"Really? Little sister, you are really a lucky star for our family. Li Yangde excitedly picked up Li Yangqing and turned in a circle.

"Big brother, let me down, I'm going to faint." Li Yangqing struggled to come down.

"I'm sorry little sister, the eldest brother is just too happy, he was just able to earn some money to supplement the family, and he basically used up the family's savings to help Wenshan's family, I feel very guilty, it's useless to be a brother." Li Yangde put down Li Yangqing and said the pressure that had been pressed in his heart during this time.

"Big brother, don't say that, everyone in the family is useful, it's just that the division of labor is different, and the land and work at home are all done by my father, brother and sister-in-law!"

"Okay, let's not talk about this, as long as everyone works together, there will be food and clothing, third brother, go to the door to see if your second brother is back? It's so late. Li Tingyuan saw that the boss hadn't come back for so long, so he was still a little worried.

Li Yangming walked to the gate of the courtyard after hearing this, opened the courtyard door and looked into the distance, and vaguely saw a moving torch in the distance, guessing that it might be Li Yangwu, "Second brother, second brother, is it you?" ”

"Hey! Third brother, it's me, I'm back. Li Yangwu shook the torch and quickly ran towards his home.

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"Second brother, why did you come back so late? Did something happen? Li Yangming and Li Yangwu walked side by side and asked sideways.

"Daddy, guess what's I doing?" Li Yangwu slapped the table angrily.

"What? Don't let us guess! Hurry up and say? Li Sun urged.

"I followed the two boys all the way, I saw that they were walking on a dry road, using an ox cart to pull things back, fortunately the ox cart was relatively slow, I ran behind them while hiding, followed them all the way, they actually went to the direction of Wenjia Village, has been walking for more than two hours, the ox cart entered the door of the king landlord's house, and I was so angry that I wanted to go in and beat them, I said, except for the rich Wang landlord, who will sell things at a low price without making money, and deliberately squeeze our business."

"Also, our family has been in our family for so many years, and we have never had a grudge against anyone, and the landlord must have a grudge against us for the last time we helped the Wenshan brothers and sisters ask for eight taels of silver! Waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on us. Old Man Li analyzed.

"So what can we do? In the long run, won't the stall collapse? Li Sun grabbed Li Yangwu's hand.

"Father, brother and sister-in-law, we must fight with the landlord for money, it will definitely not work, it will drag us down in the long run, we can only find a backer, so that the landlord will have some taboos and not fight with us."

"Third brother, you are really smart, setting up a stall is a very tiring business, and you have to go to the town early in the morning, there will be other imitation stalls without the stall of the landlord's house, just sooner or later, our advantage is mainly to have the spice recipe, we also only have the advantage of making food, I used to want to sell the recipe for making fried skewers directly to the owner of the Canton restaurant in the town, but we don't know the owner, and the second is that we are ordinary people, even if there are good things, others may not necessarily believe it, and we may not even see the owner's face, It's different now, the Li family's fried skewers business is up, everyone in the town knows about it, and there was no such food before, the owner of the Canton Restaurant must have heard a little about the food industry, and may have thought about it, seeing that we are just making a small fuss, and don't want to compete with us for this little profit! Now that we are famous, it is much more convenient to find the owner of the Cantonese restaurant to sell fried skewers, and you don't have to get up early in the morning to work so hard in the future, and I am going to make salted duck eggs, which happen to be sold to the Cantonese restaurant together, I believe the owner will be very interested. "The landlord likes to fight in the ring, and his own strength is not good, so Li Yangqing will find a powerful opponent for him to fight to see who will squeeze the other party down first.

"Yang Qing said salted duck eggs, if you can make it, I think it is better to sell it to the Cantonese restaurant with the fried skewer recipe, the appearance of the fried skewers has attracted people's attention, and now it has attracted people's malicious competition, our family has burst out of a food recipe that has never been before, it is too eye-catching, ordinary people are just it, we can't afford to offend the powerful, now I know that it is the king and the landlord who did it, we can't fight him alone, and we must rely on the Canton Restaurant, others see that our family has so many money-making food recipes, It's hard to guarantee that it won't attract people who are snooping again, and the background of our ordinary peasants, the cash that can be grabbed immediately in our hands is the most real and safe, people! It is this Houttuynia cordata I also said that it will be promoted in the village next year, which class of you will do which class of things, you can challenge but be prepared for damage, we have the old and the young, there is no confidence, courage to fight, and seek development in stability, so that the family can live safely to old age. ”

Li Yangqing nodded in agreement, "Dad, listen to you." "The so-called wood show in the forest, and the wind will destroy it, Mr. Li's words, so that Li Yangqing was deeply shocked, he really took the thinking of modern people, to deal with the affairs of this era, this is an era when the master can kill slaves without a word, there are too many classes on the heads of the commoners, there are no patent protection things that everyone can imitate, only their own family across the civilian class, can be conditioned to let go of some hands and feet to do certain things, this era of farmers should rely on the land to make a fortune is the right way.

Old man Li continued: "Yangqing, Yangming, what you just analyzed is reasonable, then we can only stand still, see the king landlord make a move, our stall still has to continue to be placed, this is our confidence in negotiating with the Canton Restaurant, even if we can only earn dozens of dollars a day, it is more profitable than the boss and the second child looking for hard work in the town, just wait for Yangqing's salted duck eggs to be done and go to the owner of the Canton Restaurant to sell it, I will go to the town tomorrow with the bosses to set up a letter-writing stall, and help others write letters on behalf of others to earn some money, Recently, the family's money has been tight, and it is good to earn more. ”

"Dad, you have forgotten that Houttuynia cordata is planted in our field! In September and October, Dr. Zheng will not be able to consume so much, and he can sell it to the Cantonese Food Restaurant at that time, hum! Li Yangqing said proudly.

After some discussion, the hearts of all the people in the family have temporarily settled down, and they have a clear direction for the road to be taken in the future.

Li Yangqing woke up from a sweet dream, dreamed that salted duck eggs brought him a large sum of silver, hurriedly finished eating the morning food and ordered his family to make salted duck eggs, today is the eldest and his family went to the town to set up a stall.

Li Wenshi carried a basket of duck eggs and put them in the yard, "Yangqing, how to make this salted duck egg?" What materials do you need to prepare? ”

Li Yang cleared his throat and said to the surrounding family: "There are two ways to make salted duck eggs, look for fresh duck eggs of uniform size, wash them, wrap them in yellow mud or straw ash with water and salt and stir evenly, and then put them into the jar of small mouths and big bellies, seal them for more than a month, or soak them directly in salt water, they are also sealed for more than a month, take them out and cook them, the former can be seen after cooking, the egg yolk naturally leached red oil, and the egg yolk is fine sand, and the oil yield of the latter is much lower than the former, and the taste is not as delicate as the former. ”

"Then let's use the first method to do it, the second brother, you go to the village to dig some yellow mud and come back, the second daughter-in-law, you go to find a basin and bring some water out, wash the duck eggs with a few small ones to dry, and I will go to the back room to find out if there is an empty jar." Li Qiu's division was completed, and he went into the inner room to find the altar.

Li Sun took a basin of water out and put it in the courtyard, Li Wendong brothers and sisters and Li Chengqiang brothers squatted on the ground and carefully cleaned the duck eggs, Li Yangqing went to the utility room to find a dustpan and a broken rag and took it to the yard, and the duck eggs after others were washed and handed over to her to dry and put in the dustpan.

"I'm back." Li Yangwu carried a handful of loess to the people in the courtyard.

"We're almost done washing, just wait for the water to dry for a while, second brother, pour some yellow mud into the wooden basin, add water and salt and stir well, we'll use it later." Li Yangqing commanded Li Yangwu's next steps.

"Okay, little sister." Li Yangwu lifted the yellow mud in the dustpan and poured some into the basin with salt water, stirred it with his hands, Li Qiu and Li Wenshi took the dried duck eggs and began to wrap them in mud, wrapped them and put them in the jar, two quarters of an hour later, all the duck eggs were put away and sealed, Li Wenshi took the jar into the kitchen and put it away, and the others packed up their things and went into the house to wash their hands.

"Auntie, aunt, open the door! I'm Wenshan, and my sister is gone. Hearing Wenshan's voice outside the door, Li Yangwu hurriedly washed his hands and ran to the courtyard door to open the door, "Wenshan, what's wrong?" Come into the house and say, your aunt has gone to the town to set up a stall. ”

Wen Shan entered the house panting, sweating profusely, his face was red, he put his hands on his knees and bent over and said anxiously: "No, it's not good, sister, my sister is gone, I went out today to go to the mountains to chop some firewood, and when I go home, my sister will be gone, Grandma Li, uncle and aunt, please help me find my sister." After Wen Shan finished speaking, he cried and knelt on the ground.

Li Yangwu hurriedly stepped forward and pulled up Wenshan, "Don't worry, we will help you find it, mother, daughter-in-law, third brother, little sister, Wen Dong, you go with me to Wenjia Village to find someone, Wen Qiu is guarding Cheng Gang at home, and when the rest of the family comes back, I can tell them the situation." After speaking, Li Yangwu took the lead, and the others followed behind and ran towards the entrance of the village.

"Aunt Li, Brother Yangwu, get on the boat and cross the river early." Wen Dahe helped to hold the boat so that everyone could get on the boat, and everyone picked up the pole to support the boat.

Wen Shan hurriedly thanked Wen Dahe, "Thank you, Uncle Dahe, for causing you trouble again." ”

Wen Dahe, who was holding the boat on the bow of the boat, looked back at Wen Shan, "You kid, what are you polite?" Your parents are gone, we are from the same village, you should help, and I will help you find someone later. ”

"Thank you, Brother Dahe." Li Yangwu is also very grateful to the enthusiastic Wen Dahe.

When the wooden boat docked on the shore, the group hurriedly ran to the village, "Wenshan, what time did you go out today?" What time did you get home? Are you sure your sister is home alone? Didn't go anywhere else? ”

"Aunt Yang Qing, today I went out in the morning, before I left, I told my sister that I was going to chop wood, to go home at noon, let her cook at home, don't go out, wait for me to come back, my sister since the death of her father, basically rarely go out, go out will tell me, I arrived home at noon, I didn't see my sister, I first looked in the village, asked the village people and said they didn't see her."

|“ It's not time now, it's been four hours now, I don't know when Wenshui is in these four hours, when is it gone, since you have looked for it in the village or not, is it out of the village or something accident? Li Yangqing analyzed.

Li Yangming listened to Li Yangqing's words, and according to Wenshan's description, he also expressed his own opinions, "Xiaomei is right, then we will divide the army into two ways, Brother Dahe troubles you to take Wen Dong and Niang to the village chief's house to talk about the situation, and mobilize the people in the village to help find or ask if there are any clues, I, Wenshan, the second brother, the second sister-in-law, and Yangqing will go to the village to find people, there are two ways to get out of the village, waterway and dry road, and you must take Brother Dahe's boat by waterway, and now this situation can be ruled out, then there is only a dry road, Let's go to Wenjia Village on the dry road out of the village to see if there are any clues. ”