farmhouse ditty

Chapter 211

Old man Li walked around the yard biting his cigarette stick, watched a few new guys finish their work, and shouted for Chu Fu to watch the rest, walked around twice before heading out of the backyard went.

He found a place to sit down, basking in the sun and looking at Yan'er, looking at the front of the alley from time to time, as if waiting for someone.

After almost a bag of cigarettes, old man Li had just knocked the ash out of the cigarette holder when a young man came over with a big paper bag in his hand.

The young man looked at old man Li from a distance, and hurried over, "Uncle Li, you should wait."

Old man Li looked at him, took the paper bag in his hand, took it up to his nose and sniffed it, "Muzi, why did you go to that tobacco shop in Qianjie? Didn't I say that the tobacco leaves in that shop are spicy? Throat and eyes?"

Muzi scratched his head, "Uncle Li, the store in the back street has no tobacco leaves, so I went to the front street to buy them. Didn't you say this morning that there are no tobacco leaves?"

Old man Li muttered something, opened the paper bag, and stuffed all the tobacco leaves inside into the bag, "Hey, by the way, Muzi, didn't you go to Qianjie just now, did you stop by the racecourse to have a look?" , is Chugo still waiting outside?"

Muzi thought for a while and said, "Oh, Uncle Li, I still want to tell you about this. I just went to buy tobacco leaves from Mrs. Cao's, and I just in time to watch the shopkeeper and Mrs. Xiuniang go in, but I also saw a person who seemed to belong to Mr. Yang from the Yuanmu shop."

"Hey, what's the matter? This leg grows on someone's body. We don't care where he is going." Old man Li said, grabbing a handful of tobacco leaves and stuffing them into the cigarette holder. He just smelled the tobacco leaves. Not bad, thinking about taking a couple of sips to try.

Muzi pursed his lips, and said with a distressed expression, "Uncle Li, I didn't mean that, I just thought that the shopkeeper had a hard time delivering the boards to the steward, and the man from the garden wood shop came out again. Putting in a stick, can they take care of this shopkeeper?"

Old man Li smiled, "Oh, Muzi, I don't see anything to worry about, why are you always making yourself uncomfortable."

Muzi said, "Uncle Li, why am I making myself feel uncomfortable? Didn't the shopkeeper say that when I went to the horse house, the people in the palace called out, but the Yuanmu shop The people in the palace took the board and asked the people in the palace to stay, saying that it was because the materials they used were good, but we..."

"Hey, it's a good thing, don't talk about it endlessly, you kid, you said that the material of the people's home wood shop is good..."

"Uncle, I didn't say this, it was said by the palace man who came to our shop yesterday, I heard it when I brought tea to the main room..."

"Hey, you kid, don't interrupt, my old man hasn't finished yet."

"Oh, uncle, tell me."

Old man Li gave Muzi a look, and said, "I said Muzi, do you know how much we can earn by building a board and removing some miscellaneous things?"

Muzi blinked, "I don't know that, uncle."

Old man Li hummed, "It's fine if you don't know, and I won't tell you, but Muzi, you have to know that the wood we use now is thanks to the good guidance of our shopkeeper and the low price." , although one can’t make much money, but our boards move fast and have a lot of volume, so it’s just enough.”

Muzi stared at him blankly, and replied dumbly, "Uncle Li, I also work hard, and I didn't hold back the shopkeeper. It's useless for you to tell me these things?"

Old man Li clicked his tongue, pointed at Muzi with the cigarette stick and talked, and threw out the fire bag.

"Why don't you say that you are very naive? Today, the steward of the palace called the head of Yuanmu Xing and Chu Ge together. This is to make a comparison between the two families. The boss of Yuanmu Xing If the master is more clever, he has to quickly put away his cedar washboard, or else he looks good... Hey, it's useless to tell you, light the cigarette for me!"

Muzi looked at the Huozhezi in front of him, and murmured, he picked it up and lit the cigarette for old man Li. Old man Li leaned over, licked the cigarette holder and just took a sip of the cigarette, and listened to what Muzi said.

"Uncle, you haven't told me yet, why do people from the Yuanmu shop put away the boards?"

"Cough, cough, cough," old man Li suddenly choked, coughed twice, and yelled at Muzi, "You Mulen boy, you want to choke me to death, and you don't even think about it yourself. Expensive, a board costs one tael, can their board compare to ours!"

Muzi listened to old man Li's chatter, and didn't turn the corner, thinking that he sat aside and thought about it.

Old man Li looked at Muzi, pursed his lips and shook his head, brought the cigarette stick to his mouth, and took a deep breath.

"Ah, Uncle Li, if you say that, I understand..."

"Pfft, cough, cough..."

"Hey, Uncle Li, what's wrong with you, why are you choking again... Oh, Uncle Li, why are you hitting me...

"Cough cough, cough... you bastard, why are you yelling in my ears... I'm going to beat you, you bastard..."

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"... hanging money!"

"Cough cough...cough cough..."

When Vice-Guan He was about to say the price, Second Master Yang hurriedly pretended to choke on the water, and coughed loudly.

Manager Huang frowned. Just when Deputy Manager He was talking about the price, Second Master Yang choked on the water and kept coughing, so he didn't even hear it.

Seeing this, Xiu Niang took a step forward and said, "What's the matter with the deputy manager? You just said, how much did you pay for the boards of the Yuanmu shop?"

Deputy Guan He looked at Xiuniang, although she was not annoying because she was so gentle and elegant, but when he thought it was a woman interjecting, he felt uncomfortable, but because of the presence of Guanshi Huang, he pretended Put on a show.

"Hey, I said you little woman, why are you so deaf at such a young age? I said that Ren'eryuan Wooden Shop is a big shop with good things and the price is not high. A person with a board can buy a lot of money. Eight……"

"Cough cough...cough cough..."

Second Master Yang blushed from holding back, but Deputy Manager He didn't care about it at all, just talking about it on his own.

This time, even though Erye Yang got into trouble this time, Guanshi Huang seemed to have listened to it, and he said to Erye Yang, "Okay, shopkeeper Yang, if you cough again, it will cost you eight pennies. It's easy to use."

Second Master Yang paused, looked at Guanshi Huang, pretended to hear something else, picked up his teacup, "Hey, Guanshi Huang, I'm impatient. I've never had good tea from the palace, so I drank too much."

Manager Huang ignored him, but said to Chu Ge, "Young man, you heard it too. The Yuanmu shop sells eight slings of money. Your family only has this material. How much do you want to buy?"

Chu Ge was about to talk, but he still looked back at Xiu Niang, who was smiling at him, and he suddenly had an idea in his mind, "Guard Huang, my board, one, one, two, two."

As soon as he said this, everyone including Xiu Niang was a little surprised. Second Master Yang opened his eyes wide and pointed at Chu Ge, "You are talking nonsense. With your family's material, if you die, you will pay six dollars. Since you dare Double the price!"

Listening to what Second Master Yang said, Xiu Niang secretly twitched her mouth, this old boy's eyes are really poisonous.

Guanshi Huang also felt that what Chu Ge said was too much. Although he didn't know what was going on in the wood shop, and he didn't know what the reserve price of the two of them was, but what Second Master Yang said was right. The material can only be counted as acceptable.

Deputy Guan He looked at Guanshi Huang and said nothing, so he spoke up, "Hey, I mean, you country boy, are you crazy about money? The good boards of Ren'eryuan Wooden Co., Ltd. only cost eight shillings for good materials. , you dare to ask for one, two or two dollars if you are not sneaky."

Chu Ge looked at him and Manager Huang, and said, "Deputy Manager He, the material you said is good, so I want to ask, what kind of material is it?"

He Fuguan frowned, "Hey, you kid, you are in this business, and you are asking me in turn, is this, this material still need to ask, this is a high-quality fir tree!"

Chu Ge asked again, "How much is a board in the garden shop?"

Vice-Guan He suddenly became angry, "Hey, you're here today to find trouble, right? I just said eight diao money, eight diao money!"

Chu Ge still had no reaction on his face, he looked at Guanshi Huang and said, "Guanshi Huang, you heard it too, the material of this garden wood store is fir, and it is also a high-quality material, and a board costs eight dollars. It's nice and very..."

Guanshi Huang squinted his eyes, looked at Chu Ge, "Boy, what do you want to say?"

Chu Ge smiled lightly, "Boss Huang, I can say with confidence that all of my boards cost one or two dollars, and they are all made of this kind of material. They won't be bad, and they won't change the material."

After hearing what Chu Ge said, the people in the room thought about it quickly. Chu Ge said this, not to brag about himself, but to say that the board like Yang Erye is made of fir wood. Well, each one is only [-] yuan, and the washboards in his house cannot be guaranteed to be made of fir wood.

Sure enough, when everyone looked at Second Master Yang, he didn't pat his chest like Chu Ge and made a promise, but he didn't become flustered either. After all, Second Master Yang was also touched in deep water, so what would happen? I admit it so quickly.

Second Master Yang glanced at Chu Ge, just smiled, and said to Huang Shi, "Guard Huang, the shopkeeper of the Chu family wooden workshop is right, I can't say that every board in my shop is It's made of fir wood, but if we want to use fir wood for this list, I can say with confidence that it won't cost a tael of silver."

After hearing what Second Master Yang said, Fuguan He also started nagging, "That's right, Guanshi Huang, if this garden wood shop uses fir wood, it doesn't cost a tael of silver, but that country boy dares to ask for one. Two or two dollars..."

As he spoke, he saw the board on the table, and pointed to Guanshi Huang, "Oh, take a look, the board made by their house is different from the top to the bottom, so it's just inferior material, they think The things we want in the palace are all made so casually..."

Chu Ge took two steps forward, followed Fuguan He's finger to point to the groove on the washboard, "Fuguan He, this board in my house is worth money, and it's on it..."

(End of this chapter)