Chapter 4 Settle in Mingfeng Village

"This ...... This...... I don't dare to call the shots...... Master Yang ...... there," Yang Fu said. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Master Yang, I'll go and say, do you think this is good?" Zhao Guohua looked at him and said.

looked at Ding Shun, who was lying on the ground with scars, and then at Zhao Guoqiang, Yang Fu nodded reluctantly,

Seeing this, Zhao Guohua took out a silver ingot, and said to Yang Fu with a smile: "Steward Yang, this is the silver that Master Yang paid for my tiger, five taels and one ingot, you can take out the IOU of Ding Shun's family." ”

"This ......" Yang Fu hesitated a little.

"Steward Yang, repay the money with one hand and the IOU with the other, this is the rule of repaying the money." Zhao Guohua said, looking at Humpty Dumpty coldly.

Looking at Zhao Guohua, Yang Fu reluctantly took out a crumpled piece of paper.

"This sister-in-law, come and take a look, but this IOU?" Zhao Guohua said to Ding Shun's wife, who was looking at him.

When the woman heard this, she hurriedly walked over, took the piece of paper, looked at it carefully, and nodded in affirmativeness, "Yes, this is the paper." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Guoqiang looked at it again, and saw that the above content was consistent with what the woman said, so he handed the silver to Steward Yang, and then asked the woman to go into the house and take a fire fold, and the woman went back to the house and lit a fire with fine firewood on the clay stove that boiled medicine for men.

Zhao Guohua took the fire fold, didn't look at Yang Fu, and lit the IOU with the fire fold.

Looking at the IOU that quickly turned into ashes under the burning of the tongue of fire, Yang Fu secretly gritted his teeth, but there was no way.

Originally, he planned to go back and get the IOU under the pretext of going back to get the IOU after receiving the money, so that next time he could say that Ding Shun's family did not repay the money, and he collected more money with interest, and then Ding Shun's family had no money to repay, so he could only use his wife to pay the debt.

Thinking of the eldest young master's coveting of Ding Shun's wife, Yang Fu couldn't understand it, he secretly muttered in his heart: "This woman is a little beautiful, but it's not stunning, why does the eldest young master always like some half-aged women in their thirties and forties?" Is it because the ripe fruit is delicious......

Seeing that this annoying Humpty Dumpty was still standing in the yard and fighting ghosts, Zhao Guohua frowned in disgust, and said lukewarmly: "Steward Yang, do you want to stay and eat at Ding's house?" However, Steward Yang is used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and I am afraid that he will not be able to eat the poor man's wild vegetables and porridge and mixed noodles, but if Steward Yang is willing to eat, we have no objection. ”

"Whoever eats your pig and dog food?" Yang Fu said, glanced at him hatefully, beckoned, and angrily took a few family members away.

"Engong, thank you to the slave family, the lives of the entire slave family were saved by the son, Zhu'er, kowtow, thank you." As he spoke, Ding Shun's wife led her daughter to kneel on the ground and kowtow.

"Hurry up, hurry up, a little thing, why bother with this heavy gift" Zhao Guohua wants to pull but it is not easy to pull, after all, this is in the Ming Dynasty, in ancient times, there were feudal rites that men and women did not kiss.

After thinking about it, Zhao Guohua said: "I have lived overseas for many years, and I already have some overseas living habits. ”

"Huh? …… I really don't know ......," said Ding Shun's wife and hurriedly stood up.

Seeing her stand up, Sun Laohan's family also gathered around and carried the man lying on the ground to a tattered wooden bed in the house, and Ding Shun's wife pulled the tattered quilt on the bed to cover him.

"Childe, you are a good person, we can meet you, God really has eyes." Sun Laohan said, bending down to Zhao Guohua again and again:

Looking at the situation of the house, Zhao Guohua looked directly at the root of his teeth and looked at the bed, that is, there was a broken door panel on the adobe, the quilt was black and thin, and there were two holes, the cotton in it was pitiful, the adobe wall also opened a few finger-thick cracks, there was a trace of cold wind blowing in, and the thatched roof exposed a few holes of different sizes, you could see the blue sky outside.

You can imagine what it was like in the house when it rained, and I don't know how his family got going.

"Ahh It's too poor". Looking at the poor scene in Ding Shun's house where he didn't even want to come in, Zhao Guohua sighed secretly in his heart.

After comforting Ding Shun's family, Sun Laohan gathered some more food, and then left with everyone.

When she got home, Xiaomei had already made the wild vegetable porridge, looking at the black wild vegetable porridge in the dilapidated earthen bowl, Zhao Guohua really didn't want to drink it, but he was afraid that Sun Laohan would be embarrassed, so he had to close his eyes and force himself to drink it.

Fortunately, this wild vegetable porridge is not too unpalatable, except for a slight bitter taste.

After dinner, the sky was getting dark, and Zhao Guohua said: "Uncle Sun, early tomorrow morning, you will bring someone to invite a man for Brother Ding, otherwise Brother Ding's body is afraid that he will be in trouble." In addition, I bought some rice and noodles to distribute to the villagers to improve their lives, I think everyone is living too hard."

"Childe, that requires a lot of silver, at least thirty taels is enough." Sun Yiping said sadly.

Thinking that he would start a business in Daming in the future, he couldn't use up the only one hundred and twenty taels of silver in his hand at once, and after a little thought, Zhao Guohua said, "I have more than one hundred and ten taels of silver here, you can take forty taels." Sell some more chickens and ducks and come back. ”

"Oh, how can this be, that's your money......" Sun Laohan hurriedly refused.

Smiling, Zhao Guohua said: "The silver is for spending, since I came here, I am the person here, everyone is in trouble, I should help you, Uncle Sun, don't shirk." ”

"That'...... Then I thank the villagers for their kindness! As he spoke, Sun Laohan bowed excitedly and made a big salute.

The next day, Sun Yiping called his eldest son Sun Fu and several strong men in the village and went to the county seat in an ox cart. For thirty-five taels of silver, I bought twenty stones of rice, ten stones of white flour, one hundred chickens, and one hundred ducks from the county seat.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the price of rice in the south was about one tael of silver and one stone, one stone of rice was 59.2 kilograms, and one tael of silver was consistent, which was equal to 1,500 copper coins, equivalent to twenty-five wen yuan and one kilogram of rice, and fifty or sixty wen for chickens and ducks, so although the above materials seemed to be many, they were only worth thirty-five taels of silver.

"There are so many things, this is all from the son......" Sun Laohan was so excited that he was almost speechless.

Looking at the happy expressions and warm eyes of the people standing in the house, Zhao Guohua said: "Uncle Sun, you go and call the villagers to come over, each household will receive ten catties of rice and five catties of flour, and the family with many people will give another chicken." ”

That night, there was a lot of excitement in Mingfeng Village that had not been seen for many years, every house in the village was cooking, there was smoke on the roofs of every house, children were noisy, and adults laughed, as if they had changed villages.

"Mother, I've never seen so many things in our house." The little girl Zhu'er took her mother's hand and said happily.

Yang Degui has not returned to the city, the next day after dinner is reading in the village, two teenage girls are beating his back and rubbing his legs, hearing the lively sound of the village in the distance, he stood up and shouted: "Come on"

"Sir, what do you command?" The short and fat butler Yang Fu ran in and bowed his head respectfully.

"You take a few people out, see what is happening in the village, go and return quickly, without delay." Yang Degui commanded.

"Yes, I'll go right away, please stay for a while," After speaking, Yang Fu withdrew, took a few family members, and went out.

It was less than a stick of incense, and Yang Fu ran in panting and said, "Hey...... Master...... It was the overseas barbarian who killed the tiger who bought some rice noodles and chickens and ducks from the county seat...... It was distributed to the poor ghosts in the village, and the poor ghosts were happily cooking rice and steaming steamed buns......"

"Oh, what does he want to do?" Yang Degui looked stunned, and groaned.

Yang Fu said flatteringly: "Master, I think he has bad intentions, I will bring someone to arrest him." ”

Hearing this, Yang Degui's poisonous snake eyes rolled and said, "Forget it, just pay attention, it's just an overseas barbarian, forgive him for a small loach, and he can't make much waves." ”

In a blink of an eye, Zhao Guohua has been in Fengming Village for more than ten days, he has been very familiar with the villagers in the village, and he is even closer to Sun Laohan and Ding Shun's family, with his help, Ding Shun's injuries have also healed, and his illness has been cured.

After dinner that day, Zhao Guohua chatted with Sun Laohan's family.

Many people in the village also came to Sun Laohan's house, and Ding Shun's family of three was also present. Sun Yiping is honest and enthusiastic, and willing to help, he is very popular in the village, and after dinner, everyone likes to come to his house to chat.

Under the locust tree in the courtyard was a worn-out wooden table, on which were placed several large bowls of rough clay with wildflower tea brewed for five cents a catty.

Many people sat at the table drinking water and chatting, talking about things in the village, things in other villages, and things in the county. The people who spoke were full of interest, and the people who listened were interested, which was also a kind of fun for the villagers after the meal.

On summer nights, the night is like an incomparably wide blanket, and the stars in the sky are like sparkling and shining gems adorned on this blanket.

At this time, there is no longer the heat of the day, and a cool breeze is blowing, cool and comfortable.

"Zhao Engong, I don't know how to repay you for your life-saving grace." Ding Shun said gratefully.

After listening to Ding Shun's words, an old man also looked grateful, and said in a respectful tone: "Yes, Zhao Gongzi, since you came to our village, we can finally have a few full meals, and our whole village is grateful to you." ”

"It's nothing, it's just that I have limited ability to make a good life for everyone." Zhao Guohua said with a sigh.

"Zhao Gongzi, you have lived overseas for many years, I don't know how good your good life is? Do you eat white flour steamed buns every day? Ding Shun's Hun family Ding Liu asked.

Speaking of white-flour steamed buns, several children swallowed their saliva, and several adults' stomachs gurgled angrily.

Glancing at her, Zhao Guohua smiled and said, "It's not a good day to have white flour steamed buns to eat every day." ”

"Huh? Isn't it a good day to have white flour steamed buns to eat every day? One of the villagers said, his mouth wide open in surprise.

"Yes. It's okay tonight, so I'll just tell you about overseas. Zhao Guohua said with a smile.