Chapter 86 Knowing Ugliness
For the first time, Li encouraged the three brothers to go to the eldest house to play in such a friendly manner, and stood in the yard watching the three of them go out with a smile.
Chen Tie was confused and didn't quite understand what was going on, but he found that his two brothers didn't run like the wind as usual when they went out to play today.
He was a little confused, and walked a long way out of the yard. He turned his head to look at Shen Jin, then at Shen Yin, and finally at Shen Jin: "Third brother, mother said she would buy us cakes and candies, is that true?"
He didn't remember what Li told him to see in the yard, but he remembered buying cakes and candies.
When Shen Yin heard about cakes and candies, he turned around to look at his own yard, and saw his mother peeking over here, so he quickly turned around.
At the age of six, he is still young and ignorant. He is better than Chen Tie, but not much better. He seems to know a little, but not that much.
He was a little puzzled: "Third brother, why did mother ask us to see what the eldest cousin's wife was doing? Chen Xiaoya and the others would never enter the yard without the permission of the second brother and the elder sister. Third brother, if we sneak into the yard, will the second brother and the elder sister be angry?"
Shen Jin frowned and didn't want to talk.
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It was very lively outside the main courtyard of the Shen family's house. When Chen Xiaoya and other little ones had nothing to do after dinner, they liked to run here. At this moment, Shen Ning was taking Chen Xiaoya, Sanniu, Shitou, and Axu to a sand table, writing the words she had learned for her friends.
Shitou saw Shen Jin and Shen Yin from afar, stood up and waved his hand: "Shen Jin, Shen Yin, come quickly!"
Shen Ning stopped writing and turned around, and saw the three brothers Shen Jin coming over here, but they looked a little listless today? They were walking too slowly, and they would normally rush over like a cannonball, right?
Except for the last time when she invited everyone to drink sweet soup without inviting Shen Jin, Shen Ning had never seen Shen Jin so listless. Shen Yin and Shen Tie also looked a little strange, and they would glance at her yard from time to time.
Shen Ning was surprised: "What are you three doing?"
Seeing that the three brothers were silent, she wondered, "Did they get scolded at home?"
As soon as she said this, Shen Yin and Shen Tie's eyes wandered. The two brothers looked at each other, and finally both looked at Shen Jin.
Shen Jin, who had been silent all the way, now looked uglier than ever.
At the age of eight, he can be very confused, but he understands everything he needs to understand, so Shen Jin knows exactly what his mother wants him to do.
When Shen Ning and even Chen Xiaoya looked over, Shen Jin's face felt like it was being scraped down by something sharp, with a stinging and burning pain from the forehead to the cheeks, to the ears, to the neck, and all the way to the places covered by clothes.
He regretted coming here. His mother asked him to do such a thing, so he should not have come here. He should have just hidden away. If he had hidden away, he wouldn't have to be as embarrassed as he is now.
But Shen Jin suddenly remembered the half piece of pork with preserved vegetables that Shen Ansheng had secretly brought for him in a lotus leaf on the day he was beaten.
He also remembered that he had pestered Chen An the day before and said he didn't know what Hu Bing tasted like. The next day, his eldest cousin's wife came back from the county and brought two Hu Bings. She told them to wash their hands and share them among a group of children. He and his brother each got a small piece.
There are also meat porridge and crystal jerky.
The eldest sister-in-law even asked Chen An to invite them to go to the house for a drink and a feast. She opened a separate table for the children, a full table, and let them eat, saying that it was to thank them for their help.
There was also a bamboo tube full of sugar water that Shen Ning asked Shen Yin to bring down for him yesterday. Although he didn't call him at first and had to make him almost cry before he gave it to him, the sugar water was very sweet and you could tell that a lot of sugar was put into it as soon as you drank it.
He was thinking about these things all the way and ended up here.
Now that everyone was staring at me, I was stunned.
An eight-year-old child is already ugly, and Shen Jin subconsciously does not want others to know what his mother is thinking.
But looking at Chen Ning who still knew nothing, he suddenly felt a surge of courage, gritted his teeth, pulled Chen Ning and went to the other side of the yard.
Shen Ning was confused.
"Where are you taking me?"
Do we have such a good relationship?
Shen Jin didn't say anything. He pulled to the other side of the yard and walked a little further inside. He took another look to make sure no one was following him. Then he looked at Shen Ning, moved his mouth several times, and finally asked in a low voice: "Did your family make anything to sell in the county?"
Shen Ning's pupils shrank slightly.
Seeing her reaction, Shen Jin knew that what his mother said was indeed true. He pursed his lips and said, "I don't know what you do, but you should take care of the house. If you are alone at home, you'd better lock the door."
He just left this sentence, and fearing that Shen Ning would ask questions, he didn't dare to stay any longer, and turned around and left.
Shen Yin and Shen Tie were still standing where they were before, looking at the corner of the house. When they saw Shen Jin coming out, the two brothers looked at him, wanting to ask something, but Shen Jin said hello and left, pulling one of them in each hand and going down the mountain.
Going down the mountain?
Chen Xiaoya and the others were a little confused. When they reacted, they wanted to ask something, but unexpectedly, Shen Jin walked very fast and in a short while they were almost at the foot of the mountain.
When Shen An came out from the back, Chen Xiaoya asked curiously, "What's Shen Jin doing? Why did he leave just after arriving? Did you two have another fight?"
Shen Ning looked down the mountain and shook his head: “No.”
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More than an hour later, Sang Luo brought Chen An back from the mountain, and Chen Ning went back to the house and told his eldest sister-in-law and second brother.
Sang Luo's eyebrows twitched: "Is this what Shen Jin originally said?"
Shen Ning nodded: "He didn't even let me ask after he finished speaking, and he took Xiaoyin and Xiaotie away. Sister-in-law, do you think that Third Uncle and Third Aunt know about our tofu-making business?"
“It’s not surprising to know.”
Sang Luo had expected this day to come sooner or later. When the tofu was first made, she had intended to sell it in the countryside as well, and she had never thought about how long she could keep it secret.
During the busy farming season, he was running a stall next to the butcher's meat shop and was once seen by Zhou Cunzheng's wife. She was prepared that someone in the village would find out, but surprisingly, the Zhou family didn't say a word to anyone.
Later, he let Chen Youtian carry the goods to various villages to sell, thinking that he could not hide it for more than a few days. Then the tax was levied, so Chen Youtian only carried the goods for a few days and then stopped, only selling a little at the market.
As a result, everyone in the village was not well off and seldom went to the market. Those who went there did not tell anyone about the Zhou Cunzheng family and have kept it a secret until now.
She said, "You guys take care of the house for the next two days. I'm going to the county tomorrow to buy a lock. We're running out of spices at home."
Originally they were going to save some money to make coats and quilts, but Shen Jin wouldn't remind them of this for no reason. It was most likely that Li had set his eyes on their business.
The stone mill and soybeans are okay, as if anyone could see them, at most they could make soy milk. As long as the brine and gypsum are hidden well, it won't be that easy to find out the tofu and dried bean curd.
As for the sour jujube, konjac and jujube, she went to the mountains during the day and the fresh goods and dried semi-finished products were all in the kitchen and the backyard. These things must not be turned out, otherwise she would not have to take the peels and cores to the mountains and dig a hole to bury them every time.
These three items may seem insignificant, but in fact they bring more benefits than the three soy products combined. The only disadvantage is that the raw materials all have to be found in the mountains and are not sustainable.
The more this is the case, the more she cannot stand being seen by others. Everyone knows that this thing can make money, so how could it be her and Shen An Chen Ning's turn to pick it up.
Sang Luo was really annoyed. If she had the guts to divide the house in such an ugly way without caring about their lives, she shouldn't be greedy for the food in their bowls.
It seems like you want everything.
They had to go to the county the next day. In the evening, after Sang Luo finished her work, she took out the earthenware jar from under the bed and counted the money with the two little ones.
Ever since the debt to Dongfulou was paid off, he could get 340 coins a day for vegetarian tripe, and the dried bean curd sold very well in the county.
Not only did Qin Fangniang and Gan get orders from the two major restaurants, but Feng Liuniang was also criticized several times by her sister-in-law at home, who said that she was not as good as Gan and Qin Fangniang. So she turned back to the county, gritted her teeth, and found some snack shops on her own, and found several regular customers.
But Sangluo has limited the quantity, and only sells four boards of dried sauce every day, which is 256 yuan. The three of them can discuss and divide it among themselves, which means 384 cents a day.
As for the tofu, because I was too busy, I added the old tofu and then reduced the amount of tender tofu appropriately to make it balanced, not much more.
Just like this, Sang Luo could earn more than 900 coins a day just by selling vegetarian tripe and the goods ordered by the three companies. However, due to the soaring grain prices, although the price of soybeans has not been greatly affected, Sang Luo also has a sense of crisis. Recently, forty percent of the orders she received from the three companies require beans, and she does not charge for all of them. Therefore, the actual amount she earned from the soy products in a day is only 388 coins.
Including vegetarian tripe, the daily income is more than 720 coins.
These days, apart from asking Qin Fangniang to buy a large jar and two dustpans, he hardly spent the money, so the broken clay pot under the bed was really heavy now, full of stuff.
This is the pot that Sang Luo used as a pot for a long time. It is really not small.
Since it looked like a large number, Sang Luo simply took the jar to the kitchen, poured it on the table under the light of the oil lamp, and the three of them sat around the table, counting and stringing the pieces together.
Wow, after finishing all the strings, I had six strings of coins and still had a few dozen coins left.
Sang Luo's mood, which had been ruined by Li's disturbance, suddenly brightened up.
"I'll check the price of padlocks tomorrow and buy a few more..." When he thought about it, the yard outside needed to be locked, there were too many semi-finished products in the kitchen and the backyard that needed to be locked, and the main house kept the family's belongings, so that also needed to be locked.
Aren’t these four locks?
Sang Luo looked at the pile of money and the corners of her mouth twitched. She felt that the padlock would not be very cheap, but estimating the price of the kitchen knife, it would not be more expensive than the kitchen knife.
Thinking of this, she put the dozens of coins into her purse, and for the rest of the coins, she found two pieces of old cloth to wrap them in two bags. She stuffed them into the basket together with the jars of jujube candies and sour jujube cakes that she was going to take the next day, and then placed a few lotus leaves and two handfuls of wild vegetables on top to complete the package.
This really requires carrying it with you, there is no room in your wallet.
As Sang Luo packed up, she was thinking that she would have to use these copper coins to spend tomorrow to buy a padlock, some spices, two more jars, some cotton, millet, and flour. There would probably be nothing left.
As for the silver given by Yongfengzhai, she has to save it slowly. She can't really have no money at all. Silver is small in size but has high value, so it is right to keep it.
Chen An saw that his sister-in-law only put two jars of things in the basket, and looked at the other two jars of sour jujube cake and jujube candy on the shelf with some doubts: "Sister-in-law, aren't you taking those two jars?"
Sang Luo shook her head: "No, it's not that easy to find jujubes and sour dates. I'll save the two jars for now and send them to the county in a few days."
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