Hearing what her mother-in-law said, Qian suddenly felt aggrieved.
She obviously knows how to cook, so why not let her do it?
Ning Pengpeng didn't have time to pay attention to how sad Qian was in her heart. She was thinking about what she had asked her cheap daughter to do the day before yesterday. It had been two days, so naturally she had to check the tasks she assigned and see how Ning Youxi was doing.
Already.
In the past two days, Ning Youxi has been like a quail, not daring to show his face in front of his mother.
Only when she was away did I go out to take a breath.
But two days later, all ten fingers were pricked with pinholes, and the flowers that were supposed to be embroidered on the veil were crooked.
So, when Ning Pengpeng opened the door and came in, Ning Youxi was so frightened that she almost jumped out of her chair.
It was really scary that day when my mother said seriously that she wanted her brothers to put her on a rope!
"Is this the flower you embroidered?"
Ning Pengpeng picked up the embroidered bandana and looked at the orchid grass embroidered on the stuck handkerchief. The corner of her mouth couldn't help but twitch.
Is this orchid grass?
Is this a piece of bird poop?
The jet-black threads lay randomly on the handkerchief like a caterpillar.
"Mom, I was wrong. I don't dare to steal food anymore, please let me go! Look at my fingers, they are full of needle holes. I really can't embroider."
Ning Youxi stretched out ten fingers to show to Ning Pengpeng, with a crying expression on her face.
"It is indeed not a lady's destiny."
Ning Pengpeng nodded. If you can't be a lady, then do something else!
Then Ning Youxi stared blankly at the sack of beans in front of her.
"Pick...pick beans?"
"Yes, I know that my own beans don't have stones in them. Who can guarantee that there are no stones in the beans your third brother collected? We are making food. If customers bite stones or sediment,
Things are not very good after all.
It just so happens that you really can't embroider flowers! In that case, let's pick up the beans.
Remember, if I check that there are pebbles in the beans you picked up, I will deduct a penny from your dowry.
If you can cleanly pick up a sack, you can get as much wages as your third brother and the others get every day.
Whether to deduct your dowry money or earn money to add to your own dowry, it’s up to you to choose!”
Ning Youxi was shocked by her mother's words. If she couldn't do a good job, she would still be deducted money. How could this be possible?
"Mom, am I still not your biological child?"
Seeing his little daughter stomping her feet in disbelief, Ning Pengpeng had a toothache and glared at her with disgust and said.
"If I hadn't known that you were my biological child, do you think I would have given you this opportunity to earn dowry money? Ning Youxi, let me tell you, don't think about being lazy, fooling around, and not picking up the beans properly.
How about you try and see if I can do as I say."
Ning Pengpeng turned around and left the house. Today she had to make all the cakes to be sold tomorrow, and she didn't have the time to deal with this weak-minded girl.
For more than ten days in a row, Ning Laosan had bought all the dozens of kilograms of brown sugar in Liu's grocery store. Ning Laosan also made a special trip to Feng Town to find the grocery store in Feng Town.
All the brown sugar in the shop was also bought.
Ning Laosan and Ning Laosi worked in the town, one selling and the other collecting money, and they could earn more than one tael of silver every day.
After more than ten days, Ning Pengpeng had sixteen more taels of silver in his hands.
Not including the more than five kilograms of brown sugar, hundreds of kilograms of beans and a hundred kilograms of glutinous rice left at home now.
Those beans and glutinous rice were collected by Ning Pengpeng from people in the villages on the way to Feng Town when Ning Pengpeng asked Ning Laosan to go there.
The price was even cheaper than that of Dahuaishu Village, so Ning Laosan didn’t live there alone and charged too much.
From Ning Laosan's point of view, these beans can be eaten by themselves even if they are not made into cakes, so it doesn't matter if they collect more.
On the twentieth day of sales, Ning Pengpeng began to reduce the number of pastries.
"Mom, business is so good, why don't you overdo it and sell it?"
Ning Laosan was so excited by the business these days that his eyes almost turned red!
Now the income from more than one tael of silver suddenly dropped to a few hundred yuan. He suddenly became a little anxious, paced back and forth, and said to Ning Pengpeng impatiently.
"You know shit."
Ning Pengpeng rolled her eyes at Lao San.
"Look at the village, who lives by eating cakes every day? No matter how rich the people in the town are, they still have a certain limit. Although our cakes are delicious, they are not cheap. We eat them every day, unless we have gold and silver at home.
Mountain."
Hearing his mother's words, Ning Laosan was immediately dumbfounded. He calmed down and thought about it, and it seemed that this was really the case.
"Then... what should we do? Do we have to reduce the quantity sold in the future?"
Although now all the money from the sale is in my mother's hands.
But my mother said before that if they are willing to do it alone after half a year, she will not object.
If you are like this now, will you still be alone in half a year?
"Humph, if we don't do this, of course someone will want to do it. By the way, I asked you to ask about the cow. How did it go?"
Nowadays, there are very few families with cows. Most of them are wealthy families with small property, so they buy cows to help with farming.
In the entire Dahuaishu Village, there are only two families with cattle.
One of them is the Li Zheng family, and the other one is the Pan family next door.
When Pan Dazhu's cattle are not in the fields, he will make an appointment with people in the village who want to go to the town, and then pull them there and then back again to earn some money to spend.
However, Mrs. Pan and Mrs. Ning have always been at odds with each other. In the past, Mrs. Ning would rather walk to town than take the Pan family's ox cart.
Now Ning Pengpeng naturally couldn't go to Pan's house to ask about the cow, so she asked Ning Laosan to ask anyone in the town who had calves for sale.
"There are two families whose cows are about to give birth, but the cows are too small, so there is no use buying them! There is another family whose cows are in their prime, but the price is quite high."
Being pulled by Ning Pengpeng, Ning Laosan's attention immediately turned to the cow.
After all, he was born as a farmer, and he cared most about cattle, the animals he most wanted to work in the fields.
Therefore, he explained to Ning Pengpeng in detail.
"The price is not low? How much silver does it cost?"
Ning Pengpeng asked directly, she didn't think the calf was useful either. After all, the calf she bought had other uses besides transportation!
"That family's son is fond of gambling, and he seems to owe a lot of silver. So he planned to sell the cow at home. But the price was twenty taels of silver, so no one bought it."
A newly born calf can be bought for only ten taels of silver. Now it is not worthwhile to spend double the price to buy a cow in its prime.
After all, cows just need to eat grass.
It only takes one year to raise a calf fat and strong. How can it cost ten taels of silver?
Who is willing to be taken advantage of and spend the extra ten taels of silver to buy it?