farmhouse ditty

Chapter 187

"...Send you and father-in-law back to Xiayang Village."

Xiu Niang calmly finished her sentence and left, but when she turned around, she stepped on something. She lowered her head in doubt, raised her foot, and saw the two washboards on the ground of the same size.

Xiu Niang looked down at the two washboards, not to mention, putting these two washboards together, standing up, and looking at them from a distance, there is really something different.

She touched the board in front of her with her toes, squinted her eyes, and suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind, but it was too fast, and she couldn't grasp it.

At this moment, Shen's words sounded in Xiuniang's ear, "If you don't listen to my old lady, you'll be at a disadvantage early, and you'll look like everyone else, just like everyone else, but with a few roots..."

Xiu Niang was going to leave, but when she heard Shen's words, she paused, glanced at the washboard beside her feet, and looked at Shen with a strange expression, "Grandma, what did you just say?"

Shen put her hands on her hips and snorted. Did the little woman think she didn't dare to say it, "I said, your head looks like everyone else's, but it's less... ah!"

Before she could finish her sentence, she saw Xiu Niang bent down and picked up the washboard on the ground.

The dozen or so guys in the workshop were originally sharpening carpentry knives in the yard, but when they saw this, they all sweated for Shen. They clenched their hands tightly and looked at Xiu Niang's hand. I almost shouted, sister-in-law Xiuniang, smash it down!
Shen's eyes were wide open, seeing that Xiu Niang was about to swing the board down, she yelled and hugged her head.

Xiu Niang lifted up the two washboards, paused, and smiled happily, "Haha, I see."

Shen was taken aback, and slowly let go of her hand, seeing Xiu Niang holding the board and shaking it in front of her, "You, do you know?"

"I know the (difference) between these two boards...Grandma, thank you for your little nerve."

Xiu Niang took the two boards, smiled and said a few words, and then went to the front cabinet.

Shen blinked her eyes in a daze, and said to Father Chu who came over, "Is this little woman scolding me?"

Xiu Niang came out from the backyard and saw that there was no one in the shop, but she also knew that it was already noon at this time, and everyone on the street had gone home to cook, so of course it was deserted. There were two people on the cabinet originally. One guy was staring at him, but now there was only one left. He sat down with Wang Er and Chu Ge and talked about something.

She raised the door curtain and walked in, "Chugo."

Chu Ge looked back, "Xiu Niang? Why are you here?"

Xiu Niang didn't say anything, and walked up to them in a few steps. Wang Er stood up and greeted her. Xiu Niang nodded and put the board on the wooden cabinet.

She smiled at Chu Ge, stood beside him, and asked the guy how much money had been received on the cabinet in the past two days.

The guy didn't realize for a moment that what he received these two days were all loose silver. After Xiuniang asked this time, he opened the drawer of the front cabinet to check.

"Hmm... shopkeeper, sister-in-law Xiuniang, we've almost received it in the past two days... it's 26 taels..."

Xiu Niang nodded when she heard this, and said to Wang Er, "Wang Er, you take someone with you to the wood shops where we often collect wood, and collect as much wood as you can."

Wang Er looked at Chu Ge, and said a little embarrassed, "Sister-in-law Xiuniang, you don't know many things in our workshop, and those wood shops say it is..."

Xiu Niang interrupted Wang Er's words, "They just want us to give the money first. I've heard from Chu Ge about this. Now we have to make the board first. They want the money, so we just give them the money."

After she finished talking to Wang Er, she said to the guy again, "Just now you said that there were more than 20 taels of silver on the cabinet, you and Wang Er took the silver up together, and you can collect as much as you can. When it's over, pull back quickly and let the guys start working"

Wang Er listened for a while, and opened his eyes wide, "Sister-in-law Xiuniang, what you said is true, we really have to start work."

Xiu Niang smiled and said, "Really, you two hurry up to pull the wood..."

Chu Ge called Xiu Niang, interrupted her, and whispered to her after thinking about it, "Xiu Niang, in the past two days in our shop, no one has come to place an order with us. I just asked for a washboard. Called San'er to go to the racecourse, he can talk to a small shopkeeper there, I asked him to ask about the situation, or we can make plans when he comes."

When Xiu Niang heard what Chu Ge said, she thought about it. In the yard just now, if Shen Shi hadn't interrupted her, she would have come to look for San'er and asked him to ask the little shopkeeper. The boards are similar to hers, but why do those shopkeepers go to the Yuanmu shop to buy goods?

But at this moment, Chu Ge thought about her going ahead, and had already called San'er to the racecourse. Xiuniang guessed that Wang Er and San'er had told Chu Ge what they had heard. Just a dumbass thought of this.

However, Xiuniang had her reasons for yelling to start work. Xiuniang glanced at Chuge and didn't say anything, but asked Wang Er and the others to take the money and go quickly to get back the wood earlier so that the workshop The guys in the shop started work earlier, and they also said that in two days, the wholesaler will arrive, and they need to prepare some washboards first.

Wang Er and the guy looked at what Xiu Niang said, they hesitated, and looked at Chu Ge without moving, "The shopkeeper..."

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang, thought for a while, and asked Wang Er and the others to follow Xiu Niang's instructions, but when they took the money and left, he immediately asked what happened to Xiu Niang, and she Why are you so sure that this bulk shipment will arrive in a few days?

Xiu Niang wanted to tease him, "Since you let Wang Er and the others go, then you trust me, why are you asking?"

Chu Ge was stunned for a moment, blinked, and stammered, "Yes, I believe you, but I don't have to do anything, just figure it out..."

Xiu Niang smiled at him with her dimples, she stopped teasing this idiot, and asked Chu Ge to come closer and look at the two boards on the cabinet.

"Chu Ge, take a look, among these two boards, one is made by ourselves in our workshop, and the other is obtained by the sister of Wang's family from the garden wood shop. Can you find out which one is made in our workshop? .”

After Xiuniang finished speaking, she looked at Chu Ge quite proudly. These two boards had no markings and styles, so they couldn't be recognized at first glance...

Chu Ge looked down and pointed to the one on Xiuniang's right, "This one was made by ourselves in our workshop."

Xiu Niang paused, opened her mouth slightly, looked at the two boards on the cabinet, and then at Chu Ge.

Seeing Xiu Niang's stunned look, Chu Ge couldn't help laughing, usually looking at such a clever person, but now he looked stunned, his pink mouth slightly Zhang Zhang, big watery eyes wide open, it's really fun.

Xiu Niang said, "Chu Ge, you, why did you recognize him so suddenly?"

Chu Ge slowed down his smile, and just replied in a low voice, "I guess." In fact, Xiu Niang used that board to wash clothes this morning, no, the bottom side of the board is still wet.

Xiu Niang pursed her lips, and said with some resentment, "Is your guess too accurate?"

Chu Ge secretly smiled again, and then got to the point, "Xiu Niang, I wanted to ask just now, what are you doing with these two boards?"

Xiu Niang looked at Chu Ge and asked, "Is there any difference between these two boards?"
Chu Ge said honestly, "Well, I don't see any difference."

"Of course there are differences, otherwise I wouldn't have to search all morning...here, take a look at the two boards..."

Xiu Niang pursed her lips, pointing at the two boards and chattering, in fact, to put it bluntly, there was nothing special about it, it was the middle of the washboard, which should have been chiseled with twenty or so grooves, but Yuanmu Xing That family only made fifteen or six channels, and the grooves were left too wide. In this case, the clothes could not be washed clean at all, and it was not easy to scrub.

Earlier, she was too focused on the shape of the two washboards, and didn't take a closer look. Although she felt that there was something different from the beginning, she just couldn't figure it out.

Until just now in the yard, Shen said that sentence, 'They all look the same, but they are less...', although it was not a good word, but it still made her feel it.

Xiu Niang tilted her head, stretched out her hand and rubbed the washboard in front of her, "Hey, why don't you say that this guy from Yuanmu Co., Ltd. is lazy."

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang and said, "Is the guy from Yuanmu Co., Ltd. lazy?"

Xiu Niang said, "Well, the guys in their workshop must have thought that it would be easier to cut the groove wider and carve it with a few knives. Wouldn't it save trouble?"

Chu Ge smiled, and said, "That's not true. This garden wood shop is a workshop for making large objects, and the tools are also bigger. I can't blame my fellow."

Xiu Niang looked at him and smiled, "Why don't you complain, I still want to thank them, if it wasn't like this, why would our 'repeat customers' come back."

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang for a moment, "What are you repeating?"

Xiu Niang said, "Think about it, the customers who used to buy boards here, even though they have gone to the garden wood shop these days, no matter whether it is cheap or other things, they are just buying and selling, and they don't care about it at all. I will care about whether this thing is good or not.”

When Chu Ge heard this, he just mumly responded, but Xiu Niang knew that this dumbass didn't understand at all.

Xiu Niang pursed her lips and said, "So what I mean is that those aunts who have used our boards will know that our boards are easy to use, and when chatting with other mothers-in-law, they will talk about our boards. Board, those people will find that store to buy."

"But on the other hand, those mothers-in-law who have used Yuanmu Hanging boards will know that the boards are not easy to use, and will talk to other mothers-in-law. If that is the case, who will buy the boards made by Yuanmu Hanging. "

The more she talked, the more she spoke, pointing to the outside of the door, and said to Chu Ge, "So just wait, not long after, those regular customers from our shop will come..."

This time, a laugh came from outside, "Hehe, don't wait, there are three of them..."

(End of this chapter)