farmhouse ditty

Chapter 214
Chu Ge first asked San'er to go out, closed the shop with Wang Er, and then wrote a notice, saying that they would not accept orders for these two days, so what happened to them, they had to get the boards that the palace wanted first. .

Then Chu Ge sent a few guys to clean up the two unused rooms in the yard, so that the boards would be built in the past two days, and there would be a place to store them, and they would be pulled out together when the time came. Chu Ge let Chu Fu and Old Man Li arrange the division of labor and shifts.

Xiu Niang stood behind Chu Ge, watching him and chattering to show the guys how to work, Chu Fu and old man Li chatted with him a few words, then called the guys to start moving, she watched, He turned around and went back to the hall.

Chu Ge turned around this time, just in time to watch Xiu Niang walk into the room with a sullen face, he thought for a while, and followed him in, "Xiu Niang, what's wrong with you?"

Xiu Niang sat on the chair in a fit of anger, and looked up at him, "You, you are so mad!"

Chu Ge paused, blinked dumbly, looked at Xiu Niang and said falteringly, "I, I..."

Xiu Niang hummed heavily, "No, I'll just count you as an annoyance."

Chu Ge listened to Xiu Niang's words, his mind was full of doubts, he really didn't know why he was so angry with Xiu Niang, and was about to ask, when he saw the little woman in front started talking again.

Xiu Niang pursed her lips and looked at him, "Just now at the racecourse, why did you speak for Yuan Muhang? Have you forgotten how that Yang man ran against us?"

Hearing what Xiu Niang said, Chu Ge suddenly understood that this was what Xiu Niang was angry with. Originally, this morning, he took out his board with wide and narrow grooves and told Guanshi Huang After talking about it, he immediately said that he wanted to enter the board of their house, no matter how much the deputy manager He said, the manager Huang would not listen.

However, Manager Huang probably got annoyed later, and said that he would also hand over another list from the palace to him, but when he heard it, he shook his head and said that he couldn't do it, because what was required on that list, It's some big piece of furniture or something.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang and smiled, and said, "Xiu Niang, I just didn't accept that order, and I didn't speak for Yuan Mu Xing either."

Xiu Niang frowned, and said to him, "You don't accept that list anymore, why are you saying that in Shuangyang Town, the large furniture made by Yuanmu is good? What are you talking about?"

Chu Ge said, "Xiu Niang, what do you mean, do you want us to follow up on that list?"

Xiu Niang said angrily, "No, just because he keeps running on us, we should take that list down and piss him off, piss him off!"

Chu Gemu replied, "Oh, then Xiu Niang, we've finished the list, what are we going to do?"

Xiu Niang gave Chu Ge a look, she was stupefied, and asked what to do, of course, she made the furniture according to the requirements on the list, she thought so, and was about to talk, but suddenly stopped.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang's hesitant to speak, thinking that she must have figured out the problem, he smiled, "Xiu Niang, you know, we all made washboards in the beginning, All the guys in our wood workshop came out halfway and only know how to do some simple carpentry work, if we accept that order, won’t we force ourselves to a dead end?”

Xiu Niang pursed her lips when she heard what Chu Ge said, although she was a little bit unwilling, but what Chu Ge said was reasonable, they were already overwhelmed with the thousands of washboard orders they received today. Because the boards they showed Guanshi Huang were dual-purpose, there was no stock in the wood workshop, so they had to make them now, and the time that Guanshi Huang gave them was only four days, so they couldn't keep up with it.

She sighed secretly, took a look at Chu Ge, and seemed to be honest, "I, I just felt that the second brother Yang always runs on us, and we failed to run on him once, it's weird."

Chu Ge had no expression on his face, wondering if Xiu Niang was blaming him for doing things poorly, so he muttered this in a low voice.

Xiu Niang turned her head to look at him, and asked thoughtfully, "Chu Ge, what did you just say?"

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang, and said dumbly, "Xiu Niang, I just think that if we just gave up the list to Second Master Yang, he owes us a big favor. It's no worse than running on him. make him uncomfortable?"

Xiu Niang was taken aback when she heard this, and then looked at Chu Ge with wide eyes. She recalled that when Second Master Yang was in the racecourse this morning, watching Chu Ge hand over the furniture list to him, his face was ugly. Second Master Yang has a weird personality, and he really doesn't buy it for ordinary people's face, but the order in the palace is too big, so he has no choice but to accept it.

Thinking of this, she suddenly stopped being angry, and just looked at Chu Ge, the one who was so stupid was the one who was so helpless.

Chu Ge watched Xiu Niang staring at him, and his usually watery eyes were narrowed, which made him feel itchy in his heart, and he himself looked down at himself, "Xiu Niang, I, Is there something on me?"

Xiu Niang looked at Chu Ge, smiled thoughtfully, and was about to open her mouth to praise him, when suddenly she heard someone shout at the door.

"Hey, if you have something to say, talk about it, what's the noise!"

As soon as Old Man Li came to the door of the main room, he suddenly saw Chu Ge and Xiu Niang sitting in the room with big eyes and small eyes. He thought that the young couple had a quarrel, so he rushed in to try to persuade them.

Chu Ge and Xiu Niang listened for a while, then looked at Old Man Li who was in a hurry, "Uncle Li, what's wrong with you?"

Old man Li was stunned for a moment, and looked at the normal-looking young couple in the room, oh, there is no quarrel.

He fake coughed twice, "Oh, cough, it's nothing, I, I, I just came in to ask?"

Listening to what Old Man Li said, Xiu Niang knew what he wanted to ask. Before she and Chu Ge went to the racecourse last night, Old Man Li and Chu Ge talked about it. If they took this dual-purpose board tomorrow, then Manager Huang looked down on him, so they changed their words and said that they can also make the board of Yuanmuhang, and the price can be reduced by a tael. Just raise the price again.

Chu Ge looked at old man Li and said to him, "Uncle Li, as we said before, we should make the dual-purpose board."

Hearing this, old man Li was a little surprised at first, he never thought that the steward in the palace would take a fancy to that dual-purpose board, but then his face darkened again.

Xiu Niang looked at it, and said with a smile, "What's wrong, Uncle Li, let's take the order down, why are you so unhappy right now?"

Old man Li pursed his old mouth, "Hey, what's the fun? It's very troublesome to make these two-purpose boards. We have a garden wood shop to compare them there. We can only ask for a few pennies. It takes time and money. It's really not worth it."

When Xiu Niang heard old man Li's complaints, she knew the reason for his displeasure. She smiled, stretched out her hand and whispered, "Uncle Li, Chu Ge asked the palace for...money."

Old man Li looked at Xiuniang's mouth shape, and said, "Hey, isn't that right, I just asked for a couple of things... what, what, that board..."

Chu Ge glanced outside, nodded to old man Li, and signaled him to keep his voice down, so that the big guys who don't shout will know.

Old man Li was stunned for a moment, and asked a question. Chu Ge and Xiu Niang looked at him and smiled, and then told him about the racecourse. He patted Chugo on the shoulder, and praised him several times without hesitation.

Listening to old man Li boasting about Chu Ge, Xiu Niang couldn't help laughing, as if she had been praised, ah, no, even if she was praised, she wouldn't grin Mouth smirking.

The old man Li listened and asked Dao Xiuniang why she thought of getting such a double-use board in the first place.

Xiuniang thought about it and said, in fact, as early as when Guixi came to inform them that people from the palace would bring a batch of washboards to the town and ask them to get ready, she had thought of this in her heart, but She didn't know if it was practical or not, so she asked Guixi to ask Gouzi, this Gouzi and Qiangzi were relatives, and when chatting in private, they would probably talk about things in the palace, Guixi asked him but The best.

A while ago, Guixi asked someone to deliver a letter to Xiuniang and the others, just to talk about this matter. Xiuniang asked him to ask about the clothes washing bureau in the palace. As expected, the clothes in the palace are all fine. Good news, although the maids and guards are not good enough, but it's really good news. The old clothes that Qiangzi wore in the palace were taken back to the village, and everyone looked at them and said they were good.

That's why Xiu Niang insisted on asking old man Li to make a dual-purpose board as a model, which is also in line with the situation in the palace. This manager Huang is not a fool. If the washboard is not clean Well, if he didn't do this job well, then the master above him still didn't bother him.

And last night, Qiang Zi also told Chu Ge and Xiu Niang that Manager Huang would find some clothes to try on, and look at the boards at her house and the washboards at Yuanmuhang, which one is better? So, Manager Huang had already had this done by someone this morning. In the end, the facts were in front of her eyes, and her family successfully won the order.

Hearing that Xiuniang had finished speaking, old man Li laughed happily a few times, and also praised Xiuniang a few words. After that, Chu Fu came in. He was wondering why old man Li asked such a long sentence. Time, so I came in to have a look.

Old man Li looked at Chu Fu, and shouted Chu Ge out together. He and Chu Fu had discussed about the division of labor, but it still had to be said by the shopkeeper.

Xiu Niang looked at Chu Ge being dragged by Old Man Li, and smiled secretly. It's all right now. In the future, there will be a business order in the palace to support them. Even if their business is divided up by others, they don't have to worry about it. I just hope that the guys in the workshop will work hard, don't make any mistakes, and quickly drive the boards out of the palace...

(End of this chapter)