One of the big boys

Everyone has their own plans.As soon as Lu Yi heard the news, he wanted to buy a shop for each of his two sons and set up his family business.But the family still owes a foreign debt of 12 taels of silver, which is not a single extra copper plate.When Lu Yi returned home, he sighed while sewing the doll.Tian Zhong chatted a little more with others outside, and when he got home, he saw Lu Yi sighing. "What's wrong?"

"What's the matter? What's the matter? I want to help each of my two sons buy a shop. But our family still owes Brother Bao 12 taels of silver. In only half a year, our family can save three taels of silver. Not bad. This is a good opportunity. Seeing the good days in the future so close to me, I can't grasp it all at once, you know how uncomfortable I am here."

Tian Zhong looked at his husband, "There is still half a year left."

"You said lightly, you can earn 60 taels of silver in half a year? If other people's family doesn't have enough money, there are three or two relatives who can borrow it. What about our family? Do you still have the nerve to ask Da Zhuang's family for a loan? You borrowed three times and two, Brother Bao should have something to say about us. Don’t you know that Brother Bao is the head of Da Zhuang’s family?” After Lu Yi said this, he sighed again, and Tian Zhong squatted at the door, smoking a dry cigarette, and from time to time smoked from his nostrils. Two puffs of smoke burst out.

I haven't told Li Xiaoqing in detail about building the shop before.Li Xiaoqing didn't react until after the meeting. "Brother Bao, your younger brother is still young, so you should also reserve a shop for him, keep it for now, and I will give it to you when Ah Mo saves enough money."

"Ah, what do the family talk about? Can I ask for money from you and Beibei? Then I will pick you a shop with the best location, and I will leave it to Beibei in the future." Zhang Bao thought about it. Well, leave a shop for Beibei, one for yourself, and one for the second, third, fourth and fifth.

"This room costs 30 taels of silver. Have you discussed it with Da Zhuang?"

Zhang Bao frowned, "Do you still need to ask him? I can make the decision."

"Brother Bao, discuss everything with Da Zhuang. You will go and talk to Da Zhuang." Brother Bao was also spoiled by them when he was a child, and sometimes he didn't think about others.

It's not that Zhang Bao didn't listen to Li Xiaoqing's words, and he also knew that Li Xiaoqing was doing it for his own good. "I see, I'll go back and tell him."

When I went home, I asked Da Zhuang to leave a shop for Bei Bei, but Da Zhuang didn't say anything, just said that he would do everything he could.

Zhang Bao, the man who built the shop, didn’t want to pay more to hire more people. He called on the villagers, “Anyone who wants to buy a shop can buy snacks by himself. You all know the price, and I don’t earn much money. Here, every household, if there is nothing to help, please help."

All the young and old in the village understand the truth, so they spontaneously think every day that each shop should send a person to help with the work, and their enthusiasm is unprecedentedly high.

In the blink of an eye, in three months, the shops on the two streets were built.The small buildings with blue bricks and black tiles on the two streets are not to mention how beautiful they are.When the building was finished, Zhang Bao owed another 300 taels of debt.There is a big pagoda tree in front of the two streets. I heard from the old people that this tree must be hundreds of years old.Zhang Bao didn't know how many years, he looked at the tree and he couldn't wrap his arms around it alone, his eyes were wide open, "Hey, our street will be called Huaishuli from now on." A carpenter was called in and made a wooden sign, Patterns are engraved on the corners and corners, and the big vermilion characters are flying and phoenixes are written "in the pagoda tree".Once the big sign is hung on the tree, these three big characters can be seen from a long distance.This is the word that Zhang Bao asked Mr. Fang after carrying two catties of noodles.The branches of the big locust tree were already very thick, so Zhang Bao asked Dagui to make a few swing boards and hang them on the branches.The swing boards were painted in several colors, red, green, and blue, and they were hung under the trees.

After the shop was built, if anyone wanted to buy it, Da Zhuang would refuse them all.It made everyone more and more curious.

After the shop was built and left to dry for a few days, Zhang Bao held another meeting in the village. "Now that the shop is built, let's take a look. If you want a shop, please come to my place to sign up and tell me what your shop sells. The shop is for you to use first, but after that, you have to give it to me every month." Pay some money, which is considered interest. At the end of the year, I will be paid 30 taels of silver. But we have to pay more. The first point is that the things sold by the shops on the two streets cannot be repeated. I don’t need to say why. The second point is that in the future, no matter what the harvest of the shop is, I will charge 30 yuan a month for each shop. The third point is that everyone should jointly maintain the environment and sanitation. If anyone makes the streets dirty, don’t blame me. I will return the 30 taels to you right away, don’t open your shop. Anyone who wants a shop will look at it. If you can’t pay [-] taels of silver by the end of the year, don’t blame me for being rude. I can help the folks in this village. I have helped you all, and found a lot of ideas for you to earn money. There is nothing wrong with this medicine, and you are not allowed to blame me in the future. I will not hide it from you, I also borrowed money to build these shops, and owed it A few hundred taels. If anyone blames me, I will die of grievance.” This was Zhang Bao’s idea before, and the shop would be completed in less than six months.The house can't be built well, it's better to let them use it first. "At that time, each family will choose a shop and decorate it first."

"Hey, what is decoration?"

"Renovation means you can make the shop whatever you want. You can think about it yourself, or you can refer to our shop. After a few days, my shop will be decorated. .” Zhang Bao ordered a long table for two people, a square table for four people, and a large round table for many people at the woodware shop in Dagui in advance, and also ordered some baby chairs.Those bowls Zhang Bao asked his family members to use their wisdom to draw some shapes, and sent them to the cave to burn a lot of beautiful patterns.A few red lanterns are hung at the door, and everything inside is prepared according to the current restaurant.Zhang Bao also built himself a big table and kept lectures.

Zhang Bao pays attention, if there are some places that are free and it is not in the way, Zhang Bao puts small gadgets, such as brightly colored clay dolls with small faces, a potted flower, and oddly shaped porcelain.These strangely shaped porcelains are the works left by Zhang Bao and his family after a day of playing in the place where the porcelain was fired.

With such an arrangement, don't say it, it looks different from other people's stores, it's a bright spot.Everyone knows, yo, this is what decoration means.

There were ten households that Zhuangzi came up to sign up for a store. Lu Yi had the cheek to apply for a store for each of his two sons, but Zhang Bao didn't say anything.Mosquito and the others also wanted a shop, and Zhang Bao arranged their shop next to the inn.The inns are uniformly arranged at the west end of the street.