Yoshida Mii

Chapter 308 Song Bai Triumphs
Since May, Quanzi and Shuanzi have shipped goods to the capital several times one after another, but they have not earned as much as the first time. The reason is that their prices have dropped, and people from other places have seen it. Sell ​​this to make money, and each finds a way to sell the goods to sell.

Although Quanzi made less money, there were more orders from the workshop. Apart from the yuba and fried bean curd that could last longer, soft tofu and yellow tofu were the best sellers.For a while, the orders in the workshop were all scheduled until October this year. After discussing with several stewards, Dongbao raised three yuan per catty of bean curd sticks and five yuan for dried tofu, one of which was used to increase the wages of workshop workers, and the rest The biggest thing is the workshop's own profit.Although the shopkeepers outside the workshop who were waiting in line to get the goods were full of complaints and kept complaining to Lin Fu that they didn't make money in the first place and asked people how to do business by raising prices, but none of them really canceled the order. Many people have rumored that the price will increase, and the order volume will increase again.

"These days, the most unbelievable thing to say is that a businessman says he doesn't make money!" Lin Fu concluded.

And Quanzi had a new idea. He recruited young people in the village and formally formed a transport team. This time he didn't plan to go to the capital.

"I want to go to the west!" Quanzi said, "I heard from the barbarians in the capital that they have no food to eat, they can only eat animal meat and milk. Our food tastes good, is convenient, and can be put away. For a long time, they must like it, the mutton, beef, sheepskin and cowhide here are so expensive, we will trade them!"

Aunt Qiuxia was determined not to let Quanzi go this time, but she could still accept Quanzi going to the capital, because the capital was at the feet of the emperor, so where could the chaos be?But it's different in the west, I heard that those barbarians eat raw meat and drink human blood!
Lin Fu supported Quanzi this time, and persuaded Aunt Qiuxia, "Son is just like this. If you restrain him, he dares to run away from home. It's better to follow him. If he suffers, he will come back and be honest." I stayed at home. Besides, Quanzi is not the kind of simple and bold person, you can see that many people in the village who are older than him listen to him and admire him."

In fact, Lin Fu felt that his youngest son belonged to the kind who would hide in his heart after suffering a loss, and would find a way to get back in the future, but he dared not tell his wife this.

Aunt Qiuxia understood that she couldn't control her younger son's temper, but fortunately, the older son was sensible and stable, so she had some hope.

"Hurry up and let Dongbao and Dashi get married!" Aunt Qiuxia said with a sad face, "If there is something wrong with Quanzi, and Dashi has no queen, how can I explain to the ancestors of your Lin family!"

Lin Fu suddenly had an overwhelming urge, "Dongbao is still young, and Dongbao's parents have made it clear that they want to keep their daughter for two years..." You are in a hurry to marry, but they are not in a hurry to marry!

After hearing her husband's words, Aunt Qiuxia felt that the whole world was gloomy.

After Quanzi left, Aunt Qiuxia urged Lin Fu to build a new house for the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law on the purchased homestead, "Build it sooner, get married sooner, I've just settled my mind." !"

Every time Aunt Qiuxia sees Mrs. Li, she looks at her with that kind of eager eyes, and reports the planning and progress of building the house to Dong Bao and Mrs. Li in detail, except that she didn't directly point it out. Hurry up and tell your daughter Come marry me!Our house is about to be built!

Every time Mrs. Li is forced by Aunt Qiuxia's eager eyes to lower her head and pretend not to see, why don't you do this, we have lived together for so many years, she wants to keep her daughter longer!

Quanzi set off from home this time at the beginning of August, bought five carriages with the money he earned before, loaded three thousand catties of goods, and brought a dozen young and middle-aged men with him. First, he took the waterway from Anzhou to Fengzhou. From Fengzhou, turn west by land and go west.However, it took only half a year for him to leave. Before arriving in Fengzhou, there was still a letter. After leaving Fengzhou, because he had no acquaintances, he no longer had a letter. He hadn't returned until Laba.

"Looks like I won't be able to come back for Chinese New Year this year..." Aunt Qiuxia sighed, feeling very disappointed, not sure if the child was wearing warm clothes. She made two new sets of thick cotton-padded jackets and trousers for Quanzi, However, her son didn't come back, and she couldn't wear it. She didn't have a letter from him, so she could only comfort her that the child was safe and healthy, but she couldn't send the letter home.

Next door to Lin's house, Mrs. Huang was also saying the same thing to old man Song, but the person she was talking about was Song Bai who couldn't come back. Counting it, this is the third year that Song Bai has been away from home, two or three years in a row. There was no news from Nian, old man Song and Huang could only rely on Dong Bao to inquire about Song Bai from time to time.

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, almost every household in Tagouji has prepared all the necessities for the New Year, and is ready to make paste to paste the door couplets.On the main road at the entrance of Tagouji Village, two men and a woman got off a carriage, both carrying packages in their hands, as if they were driving home from other places for the New Year.

"Oh, there is a cobblestone road in your village?!" The woman opened her eyes wide in surprise, and her expression of displeasure relaxed a lot, feeling that things were not as bad as she thought.

The tall, thin man in the lead said proudly, "Although my family is in the countryside, this village is one of the best in Anzhou!"

When a few people passed by the houses in the village, it was obvious that the appearance of outsiders caught the attention of the villagers, and one of them pointed at the tall, thin, gray man in a gray cloth robe who was walking in the front and shouted: "Hey, that's not from the Song family. Third child!"

Hearing that someone recognized him, Song Bai turned around with a smile and waved his hand as a greeting. The woman following him even lowered her head, accepting the villagers' scrutiny shyly and timidly. The other boy looked He is not very old, but looks about [-] or [-] years old, but his face is full of flesh and fierce, and he is looking back and forth curiously. He secretly thinks that the houses in this village look good, unlike the countryside that he saw along the way. That way, most of them are adobe houses.

Soon, Song Bai went out for three years and the news that he brought back a beautiful little daughter-in-law spread throughout the village.As the Chinese New Year approached, the workshop stopped working, and most people in the village had nothing to do. When they saw new gossip, they all gathered at the door of Song's house to watch the excitement.

Song Bai walked to the door of his house according to the path he remembered. The door was still the rotten firewood door full of holes. He pushed the door open with great effort, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and shouted into the yard, " Father, mother! I'm back!"

After Mrs. Huang and old man Song came out of the house, they couldn't believe their eyes for a while, until Song Bai ran over to support the two of them, and shouted again, "Father, mother!"

"San'er, it's really you!" Mrs. Huang burst into tears, hugging Song Bai and refusing to let go, crying until the sky was dark, cursing at the same time: "You heartless child, why don't you even write a letter?" Don't take it home, your father and I worry about you every day!"

Old man Song was also wiping away his tears, seeing that his son had lost a lot of weight, his heart ached even more.

"Aren't I busy!" Song Bai frowned, a little unhappy, he always felt that his father and mother were not on the stage, and now he came back to see, it was still the same, and scolded him as soon as he came back. "Come, come here." Song Bai raised his hand to greet a man and a woman who were following behind him.

"Hey, who is this!" Second Uncle Song and Second Aunt Song came out of the West Wing to watch the fun, and asked in surprise.

Song Bai's tone was smug, he pulled the woman and said to old man Song and Huang: "Father, mother, this is the daughter-in-law I found for you two! Qiaoxian, come here, call father, mother!"

The woman named Qiaoxian was wearing a bright red cotton-padded jacket and trousers, combed her hair, and wore a shining silver hairpin in her hair. She had an oval face with a pointed chin, and was fair-looking. She looked different from a country girl.

"Father, mother!" Qiaoxian bowed shyly to old man Song and Mrs. Huang, pulled the boy and said, "This is my younger brother, Tonggu."

Mrs. Huang was so happy that she no longer knew what her surname was. Looking at her white and tidy daughter-in-law, she could only say: "Okay, okay!" Old man Song was a stupid person, and after the surprise, he opened the curtain to let people into the room to talk. .

"Oh, what a surprise!" Second Aunt Song yelled in a high-pitched voice with her mouth curled up, "I'm so old, this is the first time I've heard that the marriage is not decided, and the church is not married, and you go up to the pole and call someone father, mother!"

The crowd watching the excitement at the door burst into laughter. Although Second Aunt Song's words were harsh, she was telling the truth. Song Bai wanted to get married. Even if he liked it and both parties agreed, he had to find his parents first and ask a matchmaker to make an appointment. It's only counting when they go to court to get married, and this sudden brought back a woman who said she was his daughter-in-law...

Seeing how handsome this woman is, could it be that Song Bai abducted some young wife and the two of them eloped?

"Put your mother's ass fart!" Huang's second daughter-in-law was full of fighting power, and she opened her mouth to curse. Spit star sprayed Song Bai's face, pointed at Second Aunt Song and cursed: "If you dare to talk nonsense, get out of here!" Go back to your mother's house!"

When facing Qiaoxian again, Mrs. Huang immediately regained her loving expression, took Qiaoxian's Bainen hand, and said, "Good boy, don't talk to that daughter-in-law, she has a stinky mouth, and she has no one to handle!"

Qiaoxian smiled shyly, took Huang's arm, and said in a coquettish tone: "Mother, I will listen to you, don't be angry, it's not good for your health!"

Mrs. Huang has never heard such ironic words in her life. She is so happy that she doesn't know what to say. The third daughter-in-law looks at most fifteen or sixteen years old. The girl who spoke sweetly and softly, was very pleasing to the ear, no matter how she looked at her, the most important thing was that what Song Bai brought back was destined to be her favorite daughter-in-law.

Second Aunt Song was very depressed. In fact, she didn't want to provoke Huang to scold her in public, but based on a woman's intuition, she felt a sense of crisis from the moment she saw Qiaoxian.Think about it, back then there were two daughter-in-laws in the family, she and Li Shi, and Huang Shi and her were on the side.

Now that Qiaoxian is here, it is obvious that the Huang family is in favor. The Song family has two daughters-in-law again, but she doesn't want to play the role of the Li family...

(End of this chapter)