Chapter 14: Repeating the Old Trick
When he woke up the next day, it was no surprise that Zhang Liang's left eye was dark and shiny. When the villagers saw that this was obviously beaten, they were all indignant, but they remembered that they were fine last night, but something went wrong in the night. In this case, it's not good to insist on coming out, so I'm busy asking the reason.
Zhang Liang thought that he was a dignified man, even if he was attacked by a woman, he would fall into his majesty if he said it. Then he said nonsense: "When I got up last night, I saw a person at the corner of the corridor, sneaky, when the curfew, it must be a villain, I boasted that I was open-minded, how could I tolerate stealing chickens and touching dogs, for the wrongdoers, I caught him, but he was a sallow beggar, wanting to go into the kitchen to find food, a moment of compassion, do not let go, the beggar panicked before hitting the corner of my eye." Just because he was born poor and hungry, he had to do this illegal thing, and he only warned him not to do it again, and gave him five cents and let him go. ”
"Put it well" Some people couldn't hold it back, praising Zhang Liang as a true and kind person, who had never met, and was willing to give people five coins of copper plates, Zhang Liang waved his hand: "Money is something outside the body, and there is always a good thought in my heart"
"If it is something outside the body, how can it be on the body when you get up at night? Zhang Shanren 、、、 let go of the thief so loudly, and he is not afraid that a company will come to take you," a soft voice teased. Zhang Liang looked at this serious murderer with an unkind face, and even more so last night's eyewitness shop guy, who was looking at Zhang Liang blatantly, and at the same time covered his mouth and laughed, obviously on purpose.
"Who doesn't have two body money, body money is naturally always on the side, forget it, don't let people think that I am here to show off, don't mention it, Qiu Niangzi, you and I are both flat-minded people, right and wrong should be clear, haha" Zhang Liang pretended to be in the stalk that only he could understand, and inadvertently floated through the eyes under the snow-white neck, and unfortunately was caught by a pair of beautiful eyes, quickly turned around, and chatted with his fellow villagers about today's plans,
Zhang Liang had some money with him, and he was going to buy some of them, and everyone said goodbye, except for Zhang Niu, the free labor in this plan.
People here only have two meals a day, and Zhang Liang is barely adaptable, but most of the food here is not only steamed, but boiled, plus the seasoning is uneven, meat and poultry are scarce, even if A-Niang cooks every meal carefully, Zhang Liang is difficult to get used to in a short time. Life in the world is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation, a little money, how can Zhang Liang treat himself badly. I wanted to make an iron pot, get a few shovels, buy some soybean oil or refine some pig and sheep oil by myself, so that they could see the novel cooking.
The two exchanged the silver given to the two by Mr. Gao at the silver coin shop, Zhang Liang exchanged five guan money, and Zhang Niu's also had nearly three guan. I don't want to be such a small lump, but I can exchange so many copper coins, I didn't expect Uncle Gao to be so generous, these money and food can allow the poor family to live calmly for a year or two. Accidentally, two 'nouveau riche' were created. After the two were shocked, they were ecstatic, it seemed that the plan had changed, and the procurement did not have to be so careful.
It took a lot of time to talk to the blacksmith shop, and the blacksmith's confused mind suddenly became clear. Spend such a lot of money, make it with fine iron, and require so many iron pots and shovels that are only used for cooking, even if the guests lose, as long as the money and goods are paid,
The blacksmith is also willing to serve, but it will not be until after noon before he can shape it, Zhang Niu after ordering a few farm tools, seeing Zhang Liang so serious, he is so concerned about this novel cooking tool. I felt that it must be very useful, so I gritted my teeth and followed the trend to make the same iron pot.
The two made a detour into a bookstore, Zhang Liang walked around for a long time, picked a few famous-sounding books "Poems" and "Analects" and planned to use them as a blueprint to learn to write, and the shopkeeper recommended a super thick "Shuowen Jie Zi". I bought a lot of paper, Zhang Liang thought, cut it, it can be used for a long time, and he is satisfied. I suddenly heard a commotion outside
After paying the money, as soon as the big bag and small bag went out, he suddenly saw a white-haired old man sitting on his feet, Zhang Liang was bitten by a snake and was afraid of the well rope for ten years. In a hurry, he threw off all the weight on his body, raised his hands above his head, and shouted sincerely and anxiously to the crowd that surrounded him: "It's none of my business, it's none of my business, everyone saw it, I just went out, and my husband was already sitting on the ground." ’
But seeing that no one paid attention, they all looked at the old man on the ground and a middle-aged woman in front of him. Zhang Liang suddenly let out a long sigh of relief.
The white-haired old man on the ground is more than seventy years old, his body bones look weak, and he struggled several times and failed to get up, the middle-aged woman couldn't resist the condemnation of the surrounding crowd, and reluctantly came up to help, the old man was very resistant, the middle-aged woman forcibly pulled up half of her body and let go, and the old man fell to the ground again, Zhang Liang was in front of him, and he saw it really, this woman was intentional. In a fit of anger, a palm pushed away this hateful woman, the stumbling of a woman in her forties, fell into the crowd before she stood firm, and then began to splash, screaming and scolding towards Zhang Liang, seeing Zhang Liang's eyes staring at him fiercely, he rolled up his cuffs again, and looked like he was beating people, and he was so frightened that he stopped his steps and only opened his mouth to scold.
Zhang Liang ignored it, and carefully helped his husband to the curb of the street, but his husband was very unstable, and he shouted vigorously to sever the father-daughter relationship.
It seems that it is a family conflict, and it is difficult for the Qing officials to decide the family affairs, but they just push the elderly, which is very undesirable.
The crowd squeezed in Gongsun and Qiu Niangzi, who were supposed to be outside the city gate to supervise the payment of taxes, and Gongsun hurriedly pulled Zhang Liang and Zhang Niu aside. It turned out that this matter had started at the gate of the city, and the old man had been clamoring for the county order to sentence him to sever the father-daughter relationship with the woman, and to return his twenty acres of high-quality Yongye land planted by his son-in-law's family. Because the old man was sick a few days ago, his daughter and son-in-law left him alone in the ancestral house, barely sending some leftovers, and recently he had to take the old man's grain from previous years to pay rent. The old man was disheartened and had no choice but to go to the county seat to complain with the people who were transporting grain from his fellow villagers.