"Dad, my uncle sent the stone snail lion!"

Lou Chengyi came out and took the burden on Zhang Dazhu's shoulders when he heard the voice. "Has my brother-in-law had breakfast?"

"I've eaten it." Zhang Dazhu wiped the sweat from his face.

Lou Yuzhu mixed it with warm water and came out: "Uncle, drink a little water and take a breath." ”

Zhang Dazhu took a sip, took a breath and pointed to the stone snail lion in the bamboo cage and said, "This is almost a hundred catties, see if it can be done." ”

Lou Yuzhu glanced at it: "Uncle, this is the big one?" Actually, no, some people love to eat small ones. As he spoke, he led the man into the house.

"Huh?" Zhang Dazhu's eyes widened, he thought that no one liked to eat that small head.

"The snail is mainly for fun and fragrance, and it has nothing to do with the size of the meat. Today, at noon, my uncle is eating at home, and I asked my father to make a plate to taste. ”

Entering the house, Lou Ming brought a stool, and Lou Hua handed over a cake. Now the cake at home is not the same as the cake in the old house, put sesame seeds and use heavy oil, fried golden fragrant, eat into the mouth of the burnt aroma can make people have an endless aftertaste.

Seeing that Zhang Dazhu finished eating a cake with three times and five divided by two, without waiting for anyone to ask, Lou Yuzhu came up and said mysteriously: "Uncle, guess how many snails we sold yesterday?" ”

"You said you had eighty pounds?"

"I used to say that I was preparing 80 catties, but then I added 20 catties to make up 100 catties, and it was all sold out in an hour and a half! Today, I prepare a 120-pound stone snail lion! ”

"One hundred and twenty pounds?!" Zhang Dazhu was taken aback, and suddenly thought that the stone snail lion at home was not enough for five days, and he immediately became anxious. "Then I'll go back and touch it again, and do more while this business is only done by you!"

As soon as he heard that Zhang Dazhu was going to be as anxious as Xu Se to make money and didn't even keep food, Lou Yuzhu couldn't stop him with a smile: "There are many snails, don't be in a hurry for so much time, my uncle will have lunch here with peace of mind, at most we will make lunch early." ”

At noon, Lou Chengyi really fried a snail and asked Zhang Dazhu to try the taste, but at first he couldn't instigate it, or Lou Ming, who had already taught the experience, so he instigated it. As soon as I learned to eat, Zhang Dazhu also liked it, and the chopsticks made it so fast that he was embarrassed to look at the pile of snail shells in front of him after eating.

"Uncle thinks it's delicious, right?" Lou Yuzhu asked with a smile, and when she saw the other party nodding, she said again: "I asked my father to do more just now, and wait for my uncle to bring it back to my grandfather and them to try." ”

"Don't, it's better to sell this expensive thing~"

"It's all my own things, it's good if my grandfather doesn't dislike it, how can I say that it's expensive or not?"

When leaving, Lou Yuzhu really stuffed a large part of the instigation snail to take back, Zhang Dazhu couldn't put it off, so he had to take it back with a bitter face, and the old man Zhang was happy to see that his son really brought back a hundred yuan, but when he saw the instigation, he immediately scolded Zhang Dazhu fiercely, saying that he was greedy and took the expensive thing to make the third room break the fee, and the scolded Zhang Dazhu's head was about to be buried in the soil, and finally Xu Se said a few words, which made the old man Zhang stop scolding. In the evening, Xu Se made the decision to instigate the snail to be served, the whole family didn't know how to eat, Zhang Dazhu knew that he was beautiful immediately, and the angry old man Zhang was stopped by Xu Se when he was about to scold again, and a sentence My son you want to scold and ask me for my opinion, the old man Zhang didn't even out the slightest point, and then he pointed to Zhang Dazhu's nose and said that he loves to teach or not, and if he doesn't teach the snail tonight, don't want to eat one! Immediately, the smile on Zhang Dazhu's face shattered into scum, and the funny appearance of being struck by lightning made the whole family laugh crazy, and the craziest laughing was his daughter-in-law and son! Zhang Dazhu originally wanted to pretend to be angry, but he didn't hold it up after pretending to be twice, so he laughed.

Lou Yuzhu didn't know that a snail made the entire Zhang family laugh, if she knew, she would probably laugh too, and then she was envious and sighed. The feeling of the Zhang family can be called home, although the poor are not rich, but the family and Lele are not better than anything else? Although the Lou family has plenty of money, you can look at that kind of atmosphere, hehe, there is no comparison at all!

After the Zhang family provided the stone snail lion, Lou Chengyi went to sell, and the popularity of the snail rose sharply for a while, once swept the entire Huya Town, at most once it was more than 180 catties of snails were swept away, and then slowly declined, and finally stabilized at about 100 catties per day. At this time, they had been selling the snail for half a month, and the stone snail lion near their village had been touched all over by my grandfather, and the stone snail lion that could be provided by the farm was very few, and then Lou Yuzhu simply asked the Zhang family not to send it, and the Zhang family could understand and stopped sending the stone snail lion. When I went home, I made more than four taels of silver in half a month, how could I be dissatisfied? The happiest is the old man Zhang, before he made up five taels of silver to Fu Linshu to change the household registration is under pressure, although the family has a lot of strong labor for two students and there is such a large family to support, the hand is really not rich, and then only three taels of the two taels were only repaid to other people's families, and the three taels of silver are the silver deposits of the Zhang family. Seeing that the two grandsons are about to hand over the bundle of repair, but there is no money left over at home, the old man Zhang is really anxious, seeing that the day of the bundle of repair is getting closer and closer, the old man Zhang is ready to borrow it from others cheekily, and he doesn't want to rely on them to help him in the past, but after the three-room separation, he took them to make money! Half a month, four taels of silver, Mr. Zhang didn't dare to think about it before!

Old man Zhang was happy to earn four taels of silver in half a month, and Lou Yuzhu also asked Lou Hua to take out the account book and calculate the accounts.

Measuring the oil lamp, Lou Hua took out the account book and calculated carefully: "In the past half a month, we can earn an average of 180 yuan by selling snails every day, and half a month is five or two; Fish can earn one hundred and twenty wen, and half a month is three or two. Five taels four plus three taels six is just nine taels, plus the five taels earned from selling fish before, a total of fourteen taels. One or two halves were used for the cart and the table, and one or two were used for Daddy's medicine, and the oil, salt, white rice, etc. for half a month had cost four hundred and twenty-three wen, and now the remaining money on the account is one or two three hundred and seven wen. ”

"Ten, eleven taels more?" Lou Chengyi stammered happily: "Da Lang didn't miscalculate?!" ”

Da Lang shook his head: "I calculated twice, and I didn't make a mistake." ”

Eleven taels of silver more than he earned in the previous year, Lou Chengyi scratched his ears and cheeks excitedly, and made a silly look at Fu Linshu. Fu Linshu looked at his stupid appearance and was angry. "The children are all calm, you are happy like a fool, are you ashamed?"

Lou Yuzhu bent her eyes: "Dad, don't be happy too early, you must know that our family still owes twenty-eight taels of foreign debts!" ”

"I know, I know," Lou Chengyi touched the back of his head embarrassedly and said, "I thought that we would have to pay off that debt for a few years, and I will pay it off in a few months now, and I am happy!" ”

Lou Hua and Lou Yuzhu looked at each other, and they were secretly happy. Lou Chengyi always thought that the twenty taels of life-saving money were borrowed black money, but in fact it was not, so the money earned in this half a month was enough to pay off the family's foreign debts.

"Dad," although he could pay off his foreign debts, Lou Yuzhu was still not ready to tell Lou Chengyi about the twenty taels, he was ready to hide it, so that Lou Chengyi could have concerns in his heart, and he could think less about sticking to the old mansion. "Don't be in a hurry to go back after you finish selling fish tomorrow morning, buy three catties of meat, ten catties of white rice, ten catties of white flour and two catties of sugar in the town, hire a car and cattle to send them to grandpa's house," it was too thin to go alone, Lou Yuzhu said to Lou Hua: "Big brother, let's go with you, and by the way, pay back the money owed to my grandfather's family." ”

"Okay." There was no need to think about repaying the money, so Lou Hua nodded directly.

The next day, he sold the fish building, Chengyi really bought something, hired an ox cart, and went to Zhangjia Village. When I entered the village, I greeted someone I knew: "Hey, isn't this the brother-in-law of the Zhang family?" How can you come to see your parents-in-law? ”

Lou Chengyi smiled and nodded. "yes, I haven't been here for a long time, so I'll have to come and have a look today."

"Okay, it's time to come over and walk around."

When the ox cart was far away, there was the man still staring at the contents of the ox cart. The bullock cart did not have a canopy, and the contents piled on the cart could be seen at a glance. "In the past, it was often said that the Zhang family helped the adopted brother, but the good family who married didn't see anyone come back to help the Zhang family, and said that the raised brother was wolf-hearted, but now it's not like that."

Lou Hua, who was sitting on the ox cart, listened to the faint discussion behind him, and the corners of his mouth were bent.

The Zhang family is also an old house, and there is no wall, and the line of sight is vast and you can see Lou Chengyi from afar. The second son of the Zhang family shouted to the family and greeted him first. "Chengyi is here~"

"Eh, second uncle."

Lou Hua also shouted: "Second uncle." ”

Zhang Da complied, and when he saw that the ox cart arrived at the door of the house, he helped to carry things down.

Old Man Zhang heard the sound and found it, and he was happy in his heart, but when he saw the thing, he had a tiger face: "Come on, what are you doing with that thing?" I'll take it back when I go back! ”

Lou Chengyi smiled and shouted, "Father-in-law." "Old man Zhang answered, and Lou Hua came up and called affectionately." Grandpa! ”

"Huh!" Old man Zhang was immediately diverted by Lou Hua, happily pulled his grandson's hand and gossiped while walking in: "Our eldest man has grown taller again!" That's a little adult! ”

Xu Se also greeted him from the kitchen: "My eldest man is here?" Let's see, yo, I've grown taller! ”

"Wai Ahh Lou Hua greeted him.

"Eh! Hurry up and go to the rest party, and the second family will give tea quickly! ”

Zhang Dashun's daughter-in-law Zhao Miao ran to make tea, and took advantage of this kung fu Lou Hua to call everyone out. After serving tea, he sat down and said some gossip, and Lou Hua took advantage of Lou Chengyi's absence to return the three taels of silver to Old Man Zhang. "Grandpa, this is the three taels of silver that I borrowed at the beginning."

Old Man Zhang stuffed the silver back and said, "You just moved and you are short of money, so you don't have to hurry to pay back this silver." Saying that, he said: "I made four taels of silver by selling Shiluo Lion, and I am not short of money for the time being." ”

"Grandpa earns four taels of silver, so I should think that our family will only earn more. The second cousin and the fourth cousin are about to hand over for repair, and no matter how much money there is, it is not too much. Moreover, it is natural to repay debts and debts, and grandpa can not shirk it. Saying that, he couldn't help but stuff the silver into the old man's hand, and pretended to be unhappy: "If grandpa refuses again, we won't dare to ask for anything in the future." ”

Speaking of which, Old Man Zhang had to take it. "Then go back and bring that thing back, and take it back to make up for your father."

Lou Hua pursed his lips and smiled without answering. When he finally left, Lou Hua still left his things at Zhang's house.

As soon as he arrived home, he didn't take a breath, Lou Yuzhu urged Lou Chengyi to return all the money borrowed from Li Zheng and the Wei family, and by the way, he also told Li Zheng about touching the stone snail lion.

"Do you really take a penny and a pound?" Li Zheng couldn't help but be surprised, surprised that the cheap thing of the stone snail lion could be sold for a penny and a catty, and even more surprised that the third room of the family had this ability.

"You won't lie anything, you won't use this to deceive Grandpa Lizheng, right?" Because I wanted to talk about the stone snail lion, Lou Yuzhu came with me. "Touching the stone snail lion to enter the water, Grandpa Lizheng had better warn not to touch it alone when notifying the villagers, it is best to have the watery adult to follow, otherwise our family is not responsible for the accident."

Li Zheng nodded: "Don't worry, I will explain this matter clearly." ”

After these two things were done, Lou Chengyi picked up the instigation snail and sold it to the town, so that Lou Yuan and Lou Wu, who came to shout, were empty.