farmhouse ditty

Chapter 184
After that night, Shen Shi and Wen Shi didn't chatter about other things anymore, they just took the three little ones out for a day to go shopping, while Father Chu and Chu Fu stayed in the shop, helping with the moving and so on.

Xiuniang thought that Mrs. Chen's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would be so quiet, and she guessed that Father Chu was suppressing them. She would not believe that Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Wen came to the town just to go shopping.

However, Xiuniang really doesn't have time to deal with the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law these two days, she is currently worrying about some things.

I remember that two days ago, the day Shen and the others came, she and Chu Ge asked Wang Er and her daughter-in-law to do something. Wang Er went to those wood shops to figure out why they didn't sell them. The wood was given to them, and Wang Er's wife was helping Xiu Niang buy a washboard made by Yuanmu.

Xiu Niang originally wanted to get a board, compare hers with the ones from Yuanmu, and see the difference between the two. Why did those merchants go to Yuanmu to buy goods?

However, things didn't go as smoothly as expected. Wang Er ran for two days and found nothing, so he had to continue running. As for his wife, it was even more troublesome. This garden shop was not like her. After the boards were made, in addition to selling them in bulk to merchants from other places, they also bought and sold some on the pavement, while the Yuanmu Company made the boards in the workshop, and they went out with the whole car directly, and did not buy or sell them to people in the town at all. .

So this Wang Er could only go out for a walk every day, while his mother-in-law and aunt went to the horse house to try their luck, to see if they could get one from the car that Yuanmu Co., Ltd. delivered boards to merchants.

Chu Ge and Xiu Niang didn't have much to do these two days except waiting in the shop, other than watching the cars of Yuanmuhang on the avenue of the street pulling the boards.

As for Mr. Chu and Mrs. Shen, why don't they just stay in the backyard honestly? They can also see that there is something wrong with Chu Ge and Xiu Niang's business, so they don't make trouble for themselves. Everyone just muddle through up.

On this day, apart from the four children, the other adults in the Nanwu got up very early. By the time Xiu Niang and Chu Ge came downstairs, Mrs. Shen had already lit the stove and cooked the porridge. .

Chu Ge and Xiu Niang didn't go downstairs until after washing up, and they were ready to eat as soon as they arrived in the yard.

Seeing that the meal was ready, Wen went into the house to wake up the little ones. After washing up, she was ready to eat. Before she entered the house, she scooped a bowl of porridge from the stove, presumably for herself The little girl ate it, but her baby girl was only five or six months old, and it was too early to be weaned. Perhaps Wen's milk was insufficient, so she had to feed her own baby.

Chu An and Xiang'er haven't seen Xiu Niang and Chu Ge for a long time. They both had to turn their heads to talk to them even after rinsing their mouths. In the end, Shen Shi said something fierce, and the two little devils went to the well to wash their faces obediently. .

Xiu Niang looked at the two little ones and smiled. They still maintained the same appearance as when they lived with her in Xiayang Village. When rinsing their mouths, they ran to the stove to dip in salt. Chu Fu, that big girl, didn't know that Chu An and Xiang'er Why is it like this, she just followed them swayingly, watching them do whatever she did.

Chu An and Xiao Xiang'er also took care of this. Their little niece, who was about the same age as themselves, helped fetch salt and washed her face.

It's just that this little girl admits to life, and after seeing her and Chu Ge, she always hides behind Chu Fu, her big eyes are very similar to Wen's, Xiu Niang just hopes that her temper will not miss her.

Waiting for everyone to sit down at the table, Xiu Niang took out some pickled vegetable dumplings brought from the village yesterday, cut them into small pieces on the chopping board, and ate porridge when it was ready.

When Xiu Niang came over, the porridge had already been filled in the bowl, and she thought Chu Ge should have served it for her, so she put two plates of pickled vegetables on the table and sat down.

Old man Li didn't want to be crowded with their family surnamed Chu, so he picked up some pickles with a bowl, and squatted on the stone steps in front of the house to eat. Old man Chu also wanted to eat like that, but Mrs. After staring closely, he just pursed his old mouth and nestled in front of the table.

Father Chu was about to serve the bowl, but he raised his hand for a moment, stretched his head behind him to support him, in fact, it wasn't just him, except for those little ones, Mrs. Shen, Mrs. Wen, and Chu Fu, all of them were not Hitting the waist is rubbing the neck. It's obvious that I didn't sleep well last night on the floor. In fact, everyone didn't sleep well in the past two days.

Chu An and Xiang'er were fine, they took a look and asked what happened to Mrs.

But that little Huahua looked very relieved when she saw these grown-ups beating her all the time. She held the chopsticks in her hand, turned her big black and white eyes around a few times, and then took the chopsticks She knocked on her slender neck a few times, but she only felt pain and didn't feel much comfortable, so she gave up and took a sip of gruel with a small bowl in her hand.

Xiu Niang couldn't help smiling, she was depressed for two days, finally she had some fun, she sighed to herself, picked up the bowl and started to eat.

After waiting for less than half an hour, all the guys in the workshop came. Everyone tidied up and sat in the workshop. Originally, no merchants came to ask for goods in the past two days, and there was no wood. Of course they were very idle. Well, Chu Ge originally wanted to call a buddy to take Shen Shi and the others out, but they said that they had done enough shopping in the past two days and wanted to rest, so Chu Ge let them stay in the main room.

Seeing that the sun is shining today, Xiuniang hangs the two clothes she washed for Chu Ge yesterday in the yard to dry, and then she goes back to the stove to prepare some lunch. She and Qiaoer are not here, so she can only work on her own.

Old man Li bit his cigarette holder and walked over with one hand behind his back, "Xiu girl, are you alone today?"

After hearing this, Xiu Niang responded, looked back at him, and smiled, "Well, the Wang Er family has something to do these two days, Qiaoer said yesterday that it is, and her mother-in-law won't let her work in the workshop. It is said that the first three months will be raised."

Old man Li replied sullenly, without any intention of leaving, "Oh."

Xiu Niang fixed her clothes and looked at him, "Uncle Li, what do you do?"

Old man Li took a sip, thoughtfully took the cigarette stick and swept around the yard, "Girl, if our workshop continues like this, it won't work."

Xiu Niang looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that the guys in the yard were all nestled in the corner of the house, either chatting or dozing off, the whole lifeless.

She pursed her lips, "Uncle Li, I know, but it's not that I don't have any work or material right now."

Old man Li said, "Why is there no work? Could it be that no one has come to ask for boards these two days?"

Xiu Niang nodded, "Our merchants don't know what's going on, so they all went to Yuanmuhang."

Old man Li gave her a look, "Hey, you don't know what's going on, so why don't you go and ask those people, you have a mouth and legs, do you want my old man to teach you?"

Xiu Niang smiled, "Uncle Li, I've thought about what you just said, but I'm rarely in the locker, and I don't recognize many people at all. If I go to the racecourse, who do I go to?"

Besides, she is a woman, so how can she go to the racecourse and deal with those men face to face? Chu Ge is similar to herself. Making boards, how can I go to the cabinet and stare at them.

Old man Li bit his cigarette holder and squatted on the ground, "Hey, anyway, girl, you have to find a way out quickly. If I stay idle, my old bones will be broken."

Xiu Niang had no choice but to nod her head. Actually, she was also very anxious, but she couldn't show it too clearly. If the guys in the workshop saw it, the proprietress of the shopkeeper would panic. Then they What else is there to hope for?

She set up her clothes, talked to old man Li, and went to the stove, but when she passed the well, she looked at the shop, counted the time in her heart, and muttered, what she wanted earlier The things should have been delivered to her in the past two days, but why hasn't there been any movement yet.

"Miss Xiu..."

"Sister-in-law Xiuniang..."

"Boss lady..."

When Xiu Niang heard these three sounds, she paused suddenly, then looked towards the back door, and saw San'er and Wang Er coming towards her.

Wang Er hurried forward a few steps and said, "Sister-in-law Xiuniang, where's the shopkeeper?"

Xiu Niang pointed out, "It's in the front cabinet, hey, Wang Er, why did the three of you come back together..."

Wang Er responded, called Shang San'er, and said to Xiu Niang, "Sister-in-law, I'll go to the shopkeeper first, you, you ask my wife..."

Xiu Niang looked at these three, all smiling, she looked at the mother-in-law and aunt of the Wang family, "Sister Wang family, you are..."

Wang Er's family smiled, pulled Xiuniang to the side, brought the basket in his hand to Xiuniang, and tore off the floral cloth on it, "Sister Xiuniang, look."

"What the hell, it's still so mysterious..." Xiu Niang glanced down, and there was a washboard placed sideways in the basket, "Hey, sister of the Wang family, I really have you, how did you get this?" She said, taking a close look at the boards in the basket.

The auntie of Wang Er's family wiped her sweat with her sleeves, and said with a smile, she was pulled from the cart in the horse house. She originally wanted to find the guy who pulled the cart and pay more It came down, but the clerk at the garden wood shop didn't dare to buy it, so she ran to the parking lot behind the horse house and watched as he took a piece.

"...Sister Xiu Niang, I found a piece of rag to wrap five slings of money and tied it to that car. Is this what we bought for them..."

In the middle of the Wang family's speech, seeing Xiu Niang's expression, he hurriedly said another sentence.

Xiu Niang nodded after hearing this, and continued to look at the washboard in her hand, but she suddenly thought of something, and looked at Wang Er's family, "Wait a minute, sister of the Wang family, how do you know how much the washboard is? Money."

(End of this chapter)