farmhouse ditty

Chapter 147 Cut off the little woman's way out

"Treasurer Tian, ​​then I'll be waiting for you in Xiayang Village. After a while, I'll wait for you to send me the title deed of that shop workshop."

Shopkeeper Tian listened, and before he had time to reply, Xiu Niang walked out of the room with a smile, and went downstairs from the wooden ladder outside.

This made shopkeeper Tian laugh angrily, and stared at the direction where Xiu Niang was leaving. If he hadn't been studying for so many years, he would have cursed at his throat, but now he was just complaining secretly.

Really, what is in this little woman's head, the whole head is muddy, and she doesn't even think about it. For a country woman like her, she still thinks that he will get her a land deed, and in the next few days He will personally send her to Xiayang Village, she is really ridiculous, she is just daydreaming!
The old accountant Wu just came up from the yard, he looked at Xiuniang, saw her greeted him, and called "Uncle Wu", he nodded to Xiuniang, and then went up.

"Shopkeeper, this is the account book for the last two months. I see that there is something wrong with it. Take a look..."

"Ha, ha, this is really..."

Old Wu was holding the account book, and he was going to come to shopkeeper Tian to reconcile the accounts, but as soon as he entered the room, he heard shopkeeper Tian laughing a few times, he looked at shopkeeper Tian, ​​and he didn't know why shopkeeper Tian was angry So I asked, "Shopkeeper, what's the matter?"

Shopkeeper Tian sneered and shook his head, "It's nothing."

Seeing Old Wu coming in, he crumpled up the paper on the table, threw it aside, and said, "Hey, Old Wu, don't all the people in your country, male, female, old or young, have such small noses?" Small-eyed, self-righteous!"

After hearing this, Old Wu didn't show much reaction on his face. He raised his eyebrows casually, and sat opposite shopkeeper Tian, ​​pursing his old mouth and talking.

"Well~~~, shopkeeper, my old man is from Chenjia Village. As far as our area is concerned, my old man thinks it's okay. Uh, my old man doesn't know about other villages, but if you want Let me tell you the old man, everyone is the same everywhere, they all have one nose and one mouth, two eyeballs and two legs."

Shopkeeper Tian glanced at Old Wu and smiled, "Old Wu, what you said is round enough, 'Everyone is the same everywhere', you mean, no matter whether it is in the town or in the countryside, everyone Are there some, bad people?"

Old Wu chuckled and put down the ledger, "Hey, the shopkeeper is right, the shopkeeper is right, this is the truth."

Shopkeeper Tian told Lao Wu that what he said was wrong, so he had to pretend to cough a few times, and stopped nagging.

He tore through the account book and asked, "Old Wu, there is an error in the account you just said, which one is it?"

Now that it was time to get down to business, Old Wu didn't dare to joke anymore, he said, "Oh, the shopkeeper, it's like this, the one on the cabinet is not the same as the one in my room, my I remember that in the last month, 820 taels of medicinal herbs were put into the cabinet, but 860 taels of silver were paid to my account. That is to say, the guy on the cabinet paid me 57 taels more Two denarii."

Old Wu said as he flipped through the account book and pointed to one place, "This is the account for the medicinal herbs in the cabinet last month. I just went to find Master Li. He has been in charge of the work on this cabinet, but Mr. Li called him Let me ask you, the shopkeeper, and you know the shopkeeper."

Shopkeeper Tian looked down at the account book, pondered for a while, and said, "Oh, this, Lao Wu, you don't need to remember the 57 taels. I asked the clerk on the counter to spend it from the account room last month. I'm busy with the field, so I forgot to tell you, you can just cancel the account in a while."

Old Wu knew that the shop had been a bit busy last month, mainly because the shopkeeper brought in a batch of Erbao vine seedlings from other places, and made arrangements for the guys to plant them in the ground.

He felt a little strange, the shopkeeper seldom withdraws money from the cabinet, so he thought about it and asked, "Shopkeeper, what are you doing with these 57 taels?"

Shopkeeper Tian closed the ledger, and said casually, "Oh, for the money, I'll let brother Xu on the cabinet go to the back street..."

When he spoke of this sudden pause, he looked at Old Wu sharply, and Old Wu asked suspiciously, "What's wrong, shopkeeper?"

Shopkeeper Tian sat up straight and faced him, and said sternly, "Old Wu, you are in charge of my account. Isn't the money on this cabinet my money? What am I going to do with my money? Do you have to get your consent!"

Old Wu was stunned for a moment, then he laughed and chattered, "Don't dare, don't be angry, shopkeeper, my old man is confused, so he just shook his head and came out."

Shopkeeper Tian looked at Old Wu, took a breather, and said, "Okay, Old Wu, after you go down for a while, go to all the drugstores in our town and tell their shopkeepers that we have a second treasure." Vine, the price is definitely cheaper than those peddlers in the market, and then write a letter to our shop in Waizhuang, asking them to contact the surrounding drugstores and ask them if they want to buy Erbao Vine."

That's what he wanted to do, to cut off the little country woman's future, so that she would not be able to buy and sell Erbao vines in the future, even if she went to a foreign country.

Old Wu responded and smiled, "Hey, I got it, shopkeeper, you're just hugging grass and beating rabbits, and you've rounded up all the Erbao vines on this place."

Shopkeeper Tian grinned and told Old Wu to go down. He got up and walked to the desk, looked at the ball of paper on the edge of the desk leg, stepped on it as if angry, and then kicked it to another place.

In fact, the paving workshop he mentioned to Xiuniang just now was bought by him a month ago. The reason why he wanted to rent it to Xiuniang in a different way was because he was still a little uncomfortable. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that Xiu Niang was renting his son, and get back the money that Xiu Niang had earned from him.

Shopkeeper Tian has been thinking about this for a long time, especially after Xiu Niang told him about the Erbao Vine, he saw that the planting method is so simple, no effort is required, just turning over the soil and planting it, watering some crops Fat, after picking off the flower buds, they can be exchanged for money after they are dried. If Erbao Teng keeps doing well in the market, it will be more profitable than his drugstore after careful calculation.

Thinking that he, who has studied for more than ten years, is not as good as a country woman, and has to compete with her for food. How can he not be angry at this, especially today, Xiuniang is still not in the game, and still Said that he was waiting for him to send her the land deed, which made him even more angry.

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Xiu Niang went downstairs with a smile, came to the yard with a smile, walked to the cabinet with a smile, greeted the guys in the shop, and then went out with a smile.

Waiting for her to walk to the street with a smile, farther away from Tairen Pharmacy, she stopped smiling, and walked quickly to the corner of the street, where the little man was only tied to a wooden stake With a few chariots and horses.

A strong bay red horse pulled a cart, the back of which was piled full of wooden blocks, the cart was parked in the middle, Xiu Niang was thinking about the conversation with shopkeeper Tian just now, she couldn't hold her breath any longer, and the fire The big one kicked the rear wheel of the carriage that was following, and was still muttering.

"My mother is still a scholar, and the whole thing is a black shop... The four books and five classics, all the benevolence and morality, I have read it into the stomach of a dog... You are cheating people, I will let you cheat... I If you can't lie to me for more than ten days, you have to turn around and beg me..."

Chu Ge came from a distance, and he watched Xiu Niang standing in front of a carriage, kicking the rear wheel of that carriage vigorously, causing the bay red horse in front to look back dissatisfied.

He hurried forward, "Xiu, Xiu Niang?"

Xiu Niang heard Chu Ge's voice, she raised her head to have a look, seeing Chu Ge standing in front of her, she suddenly smiled again.

Chu Ge looked at her, "Xiu Niang, what were you doing just now?"

Xiu Niang was stunned for a moment, she held the handle of the car and looked at herself, "Me? Oh, I just saw the wheels of this car come out a little bit, so I thought about kicking it in."

The bay red horse raised its head, but because its head was tied to a wooden stake with a hemp rope, it was thrown back halfway. It looked at Chu Ge and called to Xiu Niang, as if to say, she Lie, she lied, she was just kicking the wheel.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang and responded, "Oh."

The bay red horse immediately fell silent.

Xiu Niang smiled at Chu Ge, "Chu Ge, what are you doing here?"

After listening to what Xiu Niang said, Chu Ge thought about it. He smiled and spread out the oiled paper bag in his hand to show Xiu Niang.

Xiu Niang looked at Chu Ge, and lowered her head in a strange way. On the oiled paper bag in Chu Ge's hand, there were four big steaming white buns.

Looking at the four white buns, she suddenly remembered the time when she and Chu Ge rushed to the town to buy bamboo shoots (bamboo shoots).

That day they sent bamboo seedlings to restaurants in the town, and Chu Ge also bought her four steamed buns, two for vegetables and two for meat, Chu Ge lied to her at that time, saying that all four were meat Steamed stuffed buns, but he took two of them by himself, and the remaining two, Xiu Niang really ate meat.

Xiuniang still remembered the two steamed buns that Chu Ge took away, they were rapeseed steamed stuffed buns with the stuffing exposed.

She looked up at Chu Ge, and smiled coquettishly, "It's still hot, just out of the oven?"

Chu Ge nodded and smiled, "Well, it just came out of the oven."

Xiu Niang smiled, and reached out to take the bun from Chu Ge's hand, "Then let's go back, and eat while walking in the car."

Chu Ge responded, smiled, went to the front and untied the rope of the bay red horse, led the bay red horse and turned around, facing the gate of the town, "Xiu Niang, come up."

Xiu Niang smiled and said "Hey", walked to the side of the carriage, and sat on it.

After she sat down firmly, Chu Ge turned around holding the hemp rope, sat beside her, and drove the carriage out of town.

"Chugo?"

"Oh."

"Are you buying meat buns today?"

"Oh, um."

"Then... which two do you want to eat first?"

(End of this chapter)