There are many troubles when you are famous
In the Shen family yard.
Father Shen leaned back in his chair and puffed on his pipe, while the other three brothers squatted at the gate of the courtyard, looking around, waiting anxiously. In those days, there was no communication equipment, so they could only wait.
Logically, my elder brother and younger sister should be home by six at the latest. It's already eight o'clock, and it's almost dark, so why haven't we seen them yet?
The fourth brother avoided Shen's father and pulled the second brother out of the yard, lowering his voice to the lowest level, "Brother, nothing will happen, I'm so anxious waiting. Otherwise, I'll go to the village entrance and wait."
"With big brother here, nothing will happen. If you want to go, just go ahead!" Shen Tiancheng has a calm personality, and among these brothers, he is the most patient.
Working in the same factory, he worked less than the eldest brother, but he was better than the eldest brother. He knew how to deal with things and how to behave. In today's terms, he had high emotional intelligence.
Otherwise, Shen Rushan admired him and insisted that he had the demeanor of a big brother.
The third child followed the fourth child to the village entrance. Before they reached the village, they could vaguely hear the voice of the youngest sister in the distance: "Brother, hurry up."
"Little sister?" Shen Tianyou and Shen Tiannan looked at each other and rushed out directly.
"Third brother, fourth brother, are you guys getting impatient waiting?" When Shen Roujiao saw them, she felt at ease, as if she was lying in a pile of fluffy cotton, soft and warm.
"Yeah, I'm almost as anxious as an ant on a hot pot! Why did it take so long?" Shen Tianyou walked around his younger sister, then around Shen Tianhua. Seeing that both of them were fine, he felt relieved.
"Let's go back and tell Dad and Tiancheng that they are at home!" Shen Tianhua still held the bag tightly in his hand.
After arriving home, the brother and sister wiped their faces and said they hadn't had dinner yet. They were waiting for the bus in the afternoon and didn't dare go out for dinner. They were still hungry. Shen Tiannan went to the kitchen to get two cakes for them to eat first, and cooked two bowls of noodles.
The business license was placed in the middle of the round table in the main room, and the whole family gathered around it, looking at it carefully.
Shen Tianhua described his experiences of the day while eating, and Shen Roujiao was responsible for adding details, especially the part about collecting medicinal herbs.
When the brothers and sisters were discussing whether there were any herbs in the mountains, Father Shen listened silently. He took out a tattered book from the cabinet where the household registration book was kept and handed it to his daughter Shen Roujiao. "Jiaojiao, take a look at this?"
Pocket Illustrated Book of Chinese Herbal Medicines? ?
Turn to the inner page: Commonly used Chinese herbal medicines are classified into fourteen categories according to the properties of the medicinal materials, including antipyretic drugs, heat-clearing drugs, and dampness-removing drugs, etc., which introduce more than 300 common medicinal materials in detail, such as Ephedra, Lianhuan, and Tianjihuang. Although it is in black and white, it has pictures and descriptions, which is very suitable for getting started.
There are Chinese herbal medicine treatments for common diseases at the back of the book. When Shen Roujiao saw the words "tuberculosis", she felt inexplicably nervous. This disease is so scary.
"Dad, how come you have this book?" Shen Roujiao asked the question that everyone was wondering.
"This was left by your mother. When they were young, they played together, and one of them had a headache or a fever. Your mother would go up the mountain to find some herbs, and then come back and boil some for them according to the recipe in the book. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't." After saying this, Father Shen knocked the dry tobacco pot against the table leg, refilled it with tobacco leaves, lit it, and took a few puffs with a lonely look on his face.
Over the years, there has been no news from Shen's mother, and her body has not been found. The gossip in the village is almost breaking his spine.
Shen gently stroked the book in her hand, feeling sorry for her father, and asked softly, "My mother, is she a barefoot doctor?"
"I'm not a doctor at all, I'm just brave. There's no one in the village to see a doctor, and there are so many children dying. I had no choice but to do this." Father Shen took a deep breath of smoke and exhaled slowly in thought.
Memories are like a sharp sword, often stabbing this weathered old father in the heart.
Rural areas do not have centralized water supply and cannot afford it. People drink unsterilized and unfiltered well water, and the unsafe water source greatly increases the risk of disease.
However, most doctors are in cities, and there are only barefoot doctors in rural areas, who are often hard to find and have to rely on themselves.
Shen Roujiao had no memory of her mother. The only thing she remembered was her mother's name in her household registration book: Tan Cuimei.
However, Shen's mother's experience of treating her own illness and this book do show from a positive perspective that there are medicinal herbs on the mountain.
Since it exists, there is no way I would miss such an opportunity to make money.
The brothers and sisters discussed and decided to go up the mountain together on Sunday to look for medicinal herbs according to the map and dig them up first.
As for whether the excavation was done correctly, Shen Roujiao wanted to ask that person for help.
After the round table meeting, everyone went back to their rooms to sleep and get up early the next day to continue setting up the stall. Now it is different from the past. If you don't set up the stall for a day, you will lose 30 yuan, which means that my father and my second brother will work for nothing for a month.
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The next day at the market, Shen Roujiao, who had just set up her stall, saw Zhang Qingjie and Qi Nanhua.
"Young boss, why didn't you come yesterday? You didn't come in the morning, and you didn't come in the evening. I waited for you all day." Zhang Qingjie parked his bicycle, walked to the stall, took the saddle handed to him by the girl, and spoke to her while standing instead of sitting down.
"Me too! My picky mother liked the stinky tofu I packed last time. Yesterday, she specifically asked me to buy another portion to take back. But after waiting for half an hour, I didn't see the boss." Qi Nanhua snatched the Maza from Zhang Qingjie, sat down, and said to Shen Tianhua, "Brother, give me two bowls of salty ones."
"My two brothers, I'm sorry. I went to town to do some work yesterday and was delayed the whole day. Thank you for your thoughts." Shen Roujiao took out two sweet potato cakes from her pocket and handed them to them.
Zhang Qingjie took the cake, but still a little worried. He walked closer while biting the cake, "You must come tonight. I've already boasted."
"I'll come, of course." Since he made money from setting up a stall at night, how could he not come? Shen Roujiao handed Zhang Qingjie a bowl of tofu pudding, pointed to the stool next to him, and asked him to sit down and eat, then asked: "What did Brother Zhang brag about?"
"My brother is coming this afternoon, and we agreed to treat him to stinky tofu! And the frame and wheels are all in place, and he just happened to pass by and park his bike. You must be present for both of these events." Zhang Qingjie raised two fingers and shook them in the air.
Of course, the main purpose of Zhang Qingjun's trip was to see Wang Li, and everything else was incidental.
Like all doting brothers, Zhang Qingjun was always afraid that his brother Zhang Qingjie would be deceived. In his eyes, Zhang Qingjie was extremely stupid.
When he was a child, he was coaxed into giving away the meat tickets that his family had saved for a long time with just a few nice words. His father then broke a belt from him and he had to lie at home for a few days, unable to go to school.
When he was in high school, his family bought him a bicycle. He was one of the first students in the school to ride a bicycle to school. As a result, all the boys in the class learned to ride a bicycle that semester.
Later I found out that all the boys in the class took turns practicing with his bike, and they even made a special plan for this purpose. It wasn't until one day when the two wheels of the bike were severely deformed and completely scrapped that they finished.
After that, Zhang Qingjie could only walk to school.
It was not until I started working that I bought my second bicycle. The last time was a Phoenix brand, and this time it was a Forever brand.
In view of Zhang Qingjie's glorious history, his elder brother was extremely worried, always fearing that his simple-minded and love-minded younger brother would be cheated of money and feelings.
"Thank you, Brother Zhang. For the bicycle, I will not only come in the evening, but also come early. Don't worry!" Shen Roujiao was not exaggerating. She had really been looking forward to this assembled Phoenix bicycle for a long time.
Since they can't avoid the red eye disease, let them be more red. Who made them look down on the Shen family without knowing the value of gold and jade?
If you ignore me today, you will be out of my reach tomorrow.
Their family will become the second family in the village to own a Phoenix bicycle, the first being the village chief's family.
After breakfast was sold out and the stall was closed, Shen Roujiao bought some skewers of delicious food from other stalls, as the vegetables produced and sold at home could not keep up with the sales.
On the way, she shared the good news of getting the Confidence Car with her brothers. Everyone was looking forward to setting up the stall in the evening, and even thought of how to give Father Shen a big surprise.
Little did they know that someone also wanted to give them a surprise.
Ever since she saw the money-making skills of the Shen family at the market, Aunt Xu has been particularly unhappy. She has been wandering around the Shen family for two days in a row. She has been looking inside through the courtyard wall, trying to see what the Shen family is doing.
The efforts paid off, and she finally saw the flaws. Aunt Xu excitedly went to her sister's house to report the situation.
The two tried their best to urge Zhao Ye to go to the market to make trouble, but Zhao Ye did not respond. Firstly, the money owed by the Shen family had been paid off, so there was really no excuse for making trouble; secondly, she was a little afraid of the youngest child of the Shen family. The creepy word "Stop" and the smiling face left a deep impression on her. She always felt that the girl was not simply powerful.
In the evening, just as Shen Roujiao said, they arrived more than ten minutes earlier than usual. Everything was ready, just waiting for Zhang Qingjie to arrive.
After get off work, many people from nearby factories came to try the stinky tofu. Soon, the stall became very popular. Many people who had sold out yesterday came back today. The sales of stinky tofu were obviously good.
Just as the diners in front of the stall were enjoying their food with gusto, Aunt Xu walked straight to the stall with a smile on her face.
Shen Tianyou's enthusiastic shouting suddenly stopped, and a bad premonition made him look at the third brother. Unexpectedly, Shen Tiannan was also looking at him, with anxiety and worry on his face.
The eldest brother and Shen Roujiao were busy with their work and did not notice Aunt Xu's malicious look at all.
"Oh my, I heard that this is delicious. We are neighbors, so I must come and try it." The tone was intimate and seemed particularly familiar. People who didn't know the situation really thought that it was Aunt Xu who came to try something new.
"Auntie Xu?!" Shen Roujiao's movements froze suddenly, her heart sank to the bottom. The person in front of her was definitely not a good person. A severe conjunctivitis patient could not be so kind. Their Shen family probably couldn't afford it.
She can spend a lot of time scolding a four-cent tofu pudding, and I don’t know what she will do with a ten-cent stinky tofu.
Shen Roujiao, who was still calm despite her beating heart, said in a coquettish voice, "Auntie Xu, why are you here? I really didn't expect you to come. Welcome. Take a look at what you want to eat. String skewers, stinky tofu, pears in syrup, choose one and take a look. I'll make sure you're satisfied."
Who doesn't know how to pretend?
As long as you are not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed.
Her overly attentive attitude frightened her brothers so much that they looked at each other with their hair standing on end.
When something is abnormal, there must be something wrong!
The little sister at this time is not easy to mess with, they have seen it before!