It is said that Liu Niang, the sixth lady of the Liu family, will be blessed if she survives a disaster. This is a true lesson.
The Liu family has become prosperous. Although it is not a wealthy family, it has become a petty bourgeois family from not having enough to eat. This change comes from the resuscitation of Liu Niang.
Raising fish, growing rice, making novel dolls, and weird and beautiful purses.
In just five years, the Liu family has grown from a poor family to a large household in Huaishu Village. They have purchased dozens of acres of farmland and have to hire helpers during the autumn harvest. This is a strange thing for eight villages in ten miles.
"Master, Yin Niang and Liu Niang have brought new purses."
Under the grape trellis, squatting was a picky young man, Wu Xiaoming, who was already thirteen years old.
Hearing Aunt Liu's words, Wu Xiaoming raised his head slightly, waved his hand and said: "Let them in quickly, my grapes are ripe, and I just want to ask about making wine."
Aunt Liu nodded with a smile, and after a while, two little girls in dresses were brought in by Aunt Liu.
The two little girls are very similar. The older one is wearing a white dress with a red dot between her eyebrows. She is the eldest girl of the Liu family, Yin Niang.
The younger one, about ten years old, was wearing a pink dress and her eyes were full of intelligence. Who else could she be if she wasn't the Liu Niang who survived the disaster?
When "Brother Wu" saw Wu Xiaoming, Yin Niang just smiled slightly and let Liu Niang jump up and run up.
In the past few years, although the Liu family has become prosperous, it is still far behind the Wu family.
Most of the novel gadgets invented by Liu Niang were sold through the channels between Yin Niang and Wu Xiaoming, using the Wu family's relationship.
After going back and forth, the relationship between the two families has developed quite well, and no one has mentioned the dirty things that happened in the past. It seems that they have formed a good relationship between Qin and Jin.
"Liu Niang is beautiful again, just like the virgin in the New Year pictures." Wu Xiaoming was talking about Liu Niang, but he was looking at Yin Niang, his eyes full of smiles.
When people grow up, they have the joy of growing up, but also the troubles of growing up.
If Liu Niang is like a virgin in a New Year painting, Yin Niang is like a fairy who has descended into the mortal world.
One point more makes you fat, one point less makes you thinner. Her temperament is like a clear water white lotus, and a little red in the eyebrows adds another three points of agility to the whole person.
"Brother Wu, come to your senses!" Seeing that Wu Xiaoming only saw her sister, Liu Niang's eyes flashed with confusion, and then she smiled and raised the thing in her hand.
After hearing what Liu Niang said, Wu Xiaoming looked back and found that Liu Niang was holding a new style purse with a small round thing embroidered on it.
"What is this?" The round little thing looked a bit like a squirrel, but it didn't look much like it upon closer inspection. Wu Xiaoming couldn't recognize what it was.
Liu Niang handed over the purse, pointed to the embroidery thread on it, and said with a smile, "This is called Pikachu. It is a purse I specially launched for girls. It looks cute when you look at it."
Wu Xiaoming nodded slightly. This little thing called Pikachu looks very cute. It must sell well if sold to little girls.
In three years, with Liu Niang's creativity and Wu Xiaoming's money, fifteen sewing shops selling purses and dolls were opened in thirteen towns in Yongping County.
With Mr. Wu's underworld forces protecting him, he made a lot of money in a few years, and everyone in Yongping County was extremely wealthy.
After having money, Mr. Wu also recruited troops to expand the scale of his business.
With hard work and careful management, the casino has opened in the state capital, and he is thinking about spending money to buy an official position.
"This time I plan to launch the purse and the Pikachu puppet together, and divide them into three grades, namely the boutique type, the ordinary type, and the economical and practical type. Rich people love face, so we will give them silk and satin ones.
The styles are elegant and elegant when given as gifts. Ordinary families like affordable prices, so we use high-quality fabrics to satisfy them. For families with less economic resources, we also launch economical and practical models, which can meet the needs of these three groups."
When it comes to business, Liu Niang's eyebrows light up and she can tell she is a capable person.
Yin Niang didn't like this very much, so she just played with flowers and plants on the side, and occasionally listened to a few words without answering.
Wu Xiaoming listened attentively, nodding his head from time to time to express his approval. After Liu Niang finished speaking her point of view, he said: "Zhao Si from the county town said that in the shops in the county town, there are only a few economical and practical inquirers."
Ma Wu said that in the shops in town, there are not many high-quality ones. What do you think is the reason? "
"The shops in the county are large and luxuriously decorated, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people. There is no market for economical and practical ones. The shops in the town are small, and there are not many rich people. The silks and satins are decorated with gold threads.
Including the handmade money, the puppets cost at least thirty-fifty taels of silver. Among the rich families in the town, many can afford thirty-fifty taels of silver, but not many are willing to buy the dolls. This is the difference in consumption levels."
As soon as Liu Niang opened her mouth, she told Wu Xiaoming a new word, consumption level.
Knowing the meaning after hearing the words, Wu Xiaoming read the words "consumption level", nodded in agreement, and said with a smile: "You girl, you have a lot of new words in your mouth. I don't know if you are so smart, you will be cheaper in the future.
Family boy."
When talking about the latter part, it was full of ridicule, which made Liu Niang's face turn red.
In ancient times, many people got married at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Liu Niang is nine years old this year and is about to reach that age.
Hearing these jokes, Liu Niang glanced at her sister subconsciously, with a hint of resentment in her tone, and said: "Guess"
Of course Wu Xiaoming could not guess what the girl was thinking. He smiled and changed the subject: "Some time ago, I opened a small lake in the backyard and planted lotus flowers. Let's go and see it together."
When she heard there were lotus flowers, Yinniang's eyes lit up slightly, and her fondness flashed across her face.
Liu Niang was not very happy, her little face was tense, and she was holding the purse with Pikachu in her hand, wanting to ravage the little thing on it to death.
Wu Xiaoming could see the emotions of the two of them, but his face remained calm.
He still prefers Yinniang to the clever and eccentric Liu Niang, because Yinniang has a temperament that fascinates him.
This kind of temperament is called cold and unrestrained. As she gets older, Yinniang's temperament becomes more and more powerful. Most people are ashamed and cannot bear to blaspheme, but Wu Xiaoming has a kind of unwillingness to conquer.
A different kind of emotion.
Lotus Garden, Wangqiu Pavilion.
Mandarin ducks and butterflies fly together, and the spring scenery in the garden is intoxicating.
The small lake in the garden cost Wu Xiaoming a thousand taels of silver. It is not just an expression of smallness and exquisiteness.
Walking into the courtyard, you can see flowers clustered in clusters, butterflies dancing gracefully, and lotus flowers blooming in the small lake.
Yinniang raised her head and looked at Wu Xiaoming, her eyes were so soft that she could drop water. The bright red in her eyebrows was the finishing touch. Even Liu Niang, who was a sister and also a woman, saw her sister standing by the lotus pond.
, raised his head and chuckled, and was slightly stunned for a moment.
"A smile will make thousands drunk, and a worry will last forever." Wu Xiaoming felt that he was drunk. Only such a woman is worthy of him and worthy of his pursuit.
At the age of twelve or thirteen, I already have a vague understanding of what it means to like.
Under Wu Xiaoming's fiery gaze, Yinniang lowered her head shyly, her shadow reflected in the lake, so beautiful that she seemed not to be in the world.
Compared with Wu Xiaoming's infatuation and Yin Niang's shyness, Liu Niang's thoughts are more colorful.
It was as if a jar of jealousy had been overturned in her heart, a kind of sourness welling up from deep inside her, almost making her cry.
Trying not to cry, Liu Niang bit her lower lip tightly, wanting to go up and question her.
Ask the young man in front of you, who can make money and support his family, why he only has eyes for his sister and doesn't want to look at her again.
Liu Niang herself admits that her sister is more beautiful than her, but she is not bad either. Besides, what else does her sister have besides being aloof? Is she able to make money, is she so considerate, and is she so understanding of emotions?
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I really wanted to ask out loud, but the words came to my lips but I couldn't bring myself to mention it.
With tears lingering in her eyes, Liu Niang lowered her head slightly, not wanting anyone to see her sad look.
"Yinniang, what do you think of me?" The two of them were sitting in the pavilion, and Wu Xiaoming only had Yinniang in his eyes, and asked with frustration.
The blush on Yinniang's face was still there, but her aloofness completely disappeared, and she kicked her feet into the water.
Being aloof is just a kind of personality. People's emotions are ever-changing, and they have different emotions at different times.
Yinniang is already thirteen years old this year. According to ordinary people's standards, it is time for her to see her.
Although she was a bit unconventional, she was not at an age where she didn't understand anything. She knew what Wu Xiaoming was asking and weakly replied: "I don't know."
"I don't know?" Wu Xiaoming's expression seemed to be a smile but not a smile. He said softly in words that only the two of them could hear: "I don't know, which means I don't object. So how about the two of us making do with each other? What will I do?"
Hello."
Yinniang didn't speak, her face was shy and she was more beautiful than the lotus in front of her.
Wu Xiaoming said nothing and looked at her quietly, watching her white and tender feet crossing the water, and he had the urge to catch her and play with her.
Lotus flowers, white and tender beautiful legs, a little bit of red in the middle of the eyebrows.
For some reason, Wu Xiaoming suddenly felt dizzy and shook his head twice, as if he had seen this scene before.
"Will you be good to me?" Yinniang's voice was as weak as a mosquito, and Wu Xiaoming almost didn't hear it.
After being stunned for a moment, Wu Xiaoming was overjoyed and didn't care about the familiarity. He couldn't help but grabbed Yin Niang's hand: "Yes, I will be good to you for the rest of my life."
"Yes." Yinniang looked down at the water, letting her hand be grabbed by someone, and burying her head in her chest like an ostrich.
Behind the two of them, Liu Niang had already left. No one knew when she left.
Wu Xiaoming held Yinniang's hand, as if stroking the fine warm jade, and said softly: "On August 8th next month, I will go to your house to pay the betrothal gift."
"Is it too fast?" Yinniang was a little cautious, with a bit of hesitation on her face.
Wu Xiaoming shook his head slightly, reached out and touched Yin Niang's forehead, and said with a smile: "Not at all, we are childhood sweethearts. If I don't marry you, who else do you want to marry?" (To be continued.)