Chapter 94 New Year Festival
As the New Year approaches, the business of the shops in the town has obviously improved a lot. Read М
The streets are crowded with people who come to the town to prepare New Year's goods. After a year of hard work, it's the end of the year. Whether you have money or not, you always have to prepare some New Year's goods for your family to add some New Year's atmosphere.
The flow of people in Su Qing's shop has also doubled. The cooked meat business is in short supply. Usually, people are reluctant to buy meat, and meat is bought in small quantities. At this time, they are bought whole.
The fruits are sold out as soon as they are put on the shelves, and there is no time to restock. They are just moved out of the cellar in the backyard and are snatched away before they are put on the shelves.
The winter wind is cold and the only shop that has fresh fruits for sale is Su Qing's shop. There are many varieties, and they are not wilted at all. They look just like fresh fruits just picked from the trees. Even if she sells in limited quantities, the fruits on the shelves are sold out every day.
She made a lot of money from the fruit.
Everyone is very motivated. Thinking of the generous reward that Su Qing'an promised before closing the shop before the New Year, everyone scrambled for work.
Before the New Year, Uncle Lu sent the last batch of vegetables over. Su Qing'an asked Su's father to treat him to a good meal at the restaurant, and also asked Lu Shengcai to sit with him.
Because Lu Boxiang's study was not successful in the end because of Wu, Lu Shengcai felt sorry for his brother's family. He had promised it in the beginning. Fortunately, Uncle Lu didn't take it to heart.
He knew his own situation. No one in the two families who stayed in the countryside studied, and he didn't have any expectations, just thinking that Lu Shengcai was joking. Every time Aunt Lu talked about it, he would speak well of Lu Shengcai, saying that it was not easy for him to support a family.
Before Uncle Lu left, Su Qing'an asked him to take back the New Year gifts she prepared for the Lu family, big and small, and also prepared the New Year silver for Lu Bocheng's grandparents.
The eldest grandson got married, and it was his duty to support the old man with a salary. Although he was not here, as his wife, she had to take this responsibility for him. Moreover, she was ill this year and could not go back. She could not go home to worship the ancestors in the first year of her marriage, so she specially prepared a heavier gift.
Uncle Lu refused and then accepted.
Lu Shengcai did not expect Su Qing'an to be so thoughtful. Seeing that he had not prepared anything, he was a little at a loss. He paid money for Uncle Lu to prepare New Year's goods, saying that the gifts would be brought back after the New Year.
After sending Uncle Lu away, Su's father came back and told Su Qing'an about the matter, but Su Qing'an did not care. What Wu did was her business, and she, as a daughter-in-law, could not interfere. She just had to do it with a clear conscience.
In fact, Lu Shengcai was indeed angry with Wu, blaming her for not being as thoughtful as Su Qing'an, the granddaughter-in-law. Wu was very angry.
"She didn't even ask me, didn't even discuss it with me, and made the decision privately. What if what I prepared is more than what she prepared?"
"What do you mean more? Are you prepared?"
Mrs. Wu was so angry that she couldn't get up: "I'm the mother-in-law, I'm busy everywhere? Since she thought of it, couldn't she go home and remind me? She wants me, as the mother-in-law, to accommodate her? She got good in front of your brothers and their families, which makes me look stingy! Did she do it on purpose?"
You, as a daughter-in-law, didn't prepare at all, didn't even think about it, and still need someone to remind you?
Lv Shengcai was holding his breath, and just when he wanted to defend Su Qing'an, he was interrupted by Mrs. Wu: "Besides, Bo Zu has made an engagement, and most of the family wealth is gone. There will be expenses for the wedding next year, and he will take the exam next year, and continue to study, and there is also Bo Zong, everything needs money, is it wrong for me to be frugal? I have worked hard for this family, but I am not as good as her?"
Lv Shengcai choked.
For the first time, I thought whether it was not appropriate to let my son marry someone from a higher family. If he found someone from a lower family, even if they were of equal status, it would not hurt his family.
If Bo Zu did well in the exam next year and went to study in the girl's clan school, wouldn't he have to make arrangements everywhere? How could the girl look down on him? It would be another expense.
Just thinking about it gave Lu Shengcai a headache.
"I said at the beginning that there was no need to pay too much betrothal silver. The other party didn't know what our family situation was? Why are you pretending to be rich!"
"Oh, you blame me now? When I was looking for a suitable betrothal gift everywhere, didn't you keep silent? If my son didn't look like me and had a handsome face, do you think he would be favored by others? If the betrothal gift was not high, would others devote all their efforts to training your son? You are dreaming about changing the family. "
When Lu Shengcai heard about changing the family, he became depressed.
He was a small merchant who had been oppressed for many years and wanted to change his family.
"Fortunately, you transferred the shop to my name a few years ago. The in-laws specifically asked about it the other day, fearing that Bo Zu would not be able to pass the exam as a merchant. It can be seen that scholars look down on businessmen."
Lü Shengcai snorted: "Do you think there are fewer businessmen in those big and official families? Otherwise, where would they get the money to spend?"
Wu didn't argue with him. Thinking about the money the family had saved for many years, and losing most of it once her son got engaged, she felt very sad. Thinking about the recent days of seeing people coming and going in Su Qing's shop, it was very prosperous, and she felt anxious.
Because except for Su's father and Qingyang Qingxing, no one else in the shop was in a hurry to go home for the New Year. Grandma Zhou was in town, Su Dahu was a bachelor, and Su Qingliu planned to return to the village the day before New Year's Eve. So the surrounding shops were closed, and Su Qing's shop was still open.
On the 26th, Su's father was allowed to take the twins back to Qiaotou Village, while others continued to work.
When Su's father went back, Su Qing'an also prepared New Year gifts for her family. She couldn't go anywhere this year, and she couldn't go back on the second day of the New Year to welcome her son-in-law, so she prepared the gifts in advance for Su's father to take back.
Qingyang and Qingxing were reluctant to leave, and held her tightly. Since the Qingyang Private School was closed, the twins had been playing with Xie Qiyou in the town for several days, enjoying themselves to the fullest. When they heard that the two were going back to their hometown for the New Year, Xie Qiyou held their hands with tears in his eyes and was reluctant to let them go.
This was completely different from the little adult Xie Qiyou that Su Qingmei saw at the beginning, which surprised her. In the end, the twins followed Su's father back, looking back every three steps.
After Su's father left, the shop was open for two more days. The people in the town also needed food and drink. Although most people stocked up vegetables at home, Su Qingmei's shop was still open until the 28th before closing.
After giving everyone thick red envelopes and New Year's goods, Grandma Zhou and her grandchildren were happily taken back by Aunt Zhou.
The next day, Su Qingmei and Qingliu took Yaya to see Ma Shi Niang, and then let Su Dahu send her and her daughter back in a bullock cart.
Although her brother-in-law was gone and the family was divided, the Cui family's grandparents were still there, so as a granddaughter-in-law, she still had to go back to her husband's house for the New Year.
In the past six months, the Cui family had been controlled by old man Cui, and no one came to the town to disturb Su Qingliu and her daughter, which made her live very comfortably. She would ask someone to bring back her monthly salary, and when the New Year came, she also prepared a lot of bags to go back, and no one could say anything.
After Su Dahu sent Su Qingliu off, he helped Su Qing'an close the shop before returning to Qiaotou Village.