Smallholder Farming Daily

Chapter 43

Qian Feng held back the two of them, but Qian Feng was dumbfounded by their reaction.

"I need money to listen to a joke? You didn't make it clear at the beginning. If I knew I would need money, I wouldn't bother to listen. It wasted my work all afternoon!" The strong and strong man shook off Qian Feng's hand and left.

Qian Feng thought, damn it, I'm a storyteller, not a beggar.

A thin guy couldn't get rid of Qian Feng, and said with a mournful face: "I have no money, I really don't have money, if you don't believe me, search!" He took off his tattered jacket and clothes. He almost took off his underwear and underwear.He flicked left and right to show Qian Feng, there really wasn't even a copper coin.

Alas, he is also a poor man, Qian Feng waved his hand, "Let's go, let's go."

Qian Feng stepped forward and followed closely, and grabbed the two shopkeepers, hehe, you businessmen dare say you don't have the money to try!
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "I didn't even do business because of your storytelling, and I have to be scolded by my mother-in-law when I go back! I don't dare to listen to your empty teeth, and you are easily addicted." He said Pull out your sleeves and run away.

The second shopkeeper is an elderly man. He laughed, took out two pennies from his pocket, put them in Qian Feng's palm, and said, "Young man, our town is full of poor people, and we can't afford a penny." Ten cents, who is willing to spend money to listen to books? Everyone has to be busy with work, many people can’t even fill their stomachs, and their clothes are not warm. If they have money, they might as well buy a bun to eat. Affordable, isn’t it? But you said that the book is really good, you have goods in your stomach, you can go to the county town to try, there are more rich people there, you rent a house, set up some seats, let people collect money at the door to enter, Maybe I can support my family.”

The second shopkeeper stroked his beard and left. If it wasn't for Qian Feng's eloquence, he wouldn't be willing to give the money.Of course, it was only given once. If Qian Feng came back to tell the book next time, he would have no money to give it.

The others had long since disappeared, and even if they went to their store to ask for money, they might not admit that they just listened.

Qian Feng held the pitiful two cents in his hand and sighed secretly, although the people in the county town were a little richer than those in the town, how could he have the money to rent venues and set up seats?With today's situation, he understands that only idlers and rich people are willing to listen to books, and even the county may not have many such people. If he rents a place, he is really worried that the money he earns will not be enough to pay the rent.

Qian Feng sighed with his arms akimbo, why is it so difficult to earn money?

Shiliu trotted over, grabbed Qian Feng's palm and looked at it, "Hey, I've earned two pennies!"

Qian Feng had a bitter face, "It's just two Wen, it's a charity."

"Two pennies is money. You can buy half a foot of linen, you can also buy two buns, or you can buy a bunch of candied haws." Pomegranate feels that it is a very shameful thing to earn money just by talking. , although earning a little less.

Songqiu and Sui'er salivated at the jujube cake shop not far away, and Qian Feng went there with a couple of pennies.The shopkeeper's wife also leaned over to listen to the book just now, but when she saw Qian Feng approaching, she shook her head and said that she didn't listen, for fear that Qian Feng would ask her for money.Qian Feng didn't bother to mention this, so he took two pennies to buy jujube cake.

Two pennies can only buy a small piece of jujube cake, but when the shopkeeper was cutting the jujube cake, his mother-in-law snatched the knife, and cut a slightly larger piece of jujube cake and handed it to Qian Feng.She guessed that she saw that Qian Feng didn't make any money, and felt quite pitiful.

Qian Feng broke the jujube cake into two halves and shared them with Song Qiu and Sui Er.The two little guys were quite sensible, and each took a small half of the jujube cake and gave it to Pomegranate and Qian Feng.

Qian Feng didn't want it, but Sui'er still didn't want it. She looked like she was about to cry, and she felt sorry for the hard work of the second uncle.Qian Feng had no choice but to eat it, in fact, it was only two bites, just bite it and it would be gone.

The shopkeeper's wife tugged on the shopkeeper's sleeve and said in a low voice, "See, it's really not easy to earn money these days. I only earn one jujube cake in an afternoon, and the four of us share it."

The shopkeeper said with emotion: "How can it be easy to make money? Today, there are only four people in our shop, and they only earn eight cents. Just now we paid one penny for the jujube cake. If our family also planted land, I can only drink the northwest wind."

Songqiu and Sui'er ate the jujube cake with big mouthfuls, not even letting go of the dregs on their hands, and kept licking them with their small mouths.

Qian Feng twitched the corner of his mouth, "Don't be so disgusting, can you two? Let's go home quickly, it's getting late, and it will be dark when we go home."

He tied the table and chairs to the cow, and then put the woven dustpan on the cow's back, and then supported it with his hands.Qian Feng walked forward leading the cow, and the two children followed behind, licking their hands from time to time.

When he got home half an hour later, the first thing Qian Feng did was not to unload the cow, but rushed into the kitchen to scoop up a large ladle of cold water to drink, and said while drinking, "I'm dying of thirst."

Mrs. Yang was making dinner, and asked wonderingly: "Didn't you bring two gourds of water?"

"Talking all afternoon, my mouth is dry, how can two gourds of water be enough?"

Yang stepped forward and asked with a smile, "Have you made any money?"

Qian Feng avoided his mother's gaze, and replied, "I've earned it, buy jujube cake and eat it."

(End of this chapter)