Although the transaction volume this time was not small, several caravans were merged together, and the lineup was also quite large, and those who wanted to start also retreated one by one.

Along the way, because there were many cattle with little tigers, the walking was really slow. Leader Zhao walks outside all the year round, and it doesn't matter if he can rush back for the New Year. Chen Dagongzi originally followed Xiaohu all the way, and of course he would not leave Xiaohu first. Although those retail businessmen were in a hurry to go home, they just made money with others, and immediately went separately, always feeling a little unkind. Therefore, everyone followed the large number of teams and moved slowly.

After crossing the river and further south, it was not far before Wang Shoucang should part ways and return to his home. Xiaohu wanted to arrange for Dahong to send him, but he insisted on going back by himself and didn't want anyone to send him.

Xiaohu persuaded: "Uncle! Anyway, we're going slowly, let Dahong send you home, and he'll be back in a hurry, or it won't be long before he can catch up with us. I'll give you one of the few horses I've left here, and you've learned pretty much along the way, though you've ridden a little slower, and there's nothing along the way. But if we don't send you home safely, we won't be at ease after all! ”

Wang Shoucang excused himself: "Xiaohu, this place is very close to my house, and it will only be a day's journey for me to walk back, so I won't delay your journey." I won't want that horse, I followed all the way, not to mention the trouble I caused you, and it cost you a lot more, how can I still ask for your horse again, isn't this a shame on your uncle? ”

"Uncle, don't shirk either! Horses, you have to use them, and the contact between the two sides in the future will inevitably require you to run back and forth. Ming'er, when you go back, someone must send you, if you insist on walking back, your grandfather will know about it in the future. How they will scold us and the third uncle, you can imagine it without me saying more. ”

In the end, it was Xiaohu who persuaded Wang Shoucang and was sent back by Dahong.

They moved slowly along the way, talking about the gains and regrets of this trip. Joyful and lively, it can make the relatives who have been waiting for a long time at home be anxious.

Liao Lin saw that the New Year was coming tomorrow, but the person who originally said that he would be able to come back on the head of Layue still had no news. She wanted to cry in a hurry, but she didn't dare, for fear of bringing bad luck to her mother's family.

Once upon a time. My husband also had a time when it was time to go back and didn't go back, and at that time he was also worried and anxious, but he didn't have the fear that the sky was about to fall now.

In the kitchen, Liao Lin was holding a knife, and her brother-in-law Lin Song was holding a wooden hammer, and the two cooperated. Cut salted duck and salted goose. Because there are bones, one of them has to hold a knife and put it in place, and the other takes a wooden hammer and beats the back of the knife so that the piece of meat is cut neatly and beautifully.

This Liao Lin clan was terrified and panicked, and the knife couldn't be put in the right place, and Lin Song, who had been waiting for a long time, was a little anxious, and shouted in a slightly impatient tone: "Eldest sister." You've got it and don't move! You're so east-to-west, how can I get a hammer down? ”

Lin Luo, who was busy scooping up meat in the pot, knew that the eldest sister-in-law had not come back because her brother-in-law should come back. This is uneasy! At that moment, he put the large piece of meat that had been cooked in the pot into the basin, brought the basin to the table where he was chopping vegetables, took Liao Lin's kitchen knife, and said to her: "Auntie, you go to the back room to rest and hug Xiao Dongming." Don't get cranky. His uncle must have been delayed on the road, and he couldn't say that he would have a New Year's dinner tomorrow. It's home. Relax! Now that the country and the people are safe, it is not the time of famine in the first two years. I see. You must be thinking in your heart again, scaring yourself. ”

Just took Dong Ming to the kitchen to watch the excitement, and their mother Lin heard the second half of the sentence, so she asked nervously, "What's wrong?" But why haven't I heard any bad news? This Chengzhi is also yes, what happened to him, why hasn't he come back for so long? Why don't you even know how to bring back a letter! ”

Lin Luo couldn't laugh and complained about his mother-in-law: "Mother! Don't come to provoke his aunt, his aunt saw that his uncle never came back, so he was anxious to become the six gods without an owner. I'm trying to persuade her here, and you're going to tease her again! ”

As soon as Lin heard this, he hurriedly hugged Dong Ming and turned around and walked into the hall, chattering as he walked: "I don't stand with you, lest you always dislike me for talking too much." ”

Lin Song took his elbow to crutch his sister-in-law, his mouth pouted, and raised his chin at Liao Lin, who was walking with her mother to the hall, and silently expressed his dissatisfaction with his eldest sister living in her house with an expression.

Since Lin Luo let go of the knot, he has not been so harsh on his sister-in-law, but has discovered more of the advantages of this sister-in-law. For example, her sister-in-law treats people well, but she never asks people to treat them well. Getting along with people well or badly, never getting along with any purpose, she is honest and sincere to get along with "people" rather than "profit". In this regard, in good conscience, she can't do it in her life, let alone treat everyone around her without seeking profit at all.

has appreciation and admiration for the eldest sister-in-law, and I can't see my brother-in-law treating my eldest sister with such a contemptuous attitude. immediately scolded with a straight face: "How long can his aunt stay here!" You can't bear it so much, my uncle is a kind person, you helped their family today, he will live a good life in the future, and he will not treat you badly. If you embarrass them like this today, if you are not a cat or a dog, they will have a good life in the future, I think you are embarrassed to lick your face and go to relatives with others? ”

Lin Song was scolded by his sister-in-law and was very angry, but he didn't dare to keep his mouth shut, but he was afraid that his father-in-law would know about it and punish her severely. only lowered his head and pretended to focus on the knife in his sister-in-law's hand, so that he aimed at the back of the knife and hammered down.

Lin Luo looked at her like that, and knew that she might be aggrieved, so he aimed at the bone on the back of the salty goose and put down the knife edge, and said to Lin Song: "You! He was still young and couldn't help it, his uncle spent more than half of the year running business outside, and he was a knowledgeable and capable person.

If he didn't have the bottom of his heart and knew that he could earn money, how could he be so bold as to agree to the one hundred taels of silver that his father and mother wanted? Think about it, a hundred taels! That's a number we can't even think of! I haven't seen a whole silver of even five taels so long!

So, I thought, his aunt's good days can be waiting for the future. I'm afraid that we will beg his uncle more places in the future, and you should be more kind to his aunt's family now. If there is anything he needs his uncle's help in the future, you can open that mouth, right?! ”

Lin Song had already recognized what her sister-in-law said, but her mouth was stubborn, and she said angrily: "We are all people who dig in the land, what do you need to ask for his family?!" My sister-in-law likes to calculate. ”

Lin Luo was so angry with this ignorant brother-in-law that his eyes erupted. He slapped the knife on the board and shouted in a low voice, "What's wrong with my calculations?" It's like you're like a two-hundred-and-five, and you don't know how thick the sky is, you're a good person?! ”

Lin Song saw that his sister-in-law was angry, but he was still scared, and he grunted immediately. didn't dare to respond, just stood there stunned, waiting for the sister-in-law to pick up the knife and work.

Liao Chengzhi, who was favored by Lin Luo, moved slowly with everyone, and there was good news when he moved. Because according to Li Darttou's estimate, it will take more than ten days to reach the provincial capital.

When he arrived in the provincial capital, Xiaohu hurriedly hired a number of carriages to vacate the carriages borrowed from Leader Zhao and Grand Prince Chen, as well as those retail merchants, so that they could rush back as much as possible.

After staying in the provincial capital for one night, early the next morning, everyone began to disperse and go back to their own homes.

The Zhao leader family is in Jiangnan. Therefore, if he wanted to cross the river from the provincial capital to the east, he could have walked all the way down the canal in the capital. That's the quickest, the most convenient, the most convenient. But he was willing to come back with Li Darttou and Xiaohu all the way, if he hadn't had to separate from Xiaohu and them, he would have followed him for a while.

Most of the merchants lived in the Huangshan area, and they originally traveled together because they were all from the same prefecture city. Since most of them are from Huangshan, they originally wanted to use the banner of Huangshang. Later, because he had the same sound as the emperor, he committed a taboo. It is named after the state capital where it is located, and it is called Huishang. Although they are not strong individually. But when we get together, we form a considerable scale and influence.

Some of them have families that cannot afford to pay for their own academic studies, or because they have become heavily indebted because of their own academic studies, they have to give up their pens and start business. Some families have too little farmland to support their families, or they have lost the farmland they rely on for their lives because of accidents, so they have to abandon farming and businessmen. Some have a family with a land, but the population is large, and they need extra income to support the family, but their identity is still that of a farmer, which is half a farmer and half a businessman.

Such caravans are said to have existed very early. Because everyone is just randomly partnered, when they are combined, they are very big and strong, and once they are dispersed, they will come to naught. It is possible to meet you on the southbound journey this year, and to meet him on the northbound journey next year. So, they seem to be inconspicuous, but in fact, they have a lot of friends and a lot of ways. In this era of underdeveloped transportation, these retail merchants are the backbone of this society, the circulation of goods, and the development of commerce.

Without the slow grinding of Xiaohu's herd, they would be much more comfortable walking. However, in a day or two, the nearest one can go to the county seat to return the carriage, settle the money and go directly to his house.

Liao Chengzhi's home was in the middle of their group, and when he arrived at his own county, there were a few others who had to continue to hurry.

The closer he is to home, the more urgent he is to return home, Liao Chengzhi is not polite to those friends who are still in a hurry, and if he says anything to stay guests, he directly says, "Everyone take care of them all the way, return home safely" and went to the horse shop to retire the hired carriage and horse.

Then he went to the pawnshop to redeem his son's jade pendant, and then went to the silver building to buy a golden hairpin worth ten taels of silver for the child's mother, a gold hairpin with a hollow flower, and an ordinary gold hairpin worth eight taels of silver for the mother-in-law.

As for his sister-in-law and brother-in-law, he was a big man who couldn't buy this kind of thing for them, so he bought a muslin cloth for each of them. In addition, I bought a few pieces of muslin cloth to make clothes for the children's mother-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, brother-in-law, father-in-law, and a few children.

He also bought some pastries, sugar buns, and wine to take back to his relatives, he knew that his daughter-in-law had no money, and these things must have not been done a year ago, and now he has to buy them and take them back, lest the relatives of the old man say that he does not know how to be polite. He went to the cattle market and bought a cow and a donkey, and carried the things to the old ox, and rode the donkey to his father-in-law's house. (To be continued)

PS: Excuse me! Because I didn't have time to write two chapters yesterday, I wrote it late today, and it was a little late, which affected my friends' reading of the text. Really sorry!