Chapter Thirty-Eight: A New Lo-mei Stall

"Goo-Goo......

Before dawn, the cries of unknown animals came from the mountains and forests, and he opened his eyes in a daze under the urging of the biological clock.

So sleepy.

He patted his face vigorously, got up from the bed in a hurry, the cold air stimulated, most of the sleepiness dissipated, and quickly put on the clothes that Jiazhen bought for him.

The weather is getting colder and colder.

He yawned tiredly, this time he was busy enough, walking thirty miles back and forth to the county seat every day to do business, and when he came back, he had to deal with new brine goods.

Hurry up and put the marinade into the pot, you have to hurry up and take the hoe to work in the field.

It's not enough to finish working in the fields, and sometimes you have to go to the mountains to find firewood, and recently the family has been running out of firewood very quickly.

In recent times, many times it is dark before dragging the tired body home.

However, although he was tired, his heart was quite full, and every time he watched the healthy family eat around the table, all the hard work was worth it.

Fortunately, there is a strong labor force in the family, not to mention anything else, looking for firewood in the mountains, and every time I come back, I carry nearly 100 catties of firewood, and chopping firewood is even more accurate.

Lighting the kerosene lamp, Xu Fugui yawned, came to the stove room, and found that Changgen had woken up and was burning in front of the stove, the pot was steaming, and the leftover meals from last night were steaming inside.

"Uncle Gen, you go and sleep more, I'll just come by myself." Xu Fugui sat down next to him and stretched out his hands to bake the fire.

Changgen smiled innocently, "I'm old, I can't sleep, young master, you're tired enough, I'm idle." ”

"Uncle Gen, don't say that, I haven't seen you idle any time."

"Young Master, are you doing well in the past two days?"

Xu Fugui shook his head, "It's cold, and it doesn't sell as well as a few days ago." ”

The colder the weather, the more difficult it is to sell lo-mei, and winter and spring are the off-seasons for lo-mei.

Of course, it's just that the sales are not so good, in fact, the business is still okay, Xu Fugui sells the same amount as before, it doesn't matter if he can't sell out, you can keep it for the next day and continue to sell, or eat it at home.

Even if you can't eat it at home, you can give it to the children and neighbors in the village.

So now, as long as he and Lai Shun appear in the village, they will be warmly welcomed by the children, and other people in the village will greet him affectionately.

The two chatted, and Laishun on the side was not affected at all, and he slept very sweetly.

After the meal was steamed, Changgen would wake up, and the two of them first poured the hot water at the bottom of the pot into the basin and washed their comfortable hot water faces.

As for brushing your teeth, you don't have this condition for the time being, so you can only use the previous method and rinse your mouth with salt water.

Changgen steamed two braised eggs in the pot, put the two of them in a bowl, and ate them together with rice, and last night they ate fried cabbage, although it was simple, but the food was also very satisfying.

"Uncle Gen, let's go."

The two lit torches, stepped on straw sandals, ignored the cold air from the soles of their feet, carried braised goods and spices on their backs, and walked into the night.

"Young master, young lady and young grandmother haven't been here for a long time." Lai Shun yawned, "I miss Miss so much." ”

"Your young grandmother still has a big belly, where can she come out every day."

"It's also huh." Laishun smirked twice.

After walking for a while, the sky became cloudy, and the two of them extinguished the torches and walked with their necks bent in the mountain path.

This hellish weather is too cold, and the key is that they have no way to protect themselves from the cold.

Although the clothes given to them by Jiazhen were warm, everyone was reluctant to wear them, and it would be a pity that such good clothes were dirty and torn.

But it's not a way to freeze like this, so I closed the stall today, went to see how cotton and foreign cloth were sold, and asked my mother to make a few cotton clothes and come out.

Compared with local coarse cloth, foreign cloth is not only cheaper, but also of better quality and brighter color.

After all, the former is produced in a factory, and the latter is made at home, so it is normal not to be at the same level.

Now there is not much way to live in homespun cloth, the market is full of foreign cloth, and even many families no longer produce homespun cloth.

The reason is very simple, homespun cloth is time-consuming and laborious, and with that effort, the money earned by going to the county town to do odd jobs can buy more foreign cloth.

When I came to the county seat, the sky was already bright, the shops on the street were scattered and some were open, and the pedestrians were sparse, and it was obvious that the time was still relatively early.

When he came to Wang's Restaurant, as soon as Xu Fugui looked up, he saw a pair of familiar figures looking at him with a smile.

"Jiazhen, Fengxia, why are you here in the morning? Fengxia, you too, your mother still has a child in her belly. He was both happy and anxious.

It's the end of October, and the next month is the winter moon, and the last life Youqing was born at this time, and Jiazhen must not have any accidents now.

Feng Xia pouted, "Dad, why are you murdering me?" ”

"Dad didn't kill you, didn't Dad say to let you take care of your mother?"

"Hmph, Dad is the murderer of me." Feng Xia turned her head unhappily, her little hands clutching the corners of her clothes.

Jiazhen was not angry, he knew that Fugui was like this because he cared about her, and before he did it, where would he think so thoughtfully.

"Fugui, what do you see Feng Xia did for you?"

Fugui looked to the side, and as soon as he came, he found a dark green canvas covering something tightly, and he didn't know what was inside.

Jiazhen waved her hand and asked her subordinates to lift the canvas, and a lo-mei stall made of logs sat quietly on the bluestone road.

The stall is not big, but there are more than enough three or four people standing down, and there are also drawers inside, and a few grids are specially divided on the stall to put different kinds of lo-mei.

What's even more eye-catching is that there is also a mahogany plaque in front of the stall, which reads the four big characters of the dragon flying and the phoenix dance - Xu Ji lo-mei.

Even the price of each lo-mei is marked in front of the stall, which is much better than their shoddy lo-mei stall before.

Laishun opened his mouth wide with joy, walked over and kept stroking, and couldn't find any words to describe it in his head.

Feng Xia turned her head, found something, walked over and took his hand, "Dad, why are you crying." ”

Xu Fugui rubbed his eyes and hugged her, "Dad didn't cry, Dad just didn't sleep well." ”

Feng Xia stared at him for a while, didn't think much about it, and asked with a giggle, "Dad, then do you like the gift that my mother and I prepared for you?" ”

Xu Fugui nodded, smiling extremely happily, "I like it, my father likes it very much." ”

Jiazhen also smiled happily, although this lo-mei stall was built by a carpenter, but the design ideas were proposed by her, including plaques, lattices, and gauze to cover dust and mosquitoes, and even shelter from the rain.

Of course, the weight of this lo-mei stall is not light, after all, the whole body is made of logs, but there are four wooden wheels under the stall, which is relatively labor-saving to move......