Chapter 7
Putting Bei Qiao down, Song Tie turned around and gave Yu Qian a slap on the head: "You, you have to wait for the escort agency to open. I wanted to squeeze out some time to go to your house to move some electrical appliances, but you said no..."
Seeing that the two seemed to be reminiscing about the past, Bei Qiao turned and walked out of the blacksmith shop, calling on his father to help move the wooden boxes off the cart and bring them into the house.
When the two of them carried the box into the house, Yu Qian was pouting: "Of course not! Transporting electrical appliances is too dangerous. What if we are discovered by the natives on the road? And what if someone takes advantage of the fact that you cannot be discovered by the natives and deliberately refuses to pay? This precedent must never be set!" Although everyone is a player, there are some people who do not break the law but are immoral, and like to harm others even if it does not benefit themselves.
In order to prevent Song Tie from being morally kidnapped, Yu Qian resolutely drew a clear line: "I want to tell the world, do your own things yourself, don't flatter others and trouble them! What's the use of just a little effort? You insist on asking others for free help without any help. Don't you have any hands?"
"Before telling the world, can you pay the balance first?" Bei Qiao put the box down and rolled up his sleeves.
Before leaving, Yu Qian paid a deposit first, saying that she would pay the balance after arriving.
"It's no big deal. Let me count them." Yu Qian readily reached into her purse and began to count the copper coins. After counting them, she stuffed them into Bei Qiao's hand, turned her back to Song Tie, and continued to put on an unhappy expression.
"Okay, don't be angry. It just so happens that I don't have any orders today, so I can fix your air conditioner and refrigerator right now. Now, go out and play for a while, okay?" Song Tie pressed Yu Qian's shoulders and sent her and Bei Qiao out the door together: "It will probably be done in about an hour."
Although the blacksmith shop was built to cover up an electrical repair shop, blacksmithing can really be done here. Song Tie had just lit a furnace, and now the room was very hot, even hotter than outside.
"Okay, okay, I got it..." Yu Qian pretended to be unhappy and fluttered her body twice, then followed Song Tie's force and left the blacksmith shop. Standing at the door and waving at Song Tie, Yu Qian turned and left. After a few steps, she suddenly stopped and turned to look at Bei Qiao: "I've paid all the money, you won't run away, right?"
Bei Qiao, who was comforting Hui Hui, turned his head and glanced at her calmly: "You live across from my house, are you afraid that I will run away?" Even if the cost of this order is ignored, the total profit for a round trip is only ten copper coins. Why run away just for these ten copper coins?
"Ah, that's right, ahem." Yu Qian coughed awkwardly and rubbed her hands. "Well, sorry, sometimes I don't think before I speak... So, can I take you around the village as an apology for my earlier missteps? Even though I don't like socializing, I'm very knowledgeable about village affairs, especially gossip!"
“Is it convenient to park a horse carriage on the road in the village?”
"Of course it's convenient. Why wouldn't it be convenient? The only problem is that the carriage must be watched. After all, our village is not closed, and there might be people with unscrupulous hands sneaking in to steal things." Yu Qian moved the purse around her waist into her sleeve, ready to prevent theft.
"Okay, I understand." Bei Qiao jumped onto the carriage: "Get in, it will save us some energy on the journey."
"Which store are you going to?" Yu Qian took Bei Qiao's hand and climbed onto the carriage: "Honestly, I think there's a bench missing from the carriage!"
"We'll get ready when we get home... Dad, which store do you want to go to?" Bei Qiao got into the carriage and confirmed that there were indeed no benches. Forget it, it's better not to be picky about a free carriage. I can just go home and look for it in the warehouse. If that doesn't work, I can nail one myself out of wood.
"Your mom said there's everything in the refrigerator, so you don't need to buy food for now. Just buy some food and then, ideally, some clothes." Bei Gu opened the system panel, selected the third-person perspective, and saved a screenshot: This image is quite interesting, uh... "What's the deal with this profession?"
"Have you never read what's written on it?" Bei Qiao turned around curiously: I'm so curious, is it written on it that it's the escort leader's wife or the escort leader's husband?
Bei Gu quickly closed the system panel: "...It's okay." Forget it, it's just a game anyway.
"You're fine, I have some. Dad, do you have money? I think the clothes are not cheap." Bei Qiao spread out his hands and showed the ten copper coins they had just earned: "Let's say, apart from the copper coins that can be used to buy feed, the money we have on hand can only buy two dou of rice. What can I use to buy clothes? Will I buy a donkey to pay for it?"
Bei Gu: “…Ah, then, let’s take a look at the clothes first.” We finally came out here, we can’t just do nothing, right?
With Yu Qian's guidance, Bei Qiao quickly arrived at the clothing store. After parking the carriage, Bei Qiao handed all ten copper coins to his father: "I won't go down, Dad. Please see if there are any clothes that Mom can wear. I'll stay here and watch the carriage."
"Okay." Bei Gu jumped off the carriage without much hope: "Perhaps, what if there are clothes on sale? Or what if there are clothes that can be sold separately?"
"I'm going to buy some candied haws." Yu Qian held Bei Qiao's hand and jumped out of the car, once again envying other people's long legs.
"Okay, be careful."
As it turned out, Bei Gu's wishful thinking was unfounded. After entering the clothing store, he looked through all the clothes inside and found that even the cheapest clothes cost fifty or sixty cents.
"Ordinary people make their own clothes. What sells the fastest here is not the clothes, but the thread used to make the cloth. I just opened this clothing store for fun. It can't be any cheaper! Otherwise, you can buy some cloth." The shopkeeper sitting behind the counter rubbed his abacus: No wonder they all say that opening a store in the village is purely for retirement. The consumption level of the people here is really not high. Cotton cloth is okay, but silk is basically unsalable. Every time I look through the account book, I feel... this is really a good place to sell things!
"Okay." Bei Gu walked around the store again and finally spent five copper coins to choose a piece of cloth.
"Are you sure you want to use this color?" Bei Qiao, who was sitting in the front room of the carriage, held his forehead and said: "My grandmother thinks this color makes her look old, but you actually bought it for my mother."
"What's wrong? I think it's pretty good!" Bei Gu patted the dark blue floral cotton cloth in his arms: "It looks good and it won't get dirty."
Bei Qiao: "..." Thinking back to those expensive brand-name clothes in her mother's closet that made her look ten years older, she finally decided to remain silent: Love is what it is, this may be a world that single people don't understand.
After putting the cloth into the carriage, Bei Qiao flipped through the remaining copper coins and lost all desire to buy anything. Five copper coins could buy a dou of rice, a piece of cloth, or maybe five cakes or buns. It seemed like a lot, but it was a multiple-choice question.
"How about buying a bunch of candied haws? They're delicious!" Yu Qian raised the candied haws in her hand and said with a smile: "They're delicious! Just as good as the ones sold outside!"
"No, thank you." Bei Qiao shook his head and jumped off the carriage: Since the taste is the same, let's eat it after we get out of the game. Now, we have important things to do.
"Qiao Qiao, why are you going back to the clothing store?"
"Let's talk about business." Bei Qiao waved his hand and walked into the store: This is a game, but it is not a game. Business is not like running a game, where orders will pop up out of thin air and you have to spend money to complete them. If you want to make money, you have to go out and tell others that you have opened a business!
"Congratulations on the grand opening! I might be too far away to hear the opening fireworks." The shopkeeper, a young man a few years older than Bei Qiao, took the advertisement from Bei Qiao while his other hand was still on the abacus, calculating the accounts. "You run a security company, so the head office arranges my deliveries. However, sometimes when I want to send something to a relative, I can't go with the truck. I might have to trouble you in the future."
"You're welcome, boss. From now on..."
"Ah, finally the pleasantries are over. I'm so tired of talking like this!" The owner of the clothing store closed the account book and put it on the counter. Without waiting for Bei Qiao to finish his words, he lay down on the counter as if he had no bones, looking lazy.
Bei Qiao closed his mouth and raised his eyebrows when he saw this: the shopkeeper with a salty personality
"I'm just keeping it to myself. It's not personal. Don't take it personally." The shopkeeper leaned sideways, resting his face on his right arm, then lazily raised his left arm and waved it. As a wealthy second-generation who wouldn't be taking over the family business, his family had only three expectations of him: stay out of trouble, don't start a business, and maintain a positive image. The first two points were easy to understand, but the third, maintaining a positive image, was what he had just done: behave like a decent person in front of customers.
"My name is Xian Yu, you can just call me Shopkeeper Xian. As a fellow villager, please don't introduce any business to me, let alone solicit business for me, thank you!" When there are more people, there are more things to do. When there are more things to do, it takes more time. When you spend more time, you have less time of your own. When you have less time of your own... then how can you just sit back and do nothing!
"Okay, then do you need a transport service to help you out?" Bei Qiao nodded readily. "If you want to go somewhere else and stay out for a while, our escort agency can load you up and take you there, and then bring you back when your time is up. If your stay isn't long, we can even provide protection for you. There's an extra charge for that."
"If you need me, I will." Xian Yu lay on the table and laughed twice, but not a third time because he was lazy: "Welcome to visit next time, ha..."
I'll come next time. Seeing that Xian Yu was not in the mood to continue communicating, Bei Qiao responded, turned around and walked out, and went next door to continue advertising his own escort agency.
Bei Qiao walked along the street into every shop one by one, and only returned to the carriage after visiting all the shops. The advertising papers in his hand had almost been distributed.
At this point, almost an hour has passed, and it's time to go back to the blacksmith shop and check on the appliances.
"Let's go, Dad." Bei Qiao took out the paintbrush he had prepared earlier from the car and wrote and drew on the back of the undistributed advertising paper: I'm lucky, the atmosphere in this village is very good. I haven't encountered any top-notch products so far, and I hope I won't encounter any in the future.
“Where do these flyers come from?”
“I drew it myself at home.”
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