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Chapter 216 Pleasure creates sorrow?

These few days, Xiu Niang and the others have not opened a shop to take orders, and they have posted a notice on the door panel, saying that they will not open until after the [-]th of August, but just like that, some regular customers still send their assistants to knock on the door with orders. .

At first, Xiu Niang and Chu Ge were very puzzled. Although their business is good, which is a happy thing, but those who come to buy goods are not in such a hurry. Seeing that they are closed, they still keep going. Son, send a buddy.

And those guys also said that even if they didn't start making boards until after August [-]th, their shopkeepers are willing to wait, now Xiu Niang is even more unpredictable, when will the business on the street change? It's so well done.

Chu Ge had no choice, so he opened a small window on the pavement, and let old man Li sit there to receive the receipt. In the end, it was this old man who asked, and it turned out that they took over the one from the palace in the horse house. The guys in the horse house are the most aware of orders. In the past two days, the people in the palace have been withdrawn from the horse house, and they have started to do accommodation business.

Some of the merchants who often come to the town are familiar with the guys, and they talk about it after chatting, so those wholesalers heard about it and went to their Chu family wooden workshop to place orders.

Almost half of those who came to make bulk purchases wanted two kinds of boards, one was the kind of wide-slot boards that were often sold before, and the other was the kind of dual-purpose boards they provided to the palace. The old man also told Chu Ge and Xiu Niang that they only want seventy or eighty pieces at a time for bulk goods, and of course the price can't be the same as the ones in the palace.

The folks in the backyard knew that the business on the cabinet was good, and because of the list in the palace, their Chu family wooden workshop became famous all at once, and everyone was very motivated.

Sitting on the front cabinet this time, Xiu Niang looked at the dozens of orders she had received in just two days, feeling a little unspeakable in her heart. She logically said that the deal was done, and of course she was happy, but she always felt that there was something wrong in her heart. like.

This is good because of the list in the palace, and it is not good because of the list in the palace. After all, this is the first time they have received such a large order this time, and it is still such a large amount. She is still worried that something will go wrong. Well, otherwise she should be happy at this meeting, but she is even more afraid that extreme joy will turn into sadness.

Thinking of this, she suddenly shook her head, put the received list in the drawer, and smiled to herself, ah, I guess it was because of the tiredness of the past two days, that's why I couldn't get up looking at these lists, She thought, it might be all right when the palace board is handed in in the afternoon.

Xiuniang waited for half a while, seeing that no one was coming, she closed the doors and windows of the shop, and just wanted to go upstairs to settle accounts, but suddenly heard some noise in the backyard, and she was busy Go to the back and pass.

The guys in this yard were all standing by the side of the yard, leaning against each other, some of them were still yawning, as if they had just woken up.

She looked further and saw that Old Man Li and Brother Chuge were standing at the door of the warehouse, holding a small book in their hands and looking at it. In fact, to put it bluntly, this warehouse is the east room in the yard. It looked quite big, but it couldn’t accommodate people, so Xiu Niang and Wen’s tidied it up to serve as a temporary warehouse.

However, it is really inappropriate to use the east house as a warehouse. The house is nestled in a corner of the yard, and it is not easy to cross the road, and it is not convenient to move goods in, because there is a wooden fence in front of the house. They wanted to tear it down, but Xiu Niang refused to let it go. The wooden railing looks quite solid, at least it can still sit on people.

Moreover, other houses in this yard are occupied by people. The south house and west house are where Chu Fu and his wife and old man Li live. Made it.

Xiu Niang looked a little strange. At noon, Chu Ge and the others were busy loading cars in the backyard, so that they could send Manager Huang to the racecourse before the afternoon.

But now everyone stopped and didn't move. It looked like they were done with their work. There was a half-filled carriage leaning against the gate of the yard.

The people standing in front of the yard saw Xiu Niang coming, and they all greeted each of them. Xiu Niang also responded a few times, and casually asked a guy next to her, why didn't everyone work.

The guy didn't know if he didn't dare to say it, or something else, he just faltered and asked Xiu Niang to ask Chu Ge to find out.

Xiu Niang glanced at him, thought about it and then passed. She greeted old man Li and Chu Fu, and asked what happened to Chu Ge.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang and said, these two days they worked in two shifts during the day and night, and every time the boards were built and placed in the east room, they would write down the numbers in the notebook. Last night in the middle of the night, Chu Fu watched The number in the notebook was enough, so I shouted for the guys to stop work and rest.

Anyway, it will be dawn in another hour and a half, and the guys in the backyard can't stand it anymore. The three and a half days of hard work have exhausted everyone.

When Xiu Niang heard this, she just nodded. This time, even her and Wen's faces had dark circles under their eyes, let alone these men, but Chu Ge's next words made Xiu Niang be careful. The liver "squeaked" for a moment.

After eating at noon earlier, Chu Ge and the others began to count the washboards in the east room, but after counting and counting, there were still three hundred or so short, but Chu Fu said with certainty that he counted carefully yesterday A few times is enough.

Regarding Chu Fu's remarks, Chu Ge didn't say anything, because he also looked at the book and counted them yesterday, and the numbers were indeed correct, but there are only so many boards in the library, the facts are right in front of him, it's really hurtful Brains.

Old man Li looked at the two brothers, "Hey, let me tell you, the delivery will be made this afternoon, and you guys are still confused. You say it's enough, but you say it's not enough. What are you going to do now! "

Chu Fu said, "Hey, how about I count them again with the guys, maybe we made a mistake."

Chu Ge thought about it and said, "Brother, don't count, didn't we count three times just now, it's still short of counting, I think, let's go to the house to search again, maybe the one that was left is still piled up Take some miles."

Chu Fu waved his hand, "Hey, second brother, that room is only so big, you can see everything at a glance when you go in, you don't need to look for it..."

Xiuniang didn't pay attention to Chu Fu and Chu Ge's nagging, she pondered for a while, looked at the book in Chu Fu's hand, and asked the two brothers, "Chu Ge, big brother, have you read carefully?" Have you checked the account book?"

Chu Ge and Chu Fu listened, and responded without thinking. Xiu Niang looked at them, talked and took over the book, and sat on the wooden railing in front of the east room, page by page, line by line. Flipping through the lines.

Gang Chuge and Chu Fu have said so much, the numbers in Curry and the books do not match, then the problem should be on the books, because the numbers in Curry are dead, and the guys in the shop have been eating a lot these days I have always lived in the shop, and what is missing in this warehouse is about three hundred boards, not two or three, so it is impossible for someone to steal them out and trade them.

Xiu Niang was thinking about it, and as expected, she found a problem on the fourth page. She turned to the fifth page and took a look. That's it."

Chu Ge took over, and the three gathered together to watch. The old man Li squinted his eyes for a long time, "Hey, girl, why can't I see anything?"

Xiuniang knew that if they had to watch it by themselves, they wouldn't be able to see anything, so she simply told them. In fact, Chu Ge and the others kept this account very casually. The boards are squeezed to fill a page, and how many times they are made at night are also squeezed to fill a page. The speed and process of making boards in the two times are similar.

The problematic one was written on the second night when the board was made. At that time, it seemed that Chu Fu was leading the guys to work. At that time, it was estimated that the last batch was finished. The guys and Chu Fu moved the board to Curry, everyone has been busy all night, and they are too tired. They are anxious to go to sleep, so they scribbled a few strokes in the notebook, but the strokes are too big, taking up a large line, so they turn over a page and write. down.

In the morning, it was Chu Ge's turn. They opened the book and they knew what was going on. Xiuniang guessed that the bookkeeper at that time wanted to write each page separately, so he gave it to Chu Ge. Fu found a small space on their page to write down, but in the end he forgot to cross out the number on his own page, so Chu Ge, Chu Fu and the others After calculating an account twice, the missing number is exactly the number in the book.

Hearing what Xiu Niang said, Chu Ge suddenly remembered that he was the one who flipped through the book that day. At that time, he wrote down the quantity on Chu Fu's page, and was thinking of marking the number on his own page. But by chance, Wang Er pulled the wood back, and he was busy unloading the wood with the guys again, so he forgot.

Xiu Niang looked at Chu Ge, saw him speak so honestly, twitched the corners of her mouth, looked at him and Chu Fu, these two are really brothers...

Old Man Li stood by Xiu Niang's side at some point, pursing his old lips, "Hey, one is the boss, and the other is the brother of the boss. Both of them are wrong, and it's hard for anyone to teach them a lesson."

Xiu Niang listened, and almost nodded in agreement. She looked up at Old Man Li, so she wouldn't start talking about Chu Ge. If she said it first, Old Man Li would definitely start talking too. Fu will be punished if he is punished, but Chu Ge can't do it, so many guys are here, when she first talked about it, she whispered it, how can she shout it out.

Although she really wanted to talk about Chu Ge, he was too careless this time, but this is not the top priority at the moment, "Chu Ge, now you take Wang Er and the others to pull the wood quickly, let the guys hurry up again." Get busy, fortunately, the steward Huang's cavalry team won't leave until the afternoon, we still have two hours, these [-] or so boards should be able to be made."

Chu Ge paused, exchanged glances with Chu Fu and old man Li, then looked at Xiu Niang, his face darkened, "Xiu Niang, we have run out of stuff..."

(End of this chapter)