"Xiong Fulang, do you think I'm qualified?" Cai Xue's young lady's maiden name is Li Paixing Boss, and everyone in the village calls her Mrs. Li.

She was found by Mother Xiong, I have to say that Mother Xiong has a good eye, Mrs. Li's craftsmanship is very good, and the formations are dense and even.

She chose to do the hemming but not the bottom. Although the bottom is a lot of money, it takes a lot of effort. Her family has a lot of work. If she chooses to do this, she will do this at a time and do that at a time. I don’t know how many days it will take to pay. Get a pair of soles.It's better to do hemming, and you can wrap a pair in a while. At this time, you can put down to do other work, and you are not afraid to come back and affect the density of the formation.She gets up early and works hard at night, and can make thirty or forty pairs a day, which only earns three or four pennies.

Looking at the shoe materials in front of him, Tang Shou nodded with satisfaction, and Tang Shou returned her eight coins including the deposit and wages.Mrs. Li only took back Siwen, and took some shoe materials back to process.

She didn't want to waste a moment, she just wished she could get home in one step, and she left in a hurry without noticing, bumping into people coming in from outside.

"Ouch." The person on the opposite side was staggered by the bump, and managed to stand still while leaning on the wall.

Mrs. Li looked quickly, and it was Grandma Zhang who bumped into her. She hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, "Grandma Zhang, are you okay?"

Grandma Zhang ignored her, but stooped to pick up something on the ground. Her little grandson picked it up and handed it to her first.

Grandma Zhang carefully dusted off the dust with a very serious expression on her face.After the dust on the shoe material was cleaned off, he turned his head to Mrs. Li and said, "It's okay, my old lady is not so delicate yet, she won't be damaged by a bump."

While speaking, Mrs. Li accidentally glanced at the shoe material and didn't leave.

Grandma Zhang ignored her, and hurried forward, and took out the shoe sole that she had been making for a long time, her cloudy eyes couldn't see her emotions clearly, but her voice was full of hope.

"Xiong Fulang, look at what I've done to pass."

Tang Shou looked down at the shoe material stuffed into the old woman's hand. There were many needle holes on the sole. It should be that the hemming was biased. He had to remove the stitches and re-hemming. I don't know how many times he had to remove it. .It can be seen that the people who made it really put their heart into it, and reworked it repeatedly to try to be the best, but despite this, the cloth strips wrapped on the soles were still crooked in the end.

A pair of thin soles weighed as much as a thousand catties under Grandma Zhang's expectant eyes, and Tang Shou couldn't say the word unqualified in his throat.The young ladies who were rushing to hand in the work did not rush, but quietly waited for Tang Shou's attitude.

Under such eager eyes, Tang Shou almost nodded, but finally shook his head cruelly.

"I'm sorry, grandma, the soles you made are not good."

The light in Grandma Zhang's eyes went out in an instant. Since the death of Lang Jun's sons, her eyesight has been bad, and she can see things with blurry double images, and she often sews crookedly when she sews for her little grandson.She knows her faults, but life at home is too difficult, and she always tries to seize the opportunity.Grandma Zhang trembled her lips as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything, she took the hand of her little grandson and slowly turned around and walked outside the door.

"Grandma Zhang, wait." Tang Shou ran forward, took out a penny from his pocket and returned it to Grandma Zhang, "This is your deposit."

Grandma Zhang wanted to reach out to take it back, but suddenly remembered something, and said: "At the beginning, if it was good, it would be fined if it went bad."

Tang Shou's heart was hit suddenly, and he was sore and swollen, "I saw that the sole of the shoe can still be used after being removed, so it doesn't count that you did something bad, and the deposit will naturally be returned to you."

Granny Zhang took it and thanked her.With a hunched back, holding the copper plate in one hand and leading the little grandson in the other, he gradually moved away against the noon sun, as if the sun at noon could not warm the two grandparents and grandchildren.Tang Shou watched quietly for a long time, and he didn't come back to his senses until the people behind him called him.

When all the workers in the house were sent away, only Tang Shou and Xiong Zhuangshan were left, Tang Shou said sourly: "I, Erlang, I want to help her."

Xiong Zhuangshan gently hugged Tang Shou in his arms, "If you want to help, let's help her."

Tang Shou said: "Erlang, you can go to her house secretly for a while, and avoid the villagers if you can. I am afraid that others will know that we are soft-hearted and use her again, and some evil people will see it in the eyes and cause other troubles. Although the villagers will sooner or later You have to know, but it’s only a day if you can keep it a secret.”

"Okay, I'll be careful." Xiong Zhuangshan asked, "It's just what do you want her to do?"

"It's definitely not good for needlework. Her skills are too bad. If we just use her things and don't say whether it will affect our business, it's just unfair to consumers. Anyway, this matter has nothing to do with consumption. They have spent a lot of money, so naturally they should be worth their money, and we can't let them pay for our soft-heartedness."

Xiong Zhuangshan couldn't understand some words Tang Shou said, but he could understand his meaning, so he nodded.

"I'm going to let her take over the final hammer job. It doesn't take much effort, but it just needs some strength." Although strength is needed, it doesn't need to be as strong as Xiong Zhuangshan, as long as she can lift the mallet and have the strength to hammer the bottom.

When Xiong Zhuangshan came to explain his purpose, Grandma Zhang almost jumped up with joy, and his little grandson also laughed.

"Hurry up, kowtow to your benefactor, if it weren't for Xiong Erlang, we, grandpa and grandson, don't know if we can get through this winter." Grandma Zhang held her grandson and was about to kowtow to Xiong Zhuangshan, but Xiong Zhuangshan dodged away.

He glanced at Grandma Zhang's house, there was wind leaking from all sides of the house, firewood was piled in the corner, the north wind was howling outside, and the cold wind in the house was cold and hard, not necessarily much stronger than outside.But the process of hammering the sole needs to soak the sole first, then hammer it, and finally dry it.Grandma Zhang's house is so cold that her shoes will freeze as soon as they get wet. She knows how to beat hard-bound soles, and they will be smashed to pieces after two strokes.

As for Grandma Zhang and his grandson, the old and the young, it is difficult to get some firewood in a warm day, let alone a cold one.

But Xiong Zhuangshan didn't think of a way to help her again, he and his husband had already helped her once, and she had to figure out a way to overcome the rest.Sheng Mi is kind and Mi Qiu, and helping should be enough.

The north wind howls, and it can scrape a layer of skin off a person's face.A group of merchants walked through the cold wind and entered Xinghua Village.

"Hello, may the old man know where Xiong Zhuangshan's home is?"

Tang Laosan looked at their dress, behavior, words and deeds and guessed that they came to Xiong's house to buy goods.Everyone in the village knows about the incense sticks and brushing teeth made by Xiong's family. They heard that businessmen from Tokyo were invited a few days ago, so it was not surprising to see businessmen who came to buy goods.

Instead, he smiled and pointed the way: "Look at the sign at the front door, that is his home."

"Thank you old man."

"It's okay, it's okay." Tang Laosan waved his hands again and again, the better the Xiong family's business is doing, the happier he is, because his son and the women in the family are all working in the Xiong's family, and only when the Xiong's business is good can they make money.

Watching the group of people walking towards Xiong's house, Tang Laosan walked home slowly humming a little tune with his hands behind his back.

This team of merchants was still from Tokyo, and they were also attracted by toothbrush and tooth incense. When they heard that the tooth incense had been sold to the Jin family and would no longer be sold to others in Tokyo, the faces of several big men fell down instantly.

These men, surnamed Hao, are relatives. They have a small business in Tokyo. They accidentally met a high-class dignitary in Tokyo. When they heard about Yaxiang, they knew that this was an opportunity. Trying to find it through untold hardships, but Yaxiang does not sell to Tokyo merchants.

If they can't bring it back to Tokyo, they don't dare to enter it. They don't have shops or contacts in other places, and they can't guarantee whether it will be sold well when they are transferred out.In addition, there are local forces there, and they are afraid that the business will fail, and they will get in again.

But the Jin family, the Jin family in Tokyo and the others didn't dare to fight head-to-head. It seemed that they were doomed to make a trip in vain.This round-trip fare is quite a lot of money. Several men were downcast, each with gloomy expressions and weathered faces.

Tang Shou secretly rubbed his hands happily in his heart. If he really dozed off, someone would give him a pillow and the money would come to his door.After giving Xiong Zhuangshan a wink, Xiong Zhuangshan walked up from behind, and the brand new pair of mille-soled cotton shoes were in everyone's sight.

A few men from Tokyo noticed it at a glance. They had seen a lot of good things. They were wearing expensive leather boots, but they had never seen such thick-soled cotton shoes, and they were warm just looking at them.

Tang Shou was very satisfied, and said with a smile: "You guys have come from afar, let's go to the house for a rest. Besides, if we can't do Yaxiang business, we can do it." Do other things, business, what I have here is novelty."

Those men knew that they were going to do business with them for this new style of cotton shoes. The shop in Tokyo didn't sell them, and they hadn't seen anyone wearing them, so they could buy some and go back, which was better than returning empty-handed.

The Hao family brothers followed Tang Shou into the guest room, and Tang Shou made them each a bowl of sugar water with hot water.After drinking the hot sugar water, several people felt that the frozen blood had finally slowed down, and immediately asked: "Xiong Fulang is talking about the cotton shoes on Xiong Langjun's feet. I don't know how to sell them, but your family Unique one?"

"Don't worry, my family is the only one at the moment." Tang Shou didn't explain much, and showed them the finished shoes.

The charm of cotton-padded shoes with a thousand-ply bottom lies in its bottom, which is thick and warm, and it can insulate a lot of cool air when stepping on the ground.

Hao Chunsheng put his hand into the shoe and felt it, and he knew it was a good thing. He said he was rude, and took off the boots on his feet, and put on the padded cotton shoes Tang Shou gave him.

The size of the thousand-ply-soled cotton shoes is not based on the size of any person in the village, but the approximate size of the shoes that Mother Xiong has summed up based on her experience in making shoes for many gentlemen.

The pair that Tang Shou gave was a little too big, Hao Chunsheng put them one size up on his feet.But even with this size, he also likes it.It's really cool, the sole is thick, and you can't feel the chill on the surface immediately when you step on it, it's warm.

"It's a bit big, but it's just right. I'll wear a pair of socks and put on these thousand-ply-soled cotton shoes, and it will definitely be warm." Hao Chunsheng felt the benefits of the thousand-ply-soled cotton shoes, so he asked directly without Tang Shou's introduction: "These shoes How to sell it, how much do you have here, I want it all."

Hao Chunmin saw that his elder brother liked it so much, and couldn't wait to try on a pair, but his feet were too small, so he tried a few pairs but couldn't find a suitable pair.

Immediately, he hammered his head annoyed, "Why didn't it fit? Why did the elder brother fit it once he tried it."

Hao Chunsheng laughed loudly, pointed at Hao Chunmin and laughed, "Your elder brother, I have a pair of man's feet. Who is like you, a big man, who has a pair of pussy feet? I think you were born with the wrong gender. Be a little girl Twins are fine."

Hao Chunmin's mother had him, and the reaction during pregnancy was particularly severe. If he didn't eat that disgusting food, he didn't have any nutrition, so Hao Chunmin was born much smaller than his other brothers, and when he grew up, he was as delicate as Shuanger , The brothers laughed at him a lot.

Hao Chunmin stared at his elder brother angrily, his eyes almost popping out, the Hao brothers didn't take it seriously at all, and laughed wantonly.They are a few cheerful men.

Hao Chunsheng ignored his bearded and staring younger brother, and said to Xiong Zhuangshan, "I wonder if Mr. Xiong Lang can only sell these shoes to me, of course it is within Tokyo." Hao Chunsheng didn't know the Xiong family, and thought Xiong The master of the family is also the master of the family.

Xiong Zhuangshan didn't think there was anything wrong with leaving such a big business in the hands of Fu Lang, he pointed at Tang Shou naturally, and said directly: "My husband is in charge of business matters, you can ask him."

Hao Chunsheng was as shocked as a thunderbolt in his ears. He had never seen such a man who left the important affairs of the family to his husband and let his husband decide. He is not afraid of others saying that he is a little boy who eats soft food.

But soon Hao Chunsheng's expression returned to normal, as if this was a very common thing, and there was nothing to make a fuss about.

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