sbdcsierra Chapter 114 0 Flowers
Chapter 114 0 Flowers
"Little Zhuzi, go and check if anything happens." Mrs. Hu patted Shen Lingzhu.
The latter asked the woman next to her to help look after her aunt. She followed the sound and ran to the next alley, where she saw the third grandmother sitting by a door with her legs supported, a few vegetable leaves on her shoulders and half her body wet.
The hostess of this house was holding a little girl and was circling around the third grandmother at a loss, "Auntie, this, the second daughter didn't do it on purpose."
A few people on the side advised: "Auntie, you can't sit still all the time, let us help you up..."
"I have to be able to get up too. I told you that if you sprain your foot, you should find a doctor. Moving it casually will make the injury worse." Grandma San refused these people to move her.
Seeing Shen Lingzhu running over, he said in a very bad tone: "Go find your ninth aunt."
"Let me see where you're hurt." Shen Lingzhu didn't leave immediately. When he squatted down to look at the leg she was holding, she stretched out her hand and pushed him to sit on the ground.
"What do you know, little kid? Go get some help."
Shen Lingzhu's kindness was ignored, so she stood up and turned to leave.
"Little Zhuzi." Master Shen, who had come running over after hearing the news, reached out to stop Shen Lingzhu and immediately said to Third Grandma, "No matter how much pain you suffered from the fall, you can't take it out on the child."
"Xiao Zhuzi, go call your uncle Shiman to push the cart and pick up the people." She said this, but her hand was on Shen Lingzhu's shoulder. After exerting a little force, she walked quickly with her to prevent her third aunt from saying that Xiao Zhuzi was wrong in the future.
"You are not allowed to go." Seeing that the two had reached the corner, the third grandmother pressed the ground with her hand and stood up quickly to chase after them.
The mother and daughter who had splashed water on her were stunned on the spot. The neighbor next to her curled his lips at the third grandmother and said to the honest mother and daughter, "They just take advantage of the opportunity to manipulate others. Just send her a bowl of rice and say hello in a few days."
"Do you think Jian Xuan will cause a scene every time Xiao Zhuzi comes to the village?"
"After all the fuss, he's the one who suffers."
"Well, Xiaozhuzi is quite fierce."
Little Zhuzi, who they called quite fierce, turned the alley and said, "Thank you, Aunt Nineteen. I'll go borrow a car to take Auntie home."
She couldn't use the car that Aunt Jiu got her. Later, she would have to find time to teach Shen Jianxuan how to behave. Otherwise, every time he came to the village to do something, he would cause trouble and she was very annoyed.
When it came to borrowing a car, her first choice was Xia Wang's house. When she found Xia's house, Xia Wang had just unloaded a cart of beans.
So after Shen Lingzhu gave these instructions, Xia Wang said, "Don't worry, Third Miss, I will take care of it."
After a pause, he continued, "You mentioned the cart of bellows we left at Lu's last time. Have you sold them all today?"
If not, is there any need to keep making bellows?"
"Yes, you will lead the team and ask your cousins to cooperate with you to sell them at various bazaars.
Then ask your uncle to specially prepare two blue and white mule carts for you to use when going out.
When I'm not at the market, I can think about making rocking chairs. I can sell a lot more next summer." When Shen Lingzhu thought about giving her grandfather a Mid-Autumn Festival gift, the old man said he had found two or three blue-and-white mules in their prime.
When the time comes, I will negotiate a price and buy myself a donkey and send it over together.
It’s a pity that I have to wait a few more days, otherwise I wouldn’t have to borrow a car from someone today.
She was no longer willing to rent livestock in the village. It would be easiest to go to Grape Valley and find the village headman to rent their horses directly.
It’s true that Zhuang Baibu showed great cooperation with Miss Shen’s willingness to spend money.
Not only did he pick out several tall blue mules and pair them with grooms from the horse farm, he also helped weigh the grapes and delivered them specifically for her.
By mid-afternoon, more than ten baskets of green and purple fruits were placed in the Shen family compound at the foot of the mountain.
These grapes, which everyone else found sour, were eaten with gusto by Mrs. Hu. She even said, "The flesh is quite plump. Miaozhu, have you seen any recipes for making raisins in books?"
I remember having it at a relative’s house when I was little, and it was incredibly delicious.”
Shen Miaozhu nodded: "Yes, we can build a drying room."
Mrs. Hu was very restrained and didn't eat too much. "Is it the same as Xiao Zhuzi's greenhouse?"
“There are some differences. The greenhouse for growing vegetables, well, it’s more appropriate to call it a greenhouse. The vegetables inside need water, and no matter how warm it is, there will be moisture.
But in the place where dried fruits are dried, keeping them dry is a priority. Shen Miaozhu is not interested in making raisins because there is no money to be made from wine.
She said that if her aunt wanted to eat some, she could use the newly built kang to dry some dried fruits.
Mrs. Hu had no intention of letting her stutter cause her trouble. When she heard that she needed to buy a hundred pounds of white sugar, she reminded her, "Maybe the store at the market doesn't have a hundred pounds of white sugar. Can you use brown sugar instead?"
“Try to use white sugar. You’ll also need a few large vats for fermentation. If the weather suddenly changes, it’s best to store it in a room with a higher temperature.
So we need to clear out a room in the west wing and heat the kang in advance." Three adobe houses were built in the west wing, originally intended for her and her junior sister to sleep in, with one room for the workers.
But after it was built, her aunt let her and her junior sister live in the west room of the main house, while her eldest brother and the workers shared the west wing.
Shen Miaozhu prepared to put part of it in the room for artificial fermentation, and put the other part in the kitchen for natural fermentation.
While her aunt was settling accounts, Shen Lingzhu asked, "Aunt, tomorrow when my second sister and I go to the county town to buy candy, can we rest here for one night and stay an extra day?"
"Is it because of the bellows that we placed at Lu's last time?" Mrs. Hu immediately thought of something.
Shen Lingzhu nodded: "I want to observe how many people have been entering and leaving the county recently, so as to provide a basis for the number of bellows to be produced in the next two weeks."
In fact, it was more than that. I had agreed in the capital city that I would deliver the manuscript to the storyteller in about ten days.
But her family would not allow her and her senior sister to go to the government office casually. Now, considering the time, the storyteller might start the alternative plan and go to the inn in Shun County and wait for them to find someone on their own initiative.
"Okay, you can't leave Xianzhu's sight. Go find your ninth uncle, no, find your third uncle to go with you." Last time, his silly son only cared about going to Foguang Temple to see his elders, but left his two younger sisters in the county town to sell goods.
If the Shen family's children hadn't told them to turn one or two.
Mrs. Hu beckoned the two children to follow her into the room, then opened the money box and said, "Little Zhu, take ten taels for pocket money, and the remaining fifty taels are for Miao Zhu to use.
This time, after passing the Qixingguan for over a hundred, I still had several dozen taels left.”
Shen Lingzhu and her senior sister shook their heads in unison: "And there's the Geng family's five hundred taels."
Mrs. Hu laughed at her ability to always raise 500 taels, saying, "I don't have to pay interest to the Geng family. I'll pay him back when I have accumulated 500 taels."
If you don’t want to spend it, you can keep it with you, but it’s impossible for me to take it back.”
"Aunt, we..."
"Don't refuse. The money we earn at home is from the ice-making method that Xiao Zhuzi remembered and a few of your recipes."
"Then I'll only take ten taels, the same as Xiao Zhuzi." Shen Miaozhu couldn't possibly take the lion's share, as there were more than sixty taels of silver in the money box.