The more shops Liang Erhua and Boss Lu open in the city, the better their business will be.
Basically, Boss Lu is in the store for three weeks every month, and Boss Lu and Erhua are in the store together for one week.
Wouldn’t Mrs. Lu and Boss Lu become the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl?
Yes, that’s true, but it’s a little better than theirs. The store has hired someone, so Boss Lu can go home once a week.
Erhua went to the city for a week every month and gradually learned to live more modern lives like the city people.
First of all, his hair changed from a buzz cut to a 50-50 split, like an open book. It was said that he had little education when he was young, and now he had a book on his head, as if his belly was full of ink.
Another thing is that the old-fashioned shirt and cloth pants were replaced with fashionable bell-bottom pants, and the yellow rubber shoes were thrown away. When I was in the store, I wore shiny leather shoes.
Finally, the winning formula for going to Tu Zengyang is to learn to speak like city people. Although everyone speaks the soft Wu dialect, city people obviously speak in a more coquettish tone, while country people speak in a harsher tone, which is not as pleasant.
Before leaving this week, Erhua went to the street and bought a bag of plums for Luo Zhen.
Ever since Xu Guoqing got married and the two of them came back from the wedding banquet, Luo Zhen seemed to have been turned on by some switch, and she started vomiting every morning.
He vomited if he smelled a little bit of oil from a distance, vomited if he ate a little more pumpkin, and vomited if he drank water too quickly. In short, he vomited all the time and it was terrible to watch.
In less than two months, he had lost more than ten pounds, and his pale complexion and thin body were all supported by his ethereal energy.
If my mother hadn't come to take care of me, I really wouldn't want to leave.
I really didn't expect that a pregnant woman would look like this, and the pregnancy appearances of different women are also very different.
Erhua had seen Xiaojuan several times during her pregnancy. She ate everything with relish and became plumper with each visit. Erhua then saw his own Luo Zhen, who was almost skin and bones.
He could only sigh: It’s really not easy to be a woman!
"Oh, she's so troublesome, I'm afraid she's the daughter of a scoundrel!" Qiu Zhen didn't dare to say this in front of Luo Zhen, and only dared to say it to Erhua behind her back.
"Yes, yes, it's my daughter. Didn't Guoguo say it? My sister!"
Erhua had calluses on his ears, thick and hard calluses that poked his eardrums and heart valves from time to time. He felt uncomfortable, but he was still stubborn.
Didn’t Liang Erhua want a son? He dreamed of having one.
I didn't really care. Even if the first one was a daughter, so what? I could just have another one.
But he couldn't remember when the radio started promoting family planning, saying that a family could only have one child.
One morning, when I woke up, I saw a row of big words painted on the outer wall of the collective house in the brigade: Fewer children, better quality children, a happy life.
Erhua didn't understand these things. He was a little confused. He had five brothers and sisters in total, and he couldn't imagine what it felt like to have only one child in the family.
What if there is only one child in the family and it is a girl?
He couldn't even imagine what it felt like.
So his mother kept nagging him over and over again, making him upset. Originally, he still had a glimmer of hope, thinking that Guoguo's words were not so true or accurate, but his mother kept nagging him over and over again, like a spell, and it seemed that it was not true.
Taking advantage of this trip to the city, Erhua could temporarily avoid his mother's nagging. He felt a lot more relaxed sitting in the car.
To get from the countryside to the city, Erhua had to start from Tangli Village first. There was a bridge about two miles away. He would sit on a stone pier beside the bridge and wait sometimes for an hour, sometimes for two hours. When he lost his patience, a car would appear shakily from the flying dust.
When the dirt road in the farmland gradually turned into a road with black tiles, white walls and cobblestones, he knew he had arrived in the city.
After getting off the car, Erhua still had to cross several streets.
It is often almost noon at this time. I have to say that although the city is nice, it is really crowded. There are several households living in a small alley, and there is not even a place to cook.
Most of them cooked on a coal stove in the alley, and Erhua had to go through three small alleys.
Escape from the rancid smell of oil, smoke and the aroma of food. Generally, such places have the strongest sense of human life. There are aunties who put their hands on their hips and curse while cooking, there are young women crying while picking vegetables, and there are grown men singing while holding spittoons.
Liang Erhua hurriedly passed through the small alley and felt that the stories here were more exciting than those in the storytellers' minds.
When we arrived at the store, Boss Lu had already set up a small table, on which were placed braised dried tofu, braised beef, dried shredded wood ear mushrooms, pig tongue, and two bottles of soda.
"Another business came in yesterday, wanting a mahogany bed." Boss Lu took a sip of soda and puffed on it for a long time. He was drunk on this thing.
Erhua had been traveling all the way and was now extremely hungry. The comfort of a little wine and snacks could not satisfy him at all.
"Brother, do you have any food? I'm so hungry!"
"No rice, but I ordered some noodles. It's diagonally across the street, your favorite fried fish noodles. They should be here soon."
The fried fish noodles in that shop are well-known in this area. The fish is fried until crispy and delicious, and the noodles with soy sauce base are thin, chewy and smooth, which won Erhua's heart.
"Brother really understands my heart! Haha, I've been wanting this for a long time!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the waiter from the noodle shop came out with two bowls of noodles. Erhua hurried to greet him. The chopped green onions in the soup were swirling, and it looked fresh from the oven!
Regardless of the heat, Erhua gulped down half a bowl of the dish, chewing the fried fish until it was broken into pieces along with the bones, and swallowed it.
"Slow down, don't choke, drink some soda."
The two of them clinked the bottles together and took a big sip. Ha—
"But, you have to be more careful with this business. I think this customer is not easy to deal with. You have to be very careful!"
After all, having been in business for so many years, Boss Lu is still good at judging people.
Yesterday's guest was a very elegant lady who wore a pair of large glasses and her blue cloth jacket and trousers were meticulously dressed. Boss Lu took a sneak peek and found that there was not a single wrinkle on her clothes.
Tsk tsk, alarm bells rang in his heart, this is not going to be easy.
After a couple of rounds, the woman spotted a mahogany bed in the shop. It was Chinese style, but with four missing posts, giving it a Western feel. However, the headboard still had the traditional carving of a double dragon spitting a pearl.
She stood there and watched for a long time. Boss Lu was not in a hurry. For this kind of customer, if she didn't ask, you must not start introducing yourself and be annoying.
The female teacher touched her chin, nodded first, then shook her head, and pursed her thin lips together. Although she was young, her brows were furrowed.
Tsk tsk, Boss Lu felt like thunder in his heart, this is too difficult, too difficult.
"Boss, I want this mahogany bed."
Boss Lu nodded quickly and waited for her to continue.
"However, your style is not what I want. It's neither Chinese nor Western, and it doesn't look good.
How about this, I draw a pattern and you follow it, okay?"
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