Daily Life of Jiang Liuniang

   Chapter 107 The strategy to return to the shop

   After Shuqiu got off the bus, the four little sisters went to Caibohang to buy paper kites. The paper kites of various styles, sizes, and colors dazzled Jiang Liutiao. When she finally chose a long centipede paper kite, and followed her sisters to eat at the restaurant, Shu Qiu caught up. After returning to the West Courtyard, Shu Qiu told the girl about Xizhu's whereabouts. "She first went to Xuexia evening and brought a large box of fat powder out. The servant went in and asked Aunt Wang. She said that it was the eldest lady who asked Xizhu to fetch the powder. Yes, I took 20 boxes in total. Then Xizhu went to the Confucius house in Dayefang and came out without the box."

   Shu Qiuben wanted to complain a few words that the eldest lady of the Wang family was using the girl's rouge as a favor, which was inappropriate. But remembering her mother's teaching these days, Shu Qiu closed her mouth abruptly, and kept thinking in her heart: Do more, watch less, talk less, do more, watch less, do more, watch less...

   Jiang Liu frowned and went back to the room to mention this to his sister.

  Jiang Muyan didn't think there was anything wrong, "Grandma, two aunts, cousins ​​and cousins ​​all used rouge powder from Xuexia night."

  Jiang Liu explained, "Hi-bamboo-wipe-of-rouge-fat, it's the-best-best-in-our-shop-in-store, and she-also-takes-for-Kong-home!"

  Kong can count on Jiang's shop and people in Jiang's family every day, why let them use our rouge in vain!

Jiang Muyan patted her sister's back soothingly, "The rouge used by Xizhu should be given to her by the eldest cousin. Sister, don't worry, no matter how bold the maids are, they would not dare to use the rouge that they had hidden in the house. Kong It should have been sent by her aunt to the house. Go to sleep, you just took the medicine, sleep more to get better soon. "

   Sister's idea is wrong! Jiang Liu suffers from his stupid tongue, so he can only focus, "Meng-Ya-Jiao-also-yes!"

   Jiang Muyan bit her lip, "It should be... The second aunt gave it to her. The second aunt likes Meng Yajiao very much." She also likes Meng Tingwan very much. When she was at the Wang family, Jiang Muyan had the best time with their siblings.

"Xue-xia-night-last-year, I only earned-earned-not-to-five-ten-liang-silver-zi." Such a prosperous East Market, such a good shop, only earns so much, is it Sister is not heartache?

   Jiang Muyan patiently explained to her sister, "When my grandfather bought the shop, it was so that my mother would not have to go out to buy rouge. The rouge in the shop can be used for us to earn dozens of taels of silver, which is already very good."

is that so? Should this be the case? So they opened the shop for their own convenience? Not only do you use it yourself, but the family members of your two aunts also use it? so proud? But they are obviously the poorest now! The more Jiang Liu thought about it, the more wrong he felt. After waking up for a nap, my sister went to play the piano, and Jiang Liu grabbed the nurse and asked about the shop.

Nanny Zhao sighed, "This shop used to be a mess, so it's no wonder the girl feels uncomfortable. After the second lady and the second master agreed to get married, the Wang family bought this rouge shop as a dowry for the second lady. After the second lady got married , I often have people deliver powder to the Wang family. After the second lady went, the Wang family took over the shop and took it directly from the shop."

  Jiang Liu asked again, "If - shop - son - pay -, who pays the money?"

Nanny Zhao thought for a while, "This kind of shop can only make more money and less money, and it is not easy to lose money. But if it really loses, we should make up for it, because the store belongs to you and the third girl. If the Wang family doesn't come to our house to get money to make up for it. The hole will also be filled with the dowry of the second lady, or the shop will be sold directly. After all, the title deed of the shop is still in their hands."

   So when you use it, you can use it casually, and you will use your mother's dowry to fill the hole? Jiang Liu held his small head in thought. Presumably the dowry's pharmacy is not making any money for the same reason, right?

   Nanny Zhao saw that the girl was unhappy, so she persuaded her, "The girl is still young, so don't worry about these things. In a few years, the girl will be older and the shop will be returned, and then you can use it for whoever you want."

"At that time, the girl can no longer use Wang Ke as the shopkeeper. Don't see Wang Ke's wife being warm to you today, they are even more warm to the Wang family. The servant heard from Jiang Hou'er that there is new fat powder in the shop, Wang Ke The daughter-in-law will send it to the Wang family in person, but she has never sent it to our house, so she came over at the end of the year and kowtowed."

Nanny Zhao couldn't help telling Jiang Liu about the indifference of Wang Ke and his wife, "Even if Wang Ke and his wife didn't know that your aunt's hands and feet were not clean before, would they still know after Liujiazhuang stole the cow? When the second lady was seriously ill, she asked him and Wang Jiang to enter the Wang family to kowtow to the third girl, swearing that they would only be loyal to the third girl in the future. They are not afraid of retribution..."

After chatting for a while, Nanny Zhao warned again, "The servant told the girl this, not to ask the girl to go to your grandmother to sue them, don't tell me when you go to the Wang's house, the servant wants you to know what you know. What kind of people are they, you can't just be deceived by their respectful faces, you have to see what they are doing behind their backs."

  Jiang Liu nodded, she wouldn't tell her grandma, because it was useless. After the cattle-stealing incident in Liujiazhuang, although the grandmother fined the aunt to close the door and copy the book, but after the lock was finished, the aunt was still in charge of the Wang family, and the rouge shop was still supervised by the aunt.

   Maybe the attitude of my sister is the attitude of my grandmother—opening a shop is for the family to spend, so it’s fine if you don’t lose money.

  The Kong family and the Meng family are her own aunts, and it is reasonable for them to use the cream powder.

   Jiang Liu straightened out his thoughts before moving to Dicui Hall. When her sister finished playing the piano, Jiang left her to rub her red fingers. After the second sister left, Jiang Liu said, "I-want-want-snow-xia-wan-he-beg-ben-medicine-material-shop-de-account-book."

   Jiang Muyan carefully put the cover on the piano, and asked in confusion, "What is the younger sister doing with the account book?"

   Jiang Liu said solemnly, "Recognize-words."

   Jiang Muyan advised her sister, "It is better to use the "Book of Filial Piety" and "Thousand Characters" for character recognition. The names on the account book have many strokes, and the characters are not often used, so it is difficult to remember."

   At the end of last year, Wang Ke only sent over a general ledger. At that time, Jiang Liu was busy with his brother in prison, so he didn't pay attention to it. When she remembered it later, her sister had asked Wang Ke to take the account book back. Jiang Liu put his small hands behind his back and put on a very powerful appearance, "Remember-remember-pen-draw-many-many-words, it's just-really-powerful-powerful!"

   Being able to read and write words that others do not recognize is indeed very powerful and smart. Jiang Muyan nodded immediately, "Then let Wang Ke bring the account book, and let's recognize it together."

  Sister is very persistent in becoming smart. Jiang Liu rolled his eyes, "Need-detail-account-and-general-account, nearly-three-year-of-all-need."

   Early the next day, Wang Ke came with two stacks of account books, "Some of the account books from the past three years have been lost. These can be found in the shop. The villains have brought them here. Please take a look at the two girls."

  Jiang Liu asked Shu Qiu and Shu Xia to carry the account book to the study and began to bury their heads in sorting out, wondering how much the two aunts of the Wang family had taken from the shop in the past three years.

   Different from the modern double-entry bookkeeping method, Da Zhou used a single-entry running account method. Jiang Liu frowned after watching it for a while.

  The monthly accounts of the two stores have been missing for thirteen months in three years, and these account books have only eight types of writing styles, and they are all neatly scribbled. In addition to being scribbled, the price of the goods on the account book is also wrong. Last October, it was when Jiang Liu was seriously examining the goods and prices in the east and west cities of Kang'an City. She clearly remembered that the price of high-quality corn was 240 cents per dou, and the corn that was bought in October last year was listed on Xuexia's evening account. But it is three hundred and eighty yuan a fight!

  Jiang Ling came back from school and saw her little sister lying at the table frowning, she leaned over and asked, "What is my sister doing?"

   "Brother." Jiang Liu pointed to the chair next to him and asked his brother to sit.

  Jiang Ling moved the chair to his sister's side and sat down, looking at the damaged account books on the table and asking, "What is my sister looking at?"

  In front of my brother, it doesn't matter how slow you speak, Jiang Liu explained things to him little by little. Jiang Ling understood, and asked with bright eyes, "After the investigation, what does my sister want to do?"

  Jiang Liu said truthfully, "Check-clear-chu, then-after-put-shop-zi-want-return-come."

  Jiang Ling was puzzled, "The shop is yours. If you want to come back, you have to come back. You don't need to check these. Besides, if you check it out, the Wang family will not pay back the money according to the account."

  Jiangliu nodded, but, "To be clear, it will always be useful."

   However, these account books are fake. If you want to find out, you have to find the real account books, which is a bit difficult.

  What my sister said was more useful in Jiang Ling than the imperial decree. Jiang Ling immediately said, "Yes, figure it out clearly. Sooner or later, let them pay back the principal and interest. If my father doesn't go to collect the debt, my brother will go!"

   "Brother-brother, Liu-er-has-a-one-way-way." Jiang Liu thought about a good solution, and his eyes became bright.

  Jiang Ling's eyes were also bright, "What can I do? What do I want my brother to do?"

   Jiang Liu hooked his little finger, and Jiang Ling's head came over. After listening to her sister muttering, Jiang Ling counted the days, "Then you have to hurry up, otherwise it will be too late."

  The time is indeed a little tight. Jiang Liu went across the hospital to find her sister and asked her one thing, "Sister, what is the birthday of the grandmother's birthday-chen-what-what-time-when?"

   "On February 11th, what birthday gifts should we prepare for grandmother?" Jiang Muyan said about her plan, "I want to play the piano for my grandmother, and I want to make a new forehead for my grandmother."

  Compared to her sister who is tenth grade in sewing and threading, and who is also grade two and three in guqin, Jiang Liu has no talent at all. But a plan gradually took shape in her head, but now was not the time to tell her sister, Jiang Liu asked again, "Are the people of Kong-jia- and Meng-jia- also-will-go-?"

   Jiang Muyan thought about it for a while, then nodded and said, "Grandma's 60th birthday this year, even if the Confucius family and the Meng family can't take the stage because of the national mourning, they have to give grandma a birthday peach."

  Shou Tao is a vivid big peach made of noodles, a must-have gift for Kang'an City's birthday. Sixty is one Jiazi, which is the whole life. If the elderly and children in the family do not take care of it, they will be called unfilial. The Wang family valued reputation the most, so even if everything was simple because of the national mourning, they would definitely handle it for grandma, Jiang Liu was relieved.

   "When we come back from piano lessons on the ninth day of the first year, we must remember to buy birthday peaches, and this has to be written down." Jiang Muyan immediately wrote down this matter.

   Mrs. Yazheng had three waves of students in the past six months. Every time she went to the palace to teach the princess on 147, went to Yijiang Houfu on 258, and taught the Jiang sisters in Qinxing on 369, the arrangement was full.

   Jiang Liu reminded her sister, "Sister-sister-can-do-wipe-e, but-can't-play-qin."

   "Why? My violin is very good, and my wife has praised it." Jiang Muyan wanted to play it.

Jiang left it to her to analyze, "We-we-a dozen-some-one-person-one-piece-study, sister-sister-play-good-good, other-other-person-will-suffer." At that time, When the Wang family, the Meng family and the Confucius family get together, the better the sister plays, the more stupid their girls appear, and it is no wonder that they will be happy.

   As soon as sister said, Jiang Muyan also thought of this. Although she felt lost, she nodded and said, "Sister is right, I don't play anymore."

  Jiang Liu smiled, "When there is no-one-, sister-sister-play-to-grand-mother-listen."

   Jiang Muyan immediately grinned, "Okay, when my sister's hand is ready, let's play it for grandma."

   Jiangliu nodded. I don't know if it's an illusion or not. During these days, I went to the pond every morning and night to watch Jiang Saburo's ghosts cry and howls. Jiang Liu actually felt that his body was lighter and lighter every day, as if he was really going to recover.

   Now is the 22nd day of the first lunar month, time is pressing, Jiang Liu is only fighting for the day and night. In addition to talking with her father, playing the piano with her sister, walking with her brother, and watching Saburo play monkeys every day, Jiang Liu used various excuses to ask Ya Yin to take her out to go to jewelry stores and workshops. She wanted to find a skilled craftsman to make nails. .

  Ginger loved manicures when she stayed in modern times. After the big week, she found that people here dye their nails pink or red with petal juices such as henna and danko. Although the nails dyed this way are beautiful, they are also very dull. Jiang Liu once thought about the possibility of opening a nail salon in Kang'an City, but because he didn't know how to make nail polish, it was very difficult for this plan to become a reality.

   But Jiang Liu did not give up easily. She has been observing Da Zhou's glue, pigskin glue, fish maw glue, beeswax, etc., but the transparency of these glues does not meet the requirements of nail art. When visiting Madam Yazheng's piano shop with Daddy for the first time, Jiang Liu found something interesting - a piece.

  In the musical instrument accessories sold in the piano shop, there are fingernails with leather covers, which are said to be worn when playing the guzheng in the evening photos. The nails used to play the guzheng are made of ox horn and tortoiseshell. The color of the tortoiseshell nails is very beautiful. Jiang Liu stared at it for a long time. At that time, he had the idea of ​​making this kind of nails and selling them.

   Now, just use it.

After two days of wandering around, Jiang Liu and Yayin identified a workshop where their craftsmen could grind a piece of tortoiseshell that is twice as thin as the tortoiseshell used to play the guzheng. Cut it out and stick it firmly on the tortoiseshell nails with swim bladder glue. In each set of nails, only two nails are affixed with gold foil.

   This kind of armor piece, Jiang Liu has asked the craftsman to make fifty pairs. After it was done, Jiang Liu asked Shuqiu to send the nail piece to Xuexiawan, and let the craftsmen of Xuexiawan incense, polish and make a beautiful box for the nail piece.

  Jiang Liu let Shuqiu tell the craftsman of Xuexiawan that she bought these nail pieces from the merchants who walked around the streets, and they were worthless. It doesn't matter if more than half of the fifty pairs are broken, even if only one set is intact, but it must be polished and translucent, incense and refreshed.

   Shuqiu quickly reminded the girl, "If you say that, they will definitely only give back one set, and the rest will be greedy for them!"

  Jiang Liu seriously told Shuqiu, "Just-this-what-say. Say-get-can-more-no-care-care, just-more-don't-care-care."

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   Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year, the new year has a new look, Jiang Liu will also rise up and regain the shop.

   (end of this chapter)