BXBX NOVEL Chapter 571 - 571: Consider
Madam Pei naturally wanted her daughter’s marriage to be of help to her son, Pei Dongyu, so she said, “I suppose we’ll have to wait for Dongyu to come back in September to pick us up and bring us to the imperial capital. We can slowly choose the right person for fufu in the imperial capital.
“However,” Grandpa Pei suddenly said, “We were talking about Xue Sanfu. If Sanfu does have a promising future, there’s no harm in considering him. I heard that he isn’t married nor engaged.”
“What if no matter how ambitious he is, he’s still a good-for-nothing?” Madam Pei said.
“Well…” Grandpa Pei was speechless. After a while, he said, “We’ll have to wait and see.” After all, he had just joined the military, so they could not expect anything for now.
At this moment, in the Pei family’s backyard, Pei Fufu returned to her room and sat quietly by the window. She looked at the flowers blooming outside the window with a lost expression.
On August 10th, Jiang Yue’s family stopped selling ice.
Due to the cold weather, the business of selling ice had declined greatly, and the family had worked hard for the past two months, so it was time for them to take a break. In addition, Xue Sifu had already started looking around town to see there was a shop he could buy. He was hoping to buy a shop that specialized in rice noodles.
They no longer made ice, so there was no more iced sour plum juice for sale.
Although the liangpi was still on sale, the amount sold in a day was much less than when they had hot days. Therefore, they would not make much liangpi and put it on the stall.
The rice noodles were on sale again. There were already people who didn’t want to eat liangpi anymore and wanted to eat something hot.
The rice noodles started to sell better and better.
The dry rice noodles were still selling well. Many people were willing to buy the dry rice noodles and cook them at home.
Since they no longer made ice at home, Xue Dafu and the others immediately felt much more relaxed.
Because Xue Sifu had to look after his shop, he couldn’t take care of his stall, so Liu Guixia and Xue Erfu came to help.
The people who had been hired to sell, deliver, and chisel ice had all been paid their wages.
However, He Jinshan’s mother and Li Qingshu’s mother were quick in their work, especially in preparing rice noodles, washing the dishes, washing the pots, and cutting things. Therefore, although they had paid the two months wages, they continued to hire them. The two of them still worked at the stall, and they still earned fifteen coins a day.
Xue Sifu had also made an agreement with He Jinshan’s mother and Li Qingshu’s mother. After he bought the shop, he would hire them to work in the shop. He Jinshan’s mother and Li Qingshu’s mother were very happy. They thought they would be done after two months, but they didn’t expect to be hired again. Their families were very happy with this pieces of news as well.
Xue Dagui was a little special, so Xue Sifu still hired him. When they ran out of ice to sell, he specifically asked him to bring the liangpi rice noodles to the table for the customers to eat.
Hence, there were five people working at the stall. Now, there were five people
Liu Guixia, Xue Erfu, Xue Dagui, He Jinshan’s mother, and Li Qingshu’s mother.
This number was manageable.
Moreover, it would only be busy during lunch time. Just like before he sold ice, he would open his stall in the morning and come back in the afternoon.
Xue Yifu no longer needed to help make ice, so he went back to doing woodwork. His family was building a big house, and when the house was built, they would definitely need new furniture. He had already gone to town and bought quite a lot of decent wood. There were no good wood in the shallow mountains, and he did not dare to cut wood deep in the mountains. Therefore, he planned to make furniture himself with the wood from town.
Xue Yan had already drawn a book for him. There were some pretty furniture designs in the book, and he planned to make them according to the drawing..