Red apricots make spring

Chapter 99
Xiaohuan drank too much wine, her face was flushed, and her eyes were full of water. She suddenly said gloomily: "It's New Year's Eve, and I don't know how my mother was born. It's been so long, and I haven't even heard from her."

Gentlely pushed her and said: "Okay, don't think too much, your mother may also be having New Year's dinner, as for the news, we moved, and she doesn't know where she moved, and she can't ask someone to deliver the letter." where."

When Xiaohuan said this, Ye Yu's eyes dimmed a little, and he said in a muffled voice, "You still have a mother to remember, I have to be alone right now..."

"Don't we still have us?" Wen Gang quickly comforted him and said, "Brother Ye, we will be a family from now on!"

"Yes, yes! You all want to go to sad things! Who will wipe the cards with me?" Rou Rou no longer persuaded them, knowing that the more you persuade, the more sad they will be, so it is better to distract them with words, so she laughed Said: "I've put my energy into preparing to win some money from you. Who would have thought that you would be so stingy, and you would hide from playing because of your sadness."

"I'll come, I'll accompany you." Xiaohuan is cheerful by nature, and it's okay to be sad for a while, now she is anxious to get the cards, and even took out the purse that contained the pocket money, to show that she will never default on her debts.

There are things for entertainment, time flies so fast, suddenly it is Zishi, worshiped the ancestors, everyone ate some supper, Mama Wen couldn't stay up late and went to bed first, leaving them chatting and playing until dawn Only then went to rest.

On the first day of the new year, there was no place to go to pay New Year's greetings, only two guys came to pay New Year's greetings, and they were left for lunch, and everyone went back to catch up on sleep.The leisure time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the fifth day of the lunar new year to welcome the God of Wealth. Firecrackers were set off in the early morning, and Ye Yu went back to the martial arts school to learn skills.

Because she saved some money last year, Rourou found a small shop where she could not live in, just enough to set up a counter, but luckily the rent was cheap, only five taels of silver a year, and hired a young boy to specialize there The takeaway Taipingyan and Qixing fish balls are also booming.After three months, she had saved enough money, and she rented a shop selling snacks in the West Market. She assigned the clerk Wang Shun to take charge of the store, and hired two other clerks to help.

The most difficult part of doing business is how to make the first pot of gold. Since Ruan Wen expanded her business, she has made more and more money. After doing the math, two restaurants and one takeaway shop have a net profit in a day There is also two slings of money, so that after a month, she can make a net profit of 40 taels of silver, so Wen Ruan and very lazy hired two more assistants, leaving the cooking and other things to them to take care of, herself and Xiaohuan So he was freed from the heavy physical labor, and every day he was a hands-off shopkeeper, went to various shops to inspect and give pointers, and settled the accounts at night.

Wen Rou now has time, but she has not forgotten the peppers and tomatoes she has been thinking about planting. Finally, this day is free. Seeing that the weather is fine and suitable for going out, she dresses up as a man and plans to go to the nearby countryside with Wen Gang Pick the right farmers to grow these things.

When they arrived at the chariot and horse market, the two of them hadn't made up their mind whether to hire two donkeys or simply hire a mule cart, when they heard a voice calling out to them in surprise, "Hey, brother Wen!"

Gently turned around, and unexpectedly found that the person calling them was the coachman who drove them to Kyoto in the past, and said happily: "Uncle, it's you! What a coincidence!"

The coachman only recognized Wen Gang, but he was startled when he saw the gentleness of the men's clothes. After a while, he came back to his senses, and said with a smile, "It's me, aunt...brother, why are you dressed like this?"

"Is it convenient to go out!" He smiled softly: "Uncle, I'm going to a nearby village to do some things today, you can give us a ride when you have time."

"Are you free?" The coachman nodded in a panic, and said happily, "I just sent a guest to Beijing, and I haven't waited for a long time to see the customer who hired the car. I thought I had to rest here for a night, but I didn't expect to meet you." .It’s just that I don’t know which Zhuangzi you are going to?”

"I don't know either." Wen Rou said with an awkward smile: "I don't know the way, as long as it's closer to the capital."

"Closer to the capital?" The coachman thought for a moment, then smiled, "Twenty miles away from here, there is a small village called Meizhuang, where my brother-in-law Mei Youde lives, I don't know if you will go or not. "

Meizhuang!Mildew Zhuang!Mei Youde!No virtue!
Black Line, the name is so funny!Fortunately, Wen Rou is not too superstitious, so she held back her smile and said, "Meizhuang is Meizhuang, please take us to have a look." After speaking, he turned his head to look at Wen Gang, and he also had an uncontrollable smile on his face.

"Okay! Get in the car!" The coachman didn't notice anything, but happily urged them to get in the car.

The three of them reunited after their farewell, and they were all a little excited. They chatted along the way, and they were not lonely.Rourou found out that the coachman's name was Wu Tiancai, which really matched his brother-in-law's name, which made her black again.But when she heard that his brother-in-law, Mei Youde, was from a farmer's family, he was full of strength, honest and honest, and planted good land, so she became interested and pestered the driver to ask the Mei family's field if the harvest was good. Well, how much silver can you earn in a year.

"Money? For a poor farming family, when the year is good, you can save two oil and salt money, and you can wear new clothes for the children during the New Year. Thank God. If the year is bad, you can eat Difficult, if I hadn’t given them a few money from time to time, they would have been so poor that they would have sold their sons and daughters, and where would they see money!”

"Is it really so difficult?" Wen Gang sighed.

"Difficult! Food and clothing all depend on the future of the [-] acres of land, and you have to pay taxes. In good times, the things you grow can't be sold at high prices. In bad years, you are so poor that you can only eat grass roots and bark. " Wu Tiancai sighed: "I used to live this kind of life, if I didn't have some plans in my heart, I sold the land and borrowed money to buy this mule cart, and earn a little money to get by by running around, I'm afraid it would be like They did."

"Then why didn't he come out to drive the car like you did?" Rourou asked hastily.

"The few mu of land I sold was handed down from my ancestors. His land is granted by the government, so he can't sell it, and he can't borrow so much money. Besides, he is too honest and timid, and he would rather stay at home, let alone his children. There is another mother who is over 60 years old to support, and I really can't get away." The coachman said, looked at the sun and said: "Let's go faster, we may be able to get there in the evening, but I don't know where you two are going. What is Zhuang Li doing?"

Rourou thought in her heart that Mei Youde was a good candidate to help her grow peppers and tomatoes, and asked the coachman some words, and after thinking about it for a while, she finally explained her intention to go, but the coachman was happy when he heard it, Hehe smiled and said: "This is the right person! I'm not boasting, my brother-in-law can't do other things, but he is a good farmer! But I don't care if I say that. When you get there, you can do it on your own." Take a look, if you think it's appropriate, let him handle this matter, and find a way to make a living for him!" He said, driving the car more cheerfully, jolting tenderly and gently, Also secretly complained.
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(End of this chapter)