Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Chapter 143 Leisure Time in the Village

After Song Sanniang left, Qin Haodong began to arrange everyone's work. Uncle Song followed him and learned from him how to operate the store.

Aunt Cuihua, Gancao, Qin Yuanyuan and other women in the store were washing dishes and cleaning the store, while Boss Niu was responsible for getting water for everyone to wash things.

Song Dazhi and Song Ming, father and son, followed Qin Haodong and his team to buy ingredients. Everyone had to be familiar with which ingredients the store needed to buy every day, how much they cost, how much the store bought every day, etc.

In this way, everyone takes turns to shop, which can prevent the regular shopkeeper from being away for something, and the food in the store can be supplied normally. Secondly, it can avoid private transactions between shopkeepers and suppliers and taking kickbacks.

Although not everyone is such a person, but in the future, when more stores are opened, the people hired will not all be trustworthy.

Therefore, we need to formulate rules from the very beginning, and all stores will just have to follow them in the future.

They bought some ingredients for the seasonings they needed to prepare in advance, and then returned to the store.

When they returned to the store, the dishes had been washed, so they worked with Aunt Cuihua and the others to process the ingredients and start making seasonings.

Qin Haodong took Boss Song around to do some odd jobs, such as making promotional leaflets, hiring a lion dance team, buying wedding candies, etc.

Song Laoer was on duty in the store, and would run errands to see if anyone needed anything.

While everyone in the store was busy, Song Sanniang in the village was very relaxed. After returning home, Si Niang and Wu Niang had already picked up today's eggs. Song Sanniang asked curiously, "Didn't the chickens peck you?"

Si Niang looked at Song San Niang as if she was a fool. "Sister, are you stupid? We sprinkled some grains on them and they were busy eating them. They didn't have time to care about us."

Wu Niang heard Si Niang talking like this and covered her face with her hands while laughing secretly. Song San Niang smiled awkwardly and said, "Our Si Niang is smart. It's my sister who is too stupid."

Si Niang was a little proud when she heard this. "I saw mother do this before. She would secretly hide one or two eggs and cook them for us to eat. Sister, have you forgotten all this?"

Song Sanniang was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to say. She really didn't remember these things.

So she had to say something else to divert their attention, "You haven't been to the river to catch snails for a long time, right? Let's go catch snails." After hearing this, the four women hurriedly shouted that they wanted to go.

Song Sanniang specifically asked Xiao Liu to allow her to take Song Zuling to play in the village for a day. They ran to the river to catch snails and crabs, and then caught some small fish and shrimps.

The water quality in the river is very good. In fact, even if the snails are not raised, they are still clean. Song Sanniang and her friends simply took out the snail meat one by one, blanched it and washed it clean.

Several people cooked a meal of river food at Song Sanniang's house, including fried snail meat with basil, deep-fried crabs, and fried fish and shrimp with leeks. Song Zuling also got some good rice from home and cooked a pot of fragrant white rice.

Although Song Sanniang and her friends also ate the dishes cooked by Song Ersao and her friends in the capital, the ingredients were chicken, duck, pork, etc. They hadn't eaten river food for a long time, and they enjoyed the meal very much.

Si Niang and Wu Niang both had round bellies, and Song San Niang and Song Zuling teased them and touched them several times.

After everyone finished eating, it was still early, so Song Sanniang first boiled some hot water for Si Niang and the other two to take a bath. Song Zuling went home to take a bath, and told her mother that she wanted to sleep with Song Sanniang.

Everyone knows that Song Laoer's family makes money with the clan leader's family. Now the clan leader's family still makes bamboo bowls for Tian Mi Mi and sells them. Song Zuren is still working for Tian Mi Mi, so Xiao Liu is relieved that Song Zuling can play with Song Sanniang, so she let her go.

Song Zuling ran to Song Sanniang's house holding her pillow. Song Sanniang had already finished her bath. She waited for Song Zuling to come in and closed the courtyard door. Then the two returned to their room.

Si Niang and Wu Niang had also returned to their rooms. They were very tired from playing today, and soon fell asleep after talking for a while.

Song Sanniang and Song Zuling chatted and went to see them halfway. Only when they saw that they were asleep did they tiptoe back to their rooms.

Song Zuling talked to Song Sanniang for almost half the night until they both couldn't help feeling sleepy and fell asleep.

The next day, the two woke up at dawn. Si Niang and the other two had already gotten up, fed the chickens with food and water, and cooked eggs for them, leaving a few for Song Sanniang and the others. They were so well-behaved.

No matter how reluctant he was, Song Zuling had to finish eating the eggs, say goodbye to Song Sanniang, and return home.

Song Mei had come over these two days and fed the dogs, so she didn't have to feed the chickens anymore. Si Niang and the others were in charge. Knowing that they would go back to the county town this afternoon, Song Mei ran home and brought back three purses.

She said a little embarrassedly, "I made this purse myself, please don't despise it."

Song Sanniang took the purse. It was made of cut pieces of unworn clothes, and the material was ordinary linen.

The patterns above are also very simple, one is peach blossom, one is lotus, and one is plum blossom, but these flowers are embroidered delicately and exquisitely, with clear layers, and look lifelike.

Song Sanniang was surprised. "Did you embroider all these?"

Song Mei nodded. "I embroidered it. Is it not good? My grandma said I need to practice more.

Don’t despise me, I will give you better ones when I embroider better ones in the future.”

Song Sanniang shook her head. "I don't dislike it. You embroider so well. I've never heard that Aunt Cuihua can embroider. Did your grandmother teach you?"

Song Mei nodded. "My grandmother was always lying in bed. I was often by her side. She taught me embroidery. She said my mother was impatient and she couldn't learn it even though she had taught her before."

Song Sanniang asked again, "You can embroider. Can't you sell your embroidery for money? You gave us the things you worked so hard to embroider. You might as well sell them for money."

Song Mei lowered her head a little shyly. "I have asked before, but people disliked my rough hands, which easily scratched the silk. The embroidery I embroidered for you was also made of linen."

Song Sanniang pulled up her hand and looked at her. She was not very old, but her hands were like those of an elderly woman who was used to doing rough work.

My hands are rough and have thick calluses. Although my nails are cut short, the nail beds are peeling on both sides. My nails are not polished and rounded, so they are easy to get hooked.

Although Song Sanniang's hands were not very good, embroidery was indeed a job that required a lot of skill from her hands.

Song Mei blushed as she watched Song Sanniang sizing up her hands. She felt as if she was naked in front of Song Sanniang.

Song Sanniang noticed her expression, so she put down her hand and let Si Niang and the other two choose the purses they liked first. She asked Song Mei to wait for her.

She ran into the room by herself, and after a while she came out with two small porcelain jars.

"This is a hand cream. Use it on your hands before going to bed every night. Apply a thick layer. Continue to apply both bottles and see if your hands feel better."

These hand guards were given to her by Miss He. She took a bottle to the provincial capital, gave one bottle to her mother, and the other two mothers didn't use them because they were too greasy, so she kept the rest at home.

Song Mei tried to refuse. Who was Song Sanniang? How could she refuse? So Song Mei had no choice but to accept it.

Although Song Mei still had to work every day and her hands would continue to be like this, Song Sanniang felt that there had been some improvement.

She thought it was a pity that there were no gloves at this time, otherwise Song Mei could use gloves when working, so that her hands could be healed.

She felt that Song Mei had a talent for embroidery, because she had not been taught by any master, and her grandmother, who was an ordinary embroidery worker, taught her, but she could embroider to such a level, which was really not something that could be achieved by diligence or hard work.

But she couldn't help her now, so she could only keep the matter in mind for the time being, because there was no way to solve this family problem.

The business will open tomorrow, and Song Sanniang will have to go to the provincial capital in the afternoon to rent a car and ask someone to pick up the clan leaders and others. So she and Si Niang and the others will take Song Dazhi's car back to the county town.