All-round way to money

"What's your uncle's name? Where is he from? I sell pork in Qushui Town, so I can help you inquire about it." Chu Polu didn't recognize him at all, and calmly said that he could help inquire about Chu Po. prisoner.

Xiao Yu also didn't know, "My uncle's name is Ning Xiao, and his name is Yongzheng. He served as a border guard in Qingzhou, a border pass, 25 years ago."

Chu Polu remained calm, "General Zhenyuan Ning Xiao?"

"Yes."

Chu Polu's eyes flickered, "Then your surname should not be Ning, but Xiao."

Xiao Yu glanced at Chu Polu, then lowered his head, "The day I left the city, my uncle told me that from then on, my surname will be Ning."

Chu Poluxue was silent for a long while, and did not continue the topic, "Okay, I understand, I will go to ask tomorrow. You are seriously injured, rest, and take care of it here first, it is very safe here."

After explaining, he left the room.

Chu Ran is pretending to deal with it in the kitchen and just brought back a tripe and two hooves today.Hearing father Chu go to Westinghouse to explain something, he went to talk to the village head about something, and left.

What do you want to talk to the village chief about?

This is really impossible to know.

Before dawn the next day, Dad left.He walked with the strong bow at home, and he didn't know whether to enter the mountain or go out.In my impression, apart from going deep into the mountains to hunt and gather herbs, it seems that I went to the capital seven years ago, and I walked with a bow on my back.The reason why I was so impressed was that during those three months, Chu Niang was restless all day long. After watching the shop hurt her hand twice, she even closed the shop, and the five-month-old child in her belly was aborted. It was a boy. infant.I also hurt my body.After the father came back, he blamed himself so badly. After that, he never traveled far, even the county town.Just guarding the mother and daughter live in the town and the village.Chu Ran found that the bow was gone, so she observed Chu Niang's face and found that she was quite stable, so she should not go far.

For three consecutive days after that, Father Chu never came back.

The old lady at home was very strict, Chu Ran wanted to chat with Xiao Yu for a while, but she couldn't do it, even if she changed the medicine and fed her meals, she had to stand by and watch.Feeding the pigs only takes a while, so it's nothing to say.

Five days later, Father Chu came home.He carried a deer and dragged a wild boar back.

"It's autumn, and the beasts in the mountains have started to run down the mountain. I've been suffering from cold legs for the past few days. I'm thinking, will the shop be closed this winter? Mother, can I do it?"

Chu Niang was sitting on her winter coat in her hand, she didn't even lift her head, "If you want to rest, the shop is ours, so there's nothing wrong with it. If you leave enough firewood for the cripple, you can come back."

Father Chu grinned, matching that face, it was quite scary, and the remaining one looked at the mother and daughter with watery eyes, "My sister will spend the winter at home this year. Raise the rest of the pigs." Get fatter, save it for the Chinese New Year, and sell it together. Earn money and make new clothes for you two by tearing floral cloth."

Uh……

Chu Ran wanted to say, Dad, our family really didn't need to sell a few pigs to buy cloth for my mother and me to make clothes.

"Father, don't these deerskins and pigskins need to be tanned? When the tanning is finished, I'll make you leather boots to wear." Chu Ran had already picked up all the wild deer and wild boars with quick hands and feet.

"Leave it alone. Dad will clean it up later. It's so dirty." Dad Chu didn't like to let the daughter clean up the internal organs. The little girl should be delicious, so what's the matter with turning her intestines all day long.

"It's okay, Dad, it's all done. I'll cook the ingredients and marinate them overnight. It will be even more delicious tomorrow." Sister-in-law He Hua's braised mei in her previous life has been sold all over the country, and she often eats it at home, Fang Zi It was given by her mother-in-law. She used the existing materials at hand and improved it a bit, planning to make lo mei for her parents.

Mother Chu told Father Chu again: "Buy more rice and come back to save it. Today, the fields are all planted with beans, and there is no food. Since we are going to rest, let's buy more rice and save it, so we don't have to go to the town all the time. After thinking about it, he said, "Why don't I go to town with you."

Father Chu immediately stopped him, "No need. Just let my daughter follow me. You should stay at home. I will go to my mother in a while and let her be your companion, and let Qianjun come and take care of Mr. Ning for a few days."

While talking, I went to the east room, "Ming people don't speak dark words, I am Chu Polu, and I already know about the young master. Then stay here, I told the village chief, and I will wait until the spring of next year. Son, when your injury is healed, I will open a separate yard for you, just as the private school teacher in the village is getting old, you can take the children to study and so on, and you can earn a living."

Xiao Yu didn't expect that Father Chu even arranged for his future life, so he couldn't say anything, "Do you know, my uncle's house? And my mother..."

Chu Polu paused for a moment, then quickly replied, "It's all right, everything is fine. The second prince had an accident to suppress the bandits, he fell into the mountain, and even his bones were washed away by the water. It is the time for the emperor to employ people. Not a great general. There is a prince in the palace, and the imperial concubine will have no worries. If such a big incident happened in the court, who has the energy to pay attention to others, you can rest assured."

It's almost like saying that if you have something to do, your uncle and mother will be all right.

Xiao Yu heaved a sigh of relief and said, "That's good. I hope God will bless the noble concubine and the general in good health, safe and sound. For ordinary people like us, everything will go smoothly."

Chu Ran heard it intermittently, and pieced together the conclusion that Xiao Yu's identity is the second prince, his biological mother is a noble concubine, his uncle is the general of Zhenyuan, and there is a prince in the palace.It is very likely that because of his noble status and the strength of his mother's family, he threatened the position of the crown prince. He was framed and came out to suppress the bandits. The name was to suppress the bandits, but it was actually a trap. He didn't know if the bandits were not suppressed. Falling down the mountain, there are no bones left.

Dad is very powerful. After going out for a few days, he found out everything.Maybe he got the letter from the great general. He knew who he had saved, so he planned to hide for a while. Chu Family Village is a very good place to hide.It is also cautious enough, he has not contacted the outside world for at least seven or eight years, and Xiao Yu always directly mentioned the relationship 25 years ago when he opened his mouth.Who can find him.

But it's okay, just hide and hide.

If Xiao Yu really worked as a teacher in this small village, then maybe the two of them could really live a small life of men farming and women weaving.

Therefore, Chu Ran was quite happy.

The next day, there was nothing unpleasant about following Dad into town.

There is no horse in the family, so Father Chu pulls the family cart by himself. "Girl, come up, dad is pulling you."

But pull it down, the car is made of wooden wheels, it doesn't even have a shock absorber, and it's a mountain road, I might as well walk on it comfortably by myself.This body has nothing to do with weakness, and walking a little is nothing at all.

There were also water hyacinths and dry food in the car, as well as the meat that was marinated just yesterday, as well as the venison legs, pork legs and ribs that were specially set aside to be sold in the shop.I left a deer leg with the village head's family, and I saved the deer head for Grandpa Chu's wine.

Chu Ran carried a small cloth bag on her back, which belonged to the original body, and contained her weapons in it.It is a fine steel slingshot, and there are dozens of iron beads the size of fingernails in the pocket, and dozens of clay pellets. Iron beads are expensive, and clay pellets are usually used for hunting, and the clay pellets are not easy to get. Yes, you have to mix the mud first, then mix it with bamboo charcoal, and put it in the kiln to burn it.There is a kiln for making pottery in the village. Yuanshen made clay pellets by herself and dried them. When firing pottery, Shunshun would not let her out.

The rubber band of the slingshot is the same as the bowstring of the strong bow of the old man, and the leather for putting the mud balls is made of tiger skin.Seriously good stuff.At that age, his arms were strong, he could draw the bow well, and he was good at aiming.It was a girl, and the father really wanted her to draw a bow and shoot arrows. The old lady sat in the yard crying and almost rolled, saying that if she dared to let her daughter carry a bow and arrow, she would run away.There was no other way, so I made a slingshot.

Chu Ran also took out the little green flute and sewing kit from back then and hung them on the side of the slingshot bag, as decorations, commemorative, and better for self-defense.

The old man was pulling the carriage, and he was walking like flying. He didn't feel that pulling the cart affected his speed at all. Chu Ran followed behind. Looking at it, he felt that the old man's skills were quite deep.Now she is a little curious about the background of the Chu family village.

The mountain road is very narrow, and there is only a small road for one car. The road has been stepped on very flat, but it is not steep.The two sides are either dense forests or mountains. As the only way to get out of the mountains, it is true that one man guards the gate, and there is no way for anyone to open it.

There are often small animals in the woods, and Chu Ran even beat a hare and picked up two nests of wild eggs.I wrapped it in my clothes and brought it to the town together.

The shop is already open, and the lame man is dealing with customers, leftover meat from the previous day.In a town of several thousand people, there are not many people who can afford meat. A pig can be sold for two or three days, and it can be sold for three or four days in winter.On summer nights, the meat has to be kept in the cellar to cool for fear of spoiling it.Father Chu was sincere in his business, and the cellar was dug so deep, with a small mouth and a big belly, that only one person could pass through.Ice is stored in it in winter, and the meat that cannot be sold out in summer is put down in a basket at night, and the mouth is blocked with a quilt.It's a simple freezer.

Chu Ran didn't know what the lame man's last name was. People in the town called him lame man, saying that he came to town begging for food in his early years.After Father Chu took him in, he said he was called Wujin, Father Chu called him Wujin, and Chu Ran called him Uncle Wujin.But the townspeople were more used to calling him lame.

"Girl, help your uncle look at the shop. I'll send the marinated meat to the old Wang's first. He will definitely want it." The meat on the car didn't unload, and it didn't stop at the door of his shop. It was intended to be delivered to the restaurant of the Wang family. go.

Wang's restaurant has no name, it is the only restaurant in the town, it is called Wang's restaurant.Next door is the only inn, a big car shop, which is also run by the Wang family. The two owners are brothers.

"Yes." Chu Ran responded, and entered the door to greet the lame man, "Uncle Wujin, I'm here to help."

"Ni is here." The cripple was very happy to see Chu Ran, "No busy, you go to the backyard to rest."

If it's not busy, just an aunt on the front street is buying meat, and she's almost perforating the pieces of meat on the case, and she hasn't decided which one she wants.There is no one else.

In fact, my family says it is a pork shop, but it sells more wild game, and the wild game is not sold at retail. They are all delivered to the landlord’s house in the town, the Lizheng’s house, or the restaurant of the Wang family, and sometimes even the county’s I asked the firewood and medicine sellers in the city to send a message, and Father Chu sent it.Retail pork is not the big money maker.In a big town with thousands of people, plus the village below, it takes only two or three days to sell a pig for just this one butcher shop. If you think about it, you will know the economic level.

"No, I'm not tired. Uncle Wujin, please sit down for a while. Auntie, is there a visitor? What kind of food are you cooking? How about I help you choose one?"

The meat-picking aunt laughed, "Ni'er is here. Isn't it a visitor? Today the matchmaker will be the matchmaker for your brother Chunzi, and the other party will come to see the matchmaker. Why do you have to have a meat dish? I am thinking about making it." what?"

Chu Ran just laughed, this Aunt Zhang is well-known in the town for her ability, but she is really bad at cooking, the kind who dare not let her into the kitchen when she goes to help anyone in the town to do errands.It's not that she can't afford meat, it's because she really doesn't know what to do. "What do you think of this one? I'll cut the meat into slices for you, and you can take it home later. When the pot is hot, put the meat in and fry the oil, then add shredded bamboo shoots or green vegetables and fry until cooked. Do you think so?" ?”

I chose the one with more fat and less meat, which can save oil.

Sure enough, my aunt laughed, "Okay, okay, just do what Nier said. When your brother Chunzi gets married, I will ask you to have a wedding wine."

Chu Ran weighed her hands, cut the meat into slices with two or three strokes, and wrapped them in bamboo leaves. The aunt didn't even say the price, and left happily.

The cripple watched happily from the sidelines, "Our Nier knows how to do business."

Father Chu arrives before he arrives, so he likes to hear people praise his daughter, "That's right. My daughter will inherit our shop in the future, and she must be better than me."

Chu Ran heard a black line in his head, inheriting your pork shop?

"Then I have to find a butcher?"

Father Chu rolled down the earthen jar containing the stewed meat from the car, and stared at him, "What's wrong with the butcher? Your father is a butcher, what's wrong?"

"It's not bad. But I still like gentleness."

If the old lady hears this, she must be scolded for not being ashamed.

The cripple just smiled and listened without saying anything.Could father Chu know what his daughter was thinking?

"Come in with me and clean up the firewood room. I ordered firewood and charcoal, so I have to clean up the firewood room first."

"Boss, let me go."

"No. Look at the shop."

This is something to say.

Chu Ran followed in.

"Ning Er is not suitable." Father Chu really went straight to the point, saying whatever he had to say.

"Why isn't it appropriate?"

"He's a scholar, can you chat with him? If you have nothing to say, what's the point of living as a couple? Can you get hungry just by looking at your face?"

"Why don't we have anything to talk about? I can also read, so it's convenient for him to teach me how to read. Besides, we only have a few books in our family, so he doesn't have to read if he wants to, right? You and my mother grew up in different environments." , No, there is something to talk about." The two of them, one from the army and the other from the fire girl, didn't see anything that they couldn't communicate with.

"Your mother and I both came from poor families, why is it different? Usually, what I think about is how to live a good life and support you. Look at him again, does he know how to live? That's Yi Lai What's the use of stretching out your hand to open your mouth? Besides, his leg can't be healed at all, and he'll be sitting for the rest of his life. Looking for him, everyone at home and outside has to rely on you Man, how tired are you in the rest of your life? You never thought about it, can your parents be willing?" But any serious parent should allow their children to marry the number one.

"Then what should I do? I just look up to him. I don't like others. As long as I think about marrying someone else, I feel very uncomfortable. It shouldn't be so miserable, right? You and my mother The body is so good, can't you help me too? After a while, the child will grow up, he is injured, not born, and it is not passed on to the child. Can the child also help when he grows up? No matter how bad it is, earn money , can't you still hire people to do the work?"

Father Chu: ...

You really don't feel sorry for your father and mother, this guy arranged for us.

"Then you have to be able to earn money. Our shop can't earn five taels of silver a month. How many people can it support? How old am I? How many years can I hunt? I won't be able to do it by then. , what are you going to do?"

Five taels of silver is not too little, 20 taels is enough to feed a family of five for a year.This is just the money for selling meat.

What if she can't settle accounts?

"Father, have you sent out all the braised pork today?" Chu Ran suddenly changed the subject.

Father Chu didn't think about it for a while, and laughed when he mentioned this, "I gave it away. As soon as I took it out, the two tables eating in the restaurant smelled the smell, and each table asked for a plate. Lao Wang even asked him to deliver the food." Woolen cloth."

Chu Ran also laughed, "Father, tell me, can I make money with this braised pork?"

Only then did Father Chu know why his daughter asked him if the meat was sold out. In fact, he had saved a piece of stewed venison and brought it back, planning to have a drink with the cripple at noon.

"It tastes good. But in our town, how many restaurants can afford meat? If you can afford it, you can't eat it every day."

"What are you afraid of? If you can't do it in the town, go to the county. Can such a big county support a stewed meat shop?"

……

Well, it's good that you have this ambition.

Father Chu didn't want to explain to his girlfriend at all how difficult it is to make a shop bigger and stronger, and how difficult it is to open a shop in the county.Is it true that opening a shop is opening a shop?

"Okay, then wait until you can earn money by yourself and set up a family. Dad won't care about your marriage."

He said so on the lips, but he was thinking in his heart that he had to "persuade" Young Master Ning to refuse the marriage on his own initiative.At that time, if it's not the parents who stop it, but the man who doesn't agree, the girl will have no choice, can she use force?

"That's what you said, don't wait until I earn the money to buy the shop, and you go back on your word." It's really interesting, Mr. Chu can support his family by making clothes, and he can support his family by selling pork.

"Once a man speaks a word, it's hard to chase after him." Father Chu patted his chest.

Anyway, the father and father had their own thoughts, so they made a gentleman's agreement.

Father Chu was quite happy, thinking he had found a way to save his daughter.Chu Ran was also very happy, feeling that he had found a way to stop his father's mouth.

At noon, I cut the piece of venison neck meat into a large plate, fried soybean sprouts, mixed a shredded bamboo shoot with cold sauce, and made a sour bamboo shoot soup for dinner.There is always wine in the house, and the old man and the lame drink well.One person drank two big bowls, and after eating all the dishes, one person ate two big bowls of rice with sour bamboo shoot soup.

After eating and drinking enough, Dad Chu took the money and went to the rice shop to buy rice and noodles.I bought a full ten bags of rice, and I came back in two o'clock.Along the way, when people saw him like this, they had to ask why they bought so many.He said that my mother was not in good health and wanted to go home to take care of her parents, so the business stopped first.Open again years ago.

Grandpa Chu is not in good health. He was bitten by a wolf in the mountains when he was young.

This reason is also reasonable.

Therefore, leaving enough money and rice for the lame man, the firewood has already been ordered, and someone will bring it one after another.My father and I came home with a cart full of rice, grains, seasonings, etc., so no one asked about it, and we usually have a good relationship, so I put a handful of vegetables and two eggs on the cart, and let them go home It's a good idea to make up for the old man and the old lady.