Chapter 70 What do you want to give to the Guan family?
Shen Qing went to the Hong family again and said the same thing.
The Hong family was no less excited than the Zhao family. In the evening, Zhao Mingyue's eldest daughter-in-law Hong Hehua personally delivered a few pounds of tofu. Shen Qing suddenly remembered this relationship.
No wonder so many people from the Hong family went to Jiang Yu’s case. It turned out that they were there to support their daughter at her husband’s house.
Shen Qing felt that the Hong family was quite good in this respect. They did not regard their daughters as spilled water after they got married. They took their daughters’ affairs in their husband’s family more seriously than their own family.
Whether it's choosing a husband for her daughter or not, Zhao Mingyue is not the kind of mother-in-law who would torture her daughter-in-law.
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Zhou Chuncao and Sun Xiaomai discovered that except for their two families, all other families in Qili Village were busy.
It's the slack season now. Apart from catching some fish and shrimps in the water to satisfy our hunger and digging wild vegetables on the wasteland, what else is there to do?
"It's really strange. It's okay that Jiang Laosan's family is busy selling tofu, but what are the village chief and Jiang Laowu doing? I always see the two families pulling carts passing by the village entrance, and I don't know what they are carrying." Zhou Chuncao asked in confusion while spitting out the shells while cracking fried broad beans under the adobe eaves.
Sun Xiaomai took a few beans from her hand and helplessly explained under her dissatisfied gaze, "It's my boss's fault that I wasn't allowed to go to Shili Village to help out that day. Now I'm being ostracized by the villagers. They even hold back the broad beans and won't let me eat them freely."
In the past, I could stir-fry peas and soybeans, but the peas are gone, and since I can exchange the soybeans for tofu from Jiang Lao San's family, I am reluctant to give them to her as a snack.
She looked at Zhou Chuncao's disgusted face and felt unhappy thinking that Shen Qing was still generous. Not to mention a few broad beans, she was even willing to give away eels, chicken and duck eggs. If she had known earlier, she would not have been so mean to that big fool, otherwise she would still have something delicious now.
No, even more!
She gathered her thoughts and replied lazily, "What else could it be? Maybe they were jealous of their brother making money selling tofu, so they started secretly figuring out how to make it."
Zhou Chuncao thought so too. If it were her, she would definitely figure out what to do behind the scenes.
We are all members of the Jiang family, why is it that only his family makes money? Of course we should make money together!
"By the way, have you noticed that the Zhao brothers and the Hong family have been busy lately? My boss said that instead of fishing and catching shrimp every day, we might as well just live in the water. We can't sell fish and shrimp for money, and catching so many that we can't eat them all is a waste of energy. It's better to save some energy and lie down comfortably."
Sun Xiaomai didn't notice the men from Zhao Hong's family, but she noticed the women from the two families. She came closer and said, "Don't tell me, I went to dig wild vegetables these past two days and found that the women from both families were outside. They were working so hard!
Wild vegetables aren’t tasty to begin with, and it’s not a famine, so why dig so many? Not even letting go of a single wild vegetable is truly petty.”
Zhou Chuncao suddenly thought of what he had seen before and curled his lips and said, "Let me tell you, I saw the Zhao and Hong families sending wild vegetables to Shen Qing's yard a few days ago. They were full and juicy baskets."
Sun Xiaomai thought with some sadness that a few days ago Shen Qing wanted to please her and sent her food, but now someone was actually sending things to Shen Qing to please her.
"He must have seen the Feng and Qin families polishing pens and was thinking of replacing them as a gift, ugh!"
Zhou Chuncao suddenly understood.
Why didn't she think of giving gifts? She could earn fifty cents a day by polishing pen holders. The Feng and Qin families valued it very much. I heard that they didn't let outsiders see it at all.
She simply asked Shen Qing to hand over the work to her. Why bother to learn secretly? Besides, just learning how to polish the pen shaft wouldn't make a brush. What's the point of learning secretly? The root of the problem still lies with Shen Qing.
But she didn't want to give gifts. In the past, Shen Qing gave her gifts to please her, but now she could just not accept Shen Qing's gifts and just pay attention to her reluctantly....
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Shen Qing didn't know what others were thinking, and she didn't have time to care. She was extremely busy now.
Ever since Zhao Hong and his family proposed purchasing aquatic products, I finally experienced the feeling of making a lot of money.
In comparison, the third and fourth brothers were just making small moves.
The men from the Zhao and Hong families not only catch fish, shrimps and eels, but also loaches, snails, clams... In short, they can catch anything that is in the water!
Not only did it increase her mall balance, but it also enriched her family's dining table and improved her living standards.
The women of the Zhao and Hong families are equally powerful.
The wild vegetables sent were of many varieties and fresh. The wild vegetables dug by Jiang Shui before were picked up, and the dead leaves were picked off, and the yellow leaves were reluctant to be removed;
The wild vegetables sent by Zhao Hong and his family were all fresh and tender, and they were picked cleanly. They could be put into the pot directly after washing.
Shen Qing felt that the two cents per pound was totally worth it!
Fresh wild vegetables are delivered once a day, while dried vegetables are delivered every few days. After all, it takes five or six kilograms of fresh vegetables to make one kilogram of dried vegetables, and they need to be dried repeatedly, so they cannot be delivered every day.
However, ten kilograms of fresh wild vegetables every day could not be eaten up, so Shen Qing put all the dried vegetables, smoked meat and lard into the storage cabinet.
Currently, the smoked pork lard residue only takes up less than one-third of the cubic storage cabinet, and Shen Qing plans to fill it up tightly before leaving.
Dried vegetables and leftover fresh wild vegetables take up one storage cabinet.
The pastries took up one cabinet, the meat one, the vegetables one, the travel permit, silver, and the self-defense kitchen knife took up one combined, and I'll see what else will be needed later.
In just a few days, the balance in the mall increased to 20,000, and the cash savings at home also increased a lot.
The daily income from tofu is now around 80 wen.
The amount of malt sugar is less in the first five days, only thirty to fifty wen. After five days, the malt will keep up with the production and it can reach more than two hundred wen at its highest!
Based on his own dividends, Shen Qing roughly calculated the amount of money earned by the three households of the Jiang family and felt slightly relieved.
There were only thirty or forty days left before the flood, and she felt that time was so short. The Jiang family and other families in Qili Village had just started to earn money. If it were half a year later, no, even three months later, it would be fine.
In another three months, the difference in the money they earned would be huge. At least they could buy a big animal. The big animal would pull the food, and the men would pull the belongings, making the journey easier.
But now the time is too late.
At least the money earned by the Feng, Qin, Zhao and Hong families is not enough.
Thinking of the big animals, Shen Qing suddenly remembered that it was already the end of April, and Jiang Xiangxi, who was doing labor service, was about to come back!
She could give the Guan family a donkey as a betrothal gift to Guan Li.
Guan Xiaoshan couldn't walk, so he had to sit in the cart. The Guan family still had so many belongings. Originally, on the way to escape the famine, Guan the carpenter pulled the belongings, Jiang Xiangxi pulled the food for Guan Xiaoshan and his share of the Jiang family, and Guan Li helped push the cart.
After the Jiang family got a cart and Jiang Xiangxi was called back to pull his own cart, the Guan family had an extremely difficult time every day. They almost couldn't keep up with the team several times, and finally they were left behind and killed by the refugees.
Jiang Xiangxi returned from a month of corvee labor, having lost a lot of weight. He had no time to rest and had to rush to harvest, then flee the famine. When he was called back to take care of his family, he was completely broken down, both physically and mentally.
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