I rewrote family history

Chapter 156
There is not much sesame oil in Xin Xu's residence, but if you save a little, it is more than enough to light the sesame oil lamps in the middle of the night.

With an outsider, Team Leader Zhou, although Xu San'er thought that Xu Fuxing was not good at doing things, he couldn't blame him too much.He distributed some of the leftover dim sum left over from playing with the offering plate to the long-term worker, and asked him to bring it back for his daughter and children to eat.After seeing him saying "Master's kindness" and leaving with joy, he gave the apprenticeship fee to Shuanzi's master.

Don't look at him calling Xu Fuxing brothers and sisters on weekdays....

But if the money is not revealed, he has to guard against Xu Fuxing.

Don't let the poor see too much money, otherwise it is easy to make them feel bad.

The apprenticeship fee is not too much, not too little, five silver dollars.

Learning a craft in the countryside is about the same price.

"Thank you, Master Xu."

Team leader Zhou was overjoyed when he found the money, and bowed to Xu San'er again, "When your son is three or four years old, I will come to Xujiabaozi again, whether he wants to learn opera or not, I will teach him."

People in the Jianghu place the most emphasis on promises, and he said this with sincerity.

At dawn the next day, Xu Fuxing pushed a wheelbarrow up to the door of the old Xu's house and borrowed a bucket of sesame oil.It's just that in the process of borrowing sesame oil, he was ridiculed openly and secretly by Mrs. Xu.The general meaning is to talk about a rich man who doesn't even have a few taels of sesame oil, what kind of rich man is he.After he replied to the master's family about the apprenticeship that he had discussed with Team Leader Zhou, he received the old lady's disdain again.

"Okay, don't learn, and do some crooked ways all day long..."

"Sooner or later, the heavens will open their eyes and take you all away."

He felt that what the old lady Xu said was too aimed at the master.

So he secretly wrote down these words one by one, and after pushing the sesame oil back, he secretly told Xu San'er, patted his chest and said: "Keep every word true, I remember it clearly , What she said is definitely not just talking about the young master..., I think she came out of the Buddhist hall, whoever believes in Buddhism has such a poisonous mouth and so ugly words. "

Xu San'er had long forgotten about the Shangyang Guanming Tablet in his heart.

Most likely, after a long time, a person tends to forget the scandalous things he committed before, and only remember the good things he once did.Just like the villain imagined himself not so evil.Not to mention a person who has hardly done anything evil in his life, he will not think that he has offended some people in his daily life.

"Okay, I know about it."

Xu San'er put down the teacup in his hand, and chewed the wet tea inside.

After a while I vomited it out.

Huang Yingzi always dislikes his bad breath.Ten times of intimacy, eight times they talked about it.After a long time, he also paid more attention to it.I inquired about a secret recipe from an old scholar in the village, that is, chewing tea leaves is good for getting rid of the bad smell in the mouth.So he gradually developed the habit of drinking tea and chewing tea leaves.

"Do you have any spare money at home?"

"Take it, pull a few feet of cloth for your wife, don't be shy, I also came here from your time, and I know that it's difficult for you..."

"You came into my house and worked with me as a long-term worker, so I have to treat you well... I don't treat you as a long-term worker on weekdays, but treat you as a brother. You call me master, and I feel uncomfortable in my heart..."

While Xu San'er was talking, he took out a handful of copper coins from his bag and stuffed them into Xu Fuxing's hand.

He bought a lot of land last year, and his hands are not spacious, but fortunately, the wheat harvest has been bumper this year.He has sold some of the milled wheat to the grain store in the county town, and in exchange for some money, he can live on for the time being.

When grabbing money for Xu Fuxing, he knew it in his heart, all he grabbed were coppers, not even a penny.

"Yes, sir."

"Thank you, master..."

Xu Fuxing accepted the host's favor a little numbly.

The host doesn't let him call him master, so can he really stop calling him?
A few days ago, he was still calling Xu San'er the third brother.

However, after he got home, his wife advised him to change his words as soon as possible.It is said that the rules are the rules, you don't care, and the master doesn't care either.But it's been a long time, who knows if the master will care for a moment in his heart?If he cared about it, the job of this long-term worker would be unstable.

"Go to the temple fair."

"I know how to embolize..."

Xu San'er waved his hand, telling Xu Fuxing to go down.

After leaving the courtyard, we came to the country road outside Xinxu's house.Xu Fuxing finally got some free time, and had time to see how much money Xu San'er stuffed for him. He counted it carefully and found that there were 23 copper coins.

A lot of money.

He went around to the main street where vendors from the temple fair gathered.

This is an open street with a width of four or five feet.From ancient times to the present, all temple fairs in Xujiapuzi will be held here.It seems that the builders in charge of the village, when building the village, preset a temple fair street that can accommodate thousands of people to come to sell and buy...

People who came to visit the temple fair included not only villagers from Xujiapuzi, but also villagers from more than a dozen nearby villages.People from other villages who came to visit the temple fair couldn't wait for the temple fair in their own village, so they went to Xujiabao to join in the fun.

Not to mention, at this year's temple fair, Xujiabaozi is still singing a big show.

Sing a big play for three days and three nights.

Many opera fans in other villages prepared their own dry food and went to listen to the opera.And these people, even if they don't buy in Temple Fair Street, they will still go shopping, smell the aroma of roast chicken, elbow, cured meat, lo-mei, and look at their shiny and smooth color. Even if they can't afford meat, fried peanuts, a little The small vegetarian dishes in cool style are also at the price of ordinary people, not very expensive, and the fried fish roe, which is worth a penny and five, can still satisfy your hunger.

The vendors on Temple Fair Street don't necessarily want money, they all carry a scale with them.What the villagers want to buy, just bring their own sun-dried wheat, weigh it, and that's it.

As for the price of grain, the vendors didn't fool around, it was as much as it should be, without doing a single transaction, and sometimes it was even higher than the price of grain sold by the grain shop.Therefore, some villagers also regard the vendors of these temple fairs as grain merchants who collect grain and sell grain to them.

According to the experience of previous years, flower cloth stalls are not very popular with the villagers.

It's just that this year in Xujiapuzi, the flower cloth stall was crowded with people, and it was more lively than before.

"Why did you suddenly think of buying floral cloth today?"

"What are you doing? Remember buying cloth?"

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are the four major needs.But everyone has this thing of calico, although it is not very new.As the saying goes, the new year is the old one, and the old one will be mended for another three years.

There has always been sales of calico, but today's sales will not suddenly increase.

"I promised to pull a few feet of cloth for my daughter-in-law yesterday."

The peasant's answers were all extremely simple.

The peddler asked several people in succession, and the answers he received were not far from those of the first person.

He locked a young man who looked like a gentleman in the crowd, and asked, "Young master, why did everyone come here to buy floral cloths all of a sudden? Obviously not so many people bought it in previous years."

Xu Fuxing saw his young master just like that outside the crowded crowd.

"Fine cloth? Are there more people buying it?"

Xu Cong was looking at a piece of plaid patterned cloth. Hearing this, he put down the cloth and was taken aback.

Although he had visited temple fairs before, his family didn't have much spare money, so he could only feast his eyes.

So... as time went by, he probably seldom went to temple fairs as long as he could remember.

Therefore, when the vendor of the flower cloth stall asked this question, he was a little confused.

He thought the flower cloth stall was always so lively.

"It should be from last night's play."

"I sang "Legend of the White Snake" last night, and the female character who played the role of "Legend of the White Snake" was so beautiful..."

After all, Xu Cong had read the book, and after thinking about it for a while, he knew the reason.

He nodded affirmatively, "That's it."

"so?"

"That's all?"

The vendor at the flower cloth stall scratched his head and said in surprise.

"That's how it should be."

Xu Cong had a faint smile on his face.

He suddenly realized a business truth.

Whether the business is good or not does not necessarily have anything to do with demand.May be related to other factors.For example, last night the daughters-in-law of the Xujiabaozi ate the jealousy of the white lady, which led to the old and young men getting up early in the morning to buy cloth in order to coax their wives.

"Young master, you might as well go into more detail..."

Seeing that Xu Cong dropped the money to buy cloth and was about to leave, the flower cloth vendor quickly stopped him and said, "I'll pay you, and you tell me the reason for it."

If the business is as good as it is today, he will make a lot of money sooner or later.

Therefore, he had to find out the reason behind it.

"This money can't buy it."

Xu Cong shook his head, didn't want to say more, and walked away with a piece of cloth in his arms.

He returned to the second bedroom of the new Xu residence, and told his wife Xian'an what happened today.

"I think business is not only about demand and supply, but also to stimulate the outflow of goods in other ways. In the past, businessmen like Lu Buwei, Tao Zhu, Bai Gui, Zigong and others were all about buying low and selling high. It is true that the business can make money, but now there are too many businessmen in various industries, and it is impossible to make a lot of money by buying high and selling low..."

The more Xu Cong said, the more excited he became, "Once you find such an opportunity, it's not difficult to make money at all."

Since he resigned from the county office, he has rarely made any money.The family has always been unable to make ends meet.When he was in Yanjing, it wasn't that he didn't want to find a maid, but that if he did, he would inevitably use Chen Xian'an's private money.How embarrassing for him to be a husband like this.

He didn't want others to think that he was eating Chen Xian'an's soft food.

"Mr. Xu, how did you find this opportunity?"

"Doing business is not that simple."

Chen Xian'an poured cold water on Xu Cong.

She was born into a family of merchants and knew how difficult it was to do business.

But she didn't mean to hit Xu Cong, but to calm Xu Cong down.Calm down and think about one more thing.Instead of getting in as soon as the head gets hot.

"not simple."

Xu Cong calmed down, "Industry saves the country. I went to a special industrial school in Yanjing, and I know which of the machines on the market today and the machines in the world is advanced and which one is behind. Besides, I still have Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu He is my mentor, and he is the deputy county magistrate. Although I will not let him open the back door for me, he can still give me some support when I set up an industrial factory in Xinye..."

Fortunately for him, the whole of China is poor and backward, and the people are extremely ignorant.Therefore, only scholars and industrial talents like them can discover that there are business opportunities everywhere in this vast land.

Just like the business theory just now, he understands everything, but the merchants at the flower cloth stall have not understood it for a long time.

Hearing that Xu Congzhen was planning to start a business or set up a factory, Chen Xian'an also calmed down, and said, "I don't know much about these things, but you can ask my father, if you don't have enough start-up funds... I can ask him for a temporary loan." , we will pay him back after we have made money..."

A machine for production is not cheap.

It's not something the Xu family can support.

As for why Xu Cong suddenly thought of starting a business from a school student, she was not surprised.Ever since Zhang Qian became the number one scholar and went into business, business is no longer belittled by the world.Saving the country by industry is the slogan that the students of the technical school talk about all the time.

"Have you decided which business to start?"

Chen Xianan asked.

"Not ready yet……"

Xu Cong shook his head, "I'm thinking about what the country needs and what the market needs. I can't move blindly. I have to choose a direction before making a decision."

He is 22 years old now.

Although studying is his goal all along, so is making money.

He doesn't have much youth left to squander.

Not to mention, studying also requires money.

How can I go to school without money?

"I wrote to my father and asked him to raise a sum of money and lend you the corresponding machines. This matter should be discussed earlier. It is not easy for a businessman to embezzle a huge amount of money..."

Chen Xian'an said while sitting on the round table, preparing to write a letter.

"Forget it, after the temple fair is over, you can take me back home."

"I'll see my dad in person."

she said.

She knew her father's temper, so she probably wouldn't care if she wrote a letter.Furthermore, a huge sum of money cannot be decided by just a letter, it needs to be understood by her personally and her father, and moved with reason.

"Alright, I'll see you off tomorrow."

Xu Cong nodded.

A machine costs hundreds of silver dollars.The remaining money in his hand is simply not enough for starting capital.It would certainly be a good thing if I could rely on my father-in-law in this matter.

Secondly, the old man has more business experience than him, and with the help of the old man, he can get twice the result with half the effort.

"By the way, this is the floral cloth I bought for you."

"Look, what's the matter, I've been talking about the industry just now, and I forgot."

Xu Cong pointed to a piece of cloth he carried back.

"The color of this cloth is not bad..."

"It's just that the material is not very good, but it's okay to make a few coats."

Chen Xian'an got up, touched the material of the cloth with his hands, carefully observed the color of the printing and dyeing, and commented.

But even though she said that, she had already started cutting fabrics and making clothes while speaking.

Seeing that Chen Xian'an was busy, Xu Cong also felt bored and walked out of the second bedroom.

However, when he had just walked to the back of the house to breathe, he saw a gray and white fox.

"Master Hu, why are you here?"

"You're back?"

He stepped forward to stop the fox fairy who wanted to escape.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else about your business."

"You stay by my side."

"Let's be friends again..."

The departure of the fox fairy, he thought that it might be his talkativeness that led to all the things that followed.If he hadn't told Xu San'er some whispers between himself and Mr. Hu, father wouldn't think that he was fascinated by the fox and chose to kill the gray fox with the old gentleman.

It's good to be a friend, to stay with you for a lifetime.

He is grateful.

The gray and white fox's fur is not as shiny and smooth as before.

It seems to be much older.

That's right, if a Baojiaxian lacks people's offerings, it will die.

He saw this, so he stopped the fox fairy.

"friend?"

The gray-white fox turned its head. It glanced at the sincere Xu Cong, and his heart began to waver.

Who doesn't look forward to being alive.

(End of this chapter)