When the street lights on the street came on one after another, Xu Wu and his wife returned from their stall.
Seeing that her brother and son were both at home, Ma Chunfang was delighted at first: "Yinyin, have you brought Xiaoxiao here? Are the soldiers here too?"
After entering the house, I saw the bruises on my brother's face clearly, and I felt extremely distressed: "Bingzi, who beat you like this? Debt collectors? They have gone too far! Aren't you afraid that we will call the police?"
"No, no, I hit it myself."
"Ah? Did you hit it yourself? Didn't someone else hit you? It doesn't look like it..."
"I really hit it accidentally." Ma Jianbing was afraid that his eldest sister would go to the police and wanted to comfort her. "It looks scary, but it doesn't hurt very much."
Shit! It hurt him so much that it still hurts even now.
Ma Chunfang took a closer look at the injury on her brother's face through the dim light, and said thankfully: "Fortunately, the skin is not broken, and the appearance is not disfigured. You are too careless. My eldest sister will make you a delicious meal tonight to replenish it."
, your brother-in-law and I..."
"Mom, don't worry about it today, I've already cooked."
Xu Yin came in from outside with a pot of stewed beans and noodles in both hands.
As long as it's not raining or snowing, the residents on the first floor will light the stove and cook outside.
Her house was right at the top, and there was an open space of seven to eight square meters next to it. It was not free for growing vegetables yet, so she put the stove here for cooking, which saved the heat and made the house feel like a sauna.
However, when the sesame cake stall got back on track and she could free up some time, she still wanted to use this land to plant something. It would be too wasteful to just plant a bunch of green onions in the corner.
"I saw that I still had some long cowpeas at home, so I cracked two eggs and made braised noodles. Let's eat together. From now on, my uncle is also a member of our Xu's Cake Shop. He will eat what our family eats.
."
"..."
Ma Chunfang looked at her brother and asked: What's going on?
Ma Jianbing is more innocent than her: I don’t know either.
"..."
Xu Xiao reacted quickly and cleverly brought the bowls and chopsticks to assist Xu Yin in giving everyone a meal, while announcing what he knew through the small loudspeaker:
"I know, I know. My sister said that my uncle owed a lot of debt and couldn't escape. Since he always wanted to gamble in the town, he brought his uncle to the city to work. But my uncle and I both thought we were going to some construction site.
Unexpectedly, I learned to make sesame cakes from my sister. My sister asked my uncle to learn from her after dinner and set up a stall early tomorrow morning..."
Xu Yin gave a thumbs up to her younger brother: "Clear thinking and articulate, great!"
Xu Xiao didn't expect to be praised even for saying a few words. She scratched her head and smiled shyly, revealing her two newly grown front teeth.
"Mom, starting tomorrow, you and my dad will continue to set up a stall in front of the machinery factory. I will take my uncle to the textile factory. There are many workers in the textile factory. If we can do it, the business will definitely be good."
After a pause, she added: "But I declare again: every day's income must be taken home. If you need to buy some necessities temporarily, you can buy it first and pay for it when you come back, but you are not allowed to buy it secretly. Although we are
We are a family, but as the old saying goes: brothers settle accounts clearly. Besides, I started this stall, and I have made it clear how to distribute it. If you want our Xu’s Cake Stall to become bigger and stronger, then please
Everyone thinks in one place and works hard in one place!"
"My daughter is right!" Xu Wu took the lead in applauding.
Ma Jianbing listened but didn't understand it very well, so he clapped along in confusion.
Although Xu Xiao didn't understand a lot of what he said, he couldn't stop his sister from talking. The momentum fascinated him. Is this the confidence of a martial arts master? If he also had such confidence, when he went out to play, would there be more admirers behind his back?
His little brother?
Ma Chunfang was a little annoyed: "Okay, okay, I know you are in charge of this family now, so you don't have to say it every day, I am your mother, how can I cheat my own daughter? Well, this is today's income, if you don't believe me, ask you
Dad, I didn’t hide a penny.”
Xu Yin smiled, put away the money box and continued to divide the dough for everyone: "Eat first, then do the accounting after eating. After that, I have to teach my uncle how to knead the dough."
Ma Jianbing originally wanted to complain - how could an unmarried young man be allowed to sell sesame cakes on the street? He is not Wu Dalang!
When he glanced at the money in the money box out of the corner of his eye, he thought about what his eldest sister said: Is this a day's income? How much money can you make selling sesame cakes?
How about giving it a try?
From the beginning, he couldn't help but shout stop...
At dawn the next morning, Xu Yin woke up Ma Jianbing who was on the lower bunk of the outhouse: "Uncle, get up and knead the dough!"
Ma Jianbing struggled to open his sleepy eyes. The door to the outer room had been opened, but it was still dark in the corridor. "It's not dawn yet."
"If you want to do business, you can't sleep in. Business won't wait for you to get enough sleep."
"..."
What his niece said was so reasonable that he had no words to object. Ma Jianbing could only get up with his eyelids unable to open.
After getting out of bed, I shook my arms that were sore from learning to knead dough last night: "Yinyin, my arms are still sore."
"Doing business..."
"Yes, yes, I understand. How can you do business without suffering, right?"
Ma Jianbing twitched his lips, picked up his washbasin, and went to the water room to wash up.
Xu Yin: Are you talking too much? Not bad, good, good, progress!
Xu Xiao, who was on the upper bunk, sat up sleepily: "Sister, I also want to sell sesame cakes."
Xu Yinxun thought that it would be a good idea to correct the misconception that his younger brother had been led astray by his uncle. It was indeed a good idea to take him to work together. He readily agreed: "Okay, let's go together! If you are sleepy, come back and catch up on your sleep."
Xu Xiao climbed out of bed and ran to the water room to wash up.
Sure enough, children still have good physical strength.
Xu Yin looked at her brother with envy, who was rubbing his eyes one second, and jumping up and down the next, stretching his thin arms and short legs.
I'm still a few months away from turning sixteen, so I'm still young, so I'll work hard and try to grow a few centimeters taller.
In the water room on the third floor, after washing her face, Jiao Dongmei soaked the clothes she brought and rubbed them in the wash basin. When she saw Ma Jianbing, she asked in surprise: "Aren't you Chunfang's younger brother? Did you come yesterday or leave?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Xiao jumped in with a small washbasin Xu Yin bought for him, which contained new towels, toothbrushes, tooth cups, and a tube of white rabbit toothpaste for children: "Uncle
, we have to hurry up! Sister is still waiting for us to sell sesame cakes at the stall!"
"Are you going too?"
"Sister, I agree! Although I'm young and can't make sesame cakes, I can help collect the money!"
Ma Jianbing laughed at him: "Can you count the money?"
Xu Xiao was anxious: "Why can't I count them? How can I not recognize what money looks like?"
The uncle and nephew were quarreling and washing, forgetting to pay attention to Jiao Dongmei next to them.
Jiao Dongmei pondered in her mind: How much money can you make selling sesame cakes? Ma Chunfang even called her natal brother to help? Does a small sesame cake stall need so many people? Is the business so good?