Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 118 Rabbit Skin ([-])

There was a light snowfall last night, but the sun was good. After half a day of sunshine, the snow melted completely, and the path in the village was muddy because of it.

Luckily, Du Xiaoyu came out wearing old clothes. Du Xiaoyu rubbed the soles of his cotton shoes on a big rock repeatedly to get all the mud off the soles, and then walked to the ox cart.

Li Jin followed behind with a large bundle of rabbit skins.

In fact, Du Xian was supposed to accompany him, but Zhong Daquan happened to be there. He thought that Li Jin was working as a hired worker in Du's house. Not to mention the easy work of raising rabbits, the wages were high. Where else could he find this job?What an errand that fell from the sky!
It's a pity that this young man has a dull temper, and their Li family is orphaned and widowed, and their lives are difficult. Sometimes they are really afraid that the Du family will dislike him someday. Out of good intentions, they suggest that Li Jin go with him, so as to make friends.

Although Li Jin was not very willing, but Zhong Daquan and his wife had helped their family a lot, and he was very grateful to them, so he had no choice but to come.

The bullock cart was soon filled with people, and the two were squeezed together. With a flick of the driving whip, the cart moved forward slowly.

They are all from the same village. Du Xiaoyu often travels to the county and recognizes a few familiar faces. When they look at them, he smiles and nods as a greeting.

"What are you going to sell?" Mrs. Ma from the west entrance of the village said in a sour tone, "Your family has made a lot of money selling rabbits, right? I heard that a few of them are only one tael of silver, right?"

Ever since news of signing a contract with Wangyuelou got out, she was often asked this question. Du Xiaoyu smiled, "A rabbit is about ten catties, and the price is about the same as pork."

That is to say, Ma Shi clicked his tongue twice and glanced at the rabbit fur in Li Jin's hand, "This fur can also be sold for money? How much?"

"Not yet."

"Yo, you still keep it secret!" Mrs. Ma was a little unhappy, "Look, those profiteers in our village are still secretive, afraid that we will steal your money? You are really at a loss Mother taught well, it really is the same way!"

The women in the same car burst out laughing immediately when they heard it.

Someone said sharply, "Sister Ma, the head of the family doesn't care about wearing a hat, how can their daughter understand it, don't worry."

Du Xiaoyu's face darkened, these people just can't understand others living a good life!
"When it's cold, you have to wear a hat. It's not like some people who are bald when it's cold, the house leaks when it rains, the children have no money to study, and the husband beats people at night! I don't have a good life. I feel itchy when I see others getting rich. You're so mean!" She said slowly, mocking every word.

There was an instant silence in the car.

Most of the people in this village are poor, living such a hard life, Du Xiaoyu's words undoubtedly poked people's scars, revealing their jealousy.

"You damn girl has a sharp mouth!" Madam Ma was furious, and glared at her fiercely, "Don't rely on..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a soft voice say, "The little girl from the Du family is really sensible, and she has shared the burden for the family at such a young age. Your parents are so blessed! Nowadays, how many people in our village envy you for raising rabbits to earn money Well, some people also got wild rabbits to raise, but I heard that it is very difficult to feed them, and they all died, you are still a little fish."

There was actually someone speaking for her, Du Xiaoyu turned her head, and saw a woman with a green cloth turban sitting in front of the bullock cart on the left, with crooked eyes, looking at her with a smile.

"Oh, you don't know me, but I know you," the woman squeezed over and sat beside her, "I'm your Aunt Qin's sister-in-law."

It turned out to be a relative of the Qin family, Du Xiaoyu smiled, "Hello, Auntie."

The woman's surname was Dong. The Qin family had five children, the eldest and the third, and the fifth was a boy. The Qin family was the fourth child, and she was the wife of the third child, Qin Zhixiong. I don't even have the desire to make friends.

Seeing those women looking over from time to time, Mrs. Dong glared at them, pulled Du Xiaoyu and said, "I don't have to be upset by those people, let's have a good chat."

Afterwards, he asked about some household matters, complimenting her ability, and also asked Li Jin a few questions curiously during the period. After knowing that he was an employee of the Du family, he stopped mentioning it.

Du Xiaoyu was idle anyway, since Dong Shi is a relative of Qin Shi, he showed his affection just now, so he talked to her seriously.

After arriving in Feixian County, Mrs. Dong said she wanted to find her nephew Pang Cheng, so she left.

Pedestrians on the road had already changed into cotton robes, all of them with sleeves and hands, and their faces were blue and purple from the wind.

Seeing Li Jin walking slowly to the back, Du Xiaoyu turned around and said, "But it's too heavy? I'll help you carry half of it."

This young man was also very thin, and he had accumulated fifty or sixty pieces of rabbit fur, which was actually very heavy for him, but after walking for such a long time, he didn't even stop, let alone shouted that he was tired.

Li Jin shook his head, "It's okay."

Du Xiaoyu didn't care about it. Some people just like to ask for trouble. Speaking of taking a break, is it difficult?Such a temper will only bring losses to oneself.

The Hundred Embroidery Room is still in the same place, and it has been more than a year since the last visit.

Recently, the shop has been a little deserted. Several shops selling clothes and embroidery have been opened one after another in the county, stealing a lot of business. The guy Zhang Er leaned on the door and was about to fall asleep. Finally saw someone coming in, so he quickly wiped his mouth , cheer up and come to say hello.

But after seeing the two people's clothes clearly, he immediately fainted again. Du Xiaoyu was wearing old clothes today, and the skirt was dirty. Needless to say, Li Jin had patches all over his body. It didn't look like he was here. for shopping.

"Come here to sell embroidery pieces?" Zhang Er's tone was cold.

"Why is it still you?" Du Xiaoyu looked around, the walls were still the same as before, with some samples hanging, "It really hasn't changed at all."

Hearing that he knew him, Zhang Er looked at her carefully, and saw that the girl had a small oval face, a little dark complexion, a high nose, and a pair of almond-like eyes that were flexible and bright. Seeing him looking at her, she was smiling. Not afraid of life, she immediately slapped her head and said, "Ah, you are Huang Hua's younger sister!"

"My little brother has a pretty good memory." Du Xiaoyu smiled, "Where's Manager Bai? I have something to sell to her."

"If there is anything, I can accept the embroidery."

"it is this."

Following the direction of her finger, Zhang Er walked over and took a look, "This, this is..." He picked up one and studied it carefully before asking in surprise, "This is rabbit skin? Where did you get so many rabbit skins?" what?"

"Can you decide this?"

"No, I'm going to call Guan Bai." Zhang Er hurriedly went to the back room.

Manager Bai came out soon, with the same round face and wearing a peach red jacket, but his face was far less festive than before, showing tiredness.

"Miss Xiaoyu, what a rare visitor!" She smiled as soon as she came, "I haven't seen you for a long time, I heard that yellow flowers can be embroidered on both sides, isn't it?" Without waiting for Du Xiaoyu to answer, she said to herself, " I have long seen that she is unusual, and she is indeed so, she is really ingenious, and I am afraid that she will get all the true biography of Mrs. Wan!"

Du Xiaoyu smiled and said, "My sister has loved embroidery since she was a child, and she worked hard. It is only right to have such skills now."

Hearing that she didn't mention the cultivation of Du Huanghua by Baixiufang in the past, Guanshi Bai was very angry. He let Du Huanghua go so easily at the beginning in order to help Baixiufang in the future, but this wishful thinking was wrong.

This year's business was not good. She went to Du Huanghua some time ago for this reason, hoping to embroider some double-sided embroidery and sell it in their shop, but she was flatly rejected.

She sneered, "I have the ability, but people have to have a little conscience," she felt that these words were meaningless, flicked her sleeves, shook her head and said, "Forget it, how can our shop get your sister now Eyes? If she has embroidered pieces, she will sell them at Hongxiufang."

Hearing that she felt disheartened, Du Xiaoyu said, "I certainly remember the kindness of Manager Bai, otherwise I wouldn't have made a special trip to sell the rabbit skins in your store."

To be honest, even though Guanshi Bai made a lot of money from Du Huanghua back then, the businessman always valued profits. He is very similar to the Qin family, he is a born businessman.

It's just that she doesn't know how to be flexible like Qin's, so Baixiufang finally lost out in the competition for emerging up-and-coming shops after experiencing the glory of these years.

"Rabbit skin?" Bai Guanshi raised his eyebrows, "Rabbit skin is not a good thing."

"Of course I know that rabbit fur is no match for fox fur and mink fur, but hasn't Mr. Bai seen such things as rabbit fur warm sleeves on the street?" Du Xiaoyu was a little proud that this was her masterpiece. Many people go to the shop to order it.

Manager Bai's expression changed slightly, of course she knew about it, she had sent her assistants to buy rabbit fur everywhere a few days ago, just now she just wanted to pretend that she didn't know the benefits of rabbit fur, who would have guessed that this girl would explain the mystery to her, she thought Frowning, she was the one who fought for Du Huanghua's wages in the past. She is so clever and cunning, how could she forget?

No matter how careless she was, she turned her head and picked up the rabbit skin for a few glances. They were all snow white without any variegation. Those girls liked it the most. If they bought them to make warm sleeves, someone would definitely buy them.

It's not like other shops, where you can get some brown and gray hare skins to make, how can it be more beautiful than this one?
But there was no expression on his face, and he said lightly, "This rabbit skin is worthless. Those wild rabbits cost two to three hundred cash each, and the rabbit skins are all given away for free, not even a penny."

It does sound like that. Those who sell wild rabbits only talk about the price of meat, and never care about things like rabbit skins. It's the same as selling chickens. How can they think about the value of chicken feathers?Du Xiaoyu laughed, "Why don't you need money? Rabbit skins also have weight. If you look at it by the catty, then the price of the hare skin is [-] yuan per catty. Of course, if Guan Shi is talking about processed wild rabbits, That is a different matter.”

The white manager was speechless, and threw the rabbit fur in his hand for a moment, "Then how about charging you at the price of a wild rabbit? This rabbit skin is twenty cents a catty. You must know that a wild rabbit is more expensive than a white rabbit like you." many!"

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