Free Life in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 169 The Days of the Boss's wife

In the spring afternoon, the sun is shining. Spring is an exciting season. In the warm air, people say goodbye to the anxiety of winter and put a rare smile on their faces early. A quarrel caused by irritability in winter has quietly stopped in spring.

The big girls and little daughters-in-law changed into spring thin shirts. The old grandmother had half a piece of osmanthus candy in her mouth, and her toothless dry mouth moved.

In the spring breeze, peach petals drift with the wind, with a faint fragrance in every corner of the city. Song Keren leaned in front of the bed, and his eyes were full of large leaves of poplar trees in summer in his hometown. She was born in the countryside in the south, with several acres of idle fields and a small pond in the field. In the pond are green duckweed and unclean ducks that steal fish fry.

In this bright season, Song Keren misses his childhood. If she doesn't come here, she will go back to her hometown every year on vacation and enjoy leisure days, right?

On the bluestone road under the window, a man hurried into the pharmacy with a child on his back. Song Keren looked at the stone of the gray rat and the man's down-to-earth back. She couldn't help but come together with Fang Shaowen's wide and solid shoulders. In the sound that exuded from him, she fell asleep quietly.

She still remembers that at that time, Fang Shaowen took her hand and took her into the pharmacy in Lin'an City. It was a pharmacy that was not spacious. The small sunlight window came in and could not warm the cold in the pharmacy.

Song Ke was curious to see the guys take out the medicine from the old drawer, and the pine cabinet on the wall was divided into countless compartments. There is a drawer full of medicinal herbs in each compartment, and every time the drawer is opened, it represents a person's expectation of living. The pharmacy has a bitter taste all year round. When she is sick, it smells like this at home. The unpleasant bitter herbal smell fills every corner of the home. When you are familiar with it, you will get used to the bitter taste.

Fang Shaowen died, and with his departure, she had the bitter taste of medicine in the past. That day, the sky was blue and the sunshine was good. He closed his eyes forever. As the days passed, she lost the focus of life in her heart.

Many years later, she saw him again in the troubles of the earth. His sunny and warm face, thick eyebrows, and lazy look when he smiles.

Fang Shaowen quietly withdrew from her stage. She sang in her own world. Those people in her life came and went, but unfortunately they were all passers-by. Only myself can stay.

Out of the window, time passed quietly, and Song Ke was deeply tired. He is not by her side. In the past few months, she hardly knows how she has gone through it.

With a "squeak..." the door was pushed open. Song Keren heard the voice, but did not look back.

The lowered girl came over with a bowl of tea and gently put it on the small table next to Song Keren.

"The boss's wife, this is ** tea, which is on fire." The girl said.

Song Keyen turned his head and looked at the unbeautiful girl who was slightly smaller. She showed rare white teeth and rare dimples, and her eyes softened a lot with her smile.

"Thank you, it's rare that you still think of me!" Song Keren said.

The freckled little girl smiled shyly, bit her lips, and secretly looked at Song Keren.

Song Keren picked up the tea bowl and squeezed it symbolically.

"Yes, boss's wife, Boss Li came again today, saying that the goods must be returned. The account room just sent him away. Despite this, he put down his words and said that he would come tomorrow!" The girl reminded.

Song Keren frowned and put down the tea bowl. Her face suddenly disappeared from the sadness she had just looked out of the window, but she looked dissatisfied.

"What's going on? Didn't you promise to exchange the goods for him? Why do you want to return it again? Our goods have always been exchanged and not returned. Besides, I don't believe that he is useless with so many fabrics. Your family also returned the goods, and our family also returned the goods. Will our business still be done? I think he did it on purpose. Boss Li has cooperated for so long. He doesn't know the rules of our family. How can he say such a thing inexplicably? Which one of you offended him?

Song Keren said his words in his heart like a cannon, which made the little girl very embarrassed. As a seller, she doesn't dare to offend her customers, doesn't she? She had to grin.

Song Keren tilted his head and looked at the little girl's awkward and shy smile, and Song Keren understood one or two points.

Song Keyen raised his chin and said coldly, "You know?"

The girl didn't dare to laugh. She lowered her head and squeezed her mouth.

"That's it, why hide it? Don't worry, I won't say what you said, and I won't make it difficult for you to be a man!" Song Keren said.

When the girl heard Song Keren say this, she waved her hand in panic.

"Boss's wife, don't think about it. It's not like this. It's really not like this. Actually, I'm afraid to say your worries!" After saying that, the girl looked at Song Keren uneasily. Seeing Song Keren's firm eyes, the girl couldn't help hanging her head, biting her lips like a little daughter-in-law.

"Actually, it is the latest cloth shop opened by Fang Jiada (milk) (milk). It is said that the store is bigger than ours, and every business sends the best things to them. Didn't the girl feel that something had been wrong recently? The rouge shop and the snack shop downstairs are dodge, as if something had happened. I heard that Fang Jiada (milk) (milk) takes special care of their customers. Our family doesn't ask for a dime to enter the store. Not only that, I heard that the price of cloth there is much lower than ours. For example, the release price of the new "Flying Bird" this year is three feet and one taels of silver. Normally, the price is quite fair. However, there is four feet and one taels of silver. Not only that, but I heard that their blue cloth is simply a free price. Three feet of blue cloth only needs 30 big children, which is cheaper than the one dyed by the peasant woman's own family. It is said that on the opening day, the peasant women who bought blue cloth almost squeezed their counters. How many people buy it in batches? After buying it, go back and store it!"

After saying that, the girl looked at Song Keren carefully.

Sure enough, under the peach blossom-like sunshine in April, Song Keyen's face changed.

Since she took over the "Collection Hall", Boss Fang withdrew from the stage. I heard that Master Fang was forced to spend a large amount of money in order to completely control the property rights of the collection hall by Song Keren. This silver has made Master Fang get a good reputation. He can arrange his daughter-in-law without a name so well that there is no one else in the world except the Fang family. As a result, Master Fang got the reputation of a great good man. However, in addition to bringing him vanity, this reputation is more about money.

It is said that since Master Fang got the name of a good man, the number of monks and nuns who send famous posts in temples and shrines has increased significantly. As a result, Master Fang received more than 30 peace charms in the first New Year after the loss of his son. Which one can't take out money? It really makes Master Fang laugh and cry.

Master Fang helped Song Keren get all the management rights. From then on, Song Keren lived a rare free life as a boss's wife. But Song Keyen is not very interested in this. All her ideas about the cloth industry are just to pay tribute to Fang Shaowen's spirit in heaven. This is the shop he built, and she can't ask it to leave with him.

For Song Keyen, the collection hall is her posthumous son. He is the last property she left to her, and she will try her best to protect its existence.

"When did the big (milk) store open?" Song Keren suddenly asked.

The girl raised her head, and in the spring light, she saw the perseverance in Song Keyen's eyes.

"Yes... it happened a few days ago, at the entrance of the alley of West Street. It opened quietly. On the day of the opening, our little six son ran to see the bustle. Unexpectedly, he saw the big (milk) (milk). Only then did he know that it was a big (milk) (milk) store. In the past two days, I heard that they seemed to be desperate and sold cloth at a loss. The more the girl spoke, the lower her voice became, as if she was afraid of shocking Song Keren.

Song Keren sneered and said to herself that she did it on purpose. This is to show it to her on purpose!

This collection also had a part of Fang Guihe's painstaking efforts in those years. Suddenly, he gave his painstaking efforts to people, and naturally he would not be in a good mood. Song Keren deeply sympathizes with this. However, what she couldn't figure out was that Fang Guihe didn't want to die? Take out all your family assets and open a shop to fight with her?

Thinking of this, Song Ke unconsciously frowned again.

"The news is really not good. The opponent opened a store near our house, but none of us knew it. Thanks to Boss Li, otherwise, on the day the collection hall closed down, I didn't know who was the opponent!" Song Keyen said sarcastically.

The girl heard this and quickly waved her hand.

"It's not like that. The girl thinks too much. I heard that it took Da (milk) to open this store only a month from preparation to opening. She is doing it silently. If she wants to hide it from us, even if we can inquire about it from the world, can't we? I remember that when I passed the entrance of West Street and Lane half a month ago, it was still a restaurant. How many days did it take? Xiao Liuzi went to inquire about the news and said that more than 20 carpenters helped with the decoration at that time. When decorating, all the wood is entered through the back door. Sneaky, as if it was deliberately hiding something. I thought that it was a big (milk) that dared not offend the girl, so I deliberately and quietly did it.

Song Keren immediately sneered when he heard this.

"How dare she not offend? She showed it to me on purpose. But don't let me be vigilant in advance and catch me off guard!"