Quickly wear it and get rid of his virtuous character

Su Tong sneered in his heart. He was not a good person. He was nice to Xiao Fuzi because she was also a poor person in the book, and the two of them had a connection. He just wanted to pray for the child in his belly.

The next morning, Xiangzi brought Xiao Fuzi over. She was wearing a brown coat that was covered with patches, with black cotton even showing at the edges.

The weather is getting colder day by day. Su Tong wants to hire a maid because he doesn't want to wash clothes and cook in the middle of winter.

But seeing that the other person was wearing thin clothes, the servant was not a mean person, so he immediately gave the other person an old cotton-padded jacket that the original owner didn't want.

Xiao Fuzi was so moved that she knelt down on the ground, "Thank you, grandma."

Su Tong blinked his eyes, then motioned to Xiangzi to help her up, "Stand up, and don't call me grandma anymore, just call me Huniu, or call me Madam.

Our family is not wealthy. They wanted to hire a maid to do the housework because I am overweight. The only requirement is that she has clean hands and feet.

I provide food and accommodation here. If you need to go back urgently, you can ask for leave from me in advance."

Xiao Fuzi didn't expect to meet such a kind host. Not only did he give him a thick cotton jacket, but he also gave him a house.

You have to know that ever since her man ran away, she has returned home in despair and has to endure the contempt of her alcoholic father every day. If Xiangzi hadn't said that he had found a job for her, she would have thought she had heard it wrong.

Xiao Fuzi was really hardworking. She swept the floor and washed clothes efficiently. She also cleaned up the two rooms. She didn't stop for the whole morning.

No wonder the businessman said that it would be better to take a concubine than to hire a nanny, because a concubine is the most cost-effective. Not only does he have an extra wife, but he also has an nanny to take care of him. More importantly, the other party is clean and he doesn't have to worry about getting dirty. After the business is done, he can just take the money and leave.

It was not until noon that Su Tong got used to the other party making two dishes for him. He took out another twenty copper coins and asked the other party to make one meat and one vegetable.

Xiao Fuzi took the basket and went to the entrance of the alley. He first spent a copper coin to buy two bundles of vegetables. Then he bargained with others and spent five copper coins to buy two pieces of tofu. He used the remaining money to buy a pound of pork and two crucian carps.

Su Tong looked at the vegetables the other party bought and nodded with satisfaction. He was a man who knew how to live.

The food cooked by Xiao Fuzi was pretty good, but she was quite restrained. She sat on a small stool in the corner and ate her meal obediently, not even daring to pick up vegetables.

Su Tong was not a mean person. He added two pieces of tofu and half a fish to the other person's meal, and saved the remaining pork for dinner.

Xiangzi is driving a sports car outside, and now he is the one who earns the most money in the family. He can earn more than one yuan a day, and he doesn't have to rush to work when the weather is bad.

The weather has been getting colder recently, and you have to spend money on everything, especially after you bought a car and a house, you don’t have much money left, but you have to buy things for the winter.

"My God, this honeycomb briquettes used to cost one copper coin each, but now they have gone up to two and three copper coins each." Su Tong felt that he still had to adjust the prices and there was no time to lose, so he took out three silver dollars and asked Xiangzi to buy the honeycomb briquettes while the weather was good.

In addition to buying honeycomb coal, they also needed wood for cooking. In the past, Xiangzi picked up some rotten wood when he was pulling the cart, but it was never enough, and sometimes he had to spend money to buy wood. This back and forth was a considerable expense.

It also includes food, clothes for the winter, and even vegetables to store for the winter, all of which cost money.

Su Tong took a small pen and did some calculations. He found that just preparing for the winter would cost at least forty or fifty dollars. No wonder so many people died in Beijing when winter came. It was really too expensive.

"Ma'am, I have two younger brothers who often pick up some unburned coal by the train. If you don't mind, I can ask them to bring the coal over."

All the coal is on the rails. Due to the unstable train situation now, some of the coal will be shaken off the trucks. Most children have nothing to do, so they often pick up coal on the railway.

The weather is getting colder, and we must heat the kang at home, so we must buy coal.

"Okay, you can ask those two guys to deliver the coal, but how should I pay you?"

Xiao Fuzi quickly shook her head and said, "Madam, you are so kind to me. It is not a valuable thing anyway, just consider it as my filial piety to you.

Besides... the dress you gave me was too big for me, so I tore it into three pieces, one for each of my two brothers, and I got another piece of really great dress. I don't know how to thank you enough."

Su Tong took a look at the clothes Xiao Fuzi was wearing. It turned out that being thin has its advantages. At least it saves a lot of fabric.

"Forget it. I'm not mean. Ask your brother to bring a bucket of coal every day, and then give them two steamed buns each from home. I'll give them fifty copper coins every month."

50 copper coins were enough for their family to buy dozens of kilograms of low-quality cornmeal. If they ate sparingly, it could last them half a month.

"Thank you, ma'am." Xiao Fuzi thanked sincerely.

It was just a piece of cake for Su Tong. If it weren't for his current poor health that made it impossible for him to rob the rich and help the poor, he would have run away to do good deeds long ago.

The winter in Peking is really cold, especially when September arrives and the cold wind blows.

The honeycomb coal for the family had been bought long ago. Xiangzi even pulled a cart to the mountain and brought back several carts of wood. Together with the coal, it was enough for the family to survive the winter.

It's time to prepare vegetables for the winter. The common vegetables are just radishes, cabbages, and some onions, carrots, etc. However, these are imported from outside, so the prices may be slightly higher.

You can even buy some vegetables like potatoes, dry them out in the sun, and then seal them in a cellar so they can be eaten until the beginning of next spring.

The most common food at home nowadays is sorghum rice, plus sweet potatoes or some pumpkin. It fills up the stomach and is nutritious.

Since Xiangzi did physical labor, he only ate dry rice, a few sorghum buns and some meat every day.

However, the weather has been cold recently and there are fewer people on the road, so Xiangzi can take even fewer jobs and only earns 70 or 80 cents a day.

Although the other car can be rented out, the price is lower than before, so their family can earn more than one dollar a day.

It was cold today, so Su Tong gave Xiao Fuzi 50 copper coins and asked him to buy a few pounds of mutton and mutton offal, as well as some tofu and vegetables, so that they could have a hot pot at home.