Chapter 344: Buying New Year's Goods
It’s the New Year after Laba Festival, but the atmosphere of celebrating the New Year this year is particularly light.
At this time last year in Shanshui Village, every household built a new house and prepared to eat for the New Year. Even though it was extremely cold last year, it did not dilute the joy of the New Year and the longing for this year.
While stocking up on firewood and food, they thought that the flood might not come, and everyone felt that life would get better and better.
There was a flood in June this year, but they did not fall into depression. Especially when they were hired by Mr. Bai to deliver potatoes, they actually earned several taels of silver, which greatly improved the family's food supply and bought a lot of inventory, and even more later. Getting better and better.
But, with a bang, he fell from the highest point to the ground!
The world suddenly became chaotic.
How can they go to Fucheng to sell rabbits? If you can't sell the rabbit, you won't get any money, and you won't be able to buy anything back;
Especially the medicinal materials shop has to go to Fucheng to sell medicinal materials. How can the medicinal materials shop make money without selling medicinal materials? If there is no income, where will the people in their family who work in the medicine shop get their wages?
But now money is one of the worries, and safety is more important. According to what the old village chief said, the poor officials and students are all worried about by the gangsters, and their village is even more dangerous.
Alas, why is there a war?
Shanshui Village was filled with gloom and mist, and there were constant sighs and sighs.
However, there are exceptions. Ever since the Ding family moved here, Hu Wenhua has been working hard every day as if he had been given a shot of chicken blood.
After finishing the work every day, I wish I could still plow two acres of land.
Shuiqing looked at it and clicked her tongue repeatedly, making Hu's mother even more worried.
On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Wen led more than a dozen men to find him.
"We discussed that we have to go out before the Chinese New Year. We can sell a batch of dried rabbit kudzu and bring back some new year's goods." Li Wen rubbed his hands and lowered his head as he shivered.
The weather this year is obviously not as cold as last year. They also put on new cotton-padded clothes. The thick cotton inside the new cotton-padded clothes made them warm, but they felt cold in their hearts.
Boss Wu sighed, with a sad look on his face: "Fortunately, we have stocked up a lot in front of us, but we just want to be able to get over the impact of the flood. Who could have imagined that there will be another war! I don't know how many years it will take. We still have what we have on hand for the time being. Some money is afraid that it will become more and more expensive in the future, so I can only buy it back and put it aside. "
"No matter what, we still have to celebrate the New Year. Even if we are adults and there are old and young at home, we still have to buy some New Year's goods.
So I came to see you, should we go sell medicinal materials together? "Xu Laosan asked.
There are people in their families who work in the medicine shop, earning a total of 600 cash a month! How can we not care about the medicinal materials shop if we can save a meal of food at home?
Whether the medicinal materials in the medicine shop can be sold and whether they are sold well or not is related to the whole village!
When Hu Wenhua heard that he was going to Fucheng, he was full of energy and eager to try.
New Year shopping? He also wants to go to Fucheng to buy new year goods.
Ding Heli breathed a sigh of relief. He was worried about when he would go to Fucheng to sell medicinal materials.
It has been more than a month since the last time, and this batch of prepared medicinal materials is more than last time. During the Chinese New Year to the first lunar month, there used to be no one working outside, not to mention that there was a war again, and most of them were able to nest. Just stay at home.
Even if the men in the village are willing to go out and deliver medicinal materials to Fucheng, no one from Renjitang will send medicinal materials to the Jinling main store. Will they still accept it?
It's better to send them early before the Chinese New Year. After all, there is a big difference between keeping the medicinal materials in your own warehouse and putting money in your pocket.
He looked at the men in front of him and said cheerfully: "Yao, we are worried about when the medicinal materials from the medicinal materials shop will be sent to Fucheng. It would be just in time for you to go and we can take care of each other along the way."
Boss Wu smiled naively and said: "We are just worried that you don't have enough manpower and it is not safe to sell medicinal materials outside. We thought there would be many people together, so we came here to ask."
Ding Heli was extremely moved, and at the same time he admired Shui Qing's original selection method even more.
When everyone has a community of interests, working together really saves a lot of trouble.
This is the last time before the Chinese New Year, and we may not be able to go in the next few months, so every household pays special attention to it.
Those who want to buy new year's goods, those who want to stock up on food, those who want to buy handy tools... The family members gather together for fear of missing something.
The wound on Li Changlin's arm gradually improved, and Wang Guifen's heart finally dropped a little, and she turned to preparing for the New Year.
She looked at the two sisters-in-law in the room, and asked after discussion: "In the past, when I had money, I first thought about making gifts for Chang Lin Cunsu, and then I bought paper, ink, and pens and food for the official school. Now I have saved both. Lin, the master of paper, ink and pen, said that if you don’t practice calligraphy in the official school, you can just like the bookstore, using slate as paper and water as ink;
So I thought we should buy some more New Year's goods this year. In order to support Chang Lin in his studies these years, his younger brothers and sisters have lived a very miserable life. How about buying them more food? "
"It's not that hard. Didn't my eldest brother buy a full kilogram of candy balls for several children when he came back? If you ask me, the world will get better eventually. Even though Chang Lin is at home, he can't neglect his homework and calligraphy. If you don't save paper, ink and pen, buy some for Chang Lin." Zhang Hui knew what his sister-in-law meant and retorted.
It was his father-in-law who proposed to provide for Chang Lin to study in the first place, but it was also agreed upon by the three families after discussion. Since they all agreed, they should provide for it well.
Over the years, my sister-in-law and eldest brother always felt that Changlin cost a lot and took up their second and third bedrooms. There was always competition in the fields and fields outside the home to do it. It was not invisible to them.
Changlin is spending more now, but Fan Jin knows that even if he fails the exam, he can earn more than 50 wen a day by copying books in the future. The family is not losing money, and there is no need to deduct Changlin's expenses.
Zhao Lan works in the herbal medicine shop. Today is her turn to rest. She said proudly: "No, no, we only chose it when we didn't make money before, but now we want it all!
Buy paper, ink and pens for Changlin, and buy sweet food for the children. Don't I save 60 wen a month for my private use? It's just right. Take out two months' worth of money to buy two or three pounds for the children, so that they can have a happy New Year!"
As soon as this was said, Wang Guifen and Zhang Hui immediately disagreed.
"Okay, buy them all, but it's not you who pays, it's all from the public."
"You only earned three months' worth of private money, so keep it. We have money in the public treasury!"
"Then buy more! I don't know when I can go to the capital again, and I don't know if there will be more to sell later."
"We have to buy the fishing nets too. The previous ones have several holes in them. A big fish escaped last time. I was so sad."
"Buy some coarse cloth and make a few more pairs of cloth shoes. Cloth shoes are comfortable to wear! They don't rub your feet. If we wear them carefully, it won't cost much cloth."
"And..."
The joy of buying New Year's goods diluted the sorrow of several days. The air in Shanshui Village was filled with the smell of joy.