Reborn peasant girl: I became rich overnight by traveling to sea

Chapter 5 Bring back a bed frame
After returning to Guojiacun from the seaside, Chang Pingning heard her mother-in-law ask her to go to "that house" with her, while the two Guo Bomo brothers took the seafood in their hands to the other port to find their father.

When Chang Pingning took his bucket from Guo Bomo, he saw that Guo Bomo seemed to want to refute something.But in the end Guo Bomo just picked out the sea urchins from Chang Pingning's bucket.

Ye Xiuying knew what her eldest son wanted to say and shook her head: "Ning Ning and I are going. Even if we are seen, it will not have any impact on the old Guo family. Besides, it's not just the two of us going."

Chang Pingning could feel that the people in Guojia Village still harbored prejudice against the exiled family.

Following his mother-in-law to "that" house, Chang Pingning saw a simple plaque hanging on the top of the door, which said "Liu Mansion".

The Liu family?Chang Pingning felt that this last name was somewhat familiar.

Before she could think of anything, Chang Pingning saw two aunts standing around the door of Liu's house. Each aunt had a bucket in front of them. They were talking to a middle-aged man standing at the door of Liu's house.

"Manager Liu, look at the seafood in my bucket. There's a lot of it."

"What's so delicious about the clams? Manager Liu, look at the conchs in my bucket. Although they are small in number, they are big in size."

After saying "big", the other aunt sneered.

Chang Pingning followed Ye Xiuying and took a closer look, only to see that there were only three "big conchs".Ye Xiuying put down the barrel in her hand and called Manager Liu to take a look.

The middle-aged man known as Manager Liu walked up to them and looked at the seafood in their buckets. They were large in quantity and not small in size. He nodded with satisfaction. When he was about to calculate the price, he turned back and told the two aunts who came earlier.

Today the four of them accepted all the seafood sent by them.Then the price was settled for them based on size and quantity.

When Chang Pingning heard that the two barrels of seafood she and her mother-in-law had sold for nearly [-] yuan, the happy expression on her face was obvious.The other two aunts also received nearly a hundred coins, and they all said goodbye to Manager Liu happily.

To Chang Pingning's surprise, Ye Xiuying turned around and told Manager Liu after seeing the two aunts leaving.

"Guanshi Liu may not understand the market. The price he gave is the price of seafood in the town. If you actually buy it in the village, it won't cost that much."

"Sister-in-law Guo is open and bright," said Manager Liu, "but since we are new here and can help the people in the village, let's do it. Today's seafood will be received here. If Sister-in-law Guo meets other people on the road later, Please tell me, please."

After hearing this, Ye Xiuying nodded and left with Chang Pingning.On the way, they also saw other aunts carrying wooden barrels walking in this direction.Ye Xiuying told them that the Liu family would not accept seafood today.

Some people believed it and turned around and walked back; some women didn't believe it and continued walking forward without paying attention to them.

On the way back, Ye Xiuying and Chang Pingning lamented the situation of the Liu family: "I don't know who the Liu family has offended in the capital. Now the entire family, women and children, depends entirely on this steward. I don't know when their family will have a pillar."

Chang Pingning wanted to have a good relationship with her mother-in-law, so she complimented: "Fortunately, mother gave birth to four brothers for Bomo. With them supporting us, the sky won't fall down."

Ye Xiuying didn't expect Chang Pingning to say that. She was amused for a moment, and then asked with concern: "Girl Ning, is there anything wrong with you today? You are supposed to get up early today, but if you guys sleep in, neither will your father-in-law and I." Opinion."

The words were cryptic, but Chang Pingning knew that Ye Xiuying was worried that they were tired last night.However, Chang Pingning thought of the bed that suddenly collapsed last night, and said with some difficulty: "Thank you for your understanding, mother, but last night, the bed collapsed." "What?" Ye Xiuying's first reaction was the brute strength of her son, coupled with the Chang Pingning's face turned red.

"I don't know why, the wood of the bed frame suddenly broke. Bomer and I made the floor all night." After Chang Pingning finished speaking, he was worried about being misunderstood by his mother-in-law, so he added, "So I woke up as soon as the rooster crows today."

Only then did Ye Xiuying realize why her daughter-in-law had appeared in the kitchen early this morning. She sighed and hurried home.

After arriving home, Chang Pingning saw his younger sister Guo Ling'an walking up to them and telling them that there were two bowls of porridge left on the stove.Only then did Chang Pingning feel a little hungry.

"An'an, put out the porridge. Your sister-in-law and I will go to her house to have a look." Ye Xiuying arranged some simple things for her little daughter.

When Chang Pingning heard that Guo Ling'an's nickname was "An'an", he remembered that in his previous life, he was worried about his daughter, whose nickname was also "An'an".Looking at Guo Ling'an's back, he felt tenderness and nostalgia.

When Chang Pingning followed Ye Xiuying into her and Guo Bomo's room, she saw two quilts placed randomly on the bed, with some horizontal boards underneath.Chang Pingning thought of Guo Bomo who left the room later, and guessed that he should have done this.

"Sure enough, this piece of wood is too old." Ye Xiuying walked to the bed, looked at the broken wood marks, then turned to Chang Pingning, "I will ask the boss to go to town and bring back a bed frame later. Hey, this is The Guo family’s customs, I didn’t expect something went wrong yesterday.”

"Mom, the porridge is ready." Guo Ling'an's voice came from outside the house.

Chang Pingning wanted to hear "the customs of the Guo family", so she was taken to the kitchen by Ye Xiuying.While eating, I heard my mother-in-law say that the elders of the Guo family will prepare a tree when their grandson is born. When the grandson gets married, if this tree is used as a wedding bed, there will be more children and grandchildren.

Ye Xiuying also told her that over time, "tree" was replaced by "wood", but maybe because it was close to the sea, the wood could not be preserved for long.When the family found this piece of wood, they already saw that it didn't look good, so they only kept the center part of the wood and used it together with other pieces of wood to make a bed frame.Unexpectedly, something went wrong.

When Chang Pingning saw Ye Xiuying finish speaking, he smiled to himself sheepishly.Chang Pingning was also a little embarrassed. She had never heard of such a custom.

The two fell silent for a while.

Chang Pingning didn't want to stay in this awkward atmosphere and was about to find a new topic when he heard Guo Ling'an calling "big brother" from the yard.

Chang Pingning walked out of the kitchen with her mother-in-law and found that only Guo Bomo was back.

Guo Bomo was playing with Guo Ling'an. When he saw his mother and daughter-in-law coming out of the kitchen, he asked how the two barrels of seafood delivered to Liu's house were doing.When he saw his mother pointing her finger at him, he sighed and said that not only could they not sell the amount, but he also brought half a bucket back to his home to eat.

Chang Pingning looked at the wooden barrels in the yard. The top one was the sea urchin she picked up on a whim.

"It's still early, I'll pick out the small ones, and you two will take the big ones to the town to sell." Ye Xiuying said, using iron pliers to stir the seafood in the bucket a few times.

After hearing this, Guo Ling'an on the side took a wooden basin and a pair of thick gloves and handed them to Ye Xiuying very sensibly.

"An'an, just keep the basin. Mom doesn't need gloves today." Ye Xiuying used iron pliers to throw the sea urchin into the basin first. As if remembering something, she turned to look at her eldest son, "Boss, bring another one from town." Bring back the bed frame.”

(End of this chapter)