That night, the number of viewers in the God of Wealth live broadcast room hit a new high.
This is the effect of turning over horse dung and cow dung to tan wild boar skin, and the effect of not being able to look directly at Uncle Xu’s hands.
Mrs. Xu was exhausted today. She finished packing the mushrooms and then packed up the wild boar hairs that she was reluctant to throw away.
The outer layer of wild boar hair is long and can be used to make brushes after cleaning.
Her granddaughter said that brushes made of this kind of pig bristles are best for brushing gun barrels. I heard that they were exported in large quantities in the 1960s and 1970s. They are also very good for making medical brushes and large brushes.
They don't have artillery, and I don't know if there are any in this dynasty. If they can't sell it, they can keep it and make more brushes, which are good for cleaning shoes, Kang mats and pots. When the paper is made next year, I will make some writing brushes for the young people in the village to use for writing.
As for the shorter layer of fluff inside, Mrs. Xu washed it carefully four times with soap locust before drying it by the stove. After careful selection, these fluff will be reserved for making toothbrushes and can also be worn in winter. Wear hats, gloves, and cotton masks to keep warm, so you can use less cotton.
After Mrs. Xu finished these two tasks, she made a real big pot of rice and fried two big pots of mushroom sauce in the evening.
Although it was a matter involving three groups of common people, she was the main force. Even the young woman couldn't help but say that she obviously didn't add any more seasonings to the same ingredients, but the food she cooked was more delicious than others.
Old Mrs. Xu thought, no matter whether this was a lie or not, when we were away from home and had been together for a few days, we should take care of each other.
If what she cooks is really delicious, then she will do it all. It just takes some effort. Besides, she is happy to cook for Huo Jiajun.
But there was an incident when giving the mushroom sauce. The soldiers who stayed behind were willing to give it to them alive and well. Mrs. Xu was afraid that people would misunderstand the medicine, so she took a few bites on the spot and patted her belly to show that nothing was wrong. She didn't even have diarrhea. Made very cleanly.
People say, ma'am, we don't mean that, we can't ask for your things. I made a mistake with the sugar water that day. I thought the water you helped bring was plain water. I didn’t realize that sugar had been added until I drank it. Also, it would be wasted if I didn’t drink it after it was already boiled. So I made a mistake.
Mrs. Xu and the representatives from the other two families became anxious when they heard this:
Who said you can’t take things from the common people? Why is this rule so inhumane?
Besides, if there are such rules, the person who gave the order is not here, so what can't be eaten? You also help us feed the mules and cattle. The fodder for these two days is not money? Why don't you eat some mushrooms? These are picked fresh and not bought. But if you don't eat, we will feel unhappy.
Besides, your general in charge can't see it. Eat quickly. If you have time to work hard, you will finish it long ago.
I tried to persuade him over and over again, but I didn't expect that the soldiers guarding the stable were still stubborn.
Then her granddaughter happened to be passing by, and Mrs. Xu felt that Tian Xin'er didn't say anything. Amidst all the chatter, her granddaughter seemed to have said, "Eat, I'll scoop it out for you."
After finishing it, I thought about it for a while and then actually ate it. Mrs. Xu was confused at that time. Do you think this is strange?
Is this treating them all as outsiders, while treating her granddaughter as not being so outsider?
In short, Mrs. Xu was very tired today. Listening to the sound of rain, she sat leaning against a stone and fell asleep. She only had time to vaguely tell Xu Tianxin to wake her up in the middle of the night so that she could go over the two tents. The mushrooms were drying inside, and then they slowly fell over and no movement could be heard.
In the middle of the night, Xu Tianxin was reluctant to wake up her grandma.
At this time, except for the sound of rain and the sound of the wind blowing through the forest, there was no other sound outside the cave.
Xu Tianxin was draped in an oilcloth and holding a lamp lit with fish oil in a small bowl. He protected the light from the light and illuminated the rocky road at his feet, and came to the tent where the mushrooms were dried.
As she turned over the mushrooms in the two tents and tugged at the pieces of wild boar skin hanging to dry in the shed, the box of Longyi Pills she kept at her feet began to ring.
The amount of reward tonight is as high as twenty taels.
In these two days, more than a thousand people gave me a dollar reward.
After Xu Tianxin connected the copper plates with ropes and installed them, she was so happy that she no longer felt sleepy.
"Family, our host, Grandma Xianggua, has fallen asleep. She didn't even have time to get off the air, so I'm the only assistant here. I don't know how to thank you, and I don't have a grandma who can speak well."
Many family members stayed up, so what was she talking about?
She couldn't let the atmosphere of the live broadcast become dry and boring: "Well, I happen to be staying in the mountains for the night at this time, and I will tell you a ghost story."
Xu Tianxin works hard and does what he says.
After finishing her work, she purposely left the tent and stood on a small fork in the road some distance away from the cave entrance, wearing an oilcloth.
This location is good. You can see the dark mountains above. I don’t know if there are leaves or undercurrent reflections on them. It may also be caused by the firelight in Xu Tianxin’s hand. I always feel like ghosts are floating on the hanging trees between the white patches. Float away.
Looking down, we can see the barren land and weeds half as tall as a man. It feels like there are many evil wolves with green eyes hiding there.
It's simply full of atmosphere.
Xu Tianxin began to tell a ghost story about a barren mountain. He also said that there was a thousand-year-old corpse under the cave. The woman temporarily held her breath during childbirth and woke up after being buried. There was a placenta next to her. She replaced the background of the morgue story she had heard with a barren mountain.
What Xu Tianxin didn't know was that there was a soldier standing guard just behind the cliff where she was standing.
This person kept listening, thinking: What kind of group of people are they? They stayed up late at night and took shelter from the rain, and went outside to make up stories. Not to mention, it’s quite scary.
It wasn't until Xu Tianxin told everyone in the live broadcast room that she had run away and that she was going to go back to sleep. The soldier couldn't help but be curious and poked his head out to take a look.
He was very unhappy, so how could he tell the story without giving it an ending? Otherwise, just don’t tell it, really.
When he saw Xu Tianxin leaving alone in an oilcloth, the soldier's face suddenly froze, and he felt a little bad.
Not a group of people, but one person?
But that girl has been talking to you just now? He probably heard the conversation correctly.
She seems to be the little friend who was given the wild boar skin by Commander Jia.
Mengyi? Unlike him, his speech is very organized, explaining the profound things in simple terms, step by step, and occasionally with exclamations and surprises.
Is it a ghost?
When it was time to change the guard, I never expected that I would step on a bald man and roll down a few meters from the mountain. By coincidence, I happened to roll into a hole.
What's in the cave? The eighteen-year-old Xiao Bing remembered Xu Tianxin's story just now. There was a female corpse, so he looked around deliberately.
When his companions saw him suddenly talking nonsense, they thought it was a strange thing to fall into a wild cave and laughed at him.
And Xu Tianxin, who fell asleep when he got back, didn't know about this episode at all.
So much so that it affected her subsequent reputation. It’s not just word of mouth, it’s just the girl who was called ghost talker in the middle of the night.
Many years later, it was still rumored that people would talk about ghosts in the middle of the night and go out to inquire about things. Is this something a normal girl would do? Then there is nothing surprising about using a knife to "cut" a man. She also told people when meeting her not to believe her gentle image. It was all superficial. In fact, she was nicknamed the female version of Gui Sha Shen.
Of course, this is all for later, but I didn’t expect it to have such a profound impact.
Early on the next morning, Xu Tianxin got up at dawn to cook noodles for everyone, boiled pots of hot water and filled the water bladders, packed the mostly dried mushrooms, and dried the wet mushrooms picked in the last wave of yesterday. superior.
This last batch is her family's share, which also contains the mushrooms prepared by grandma for the table full of grandma.
Xu Tianxin knew that even though grandma didn’t say it, she had been thinking about grandma all over the table since there was a strong wind and heard about the mudslide. She wondered how the condoms sold outside were doing and whether people were safe.
She misses her too.
Grandma said yesterday that the wild boar had so much hair that she would make a set of hats, gloves and kneepads for the table full of grandma. After all, there were no quilts at home thick enough to cover the table, so he was reluctant to go out and prepare these, so she prepared them.
Since ancient times, this old unrelated sister came to the door with a Japanese melon on her back and faced the elm tree when she was poor. She was asked to go into the house to rest for a while, but then she went to the back garden to hoe the ground. She didn't care what she was told to do, as long as the table was full. A heartfelt response. Including this trip, just say, will you go out with me? The man left the whole family behind and said yes. Such old sisters are hard to find even in modern times.
At this time, Xu Tianxin asked everyone to get up and eat noodles.
Mrs. Xu was packing up her clothes and muttering: "Why didn't you call me?"
After driving her scolding grandmother out of the cave, Xu Tianxin looked at the family of four living opposite.
She asked, and found out that the youngest daughter in that family was only four and a half years old, her name was Niu Niu, she had big eyes and was very cute, but her face was a little red due to the wind because she didn't apply any oil, and she also had two hairpins on her hair.
Niu Niu was being carried by her mother, holding a piece of home-made rice cake in her hand, and was also eating breakfast.
Xu Tianxin leaned over, and when the parents weren't paying attention, he tapped Niu Niu's back with his finger, and looked at the rice cake again.
Niu Niu turned to look at Xu Tianxin. She only had one piece of delicious rice cake, and the rest of the rations she brought were not delicious.
However, my sister must be hungry.
Niu Niu broke off half a piece of rice cake with her two little hands and handed it to Xu Tianxin: "Here, sister, eat it."
Xu Tianxin was happy and quite generous, so he opened the lid of the instant noodles that had been hidden behind his back.
Niu Niu's eyes immediately lit up: "Wow!"
"Let's switch." Even adults can't bear the dry pancakes that a child has eaten for two days, let alone the child's stomach. Xu Tianxin specially cooked this bowl to make it soft.
When the young woman heard the movement, she quickly turned around and stopped her: "How could this happen?"
"It's nothing, give it to her." Xu Tianxin tugged at Niuniu's pigtails before leaving.
Niuniu's father looked at Xu Tianxin's back and said, "No wonder this girl is the only one who has a close relationship with Huo Jiajun."
The woman thought to herself: It was only when I took a closer look at this girl that I realized that her facial features were very serious. She must have changed her appearance in a few years as her body and face grew longer. In the past two days, she had observed that she had washed her teeth and washed everything cleanly. From all aspects, she seemed to be a diligent person. I wonder what her parents would look like if they didn't come with her. I heard that I came here with my grandma and uncles from the village.
It's not good at all, maybe she just followed her grandma. Why do you wear gray and shabby clothes at such a young age and don’t like to dress up? Even if the family situation is not good, a girl from a poor family who likes to dress up will not be like this. For example, she will wear a hair tie no matter what, and she will pay attention to her beauty when patching her clothes. Looking at this again, it seems that you can wear whatever color you want.
The woman was puzzled and said to the man: "By the way, her grandma specially left the address of our shop. She must be interested in buying some things next year. If they really come looking for it later, you have to give me a discount."
"You don't need to tell me? You can tell by looking at the juniors whether the family tradition is worth paying attention to. Not to mention that we were given noodle soup. On the day we first arrived, it was also thanks to the group of people who borrowed quilts and helped the eldest brother pick out some hot water last night. stone."
The man suddenly remembered something, stood up and said, "You ladies, while you eat, I'll help pick out the horse manure."
Yesterday I was picking mushrooms and talking about other things, but the horse manure was not flown down the mountain.
And after Xu Tianxin left the cave, he also wanted to help his third uncle to transport horse dung.
At the same time, the officials of the Ministry of Rites were severely heartbroken and were not as harmonious as the common people.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites and the subordinate groups they brought with them would have been scolded if it weren't for their official rank.
It is rumored that the youngest son of the Huo family is the most promiscuous, and it is indeed true. He just threw him on the mountain to take care of the labor and food, and even took away more than 90% of the soldiers. So far, there has been no news. Their posture makes them wish they had to leave even this few personal soldiers to them.
What's more, everything is eaten and drank, and there is no pot. It seems to be intentional from the beginning.
An official suppressed his temper and asked:
Does General Huo know that he is a general guarding one side? The safety of the trade market and their officials is the most important. Nothing else matters. Hurry up and rush to the six tribes to summon them. The most important thing is to determine the number of horses for the trade market as soon as possible. Heavy.
He is not an official and magistrate of the county. He should not be involved in such trivial matters. Moreover, this is beyond his authority. If he participates in local political affairs and opens a palace granary for charity, he must be reported to the police.
The remaining leader of the Guard Corps was called over to listen to these complaints. Due to his rank, he could not talk back. He could only say expressionlessly: "Master Xu, I am afraid that it will take several months to report to the court. There are exceptions for everything. , the general did not kill first and then report, but dealt with special cases. I think the general did not overstep his authority, he just led the troops to supervise in person to prevent the people who opened the warehouse from robbing the grain, and to protect the county government from being attacked. "
The general endured it, but finally couldn't help but said, "These days can be called natural disasters, as the people have lost their homes and have no place to live. If the chaos may lead to man-made disasters, how can it be a chore? Then why is it? A major event in your eyes? My lord, please wait patiently. If the general leaves a message before he leaves, Rulutong will send the advance cavalry back to deliver the order."
After saying that, he took a few steps back, clasped his fists and retreated.
"You?" What kind of attitude is this!
A vulgar general, I don’t know what to call him.
The atmosphere in the cave was tense, but outside the cave there was a lot of excitement on a hillside. The scenery here was unique.
Even the soldiers stationed in the Huo Family Army couldn't help but glance sideways.
Because on a small road, there were not only teams of mules and cattle pulled up by the common people to transport horse manure to the foot of the mountain.
There is also a green trail opened by Xu Tianxin.
Just look at her sitting on the oilcloth. I don't know what kind of bark grease is smeared under the oilcloth. After rubbing with the weeds on the mountain road, she can sit on it and slide down the hillside while shouting.
And there were basket after basket of horse manure in her arms.
The best thing is that after the baskets slid to the foot of the mountain one after another, I don’t know how she dug the ditch. The baskets would fall down automatically and the horse manure would be poured out.
Xu Tianxin: This is grass skiing, folks.
Stimulate.
Mrs. Xu has a proud look on her face. Her granddaughter works less to save energy. Her wisdom is infinite. As long as your thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties.
And just after all the horse manure was transported, Huo Jiajun's first cavalry team came to report that they could leave here and that the broken bridge had been repaired.
Xu Tianxin still had a grass-skiing smile on her face, and she was covered in horse manure and didn't bother to clean up. She hurried back to the cave to pack her things. They were going home!
(End of chapter)
