Little wealth

After the first year, the new year is approaching.

On the second day after the [-]th day, both the furniture shop and the barbecue shop were closed, only the oil shop continued to open for business, and the family's oil shop was open every day, and oil was being squeezed every day.

The Chinese New Year is approaching, and there are more oil sellers. The business of their oil workshop and oil store is good every day, and some vendors from other places come to their oil workshop to sell oil.

However, when foreigners go to their village to get oil, they will be paid according to the delivery price if they buy more than [-] catties. The price at the shop has gone, so if these outsiders come to get oil and sell it, they will not have an advantage over the locals.

This is also for Josh to protect the interests of their local oil sellers, so that everyone can have an advantage in terms of price.After all, if you sell the same oil at a higher price and others sell it cheaper, customers will definitely choose the cheaper one.

There are also some that the stewards of the big families in the town will bring people to their oil workshops to buy oil. Generally, the amount of such an order will be relatively large. If two such people come over a day, the oil from their oil workshops will Not enough to sell.Normally, oil mills don’t press oil after breakfast, but now they usually press oil until noon, and sometimes they are busy until the afternoon.

Fortunately, after the two shops in the town were closed, their family members didn't have to go to the shops in the town every day, and they could stay in their own oil workshop to help with the work, which saved them from having to hire someone else.

"Let's have something to eat first, let's take a break before we get busy again." These days, everyone is busy at the oil workshop, and the breakfast at home is moved to the entrance of the oil workshop for everyone to eat.Today, there happened to be two peddlers and a manager waiting for oil, so Josh also invited a few people over to have breakfast together.

For breakfast, I eat mixed noodles, a large bowl for each person, put the cooked noodles into the bowl, scoop in half a spoonful of soup, put a spoonful of meat sauce, a spoonful of green onion and coriander, and a spoonful of dried fried radish, pour a little Drain the sesame oil and stir with chopsticks.

One by one, they squatted down to eat at the door of Youfang with noodles in their hands, and soon there was a sizzling sound of eating noodles.

Even the steward who came to get the oil got a bowl of noodles. After taking a bite of the noodles, the steward couldn't help but nodded and said, "This noodles are delicious, and this oil is also delicious!"

"It's delicious." The two hawkers didn't expect that they would be lucky enough to eat noodles. Each of them was holding a big bowl of noodles, and they ate it without raising their heads.

The four boys each had a bowl of noodles, and the bowls they held were almost as big as their faces.

"Have you eaten yet?" Zhao He came out at the back and took the noodles from Fu Lang.The two looked at each other, Josh knew that this person cared about him, and said with a smile: "I have already eaten in it just now, you can eat it, if you don't have enough, come here to pretend, there is still noodles here."

"Oh, good." Hearing that Fu Lang had already eaten, Zhao He found a small low stool with the bowl and sat down, picked up the chopsticks, and put a large amount of noodles into his mouth. He tasted the noodles I knew it was made by his husband, or that the noodles were made by Fu Lang, and the fried meat sauce was also delicious!

Zhao Hu held the noodles, pulled a stool and sat next to his elder brother to eat.

"Is there anyone else?" Josh looked around and asked.

"It's all there." The person who was already eating noodles shouted.

"Daddy, no." The little man, Anian, was not as tall as the table where things were placed. Seeing that everyone was eating noodles, he also looked at Daddy eagerly.Josh looked at his son who was standing on his toes and stretched his neck to look up, and asked with a dumbfounding look on his face, "Haven't you already eaten? Why do you want to join in the fun?"

In fact, they ate it as soon as they cooked it in the kitchen just now, and this brat ate a small bowl full of noodles by himself. He thought this brat was either hungry, or just wanted to join in the fun after watching others eat it.

"You've already eaten, don't eat, let's eat again at noon. Okay?" Josh understands the habits of their son, and now give him another bowl, at most two mouthfuls, he doesn't want to raise into children's habit of wasting food.But I also don't want the children to eat too much, the children don't know how hungry they are, and the adults are the ones who are anxious if they eat too much and fill their stomachs.

It's just that this little boy looks so pitiful when he looks at others eating noodles while drooling.

But he soon saw that their son ran to the older brothers to rub noodles, rubbing a bite here and there, the elder brothers love the younger brother, as long as it is what the younger brother wants, there will be no older brother Not given.

"..." But it's true, if you get a stomach ache later, just don't come to him and cry.

After everyone had breakfast, the oil mill continued to squeeze oil. After the first batch of oil came out, the steward took two large jars of oil and went back to town in a donkey cart.Then the two peddlers also took the oil and left with their burdens.

Just as the people who bought oil had left, a group of people from the village came to their house, some came to ask if they wanted someone to work next year, and some came to inquire about going to Lucheng.

Recently, a lot of people from the village came to their house to inquire about this matter, but Josh didn't directly say yes or no, so as to save these people from messing around, as long as they came, he would let them go to Ah Qiu to register, "you first Let's leave a name here and make a registration."

"Are you really going to open a store in Lucheng next year?"

"That's the plan."

"Then look at our boy. Our boy is fourteen this year, and he will be fifteen next year. It's time for him to work."

"Although our man is a bit older, he still has a lot of strength to work."

"I'll let you know when the time comes. If I need someone next year, I'll have someone notify you before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."

For these people's questions, Josh will pick some to answer.But when it came to whether he needed someone, he always said that he would make a decision after discussing it later, meaning that he was not sure now, so he asked people to leave a name for registration, and then asked people to go home and wait for news.

Ah Qiu now not only manages accounts, but also recruits people every day, and often encounters some very rude people staring at his face. He can't lose his temper, and of course he doesn't have a good face. .He picks up a pen to ask people questions every day, registers the people who come, fills in the name and age, whether he will do anything if he is illiterate, and how many people are in the family, etc. Zhang Dongshi filled in more details than the household registration registration in the yamen.

The oil shop at home stayed open until the [-]th day, and the shops in the town also closed after selling out the oil on the last day of the year.

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone, go back and have a good year. This is the last month's wages for everyone, and the red envelope I gave you for the New Year. Everyone has taken it." On the last day, everyone only worked for half a day. The shops in the town also closed half a day earlier, and Qiao Xu asked Ah Qiu to distribute the last month's wages to everyone.For this group of employees who have worked until the age of 28, he gave everyone an extra holiday allowance. The Zhang brothers and two young men gave an extra fifty Wen each, and the shopkeeper Cao gave an extra one or two. silver.

Now shopkeeper Cao has two taels of silver a month, and this extra tael is equal to half a month's wages for Cao Ping.

In the past, Cao Ping never dreamed that he could get so much wages in a month, and two taels of silver was something that many families could not earn in a year.

Of course, Cao Ping won't tell the outside world that he has received such a high salary, so as not to be jealous of him, at most he will hand over the silver taels to Fu Lang for safekeeping when he returns.The couple are discussing to build a new house after another year. The old house they live in is leaky, and the children often cry from the cold at night, which makes them very distressed.

Before having a good life and vision, Cao Ping worked more seriously and worked harder than anyone else, and now he was willing to sell his life to his boss.

"Thank you, my boss." The brothers Zhang Wen and Zhang Shun got their monthly money for this month, holding heavy bags in their hands, with the same grinning faces on their faces.They didn't know how they were so lucky to get a job here in the oil workshop. In addition to the fixed salary every month, there are additional subsidies for doing more work, so the two brothers came to Zhao's oil workshop and worked hard. work, no other thoughts.

"No thanks, no thanks, I should thank you all, go back and have a good year, and come back to start work after the eighth day of the new year." After paying everyone their wages, he told everyone the time to start work next year, Josh Let everyone go back first.

When the few people walked, they all had smiles on their faces and walked with ease.

After the Zhang family brothers left, their oil shop was officially locked and closed, and it will be opened after a year.

"Okay, our oil shop is also closed. We can rest for a few days during the Chinese New Year, and then continue to work after the Chinese New Year." Josh looked at their own people, if others only came to work for a few months The work, their family is busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and the hardest work is their own family.

Zhao Amu also smiled and said: "Yes, yes, let's have a good rest. Hey, the Chinese New Year is coming in a blink of an eye, our grandson will be one year older, and we will be one year older too."

Ah Nian still doesn't know what it means to be one year older, he only knows that Chinese New Year means having a lot of delicious food.

And it is the first time for the four boys to look forward to the New Year so much. They were taken back to their master's house a few days ago, and they can sleep until they wake up naturally every day, and they don't have to work. Work, and have delicious food every day, don't have to be cold at night, have a warm bed to sleep in, and don't have to worry that if you fall asleep, you may never wake up again.

To them, the current life is like a fairy-like day. What they are afraid of is that when they wake up, they will wake up from the dream.

If this is a dream, they hope to stay in this dream and not wake up.

***

It is indispensable to buy new year's goods for the new year, but their family's new year's goods have already been prepared, in addition to some prepared by themselves, there are also some gifts from others, in short, all kinds of food are indispensable.

However, all kinds of snacks and roasted seeds and nuts are indispensable during the New Year. The family has been busy before, and Josh didn't have much time and thought to prepare these things, so he waited until the day of the twenty-ninth day, and there were no oil mills and shops. , After breakfast early in the morning, he called everyone to help prepare their snacks and roasted seeds and nuts.

"Swish..." Chestnuts were being fried in the cauldron, and Chen Yan was in charge of frying the chestnuts.

There are many wild chestnut trees on the mountains near them. At this time of year, there are a lot of chestnuts on the mountain. People in their village will go up to the mountain to hunt chestnuts. The chestnuts in their family were brought back by the people in the village. From their home.

In addition to chestnuts, there are also pine nuts, walnuts and so on. The walnuts were bought back in the town last time.The walnut candied sesame candies made last time were very popular, so this time Josh is going to make some walnut sesame candies again.

Fortunately, I still have a large jar of maltose at home, so I don’t need to spend so much time boiling the ginger candy. I roast the sesame seeds and walnuts, and then pour them into the mold together with the syrup. “Caiyun, take this outside and put it Well, you have to wait for it to harden before you can cut it.”

"Hey, good." Caiyun responded, and went out with the basin.

After making walnut candies, Josh directed everyone to help make biscuits and bake small cakes. Before their biscuits and small cakes were baked, a group of people ate fried chestnuts first.

Chestnuts are cut before frying, and the mouth opens after frying. When eating, you only need to break open from the mouth to get a whole chestnut meat.Of course, others have to do it themselves when eating chestnuts. As for him, he just needs to open his mouth, and someone will put the peeled chestnut meat into his mouth.

"Is it delicious?" Zhao He put the peeled chestnut meat into Fu Lang's mouth.Josh nodded with a smile and said, "It's delicious, you should try it too."

The two of them completely forgot that they had a son...

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