Yoshida Mii

Chapter 85 The thief's heart is immortal
Mrs. Li quickly patted Li Hongqin's hand, and comforted her: "It's good to go to the town to study. The name of Wenfeng Academy is well-known, and it is better than the private school in your village. From now on, we can go to the town every day, and we can also take care of the little ones. Qian. The private school in the village can read a few characters well, but I’m afraid it won’t be able to teach more. Xiaoqian is a serious kid, and he will definitely have great prospects in the future.”

Speaking of his son, Li Hongqin's face was full of smiles, nodded and said: "Don't ask him to have any great achievements, it's best if he can read it out and get a good name, if he can't read it out... then go home and farm, and be a crop honestly Chinese."

The Zhang family had quite a lot of land, but the only male, Zhang Qian, was studying, so Li Hongqin rented out the land and collected some land every year to live on. If Zhang Qian failed to study, she planned to take the land back and grow it herself.

Dong Bao and Zhang Xiuyu went to the kitchen to boil water, and the whole family soaked their feet to get ready for bed. During this meeting, Li Hongqin suddenly remembered something, and said to Mrs. Li: "When I just came back, I heard people said that the second child of the Song family was with someone from your village. The two dogs had a fight, and people who saw it said that the beating was so ruthless that Song Lao Er's face could not be seen. I thought, isn't that Er Gou selling tofu in the market under our name today? People? Why did you seek revenge on Song Lao Er?"

Dong Bao couldn't help laughing, and seeing several people looking at her, he held back his smile and said, "It's really a fight? It's a good fight, anyway, neither of them is a good person! Mother, don't stare at me! The second uncle came to our house to carry two buckets of water, just to make tofu for Ergou! Don’t be soft-hearted when you hear that my second uncle was injured. What did he do to us in the first place? Now he is helping outsiders to rob us business, it deserves the beating!"

"That's right." Li Hongqin agreed with Dong Bao's words very much, "This kind of person should be beaten. He has done all kinds of bad things!"

Zhang Xiuyu was a little puzzled, "Doesn't their house have a well? Why pick our water?"

Dong Bao smiled and said, "People in the village say that the tofu we make is delicious because the water in our well is good. I thought, it's good to let them think so." Over time, someone will always find that they go to Buying gypsum in the pharmacy, the method of ordering tofu may be figured out sooner or later, but before Dongbao saves enough capital, she doesn't mind putting a few more smoke bombs to delay the time.

"Let them think so!" Zhang Xiuyu smiled and clapped her hands, "The way to order tofu is our secret, we can't let others know."

Li Shi and Li Hongqin nodded with a smile, if others know about this tofu method, their orphans and widows will not be able to compete with others.

On a night in early summer, there is a cool breeze, and there are unknown insects chirping in the courtyard. It is approaching bedtime, except for the occasional barking of dogs, Tagouji is very quiet.

When Hong Shuanzi's family was about to fall asleep, a guest came.When Shuanzi's father went to open the door, he was taken aback by someone who came.

"It's me, Brother Huozi!" The visitor smiled flatteringly.

Only then did Shuanzi's father sink his heart back into his chest. It was Ergou's voice, but Ergou couldn't recognize him just by looking at Ergou's colorful face that had been beaten.

"What's the matter? It's so late." Father Shuan asked.

Ergou chuckled, "I have something to discuss with my brother, let's go in and talk about it." As he said, he squeezed in without waiting for Shuanzi's father to get out of the way.

When old man Hong came out of the house, Ergou rushed up to meet him and called out affectionately, "Uncle Hong!"

"Ah, it's Ergou!" Old man Hong didn't expect it to be this bastard, and his scalp tingled a little, "What's the matter?"

Ergou rubbed his hands and smiled, "Uncle Hong, we are not outsiders, and I won't beat around the bush with you anymore. I'm just worthless for Uncle Hong!"

"Wait, wait!" Old man Hong waved his hand to stop Er Gou's words, "I don't understand what you said, is it worth it? We peasants don't talk about those nonsense!"

Er Gou smiled, with a look of bitterness and hatred, he pointed in the direction of Dong Bao's house and said to old man Hong: "Uncle Hong, you are bold and righteous! You are the first one in our Tagou collection! If you hadn't said something at the beginning, would the talented lady have separated with her daughter? Can she start a tofu business? Can she have a good future?"

"You're not right." Shuan Zi's father snorted and said, "It's not easy for a talented lady to bring Dong Bao, and the villagers all see it, and go out with a debt to applaud the scene?"

Er Gou stomped his feet, shook his head and sighed, "Brother Huozi is an honest and kind man! Why don't you see how much money those women earn a day? I watched, the money was pouring into other people's pockets, oh , now that people are doing well, I forgot about your kindness in helping them back then!"

"If you want to talk about kindness, it is also the kindness that Dongbao saved my grandson at the very beginning." Old man Hong smiled, "Ergou, we will not be able to finish talking about our two families for a while, you don't know, today It's getting late, why don't you go back and rest first?"

"No, no." Ergou said hastily, "Uncle Hong, I won't play tricks with you anymore. I'm different from them. I'm a reciprocal person. If I make a lot of money by doing business under your guidance, I will definitely Honor you two percent!"

"I don't know how to give pointers. I've never been able to do anything in my life, so I'll dig through the dirt." Old man Hong waved his hand, feeling more and more impatient.

"Shuanzi goes to the scholar's house every day. How do they make tofu? Does Shuanzi know?" Ergou patted his chest and promised, "You ask Shuanzi to tell me that in the future I will sell tofu, no matter how much I earn. How much, I will give you a hundred dollars every day, how about it?"

The old man Hong led Ergou to the door, and said kindly to Ergou: "Ergou, Shuanzi is a child, what does he know! You want to make tofu, just go ahead and do it. You are a capable person. You are the only one in our village, everyone is optimistic about you, the tofu you make must be good!" After Er Gou was pulled outside, old man Hong slammed the door and said from inside: "Er Gou, it's getting dark Be careful when you go home, uncle won't see you off!"

He was politely invited out, but Er Gou stomped his feet angrily, but there was nothing he could do about it. The Lin family and the Hong family were the only ones who had contacts with the scholar lady. I still don't believe it, sooner or later he will have to make money from this tofu stall.

"There are all kinds of people!" Shuanzi's father spat at the door, but anyone with a bit of conscience can't do anything to grab jobs from orphans and widows!
Old man Hong shook his head, "We don't want to provoke such a fool, he is shameless, but we are."

Mrs. Shuanzi had already gone to bed with Shuanzi and was ready to go to bed. She leaned against the window and listened to what happened in the yard clearly. As soon as I moved, I remembered what Ergou promised, one hundred yuan a day, three taels of silver a month!Feeding a pig all year round is only sold for two or three taels of silver!

"Shuanzi, do you know how Dongbao's family makes tofu?" Shuanzi's mother whispered to her son, "Tell mother about it."

Shuanzi glanced at his mother, shook his head and said earnestly, "I've made an agreement with others, you can't tell outside."

"Mother is not an outsider!" Shuan Ziniang was anxious and angry. Since Dongbao separated, her son ran to Dongbao's house every day, and now even her own mother has become an outsider. "Tell Mom quickly!"

"What are you talking about?" Shuan Zi's father opened the curtain and entered the room, just in time to hear Shuan Zi's mother's last words.

Mrs. Shuanzi didn't dare to say anything in front of her husband. The girl Dongbao would send some worthless tofu and vegetables from time to time. Now in Hong's family, her status is higher than her daughter-in-law. She just said a few acid words, He had to be reprimanded by his father-in-law.Neither her husband nor her son were on her side, and Mrs. Shuan had no choice but to suppress her petty thoughts.

Early the next morning, Li Shi and Li Hongqin went to the market with their burdens.Dong Bao and Zhang Xiuyu were busy at home preparing the pancakes and vegetables sold at Wenfeng Academy at noon. Under Dong Bao's command, Zhang Xiuyu kang made forty pancakes, and Dongbao cut six catties of tofu for cooking.

When it was time to actually make it, Dongbao felt that it was not as simple as imagined. The two concepts of cooking six taels of tofu and six catties of tofu were completely complete. When stir-frying tofu, Dongbao felt that his thin arms were about to swing Broken, tired enough to choke.

The amount of food cooked today is double that of yesterday. Zhang Xiuyu was very uneasy. She always felt that if she cooked too much, she would not be able to sell it, but Dong Bao was not afraid, and comforted her: "If we can't sell it, we can eat it ourselves, and we can share it with Brother Dashi's family. That's fine, it can't be wasted anyway."

When the tofu was sold out, Mrs. Li urged Li Hongqin to go to Wenfeng Academy, and she would sell tofu by herself.Li Hongqin took Zhang Xiuyu and Dong Bao to the door of Li Lifeng's shop, asked Li Lifeng to help introduce the head of the academy, and wanted Zhang Qian to study in Wenfeng Academy.

Li Lifeng led Li Hongqin to the academy, Dong Bao and Zhang Xiuyu lit the stove and prepared to sell food.

More students came out today than yesterday, and most of them brought their own bowls. Dong Bao and Zhang Xiuyu were responsible for collecting money, and the other was responsible for ordering vegetables and pancakes.When he was so busy, Dong Bao heard a surprised voice from a boy in front of him, "It's you?!"

Dong Bao raised his eyes. The person who came was more than a head taller than her, dressed in a clean blue cotton gown, with straight eyebrows and eyes, carefully sizing her up.

After thinking for a long time, Dong Bao didn't remember who this person was.

Seeing Dongbao's confusion, the boy smiled and said, "I am a relative of the Wang family in Anzhou. Have you ever worked in the Wang family? I have seen you. You are quite different from before, and so am I." It took me a long time to recognize it."

After he said this, Dong Bao vaguely remembered, could this person be the boy in the blue cloth shirt?The little prince of the Wang family is going to send her to be the one who is "insider"?

While talking, Zhang Xiuyu quickly served him a dish. There were two steaming pancakes on the dish. Many people had a big appetite, and they couldn't get enough of one pancake, so they asked for two.

"It's you!" Dong Bao smiled, glanced at his bowl, and said, "It's four Wen in total."

Small samples, sets are almost useless, and money is indispensable!

(End of this chapter)