Mrs. Xu was very busy this morning.
She was so busy that she didn't realize that her granddaughter was gone.
First, in the morning, Xinli Zheng of Wangjiagou came.
This Xinli started with Wang Laoba, and first reported to Mrs. Xu and Liu Laozhu on his own initiative, saying that Wang Laoba had been very honest recently and stayed at home after being beaten, maybe because he was afraid.
Because a few days ago, Wang Lizheng died outside. The cause of death was said to be accidental falling into the water and drowning, but who can guarantee that he was not assassinated?
Wang Laoba's two brothers went out and never came back. So far, there is no accurate information to tell whether they are dead or alive.
After all, traveling is not easy. If you take a long distance, it is normal to go back and forth for several months. Even if I reported to the Yamen, the Yamen would just tell me to wait. The only certainty right now is that no one has found the bodies of these two men.
So Wang Laobao will be afraid if he thinks too much. Even if I get beaten, I only drink at home and don't dare to go out and cause trouble. This is the first time in so many years that I am so honest.
After reporting on Wang Laoba's situation, Xinli was a little embarrassed and asked Mrs. Xu if he could collect the frozen fish from their village. This was the purpose of his visit.
"Don't worry, I won't accept anyone who is close to the previous Li Zheng family. I won't accept anyone who likes to cause trouble in the village and has bad conduct."
Wangjiagou's new appointment was hesitant, and then continued to say that the people he wanted to sell to Xu Jiayu were the villagers who had made it easier for Erdaohe to go to their village during the flood.
For example, those who warmed the house by the fire and gave him hot water, as well as those who did not falsely accuse Erdaohe of stealing and even testified that they had helped pick up poultry.
Wangjiagou’s new appointment didn’t want to mention it, but there were actually good people in their village.
Human nature is complex.
In the past, when I followed Ren Lizheng, I did evil things, and I had no choice but to live in a social group in the village. If I didn't follow Ren Lizheng, I would fight wherever he pointed me, and I would be squeezed out.
Some people also find that being a bad person is really convenient and life will be easier. After the villagers of Wangjiagou tasted the benefits, they became more united.
Xin Renli didn't want to explain this, but before he came, the villagers insisted on letting him talk about it, saying that this was called easing feelings.
This is to prevent their village from having to go out to sell fish on a snowy day and not being able to sell many fish in a day. The most important thing is that for some types of fish, the Xu family’s receiving price is higher than what they get for retail sales.
After the new Li Zheng finished speaking, he secretly observed Mrs. Xu.
I thought: It’s over, I have to mention it, maybe if I don’t ease my feelings, it will easily get worse.
The woman in front of me, the head of the Xu family, was even harder to talk to than Liu Laozhu.
Does she look like someone she would fall in love with?
Looking at it, he looked like someone who could turn small intestines. Don't let the past be brought up, and don't remind people of the hatred of the past.
But when Wangjiagou's new appointment was leaving, he immediately had a great change in his opinion of Mrs. Xu.
Because Mrs. Xu agreed and would collect frozen fish from some villagers in Wangjiagou.
Mrs. Xu considered that since the river was closed now, there would be no live fish for a long time, and the river surface was not completely frozen yet, so people could easily fall into the ice holes while walking on it. It is not until around mid-December that the river can be opened for ice fishing.
In other words, during this period, stocks of frozen fish must be used.
And her family owns a restaurant and makes fish floss, fish balls, fish noodles, etc., which requires a lot of frozen fish, and anyone can accept it. Wangjiagou is close enough to deliver it to your door.
In addition, the entire river is completely ice-broken, so we have to wait until April to get off the boat for fishing.
After April, there is a 55-day fishing ban in June and July. This regulation is not a modern one, but has been stipulated since ancient times. Fishing is not allowed in June and July for the sake of sustainable development of the reproduction of young fish. At that time, their village will also spend money to actively scatter fish fry. Of course, this is all a matter of course.
That is to say, there will always be a shortage of live fish in a year. With her family’s shipment volume, her village may not be able to supply it alone. If she can cooperate with Wangjiagou for a long time, the advantages will outweigh the disadvantages. By the way, Helped Zhao Dashan solve the problem. In order to prevent the two village chiefs from fighting, it would be difficult to serve as the town pavilion.
However, after discussing with Liu Laozhu, Mrs. Xu made two demands on Wangjiagou Village.
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First, when digging holes in the ice for winter fishing in mid-to-late December, Wangjiagou can no longer focus on which hole to dig in as in previous years. Including Erdaohe. The boundaries between the two villages are set apart, and the boundary between Wangjiagou and Wangjiagou is further apart.
"I know." Li Zheng, the new leader of Wangjiagou, immediately agreed, and repeatedly promised that he would never go there unless it returned to their territory.
As for Erdaohe, when it comes to spring planting, there is a ditch between the fields of the two villages. In previous years, Erdaohe has been cleaning up this stinky water ditch for almost half a lifetime.
Starting next year, Wangjiagou will take over.
"That's no problem, the villagers have to do some work." It should be their village's turn, Wangjiagouli was thinking.
If you show weakness, you should show weakness. When the day after tomorrow is warmer and the relationship with Erdao River is relaxed, the villagers in their village will also be able to sell boiled corn and salted duck eggs to the caravans at the crossing.
Their village couldn't compare with Erdaohe, so they couldn't build houses or shops.
Erdao River runs across the entire village and is adjacent to the road.
There is a mountain between the obstacle and the roadside, and I knew the market news in advance and bought the wasteland in front of the mountain close to the road.
And their Wangjiagou extends inward after coming off the road. You have to walk a long way to enter the village, and it is also vertical and deep after entering the village. I wanted to tell the town pavilion that they also wanted to build a house and open a shop on the wasteland on the roadside, but the wasteland on the roadside did not belong to their village at all. It belongs to the public, which is different from Erdaohe.
For example, there are some enterprising villagers in their village who have inquired with the town. The town replied that only one place in this area is allowed to receive trade caravans, and the business is allowed to collect taxes.
In short, if their village wants to do some small business on the roadside in the future, they must not offend Erdaohe.
When Wangjiagou's new boss was leaving, Mrs. Xu and Liu Laozhu were joking and talking: "I think this guy is pretty good. He doesn't talk about useless things. I won't ask for anything if I can handle it. Thank you for not choosing what you mentioned." Someone else."
Liu Laozhu said: "That's because you don't know that the other person named Wang Youcai is good at deceiving us. He doesn't speak so flatteringly to us. If Wang Youcai comes today, he will not be able to deceive us. He talks sweetly."
Mrs. Xu made fun of Liu Laozhu: "You only care about useless things, and I don't like people who are peeing. What we should think about is that our village will develop well in the future, and everyone in our village will do it." It’s a good job, but the boring jobs can be expanded to other villages. Wangjiagou is also an option because it is close. Let Wangjiagou become an affiliated village of Erdaohe as soon as possible. This is the business.”
"Either I can't compare to you, or you dare to think, and you are not as superficial as me. I just thought that when Wangjiagou sees us from behind, we should get out of the way, and just say that the boss is coming, and let us go first. "
When the two of them were talking about the village plan, the table full of people who were about to start a life as a helper in the Xu family, brought her two sons and a daughter-in-law, and pushed two carts full of belongings into the hospital.
One cart contained food rations for several members of his family.
Although Mrs. Xu had promised to provide food a long time ago, the whole table was thinking that if she was given such a high salary and provided food, she was just taking care of her, so she couldn't be so shameless as to not bring even a grain of food. Come. If there is no food, there will be no vegetables.
Another cart was filled with bedding and clothes made for the Xu family.
Mrs. Xu hurriedly served the table again, and Liu Laozhu also went to work at this time.
The table was full and the eldest daughter-in-law and youngest son were first introduced. The two of them saluted and said kind words to Mrs. Xu.
The daughter-in-law at the table was hesitant for a long time, and she couldn't explain a single sentence clearly. She could only blush and smile flatteringly at Mrs. Xu.
The whole table came to the rescue and said, "My daughter-in-law's name is Xiaoyun. Well, she is a young girl with a tender face. She is not like me who chatters all day long. Sister, don't be picky."
Old Mrs. Xu took a closer look and said, "What's there to argue about? All people have to do is practice. My daughter-in-law is almost done with practice now, and she will get better slowly. And the name is so nice, not like the flowers in the village. When people smile, they are like those clouds. When they encounter the sun, the clouds will disperse and the mist will disappear. The smile will make people feel bright."
Mrs. Xu specifically asked Xiaoyun why she didn't bring her children.
The daughter-in-law who filled the table relaxed a little after hearing the compliments. She blushed and told Mrs. Xu that her parents had gone home to take care of the children.
, and by the way, you can also burn down the house.
The whole table took over and said: "The house at home cannot be left empty, so I asked my in-laws and my wife to come to my place, where we will have food and accommodation."
Mrs. Xu understood immediately. This way, the in-laws would eat and live at Manzhuo's house, which was also a disguised way of saving food for her own family. It would be better if the food was given directly and the other party would not accept it as the in-laws, but could be asked to move in to help burn the house and take care of the children. Like Dali, she was sent out for a walk, so she had the nerve to accept a couple of errands.
"Here, call Auntie." Finally, we introduced the silly old man to the table full of people.
"Auntie."
"She's my aunt, older than my mother, and my mother calls me sister."
"Auntie."
The whole table pointed at her eldest son and smiled at Mrs. Xu: "Sister, take a look, what's wrong with this? Call him stupid. If he's not stupid, he can still tell that you are taller than me. If it's tender and strong, you should call it aunt."
Mrs. Xu was also happy. She stopped her and asked others to correct her. She could call him whatever he wanted. But she felt a little pity in her heart. The tall and muscular young man was about the same height as her third child, maybe 1.83 or 8.5 meters tall. He used to be the mainstay of Manzuo's family, but now he has become like this.
Mrs. Xu motioned to the stupid boy at the table to sit down, "I'll introduce my third and fourth brothers to these two brothers. One of them will follow my third brother, and the other will follow my fourth brother."
And said:
"I have already told our Tunguan doctor about the situation of the young man.
Well, to be honest, I think his medical skills are not very good.
But my Tian Xin said that her grandpa Guan was at least good at medical ethics.
Regardless of whether you have cured someone to death, the doctor who deceived you cannot cure you. If he doesn't give you good medicine or treatment, you will lose your reputation.
Tian Xin said that her grandpa Guan was someone who dared to prescribe medicine in our village. He could cure the disease in two days and would never delay it for three days just to make money. She also often helped everyone think of cheap prescriptions without having to buy expensive medicines.
I listened to my child's advice and discussed with Guan Ertuo what kind of medicine I should take.
I just happened to be bothering the third and fourth children to go out. I spent fifteen taels on Tian Xin, a table, and a book called Treatise on Febrile Diseases, and there were three other books that I can’t remember clearly. Anyway, they were all It was written by a very famous imperial physician. It cost me fifty taels. Oops, this is expensive. "
Mrs. Xu told me that just last night, Tian Xin hurriedly rummaged through the book and read it curiously for half a night. There was indeed a treatment prescription for removing congestion in the brain.
"That's it. I'm thinking of asking Tian Xin to take those books to Guan Ertuo and give them a comprehensive review to see if he can give me a prescription for my current medicine. If you agree, we'll start taking it now. , I have paid for the medicinal materials and money."
Tears burst out from all over the table: "No, sister, I have money of my own."
She never expected that the elder sister had already considered her so carefully.
"Don't argue with me, and don't bother me anymore.
In short, if we are not good for half a year, we will take it for a year, and we will start taking medicine from tomorrow.
If there is a chance in the future to go to the county seat and meet a doctor who is more powerful than Guan Er Baldy, we will change the prescription.
Anyway, the appointment of the medicine hall in town is not acceptable. That person is Guan Erbald's cousin, which sounds less reliable to me than Erbald.
In the early years, it was known to everyone in the village that the two men were taught by the same family. The other one was not as good as the second bald man in medical skills. It was only after the second bald man cured people that he was suppressed. "
Xiaoyun immediately knelt down.
The table full of young men named Hu Zi also immediately knelt down, his eyes red, and he insisted on giving a kowtow to his elder brother.
Mrs. Xu asked, "What are you doing? Everyone cried as soon as you got home?"
The young man calls her aunt.
"As an aunt, how about treating your nephew? Don't you think so, eldest son? After he is cured, he will be like half of my aunt's son."
"Yes, auntie." All the stupid people on the table said with smiles.
The whole table was made to cry and laugh, and she said, "Sister, if you are willing to recognize me, I can be your son now," she offered her with both hands.
Later she complained that she was late in delivering the clothes and did not arrive in time before the third and fourth children delivered the goods. She only knew that she had left early when she entered the village.
Yes, I left much earlier than expected. I thought I would only leave in the next two days.
Mrs. Xu said: "We hired a lot of people to do the work. If they work quickly, we should let them leave early. Otherwise, if we owe so much goods outside, it will always seem like there is a lot of famine. It's a shame to leave early and come back early. It’s been snowing a lot these past two days.”
The whole table was opening new clothes and explaining that the reason why she came was to have the hems of the clothes carefully processed.
"Take a look, sister, Tian Xin's two pieces of clothing have sleeves, collars and skirts. My wife over there has sewn a circle of fluffy boar hair on them, even on the outside of the jacket. Thanks to me last time Come on, that handful of pig hairs you stuffed for me is so exciting. Where is Tian Xin? Come out and try it out. I also put two hair balls on her hat."...
Mrs. Xu sincerely praised it, "It's really beautiful, but it's just pig hair, not mink hair."
Then this is great. I wouldn’t have thought of it a few months ago. This is it, her granddaughter’s little white rabbit fur hat, the little black pig fur ball hat, and the gloves with a string around the neck. Look, they all look like the same set of clothes.
Mrs. Xu said, "She's still sleeping. I just gave her a soap yesterday and told her to have a good rest, so I left her alone. I only let her eat two pieces of jujube cake in the morning." While thinking, she should ask her granddaughter to get up for dinner. Yes, two meals.
After eating together, we still had to teach the whole table how to cook noodles. Xiaoyun went to make sticky bean buns.
Finally, he opened the door of the big house and saw: "..."
"Xiaoqin, Xiaoqin?!"
Mrs. Xu found her daughter-in-law and asked Tian Xin. Yu Qinniang said, if it wasn't at the soap-making girl's house in the village, would it be at the new shop? He did say hello to her and said he was going out, but she thought he was going to play with those little girls.
Because today, those soap-making girls and the gang of old men under my niece are very nourishing. Twenty old men are wandering around the village and making people jealous. I heard they are on paid leave.
But the arrival of Liu Laozhu made Mrs. Xu's face change. She said that Xu Tianxin was not at the new shop at all. Bai Xiucai was here, looking at the finished water-drop clock, and also waiting for Xu Tianxin.
Oh my god, when did you lose the child?
Just when Liu Laozhu was in a hurry and wanted to send people around to ask around, Lao Zhaitou, who was responsible for changing the water in the village's water clock, gave the answer: "I was dragged away by your third brother again early in the morning and went to the town."
Liu Laozhu was so angry that he kicked Liu Laosan because he loved to let Xu Tianxin ride the car so much.
Father and mother are back. The third child went back to the village last night and returned to the town this morning. Then he can go back by himself. What's wrong with Tian Xin?
The only cart that pulls bicycles from the town back to the village is Hao Yinhua's man Yu Jiagun's ox cart, and Yu Jiagun's ox cart only returns when it's almost dark, so each village has to gather a cart to leave.
The snow is getting heavier and heavier outside, don't you think this is a delay? Bai Xiucai and Xu Tianxin are also big business, they are waiting.
Moreover, Liu Laozhu thought to himself: Did he know that even when he and Tian Xin went out to pick up goods, he had to bring a kitchen knife with him? He was worried that someone would snatch this money-making kid away and tear him apart.
When Mrs. Xu asked Lao San to go to town to find Tian Xin, Liu Laozhu had already set off.
"Did he drive the bullock cart?"
"No, Uncle Li Zheng was a trapper."
Ten big dogs harnessing one cart can pull a sledge faster than an ox on such a snowy day.
Then Lao Zhaitou, who usually had little work to do, popped out again and told Mrs. Xu that Liu Laozhu was running very fast, and he didn't know whether it was a man or a dog that escaped him.
Ten big dogs dragged Liu Laozhu out and started to tease him, with sparks and lightning all the way.
Old Zhaitou: Really, he was lying on the snow all the way while watching Li Zheng, scraping the branches, and the landlord's hat flew off. Fortunately, he kept holding on to the rope and didn't let go, otherwise he would have been thrown into the ditch by the big dogs. inside, shouting wildly: "Hey? Wait a minute, I'm not on the bus, I'm not on the bus!"
"Don't, don't wait for him to finish his dinner. It's easy for a dog to drag him to the capital even if he's still upright."
