webnovelfull Chapter 489: Two People with Ulterior Motives
Chapter 489: Two People with Ulterior Motives
Now everyone has money, even many sisters have handed over half of their wages to their families.
They have saved dozens of taels of money in recent months, and they don’t have much spending on weekdays.
Everyone ate together and never bought face cream. Shen Youyou and her sisters made everything themselves.
Even if I am making new cotton-padded clothes, it is the elders in the family who pay for it. How can I be motivated to work if I only make money but don't spend it?
After the meeting, I returned to my house.
The family had already had a fire wall and a kang at home. The old earthen walls they built were thick enough, and the window papers were replaced with thick plastic boards, so the house was warm.
The scene at this moment was very similar to when they had just moved in, and Erhu was sitting outside the bathroom adding fuel to the fire.
But the difference is that now you don’t have to fetch hot water bucket by bucket.
During this period, the brothers installed running water in the houses they lived in. All they had to do was turn on the tap, but after taking a bath, they still had to take the dirty hot water out.
Shen Luming was standing in the bathtub rubbing her father's back. Her little face was flushed with tiredness, and the hot steam even left tiny drops of water on her long eyelashes.
Shen Zhiqiu closed his eyes, looking very happy: "Have you decided what to buy in the capital city tomorrow?"
Hearing this, Shen Luming immediately stopped scrubbing his body and counted on his fingers: "I need to buy icing sugar so that my sister can make white yam candied haws for me. I also need to buy donkey rolls, mung bean cakes, jujube paste cakes, lotus cakes..."
"Why are you only thinking about food? Everyone else is buying new clothes, but you are not?"
"How is that possible? Didn't my mother help me with buying new clothes?"
In the east bathroom, Li Jingshu was also scrubbing Shen Youyou's body while asking, "Does your grandma agree that your group should go on strike and go to the capital city tomorrow?"
"I agree!"
"I thought your grandma couldn't let me. If I delay for a day, I will miss out on making a lot of hairpins, especially before the New Year. I also received orders for many years later.
I heard that those wealthy families will hold various banquets after the New Year, and some jewelry stores will not even close during the New Year."
"Don't think my grandma is so stingy, okay?
My grandmother also gave me and my three sisters ten taels of silver each, saying that we could all buy satin clothes.
"But I feel that my grandma didn't give me the money just for me. She knew I had money and was willing to spend it on the satin. Big Sister Ya, Second Sister Ya, and Taohua Sister were reluctant to spend it.
I encouraged them to buy satin ready-made clothes before, but they didn’t respond. Maybe my grandma saw it.”
Li Jingshu smiled slightly: "Just be content. Which girl dares to spend money like you? Selling a mountaintop will cost you a thousand taels of silver."
Shen Youyou disagreed with this. She whispered, "That's just an early stage investment. Once my pepper trees are full of peppers, that will be the time to make a lot of money."
This amused her mother, and the pepper seedlings grew as tall as a chopstick, so she thought of selling them in large quantities.
However, although Shen Youyou spent a lot of money to buy the mountain, with the money she earned later, she now has a total of more than 3,000 taels. When she goes to the provincial capital tomorrow, she will ask about the sale of the shop.
Money will not appreciate if you keep it in your hand. It can only make money if you invest it.
The next day was the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Snowflakes began to slowly fall from the sky, and the boys from the nine tribes were given a day off to drive horse-drawn carriages for the women and girls.
Erhu was wearing a cotton hat and a cotton mask on his face. He raised his whip and said, "Fight!"
He squinted his eyes, blinded by the wind and snow, and looked back into the carriage while driving.
That’s right, sitting in the carriage behind him were the four Shen Youyou sisters, and Li Jingshu who was holding her brother.
It was a cloudy and snowy day. The road was slowly covered with a layer of white. The sky was also gray. The biting north wind blew, making it dry and cold.
Even so, it didn't ruin his mood. Since he knew yesterday that they could go shopping together, he was extremely excited.
Thinking of someone sitting behind him, he touched the silver in his arms and his heart beat faster. He couldn't sleep last night because of this matter, and his eldest brother almost found out something.
But I want to spend the money I earn on her, but how can I spend it without anyone noticing?
He was not the only one who had the same thought. Er Zhuang, who was also driving a mule cart behind him, glanced at the carriage in front of him with a resentful look on his face.
Why is Erhu so lucky?
But her mother behind her said something very inappropriate: "Second brother, slow down, it's snowing, and we're not in a hurry. It's better to slow down than to overturn the car."
There were several other people in the carriage, and Shen Mazi's wife also spoke up: "I think Erzhuang wants to go to the city early to buy new clothes. The boy has grown up and probably knows how to dress himself up so that he can meet girls."
Hearing this, Gao Erzhuang said: “Ahem!”
"Haha, Sister Gao, look, I was right."
Er Zhuang quickly retorted: "Ahem, no...no! Auntie, I was choked by the snowstorm."
Regardless of whether the people in the car believed it or not, this topic had already directly attracted the attention of Gao Lao Da's wife: "We have quite a few boys who are worth seeing.
Some people in the village have also asked our old man and old lady about our house, but do we have to wait until we build a new house before we can show it to them?"
"It's okay to just wait and see each other. We're not going to marry you right away. We can hold the wedding after we move into the new house. It won't delay us!"
Er Zhuang, who was driving the horse-drawn carriage, was feeling anxious and nervous, hoping that his mother would not match him up with someone else randomly.
When they arrived in Shuntian Prefecture, their first stop was a clothing shop.
I originally thought that since it was already the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, there would probably be few people in the store, after all, those who needed to buy clothes and fabrics had already done so.
As it turned out, the store was quite lively when I entered.
This time they were looking for a shop that specialized in ready-made clothes. Unlike other cloth shops, they had ready-made clothes but not many.
Even though Chinese New Year is coming soon, this store still has a lot of ready-made clothes hanging.
The waiter was also very enthusiastic. When he saw them come in, he immediately greeted them: "Oh, it's Madam Shen. What brings you here? I'll go call our shopkeeper right away."
Li Jingshu wanted to say that it was not necessary and they could take a look for themselves first, but the second brother ran away.
This shop also imports their goods, including shoe soles and hairpins. After all, it is a ready-made clothing shop, so they will also sell shoes and some cheap jewelry, handkerchiefs, purses and so on.
The shopkeeper came back after a while. She was a woman with a quick-tempered and efficient personality. The first time I went to their house to discuss business, it was Li Jingshu and Old Lady Hua who received me, so they were quite familiar with each other.
But judging from her facial features, the shopkeeper had willow-shaped eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, an oval face, and soft features, and did not look like a strong woman at all.
"Hey! Why did I hear a magpie calling so early this morning? It turns out the ladies from the Nine Clans came to patronize our shop!"
Li Jingshu said with a bright smile on his face:
"Madam Wei, the New Year is coming soon! Today, I, my sisters-in-law, brothers and sisters, and our children will come to take a look at the ready-made clothes you have.
By the way, do you sell men's clothing in your store?"