farmhouse ditty

Chapter 219

Xiu Niang walked to Qian Street with a basket on her shoulders. The festival will be celebrated in two days. There are many people coming to the market on the street, which is very lively, especially when the people in the palace leave, those small vendors It's reopened again.

There were a few fruit sellers and fresh vegetable stall owners in front of them. When they saw Xiu Niang coming, they all smiled and asked her to come and buy things.

"Hey, sister, I see you coming out today, come and buy some vegetables."

"Chu Ge's family, it's almost the holidays, let's buy some fruits, look, my fruits are so juicy."

"Sister Xiu Niang, I have been thinking about seeing you again for the past two days. Your family, that board is very useful. I will buy two more later and give them to my sisters... Hey, I won't bring some fruit today. Well, I just picked it off this morning..."

"Hey, big sister, I also made your board very well, and I told my neighbor... Hey, come to my place to have a look, my dish is very cheap today, and I just came from Picked from the ground..."

Those women knew that Xiu Niang was a big spender, and she had a lot of family members, so she was absolutely unambiguous in terms of food, so they tried their best to win her over.

Xiu Niang twitched the corners of her mouth and cursed herself for not going this way. She looked at them and smiled, greeted them, said to come back to buy, and then walked straight forward.

In fact, she is not here to buy vegetables today, at least not now, she is walking on the side of the road at the moment, paying attention to pressing the flower cloth in the basket, and then walking towards the entrance of the alley.

After she turned this intersection and looked at the bank in front of her, she slowed down with some peace of mind. Not to mention, she was still a little worried when she was walking on the street with a basket of money, not to mention that there was still money in her arms. With two banknotes in my mouth.

Originally, she was not in a hurry to go to the bank to deposit silver. In the past, she only came to the bank for about a month. The most given are ten taels and twenty taels. If it wasn't for the two bank notes in the palace, she wouldn't have come here.

The day before yesterday, Chu Ge and the others rushed to make the remaining boards within an hour. The guys in the yard and Chu Ge and the others took advantage of their energy to quickly load the boards into the car and send them to Guanshi Huang. Museum went.

Chu Ge finished handing over with those palace people in the past, and it was [-]:[-] o'clock at that time. Guanshi Huang was also a cheerful person, and directly called Qiang Zi to hand over the remaining bank notes to Chu Ge. Last time Qiang Zi came, it was just I paid half of the silver first, and this time the board was complete, so I paid the rest of the silver.

Xiu Niang walked into the bank and told the clerk on the cabinet the count. The clerk looked at her in surprise, and then began to help her deposit money. One or two hundred taels, but this time she wants to save more than two thousand two hundred taels of silver, of course this guy will be surprised.

Even Chu Ge was stunned for a long time when he saw the money on the second floor yesterday. He asked Dao Xiuniang why he got so much money in the past two days!

Xiu Niang looked at Chu Ge's unbelievable expression, smiled secretly, and told him the same thing, among the two thousand, 200 taels of silver, one thousand, 440 taels were obtained from the list in the palace. Well, for the one thousand or two hundred boards, Chu Ge asked Guanshi Huang for one or two dollars, and that's the sum.

There are also orders for washboards that I received in the past two days. The shopkeepers of those bulk goods are very generous. After placing the order, they gave the money. The total is about 370 taels of silver.

Add 480 taels of silver when it's over, hey, but these silvers are not what Xiuniang expected, and she almost turned away the more than 400 taels of silver...

I remember that Xiu Niang was cleaning up the yard yesterday afternoon. The wooden workshop had been closed for a holiday the day before yesterday, and the folks had all gone home, but she was tired enough two days ago, so she was too lazy to clean up now. Putting away the wooden knives scattered on the ground, he suddenly heard someone knock on the door in the backyard, calling her and Chu Ge's names.

Chu Fu and Wen's family were not in the wooden workshop this time. They went back to Xiayang Village early in the morning and said they were going to pick up Father Chu and the others. By coincidence, Chu Ge and Old Man Li went to the back alley to buy tools again. After going, she was the only one in the whole courtyard workshop. She heard that the person outside the door was not an acquaintance, so she didn't dare to open it after thinking about it. Instead, she went to the door and set up another board to block the door.

Xiu Niang ignored the people outside the door, and continued tidying up lightly. She wanted to pretend that there was no one in the room, but after waiting for a while, there was another voice outside the door. Xiu Niang heard that it was Chu Ge and Old man Li came back, they bumped into this person outside the door, they seemed to be talking about something, and then Chu Ge called Xiu Niang to open the door.

It turned out that this person was a clerk from Tairen Pharmacy on Qianjie Street. He came here now, saying that he was here to give Xiu Niang some money.

After listening to what he said, Xiuniang remembered that at this time last year, she used the six Erbao vines in the field and purchased [-]% of the stocks from the shopkeeper Tian of Tairen Medicine Store. She taught them to plant Erbao vines and waited When the flowers are ready and the business is done, they have to give her [-]% of the money, which she has signed a contract with shopkeeper Tian earlier.

The guy was relieved to hand over the money to Xiu Niang. If he was not allowed to run around the street with a few hundred taels, he would be terrified. He took out another piece of paper with shopkeeper Tian's seal and handprint on it, and he told Xiu Niang that this is the sharing contract for next year.

Xiu Niang looked it over and saw that the content was the same as last year's, without much change, so she took a pen and ink, signed it, and pressed her handprint.

The guy saw Xiu Niang stamping her handprints, so he asked her something. In fact, this was what the shopkeeper Tian asked him to ask, why the production of Erbaovine was different in the first half of the year and the second half of the year. Come on, so much less.

After hearing what he said, Xiu Niang smiled secretly, and then she pretended to think about it, and then told him that the seedlings from the Erbao vine will also have to cut off the excess branches in the second half of the year, and they can't stay too long. , the guy listened seriously, and when she said something, he nodded in response.

In fact, the matter that this guy came to ask is not a big deal. Shopkeeper Tian asked her before, but they only signed a one-year sharing contract at that time. How can I get another year's share...

"Little sister-in-law, this, this is you, the bank note you just asked for."

The clerk in the bank called for Xiu Niang to say a few words, seeing that she didn't know what she wanted to do, she just stood in front of the cabinet and kept laughing silly, which made him dare not speak loudly.

Xiu Niang came back to her senses, looked at the banknotes on the counter, thanked them with a smile, took them and left. The guy at the counter didn't want to say anything at all, but he whispered according to his habit.

"Little, little sister-in-law, count the number, don't go out and come back to say that one is missing..."

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Looking at a 100 tael silver note in front of him, Gui Xi blinked, and looked up at Chu Ge and Xiu Niang who were opposite him. He was going back to the village now, and was thinking of coming to meet Chu Ge and the two of them. Kouzi said goodbye, but unexpectedly, Chu Ge called him in and gave him a bank note!
Xiu Niang smiled, "Silly boy, what are you doing in a daze, quickly put away the bank notes."

Guixi looked at the 100 taels of silver, but still didn't get over it, "Brother, sister-in-law, you, what are you?"

Xiu Niang glanced at Chu Ge and smiled, "What's wrong, you've been so busy these two days that you've been stupid, this is your wages, why don't you hurry up and take it."

Guixi listened for a while, and quickly waved his hands. He helped three or two workers in the wooden workshop, and came to tell Chu Ge and Xiu Niang in advance that someone from the palace would come to Shuangyang Town to ask for a washboard, They are ready, just these two things, how can he ask for so much money.

Although his original intention was to get some money from Chu Ge, but he also has helpers who are making money with his own strength, and he doesn't want so much, just three or forty taels, at least he can build a A house, he just wants to make money as a wife, whoever tells him that he is about to get married.

Chu Ge listened to Guixi chattering a lot, he was stunned for a while, guessing that he wanted to say something, and then he chatted with Guixi.

Xiu Niang sat on the side, watching Chu Ge and Gui Xi chattering. At noon, she took all the money and bank notes received these days to the bank and deposited them in the bank. Here is a bank note, among which is Guixi's 100 taels.

In fact, the 100 taels of silver is not much, and it is not much, but if Guixi hadn't come to tell them this in advance, she would not have thought of countermeasures so early, and if it hadn't been for him and Gouzi to get along well It is impossible for her and Chu Ge to know that Gouzi's relatives are working in front of Guanshi Huang, and then they can't pass through Qiangzi and use the aggressive method to make Guanshi Huang review the model again. In the end, they will not be able to get the list from the palace. .

So, Guixi deserved the 100 taels of silver, and besides, they also made a lot of money this time, everyone on the counter had a share, how could Guixi be missing.

And that Qiangzi, although he said that he helped them unconditionally because Chu Ge often took care of his godmother, the old lady Zhang in the village, but this matter is over, she and Chu Ge can't be in vain, so Before Qiangzi left, she asked Chu Ge to secretly give him 50 taels of silver as a thank you. In this way, they would have an eyeliner in the palace from now on.

Xiuniang thought that Chu Ge also knew these things, so she asked him to talk to Guixi. What about her and Chu Ge? Anyway, he was going to marry a wife at the end of the year. The 100 taels of silver was considered a gift from her and Chu Ge.

(End of this chapter)