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Chapter 169 Just wait and see
After dinner at noon, old man Li was not in a hurry to take a nap. Instead, he and Chu Ge stood under the big tree in the yard, nestled in front of the table in the shade, and looked at Xiu Mother wrote and drew on those papers.

Old man Li leaned his body sideways this time, biting the cigarette holder and taking a sip. Seeing Xiu Niang wrote the big characters, he asked, "Hey, girl Xiu, what is that character?"

Xiu Niang didn't look up and stared at the paper and asked, "Uncle, is that what you said?"

Old man Li curled his lips, pointed and said, "That's the one, the one with a lot of twists and turns?"

After Xiuniang finished writing a line, she picked up a pen and looked at it, and said, "Oh, uncle, this is the word for 'thing', which is the 'thing' we always talk about."

Old man Li pursed his lips and nodded, then turned around and asked again, "Hey, what is that word? It's the word where several sticks and sticks are put together."

Chu Ge also took a look. Although he didn't know many words, he knew the word, "Uncle, this is the character for '工', which is the character for job recruitment that is often written on the bulletin board at the pier."

Old man Li smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Hey, Chu Wazi, is it okay, I can still read."

Chu Ge also smiled, and he said dumbly, "Uncle, I can't read many words, but I often came to the town to do odd jobs in the early years. When I heard these two words, I went in and asked if I wanted someone, I ran to several houses with them at that time, and I only knew these two words after listening to others."

Old man Li let out an oh, but he didn't look right, so he asked, "Hey, Chu Wazi, you said two words, but why did Xiuniang write four words?"

Holding a brush, Xiu Niang pointed to the words on the paper, and murmured one by one, "Uncle, what I do is recruiting, working, enlightening, and things."

Chu Ge looked down, thought about it and asked, "Xiu Niang, what do you mean by this announcement?"

"Oh, the reason is..." Xiu Niang was stunned as she spoke, she thought for a while, then tore off the written paper, crumpled it up and threw it aside.

Chu Ge looked at the paper dumpling that fell to his feet, and asked, "What's wrong, Xiu Niang, didn't you write well just now?"

Old man Li looked at it and said, "That's right, Xiu girl, your handwriting is so good, you just tore it up, it took a lot of effort to write with this pen, what are you doing?"

Xiu Niang took out a piece of paper from the basket at her feet, spread it on the table, and said to Chu Ge and old man Li, "Uncle, Chu Ge, I just made a mistake by hand, I have to write it down."

Chu Ge and old man Li sounded like they believed it, and continued to read without saying anything. Before writing, Xiu Niang cut a piece of paper into two halves. The word is a modern word. Even if she explained it clearly to Chu Ge and the others, those who read it on the street still couldn’t understand it, so she had to rewrite it.

Originally, she bought a few large sheets of paper earlier, and she wanted to write down her employment requirements in detail, such as male or female, with work experience preferred, salary negotiable and so on.

But now she remembered that if she really wrote it like that, probably not many people would understand it, and Chugo also said just now that those who are looking for work only recognize the word "recruitment" Well, it's useless if she writes a full article, she might as well just take a small piece of paper and paste it in front of the shop.

Xiu Niang grabbed the brush, dipped it in some ink, and wrote on the cut paper. When the time came, it would be pasted on the front and back of the shop. Anyone who saw it would come in and ask.

Chu Ge helped spread the paper written by Xiu Niang on the floor, and waited for the ink stains to dry before stacking them up.

Old man Li had been watching from the sidelines. He looked at the paper with the word "recruitment" written on the floor, smoked a few cigarettes in thought, and finally spoke, "Hey, Chu Ge, don't be so busy."

Chu Ge paused, glanced at Xiu Niang, and then asked old man Li, "What's wrong, Uncle?"

Old man Li waved his hand to let him rest first, and then said to Xiu Niang, "I said girl Xiu, you are talking about recruiting workers, have you thought about this matter carefully?"

Xiu Niang looked at old man Li and smiled, "Of course uncle, when did you see me scaring me and making a fool of myself?"

Old man Li knocked on the corner of the table with his cigarette stick, and said, "Hey, girl, uncle knows that you have a good brain, but you didn't think about this trick, buddy."

Xiu Niang asked, "Uncle, why didn't I understand?"

Old man Li said, "Girl, you tell uncle first, what do you want to recruit a buddy for?"

Xiu Niang said it as a matter of course, and spread her hands, "Of course I'm helping my uncle fight, I made a lot of washboards."

Old man Li pointed to the wood in the yard and said, "Oh, girl, take a look, how many people are needed to collect these wood in one day, your uncle can make a few in half a day, if Chu Wazi came to help, maybe I can make a few more, but what's the use of making them, they have to be sold."

"When you open a shop, you only buy for a while in the morning, and you only buy and sell a few when you are exhausted in a day. We can't see the sky and shout to buy two and get one free. Besides, with your selling method, we don't have any We don’t need to hire a buddy, we can come here on our own, and our business is not big, so it’s good to have something to chew on in a day.”

Chu Ge listened from the side, and felt that what Old Man Li said was reasonable, "Xiu Niang, what Uncle Li said is right, the three of us can get busy with the work in the shop, don't you need to hire a buddy at all, let's move on... ..."

He said and looked at her, "Come on, Xiu Niang, as you said just now, it's impossible for you to just hire one guy."

Xiu Niang looked at him with a smile, and said, "That's right, if you want to say, it's a trick to recruit a fellow, but no matter what, we have to gather enough people to support a workshop. Come on."

Chu Ge was taken aback when he heard this, and then said, "Xiu Niang, you are talking about setting up a workshop, so these ten or so guys will have to stay in the workshop for nothing. Think about it, we hired guys, Let’s not talk about wages or anything, but in our backyard, even though there are a few vacant houses, there are not many people living here.”

Xiu Niang said disapprovingly, "It's okay, let's build another small yard nearby for the guys to live in, isn't that also close to us?"

Old man Li clicked his tongue, and said to Xiu Niang, "Oh, why don't you listen to me, you woman? It's just our business, so why hire a dozen guys? It's not a big deal for us. .”

Chu Ge also said, "It's Li Xiuniang, our shop has just opened for a few days, although there is still some money from buying and selling in a day, but that's because we bought two and one at the beginning in exchange for such a good quality. I also hope that our business will be successful, but it's not the time yet, isn't it..."

Xiu Niang looked at the two of them, sitting on the sidelines, not talking to each other, and waited for Chu Ge and Old Li to finish complaining before she said with a smile, "Uncle, Chu Ge, are you two finished?"

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang's question, and nodded dully, while Old Man Li bit his cigarette holder and remained silent.

Xiu Niang got up with a smile, walked out of the shade, put away the papers written on the ground, then turned to look at them, took two papers to Chu Ge, and asked him to stick them on the shop.

"Uncle, Chu Ge, this good market for washboards is coming soon, just wait and see, this wholesaler will come to you soon..."

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A carriage with a carriage passed by the back street. There were no people on the street this afternoon, so the driver pulled the hemp rope to make the horse go faster. In fact, it was fine even if it ran, but beforehand, this The owner of the car has already explained it, just let him take it easy.

Waiting to come to a small independent building, the carriage finally stopped, and the coachman glanced back and forth with the hemp rope. Although this small independent building has only three floors, the facade is very large, and the decorations inside It's also very good, but there are some furniture and so on, and it looks like a shopkeeper doing business.

The driver looked up at the signboard on the pavement, then got out of the car, took down a wooden stool and put it in front of the car, and said to the inside of the car, "Master, the Yuanmu line is here, please get off the car."

He yelled, the clerks in the shop listened and rushed out to meet him. They stood in a row and waited at the door.

This time, a middle-aged man dressed in rich and noble clothes came out of the carriage. He had a beard and was extremely handsome. The woodworking workshop, and then the business became more and more prosperous. In addition to this old shop in the town, it also opened a dozen branch offices in those big towns.

Those guys saw Yang Erye getting off the car in unison, and they all shouted in unison, "Master, you are back."

The middle-aged man looked down at them, said a few words in a deep voice, and then entered the shop, "Go back to work, don't block the door to make something, you don't think it's conspicuous, I don't think so What a shame!"

This Second Master Yang is notoriously strict, and those guys shuddered when they heard it. There was an old man in his sixties at the far end. He was the manager of Yuanmu Co., surnamed Wang. The second master went to the backyard, and shouted for the guys to guard the shop, and walked a few steps to follow behind him.

Second Master Yang came back from another town to pay for the debt. He wandered around the carriage for a few days, and instead of taking a rest when he came back, he went to the workshop behind the shop to have a look.

His eyes were busy, but his ears were also idle. The shopkeeper Wang followed him while telling him what happened in the town during the two months he was away.

Just when Second Master Yang checked the workshop behind and was about to go upstairs, he raised his hand, "Old Wang, tell me what you said just now before you left the yard."

The shopkeeper Wang paused and thought for a while, "Oh, master, are you talking about the day when the Chu family workshop opened?"

Second Master Yang looked at him sharply, "That's right, you just said that their workshop sells something..."

(End of this chapter)