Zhang Jin walked into the room and saw his father and mother were all serious, and the atmosphere was not very good.
"Mom, what's the matter?"
Mrs. Zhang said unhappily: "I asked your father to take back the two taels of silver lent to the Lu family. Your father has not asked for it back."
Zhang Cheng said with some embarrassment: "The Lu family has just finished their business, and they have invited so many people to dinner, so it's not enough."
"The Lu family invited a lot of people, but didn't they charge a lot of money?" Zhang Jin said.
Hearing his son's words, Zhang Cheng took a puff of cigarette and did not speak.
Mrs. Zhang snorted softly, and said: "I think that old woman of the Lu family wants to give up the money and not pay it back. It's not enough to take advantage of it."
Zhang Cheng glanced at Mrs. Zhang, and said helplessly, "What are you talking about? There are so many lands in the Lu family, and we can rely on such a small amount of money."
"That's not good?" Seeing Zhang Cheng's expression, Mrs. Zhang didn't bother with this issue, "Lu Chengyu picked and picked, why did she pick such a girl, she is not as good as those girls in our village, I really don't know what Tom is thinking."
"That's the master's sister-in-law, who is different from the girls in the country." Zhang Chengdao.
Mrs. Zhang rolled her eyes, and said with a sneer, "It's different. It looks like he's not capable of work. Now there are only a bunch of lazy people left in the Lu family."
Zhang Cheng glanced at Zhang Shi and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Zhang Jin thought to himself: There is nothing wrong with what my mother said. The Lu family used to be the second house worker, and there is no one in the second house. There are really not many people.
The matter of Lu Chengyu was discussed for a while, but was soon replaced by the news of Lu Tong's marriage.
Compared with Lu Chengyu's marriage, the Li family's marriage is much simpler. Li Ji is not married for the first time, and Lu Tong's marriage is over, and the Lu family's money is a little tight recently, and they haven't prepared too much for Lu Tong. .
On the first night of Lu Tong's marriage, something happened.
Li Ji's son came to the new house in the middle of the night to look for his father, messing up Lu Tong and Li Ji's wedding night.
Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi went to the town and sold another batch of wine.
Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi finished handing over here, just when they heard someone talking loudly in the restaurant, Lu Lin took a peek and found that it was Li Hong, Li Fangyue's second brother.
Li Hong was drunk, surrounded by a few cronies who were chatting about something.
Lu Lin had inquired about the Li family with shopkeeper Wang before, so shopkeeper Wang knew the relationship between Lu Lin and Li Hong.
Shopkeeper Wang smiled and said, "After Li Fangyue got married, Li Hong has been here many times."
Lu Lin raised his lips slightly. He had also heard that most of Li Fangyue's dowry was left in the Li family. According to how much the two elders of the Li family loved Li Hong, most of the money should have fallen into Li Hong's pocket.
Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi secretly listened for a while.
Because it was Li Hong's treat, several people held Li Hong in their arms, and chased after Li Hong to flatter him.
Someone also asked about the marriage between Lu Chengyu and Li Fangyue. A young man said in a sour voice that Lu Lin was quite generous and willing to offer so much dowry.
Li Hong was flattered by everyone, and he had a lot of disdain for Lu Chengyu in his words, saying that Lu Chengyu is just a mud leg of the countryside, even after studying, he can't change his background, if it weren't for his generous betrothal gift, they The family would not marry their younger sister to Lu Lin.
Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi listened for a while, and then walked away in silence.
Lu Chengyu miscalculated this time. "Choose a daughter-in-law out of ten thousand choices. Before, I thought the girl in the village was not good enough for him. I was stunned to wait another year. In the end, I ended up with such a family."
Li Hong always had this attitude, and the chief bookkeeper probably wouldn't take Lu Chengyu's family seriously.
Li Hong has been living a very chic life recently. Many people know that her elder sister is married to Lord Registrar. However, Lord Registrar doesn't like their relatives very much. Elder sister doesn't like her family to come to her house very much, others don't know, but Li Hong knows that elder sister is a little girl for others, after a few times, she seldom visits the chief bookkeeper's door.
Li Hong originally thought that the third sister, Li Fangyue, was much worse than the eldest sister, that she was a loser, and could not find a good husband's family, but unexpectedly, Lu Chengyu fell in love with her.
Although the Li family is a family in the town, the family does not have much money to make a living. The little money earned by the shop on weekdays is used to decorate the appearance, so Li Hong does not have much money, and the Lu family sent 300. The two betrothal gifts made Li Hong extravagant.
According to Li Hong's original intention, he took all the thirty taels of silver. However, Father Li still felt sorry for his daughter and left five taels of silver for Li Fangyue.
After Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi sold a batch of wine and collected sixteen taels of silver, they went to the tooth shop.
Among them, more than a dozen people lived in a dilapidated house, and Lu Lin saw that there were two little girls of seven or eight years old among them. They were sallow and emaciated, and they looked very pitiful.
Although the child looked very pitiful, Lu Lin did not intend to take it home. There were two young children at home, and there was a problem child like Mai Mai. It would be impossible to help and take care of so many children at home.
"What kind of person does the boss want?" Yazi asked excitedly.
"If you want a woman, if you want to be able to cook, you'd better be able to do some embroidery." Lu Lin usually cooks the meals at Chen Xiaomi's house, but Lu Lin still needs to find someone to take care of the business in the future. Cook. "If you want another man, you'd better have some strength."
When Yazi heard Lu Lin's words, Yazi probably had a clue. Yazi introduced a family of three to Lu Lin. The family of three were originally servants working in a wealthy family. This family offended the main family and was sold out.
Lu Lin saw that the husband and wife had calluses on their hands, as if they were used to heavy work, and was slightly satisfied.
There are a few girls in Yaxing, who are quite pretty, and they were supposed to serve in the homes of wealthy families, and one of them cost twenty taels of silver, so it seemed that they were not able to work.
The population in this era is very cheap. Basically, one person can be bought for the price of one mu of land. In recent years, there have been many orphans left by frequent wars. The price of children is not very valuable. The price was sold to Lu Lin, and the children of the two made a deal.
Lu Lin accepted the contract of sale from the three members of the Wan family, and temporarily placed them in a newly bought house in the town.
Lu Lin went to the countryside and brought side dishes and wheat to the town.
When Mai Mai saw Zhaizi, she was stunned.
"Brother, shall we live here in the future?" Mai asked.
Chen Xiaomi nodded and said, "Yes."
Mai Mai asked suspiciously, "Brother, where did this house come from?"
Chen Xiaomi told Chen Xiaocai that the house was owned by a rich man, and he was just looking after the house. As for the three servants in the family, they were left by the previous rich man. Chen Xiaocai was not very clear about how much money the family had. Seeing Chen Xiaomi's explanation, I immediately felt that the matter was reasonable.
Chen Xiaocai knew that his elder brother had made some money recently, but he never thought that his elder brother was rich enough to afford a house in the town.
Chen Xiaocai tugged at Chen Xiaomi's sleeves, and said, "Brother, is it okay for us to live here? What shall we eat?"
"Don't worry, we will show the house to others, and the rich man will pay for it." Chen Xiaomi told Chen Xiaocai the excuse Lu Lin wanted.
Chen Xiaocai was full of surprise and said: "There is such a rich man."
In Chen Xiaocai's eyes, the rich and rich are all unkind, and in fact, it is true. Many wealthy households are rich men, who hold a lot of land and rent out the land, relying on the land rent to eat and drink every year. Food and clothing are a problem.
Hearing that the eldest brother met a very kind rich man who helped look after the house and was paid, Chen Xiaocai couldn't help but feel a little incredible.
Lu Lin took out the money jar from the canteen, Xiaomi counted the silver in the money jar, and said, "There are only forty taels left."
Chen Xiaomi scratched her hair, feeling vaguely worried.
Lu Lin smiled, and said: "It's a bit quick to spend, but isn't there still forty taels?" When he first arrived at Chen Xiaomi, the Chen family didn't even have ten taels of silver. That's great, but if it doesn't work, they can continue to sell alcohol.
Chen Xiaomi took a look at Lu Lin and said, "You bought so much cloth, do you want to make the bag you mentioned?" Recently, apart from buying people, there is also a big expense to buy cloth, made of various materials. Cloth bought a lot.
Lu Lin nodded and said, "Yes!"
Lu Lin took out a ballpoint pen and a notebook and drew Chen Xiaomi's bags of various styles.
Chen Xiaomi had never seen such a miraculous pen, nor such paper, and couldn't help being stunned for a moment. Chen Xiaomi snatched the pen and paper that Lu Lin took out, looked at it for a long time, and was amazed for a long time.
When Chen Xiaomi saw the various bags painted by Lu Lin, he vaguely felt that there was hope for a fortune.
Are these bags from your world? "Chen Xiaomi said in surprise.
Lu Lin nodded, and said, "Yes! Bags in our world are very expensive. One bag can buy dozens of pigs." You are expensive, because you are not expensive enough.
Chen Xiaomi was puzzled and said: "How can there be such a stupid person, what is the use of the bag, and there is no benefit for the pig."
"Personal pursuits are different. Some people like bags." An expensive bag can best reflect a person's worth. "Besides, these people don't have to worry about not being able to eat meat." As for those who save money, those are only a minority. Most of the people who buy brand-name bags are those who have money and have no place to spend it.
Chen Xiaomi said enviously, "Can you eat meat every meal?"
Lu Lin nodded and said, "Well, you can eat meat every meal."
The price of meat in the previous life was not expensive, so it was not difficult to eat meat every now and then. However, when there was nothing to eat about meat, I thought about it every day, and if I really ate too much, I would want to be vegetarian again.
Chen Xiaomi said with some concern: "This bag looks like it's not very difficult to make. If someone learns it, it won't make much money."
Lu Lin nodded and said, "I've thought about this too, but the production of some bags is still relatively difficult. In order to prevent people from learning it, I'm thinking of having people divide the work and let one helper be responsible for one bag." link, and then our people will do the final integration.”
Although this should still be unable to prevent the leakage of some practices, it should be able to delay it for a while. As long as they make a brand, they don't have to worry about being imitated.
Chen Xiaomi looked at the sample drawing drawn by Lu Lin, and a bright light flashed in his eyes.
Chen Xiaomi stuffed the notebook to Lu Lin, and said, "Put it away first, so that no one can see it."
Lu Lin nodded, thinking secretly when he was going to buy some pens, inks, papers and inkstones. Although ballpoint pens and notebooks are convenient, they are too obtrusive.
Chen Xiaomi and him made some money selling gloves before, which seemed to have aroused a lot of discussion among the villagers. If people knew that they bought such a big house in the town, they would be envious.