The koi wife dressed as the male protagonist of the imperial examination

Chapter 244

Ahem, this is just a metaphor, Lao Li's family does not need to buy pigs for the New Year.

It is good for Saburo to be an official. It is said that the emperor will give a New Year gift to civil and military officials during the New Year, which means to make everyone's New Year more enjoyable.

What is chicken, duck and fish? Fang Qingqing was still thinking about whether there would be beef and mutton, so let's have something different to eat.

Old man Li told his son again and again that the emperor is so good at controlling your food and housing and giving you money, you should do things for him well.

Why does this sound weird?

Li Xiuping and Fang Qingqing looked at each other, but after a little thought, there was nothing wrong with it.

It can only be said that the wisdom of the people is infinite.

In the following time, Li Dalang and the others could not continue to meddle in the sale of Spring Festival couplets, and the food shop would continue to open its doors for business.

According to the family's thinking, at least it will not close until the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month, and it will reopen after the [-]th of the first lunar month after the next year.

It was mainly because they had just arrived in the capital and were not familiar with the environment here, and they were foreigners and were afraid of being bullied.

So Li Dalang and Li Erlang's two families worked together to manage the food shop. In fact, a small shop does not need so many people.

The point is, even if you don't pay a monthly fee, it's not worth it, and it will delay everyone in the store.

In fact, it is not every day that the business is booming and full of friends, especially the big one and the second one who have not studied and are working as accountants in the shop, and Li Xiaomei Niuniu is helping in the back kitchen.

Adding in his eldest brother and sister-in-law's own daughter-in-law, there are seven members of the Zhou family in the restaurant, as well as the parents, the third child, and the third child who occasionally go to the shop to help.

Li Erlang also considered that after the business of the restaurant is good, it is the back kitchen that needs help in the kitchen.

But except for the sister-in-law and the younger siblings in the family, everyone else's cooking skills are not good enough, and the third daughter-in-law is still very busy going to the pharmacy every day.

And Li Erlang's personality is suitable for running outside, not for guarding inside the shop.

So the family sat together for a meeting and studied it again. They still needed to hire a chef, otherwise Mrs. Li would be busy all by herself.

In addition, two helpers were invited to liberate Li Erlang and let him study what he wanted to do.

So now, Li Erlang intends to continue selling Spring Festival couplets, running around several villages around the capital.

It is also to investigate the living conditions of the people in the villages around the capital. For example, they also go out to work for others, but the price for people in the capital is definitely much higher than that in these villages.

Moreover, Li Erlang himself came to Beijing from other places, so he knows that there are differences in goods between different regions, which is one of the reasons why there are caravans and they can make a lot of money.

Things are different from south to north. For example, if the materials purchased in the south are sold in the north, the price will definitely be much higher.

As for how high it is, as well as the cost and division of labor between the south and the north, if all these are deducted, how much money will be left?
This is what Reijiro is currently thinking about.

Originally, he could also directly ask the third child and his wife, but what the younger brother and sister said was right, if he really planned to travel from south to north to run a business.

In the future, there will definitely be a situation where a person is outside. Is it possible to write to Saburo to help with the calculation?
Therefore, these are all things Li Erlang should learn by himself.

Even if it is difficult at the beginning, if you have the determination to learn, you can always learn.

The Chinese New Year is getting closer and closer, and Li Xiaomei basically doesn't go out very much, and stays at home to help her parents with work.

Regardless of whether the materials for the New Year are abundant or not, it is very important to have a clean and tidy home.

Things like |bed|sheets, quilts, curtains, etc. have to be removed and cleaned, and every corner inside and outside the house has to be cleaned. The old family gave some New Year's goods for the New Year, and Li Xiuping will also distribute some for the New Year.

But my own family also needs to prepare some.

Anyway, these days Li Erlang was running outside every day, so Shi simply let him figure it out and buy some New Year's goods for the family.

As a result, on the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, Shi took out another purse, which was bulging.

A large handful of copper coins, and even scattered silver taels, added up to a total of five taels of silver.

Li Xiuping was taken aback, not knowing what his mother was going to do.

"It's not the New Year's Eve, it's time to make new clothes for the children. It's okay to make cotton clothes. It hasn't been long since I made them, but I still need to buy a pair of cotton shoes if I don't have pants yet."

I should have done it myself, but after they came here, some things were not complete.

Besides, everyone in the family is busy now, so I don't have that leisure time.

Qingqing also said that the clothes, shoes and socks made by the ready-to-wear shops here are for sale.

Anyway, the things in the capital are definitely better than those in their countryside, so it's better to spend money to buy ready-made ones.

Shi Shi also carefully told the second child that those naughty boys can just buy black |color|padded shoes, but Niuniu wants to buy her colored |color|padded shoes.

In fact, according to the rural rules in the past, around the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month, the married lady and daughter-in-law must return to their natal homes with etiquette.

Certainly not this year, since the old man Li never thought about going back for the New Year, and the three daughter-in-laws of the old Li family are all from Anshun County, so it is impossible to go back on purpose.

So last time, when they entrusted the caravan to send New Year's goods back to their hometown, they naturally brought back all the gifts that the three daughters-in-law wanted to give to their natal families.

In the past, when the New Year was about to come to my hometown in the countryside, even if the material was not so rich, I would prepare a lot of various things.

After working hard in the fields for a whole year, I can take a leisurely rest in the first month.

Not only to sleep well, but also to eat well.

But, looking at it, Shi Shi saw that the neighbors around did not make much fanfare to prepare things for the New Year. She also asked Mrs. Jin about it.

It's not like in the village. There won't be so many people paying New Year's greetings. It's about the same as preparing some good dishes and buying some sweets and snacks.

But if that's the case, it's Chinese New Year anyway, won't it seem too deserted?
Fang Qingqing saw her mother-in-law hesitated for a long time on such a question, smiled, and said directly:

"Mom, let's follow the rules of our hometown."

"But those are the customs of the countryside. Now that we are in the capital, will keeping the habit of the countryside embarrass Saburo?" Shi frowned.

She seldom goes out on weekdays, just worried that a country old woman who doesn't understand anything will hinder her Yaoer who will become a high-ranking official in the future.

Fang Qingqing was very free and easy, and told her mother-in-law very naturally: "Mother, we are originally from the countryside, and Brother Sanlang never shy away from this point outside. Do whatever you want, why lose your heart?"

When the third daughter-in-law said this, Shi suddenly became enlightened.

That's right, from the beginning to the end, the third child never bragged about his origin outside. It is said that even His Majesty the Emperor knew that he was originally a country boy with mud legs.

And she has also been an old country woman all her life, but now she is showing some embarrassment.

(End of this chapter)