Xiyuxu Restaurant was abuzz with people.
The ten tables of guests who ate fish stewed with vermicelli alone, stewed goose with potatoes, and chicken stewed with hazelnut mushrooms were all occupied. They also ordered many dishes a la carte, and the fire bellows in the back stove almost burned down.
Old Zhaitou sat at the feet of Mrs. Xu and pulled the bellows, whirring and the stove was burning brightly.
While cooking, Mrs. Xu took time to remind him: Be careful of burning your hands.
I thought to myself: Oh my god, you are playing quite rhythmically. I thought you were playing the erhu. Are you humming a tune in your heart? I'm really afraid that you will tremble and tremble again and again.
Since he let this old boy push a cart to sell goods, Lao Zhaitou may be out of gratitude.
Not only did he come to Xu's backyard to help in his own time, but he also called his deaf cousin in the village to light the fire together.
Old Zhaitou's cousin called Zhai Buli and couldn't hear him, but he didn't pay attention to anyone who called him.
Originally, Zhai Buli's job for the Xu family was to cut sticks, which were sticks stuck in the intestines of naughty men. Three hundred sticks were given ninety cents, and they were whittled at home every day.
Now he is called by Lao Zhaitou to help him sell goods.
One person is awkward in speech and weak in legs and feet, but has good ears and lively eyes.
Although the other one couldn't listen, he was very sharp with his words and feet.
If something happens, you don't have to call anyone else. Now these two old brothers can show up at any time. Instead, they formed a group called Zhai Jisong.
Erdaohe is a village with mixed surnames, so it is convenient to call people to work in order to entertain guests. Now in the new shop, there are not only the Zhai Jiushi Group, but also the Wang Napao Group, which is responsible for the mules of the guests. Huang Buluo Group, Chen Zhuqi, Zheng Jingren, and Song Rentou Group.
Song Rentou sent guests to live in the village.
Isn't that right? While Mrs. Xu was frying eggs with garlic sprouts, a group of four Song people outside the shop were waving a small flag to greet the guests:
"Ready to leave.
Those who have finished eating and do not plan to take a shower, and those who do not take a shower but want to do laundry, come with me in groups of twenty.
Look, I am a red flag. I will wave this flag to pick you up tomorrow morning.
Don't worry, I'll make sure I won't miss your breakfast and departure. Before I go there with clean clothes, each house where you are staying will also use a stick of incense to wake you up and wash your face. "
A guest asked, "I haven't paid for washing up. Will there be hot water tonight?" Do I need to spend money separately?
The Song Rentou members waving purple flags quickly loudly told:
"No, everyone, drink some water and wash your face. The villagers where you live will provide it for free.
But let’s be honest, it’s not easy for the villagers to carry buckets of water from the windlass well and collect firewood from the mountains.
Let’s not talk about the effort, let’s just talk about the mountain being bitten by wolves, snakes and insects. Have you seen the continuous mountain in front of you? We have almost finished picking up all the pine tree towers in such a big mountain, so please don’t waste the hot water.
For example, two or three people can use one basin of water to wash their faces and rinse their feet. If you say it’s not hot and add some hot water, it’s fine. Don’t wash your hair or something like that. I won’t take a penny from you. Water money, right? Understand each other, okay? "
"good!"
"Let's go, let's set off first with our little purple flag. Leng put the cows on the cart and hugged each other together. It happened that the family we lived in was near the river and would pass by the river and let the torch light it up. Let's take a look. If you are curious, you can Get off the car and slide, we have poured an ice slide on the high slope on the dam, you can slide down it."
There were eighty guests in a row, all riding in bullock carts.
However, the guests were not completely sent off, and they had to wait for the ox cart to return.
In order to prevent new guests arriving in the middle of the night who were unwilling to accommodate themselves, the villagers tried their best to persuade the guests who arrived early to settle in the village.
It’s fun to say we’ll take you skating.
When you enter the village, you can also see various snowmen built by our village children, and the snowmen will stand guard for you.
Moreover, the conditions in each house are better than those in the shops. Ten people can sleep on a kang, so there is no crowding.
Although I dare not say that the bedding is new inside and out, the breath area and the top of the quilt are all newly mended. It is taken off and washed by a group of guests. There are paper cuttings on the wall, one of a big beauty, one of
Double Happiness, if you wake up from a dream that you shouldn't have, the urine bucket will be returned to the room.
Therefore, trains are starting one after another outside, which is quite lively, but it is still not as good as inside.
In front of the cashier of Xu Family Restaurant, a steward came to pay the bill in advance while the boss was drunk. The person who came here smelled of alcohol, mainly because he never expected that the alcohol here would be so strong.
The steward leaned in front of the cashier, and while giving money, he smiled at Xu Youyin and said, "I drank too much, which made the store laugh. It will take a while before it is over."
Xu Youyin couldn't hear what those people were talking about, it was so loud.
The big boss of the gang was chatting about their dreams after this trip and asked everyone to follow him and work hard.
He smiled, waved his hands and said, "It's okay. You can drink as long as you want. Drinking without getting drunk is like taking a shower without rubbing your back."
In Xu Youyin's opinion, this is normal.
After drinking too much, you should also talk about dreams. Although dreams are of no use, after all, thinking about them doesn’t take up space. Drinking too much means you can dream freely, which is very beautiful.
Moreover, he is familiar with this aspect and often hears that this big shopkeeper is far inferior to his mother in drawing pie.
His mother, when every family in the village was so poor, she dared to wave her arms and say without drinking much: The shop belongs to her family, but its development depends on everyone else. Just follow her and work hard, take everyone to the city for shopping, and get rewards at the end of the year. From now on, every family has a car and a brick house, and the barns are all horse dung forts. When it gets cold, they will dig them out and burn them.
As a result, everyone would get a chicken blood shot after every village committee meeting.
They all shouted my mother’s quotations:
He said that he always has the final say. If we have money, we will pave more roads. If we don’t have money, we will resist.
To change the status quo, it starts with me. Wherever you point us, we will do it.
We have no chance of winning by lying down, so we must stand up and run. We're going into town with you to do some shopping.
Just when Xu Youyin was complaining happily, Mrs. Xu came in, looked at her youngest son, and then looked at him again: "What are you thinking about me in your heart?"
"No, mother, what can I say to you? This is the money that has been settled. There are pieces of silver and banknotes. It is impossible for someone to carry so much money with them. I can't refuse."
Mrs. Xu looked at the one hundred taels of silver note, she was most unwilling to accept this. It’s not that you’re afraid of counterfeit money, it’s impossible here unless you want to lose your head. There is a handling fee of three taels for exchanging one hundred taels at the bank. If each family receives a large amount of money, the handling fee will be borne by each family.
Inexplicably, I made less than three taels, alas, there was no way. You can always use her to collect cash.
Mrs. Xu collected the money and asked her younger son, "Isn't your third brother back?"
"No." Xu Youyin was a little worried. According to the normal round trip, he should have returned from Xishan Town.
By the way, my niece is still mentally stable, knowing that such a caravan of 500 people is coming, so she is not in a hurry. People said that the third uncle didn't come back and there were no bottles of medicine. They would rather not sell it than sell it at a low price. Besides, the caravan might stay there on its return trip.
I didn’t sell it this time, I’ll sell it next time.
When the niece said this, Xu Youyin found it strange that Uncle Guan actually listened to his niece despite his age and said, "Yes, I won't sell it cheaply."
Then he followed his niece.
Which of the two is the master and who is the apprentice?
What Xu Youyin and the others didn't know was that the reason why Guan Ertuo spoke so loudly was because he was in a hurry to do research.
At this time, he was working with Xu Tianxin to develop new medicines. He was responsible for consulting Zhang Zhongjing's medical books and decoction of Juershuang (Kaiselu), which can cause instant relief.
In Guan Ertuo's eyes, there is a new medicine, which makes him feel more excited than making money. The main reason is that I have already earned dozens of taels before, so it is not so imminent for my family to be able to untie the pot.
What's more, Tian Xin also has a plan to sell Ju'er to the mutual market just like those big merchants.
At this time, Mrs. Xu was not aware of this idea. She was chatting with her younger son about the whereabouts of her third son. Could it be that she had heard that there were noble fish somewhere and was delayed in collecting the fish halfway?
Suddenly there was the sound of someone looking for Mrs. Xu outside.
"Who are you? Looking for me."
"I'm the clay figurine maker in the town. The pig farmer named Lingzi asked me to come here and said you wanted me to make clay figurines.
"
Mrs. Xu was confused. She knew the pig farmer and had just delivered the goods to her house this morning: "Should I ask you to make a clay figurine?"
"I'm looking for Xu Youliang, aren't you his mother? Old lady with sticky bean buns."
The old clay figurine maker was very worried that the Xu family would not give him half a tael of wages regardless of food. He came here on the last train carrying a bunch of guys on his back, so he had to find Mrs. Xu. Because this person is very famous in the town, quite arrogant, and is known as the sticky bean bag old lady.
Old Mrs. Xu: "..." Okay, it's better than the old lady calling her intestines.
Mrs. Xu was led to the bathhouse by the clay figurine master, and after asking Mr. Xu for questioning, she found out that it was her granddaughter's handiwork.
It was said that Guan Ertu was looking for her, but in fact it was her granddaughter who wanted a mannequin.
Mrs. Xu cleared up her doubts and left, but the clay figurine master was confused.
For most of his life, he made clay figurines to make iron and made aunts spin thread. I pinched a boy while he was studying, and pinched a monk while he was chanting sutras, but I never pinched a big butt.
Xu Laoer couldn't really use his skill at kneading mud, so he motioned to the old master to change his shoes and sit next to him and knead slowly. He was still in charge of the food tonight and stayed in the bathhouse.
If you're worried about not being able to squeeze it well, you can go in and have a look. There are a lot of people lying there, and it shouldn't be a problem to find one or two typical patients to take a look at.
"I want to take a sneak peek..." I have never looked at myself in the water, and I can't tell what it looks like just by touching it.
At the same time, Xu Laosan was really hampered by work, so he came home more than an hour late.
Shortly after leaving the city gate of Xishan Town in the afternoon, Xu Youcang saw a small hill. He parked his car and jumped under the road to solve three urgent problems.
As a result, he was detained with a bucket and a bucket of feces, and the other party said: "Robbery."
Xu Youcang squatted there: "You are blind, who cares about calling you eldest sister? I am your eldest brother."
"I'm talking about robbery, I'm a robber!"
Xu Youcang said, please take the bucket away from me and don't activate it for me.
"It's been so long. Even if Xishan Town is not under the military control of Zhenbei, you can't be so presumptuous when you are so close.
I don't even dare to go out and grab it.
When your grandfather and I were traveling in the world of robbing, you were not yet born.
Where did the big tiger whistle come from. "
One of the robbers was a sixteen-year-old, a fourteen-year-old, and a ten-year-old. It was the first time the three of them had done this, and they felt panicked.
The sixteen-year-old boy kicked Xu Youcang hard and said anxiously: "You are about to be robbed, why are you so secretive?"
The fourteen-year-old boy was also a strong man. He poked Xu Youcang in the waist with a knife and ordered: "We are forced by life and have no money. Since it is fate to rob you, don't be shameless and give us money quickly."
Xu Youcang was held in a excrement bucket, "My pocket is cleaner than my face, so please take the bucket away so that we can discuss it better. I have food in the car, instant noodles, noodles, and deep-fried ones. Do you know, please take it away." Easy to talk about."
The ten-year-old kid suddenly said with a crying voice: "Uncle, I'm hungry, I want to eat noodles."
His second brother couldn't even cover his mouth in time.
When the bucket was opened, Xu Youcang cursed, "Can't you just go to the car to grab food?" Can't you tie your hands with a rope before the bucket is taken away? Do you feel like you can conquer the world with just one sword in your hand? It's nothing, but you still dare to imitate others and commit robbery.
"You are not allowed to learn well at such a young age!"
Xu Youcang chased me all the way with a frozen fish in his hand. I am Erdaohe Xu Laosan. Remember.
After a while, he tied the three people together like grasshoppers, and slapped the cold ice fish on their faces randomly, "Can't you still rob them? Hold your head and squat down."
The oldest one was wilted, holding his head and thinking: I just wish I could go to jail and let my two younger brothers go.
Tears fell from the fourteen-year-old's face as he advised Xu Youcang: "Uncle, please let us go. Grandma is not here, but Grandpa is here, considering that we haven't grabbed anything."
Xu Youcang looked at the three boys who were wearing very thin and shabby clothes, frowned and said, "That means business cannot be done without mercy."
The ten-year-old Pu Tong knelt down and hugged Xu Youcang's thigh and said:
"It's me, I'm too hungry.
Uncle, we don’t have parents anymore.
My parents died while feeding pigs in the summer at a large pig farmer's house. My elder brother was drafted into the military and died a few years ago. What the family could sell has long since been sold out.
In the past few years, the eldest sister has brought up our younger brothers and gave birth to a girl. Her husband's family drove her back together with her niece, and they didn't want her. Now the niece is only one year old and is ill.
Wuwu, the second brother and the third brother went out to look for work. Not only did they not make a penny, but they were beaten after finding trouble. We..."
The ten-year-old boy choked up and couldn't speak.
Only then did they think of robbing. Seeing others rushing in groups, the three brothers were too thin and afraid that they wouldn't be able to grab them. Only the old man in front of me was driving the Xegui oxcart alone, but he didn't expect that he would be more difficult to deal with than anyone else. He was not afraid of a kitchen knife and snatched away his second brother's arm with just a little force. He almost broke his second brother's arm with just a little force.
Xu Youcang felt that he must have been kicked in the head by a donkey, otherwise he would not have driven these three little bastards back to Xishan Town in a car, and even went to his home to see if this was really the case.
The sister of the three little bastards also looks very thin.
In a messy home, with a little baby in his arms, he was stunned when he saw him and looked at the three younger brothers, and asked him dumbly: "Did they cause a big trouble?"
Xu Youcang said in the weak cry of the baby:
"No, the four of us fell into a shit pit by fate. Let me tell you, I want to take them to take a bath, so as not to worry you."
When leaving, Xu Youcang paused again.
He put the only four pennies left in his pocket after buying the goods, leaving two pennies on the window sill, bent down and crossed the threshold, and left without looking back.
Then, he bought twenty steamed cakes for a few boys, stored the car in the courtyard of a restaurant he knew, took away a piece of cloth from the car, and followed the directions of the waiter in the shop to actually lead the three little bastards I took a bath in Xishan Town.
While taking a bath, I saw whip wounds on the older two boys.
Not only does it hurt wherever I touch it, but black mud falls off when I pull my wrist.
Xu Youcang was a little afraid to rub him, and he was also a little sad. Because he was reminiscing about the past. If his mother hadn't been here and his niece was too young, the three brothers would have been almost like this. Suddenly I want to spend money.
"Is there anyone who takes a shower?"
Then something happened, and Xu Youcang earned thirty-five cents.
"Yes, rub your lower back for me!"
Xu Youcang: "...?"
Well, he knows this. In order to demonstrate his money-making skills to the boys, he fucked two more people.
