It turns out that the wharf in Zhaojiazhuang has been quadrupled, and the stone steps on the road sill have been quadrupled at the same time, making it easier for people to go up and down and carry goods.

In the past, all kinds of boats came and went on the deserted docks, and the laborers kept pushing the sacks onto the boats and wiping their sweat constantly.

There is a beach about half a mile away from the river above the wharf, the name is Silver Beach, and the cliff above happens to have two crooked-necked yellow cypress trees, such as two huge umbrellas, and under it the water drawn from the Wai'er River has built several water mills and a special wharf, from which the rice of Zhao's rice shop is processed and transported to the county seat for sale.

The roads on the ladder of Zhaojiazhuang Wharf have all become stone roads, and at the same time, they have been widened by four times, and chicken carts, flat-headed carts, donkeys, etc. have come and gone to pull goods.

Zhaojiazhuang wharf and on the road only to see everyone's faces full of brilliance, the past kind of sluggish eyes have been replaced by Yiyi look, seeing Zhao Ping took the initiative to greet each other, a sister-in-law looked in the direction of Zhaojiazhuang and said: "Xiao Langjun, please rest assured, the master mother is fine." ”

Several men in their teens and twenties showed their swords while patrolling, and said, "Xiao Langjun, the villains also participated in the battle on the eve of the previous night, and the bandits have been driven away. ”

Zhao Ping kept giving his hands to express his gratitude.

There were also a few men in their forties who raised the hoes in their hands and said, "Xiao Langjun, I heard that there were bandits coming to Zhaojiazhuang, and my family rushed up together. Although the bandits were powerful, after all, there were few people, and they were finally driven away. ”

A few aunts looked at Zhao Ping a few times and said, "Xiao Langjun, I'm back, I'm getting more and more handsome, and I'm getting taller." Some friends asked curiously: "Xiao Langjun, is the county town fun?" ”

Some little ladies asked: "Xiao Langjun, I heard that you are very good at writing poems and lyrics, is it true?" ”

There was a little daughter-in-law with swaddling clothes on her back who looked in the direction of Wangjiazhuang, turned her head to look at Zhao Ping and asked, "Xiao Langjun, I heard that you entered the Tianjia class and defeated Wang Zihe?" ”

Zhao Ping returned the salute one by one, and then patiently answered one by one. A few children who were about the same age as Zhao Ping immediately ran towards Zhaojiazhuang, shouting as they ran: "Xiao Langjun is back, Xiao Langjun is back." ”

Zhao Ping also saw that many tenants had either swiped white lime on the walls, or simply built new houses next to them, a scene of vitality and prosperity.

Zhao Ping also saw that there was a merchant who opened a small grocery store here, and there was an endless stream of people coming and going, obviously the business was not bad.

An old man in his seventies who was a little trembling, accompanied by a great-grandson, was holding a cane in his hand, and although his back was hunched, he was still in good spirits.

He bowed to Zhao Ping, wiped his tears with his hands and said, "Xiao Langjun, I have to thank my mother and you." Now the villagers can dress warmly and eat three meals a day, and at least one meal a week of meat, all because of the master mother and Xiao Langjun. I've lived for decades, and it's the first time I've seen this kind of scene. ”

Zhao Ping hurriedly bowed and returned the salute, and said, "Father-in-law Yu, your old man must not be like this, this will make the boy lose his life." Don't dare to be a kid, don't dare to be a kid! ”

Yu Qiao was pleased to look at the village houses around him that were becoming new, and couldn't help but sigh: "I have seen such a grand scene, and I have no regrets about old decay and death." Zhao Ping looked at the old man's face and hurriedly said: "Look at the old man's red face, eighty is not a problem, and there may even be hope for a hundred years old." ”

Yu Qiao looked around again, and then smiled: "Borrow Xiao Langjun's auspicious words." ”

Zhao Ping also said happily: "I must come to drink your birthday wine then." ”

Facing the old man Yuqiao, the oldest in Zhuangzi, Zhao Ping did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped forward to help, while pulling up with him, and learned that the old man had good wine, he immediately took out a jar of good wine from the flat car and gave it to the old man, and personally sent the wine to the old man's house.

The old man's house is a compound of more than 10 people, with green bamboo and yellow cypress trees on both sides of the yard, chickens, ducks and geese everywhere, the walls are all freshly painted, and six new houses are being built next to it.

Yu Qiaole told Zhao Ping and his entourage, because he now has a lot of labor at home, in the past, he couldn't eat enough and didn't warm up, and he had nowhere to use his strength, but now it's okay, or go to the coal mine to mine coal or make fairy furnace and charcoal, or transport goods to the dock for delivery, or send the goods on the ship, the family's economy has completely improved, and the whole family earns every day. has been engaged to the daughters of Lijiazhuang and Wangjiazhuang respectively, and will marry a wife when the new house is built, Zhao Ping said happily: "Such a good thing, I must come to ask for a cup of wine on the big day." ”

Zhao Ping looked at the ordinary hall of this house, and saw that there was a table of eight immortals inside, the front was an incense table, with the sign of Heaven and Earth Jun on it, and next to it was to worship Lu Zu, who was sincerely grateful for the prosperous days brought by the fairy soap, fairy furnace, and fairy charcoal. Yu Qiao's old wife is still there, and she is respectfully offering incense to Lu Zu.

With the support of Cuizhu, the mother insisted on greeting Zhao Ping and them at the gate of the compound with the housekeeper's family, as well as Wang Gou'er and Xia Xiaoniang who were hanging their arms.

When Xia Xiaoniang saw Zhao Ping, she grabbed the corner of Zhao Ping's clothes and kept crying, expecting that she would be scared that night.

Zhao Ping gently stroked Xia Xiaoniang's little face to show comfort, and looked at her mother carefully.

Zhao Ping saw that his mother's right foot was tied with a strip of cloth, with tears in his eyes, and he looked at Zhao Ping and kept shouting: "Ping'er, Ping'er." ”

Zhao Ping immediately pushed the golden mountain and poured the jade pillar to kneel on the ground, kowtowed and whimpered: "Mother, please forgive the child for being unfilial, let the mother suffer." Lan'er also kowtowed. The mother couldn't care about the pain in her feet, nodded with her uncle's family, and after looking at Jiang Jie's father and daughter, she hurriedly stepped forward.

The housekeeper Zhao Jie immediately stepped forward and helped Zhao Ping up for his mother, and his mother hugged Zhao Ping, carefully looked at Zhao Ping and cried: "Ping'er has lost weight." Zhao Ping burst into tears, looked up at his mother and said, "Ping'er is not thin, which makes my mother worried." ”

After Zhao Ping met with the housekeeper's family again, he introduced Jiang Jie to everyone.

I heard that it was Jiang Kui's descendant, and his mother struggled to salute Jiang Jie despite his injury, Jiang Jie said in the tone of his brother: "Little sister, my brother and brother are both family, why be polite?" ”

I heard that Jiang Ying likes music, so she didn't hesitate to give her zither and promised to teach music theory.

Jiang Jie gave Jiang Kui's manuscript of "Sparse Shadow" to his mother.

This is a priceless treasure!

After the mother solemnly put away the manuscript of "Sparse Shadow", she couldn't wait to listen to Zhao Ping play "A Laugh in the Sea" and "Liang Zhu", or the uncle came out to solve the embarrassment.

Zhao Ping only now found out that the livestock and poultry house on the left side of his house had been moved, and now it had become a complete fairy soap workshop, and there was a yeast making room, and the small light wooden door in the past had been replaced by a heavy gate, and there were two swordsmen guarding the door.

For this kind of treasure technology, Zhao Jie's family decided to put it completely in Zhuangzi after careful consideration, but in the end, the power was still decided by the mother.

This is also one of the main reasons why my mother came back from the county last time.

Now the livestock have moved to Zhao Jie's family's farm. For the livestock and poultry house here, Zhao Ping once proposed to move out and modify it into a fairy soap and yeast workshop, but it was opposed by his mother and the housekeeper's family, after all, in China's thousands of years of history, agriculture is fundamental.

Unexpectedly, now they took the initiative to relocate, and also built more blank rooms, and several warehouses are in the small courtyard of the housekeeper on the right.

Seeing Zhao Ping's playful gaze, Zhao Jie said embarrassedly: "The people take food as the sky. The old slave never dreamed that the fairy soap business would be so prosperous, in order to prevent the most precious technology of the fairy soap from leaking out, the old slave had to ask the master mother to use this place as a fairy soap workshop, and this was originally the meaning of Xiao Langjun. Zhao Ping walked in and found that the people who were working in it now were either Zhao Jie's in-laws or his eldest son Zhao Tian's in-laws. Even Zhao Ping saw that Wang Xiaojia, Wang Xiaoyi, and Wang Xiaobing were also here.

Seeing Zhao Ping's puzzled gaze, Zhao Yun scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "It's also a family now." Seeing Zhao Ping's puzzled eyes, Zhao Tian came over to look at Zhao Yun and explained: "Although the three of their brothers are defeated by the villain, their two younger sisters like the villain's two brothers. In the past, the villain was poor and didn't dare to go over to propose marriage, but now it's okay, the matchmaker has broken the threshold of the family, Wang Yiniang and Wang Erniang are in a hurry, so they let the matchmaker come to talk about it. In addition, the four of them had already been interested, and the two younger siblings were also proficient in writing and ink, so the villain's father agreed to the engagement. Now a new house is being built outside the compound, and the zodiac auspicious day is being chosen to get married. Wang Yiniang and Wang Erniang still came to meet Xiao Langjun? ”

Zhao Tian looked back at a corner.

Soon, two shy little ladies came behind Zhao Yun, one was eighteen years old and the other was sixteen years old, although it was not that kind of snow-white skin, it was not bad, but it was also delicate and lovely, and her figure was concave and convex.

The two came to Zhao Ping and made a blessing: "The slave family visits Xiao Langjun." Zhao Ping stretched out his hand and found that he had no gifts, looking at his mother, his mother smiled and said, "Ping'er don't panic, my mother has already considered it." ”

Behind the green bamboo, an eight- or nine-year-old girl ring that Zhao Ping had never seen before appeared, took out the emerald jade bracelet from a small box, and gave each of them an emerald green on the spot.

The second daughter was very excited, this is the master has already recognized the identity of the two, of course she knelt down and said: "Thank you, master, thank you Xiaolangjun." ”

At this time, Zhao Jie stepped forward and said: "Xiao Langjun, now the stall is getting bigger and bigger, the old slave and others are really too busy, the five children of the Wang family, all have read for a few years, after the consent of the master, now they are in charge of the fairy soap, soy sauce, vinegar, fairy charcoal, and fairy furnace, so the old slave's Erlang can come to the county to concentrate on being the shopkeeper." ”

The mother also nodded to Zhao Ping, indicating that she agreed to the matter. No wonder Zhao Di can now rest assured that he is a shopkeeper in the county, it turns out that the family not only has a future brother-in-law, but also has a virtuous helper although he has not been through the door. The mother gave them the jade bracelet today, and it seems that the five brothers and sisters have been approved by the mother.

Zhao Ping looked at the strips of cloth tied to his mother's feet, as well as Wang Gou'er's arms hanging with strips of cloth, and then looked around, so he changed the topic: "What's the matter with those thieves?" ”