Chapter 13 Chen Temei
Sure enough, when Mrs. Wei knew the price of the strawberry seedlings, she was so angry that she scolded Wei Yin for a while.
Wei Yin said, "This is my private pocket."
"What kind of private pocket money isn't that family's money?" Old Mrs. Wei was so angry.
Seeing that Mrs. Wei was so angry, Wei Jin also added fuel to the fire, "Yes, second sister, you are too big-handed. Although our family is rich, it is not like this. I said that the two brothers and sisters are too. A Yin is ignorant, why don't you both persuade me?"
Although Chen Xuan was honest and had her own likes and dislikes, she didn't like Wei Jin. Seeing that Wei Jin was trying to persuade Mrs. Wei, she was still making trouble. Sure enough, Mrs. Wei's cold eyes came to Chen Xuan of Li's family. Chen Xuan hurriedly said, "I heard from A Yin that this kind of fruit called strawberry is extremely expensive. If it is planted well and fruits are borne, it can't be bought a piece of ocean or a pound. We bought these seeds and planted them, and then we can make a profit." Chen Xuan had already thought on the way that this kind of seeds would be expensive, and the fruits would definitely not be cheap. The vendor said that a piece of seed would cost a piece of ocean per cent, and then a piece of ocean per pound would be borne.
Li didn't dare to speak, but she was also on Chen Xuan and Wei Yin's side, so she nodded quickly.
Old Mrs. Wei was angry and looked at Chen Xuan with her eyes up and down, and asked her with a deep face, "Can you plant such expensive fruits?"
Chen Xuan didn't want to listen to the old lady's scolding. She said, "The old lady knows that I don't understand what is going on in the city, but I have been working as a child since I was a child. I have been ripe for this job. I also asked how to plant it. A Yin also thought that the fruit is very expensive, and even if the family has money to buy it for the old lady to eat, you can't bear to leave it. She bought the fruit seeds and thought that if you plant it, you can respect you. A Yin is really kind." Because she is so familiar with the temperament of Mrs. Wei, Chen Xuan thought about how to deal with Mrs. Wei on the way home. She has passed this set of words several times in her heart, and now it is very smooth and there is no stuttering at all. In addition, Chen Xuan is born with honesty, and what she says is particularly credible.
Wei Yin is the smartest person, she immediately said, "Isn't that the reason? I still want to respect my mother. Seeing you like this, you can't let others say anything, you just scream and scold people! If you have anything good in the future, I won't miss you anymore!"
Only then did the fire be turned off and muttered, "You can really grow fruit!"
Wei Yin was determined, "Mom, please wait and see!"
Because of Chen Xuan and Wei Yin's appearance of "I will definitely grow fruits", Old Mrs. Wei stopped talking about anything.
Chen Xuan put this kind of seeds in her house, thinking about staying until the evening to plant the seeds in the garden. Speaking of which, the vegetable garden planned for Chen Xuan, there is no place to plant such precious fruits!
Chen Xuan thought about it and went to the backyard to build a large piece of land. Because the bag of seeds was more than three cents. While Chen Xuan was pursuing the vegetable fields, she thought that the vendor probably only had a pack of seeds, which was not easy to sell. When she met Wei Yin, she hurriedly sold them.
This kind of seed, called strawberry, has extremely small seed particles.
In the backyard, she lives in two rooms with her sister-in-law Li. In the front yard, the old lady Wei, Mr. Wei, and Wei Jin and Wei Yin, who lived in the front yard. She carefully cut the small trash and crushed it with her hands from time to time. She then went to the bottom of the back stove to burn the remaining wood ash on the stove and buried it as base fertilizer. Chen Xuan had never planted such precious gold. She was a careful person. Only half of the land was used as fertilizer. The remaining half was useless.
Moreover, how to plant this kind of seed? Chen Xuan thought the vendor would bury it in the soil.
Chen Xuan is a meticulous person. She can be buried directly in the ground or placed on a plate, with a piece of cloth head, and then a piece of cloth head is covered with water, so that it will sprout with wetness. Chen Xuan also wants to grow vegetables anyway, and she has ripe these vegetables, such as tomatoes, so she can buy seedlings directly, just plant them in the vegetable garden.
But Chen Xuan decided to try both methods for this strawberry species.
Chen Xuan buried her head in the process of germination of seeds.
As a result, all kinds of vegetables she planted in the front yard vegetable garden, including vegetables, eggplant, cucumbers, loofahs, beans, tomatoes, etc., all sowing them sprouted in four or five days. Chen Xuan was watering these strawberries frequently, and there was no movement.
Because strawberries are very expensive, Mrs. Wei is also very concerned. Every day, she wakes up early and goes to the backyard to see strawberries after washing her face. As a result, the loofahs started to crawl, and the strawberries are still not moving. Mrs. Wei asked Chen Xuan, "Do you have any questions? If you can plant them, ask Ayin to buy this seed with these money. If you can't plant them, you will waste money in vain."
Chen Xuan kept silent.
Wei Yin has always been one, two, Wei Yin said, "I want to buy it myself, but my second sister-in-law will stop me. Mom, don't tell me if you are angry!"
"Finish! Then I'll ask you, why do you buy these rags that cannot sprout and go home?" Thinking of that ocean, Old Mrs. Wei was so angry that she wanted to eat people raw.
Wei Yin snorted and threw herself back to the house and sulked.
Chen Xuan said slowly, "Once, my aunt planted peppers at home. I spawned them for half a month before I spawned them."
Old Mrs. Wei is not as experienced as Chen Xuan in farming. She counts the number of days with her fingers and snors, "Then I'll wait for you for another five days!"
No matter how bad Mrs. Wei’s face looked, Chen Xuan said to her, she just kept doing things alone and went to clean up the vegetable garden when she had time. However, Wei Nian couldn’t stand it and said, “When Ah Xuan didn’t come to our house, she had to buy food at home. Look at her cooking in this big yard, she won’t save only a piece of seafood in the summer. Mom, forget it, it’s not a big deal.”
Old Mrs. Wei is a rude person. What's more, the mother-in-law is the most shameful person who is a son who is biased against his daughter-in-law. Old Mrs. Wei threw his chopsticks, "I'm talking about this!"
Wei Jin slowly stirred the tofu brain in the bowl and lengthened it and said, "My mother said that you should know that these broken berry can't be released. It's better to plant two-yard dishes."
Wei Jinshi reminded Mrs. Wei. Mrs. Wei said to Mrs. Li, "Old man, I'll go to the East City tomorrow to buy two more packs of seeds and plant all the vegetable gardens in the backyard. What kind of broken berries, where are there vegetables and vegetables!"
Chen Xuan said quietly, "You can send it out."
Old Mrs. Wei was about to explode again, Old Mr. Wei put down his chopsticks and said, "Okay, it's just a pack of seeds, it's not worth being angry. I think our front vegetable garden is very good. I ask my second wife to grow one, she understands this."
Old Mrs. Wei stopped saying anything.
After breakfast, Chen Xuan went to the backyard and huddled a fence for the strawberry garden.
In the evening, Chen Xuan brought the wash water to Wei Nian. Wei Nian also told Chen Xuan, "It's been more than ten days, and there's no movement. Could it be that there is something wrong with the seeds, right?"
"Don't dare to say that although I don't recognize this kind of seeds, I can see it at a glance. There is no problem with this kind of seeds." Chen Xuan mixed him with hot water, tested the water temperature, and asked Wei Nian, "Brother A Nian, if you plant strawberries, will this fruit be sold?"
Wei Nian said, "Of course it's easy to sell. There are not many such things now. They are mostly used for Western cakes and snacks. Where can I sell them in fruit shops?"
"But, are there many western restaurants in the city?" Chen Xuan asked again. She had never done business, but she felt that things had to be bought to sell them.
Wei Nian wiped his face and said to Chen Xuan casually, "When selling things, things are rare, and people don't see much. Those rich people can't say they have to eat this bite. For example, the Six Kingdoms Hotel, Beijing Hotel, and these high-end places, the people who come from are rich, are not afraid of being expensive, but are afraid that things are not expensive and their status is low."
After listening to Wei Nian's words, Chen Xuan became more and more confident that she would grow this kind of fruit called strawberry.
Because the value of strawberries was determined from Wei Nian's mouth, after washing up, Chen Xuan asked Wei Nian, "Does this fruit be grown in Beijing?"
"No." Wei Nian shook his head and said, "If there is, if there is, there must be a fruit shop in the fruit shop. The one in the Western restaurant is just a decoration, or imported from abroad, maybe it may be."
Chen Xuan asked with wide eyes, "For a bite, I'll go abroad to buy it?"
"What's so strange about this? There are so many such things. Many of the clothes and materials are also foreign goods." Wei Nian laughed at her for being so strange.
"That's true." Chen Xuan was still very strange. After a while, she nodded, "It seems that this thing is really not cheap." Otherwise, abroad... how far it is, it's been. Wei Yin said that it takes two days and two nights to get to Jiangnan. Then abroad is definitely much farther than Beijing to Jiangnan.
After thinking about it, Chen Xuan sat at the kang table and was stunned for a moment.
Wei Nian thought she was still worried about strawberries, so she told Chen Xuan, "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, don't worry."
"Stop saying these unlucky words." Chen Xuan was sure, "I will definitely grow them." After that, she stopped talking about strawberries and went to the cabinet to pick up the books to copy them. This was the "Thousand Family Poems" newly lent to her by the Xu sisters. She has been busy with strawberries these days. Chen Xuan has no time during the day, so she took the time to copy them at night.
Wei Nian saw that she copied it seriously and reminded her, "Now, vernacular Chinese is popular, and no one has written this kind of ancient poetry."
Chen Xuan said, "I don't understand poetry either, I just use memorizing poetry to recognize a few more words."
"It's so good to recognize words?" Wei Nian admired Chen Xuan's spirit of recognize words. Now Chen Xuan is worried about strawberry planting every day, and she must not forget to copy a few poems and recognize words every night.
Chen Xuan nodded vigorously, stopped writing, and said to Wei Nian, "That day, my sister-in-law took me and Sister Yin to Dongshi. We walked there. I saw many shops along the way. I recognized the signs of those shops and the words on them!" Chen Xuan said, her eyes were bright. It was more than half a month before she left Dongshi. Chen Xuan was happy when she talked about this, which shows how happy she was. Wei Nian has always been quick and naturally saw Chen Xuan's joy. The corners of her lips couldn't help but take a slight hint of it.
A little smile. Chen Xuan said seriously, "Brother A Nian, this is not a big deal for smart people like you. But it is just one thing to me," Chen Xuan said, "It's not just that I'm happy, it's just that I feel indescribable. In such a big city, I recognize the words, what shops and roads I passed by, and I recognize them all, and then I feel my heart suddenly collapsed. Brother A Nian, do you know what I was thinking at that time?"
"What do you think?"
"I thought at that time, even if I get separated from my sister-in-law and sister Yin, I won't be afraid. I remember the names of these roads in my heart. Even now, I asked me to walk the road to Dongshi with my eyes closed, and I remember it." Chen Xuan closed her eyes and slowly described the journey with Wei Nian. "From the Ganyu Hutong where we live, we pass through Ding Street, and to the south is Wangfujing Street. Your shop is on Wangfujing Street. We took a look from afar, and walked to the end of Wangfujing Street.
Chang'an Street goes west to Dongdan Pailou at Suwenmen Street. I don't know the bustling city of Dongcheng. I have never seen such a lively place in my life, so many people, so many goods, so many vegetables, many fruits, but I just think it's so beautiful. There is also a weird guy with green eyes, white skin and curly hair. Sister Yin said that it was a foreigner, and I knew it. I didn't dare to look at it anymore, but I thought, if Brother A Nian, you can talk to them in foreign languages."
Recalling the journey back to Dongcai Market, Chen Xuan asked, "Brother A Nian, are the roads I mentioned right?"
"Yes." Wei Nian nodded.
Chen Xuan raised her lips and said to Wei Nian, "For some reason, I feel so beautiful in my heart."
Wei Nian joked, "I think you are not very beautiful, you are very beautiful, very beautiful."
Chen Xuan laughed unconsciously. She was a honest person and did not deny it. "Yes, I feel very beautiful when I go out this time." So, Mrs. Wei has been looking for Chen Xuan these days, and Chen Xuan was not at all relieved. Because she felt that she had gained great knowledge on this trip, and whatever Mrs. Wei said it was worth it. As soon as she went back to Dongshi, Chen Xuan picked up her pen and said seriously to Wei Nian, "Don't talk to me, I have to copy poetry."
Chapter completed!