Chapter 5 A penny is money
When Gu Changhua heard Ji Anning say this, he thought that Ji Anning didn't want to stay at home, he thought that there were too many family affairs, and he wanted to quarrel with him and lose his temper.
He rubbed his eyebrows, and seeing that Ji Anning had not spoken, he asked first, "Nothing happened at home, right?" β
"It's all good." Ji Anning didn't ink, so he was afraid that Gu Changhua would divert the topic, "Why did you tell your mother that I was pregnant, and I was embarrassed to work hard today." β
"I didn't say that." Gu Changhua's solemn face was a little tense, and he clenched the phone, probably guessing that Jin Xiumei had misinterpreted him.
Gu Changhua coughed lowly: "Then you're okay." β
Although they are husband and wife, what they can say is extraordinarily raw, Ji Anning was silent for a few seconds: "Uh... It's nothing, I've explained it all. β
Originally, I wanted to ask Gu Changhua what was going on, but as soon as the phone called, Ji Anning's reaction became restrained.
There was no word on the phone.
Gu Changhua was originally a person who couldn't speak, and Ji Anning didn't expect him to liven up the atmosphere, "Then I'll wait for you to come back at home, you don't have to worry about things at home." β
Gu Changhua felt that Ji Anning had really changed, and he had become reasonable and easy to communicate.
There was finally a hint of loosening on his serious face, "Well, take care of yourself, the troops are busy, hang up first." β
Ji Anning agreed and hung up the phone.
Ji Anning became nervous when she made this phone call, she beat her head and went up to the second floor.
Since Gu Changhua and Ji Anning got married, the second floor has been given to them to live in, with a large wooden bed in the room, covered with a large red quilt with a very old color, and a newly oiled wooden cabinet in the corner.
The room is not big, but it is clean and tidy, and the most conspicuous thing is the eye-catching wedding photo hanging on the wall.
Especially the contrast between Gu Changhua and hers, Ji Anning couldn't wait to find a piece of cloth to block it.
Ji Anning just returned home, and it was not good to stay on the second floor all the time, and after getting familiar with the environment, she went to the yard to feed the roosters and hens raised by Jin Xiumei.
Although Gu Weimin eats the national meal, after retiring, he doesn't give much money every month, and now he still provides for his two children to go to school, and he has to save money for Gu Changan to marry his daughter-in-law, so his life is not easy now.
Ji Anning has never lived in a mud house since she was a child, but now it is not even convenient to take a bath, and she has to take a bath ticket to the bathhouse to wash, she stood in the yard, breathing the smell of mud mixed with feces, and frowned, she had to quickly think of a way to make some money and improve her life.
While thinking of a way, she tinkered with chicken food.
"Leave it at that!" A few sharp and piercing roars suddenly came, and Jin Xiumei walked over to Ji Anning anxiously with a large iron basin.
"An Ning, what are you doing, don't waste my chicken food, I've fed it." Jin Xiumei didn't want to make Ji Anning look at her, but she had been married for more than half a year, and her stomach didn't even move, and she was happy in vain, how could she talk well.
Jin Xiumei was panicked in her heart, and nothing went well when she saw it.
But the daughter-in-law also took the initiative to work for the first time, Jin Xiumei thought about it, "An Ning, you take the money, go to your Song Bona next door and buy a few pairs." β
In this era, there are not many people who can read and write, and even fewer can write well.
And those who can write good words may not be able to write with a brush.
The Song family is next door to the Gu family, the family's scholarly atmosphere, Song Yuan taught in the school when he was young, and he can write Mao characters, but now that he is old, he earns money by helping people write pairs during the New Year's Festival.
Therefore, every Chinese New Year, residents in the West District will go to Song's house to buy pairs.
As soon as Jin Xiumei's voice fell, she immediately stopped again: "Forget it, don't go, let your sister go." β
Jin Xiumei glanced at Ji Anning's appearance and sighed secretly.
At the beginning, the old Song family wanted his daughter Song Ying to be married to Gu Changhua, that Song Ying has a good figure and good appearance, I heard that she is still a primary school teacher in the city, and now that she thinks about it, it is really better to marry the Song family.
asked Ji Anning to go to Song's house to buy a pair, Jin Xiumei couldn't get over it.
Jin Xiumei shouted: "Yaya, you go to your Song Bo's trip." β
Ji Anning naturally didn't know how much effort Jin Xiumei had made in her heart at this moment, and her ideas were all on writing pairs.
Her black and white eyes blinked, how could she have forgotten that she also had this craft.
Ji Anning also specialized in learning calligraphy at the beginning, once a person has money, she has to develop herself to elegance, this is called art, Ji Anning naturally followed the trend, and also followed elegance for a few years.
She has learned all the italic books and small seals, and I think the words she wrote were framed at the beginning, and she wrote a few pairs, which is not a problem at all.
She hasn't figured out a new way to make money yet, but now is an opportunity.
"Mom, how much money does Uncle Song's pair have?" Ji Anning had already made up his mind in his heart.
If she sells it, she can't buy it in the West End, so she has to set up a stall in the market to sell it.
"It's not expensive, it's only a few cents to take the red paper yourself, and we have red paper at home." Jin Xiumei muttered: "If it weren't for the fact that the word Chang'an really can't be seen by people, how can I buy it." β
The red paper went out to buy it for a few cents, Ji Anning roughly calculated, the profit is not big, but in this era, money is worth a lot, even if you earn a penny, you have to earn it.
"Mom, I'll write it." Ji Anning said.
"What?" Jin Xiumei thought that she had heard it wrong, she didn't know that her daughter-in-law had this ability.
But in the end, Jin Xiumei didn't know much about Ji Anning, she looked at Ji Anning strangely: "An Ning, do you know how to write Mao?" β
Ji Anning nodded modestly: "I can write a little, but I'm afraid that Mom, you will dislike me for not being good." β
Gu Weimin heard the movement and walked out with his shoes on: "An Ning can write pairs?" β
Gu Weimin joined the army at a young age, and his education level was not high, but he fought hard and ruthlessly, and it was precisely because of his lack of culture that he could not be promoted as an official.
It is said that those who are soldiers do not grasp the pen, and now he hopes that there will be an intellectual in his family.
Hearing that Ji Anning could write calligraphy, Gu Weimin was a little excited.
"It's better to say what you say, sister-in-law, if you can write, just write, our family happens to have pen and ink." Gu Xuecai didn't believe that Ji Anning could write calligraphy.
Slap the swollen face and fill the fat man who won't.
Gu Xue looked like she was looking at a joke, "Sister-in-law wait, I'll prepare pen and ink for you, second brother, take out our red paper!" β
Gu Changan unhurriedly handed the cut red paper to Ji Anning from the top of the box, and moved a wooden stool to sit next to him.
At this time, Gu Xue also brought pen and ink.
"Sister-in-law, come on." Gu Xue grinned and laughed: "This is posted on the faΓ§ade, not just any word can be moved out, sister-in-law, you have to write well, if you write it well, our family will even save the money for the pair in the future!" β
"Just you talk a lot." Jin Xiumei glanced at Gu Xue and asked Ji Anning tentatively: "An Ning, do you really know how to write?" β