MTL - Take a Door with You-Chapter 4 calculate

  Chapter 4 calculation

   Cao Zhang was dumbfounded after hearing this.

  She had just escaped from the disaster, and all she wanted was to find a job to make money, and when she had money, all she wanted was to search and save. She didn't think about so many detours.

  Looking at Cao Xian again, this big girl is also stupid, she hugged Cao Xin's head and kissed Cao Xin more than a dozen times: "Well, my brother is really smart!"

  She hasn't been able to digest Cao Xin's long words for a while, but only from Cao Xin's tone and the imposing rhetorical questions, it is powerful enough.

   I don't know what to do!

  Little people seem to be glowing.

   "Sister, don't go crazy!"

Cao Xin pushed away the black and thin elder sister, and without giving his mother time to think, he dug out the two hundred copper coins brought back by the elder brother from the room, and stuffed fifty Dazhong Tongbao in front of the mother and daughter. Go in and urge: "Let's go, let's not buy food for the time being, my brother said that the gang will give it every day. But don't say this to the outside world, everyone in the gang is treated differently, and the relationship with the leader is different. , Everyone gets as much as they want, and if they tell it, they will be hated by others."

  Cao Xin continued to pave the way for his daily [good luck] by coaxing and scaring.

Seeing that Mrs. Cao Zhang was still hesitating, Cao Xin took her with one hand and Cao Xian with the other: "Let's go, let's go find the eldest lady. I've asked about it. She is the most popular in the yard, and she never blushes with others." Just ask her staff to buy a few feet of cloth, our clothes are really not good."

  Cao Xin looked at the tattered clothes of the family. Compared with beggars, they were better than clean.

   I really didn't see it.

   "A big lady! A big lady!"

   "My mother and eldest sister want to pull some pieces of cloth back to make clothes for me. I am afraid that the cloth they choose is not good. Can my mother help me and take it to have a look?"

  Cao Xin took his old lady and eldest sister, through the front yard, through the hall, to the middle courtyard, and shouted at the home of the first lady, Yi Qinghe.

  Yi Qinghe and Da Niang must be in their early fifties and have no children under their knees. Da Niang likes children very tightly. Among the older generation in the courtyard, this is the one who has the best attitude towards Cao Xin and Cao Liang.

  Cao Xin is thick-skinned, and he climbs up the ladder. The big lady is kind-hearted and has no opinions, so let her make a breakthrough.

  The timing here has to be chosen right.

  If Yi Qinghe was at home, the highly respected "guardian" in the courtyard, the recognized "big man" in the courtyard, would not be willing to get involved with the Cao family.

  But now the sky is bright, and the men in the courtyard are all out to work, which gives Cao Xin the opportunity to sneak in.

   Standing outside the door and calling out, I felt a lot of gazes from other residents of the middle courtyard.

  Cao Xin didn't care, he stuck his head out to look at Yi Qinghe's house.

   not long.

   "Cao Xiaowu."

  The first lady came out and was a little surprised to see Mrs. Cao Zhang and Cao Xian: "Mother Xiao Wu, Xiao Xian, come, come, come in and have a seat."

   "I won't go in."

   "Are you free today?"

   "It's still cool now, let's go to the market quickly, because it's too late, and all the designated cloths are sold out."

  Cao Xin's acting skills are astonishing, acting like a baby and pretending to be innocent, this is called a consummate talent.

"what!"

"Ha ha!"

"How can so many cloths be sold out? Okay, wait a minute. I'll go out with you after I pack up. You just came here. You need an acquaintance to take you with you. There are many ways in this market. If you are not careful You will be trapped."

  The first lady chatted while tidying up.

  After speaking a few or two sentences, Mrs. Cao and Zhang were finally not so nervous, and gradually opened up the conversation. Cao Xian was not a stage fright at all, so he started chatting very quickly.

  Cao Xin pretended to be mischievous inside again, and the atmosphere was very good for a while, talking and laughing and leaving the yard.

  …

   After the four left.

In the main room of the central courtyard, one person pushed the door out, and smiled at a rather rich middle-aged and elderly woman at the door of the west wing: "Oh, Mrs. Zhen, these shoes are not ready yet, I think they are almost two months old, This skill is so delicate!"

  This rough life, named 'He Dashan', looks to be forty years old, but in fact he is only twenty-nine. He is the chef of the canteen of the Sun Family Textile Factory and the Publishing House. He has superb cooking skills, but he is evasive and has no clue in his mouth. He can often kill his popularity.

For example, now, the Zhen Lu family who lives in the west wing died of her husband in the early years, and her only son died unexpectedly a few years ago. Now she relies on her daughter-in-law with three children to support herself. , Staying at home and doing nothing, making a pair of shoe slippers for two months without making it, too lazy!

  When He Dashan saw it, he couldn't help but say a few words.

   "Is it up to you!"

   Zhen Lu rolled his eyes at He Dashan.

"Hey!"

   "This little old lady!"

  He Dashan laughed and joked with Zhen Lushi a few times before asking curiously: "I just heard that someone came to look for Da Ma, is it the Cao family in the front yard?"

   "No way!"

   "Early in the morning, my mother and I came together. I think it will be a bad thing to be entangled by this family. You have to be careful in the future!"

   Zhen Lu immediately became excited when he mentioned this, and thought of something again, so he hurriedly reminded He Dashan.

  He Dashan is nearly thirty years old and has not yet married a wife. All the income from the cafeteria and the little oil and water he brings back every day are all given to the orphans and widows of the Zhen family.

   This is their family's long-term meal ticket, Zhen Lu is very protective of food!

   "Put some virtue in your mouth, you, I heard that the boss of the Cao family is a mess in the river and lake on the Caishuihe wharf, so be careful, he put a sack on you and sank the river!"

  He Dashan made people talk about good deeds, but he didn't realize that he was the most unreasonable one. He frightened Mrs. Zhen and damaged the reputation of Cao's family in the front yard by the way, so he whistled and wandered out.

   "This idiot!"

   Zhen Lu gave a pooh behind her back, rolled her eyes, and moved to the front yard, ready to talk to someone again.

  …

  Cao Xin accompanied Cao Zhangshi, Da Niang, and Cao Xian to go shopping all morning.

  Although he really wanted to explore the 'Primitive Immortal World', the purpose of exploring the 'Original Immortal World' was to let his family live a good life, and he couldn't put the cart before the horse.

  Last night, Cao Xin thought clearly that the most basic thing for the family to live a good life is nothing more than the four aspects of 'basic clothing, food, housing and transportation'.

  ‘Xing’ is generally an ox cart or a horse cart, let’s not talk about this for now.

It's not good to 'live' in an upside-down house in a large courtyard, but it's not too late to move when you have enough strength to find a suitable opportunity in the future. Money is no object.

  'Food' is the last thing to worry about. For now, Cao Xin has [Fortune], and there will be basic living security for the family in the future. At the same time, he also leaned against a 'primitive fairyland', which he had seen last night, and there were many wild animals there, which could be used for extra meals and nourishing for the family.

   The issue of 'clothes' is, in the final analysis, money. Now it is impossible to make silk and satin in one step, but it is not a problem to buy a bolt of linen and make two or three clothes by yourself, and use the leftovers to add a pair of shoes.

Therefore, Cao Xin strongly insisted, soft and hard, and coupled with the logic of 'buy cloth to make clothes—make friends with neighbors—take jobs and earn money', Cao Zhang endured distress and spent huge sums of money—94 articles, buying The next bolt of common linen.

  In fact, the cotton cloth that is almost as short as it is in Xijing City only costs 140 to 50 Wen, and the Cao family has a total of 170 Wen, which is enough.

  However, Cao Xin knew that his old lady would be reluctant to part with it, and he needed to buy other odds and ends at home, so he just mentioned it deliberately at the beginning, giving Cao Zhang a room for compromise, and did not insist.

  A piece of cloth consumes most of the family's resources.

   Later, I unknowingly bought many household necessities.

  By the time Cao Zhang came to his senses, the shopping baskets of himself and the aunt were already full, and the bulging money bag that he had been clutching with his hands when he came out was about to dry out.

   "It's getting late, Ma'am, let's go back."

  Ms. Cao and Zhang broke out in a cold sweat touching the purse, unwilling to go shopping again.

  Cao Xin was beside him, carrying the piece of linen with his grinning and foolish elder sister Cao Xian. Hearing this, he raised his head and said to Cao Zhang: "Mother, let's buy some food and go home."

   He took the hand of the first lady with his small hand again, "Old lady, we will have dinner at home later, we haven't had any guests yet."

  Cao Zhang also reacted, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes! My sister-in-law will eat at home at noon."

  After the invitation, the first lady finally agreed after Cao Xin's repeated attempts to show off her cuteness.

   "Consummation!"

  Cao Xin heaved a sigh of relief.

  In addition to survival, humans are also social animals.

   During the half month since the Cao family lived in the courtyard, the eldest brother Cao Ren has more or less been in the gang except for a few superficial friends.

  Cao Liang is young, and the new things in and out of the courtyard can make him happy for a long time alone.

  Cao Xin has a thick skin, and he can talk to adults and children without being afraid of rolling his eyes.

   But Cao Zhang and Cao Xian were miserable.

  The people in the courtyard disliked and rejected them, and they themselves had low self-esteem, so they couldn't integrate into it for a long time. The couple left early and returned late, clearly living in a bustling courtyard, but it was like an isolated island, only the family members could talk.

   This obviously doesn't last long.

  In the past, the family was short of food and clothing, so Cao Xin couldn’t make his mother and elder sister shy to please the people in the courtyard.

   Now it's different.

  The biggest survival problem is solved, the family situation will gradually improve, and then get along with the old aunt and daughter-in-law in the courtyard, so that you will not be inferior to others.

  So early this morning, Cao Xin began to break the ice for the mother and the eldest sister starting from the first lady.

   Take it slowly in the future, and when everyone finds out that the Cao family does not borrow money, ask for help or harm others, they will gradually accept it.

   In this way, when Cao Zhang and Cao Xian are idle at home, they will not have nowhere to go and nowhere to talk like this morning.

  …

  (end of this chapter)