Still at the suggestion of Youjin, Uncle Wang rented his earthen house to the five river workers. According to the standard of one penny per person per day, he charged five people for ten days. The five river workers did not dislike Uncle Wang. The family's earthen house is dilapidated, at least there is a place to stay, right
Uncle Wang is also very happy. His old dilapidated house can bring him five cents of income a day, and he lives in the Su family's river worker dormitory for free. Isn't it beautiful? Although a few river workers occasionally saw Chen Laosan at Wuli Bridge, they were still angry, but it was a matter of course.
However, the matter of Chen Laosan's family also sounded the alarm for Youjin. Although his family would not steal the money from the river workers, the river workers are not sure what kind of people there will be. If this happens, I'm afraid it will affect their own family. business is not
Now that the Sujia Hegong dormitory is full, it can bring the Su family almost four dollars in income every day. The Hegong dormitory has been in business for two months, and the money invested in the construction has already been paid back, and now it is earned back every day. Everything is pure profit, such a good business, Young Jin is reluctant to throw it away.
The time sequence has entered the autumn, and the 16 acres of fertile land that the Su family bought in Houjiawan is only to be harvested by the original owner's family, and it will be the land of the Su family in the future. Now the business of sour plum soup has declined a lot, and Youjin simply stopped the business. The sunflowers next to Su's house have grown into huge sunflower seed pots, and the slightly curved sunflowers are happily telling people the joy of a bumper harvest.
Young Jin bought back two puppies from the man who bought four wolf dogs at the beginning. Now the family has less to do, and the attack power of a trained dog is much stronger than that of a child.
Youzhu's craftsmanship is also slowly improving. It can only be said that the Su family is a very patient master, and Youzhu is also a master who recognizes the truth. When the two meet, it really looks like something is going to happen.
"Eldest sister, come and try my new desserts." The young beads, whose faces were stained with cats, held a plate of cakes shaped like plum blossoms into the east wing, and happily presented treasures to Young Jin.
Young Jin tied the strings of one hundred copper coins tightly and placed them on the table before asking with a smile, "Is this here for me to test the poison or the taste?"
After carefully placing the dessert plate on the vacated table, Xiaozhu pouted and said coquettishly, "Elder Sister!" Although she made something that was hard to swallow several times at first, now even her mother said that she has The elder sister is still laughing at herself!
Seeing her like this, You Jin stopped teasing her. He wiped his hands with the thick cotton kerchief on the side, then picked up a piece of pastry in the shape of a pale yellow plum blossom and put it in his mouth. The faint aroma of chrysanthemum spread in his mouth instantly. Although the dim sum ingredients are not as refined as the dim sum shops in the city, they have a different flavor.
Young Jinben was also a little hungry. After three bites and two bites, he ate them all. He nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, what is this snack called?"
After receiving the good comments from the elder sister, Youzhu grinned: "Mother doesn't know what it's called, but she just said that my grandmother taught me how to do it." A small taste, by the way, is the prestige of his sister.
On the other hand, Young Jin in the east wing began to think about how much he hopes to open a dim sum shop. Now he has more than 500 families, and Su's good craftsmanship. Although Su's body is poor, he can buy a few. A little apprentice came back to learn, so it wouldn't be a problem.
You Jin thought about it for several days before discussing the matter with the Su family.
Although Mrs Su doesn't know anything about business, it's not a big problem for her to teach people how to make dim sum. "It's just that our family's craftsmanship will not be passed on to the outside world?" People in this era are always very attached to the family's craftsmanship. As a daughter, it is not easy for Su Shi to learn the craftsmanship passed down from the family, let alone spread it out
You Jin had naturally considered this question, and seeing Su's question, You Jin also outlined the plan in his heart: "I am going to buy a few girls to come back and learn with my mother, and my life will be on the line. In our hands, if we dare to spread the word, we will naturally have a way to treat them. Besides, we can keep the recipe and just let them help with the face-to-face, isn’t it good?”
After listening to Young Jin's calculations, Su shi nodded reassuringly: "Since you have already thought about it, then I naturally have no objection."
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Luohe Prefecture has a special market for people buying and selling. The market opens on the 10th and 22nd day of every month. Traffickers and customers who want to buy people will enter the market on these two days to buy and sell.
Young Jin is only twelve years old this year, so naturally he will not go to the population trading market by himself. He directly found Chen Yaren who he knew well, and Chen Yaren was naturally happy to take over the business.
Although he knew that the poor people in ancient times lived like a mustard, it was the first time that Young Jin saw this kind of situation. It's not those who are tied together by ropes who have the same nose and eyes as him. Young Jin really thinks that this is like selling livestock.
Seeing a guest come to the door, the trafficker hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "What kind of things do you want to pick up and serve? I have all kinds of things, can you see?"
Looking at the trafficker full of yellow teeth, Chen Yaren frowned slightly, then looked at You Jin: "Miss Su, what do you think?"
It turned out that the main master was the little girl in the back who was wearing fine cotton clothes but looked like eleven or twelve years old. The trafficker with a face full of flesh also gave her a flattering smile: "Little girl, just look at it, if you think it's suitable, just follow me. Say!"
You Jin gently covered his nose with his hand, then carefully looked at the people who were tightly connected by a thick hemp rope, and finally picked out three girls who were about fourteen or fifteen years old, and nodded to Chen Yaren .
Chen Yaren nodded slightly, and then negotiated a price with the trafficker who was rubbing his hands beside him. Young Jin paid the money and got the deeds of the three of them. When he was about to leave the market, Young Jin saw a woman with a bowed head who was a little different from the people around him, so he stepped forward and asked, "How much did this person sell for? ?"
When the trafficker saw that Young Jin was asking about the woman who had caused trouble for him along the way, he frowned in disgust and said, "If the girl wants it, how about eight taels of silver?"
"It's so expensive?" Young Jin just bought three of them and it only cost five taels of silver. This one costs eight taels, which is too expensive!
Seeing her, the trafficker was still very interested, and he wanted to let go quickly, and said, "Girl, if you really want it, how about seven taels? Little girl, she is a family member of an official family that I bought from the capital, seven taels of silver. It's really cheap!"
The two of them went back and forth to bargain, and finally bought the woman who could not see her true face and age for sixty-two or five dollars. After leaving the population market, after separating from Chen Yaren, everyone sat on the young gold The hired mule cart went to Wuli Bridge.
Except for the Su family, everyone in the Su family didn't know that You Jin went to the city to buy people. Seeing that she went to five people alone, four of them were still dirty, and the sisters all gathered around curiously.
You Jin brought the four into the Su family's yard, and let the four take a bath first. Su found four sets of old clothes she wore before and gave them to the four. Although they didn't fit well, they were still dirtier than before. Smelly clothes are much better.
After the four of them had carefully bathed, they revealed their true colors: the three fourteen- or fifteen-year-old little girls were all from poor families. people.
And the family member who is said to be an official in Beijing finished grooming, and finally showed his original appearance. Although the appearance of a woman in a bun in her early twenties is only the appearance of a middle-aged person, but there is not a romantic attitude between her eyes. After grooming, she gave You Jin a deep blessing: "Thank you, Yulan, girl."
Although she was wearing half-old village women's clothes, Yulan's bearing was obviously different from the three shrinking country girls beside her. You Jin nodded with satisfaction, finally feeling that his sixty-two or five dollars was not in vain: "Sister-in-law Yulan is very polite."
After talking to the four of them for a while, You Jin also roughly understood the background of the four of them: Erya, Chen Xiaohe, and Wu Ya'er were all sold by their parents and followed the traffickers from the north. When the war-torn land came to Luohe Prefecture, she was used to doing rough work since she was a child; as for Yulan, her husband’s family was originally a ninth-rank petty official in Beijing, and Yulan was also the daughter of a family. Unexpectedly, in the event of a natural disaster, the family was destroyed, and Yulan was also cast as a low-ranking member.
After listening to the life experiences of several people, Young Jin hadn't said anything yet, but Su Shi, who was on the side, had his eyes wide open.
"I'll tell you what you're going to do in the future. Er, you three will follow my mother and Youzhu in the kitchen. Sister-in-law Yulan, you'll be responsible for teaching our girls to read every day, and then help me. Mother will bring Xiaoba and Kanger." Xiaoba and Kanger are already more than half a year old, and it is when they are active that Su Shi can't bring them alone.
Yulan was also born and raised, but unfortunately her children were also separated from her in the disaster at home. Now that she saw Xiaoba and Kanger who were babbling, thinking of her two children, her eyes were a little red unconsciously, and she reached out her hand. Taking over Xiao Ba, who is not afraid of life, he gratefully responded: "Hey! I can do it right!" I thought that I was destined to fall into the mud in this life, although the Su family was more than twenty years ago. The life is too far away, and there is always a tile to cover my head, and I don't have to fall into the dust. It's a blessing.
There were four more people in the Su family at once. Fortunately, the house is still big enough. Young Jin took Erya and the three to the west wing to clean up the lower room. Yulan and the three little girls lived in the west wing, sisters Young Yin. the next room.
Su Shi took Youzhu and the three girls to study snacks in the kitchen every day, while Youjin was busy dealing with Chen Yaren. She wanted to find a suitable shop before winter, and then open the snack shop. Yulan also followed Youjin's words and taught the girls at home one or two hours a day to write and read. She couldn't afford a pen and ink, so she took them to write and draw on the ground in the yard with branches. effectiveness.