Chapter 33 [33] The joke of the Tang family.
The second branch of the Tang family.
Uncle Tang was so angry that he didn't even want to cook. He just cooked some sweet potato porridge on the stove. "Money is really tight, so we'll just make do with this today. Big brother, Xiao An, please don't be disgusted."
Tang Aiguo: "It's okay."
Tang An: "Uncle, don't be embarrassed. We all understand."
It seemed as if I had really wronged him.
Aunt Tang rolled her eyes at her husband angrily, meaning, "Get these two people away quickly."
Tang Aiguo was upset and accepted the hundred yuan from the old woman. He never expected that it would end up harming his own family.
Uncle Tang deliberately cooked less. Tang An was very hungry and quickly finished a bowl of sweet potato porridge. He ran to the stove to get more rice and drank three bowls. Only corn paste was left in the pot.
Second Aunt Tang said angrily, "Dayong, Dahu, are you two hungry?"
Both cousins nodded.
Tang An said, "Second Uncle, you cook too little. My mother never used to be like this. She would always cook more."
Uncle Tang pushed his bowl and chopsticks aside and said, "Brother, Xiao An, this isn't going to work. You can't live here forever. We need to find a way to get the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to leave."
Tang Aiguo waved his hand: "Second brother, do you have a plan?"
Uncle Tang said, "I don't have any tricks, but I heard that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had gone to make trouble for Yuanyuan before, and were scared away by Li Mu and Yuanyuan's concerted efforts. You guys should be tougher too."
"You can't let outsiders be driven out of your own home. How can that be justified?"
There were several bloodstains on the faces of both father and son. The only difference was that Tang Aiguo's had scabs formed after two days, while Tang An's face had three brand new fresh blood scabs.
"Both of you should show your manliness. We are two grown men, what is there to be afraid of? Let's go together and kick that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law out."
Tang Aiguo smoked his pipe and said nothing.
Tang An: "Second Uncle, you don't know how vicious those two women are. They are completely unreasonable and the police can't do anything about them."
"Besides, I can't lay hands on women. What will happen? Maybe they will leave on their own in a couple of days."
Coward!
They were even afraid of a woman. Uncle Tang finally realized that both the father and son were cowards.
"Dayong, wash the dishes."
"Dad, I washed it yesterday, and Dahu washed it today."
Uncle Tang knew, of course, that it was his eldest son who washed the dishes yesterday. "Da Hu, go wash the dishes. Those who eat, take turns washing them."
Tang An ran to the living room to watch TV. At seven o'clock, the news broadcast began. He had hardly watched TV since his TV was sold.
Tang Aiguo smoked silently, waited for the 8 o'clock TV series to start, and sat in the living room to watch TV.
He doesn't seem to care much about his house being occupied.
Uncle Tang waved his hand, and the family of four went out for their second meal. A new wonton shop had opened at the north gate of the factory. The wonton shop had thin skin and thick meat, and the products were of good quality and low price, so the business was very good.
The Tang family has two sons. The eldest son, Tang Yong, is not good at studying, so his second uncle Tang spent money to buy him a job a few years ago.
The youngest son, Tang Hu, has good grades. There are four people in the family, and three of them are employed. The couple never borrows money indiscriminately. They work together to plan for their family and support a student, so life is very good.
It is common for the whole family to go out to eat.
"Dad, if our uncle finds out about this, wouldn't that be bad? I still need my cousin's house for my wedding. What if my uncle changes his mind?"
Uncle Tang: "What are you afraid of? I've already asked him to sign the documents for the division of the family property. It's written in black and white, so he can't deny it even if he wants to."
"Besides, I want him to know that he has his own family and is living at his brother's house. What's the point? If he has the guts to take Xiao An back home and kick that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law out, I'll look up to him."
As it turned out, Uncle Tang was overthinking it.
Tang Aiguo didn't even need to hear from others to know that this family had gone out to have a special meal.
The main reason was that Tang An had a sharp nose. He knew what Tang Hu meant as soon as he opened his mouth.
I also asked: "Brother, what delicious food did you eat? It's meat, did you go to eat meat?"
The second branch of the Tang family was a little embarrassed.
Tang Aiguo paused while smoking his pipe. The four members of the family went out together and came back together. They cooked so little for dinner, just sweet potato porridge. Putting all these things together, it seemed like they wanted to drive them away.
Tang Aiguo held his pipe and went to sleep on the bed outside.
Uncle Tang and Aunt Tang went into the house to chat.
"Brother, what's going on? You haven't figured out yet, do you think we want him to leave?"
It is really inconvenient for her to have an older uncle at home.
"Of course he didn't see it," Uncle Tang shook his head in amusement, "My eldest brother is just a coward."
"He knows it very well in his heart. On the one hand, he is afraid of his daughter Yuanyuan, and on the other hand, he is afraid of this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law."
"He just wants me to drive this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law away for him."
He still remembered that when he went to the capital last year, Tang Aiguo had all his medical expenses swindled by a scammer. The scammer's black clinic was right there, but he didn't even have the courage to go to the clinic to ask for money.
He dragged him to ask for money, but when two big men stood in front of him, he became scared and pulled him back, telling him to just give up and consider it a way to ward off disaster.
The money I brought was not spent on medical treatment, it was all scammed away.
He wasn't so short of money that he didn't even have enough to go home, but when he went to the train station to buy a train ticket, all his money was stolen.
When Uncle Tang arrived in the capital, the father and son had no money left for accommodation and travel. They hid under an overpass and had not eaten for two days. They were so dirty that they looked like beggars.
After all the trouble his father went through, his illness was not cured but became even worse.
As the eldest brother, he went to the capital and lost his previous sense of superiority and became a complete loser.
Uncle Tang was scratching his head in pain. If he had known that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would quarrel like this, he would not have accepted the hundred yuan.
Now everyone lives in their own home, what's going on?
Aunt Tang said, "How about this? Xiaohu is on summer vacation now, and tomorrow is Saturday. Let's just say we're going to my mom's house for dinner, so we don't have to wait on them."
Uncle Tang didn't have any good ideas, so he decided to hide for as long as he could.
Across the yard, the Zhao family's quarrel was very loud. Aunt Zhao seemed to be really angry and hysterical.
Tang Yuanyuan later asked Li Mu what it meant. Li Mu just told her to wait and see. Tang Yuanyuan didn't understand what it meant, but she was too lazy to pay attention. She had to sell clothes tomorrow, so she had to think carefully about how to sell them out quickly.
At this moment, Li Mu was sitting in the yard, drinking malted milk, with the corners of his lips curled up, in a very good mood. It seemed that he really enjoyed watching other people's chaos.
This thing really likes to see people cry.
Li Mu was awakened by the sound of hammers.
When I walked out of the room, Tang Yuanyuan had probably been awake for a while and was fiddling with the wooden shelf.
"Why are you doing this so early in the morning?"
Tang Yuanyuan waved the hammer and said, "I saw over in Ningcheng that their clothes were all hanging on the wall. If they were piled on the ground, I'm afraid it wouldn't look good."
Li Mu thought it made sense: "Then make one for me too."
Tang Yuanyuan: "Did you buy the hangers?"
Li Mu didn't buy it.
Tang Yuanyuan: "Five dollars a bunch."
Li Mu: "Okay."
Tang Yuanyuan: "All the bowls for this week are yours."
Li Mu: "A week is too long! You're so naive. Also, these tools are all my dad's, right? This wood is also from our family?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "You can also choose to do it yourself."
Li Mu didn't know how to do carpentry, so he could only choose bowls for a week. In order to show that he was unhappy, he chose to make do with breakfast, heating up steamed buns and pickles, drinking hot water, and not even making corn grits porridge.
But Tang Yuanyuan didn't feel anything. She ate three steamed buns and drank a bowl of water as usual.
But Li Mu himself found it hard to swallow.
Moreover, Tang Yuanyuan seemed unaware that he was angry. She put down the dishes and chopsticks, quickly smashed another simple wooden rack with a hammer, packed up the sack, took the rack, and rode away on her bike.
Who are they trying to mess with? Li Mu was so angry that he was ready to lose his job.
He washed his face, picked up the sack, and picked up the wooden rack.
It seems to be doing okay.
So he said to the wooden shelf:
"Forget it, considering you are still useful, I won't bother with a woman like her."
"Who said I'm a man?"
Li Mu put down the sack, turned around and went back to take the bowl to the kitchen to wash it.
This time, Tang Yuanyuan bought women's clothes, some of which were of good quality, which would be suitable to be sold at the intersection in front of the department store.
A piece of clothing in the department store costs forty or fifty yuan, and the more expensive ones cost over a hundred yuan.
Tang Yuanyuan hung up a few pieces of average quality for comparison. The cheaper ones were priced at 30 yuan, and the more expensive ones were priced at 60 yuan.
There are obviously more food vendors on the roadside in Yucheng now, and then there are people selling small commodities, but this is the first time I have seen clothes. What's more, the clothes are hung on a kind of wooden rack that I have never seen before, and the styles are obvious at a glance. Soon, the first customer passed by. She was a beautiful and fashionable woman. She fell in love with a beautiful and high-quality skirt at first sight. It was obvious that she was the kind of person who was willing to spend money on herself.
"Your clothes are quite fashionable. Did you make them yourself?"
Tang Yuanyuan said, "Sister, you are the real deal. No wonder you are so fashionable. These are not clothes from Yucheng, but from Ningcheng. The women there all dress very fashionably. You are so good at dressing. You don't look like the women in Yucheng at all. Did you come back from a big city?"
The other party touched his hair and raised the corner of his mouth unconsciously:
"I used to work in Shanghai."
"How do you sell these clothes?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "This one is of good quality, but a bit more expensive, 70 yuan. This one is cheaper, 40 yuan."
"So expensive?"
Tang Yuanyuan said, "This one is very cheap at 40 yuan. It's mainly because you have good taste. You chose this one at 70 yuan. You get what you pay for. I took a train for several days to get this dress in Ningcheng. No one here has ever seen it. I think if you wear this one outside, people will definitely envy you to death."
"Then yours is cheaper."
"Then why don't you take two? It'll save you ten yuan each. Why don't you take both?"
110 yuan, equivalent to half a month's salary, made the woman hesitate. She held the skirt against her body and compared it to herself: "I don't know if it will look good on me. Will the size be too big?"
If Tang Yuanyuan had heard the other party say this before selling the jelly, she would have thought that the deal was going to fail and would have had to lower the price to attract a buyer.
She had quickly sold out three sacks of small commodities before, and now she knows how to handle customers.
Those old ladies who love to take advantage of others just like to be so hypocritical and picky about her socks just to bargain for the price.
Tang Yuanyuan: "Sister, why don't you go to the department store and compare? Clothes of this quality cost a hundred yuan each, and they're not as fashionable as mine."
"Don't rush to make a decision, or you'll regret it later. Go in and take a look around before deciding."
Of course, Tang Yuanyuan could also persuade the other party to buy it by lowering the price or using sweet words, but it is not a good deal to force the other party to buy, and the other party might feel uncomfortable with being forced to buy.
The department store is a public institution. Not only are the things inside expensive, they are not as good-looking as my own clothes. The key is that the sales clerks inside always look at people with tinted glasses, which makes people feel particularly uncomfortable.
If a woman goes there and takes a look around by herself, she will come back more determined to buy her own clothes.
The woman originally wanted to go to the department store to look at clothes. She said that deliberately just now and wanted to find an excuse to refuse. She didn't expect that Tang Yuanyuan would take the initiative to say it herself and immediately put down her skirt.
In the department store, the cashier was dozing off. When he was woken up, he looked at the woman impatiently and said, "One hundred yuan, are you sure you want to buy it? You have to be sure to buy it before you can see it up close."
The impatient expression compared to Tang Yuanyuan's smiling face. The woman didn't think there was anything wrong with it before, but now she feels quite uncomfortable.
"No."
The woman turned around and came out to buy two items, both of which were expensive.
Tang Yuanyuan kept his promise and only charged her 120 yuan, and also gave her a pair of lace socks as a gift.
"Sister, these are called white lace stockings. The girls in Ningcheng all wear them with leather shoes. They look so pretty. In Yucheng, no one wears them like this. You should try them. I often go to Yucheng to buy goods. I always buy the latest styles. I will open a proper clothing store in that area nearby. You should come and have a look."
This kind of white lace stockings costs five yuan for a dozen, which is very cheap, but not many people in Yucheng wear them like this. Women have only seen them in TV dramas, so they feel like they have gotten a great deal.
The clothes I bought here were cheap and good-looking. Although it cost me half a month's salary, I was very happy and unknowingly became a regular customer of Tang Yuanyuan.
The weather was hot, and when the sun got higher, there were not many customers here, so Tang Yuanyuan took the clothes to the wholesale market.
Xu Xiaofeng was a clothes maker, and she didn't intend to hide it from the other party. After all, the clothing market was so big, and in a wholesale market as big as Ningcheng, not every family had good business.
When Teresa Teng saw these clothes, her eyes lit up.
She immediately judged: "In the future, there will probably be fewer and fewer people making clothes."
Tang Yuanyuan: "I think so too. The wholesale market in Ningcheng is huge. I'm afraid there will be a lot of people wholesale clothes there in the future. Opening a store early will be an advantage."
Xu Xiaofeng: "Thank you for bringing me this news."
Tang Yuanyuan: "I hope you don't mind me selling clothes in the market."
Xu Xiaofeng: "What's there to mind? There's no competition in everything. Come and talk to me. I'm very happy. My store should also be transformed. I'll go to the south to take a look."
Tang Yuanyuan: "Okay then, when I finish selling the goods, shall we go together?"
When school starts, I have no time to get the goods. Carrying the goods by myself is hard and time-consuming. If Xu Xiaofeng joins them, she can do the same as those stationery stores, and going to school will not affect her income.
Naturally, Teresa Teng had no objection.
At the wholesale market, not surprisingly, Tang Yuanyuan met Li Mu.
Both of them are optimistic about this market.
Tang Yuanyuan shook her head. There were so many beautiful clothes in the wholesale market. She didn't know what Li Mu's taste was. The ones he picked were all so tacky that they were simply unbearable to look at.
Fortunately, he has mostly men's clothes, as well as children's clothes. Tang Yuanyuan's clothes are beautiful, and he also gives away socks!
The customers at the wholesale market are all wealthy, so Tang Yuanyuan only picks out the good quality ones. One advantage of doing business with business people is that even if they know you make money, they won't be jealous of you.
They are all people who have taken the train to pick up goods themselves, and they know how hard and risky the journey is.
I also know that people who do business do it to make money.
Besides, Tang Yuanyuan's clothes are cheaper than those sold in department stores and are the same price as those in the wholesale market in the border town. Why wouldn't you want to buy them?
It also saves them from running errands.
As a result, a sack of clothes was almost consumed in the wholesale market alone.
Li Mu’s clothes, both men’s and children’s, were almost all sold out, and only some women’s clothes were left. He looked unhappy and puffed up his mouth.
Tang Yuanyuan didn't notice. As he folded the last few pieces of clothing, he crossed his arms, stood over, and snorted, "Liar."
Tang Yuanyuan didn't think she was talking about herself. She had to hurry home and wanted to go around the factories again, hoping she could sell some more clothes.
Li Mu took small steps and raised his voice again: "Liar."
He took another step closer: "Liar."
Tang Yuanyuan heard the voice beside her ear and tilted her head. Li Mu's face was tense, his chest was crossed, and his hair was full of resentment.
His hair is full of life.
"Are you talking about me?"
"Hmph!" Li Mu snorted, "We agreed to sell it at a certain price, but now you're giving away socks."
Tang Yuanyuan: "If we unify the prices, I won't be the only one profiting."
"In business, what's wrong with me adding some competitive edge? The business world is like a battlefield. You didn't think of it, so you can't blame me."
"Besides, you sell a lot and make more money than me."
Li Mu: "Sophistry!"
Tang Yuanyuan: "Let's go, I'm hungry."
Li Mu: "Then you get to buy the food today. Who told you to cheat?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "Go ahead and do it. Go back and cook some rice. I'll go buy some groceries."
Li Mu thought of an important question: "You're not just buying a few bunches of greens, are you?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "I'm going to buy groceries. Of course I decide what to buy."
Tang Yuanyuan can eat vegetable leaves, but Li Mu can't.
He took out two dollars from his pocket and told Tang Yuanyuan to remember to buy meat.
Aunt Huang had been listening to the Tang family's jokes all morning, and she was so bored she brought over a handful of vegetables and shared them with Li Mu: "Tang Yuanyuan's brother, Tang An, served the murderer's mother and wife for several days. He couldn't stand it anymore, so he ran away to the second wife's house. The second wife's family then hid at my father-in-law's house. Tell me, what's going on?"
Li Muximi paused, "You said Tang An was bullied and left his home?"
Aunt Huang laughed, "You don't know yet, but his father hid away in the second room a few days ago. These father and son are such cowards. And Tang An, he did so well on the exam, how could he be so cowardly? You don't even know, he got scratched by that old woman, his face is all bruised."
Li Mu was also puzzled. What was Tang An doing?
He is not a brainless person, nor is he a coward.
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