six-fingered peasant girl

Chapter 115
The most indispensable thing in Da'ao Village is gossip. The story of Su Jinquan beating Lao Tzu spread quickly, and the Su family once again stood on the cusp of rumors.

Su Liu heard the rumors, hehe, let's make a fuss, the more vigorous the fuss, the better.

"This child's future may be ruined." After hearing this, Chen shook her head.

"Mother, you still feel sorry for him. How did he treat you in the past? His eyes grew on his head. I've already expected today." Su Xiao said coolly: "Look at what he will do in the future, Just like that, you will never be able to pass the Tongsheng exam."

"You child." Chen gave her a reproachful look.

"Little." Chen Ye looked at Su Xiao cautiously, and hid his hands behind his back, not knowing what he was holding. Seeing her waiting for him, he hurriedly changed his words: "Second Sister."

Su Xiao's face softened, but she lifted her chin and said: "What are you talking to me for, I haven't forgiven you yet!"

Su Liu burst out laughing, and squeezed her: "Little Nizi is so temperamental."

"Stop messing around." Chen also said angrily.

"Mother, sister, you just protect him and you don't like me anymore." Su Xiao pouted and ran out again, Chen Ye hurriedly chased him out.

Seeing Mrs. Chen shaking her head, Su Liu said, "Mother, don't pay attention to her, she'll laugh soon."

Sure enough, within a short while, Su Xiaohuan's voice came from outside the door.

"It's a bamboo dragonfly, you made it yourself?"

Chen Ye didn't know what to say, Su Xiao said again: "It's not too bad, for the sake of bamboo dragonfly, I will spare you this time."

After a while, she said loudly, "Call me Second Sister, Second Sister."

Mrs. Chen laughed when she heard that, and said: "If she is half as calm as you, I will be relieved."

"Mom, just let her go, I'm just such a younger sister." Su Liu pursed her lips and smiled. Although Su Xiao's temper is explosive, she is also straightforward. Such innocence is rare, and she is willing to let her go.

After talking with Mrs. Chen for a while, Su Liucai was driven by Ning Guang to the Baicao Hall with the ready-made donkey-hide gelatin.

"The donkey-hide gelatin this time is better than the first time." The shopkeeper Fu was very pleasantly surprised, and said: "Now that winter is coming, the donkey-hide gelatin is in short supply. If the girl's donkey-hide gelatin can be supplied, we will ask for as much as we have in Baicaotang."

Su Liu knew that Baicaotang had quite a few branch shops, and the doctors in each shop were well-known, and the prices of medicines were affordable, so Baicaotang also had a certain reputation.

"It's almost Chinese New Year, and I naturally want to earn more money, but I'm too busy. But shopkeeper Fu, don't worry, I will only supply this donkey-hide gelatin to Baicaotang." Su Liu said with a smile.

Shopkeeper Fu smiled brighter when he heard this, and said again: "You said you wanted to find a shop, and the dentist has already got news. You can have a cup of tea first, and I will send someone to come over and talk to you."

Su Liu smiled and nodded after hearing this, and followed the staff into the inner courtyard of Baicao Hall.

This time because the donkey-hide gelatin was to be made more pure, the price was higher, and the silver he got was as much as 150 taels. Su Liu pressed his heart and found the silver, so he felt that his heart would be at ease.

It took only two cups of tea, the toothbrush that shopkeeper Fu had said arrived, and shopkeeper Fu seduced the two of them, but to Su Liu's surprise, the toothbrush was actually a woman.

"My husband's family name is Wu, so you can call me Mrs. Wu." Mrs. Wu had a grinning voice, and she was tall and thick, with her hair neatly combed into a short bun, with a smile on her lips, and her temperament was very bright and generous.

"I thought all tooth dealers were men." Su Liu was a little surprised. Most of these middle-aged people are men. After all, it is much more convenient for men than women to go to places like yamen.

"Actually, this toothbrush was made by my dead ghost man. He is good. The short-lived one went away early, leaving me and three children, and two old ones on top. This family has six mouths. I have to carry it Isn't it? I've heard him talk a lot, so I know the truth, so I just took over and did it." Mrs. Wu explained with a chuckle.

Su Liu opened her mouth wide in surprise, Lady Wu looked about the same age as Mrs. Chen, she turned out to be a divinatory woman?Moreover, it is rare for someone to take life and death so lightly, and this lady Wu said that she lost a man, but she didn't look sad at all.

Is it too strong?Or keep the pain to yourself?
No matter what, Su Liu only has good feelings for her, and she likes straightforward people.

Having already met each other, they stopped talking, and the two went directly to the shop.

"If this shop is rented, it costs three taels of silver a month, and if it is bought out, it will cost 120 taels of silver." Lady Wu led Su Liu to the shop she had decided on, and said, "The location is excellent. Facing north and facing south, if it is my suggestion, if the money is loose, it is best to buy it. In this way, even if you don’t do business, you can rent it out and collect rent.”

While talking, I came to the shop Miss Wu mentioned. It used to be a tea shop, and there was a small kitchen at the back.

"I heard that the old mother is not well and wants to go back to the countryside, so the owner of this shop intends to sell it." Lady Wu said beside Su Liu.

Su Liu looked back and forth, the shop was facing the street, and passers-by could be seen coming and going, the location was really good.

Although it's [-] square meters, it's enough for a dim sum shop. If you don't make dim sum in the future, but sell donkey-hide gelatin, it will be even better.

"I really want to buy this shop, but in terms of price, I wonder if it can be lower? I have to redecorate it, and it will cost a lot." Su Liu said with a smile.

After hearing this, Mrs. Wu said, "If you don't have to leave in a hurry, I will go with you to ask."

Su Liu nodded, and Mrs. Wu asked her to wait at the tea soup stand opposite, while she hurried away.

Sitting at the tea soup stall, Su Liu had already drank a lot of tea at Baicaotang, but she was not thirsty, but the tea seller was an old lady, so she ordered a bowl of tea and a small dish of melon seeds.

Mrs. Wu is obviously a straightforward person, and within half an hour, she turned around. Although it was winter, she was still sweating from walking.

"I asked, I asked."

Seeing her panting heavily, Su Liu smiled and said, "Miss Wu, you should drink some tea to moisten your mouth first." Then he ordered another bowl of tea.

Mrs. Wu was also thirsty, she grabbed the tea bowl and gulped it down, saying: "I told them, you really want to buy it, and that family is also eager to go back to the hometown, one hundred and five taels of silver, and then No less."

With a loss of 15 taels, Su Liu was already full of joy, and said with a smile: "That's really thankful for the lady's tongue."

Lady Wu cheered and said: "Don't worry, although I, Lady Wu, is a woman, since I have done this job, I must have this reputation, and I will definitely not deceive you."

"Business Manager Fu said that the lady has a good reputation, so I believe it." Su Liu couldn't help but compliment her.

Lady Wu's face turned pale, she patted her chest and said, "My damned man said that to be a human being, especially a dentist, one must have credibility."

Seeing that she looked like a man, Su Liu pursed her lips and smiled, and asked again: "When will you prepare the paperwork?"

"Of course, the sooner the better, if it's all right, I'll go back and prepare." Mrs. Wu said after drinking all the tea in the tea bowl.

"No hurry, I still have one thing to ask Mrs. Wu."

"you say."

"My family has ten acres of land, and there are only a few weak girls in the family, who can't do it, so I want to recruit two long-term workers. I think that since the lady is a dentist, she can naturally know people. Can you find two for me? A good one?" Su Liu told her plan, and then said: "Don't worry, this man's commission will not lose his wife."

"It's not difficult. Some of these long-term workers have signed contracts for ten years or five years. I just don't know how much you pay for a year?"

"My lady, I don't know about the market, so please tell me." Su Liu didn't know how much the wages were in ancient times, so he hesitated for a while before asking.

This Mrs. Wu is also an expert, so she told the details all at once, not only that, but also the maid's monthly money, even the groom who drove the horse.

Su Liu hesitated for a moment, then said: "The salary I give is eight taels of silver a year. If the waiter is done well, there will be rewards at the end of the year. In the other four quarters, I will also give two catties of pork and two catties of white rice."

Lady Wu's eyes lit up, Su Liu's wages are extremely lucrative, ordinary peasants are really poor and can't earn eight taels of silver a year, let alone meat and rice pies for festivals.

"It's a great blessing to be able to find a family like the girl." Mrs. Wu praised with a smile.

Su Liu smiled shyly and said: "Lady, I am the head of my family, and they are all women and children. You need to help me find two honest and willing to work. Those with experience in farming are the best."

"Don't worry, just relying on the salary you paid, if you want to find someone, there are too many people vying to do it." Mrs. Wu patted her heart and said: "Leave this to me."

The two discussed for a while before getting up to leave.

"Oh, you evil son, you also want to snatch the old woman's coffin and throw it in that cave, you are killed today, you are not a filial son."

The two of them had only walked a few steps when they heard a sound from the stall behind them, followed by crying.

Su Liu turned her head and saw that the old lady selling tea was holding a man's trouser leg, crying loudly, while the man was holding a jar.

Su Liu recognized that old lady put the copper coins in the pot, for a penny, the tea was free to drink, and I don't know how much tea would be boiled to earn a few pennies, but someone snatched it away.

The man kicked off the old lady's hand, poured all the copper coins in the jar into his pocket, and ran past Su Liu quickly, one of the copper coins was dropped, and hurriedly turned back to pick it up and ran away.

The old lady was holding an empty jar, crying heartbreakingly, Su Liu frowned.

"This gambling shop is harmful to people. This person, if he gets involved in gambling, he will die." Mrs. Wu shook her head and said, "The man just now is the old lady's son. The whole family and Hemeimei just got involved in gambling, and the mother-in-law also ran away, leaving only a daughter and an old woman. Hey, this is now here to grab the old mother's coffin money, look, next time he might be I will sell my daughter."

Su Liu is silent, this gambling is like poison, once it gets on it, it is difficult to quit, so there are many people whose families are ruined.

This matter was just an episode, Su Liu didn't think much about it, after all, she is not the savior, everyone has their own destiny.

(End of this chapter)