farmhouse ditty

Chapter 165 Chugo's Countermeasures

Half of the old woman was walking around the street with a bamboo basket on her shoulders. She walked to the vegetable stand on the side of the street to have a look. This morning, the little grandson at home was clamoring for scrambled eggs with tomatoes, so she hurried to buy some back.

Smiling to the peddler at the previous vegetable stall, "Auntie, buy vegetables, you can buy them here, and I'll give you a cheaper price."

The woman looked at the vegetable stand and saw that there were tomatoes, so she came over to have a look, "How much is this cabbage?"

The vegetable vendor said, and stretched out four fingers, "Ma'am, it's cheap, it costs four Wen a catty."

The old lady was joking, she cast a look at him in feigned anger, "Ma'am is not cheap, she is very expensive."

The vegetable vendor was taken aback, thought for a while, and smiled, "Oh, ma'am, look at my quick talk, I'm talking about four cents a catty of cabbage."

The woman smiled, and pointed at the peddler, "That's right, you little boy, you have said everything, you just said that the aunt is four cents a catty, then you can see how much I am, my aunt. !"

The vegetable vendor looked at the aunt and laughed, "Oh, aunt, you really know how to joke."

The old woman was smiling and chattering, looking at the fresh vegetables at the stall, weighed a catty of cabbage, half a catty of potatoes, and finally grabbed the tomatoes on the far side and asked, "Hey, baby, how much is a catty?"

She was picking and picking, and she had caught three or four, but she hadn't heard the vegetable vendor reply, so she raised her head and asked again.

"Hey, baby, I'm talking to you, how much is your tomato per catty... Hey, baby, what are you looking at?"

The old woman looked at the vegetable vendor and stared straight ahead in a daze, so she didn't even do business, she grabbed a tomato and shook it in front of him.

The vegetable vendor felt his eyes blur, and he looked back at the woman, and picked up the wooden scale beside him, "Oh, ma'am, you have chosen it, and I will weigh it for you."

The old woman waved her hand and said, "What do you call it? I don't know how much it costs, so I will call it."

The vegetable vendor looked at the tomatoes in her hand, and said with a smile, "Oh, this, this... six cents a catty."

The woman took a look at the vegetable vendor, and put the picked tomatoes on the weighing pan, "Hey, I said baby, what did you just look at, and you didn't do any business?"

The vegetable vendor smiled and pointed to the front, "It's not my aunt, I just want to see what's written on that car."

The woman looked in his direction, just in time to see a mule cart with a red cloth all over its face walking slowly in front. It says, washboard, easy to do laundry, big bargain at opening, buy two get one free.

She squinted her eyes half-closed, "It's written on this cloth, so it doesn't take much effort, and it buys two and gets one free... Hey, what does it say?"

"Hey, ma'am, do you know how to read?"

"Hey, my old man used to be a teacher, so I just followed a few, hey, but ah, the sum of those big characters is not a whole lot."

The vegetable vendor shook his head and said, "Hey, buy two get one free, food? Use?"

This time, there was a scholar in front of a stall next to the vegetable vendor. In order to show off his literacy, he began to shake his head in front of the red cloth cart, pointing to a line and chanting.

"What's said in front of this is, the washboard, the laundry is easy, the grand opening bonus, buy two get one free, and there is a white cloth underneath, which says, in the middle of the back street, Chu's wooden workshop... hehe , this calligraphy handwriting, I don’t think it was done by everyone, you see, the character ‘big’ is just..."

The scholar began to comment on the big characters on the red cloth, but everyone around him listened, some of them were just talking about what this washboard is, why buy two and get one free.

Unexpectedly, the woman who was still picking vegetables, when she heard the scholar said it was a washboard, popped her head out of the vegetable stand, grabbed the scholar and shook her vigorously.

"Son, you read that right, the car is really written as a washboard, it's really easy to do laundry, and it's really in our town!"

The scholar was dizzy from being shaken by the old woman, and hurriedly said, "Oh, oh, aunt, no, that's right, what Xiaosheng said, everything is true... Oops."

After hearing this, the woman pushed the scholar aside, and said cheerfully, "Oh my mother, we have this washboard here, it's really great!"

The aunt who bought fruit nearby heard her say this, "I asked, hey, auntie, what is this washboard for? Why are you happier than picking up silver."

The woman said to her excitedly, "Hey, Nizi, of course I am happier than picking up the silver. You don't know. I went to visit relatives in Xiayang Village a while ago, and saw that the mothers-in-law and aunts in their village were very happy." They use a board to wash clothes by the stream, and they put the clothes on the board and rub them a few times, and it looks cleaner than washing with soap.”

The eyes of the mother-in-law who bought the fruit widened, "Really?! You don't need to swing your arms to beat this laundry, just rub it a few times!"

"No, I saw it with my own eyes. At that time, I wanted to get one too, but my relatives also entrusted someone to buy it, so I don't even know where it is."

"Hey, the three daughters-in-laws of my family are pregnant in turn, and they can't make a living this time. There are so many clothes piled up in the house, so I don't want my old life," the old woman said, patting her thigh, cheering. He said affectionately, "Hey, but this meeting is good, what are you afraid of if you have this washboard, I have to get one quickly!"

The mother-in-law who bought fruit took a look, her brain turned quickly, and she quickly pulled her up, "Hey, auntie, you can pick me up, it says buy two get one free, let's call another partner..."

Your mother-in-law waved her hand and smiled, "Why do I need a partner? My daughter-in-law only has three miles. I buy two and get one free!"

"Hey, auntie, wait a minute, you can catch up with me..."

Guixi was pulling the mule cart, and he heard what the women and aunts were saying behind them. When we went to Lanzi Lane first, those people kept asking where Xiuniang’s sister-in-law’s shop was. He kept talking all the way, so annoying Very, so just now when he got the dim sum, he spent ten renminbi in front of a letter writing stall, and asked the stall owner to find a piece of cloth and add a few words to him, so that he didn't have to say it all. .

This time, the sister-in-law of Xiuniang really made a profit. Brother Chu got a piece of waste cloth, and she turned the waste cloth into a treasure. He only made a half-circle around the town. How many people discussed along the way? Then he went to the back street, he realized that he had to ask for credit in front of Brother Chu tomorrow.

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In other words, the back street was a blast that day, and there were a lot of people coming. She saw that most of the people who came to the back street today were women and girls, and Xiu Niang knew in her heart that they should all be running. From the washboard.

Originally, women rarely come here in the back street, because there are wooden workshops that make furniture here. Some of the people who come here are just strong men carrying goods and carts, and some come here The merchant of the list.

Although there are quite a few elders who came here this time, it is estimated that they came to see the excitement, but Xiuniang thought that most of them were called by their own mothers-in-law. After all, it was not that shop. They will all hang out the guise of buying two and getting one free.

Those women and girls know what this washboard is for, even if there is something they don't understand, they almost understand what it means when they hear the name.

Moreover, when those aunts and aunts got together, they never stopped chattering. There is one woman who knows what the washboard is for, and she knows it when she is close to her.

At the beginning, Xiu Niang looked at the scene, and she was able to hold the scene. While introducing the washboard to the women and girls, she collected money and things for them. It is to buy two to build one, no need to nag.

This Chu Ge was watching from the sidelines, as long as the washboard on the shelf was gone, he would go to the backyard to get it and add it.

But there were more and more people behind, and Xiu Niang couldn't cope with it, and one squeezed, two squeezed, three or four squeezed after seeing them, they were afraid that it would be their turn when they saw that someone had bought it earlier. It's time to run out, so I crowded forward noisily.

To be honest, this is not quite the same as what Xiuniang thought. She thought that the people in this town would almost obey the rules, but she was stunned by the sudden rush, and could only stand there dumbfounded. It's time for it.

But fortunately, the counter that Xiu Niang put up tightly blocked the door, which prevented them from crowding into the shop.

Chu Ge took out another dozen boards from the backyard this time, but seeing the noisy scene outside and the somewhat stupefied Xiu Niang, he hurriedly stepped forward and shook Xiu Niang's shoulder to let her know that he was He came over, and when he was done, he stood in front, stretched out his hands and pressed down, and shouted.

"Everyone be quiet, don't worry, we will come one by one, today is the first day, we will close the stall in the afternoon..."

While he was talking, the people outside started arguing, Xiu Niang came back to her senses this time, and looked at him in surprise, did this idiot come to make trouble.

Chu Ge added later, "I can't buy or sell today, please come early tomorrow. My wife and I have just arrived in the town, and there are still a lot of things left in the backyard. We can only clean up the house while setting up the stall. I'm sorry, everyone."

After he finished talking, the people outside the shop calmed down. Some people in the back of the line spoke up, asking if what Chugo said was true. After getting Chugo's affirmation, they chatted all gone.

They thought, anyway, they can't squeeze in at this moment, and they can't buy. When they are in line, they guess that the shop owner has closed the stall early, so they might as well get up early tomorrow.

Seeing that the people at the back all left chattering, leaving only those in front of the counter, Chu Ge called Xiu Niang to greet her quickly.

Xiu Niang stared at him blankly, she really couldn't believe Chu Ge's emergency response just now, but now is not the time to be in a daze, she has to hurry up...

Afterwards, Xiuniang asked Chu Ge why he took such a countermeasure all of a sudden. Could it be that he had expected this to happen early in the morning, so he thought about what to say in advance.

Chu Ge said, "Oh, this is what I learned from a shopkeeper earlier, when I went to the town to do odd jobs, a shopkeeper just came from another place, he set up a stall at the entrance of the alley to sell salted fish, and asked for salted fish. I looked at the booth, there were too many people at that time, but he didn’t bring enough salted fish, and it’s not easy to just say it to spoil everyone’s interest, so I just said that.”

Xiu Niang twitched the corners of her mouth when she heard this, she, she is not selling salted fish...

(End of this chapter)