On the way back to Mawangzhai in Shuangshi Mountain, when he was drinking water and resting at the "Fountain of Youth", Liang Er sighed while smoking with his pipe: "Brother Yaofu's loss is really miserable, since he lost the bet in front of everyone, the gamble must be repaid." I think about how his family will live after he sells his land, land, and house. ”

Liang Shirong said with subtlety: "I think that after today's incident, Yao Fubo's life will be better in the future." ”

Liang Er reproached Huineng and said: "Hey, so far, not only did you not think of a way for him, but also hit him with a heavy hammer." ”

Liang Shirong: "If his gambling nature does not change, he will bury a bigger curse in the future." ”

Liang Er turned to Liang Shirong and said in his heart: "Brother Yarong, you have the most strategies on weekdays. Anyway, this time you have to think of a good way to save him."

Liang Shirong laughed: "I have already done it." ”

Liang Er turned to Liang Shirong and asked, "What good way do you have?" Speak up! ”

Liang Shirong said: "I'll go to Yaofu's house with you later, and then I'll tell you in detail." ”

Liang Er: "Look at your mystery, okay, I won't ask more questions now." In short, you can solve the problem for Brother Yaofu. ”

At noon on this day, Liang Yaofu returned home with two empty baskets, picked up the wine bottle, raised his head and drank wildly, beat his chest and cried, and then returned to the room to lie on the bed and cover his head with a sheet.

The family asked him what the reason was, but he was only shouted by Liang Yaofu, which frightened them into a mess, and they didn't know what happened.

Just when they were helpless, Liang Shirong and Liang Er came to Liang Yaofu's home.

Liang Yaofu's wife asked Liang Er: "Second brother, all the sand pears that my Yaofu picked up on the market were sold out, it should have been a happy thing, why did he seem to be crazy when he returned home?" ”

Liang Er had no choice but to say bluntly: "Brother Yaofu did sell out all the sand pears that he picked up on the ruins, but he made a bet with others in the polder, and he lost. ”

Liang Yaofu's wife: "Ah, it turns out that he lost all the money from selling sand pears, no wonder he went crazy when he went home." ”

Liang Er: "Hmph, if you just lose two baskets of sand pears, you will burn incense and worship God, thank God." ”

Liang Yaofu's wife is a smart person, and when she heard Liang Er say this, she knew that something happened to her husband in the ruins today: "Could it be that Yaofu lost a lot of money?" ”

Liang Er stretched out four fingers and shook them: "Four hundred bucket valleys." ”

When Liang Yaofu's wife heard this, her eyes widened: "Four hundred bucket valleys? You're scaring me, aren't you? ”

Liang Er: "You know my character, this joke can't be made." ”

Liang Shirong: "Yes, what he said was all the truth, and he and I were at the betting scene in the market town at the time. ”

Liang Yaofu's wife roared: "No wonder Yaofu, the dead ghost, went crazy as soon as he came home, no, I must make it clear to me in front of me!" With that, he picked up a flat pole in the corner of the courtyard, walked into the room angrily, and slashed at Liang Yaofu's buttocks, who was covered with a sheet.

Liang Yaofu, who was lying on the bed, couldn't imagine that his wife would be so angry, his buttocks were beaten by the flat shoulder, and the pain was so hot, he lifted the quilt with his head covered, jumped out of bed, snatched his wife's flat shoulder, and threw it to the ground with a "snap", and then walked out of the room and saw Liang Shirong and Liang Er in the courtyard.

When Liang Yaofu saw Liang Shirong at a glance, his anger did not subside, and he sprayed all the resentment in his stomach that was beaten by his wife at him: "Yarong, since you came to Shuangshi Mountain, what am I sorry for you?" But this morning, you reversed the pork belly in Lidongxu Town and helped that Zhu Deren speak. Aren't you afraid that I'll beat you up hard?! With that, he raised his fist towards Liang Shirong.

Liang Er raised his hand to stop him: "Brother Yaofu, don't hurt your liver, Brother Yarong is here to rescue you now." ”

Liang Yaofu didn't believe it: "Come and save me? Does he have the land and the land to count for me? ”

"I don't have a field or a land in Shuangshi Mountain, but I have this." Liang Shirong pointed to his head.

Liang Yaofu snorted, and said angrily: "You have a head?" I have a brain, too! ”

"Don't blame me for stabbing you with a needle, Brother Yaofu, you have a pig's head, but Ah Neng has a smart head." Liang Diqing saw Liang Yaofu looking at him unconvinced, so he pointed out, "Ah Neng has thought of a good solution for you." ”

Liang Yaofu still has no confidence: "I am already dying, what can I do?" ”

Liang Shirong's expression was very relaxed when he spoke: "There is a plan to eat, but there is no plan to eat mud." Yao Fubo, this method doesn't require you to sell your land or land, let alone sell your house. ”

"Hey, there's such a good way?" Liang Yaofu's demeanor became calmer, and instead urged, "Tell it quickly!" ”

So, Liang Shirong told his method,

Liang Er nodded frequently after hearing this, and finally said: "Yarong, I didn't expect you to come up with such a good solution." ”。

Liang Yaofu is the person concerned, stretching his neck to listen, listening, listening, first the gloom on his face gradually dissipated, and finally he smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth, held Liang Shirong's hand tightly, apologized and said: "Brother Yarong, your method is really good, it can be regarded as saving the lives of my whole family." I blame you for being so angry with you when I was in the market town this morning. ”

Liang Er pointed at Liang Yaofu: "Look at the pitiful appearance of your lost soul after losing a bet in the market town today, and now you have become tofu scum and fall into the water - your body is loose." ”

Liang Yaofu apologized: "Brother Yarong, I hope you are an adult and have a lot, don't worry about me as a villain." Anyway, now I'm replacing wine with tea, and I'm toasting you. Come! ”

The three of them talked, talked, and laughed openly.

Besides, Zhu Deren, this guy, made a bet with Liang Yaofu in the Xuting this morning, and won the four hundred dougu promised by both sides with a little trickery, and returned to Wudong Village and said to his family proudly: "The cultivators are too hard, they are exposed to the sun and rain every day, how many catties of grain can be harvested all year round?" Today, I made a little trick and made a lot of money all at once. ”

That night, he had a sweet dream in which his family's granary was suddenly full of grain, and he laughed "card, card" in the dream.

Zhu Deren's wife was woken up by the dream words, slapped his ass violently, and asked, "Are you stupid to laugh like this in the middle of the night?" ”

Zhu Deren rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "Am I stupid? No! I'm dreaming a lot! ”

His wife said in a sarcastic tone, "Sweet dreams, sweet dreams." What a beautiful dream wakes up and just gets an orange. ”

Oranges are round. The phrase "get an orange" means "equal to zero" locally.

Zhu Deren is still diligent: "This time I am a dream come true. Wait and see, I'll be back from Twin Rocks tomorrow afternoon, and I'm sure you'll be smiling! ”

Early the next morning, Zhu Deren ran around to hire a porter.

The people around knew that Zhu Deren was an iron rooster who was a dime a dime, and they were afraid that he would repay his debts when he crossed the bridge and drew the board, so he was unwilling to go to Tianlu Mountain to pick grain for him. Therefore, he had to pay a higher salary, and claimed that those who went up the mountain to help him pick grain would get twenty pounds of grain each, and they would cash it out first. In this way, it was not easy to get together enough for a hundred porters. In order to ensure that Liang Yaofu would not regret it when he "collected", he also rewarded Mo Wenan with a special reward of 200 catties of grain, and asked him to go up to Tianlu Mountain to testify on the spot.

The total cost of this salary and reward was more than 2,000 catties of grain for Zhu Deren, which really made him feel distressed for a while, but later, he used the iron abacus to dial back and forth a few times, and calculated that even so, he earned more than 7,000 catties of grain in vain. "Yo, this is a big pie from the sky!"

The cloudless sky was as blue as transparent crystal. The sun poured countless heat waves down on the ground, and the earth rose like a steamer. The air was so hot that it froze. The dragonflies, which usually like to fly and chase, now retreated to the shade of the trees, not daring to move, as if afraid that the fierce sunlight would burn their thin wings.

Zhu Deren wanted to wait until the afternoon to come up the mountain, but his greedy desire made it impossible for him to sit still, so he couldn't wait to take Mo Wen'an and seven or eight entourage thugs from his family, followed by a hundred porters he hired, each carrying two large empty baskets, and went up to Shuangshi Mountain and pointed directly at Mawangzhai.

Zhu Deren's feet are not very good, and he walks with a limp, but money can make the ghost grind. Thinking that so many grains were about to arrive, he didn't feel bitter or tired at this time. On the way up the mountain, he was so excited that he hummed a mountain song as he walked.

And on the side of Mawangzhai, Liang Yaofu went home yesterday and heard Liang Shirong tell him about the "good way", the gloomy clouds on his face were swept away, this afternoon he was ready, put a basket of grain at the gate of his house, and also put a bamboo tea table under the shade of the magnolia tree in front of the door, put a tea tray on it, brewed the camellia picked before the Qingming Festival, and drank slowly with Liang Shirong and Liang Er in the shade, waiting for Zhu Deren's arrival.

The sun gradually shifted to the west, and Liang Yaofu couldn't help but walk to a high pier in front of the stockade and look down the path down the mountain.

When he saw the team of hundreds of people carrying empty baskets slowly squirming up from the bottom of the mountain like a long snake, Liang Yaofu ran back and told Liang Shirong that Zhu Deren was coming to the village soon.

Liang Shirong laughed: "Yao Fubo, the sky dropped a big pie for Zhu Deren, where would he let it go?!" ”

Liang Er raised his long bamboo pipe, took a sharp puff, then spit out a few wisps of smoke, and said coldly: "He is an iron rooster, and he refuses to pull out a single hair on his body, but as soon as there is oil and water, he immediately flies over like a rope." ”

Liang Yaofu said to Liang Shirong: "I am a good handle for working in the mountains, but I can't argue with others." Ah Neng, you have a way to speak, you are reasonable and measured, and you will stand up and speak for me later. ”

Liang Shirong nodded and responded: "Don't worry." I still said yesterday morning in the market town, that is, to help the relatives but not to help the relatives. Now it's not on Zhu Deren's side, of course I'll do my best to help you. ”

After another bag of cigarettes, Zhu Deren took the porter team into Mawangzhai and came to the door of Liang Yaofu's house.

Liang Yaofu greeted him and said to Zhu Deren: "You are finally here." ”

Zhu Deren was anxious, and when he went up the mountain, he was also in a hurry, making the atmosphere gasp, and even the overnight wind stove could be blown. The weather was very hot again, and he wiped the beads of sweat like soybeans on his face, and said, "Harvest early, I'll collect the money from you now, and I have other things to do later." ”

Liang Shirong's words were thorny: "For you, what is more important than the matter of collecting money today?" ”

Zhu Deren pointed to the team of porters he brought and asked Liang Yaofu: "Look, the people I hired to pick the grain have all brought, and your four hundred buckets of grain should be ready." ”

Liang Yaofu nodded and replied, "Ready." ”

Zhu Deren slapped his thigh happily, stretched out his thumb again, and praised: "Keep your word, Liang Yaofu, Liang Yaofu, you are really a good man." ”

Liang Yaofu said lightly: "I am willing to gamble and lose." ”

Zhu Deren stretched his neck, looked around with triangular eyes, but did not see the mountain-like pile of grain, so he asked, "Where do you put the four hundred buckets of grain?" In the yard, or in the warehouse? ”

Liang Yaofu pointed to the basket of grain placed at the door and replied, "It's all here." ”

"All here?" Zhu Deren stretched out his fingers, and in front of Liang Yaofu and Liang Shirong's faces, he calculated seriously: "I already calculated when I returned home last night, one bucket of grain is twenty-five catties, and four hundred buckets of grain should be ten thousand catties." Your basket of grain can hold up to fifty catties of grain, how can all the four hundred buckets of grain I came to collect this time be in it? ”

Liang Yaofu pointed to the basket and affirmed: "Yes, all the four hundred dougu you want to collect are in this basket." ”

Liang Shirong: "Yao Fubo is telling the truth. ”

Zhu Deren: "I see that this basket can only hold two buckets of grain, how can there be four hundred buckets of valley in it?" ”

"Bucket? Are you referring to the bucket that is used to measure things on weekdays? Liang Yaofu gave his reason, "The fight I was referring to when I bet with you in the market town is not that kind of fight!" ”

Zhu Deren: "So, what else is there to fight?" ”

Liang Shirong pointed to the long-pole bamboo pipe in Liang's second hand and replied, "This is the kind of bucket." ”

Zhu Deren: "You're talking about pipes?" ”

Liang Er put the long bamboo pipe into his mouth, deliberately took a big puff, spit out a few light blue smoke rings, and then patted the pipe with his hand, and said proudly, "Yes, this is the pipe!" ”

Zhu Deren was not reconciled: "Is there such a strange fight in the world for measuring grains?" ”，

Liang Shirong snatched the pipe from Liang Diqing's hand, bent down and knocked the pipe to the ground a few times, knocking out all the burning tobacco, and then handed the pipe to the tip of Zhu Deren's nose and shook it: "This is the kind of fight that Yao Fubo talked about when he made a bet with you in the ruins!" He deliberately raised the voice of the word "fight" high.