Coming out of the small station in this county, what catches your eye is the vast loneliness in all directions, and the living rentals that can be seen everywhere in later generations are nowhere to be found in this county.

But if you want to enter the mountains where Gu Zheng's village lives, there are still dozens of kilometers to walk.

Even if he climbed down the cliff into the deep mountains, he was afraid that he would have to reach the mountain of their Tujia first.

'Sucking giggle......s'

A donkey's cry rang out at the door of the small station.

An uncle with a long cigarette pouch and pot in his mouth, full of vicissitudes of life, showed his head from a donkey cart full of straw, and looked at Gu Zheng who was looking around with some eagerness and some shame, his lips trembling...... But it can't be opened.

At a glance, this is just to attract people to make some money, but because of face or fear, they can't open their mouths.

Gu Zheng was not in a hurry, and after seeing that no one was following him out of the station, he instead approached the uncle's car and chatted as if he was catching a fire with the other party.

"Old man, can you borrow a fire?"

The local dialect was used, and the relationship between the two people was brought closer at once.

After the uncle saw the clothes Gu Zheng was wearing clearly and heard the words in his mouth, the expression on his face relaxed.

After feeling that it was not easy for a man to go out alone, he was a little distressed and took out a vegetable nest from his dry food pocket, intending to let this hungry and cold family member fill his stomach.

Gu Zheng, who had never broken it, just pushed his pocket with a smile, but pointed to the animal skin water bag hanging from the uncle's waist, and said, "No, ask Grandpa for a sip of water." ”

"The water in the village is sweet. ”

There is no smell of tap water or disinfectant water.

Hearing this, the old man was overjoyed, and without hesitation, he untied the water bag, intending to give this pleasing posterity a sweet mouth.

Just when the two of them were handing over, Gu Zheng then handed the big front door that had been pulled out of his hand to the uncle's hand, there were as many as five or six, and under the uncle's surprised eyes, he said the words of intimacy casually.

"Grandpa, try my cigarettes, it's not worse than dry smoke, it's the same rush!"

After the old man took a beat, two cigarettes were placed on his burning pipe, one was taken by Gu Zheng and held in his mouth, and the other was ...... It was stuffed between his fingers.

Come on, good as flow, the old and the old haven't tasted cigarettes.

Old man Tian, who has smoked cigarette bags and pots all his life, smoked a cigarette handed over by his nobleman on the first night of private work.

And two men getting together to smoke is the first step in their relationship.

These two people who were bored late at night, starting with tobacco and finally got to the point.

"Grandpa, look how miserable I am, I will have to travel dozens of miles at night in a while. ”

"Our long-distance bus in Anning County didn't leave at half past eight in the evening. ”

"If there is a car that can pull me to the edge of the Shili Mountain, let alone five cents, I will give me a dollar. ”

"A piece?" After hearing this super high price, Uncle Tian's hand holding the cigarette shook and almost burned off a piece of skin from his old rough hand.

"A dollar, yes? Son, you get in the car, the lord pulls you over, the lord is such a kind-hearted person, this dollar will definitely earn you. ”

It's really my own father, and he has no friends if he is so sincere.

But this is the end result that Gu Zheng wants.

He used a cigarette to persuade the old man to take the first step in private work, and turned a poor middle peasant with strong roots into a backward element who made black money by speculation.

Not only that, but after the journey of dozens of miles was pulled down, Old Man Tian's net worth was even more talked about by Gu Zheng.

Gu Zheng used his powerful flickering ability to pull the first captain of the transport team for the people of their Mengshan village.

This local uncle who lives in Anning County, the first step to make a fortune is to pull a high amount of private work.

When he returned home with this particularly warm note, his mind was still messed up like a pot of freshly stirred paste.

How did he dig out his heart and lungs with Gu Zheng, and how did he accept this posteriority?

Now he has almost forgotten everything except for the gate of the small train station in Anning County three days later.

Gu Zheng in the car seemed to understand everything, and it seemed that he had never said anything.

It's really amazing, and the afterlife is terrifying.

can be such a powerful descendant, but it is a member of their Tujia family.

After Uncle Tian was worried for a short time, he was only left with deep pride.

He felt that there seemed to be nothing wrong with listening to the arrangements of this later life.

As for this descendant who was considered by Uncle Tian to be a genius, what are you doing now?

I'm climbing a mountain.

……

From the foot of Shili Mountain to the cottage of the Gu family, you need to cross a trestle bridge, hang a ropeway, climb half a cliff, and wade through a stream.

And then...... You can get there.

The distance is not far at all, really, according to Gu Zheng's footsteps, in two hours, you can get there.

At this time, it probably has a lot to do with Gu Zheng's body.

Those precipitous places, when Gu Zheng crossed over, there was no sense of fear at all, as if he had passed through thousands of times.

And when he came to the door of the camp in the dark, he was lying at the door of the stockade, guarding the yard and falling to the ground.

"Oops...... Big Black ......"

"What don't you do to sleep in the yard......"

This big black dog raised by the Gu family was lying on Gu Zheng's body at this time, licking Gu Zheng's cheeks enthusiastically, and expressing his enthusiasm in this way.

The chaotic shouting of the big black woke up the three or two families closest to the edge of the stockade.

Among them, there are Gu Zheng's father and mother.

"Daddy, did you recruit a thief?"

"This mother-in-law, what kind of brain? ”

Yes, the richest in the village...... Poorer than a thief, the rice jar at home is cleaner than the doll's belly.

"But Da Hei screamed so happily, let's go down and take a look. ”

Miao Meimei, who was still a little worried, pushed Gu Defa out of bed in the end.

Let her unconscious old man sneak a peek at the door, isn't there a wild boar with no eyes breaking into the stockade?

The man in charge of this family is his father, and after the eldest son left, the family seemed to be in a panic without the backbone, if it weren't for the three small ones in the house, I was afraid that she would be too lazy to care so much.

"You aunt, you are timid. ”

Although Gu Defa complained in his mouth, he still lit the tung oil torch with a fire sickle, and looked out along the leaky gap in front of his house.

"It's Zheng Yanzi!"

'Squeak'

"Mother-in-law, get up!"

With just one glance, Gu Defa opened the door excitedly, and faced Gu Zheng, who was holding a big black dog in his arms and groping energetically.

"Why are you back, why don't you notify the family first, your aunt didn't prepare anything. ”

The family is short of even a bite to eat, if they knew that Gu Zheng rushed back overnight, he could still go up the mountain at noon and come back with some mountain goods.

But didn't Gu Zheng, the kid, just get out of the village?

It's only been a few days, why did you come back again?

However, Gu Defa, who had just been happy for a moment, immediately fell into worry, he was a little apprehensive, and with some hesitation, he rushed towards Gu Zheng, trying to use the weak torch in his hand to see his eldest son's current state.

"Daddy, I'm fine...... Let's go inside and talk. ”

Looking at this period of effort, there was a noise from the two houses that were close to his house, so Gu Zheng hurriedly supported his father, put down the black dog, took the torch, and pushed the person into the house.

When the barking of the dog in the courtyard subsided, he turned around and plugged in the door...... I saw two worried old faces, sitting on the rattan bed in the hall, one on the left and the other on the right.

"Daddy, Auntie, I'm back!"

"Don't worry, it's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. ”

"My son has nothing to do, look at my face, have you gained weight in the past two days. ”

This is a bit against his will, although Gu Zheng has never treated himself badly in terms of food after having money, but after all, he has not been out of the village for a long time, how can he start to gain weight so quickly.

He's not a steamed bun.

And Gu Zheng's father and aunt are not foolish people, the shrewd couple who are famous in Gu's family village only believe what they see.

So now Miao Meimei, who touched Gu Zheng's dark and thin cheeks, shed sad tears.

"You baby, it's nonsense. ”

"Where are you fat, very thin. ”

In order to prevent the tragic drama of the whole family hugging and crying on the big night, Gu Zheng immediately shifted his attention to the side when the situation was about to get out of control.

In order to show that he was really doing well, Gu Zheng did a particularly powerful thing.

In front of Daddy and Auntie, he took off his indigo cardigan cotton gown.

Inside the patched gown, a white burlap vest was draped.

There was a bundle of money in a circle on it.

The turquoise banknotes glowed with copper, blinding the eyes of the second elder, who had never seen such a large denomination of a hundred yuan.

"Oh my God!

"You're out to grab a credit union, aren't you?"

Otherwise, how could it be possible to make so much money?

If you want to say that this Gu family is amazing, even if they saw such a shocking scene, Miao Meili and Gu Defa did not shout half a sentence in shock.

Instead, they kept their voices down. lest he fold his most capable eldest son into it.

However, Gu Zheng, who was standing opposite, was not as panicked as they imagined, but burst out laughing, unbuttoning the paper money on his shirt, and pulling Daddy and Auntie to tell the origin of the money.

"I came back this time to make a fortune with the big guys......"

"Doing this, fighting alone is just a small fortune for a while, I can't trust anyone when I'm out of the house, I only believe in the people in our village. ”

"People always say that the township party and the township party, and there are few people in our village, for the sake of the road of the village and the future ...... of the children."

"No one will sell their clan because of this wealth......"

After a detailed explanation, as well as Gu Zheng's appeal to return to his hometown this time, Gu Defa nodded again and again.

He very much agreed with what Gu Zheng said, because what his son was doing now was too dangerous.

There are many joints that need to be cooperated by their own people.

What's more, this is an opportunity for most of the strong men in the camp to go out of the mountains without having to travel too far.

When the time comes, the few fields in the village will be taken care of, the dying elders will be taken care of, and the young people in the camp will also have money and knowledge.

It's a good thing to kill multiple birds with one stone.

It's just that he needs to touch his son more about this.

After meeting the patriarch tomorrow, there will be a public election meeting in the stockade.

It is necessary to give the initial candidate.

The first batch of people to be brought out must be reliable and down-to-earth, so that his son's hard work will not be wasted.

Seeing the speculation of the Gu family's father and son, Miao Meili yawned and went straight to the board shed behind the house.

Looking at the strength of the father and son, I'm afraid that I won't sleep this night.

She still scavenged the surplus food at home and cooked a good meal for her eldest son, who had just come home.

Just now, her son stuffed 10,000 yuan into her hand.

If she hadn't said that the man should keep some money in his hands, this fool would have sent the bundle to her, the mother.

Thinking of this, Miao Meili glanced at the beam of the shed, picked off the only one finger wide bacon, and cut off the fattest section with three fingers from above.

These need to be diced into diced meats, heated in a wok and set aside.

After finding the most valuable thing in the entire kitchen, Miao Meili picked up a small basin in the shade and ventilation in the corner.

There is an old noodle primer made of fine grain, and a small agent is pulled out of it, and it is kept aside, and the rest is to grit your teeth and knead all the dough residue that can be raised into dough cakes.

When all kinds of grain dough are soft, Mali's Miao Meili is rolled into a book-sized ...... Dough one by one.

After the cakes are rolled and stacked in rows, the diced bacon and the fat and thin oil are brushed on the top of the cake noodles with a brush, and the stove is hot, and the 'pop' is 'popping'...... It was attached to a special scone plate.

The fire was boiling, but after a while, the cake mixed with the burnt aroma of the meat wafted out.

That's right, this is a simple version of the slag baked cake, if it is more troublesome, you need to wrap the meat filling in the cake, spread it out like a pie, and then brush the meat sauce on the outside.

But where does so much oil and water come from at home now?

These meat dumplings are still the meat oil that is commonly available at home and are directly made into meat fillings on the skin.

But this fly in the ointment is the most rare delicacy of that era.

Even the father and son of the Gu family, who had already discussed the key link, couldn't help but stop talking because of this smell of meat.

'Huh......'

The two of them made the same move......

Inhale in large gulps to make the nasal cavity feel the fragrance more intensely.

After doing this, the two men came face to face and laughed.

"Daddy, how can I smell the slag cake? Isn't it a dream?"

Because of this fragrance, the three young children, who were sleeping in the side room, rubbed their eyes and got up.

It's for hungry to wake up.

Meals without oil and water make people's hearts and stomachs empty.

When the three dolls first opened their eyes, they thought they were dreaming.

"Ahh

After these three little ones broke into Daddy and Auntie's room, they rubbed their eyes even more.

This must be a dream, how could their favorite brother be at home?

"Yes, Brother is back, come and hug ......"

But just Gu Zheng's words made the three little ones scream at once, and they threw themselves into Gu Zheng's arms one after another.

It's not a dream, it's really a brother.

These little beans who have been separated from Gu Zheng for ten years, but they are only one or two years old apart from each other, in order to snatch the ownership of the eldest brother's arms, they are going forward and backward, pushing left and right, lest they fall behind.

The excitement has long forgotten about the cake.

"Brother, why are you back, Grandpa said that you went out to make a lot of money. ”

"yes, brother, what's it like out there?

Holding these three little radish heads in his arms impartially, Gu Zheng did not have any impatience and explained the scene outside to them in detail.

In order not to disappoint the three dolls, Gu Zheng, who returned empty-handed, also explained in detail the reason why the money he earned could not be moved for the time being.

"So, the eldest brother promises, it only takes half a year, no, five months, and our family's Xiaoman, Xiaofu, and Xiaoduo will have useful food and play. ”

"Not only that, but Brother also wants you to go to school in the county seat and go to the best school until you are admitted to university. ”

"Let Gujiazhai fly out of the real golden phoenix. ”

Listening to Brother's description under the torch, the eyes of the three dolls were shining.

They didn't envy the delicious and fun things that Gu Zheng said, but they did know that studying was too important for them.

In the village, only Ah Ge has walked out of this mountain and gone to the county to spend middle school, and no one knows what the children outside are learning.

They also hope to be like Brother A, go out to have a look, go to a school outside, and be the most learned and capable person in the village like Brother A.

The three 'Fumanduo' brothers, who were dazzled by Gu Zheng's beautiful vision, were about to talk more about Ah Ge, but Ah Niang's voice rang out from the shed in the back room.

"Hurry up and get the cake, your brother is tired for a day, you can help him get it." ”

The scum cake is cooked!

For a while, A-Niang's food immediately diverted Xiaofu's attention, and the three and a half children jumped out of Gu Zheng's arms and rushed towards the location of the back room.

"Auntie, come on!"

"I'll get it!"

"I'll clean up the scum!"