Little wealth

Seeing Fu Lang and the child getting off the carriage, Zhao He strode forward to catch the child, then took Fu Lang's hand, and took the child and Fu Lang off the carriage.The boy who was in charge of sending the man back delivered the man, handed over a food box, then turned around and followed the carriage back.

"You've been waiting for a long time." Josh came back with the child, and said apologetically when he saw everyone waiting for them here.

"It's nothing, I just came here too." Seeing that Fulang and the child came back safely, Zhao He finally let go of his worries. He didn't know who else Fulang knew in this town, and he was invited to his home to be a guest.

But when he saw Fu Lang and the child coming back, the man didn't ask any questions.

On the contrary, Zhao Hu looked at the departing carriage, and asked curiously, "Brother, where have you been? Why are you still returning in the carriage?"

"It's the customer who ordered the abacus a few days ago. I asked me to go to their house to talk about how to use the abacus. I stayed at their house for a while without paying attention." Josh went to visit someone else's house with him and the child Let me tell you about it, and someone else sent a large box of snacks.

He opened the box and took a look, only to see that it was full of snacks of various colors, "Would you like to try it?" As he spoke, he took a piece for the child and took a bite himself.

"I'll try one." Zhao Hu reached out and took two, gave one to his fiancé, and put the other into his own mouth, before going to help his brother clean up the stall.

Everyone cleaned up the stall together, loaded all the things on the cart, and they also got on the donkey cart and went back to the village.

On the way back, the child fell asleep in someone's arms.

When I got back to the door, the donkey cart just stopped, and the cub in my arms was woken up, holding his mouth and looking like he was about to cry or not.

"Why are you so pouty? We're all back at the door, don't you know each other?" Josh kissed the awakened child, knowing that he hadn't had enough sleep and lost his temper.Just as he was about to take the children out of the car, he stretched out a hand to pick them up.

"I'll pick him up." Zhao He handed the donkey to his younger brother, went up to pick up the child, and gave Fu Lang a hand to get off.

The little baby opened his dim sleepy eyes, turned his head left and right, and found that he had returned to a familiar place. The tears in his eyes were put away, and he curled up in the adult's arms without energy, without making a sound.

"Let me do it." After getting off the donkey cart, Josh reached out to pick up the child.

The man didn't give him the child, but said "I'll hold him", and carried the child into the yard.

Ah Huang followed behind his master, wagging his tail, and stepped on Xiao Sui into the yard.

Josh, who was behind, smiled, so he had no choice but to follow in, gently turning his two numb arms while walking.The child fell asleep along the way just now, and he hugged the child all the way without moving his arms, and now both arms are so numb that he can't feel it.

Fortunately, the man picked up the child, otherwise he would really not be able to hold the kid weighing more than ten kilograms by himself.

Zhao Hu and Chen Yan outside were packing things on the cart, took down their smoothie barrels, and put them at the door of the kitchen.

"You guys are here, I'll go and pack up." After putting the child on the stool and sitting down, Zhao He glanced at Fu Lang and went out.

The sun was shining outside, seeing that the father and son would not be needed to help move things, Josh didn't go out.

Seeing that the child was not in good spirits, Josh picked up the little one and asked, "Are you still sleepy? Do you want to go back to sleep for a while?"

The little guy was lying in his arms with his ears sideways, and he didn't speak, his upper eyelids were still half closed, and he seemed to be still sleepy.

"That's all right, let's go back to the house and sleep for a while, and get up when you're full." Knowing that the little guy probably didn't get enough sleep, after feeding the child some water, Josh carried the child back to the house in.

At this time, the workers outside have already had their lunch and are starting to work again.

Seeing that the children had come back, Zhao Amu went to help carry the things, and got a big food box, which was heavy in his hand. He opened it curiously and saw that it was a big box of snacks, so he asked : "Where did this come from?" Such a large box of snacks cost a lot of money, right?

"Oh, brother brought Niannian to someone else's house as a guest, and someone gave it to him." They all ate some snacks along the way just now, and they were quite delicious.As Zhao Hu said, he stretched out his hand to squeeze a piece of dim sum into his mouth, smashed it twice and it fell into his stomach, and gave another piece to his mother, "Em, you should try it too, it's delicious."

"Hey, you kid, you've been thinking about food all day long. I'll take it to the house and store it. If you want to eat later, you can get it yourself." Zhao Amu shook her head with a smile, and took the food box Put it on the table in the main room, then went into the kitchen to bring out the lunch meal, and called the children over to eat.

When Josh coaxed the child to sleep and came out, he saw a table full of people waiting for him, so he sat down and took the bowls and chopsticks handed over by the man to eat.

Aunt Zhao, who had already eaten, was not on the table. She was sitting on a small stool next to her, sewing a cloth in her hand, which was a pillowcase for her son's wedding, and asking the children how the business was doing today. .

"My business is doing well today, and I'm too busy collecting money..." Zhao Hu was answering his mother's question while eating, and the voices of the two of them could be heard in the whole room.

***

The scorching sun in June was like fire, and it wasn't until the sun went down that it became cooler outside.

The days that followed were pretty much the same every day. They would go to the town to set up stalls every time they went to the market, and they would come back after selling their goods. Every time they went back to their house, Zhao Mutou would drive them to the town in a donkey cart early in the morning, and wait until noon. Go pick them up.

In the middle, Fu's mansion sent someone to pick him up twice as a guest, and the second time Josh prepared a gift for someone else's house, and the gift he gave was not too expensive, just some snacks made by himself.When he went back for the third time, he also brought a jar of maltose, and used maltose to make sugar paintings for the two children on the spot, which made the two children happy for a long time.

The relationship between the two children warmed up quickly. From being strangers to each other at the beginning, every time they met later, it was like meeting relatives. Even the relationship with their adults improved a lot.

However, he has never inquired about the situation in Bai Luoxi's family. The most they meet is to discuss arithmetic. He can see that Bai Luoxi is a person obsessed with arithmetic. Otherwise, he would not have sent slaves to pick up their father and son as guests again and again. .

More than half a month has passed, and more than half of the new house has been built, faster than they expected, mainly because there are more people working.

It was probably because they paid enough wages, and it was related to having a full meal at noon. These men had enough to eat, had money in their pockets, and worked very hard every day, and no one was lazy.

This is the slack time for farming, and some men in the village who are at home will come to help with work. Many of these helpers come to have a meal at noon.

However, after discussing with their family members, they still gave some wages to those who came to help as a subsidy.After all, other people are actually here to help them work, and they should give some wages based on emotion and reason.

"Just put it here, and we will move in again." The food at home was almost gone, and when they came back from the town that day, they brought back a cart full of grain, and the grain shop arranged an ox cart to help them The purchased food was sent back.

A thousand catties of grain is actually only four taels of silver, which seems a lot in the eyes of others, but at the rate at which they are making money recently, these four taels of silver are just half the money they spend selling smoothies for half a month.

Just selling smoothies this month, they earned more than four taels of silver.

Of course, only their own family members know this money, and outsiders don't know how much money they made in their pockets.

The man who drove the ox cart helped them carry the food, and Zhao He and Zhao Hu carried it into the house.

"Hey, I'm back from buying grain, why did I buy so much?" Zhao Amu couldn't help smiling when she came out and saw so much grain, and asked, "There are five hundred catties of grain here." ?”

"It's cheaper to buy more, so we... just bought more." Josh reached out and touched his nose.Under his mother's gaze staring at him, he raised a finger and argued, "There are a lot of people in our family eating, so we won't be able to eat for a long time with such a small amount of food."

"..." Zhao Amu, he knew that every time he asked this daughter-in-law to go shopping, there was only more and no less. With such a cart of grain, we can eat our new grain, and next time we don’t have to go to town to buy grain.”

is... is it?Josh felt that with the amount of food in their family's rice buckets, if they could eat all they could with their stomachs open for every meal, the several hundred catties of grain might not be enough for their own family.

After buying the grain, they don't have to worry about having no rice to cook at home.

But it's also because there is too much rice at home, so he adds a spoonful of rice every time he cooks, so that everyone can have a full meal, and there is absolutely no need to worry about not having enough food.

When they don't go to the town to set up a stall, they are all at home. Zhao Mutou and his uncle will go to the next door to help with the work. Chen Butcher and Chen Yan also come to help every day. Both father and son are real people.Butcher Chen didn't want their wages either, so he took his brother to eat dinner at their house every day before going home.

Only the Qiao family didn't show their faces from the beginning to the end, as if they didn't know that they were building a new house.

Josh thought it was good, so that he would not have to scold his shameless little stepmother in front of outsiders.As for why his shameless little stepmother didn't take advantage of the crowd to make a fuss, he didn't quite understand that.

It took a few days for him to draw some interior decoration pictures of the house at that time, and communicated with his carpenter Zhao, how to do the furniture and wooden cabinets in the house, and how to arrange them inside. Just leave it to their family, Zhao Mutou, to do the work, and he can be a hands-off shopkeeper with peace of mind.In addition to taking care of the food of the family and the workers, there is also a little time to take care of the son at home, and also spend a little time teaching the child arithmetic.

But no matter how he teaches, the little boy in his family refuses to accept the fact that someone older than him is a big brother. Maybe next time he sees his little brother, he will still call him little brother...