Otoharu

Chapter 104 Buying a person and setting up a shop
Jiang Shanqing ignored the two of them, raised his head after writing the words in his hand, looked at Dong Qi and said, "What do I do if I don't practice calligraphy, how can I go on a swing or ride a bamboo horse with you?"

Too naive, okay, he really can't do it.Li Meier suppressed a smile, and asked with a straight face: "Then what do you want to play, don't we all play these now?"

Jiang Shanqing glanced at him, the meaning was obvious, I don't want to play with you little brats.

"Shanqing, you can't be so unsocial, or you won't have any friends in the future." Dong Qi said to Jiang Shanqing with the attitude of someone who has come here.

"I don't need friends." Jiang Shanqing said blankly, he didn't want to be friends with a bunch of kids.

Dong Qi was speechless by Jiang Shanqing, looked at the words he wrote on the sand table, and said with a yo: "Shanqing, your handwriting is good, you are almost catching up with me, you practice a lot every day Bar?"

"I just started to practice, because I may go to school next year, so I will practice first." Jiang Shanqing said with a very proud expression.

When Dong Qi heard that Jiang Shanqing was going to school next year, he was also very surprised, "Shanqing, you are going to school so early, you will only be five years old next year, and the youngest children in our school are all six years old."

"My adoptive father thinks that I have good qualifications and wants me to go to school earlier." Jiang Shanqing said lightly, looking indifferent.

"Is that going to the Li family to learn?" Dong Qi asked again.

"I don't know yet, my adoptive father didn't say anything." Jiang Shanqing hesitated for a moment and replied.He knew that his surname was not Li, and if he wanted to go to the family study of the Li family, he would have to bother Mrs. Li and his uncle again. He didn't want to embarrass Jiang Yanzhi.

"Come to the ethnology, I will protect you, and I guarantee that no one will dare to bully you." Dong Qi was already well-versed in the ethnology at the moment, and said while patting his small chest.

Jiang Shanqing was noncommittal. In fact, for him, it was the same wherever he went to study. He was confident that he would learn no worse than anyone else.

"Oh, don't talk about it, it's boring, let's play hide-and-seek, brother Shanqing is also here." Li Meier felt that it was boring for the younger generation to talk about studying, so she dragged the two of them to play hide-and-seek.

Dong Yong and Li Yuan also ran over when they heard that they were going to catch and seek, and they started to catch and seek in the yard. Jiang Shanqing was too lazy to hide everywhere, so he was responsible for catching. I don't know if he is a dog nose, no matter how many Wherever people are hiding, he will catch them one by one.

Just like this, several people played for half a day, and when it was dusk, they went back to their respective houses and looked for their respective mothers.

Li Meier and Jiang Shanqing returned to Jiang's room, Jiang was coaxing Brother Kang to sleep, when he saw grass leaves on their skirts, he asked helplessly, "Where did you go wild again?"

"Just play hide-and-seek in the yard, with Brother Aqi, Sister Yuan and the others." Li Meier replied.

Mrs. Jiang brought water, washed their faces and changed their clothes, and gave them some snacks, "Have some snacks first, we have to wait for a while for dinner."

Li Meier took a piece of mung bean cake, said while eating: "Mother, let's buy a girl, now that you have a younger brother, there are many things that you can't handle alone."

In fact, Mrs. Jiang had this thought for a long time, but now it costs at least five taels of silver to buy a big girl who can do work. If she buys a little girl, the price can be much cheaper, but she just needs to be trained for a while, and she can't work immediately.

"I'm afraid your grandmother won't agree." Mrs. Jiang hesitated for a moment, but still said, with Mrs. Li's stingy personality, she would definitely not pay for a girl in the daughter-in-law's room.

"Then let's buy it ourselves. Mom, didn't you earn a fortune selling ice cream? It's more than enough to buy a girl." Li Meier said directly without expecting old lady Li to pay.

"I'm going to keep the money to buy land and buy more dowry for you." Mrs. Jiang had plans for every sum of money, and said awkwardly.

"Mother, I'm only four years old this year, and the dowry is still far away. You can use some of the money to buy maidservants, and let's rent a shop next year and continue to do business." Li Meier had already made plans, taking advantage of this moment Just say it directly.

"You little girl, do you know what business is? You'll turn your tongue around. It's not that easy." Jiang just treated her whims as a child, and didn't take her words seriously at all.

Li Meier was a little discouraged, the child's words were unconvincing, but she did not give up, she still insisted: "Mother, this girl still has to buy it, even if she helps to look after her brother on weekdays, otherwise now that my brother is still young, you Taking care of her day and night, I really can’t spare my hands to do other things.”

Mrs. Jiang hesitated for a while, then nodded and said: "There is no rush on this matter, let's talk about it after the new year is over, I have to discuss it with your father, after all, buying someone is not a trivial matter."

In the evening, the husband and wife were talking in the room, and Jiang and Li Yan talked about buying a maid.

"I've wanted you to buy someone for a long time. Mother Lin and Chuan'er are on my mother's side, and you don't have any maids on your side. It's also hard work on weekdays." Li Yan loves his daughter-in-law, so naturally he doesn't want her to work hard. , The buyer's proposal is a hundred approval.

"After that year, I will ask someone to bring someone over to have a look." Seeing that her husband agreed, Jiang also made a decision.

The two chatted for a while, and Jiang remembered what her daughter said about opening a shop today, hesitated for a while, and asked her husband: "Husband, do you think our daughter is too precocious? Tell me that you want me to open a shop and do business."

When Li Yan heard this, he was not as surprised as Jiang Shi, but said very happily: "As expected of my daughter, she is courageous, and she thought of opening a shop at a young age."

"I'm telling you the truth, why are you still praising your daughter?" Mrs. Jiang couldn't laugh or cry, and thumped Li Yan's chest angrily.

Li Yan grabbed Jiang's wrist, and said with a smile: "I think my daughter's proposal is good. I didn't agree with you before setting up a stall to sell ice cream. The risk of setting up a stall is too high, and drought and flood will not protect you." It is also easy to be targeted by ruffians, so it is much safer to set up a shop."

"But this shop requires a lot of capital, not only the rent, but also the money for the purchase, and at least someone has to be hired to look after the shop. We don't have such a lot of capital." Even if Jiang's heart is moved, but in actual operation, The difficulty is too high, and she has to smash all her private houses in order to get it out. If she loses money, she doesn't know who to cry to.

"Take your time, and don't be in a hurry. Aren't Mei Meier and Kang Geer still young? If it doesn't work, I have some money on my side, and I will make money for you when the time comes." Li Yan hugged his wife and comforted her she said.

"Your money can't be kept. We have to keep some money in the bottom of the box. The shop... Let me think about it." Jiang Shi is just thinking about it at the moment. If he really wants to set up a shop for business, It's not just one or two things to consider.

(End of this chapter)