60s Splendid Life

"Well, I have an idea, ma'am, you might as well listen to it." Lu Jin told Aunt Qin about the idea of ​​picking them up, and picking some men with relatives nearby to sell tofu in those villages, " As the saying goes, it’s easy to do things with acquaintances, and it’s easy to sell tofu if you have relatives in the nearby village, right?”

"That's right, that's the truth!" Aunt Qin replied with a smile.

After staying in the village for a while, Lu Jin also knew that there were girls from several nearby villages marrying into neighboring villages. For example, Cai Chunmei was married to Li Jiaao, and they met his aunt when they went to the market in Li Jiaao. Many acquaintances of the natal family, if they find a son-in-law from a certain village to go to a certain village to do business, wouldn't the people in that village have to give their son-in-law a little face?

As for some people in some villages who bully people with the flags above, there are not no cases like that, and there are even a lot of them. They can't avoid this kind of situation. People go to sell tofu, at worst we don’t go.” Anyway, there are so many nearby villages, at worst they will go to another village.

"All right, just do as you said. Oh, what a brain you have, how can you think of everything, my brain is not as good as yours." Aunt Qin looked at Lu Jin's head and neck. , and then touched the brains on his neck, they were all heads, why was there such a big difference?

However, if they wanted someone to be in the team, they still had to get the consent of their Captain Lu.It's just that all the villages are now mainly engaged in farming, and there are not many villages that have workshops. They just bought land and a house to open workshops. Aunt Qin was afraid that the captain of their family would not agree or approve.

The two of them discussed this matter, and Aunt Qin patted her chest and said that she would definitely be able to deal with their captain Lu, and Lu Jin committed suicide.

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On this day, when Captain Lu returned home from outside, he felt that his wife was looking at him in a strange way. Every time he looked up, he found his wife was looking at him. She didn't dodge when he caught him, and even smiled at him.

"..." Lu Dequan felt a little nervous.

Ever since the two got married, Captain Lu had never seen his wife look at him so warmly.

When he went back to his room to sleep at night, his wife brought him a large basin of footwashing water to soak his feet. He refused to soak, so he took off his shoes and put his feet in the basin. He still couldn't find out that his wife asked him for something, so Lu Dequan, the captain of the team, was also in vain.

Soaking his feet in lukewarm water that was neither hot nor cold, Lu Dequan asked his virtuous daughter-in-law today while soaking his feet, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Yes, what's the matter, can't I bring you some water to soak your feet?" Aunt Qin was a little uncomfortable being looked at by Captain Lu's penetrating gaze. Not so full, and her voice is not as loud as she used to speak at home.

"Is it all right? If you don't say it now, there will be no such shop after passing this village." The old couple who have been married for decades is not for nothing, and they are courteous for nothing. Lu Dequan has already figured out the temperament of his wife, He wouldn't believe it if he said it was fine!

"...Okay, okay, I'll say it." The virtuous wife Qin Aunt who had been pretending all night couldn't bear it any longer, so she told their team leader about the need for manpower in their tofu shop.

Who knew that Captain Lu rejected her application for a dignitary without even thinking about it.

"..." Aunt Qin.

Lu Dequan said, "Don't bully me. I haven't been to your tofu shop. Why? It's just such a small room, and four people have already been hired to work. What more?"Captain Lu was a little suspicious of what his wife wanted so many people to do, "Your little tofu shop still needs so many people?"

"How small, don't look down on our tofu shop, our tofu shop will become our Lujia Village in the future... No, we are the biggest tofu shop in Qingcheng Town!" Aunt Qin said proudly.

Captain Lu wanted to hehe, but he didn't dare in front of his wife.

However, their tofu shop will become the largest tofu shop in Qingcheng Town in the future, and it is still important to ask for people. Now that she has said it, Mrs. Qin is too lazy to pretend, she just said, "Are you going to give it to someone? "

"No." Captain Lu refused without thinking.

"...Pick up your feet!" Aunt Qin shouted angrily as she looked at the man sitting on the bed leisurely soaking his feet.

Lu Dequan raised his feet subconsciously, and saw his wife take the footbath away, "..." He looked at such an overbearing woman, speechless.

"I don't think you need to soak your feet anymore! Hmph!" Aunt Qin glared at the man, and went out with the footwashing water.

"Whoa-"

Mrs. Qin poured the footwashing water in the basin into the yard, put the footwashing basin outside, and when she came back, she blew out the lights in the house and went to bed.Lu Dequan looked at the woman lying inside with his back turned to him, "Hey!" How could this temper be stronger than that of the captain?

As for how Captain Lu coaxed his wife well this night, that was a matter for them to close the door.

The next day when Lu Jin led someone to make tofu at the tofu shop, he saw Mrs. Qin come over with a happy face and a smile on her face, telling him that Captain Lu agreed that they would recruit two more men from the village to help sell tofu.

As for the recruitment, Mrs. Qin was in charge, and Lu Jin didn't need to take care of it. He only needed to take care of the tofu shop and bring people to make fermented bean curd.

It is very simple to make fermented bean curd, but many people are not used to the white hair that grows from fermented bean curd.

Lu Jin himself is fine, he used to like to eat fermented bean curd made by himself, and he didn't know how to sell it outside, so he used to make fermented bean curd basically every year by himself, if he had time, he would make it himself When making tofu, if I don’t have time, I go out and buy tofu and make it.After sealing the jar, he said to everyone: "Okay, the altar can only be opened after three months."

"Does it take so long?" Mrs. Qin didn't know how to make fermented bean curd. She thought that making fermented bean curd was like making tofu, and that it could be eaten as soon as it was made. She didn't know it would take so long.

Lu Jin said: "Yes, it will take so long, it will taste better if it is kept longer."

As soon as she heard that it would be delicious if it was kept longer, Aunt Qin swallowed back some of the opening words in advance, "Oh, let's keep it longer then."

The fermented bean curd is sealed in a jar, and it will take three months before the jar can be opened. There are two more jars in the corner of the tofu shop. Everyone will take a look at the two jars when they pass by at first, but later everyone gets used to it. read.

After finishing the work at the tofu shop during the day, Lu Jin also made two jars of fermented bean curd and put them in the space when he went back at night. He thought that when he had time later, he would do more storage and send them to the town. Help Monkey Brother sell it.

During this period of time, he had less time to go to town, so he had fewer chances to earn extra money. He still had the little money he earned a while ago, and it didn't seem to increase much.Busy with the tofu shop in the countryside, and taking care of the baby at home, I had a good day, but I felt that I didn't make any money, and the day passed by again.

Fortunately, their expenses in the countryside are not very high. They still have rice and grain at home. Apart from the usual money he spends on buying meat, there is no other place to spend money, and the consumption is relatively low.Now their family's biggest monthly expense is the medicine money for their little Baoer, which is indispensable, but he can basically earn it back by going to town twice a month.

Because none of the items sold before were durable, Lu Jin planned to take advantage of this time to make a batch of durable items, and then take them to the town to sell to Brother Monkey for a longer period of time, and the money will continue to flow in. You don't have to worry about not being able to make money in the countryside.

The children in the family go to school together and come back together every day. They are happy when they come home every day. It can be seen that the children like and get used to school life very much.

Two days later, Shen Yu came to pick him up, but Shen Xing was still reluctant to go back with his brother, so he was carried by his brother and stuffed into the car.

When Shen Yu came, he brought him two packs of rice, probably because he was afraid that he would have nothing to eat in the countryside. Lu Jin felt helpless and warm about this.He knew that Shen Yu would not take it away since he had delivered it, so he could only give Shen Yu a bag of snacks he made, and asked Shen Yu to take it back for the old lady and Shen Xing to eat.

This time, Xiao Liu, the driver who drove to the countryside to pick up people, did not go back empty-handed. He bought a lot of food for his old friends in the countryside and took them home, as well as a basket of pancakes that Lu Jin asked Lu Jin to make for them.

The second time I went back to Lijiaao to go to the market, Aunt Qin didn't go with them anymore, but his sister-in-law Xiumei went with them, because Cai Chunmei was familiar with people in Lijiaao, so this time it was Cai Chunmei who led the team. Take them with you.

Li Guihua and Aunt Qin stayed in the village to watch their tofu shop.

Lu Jin went with him. Last time he ordered a jar to pick it up, otherwise he would have paid the deposit, and he felt that he couldn't do this kind of thing when others worked so hard to pull it over and let others pull it back.

With the experience of doing business in the bazaar in Lijia'ao for the first time, I will be more proficient in selling things when I come back here for the second time.There were customers who had bought with them in the market last time, and they came to see their stalls as soon as they were opened.

"Do you still sell stewed tofu?"

"Yes, how much do you want?"

"It's still a dime and two dollars?"

"That's right, one dime and two yuan, how much do you want?"

"Come on for four dollars."

Last time, their stewed dried tofu was famous, and many customers who had eaten it came back to buy from them. Most of the people who would be willing to spend money to buy stewed tofu were men.The stewed dried bean curd for [-] cents and [-] yuan does not seem to be as much as the tender tofu that costs [-] cents and [-] yuan, but this stewed dried bean curd is better than the taste, and it is still cooked, so you can eat it when you go home. What a beautiful day!

Lu Jin didn't forget that he had ordered jars with others. Later, seeing that their jars were not so busy, he used the excuse to go shopping. He went to the place where he bought jars last time, and found the old man who set up a stall here.

This time the old man came with his nephew, the two of them pulled two carts of things, left the house before dawn, walked more than ten miles to the market at Lijiaao, and waited for a long time. When the young man who ordered the jar came to find them, the old man felt a little anxious waiting in his heart.Seeing Lu Jin appearing in front of them, the old man smiled and said with a smile: "I thought you couldn't come if you had something to delay."

"No, no, I was busy just now and didn't have time to come over. I'm sorry to keep you waiting." Lu Jin knew that the other party was afraid that he would not come.

After checking that the quality of the jar was fine, and the amount was right, he settled the balance and asked the old man to take what he wanted to the alley from last time.After the people left, he put all the jars into the space while no one was paying attention.