Chapter 25: Gossip
There are so many things, Shao Man didn't hoard them very quickly.
It was only half a mile away, and the villagers in the village also participated in this big gathering...... They converged on the way back one after another.
Shao Manchu was alone, but the basket on his back was very large, so everyone naturally saw this young man who had just attracted the whole village a few days ago.
The villagers who were a little calmer, but they only glanced at it, and then walked on their own.
But there is always the kind of villager who likes to visit the door on weekdays, flirt with leisure, and inquire about the gossip of others, and he is ...... to this young man who has never seen anyone on weekdays Full of interest.
No, there is an aunt who is a little close to the village chief, and she happened to go to her mother's house a few days ago, but she didn't catch up with this 'wonderful' thing.
Even if she figured out the whole story immediately after she came back, the regret that she had never experienced in person made this aunt scratch her heart and lungs, and she was uncomfortable.
It's a coincidence that she met the owner who reported it.
Can't she stop someone and ask them clearly?
"Shao boy, come, come to my aunt, let's say a few words!"
Shao Manchu, who was facing away from this group of old ladies, rolled his eyes helplessly, and when he turned around again, he had a pure smile on his face: "Auntie, what's the matter?"
This aunt probably also knew that it was a little inappropriate to discuss the ugly things in the village on the road, she looked left and right, and after confirming that there were no people from other villages, she dragged Shao Manchu into their pile of old aunts, and then said: "Tell your aunt, how did you find out that Widow Feng had a leg with Zhang Dengguan at that time?"
"In addition to Widow Feng, is there any man next to her who has touched the door of her house?"
This aunt, Widow Feng has been pressed back to her parents' house, why did she ask.
If the Feng family is a strict family, I am afraid that if I just take it back, I can escort Widow Feng into the well and press it to death, if it is a girl who hurts, I am afraid that I can only hurriedly find someone who does not know the roots, and marry away in a hurry.
In the end, this widow Feng is equivalent to having no family.
Widow Feng is like this, why do you still remember who she used to get involved with?
Shao Manchu, who was really too lazy to deal with this aunt, grinned, so he pretended to think seriously for a moment, and then said with a smile: "I seem to remember it when I was reminded by my aunt like this." ”
"I remember, not long ago, Uncle Jiu also touched Widow Feng's door......
After saying this, Shao Manchu hurriedly took a few steps forward, turned his feet upside down faster, and quickly shook off the team where the old woman was.
made this aunt stunned on the spot.
She stared at Shao Manchu in disbelief, her eyes were dripping and round, and she couldn't even hold her slightly convex eye sockets.
"Poof, oh mom, this is really fake!"
The ninth uncle in Shao Manchu's mouth is not the husband of this aunt?
A few women around who played well with her immediately came over: "Oh Hua'er, this Shao boy is right, your family is also ......"
"Giggles, Hua'er, don't worry, Widow Feng has been driven away by the village chief, and your family can't think about it anymore......"
How can the aunts who are mixed with this Wei Hua'er have a good stubble.
The words sounded relieved, but in fact they were all schadenfreude.
The angry Chu Jiujia had a red face and a thick neck, and he was just about to pull Shao Manchu back with his arms, but when he saw the kid in front of him who was walking faster and faster, he made up for this last sentence with a long voice.
"Auntie, why is your face so ugly, I didn't tell nonsense! Isn't Uncle Chu Jiu a bricklayer in the village?"
"I saw with my own eyes that the corner of Widow Feng's house collapsed, and I went to find Uncle Chu Jiu to work?"
"Isn't this still the uncle that the Zhang family asked someone to call to do it?"
"Oh...... Oh, I know, did my aunt misunderstand that Uncle Chu Jiu didn't do business.
It's not like I'm talking about you, auntie, why don't you even believe your man. ”
"Uncle Chu Jiu is such a good person, and he gave my family a tile roof, and he didn't ask me for a copper, such a good person...... How can you think of Uncle Chu Jiu like this? ”
After speaking, Shao Manchu sighed and shook his head, as if he was very sorry for the man Chu Jiu, and turned straight towards the path back to his home, like a gust of wind, and ran away.
But only this aunt named Wei Hua'er was left, the corners of her mouth twitched, her eyes turned red, and her face turned purple.
"Poof!"
Some people around couldn't help laughing.
It was this smile that made Aunt Wei react. She couldn't catch that Shao Manho's little braid, but she couldn't let go of the people around her.
Several aunts saw that the situation was not good, and when they were about to retreat with a smile, they were grabbed by this Wei Hua'er and torn apart unrelentingly.
"Come on, come on, let's talk about it, why can't the man in my family control his legs?"
"Why are you so dirty, are you waiting to see the joke......
For a while, this group of people who were originally still with He Meimei instantly got into a fight, and they couldn't take care of it anymore, just Shao Manho who was passing by.
"Huhu, successfully escaped!"
Shao Manho, who ran back to his home, was sweating profusely.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, he quickly covered the door.
"Whew, that's scary. ”
Thanks to the fact that he doesn't often interact with these villagers, if he is a little more familiar, where can he get out so easily.
If you are not a sociable person, then focus on the work in front of you.
Shao Manho, who came to his senses, was like a diligent gopher, picking out the contents of the basket one by one.
After twenty-five grinding tofu, it has been three days, and tomorrow is the twenty-eighth of the dough, and it is time to take out two or three pieces of sugar melon and put it in front of the hanging painting of the king of the stove, so that this immortal of the prosperous family can say some sweet words for his old Shao family when he returns to heaven to post.
When you finish worshipping the Lord of the Stove, you should do the twenty-eight dough hair.
Compared to the small jobs ahead, this is a big project.
Shao Manchu took out the black noodles of Ermo bought from the bazaar, mixed one-third of the yellow rice noodles into it, and then mixed it with warm water.
He kneaded the dough while calculating the time.
It's the twenty-eighth year of the New Year, where did the first caravan go?
Calculating the time, the caravan of the Chu family should have arrived at the merchant ships of Liaocheng in the morning, followed the Caoyun wharf, and entered the main channel of Beijing and Hangzhou, which had been used since the Sui and Tang dynasties. When you reach the fork of the Beipingcheng Canal, you will choose the northeast path, enter the Huairou River, and follow the small fork until you arrive at the Qindao Wharf, and then you can get off the merchant ship and turn to the land route.
Among them, it only takes one day from Chujia Town to Liaocheng Wharf.
It's hard to say the time of the waterway by water......
It passes through several large supply points......
Texas, Cangzhou and Tianjin Wei.
Shao Manchu initially thought that this lantern official would find an opportunity to escape and return to the village to collect his finances when he entered the Liaocheng shipping terminal.
But five days have passed, and there is not the slightest movement in the village.
The calmer the situation, the more unsteady Shao Manchu became, and he made a decision by holding the awakened dough in the jar.
The next day, he got up early in the morning and went to the old village chief.
He went to check on the progress of the first caravan, and after confirming that there was no bad news, he expressed his gratitude to the village chief for helping him so much.