Chapter 239: Return to Zhangjiacheng
Early in the morning, the sun did not come out, the sky was still bright, Su Wu had not woken up yet, and he couldn't say anything in the middle of the night last night.
People are always thrifty to luxury, from luxury to thrift, living in a house in Zhangjiacheng is used to it, sleeping in a clean and comfortable house, sleeping in a grass house last night, being harassed by all kinds of small animals, lice, ants or something, always feel that something is crawling on the body, that taste is really uncomfortable.
Last night, the Su family first experienced the luxury life of Zhangjiacheng, and took a clean and comfortable bath with soap, ordinary people rarely take a bath in this era, even if it can be washed or not, it is difficult to say, but with the soap brought back by Su Wu, the clean and comfortable taste is not to mention how refreshing.
When it got dark, Su Wu lit the candle, which surprised his family again, and under the candle light, Su Wu told more details to his relatives, such as the highway in Zhangjiacheng, built with cement, hundreds of miles away, Su Wu learned some words by himself, and he was half a scholar, which surprised his family.
The more Su Wu said, the more Su Daddy and Mrs. Su believed it, because if Su Wu hadn't seen so many things, they couldn't say it, because even if they talked nonsense, they had to see the real thing, what Su Wu said was reasonable, and it was convincing that this was not fake, and don't look at Su Wu's youth, but a temperament he cultivated in Zhangjiacheng is so outstanding, maybe there is nothing in Zhangjiacheng, because the people there are like this, and they have developed a confident temperament, which is also Su Wu's saying that he can lead his neighbors to make a fortune, The crowd came out for the corresponding reasons.
No matter from that aspect, Su Wu made a fortune outside, one person got the Taoist chicken dog ascended to heaven, Su Wu is willing to take everyone, not many people can refuse, who doesn't yearn for a good life! If you go to that Zhangjiacheng, you can really earn three taels of silver a month, who is still rare to live here hard, being bullied by the government and local bullies, this kind of life is only willing to live, if there is no way, you would have left a long time ago, but there are many people who have gone out over the years, but no one can get rich and come back.
Su Wu doesn't know where the blessing comes from, go out and meet a big opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune, other people in the same village don't have such good luck, go out and rarely come back, may encounter bandits killed, may live a hard life outside, have no heart to come back, people here are poor people with no knowledge, can only watch fishing for a living, what can you do when you go out of here, you can only do coolies, there is no knowledge of the shopkeeper to give you a job of settling accounts, can you do it?
Su Wu was hazy, heard the sound of silk ropes, opened his eyes and found that the sky was not yet bright, and his father and mother were lighting candles and cleaning up things.
"Dad, what are you doing!"
Daddy Su: "Da Lang is awake, it's okay, you continue to sleep, and your mother and I will pack up our things." ”
A broken family is worth a lot of money, and you have to set off at dawn, and many things are reluctant to throw away. The clay pot used for cooking rice is missing a corner and is reluctant to lose it, so it continues to be used for cooking, and the cotton jacket used to keep warm in cold weather is just that the cotton jacket was left to him by Su's father, and I don't know how many times I have sewn and repaired it, and it looks tattered on the surface.
Su Wu didn't know what to say to his father, they had lived a hard life for half of their lives, and they were reluctant to discard the items that could be used, but such things were not allowed to be brought into Zhangjiacheng.
When Su Wu was on duty in Zhangjiacheng, he saw a lot of people in Zhangjiacheng bringing their families and dragging them with them, and there were a lot of things, but when they arrived at the quarantine office, these dilapidated items were recycled, and a small amount of copper coins were compensated, and the old items brought by the people were not worth much, and then they were burned, why did they do this, I heard that this was an order from the chief himself, and he was afraid that the people would enter Zhangjiacheng with germs.
When Daddy Su packed up his things and took them to Zhangjiacheng, he would inevitably be burned, and Su Wu couldn't look down on the copper money that was compensated.
"Dad, I don't want these things, go to Zhangjiacheng to buy new ones, these are not worth much."
Daddy Su: "Lang, you can't use money indiscriminately, these are good uses, what to do when you buy a new one." ”
Su Wu was a little distressed when he saw those pottery bowls like his father's baby, this thing is not used at all in Zhangjiacheng, who still uses these things to be laughed at, because the store sells porcelain bowls, and the newly fired porcelain bowls are cheap and beautiful, much better than the stupid gray pottery bowls. A porcelain bowl shop buys twenty copper coins, and now twenty coins, Su Wu's five silver coins a month, that is, five thousand coins, buying a porcelain bowl is nothing.
"Dad, listen to me, I really don't want it, these things are going to be discarded."
Su Wu said it badly, but Daddy Su just didn't listen, so he could only follow his wishes, anyway, he would know the truth when the time came.
Sleeping sleepily, he can understand what his father is doing, to put it simply, he is poor, they have lived for so many years, they have not enjoyed a good life, and they are reluctant to throw away what they can use. Su Wu had lived in Zhangjiacheng for a few months, where the affluent life had accustomed him to a new style of doing things, and the household items that his father was reluctant to discard were of little value to him.
Feeling his body shaking, Su Wu opened his eyes and saw his little sister shaking him.
"Big brother woke up, it's dawn!"
Su Xiaomei because of the return of her eldest brother, coupled with the fact that she moved away from a good life, she looked lively and cheerful, and her face was washed with soap, which was much cleaner than yesterday, of course, she basked in the sun all year round, and her skin tanned could not be washed white with soap, and she changed to a new linen clothes, and now Su Xiaomei looks much better than yesterday, of course, the ugly duckling has not turned into a swan to that extent, because it is said that she has changed from a poor girl in the countryside to a girl in the city!
Su Wu woke up, took out a toothbrush from the habitual package, took a bowl of water and brushed his teeth with refined salt, he didn't feel anything, Su Xiaomei who followed next to him stared wide-eyed, and he was already thinking about how the eldest brother could be such a loser. This is refined salt, refined salt is such an expensive thing for brushing teeth, not a loser! They still use coarse salt mixed with sand.
Fortunately, this is the refined salt brought back by Su Wu, although Su Xiaomei is annoyed that her eldest brother is wasteful, but there is nothing she can do, this is the depression of the poor seeing the waste of good things.
Su Wu brushed his teeth with peace of mind, and when he saw his little sister looking at him with a resentful face, Su Wu was puzzled, and his little sister had some nerves in the morning.
He didn't think about brushing his teeth with refined salt, because brushing his teeth has become the standard in Zhangjiacheng, and the people communicate with each other, who is a foul smell, to ensure that no one pays attention to him, in this environment, even if the people who don't like to brush their teeth, they all obediently brush their teeth, otherwise they will open their mouths full of strange smell to ensure that everyone runs away immediately, hygiene habits are a change in Zhangjiacheng from top to bottom, and refined salt is not expensive in Zhangjiacheng, a pound of refined salt Baiwen, one of the reasons why refined salt brushing can be popularized is that it is cheap!
Su Wu was looked at by the little sister, thinking that she was curious about the toothbrush, so she took out one from the package and gave it to her, asking her to learn to brush her teeth by herself.
"Brother, refined salt is very expensive, is it a waste to brush your teeth?"
Su Wu: "Don't worry, this salt is very cheap in Zhangjiacheng, let you use it, let me tell you, Zhangjiacheng has to brush your teeth every day, otherwise no one will play with you." ”
Su Xiaomei tilted her head to the side, "I don't care, just have the second brother with me." ”
Su Wu rolled her eyes, the little girl was quite arrogant, she didn't care about her, get ready, leave her hometown after eating at noon, yesterday the matter was clear, the neighbor who wants to follow to make a fortune can do it, the choice is their business. He doesn't have the strength of the chief, if the chief asks the people here to go to Zhangjiacheng, there are only two choices, either take the initiative to go, or be tied up by the volunteers and take it, Su Wu can only persuade.
Su Xiaomei took a little refined salt from the salt box of her eldest brother's toothbrushing and put it in her mouth, brushing her teeth up and down like Su Wu.
The toothbrush is made of pig hair, the pig hair is cleaned, put it in boiling water and boiled twice, and then the people make the pig hair into a brush, and use fish glue as an adhesive to stick it, and the toothbrush is used as if holding a brush to clean it up and down in the mouth.
After brushing her teeth, Su Xiaomei felt refreshed and comfortable in her mouth, this kind of brushing essence salt adds mint powder to it, brushing her teeth can not only clean the mouth, but also make the mouth cool.
At noon, the ten companions who protected Su Wu's return to his hometown came back, because there was no place to live here, so he could only go to the town to live, in addition to living there, ten people were recruiting people in the town to go back to Zhangjiacheng, and they could recruit as many people as they could.
If the people don't have a road guide, they can't move around at will, but now there is a rebellion against thieves in Maoming County, eastern Guangdong Province, and tens of thousands of people sent by the government to suppress bandits are in a pot, and the people in remote places may not know, such as Su Wu's hometown, where there is no news of anti-thieves.
The people didn't know about the anti-thieves, but it was impossible for the people in the nearby county government to not know that the checkpoints that had been set up to check the road guide on the official road had long been scrapped, and the officers and soldiers had fled, and the officers and soldiers who had often gone to the local area to extort and extort were conscripted into the county during this time, and they did not dare to go out of the city without an order, because the anti-thieves attacked the county seat near Maoming County in the official mansion.
If you accidentally encounter a thief out of the city, the joke will be big, the government has no ability to suppress the bandits, so you can only shrink in the county seat, in the eyes of the government, as long as the county seat is not broken by the thief, it is a great achievement, go out of the city and fight the thief, or let the head come to worry about it!
"You've recruited a lot of people, and you've made a lot of money this time. More than 100 of my neighbors will follow, and half of the silver coins will be yours at that time. ”
Before coming out, Su Wu had already said that Su Wu assured the team leader that they would escort Su Wu over in order to earn silver coins, otherwise they would be able to take people back to Zhangjiacheng by going to a random place, and no one would dare to earn such silver coins.
The county near Maoming County was cleaned up by the volunteers, and they traveled for more than half a month to come to such a far place as Zhaoqing, because the influence of the volunteers here has not yet been received, after all, the distance is more than 500 miles, and the influence of the volunteers has not yet reached here.
At noon, some people began to carry large bags and small bags to Su Wu's house, and the neighbors who came over had already made up their minds to follow Su Wu out to break through, of course, not everyone could make such a big determination, some villagers thought of going to such a far place, and quit the group, even if there was really as good as Su Wu said, but they didn't have the courage and courage to live here for a day.
A team of more than 300 people set out, with the hope of a vision for the future, and stepped out of the village for a better life in the future.