As long as you hide in the kitchen and don't have to worry about maintaining your demeanor, for Zhang Shou, eating a few dumplings is only a matter of time.

In the past, he was just puzzled, but now that he is walking in the village, he has a faint judgment in his heart.

The village where Zhang's family is located has a total of thirty or forty households, with more than 100 people. The village was almost entirely full of tenants with different surnames, no independent rich peasants, and no other landlords.

For the countryside far away from the city, where there is no royal law and only patriarchal law, this kind of situation where all surnames live together, and only their orphans and widows are considered rich, this is absolutely abnormal.

Moreover, in the past three years, he has not seen a character like that kind of ruffian bully. Even if Qi Liang has encountered debt collection by creditors, it is also a normal private loan, mainly caused by Qi's father, who is not engaged in production but is in debt.

Now that I think about it, the tenants of this village must have been carefully chosen. If this is the case, that Zhao Guogong is not indifferent to their mother and son, at least the family not only raised orphans and widows, but also established a good living environment for them.

But now, this quiet village, away from the hustle and bustle, is becoming like a wet market.

This noon time was supposed to be the only opportunity to rest during the daily harvest, and the village was no longer just children, but adults had returned from the fields. Especially now that the harvest season is almost over, people seem to be raising their voices.

So, when the eight guards from the Zhao Guogong Mansion were procuring for the sake of the eldest lady and their own housing, the villagers at home were excited when they faced the guards who could be seen from their clothes and were very generous.

Chase shops need boards, and they also need boards to build new beds, and in such a small village, where can the best boards come from?

At this time, Zhang Shou saw with his own eyes that the oldest in the village, the self-proclaimed and respected Yang Laoqi, asked his two sons to carry a pair of coffin boards that he had saved all his life to the door of the house, and he personally invited the brightly dressed Zhu Hong to come over, and then pointed to his unsolved board and began to brag.

The old man occasionally tapped his finger on the top to prove that the wood was indeed good.

As for Zhu Hong...... I heard that this is the coffin board that I saved early, and my whole face is a little blue.

Zhang Shou originally just stopped to watch the excitement, but when he found that Zhu Hong saw him, his heart moved, and he simply took the initiative to step forward.

Sure enough, seeing him coming, Zhu Hong obviously showed a relieved expression.

"Shou Gongzi," he saluted first, and then coughed dryly, "We are just staying for a few days, how can we embezzle other people's longevity materials......"

Squinting at the old man Yang who was rolling his eyes, Zhang Shou knew what the old man in the village had already put one foot into the coffin board really thought. He immediately interrupted Zhu Hong and said earnestly: "I know, the word Shoucai sounds unlucky. But it's unlucky, why do people prepare boards in advance, and even some people do the board directly before they die?"

"Quite simply, to wash away diseases and scourges. Since it can be washed away, it is actually very blessed to prove that this unlucky thing sounds. Moreover, the people of this village are warm and simple, and they have heard that you are guests from afar, and you are temporarily living here without a bed, so they are willing to give up what they have accumulated all their lives, and if you do not want to, they will only think that you look down on them. ”

Zhu Hong only felt that there was something wrong with what he said, but Zhang Shou was too sincere, so he was unconsciously hesitant. Especially when he saw that the father and son on the side were obviously a little angry, and it was clear that Zhang Shou had hit the ground, he was even more embarrassed. However, the straw that really bent the camel was still to come.

"If you want to make a decent bed, it is impossible without a good board, I think it is impossible for the government to make a special trip from the capital to send the board?

"How's that going to work!"

After staying up on the tree on the back wall of Zhang's house for a night, Zhu Hong, who still had bloodshot eyes in his eyes at this time, suddenly had a numb scalp. Although the eldest lady and Zhang Shou are not married, Mrs. Tai treats people as future uncles, even if he feels that Zhang Shou, who grew up in the countryside since he was a child, is not worthy of the eldest lady except for a face, but it is impossible for him to let Zhang Shou sleep in a bed made of coffin board for his own taboo!

In case someone turns around and dies...... Phew, don't get cranky just yet......

He took a deep breath, and finally stubbornly said, "In that case, I bought the board!"

He glanced at the board that was obviously old, and someone wiped it, so it still looked quite round, and it had not really been made into a coffin, and warned himself not to be taboo about this kind of ghostly thing, and said finally: "Twenty taels of silver, I'll take it!"

The father and son of the Yang family suddenly danced with their eyebrows, and when they saw Zhang Shou turn around, they discussed the price with them earnestly with their faces, and the three of them immediately nodded again and again like chickens pecking rice, and agreed.

Seeing that Zhu Hong didn't call for help, he put down the silver and carried the board away directly, Yang Laoqi was holding the heavy ingot of snowflake silver, and after the people had already walked away, he took a step forward and asked Zhang Shou in a low voice: "Little sir, where did these guests in your house come from, I still want to offer five yuan, but he actually directly took a bite of twenty taels! ”

"Hehe, from the capital. Zhang Shou smiled as he spoke, and when he saw Yang Lao Qi gasping, he added slowly, "The Zhu family of the Zhao Guogong Mansion." ”

He deliberately revealed Zhu Hong's origins, and then noticed that Yang Laoqi's face changed suddenly, but the two sons of the Yang family were just pure shock, as if they felt that it was very strange that such a high-ranking nobleman suddenly had a relationship with his own small village.

"Twenty taels to buy your board, go to Carpenter Xu to saw, polish and paint to make a bed, this urgent need is solved, otherwise buy it from elsewhere, and the cost of carriage and horses and labor is money, so he doesn't lose money when he spends it. Moreover, they will not stay in my house permanently, and when they turn around, it is useless for me to keep these bed boards, so I will naturally return them to you. Back and forth, it's all cheaper for you!"

Zhang Shou deliberately said it extremely easily, and the second son of the Yang family consciously took advantage of it, and he was overjoyed for a while, and the eldest one even bowed and said: "Thanks to Mr. Xiao, otherwise we wouldn't have earned this silver." I'll go back and order a good fir board for my father, and I will pay a few taels of silver for the ceiling, and the rest is enough for our two boys to marry a daughter-in-law!"

"Hmph, just those two useless little things, the little gentleman is willing to teach them to read and write, but they don't study hard, and they deserve to marry a daughter-in-law! It's all the two of you, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, don't hurry up and get in!"

Yang Laoqi suddenly scolded twice, and then drove away his two sons unreasonably, and then handed back the twenty taels of silver he had just carried in his arms to Zhang Shou with a complicated face.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Shou, who had already guessed in his heart, naturally showed a look of surprise: "What are you doing here?"

"I knew that it was someone from Zhao Guogong's Mansion, how could I not accept these twenty taels of silver, Mr. Xiao will go back on my behalf!"

Zhang Shou naturally refused to take it: "Are you afraid that the people in the Zhao Guogong Mansion will think that you have cheated their money? It was given by him, not by you." Besides, don't you shout all day long that your back and legs hurt? Take the money and go to the doctor to take a good look, prescribe medicine to recuperate, and live a few more years. The Zhao Guogong Mansion may have to pay one hundred and eighty taels to buy a bed in the capital, and they don't care about this money!"

"That's not what I said......" Yang Laoqi, who has always been known for his medium breath and loud voice in the village, had a low voice at this time, and only after a while did he sigh, raised his head and said, "After all, I used to be a soldier under Zhao Guogong, if Zhao Guogong hadn't called a military doctor to save it when he was patrolling the camp, he would have been lost outside the fortress a long time ago." Besides, there is such a thing as making a bed for the living with a coffin board......"

When he said this, he suddenly paused, looked at Zhang Shou in confusion, and said: "By the way, how could the people of Zhao Guogong's Mansion come to this countryside and make beds, and they sound like they want to live permanently? Could it be that they live in Mr. Xiao's house?"

Zhang Shou was still glad that he had finally found a suspected insider who could find out the ins and outs of this village, but when he heard Yang Laoqi's words, he seemed to have been poured cold water on his head.

But he knew how slippery the old fellow was, and he quickly took a dose of fierce medicine.

"Don't mention it, I'm sitting at home behind closed doors, my fiancée fell from the sky, and I'm still the eldest lady of Zhao Guogong's mansion!"

However, he never expected that as soon as the words fell, Yang Laoqi's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed with a smile: "It turned out to be my uncle!"