Farm Gate Business Tycoon

Chapter 19: Dowry (2)
When Gu Qingmei heard what he said, she couldn't help being surprised, and instinctively felt that her fourth brother was not an ordinary person, but at the age of 17, no one was guiding him, but he could see through the world.

He couldn't help thinking secretly, no matter what, he had to find a way to earn more money, and then help fourth brother have a good future.

If you want to start a business, if no one in your family is an official, you will definitely struggle.

Although the eldest brother-in-law is a seventh-rank county magistrate, he doesn't know where he is working as a poor official in a remote village, and he can't help her.

Now, she can only pin her hopes on the fourth brother.

The next day, Gu Qingmei finally drew out all the patterns, sorted them out, wrapped them together with the colored painting in furoshiki, and handed them over to the third brother, who took them to the city to see if they were correct. You can sell it for a good price, and tell the third brother, if you sell it for money, remember to help her go to the study to buy some popular flower-shaped atlases and come back.

As for her, her head was full of ideas, and she began to study what kind of pattern should be drawn next.

But this time, she didn't draw such a complicated picture, the picture was just taken out to explore the way, this time, she focused on the pattern of the handkerchief.

She heard from Qin Bihua that the handkerchiefs used by the daughters of aristocratic families often have embroidery patterns on them, but these daughters from noble families rarely come out to buy handkerchiefs. Usually such families have special handkerchiefs The person in charge of the needle and thread.

Therefore, Zhuang Zhuang may not like such a pattern, but she is still willing to give it a try because she has another sales strategy.

Today, she is drawing flowers in the house.

Qin Bihua came to visit every day with a needle and thread. Her mother-in-law loved her and saw that she had a big belly, so she didn't need her to do the housework. She thought it was boring to do embroidery at home by herself, so she came to see Gu Qingmei every day.

Two people can have some fun while doing work and chatting at the same time.

But I heard an old accent from outside, "Is his mother Qingshan at home?"

Hearing this voice, Qin Bihua's expression changed, he put down the embroidery work in his hand, and gave Gu Qingmei "shh" twice.

Gu Qingmei looked up at her, wondering what she meant.

Qin Bihua stood up with his waist supported, walked to Gu Qingmei's side, and whispered, "It's the Ninth Grandma from the east of the village."

Hearing this, Gu Qingmei couldn't help frowning slightly.

Mrs. Gu Liu was doing needlework in the east room. Seeing that the weather was getting warmer, she had to make a jacket for the old man. When she heard the voice, she put down her needlework and came out to meet her, "It's Aunt Ninth, hurry up." Come in!"

The person who came was a woman in her 60s or [-]s. She was wearing a gray cloth gown that was patched and patched. She wore a bun on the back of her head, but unlike others, she had a silver hairpin in her head. A copper hairpin.

When Gu Shaotong heard the movement, he knelt on the kang, and Gu Shaotong, who was practicing big characters on the kang table, heard the movement, and muttered in a low voice: "Mr. Never paid back."

"Young pupil!" Gu Qingmei raised her head, glared at her reproachfully, and whispered. "He's still at home, don't talk about him, if he hears it, it's not good."

Gu Shaotong pouted unhappily.

Gu Qingmei said softly: "Neighbors and neighbors are all relatives of the same clan. As long as their character is not bad, they can help. Don't worry too much about money. No one knows who will be successful in the future. In case In the future, when there are promising people in his family, they will never forget the kindness of others. Even if they become ungrateful at that time, no one will be able to find fault with us."

After listening to her lesson, Gu Shaotong nodded slightly, expressing that he had remembered her lesson.

At this moment, I only heard that the Ninth Grandma left with gratitude.

As soon as Grandma Ninth walked to the door, she met the old lady of the Gu family, and hurriedly greeted her with a smile, "Sister-in-law is here."

The old lady Gu glanced at her indifferently, snorted through her nostrils, and walked in.

Mrs. Gu Liu followed Mrs. Gu into the east room, and waited for Mrs. Gu to sit on the edge of the kang, before she asked, "Mother, why are you here? If you need something, I can send my sister-in-law over to tell me no."

Qin Bihua heard the commotion outside, and whispered: "Grandmother is here, I don't know what kind of moth came up to make things difficult for Second Aunt."

Gu Qingmei looked at her with strange eyes. She hadn't seen this grandmother since she traveled here, and she couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Is grandma treating mother badly?"

"It's not just bad!" Qin Bihua was afraid that he would talk too much, so that Mrs. Gu could hear it, showing a look of disgust. "I won't say much, you will know later."

In the Dongli room, Mrs. Gu took off her shoes and got on the kang, leaning on the top of the kang and said, "Second daughter-in-law, I came here to discuss something with you. Your eldest niece and granddaughter are getting married. We are the mother's family, we can't Letting a child through the door is looked down upon, so I figured out that our family has to get a pair of head jewelry."

"Head jewellery?" Upon hearing this, Mrs. Gu Liu immediately showed a troubled expression.

"Mother, when his aunt's granddaughter gets married, it stands to reason that we, as a family, should add some dowry. But you also know that these years, when the children get married, they have already spent all the money in the family. Three years ago, we separated again. We built a house for the eldest and the third child, and divided the money. For the sake of relatives, if they don’t make money, they need sixty or seventy copper coins for a dose, plus they need to apply medicine every three days, so it costs more than two taels of silver a month. Some money is not enough to give Meizi medicine..."

Before Gu Liu could speak, she saw Mrs. Gu lower her face and said, "You mean, you don't want to give your niece and granddaughter this set of head jewelry?"

After hearing her words, Gu Liu felt aggrieved, "Mother, I didn't mean that."

"That's not what you mean? Don't look at me. I don't know. Yueyue from Gu Laojiu's family in the east of the village came to ask you to borrow money. His family is only a relative of Sifu with ours. You are willing to help. Why? My decent sister-in-law won't help me anymore?"

Gu Liushi turned her face away, pursed her lips, and talked about her sister-in-law Gu Yunfang. She was full of complaints. When she married, her sister-in-law was still young, but she had a sharp mouth and sharp teeth. It's not that she is angry with her, it's not that she is picking on her, so that this mother-in-law is picking her nose and eyes at her all day long, so she has never been pleasing to her eyes.

Later, when my sister-in-law got married, Mrs. Gu couldn't afford to give her daughter head jewelry, so she insisted on taking all her and sister-in-law's head jewelry away to show her sister-in-law.

(End of this chapter)