After sending the six men to the village chief's house, the three came back without stopping. What they wanted to do had nothing to do with the Lu family.
As a result, the entrance to Lu's house was very lively.
Someone saw a bunch of grown men at the door of Lu's house earlier. Later, Liu Cuier and Li Baozhu went around to borrow quilts. Although they explained a few words, everyone was still confused. Driven by curiosity, they saw the men leaving. They gathered at the door of Lu's house.
Mrs. Zhang explained for a long time, but no one heard what they wanted to hear, so they refused to leave.
As soon as Su Ruyi came back, everyone stopped arguing.
Mrs. Zhang's mouth went dry as she spoke, "If you don't believe me, just let Su Ruyi tell you!"
Su Ruyi: "What are you talking about?"
Zhang: "They came to ask those men what they were doing!"
Su Ruyi looked at these gossiping villagers: "Why would they tell us what they came to do? Just borrow a place to spend the night and eat at our house. If you want to know why they came, just ask them. I will tell them We have arranged to stay in Liu Mazi’s house, and now they are at the village chief’s house, so you can go and ask yourself.”
After saying that, he entered the courtyard and closed the door.
A group of people outside the door did not dare to push the door open for fear of Su Ruyi.
"Come on, let's ask the village chief!"
Everyone thought something had happened to the Lu family, and it was none of his family's business for a long time. The melon didn't taste good, and they couldn't bear to accept it, so they swarmed to the village chief's house again.
Such troubles delayed her own meal time, and Su Ruyi gradually developed the habit of sleeping at sunrise and then at sunset. When the time was up, she yawned one after another.
The mutton stir-fry mentioned earlier was put on hold for the time being, and I just had a simple dinner.
Liu Cui'er was still thinking about replenishing her husband's body. After dinner, she stayed up late to pick off the bones, mixed them with a large pot of water and boiled them. Then she put a piece of charcoal in the stove and simmered slowly while she went to sleep. It's almost as good as day one.
This pot of soup was enough for Lu Duotian to drink for three days when it was cold in the water.
Because there were six more men to cook for, Zhang got up half an hour early the next day, filled the eldest son's soup in a wooden basin, and then quickly steamed two steamed buns.
Now Su Ruyi is in charge at home, and she is picky. She didn’t want to eat the thick and hard steamed buns in the past. Now the steamed buns add less thick noodles and more white flour. If she eats egg pancakes every three days, the steamed buns will become more and more steamed. Sir, all the steamed buns were eaten by others last night.
Hurry up and steam some egg pancakes. If you can eat egg pancakes as much as you like, how can you ask six outsiders to eat egg pancakes all you want?
They were generous, but the two pieces of broken silver were not enough for that kind of food.
When Su Ruyi and others got up, the steamed buns were steamed and the rice porridge in the pot was cooked.
The six men also came according to order, and ate as soon as they arrived. It was still the same as last night, except that each person had an extra steamed bun.
After eating, he left without saying much and without breaking the rules at all.
Su Ruyi had a good impression of them, and her favorable impression of Mr. Yang's family also increased.
The virtue of the master can also be seen from the virtue of the servants.
Those who should go to the ground should still go to the ground, and those who should go out to the stalls should still go out to the stalls.
Su Ruyi took the children up the mountain together to collect firewood and dig wild vegetables.
After three days like this, other families in the village also ran to the mountains. From the village chief, they knew that these people came to the mountains behind them to look for old walnut trees. Those things seemed to be quite valuable, and everyone wanted to try their luck.
Someone actually found the walnuts and presented them to those men, but they were not what they wanted.
Everyone was discouraged, their enthusiasm for going up the mountain dropped sharply, and they started to envy the Lu family again.
I don’t know what kind of bad luck the Lu family got this year. I heard that their Su Ruyi found that old tree walnut, and probably made money from it. Look at the women in their family, they are so drunk every day that they can’t stop talking. Not close anymore.
The same goes for these men. There are so many families in the village, they have empty houses, and they are willing to cook for them, so they just go to the Lu family. It is said that the money given is quite a lot!
After dinner that night, several men did not leave in a hurry. The leader frowned, a little embarrassed: "Ms. Su, you are the only one in the village who has found the walnut tree. Can you show us the way tomorrow?"
As he said that, he started taking out money again.
This time Su Ruyi waved her hand: "Brother, I can't accept this money. It's not that I don't want to show you the way, it's just that I can't find the walnut tree. You have been looking for it on the mountain these days, and I am also looking for it. No, I think it’s just weird…evil!”
The man said: "Ms. Su, don't worry too much. You just need to walk us through the road you have walked. Whether we can find it or not is none of Mrs. Su's business. Tomorrow we will invite Village Chief Hu to come with us. Ms. Su doesn't need to There are so many concerns.”
With the village chief accompanying them, the villagers would not be able to gossip about Su Ruyi and a group of men behind their backs.
Only then did Su Ruyi accept the broken silver and agreed to the matter.
In this way, Su Ruyi took Dalang and Niu'er, led the village chief and six men around the mountain for three days, but found nothing.
Several men finally gave up and were ready to go back to work.
The night before leaving, the man asked: "Mrs. Su, do you sell pancakes? I don't know how much one piece costs?"
"Our family has a stall in the town, and a pancake costs 5 cents."
The man took out three broken pieces of silver.
"We don't want to eat steamed buns tonight. I wonder if these three pieces of silver can satisfy us with the pancakes?"
In the past few days, every meal has been filled with an egg pancake. The taste is gone as soon as I eat it, which makes me so hungry that I have to leave. If I don’t eat it to my heart’s content, I don’t know how uncomfortable it will be when I go back.
Su Ruyi did the math.
A piece of broken silver can be exchanged for 100 copper plates, three pieces of broken silver can buy 60 cakes, and a man can buy ten cakes. She doesn't believe that she can't stop him.
"Can!"
Mrs. Zhang next to her almost jumped up when she heard this. Is this such a good thing?
He quickly asked his daughter-in-law to set up the stall in his yard and worked overtime to bake pancakes.
The porridge and pancakes were served together, and the ten sheets supported several men.
There were 60 sheets in total, and there were quite a few sheets left. Su Ruyi promised to add them to their breakfast tomorrow.
Early the next morning, a few men had breakfast at Lu's house. The dusty people left and the village returned to peace.
Su Ruyi did some calculations and found that she had made at least five or six hundred cash in the past six days. It wasn't much, but it made other people in the village envious and crazy.
Mrs. Zhang felt relieved.
"I thought Liu Mazi's house was of no use at all early in the morning, but I didn't expect it to come in handy here. If a few more people come, our pig will be able to earn back its money."
As she said this, she glanced at Su Ruyi, and her daughter-in-law became more and more pleasing to her eyes.
"I agree to buy quilts and sheets."
Although it doesn't matter whether she agrees or not, it makes me happy to say this.
