If anyone in the village can read and write, it is the village chief. I heard that my ancestors were also able to read.
Song Qiu knew that the village chief always kept some paper and ink at home, and planned to ask the village chief's grandfather to write a few words for her.
"Are you planning to open the business now?" After listening to Song Qiu's words, the village chief smiled and asked his eldest grandson to take out the paper and ink.
Then I moistened my pen, dipped it in ink, and carefully wrote the word "tea" on the paper that was not very good.
"Okay, this is the character for tea." The village chief pretended that Song Qiu was illiterate, so he pointed out the character to her to make sure that he had written it correctly.
Song Qiu thanked her, ran home with the paper in hand, and asked her to find a piece of cloth to enlarge the word and embroider it.
Old Yuan didn't know the Chinese character, but he could embroider it according to the pattern of the Chinese character. Although the stitching of the embroidered thing was not very good, it was enough to hang it where he knew it was the Chinese character "tea".
In the afternoon, Song Qiu boiled the brown sugar again and boiled it into a watery state, making it easy to scoop out.
Then take out the small stove that you use at home in winter and check it to make sure it is usable.
Almost everything was ready, and Song Qiu wasn't nervous.
Old Yuan, on the other hand, was really worried when he heard that this place was about to open soon. He had already done business selling things, but this was his first time setting up a stall to sell tea or something like that.
But she didn't worry for a while, and someone came to ask her to deliver the baby.
Well, old Yuan didn't think much about it, packed up his things and went with others.
Song Qiu rummaged through the long beans drying in the dustpan, thinking about something in his mind, and after a while, he walked to Zhang's house.
Old Mrs. Deng was sitting in the upper room playing with the stone eggs. Mrs. Miao stayed with her while doing some needlework.
"Ah Qiu is here, I heard someone coming to ask for your milk to deliver the baby again, right?" Old Mrs. Deng asked Song Qiu to sit down, with a gentleness in his eyes that others could not see.
Song Qiu responded, "Yes, it's said that the people from Dazao Village across the street have given birth to several babies, and they should be back soon."
Old Mrs. Deng nodded, "It's time to get busy now. All the babies have to be born, otherwise everything living in the fields will have to start moving. It was the same last year. You don't have to worry about your breasts. She
You are an experienced person, you have seen many battles like this."
Mrs. Miao also echoed from the side, "Yes, Aunt Yuan's craftsmanship is nothing to say. Look at me, I'm making jujube flowers and stone eggs. It's all my fault to Aunt Yuan. With her around, I was originally afraid.
I’m not afraid anymore.”
Song Qiu listened with a smile, responded a few words, turned around and said to old Mrs. Deng: "Grandma Deng, I just have something I want to discuss with you. I want to make a living and go outside to the river bank."
You also know about setting up a tea stall. I don’t know the business yet, but you can see that from time to time someone comes to invite me. I might not be able to do it alone. I want to ask Lihua to help me with the work.
The wages are the same as those in the local market, twenty cents a day, do you think that’s okay, Grandma Deng?”
Regardless of whether someone has been hired to deliver her baby, it would be much better to have one more person to do the work.
Looking at her sitting by the river all morning, she felt that there was still some business going on.
It's okay to open it for twenty cents.
When old Mrs. Deng heard about this, she thought to herself that Aqiu and Lihua had grown up together, and they even drank milk from both sides. This was a great friendship.
It's hard for Aqiu, a child, to think about pear blossoms.
Old Mrs. Deng was very pleased and happy in her heart. Before she could say anything, Mrs. Miao on the side said first: "Aqiu, do you want to hire someone to do the work? What do you think of me, aunt? I am better at cooking on the stove than Lihua, who works every day.
I still have to do other work.”
Mrs. Miao thought that her mother-in-law would definitely not let Lihua steal from this lazy person, so what if it was just twenty cents?
No one needs to take care of the firewood, pigs and grass at home?
Anyway, you need to hire someone to do the work, and the relationship between their two families is so good, so hiring her is the same thing.
The reason is such that Miao can't tell it from other things, but he is absolutely neat and tidy when it comes to making food. You can tell from the last time he helped make rice dumplings.
It's worth asking her to do the workbook.
But Song Qiu had to spend 20 yuan to go out. He just wanted to invite Lihua, so that she would not have to go up and down the mountain in such a hot weather every day. At least she wouldn't be exposed to the sun in the tea stall. She might be a little tired if she was tired, but they could be together every day.
, how good.
Otherwise, she would run a stall by the Changhe River every day, and Lihua would have to do whatever she wanted to do by herself, and she would not be at ease.
Song Qiu could only smile shyly and said: "I also know what Aunt Hugua does, so of course I don't have to say anything about it. It's just that I'm used to Lihua and I still want to ask her to help me with my work. Aunt Hugua, isn't that right?
Living."
In this way, it is no different from a little girl who wants to play with her best friends regardless of other people, and it is hard to make people angry.
Although Mrs. Miao regretted that she could not do this job, she thought that it was just twenty wages and her mother-in-law had it in her hands. It really made no difference whether she went to Lihua or she went.
Anyway, this money will eventually be used for heaven and earth, and it will not be spent on pear blossoms.
It's just that Pear Blossom is gone, who will do her work?
This was what Mrs. Miao was worried about, so she looked at Old Mrs. Deng eagerly to see if she would agree to go to Lihua.
Old Mrs. Deng listened quietly to Miao's lawsuit, and she didn't show anything on her face. When Song Qiu came back by herself, she just said she wanted pear blossoms, so she smiled and said, "Ah Qiu wants pear blossoms."
If she goes to work, my family will also be happy. Twenty cash a day, which is six hundred cash a month, is much more than what she can earn by collecting firewood and pig grass at home. Of course she should go!"
When Song Qiu heard this, he was happy, "Hey! It's settled then. Starting tomorrow, I'll let Lihua come and help me with the work. I'll pay twenty coins a day and I'll pay you monthly. What do you think, Grandma Deng?"
"Okay, okay, let's just say it like this." If wages are paid monthly, will she still be afraid that Song Qiu will default on the payment?
There was a smile in Old Deng's eyes as she watched Song Qiu decide the matter and ran out the door.
Mrs. Miao on the side saw that her mother-in-law actually agreed, yes, six hundred coins a month, if you don't earn it, you won't earn anything, but...
"Mom, Pear Blossom has to go to work every day. What should I do if my family collects firewood and collects pigweed? Although the mountain mushrooms are not easy to sell, I still spend half a day picking them up every day."
Old Mrs. Deng looked at her and said: "The mountain mushrooms you pick up every day can be sold for 20 cents a day? How stupid is it to give up this free money? How much firewood can be burned in a day? Just let the courgettes sit on the side of the mountain.
Can't you just hunt some and bring it back for use? There is also pigweed. You can just go and hunt it every afternoon. It's an easy job, simple."
Miao was a little dissatisfied when she saw her mother-in-law arranged all the work in a few moments, and all the work was assigned to her husband and wife.
But what can be done is that the man in her family is the youngest. When it is his turn to get married, the money in his father-in-law's hands will be gone. In addition, her mother's family is not as strong as the first sister-in-law and the third sister-in-law.
Otherwise, she would live in the town and her children would grow up in the town, so there would be no need to make a living with her parents-in-law.
In the past, I only had to wash the four clothes of my family and cook every day, but now I have to collect grass to feed the pigs.
However, Ms. Miao did not dare to show her dissatisfaction. She was still waiting for her mother-in-law to have enough money to build a shop for them in the town.
I had no choice but to agree wholeheartedly.
If Lihua goes to earn 600 wen a month, it can help her save enough money for the shop quickly.
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During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I wish all the cute little readers a happy family, all the best, peace and smoothness, and good health and worry-free.~