Chapter 8: Blessings and Misfortunes
Gambling sticks, gamblers, but gamblers who have not lost all their money at home are not qualified to "honorifize" gamblers, and Yu Lao's father, Mr. Guo, is an old gambler with a V.
There is nothing to lose, and when there is nothing to lose, Mr. Guo paid attention to his surname and sold it.
I didn't expect to really buy it, weapon blacksmith Guo Da Hammer, although Guo Da Hammer has a sledgehammer in its name, but the craftsmanship can only make a small hammer, a small hammer forty, a big hammer eighty, although the material is a little more, the price is twice as bad, who doesn't want to make more.
Guo Da Hammer, who spent money to learn the sledgehammer craft, encountered a problem, and the warriors in the city only knew that he had good sledgehammer skills, but he didn't know that he had also learned the sledgehammer skills, so the sledgehammer orders were still not much, and the business did not go up.
The cooperation is very simple, Guo Da Hammer gives some silver taels every month, so that the old man Guo can publicize it everywhere, and whenever someone calls his name, he has to correct it, saying that he sold his surname to Guo Da Hammer, who can be built by small hammer and sledgehammer.
Everyone laughed, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, there were many gambling sticks selling sons and daughters and wives, but this is the first time I have heard of even selling surnames. Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, people's curiosity and laughter indirectly contributed to Mr. Guo's gambling reputation, to be precise, a kind of notoriety.
What followed was the boom in Guo Da Hammer's business, and the community not only knew that he was good at both big and small hammers, but also had a godson who sold his surname and was older than him.
For the old, it stands to reason that Guo Dazhui bought his father's surname, although he can't talk about killing his father's hatred, but it can also be regarded as a knot, at least a knot, but all kinds of strange things in this world have gone away, and Mr. Guo's monthly naming fee can withstand him? In less than half a year, the more he lost, the more he lost, and finally he started the idea of gambling money, entered the shop in the middle of the night to steal, and was beaten to death.
When Mr. Guo died, he was only five years old when he was younger, his face was yellow and thin, no one wanted him to be a child laborer, and he was about to starve to death when he was living on the streets, but he was taken in and saved, and the kind-hearted man was Guo Dazhu.
Guo Dazhui is a rough person in the end, and the words he recognizes add up to ten fingers to count, and he will only write one of the three words of his name. After taking in the younger age, the daily ration continued, but in the end it was not biological, just to call for work, teach some blacksmith skills, even if it was not expensive to pay the tuition of the Guozijian was reluctant.
After more than ten years like this, Yu Lao is in his early twenties, he looks tall and strong, but he can get rid of a small Guo sledgehammer, and his name is also three words, and he can only write one surname.
Coincidentally, Guo Dazhui was sick this year, and he was an iron rooster who struck iron, and he was reluctant to pay.
In less than three days, as soon as the eyes are closed, the legs are kicked, and this life will be broken, people will lie down, cloth will be covered, and the whole village will wait for the food.
When people died, the money was gone, Guo Dazhui never expected that he had saved a lifetime of savings and left them to Pan Cuifen, a middle-aged widow who had just passed the door.
Pan Cuifen is a person, a native of Yunchuan in the southwest, who fought back from the border army in the grass valley, tortured and sold several hands along the way, until he finally fell into the Qinglou, and met Guo Da Hammer to draw a stop to bad luck.
But who knew that fate was so unfair, Pan Cuifen, who was married to Guo Dazhui, had just started to improve her life when she encountered a widowhood accident. The large inheritance left by Guo Dazhui is not good, or a little is enough, but this money is quite a lot, as much as five thousand taels.
At that time, the war situation, the rebellion of the alliance, the hatred between the princes and the people of the kingdoms was deep, the resentment was unprecedented, and a national fortune war was brought down, and the royal family was destroyed at the least, and the whole country was enslaved.
And this Pan Cuifen is precisely from Yunchuan, and the grass valley called, not to mention the hundred and tenth people of Guo Dazhu's clan, even the government will not allow this huge inheritance to be left to an enemy in the war.
In the end, Guo Dazhui's clan relatives and the government should cooperate with the outside world, forged a suicide note, sued at noon, and sentenced in the afternoon, the three mansions and money were all recovered, and the two were opened, leaving only a broken grass house and a blacksmith shop outside Chengbei Village to Pan Cuifen and Yu Lao.
Woe to blessings.
Although Pan Cuifen lost all her family property, compared to the inhuman days of the previous years, she saved her life and her net worth was free, and she wanted to sell the broken grass house and exchange some silver for two times to return to her hometown, but it happened that Yu Lao was infected with a cold, so she deliberately stayed to take care of it for a few days.
A few days down, one is a widow in distress in the year of the tiger and wolf, the other is a passionate man who has been lonely since childhood, the broken grass house on the outskirts of the city is not in the village, the two live in the same house and sleep in the same bed, the sorrows of the past are poured into each other, only sighing that the same is the end of the world, the last pair of eyes, dry firewood with fire.
Blessings and misfortunes.
With a confidant like Yu Lao, Pan Cuifen also has a companion, not only broke off the idea of returning to her hometown, but also planned to live with Yu Lao for the rest of her life, and gave birth to children in the future, and it is also a hundred years old.
There is never a lot of gossip in the countryside and outside the township, talking about things, this Pan Cuifen is a few hands of grass valley, talking about the generation is not only a generation behind, but also Yu Lao's mother and stepmother, and Yu Lao's father is a famous old gambler, notoriety for a long time, two lonely men and widows in the same room, has long become the village's after-dinner chatter, occasionally an old woman chews the root of her tongue and is bumped into, Yu Lao is scolded in front of him:
Fuck your shit!
Is the world impermanent or is there a certainty?
After the torture of the past few years, coupled with the fact that she is not young, Pan Cuifen is already an elderly and sick mother, and she is not suitable to continue to have children, but in the end, she is a kind-hearted person, thinking that she will be lonely all her life, thinking that she will be one step ahead of him in the future, and she will have children to accompany him, coupled with her entrenched feudal thoughts, she finally decided to get pregnant.
In the winter of this year, Pan Cuifen gave birth prematurely, and in a critical situation, Yu Lao invited the midwife Wang Po from the township nearby.
Yu Lao has a short memory and a lot of forgetfulness, how can he remember who the Wang Po who was born on this side is, but this Wang Po has been calculating all her life, and she can't eat at all, and if she has a holiday, she will be cursed when she is brought to the soil, she can't forget the sentence that was scolded by Yu Lao in front of everyone - let go of your mother's shit!
It stands to reason that women should be more considerate of women than men, and they have all gone through the ghost gate of pregnancy, and they will have empathy and empathy, but the world is strange, this feudal old Wang Po is not soft at all when she finishes Pan Cuifen, she is not soft at all, she fills medicine, needles, and presses her belly, making all kinds of wild ways, more ruthless than Mama Rong, plus the descendants of this Wang Po's family all died in the war with Yunchuan, and now the new and old hatreds are avenged together, so that Pan Cuifen is going to lose her breath, so she left the stall and ran away, and let Yu Lao take Pan Cuifen into the hospital in the city.
How could the far countryside road withstand the toss, and the moment the baby boy was born in the hospital, Pan Cuifen finally couldn't resist and died in Yu Lao's arms.
Fate is so upside down, twists and turns, another person would have collapsed a long time ago, Yu Laoxin is also fleshy, but he can't give up, there is no one in this big truth, it's just the most simple good thoughts of the farmer's family, he can't fall, there is still a mouthful to feed at home, he and Pan Cuifen's heir, the baby boy.