"Yuying went to school. She hasn't finished school yet."
Jiang Yunniang asked Zhang Xiaolang to come in and asked, "Have you eaten?"
Zhang Xiaolang shook his head.
Jiang Yunniang sighed, pulled him into the kitchen in the backyard, and made him a bowl of noodles with two poached eggs on top.
Zhang Xiaolang finished eating quickly and took the initiative to wash the bowl and chopsticks he had used.
Jiang Yunniang didn't say anything. Seeing that his hair was disheveled and his clothes were dirty, she picked up a comb and combed his hair. She asked, "You are five years old this year, right? Didn't your father let you go to school?"
Zhang Xiaolang shook his head: "Dad is sick and lies in bed all day. My aunt and sister-in-law don't like me. They told me to get out and never go back."
Jiang Yunniang was silent for a while, then said, "Then you can live here with Yuying for a while."
Zhang Jia has been in a very bad condition recently. He has become addicted to Wu Shi San and has become extremely thin. The last time she saw him, he was sitting on the ground in the vegetable market and couldn't get up.
Jiang Yunniang hated him but also felt a little sorry for him.
So he asked a man pushing a wheelbarrow to take him home, and he gave the man ten cents as a fee.
"Thank you, mother!" Zhang Xiaolang showed a happy look on his face. He ran to scoop some water and washed his hands and face.
Then he looked up and asked, "Does mother have any work for son? Son can do anything."
Jiang Yunniang rubbed his little head and said, "There is no work today. When the golden ears in the bamboo shed grow well in a few days, you can help your second cousin to harvest mushrooms."
Zhang Xiaolang nodded his head heavily: "Yes!"
At this time, Yingbao came over and gave Zhang Xiaolang two books, two brushes and two ink sticks: "It's time for you to learn enlightenment. When Yuying comes back, learn to write from him."
She also brought gifts for Yuying and Hongxiao. These two books, Thousand Character Classic and Hundred Family Surnames, were taken out from the cave, just right for Zhang Xiaolang to use to start his education.
Zhang Xiaolang took the book and the ink, feeling a little flattered, and quickly thanked him: "Thank you, Sister Yingbao."
"You're welcome. Just study hard and you'll have a bright future when you grow up."
In Zhang Xiaolang's family, if a boy doesn't study, he can only become a small vendor or do odd jobs as a clerk in other shops.
Without elders to help, it would be impossible to work as a clerk in a pharmacy.
Zhang Xiaolang hugged his books and ink tightly and nodded repeatedly: "Yes! I will study hard!"
Then Yingbao went to check the mushroom shed in the yard.
The mushroom shed was built by my second cousin. There are more than 500 golden fungus plants planted in it, and they are almost mature now.
But these golden ears are not growing well and the buds are not very active.
Maybe it's because this summer has been so hot that these mushrooms are like this.
Erni ran over and said to Yingbao, "Yingbao, you may not know that Chu Man has also come to the county town. Her parents rented a house for her in a nearby alley so that she can have more intimacy with Chen Xiucai so that she can get pregnant soon."
Sakura:...
Seeing that Erni was speaking without restraint, Jiang Yunniang scolded her, "Little girl, do you know what a kiss is? Stop talking, or you might dirty your ears."
Erni didn't take it seriously and said with eyes wide open, "It was Grandma Wang who told my mother. There's nothing dirty about it. In the past, Yingbao and I went to a teahouse to listen to stories. The dirty jokes told by the storyteller were really dirty."
Yingbao looked innocent.
I screamed in my heart: You Erni, you actually betrayed me
Besides, if the storyteller didn't tell some dirty jokes, who would sit in a teahouse every day to listen to him
Even when listening to them tell stories about ancient heroes, readers love to listen to the passages about heroes and beauties the most.
Sure enough, Jiang Yunniang turned her gaze to Yingbao, "When did you listen to the story with Erni? The teahouse is full of men. You two little girls are really ignorant of the seriousness of the matter by running to that kind of place."
Before Yingbao could explain, Erni said, "We went there several years ago. Not only the two of us, but also my second brother..."
"What? You're still going with Erquan?" Jiang Yunniang poked Erni's forehead and said unhappily, "How dare you listen!"
Erni shrank her neck and pulled Yingbao to the shop.
In the afternoon, Hong Xiao and Zhang Yuying came back from school and saw a large table of delicious food already set out in the main hall.
Jiang Yunniang killed two of the roosters she had raised, and went to the braised meat shop to buy beef and pork to welcome Yingbao.
Jiang Cheng also brought his wife and six or seven-month-old son, and the whole family happily sat together for dinner.
Yingbao took out a silver collar with a silver lock hanging on it from her bag and gave it to her eldest cousin's son as a gift.
When I was out, my cousin's wife had not given birth yet, so this was the first time she saw this fat baby.
The fat baby was held by his mother and sat at the dining table. He stared at the food on the table with his chin covered with saliva.
Even after his mother called him several times, he finally looked at Yingbao, gave a toothless smile, waved his little hands and slapped them on the table, shouting non-stop.
Yingbao pinched his little face to tease him a little, then turned around to continue eating and told everyone about her experiences outside.
Jiang Cheng suddenly said, "Yingbao, don't wander around when you come back. These days, there are always people looking for trouble with our shop. They buy things and then come back to return them, saying that our prices are too high and the things are not fresh."
Yingbao was eating braised beef in soy sauce and asked, "Is there a specialty shop somewhere else?"
Jiang Cheng thought about it and said uncertainly: "It's possible, but I don't know where it is."
Qiu Rong said, "I will go home tomorrow and ask my father. He will definitely know." Even if he doesn't know, her father has many connections. He will definitely know if he asks around outside.
"Oh, what should we do if someone opens a shop like ours?" Jiang Yunniang said worriedly.
Yingbao: "Don't worry about that. We have golden ear and snow ear. Do they have some too?"
The business of my shop has always been booming, and there are many people who are jealous of it.
Especially other shops, they will definitely try their best to make one exactly the same.
But they don’t have golden ear and snow ear, so it might be difficult to get the same one, unless someone finds a source to source golden ear.
Jiang Cheng ate his meal in silence.
"It doesn't matter if they have fungus. We can't lower the price." Yingbao said to her eldest cousin, "If there is no business, we won't buy those cakes. Now the weather is hot, if they can't be sold in a few days, they will go bad, which is not worth it."
"I know that." Jiang Cheng said, "I even stopped selling cakes at my father-in-law's house a few days ago, for fear that they would go bad if they couldn't be sold."
Yingbao nodded and said, "That's right. We still have fresh fruits to sell. These things are definitely not available anywhere else."
The eldest cousin told her that the second cousin had returned to his hometown to transport fruits and vegetables. The lychee trees at home had produced many lychees, as well as longans and papayas, which were basically ripe. These fruits were not common in the county town.
Once the fruits arrive, they are often sold out quickly.