Traversing the good life of a peasant woman

Chapter 77

On the opening day of the store, the sound of crackling firecrackers attracted many people to stop and watch.Soon, the news that Baiweiju's popular vermicelli was sold in this Wen's grocery store spread all over the town.

But to Wen Yue's expectation, the first ones who paid for it were not the women who had been curiously watching Li's demonstration of vermicelli at the door of the store, but the purchasers from several other restaurants in Luoshui Town. Zhao Shi and Wen Yue were a little dumbfounded, as if you squeezed me and bumped into you and tripped each other for fear that others would buy it first.

Wen Yue thought they would come to bargain first, but the supply of restaurants is still different from that of retail, and it must be cheaper.But who would have thought that none of them asked for a word of money, they all weighed the catty and paid, and then rushed out.

Wen Yue didn't know what they were thinking, now they only wished to have wings under their armpits, and everyone wanted to be the first.Just kidding, this item has already been taken by Baiweiju, and now it is sold to the outside world, if the owner does not keep up, then the customer will go to someone else's house?

With their large-scale purchases ahead, the people who had been watching outside the door began to buy them by the catty, and other products in the store were also sold out due to the hot sales of vermicelli. Not a lot.

When the store closed in the afternoon, although Mrs. Zhao was too tired to take another step, when Wen Yue poured all of today's income on the table and looked at the table full of copper coins, her fatigue disappeared instantly.

"Daughter-in-law, come and count with me. How much did we earn today?" She excitedly took Li's hand and sat down at the table, and began to count one by one.

Seeing that they were so interested, Wen Yue got up and poured them a glass of water, and then helped Fang Dachuan clean up the hygiene of the store.Before she and Fang Dachuan cleaned the floor, she heard Zhao yelling, "Dachuan, Yueniang, guess how much we sold today?"

In fact, Wen Yue and Fang Dachuan knew about how much they earned today, but seeing Mrs. Zhao so happy, Wen Yue still pretended not to know and asked, "How much, grandma?"

"It's more than four taels, Yue Niang, it's more than four taels!" Mrs. Zhao excitedly held up the money box and said, "No wonder you two always want to open a shop. It's really nice to collect some money."

"Grandma, can you just collect money in the store from now on? I sell goods with my mother, and you collect money, so that you can enjoy yourself every day!" Wen Yue said with her eyes rolled.

Fang Dachuan's eyes lit up, and he said, "Yes, grandma, why don't you take charge of the financial power of this store, and you will be our accountant."

Wen Yue saw that Mrs. Zhao was very moved by this proposal, and just waiting for her to nod and agree, there was a reason for her to move to the town.However, Mrs. Zhao finally shook her head, Wen Yue looked at Fang Dachuan dejectedly, and stopped talking.

Dachuan was also disappointed in his heart, but he also knew that Mrs. Zhao was really not easy to talk to, so he could only say: "Grandma, mother, let's pack up and go home. Man'er is still at Aunt Sun's house."

In the blink of an eye, it's November, and the store's business is on the right track, and the daily income has basically stabilized.Through Zhu Xunzhi's relationship, Wen Yue bought several kinds of goods from Zhu's house and sold them in the store. Because they are directly wholesaled, the price is a little cheaper than similar goods in other stores.In this way, the items in their grocery store became more and more complete, and the number of customers increased. In just a month or two, they became famous in Luoshui Town.

On this day, as soon as Wen Yue got up, she felt dizzy and vomited out lying on the edge of the kang.The movement in the room startled Fang Dachuan who had just entered the room and was about to ask her to eat, "Yue Niang, what's wrong with you, why are you uncomfortable?"

Wen Yue shook her head, she was still throwing up and couldn't speak at all, Man'er grabbed Fang Dachuan's hand and cried loudly in fright.Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Li also entered the room when they heard the cry of the child. After seeing Wen Yue like this, Mrs. Li's heart skipped a beat: "What's wrong, Dachuan?"

Fang Dachuan patted Wen Yue on the back, and shook his head, "I don't know, I just came into the room to ask her to eat, and found that she was sick. Could it be that she ate something unclean?"

"No, our family eats the same food, we are all fine." Li Shi thought for a while and said.

Mrs. Zhao looked at Wen Yue, then at Man'er, and suddenly smiled and said, "Yue Niang, do you have it?"

Wen Yue stopped vomiting at this time, she took the clear water from Fang Dachuan's hand and rinsed her mouth, looked at Zhao Shi blankly and said "ah".

"You child, oh what, don't you know if you are pregnant?" Mrs. Zhao looked at Wen Yue with hatred and said, "You haven't used menstruation for several months, don't you even Forget about this."

Wen Yue shook her head and said: "I've been thinking about things in the store for a while, and I didn't pay attention to these things at all."

Mrs. Zhao shook her head, and Fang Dachuan said, "Your daughter-in-law is stupid, and you are also stupid. Why don't you care about it at all? Why are you so dazed? Go find a doctor to take a look. Anyway, I'll take care of it. This matter is almost inseparable."

Fang Dachuan heard Zhao's saying that Wen Yue was pregnant, and was ecstatic in his heart, and rushed out of the house with the wind under his feet.Zhao picked up Man'er who was still crying and said, "Man'er, don't cry, your mother is fine, this is because you have another little brother."

"Brother?" Man'er sobbed, but stopped crying, looked at Wen Yue and asked, "Brother, where are you?"

"In your mother's womb, Man'er is going to be a big sister, so she can't cry anymore. If you frighten the younger brother in your mother's womb, he won't come out to play with you. Didn't you always want a younger brother? "Ms. Zhao continued to coax Man'er.

"Brother, younger brother, my younger brother." Man'er happily called her younger brother, while struggling to get Mrs. Zhao to put her on the kang, touched Wen Yue's belly with her hand, and said softly, "My brother is good."

It was only after the doctor came that she realized that the child had been quietly growing in her body for more than three months. Wen Yue caressed her stomach and was full of surprises. Because she was busy with the things in the store these days, she was flawless at all. Think about it.If it hadn't been for Mrs. Zhao's reminder just now, she would have really forgotten that she hadn't menstruated for several months, thinking that the doctor just said that her fetal phase was unstable, she couldn't help but be afraid.

"Son, do you also let mother feel your existence so strongly because mother neglected you and made you uncomfortable in mother's stomach?" Wen Yue was full of guilt, if there was something wrong with this child ,What should she do?
"Yue Niang, what are you thinking?" Fang Dachuan sent the doctor away, and when he returned to the house, he saw Wen Yue staring at the roof in a daze.

Seeing Fang Dachuan, Wen Yue felt that the sadness in her heart began to be uncontrollable, sobbing and lying in his arms, she said: "Dachuan, it's all my fault, I don't know if I have a child, I'm not a good mother, if the child What happened, how can I live?"

"Don't think too much, the child is still very healthy, this is a happy event, you have to be happy. In the future, don't go to the store, stay at home and rest for a while, and you will be fine soon." Fang Dachuan comforted softly .

"I can't open a store today, and Zhuangzi has to pay taxes again, and you can't go to the store either, mother can see what the store does!" Thinking that she couldn't go to the store, Wen Yue said a little worried.

Fang Dachuan was also stunned, this is indeed a problem, Mrs. Li can't support a store by herself, and grandma has to stay at home to watch Man'er. "Or, let's not open the store today." There is no good way, and Fang Dachuan can only do this.

Closed for a day?This is not a good idea, but now that I think about it, there is really no good way. "Well, anyway, if you don't open for a day, it won't have much impact."

Mrs. Zhao came in with a medicine bowl in hand, "Yueniang, you should drink up this miscarriage medicine, it's hot, be careful."

Seeing Wen Yue drinking the medicine in pain, Mrs. Zhao sat on the side and said: "I heard what you said just now, Yue Niang will not be able to go to town again in the future, she has a bad pregnancy, she must take good care of her. God It's getting colder and colder, and it will definitely snow in a month or two. Dachuan, you drive to the town every day and come back at night, which is not a problem. So, you have to think of a way, the town What are you going to do with the shop?"

Wen Yue wants to say, can't you just agree to move to the town?But thinking of Zhao's stubborn temper and the thoughts in her heart, she still endured it. "It's really not possible, let's hire a waiter to look after the store." Wen Yue, who put down the medicine bowl, hurriedly picked up the water prepared by Mrs. Zhao on the table and poured all the water into her stomach, which washed away the bitter taste in her mouth.

"Hire someone? Yue Niang, do you have a suitable candidate?" Zhao asked.

"I haven't made up my mind yet, grandma, Dachuan has something else to do, let him go first, and we will discuss it together when we come back tonight." Seeing that Fang Dachuan hadn't left yet, Wen Yue hurriedly urged.

After Fang Dachuan left, Mrs. Zhao asked Wen Yue to sleep a little longer, and she handed Man'er to Mrs. Li, and she didn't know where she went.After Fang Dachuan came back in the afternoon, she gathered the family together and said, "Dachuan, Yueniang, come and sit down, I have something to tell you."

Seeing that Wen Yue and Fang Dachuan were sitting beside her, she said, "Didn't you say you hired a waiter to look after the shop in the morning? Well, I have someone to choose, do you think so?"

"Who is it?" Fang Dachuan asked.

"Your Aunt Sun and Fourth Aunt." After Zhao finished speaking, she kept looking at the expressions of Fang Dachuan and Wen Yue.

Wen Yue didn't expect Zhao Shi to be talking about them, "Grandma, why did you think of looking for them?"

"These days you have been busy with things in the store, and you don't know what happened in the village. Didn't the two sons of your fourth aunt Sun's family go to serve in corvee? They were accidentally hit by a stone, and both of them died. I was injured, and was carried back. The two of them were injured, and they emptied the family's money. Their family is having a hard time now. Your fourth aunt Sun has been thinking about whether to go to the town to find a part-time job these days Do it, but they are all so old, how can it be so easy to find a job? Sigh!" When Zhao mentioned Aunt Sun's house, she also sighed.

Wen Yue really didn't know that such a big incident happened to Aunt Sun's house. She and Fang Dachuan were devoted to the shop these days, and they didn't care what happened in the village at all.Wen Yue still remembered that when she came to wear it, the first sound she heard when she opened her eyes was Fourth Aunt Sun hugging her. Now that something big happened to her family, how could she not help.

"Our shop is also making small profits now, and the monthly net profit is only about three taels of silver, so it is impossible for us to pay them too much wages, at most three hundred dollars, will they agree?" Thinking of the situation of Aunt Sun's family , Wen Yue is not sure if they will agree, don't do bad things with good intentions then.

Mrs. Zhao gave Wen Yue a blank look, "You are really rich now, and you don't even pay attention to three hundred Wen? How much is a catty of polished rice? Is four hundred Wen less? Let's save money in the countryside." However, it is enough for their family to live for a few months."

Wen Yue turned her head to look at Fang Dachuan, saw him nodding, and then said a little embarrassedly: "I didn't mean that, I think they are two people, and there are not many on average. Then grandma, you should go Ask them, it would be better if they agree, and if they don’t agree, let’s find someone sooner.”

"Don't worry, they will agree after hearing it." Zhao walked out cheerfully. She was worrying about how she could help the Sun family. She had such a good opportunity to help them and solve her family's urgent needs. Kill two birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)