Man Lu

When Manlu got off the rickshaw, the door of Gu's courtyard opened from the inside. Mrs. Gu came out of the courtyard and stopped in the door, watching Manlu pay a dollar to the rickshaw.After paying the money, Man Lu hurried forward to hug Old Madam Gu.At this time, the old lady has been cleansed, but she still wears her old clothes, which are new clothes among old clothes. It is a dark purple satin cheongsam top from the early Republic of China, plus a skirt that reaches the upper of the shoes.

The old lady Gu was nagging Manlu, if she couldn't finish it tonight, she would do it tomorrow.It was getting dark in front of me, and she hadn't seen her back yet. Old Madam Gu's eyelids were twitching, and she couldn't sit still at home, so she came out, and when she heard footsteps, she looked out.

Man Lu took Old Madam Gu's arm into the mansion.Followed by Weimin and Jiemin, they had been learning how to drive in the courtyard, and when Manlu came back, they put the car away and followed into the building.

Seeing this, Mrs. Gu and Manzhen went into the kitchen to serve food.A bowl of ribs and winter melon soup, a plate of white-cut chicken, a plate of steamed sweet-scented osmanthus fish with ginger and scallions, a plate of cold cucumbers, and a plate of potato leaves.

It has been a long time since there was such a rich dinner, and the Gu family ate happily.At the end of the meal, Mrs. Gu spoke, stopped Mrs. Gu who was about to clean up the bowl, and said don't do anything else, she has something to say.

The old lady Gu briefly introduced the income and expenditure of the Gu family.Mrs. Gu, Weimin and Jiemin were delighted when they heard about the income. When it came to expenses, the three of them were not as happy as before, and bowed their heads in deep thought.

This western-style building costs one hundred yuan a month, and one thousand and two a year, which is really a huge expense.In addition to the school for the four members of the Gu family, it costs [-] yuan a year, not including board and lodging and other miscellaneous expenses. If the Gu family does not eat or drink, they will have to pay nearly [-] yuan a year, which is too scary.

Weimin and Jiemin thought that they sold newspapers and nets every month, and there was □□ ten yuan, which was already a huge sum of money. Unexpectedly, this money could not even pay the rent of the house, so they couldn't help but clasped their hands.Weimin was the first to speak out. He suggested that they would not live in the mansion first. He and Jiemin would definitely be admitted to Fudan University if they didn't go to a church school.Jiemin later supported what Weimin said.

When Mrs. Gu saw the two worker's rooms in the bungalow, she wondered if she was planning to hire someone to do housework. She would also be a wife like the hired family in the future.Hearing this, I knew I was thinking too much.She also agreed with what Weimin said, and complained about the bungalow rented by Mrs. Gu.Now that the family conditions are good, she doesn't have to be a servant in a humble way. This is the best life, and she doesn't want to go back to the days a year ago.

The old lady Gu didn't say anything, but let everyone do what they should do, and she went to call her network.What she said just now was purely to suppress Mrs. Gu and the two boys of the Gu family. As soon as they entered the mansion today, the three of them were a little confused about their status, and they all wanted to be the wife and the young master.

Weimin and Jiemin calmed down, and followed Mrs. Gu and Manlu into the study to study.The old lady Gu made contact, Man Lu copied the book, and Wei Min and Jie Min endorsed it.Downstairs Mrs. Gu was washing the dishes, and Manzhen was helping.

Mrs. Gu liked this little daughter more and more. Of the four children, only Manzhen was close to her.A year ago, two daughters who had been away from home for a year and two months, one still kissed her as before and helped her with housework.The other one no longer complained about her, but he also had no love for her. When talking to her, her expression was always calm, and she was farther away from her than before.In front of her eldest daughter, she felt that Man Lu was more like an elder. She never dared to refute Man Lu's words, and she always handled things Man Lu confessed with trepidation.

Now the operation of the Gu family is under Manlu's control.If she hadn't gone out to work this time, she would definitely be like her child, believing that it was the old lady's handwriting.In this family, Manlu is the absolute head of the family. She doesn't know what kind of ecstasy soup Manlu poured on the old lady, so that the old lady's attitude towards her can be changed from the eighteenth floor of the basement to the heaven. The change is astonishing. .The old lady loved Man Lu even more than her two sons before.

On the second day, all six members of the Gu family put on new clothes made by Manlu.Like the old house, the whole family eats breakfast at six o'clock, and then goes about their own business.At nine o'clock, Mrs. Gu brought six gift boxes under the orders of Mrs. Jie Min'an Gu, and sent moving gifts to the neighbors.The gift box contains a catty of wedding cakes, a catty of wedding candies, and a pair of zippers.

In the morning Manlu sat on the back of the bicycle and tied a pole.When Manlu took the shoulder pole out of the storeroom, Weimin and Jiemin's expressions changed, and they put their hands behind their backs unnaturally. They still remembered the beating with a stick two years ago.When Mrs. Gu asked Jiemin to go with her to deliver gifts, she immediately left Weimin and ran out the door.Wei Min stood there tremblingly, and when he heard what Man Lu had told him, the courage that had been hanging in his eyes just now returned to his stomach.Man Lu told Wei Min to learn how to ride a bicycle as quickly as possible.What she confessed was exactly what he wanted to do most.

Most Tian Weimin was afraid that the bicycle would fall and be damaged, so he couldn't let go of it.Today, with Manlu's personal teaching and the pole, he let go of his courage, and within an hour, when Jiemin sent a gift back, he saw that he could ride a few laps on one side.

Man Lu personally demonstrated and explained the precautions clearly, and then went to another servant's room at the back of the building, which had been converted into her studio by her as a tailor's room.As soon as he entered, he saw that Manzhen had already cut a bunch of cloth strips according to her instructions.Tonight they plan to make headgear, yesterday's self-made hair ornament gave them inspiration to make money.

It costs less than five cents to make a headgear by yourself, but the market price outside is an octagonal one, and one with beads can even sell for two or three yuan.If she is not interested in this profit, she is not a human being.She directly made the dresses of the two little girls and the remaining fabrics before, saving a lot of fabric costs, only the cost of bare headbands and rubber bands, so their cost was even lower.The production is very simple, that is, wrap the bare headband and rubber band with the fabric, and then decorate it with beads.Manlu makes a small part according to the styles in the market, and most of them are headwear that combines modern Korean styles in one place.

Manlu made headgear during the day and copied books at night.Manzhen only worked with Manlu to cut the towel strips for three days, she couldn't do the rest of the work, and Manlu sewed them all with a sewing machine.In half a month, Manlu made [-] headbands and [-] headbands.This batch of goods, this year Manlu only plans to make one time, and will not do anything in the future, because the market is saturated.

She has signed a contract with a clothing store to sell the Chinese knots made by the Gu family.This tailor shop is the shop of the landlord's wife and sister-in-law that she rented.Now their Chinese knots are taking the high-end route.Even the one-tenth of the high-quality headgear she made was sold in that store.

She sent all these hair accessories to clothing stores for sale.The price is five cents for a headband and one yuan for a headband.The store sells a headband for one point, and sells a headband for two cents.Each store only provides [-] headbands and [-] headbands.The store only has a consignment contract with Manlu, and does not need to pay any deposit. The headgear samples are hung on a seven-inch sample board provided by Manlu, and only stand in a small space. They are naturally willing to cooperate.

I sent the goods to [-] stores. Within a month, five stores wanted to replenish the goods. Seeing that the goods were selling well, the other stores sent their own people to make orders, and mixed their own goods with Manlu goods for sale, but [-]% Customers will still choose Manlu products, but they don't plan to cooperate with Manlu anymore.There is a shop that immediately picks up the goods and does not sell them after their goods arrive.Man Lu didn't mind at this time, she had already expected this result.The situation is even better than I expected, only one family wants to return the goods, and the others are fine.

When Manlu was about to start school for nearly a week, all the headgears she made were sold out except for [-] that were damaged.Because there were five additional stores, she made [-] headbands and [-] headbands. She also made [-] corsages for one yuan each, and [-] belts for three yuan each.The quality of the last batch of goods has improved to a higher level, and there are new models but the price has not increased. The store is very happy.

These five stores are all old stores, and they are very honest. Manlu's goods not only add headgear to the store, but also popularity.As soon as the guests tried on the headgear, they came to corsages and belts, and then the clothes on their bodies.Manlu's three items can be worn alone or as a set, which is very innovative.Once the popularity rises, the clothes will also be sold, a win-win situation.There were many times when I didn’t like the clothes, but I tried Manlu’s three-piece suit and bought clothes. The shopkeeper was also very smart, and immediately discussed with Manlu, asking her to use the fabrics made by her own clothes as accessories, and the shopkeeper gave them away for free. The leftovers from the garment making were given to Manlu. Later, Manlu added another order to make [-] headbands and headbands, [-] corsages, and [-] belts.

The first batch of goods made nearly [-], the second shipment made nearly [-], the third shipment made nearly [-], and there were still [-] goods that were not sold out.The cost of the thousand goods is less than one hundred, all because the fabric is provided by the store.

Compared with accessories, Chinese knot life is relatively bleak, only 380 yuan for two months.In other words, the income in two months was nearly 1000 yuan.Man Lu handed over the money to the old lady of the Gu family one after another. When the old lady saw the huge deposit of nearly 8000 yuan, she couldn't sleep well that night.The next day, she gave Manlu 8000 yuan for safekeeping, and she kept 8000 yuan for herself. She also said that Manlu should keep the money in the future.But Manlu changed hands and wanted to give Manzhen [-] yuan to exchange for gold bars, and let Manzhen keep it for herself.Unexpectedly, Manzhen asked Manlu to keep it by herself, and even asked Manlu to keep the manuscript fee of [-] gold and [-] silver dollars that Manlu gave her to keep.Neither of them wanted to keep it. In the end, Manzhen followed Manlu's advice and exchanged [-] yuan for gold, together with the [-] yuan in gold, and deposited it in a Swiss bank, and returned it with a different booklet. Of course, Manzhen still kept the booklet.Manlu didn't want to manage the money, every time she wanted to pay, she would ask Manzhen to withdraw it, and every time she would receive invisible rolls of eyes from Manzhen.

Manlu has her own portable space, but she doesn't pay attention to it or use it.She only put in 800 yuan bills and seventy silver dollars, and then took out two hundred bills, and she never managed it again.She feels that she can handle everything now, only if she can't solve it, she will trouble the space.Usually, she is an ordinary woman in the Republic of China.

When discussing the business between the mouth and China, Manlu handed over the power to Weimin.Of course, she practiced with Weimin at home many times before, and she didn't stop until she was satisfied.Wei Min, a 15-year-old boy, was able to get started so quickly, thanks to his career as a newspaper seller in the past two years.In the past two months, his knowledge has more than doubled, and the content of the discussion is exactly as Manlu expected.Therefore, I have more admiration and respect for Man Lu, the elder sister.

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