She gave birth to three daughters in a row, and was kicked out by her mother-in-law who favored boys

Chapter 356 Cost

Zhao Dong glanced at Zhao Bei and said, "We should guard against wild boars or people. The wheat will be ripe soon. If something unexpected happens in the next few days, won't it be a pity?"

"Well, that's great. I'll go with you." Zhao Bei felt that it was a particularly pleasant thing to have the sky as a roof and the ground as a bed.

Although I have experienced such days before, the feeling is different. In the past, I had no idea where I would get my next meal, but now I have food to eat as soon as I open my eyes, three times a day.

"Whatever you want." Zhao Dong let him go, but after saying that, he looked at Gu Qingqing and asked, "Is it okay for Dahei not to go to the hillside these days?"

"Brother Dong, it shouldn't be that serious!" Gu Qingqing no longer needed to deliberately change the original owner's inherent cognition. Based on her own understanding of this era, she should not have stolen food.

"I'll just sleep there, and my family doesn't have many acres of land. The most important thing is to get them home safely. I've seen that the wheat ears in the fields are big. Who knows if there are people in other villages who are jealous? We also have to be careful of the birds in the mountains." Zhao Dong made up his mind.

Seeing him like this, Gu Qingqing nodded in agreement, thinking it was also for the good of her family, "Okay, let Dahei go with you, and you can take it with you later..." Gu Qingqing wanted to take the torn quilt and spread it under her, but she had no old quilt at home.

"Bring the door curtain with you later. It's clean, having been washed a few days ago. Put it under you. Also, I'll get you two thin quilts. It must be cold in the fields at night." The lunar calendar is almost entering May. The weather is quite hot during the day, and people wear thin clothes, but it is still a little chilly at night.

Gu Qingqing was about to get up and prepare things for them, but Zhao Dong refused. "I have everything in my room, no need to take it from you. If possible, go to town and buy two more sickles. We have so many people, so it will only take a day or two to get the tools."

"Okay, I'll bring it back when I go to town tomorrow." When it comes to buying tools, Gu Qingqing will always agree to your request.

At the same time, Zhao Dong also reminded her that there were too many birds in this era, especially when the crops were almost ripe, they would land on the fields in groups to eat the wheat.

Everything is feared to be in excess; too much of it will become a disaster.

Gu Qingqing thought of this and asked, "Should we make a few scarecrows and put them on the ground? That would at least scare them."

"This method also works. Do you have any old clothes at home?" Zhao Dong asked.

"Yes, wait for you." Gu Qingqing found two of Wen Wuyan's old clothes and gave them to Zhao Dong.

"Okay. Leave the rest to me, Dahei. Come out and play with me today." Zhao Dong turned around and kicked the big black butt with a round belly.

Then Dahei turned over and looked up at Zhao Dong, then looked at Gu Qingqing with a questioning look, as if waiting for her nod.

Gu Qingqing looked at the silly Dahei and labeled him a stupid dog. Then she scolded him with a smile, "Go, be smart at night and guard our wheat fields."

Although Dahei didn't know what he was going to do, he knew that today he was definitely not going to see that group of quacking creatures.

This man had followed me before, and he liked to take me to the mountains to play the most.

Go play? The dog was so happy that he immediately followed with a silly grin.

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That evening, in the main hall of the inner courtyard, Gu Qingqing and her three children sat around the table. She quoted the prices of the ingredients bought from the shop one by one.

The little adults with big flowers usually hold a brush and write carefully line by line.

Daxin and Erhua stood behind Dahua and watched her write carefully.

When Dahua finished writing the last word, she didn't hear her mother say anything for a long time, so she looked up at Gu Qingqing who was sitting opposite her and asked, "Mom, I'm done."

"You've finished writing, right? Then add up all the words you wrote and see how many words it is." Gu Qingqing said to Dahua, and then her eyes swept across Daxin and Erhua's faces.

I smiled and said to them, "You two should follow me and count to see how much money is on this piece of paper."

Now that the shop has been opened, of course, accounts need to be kept. Originally, this should have been done by Gu Qingqing, although she is not an accounting major.

What do you say?

She can still manage the purchasing, shipping, food costs, labor costs, and rental costs.

The three children didn't let her wait any longer. "Mom, here are 402 cents," said Dahua.

Gu Qingqing nodded. This number was the same as the one she had calculated in her mind.

Dahua asked in confusion, "Mom, isn't the house in town our own? Why do we have to pay rent? It's five taels of silver every month."

The monthly rent for their shop in the town was definitely no less than ten taels of silver. She took into account that the braised meat shop only occupied half of the space, so it only cost five taels of silver per month, or 166 wen per day.

"For example, if we don't do business, can we rent this shop out to others? If we rent it out, can we collect rent?"

Dahua habitually thought that everything her mother said was right, so she nodded, but she still didn't quite understand. "That's what mother said about renting it to someone else, but the house is ours, why should we rent it to ourselves?"

"Yes, Mom, didn't you say the shop is ours?" Erhua didn't understand why she had to pay for her own things.

“Because that’s the cost.”

"Mom, what is cost?" the two flowers said in unison.

Gu Qingqing looked at Li Xin, who was also a little confused, and with a sigh, began to explain to them some tricks of doing business.

Fortunately, the three children were not stupid, they were just confused about "why they had to pay for their own shop".

"Oh, so that's how it is. Then I think I understand." Dahua said.

"Mom, I understand too. Then can we use the same method when we open another shop?" Erhua said happily.

Gu Qingqing pursed her lips and smiled, "We'll talk about it when the time comes. Okay..."

Gu Qingqing didn't rush to answer Erhua's question. Instead, she patted the money box on the table and said to Li Xin happily, "Daxin, go to the ear room and get some fine hemp ropes. We are going to start counting the money."

"Okay, I'll go right away." When Li Xin heard that he had to count the money, he immediately ran out happily.

"Brother Daxin, let me help you." Seeing this, Erhua ran out closely after him.

Dahua sat on a stool, looking at the box of copper coins, her face flushed with excitement, "Mom, how much money do you think is here?"

Gu Qingqing raised her eyebrows slightly, and the corners of her mouth turned up, "It's hard to say, I've never used this box to carry so many copper coins before."

Dahua walked up to her and shook her arm, which was rare. "Mom, just guess."

Gu Qingqing looked at her eldest daughter's bright and expectant eyes and asked, "Guess?"

The big flower chick nodded like pecking at rice.

Gu Qingqing took a deep breath and looked at Dahua lovingly. She said "Guess" but her eyes were on the copper coins in the box.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "It should be around nine hundred."