Otherworldly Days

Chapter 142 Borrowing Money

"Fu Lang, Uncle Fifth is here." What Cao Xiangnan didn't expect was that his fifth younger brother came so early in the morning. If he thought about it, he really wouldn't give up until he got a loan.The carriage was heading to town before dawn, and they were still in the kitchen making the second batch of pho.

Now the amount of pho has gradually stabilized, but the daily amount is still there, which is quite a lot.

A lot of food has been added to the shop. Cao Xiangnan plans to open another branch on the street in the town. He is currently looking for a shop, and if he finds a suitable one, he will open another branch.Originally, he had bought the shop with the owner, and the annual rent was quite a lot. Now that he has money in hand, it is still more cost-effective to buy it.

So now he is working hard to make money on the other side, and spending money on the other side, but in the end there is not much left in his pocket.

"I'll go back as soon as I go." Sweating profusely inside, Cao Xiangnan wiped his clothes casually with his hands, and didn't even take off the apron around his chest. This was what he specially asked everyone to do. This will prevent you from soiling your clothes.

When he came out, he saw Cao Gaojin waiting at the door of the kitchen outside, and Cao Xiangnan had no intention of going into the room to say anything.He sat down on the chair beside him, wiped his sweat with the towel around his neck, picked up the jug on the table and poured two large bowls of water, and said to the person standing there, "Sit down, what do you want from me?" something?"

Seeing his fourth brother's contemptuous look, Cao Gaojin felt a little unhappy, even though his mother said not to come to see his fourth brother, he still came.He sat down, glanced at the water on the table, did not pick it up, and asked, "Fourth brother, I came here to ask you to borrow some money."

"Oh, how much do you want to borrow?" Cao Xiangnan didn't expect Cao Gaojin to be so straightforward. He hung the towel after wiping sweat around his neck and asked with a smile.

Cao Gaojin really didn't think about how much to borrow. The money in his hand was always given by Eminem at will, and he could give as much as he gave, but in the past it was never less than one tael, and sometimes there were two taels.Cao Gaojin thought about it for a while, and reported a figure that he thought was reasonable, "Fourth brother, please lend me two taels of silver."

Anyway, they are my brothers, this borrowing is just to get some money, and there is no need to pay it back, it is better to ask for more.

But obviously, Cao Gaojin's mind is a bit too naive.

"Two taels of silver?" Cao Xiangnan folded his arms around his chest, looking at Cao Gaojin who asked for money as easily as picking up money on the ground, thinking that he was stupid in studying, "You know that two taels of silver is something that ordinary people can't save in a year. Did you get the money?" he asked.

"For a vegetable seller, a bundle of vegetables sells for one copper coin, and two taels of silver is equivalent to two thousand bundles of vegetables. A load of vegetables sold in a day only costs eleven or twenty copper coins, and two taels of silver costs a year's worth of vegetables. Qian’s family can only have two taels of silver if they don’t eat or drink, so how do you think the two taels of silver come from?”

Does Cao Xiangnan know about his elder brother? Chen Li also picked vegetables to sell, and his elder brother can earn some money every day when he builds roads in the village.

According to the little memory in his mind, Cao Gaojin must have seized the little money from his mother when he came back from a trip.Based on his understanding of his elder brother, he didn't swallow his anger like his family's Wanfeng, so he just waited and watched the show.

Cao Gaojin really didn't know how he got here, he knew how to study when he was so old, and when he ran out of money, he would come back and ask Amu for it.

In the past every few months, Eminem would entrust someone to send him some money, which was enough for him to spend, but now Eminem gave less money, and he no longer asked the entrustee to send him money. Now that brother has made a fortune, he also has the intention to come back and ask his fourth brother for money.

"Fifth brother, when I didn't separate the family, I gave the little money I worked in the town for so many years to Eminem. I'm afraid Eminem gave it to you. In the past, I paid three times a month, one year Adding in a little money from the host, there is also four taels of silver, after all these years, I have given you a lot of taels for your education."

"If I remember correctly, when the family was separated, Ah Mu took two taels of silver from me to buy medicine and gave it to you. I'm afraid it didn't take half a year. Cao Gaojin, I'm very surprised that you took it from home. Where did all the money go. Didn’t E-Mu give you any money when you came back this time?” The second idiot in the past didn’t know how to count, but that doesn’t mean Cao Xiangnan didn’t know how to count. The little money was searched clean, what to do with the money.

"Besides, didn't Eminem tell you? At the beginning, he signed a contract with me for the two taels of silver. After the separation, I will live with mine, and you will live with yours. It has nothing to do with each other from now on." But it's true. Don't mention two taels of silver to him, Chen Zhu severed his mother-in-law relationship with him because of these two taels of silver!

Now that Cao Gaojin dared to come and ask him for two taels of silver, Cao Xiangnan laughed angrily, and he said very realistically, "So, fifth brother, I will no longer be unconditional for you to study as before. If you If you still want to borrow two taels of silver, that’s okay, we’ll make a written note, when did you borrow it, and when can you return the silver to me.”

Cao Gaojin's face turned blue and white after listening to his fourth brother's words.He never knew that his fourth brother could calculate this so clearly, he suddenly became angry and stood up abruptly, "Fourth brother, if you don't want to borrow it, don't use these words to humiliate me."

"I didn't humiliate you, I just told the truth." Seeing Cao Gaojin who couldn't hear the truth, Cao Xiangnan thought it was funny.

At this moment, Qi Wanfeng and Sun Bailian could hear the words outside clearly in the kitchen, and Sun Bailian gave Qi Wanfeng a look, "Your husband is really amazing."

Qi Wanfeng said that he didn't know that his husband could be so powerful, but he knew that his husband's money in those years was all used by his mother to send Uncle Wu to study, which is a lot of money in one year. the money.If these few taels of silver were spent on their family of three, they would be able to live a very good life.He is very glad that they have separated now, and his husband doesn't have to support such a family anymore.

Cao Xiangnan saw Cao Gaojin who hurried away angrily, picked up the untouched bowl of water on the table, drank it in one gulp, got up and went into the kitchen, saw two people inside, knew that they had heard his words, He shrugged and sighed, "A scholar who doesn't know the hardships of the people, our children must not be so stupid in reading in the future."

Xiangzi, who was still a child and still studying, looked up at his uncle, thinking that he must not be so stupid.

"Our Xiangzi is a smart boy." Cao Xiangnan understood at a glance what the silly boy was talking about with his big beautiful eyes. It looks like that too.

But he didn't lend money to Cao Gaojin after all, and he doesn't plan to borrow it now, nor will he in the future!

The sun is slowly rising in the east, and this morning is full of sunshine and hope.

Brothers who came to work also came one after another, and children from several families came with their mother. Wu Yue and Li Mei wanted to work here, and their children were sent over.The children in their family also woke up, and the number of children in the family gradually increased, making a lot of noise.

The noise in the yard quieted down, and then there was the sound of reading aloud, and a group of children were reading while shaking their heads.Knowing that his family's An An is the best reader among this group of children, and he can basically recite what the teacher taught in the school, Cao Xiangnan simply asked his family An An to lead everyone to study.

Then he elected two small monitors, Kangkang and Goudan, to manage this group of little radishheads.

After letting a few children study, Cao Xiangnan went to the temporary warehouse at the back that was used as a small workshop.The first little padded jacket was sewn. He picked it up and looked at it. The bright red floral fabric was exquisitely crafted and very soft to the touch.

Wu Yue and Cao Yan were the first to sew this little padded jacket, and everyone surrounded it.

"This is the first time I have touched such soft clothes. If my children can wear such good clothes in the future, they will not be cold." Cao Yan wanted to give this clothes to her children when she saw it, but it was Cao Silang He was invited to do it, but he really wanted it in his heart, so he asked half jokingly, "Master, this dress is so good, can we also buy one?"

His family was poor, and the child didn't even have decent clothes. In winter, the child's hands and feet developed chilblains, and he cried non-stop at night.Now he saw this white cotton, which he said was something grown from a tree, and the clothes it made were so soft.

"Yeah, this material is so good, I want to buy one." A brother echoed.

They have a lot of money working here now, so they can buy a piece of clothing for their children after saving like this?Some people have the idea of ​​buying a piece of clothing for their children at that time.

"Success, this dress is also made and sold, but the price of this dress has not yet been set. If you want to buy it for the children at home, when the time comes when the clothes are all made and the price is set, you can buy what you want. Go to Wu Yue and sign up." Cao Xiangnan turned to Wu Yue and said, "Wu Yue, when the time comes, write down the clothes everyone wants."

"Okay." Wu Yue nodded.

Cao Xiangnan added, "However, the quantity of these clothes is not much. Each of you should not have more than three sets in each household. Those within three sets will be calculated according to their own price, and those other than three sets will be calculated according to the selling price at that time."

Everyone cheered when they heard this. Their boss is really a good person, but they don't know how much this one sells for. I hope it won't be too expensive by then, and they won't be able to afford it.

The success of the first piece of clothing indicates that the second and third pieces will be made later, which arouses everyone's enthusiasm for a while.After taking a look inside, Cao Xiangnan came out when he saw everyone buried in making clothes.

The group of children who were reading outside were in a mess long ago, their mouths were still reading and their buttocks were no longer on the stool.Xiangzi and Kangkang grabbed them one by one, and they couldn't catch so many with both hands.Seeing Uncle Xiangnan coming, Nian Wang yelled, "Uncle Xiangnan is here, please sit down quickly."

A group of children ran as fast as rabbits, and they all sat back obediently.

"..." Cao Xiangnan.