell me a good story." ”

Hu Shun didn't know what his cousin was going to do, so he just said it, so he said what he knew, 1510: "...... His shop is very good, and he used to have to go to the town to buy a burning paper, but now he doesn't have to toss it, and it sells at the same price as the town. ”

"What do you say? Near this village, this is the one who sells paper money? Huang Liang listened and suddenly straightened up.

"Not only around us, but these seven or eight villages in front of us, just this one!"

"That's right, no wonder!" Huang Liang said, his body lay back again, and blamed him, he hadn't come back for many years, even if he came back before, that is, to see his father and mother, who cared about anything in this village.

There are so many villages, so many households, just a shop that sells paper money in his family, plus a little fooling people, they all say that his family makes money, no matter who opens it, it is difficult to make money or not!

"Shun'er! Want to make money? ”

"Yes, cousin, of course I want to make money!"

"Then follow your cousin and I'll do a good job, I'll let you earn more money than the one just now!"

After a break, the shop did not open again in the afternoon, and the young couple planned to take Chu Li and Xiuxiu, who had finished school, to the town. Ming'er is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I plan to go to the market, buy some moon cakes to eat and come back, call the big guy tomorrow night, and go to my yard to enjoy the moon and spend the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Every time I go to the town, I must go to two places, one is the money village, and the other is the cloth village or ready-to-wear shop.

Chu Li saw that he had come to the shop to buy clothes again, and reached out and pulled his sister-in-law's sleeve: "Sister-in-law, I still have clothes to wear, you don't need to buy them for me, just buy them for my cousin." ”

Chu Xiuxiu also shook her head: "I also have a cousin-in-law, so I don't need to buy it anymore." ”

"You've both grown a lot and your clothes are short, why don't you buy them?" Shen Luzhu also knew that his younger brothers and sisters were sensible, but he was afraid that she would break the bank, so he discussed: "Sister-in-law won't buy ready-to-wear this time, buy some fabrics and go back to the head office by herself?" ”

Chu Li is ten years old, Xiuxiu is also thirteen years old, it is the time to grow the body, the family conditions have been better for more than a year, Shen Luzhu is not stingy, always change the appearance, give them to make up for their bodies, both of them have grown a lot!

Most of the previous clothes couldn't be worn, and when he was busy, Shen Luzhu bought them ready-to-wear clothes, and now that he was free, he planned to buy some good fabrics to make for them.

Chu Li still shook his head: "Sister-in-law, I'm growing up, and it's short to turn around, so let's not do it, anyway, it's hot now, and it's cool to wear it shorter." ”

"That's not possible, let others see it, I should think that my sister-in-law is not good at needlework! Besides, the third uncle, your brother and I have to do it, and these small clothes, my sister-in-law bought the fabric and changed it, maybe I can wear it for another year! ”

The small ready-to-wear clothes before are still half-new, and Shen Luzhu doesn't plan to throw them away, although his life is more comfortable now, but it is not to the point of extravagance and waste. There were no younger children at home, so I planned to buy some fabrics of the same material and color, repair them, and wear them again.

Chu Yi looked at the familiar scene in front of him, and felt very warm, every time he came to the town together, it would happen, and he would never say anything more, his wife was kind and gentle, his younger brothers and sisters were obedient and sensible, he was happier than anyone else at the moment!

After buying the fabric, a few people went to the bookstore again, Chu Li has already begun to learn to write, and he wants to prepare more pen and ink for him, as well as Xiuxiu, Shen Luzhu plans to buy some literacy books, and when she is not busy, she will teach her to read some words, even if she doesn't do anything in the future, it is good to read when she is bored.

At the last stop of the trip, a few people went to the town market, moon cakes with various fillings, fruit candy cubes, as well as roast goose and roast chicken, dried fruit roasted goods, bought a bunch of everything, and finally bought a few lanterns with exquisite shapes, and then returned home in an ox cart.

In this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, several elders of the Chu family seem to be a little uninterested, for no other reason, Chu Renren is still in Fucheng, away from home for more than a month, and I don't know if everything is okay over there.

The sister-in-law of the lobby, Li, brought her son to the old house this time, and in the afternoon a few people were in the stove room to prepare the evening meal, and Wang just fished out the fish in the water tank under the window, and Li took over the wooden basin containing the fish.

"A-Niang, this fish is not easy to clean up, so I'll do it!"

Wang was also polite: "Cheng, then you clean up." ”

Shen Luzhu, who was chopping vegetables on the side, looked at the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and always felt that something seemed weird, and when he was about to make a fire for the stove pit, it was too late for the sister-in-law to hide in the lobby in the past, but this time he actually took the initiative to carry a small stool and sat in front of the stove to make a fire.

Shen Luzhu tilted his head and looked at the sun outside the house, the sun came out in the west today?

"What are you lazy about? If you don't hurry up and finish cutting it, I'm waiting for your dish to go to the pot, cutting a vegetable is so grinding! ”

Glancing at the eldest aunt with a face, Shen Luzhu thought to himself, it seems that the eldest aunt is still the original recipe!

After eating a salty Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, Uncle Chu's family took advantage of the slight light and returned to their house.

The little couple set up a table in the yard, Chu Li and Xiuxiu, and hung the lanterns all over the yard, the weather tonight is very good, the full moon is in the sky, the stars are bright, and there is a breeze from time to time.

When the food and wine were eaten and drunk, they were put on the table one by one, and Zhao Cheng, Chu Ping, and the four brothers of the Shen family also arrived one after another.

Everyone sat around a table, chatting about the world, admiring the moon and watching the lanterns, Uncle Chu sat in it, looking at everyone with a smile, feeling that it seemed that he had beaten his nephew to get married, and this day was getting more and more enjoyable.

Life is like this, day by day, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, most of the year has gone, and Chu Xiuxiu's literacy plan has also been put on the agenda by Shen Luzhu.

Shen Luzhu did not use books such as the Three Character Classic or Thousand Character Texts to teach Chu Xiuxiu to read and write, like the school, but bought a few fables or books such as travelogues, thinking that this would be more interesting, and Xiuxiu should be more interested.

This morning, Chu Yi was making a coffin in the yard, Chu Li also went to the school, there were only Xiuxiu and Shen Luzhu in the shop, the two were learning hard, Chu Ping hurriedly entered the house.

"Sister-in-law, in Wufang Village next door, someone is going to open a paper money shop!"

Shen Luzhu was stunned when he heard this: "Sit down and talk slowly, when did my cousin know?" ”

Chu Xiuxiu gave Chu Ping a bowl of herbal tea, Chu Ping drank it in one go, wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, he ran all the way back from the big willow tree at the head of the village: "I'm idle, wandering around the village." I met Feng Cripple at the head of the village, he told me. It is said that there is a family surnamed Hu in Wufang Village, and recently found a lot of idlers, gave money, and asked them to help publicize in the nearby village, and his family is going to open a paper money shop, which will open on the 28th. said that it would blow up firecrackers at that time, and invited a lion dance team to prepare a lot of melon seeds and candy cubes, and invited the villagers to join in the fun! ”

"Twenty-eight, isn't that the day after tomorrow!"

"Yes, sister-in-law, I knew that I had been going out for a while now, and I should have gone out to hang out for a while if I had nothing to do, and it has been a few days since I said it, so let's find out today! What now? ”

He was led by his cousin to do the work, although he still can't change his lazy temperament, but he doesn't go out much anymore, and he only knows it so late!

"I already knew, isn't it the same thing, we can't stop people from getting out of the way! No one stipulates that we are only allowed to sell paper money around here, and we will open it, I haven't seen a lion dance yet, so I'll talk to your cousin in a while, and we'll go and join in the fun! ”