Xu Tianxin felt so hard.

When she opened her eyes in a daze, it was still dark outside, and she was about to get up.

Don't you know, the shop is about to depart.

Next door, her third uncle also got up an hour ago to chop wood and prepare the firewood for the house.

Xu Laosan had just finished feeding the cattle and was loading the ox cart, so busy that he was sweating.

And his niece Xu Tianxin tentatively stretched out her little hand from the bed, still with her eyes closed, touching the cotton jacket and cotton pants under the kang mat and just got up.

Since the beginning of winter, my grandmother will put the clothes she is going to wear on the hot kang in advance to warm up.

It's also hot to wear like this.

Xu Tianxin's hand touched the kang mat next to him, and suddenly he shook his head, and his grandmother was picked up by a car in the middle of the night and went to the shop, and no one gave her hot clothes.

No, someone gave heat.

The old lady got up early and went to her great-granddaughter's house to stuff her cotton jacket and pants under the mattress.

Right now, the old lady is heating a hot meal in the outhouse.

The old lady knew in her heart that her daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law didn't come back last night, so they should have eaten there. Later, the third child and Tian Xin must also go to the shop to eat, and after making breakfast, they will eat by themselves.

But she still cooked more wild vegetable porridge, knowing that her great-granddaughter was unwilling to eat coarse grain cakes, so she deliberately got up early to steam a lot of white flour and red bean buns, and put two chopsticks mustard pickles by the stove.

The conditions of the little daughter-in-law's family are okay now, and if you are tired from work, you can't save from your mouth, so let's eat.

If there is money to spare, who won't eat it?

If the third grandson and Tian Xin stay at home for dinner this morning, the old lady plans to cut two more salted duck eggs. If you don't eat it, you won't cut it. As for dry food, it will not be wasted, and the bean bags from this pot are enough for her to eat for several days, and she can also pack some for her third grandson who is about to travel far away.

Since opening the shop, the old lady has been staying at home to do manual work, washing clothes, burning the house, serving vegetables, distributing bean sprouts, and by the way, she is responsible for managing the work of the women in the village.

Although she doesn't need to take care of it, the daughter-in-law is also looking for a reliable person, each taking care of it, in addition to the salary, she will also pay more management fees, and if there is any problem, she will directly find the person in charge.

But the old lady is used to worrying, and she is always afraid that others will take advantage of her family. I can't control it and will stare at it.

At this time, the old lady put the prepared bean buns and vegetable porridge in the pot to warm them, and used the stove next to them to boil hot water, leaving them for her grandson and great-granddaughter to wash their faces, and then the cat's waist went to the wings on both sides.

She's going to pick up vegetables.

At first, the old lady didn't think so, thinking that her daughter-in-law wanted to go to heaven to earn some money, but she didn't listen to persuasion. Can you survive growing fresh vegetables in winter? It is a matter of money to add stoves and walls of fire to the furnace and the wall of fire.

Later lived.

The old lady couldn't tell if it was because of the horse manure-based fertilizer to keep warm, or if it was because a lot of stoves had been added. Anyway, at this point, all fed. Fortunately, my emotional intelligence is now forced to improve a lot, and I didn't say anything to disappoint me at the beginning, otherwise I would have slapped my face more.

Right now, there are vegetable shelves on the ground and windowsills of the wings on both sides of the Xu family, including the empty space of the house where she lives. The green plants of the Xu family are vegetables.

Even the mint and flowers raised by Xu Tianxin are kept in other people's homes, and there is nowhere to put them at home.

And the vegetables grown with the roots are: celery, leeks, garlic sprouts, and green onions in long wooden shelves and pots, and slowly, it will grow fresh green onions on its own.

The old lady has to put a lot of energy into serving these dishes.

Because they have to be burned hot in each house, bean sprouts will be distributed every few days to be sold.

The old lady was busy packing the bean sprouts, cutting the fresh celery and garlic seedlings, and was instructing her third grandson to have a warehouse: "When delivering to several restaurants, don't freeze the vegetables." ”

Recently, the town restaurant ordered Xujia cuisine, sausages, sticky bean buns, flour skin in Dalapili, fish balls, pork floss, braised pig's head meat, and Wanjia's frozen tofu and dried tofu skin, which was contacted by Zhao Dashan.

The restaurant here belongs to the ingredients of the day, and the menu will be hung out with bamboo slips.

Therefore, the Xu family also ships very casually, and sometimes they will deliver goods when they go out to do errands. But most of them are Zhao Dashan's pot helmet shop, and they want starch sausages and instant noodles, or the county's Fucheng restaurants and inns ask people to carry letters, and by the way, they will deliver goods to the town restaurants. Won't go out of their way to town.

Now it's okay to send a letter, no matter what business you contact outside, you can send a direct message or letter to Lord Zhao of Zhenting.

For example, a while ago, I asked all over the place to help buy rare fish, and a few times Zhao Dashan's servants went to the villages below to check the snow clearing, or went out on errands to bring back fish. Whether it's the fishmongers or the people in the woods, they don't dare to bluff yet.

In addition, the restaurant in Xishan Town also ordered family goods.

In the last two times, the Xu family went to order porcelain, basically going to a full car, and then pulling porcelain back.

The best restaurant in Xishan Town, I heard that the Xu family has sausage sticky bean buns and meat floss, so I took the initiative to find a porcelain boss as a middleman to introduce it, saying that there is no impact between the two towns, and whether it can also be delivered. Xu Youyin hurriedly said, I still have fresh vegetables, bean sprouts, frozen tofu and the like at home, do you want it.

That's it, now the Xu brothers go to Xishan Town to buy porcelain, and they don't need to spend money to eat at all. The restaurant there will behave as a person, and every time the delivery is made, the store will let the store eat a bowl of hot soup noodles for free, and sometimes if there are steamed buns on the menu of the day, they will also serve a basket of steamed buns.

After all, the Xu family only goes once every few days.

The owners of the restaurants in the two towns have also heard that the Xu family has business in Fucheng County, and they are still too busy to replenish the stock, and they make a lot of money. On a cold day, how can you have time to make a special delivery to the small town. With that kung fu, it's better to go out and go to the city.

And this time Xu Laosan went out again, to say that it was really the shortest number of days.

Because even Xu Tianxin himself didn't expect that the porcelain vase would be used so quickly.

No, Xu Laosan is reminding the old lady:

"Milk, you don't need to pack too many sausages, the goods sent last time, those two restaurants can't be stocked and haven't been sold out. Bring less vegetables, in case you don't keep the goods, cover the vegetables with a quilt and freeze, it's better to stay in the shop to earn cash. ”

When the old lady heard this, she took some sausages back, and sighed in her heart and pondered:

I heard my daughter-in-law say that the house will be expanded next year, and the new shop will be built and expanded together, you see that the family earns a lot and the stall is getting bigger and bigger. At that time, it will cost a lot of money to build a house.

A month ago, she didn't dare to think that her daughter-in-law's house was obviously not enough for the newly built big house, and the stock was very narrow to grow vegetables.

That's it, all the people who work will be moved to other people's houses, and they will have to pay the rent for this and that.

Not to mention it from afar, Tian Xin will pay half a tael of silver for rent, but fortunately, the owner is an old man and wife who only have two daughters and are still married. The old man was taking a bath in the shop, and a mother-in-law was left at home to bring food to the old man, and if he had nothing to do, he would pick up firewood for Tian Xin. People are still very kind.

Otherwise, the old lady is even more troubled, in her concept, spending money to rent a house is a big wrong.

Mindfulness chattered Cao Cao, and Xu Tianxin came.

Xu Tianxin stuffed a horsehair toothbrush in his mouth and said vaguely: "Grandma, don't always look at my lamp oil." Why do I light the lamp, and you blow it out for me. ”

She slept so dead because there was no light in the house, and the morning in the north was bright and late, and the dark was early.

The old lady sighed: "I went to see you, and I fell asleep with a book, and reading at night is not good for my eyes." Besides, if I don't blow it out for you, it will burn for a night. ”

The urine bucket is deliberately placed in the stove house, and it can be used in the dark. The kid didn't know how to blow it out before he lit the lamp. You have to calculate your life.

Let's make some money again, and some money shouldn't be wasted. I forgot the hard days of drinking dog tail porridge in the past, this is, one by one.

I really forgot how the child carried two large strings of copper plates on his shoulder.

"What are you doing with so much money early in the morning?"

Xu Tianxin handed over two heavy strings of copper plates to the old lady: "Grandma, I'll send the third uncle away first, and then go to the shop to help my grandmother write the menu." Then I will go back to the village, but I will retreat in the house where I work. In the past two days, I have something on hand, and I must be busy with my milk. You collect the money, and give the wages of our family's workers, and I will pay them. Don't forget to help me settle the bill for the next two days. ”

"Can you trust me?" The old lady's nose suddenly became a little sour, and she thought: Even your grandmother and your uncles can't believe me, they only let her eat and drink in this house, but never let them touch money.

"What are you saying, what is there that you can't trust."

It's all paid in advance, so why do you seem to be so impressed?

"If you don't say that you are the only one in the family who can make a lot of money, you are too top-notch and too discerning. Great-granddaughter, we can't be better, let's leave a way for others to live, otherwise others will be too unremarkable to be compared to you......"

Before the old lady finished boasting, Xu Tianxin jumped on the ox cart.

The old lady chased to the gate: "What are you doing?" If the rice is hot in the pot, I will stay at home to eat. ”

"Go to the shop and eat fritters!"

Alas, she was left alone, and she also wanted to eat fritters.

The old lady stood at the gate of the Xu family and patted her leg again, oops, how could she come out with money on her arm in her muddle, this is too rich, and hurriedly returned to the hospital.

The child trusts her, and she will never give the wrong flower a copper plate.

……

"Prepare to leave for the caravan in town, and ask the guest officers to get ready."

Mule carts loaded with goods were pulled to the door of the shop.

The shopkeeper's subordinates are checking out.

Shopkeeper Zhang himself sat cross-legged on the hot kang and continued to drink tea and chat with the leader of Lu Shang without hurry.

When they go out again this time, they don't have to worry about it at all.

Just send some subordinates to keep an eye on the goods, don't make mistakes, don't miss them, as for loading, the villagers of Erdaohe will help load them. He also brought the mules the rations they had eaten in the town today. Because I paid a day's money, I fed it less, and people didn't take advantage of it.

So in order to avoid being frozen for a while, many people are sitting on the hot kang and waiting for the call.

It wasn't until this "please get ready" that the shopkeeper began to put on a leather hat and indigo shoes. He just went out and set off.

The leader of the Lu business, who was wearing a cloak on the side, also asked his subordinates: "Have you settled the account?" ”

"It's over. The store also gave a lot of toothbrushes that everyone had used, and when I looked at it, I couldn't just buy two bamboo tubes of tooth powder. "Seeing people talking or something, this time I have to contact the Zhenbei Army and officials, and it just so happens that they are not fully prepared. and a few pieces of soap, a jar for the shopkeeper to wipe his face, a bottle for wiping his hair, and three pairs of ready-made mille-feuille cotton shoes.

I all listened to the recommendations of the tea merchants, the tea merchants arrived early, and I heard that they had bought medicine, so how could they be free when they arrived in the middle of the night.

"This home is really good, good food, and live again on the way back. Walk. ”

The question is, how to go, there is no street sign on the second river to the town, it is very strange, there was one every three or five before.

The villagers of Erdaohe are very enthusiastic: "You don't need to look at the signs, the guest officials, just walk, you can't go far and narrow, you will see a grunt, and there is a house building on the side......"

Wait a minute, none of the two caravans can understand.

Liu Laozhu reprimanded the villagers, can they speak some Mandarin.

Please Laozhu Navigation is at your service.

"Keep walking, go about three miles ahead and turn right along the road, and you will see people building brick houses and stables there. At this hour, a group of people were designated to continue to build, and there was the guard house where the Zhenbei Army was stationed, and the kang in the house had not yet been completed. ”

And then what?

No then. I'm really afraid of going down a fork in the road, so if I can't, I can find someone to ask me what to do next.

End of this navigation.

When Xu Laosan drove to the shop, he saw such a scene.

Mrs. Xu hurriedly stuffed a few fritters into the third child wrapped in oiled paper, and the hot water bladder had already been installed, Zhang Luo said: "Two big shopkeepers, let my third child lead the way in front, he is just going to deliver goods outside, and he can enter the city as soon as possible with him." ”

Shopkeeper Zhang immediately laughed and talked with the Luzhou steward beside him, look, I have long said that my aunt's family is not ordinary, and even this Erdaohe is not ordinary. Let's live here and borrow it.

The voice was not deliberately lowered.

It was impossible for Mrs. Xu to pretend not to hear, so she could only smile and say modestly, "It's just an ordinary villager, what's not ordinary." It's just that my cattle are reddish-brown and rare here, and there are big signs on the board of my car, so people in the town can't pretend that they don't have an impression of my ox cart. ”

Only then did the caravan stewards find out that it was not, and the side of the Xu family's car board was written with a big one: CHUA.

What does that mean?

Mrs. Xu said that only the locals will understand the children's playfulness, and they will run away as soon as they are happy.

So regardless of the face of Chongzhenting, there are still well-informed people who know that Xu Tianxin knows the generals in the Zhenbei Army, and since he sees the Xu family's vehicle, he can guess that he is delivering goods everywhere, and he will not provoke if he can not provoke.

The car is parked outside, and the goods placed on the car cannot be taken indiscriminately. Otherwise, if you steal Xu's family, you will really track it down.

"Welcome back, guests!"

At seven o'clock in the morning, it was not very bright, and torches still needed to be lit.

The heaviness of the northern winter, the clumps of white mist exhaled from the mouth, and the creaking of wheels pressing against the snowy road, the two stretching mule teams seem to blend into the ink paintings of this early morning.

Many escorts who bought pork claws, pork knuckles, and liquor also looked back and waved to the villagers of Erdaohe.

Background music playback in the live broadcast room:

True love is like a plum blossom blooming, cold ice and snow cannot be submerged, and it blooms on the coldest branches...... The snowflakes are fluttering, the north wind is bleak, and the world is vast.

Xu Tianxin hummed: "This love, long stream, ...... heart" hurriedly ran back to the house with his arms in his arms, and hurriedly ate fritters.

The villagers of Erdaohe also went back to the shop to clean up and make up for sleep.

What they didn't know was that a small incident occurred not far away after the caravan turned a corner.

A few villagers in Wangjiagou Village were squatting next to a few small carts covered with cotton quilts, shouting to the caravan: "Sell big porridge, salted duck eggs!" ”

The two caravans passed by one after another, but they didn't even give a look.

In Erdaohe Village, the porridge is free and unlimited. As long as you drink, there's there. Even if you meet someone who takes advantage, you don't spend money on food in Erdaohe, and you can also supply it.

Not to mention, some of them had leg pain, and they also gave salt bags hot compresses and moxibustion through ginger slices. The water used to wash your face in the morning is also warm.

After the caravan left, the men of Wangjiagou scolded their mothers-in-law: "Listen to Wang Lao Ba every day, do you have so many bowls, and there is no place for a shop to bake the fire, so that people can squat on the side of the road and pour a stomach of cold wind to drink?" ”

If you don't let me come, you have to cut off your beard, this time it's okay, push the family to drink a week's big porridge.

"What's the matter, his father, Xu Laosan also saw us in the team. Will Erdaohe go to our village again to smash and rob? The group of girls in Erdaohe Village are crazy, and they really beat their hair. ”

"What to do? Cold salad, Li Zheng knows that he will not be able to spare a few of us. This time, if you don't buy our fish when you open the river, you won't be able to do it. ”

(End of chapter)