Chapter 46: The Beard
It was a bumper year, and it was a bumper harvest. Peasants! When the year is good and the harvest is good, then all other industries will be good with it. Jing Zhiyi's family's income on the land is nothing, even the income of all kinds of shops is old! Especially the Hongbin Building in Qinzhuang, which is also the number one in Qinxian County! Not to mention that every day there are many guests, it is almost the same.
How about the Mid-Autumn Festival? Jing Zhiyi's father pondered, he had to have a good holiday! In the past two years, I can cage my younger brother's family enough! Zhiyi and Zhiyi's mother rarely have the kung fu to enter the city, and the two brothers went to Hongbin Building to have a meal, go to the market, and buy something!
This Qin Zhuang, Jing Zhiyi's father often goes, and he has to take care of the business in the city. He could have moved his family to the city with his family, but he didn't want to, what was the point of the noise in the city! Besides, he still has to take care of his fields in the Jingjiagou area, so he doesn't go to Qinzhuang whenever he wants! When Jing Zhiguo's father was a county senator, he also went to the city from time to time, and he had to attend meetings held by relevant parties or something, Jing Zhiyi's mother rarely went, let alone Jing Zhiguo's mother.
Jing Zhiyi's father had a plan in his heart, so he discussed it with Jing Zhiguo's father. Jing Zhiguo's father is really a scholar, he has lived a rich life, and he has a light life, without money, after a few years, he is not too particular about face, since his brother has this intention, how can he disagree? But don't go to all of your own children, it's not good if you don't go, just let the country go! Jing Zhiguo was the youngest in his family. The family members of the two families discussed that on the 15th day of August, the first day of the morning left early, ate at Hongbin Building at noon, went shopping in the second half of the day, and then returned to Jingjiagou in the evening.
The ancestors of the Chinese are also really capable, they can calculate these four solar terms so accurately, and when it comes to what solar terms, that day will be immediately different! On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was really autumn, the sky was high and the clouds were light, and there was no dust between heaven and earth.
Jing Zhiyi's family is rich, of course, he has to raise such a fancy car! Otherwise, you can't call it rich! Jing Zhiyi's father takes care of business this and that, and he doesn't have a car! Jing Zhiyi's fancy car was driven by a young man in his early twenties named Gou Yu'er. When he doesn't go out on weekdays, the dog is left to drive the cart to do other work. The dog leftovers are probably expensive at home, and they have such a nickname, which means that the dog eats leftovers, and there is no one or nothing to raise, so that it is easy to feed. Early in the morning, the dog left the car was set, and according to Jing Zhiyi's father's instructions, he first went to Jing Zhiguo to pick up Jing Zhiguo's parents and Jing Zhiguo, and then came back to pick up Jing Zhiyi's parents and Jing Zhiyi, and set off.
Jingjiagou to Qinzhuang has forty miles, the road is quite smooth, also walked for three hours, entered the city, arrived at the door of the Hongbin Building, it was already noon. Just right, take a break, clean your hands, and start the table. After eating, let the dog follow, and the group went shopping. The Mid-Autumn Festival is another good year, and the market in Naqinzhuang is bustling, so lively! Jing Zhiyi's mother and Jing Zhiguo's mother bought shoes and socks for the head of the family and the child, and added some fat powder fabrics and the like to themselves, all of which were paid for by Jing Zhiyi's father. The expected project was basically completed, and everyone was a little tired, seeing that it was getting late, Jing Zhiyi's father still wanted everyone to go to Hongbin Building for dinner before going back. Jing Zhiguo's father reached out and took out a gold-shelled pocket watch from his arms, looked at it, and said, Brother, it's half past four, it's going to be dark, don't eat it, there are still forty miles of land! Jing Zhiguo's father said this, but he was actually a little unwilling. Although they are brothers, after all, they live their own days, and on this day, people are invited to eat and pay for things, which is really unbearable. As soon as Jing Zhiyi's father heard Jing Zhiguo's father say this, he also stretched out his hand and took out a pocket watch from his arms to look at it, and said, no, it's really dark this autumn! Yes! Let's go back!
If you want to say that Jing Zhiyi's father and Jing Zhiguo's father, they are really rich masters, although Jing Zhiguo's father is a little upside down at this time, but the prestige of the past has not been completely wiped out, it is the pocket watch that the two brothers carry in their arms, but it is worth the money! It was all produced in Switzerland, a Western country, with a pure gold case, and it was engraved with patterns and foreign characters that no one could understand. Someone who can carry such a pocket watch in his arms, who must be it! These two pocket watches were bought by Jing Zhiguo and Jing Zhiyi's grandfather when they were alive, and once went out of the house, and exchanged a porcelain bowl from the Yuan Dynasty with a foreigner in an antique shop in Beiping. The two pocket watches are a pair, and they are the same inside and out.
Out of the city, it was dark, fortunately, August 15 was full, and the hazy road ahead could still be seen. Besides, the horse that pulled the cart had walked back and forth on this road, and he knew the way home, but he just walked forward vigorously.
After about an hour, I arrived at the place where Qinzhuang and Jingjiagou were waists, and this place was called Cigou. Cigou is a small village, with only about 30 families. Because there are few people and few fields, there are some cultivated fields around the village, and there are wilderness and jungles farther away. There is no ditch here, just a little undulating, the reason why it is called Cigou is about to be related to a large locust forest in the south of the village. The locust tree bloomed, a piece of white flowers, and the fragrance of the locust flowers could be smelled several miles away along the wind. The locust tree has thorns, and the people who first arrived here are estimated to be able to recognize two words, but they may not know too much, so it is not impossible to write the thorns as thorns. Also, even if this character is still the name of a thatch, it is possible to derive it from barrenness. Compared with the two, the latter situation is more in line with reality, that is, the boundary of Cigou is quite barren, although compared to the Jingjiagou area, it can be regarded as a flat river. This area is sparsely populated, with abundant vegetation and trees, except for the barren land is the jungle. This road, Jing Zhiyi's father and Jing Zhiguo's father have walked a lot of times, and nothing has ever happened to them, and I have never heard of anyone else who has anything to do with this road. But this time, something really happened!
The horse pulling the cart on this day is a black horse, with long legs and a long neck, and it looks very beautiful. As he walked, the black horse snorted a few times in front of the cart, just as a man's nostrils were sometimes not smooth, and he exhaled a short but powerful blow out of his nose. Although the dog is young, it can be regarded as an old handlebar, and when he hears the black horse's nostrils blowing outward, he knows what is happening in front of him. With all his strength, he shook the whip that was more than a foot long in the moonlight in the air, snap! You can also shout vigorously enough, drive! First, I want to deter the danger that I don't know yet, and secondly, I want to be brave for myself. The shadows of the wilderness under the bright full moon in the sky are longing, and at this time, the beauty is gone, only the terrible. The dog leftover threw the long whip again, and a crisp snap just spread in the sky, but the black horse raised its long neck and neighed, the two front legs rose into the air, and the wheels were carried upward, and the two families of six sitting on both sides of the car fell to the back of the carriage in unison, and fell to one place, and the dog leftover who was sitting on the front eaves almost fell out of the car. The dog Yu'er has quick hands and feet, and his eyes are fast, he reached out to pull the brake on the eaves in front of the car, his hand shook, but he didn't hold it, and at this moment, he saw the edge of the jungle more than ten feet away in front of him, and several tall black shadows stood there quietly, like ghosts in the dark, something flashed cold light from those black shadows in the moonlight. Thinking about it, the black horse was frightened by these black shadows, and was pierced by the cold light, so he jumped up in fear. The dog leftovers saw clearly, it was a few people on horseback, and the guys in their hands were shining in the moonlight.
Beard!
What is a beard? The beard is the bandit.