sbdcsierra Chapter 115: A Big Bag
Chapter 115: A Big Bag
Shen Miaozhu gave herself and her junior sister ten taels of silver each, and took the opportunity to talk about getting paid for writing manuscripts for others.
After hearing this, Mrs. Hu frowned and said, "Show me the manuscript. If it's anything like the beauty and the scholar, it won't do."
"Aunt, the monkey my second sister wrote is very interesting." Shen Lingzhu also wrote several pages on her behalf.
On this side, Shen Miaozhu quickly brought the manuscript. Not long after, after Mrs. Hu flipped through a few pages, she was completely attracted.
Shen Lingzhu thought that she could go to the county town again tomorrow and was planning what to buy.
After an unknown amount of time, the eldest brother Shen Xianzhu came back carrying a large basin of grapes: "Xiao Zhuzi, come and help me."
"I'm here." Shen Lingzhu saw that her aunt was still focused on the manuscript, then looked at her senior sister. After getting Yingzhun to hand over the silver to her, she came out and asked, "Brother, you washed it quite quickly."
"Plus, it will be faster. My second sister said that after washing the grapes, the surface water needs to be dried off, but this is the largest vegetable washing basin in the house.
I can't move it around." Shen Xianzhu said, "Calculate how many pots and vats are needed."
"Brother, are you going to the market to buy it now?" Shen Miaozhu came out with a piece of paper and gave it to him.
Shen Xianzhu took it and looked at it. There were quite a lot of odds and ends. "I'll go get some money from Mom."
Before he finished speaking, his second sister handed him a few taels of silver and said, "Second sister, when buying things at the market, it's often more convenient to use copper coins."
"Brother, the copper coins at home have been used to pay the workers.
You can go to the market and exchange it with grandma, or I can go with you?" Shen Lingzhu was worried that he would not be able to buy things at a reasonable price when he was alone.
Shen Xianzhu quickly waved his hand to refuse, and ran away quickly with his robe in hand: "I'll go with Xia Wang."
"Brother, will you buy them all?" After all, there were several jars of different sizes. Shen Lingzhu wanted to carry half a basket of grapes to the stream, but as soon as she started, she felt it was so heavy that she fell down.
As it turned out, Shen Xianzhu not only didn't buy everything, he didn't buy anything at all, but he brought back his uncle and seventh uncle who had returned late.
My uncle and seventh uncle brought back a large bag of silver. In order to ensure that the silver could reach the Shen family as soon as possible, my uncle Huang Zongqi hurriedly said hello to my parents at the market.
"So much?" Mrs. Hu pointed out that there were not only dozens of taels of silver, but also a silver note of five hundred taels from a large bank.
She couldn't remain calm and asked her son to go up the mountain immediately to call back the master.
Shen Miaozhu went to boil water and cook for the two of them. Shen Lingzhu took the opportunity to bring water to her uncle to wash his face and found out the source of the more than 500 taels.
It turned out that my uncle and seventh uncle had collected the money by visiting more than 30 carpenter shops in the capital and its suburbs.
Shen Lingzhu admired them to death. They really worked hard to earn money for their family. "Where are the two people who went with you?"
Huang Zongqi said: "Their home is in the market, they are too tired and homesick to go this way anymore."
By the time Shen Huai brought down the mountain with a few young men from the Chang family who had returned early, Huang Zongqi and the other man had already eaten hot egg noodles.
He personally served soup to the two of them and told them to concentrate on eating and not pay any attention to him.
After the two of them ate three bowls in a row, Shen Huai held their arms and said, "Thank you for your hard work. I won't say much."
He just gave Hu a look, and she placed dozens of taels of silver in front of the two of them in addition to the banknotes.
"Don't refuse, you deserve it." Shen Huai stopped the two of them and spoke first.
Shen He said, "Fifth brother, we didn't even get twenty taels for the bellows and a few rocking chair designs. We're sorry."
Shen Huai stopped him and said, "Nonsense, the price of this thing varies depending on the place."
"Yes, Uncle Qi, you guys are amazing. If I were to keep haggling down the price in Beijing, I might not even get as high as you guys did." Shen Lingzhu immediately supported his uncle.
Shen Miaozhu also nodded gently: "I misjudged the actual situation in the capital, thinking that everything there was expensive."
"If dozens of shops each sold 20 taels instead of 15, they could sell an extra 200 taels.
Later, on our way back, we wanted to sell it in Zhuozhou and Dingxing as well, but someone else managed to sell it before us.
"People in the capital city think really fast," Huang Zongqi sighed.
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"Dad, Mom, let's go quickly."
"Can't hold it anymore?"
"The refugees, mixed with rebels, dug through a corner of the old city wall and breached the South Gate. The county magistrate..."
"First, carry the children on your backs and follow me to Caojia Lane. Old man, your mother and I will take the important things with us. You, the eldest brother, will stay behind us."
"Run, someone is killing someone!" A scream came from not far away.
The sounds of shouting and running seemed to be far away and near, and kept coming into her ears. Shen Xiaotang tried hard to open her eyes, but the medicine she drank before going to bed had a sleeping effect. At this moment, her eyelids felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds.
She felt like she was being carried on someone's back. After a while, her stomach ached from the shaking. She seemed to hear someone say, "Brother Shen, here, hurry."
"Brother Zhou, please take the women and children away. I will go to support the South City Gate." It was my grandfather who was speaking.
Brother Zhou said, "Brother Shen, there's no need to provoke me. I've also been through troubled times, so I'm no problem dealing with the Ququ bandits."
"Okay, let's go together." A sharp look suddenly appeared in Grandpa Shen's eyes.
After an unknown amount of time, Shen Xiaotang finally opened his eyes, only to find it all dark and large pieces of dust falling on his face and mouth.
"Puff! Cough..." Shen Xiaotang just made a sound when suddenly a pair of big hands covered her: "Xiao Tang, keep quiet, this is a tunnel."
She was familiar with these hands. Not long after she came here seven days ago, the owner of these big hands had been feeding her and giving her medicine almost every day. In the darkness, Shen Xiaotang reached out and touched the walls on both sides, wiping off the dirt on her hands.
The tunnel was so narrow that even her skinny self couldn't stretch out her arms, and at most two people could walk side by side.
Noticing that there were people whispering in front and behind, she leaned over to Huang's ear and said, "Aunt, where is my uncle?"
"Your fourth uncle is in front. Come, lie in my arms and rest for a while." Huang said in a hoarse voice after taking a deep breath.
Then, a thin hand came over, "Xiao Tang, are you awake?"
"Grandma." Shen Xiaotang grabbed Grandma Lin's hand, but found a pair of hands pressing down from behind, "Uncle!"
"Well, I'm glad you're okay." Shen Changsui was very worried about her. He didn't expect that an earthquake would occur while he was traveling with his niece a few days ago. When he jumped out of the car to rescue the passengers of the bus who had fallen off the guardrail in front of him, Xiaotang also rushed up.
However, another wave of minor aftershocks hit, and he was no longer himself. Fortunately or unfortunately, Xiaotang also traveled through time with him.
Here, just as Shen Xiaotang was about to say something, someone said, "Quiet, move apart and breathe."
Shen Changsui let them go and said, "I'll explore the way with Brother Zhou Er." After saying that, he bent down and left quickly.
"Be careful." Sitting between grandma and aunt, he pressed his legs with both hands and felt that the airflow in the tunnel was OK.
Well, there is a lot of blood smell. It seems that my uncle and the others who are helping with patrol must have suffered a lot of injuries.
The tunnel was probably there because my grandfather had passed through here with others a few days ago, or maybe the person in front opened the exit.