my grandmother

Chapter 126 Advance
Four or five days later, Mrs. Lu brought another four pieces of cloth, and discussed with Li Xiaonan whether they could lend them two more looms.

The next day, Li Jinzhu and Li Xiaonan arrived at Sister Lu's house in Hejia Village in a hired cart, with Ah Wu riding beside the cart.

Sister-in-law Lu greeted her at the gate of the courtyard, and she couldn't hide her surprise when she saw that the shopkeeper was a daughter-in-law in her early twenties.

"This is my elder sister." Li Xiaonan introduced.

"Sister-in-law Li?" Sister-in-law Lu called out tentatively.

"Sister-in-law, please call me big lady, I comb myself." Li Jinzhu smiled generously.

"When our parents left, we were very young. It was the eldest sister who brought us up. The eldest sister also made my brother a scholar. My brother is only this year, and he passed the exam last year." Li Xiaonan hurriedly followed Introduced later.

"That's amazing! Madam, hurry up and sit down. It's a scholar's family. Then your brother was only seventeen when he passed the exam? Alas, this is a great talent. Maybe he can be the number one in the exam." Lu The sister-in-law immediately paid a lot of respect.

"Sister-in-law is too much." Li Jinzhu bowed slightly.

Having been the shopkeeper for more than half a year, Li Jinzhu has long been different from what it used to be, and he has dealt with it in a restrained and extremely decent manner.

The owners of the two newly added looms were not Sister-in-law Lu. Sister-in-law Lu took Li Jinzhu and Li Xiaonan to see the half of the main room where the looms were planned to be placed, and returned with Aunt Fifth and Sister-in-law Jiang who wanted the looms on credit. Mrs. Lu's house.

Several people sat down, and Li Jinzhu looked at Fifth Aunt and Sister Jiang with a smile and said, "The rules of credit looms are the same as those of Sister Lu's. Pay it off in one year, deduct it from the cloth money, and charge no interest for the first ten months." , for the next two months, the remaining account will be charged a [-]% interest."

Aunt Fifth and Sister Jiang looked at Sister Lu together.

Mrs. Lu hurriedly laughed and said: "It means about half of the profit. According to the big lady's calculation, it is less than half. Mrs. Jiang is the fastest, with two pieces of cloth in about three days. The machine money will be paid off in less than ten months."

Fifth Aunt and Sister Jiang looked back at Li Jinzhu and nodded together.

"This is the deed, who of you can read?" Li Xiaonan took out two deeds and asked with a smile.

"Second child, go and invite your Mrs. Guo over here! Go!" Sister-in-law Lu raised her voice and yelled, and explained to Li Jinzhu with a smile: "Aunt Guo went to a girls' school, and can write and count."

"Female school?" Li Xiaonan asked in surprise.

"It's gone now. Aunt Guo said that when she was a child, there were many girls' schools that only accepted girls. They taught writing, reading, arithmetic, and handicrafts. What Aunt Guo loves most is that she was very happy when she went to the girls' school." Mrs. Lu smiled.

"Why haven't I heard of women's schools? None of you have attended women's schools?" Li Xiaonan was even more surprised.

"I didn't have it later, I didn't have it when I was a child." Sister Lu replied casually, craned her neck and looked at the courtyard door.

"When I was a child, I heard people say that the Taiping School in the town used to be a girls' school." The older fifth aunt said with a smile.

"Then why is it gone?" Li Xiaonan asked again.

"I don't know about that." Fifth Aunt laughed.

After a few words, the second child shouted outside the gate: Mrs. Guo is here!
Sister-in-law Lu rushed out to greet her. Not long after, an old lady in her 70s and [-]s leaned on a cane, talking with Sister-in-law Lu, and entered the yard.

Li Jinzhu and Li Xiaonan hurriedly stood up.

"You sit down." Mrs. Guo lost half of her teeth, smiled with her mouth shrunken, raised her hand and pressed down on Li Jinzhu and Li Xiaonan.

"Grandma Guo sits here." Sister-in-law Jiang brought a chair over and helped Grandma Guo to sit down.

Sister-in-law Lu made a bowl of brown sugar water and served it to Grandma Guo.

Li Xiaonan watched Grandma Guo drink the bowl of brown sugar water, and handed the deed to Grandma Guo.

Mrs. Guo held the deed from a distance, squinted her eyes and read it every word, explaining a sentence from time to time.

After reading, Mrs. Guo handed the deed to Li Xiaonan, looked at Sister Lu with a smile and said, "This deed is kind."

"These two bosses are kind people! I still have half a bolt of muslin in my room. I'll make clothes for you when I'm free in a few days." Sister-in-law Lu helped Grandma Guo up, and smiled with her.

"Okay, you are kind, my legs and feet are very good, don't worry about me, you are busy with your work." Mrs. Guo went out and went back, leaning on a cane.

After reading the deed, Mrs. Jiang stood up and said with a smile, "I'll ask the head of our family to do our fingerprints."

"No need to call." Li Xiaonan stretched out her hand to stop Sister-in-law Jiang, "This loom is on credit to you, and the business is between us. It's useless for your man to press his fingerprints. You do it. Sister-in-law Lu is the middleman."

"This means that the two bosses are also women, so it's not good for your man to come." Sister Lu laughed.

"I've never pressed such a valuable fingerprint!" Sister Jiang was both excited and uneasy, she carefully dipped the ink pad in Li Xiaonan's hand, and pressed down carefully.

After seeing Aunt Fifth and Sister Jiang away, Li Xiaonan took out a half tael of silver coin and stuffed it into Sister Lu's hand, and said with a smile, "In the future, I will have to worry about adjusting the loom and putting it on line."

"The shopkeeper is being polite. We are all relatives, so we should." Sister Lu quickly pushed back.

"Sister-in-law, don't be too polite, this is what you deserve. If there are still looms on credit in the future, sister-in-law will be more troublesome." Li Xiaonan stuffed it back.

"Little shopkeeper is too polite." Mrs. Lu hesitated, held the silver corner in her hand, and smiled with Li Jinzhu: "Then I will not be polite, and one more thing, I have a cousin. I will weave this Fine cloth is learned from my aunt, and this cousin is my aunt's daughter."

Mrs. Lu sighed.

"In the early days, there were many weaving workshops in our Pingjiang City. My aunt's mother-in-law's family all opened weaving workshops. My aunt learned a good handicraft since she was a child. Later, the weaving workshops were taxed very heavily, and the weaving workshops could not continue. up.

"My aunt's natal family was in decline, and my husband's family was even more in decline. My uncle died of another illness. There was no other way, so my aunt took my cousin and remarried to another family. Because of this, my cousin's marriage was very bad, fortunately."

Sister-in-law Lu paused for a moment before laughing dryly, "My parents-in-law is gone, and her man has passed away from illness. Now it's just her and her son-in-law at home, and two daughters. Her two daughters are very skillful, although they haven't knit finely. Cloth, I’m sure I’ll be able to learn it as soon as I learn it, and three of them can weave fine cloth, but their home is a bit far away from us, and their home is in Wujiang County.”

"That's not too far away, can you give me a token, let's go and see her." Li Xiaonan looked at Li Jinzhu, saw her nodding, looked at Sister Lu and smiled.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Sister Lu immediately beamed with joy.

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Liu Fuyin was shocked when he got the letter from Huang Xianzhou in Kunshan County, and hurriedly sent someone to Linhai Town. Hearing that Huang Xianzhou had reported to the Customs Department and ordered goods at the wharf, he was relieved. Come on, don't get angry.

He thought that Huang Xianzhou had resigned with a seal and left. If that was the case, he would have to be resigned as a leader, but he had clearly reported to the Customs Department, so why should he get a seal?

This person not only speaks in a strange way, but also acts so carelessly!

Forget it, he'll go to the Customs Department, and he doesn't care about anything else.

Liu Fuyin drank a cup of tea, calmed down his fright and sullenness, changed into casual clothes, got on the horse, and went to Wangfu Bieye.

Shi Gun came to complain, no matter whether the complaint was Shi Gun's own initiative, or he was ordered by His Majesty, now that Huang Xianzhou went to the Customs Department from Kunshan County, he had to tell his Majesty face-to-face about this matter. The son of the world, the wind watcher, reported his official duties. Under the surface, this is an explanation for Shi Gun's complaints.

The eldest son is not here, and he doesn't know when he will come back. Liu Fuyin hesitated for a moment, left a message at the porter, just left the gate of Bieye, and bumped into Mrs. Pan and Mrs. Shi waiting for a group of young ladies who had just returned, hula la A row of large cars blocked the gate.

Liu Fuyin hastily stepped aside.

Mrs. Shi saw Fu Yin Liu as soon as she got out of the car, stepped forward to support Mrs. Pan, and whispered to Second Madam Pan, "That's Fu Yin Liu of Pingjiang Mansion. What is he doing here?"

"Huh?" Second Mrs. Pan looked at Fu Yin Liu.

Liu Fuyin hurriedly bowed to pay tribute.

"Come to see the crown prince? Isn't the crown prince here?" Second Mrs. Pan said with a smile.

"Yes." Liu Fu Yin replied respectfully.

"What's the matter? Do you want to send you a message?" Mrs. Shi continued with a smile.

"It's nothing serious. Huang Xianzhou, the county magistrate of Kunshan County, was transferred to the Customs Department to assist the wharf to check the matter, and come here to report to the son." Liu Fuyin hurriedly leaned over and smiled.

"Wharf check?" Mrs. Shi frowned slightly, "Aren't they all sent by subordinate officials on business, I've never heard of a real county magistrate going there."

"Yes, Huang Xianzhou is very good in office." Liu Fu Yin spoke vaguely, "Come here and report to the son."

"Well, I'll tell my cousin." Mrs. Shi hummed clearly.

"Yes, yes, thank you very much." Liu Fuyin bowed and backed away.

He didn't know which one was the old lady or the group of young ladies, so he could only thank him vaguely.

Mrs. Shi helped Second Mrs. Pan into the second door and walked in slowly.

"What's the matter?" Mrs. Pan asked warmly, looking at Mrs. Shi who was frowning all the time.

"It's true that the county magistrate went to the customs department to assist in the investigation. I've never heard of it. Mr. Liu Fuyin came here to report to his cousin. I'm afraid that the county magistrate Huang was transferred because he offended his cousin. I don't know. What offended my cousin." Mrs. Shi said in a low voice.

"My son has a bad temper." Second Mrs. Pan sighed.

"Well, Second Aunt has to persuade my cousin, this is too much." Mrs. Shi lowered her eyes.

Second Mrs. Pan looked at Mrs. Shi, "Do you really want to persuade?"

Mrs. Shi raised her eyes to look at Mrs. Pan, "It's okay if you don't know, since you know..." Mrs. Shi lowered her eyes and didn't say any more.

"Well, alas, you child is too virtuous and upright. You are doing it for his own good, but this man, alas, maybe he just doesn't like you persuading him everywhere. Alas." Second Mrs. Pan kept saying sigh.

Right now, what worries her the most is why Shi Zi suddenly got bored with their sister Qi?She couldn't figure it out after much deliberation.

Mrs. Shi lowered her eyes and said nothing.

　Okay, add another debt, and pay it off tomorrow

　　
　
(End of this chapter)