Mrs. Zheng's house is only a hundred meters away from the Shi family. At noon, her daughter-in-law gossiped about the Shi family. However, she was not willing to talk to others about the wrong things, but she could not stop others from gossiping. She only let her son at home.
Wife, just keep your mouth shut and don't go out and talk nonsense with others.
Unexpectedly, after dinner, I heard someone knocking on the door. I was muttering to myself that it was so late and I didn’t know who it was.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Bagua himself, who had been talked about at noon, standing at the door of his house very handsomely.
Mrs. Zheng's first reaction was: Could it be that her daughter-in-law was talking ill of others outside and someone came to her door?
Unexpectedly, the other party asked with a smile: "Granny Zheng, my family wants to hire someone to do three meals a day and clean up, and the salary will be 500 yuan a month. It happened that the noodle shop proprietress introduced that Granny Zheng wanted to find a job.
I wonder if Granny Zheng is willing?"
When Granny Zheng heard this, she was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly.
Now she only does odd jobs for others, and at most she gets a few cents as hard work pay each time.
He only does three meals a day and cleaning, and he is paid 500 cash a month, which is no less than his old man.
For a person like her, cooking and cleaning are really not tiring tasks, so there is no reason not to agree.
When Shi Jiang saw that although the clothes the other party was wearing were a little white from the washing, his whole body was clean and his hair was neatly combed, not to mention the nails, which were cut cleanly and there was no dirt between the fingers, he felt sad in his heart.
Quite satisfied.
Therefore, the salary originally planned to be four hundred cents was also mentioned as five hundred cents.
After making an appointment with Mrs. Zheng to start work, Shi Jiang turned around and went back.
After all, I have to sort out a lot of things when I come back today.
"Mom, what is that girl from the Shi family doing here?"
Mother-in-law Zheng and her daughter-in-law saw Jiang coming to the door. She had been scolded by her mother-in-law during the day, so naturally she did not dare to come forward to make her feel uncomfortable.
But when he saw his mother-in-law talking to that girl from the Shi family, with a smile on her face, she immediately became curious.
"That girl from Shi's family? Miss Shi asked me to be a helper. Don't talk nonsense. If you make Miss Shi unhappy and cause me to lose my job, you can go wherever you want."
Mrs. Zheng said to her daughter-in-law angrily with a straight face.
When her mother-in-law said this, she was so frightened that she nodded repeatedly.
It has been three years since I married into the Zheng family. Not to mention a son, I have not even given birth to a daughter. How can I have the confidence to challenge my mother-in-law?
Not to mention, her husband is a filial man, even if she wants to blow the pillow, he can't do it.
The most important point is that when the girl from the Shi family hired her mother-in-law to help, the family would receive wages.
No matter how much money the two old men make, they will only have one son, and it will not all be left to them.
The abacus of Mrs. Zeng's daughter-in-law made a lot of noise, and she couldn't help but feel a little worried just thinking about her stomach.
If you can conceive a son and a half, that would be even better.
When Shi Jiang returned home and packed some things, he found that many things at home were missing. They must have been taken to the Yang family by Li.
I had to write down some more things that needed to be purchased tomorrow before going to sleep.
Early the next morning, Mrs. Zheng came over.
Shi Jiang had just gotten up, so he asked her to clean up the areas she hadn't finished yesterday.
After washing himself, he asked Mrs. Zheng to take him to the market, and then bought back everything he had written down yesterday.
Looking at the items in her hands and those waiting to be delivered from the store, Mrs. Zheng's heart twitched.
How much did you spend on this day?
When Shi Jiang went out on this trip, in addition to buying the necessary items, he also considered what he should do to prevent himself from sitting in vain.
Three hundred taels seems like a lot, but if it can only go out but not go in, it's not a big deal.
The next day she didn't need Mrs. Zheng to accompany her and went out for a few walks by herself.
After three days of this, Shi Jiang discovered something. The only vegetarian oils available now are sesame oil, hemp seed oil and perilla seed oil. There is no soybean oil? There are no ingredients made from soy products!
The current way to cook soybeans is to steam them with rice. The taste is not good, but it is very filling.
The first time he ate the bean rice made by Mrs. Zheng, Shi Jiang had no choice but to swallow it. After swallowing it, he was speechless.
After all, in the last era, we also experienced some sad years.
But the rice at that time was much finer than the rice now.
The rice cooked in ordinary people's homes now is completely different from what she ate in restaurants before. The rice in restaurants is much finer. No wonder one meal costs a lot of money.
In her opinion, the rice cooked at home is more like what modern people call coarse grain brown rice.
However, the taste of modern brown rice is much moister than the current rice, and there is no thorny feeling at all when you eat it.
Coupled with the soybeans, there really is no more unpalatable soybean rice than this.
The peeling of rice now relies on pounding by hand. If you want to eat fine rice, you have to pound the rice you buy now a few more times to pound all the bran and peel it off.
It's just that in this way, the most fine rice pounded out of a pound of rice is only six or seven taels. This is still buying rice that has been pounded once. If it is pounded a few more times, for the common people, the price of such rice will increase several times.
Times, a meal once in a while is fine, but where can I tolerate it for a long time?
As for soybeans, there is no need to cook them with rice. Isn’t it better to grind tofu or squeeze soybean oil?
At the same time, Shi Jiang also had a plan. Since no one was doing this now, she would open a soy products store.
However, grinding tofu is not an easy task.
It’s not that it’s complicated, but it’s hard work.
Here Shi Jiang was preparing to open a store, and over there Mrs. Li was waiting for Shi Jiang to come back and admit her mistake, but twenty days passed after waiting, and Shi Jiang never came to Yang's house again, nor did he look for her.
Originally, she wanted to go to Shi's house to see how Shi Jiang was doing, but the Yang family and his son, a wild woman who was hiding outside, hadn't come back for several days.
He seemed to regard the flower house as his home. Apart from going home to change clothes, he almost stayed in the prostitute's room.
Li was furious, but there was nothing she could do.
The most important thing is that the Yang family's grocery store needs someone to take care of it, and she can't spare time to find Shi Jiang.
Moreover, the most important point is that at this time, Yang Yu was preparing for the scholar examination at home, studying hard, and did not go to Hualou to spend the day and night.
On the day of the provincial examination, Yang Yu, who had finally returned home, yawned profusely and took some of the money that Li had earned from the grocery store during this period and said that he was going to take the exam. Of course, Li was happy to see him off home.
After that, I waited around at home, waiting for the good news about my son’s high school.
But four or five days have passed since the provincial examination, but my son has not come back, and there is no good news.
Li's heart, which had been waiting so hotly, felt as if it had fallen into an ice cellar.