Chapter 173 Discovering Bamboo (Part 2)
Although both Mrs. Cui and Cui Hejin asked Jiang Zhiluo to take the silver.
But on weekdays, Jiang Zhiluo would also give some pocket money to Mrs. Cui and Cui Hejin for daily expenses and buying things.
Cui Hejin usually doesn't spend any money, and Mrs. Cui will occasionally buy some food.
This is also because Jiang Zhiluo was afraid that Mrs. Cui would be reluctant to spend money, so she often encouraged her to buy whatever she liked to eat.
It happened that someone was selling tofu in the village that morning. Mrs. Cui thought it was a good thing, so she bought some tofu.
Mrs. Cui was so happy to see her son taking the initiative to take care of Zhiluo.
The smile was about to overflow from the eyes.
But she knew that Cui Hejin was a cold and aloof person with an indifferent attitude towards everything.
But she recently discovered that He Jin treated Zhi Luo differently.
The look in his eyes was gentle, not as cold and unfamiliar as at the beginning.
It’s better this way. I believe it won’t be long before she can hold her grandchildren.
"Yes, yes, Zhiluo, eat it while it's hot."
"If you don't eat enough, He Jin will get worried. This worry will make it hard for her to concentrate on teaching in the academy."
Jiang Zhiluo's mouth twitched, and she could only shake off the thoughts in her mind and eat breakfast seriously.
After breakfast, Jiang Zhiluo began to mix yellow mud and grass into a mixture of mud, so that she could make a simple adhesive.
Knowing that Jiang Zhiluo wanted to stack the bricks, Cui Hejin helped.
Apply adhesive as you lay the bricks.
The two of them developed a tacit understanding while doing their work.
However, seeing that the time was almost up, Jiang Zhiluo washed her hands and handed the kudzu root powder that she had packed last night to Cui Hejin.
He gave him another ounce of silver and said, "Give this kudzu root powder to Mr. Li. You can use this silver for your daily expenses."
Cui Hejin said: "I haven't finished using the one you gave me last time."
Cui Hejin didn't take the tael of silver and gave it to Jiang Zhiluo.
He knew that his family needed money right now.
We have hired so many people to farm the land, and their wages need to be settled.
Jiang Zhiluo has been with Cui Hejin for two months and knows that he is stubborn. It will be useless if he refuses to take it.
She knew that although Cui Hejin didn't say anything, he was thoughtful and was actually thinking about his family all the time.
Jiang Zhiluo felt an unknown sour feeling in her heart.
Seeing Jiang Zhiluo's eyes suddenly redden, Cui Hejin was a little at a loss. He touched her hair a little clumsily and said, "Don't worry, I'm doing well in school, and there's nothing I need to spend money on."
"If I need anything, I'll tell you, okay?"
Cui Hejin's voice slowed down and became softer.
Jiang Zhiluo tried hard to suppress the emotions in her heart and nodded, saying, "Our family will get better and better in the future."
Cui Hejin smiled gently, with a tender and gentle luster in her eyes, "Yeah."
"Don't get tired. If you are tired, wait until I come back in the afternoon."
"I see."
Old Madam Cui was making chili meat sauce in the house. She quietly glanced at the yard and saw the delicate and indescribable atmosphere between the young couple. She felt very sweet.
It makes her feel like she’s back to her youth.
Oh, it’s better to be young.
Look at how inseparable they are and how much they care about each other.
Old Madam Cui couldn't help but laugh secretly.
Soon Cui Hejin went to school, and Jiang Zhiluo continued to busy herself in the bread oven.
She is very fast.
Mrs. Cui was making chili meat sauce and had no time to help Jiang Zhiluo.
Fortunately, Jiang Zhiluo was very quick and finally finished the stacking in the middle of the morning.
"That's good. This is the adobe bread kiln. If you want to bake bread, you can bake it here."
"But you have to fire up the bread oven before you can use it."
Mrs. Cui said she understood.
After finishing the bread oven, Jiang Zhiluo went to the town with some chili meat sauce and a large bucket of braised food.
She first went to Lin Zhuzhu's stall and handed the braised food to Lin Zhuzhu.
Lin Zhuzhu gave Jiang Zhiluo more than 1,600 coins from yesterday's braised food.
Jiang Zhiluo settled the commission for Lin Zhuzhu.
Seeing that she had more than a thousand coins, or one or two taels of silver, in her hand, Jiang Zhiluo smiled.
"By the way, Zhuzhu, if you get married, will you still continue to run the butcher's stall?"
Lin Zhuzhu shook her head and said, "This stall belongs to my parents. My father is much better now. He will be selling pork in the village in the next few months and won't be coming to town anymore."
"You also know that our village is far from the town."
"I'm sorry, I may not be able to cooperate with you in the braised food stall at that time. Linxi Village is too far away, and it's not convenient to deliver the braised food back and forth."
Lin Zhuzhu felt it was a pity when she talked about this, and the village where the Xu family lived was far away from here.
At that time, she might not have met Jiang Zhiluo very often.
In fact, she also wants to cooperate with Zhiluo in business.
Jiang Zhiluo's expression froze, and she knew that the braised food business might also be affected in the future.
If Lin Zhuzhu's parents slaughtered pigs and sold pork in Linxi Village instead of coming to the town, she wouldn't be able to buy cheap pig offal.
Ever since everyone knew that braised pig offal was delicious, and some pig offal stalls were set up in the town, the price of pig offal has also increased.
"It's okay, you don't have to blame yourself, I'll do other business."
Her chili meat sauce business is doing well now. In a few days, she will be able to make bread and sell it as a snack. The taste will be unique, so the business should be good.
It’s a pity that the business of braised pork offal is coming to an end.
However, when there is a market in Yangliu Village, they can also set up stalls to sell braised food.
It's profitable after all.
"Then how will you run this store?"
Lin Zhuzhu said, "My parents will probably sell it when the time comes. They'll use the money to supplement my dowry and keep some for my brother's education."
"But it would be great if you could pass the exam to become a scholar. If you do well, you can receive money from the government office every month as a student on government stipend."
After Jiang Zhiluo talked to Lin Zhuzhu for a while, she went to sell chili pork sauce.
After selling all the things, she added three more taels of silver. Adding the two taels of silver she had, she now had five taels of silver.
Jiang Zhiluo breathed a sigh of relief when she had five taels of silver in her hand.
After returning home, Jiang Zhiluo told Mrs. Cui that she now had three more taels of silver, and Mrs. Cui was also happy.
"The headman said that all the fields will be plowed tonight. Now that we have settled today's wages, there is no need to settle wages again."
Jiang Zhiluo nodded, and the fields were now fully cultivated.
After lunch, Jiang Zhiluo lit the bread oven, then carried the backpack and went up the mountain.
However, she thought of the Chinese toon trees in Niushan Village, so she went around the mountain around the village and headed towards Niushan Village.
After climbing a mountain, we finally arrived at Niushan Village.
She found that there were indeed many toon trees on the mountain behind Niushan Village. She happily climbed up to pick toon buds.
Standing on a high place, Jiang Zhiluo looked into the distance and suddenly found bamboo.
This also shocked her completely.
“Bamboo, there really is bamboo?”
With bamboo, I can ask my dad to make an umbrella for me.
This is a craft, and an umbrella costs three hundred coins.
Moreover, it rains a lot in spring and even more in summer, so the market price of umbrellas is much better than that of bellows raincoats and other items.
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