farmhouse ditty

Chapter 134

When Xiu Niang came out of Tairen Pharmacy, she wanted to go to the Yuanmu shop, but after walking a few steps, she heard someone calling herself, and that voice was all too familiar to her.

Chu Ge pulled the ox cart and stood by the main entrance. He looked at Xiu Niang and yelled a few times. He went to the back street earlier and bought some dry goods such as rice noodles. Now the cart is full of things, not good. Turn around.

Holding the ox rope, he swung his arms, "Xiuniang, Xiuniang, here, here..."

Xiu Niang looked back and saw that Chu Ge was waiting for her at the entrance of the town. She looked at him and waved her arms to let Chu Ge know that she saw him, so she ran over with her skirt.

The old cow lowered its head and gnawed at the weeds on the wall. The whole thing in front of it was almost finished eating, and there were a few axle marks printed under the wheel. It seemed that Chu Ge had been waiting for some time.

Xiu Niang was a little bit reluctant and said, "Chu Ge, have you been waiting for a long time?"

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang, and said dumbly, "Yeah, it hasn't been long, I just arrived not too long ago."

Xiu Niang looked at him and smiled, looking at the bags of rice noodles piled up on the car, "Have you bought everything Brother Six wanted?"

Earlier, Chu Ge went to borrow a car for Ji Lao Liu. Ji Lao Liu wanted to come together, but seeing that Xiu Niang was also in the car, in order to avoid suspicion, he didn't follow him to the town, but just took Chu Ge to the back street Bring back some food.

Chu Ge nodded and smiled, "Hey, I've bought everything. Those wood shops are all in the back street. I went from house to house and bought everything along the way."

Xiuniang knew that the "those wooden shops" that Chu Ge mentioned were just like the Yuan Wooden Shop, which made furniture for big houses, and there were a dozen or so shops, large and small, all distributed in the back streets.

She put the empty basket on the car, and asked casually, "How about it, what did the people in the wooden store tell you?"

Chu Ge took a look at Xiu Niang, moved back the things on the board of the car to let her get on the car, and said to himself, "Let's talk about it when we get home."

After hearing this, Xiu Niang understood that what she was talking about with Chu Ge was a bit big, so she had to be on guard, isn't this the old saying, chattering on the road, there are people in the road.

She followed suit, turned around and got on the ox cart, Chu Ge pulled the hemp rope, turned the ox's head around, pulled the old ox out of the town gate, saw that it was on a wider road, and got on to drive the cart.

On the way back to the village, Chu Ge and Xiu Niang didn't say much. Chu Ge is a dull gourd, and he can spend a day without talking. He didn't think about Xiu Niang, but concentrated on his way.

Xiu Niang was closer to him, sitting on the side of the driver's seat, dangling her little feet, the weather is fine today, not much sun, the roadside is next to a big tree, it's shaded and shady, but it's very comfortable.

After walking for a while, Xiuniang turned her head slightly to look at the man beside her, the corners of her mouth couldn't help curling up, she muttered in her heart, she looked at this idiot who was usually dull, but his thoughts were quite meticulous, and his head was full of melon seeds. Intuitive, if he hadn't thought of going out to the lumber store in the town to collect discarded wood, then she would still be raising money for buying and selling the woodland of Shi Laodao's family.

Thinking about it now, Xiuniang is still a little self-deprecating. Although she traveled here under the brand of "well-informed", some things are still not as good as Chu Ge, a native of the ancients, especially in this business. things.

It wasn't before that, she suddenly had an idea, that is to open a wooden store in the town, not build any houseware, but to buy and sell washboards, because Mrs. Liu was looking at her washboards. It worked very well, so I really wanted to buy one, but Xiu Niang asked Chu Ge to make it for herself, and there was no such thing on the market.

But seeing Mrs. Liu's greedy eyes, Xiuniang wanted to tease her that the board was very expensive, but Mrs. Liu responded with disapproval. Then Xiuniang thought it was very strange. The family is not rich, there are six or seven children and two adults, and the daily expenses are carefully calculated, so how can they not care about an expensive laundry board?
Xiuniang couldn't help but asked Liu Shi, and she heard her say that this washing board looks fresh, and it can wash clothes wherever you put it on. When dirty water comes out, there is no need to swing your arms and slap it with a wooden board. It takes a lot of effort, and the clothes can't be washed clean.

It would be much easier to use this washing board. Mrs. Liu told Xiu Niang at the time that if Chu Ge looked at this thing again in the future, he would definitely bring one for her. He also said that it would be worth the money.

However, Xiuniang also understands that Mrs. Liu is talking nicely, and that no matter how expensive the money is, if she goes there with a washboard and says a few taels of silver, it would be strange if Mrs. Liu didn't turn her face on the spot.

Besides, Xiu Niang said earlier that the washing board would cost a few pennies (Liu still agreed), which is already an expensive price. You must know the current price, a few coppers per catty Vegetables cost about ten copper coins for a catty of meat, and a hundred copper coins for a tael of silver. Ten taels of silver are enough to exchange for a hut!

Thinking of this at that time, Xiu Niang began to make small calculations in her heart. If she didn't sell Erbao vines and changed to the business of buying and selling washboards, then if she sold more than a hundred of them a day, that's not a bad idea. Have you got just a few houses?

Anyway, it’s a wooden board, with some small slots on it, and it doesn’t cost much, and you can get a lot of money. This is the only one in Xiayang Village, oh no, and several surrounding villages and towns. what.

That's why she thought about buying a piece of woodland on the mountain in the village. Chu Ge had learned carpentry in the early years. Although his skills were not as good as that of old man Li at the end of the village, he looked good, so he would be messing around in the backyard. , she was buying and selling in front, thinking it was good, and with that woodland, wouldn't the problem of raw materials be solved.

After thinking about it like this, she called Mrs. Liu to help her find this piece of woodland, but he put on a posture for the old Shi Dao again. He looked at his land that had been idle for several years and suddenly someone wanted it. , just thinking of asking for a high price.

Originally, Xiuniang tried to trick Mrs. Dao and asked her to give Shi Laodao more pillow wind, so that he could sell the forest land to him, but this time Chu Ge found out, and it was Liu who came to tell her. Letting him overhear this matter, Xiuniang was afraid that Chu Ge might be wrong, so she simply told him everything.

At that time, Chugo heard it, but he didn't speak in a muffled voice, and waited for half an hour before he chatted with himself. He told her not to buy land, but to go directly to the lumber shop in the town to pick up some waste. The wood is enough. Anyway, people throw away the waste, or go home to light the stove. If you say you want to sell it for money, they will sell it without paying.

(End of this chapter)