Blissful Days After Widowhood

    Gu Yin pursed her lips and smiled, "Why did you add your own lines?"

    "What line? Didn't you let me play a bad mother-in-law to embarrass you?" His smile brightened a bit, "Oh my god, is this all sold out?"

      words."

    "Didn't I learn it from the evil mother-in-law in the play? When my son died, I forced my daughter-in-law to remarry."

    "Then why did you do it? You still want to hit me?"

    Thanks to the stall owner next door for stopping him, otherwise Wang really doesn't know how to end it.

    Gu Yin said helplessly: "In the future, we will have to set up a stall on the wharf for a long time. Now everyone in the neighborhood knows that you want to force your daughter-in-law to remarry, what will they think in the future? you?"

    "I don't care what they think," Wang's footsteps were brisk, and the empty boxes and food buckets on both sides of the burden were swayed by her, "I don't live with them, I like to look at it, hehe !"

    The two returned to Zhenyi Lane while they were talking.

    As soon as he entered the house, Mrs. Wang put the things away and began to count the money.

    In fact, there is no need to count, Gu Yin knows it.

    Although her ravioli uses fish meat, which is cheaper than pork, but because only the meat without thorns in the belly of the fish is used, the fish head and tail can no longer be sold for money, and the cost is higher than others' ravioli Out of some, the total cost of a bowl of wontons is about three cents.

    One bowl earns one penny, fifty bowls equals fifty cents.

    But Mrs Wang was happy to count the money, the copper coins were spread over a table, she was so excited that Gu Yin let her go.

    After counting the coins, Mr. Wang began to count with his fingers, "If you earn fifty cents a day, that's fifteen hundred cents a month, how much is that a year?"

    "A year is 18 taels. The yamen charges a booth fee every month. I inquired with Uncle Liu next door. For the booth fee of two silvers, we can make a net profit of twelve taels." Gu Yin quickly gave the answer.

    Twelve taels a year! !

    Twelve taels are enough for a family to chew for a year, which is a relatively nourishing way of living in the city. Like the Wang family, they used to spend only five or six taels a year in Batou Village.

    Wang hadn't seen so much money since she got married, she felt like she was going to faint.

    I heard Gu Yin continue: "But today's tricks can't be used again next time, tomorrow's business may drop a little. And today is a trial operation, there are few things to prepare, tomorrow can prepare more , I am confident that there will be more and more customers, and I will only earn more than this in a year, not less."

    Wang smirked so much that her mouth was almost behind her ears, but after a while she stopped laughing, shook her head and said, "You are just right, those wontons are all ready-made , it's good to say for a long time. Bao can't break your hands all day long?"

    This concern is not without reason. The pier is windy. If the wontons are sold after being packaged, the taste will be affected if the wontons are dried by the wind, so they can only be packaged and sold and cooked.

    Gu Yin used to soak in the kitchen for a whole day without feeling tired.

    But now it's not possible, the original body is so bad, she is too tired to lift her hands when she is busy in the morning.

    "Let's cook some porridge and sell it. Cooking porridge is all about the heat, and you don't need to worry about it after it's cooked. And I observed today that although there are many merchants and passers-by on the wharf, but There are more coolies working hard, if we make some buns to sell and take the path of small profits but quick turnover, the business should be better."

    Although Wang has not tasted Gu Yin's porridge and steamed buns, she is very convinced of Gu Yin's craftsmanship at this time.

    In addition, she consciously did not help much in the past two days - she looked at Gu Yinbao relaxed in the morning and wanted to get started.

    Place it side by side with the complete dollar treasure packaged by Gu Yin, the appearance is really one heaven and one earth.

    The idea of ​​selling porridge and steamed buns is very good. After boiling, put them in the porridge bucket. The steamed buns can be wrapped in advance and steamed in a steamer. She will be responsible for selling porridge and steaming buns. Do your part.

    Wang's family was about to go out to buy ingredients again, Gu Yin grabbed her and persuaded her, "Mom, I'd better go to bed first, we'll go shopping together after lunch."

    Wang was nervous and didn't feel sleepy all morning, but now her eyelids are falling straight down.

    Drowsiness came up, and she couldn't hold it anymore, so she went back to the room and said, "Then you go and rest, and call me when you have lunch. Don't move the guys, wait for me. I'll brush when I get up."

    Coaxed Mrs. Wang back to the house, Gu Yinluo sat for a quarter of an hour and felt relieved, so she washed the guy who set up the stall.

    The sun was already rising outside, and it was time to prepare lunch.

    There was still some fish soup left in the big pot at home, Gu Yin went to the alley to buy two pieces of tofu, and simmered the fish head tofu soup.

    Gu Yin remembered not seeing Xiao Wu'an for a long time after she was busy.

    Go into the house and take a look, the little guy is not at home.

    He has always been well-behaved. When he was in the village, he would not climb trees and climb mountains with children of the same age. Gu Yin guessed that he went to the next door.

    At this moment, the pot was also rolling, Gu Yin scooped out a large bowl and brought it to the next door.

    …

    Since he got up that day, Mr. Xu has been smelling the smell of the next door.

    Thinking of Wang's empty-handed and assertive appearance yesterday, she was even more angry, and went to pat the door next door shortly after dawn.

    The door was slapped open, and it was not Mr. Wang, but Xiao Wuan.

    Xiao Wu'an rubbed her eyes and asked Xu Shi in a milky voice, "Is my aunt looking for my mother? She and my sister-in-law went out to the pier to do business."

    "This **** can't change his **** even at his age. Yesterday I asked him a question, and today I'll do it. Why is this business so easy to do? Don't look back. The capital is my fault." Mrs. Xu muttered a few words to Mrs. Wang, and when she saw Xiao Wu Anzhuo pulling her shoes and not wearing clothes, she came to open the door for herself. Wake up. Don't be mad at Auntie."

    Xiao Wuan smiled shyly, "It's okay, auntie, I usually wake up now. It's just that my mother and sister-in-law are not at home today, and the house is too quiet, so I slept like this. Night."

    Speaking, the little man opened the two door panels to the maximum, then took out a broom from the doorway that was taller than the others, and began to clean the yard skillfully.

    Xu shi looked at him lovingly, and the little figure in front of him somehow overlapped with the figure of his son in memory.

    Xu Qingchuan is a genial and courteous person now, but when he was as old as Xiao Wu'an, he was a ten percent bear child.

    Xu's father and mother regarded this grandson as more important than life, and asked the stars not to give the moon, he said at that time that he wanted to play slingshots, and the two elders used the heirloom jade from the storehouse to polish him into jade Slingshot, glazed agate beads for him to hit as projectiles. Make him lawless.

    But when Xu Qingchuan was five years old, the Xu family offended the powerful in the business field.

    In fact, it is a bit biased to say that the powerful person is just one of the many sons of the power **** today.

    But even with such an identity, it is not the offense of ordinary people like them.

    Xu's father and mother were taken into prison, and they lost their money before they recovered a life.

    That prison is not for ordinary people to enter, let alone the elderly Xu family's second elder, not long after returning home, the two elders died one after another.

    Xu's husband also became depressed at that time due to changes at home. He was already weak, and he was emptied of energy because he failed to pass the scientific examination for many years. As soon as the illness went down, the medicine and stone went away ineffectively within half a year.

    Xu's is the daughter of heaven.

    She lost her family business, parents and husband all of a sudden, and she was heartbroken, wishing she could go with them.

    At that time, my son seemed to have grown up overnight. He was no longer naughty and noisy, and he didn't need anyone to care. .

    "Mother, don't worry. When I grow up and get a name, I will give you back everything we lost." Six-year-old Xiao Qingchuan assured her earnestly and stubbornly.

    "Why is my aunt crying?" Xiao Wu put the broom and stepped forward, took out a coarse handkerchief from his arms and handed it to her.

    Xu shook her head, no longer thinking about the pain in the past, she just asked him with a smile: "Have you ever eaten the morning food? Come and eat at my house, my aunt will give you a snack."

    Xiao Wuan shook his head and refused. He was very happy when Mr. Xu gave him a piece of candy yesterday, and he was embarrassed to eat and drink again.

    But in the end, he didn't screw Xu Shi, and Xiao Wuan was led to the next yard by him.

    Xu Qingchuan had already read the book for half the morning, and the three of them gathered together to eat a bowl of plain noodles.

    Xu Qingchuan at the dinner table also kept his books in his hands, Xiao Wuan felt fresh, so he couldn't help but take a second look.

    He also likes Xiao Wuan who is sensible and quiet, so he asks him how many days he has read.

    Half an hour after the meal was Xu Qingchuan's rest time, so he took Xiao Wu'an into his study, found a copy of "Thousand Characters", and read it to him. .

    Xiao Wuan listened quietly, Xu Qingchuan gave him the book, let him go to the side to recognize it, and gave him a small charcoal pen and a piece of cut paper.

    "Can I become as good as Brother Qingchuan by learning this?"

    Xiao Wu'an still doesn't know what reading is all about, but Mrs. Wang has often been sour in private these two days, saying that Mrs. Xu doesn't know what kind of **** luck is going on, and she should be twenty A talented son in his early years. He knew that Xu Qingchuan, who could read, was very powerful.

    Xu Qingchuan had already picked up his book. Hearing this, he couldn't help but curled his lips and smiled, but he didn't fool him because he was young, but explained: "Wait for you to put this "" "Thousand Characters" can be read and written, and if you can memorize it, you can learn other things, and then you will become more and more powerful."

    Xiao Wu'an nodded heavily, and then stopped bothering him.

    Xu Qingchuan was always serious about his studies, and he forgot about his affairs.

    When she reacted, her mother's voice with a smile came from the yard, "Your Wu'an is in my house, it doesn't take much trouble, he doesn't make any noise, so he is very nice ."

    Another clear and tactful female voice said: "Thank you auntie. This is the fish soup I just made, and I hope auntie will not dislike it."

    His mother laughed again and said, "The neighbors live here, so it's supposed to help each other out. Why are you so polite and send something?"

    Xu Qingchuan then remembered that there was another person in the study, looking up again, Xiao Wuan was burying his head on the low table and scribbling and drawing, and the thousand-character text had already been closed. Get up and put it aside.

    He blamed himself in his heart, he should have given this child a drawing book, how did he send this book of "Thousand Characters" to an illiterate child and forget about it? It is estimated that this little guy was suffocated.

    When Xiao Wuan heard Gu Yin's voice, she stood up and said goodbye to Xu Qingchuan politely before running out of the study with her short legs. .

    After a while, Mrs Xu leaned in again and greeted, "Son, come and eat fish soup. It won't taste good if it's cold!"

    The milky white fish soup is dotted with white tender tofu and green chopped green onion.

    "Wang Baoyun doesn't know what kind of bad luck she has taken. Cooking by herself is so unpalatable, and she has such a daughter-in-law with extraordinary cooking skills." Xu shi was sour while eating.

    Xu Qingchuan smiled helplessly and shook his head.

    After lunch, Xu Qingchuan went back to the study again, first put the "Thousand Characters" back in the bookcase, and then went to clean up the pen and paper for Xiao Wuan.

    After a while, Xu Qingchuan widened his eyes in disbelief, and saw that both sides of the rice paper were full of writing. "Thousand Characters"!