Chapter 106 Did I do something wrong?
Not far from the door, Mrs. Li, who was listening to the noise in Song Yuntang's yard, rolled her eyes at her son with disdain.
"Look at you. You refused to help when I asked you to. How could she think of you when she had something to do? She even gave money-related matters like buying a pot to Mu Dong. It's very lucrative to work with this girl."
Tian Qingyou curled his lips.
"Didn't mother swear before that she would come and call me?"
Li poked his forehead and said, "How could I know you were so rude? She hasn't even seen you. Even if mother has a lot of face, she won't be able to remember you for a while."
Tian Qingyou touched his head and thought about it.
"Then I'll go ask her if she needs help?"
Li glanced towards Song Yuntang's yard, thinking that Mu Dong was not at home at the moment, and perhaps a man might be needed to take care of household chores.
"Go ahead, even if you want to ask."
"Okay." After Tian Qingyou said that, he stood up and ran to Song Yuntang's yard.
In the yard, Song Yuntang had just put the medicinal herbs into the pot, Mu Qiu poured water into the pot and lit the stove to start boiling.
Hearing the knock on the door, Song Yuntang hurried to the door.
"Who is it?"
"Miss Song, I'm Tian Qingyou from next door. I want to ask if you need help here?"
Song Yuntang glanced through the crack in the door and felt that the short, fat and big-eared man outside looked particularly wretched, so he declined without thinking.
"We don't have anything else to do at the moment, so having Mu Qiu's help is enough for now. Thank you for your kindness."
"Okay, Miss Song, if you have any problems, remember to come and see me. I live next door to you. My name is Tian Qingyou." The man reiterated his name again.
"good."
After Song Yuntang finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the kitchen. He felt that the name Tian Qingyou sounded very familiar.
"Sister Song, who was knocking on the door just now?" Mu Qiu raised his head from behind the stove and asked.
Song Yuntang shook his head, "I haven't seen him before. He said his name is Tian Qingyou."
Mu Qiu pouted with disgust.
"It's him."
"What's wrong with him?" Song Yuntang asked.
Mu Qiu stuffed a piece of firewood into the stove.
"He is the son of Aunt Li next door. He is well-known here for being lazy and gluttonous. When he was thirteen or fourteen years old, he liked to follow little girls around with sneaky eyes. Later, he offended the daughter of a wealthy family and was beaten up before he became more restrained. Sister Song, you have to stay away from him, for fear that he will forget the pain in the past and fall into the old habit again."
Song Yuntang only realized it later when he heard that it was the son of Li next door.
It turns out that the son that Li was talking about last time was the man just now. He looked quite old, but he couldn't even find a job. He had to ask the elders in his family to ask for help. He also had a criminal record. She didn't dare to use such a man.
"Don't worry, I'll stay away from him."
Not long after Mu Dong went out, he came back carrying a big pot. When he put it on the stove for comparison, he found that it was several times bigger than the one Song Yuntang bought.
"This pot is great. One pot can make up for three or four pots before." Mu Qiu said excitedly.
Mu Dong nodded, "I'll get some water to wash the pot first."
He cleaned the big pot, and seeing that there was not enough water in the vat, he went home to get a bucket and a shoulder pole to fetch water.
As the sky gradually darkened, Song Yuntang's yard was still busy. Many people were standing at the door looking over here, and some even came forward to ask if she needed help, but she politely declined them one by one.
In order to avoid suspicion, Mu Dong carried two buckets of water. When it got dark, he did not stay in the yard. He took a stool and sat at the gate, chatting with the neighbors around him. He would only go in to lend a hand when Mu Qiu asked him for help and then come out.
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The next day, Song Yuntang got up early.
Last night, Mu Dong and Mu Qiu helped to boil two pots of shampoo water and went home. Now the two pots of shampoo water left in the pots have gone cold. Song Yuntang was worried that the small pots would have a strong medicinal smell after being filled with shampoo all night, so he used a bowl to boil rice porridge on the small stove.
Then, she fetched some water from the remaining water tank, washed herself, fed the chickens and ducks, picked up an egg, and watered the pepper trees and chives.
After growing the chives for a few days, the whole plant became upright and the leaves became greener and greener.
The pepper tree is covered with green and red peppers, which are brightly colored and very pleasing to the eye. When Mu Qiu was helping here last night, he stared at the pepper tree for a long time and was even curious whether such beautiful fruits were poisonous.
After doing all this, Song Yuntang scooped the medicine juice in the pot into a small jar, and he could start using it to wash his hair after breakfast.
Breakfast was a bowl of porridge and a poached egg. After eating, he took the golden lotus that the Xu family had sent him and chewed it.
Then I started to pour the shampoo water.
Mu Dong and Mu Qiu came over after finishing breakfast at home, fetched some water for her and helped her for a while, then took the hundred cans of shampoo that had been filled in the morning to the shop.
As it's hot today, there are still some people on the street early in the morning. Today is the third day of opening and they can't afford to delay.
When the weather gets warmer and there are fewer people around, Mu Dong and Mu Qiu can take turns to come to Song Yuntang to help.
After Song Yuntang poured all the medicinal juice in the big pot into the bamboo pot, he quickly washed the pot and boiled another pot.
At the moment, the three hundred bamboo jars that Song Jinsheng sent can be filled with the remaining water by boiling another big pot.
I don’t know whether the next batch will be delivered today or tomorrow. The county still owes an order for 400 cans.
Fortunately, the delivery time was agreed upon. As long as there were no accidents, four hundred bamboo jars would be easily delivered. And since Song Jinsheng knew that she was in urgent need of bamboo jars, he should have added some manpower after he returned last night.
Sure enough, that evening, Song Jinsheng sent over another three hundred bamboo jars.
Seeing this, Song Yuntang gave him the wages for the past few days, together with the cost of bamboo for the next batch of 500 bamboo jars.
The total amount is one tael of silver.
"Second brother, is Brother Mazi busy during this period?"
"After finishing the current order, we should take a break for the next two days." Song Jinsheng replied.
"I want to let him take charge of the bamboo jar matter. Do you think he will help with this?" Song Yuntang asked again.
Song Jinsheng felt nervous after hearing this, "Did I do something wrong?"
Song Yuntang shook his head hurriedly, "No, no, I want my second brother to come to town to help me. If I ask someone else to go in and out of my yard, people nearby will gossip. Besides, I don't have anyone else to use except Mu Dong and Mu Qiu. For the time being, the business of the shop has to be taken care of by the siblings together, otherwise I won't feel at ease."
Song Jinsheng breathed a sigh of relief.
"Okay, I'll go back and ask him. If he doesn't want to, I think Qiao Da can do it. During this period when Ma Zi Ge was not free, he was quite capable of making decisions and did not delay our construction schedule."
Song Yuntang thought for a moment and said, "In this case, let Qiao Da take charge. I will find a venue when the time comes, and we won't occupy the space at Ma Zi's house."
Song Jinsheng nodded.
"That's fine. When I went to Brother Mazi's house these days, Aunt Cui looked unhappy. She said that the noise from us was giving her a headache. She also joked that boiling water for us every day was a waste of firewood and water, so she asked us to bring some firewood ourselves. She also said that the sawdust we made was difficult to clean up."
"I think we only occupied a corner, the sawdust was cleaned up every day after work, and everyone brought water from home in the next few days. It's not like she said, she just wanted to drive us away."
Song Yuntang was stunned. "Why didn't my second brother tell me about this earlier? What is Brother Mazi's attitude?"
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