When Su Hao asked, Lu Xiuer's face looked quite proud, and she began to tell Su Hao about her money-making situation in detail.
It turned out that after Su Hao left, Yang Gendi came to the city from the countryside. With her mother taking care of the housework, Lu Xiuer was completely free. She ran around the city every day, everything she saw felt fresh and she felt that her life was extremely happy.
A few days later, Yang Gendi began to chat with her about the family's income and expenditure. She said that the fields in the countryside were now leased to others, and her income had dropped sharply. Su Hao was working as an errand in the county government, and he didn't know how much money he could earn. The family
People live in big houses, and everything in the city, including firewood, rice, oil, and salt, is expensive. If this continues, the little money that the magistrate and county rewarded me with may not last long.
Hearing what her mother said, Lu Xiuer became nervous. She went to Wu Da's wife Feng and asked her about how to live in the city. Feng told her that the income of county government servants was only enough to survive.
If you have to raise children, study, take exams, etc., your income will be very tight.
Besides, the current house of Su Hao's family is still rented. If you want to settle down in the county, buying a house is indispensable. However, the current housing prices are so expensive. In a third-tier city like Fengcheng, the housing prices are almost catching up with those in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou...
Under Feng's encouragement, Lu Xiuer finally found a way to make money for herself after detailed market research, which was to sell tea eggs on the street.
Every day, she asked Yang Gendi to buy hundreds of eggs from the street, process them into tea eggs using country techniques, and then sell them on the street. Although Lu Xiuer had never learned the four arithmetic, she could calculate it instinctively.
You can make money in business, and you should have no problem earning 70 or 80 cash at the end of the day.
Yang Gendi was old and thin-skinned, and did not dare to hawk on the street. Lu Xiuer had been used to being crazy since she was a child. Although she was a little timid at first, after a day or two, she became calm and calm, whether she was shouting on the street or interacting with her.
She was able to bargain with customers easily. She was young, beautiful, lively and cute, and many people were willing to buy her tea eggs. As a result, her business was so good that she outshone several of her peers who had been selling tea eggs on the street for a long time.
"Uh... I really can't tell that you still have the talent for business." Su Hao laughed dumbly.
"Brother, will I lose face if I sell tea eggs on the street?" Lu Xiuer asked cautiously, "Sometimes when the police come to drive people away, I don't even dare to say that my brother is also from the county government.
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Su Hao said: "It doesn't matter if you lose face, right? Getting rich through hard work is a very honorable thing. It seems that the Ming Dynasty did not stipulate that family members of civil servants cannot do business, so there is no taboo. If any servant dares to get into trouble with you in the future, just say
Your brother is Su Hao, so it will definitely work."
"Really?" Lu Xiuer laughed. She heard that Su Hao seemed to support her about selling tea eggs. She felt relieved and started to talk more: "Brother, you don't know, people in the city
The money is so good, an egg costs 2 cents, as well as firewood, salt, soy sauce, tea, etc., which is only 1 cent at most. The total is less than 3 cents, but I sell it to people for 5 cents.
Buy it, but I usually sell it for 4 cents..."
Su Hao listened to his sister talking about his business experience and fell asleep unconsciously. Lu Xiuer was willing to sell tea eggs, and he had no objection. This was actually a kind of fun for the little girl. Rather than letting her be bored at home every day, Su Hao was unhappy.
, it is better to let her do something she loves to do. As for how much money she can earn, Su Hao doesn't care. When he was in the country, he had already thought about it. After returning to the city, he would start some business in a big way. But
, the most important thing for him right now is sleep.
Su Hao slept until it was time for dinner and then woke up. His mother, Yang Gendi, had indeed made a large table of dishes, but the only ones serving the meal were Su Hao, Deng Kui, and Hao Tong.
"Mom, why don't you come to the table and eat too?" Su Hao advised. He saw his mother leaving a few small dishes in the kitchen and guessed that she was going to hide in the kitchen to eat.
"No, I'll just eat in the kitchen. You young people can drink and chat together and don't worry about me, an old woman." Yang Gendi said.
"Uh... what about Xiu'er?" Su Hao asked again.
Yang Gendi said: "Xiu'er's friends are here and they are staying in her room. She asked me to deliver food to their room."
"What?" Su Hao was very curious, "This crazy girl, just a few days after arriving in the county, she has already made some bad friends? Can't she be Sister-in-law Wu?"
Yang Gendi said: "It's not Mrs. Wu, it's two young girls. I've been to the house several times. I asked Xiu'er who they were, and she said she wasn't allowed to tell them. However, these two seemed to belong to a good family.
girl."
"No, I have to go up and take a look." Su Hao said and walked upstairs.
Arriving outside the door of Lu Xiuer's room, Su Hao coughed and shouted: "Xiuer, it's time to eat. Do you want to take your friends to eat with you?"
The door opened, and Lu Xiuer came out in response. She giggled and said to Su Hao: "Brother, we are all girls. It is not appropriate to sit and eat with you. By the way, brother, you know who is in my room."
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Lu Xiuer said her last words in a lowered voice, obviously not wanting people in the room to hear her.
Su Hao asked: "Who is it? They've all come to the house, why are they hiding their heads and tails?"
Before Lu Xiuer could say anything, she saw a flash of clothes and a girl with a happy face walked out of the room. She bowed slightly to Su Hao and said, "Master Su is back? This little girl is being polite.
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Su Hao took a closer look and couldn't help but burst into laughter. However, he only laughed twice before he quickly restrained himself, raised his hands and returned the greeting: "It turns out to be Miss Han. The student is rude."
"You... know each other?" Lu Xiuer looked at her brother, then at Han Qian, and asked strangely.
It turned out that neither Su Hao nor Han Qian told Lu Xiuer about their meeting. As for the incident where Han Qian and Su Hao went down the well together, Han Qian would not make it public.
After returning to the city from Caijiacun, Han Qian couldn't help but blush and her heart beat every time she thought of the scene where she and Su Hao were sitting in the same hanging basket and alone in the deep well. After many hesitations, she finally took Honglian and ran away
I came to Su Hao's house to chat with Lu Xiu'er, just hoping to hear some anecdotes about Su Hao's past, and to soothe her budding heart. Every time she comes, she will inevitably encounter
Yang Gendi was too embarrassed to reveal her identity and did not let Lu Xiuer reveal her identity, so Yang Gendi only knew that Han Qian was Lu Xiuer's friend, but she did not know that she was actually the rich daughter of the county magistrate's family.
Today, when Han Qian heard at the county government office that the well-drilling team had returned, she couldn't sit still anymore. She told her parents to go out to find a female companion, so she and Honglian came to Su Hao's house. When they saw Lu Xiuer
, she was too embarrassed to say that she came to visit Su Hao. She only said that she missed Lu Xiuer and wanted to have a little chat with her.
Su Hao slept so hard that Han Qian had no choice but to chat with Lu Xiu'er over and over again. When it was time to eat, Su Hao hadn't appeared yet, so Han Qian shamelessly stayed behind, saying she wanted to taste Lu Xiu'er.
How is the food at home?
Fortunately, Su Hao came up to take a look after hearing the news, otherwise Han Qian wouldn't know what excuse to find to see Su Hao.
"When I was in the county government office, I met Miss Han twice by chance, so we got to know each other, haha, haha." Su Hao covered it up very cleverly. He was afraid that Han Qian was too thin-skinned and would not be able to save face.
Han Qian also said: "Xiu'er, I met Mr. Su in the county government. My father admires Mr. Su very much. I didn't expect that Mr. Su is so approachable at home."
Pretend, just keep pretending! Su Hao secretly laughed at Han Qian's hypocrisy in his heart. Since Lu Xiuer's guests were Han Qian and his servant, he naturally couldn't invite them to eat at the same table with Deng Kui and others. Everyone exchanged a few polite words.
After that, Su Hao was about to say goodbye and go downstairs, but Han Qian stopped him:
"By the way, Mr. Su, a few months ago, two siblings from the Cheng family came to the county government office to find my father. They said that they were entrusted by you and asked my father to arrange a place for them to make a living. Because my father is busy with official duties, the little girl
I have made some arrangements for him and the Cheng siblings, and I will inform the young master now."
"Yes, yes, that's what happened." Su Hao replied bravely, "The Cheng siblings' fields were occupied for digging wells, and they had no livelihood, so I boldly asked the county magistrate to help make arrangements.
Miss Han is troubled by the thought of this matter. I wonder where the Cheng siblings are now and how well they can live?"
"As for the wife of the Cheng family, I got her a job as a cook in the county government office, with a salary of one or two and a half dollars a month. She also lives in the county government office, with the women. As for the young man from the Cheng family,
, I asked Master Fang to introduce him to Longguang Academy, but Wu Jiaoyu said that he can only take in this young man temporarily. If this young man wants to stay for a long time, you have to go and talk to him in person." Han Qian said.
"This unscrupulous Wu Zhicheng!" Su Hao scolded with a smile. With Han Qian and Fang Mengjin as introducers, Wu Zhicheng had no reason not to accept Cheng Dong. The academy is a place with government subsidies. Any province can take Cheng Dong.
Dong's rations were saved. When Wu Zhicheng said this, he clearly wanted to tell Su Hao that this was a favor he sold to Su Hao. The purpose was naturally to hope that Su Hao could pour out the Western scientific and technological knowledge he had mastered.
"After I go to the county government office tomorrow to deliver the errand to Mr. Han, I will go to the academy to find this shameless old man. I would like to thank Miss Han for your help regarding the matter of the Cheng family siblings."
"Master Su dug wells for the people, and his hard work has paid off. It's a great honor for this little girl to be able to do something small for Master Su." Han Qian said softly.