Chapter 241: Encountering Old Acquaintances in a Foreign Country
Seeing that his grandfather still called him by his nickname, he said: "Grandpa, my name is Sun Xuan now, don't call me Erdanzi, how embarrassing it is for people to hear!" Grandpa, go up quickly, I'll pull you away. Sun Zixuan, the second egg, helped Cui Laohan to the board car and pulled the car himself, and when he looked at the behavior of the second egg, he knew that he was a simple and filial child.
Li Er asked curiously: "Uncle Cui, your surname is Cui, but why is your grandson's surname Sun?"
When Cui Laohan saw the guest asking, he said with a smile: "Five years ago, Xiao Lao'er's house had steep walls, so he had to take his family out to escape the famine, but he was separated and couldn't find it, and I don't know if they are alive. Later, he was robbed to the mountains to be a bandit, and the little old man was old, so he could only do some rough work and survived. It was our Tang Emperor who was merciful and recruited peace everywhere, and our great elder took more than 200 people from Sanshang down the mountain, settled here, and lived a good life. The Great Elder bought a house for everyone, and then distributed it to everyone, and most of them were displaced, so they were distributed according to an old man, a child, and an adult in the family, and these two eggs became my grandson, and we became a family. ”
Li Er was moved when he heard this, he had a home, a field, and grain, and no one wanted to rebel.
When I arrived at Cui Laohan's house, there was a lot of cotton firewood drying at the door, and there were some cotton bolls that had not been picked off, and under the exposure of the sun, snow-white cotton wool was gradually revealed.
"Dad, you're back?" Hearing a woman's voice, he opened the door, revealing a delicate woman's face.
"I am my goddaughter Cui'er, and I am also a hard-working person, she is the only one left in the family, and the three of us form a family." Boss Cui sighed and said, this Cui'er is a widow, almost thirty years old. If you want to find a man again, it's not easy to find, but fortunately, now you have a righteous son, and you can support your old age in the future.
"I'm bothering this sister-in-law today." Li Er said politely that he would put on a stand in front of ministers and meritorious nobles, but when he met the people, he was always approachable and very kind.
"Cui'er, this is the noble man who helped me pull the cart that day. There was something that day, and I didn't come to our house for dinner; I happened to meet it today, so I quickly took the meat in and made two whole dishes to entertain the nobles. Cui Laohan said with a smile.
After a while, Li Er's guards came in. Bought ten pounds of meat and two chickens. There was also a basket of eggs plus two packets of snacks. Two jars of wine. The people warmly invited him to eat, and he received his wishes, but he could not let the people suffer.
Cui'er was very surprised to see so many things in the kitchen, it would cost a lot of money, although the family only had money to spare. But they have never spent money so lavishly, and they are used to living a poor life, so they always think about saving up their money when they have nothing to eat. Just in case.
"This strong man, why did you come to our house for dinner, why did you send so many things, which made us very embarrassed." Cui'er said, her face was crimson, this was the first time she had seen so many strangers, and they also brought wine and food, so she felt embarrassed.
"This is what our master explained, where to come to the door without gifts." The guard explained, "Sister-in-law, hurry up and cook." ”
Cui Laohan saw that Li Er had let people buy so many things, so he was polite, so he asked Erdanzi to call the eldest elder over, saying that there was a distinguished guest at home and invited him to dinner. There is such a rule in the countryside, if there is a distinguished guest in the family, invite a well-connected and respected person in the village to eat together, so as to look solemn and respect the guest more.
Liu Weifeng was busy working at home, and when he heard Erdanzi calling someone, he washed up and changed into clean clothes.
As soon as he came in, Liu Weifeng saw that Qin Qiong was very familiar, so he cautiously asked, "Brother Tai's surname is Qin, and his name is Shubao?" ”
When Qin Qiong heard this, he was stunned for a moment, there was actually someone here who knew him, he hurriedly stood up, saw Liu Weifeng, his eyes were round, and he exclaimed: "You are Brother Weifeng?" ”
Liu Weifeng was even more excited, he didn't expect to see his young friend here, and said: "Yes, I'm Liu Weifeng." ”
Brother Qin stretched out his hand and hung down on Liu Weifeng's shoulder, and said, "Brother Weifeng, where have you been all these years?" ”
Liu Weifeng shook his head and said: "When I was conquering Goguryeo, I was seriously injured, even if it was good, now my leg will hurt very much on a rainy day." When I returned to my hometown, my family was hit by a disaster, and there was no one left. I had no choice, so I directly occupied a hill and became a bandit. But I only robbed the rich and never killed anyone. Even if I rob the rich, I will leave them entangled. ”
"Hehe, don't talk about this, all these years, why didn't you come to Chang'an to find me!" Qin Qiong smiled, the bandits did their part, it was a miracle.
"Later, I heard that you became the prince of the Tang Dynasty, but at that time I had already taken in more than 100 people, and I was good to say alone, but there were so many old and weak women and children who couldn't deal with it, and I didn't want to trouble you, so I didn't contact you, I really didn't expect that we would be able to meet again, this life is enough." Liu Weifeng said with a smile, now that he is not a bandit, and the people below have a livelihood, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
As soon as Cui Laohan heard that this person was the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, this Duke of the Kingdom was respectful in front of this lord, and this person was bigger than the Duke of the Kingdom, so he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground and said: "The noble man is abrupt, please also invite the noble Haihan." ”
Li Er stretched out his hand to help Cui Laohan and said: "We are ordered by the Tang Emperor to pay a private visit to Weifu, and we also ask Uncle Cui not to make a lot of noise."
"That's nature, that's nature, and it will never spoil the good things of Your Majesty and the adults." Cui Laohan said yes again and again.
"Brother Qin, don't you want to introduce this brother to me?" Li Er stepped forward, a person who could be so valued by the Tang Dynasty must not be a mortal.
Qin Qiong reflected at this time, there were other people around him, and said with a smile: "Brother Weifeng, these are a few colleagues of Brother Wei. ”
"Hello adults!" Liu Weifeng saluted respectfully.
"Brother Li, this is a friend I knew when I was hungry when I was in Goguryeo, if he hadn't made a move at that time, maybe Shubao wouldn't have come back, and it would have been impossible to go with the current saint to fight in the east and west. Brother Weifeng and I are a lifelong friendship. Qin Qiong explained, of course, he was young and vigorous, and he almost caused a catastrophe.
"We are comrades, so we can't sit idly by." Liu Weifeng saw that Qin Qiong said sincerely, and said modestly.
"Hehe, if you can come back from the battlefield, they are all rare warriors, don't stand, let's have a good chat." Li Er spoke up, and everyone sat down.
Several people talked about a lot of topics, Liu Weifeng is also knowledgeable, this person's surname is Li, this is the country's surname, even Qin Qiong is respectful to this person, it can be seen that this person is not the emperor, or the prince.
"It's a good year, everyone's life is better, right?" Li Er asked.
Liu Weifeng listened, smiled and said: "This is natural, now every household sells cotton, and rice is kept for their own food, and I never dreamed of a good life now." ”
"It's good to live a good life, I think the houses here are good, and the village is very neat." Li Er said with a smile, "It is also a happy thing for the people to be able to live in peace." ”
"Not really! The clever girl in the village was sent to the weaving factory. Men in the prime of life, when the farm is slack, go to work; The farmer is busy working at home. Those older daughters-in-law can also do some needlework, and the children can go to school, and their lives are comfortable! Liu Weifeng said with emotion, "What is lacking here now is a doctor, after all, people eat whole grains, how can there be no one who does not get sick, but we are relatively remote here, and there is no doctor here." ”
"You can rest assured about this, this place has developed, even if you don't let those doctors come, they will come, you see." Li Er replied, after all, many people don't know this place yet.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for someone to buy a house and open a medical officer, a grocery store, silk and satin clothes, all kinds of snacks and food, etc., which is a later story.
"Thank goodness for that." Liu Weifeng said with a smile.
"By the way, Brother Wei Feng, you use the trick, I'll take you to meet someone later, get to know each other, maybe you can help each other in the future." Qin Qiong said.
Liu Weifeng knew that Qin Qiong was looking for a backer for him, so he said with a smile: "Then it's troublesome Brother Qin."
After he was full of wine and food, he went to Liu Weifeng's house to sit for a while, and the eldest grandson Chong came with Li Yexu.
The eldest grandson Chong was surprised, how could this Li Er get together with Liu Weifeng, listening to Qin Qiong's introduction, it turned out to be Qin Qiong's friend.
"Uncle Liu, it turns out that you and Uncle Qin know each other!" The eldest grandson rushed forward and said.
"Do you know each other?" Qin Qiong was surprised.
"Hehe, I won't tell you the truth, it was the eldest grandson who persuaded us to go down the mountain, accept Zhao'an, and become good citizens." Liu Weifeng said with a smile, "Lord Eldest Sun did not break his promise, we have indeed lived a good life." ”
"Uncle Liu, don't be polite, call Xiao Chong or Chong Boy, it's okay, don't call me an adult in front of these adults, I can't afford it." The eldest grandson Chong was called by Liu Weifeng and an adult, and his face was a little hot.
When Li Er and the others rarely saw that Eldest Sun Chong was still ashamed, they were very unscrupulous and laughed.
"Uncle Liu, since I came to you today, I want to talk to you, can you gather all the women in the village together and rush to make the cotton clothes and cotton pants of the soldiers at the northern border pass?" Now there are no sewing machines, so they can only be sewn by hand, which is naturally very inefficient, and it is impossible to find so many people to make clothes.
"No problem, I'll close the grocery store then, and I'll let the women work there to make sure they can help." Li Weifeng responded.
"Doesn't this delay you in making money?" Eldest Sun Chong asked.
"Now that I have a commercial street, my grocery store doesn't make money, and I have to watch it with two people, so I might as well close it!" Liu Weifeng said indifferently, "When the cotton is harvested, sprinkle rape in the field, and harvest some rape oil next year, and don't delay planting cotton next year, killing two birds with one stone." When that's done, I'll start organizing the staff. ”
When the eldest grandson Chong saw Liu Weifeng agreeing so readily, he was naturally grateful. (To be continued......)