Chapter 54: Greeting
Xie Zhihong's daughter-in-law and Xie Zhiguo's daughter-in-law were originally reluctant to go down the mountain, and they had many families and couldn't leave. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoBut Uncle Quan Zhongtang repeatedly asked them to go down the mountain together, so they had to follow them.
When they arrived at Liu's house, they only smiled and didn't speak, and they were invisible. It's not that they deliberately pretend to be low-key, it's because Brother Xie Zhihong told them not to talk too much in front of the Liu family, so as not to be embarrassed. Actually, although they were very dissatisfied with their father-in-law's help to supplement the power of Uncle Zhongtang, no one made a lot of noise, what is there to be embarrassed about? !
Now that they have left the Liu family, they dare to speak: "Hey, I don't know if I don't go down the mountain, but I don't know when I go down the mountain that we are full of treasures." The sour bamboo shoots are also roasted at home, but they don't have the taste of the sour bamboo shoots made by Yu Jin's daughter-in-law. The chestnut, which of our children is not tired of eating, but the chestnut roast chicken made by Yu Jin's daughter-in-law, these children can rush to eat it. And the fungus, I didn't know that the fungus could be eaten cold when I was so big. The things in our mountains are better made by the people under the mountains, and it is no wonder that they like our mountain goods. ”
Chengshu's daughter-in-law slapped her thigh: "Ah, it's not that I almost forgot about it, my eldest cousin-in-law asked me to get two more stalls of sour bamboo shoots for the eldest cousin to take back, and it was a dish to entertain people during the New Year." However, her sour bamboo shoot roasted fish is really delicious, and I almost didn't even eat it, it was our family's sour bamboo shoots. ”
Cheng Lin's daughter-in-law also smiled and said: "You are going to prepare sour bamboo shoots! Then I will get a few baskets of carbon for my eldest cousin! Their family doesn't even have a charcoal for baking, and the brazier with straw ash buried in rice husks is not hot at all, so if it really snows, it won't be used! In addition, I also thought that a few of us would get together a cart of dry firewood to bring back to the eldest cousin. They are reluctant to burn any firewood at home, so they have to keep it for steaming rice cakes. Our family doesn't dare to say anything else, this dry firewood is not as much as we want!"
Xie Zhihong did not follow Liu Yujin on the main road, but walked on the small road with Xie Shounan with women and children. The reason why Xie Shounan followed them was because he wanted to lead the way, so that they would not take the wrong road. After listening to the woman's chat, they realized that the people under the mountain did not have everything, and there were also so many things that were needed and in short supply.
Although Xie Zhihong and Xie Shounan walked slowly with the woman and the child, they took the small road after all and took a closer. When they arrived home, Liu Yujin, Xie Zhiguo, Xie Chengshu, Xie Chenglin, and others, six or seven big men, had not yet been able to reach Zhangjialing Town with ox carts.
"Sir, you can walk for two hours to get to the town, let's find a place to sleep in the town! After walking for a day and a night, your body will not be able to stand it." ”
It was Xie Chenglu who spoke, he didn't have a cousin who could speak, an honest person, but he was stupid, but he had a clear heart. In the past few days, he has followed Liu Yujin back and forth, and he has seen that Liu Yujin is not the kind of person who says beautifully, but he doesn't do a thing, so he respects this old watch from the inside out. People's emotions are very strange, when they sincerely like or respect a person, even if they are not related by blood, they will care and love like relatives. Xie Chenglu said this, not out of politeness or politeness, but because he really felt sorry for Lao Biao for their family's affairs, so tired.
They didn't sleep all the way, except when they were resting for the oxen, and they leaned against the sacks on the cart for a while. Liu Yujin is in the prime of life, and he doesn't feel tired, but Xie Zhiguo, who is nearly fifty years old, can't hold on. He followed suit: "Yes, big cousin, look! Let's find a place to sleep! We have to walk for more than half a day from this town to the foot of our mountain, and if there is someone waiting for us at the bottom of the mountain, if there is no one waiting, we will first go up the mountain and call someone down to help." In this way, you have to wait all night at the bottom of the mountain, and this mountain road cannot be walked at night, otherwise something will happen!"
Xie Chengshu also nodded, but he felt that it was not easy to find a place in the town, so he frowned and said: "It's good to take a rest! It's just that there is nowhere to go! Although there is a guest house in the town, we don't have a letter of introduction, and people don't give it to live at all." Why don't we continue walking, and when we reach the foot of the mountain, we can find someone we know in those Zhuangzi to rest for the night. ”
Liu Yujin is strong and strong, and he doesn't sleep for a day and a night, so there is no problem for him at all. He didn't respond much to what they were going to do, and it was up to them to call the shots when they got to their territory anyway.
Xie Chengshu and Xie Chenglu are both the closest cousins to Liu Yujin, Liu Yujin doesn't make any decisions, so they can only make the decisions, but the two of them are arguing all the way about where to sleep best.
However, when everyone arrived in the town with the slow old ox cart, they saw Xie Quanzhong waiting with the old captain at the intersection of the only road, and they knew that they didn't have to worry about sleeping.
"Grandpa, why did you travel so far to pick it up?"
Xie Chengshu looked at his grandfather sitting on the big stone on the side of the road in the town in surprise, and the old captain was talking to him happily. Xie Quanzhong, on the other hand, was absent-minded, turning his head from time to time to look at the road into the town, and seeing them from a distance, he didn't seem to be very sure, so he stood up, put his hand on his brow, and squinted his eyes and looked carefully. Hearing the second grandson Xie Chengshu shouting at him from afar, he grinned and said to the old captain with a smile: "Hahaha! I was thinking just now that they might have arrived, but I didn't expect it to be them!"
The old captain had already come down from the stone and stood next to Xie Quanzhong, smiling at the team of people with oxen and carts getting closer and closer. Nodding his head, he replied, "I see that the car is stacked so high, it seems that there are a lot of things." ”
"Well, this car should be full of rice, and everything else has been brought back by my granddaughter-in-law in advance!"
The old captain patted Xie Quanzhong on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I really didn't expect it! Relatives who haven't moved for more than ten years have made such a big splash when they walk." ”
Xie Quanzhong replied with some pride: "In those years, when I was talking crookedly that my nephew was not, I didn't just say it, my nephew is not that kind of person." Yu Jin's children have lived in my house for so long, and I can understand a little bit. Now, you've seen it, and I guess they've moved everything they have in their house!"
The old captain shook his head and said, "If you want to say that the whole family gives you things, I don't approve of it. Only Yu Jin, the nephew, helped you sell us mountain goods, but I think it's a good thing that really helps us. When I was in town in the morning, you also saw that the hare we had here was only sold for three yuan a piece, and it was sold for a long time, but no one bought it. Yu Jin is in the county seat, and people have already ordered nearly 1,000 yuan of mountain goods before they have seen anything. This can be regarded as giving us a way out, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, which can be regarded as the answer to this sentence. If it weren't for the fact that there was a surplus of money in the county, we ourselves would not dare to touch it, who knows if there would be another movement to cut the tail of capitalism?!"