, wonderful and free of pop-ups! As soon as Luo Fengtang was sent away, Uncle Chang Geng's transportation team came over.
I brought some mountain goods and supplies from home.
Several new members were also recruited to the transportation team to replace Li Daer's vacancies.
One of these new members is the youngest son of Li Zheng from the same village, whose full name is Wang Liang.
Wang Liang is Wang Shuanzi's cousin and is about the same age as Luo Fengtang.
Because he was a little fat when he was a child, everyone called him Baozi.
Even though Wang Liang is now tall and thin, everyone seems to have forgotten his name and still calls him Baozi.
Yang Ruoqing and Xiao Yu called him Brother Baozi.
"Qing'er, Xiaoyu, these are the wild fruits I picked on the way here. I left them for you two."
After everyone was settled, Wang Liang came over to find Yang Ruoqing and Xiao Yu, and handed them half a basket of wild apples.
It was green and small. Each of the two girls took one and took a bite.
It is sweet and sour and has an excellent taste. It is a good fruit to cool down and quench thirst in summer.
"Thank you, Brother Baozi." Yang Ruoqing and Xiaoyu thanked him in unison.
Wang Liang scratched his head and laughed.
"You allow me to join the transportation team and work with the guys to pledge goods and earn money. I should thank you!" Wang Liang said.
Qing'er pulled up the transport team, and Qing'er paid the wages.
The last time I went back to the village to select team members, it was Uncle Chang Geng who picked him, and Xiaoyu is Uncle Chang Geng’s daughter.
Therefore, both Qing'er and Xiao Yu are grateful that they can join the transportation team.
After hearing Wang Liang's words, Yang Ruoqing and Xiaoyu looked at each other and smiled.
Yang Ruoqing said: "Our transportation team selects people based on their own strength, rather than using connections through the back door."
"Brother Baozi, since you can come in, it means you have that strength."
"If you really want to be grateful, then follow the big guy and work hard from now on. Let's make money and become rich together!" she said.
Wang Liang nodded vigorously.
"Well, I will definitely do it well!"
Yang Ruoqing smiled with satisfaction and held half a basket of green apples in her hand: "I'll just take the apples. You guys chat, I'll leave first!"
She picked up the apples and hurried back to her house to make apple juice.
Here, Xiao Yu also plans to get busy.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a large gap in Wang Liang's sleeve.
"Brother Baozi, I'm afraid your sleeve was scratched and pulled there? It's a big tear!" Xiao Yu said.
Wang Liang lowered his head and saw that it was true.
However, his mother and sisters-in-law are not around, so he is a man and can’t hold an embroidery needle?
What to do?
"Brother Baozi, take off your clothes and give them to me. I'll sew them up later and send them over to you!" Xiao Yu said.
Wang Liang glanced at Xiao Yu, a little hesitant.
If the man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried, let Xiaoyu help him sew his clothes. If word spreads, people will gossip about him.
Xiaoyu smiled, showing her cute tiger teeth.
"Brother Baozi, we don't have to worry so much when we go out!" she said.
"Qing'er often says that a real man doesn't stick to trivial details. If any of the brothers in the transportation team's clothes are torn, Qing'er, sister-in-law Xiuzhu, I will all mend them together. It's nothing!"
Hearing Xiao Yudu say this, Wang Liang couldn't hold back any longer.
He quickly took off his shirt and handed it to Xiaoyu: "Then I'll bother you, sister Xiaoyu."
"It's okay, I'll go back to the house to find some needlework."
Xiaoyu laughed again, turned around and left while holding her clothes.
The two beautiful black braids drew a beautiful arc when he turned around, and left briskly.
Wang Liang looked at Xiao Yu's leaving figure, scratched his head, and turned back to his room to rest.
…
At night, everyone was enjoying the cool air in the yard.
Sitting or lying on the clean bluestone, each person uses a cattail leaf fan to drive away mosquitoes.
Above the head, there is a big sweet-scented osmanthus tree.
Yang Ruoqing exchanged the pounded wild apple juice with cold boiled water, then added some sugar and stirred evenly.
Pour it into a clean large wooden bucket, and it turns out that there is more than half of the bucket.
Then he carried it to the yard, where Xiaoyu and sister-in-law Xiuzhu brought two stacks of clean bowls over.
Treat everyone to some wild apple juice to cool down.
Everyone was very curious about this fresh way of eating, and they all rushed over to scoop up a drink.
Many men can't get used to the sourness of wild apples, but the juice with added sugar makes them salivate and leave them with endless aftertaste.
Yang Ruoqing scooped out a bowl herself, sat next to Uncle Chang Geng, and asked him about family affairs.
Chang Geng wiped the juice from the corner of his mouth and let out a satisfied sigh.
"Qing'er, your parents asked me to tell you that everything in the family is fine!"
"The rice harvest in the fields is good this year. Before leaving, your mother originally wanted to pound some rice for us to bring to you to try."
"Later, there were too many mountain goods and miscellaneous items in the car, so your father stopped him from letting your mother take Xingu with her."
"Your father said that during the Mid-Autumn Festival next month, if you can spare some time, you will go back."
"Your father, your eldest uncle and your fourth uncle are planning to celebrate your father's sixtieth birthday!" Chang Geng said.
Sixtieth birthday?
Yang Ruoqing did a quick calculation in her mind.
My cousin is twenty years old and my uncle is thirty-eight.
I am an uncle born when I was twenty-one years old. Counting this, I am exactly fifty-nine this year.
According to the custom in Changping Village, it must be done a year in advance, so that it is auspicious.
What's more, the level of medical care in this era is low, and the average life span of people is far lower than that of modern times.
Get married early and have children early.
It would be great if the old man could live to be sixty years old!
Therefore, the sixtieth birthday is a very important birthday, and people who can afford it will make a big deal about it.
Poor people have to go through the motions when moving here and there.
Today, the Holy One governs the world with filial piety. The older the elders are, the more prestigious they are in the clan and in the village.
On her sixtieth birthday, everyone in the village came to visit her, giving her gifts and expressing their feelings.
On such a cautious day, as her direct granddaughter, she must take the time to go back!
etc!
She suddenly realized a problem and hurriedly asked Chang Geng.
"Uncle Chang Geng, what did you just say? My fourth uncle proposed? My fourth uncle is back?" she asked.
Chang Geng was drinking his second bowl of apple juice. Before he could answer, Wang Liang at the side rushed him back.
"Speaking of your fourth uncle, he is famous in the village now!" Wang Liang said.
"Didn't he disappear for more than half a month last time and couldn't be found? Now he's not only back, but he's also made money!" he said.
"Ah? What's going on? Brother Baozi, please tell me more carefully." Yang Ruoqing said.
Wang Liangdao: "Actually, I don't know much about the specific situation, and neither does my father."
"I asked your fourth uncle what he was doing outside. He didn't tell me. He just said that he stopped a job outside and became the head of a small steward."
"When I came back from this trip, I took your fourth aunt and three cousins to the town to buy clothes, went to a restaurant, and bought a lot of things for your grandparents..."
Yang Ruoqing was stunned for a while.
Fourth uncle, this is the rhythm of getting rich!
To be able to earn so much money in half a month and become a steward is really a blessing in disguise.
However, if you never say what you do, is it possible that you are going down a wrong path?
