The quota of thirty pieces of cloth was obtained in just half a day, and everyone in the Qin family was very happy. After a rough estimate, these thirty pieces of cloth can bring at least one or two and a half silver income to the Qin family.

Zhao Cao'er was the first one who couldn't sit still, picked up a piece of cloth and prepared to go back to her parents' home: "People in our village like this material, there is no reason why people in other villages would dislike it."

"My brothers and sisters are right. There is still one and a half months before the Chinese New Year, and most people haven't prepared the materials yet. We can definitely sell a lot by walking around the surrounding villages." Lin Qiuniang and Zhao Cao'er thought of something.

It's just that her parents' home is a bit far away, so we can only leave tomorrow morning.

When Qin Shan and Qin Chuan heard this, they couldn't sit still anymore and said to Mr. Qin: "We will go to the city tomorrow and buy a batch of cloth from the cloth shop."

Mr. Qin waved his hand: "No rush, let's first see how the rations in Huxi Village and Zhaojia Village are. If they are similar to those in our village, you can go to the city the day after tomorrow and negotiate the price and number of horses with the shopkeeper of Buzhuang first."

After hearing what Mr. Qin said, Qinshan Qinchuan stopped rushing to the city and decided to go to Yue's house with his wife early tomorrow morning. If he can get the quota of dozens of horses as smoothly as he did today, it means that other villages will also

Can get it.

There are ten or twenty villages, large and small, in the surrounding area. Even if each village can only sell thirty horses, the total number will be five or six hundred. If this big deal can be completed smoothly, the Qin family will have a large number of horses.

A profit they could not have imagined before.

Probably because he was optimistic about this deal, Mr. Qin asked Mrs. Miao to cut up all the three kilograms of meat brought back by the Qin brothers in the evening and make several delicious dishes that can only be eaten during New Years and holidays.

The happiest people are Qin Xiaoxiao’s children. Since the beginning of winter, what they eat most is cabbage and radish. Even if they eat fish, mushroom snake soup and pheasant meat during this period, they can’t dispel their desire for pork.

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The adults knew that the little ones were greedy for meat, so they ate the vegetarian dishes in the bowls and left the meat to them. The little ones were also very sensible and did not just focus on their own mouths and kept putting food into the bowls of the adults.

Meat.

Amid the overflowing aroma of meat, the family enjoyed their meal happily.

It was so cold at night that both adults and children couldn't bear it. After a few casual chats after the meal, they each took hot water and went back to their rooms.

Qin Xiaoxiao hadn't seen her father for more than a month, and she had a lot of things to say to him. After Lin Qiuniang washed her hands, feet and buttocks, applied a layer of fragrant ointment, she couldn't wait to get into the cool bed.

Inside, I strained my ears to listen to the rushing sound in the corner that was blocked by the straw curtain.

As soon as the sound of water stopped, she knew that her father had finished washing.

When Qin Shan came back from pouring the bath water, he thought his daughter had fallen asleep. He carefully opened a corner of the quilt and met his daughter's big eyes that reflected the light. He was so frightened that his hands trembled, thinking that some cat had touched the bed again.

"Dad, come in quickly, it's hot under the quilt." Qin Xiaoxiao didn't know that she had frightened someone. When she saw her father standing still, she lifted the corner of the quilt a little, moved her little butt behind, and covered her newly

The hot place was let out.

"Don't move, be careful to catch the cold." Qin Shan hurriedly got in, pulled his daughter into his arms, and pressed on her neck to prevent air leakage.

"Dad, are you tired from working in the city?" Qin Xiaoxiao stretched out her two little paws and hugged her father's arm tightly: "Grandma said you have lost weight due to fatigue."

Qin Shan was so upset that he chose to lie: "I'm not tired. It's because your grandma hasn't seen dad for too long that she thinks he's lost weight."

"Is that so?" Qin Xiaoxiao was confused for a moment, then asked curiously: "Dad hasn't seen me for a long time, does he think I'm thin?"

Qin Shan suppressed his laughter, stretched out a hand and pinched his daughter's fleshy face: "Well, I have lost weight, and there is no more flesh left when I pinch it."

"Yes, yes, I just lost weight!" The little girl nodded hurriedly, preparing to talk to her father. Then she thought of something, raised her little head and looked at the door. After making sure that no one was there, she lowered her voice and said, "Dad, you

Do you know how I lost weight?"

Qin Shan was very curious about what excuse his daughter could come up with. Following her words, he also lowered his voice and asked, "Why are you so thin? Are you a picky eater?"

Qin Xiaoxiao shook her head hurriedly: "No, I'm not picky about food. I've eaten all the food my mother brought me."

"Did you really eat it all? Didn't you secretly throw it to the rhubarb?" Qin Shan looked at his daughter suspiciously, not believing that she was so honest: "I think the rhubarb has gained a lot of weight."

Qin Xiaoxiao's eyes became erratic, but she said with absolute certainty: "Rhubarb is not fat, it's because its fur has grown thicker that it looks fat. If you don't believe me, just give it a hug and you'll know!"

Qin Shan "suddenly realized": "So that's it! Well, dad blamed you wrongly. Then tell dad why you lost weight?"

Qin Xiaoxiao thought that her father really believed it, and began to complain aggrievedly: "Dad, you don't know, I beat you to the city, and my mother gave me radishes every day, fried radish, stewed radish, steamed radish...

...There are so many radishes that I feel like a radish when I eat them! Now as long as I smell the smell of radishes, my belly is full and I can’t eat. If I eat less, I will lose weight!”

Qin Shan's mouth twitched when he heard this. Fortunately, his daughter-in-law was not a stepmother. Otherwise, after hearing these words, he would have thought that his daughter-in-law treated his daughter harshly and forced her to eat radishes. It was so disgusting that she would not eat, so as to save a ration.

Fortunately, my wife is not here, otherwise my daughter's little buttocks would have been swollen. This girl is really tricky. She has been going round and round with him for a long time. Her feelings are waiting here, just to make herself come forward to persuade him.

Wife, don't feed her carrots.

Although he felt sorry for his daughter who was so disgusted by the smell of radish that she couldn't eat, Qin Shan did not fall into her "trap" immediately and deliberately said: "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer. There are benefits to eating radish. Just listen to your mother, okay."

Delicious radish!"

When Qin Xiaoxiao heard this, he let out a miserable howl: "Oh~ I'm not a little rabbit, how can I eat radishes every day! Our little rabbit doesn't eat radishes every day. I'm even more pitiful than the little rabbit, wuwu

~”

The little girl said it pitifully. She originally wanted to pretend to cry twice to win her father's heart, but she didn't expect that when she came up crying and feeling aggrieved, she actually cried: "Oh, don't eat carrots, don't eat carrots~"

Qin Shan didn't take it seriously at first, but it wasn't until he touched his daughter's tears on the back of his hand that he realized that her daughter had really cried. He immediately regretted it: "Good girl, stop crying, stop crying soon. Dad promises you and promises to persuade your mother not to force her."

You eat the carrots you hate, as long as you don't cry, okay?"

Qin Xiaoxiao's eyes were filled with tears, and she asked with sobs: "Is what dad said true? Didn't you lie to me?"

"Really, really, I lied to you like a puppy!" Qin Shan tried his best to coax his daughter, and he did not hesitate to say the words that her daughter often said.

Qin Xiao smiled through her tears and said seriously: "Dad, you keep what you say, I don't want to be a little puppy!"

Qin Shan pinched her nose and said angrily: "When this girl of yours cries, my father won't go out of his way to coax her."

At this time, Lin Qiuniang opened the door and came in with a basin of hot water. She stared at Qin Shan and asked: "What happened just now? Why did I hear Xiaoxiao cry? Are you teasing her again?"

Qin Shan was afraid that his daughter would be beaten if he told the truth, so he said casually: "My daughter just misses me so much that she cries."

Lin Qiuniang didn't listen to his nonsense, but she couldn't think of the reason why her daughter was crying. Seeing that she had stopped crying, she touched her head and comforted her: "Tell mom if you have any grievances. If your father bullies you, tell mom too."

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Qin Xiao smiled and looked at her mother. She wanted to tell her that she didn't want to eat carrots, but felt that it was useless to say so, so she nodded without saying anything.

While Lin Qiuniang was taking a bath behind the straw curtain, Qin Shan coaxed her daughter in a low voice: "Go to bed quickly. When you fall asleep, daddy will tell your mother that you won't have to eat radishes tomorrow."

Qin Xiaoxiao was indeed sleepy. After listening to her father's words, she cheered up and said, "If mother doesn't agree, father shouldn't quarrel with mother."

Qin Shan smiled and kissed her forehead: "I understand, if you don't make any noise, please go to sleep."

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded, closed his eyes and fell asleep peacefully.

Not long after, Lin Qiuniang finished washing. Just as she was about to go around to the inside of the bed and sleep on the other side of Qin Xiaoxiao, Qin Shan stretched out her arm and pulled her over.

"Why are you so crazy in the middle of the night? Don't wake up Xiaoxiao!" Seeing the flames in her husband's eyes, Lin Qiuniang angrily knocked away his hands and snuggled into the bed.

"Xiaoxiao is fast asleep. If you keep your voice down, she won't wake up." Qin Shan chuckled and got rid of all the burdens on his body.

With the creaking sound of the bed, and after a fight with the wind and drizzle goblins, the couple cleaned themselves up roughly, and then lay down next to their daughter.

After exerting effort and sweating, both of them were a little tired.

Qin Shan still remembered his promise to his daughter, cheered up and recounted the previous conversation between father and daughter. At the end, he said with emotion: "You are still the best, feeding my daughter carrots made her cry."

Lin Qiuniang never expected that her daughter would cry because of this. She felt funny at first, and then felt helpless: "It's winter, and the only vegetables in the vegetable garden are cabbages. You also know that she is still young and has a thin throat. She can't swallow cabbage, and she can't eat even a little bit of vegetables."

Don’t eat it!”

Qin Shan was silent for a moment and sighed: "In the final analysis, we are still too poor to let Xiaoxiao eat whatever he wants."

Lin Qiuniang touched her daughter's smooth and tender face and said softly: "In the past two years, you have suffered enough to let Xiaoxiao live a good life. Compared with the little girls in the village, we can already give Xiaoxiao a good life."

Gave it."

Qin Shan said in a low voice: "The day after tomorrow, my second son and I will go to the city to buy cloth. I will use the money we saved to buy twenty kilograms of pork. When you and your mother cook, you will cut some and make them for a few."

If the child eats it, it should last until the Chinese New Year."

Lin Qiuniang felt sorry for the money, but she felt even more sorry for her daughter, so she agreed without much hesitation: "Okay, we're not afraid that the pork will go bad in this cold weather."

The couple discussed the issue of their daughter's food, and they both agreed that they could make money if they lost it, and they couldn't treat their daughter's stomach badly.

After talking about this, both of them were very sleepy. Just when Qin Shan was about to fall asleep, Lin Qiuniang suddenly remembered her daughter's engagement with Zhou Baoer and hurriedly told her about it.

Qin Shan's drowsiness suddenly disappeared, and the boss stared in the dark: "Dad agreed? How could dad agree? Zhou Baoer even plotted against his own father, how can he sincerely accept his marriage?"

Lin Qiuniang said: "I see that she is sincere, and our daughter is also willing. If you don't agree, we can find an excuse and go back."

Qin Shan didn't speak. He thought about it alone for a long time before saying, "If our daughter is willing, it's okay to accept this marriage. But we have to take it slow, don't rush."

Lin Qiuniang understood what her husband meant and nodded: "Okay, Zhou Bao'er will come over later and tell us that we have to tell Xiaoxiao's fortune, and we have to wait until she is older to get married, otherwise it will hinder them both."

"Well, I'll do as you say." Qin Shan thinks this idea is a good one. He will have the final say when he accepts the responsibility. If Zhou Baoer has ulterior motives, he can't keep pretending without revealing his flaws.

When Zhou Baoer was mentioned, the couple couldn't help but talk about the grievances and resentments between Zhou Baoer and the Liu family. Before he finished talking, Qin Shan snored loudly and fell into a deep sleep. Listening to his snoring, Lin Qiuniang rarely had a good sleep.

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After breakfast the next day, Qinshan Lin Qiuniang and Qinchuan Zhao Cao'er each took a piece of cloth and went to Lin Qiuniang's natal Huxi Village and Zhao Cao'er's natal Zhaojia Village respectively.

Zhaojia Village is very close. Qin Chuan and Zhao Caoer came back just after lunch in the Qin family. Like Qingshan Village, the eldest daughter and daughter-in-law of Zhaojia Village also took a fancy to the materials they brought and happily paid half of the deposit.

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Zhaojia Village was larger than Qingshan Village, with about seventy households, and it needed ten more pieces of cloth than Qingshan Village. The couple brought back a deposit of eight taels of silver.

Huxi Village is very far away, and you have to go around half of Qinghu Lake to get there. Qin Shan and Lin Qiuniang didn't rush back until nightfall. Fortunately, they didn't go all the way in vain, and the couple also brought back a deposit of six taels of silver.

The Qin family knew very well that the reason why today went so smoothly, in addition to the fact that the materials they brought were of good quality and low price, was because Lin Qiuniang and Zhao Caoer were girls married from those two villages, and their natal families were still in the village, so they were not afraid

They took the money and ran away without giving anything back.

If you want to sell cloth in the remaining dozen or so villages, I'm afraid you have to buy the cloth and sell it in the village. In this case, you will have to spend a lot of money.

Mr. Qin knew what he knew and told the three Qinshan brothers: "Tomorrow you will transport back the one hundred pieces of cloth needed by the three villages. It is best to make a contract with the shopkeeper and clearly write down the number of pieces needed and the price.

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Qin Shan found it troublesome: "Let us tell the shopkeeper how much we can buy, and then we can get it back slowly. Why do we need to sign a contract?"

Mr. Qin knew that his eldest son was stupid, so he simply ignored him. He only told Qin Chuan and Qin Heqian: "The contract must be made. If the shopkeeper of the cloth village does not agree, you will only buy a hundred horses and serve as cloth dealer."

No matter how nice the shopkeeper says, don’t buy more.”
Chapter completed!