Yoshida Mii

Chapter 204 Take the Line
Dong Bao glanced back, spread his hands and said, "They want to see, can we still push it away? Let's see." Although he said it doesn't matter, Dong Bao's heart is not easy, and now he has to sell all the tofu every day For hundreds of catties, the amount of gypsum is also large. Unlike before, it only sells for a dozen or twenty catties a day. It is not conspicuous to use some gypsum. Many people have followed suit and sold tofu, but they do not know the gypsum of tofu. Calcined mature gypsum, so the tofu made is jerky and unpalatable, but Dongbao feels that as long as there is profit to drive, it will be a matter of time before these people find out a way to make tofu.

Sooner or later, this method of ordering tofu will be lost. Dongbao thought about it, and felt that opening a tofu workshop should be put on the agenda.Otherwise, when others sell delicious tofu, how much money will she earn?

Dong Bao got up early today. After returning home from Anzhou, Dong Bao was a little tired. He climbed onto the bed and took a nap. Who knew that when he woke up, the sky outside the window was covered with sunset glow.In the yard, there was the sound of Mrs. Li rubbing clothes, as well as the clinking of pots and pans in the kitchen.

Seeing Dong Bao getting up, Mrs. Li couldn't help laughing and said, "Little slacker, you didn't wake up until now, let's see if you can still sleep at night!"

Dong Bao smiled embarrassingly, she was startled when she woke up, she thought she was just squinting for a while, but she overslept, "Mom, why don't you call me?"

Mrs. Li smiled, rubbed the clothes in the basin vigorously, and said: "It's because you sleep soundly, like a piglet. Just sleep, there's nothing for you to do at home. "Actually, she loves her daughter and wants her to sleep longer. Anyway, no one cares about them now. There is no shortage of Dongbao's small laborer at home. Dongbao can sleep as long as she wants.

At this moment, Zhang Xiuyu poked her head out from the stove, holding a piece of scallion pancake with two bites in her hand, and said with a smile, "Are you awake? My mother just baked pancakes, come over and have a taste!"

"Hey!" Dong Bao replied with a smile, and hurried over.

Zhang Xiuyu brought a small bamboo basket to Dongbao from the stove. The bamboo basket was full of neatly stacked small oil cakes, full of aroma. Dongbao picked up one and bit it, and kneaded finely chopped shallots inside the oil cakes. The taste is very good.

Green onions are amazing things. The seeds are scattered in the ground carefully and densely. After they germinate and grow into small green onions half a foot high, they will not grow again. Like leeks, they will continue to grow after cutting a stubble. , but if the grown onions are transplanted to the field separately, they can continue to grow into thumb-thick scallions. The scallions can be chopped to make stuffing and stew soup, but they lose the tenderness of shallots.

"Delicious!" Dong Bao smiled and gave a thumbs up to the aunt who was still rolling out pancakes.

Li Hongqin laughed and said, "Go, give your mother a taste."

Dong Bao tore a pancake in half, and brought it to Li's side. Li's hands were still washing clothes, so Dong Bao squatted beside Li, tore the pancakes into strips, and stuffed them into Li's mouth. .

"Look at this child!" Li Shi said that he didn't want to eat it, but as long as it was stuffed by Dong Bao, Li Shi would happily open his mouth to eat it, and could not close his mouth from ear to ear.

Zhang Xiuyu took the bowls and chopsticks from the kitchen to the well to wash, and said to Dongbao, "When you were sleeping in the afternoon, that fat man...that old master Shan came again."

"What is he doing here?" Dong Bao asked.

Zhang Xiuyu giggled, his smile was full of slyness and complacency, "He inquired around the bush, asking how we knew Mr. Wang Cong. Oh, you didn't see it, Mr. Shan looked like we knew Wang Cong at that time. The young master is like a big deal, and he said that next time he treats guests, let us introduce him to... What? Oh, recommend! Recommend! He also wants to know Mr. Wang Cong. Hehe, if he knows we Not only do you know Mr. Wang Cong, but you also know the fifth son of the Wang family, what will happen!"

Dong Bao was slightly taken aback, and quickly asked: "He came to ask this? How did you tell him?"

"What else can I say? I definitely can't tell him the truth!" Zhang Xiuyu laughed, "My aunt told him that Mr. Wang Cong is taking care of our orphans and widows, and he came to buy tofu from us. That's when I met him because of his kindness. Helping us, you can't talk about friendship, how can you recommend people! What Master Shan brought, Auntie also let him take away."

Dong Bao nodded, and found that Shan Qiang came here very frequently these days, every time he was greeted with a smile, and he had to carry a heavy gift, even if he suffered a cold face last time, it still couldn't stop him from continuing the next time. Come.

"Hey!" Dong Bao sighed, "This is really in line with the old saying, if you are poor, no one asks you, but if you are rich, you have distant relatives!" A penny was sent over. At this time last year, Shan Qiang refused to even see their mother and daughter, so he sent a daughter-in-law in charge to dismiss them.

Shan Qiang is a businessman through and through, and following others has almost become his nature. Maybe in his eyes, he condescends to visit more times and give more gifts. In order to curry favor with his big boss, Mrs. Li, the two families can reconcile , but in fact Li Shi and Dong Bao can't forget the harm Shan Qiang caused them, and they don't want to make friends with someone like Shan Qiang.

To Dong Bao's surprise, Shan Qiang came again the next day, and this time he didn't bring a gift, but only brought two servants. When he saw Mrs. Li and Dong Bao, he smiled very politely, and said he wanted to eat bean curd and buy it. Tofu and bean sprouts.

When the bean curd was served on the table, Dong Bao ran to collect the money, Shan Qiang hurriedly took out a gray silk purse from his bosom, handed it to Dong Bao, and asked with a smile: "Baby girl, I heard that you Do you recognize Prince Wang from the Octagonal Building in Anzhou?"

Dong Bao nodded with a smile, counted the money out of the purse, and put the purse on the table in front of Shan Qiang.Anyway, Shan Qiang saw that Wang Cong took them to dinner. If he said that he didn't recognize him, he would not believe it. It's better to admit it openly. Anyway, it's not a bad thing. Let others know that they have friendship with Wang Cong. If people want to plot against them, they have to weigh their own weight first.

"Then, do you know each other very well?" Shan Qiang asked tentatively, his fat face glowed with oil, and his eyes were narrowed into a thin line.

Dong Bao shook his head with a smile, and said, "I'm not very familiar with you." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.

"Hey, hey! Treasure girl!" Shan Qiang became anxious, and called Dong Bao loudly. He still had a lot of questions to ask, such as how did the mud legs of them who just came out of the countryside get on Master Wang Cong? Can you introduce him to Young Master Wang Cong? Why did this little girl just leave like this!

Dong Bao quickly walked out, pretending that she didn't hear Shan Qiang's yell, and if she asked her to listen to Shan Qiang's yell "Bao girl", she would have to spit it out.

Shan Qiang sat there with a gloomy face, the Douhua in front of him didn't move at all, and the fat on his face trembled slightly. It was obvious that this girl from the Song family must be very familiar with Mr. Wang Cong, otherwise she was a dignified young master of the Wang family. , the young owner of the Bajiaolou will personally take Dongbao's half-grown children upstairs for dinner?Yesterday Mrs. Li said that Wang Cong took care of their orphans and widows, bah!Who are you lying to?Mr. Wang Cong is having a brain twitch, leaving Anzhou with so many orphans and widows who don’t take care of them, how many people he has never met?

Yesterday he gave the clerk in the octagonal building two slings of money before he asked. It was the owner who invited these children to the sixth floor to eat noodles!At that time, his heart was pounding. What kind of shit luck did the mother and daughter of the Song family have? They didn't get along well with Mr. Yan, and they even hooked up with the prince of Anzhou!

As the "No. [-] local tyrant in Yuanshui", he could only invite people to dinner in the lobby of the octagonal building, but Wang Cong led them to the sixth floor!Could it be that Wang Cong has taken a fancy to that little girl?Shan Qiang squinted his eyes and thought for a long time. That little girl is really good looking, but what is Wang Cong's status, even if he is a concubine, the Wang family might not like it, and that girl is too young. What kind of young master Wang Cong is? I've never seen such a beautiful woman before, so she wouldn't be so hungry...

Shan Qiang thought about it all night, but he couldn't figure out what the relationship between Mr. Wang Cong and Li's mother and daughter was. Thinking back and forth about what he saw in the Octagonal Tower, he felt that Wang Cong's attitude towards that girl... was very polite, yes, it was polite!This is even more puzzling.

It's a pity that the mother and daughter are both very tight-lipped, and they couldn't ask a useful word for a long time.

In addition to having only one son under his knee, which is a bit of a fly in the ointment, Shan Qiang has lived a happy life in recent years. He thinks he is the best person in Yuanshui. Everyone will respectfully call him "Master Shan" when they see him. Song Yang, who passed the examination of the scholar, looked at the beautiful scenery, and he was not a poor man. I heard that the money for the funeral was borrowed, what a shame!

As for Li's mother and daughter, he didn't even pay attention to them, but the facts hit him hard. No matter how powerful he is, no matter how rich he is, he is only limited to the Yuanshui area. Compared with the young master of the Wang family, what is he doing? No, even the big shopkeeper in Anzhou City, he can only nod and bow, and serve respectfully, only hoping that when his shop goes to buy goods, he can get high-quality and cheap things.

God knows how much he wants to catch up with Young Master Wang Cong. If he can, he won't have to look at the faces of those big shopkeepers in Anzhou City anymore, but he also doesn't dare to rush the mother and daughter of the Li family. When it came to Wang Cong's side, wouldn't it mean that stealing chickens won't cost you a lot of rice? He still had to find another way.

After returning from Anzhou, both Quanzi and Shuanzi were sent to the private school in the town for enlightenment. Quanzi had some foundations by relying on Lin Shi's teaching, while Shuanzi started from scratch completely.

Quanzi didn't want to go to school very much, he was very active and couldn't sit still.But Aunt Qiuxia said, you can’t patronize the elder son and ignore the younger son, no matter whether the whole son is studying or not, you have to study for two years first, if you can study, you can continue to provide for it, and you have to pay for the two sons Studying, now she and Lin Fu are both earning money, and the family is well-off, so they can afford it if they grit their teeth and save a little.

(End of this chapter)