Yu's jelly is definitely in short supply. Even the passengers on the passenger ship will come to join in the fun and pack a bowl to go back to taste. This taste is absolutely irresistible, a bowl of jelly is definitely not enough for the whole family to share, and it will make the servants come to buy it a second time. And Yujia jelly is too popular, often come here for the second time, and may not be able to buy it back. Some people even wait for a long time, just to taste the taste of jelly!
The few baskets of seaweed that Yu Xiaocao brought here were cooked quickly. A pot of jelly is simply in short supply. Jelly won’t stop hunger in the first place, but after eating a bowl, you will feel hungry again. When the next time you have a free break, the dock workers will come over to eat a bowl to relieve the heat and satisfy your hunger.
The cold noodles made by Xiaocao are also selling well. Especially when one pot of jelly is sold out and another pot has not been cooked, the workers who can't wait will order a bowl of cold noodles instead. Unexpectedly, the taste of cold noodles is also awesome, which brought them an unexpected surprise. The remaining flour on the noodle stalls, no matter whether it is white flour or coarse grains, will be sold out by night.
By the time the workers arrived at dinner time, there was nothing to sell at Yu's stall. After sending away batches of lost dock workers, Xiaocao's family packed up their stalls and prepared to go home.
At this time, a boy who was not tall, but dark and strong, walked over quickly, showing a row of white teeth with a smile: "Second Uncle, Xiaocao, the stall is closed now? Do you want me to help?"
It was only then that Xiaocao recognized the black and strong boy in front of her. It turned out to be her cousin Heizi who was not related by blood. Although Yu Hai had little contact with the mansion, he was very kind to Heizi who didn't know anything: "Heizi! Are you hungry? There's still a bowl of jelly that your little grass girl left for me in the bucket. Go and eat!"
In the past few months, Heizi can be described as completely reborn. Not only did he persevere with the heavy physical labor, but he also became a regular employee of the wharf under Liu Ge. Regular employees are paid on a monthly basis, with two days of paid vacation each month, and rewards for good work. Become a full-time employee, no longer afraid that you will not be able to get jobs and have no income.
Heizi, who has worked hard for several months, has already developed lean muscles from his fat body. Although he is a little shorter, he looks a lot stronger. Among the other dock workers who worked together, someone once tentatively asked him if he had a wife or fiancee, and wanted to betroth his daughter to this capable and smooth boy. Heizi asked someone to inspect several families carefully, and selected a good-looking but kind and capable daughter, and asked his parents to propose marriage.
Mrs. Li originally planned to find a girl with a good family background for her son in the town, but she fell in love with her nephew. Her second brother has a grocery store in the town. After giving birth to this niece, the second brother injured his roots in an accident and was unable to have any more children. Half belonged to her niece. That's exactly what Li Shi did!
But Heizi knew about this cousin who was one year older than him, and everyone said that his nephew followed his aunt. His cousin was as lazy as his mother, and she was as fat as a fat pig, and her face was as fat as a corpse that had been soaked for a few days. Same swelling. Another point is that his cousin is so spoiled by his second uncle, she has an arrogant temperament, and even her father would point her nose and scold her if she was unsatisfactory.
If it was the original Heizi, he might have listened to his mother's arrangements, obediently betrothed to his cousin for the sake of the property of the second uncle's family. However, in the past few months on the dock, not only his body has been exercised, those kind and simple dock workers are also using their actions to influence Heizi's values.
It's not that he can't make money now. Although he is just a small worker now, he still earns one or two taels of silver a month. It is absolutely no problem to support a family of four. In the future, if he works hard and is promoted to a master worker, he can earn two taels of silver a month, and if he is appreciated by the sixth brother and promoted to be a foreman, his monthly salary can reach five taels of silver. He has been working for a few months, and at least he has a deposit of five or six taels of silver on hand, so why should he sacrifice his happiness for money.
In the past few months, he has seen through it. To marry a wife is to marry the second aunt, who is kind and capable, and can manage both at home and outside. Look at the second uncle's house now, the family has worked hard to get rich, and they are getting better and better. Looking at my own house again, my father has no skills, and my mother doesn't know how to help when the oil bottle is down. In addition, grandma controls the family's money, and the whole family can't eat enough.
So, after inspecting the daughters of several colleagues, he chose the girl from the poorest family. The housewife died of illness two years ago. In order to treat the housewife, several acres of Susukida were sold, and the whole family lived on the salary of his coworker.
This girl is the head of the family. After her mother passed away, the work of clearing the vegetable field and taking care of the four younger siblings fell on her alone. This girl is also capable, she has kept the house in order since she was ten years old, the clothes on her siblings are always clean, and the patches are meticulously sewn, she looks like she knows how to live! To marry a daughter-in-law, of course you have to marry such a woman!
Mrs. Li was reluctant at first, but Heizi changed her mind after saying something: "Mother, I'm marrying a daughter-in-law, not an ancestor! The way my cousin looks like, you mean she will help you with the work? Or point at her to take care of you? Just like her, even my second uncle and aunt can scold me like hell, can you stand her temper?"
Mrs. Li thought about it again, yes! Like her niece, who can't even boil the water, and will live alone in separate households, who will take care of whom? It's still the son who has filial piety and knows how to marry a daughter-in-law to come back and serve her!
Mrs. Li, you really think too much. Your son is not his second uncle, but a foolish and filial son. Don't think he was generous in the past, but he knows that he loves his wife. And the daughter-in-law he was looking for was not as weak-tempered as Liu's, she did what she deserved, and dared to say what she should say. Most of the sons sided with her daughter-in-law, and Mrs. Li didn't have a good relationship with her mother-in-law!
These are all later. The wharf is now operating in two shifts, divided into night shifts and day shifts. Yu Heizi was on the day shift today, and it was time to get off work. When he saw his second uncle, father and daughter cleaning up the noodle stall, he came over to see if there was anything he needed to help.
Helping Xiaocao carry the basket and other utensils to the donkey cart, Heizi couldn't stand the kindness of his second uncle, so he ate the bowl of jelly that was refreshing and refreshing. He had already heard from his fellow workers that the second uncle's family sold jelly today. After all, he is a relative, and he is afraid that people will think that he is going to eat and drink. Usually, when Xiao Lian comes to sell braised vegetables, he will either ask someone to bring a copy back, otherwise he will not come to buy braised vegetables even if he refuses to eat.
It's the same today, the workers said the jelly is hype, it's so delicious, he also resisted not coming. I dared to come here only when my second uncle’s house closed. Unexpectedly, the second uncle kept a bowl specially, which made him cheaper.
After eating jelly, Heizi wanted to pay, but Yu Hai scolded him all the time, saying that his family was talking about money or not? It's just a bowl of jelly, and Second Uncle Qian will get angry if he takes it again...and let him come to the shed when he is hungry or hot, and eat a bowl of jelly or cold noodles to relieve the heat. If you can't write more than two characters in one stroke, don't be so extroverted. In the future, the two younger sisters will point to your cousin as support!
What he said made Heizi feel embarrassed to talk about money. In the days to come, Heizi would come over whenever he was free, helping to carry a bowl, clean the dishes and so on. Xiaocao invited him to eat jelly and cold noodles, and he didn't mention the money anymore, but he worked harder to help with the work!
Riding in the second uncle's donkey cart, Heizi returned to the village with the three second uncles. At the entrance of the village, the children who had eaten and came out to play saw the sisters of the Yu family coming back, and gathered around them one after another, asking in unison, "Xiaocao, I heard from Shanhu that you want to collect sea vegetables picked up by the sea, is it true?"
"Little Lian, that seaweed is like grass, and can be sold for money? The coral is not trying to fool us, is it?"
"Xiaocao, I picked up a whole basket today, so don't say no to it!"
"Yeah, yeah! In order to pick up seaweed, I forgot to kill pigweed, and my mother scolded me! Don't make us work for nothing..."
Xiaocao was so noisy that her mind was pounding, and finally found a vacancy, and she promised: "Don't worry, I let Coral release this news, and I will definitely not let you do your work for nothing! You put the seaweed Send it to my place where the seafood is collected, and I will help you to weigh it when I get home to rest!"
The little friends who gathered at the entrance of the village to wait for their sisters heard the news, and ran home with their feet loose, fearing that if they ran too slowly, the Yu family would not accept them when they had enough seaweed.
Yu Xiaocao returned home, took a hot bath, changed into fresh clothes, and when she came out, she saw children in their teens gathered in front of her house. Each of them was holding a basket in their hands. The few are seaweed.
Yu Hai felt sorry for his daughter, so he asked Xiaocao to sit aside, and he personally went to collect seaweed for her. No wonder people often say: There is strength in numbers. Don't look at the seaweed that only weighs more than ten catties in a child's basket, it can't stand the crowd! After collecting them all the way, a full three to four hundred catties were collected, and Xiaocao's family's baskets were almost not enough.
Zhou Shanhu held a string of copper plates in his hand and shook them contentedly. Today, even her elder sister, who was embroidering the dowry at home, was mobilized to pick seaweed! The harvest is not small, and more than forty articles have been sold! Although her family has recently made a fortune raising chickens, more than forty cash is nothing at all, but after all, she earned it through hard work, and her mother said, all of these are hers to keep. Now, she also has private money! In the future, she will pick up more seaweed to enrich her little coffers!
Mrs. Liu stood in the yard, looking at the baskets of seaweed, worrying. According to her experience, every time my daughter comes up with a new idea, the business is very hot in the first three days, and then it will gradually stabilize. Although the business is good today, only 20 to 30 catties of seaweed jelly were sold. And here is a full three to four hundred catties, the weather is so hot, if these sea vegetables are spoiled, what can we do!