Farmhouse Qiaofei

Chapter 57
"Father, mother, you can't eat the iron plate tofu made today." On the mule cart, Bai Shao looked at Wu Shi and Bai Chuanbai apologetically.

She gave Yan Shu the last one left.

"My lord saved us, so I should give him things. If it wasn't for the last one left, I should give more." Bai Chuanbai said with a naive smile on the side.

Bai Shao sighed and did not speak.

"Shao'er, why are you still not very happy that the young master helped us drive people away?" Bai Wei who was at the side keenly noticed the ups and downs of Bai Shao's emotions, and couldn't help asking.

"He, he is too naive. Anywhere, such ruffians are in groups. They beat up Brother Zhao, Brother Li and Brother Zhang, and they will harass us endlessly in the future. Our business is still in danger. Do it or not." Bai Shao frowned and said, "He can help us for a while, but he can't help us for a lifetime, so if he can not do it, he should not do it."

Deterrence is fine, but you can't use hands. Once you hurt someone, it's easy to burn hatred.

Once the hatred is branded, the resentment will be forged, I am afraid it will be difficult.

It's a pity that Yan Shu was too young to understand these things.

Judging by his appearance, he is about 15 years old.

In Bai Shao's heart, at this age, he is not a brat.

The whole family on the mule cart fell silent. They were grateful to Yan Shu at first, but after hearing Bai Shao's words, although their gratitude to Yan Shu was still the same, they began to think seriously about many things.

"Perhaps I shouldn't blame him for not thinking of this. After all, his living environment is different from ours. No matter what, he is the nephew of the county magistrate. Presumably there are not many people in Xieyang County who dare to bully him. Just hit him, don't worry about the consequences. ..." Bai Shao let out a long breath.

In any case, Yan Shu helped her, and more than once.

So before leaving, Bai Shao gave Mo Yu the remaining portion of iron plate tofu, in fact telling Yan Shu that she didn't blame him.

I just think he's a little out of touch.

Just like the incident at Xinghua Pavilion last time...

Thinking all the way, Bai Shao and the others returned home.

It was already noon at this time, and many people had already prepared lunch, and some of them even started eating early.

When he returned to Bai's house, Mrs. Xu was serving a meal, and Bai Chuanqiong was standing beside her serving the dishes. Hearing the movement at the door, he turned his head and looked at Bai Shao's family, his eyes flickering with strangeness.

"Third brother, are you back?" Bai Chuanqiong seemed to have forgotten what happened when the family was separated a few days ago, but at this moment he took the initiative to greet Bai Chuanbai.

Bai Chuanbai took a look at him, lowered his head, and only answered "Yes" after a while.

Of course he was angry with Bai Chuanqiong, not because of his face on the day the family separated, but because he wanted to sell Bai Shao twice, which touched Bai Chuanbai's bottom line.

In the past, Bai Chuanbai hated the decision to never talk to this younger brother and draw a clear line with him.

But now Bai Chuanbai just greeted him with a smile, and he couldn't bear to ignore him. Although the reply was very cold, it was a response after all.

Bai Shao sighed at the side, for her very soft-hearted father.

Bai Chuanqiong smiled all over his face. He knew Bai Chuanbai, so he naturally knew that Bai Chuanbo was able to respond to him, which meant that the relationship between the two could be somewhat relaxed, and his heart became active immediately.

"Third brother, are you tired today?" After Bai Chuanqiong put the dishes back in the main room, he lifted the curtain and came out again. He didn't dare to approach the west side room, and only stood in the middle of the courtyard to talk to Bai Chuanbai.

"Very good." Bai Chuanbai said indifferently.

Bai Chuanqiong didn't take it seriously, and continued to ask enthusiastically, "I heard from the people in our village, third brother, you are selling tofu at the market today, and you just ate... the kind your mother ate yesterday?"

"En." Bai Chuanbai nodded.

"Ah, I heard that you, third brother, have made a lot of them. You can't sell them all. Have you eaten all of them? Why didn't you bring some back for your father and mother?" Bai Chuanqiong said with a smile.

Bai Chuanbai paused while helping Wu Shi hold firewood.

After a while, he turned his head, looked at Bai Chuanqiong, and said in a deep voice, "The food is sold out, except for the two children Wei'er and Yun Shi who ate a little, none of us, not even Shao'er. "

"It's sold out, what a pity." Bai Chuanqiong smacked his lips, as if reminiscing about the taste of last night, "Well, third brother, you can make some more, my mother still wants to eat it, you have always been filial, haven't you?"

This time, Bai Chuanbai didn't make a sound, it was Bai Shao who spoke.

"Fourth Uncle, the iron plate tofu is delicious, but if you eat too much, you will get angry. People of my grandma's age should eat something light. Eating too much of this kind of thing is not good for your health. I have taken medicine Lord knows." Bai Shao said, and deliberately raised her voice, and turned towards the direction of the main room.

Mr. Bai, who was eating in the main room, slapped the wooden chopsticks on the table. He glanced at the door of the main room with some resentment, and said in a loud voice, "Fourth, come back for dinner. Hurry up, it's going to be cold." .”

"Hey, good dad." Bai Chuanqiong smacked his lips, and reluctantly swept the small bundle in Bai Shao's hand before returning to the main room.

"Your fourth uncle..." Bai Chuanbai turned his head, habitually trying to cover up for his younger brother, but found that the expressions on the children's faces were very strange.

Wu Shi hastily coughed lightly beside him, and then he closed his mouth as if he had just woken up from a dream.

Why bother to cover up for him, what kind of temperament is his fourth brother, can the children not know?
When I said this, I was somewhat separated from the children.

"Okay, son's father, you go and clear the table, we'll have dinner right away." Seeing Bai Chuanbai's distress, Wu called out to help him out.

Bai Chuanbai glanced at Mrs. Wu gratefully, and took the lead to enter the west side room, cleaned up the temporary dining table set up with wooden boxes, and only waited for Mrs. Wu to bring the food before the family began to eat lunch.

After a meal, Bai Wei and Wu Shi washed the bowls and chopsticks, and Bai Shao asked Bai Yunshi to close the door of the west side house, and the whole family gathered around the bed, and began to count today's income.

Today I bought a total of 60 yuan of tofu, two yuan of tofu for one penny, which means I spent [-] yuan on tofu.

I used up a bowl of peanut oil, which is quite expensive. A pot of peanut oil costs more than [-] yuan, and this bowl costs [-] yuan no matter what.

There are also those spices that cost at least eight coins.

Then count the money that came in today.

A total of... one hundred and eight characters!

After deducting the cost, they made a net profit of 65 Wen!

When this number came out, both Bai Chuanbai and Wu Shi were shocked.

You know, this is just the money earned in one day. If you can earn 65 Wen a day, it will be... 950 Wen a month.

Calculated according to the exchange rate between copper coins and silver in this era, it should be nearly two taels of silver.

The monthly salary of Xieyang magistrate is only five taels of silver.

Ordinary people like them can earn two taels of silver a month?
It's unimaginable!
Bai Shao, on the other hand, put the copper coins into a small wooden box very calmly, and put them away together with the remaining silver, "Father and mother, business has its ups and downs. We only made more than 60 cash today when our business was good. If the business is not good, or if people around you are tired of eating sizzling tofu, or if someone imitates our tofu, then the business will go down.”

"That's true." Bai Chuanbai said thoughtfully, "But for us, this is not a small amount of wealth. If we save it for a few years, maybe we can really build three big tiles. room."

"There are only three rooms, father, I want six rooms." Bai Wei said dissatisfiedly from the side.

"Sister, you are going to get married in the future, no matter how big the house is, you won't live here long." Bai Shao looked interesting and couldn't help interjecting.

Bai Wei suddenly smiled and jumped on her body, trying to twist her mouth.

The two children fought together.

Wu Shi and Bai Chuanbai looked at them with a smile.

Bai Yunshi sat aside, resting his chin, a little distracted, not knowing what he was thinking.

It can be said that everything is very beautiful now.

It's a pity that this happiness didn't last long, and was interrupted by knocks on the door.

"Third brother, third brother, mother calls you." Standing outside the door of the west side house, Mrs. Xu called softly.

Bai Wei and Bai Shao stopped laughing all of a sudden, they stood up from the bed, looked at each other, and Bai Wei went to open the door.

"Third sister." Xu's appearance is fair and clean, and she always appears shy in front of everyone on weekdays, but today for some reason, her eyes are looking into the room, looking for something.

Bai Wei turned sideways on purpose, blocking Xu's sight, and asked loudly, "What's the matter with Fourth Aunt?"

"Mother asked me to call third brother to go to the main room to have a chat." Seeing that she couldn't see anything, Xu looked away and smiled shyly at Bai.

"Oh." Bai Wei nodded, and glanced at Bai Chuanbai.

"I'll go right away." Bai Chuanbai straightened his clothes and was about to go into the main room.

Regardless of whether the family is separated or not, he is always the son of Mr. Bai and Mrs. Liu.The second elder came to call, so there was no reason not to go.

Bai Wei grabbed his sleeve, "Father, I'll go there with you."

Bai Chuanbai knew that it was because his daughter was worried about him, so he nodded without refusing.

The father and father went to the main room together behind Xu.

Here, Bai Shao waited for Bai Yunshi to close the door, then took out the box with the copper coins from behind him, counted out the money to be used tomorrow, then took out a small copper lock, and locked the box firmly. locked.

In the end, I put the box into the bottom of the big clothes box, and I felt relieved.

"Mother, let me also go to the main room to have a look." Bai Shao said to Wu Shi.

Although Bai Wei is getting more and more tempered and powerful, but when it comes to the ability to respond and argue with others, Bai Shao is still stronger.

"That's fine, you go there and let your father come back earlier." Wu Shi nodded and said worriedly.

It's not to blame her for thinking too much, but every time Mrs. Liu called Bai Chuanbai over, nothing good happened.

"Okay." Bai Shao stood up, stretched out her hand, and opened the door of the west side room.

Then, she saw Bai Wei's face that was a little red from running fast, and her hurried voice, "Hurry up, Shao'er, my grandma and my father want a spice recipe for iron plate tofu!"

(End of this chapter)