my grandmother

Chapter 33 Partnership
Li Xuedong went up the steps, stretched his head to look, and suddenly his eyes widened.

Before Li Xuedong asked, Li Xiaonan gave him a push, "Let's go in and talk!"

"How do you get in here?" Li Xuedong asked, pointing to the airtight egg basket.

Li Xiaonan shrank her head back and fell silent.

Li Yinzhu was next to Li Xiaonan, carefully aiming at the elder sister and second elder sister who were standing side by side outside the threshold.

"I have to carry a basket out." Li Yuzhu looked left and right, sighed.

"Carry this basket, and then move those baskets, you can squeeze in, enter the door of the west wing, stick to the wall and you can leave." Li Jinzhu looked carefully, pointing to a few egg baskets. .

Li Xiaonan and Li Xuedong watched breathlessly from left to right. Li Yinzhu and Li Yuzhu carefully lifted a large basket of eggs. Li Jinzhu supported the basket and directed Gao Dian to move left to right, and put down the large basket of eggs close to the threshold.

Li Jinzhu supported the basket, shook it carefully a few times, and it was indeed stable. Then he breathed a sigh of relief, stepped over the threshold, stood in the gap between the basket of eggs, carefully moved the other basket of eggs, moved One by one, one by one, one by one, sweating from exhaustion, and finally a passage was made.

Li Yinzhu hurriedly squeezed in, Li Yuzhu watched Li Xiaonan and Li Xuedong pass by, breathed a sigh of relief, passed through the narrow passage, and arrived at the door of the wing room.

Li Jinzhu led the way, and behind Li Yuzhu, the five siblings lined up in a row, holding their breath against the wall, and walked around from the west wing to the main room, and from the main room to the kitchen in the east wing.

Fortunately, the big tank is in the kitchen. Li’s water tank is always full. People in Pingjiang City have sewers in their yards. The sewers of this family are right at the door of the kitchen, although the yard is full of eggs. Baskets do not delay washing vegetables and cooking.

Li Yinzhu lit the fire, Li Yuzhu chose vegetables to wash, Li Jinzhu stewed the rice first, Li Xuedong stood at the door of the kitchen, tiptoed to count how many baskets of eggs there were in the yard, Li Xiaonan sat next to Li Yinzhu, the two of them felt guilty and dared not speak .

"Let's eat scrambled eggs." Li Jinzhu steamed the rice, walked to the door, took two eggs from a large basket, hesitated, took two more, and just about to turn around, stretched out his hand to take two more.

"Elder Sister, there are so many." Li Yinzhu stretched her neck to look, and couldn't help reminding.

There are only six eggs, not enough for her to eat alone, so many eggs!

Li Jinzhu turned his head and gave Li Yinzhu a sidelong glance. Li Yinzhu immediately retracted his neck, not daring to make a sound.

Li Jinzhu looked at the eggs all over the yard, sighed, brought a big bowl over, squatted next to the egg basket, and cracked fourteen or fifteen eggs in one go.

"It's a waste of oil." Li Yuzhu couldn't help reminding Li Jinzhu when she saw that Li Jinzhu was still taking eggs.

"Then steam it! Steam a big bowl of egg custard!" Li Yinzhu answered quickly.

Li Jinzhu and Li Yuzhu crossed Li Yinzhu together.

Li Yinzhu shrank her head immediately.

"That's all, any more will be enough to eat." Li Jinzhu took the egg bowl, chopped green onion, and started to scramble the eggs.

After eating, it was already dark. Li Yuzhu took out a small lantern that had never been used, lit the fuel-saving lamp inside, carefully moved it to the gate of the courtyard, and hung it on the gate.

The five Li family siblings sat in the kitchen, facing the small lantern at the gate of the courtyard, Li Jinzhu sighed, "Let's discuss it, what should we do."

"I think the business of preserved eggs and salted eggs is very good." Li Xiaonan was the first to express her opinion.

"We don't know how to make preserved eggs, and the salted eggs pickled by eldest sister are not delicious." Li Xuedong said in a low voice.

"If you really want to make preserved eggs, you have to add additional capital." Li Yuzhu frowned.

"Do you really think this business can be done?" Li Jinzhu looked at Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan nodded again and again, "How about this, let's sell a few baskets of eggs to the store, and sell the capital of copper coins for the preserved egg and salted egg business. If this is the case, even if we lose money, we will not lose our own copper coins."

"The eggs are not copper tin if they don't spend our copper tin?" Li Jinzhu frowned and reproached.

"There are too many eggs. There are only three of us. We can't keep busy. If we really want to do it, we have to hire someone. Also, that sister-in-law Yin can't help us make preserved eggs and salted eggs for nothing. She has to give her copper coins, right? She is like this." Yes, how much copper tin should I give?" The more Li Yuzhu thought about it, the more she felt that there were too many things.

"We make preserved eggs and salted eggs. Whether they taste good or not depends entirely on Mrs. Yin. I think we don't give Mrs. Yin copper coins. How about we partner with her to do this preserved egg and salted eggs business?" Li Xiaonan raised her head to suggest .

"How to partner? What about the capital?" Li Jinzhu only looked at Li Xiaonan.

"We have to discuss this with Sister Yin and see what she means."

"Then let's go now." Li Jinzhu stood up.

The yard full of eggs weighed on her heart. If she didn't discuss it quickly, she would definitely not be able to sleep.

Li Yuzhu and Li Yinzhu followed and stood up.

"I'll go with Xiaonan, it's not good if there are too many people. Xuedong, don't worry about it, you go to study, the homework in the school is important. Yuzhu goes to bed first, and Yinzhu looks at the eggs." Li Jinzhu ordered his younger siblings, and Together with Li Xiaonan, they left the courtyard in anger and went to Sister Yin's house.

"Is sister-in-law Yin at home? I'm from Li Xiucai's next door." Li Jinzhu stood on the steps of sister-in-law Yin's house, knocked on the door, and called out.

"Here we come." Sister Yin replied, "You write your handwriting carefully, don't look out!"

Sister-in-law Yin ran out and opened the courtyard door. Li Jinzhu greeted her and introduced Li Xiaonan with a smile: "This is my little sister, Anan, she can read and her brother taught her. My sister and I are here to ask my sister-in-law how to do it." The matter of preserved eggs and salted eggs."

"It's best to find a convenient place to talk." Li Xiaonan glanced at the old woman who was looking out from the opposite courtyard gate.

"Then come in and talk here."

Sister-in-law Yin let Li Jinzhu and Li Xiaonan into the gate, closed half the door, trotted in, and came out with three small bamboo chairs.

"The seats on both sides of my house are used for stacking things, and there are no people. It's very quiet here, so sit down." Sister-in-law Yin explained with a smile, motioning for Li Jinzhu and Li Xiaonan to sit down.

"Have you discussed it? Are you planning to start the preserved egg business?" Sister Yin asked straightforwardly.

"Yes, my sister and I came here to discuss with my sister-in-law. Our two families will start this preserved egg business together. What does my sister-in-law think?"

Sister-in-law Yin is straightforward, and Li Jinzhu is also straightforward.

Sister-in-law Yin was stunned, and subconsciously said: "Our warehouse at home is too busy..."

"We want to be with you, sister-in-law, not your family." Li Xiaonan cut off sister-in-law Yin's words.

Sister Yin frowned.

"How many children does sister-in-law have? How old are they? Where do they go to school? If there is anything they don't understand, let him go to my brother. We are so close, so it's very convenient." Li Xiaonan continued to laugh.

Sister-in-law Yin leaned back, glanced at Li Xiaonan who was full of smiles, and said with a smile to Li Jinzhu: "Your sister is very dexterous."

"Yes, she is very smart. The master of Xuedong said that if she is a boy, she will definitely pass the examination of scholar." Li Jinzhu laughed hurriedly.

"Yo! That's amazing!" Sister-in-law Yin looked at Li Xiaonan carefully.

"Aside from other things, Gezhi's knowledge is better than her brother's." Li Jinzhu continued.

"My family's eldest treasure said that Gezhi is very rare!"

"What's not clear about Gezhi, let Dabao ask me, and he will understand as soon as I explain it." Li Xiaonan took it all in.

"This little girl really dares to speak." Sister Yin was delighted.

"If Xuedong doesn't know how to do it, I just ask Ah Nan." Li Jinzhu helped with a smile.

"Really? This little girl is indeed getting more and more dexterous the more she looks at it, so I really asked my eldest treasure to find you?"

"Yeah!" Li Xiaonan nodded her head, "If we start a business together, we will be a family. I am fifteen this year. How old is Dabao?"

"He's only eleven."

"Then I'm the elder sister, and my elder sister has no responsibilities." Li Xiaonan puffed her chest out.

"This little girl is really cute." Sister-in-law Yin laughed, reached out and touched Li Xiaonan's head, looked at Li Jinzhu and said, "Then how do you plan to partner up?"

"Sister-in-law thinks how to form a partnership?" Li Jinzhu asked rhetorically.

"Forget it." Sister-in-law Yin leaned back on the back of the chair, and the small bamboo chair she leaned on creaked a few times, "I'm busy all day long, so I don't have time, don't worry, I will try my best to teach you how to make preserved eggs. Let me tell you, making preserved eggs is very easy, this little girl is so smart, she will definitely be able to learn it soon."

"Sister-in-law's family has no use for servants? Sister-in-law earns copper cash herself, so she invites two more servants to help sister-in-law with housework." Li Xiaonan laughed.

Sister-in-law Yin laughed aloud when she heard this, "You little girl, you have a serious tone, do you know what the price is for buying a person's pawn? How dare you say that?"

"Couldn't the preserved egg business earn the copper coins of the two of Dian?" Li Xiaonan asked rhetorically.

Sister Yin was dumbfounded and didn't speak.

"We just came from the countryside, and we have never done the preserved egg and salted egg business. If we are in a partnership, everything will be decided by my sister-in-law. My sisters and I are all under the control of my sister-in-law. Our business, how to do it according to my sister-in-law, we Just do what you want, right? " Li Xiaonan continued to laugh.

"Yes, yes, we all listen to my sister-in-law." Li Jinzhu quickly nodded in agreement.

Sister-in-law Yin looked at Li Xiaonan, then at Li Jinzhu, and hesitated.

Li Xiaonan and Li Jinzhu looked at her slightly holding their breath.

After hesitating for a moment, Sister-in-law Yin looked back at the brightly lit main room, and said in a low voice: "This is not a trivial matter, I have to discuss it with Dabao's father."

"Okay! Then let's go back first. I'll bring some eggs to my sister-in-law tomorrow." Li Jinzhu pulled Li Xiaonan to stand up.

　An author who can't grow vegetables is not a good team leader.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)