Chapter 57 Waste Utilization
Liu Gouwa was originally full of respect for these three strange-looking cottage heads, who would have thought that they were worried about the money they earned in their winery, and they were also snobbish, so they couldn't help but have a great impression of them, and their respect plummeted. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Huang San, Zhang San and others are not stupid people, seeing Wang Chang and others mentioning the wine shop and silver money with Liu Gouwa, they turned from initial enthusiasm to indifference, and they already knew what was going on, and they couldn't help but be angry, if Liu Gouwa hadn't stopped it with his eyes, he would have had a seizure on the spot.
Although the fool is stupid, he is not a stupid person, seeing that the three heads of the three people and Liu Gouwa are getting more and more stiff, their faces are not worried, and they hurriedly stand up and say: "Brother of the three heads, what are you doing with that money, our brothers get together, be happy, drink wine and eat meat, wouldn't that be good, it's not easy to get that money, rob his mother." ”
"Hehe, the foolish brother laughed, and he just mentioned it in passing for his brother, and he didn't think about it." Wang Chang smirked duplicitously, and then said: "However, what the foolish brother said about drinking wine and eating meat may not be possible in the future." ”
"What's going on?" When the fool heard this, he asked casually.
"Alas, since the officers and soldiers closed the mountain to encircle and suppress, the passing business travel on the official road has become increasingly scarce, and the livelihood of the brothers has become difficult. Wang Chang said with a bitter face.
"Then it's better to drive those dog officers and soldiers away, no." Said the fool.
"Fool brother doesn't know, our cottage fell for Wang Fu's trick last time, and lost a lot of brothers, dead and crippled, and there are only some useless wastes left in the cottage, old and young, women and children." Wang Chang said helplessly.
Subsequently, Wang Chang slightly accepted his mood and said: "However, with the joining of the fool brothers, the prestige of our cottage will definitely be great, as long as those officers and soldiers dare to come again, the brothers will use your arrows to shoot them to death, and we will no longer be afraid of those dog officers and soldiers in the future." Come, the brothers are new, and the cottage still has some wine and food to entertain the brothers, please. ”
Wang Chang said politely, but he dragged the fool's arm alone, walked to the cottage hall, and left Liu Gouwa and others aside.
It turned out that he was able to sit in the fourth chair, but also for the sake of the fool's face, originally they had promised the fool the fourth chair early, it must be the result of the fool's hard push, Liu Gouwa figured it out, couldn't help laughing, didn't care, followed everyone to the cottage hall.
When I came to the cottage main hall, there were already four or five tables of wine and food in the hall, although the wine and food were not very rich, but there was no shortage of wine and meat, and there was even pheasant and game. Wang Chang greeted first, and the banquet began, and everyone ate meat, drank wine, and muttered noisily, just like a vegetable market in later generations.
Inside the cottage hall, the wine and meat are rampant, noisy and noisy, but the door of the main hall is surrounded by a group of ragged women and children, dirty, salivating and watching the people inside eat and drink, they are silent, and swallow saliva from time to time.
When Wang Chang saw Liu Gouwa noticing those people at the door, he couldn't help but smile and introduced to Liu Gouwa: "This group is the group of untouchables who fled up the mountain from Xiaosong City, their brothers, husbands, sons and nephews are incompetent, they were ambushed by Wang Fu last time, and they were all killed. ”
Those people at the door, seeing Wang Fu in front of them, scolded them for being useless waste, some of them were indignant and looked at Wang Chang with hatred, while some were insensitive and indifferent, just staring straight at the wine and food on the table and swallowing their saliva.
Liu Gouwa heard that these people were the refugees who had been rescued by him in Xiao Song City and soup kitchen, but now their relatives have been killed by the officials and soldiers, and they have become a burden in the cottage, and they are disgusted by Wang Chang and others, so they can't help but sympathize with Wang Chang and ask: "Brother Wang, these people's relatives lost their lives for the cottage, and they have no merit and hard work, is it too much to treat their relatives so badly?" ”
Those people at the door, seeing Liu Gouwa coming for the first time, spoke for them, the lonely and helpless untouchables, and couldn't help but cast grateful eyes, and some people recognized Liu Gouwa's identity, so they quietly muttered to the people around them.
I only heard Wang Chang say disdainfully: "Lose your life for the cottage? Phew, they only have a little food for these wastes, they will go down the mountain and lose their lives, people die for money, birds die for food, life and death are determined by the destiny of heaven, and they can't complain about others. Now, the cottage can keep these useless wastes for free, which is already the greatest mercy to them. ”
Before Liu Gouwa could speak, Wang Chang had already taken his hand and said: "Brother Liu, it's not that the elder brother said you, you can't be too merciful, all the rice and grain in this cottage are eaten for them, then what will we eat in the future, isn't it, come, let's drink, don't care about these dirty goods." ”
Although Liu Gouwa returned to the wine table with Wang Chang, she saw those women and children at the door, watching them eat and drink hungrily, a little Zhumen wine and meat stinky and frozen bones, and she had no intention of eating and drinking, so she coped with a few sounds, and returned to the housing arranged by the cottage under the pretext of being unwell.
Liu Gouwa left the banquet depressed, Zhang Sanhuang and others saw it, but they also had no intention of eating and drinking, and followed Liu Gouwa out, and the fool saw that everyone was leaving, so he took a pheasant leg on the table, and did not explain to Wang Chang, Zhao Qiu, Sun Yiyi and others, and followed out stupidly.
Liu Gouwa and others in the cottage, idle for two days, but also let him see the tragic situation of the cottage people's life, the cottage boiled a pot of porridge every day, said to be porridge, then it was boiled some light rice soup, not at all can not see the rice, do not put much salt, then one by one to distribute, late can not receive the rice soup, then can only endure hunger to survive this day, looking forward to the next day's distribution.
However, if there are relatives in the family who are bandits under Wang Chang and others, they are treated a little better, they have gruel to live by, and the bandits also have half-thin dry rice to eat. As for Liu Gouwa and others, as the leaders of the cottage, they have some wine, vegetables, dried meat, and the life of the cottage is also divided into levels, Zhang San and Li Si and other people who have no identity have stayed up for two days, and they are a little uncomfortable, but they have suffered this kind of hard life in Xiaosong City before, and they have also secretly suffered hardship.
On the third day, Wang Chang convened the leaders of the cottage to discuss in the main hall, announcing that the cottage had not much grain in stock, and planned to drive away the useless waste of those who had no relatives as bandits, so as to save food for the cottage.
But Liu Gouwa raised an objection: "Driving them all down the mountain is tantamount to driving sheep into the tiger's mouth and pushing them down the fire pit, the officers and soldiers under the mountain are already waiting for them, the refugees who rioted in Xiaosong City, they went down the mountain, how can there be a way to live." ”
"Brother Liu, there must be no kindness of women, there is not much food stored in the cottage, and we can't raise them for nothing." Wang Chang said resolutely, paused slightly, glanced at Liu Gouwa and others, and said bitterly: "Besides, since Brother Liu and others joined the cottage, the population has increased a lot. ”
Liu Gouwa saw Wang Chang's gaze sweeping over Zhang San, Li Si and the others, and knew that he disliked Zhang San, Li Si and the others for being young and couldn't do anything, so he classified them as waste, and couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart, and said: "Brother Wang, how can you say that they are waste?" We can arrange for them to do something for our cottage, so that they can support themselves and be self-reliant, so why drive them down the mountain. ”
"What can we do for them? Could it be that Brother Liu plans to let them help you wash your underwear, hehe, robbery, they can't do it, kill people, and they don't dare. Wang Chang saw that Liu Gouwa lost his face last time, and now he bumped into himself in front of the court, he couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, sank his face, and sneered.
"We can let them plant some crops in the open space in the mountains, let them hunt in the mountains, pick wild fruits, pick bamboo shoots, pick fungus mushrooms, let them raise some livestock, let them go to the lakes in the back mountains to fish, and even let them pick yams, I believe that these cottage brothers will use it, as long as it is helpful for our survival, we can let them do it." Liu Gouwa pretended not to see Wang Chang's cynicism, and said freely.
When everyone in the hall heard this, they couldn't help but nod secretly, they all felt that Liu Gouwa said that these wastes were quite useful, and they used to think about robbing and killing people all day long to make a fortune, so they had no other ideas, how could they not think of this stubble.