Seventy-five
75 Huo Laosan's death was still very touching to Zhou Dao. Although I had just visited him and was prepared, I was too optimistic before and felt that it was not in the way, and I just needed to recuperate for a while. Not only was it thoughtful, but the other guys were also a little difficult to accept for a while. Huo Laosan was the first of Zhou Dao's brothers to die. "Sooner or later, it's coming, and now it's coming, and this is just the beginning." Zhou Dao thought, he had an awareness of this.
Huo Laosan's funeral can be regarded as a beautiful scene, it took seven days before and after the blowing, blowing and beating, and many people came to the Huo family, and many of them came in Zhuxi. In addition to the people of the owner Zhou Dao and Hesheng, there are also Lizheng in the town, and even Pan Ye returned to Zhuxi, and also came to the Huo family to sit and follow.
Is Pan Ye the one who can talk to them on weekdays? Not to mention sitting at home, this makes the old man of the Huo family really feel that there is light on his face, this face was earned by Huo Laosan, but he is now lying in the coffin.
Zhou Dao's representative Hesheng was ready to take out fifty yuan as a settlement fee to the Huo family. Lao Zhang privately said to Zhou Dao that it was more than fifty yuan, and this money could almost buy ten acres of fertile land, which was not the market, and if there were any more deaths in the future, Hesheng would not be able to bear it.
Zhou Dao didn't know if it was okay, thinking that Huo Laosan was the first of these guys who followed him to die, or decided to give fifty guan. When the people of Hesheng carried the big box containing money into the Huo family and opened it, the neighbors in the town couldn't help but sigh, "The Huo family is developed." This Huo Laosan is really damn worth dying! "Your mother's melon goods, I knew that you would die! Early death and early reincarnation. "Anyway, there's everything.
After dinner in the evening, the old man of the Huo family led the two juniors to Zhou Dao and said respectfully, "Dongjia, this is my son's fourth and fifth." His brother is gone, but his two brothers still have to follow the owner! Come, kowtow to the host. ”
Zhou Dao saw that the fifth child of the Huo family was quite small, obviously underage. "I'm afraid I'm still younger. "Don't worry, this kid is with me, he eats a lot, eats as much as he eats, grows faster, and has a lot of strength. "Well, you can see this, bring him here in two years." Zhou Dao said and wanted to leave. "It's okay, host! "The old man is a little anxious," Huo Laosan told me earlier that the owner is a good person! My son will follow you! Otherwise, the old five's salary is half price! The old man gritted his teeth and said. "Well, full price! Let him follow me. Zhou Dao replied.
The next period of time passed quite peacefully, nothing major happened in the county, and Zhou Dao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. On this day, he received news from Xu Wei that the Mongols had withdrawn. The main force of the Mongol army, led by Kublai Khan, withdrew from the original route to the north. In Dali, the Wuliang Hetai Department was left to continue to purge the remnants of various tribes, and the confrontation between the Mongol and Song armies in southern Sichuan basically ended. There is also another news that has little to do with him: Yu Jue, the commander of the Song army, was dismissed from his post by the imperial court and recalled. Xu argued that it didn't sound good.
Five days later, Hesheng Grain Store put up lanterns, Zhou Dao held a wedding wine, and he wanted to marry Xiaoman as a concubine. Taking a concubine instead of marrying a wife, Zhou Dao was a little apprehensive in his heart, and more guilty, but Xu Wei and Lao Zhang thought that this was the logical thing. He asked Xiaoman, and Xiaoman said he was willing, so Zhou Dao got married.
Xiaoman has no relatives and grew up in a brothel, but the bustard is not good to her, unlike the relationship between some dusty women and the bustard, some still have feelings, and she is raised to make money for the brothel. Because of Zhou Dao's strength, and because of Xiaoman's affairs, the old bustard offended Zhou Dao, because when they took Xiaoman, the old bustard didn't want to arrive, and he didn't dare to make trouble. Xu Shiyi is such a vicious person, doesn't he live and die, and he can't see the corpse, and if he says no, it's gone? What's going on? Guess.
Zhou Dao and Xiaoman are both lonely people in this world, they don't have relatives and don't need to go back to their parents' homes to carry people from the brothel, Zhou Dao also saves trouble and doesn't make a big deal. He directly set up a banquet in the backyard of Hesheng, and was happy with everyone, and even the dowry was saved.
He sat at the same table with Xu Wei, Pan Ye, Lao Zhang, Feng Yi, Xu Wa'er, and Chen Carpenter, but what he didn't expect was that in the afternoon, the county lieutenant Fang Xu actually came to have fun and drink the wine, and everyone hurriedly let him take a seat. Fang Xu will come to something, and the people he didn't know at the table quickly drank into a piece, and the wine was filled with tricks during the banquet. At this time, the wine should be lighter, and Zhou Dao was also mentally prepared, and he could go on the top for a while. Xu Wei stood up and said that on behalf of Yu Zhixian to respect the groom and the official child, Yu Zhixian also wanted to come to ask for a bowl of wine to drink, but he couldn't leave because of something temporarily, so he drank a bowl for the county magistrate. Everyone knew that this was a polite remark, but even so it was a big face, so there was another staggered light, and the atmosphere was even more enthusiastic.
When it came to Zhou Dao's toasting at each table, Zhou Dao's whole person shook and couldn't stand steadily. Lao Zhang set up rules for the brothers at each table, "I can't say anything to outsiders, but as long as it is the brother of the owner, whether it is a mill, a chicken coop, or a grain store, a dart game and a gambling house, in short, each table is a bowl of wine for each family, and you can't engage in a wheel war separately, a total of six bowls of wine, and the brothers will no longer honor the owner alone today." The cave room spends candle night, and the owner has something important to do tonight. There is enough wine here, so the brethren should drink it openly! The crowd laughed, some shouted yes, and some made a fuss about meat jokes.
Feng Yi found a chance to get off the table and returned to his house in the backyard, he didn't drink much today, Lao Zhang told him that he had to take a few brothers to watch the night tonight. The brothers are also willing to do such errands as nights, and although they can't let go of eating and drinking tonight, they can bring back a drink and food alone tomorrow morning, especially for those who have families. Lao Zhang is also a careful person, but whenever he encounters something maybe, maybe, for example, such as whether something will happen tonight, he thinks about the worst.
When Zhou Dao was helped into the cave room, he was already unconscious in the dark, but fortunately he didn't vomit on the bed, and fell asleep. When everyone else went out, Xiaoman lifted his hijab and looked at Zhou Dao, who was sleeping soundly on the bed. She took off his shirt and covered him, and sat silently on the edge of the bed, unmoving.