Chapter 46 Sold out

Seeing that his aunt was quite curious about the wooden frogs, Jiang Zhu picked one up, put it in his hand, and said to his aunt, "Not only can children play with it, but you can also play with it."

　　"Me?" The aunt waved her hands repeatedly, covered her mouth and laughed: "You are still making fun of me, but I don't want to play with this gadget!"

　　Ye Annian, who heard the conversation between the two, picked up a small wooden stick from the ground and scratched it on the back of the wooden frog held by Jiang Zhu.

　　Suddenly, there was a "croak" sound.

　　The aunt's eyes suddenly widened, and she said in disbelief: "You still scream?"

　　"This little thing sounds like the real thing!"

　　Seeing her surprised expression, Ye Anyian started using the techniques on his hands, sometimes lightly, sometimes hard, sometimes intermittently, and sometimes continuously.

　　The frog sounds became rich and varied with the movements of his hands.

　　Gua! Guagua!

　　Guaguagugua!

　　Gu Gu Gu Gu Gu Gu Gugua!

　　The aunt looked at it and exclaimed: "Don't tell me, this gadget is quite interesting."

　　Jiang Zhu then said: "Look, I said this gadget is suitable for all ages. If you don't want to hear frogs croaking, you can knock it like a wooden fish and you can still calm down."

　　"Hey," the aunt was moved by what he said and couldn't help but ask, "Then how do you sell this gadget?"

　　Jiang Zhu looked at Ye Anyian sitting next to him and motioned for Ye Anyian to answer.

　　In fact, the two of them just set up the stall, and the price hasn't been decided yet.

　　Ye Annian thought for a while and then said: "The big one is fifty cents, the small one is forty cents."

　　"So expensive!" The aunt waved her hands repeatedly, "Fifty cents is enough to buy two kilograms of pork. If you sell it at this price, I'm afraid no one will buy it."

　　"Wooden tops and bamboo dragonflies are cheap." Ye Annian said, "Wooden tops cost fifteen cents each, and bamboo dragonflies cost five cents each."

　　"These two are not expensive." The aunt looked at the wooden spinning top with patterns painted with ink pen and cinnabar. She looked like she liked it very much, but she said regretfully:

　　"It's a pity that my grandson is too young to play with these. If there is a rattle seller, I can buy one and take it home."

　　Rattle? It is indeed very suitable for children who are learning to talk. For example, a little girl like Chen Lingling should like it very much.

　　The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. Ye Anian secretly made a note and planned to make a few more rattles after he went back.

　　The movements of the three people here unknowingly attracted a lot of people, and now a woman with a child came to ask.

　　"What did you knock on just now? My baby sounds novel, how do you sell it?"

　　Jiang Zhu handed the wooden frog in his hand to her and said, "That's it, the big one is fifty cents, and the small one is forty cents."

"It's so expensive." The woman frowned, "It's a gadget for children to play with, shouldn't it be cheaper?"

　　"That's not possible," Jiang Zhu refused with a smile, "My husband carved this thing out of wood piece by piece, and he earned all his hard-earned money."

　　Ye Anyian:...

　　No one does this kind of business, leaving no room for counter-offering.

　　The woman picked up the wooden frog, looked at it, and tapped the frog's back with a small wooden stick.

　　The little boy she was holding looked obviously reluctant to leave. He stood on tiptoes and stretched his neck to look at the wooden frog in his mother's hand.

　　"It's cheaper. I'll buy this big one for forty cents," the woman said.

　　Ye Anyian's lips moved. Just when he was about to say yes, Jiang Zhu had already spoken first: "It's really not possible. Look at the workmanship. My husband sharpened every corner with a file. There is no pit. Hey, it takes a lot of time to work on a wooden frog for a day."

　　"It's not that I have to dig out these few copper coins, I just feel sorry for my husband's hard work."

　　What he said was so sincere that the woman was a little moved because she didn't know what she thought of.

　　"Then... then, please get me a small one, forty coins, right?"

　　Jiang Zhu smiled with his eyebrows creasing: "Yes."

　　He took a small wooden frog and the matching wooden stick and handed them to the woman. The woman took out a bunch of copper coins from the money bag at her waist, counted them, and handed them to Jiang Zhu.

　　"I just see that you two have a good relationship, so just spend more money on this thing," the woman sighed. "I remember that when my wife was still there, we were so loving..."

　　"Oh, let's not talk anymore, Dabao, let's go home and play."

　　She said and led the child away.

　　Jiang Zhu narrowed his eyes and put the newly obtained copper coins into Ye Anian's hand: "Put it away."

　　Ye Anyian put the copper coins into the purse around his waist and said to him, "You shouldn't have said that just now."

　　"What?" Jiang Zhu asked.

　　Ye Anyian: "When doing business, you can't give up the price at all. Your fixed price will drive away customers."

　　"Did she just pay for it?" Jiang Zhu raised an eyebrow and looked at him.

Ye Anyian:...

　　"The situation just now is special. Not everyone is so easy to talk to."

　　"Then you have worked so hard to make this gadget, so you can't just sell it at a low price."

　　"It's not as exaggerated as you said." Ye Annian was helpless. He could make two or three of these wooden frogs in a day, and it actually didn't take much effort.

　　"It's not an exaggeration." Jiang Zhu took his hand and squeezed it, "Doing carpentry is already laborious, so what's the point of selling a few more pennies?"

　　"Just sit back and collect the money. I will definitely sell all the things you have today before dark."

　　Jiang Zhu said with certainty, and Ye Anyian looked at his smiling eyes and felt inexplicably believing it for some reason.

　　However, Jiang Zhu's words were not just lies.

　　When the stall was about to close in the afternoon, all the gadgets they brought were actually sold out.

　　There was a richly dressed young man who bought two wooden frogs and five wooden tops in one go. He also ordered ten more wooden tops and five wooden tops from Ye Anyian, which he wanted in five days.

　　Seeing that it was getting late, the two of them packed up the stall items, flower cloths and cushions, and walked towards Zhou Liang's bullock cart.

　　Jiang Zhu was still a little worried about whether Ye Anyian could finish it in five days.

　　"The wooden spinning top is simple. How about you teach me? Once you learn it, I can help you to some extent."

　　Ye Anyian roughly calculated that ten wooden tops could be made in one day if he was quick, and two of five wooden frogs could be made in one day, so the time would not be rushed.

　　He said: "No, you are usually busy visiting doctors and dispensing medicines, so I don't need to trouble you."

　　Jiang Zhu didn't force it: "Then if you need it, you can call me at any time."

　　The two chatted while walking. On the way back, they also bought some meat and snacks and eight meat buns.

　　When they returned to the entrance of Tianshui Town, where Zhou Liang tied the ox cart, he saw that no one else had come back yet. Only the old ox stood quietly under the tree with its tail wagging.

　　The two got in the car and had nothing to do. Ye Anyian calculated today's income.

　　Five wooden tops, ten bamboo dragonflies, five wooden frogs, two big ones and three small ones, a total of thirty-forty-five coins.

　　Excluding the 130 cash spent on shopping, I made a total of 215 cash today.

　　It's already quite a lot. Mainly, he uses leftover materials that Carpenter Kudzu doesn't want to make them, so there's basically no cost.

　　The two of them were chatting on the bullock cart, and other people came back one after another.

　　First it was Zhou Liang who was driving the car, and then the two aunts and husband, but Ye Chenghe never came back.

Seeing that it is getting later and later, if we don't leave, we will have to travel at night.

　　When Zhou Liang was about to untie the bullock cart, a dirty little beggar ran over and said, "Boss Ye asked me to tell you that you don't have to wait for him."

　　Zhou Liang was planning to leave, but after hearing what he said, he casually agreed and started to drive the bullock cart.

　　Unexpectedly, the little beggar stood in front of the bullock cart with his arms akimbo and stretched out his hand towards Zhou Liang.

　　"What are you doing?" Zhou Liang frowned displeased.

　　"Boss Ye said that Brother Nian sitting in the car gave me money." The little beggar said confidently, with a strong attitude of "I won't leave until you give me money. If you can, you can hit me."

　　The two aunts and husband sitting in the car all looked at Ye Annian and the others.

　　Zhou Liang raised his whip and waved it towards the little beggar: "Go, go! Whoever asked you to run errands, you go to! We don't have any Nian brother here!"

　　The little beggar stood upright. He didn't even dodge when the whip came, he just stretched out his hand towards him: "Give me money! Anyone can give it, I'll leave immediately!"

　　Zhou Liang was still trying to drive him away, but Ye Anyian said, "Child, come here and I'll give it to you."

　　The little beggar put his hands away and immediately ran towards Ye Anian.

　　Ye Annian took out two copper coins from his money bag and put them in his hand: "Go."

　　"Hey!" The little beggar smiled happily, "You are a kind-hearted person! I wish you a fortune!"

　　After saying that, he ran away quickly.

　　"drive!"

　　Zhou Liang raised his whip and hit the cow's buttocks, causing the cart to move slowly.

　　The aunt who was wearing an embroidered jacket in the car said: "This Ye Chenghe is really not a thing. He still wants to take advantage of such a small advantage!"

　　"It's not a good job," another aunt said, "Didn't he find a job at Zhou Ji's pawnshop? I heard that he can make a lot of money in a month. Even two copper coins will cost you and your wife, tsk tsk tsk."

　　"I heard from Aunt Wu that he is not getting married." The husband said, "It seems to be the daughter of the Zhou family."

　　After he finished speaking, he looked at Ye Anyian and said, "Brother Nian, is it true?"

　　The words of these three people revealed everything about Ye Chenghe.

　　Ye Annian glanced at Jiang Zhu next to him and thought to himself, I only found out about Ye Chenghe now, maybe you don't know it clearly yet.

　　"Probably," he muttered, "I've never heard them talk about my breasts."

"That's because you two live far away," the aunt in the embroidered jacket said, "Just what happened in the past two days, Xiang Lian made a big fuss and the whole village knew about it."

　　Ye Anyian:...

　　However, with Wu Xianglian's temperament, if she knew about Ye Chenghe and Zhou Ji's pawnshop owner's daughter, she would definitely not be able to hold it back.

　　There were so many aunts and husbands in this village. If she told one person, it would be equivalent to announcing to the whole village.

　　Ye Annian was speechless when Jiang Zhu, who was watching the excitement, asked without hesitation: "Then my father-in-law's marriage has been settled?"

　　Ye Anyian held his forehead and secretly pinched Jiang Zhu's leg.

　　"Hey, hiss..."

　　Jiang Zhu screamed in pain and calmly held Ye Anian's rebellious hand.

　　"It is said that I will go to work in a few days." The aunt in the embroidered jacket blinked and said with a gossipy face, "You said that your mother and your father are so stingy, why are you willing to take out things?"

　　Her words were ridiculing, but the whole village knew that Ye Anyian was at odds with the old Ye family, so they were not afraid to say it in front of him.

"Whatever he takes has nothing to do with me." Ye Anyian said calmly.

　　Anyway, if Ye Chenghe marries again, it will only bring benefits and no harm to him.

　　Moreover, he always felt that it was strange that the Zhou family agreed to marry their daughter to Ye Chenghe so easily.