allonlinenovel Chapter 328 8 Jin Sour Bamboo Shoots
Chapter 328 8 Jin Sour Bamboo Shoots
"You're back? Why did you come here in such a heavy rain?" Gu Qingqing asked as she ran towards the gate. When she arrived, she found that Niu Yuzhu was not wearing a straw raincoat at all, and his clothes were completely wet and stuck to his body.
"Why are you wearing a hat instead of a raincoat when you come back from home?"
Niu Yuzhu squeezed Shuize's sleeves and clothes and said, "Sister-in-law, we haven't come back home yet since we came from town, so we came directly to your place. There are guests at your house, but the mule cart is on the small road here. Meihua got off the cart and I came to your house to borrow a raincoat. Brother Dong and Brother Nan are here too."
As Niu Yuzhu greeted Zhao Dong and Zhao Nan and pointed his arm outside, everyone present saw a vague shadow of a vehicle in the distance.
Gu Qingqing's eyes stayed on the blurry shadow for two breaths. Especially after she heard him say that there was a guest at his house, she had some guesses in her mind. She took off her straw raincoat and asked, "Is it a girl?"
"Yeah." Niu Yuzhu nodded randomly.
Seeing that he was only wearing a hat, Zhao Nan handed him the straw raincoat in his hand.
After a while, seeing Niu Yuzhu pulling Luo Meihua into the gate, Gu Qingqing hurried forward to help her take off the raincoat, "It's really not suitable to go out today, look how miserable you are. Come into the house with me later and change into my clean clothes first. I'll make some ginger soup for you to drink later to get rid of the cold, don't catch a cold."
Luo Meihua laughed and retorted, "Sister-in-law, I didn't suffer. My clothes got wet, but I didn't catch the wind. When I came back, I met a horse. They were kind enough to let me in to take shelter from the rain. I chatted with them in the car and found out that they were your guests. When Yuzhu brings the raincoat back, we will borrow your raincoat first and return it when we get home."
"I'm back now. There's no need to rush. It's the same if you wait until the rain stops before going home." Gu Qingqing said while looking at the heavy rain outside.
"Let's go back early so that our parents can be at ease."
Yes, she was worried about the two of them. She thought her uncle and aunt at home were even more worried. If they didn't go back quickly, what if Uncle Zhang He went looking for them again, wouldn't the whole family be in trouble?
Gu Qingqing understood this truth, so she didn't insist anymore. She looked at the carriage outside and asked, "How did you meet?"
It turned out that the rain started suddenly and there was no place to hide from the rain on the road. Niu Yuzhu simply pulled Luo Meihua home in the rain. After a while, they were overtaken by a mule cart following behind. However, the mule cart didn't run far before it suddenly got stuck for some reason.
When they reached the mule cart again, they thought that their clothes were all wet, so they just helped push the cart in the wild.
"I didn't expect that the lady inside was also kind-hearted. After the mule cart got out of the mud pit, she learned that we were from Niutoushan Village. She said she wanted to come to our village and would take us for a ride. So I went into their carriage to take shelter from the rain. But Yuzhu was a man and it was inconvenient for him to go in. I didn't know where the driver got a hat for him, and we came back like this." Luo Meihua said as she let Gu Qingqing wipe the water droplets off her face.
"No wonder he was wearing a hat when I first met him. I even asked him why he wasn't wearing a raincoat. If you insist on going back after he comes, I won't keep you, but you better be careful because the roads are slippery in the rain."
"Yeah, we know."
"By the way, how was the situation in the town today?" Gu Qingqing asked.
When she mentioned this, Luo Meihua immediately became excited and reached for Gu Qingqing's arm from behind. After she grabbed it, she realized that her hand was wet and quickly let go. Then she said happily, "Sister-in-law, you are really amazing. When we went over, we only mentioned your name and Niutoushan Village, and the shopkeeper immediately said 'I know, I know', and then we gave him the food. Guess what happened after he tasted it?"
Luo Meihua deliberately kept the secret.
Gu Qingqing looked at her happy expression and said, "Of course you will agree, and then place the order with us."
"Sister-in-law, how come I can't hide anything from you?" Luo Meihua complained with a smile.
"You, look at your face, it's almost like we succeeded. Even if you really want me to guess, you should at least act more convincingly."
"Then do you know how many kilograms the other party ordered?" Luo Meihua asked, with a look of pride on her face.
He had an expression that you would never guess.
Indeed, Gu Qingqing knew that there was a high chance that the matter would be successful, but this would require her to guess how many kilograms the other party had ordered, which she really could not guess.
However, under Luo Meihua's expectant gaze, he held up three fingers and asked tentatively, "Three hundred pounds?"
"No."
"Five hundred pounds?"
Luo Meihua smiled like a triumphant little hamster and continued to shake her head.
"It can't be a thousand pounds, right?" Gu Qingqing asked hesitantly.
"Hahaha, there's not 1,000 kilograms, but there are 800 kilograms. The shopkeeper said that the existing ones at home don't count, and he wants us to make 800 kilograms and send them over within half a month."
How could Luo Meihua not be happy? It was eight hundred kilograms, and at eight cents per kilogram, if the two families divided it equally, her family would get more than three taels of silver.
As for the 800 kilograms of bamboo shoots, she discussed with Yuzhu when she came back and decided to let her mother stay at home to cook and take care of the children. She, Yuzhu and her father would go up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots every morning, and she would help cook and cut the bamboo shoots in the afternoon.
It was a bit tiring, but when she thought about earning more than three taels of silver in a few days, she felt full of energy.
This number was somewhat beyond Gu Qingqing's expectations. She originally thought that the other party would order about 300 to 400 kilograms, but she never expected that the other party would ask for 800 kilograms all of a sudden.
"You two are really amazing. You brought back such a big order after just one trip. It just happened to rain now, so bamboo shoots will surely sprout abundantly in the mountains. Let's seize this opportunity." Gu Qingqing said, holding her hand.
"Sister-in-law always makes fun of me. What can I do? You have already agreed on everything. I am just passing the message back and forth. Oh, by the way, this time the other party paid a deposit of two taels of silver!"
Luo Meihua pointed towards the carriage, it was obvious that the money was not on her.
"Don't worry, you can take the money later. It will be the same if it is deducted at the end." Gu Qingqing said.
While they were talking, they saw the mule cart over there started to move. It seemed that there was one less person on the cart, and the cart was pulled out of the mud.
The road leading to the house is not very wide, and it would be no problem to walk there on normal days. But this time, because of the rain, the car was swaying left and right on the road, which was heartbreaking to watch from a distance.
When Zhao Dong and Zhao Nan saw this, they looked at each other and rushed out in the rain to help.
Gu Qingqing was so frightened that she waved at them and said "ah" twice at the door, but her voice seemed to be blocked by the rain.
Gu Qingqing stamped her feet anxiously, but she didn't have any rain gear on her, so she couldn't rush out. After a moment, she shouted towards the kitchen, asking Daxin and the others to boil a pot of hot water.