"I lost it. It's been decades. I've moved twice, and I've long forgotten where I lost it." Chen Xiaonao was trying to fool Chen Xiaoying, who had lived in the village all her life and had no knowledge or brains.
"One gram of gold is worth thirty yuan now, you said you would just throw it away?" Unexpectedly, she failed to fool him. Chen Xiaoying stared at her and said, "Give me the hairpin as a dowry for my Xiaoyu. Otherwise, you can give me the hairpin."
When she was six years younger than her, she got married at eighteen and took the gold away. She was twelve years old at that time, and she didn't know anything, and she was too embarrassed to compete with her elder sister.
As a result, if you don't fight, your descendants will be the ones who suffer.
Chen Xiaonao was furious: "Why can't you make sense?"
"If you don't return it, I'll burn paper for our mother and tell her about this." Chen Xiaoying was about to cry when she thought of her mother: "Mom passed away early. Before she passed away, did she ask you to take care of me in the future? Did you do that?"
She had just been engaged to Li Pingwang as a child. Her mother died of illness three years before her marriage, and the marriage was arranged by her two brothers. The eldest sister, Chen Xiaonao, gave a gift of five yuan on the wedding day.
Chen Xiaonao frowned, thought for a moment, and looked at Li Yutong.
"What are you looking at? You don't have a daughter, and now you don't have a granddaughter. I have three daughters and four granddaughters." Chen Xiaoying counted with her: "I don't even have enough to share."
"Here, here, why are you so difficult to deal with now?" Chen Xiaonao was very angry. He turned back and soon took out a thin golden hairpin.
Li Yutong took a look and found that the head of the hairpin was made of gold flakes into petals, with a finger-sized dark red object inlaid in the middle. It didn't look like a gem, but more like coral.
"You are the one who is taking advantage. Why are you so angry? That hairpin has two strands, and there are several plum blossoms made of gold on it. One strand is thicker than this gold hairpin." Chen Xiaoying snatched it away, turned around and left angrily.
"I've given it all to you, why are you still angry?" Chen Xiaonao chased out and gave the things because she didn't want things to get too awkward between the sisters. She took too many things, otherwise her two sons wouldn't have had such good jobs, and those were all earned by giving away those things as gifts.
She already has gold bracelets and gold necklaces, so she doesn't want this old thing.
Chen Xiaoying left wiping away her tears. She was a very honest person and she never expected her elder sister to be like this.
"Grandma, don't be sad. Sometimes you can't judge people too clearly, otherwise you won't be able to make friends." Li Yutong comforted him.
Li Hongwei was quite convinced. Why did his daughter keep saying profound words recently, as if she was a college student?
"Stop talking."
Don't let her say it.
Chen Xiaoying was comforted: "Grandma knows, let's go, we can handle our own affairs."
From the beginning, you shouldn't have asked for help.
Chen Xiaoying had experienced the heartbreak of her children in her previous life, so in this life, she quickly came to terms with her elder sister's incident and told Li Hongwei, "That's it. Don't come here if there's nothing serious to worry about."
You don't have to think about it to know that once you come, you just have to put down your things and leave. The attitude when people greet relatives from the countryside and entertain colleagues and relatives here is definitely different.
Li Hongwei is also a thin-skinned man with a strong self-esteem. He knows that his aunt looks down on them, but he still treats rags as treasures to please his mother. Even if Chen Xiaoying didn't say anything, he wouldn't want to come again.
"Mom, I understand."
After returning home, the family sat together to discuss it again, and finally came to a conclusion that when they saved up 10,000 yuan, they would rent a house with an annual rent of 2,200 yuan, which was located at the corner of the west entrance of the People's Market.
The location is not very good, it is a bit too far in, and people who come to eat are greeted by other food vendors along the way.
Therefore, it is better to sell different things here to attract customers.
"We will sell pre-steamed buns. We have thought of the types. We will start with four kinds: radish vermicelli, leek and egg, mushroom and diced meat, and braised pork and green onions. They are kept warm in a steamer so they are always hot for everyone who buys them. We will sell cornmeal soup and egg-filled pancakes at the same time." This was the statement that Chen Xiaoying and Li Yutong had discussed in advance.
Chen Xiaoying's explanation makes perfect sense.
Li Hongwei couldn't help but ask: "Mom, how do you know so much?"
Chen Xiaoying said, "Your grandmother's father used to be an apprentice to the imperial chef in the palace."
When Li Hongwei heard this, he said, "Wow, it turns out there was such a powerful person among our ancestors."
Chen Xiaoying coughed dryly and changed the subject: "Now, it's time to make money. First save up 10,000 yuan, rent that shop, and then you can start your business."
They also secretly inquired about it and learned that although the shop was in the market, it was very evil. No matter what the people who rented the shop sold, it would close down within a few months.
Therefore, I was a little nervous.
Li Yutong said, "They either sell clay pot noodles, cold noodles, or stir-fried dishes. The place is small and there is no room for everyone to sit. When people come here, they see all the shops selling these things along the way. They have already served all the customers, so of course there are no customers left when they come here. How can their business survive?"
"We can try."
Li Yutong said we could give it a try.
Whether a business will be successful can actually be seen from the beginning: whether diners like the food you sell.
Only then did Chen Xiaoying feel relieved.
With a goal in mind, Chen Xiaoying inquired about the current price of diesel, and planned to take Li Hongwei to Li Hongyan to ask for a tricycle.
Li Hongwei hesitated: "Mom, is this possible?"
"Why not? They bought the bicycles and tricycles with the money we got. Now they have new ones, why can't they drive the old ones back?" Chen Xiaoying was angry.
If Li Hongyan didn't want to make things too awkward, she would never give them the new tricycle even if she died. She wanted to drive the new tricycle back directly.
After driving the tricycle back, it became convenient for us to go to the market to sell sesame cakes, open a shop in the county with our family, or transport grain from the fields. We no longer had to borrow other people's tricycles.
I've borrowed money so many times that even if I give them things, they won't be willing to give it to me. If I give them money, they won't want it because it doesn't look good.
The most important thing is that tricycles are precious. What if you damage it?
It has been repaired, but it is an old thing now.
"Then, ask my dad to go." Li Hongwei was shy and didn't want to go.
Chen Xiaoying was angry: "Your dad is going? If your dad is going, not only will the car not be able to come back, but you will have to take more time."
Li Hongwei said with a straight face: "I don't want to be the bad guy."
"You think you are not a bad person now, but I wonder what she says about you in front of your brothers." Chen Xiaoying knew that he was stubborn and sentimental, so he didn't want to care too much even if he suffered a loss.
He always felt that they were a family, but he could not imagine how cruel Li Hongyan, the eldest sister, could be, and how selfish she was to the point of only caring about her own life and death.
She was in a coffin in her previous life, and she never gave a penny more.
Liu Lanxiang couldn't help but say, "Our eldest sister has already told everyone in Zhaojia Village and our village that you were the one who instigated all the things our mother did. You've already taken the blame, and what's more, this time?"
"What do you know? Shut up!" Li Hongwei glared.
In this respect, he is the same as his damn father Li Pingwang, who smiles in front of outsiders but scolds his wife and kids all the time and never has a good face.
"Why are you scolding her? Isn't what she said right? You have ears, don't you know whether she has thrown dirty water on you or not?" Chen Xiaoying said to him.
Li Hongwei didn't say it, but he knew it clearly in his heart.
In the end, he rode his bicycle with his mother Chen Xiaoying to Zhaojia Village to ask for the old tricycle.
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