Zhu the medicine cabinet was indifferent, holding the tea bowl and tasting it slowly, with a taste: "Sang Laohan, you have been talking for three days, sitting here every morning, you tell me about this, I have told you countless times, my family's food is not much, so many people have to wait for food, and now the cooked rice is getting thinner and thinner, the rice is not enough, and the water is used." When I came this morning, I poured a belly of porridge, and I don't believe you listen to it yourself, it gurgles. It's not that I don't help you, my own family can't protect myself, how can I help you? ”

Father Sang cried and begged with a sad face: "I wish the old man, you can have pity on me, my family hasn't eaten a grain of rice for two days!" As long as you are willing to sell, I will give you this tea shop! How is it? ”

The shopkeeper Zhu next to him sneered: "Can you afford to look at this broken tea shop for the old man?" Do you know how much rice is priced now? Yesterday there were only 12 buckets, and this morning, people holding signs on the street to buy rice have already sold 15 buckets of rice! That's it, I hung up for a day, and I heard that I couldn't even buy a single piece of rice! But whoever has a head, who doesn't know, Shuanghuai County and Taihe County, the rebels of the two roads are choking the throats of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers and tens of thousands of people in Hezhou City, and those inside can't get out, and those who outside can't rush in, and those who flee over the mountains and mountains are either driven back or killed by random arrows on the mountains. We have become a turtle in an urn, with tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city, and whoever wants to live depends on whose family has more food! Saying that he really doesn't have much food in Hengchang Pharmacy, even if it is too much, he doesn't dare to help you, who knows when the rebels will be defeated, and when will the grain be transported in? Your family's life is expensive, isn't it possible that he wishes the old man's life to be cheap? So, you still don't have to bother with this tongue! Save a little effort and maybe live a few more days! ”

Father Sang cried with a sad face, turned around and kowtowed to the shopkeeper Zhu and said, "Old man Zhu, why don't you give me some rice noodles, okay?" If you run a restaurant, you will have a lot of food. How much does it cost, you make a price! ”

Shopkeeper Zhu smiled coldly: "Let me make a price?" You can't afford it. ”

"You say! Whatever you want! ”

"Haha, Sang Laohan, it's not that I look down on you, if you can take out ten yuan of cash right now, I will give you ten buckets of rice for nothing! How is it? ”

Father Sang was dumbfounded, and his lips trembled: "I have a store, I bought this tea shop building, it is my house, how can it be worth thirty yuan, right?" There are also tea leaves, tables, chairs and benches, etc., which are also worth ten times, right? ”

"Who wants you to be in tatters? Forget it, seeing you like this, I'm too lazy to joke with you. I've told you a long time ago that I really don't have any extra food to sell you, because I have a lot of people in my family, and I don't want to be greedy for your money, because I don't want my family to starve to death. ”

Father Sang cried: "You can sell me some rice!" Why don't I give you the three girls to make a little ......? ”

"Don't pay for it!" The shopkeeper Zhu stung like a scorpion, waved his hand and said: "Your three girls are too strong, although I like to tame fierce horses, but you three girls can do everything, I want to live for two more years." ”

"You should do well, take the three girls, and exchange them for ten buckets, ah no, seven ......, five buckets, and five buckets of rice!" What do you think? The third girl's illness is fake, Dr. Ni wrote a letter of apology, which was posted all over the city, and we also have it on the door, you know. ”

"Come on, Sang Laohan, Sang Xiaomei's illness is fake, I know now, and it is precisely because she pretends to be crazy that this kind of woman is terrible, if she is not happy, maybe I don't know if I dismantled this old bone that day." Last time, Xiaolangzhong helped you recover the 80 taels of silver that you were cheated of, and it was already said at that time, Sang Xiaomei's marriage must be agreed by herself in the future, you can't force it, and I wish the old man to be present to testify. If she wants it, I don't dare to ask for it! ”

"Yes! Three girls are definitely a hundred willing! She has also been hungry for the past few days, and if she has no food, she will starve to death! Whoever can feed her at this time, she will follow! This is the ...... she herself said! ”

Zuo Shaoyang walked to the door of the backyard and was about to open the curtain when he heard Father Sang's words, immediately stopped, and turned his head to look at Sang Xiaomei.

Sang Xiaomei also heard it, her willow eyebrows were upside down, her face turned white, she stepped forward, opened the curtain and said angrily: "Dad! What nonsense are you talking about? When did I say this? - I can leave it here, even if I starve to death, I will never agree to this family! ”

Shopkeeper Zhu smiled and said, "How is it?" Sang Laohan, you still want to lie to me? ”

Sang Laohan knelt down and turned around, and cried to Sang Xiaomei: "Three girls, please, if you don't agree, our whole family will starve to death." If you go to the Zhu family, you can live a life, and if you change rice and noodles, you can also feed our family, and the surname of the whole family can be tied to your trouser belt! ”

Sang Xiaomei's face turned red with shame, and she said, "Dad! What nonsense are you talking about! If you want to die together, I will never agree to this family business! ”

Zuo Shaoyang walked in with the curtain of the door, and said coldly to Father Sang: "I can sell you five buckets of rice." Get up and talk if you want! ”

Before Sang Laohan could react, the door curtain was torn open with a bang, and Sang Mu rushed to the backyard like crazy, grabbing Zuo Shaoyang's arm: "Xiao Langzhong, ah no, Zuo Gongzi, what you said is true?" What about rice? Where is the rice? ”

Father Sang also came back to his senses, got up on his knees, and also grabbed Zuo Shaoyang's hand: "Zuo Gongzi, how many meters do you have?" I'll buy them all! Buy as much as you want! Will you sell me all your rice? I bought them all! ”

Shopkeeper Zhu smiled: "Aren't you lying, you bought it all?" How much money do you have? Even if the price of your tea shop is worth 40 yuan as you just said, the highest price of rice on the street now ......"

"Shut up!" Mulberry Mu's eyes were round, and her nostrils were spewing rough air, like a roaring cow, life and death were at a moment's mark, but she couldn't care about her face.

Shopkeeper Zhu smacked his tongue: "Okay, good men don't fight with women, I won't say it, okay?" ”

Sang's mother turned around at this time, immediately changed her smiling face, and pushed Sang Dad: "Are you stupid?" Zuo Gongzi wants to exchange these five buckets of rice for three girls! Right? Zuo Gongzi, Titicaca, I said last time you passed by the tea shop, I originally married three girls with a dowry of 80 yuan, and you helped us a lot, so you are cheap, as long as 70 yuan. One bucket of rice is now five buckets, seventy buckets is fourteen buckets of rice, you just said that there are only five buckets of rice? It's okay, give five buckets first, and the rest will be given in two days, but you can't delay it too long......"

Zhu Medicine Cabinet sneered: "Mother-in-law of the Sang family, you are too fine." Five runs and one bucket of rice? The day the whole city ran out of food was about the same, you know, now don't say that it is no longer this price, and no one dares to sell rice on the street, they all want to keep it to save their lives! The little man is kind enough to help you with five buckets of rice, and you still take advantage of others, not to mention the daughter, but also according to the five dollars a bucket. The heart is too dark, isn't it? ”

Sang Mu was a little afraid of this medicine cabinet in her heart, so she didn't dare to have a hard top with him, pretending not to hear it, and looked at Zuo Shaoyang and laughed at a fat face: "Zuo Gongzi, the three girls have always been thinking about you, you two are the most compatible, I have long felt that this family is very good, Gaga, or you are affectionate, thinking that my third sister is hungry, and he will bring rice noodles over, he is really a good man with affection and righteousness, Gaga, it is better for us to choose a son, how about a marriage today?" I'll tell your father and mother to go, -- do you say it's okay, in charge? He turned around and asked Daddy Sang.

Daddy Sang couldn't say anything bad, his face was smiling, and he kept pecking his head: "Yes, yes, I said Zuo Gongzi, you are also on the stall at this time, if you put it on hold, seventy yuan is a lot, according to the past, seventy yuan can buy almost two hundred buckets of rice!" Now as long as you are fifteen buckets, you can take advantage of this cheapness, Titicaca, but in the future, it will be a family, the family does not speak two words, it is nothing to take advantage of you, just treat our little sister well in the future, and remember the benefits of our two elders, you husband and wife go home more and walk......"

Sang Xiaomei's face was flushed with shame, and she turned around and buried her face in her sister-in-law Huang Qin's arms.

Zuo Shaoyang said coldly: "If you want these five buckets of rice, just shut up and listen to me!" ”

Mother Sang and Father Sang quickly shut up.

Zuo Shaoyang didn't dare to look back at Sang Xiaomei, for fear that this would make his heart soften, and he still spoke as cold as ice, and said: "My five buckets of rice, I will exchange it for your fragrant tea shop!" Don't change anything else! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience was stunned.

Zhu Medicine Cabinet smiled and said, "Xiao Langzhong, are you confused by the two of them?" Didn't you hear? Although their tea shop is theirs, it is not worth much, at best it is only worth forty yuan. And your five buckets of rice, now you can sell it on the street, and you can sell it for seventy or eighty times at will! You've lost almost twice as much! Either just give them three buckets of rice, or let them post some more money! ”

Zuo Shaoyang was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that the price of rice had risen to fifteen guan today, before he came, it was calculated according to the price of ten guan per bucket sold to the shopkeeper of the silk shop that day, five buckets is fifty guan, he also estimated the value of the fragrant tea shop, that is, forty or fifty guan, and he didn't hear the part of the medicine cabinet they said in the backyard just now, so he opened his mouth and said that he exchanged five buckets of rice for the fragrant tea shop. As soon as the medicine cabinet reminded him, he realized that his price was too low.

Daddy Sang didn't wait for him to reflect, and he didn't have the words to agree: "Okay, just change it with the tea shop!" Five buckets of rice, hurry up and give it, right? ”

"Give what you give!" Sang Mu naturally didn't want to exchange the tea shop for rice, and wanted to exchange Sang Xiaomei, so that there would be a back road in the future, otherwise, the five buckets of rice would be eaten up, and there would be no back road, so she pulled Sang Lao's father and said to Zuo Shaoyang: "You only change the tea shop, and you don't want to exchange rice for my third sister?" Have you thought about it, the third sister didn't eat, and she married someone else in order to survive, don't you regret it? ”

"As I said, I won't spend money on a wife, and I can't exchange things for anything! - As for the little sister, you don't have to worry about it, I have my own arrangement, and if I have a bite to eat, I won't let her go hungry! ”

Sang Xiaomei raised her eyes to look at him, her pretty face was full of joy.

(To be continued)