Mrs. Sun just waited eagerly for the free pie to fall.
But Qiao Mingjin didn't even glance at her, just pretending she didn't exist.
And Wan'er doesn't have any blood connections or feelings about cousins. She only knows that whoever is good to her will be good to her.
Mrs. Sun saw Mrs. Yu holding Beishu beside her with a smile on her face, talking to the girl who wanted to pay for money, but the little girl didn't understand what Mr. Yu meant at all. Mrs. Sun looked on and felt very relieved.
Do you think that by saying a few nice words, your son can get that free pie?
If you expect a four-year-old kid to understand your twists and turns, you really think highly of the girl who is paying for the money. Regardless of how you treat that girl on weekdays, you really think that the mother and daughter are a big mistake and help you pay. It's really
funny.
Seeing that Mr. Yu was enjoying himself and Mr. Sun was so proud, he soon realized that his son didn't get free food either.
Suddenly he gritted his teeth and became sulky again.
When her son came over to make trouble for her again, she slapped him on the buttocks a few times. Yue Donggen looked at his mother in disbelief, immediately turned around and ran away, shouting as he ran, saying that he wanted to go
Find his grandma.
Mrs. Sun watched for a long time and found that people didn't pay attention to her heartfelt words. She carried her things like a normal person and occasionally chatted with the villagers. She immediately turned away angrily.
Seeing that her son Beishu was making a big fuss, Mr. Yu had no choice but to dig out ten cents and buy a bag of candy bars. Seeing that his son was still waiting on the shelf to pick something else, he hurriedly grabbed his son's arm and pulled him away.
Qiao Mingjin spent a long time shopping on the shelves and bought a pair of scissors and a pair of embroidery needles. After giving some instructions to the two children, she said hello to Sister Xiu and turned around to go home.
Half an hour later, she was cutting cloth for her two children in the house, preparing to make clothes for them, when she heard Mingqi shouting outside the door: "Sister, Mr. Yao wants to ask for a drink of water from our house!"
"Oh, please invite someone in quickly."
When she walked out of the room, she saw that Ming Qi and Wan'er had already led people into the courtyard.
Qiao Mingjin's house was built on the outskirts of the village, and it was just after lunch. Everyone was taking a break at home or digging wooden piles in the forest, but no one was passing by.
The salesmen who come to the village often go to the villagers' houses to beg for water, and when they leave, they fill a pot of hot water with them. Even if they see the salesmen entering someone's house, usually no one will say anything.
After Yao had finished drinking the tea, he saw that the two children were already playing in the backyard, so he handed a baggage to Qiao Mingjin.
"This is twenty taels of silver from last month. Sister Qiao, take a look."
Qiao Mingjin opened the bag and looked at it. There were four five-tael silver ingots, and then he wrapped the bag again.
He smiled and asked, "Did you have lunch?"
"I've eaten. I brought dry food in the car."
Qiao Mingjin nodded and brought him a few pieces of cake. Seeing that he grabbed and ate them without any courtesy, he added, "I'll make you a pot of hot tea later and let you put it in a bamboo tube and take it with you on the road. Last month's business
How's it going?"
The young shopkeeper Yao wiped his mouth twice and said happily to Qiao Mingjin with a raised face: "Business is good. Last month, my brother collected a batch of used clothes in Qingchuan. Fortunately, he moved them from a house that was in a hurry.
A wealthy family found a lot of good things there, and they were shipped to Linchuan and sold very well, earning double the profit! My father and the others were so happy that they couldn't even close their mouths together. When my second brother got married, my parents saw that Sister Qiao didn't go.
I’m very sorry.”
Qiao Mingjin smiled: "There will be opportunities in the future. I just hope that if your business grows bigger, I can also get the profit every month."
Yao Xiaolang said: "Sister Qiao, don't worry. Our whole family is thinking of Sister Qiao's kindness. We will never do anything like burning bridges across rivers."
Qiao Mingjin nodded and listened to his report on last month's business...
The name of this young shopkeeper Yao is "Yao Ping". He is under eighteen years old and ranks third in his family. He has two elder brothers named Yao Fu and Yao Gui, both of whom are married. He has a younger sister named Yao An.
His father, Yao Guang, is not very old, only in his early forties. In the first few years, he often came to Xiahe Village to carry burdens and sell goods.
In this family, our grandfather has been a peddler carrying burdens.
The three brothers, plus their father, all four of them carried two baskets of goods to the village and peddled in the alleys. They had not read any books and had no means of transportation. From morning to night, they worked so hard and only made little money.
With only enough money, my family couldn't even afford an acre of farmland.
In fact, Qiao Mingjin has known this family for a long time.
When she first got married, Yao Ping's father Yao Guang led his eldest brother Yao Fu to sell goods in the village. They usually came four or five times a month. Occasionally she would buy some small things from Yao's shopkeeper.
After Yue Zhongyao was captured as a young man, Qiao Mingjin occasionally took some silk thread from Yao's salesman, made some small threads, and sold them to him. Or he could save hundreds or dozens of coins a month for one or two cents.
She couldn't keep the large embroidered handkerchiefs after they were finished, so Wu usually took them to the market and sold them, and Wu kept the money.
Qiao Mingjin could only take the time to make up some small connections and secretly save a little to supplement her parents' family.
Later, after Qiao Mingjin changed the core, she thought about embroidering some handkerchiefs and making some ruffles to sell to them.
It's just that she never had the time. After moving out, she only had fifteen coppers in her hand, and she needed money everywhere. Firstly, she didn't have the capital to buy the handkerchief and silk thread. Secondly, it was a waste of time and energy, and she had to cut wood every day.
Rest.
Later, by chance, she got a job copying books in a bookstore for Father Qiao, and saw that this job of copying books was still profitable.
At that time, Lan also helped copy, and the speed was very fast. A book could get about 20 yuan. And Lan's small regular script was very good, so Qiao Mingjin felt that her grandmother's skills should not be wasted.
Later, she learned from the bookstore owner that wealthy families also hired people to copy scriptures. Those who copied the scriptures well could get much more money than those who copied books in bookstores.
The children of wealthy families claimed to be pious and wanted to copy scriptures to worship the Buddha, but how many of them copied them with their own hands?
It's just like making a wedding dress and embroidering a dowry. After someone else has finished it, you just add a few more stitches.
The shopkeeper told her at that time that if she wanted to get more money for each book, it would be better to buy scriptures and copy them.
Even in temples, poor scholars are often asked to help copy scriptures.
At that time, Yao Ping came to the house to ask for food, so Qiao Mingjin asked him to use the convenience of carrying a load to sell goods and help find any family that needed to copy scriptures.
She didn't let him work in vain. Every time he got a copy, she would give him two cents from each copy.
Seeing that he was a little moved, he gave him a way to make money.
Qiao Mingjin heard that his father and brother were preparing goods and carrying burdens during the day and selling them in the villages and alleys. There was also his mother, sister-in-law and sister at home. The family had no land, so the three of them usually did some washing work at home.
Not to mention the hard work, you won't get much money.
Qiao Mingjin gave him instructions to prepare some rouge, gouache, hair kerchiefs, ointments, or novels to sell at the homes of wealthy families, and sell them to ladies who were bored at home.
Nowadays, women rarely appear in public, and women from wealthy families never leave the house.
But they were so bored that they also longed to know some gossip about the outside world. They also longed to go to the street to pick goods and enjoy bargaining like ordinary men or daughters of small families.
Besides these ladies, there are also many servants, maids and boys in the wealthy households who cannot go out.
It was a fertile land waiting to be cultivated.
Therefore, some aunts and wives have targeted this market and won the popularity of these homely women.
Two generations of the Yao family have been peddlers. They travel through the streets and alleys, and they know what people like and what goods they know better than these sisters-in-law.
Qiao Mingjin just pointed it out like this, and Yao Ping understood.
He is a quick-thinking person. Every time he comes to Xiahe Village, he is sweet-tongued and sharp-tongued. Every time, he sells several times more items than his father and two brothers. Others just don’t need to buy things they don’t like.
You can be persuaded to pay for it obediently.
Qiao Mingjin prompted him to ask his mother and sister-in-law to prepare some goods that women needed and sell them at the gates of those big houses. He understood immediately.
After bowing and thanking him, he picked up the swaying burden and ran back without stopping.
A few days later, not only did he help Qiao Mingjin get a job copying scriptures from a wealthy family, but he also bought a bunch of things to thank Qiao Mingjin.
It was said that in just a few days, her mother and her sister-in-law were able to earn as much money from selling to wealthy families as their father and brother combined made in a month.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law not only sold things, but also told the ladies in the house about the gossip of the market and what new rumors were happening in that place and house, and they were able to get a lot of rewards.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law's wallets were so bulging that they couldn't help but feel dizzy when they walked.
The ladies are happy, and the gentlemen are even happier. They don't have to worry about the money to prepare goods.
Even the youngest girl in the family had enthusiastic people helping to match her, and she quickly found a good match...
Later, Qiao Mingjin asked Yao Ping to help send the scriptures copied by her grandmother and father back.
Then Yao Ping helped two temples in Qingchuan County take on the long-term job of copying scriptures...
Over and over again, Yao Ping also became familiar with Qiao Mingjin...
After Qiao Mingjin learned that the dream of two generations of her family was to save money and open a small grocery store, she became interested in it.
After deliberately giving Yao Ping some guidance, their Yao family's business improved by several percent, and they also believed and trusted Qiao Mingjin even more.
Later, after Qiao Mingjin got money from selling abacus, she formally approached Yao Ping to discuss cooperation.
She was willing to give Yao Ping one hundred taels of silver as capital, as her investment capital, so that they could prepare better goods and do business further afield.
And no matter how big the Yao family's business becomes in the future, she will only count on a capital of one hundred taels. She will only receive a bonus of twenty taels every month for three years, and she will have to sign documents at the Yamen.
Qiao Mingjin calculated Yao Ping's load of things. Even if the four of them, father and son, usually carried the load and sold it, the family property would not exceed fifty taels. It wouldn't be much. Otherwise, they wouldn't have saved enough for two generations to even rent a shop.
After Yao Ping returned, he brought his father and brother over the next day. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
