Chapter 4 Rush to the Gathering

Those brave friends, especially the "two stunned" who are known for their boldness and daring to fight, are the masters who often like to compete with He Yu! Let He Yu steal the limelight this time, naturally he will not be convinced!

Because the heart of wanting to hunt wild things is too serious, the second stunned man goes too deep into the mountains, and naturally he can't find his way home.

His father came back after dark, and when he found him, he was already frightened!

The second stunned man was actually very close to the side of the road, but he still didn't find the way, and he didn't know what was going on.

After waking up, the second stunned man couldn't say a reason, and became trembling and timid like a mouse, it is said that he may have been frightened by the mountain god, so he invited a "frightened" to become a little more normal.

This change in his personality made him unproductive, but he saved his life in the troubled times and got a good death.

From this point of view, the feat of being a hero of the "second stunned" this time is not entirely a bad thing, and it should belong to the category of "Seong lost his horse".

The drive to the mountain lasted for more than ten days, and the mountains around the village were all combed, and the harvest was huge, and the harvest of each family belonged to each family.

The prey obtained by collective hunting was distributed to the head at that time, but 10% of the harvest of each family had to be extracted to the village for "common" use.

This time, the cost of rushing to the mountain and sacrificing to the mountain god was "common" in the village.

The people of Dashuidong are simple, and they will hand over about 10% of the harvest to the village according to their income, and they don't need to go to every household to take inventory.

There are even a few people, in order to fight for face and show off, they make exaggerated reports and quietly add more "common".

Of course, there are occasionally a very few people who make less "common", but no one will care about this, even if they know, they will laugh it off, and no one will pursue it.

After the mountain is over, it is to catch the market, and the items obtained from the mountain should be exchanged for the items and money you need, so as to reflect the value of the mountain rush.

Harvests such as game are much more valuable than domestic chickens and ducks, and under normal circumstances, they are reluctant to eat at home, so they must find a way to exchange them for money or food.

One pound of game can be exchanged for several pounds of pork. This kind of uneconomical thing is absolutely not allowed by He Yu's mother.

Originally, there was nothing to do with this rush, but because his mother was not at home and the performance of this rush to the mountains was excellent, the game should not be left for a long time.

In this season, there were originally a lot of merchants who received mountain goods, but He Yu's father did not sell them to others in order to save trouble!

Because He Yu's third uncle also does mountain goods trading, in line with the idea that fertilizer and water do not flow into outsiders' fields, the price is still a trivial matter, and the key is that it can't erase that family affection.

My father was idle at home, so I wanted to send the mountain goods to Uncle He Yu, but He Yu was the only one in the family.

He Yu's father is called He Runqiu, his uncle is called He Runchun, his aunt is called He Runxia (Xia), and his third uncle is called He Rundong, all of whom belong to the "Run" generation.

It just so happened that there were four of them, and it was a pure coincidence that they were named in the order of their birth season, without affecting their age.

The three fathers and brothers have their own characteristics, and the uncle is ingenious and can speak well; The third uncle is knowledgeable and shrewd; Only He Yu's father is honest and honest, hard-working.

He Yu's father, carrying a basket full of mountain goods and game, walked in front and walked forward slowly, and He Yu followed behind with his calves.

He Yu and his father's appearance are eight points similar, that is, his father's skin is darker, his face is honest, and his eyes are full of kindness when he looks at his children.

The father is also a typical "woman singing and husband" at home, and even educating her children has become the responsibility of the mother, and the father plays the role of a loving father wholeheartedly.

The market is about ten miles away from He Yu's house, because there are many small streams where they converge into a river, so it is called Shuikou Mountain.

However, the stream in the big water cave does not pass through here, and the stream flows out along the mountain on the right.

Mt. Suikou, on the other hand, follows the mountain on the left to the foot of the Hirakawa River, a naturally formed market, and in addition to the river, there is also a large road leading to the outside world.

He Yu followed his father along the path at the foot of the mountain for nearly two hours, and finally arrived at the Shuikoushan Market.

Shuikoushan is said to be a market, but it is actually a larger village, and a large road passes through the middle of the village, forming the street of Shuikoushan market.

On the north side of the road, there is a He Ji grocery store, and on the right there is a small noodle restaurant and a simple Ping An Inn, all of which are shops opened by Uncle He Yusan.

This is not all the belongings of the third uncle, it is said that in a big store in the city, there are also the third uncle's shares, and there are usually many goods to and fro.

To the left of the grocery store, there is a large open space, which is the stall trading area of the market, which is open every Friday (the fifth, fifteenth, and twenty-fifth day of the first month).

Further on, there is a wooden bridge with a railing, the bridge deck is very wide, allowing horse-drawn carriages to pass, which is also regarded as seeing the world for He Yu, who is used to seeing simple wooden bridges.

A river under the bridge crosses the main road, and on both sides of the small river upstream and downstream of the bridge, there are nearly 100 families living in Xixisan.

On the south side of the road, backed by a mountain, there is a large neat high-gate compound.

The whole area is hundreds of acres, surrounded by a wall nearly eight feet high, which is the living area of the Yang family, a famous local family.

Directly opposite the grocery store, there is a high gate building, on which there are four golden characters of the Yang family sect, and the sound of reading is faintly heard inside.

Looking at this gatehouse and listening to the sound of reading aloud, He Yu couldn't help but show a look of hope, and fell into the eyes of the third uncle, and couldn't help sighing.

He Yu has also reached the age of going to school, but the cost of going to school is not something that He Yu's family can afford now.

The third uncle whispered to He Yu's father: "The second brother and Yu'er are smart and clever, and they are a student of reading, so it's a pity not to study." ”

He Yu's father was lonely, and he was sad for no reason, and he didn't have the heart to go to the market anymore.

Although his ability is not great, he is also dedicated, and he loves his children very much, and the eldest son has dropped out of school because of tuition fees, which is a pain in his heart! Now that my youngest son is of school age again, he is under a lot of pressure!

He excused He Yu's mother to go home, threw the mountain goods in the shop for He Yu's third uncle, hastily bought two strings of rock sugar gourds, and rushed to Dashui Cave with He Yu.

He Yu's father is also working hard to make money to support his family, but he has no other ability to make money except for farm work.

It is not easy to shave food in the fields and support the family, and it is quite difficult to save money again, even if it is a diligent and thrifty mother, after solving the problem of food and clothing for the family, it is no longer possible to squeeze out the cost of a child's schooling.