Chapter 96: Why is the money gone

Jia Youhu's family grew up in a flat terrain, in the mountainous area, such a flat terrain place, is a good place, basically a market town or a place with developed transportation, belonging to the pattern and scale of small towns, generally speaking, the women here are not willing to marry on the mountain, to the mountain man as a wife.

When she married into the Jia family, she was not used to walking mountain roads, let alone farming on steep slopes, and she couldn't even stand steadily, the natural conditions were very harsh, but the power of love was huge, and she overcame many obstacles, and the two finally came together because of the burning of the fire of love. At that time, there was a movie called "Chaoyanggou", in which the silver ring was married to the deep mountain valley and combined with the bolt treasure, which may have been the ideological influence of the generation that went to the mountains and went to the countryside, and in the environment at the time, it was an inspirational movie, but it was enough to influence several generations.

After Jia Youhu got married, he had a craft, and he often went out to the countryside to give people haircuts, and his life was not bad. At that time, the family had already bought sewing machines, radios and watches, and as for flashlights, they were also household appliances, and he had them at home, and he did not treat his wife badly. Although he often complained, because of his hard work, coupled with the dumb brother's hard work, hard work, and greedy work, their family was a good family, and they were well-known at the time.

Later, they had the crystallization of love and gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the son, like Jia Youhu, loves to ponder a technique and likes photography.

After working outside for many years, he sent money home, saved money to buy a single-lens reflex digital camera, and used his vacation time to return to the village to take pictures of people to make money.

Some old people have difficulty moving and can't go to the market to take pictures, so they find him, take pictures for later use, make full preparations, keep them as souvenirs, and return to the mountain after a hundred years in the future to make a posthumous image.

Jia Youhu's son really had a vision, made money, and brought home his girlfriend who he met from work, and soon they got married, and he quit his job there to do a photography business at home, this mobile photo studio is indeed a new thing, he seized the business opportunity, and made a small fortune. Now he has a photo studio in a small market town, but he hasn't stopped providing door-to-door services. The cost is exactly the same as on the façade, Tong Su is not bullied, and business is booming.

Jia Youhu's daughter is still in college, and Jia Youhu sends her monthly living expenses from the bank. His daughter has good grades and has no plans to return to the village in the future, so she will stay in the big city to work after graduation, after all, the big city is much more attractive than the small town and mountain village.

Jia Youhu's family is also happy, that is, his wife looks very much like Xianglin's sister-in-law, with high cheekbones, according to superstition, it is Kefu's, but this is not the case. Her eyes are soft, her language is moving, her voice is high, she comes and goes openly, and she has no harmful intentions, but she is often slandered and criticized, saying that she has two men, two husbands or something, and she can endure such rumors, and after a long time, the rumors are self-defeating, and they are still a happy family.

On the day of Jia Youhu's son's wedding, because he married a woman from other places, he did not have his mother's family to send him, but the wedding was very lively. Jia Youhu's sister also rushed back from Jianghai District to attend the wedding. There were a lot of people giving gifts, the scene was relatively large, and people came and went, so Jia Youhu invited Jia Xinyi's son to do the registration work. Register the guests who gave the gift, write down the amount one by one, and publish it on the wall. This trick is the usual method in this area, and the purpose is not chaotic. I don't mean to deliberately make anyone ugly. Local customs are like that. Help each other, take care of the food, and don't pay each other. Everyone agrees that it is not an exception, or that it is difficult to do, and it is not a heavy burden.

Jia Youhu asked Jia Xinyi's son for two considerations, one is that Jia Xinyi understands calculation, finance, accounts, and accounting, presumably his son has been exposed to it since he was a child, and it has an impact on how much, his son must also know some accounts, so that he can't count how much money he can't write, and besides, it's not his son who stands alone, but he Jia Xinyi is present at the same time, collects money at the same time, and registers at the same time, the two can supervise each other to ensure that the gift money is exactly the same, and all the income is handed over to Jia Youhu.

The second is that Jia Xinyi and Jia Youhu are brothers on the door, and they can't write two Jia characters in one stroke, so they are somewhat related to each other, and they must be more assured to use their relatives. And they don't guard against what will go wrong. It should be done without leakage.

Jia Youhu's wishful thinking is like this, but people are not as good as heaven, and there is still a problem.

The banquet was held at Jia Youhu's house, and there were many guests, and there was a queue for gift money. After paying the money, Jia Xinyi was responsible for registration, and his son was responsible for collecting the money. I paid the money, registered the names of the people and the amount of money on the red booklet, and it looked fine.

After paying the money, everyone sat on the bench outside and drank tea, and the women who specially invited to help handed the tea, and then the son of the groom's official Jia Youhu or other young people gave them cigarettes, while drinking tea, smoking, eating melon seeds, chatting, and waiting for the guests who ate and drank inside to leave, so as to replenish it, and wait for a new round of wine and dinner.

There is a special cooking, using a steamer, and stir-frying, and when it is done, the women who help bring the dishes to the table, and the guests gather up to ten people, and they start eating and drinking.

The dishes are basically stopped on the first day, and when the dishes are sent to the steamer today, when the guests arrive, the dishes are taken out of the drawer, served hot, and served on the table, and the guests are invited to enjoy the food.

This is called a "flowing water seat", and for convenience, the steamed vegetables are prepared the day before the feast, gathered in a drawer cage, and then set up firewood and heated up.

It didn't take long for the fragrance of these steamed vegetables to waft out, and the aroma drifted far away with the wind, attracting a lot of watchdogs, scrambling to shuttle through the crowd, looking for bones, and even fighting with each other for bones. Of course, later, as there were more and more bones, the dogs stopped fighting, and each dog could go home with a round belly and be safe.

The children were even more happy, wearing cleaner clothes than usual, neatly coming to the wedding banquet, only to come honestly, to see other children, it didn't take long to get acquainted, began to play together, completely desperate, it doesn't matter if the clothes are dirty or not, it doesn't matter if you go home and get beaten or not, as long as you can have fun, eat small, play big, the children are easy to eat, and then there is a lot of time to play, because the adults eat slowly, say homely, drink and clink glasses, a fuss is most of the day, of course, The guests sitting on the flowing water table are over relatively quickly, and they have to rush home to do things, and some men drink and guess boxing, and there are generally three or four tables like this, and the others are not.

When I was at home, the words that the adults explained had long been forgotten and I forgot to eat. Some children are honest, some are not, crying for a while, barking for a while, making trouble for a while, plus the sound of dogs barking, the sound of firecrackers, the fireworks rising in the air, the green smoke coming out, and the confetti all over the ground, constitute a very beautiful folk landscape.

The spicy taste of stir-fried food is a unique local flavor, and all dishes are spicy if they are not spicy. Red chili peppers with golden corn and translucent bacon make for a great dish that is a home-cooked stir-fry that goes well to a wedding reception.

In addition, the white houttuynia rhizome, mixed with minced red pepper, tastes particularly fragrant. As for those steamed dishes, they are a must-have of Tujia cuisine. There is no need to go into details.

Conan couldn't help but swallow when he heard Jia Youhu talk about his son's wedding banquet, it was really unfortunate that he didn't come to this village at that time. It would have been nice to come half a year earlier, but it's a pity.

It is said that Jia Xinyi served as a bookkeeper, responsible for registering the names of the guests and the amount of money for the gift, and his son was responsible for collecting the money. Jia Youhu looked very satisfied. When the guests dispersed, Jia Xinyi handed over all the account books and money to Jia Youhu, and told him the specific amount, and there was no problem on the surface. However, when Jia Xinyi left his house full of wine and food, the guests, including those who helped, left, and agreed to come back the next day to help pack things, return borrowed items, clean up the scene and other trivial things.

At night, Jia Youhu's sister Jia Youfen occasionally flipped through the account book, and when she saw her name, she said to her brother: "No, brother, my gift money is not this amount." ”

"Is it more or less?" Jia Youhu said.

"Write less. I gave 10,000 yuan, how did I only write 8,000 yuan. Jia Youfen said.

"Really?" Jia Youhu said.

"My nephew is married, why don't I pay attention to such a big event? Giving 10,000 yuan is less, if it weren't for your brother-in-law's investment in the stock market, he would have lost a lot now, otherwise, I would have to give. Jia Youfen said.

"Yes, it's not easy to come back from Jianghai District once. If it weren't for your nephew getting married, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to come back, right? Jia Youhu said.

"yes. I came back specifically for my nephew's wedding. I didn't expect the registered person to be ghostly. Jia Youfen said.

"I'm blind and found such a pile of stinky shit, I'll look for them." Jia Youhu said indignantly.

Jia Youfen hurriedly stopped him and said, "Forget it, isn't it just 2,000 yuan?" Just recognize this person. In the future, I will have less contact with them, and I will have more eyes, and don't believe them. ”

"It's not a thing. I don't know how much money I took from the public account. What a goose plucking guy! It's all smooth, and even the brother's gift money is red-eyed, and secretly deducts it, thinking that we don't know. Jia Youhu's family said.

Jia Youfen took out 2,000 yuan from her bag and gave it to Jia Youhu, Jia Youhu didn't accept it, she stuffed the money to Jia Youhu's family, she didn't want it, she pushed it back and forth like this, and it took a while.

Her mute brother-in-law took the money and handed it to Jia Youhu's son with a smile, and his son didn't want it.

Jia Youfen said: "It's really not easy for me to come back once, I don't know when I will come back next time, and I don't know if I will have a chance to come back in the future." This is my pocket money for my nephew. Gotta take it. ”

Jia Youhu's son said, "Thank you aunt for your concern. I now open a photo studio, I have money, and I have received your heart. You better take this money back, our family is really not short of money. Besides, my uncle lost money when he invested in the stock market, and it was the time to use the money, so I couldn't take it anymore, and besides, if I want to send it without leaving eight, I have already given eight thousand, which is okay. I'm satisfied. ”

Seeing this, Jia Youhu also helped his son and said that Jia Youfen was angry, she said: "I have nothing to repay my mother's family, this money must be collected, otherwise, I will never come back in the future." ”

Jia Youhu saw that his sister was angry, so he gave his son a look, and his son understood, so he accepted the money, and the family was happy again, talking and laughing, until it was time to sleep.

Early the next morning, the helpers rushed to Jia Youhu's house to continue to help. Jia Youhu and his wife sent Jia Youfen to the highway to wait for a bus to go to the county seat, then transferred to a fast boat to Yiling, and then flew from Yiling Airport to Shenzhen, from where she returned to her home in the Xiangjiang Sea District.

Jia Youhu applied for a homestead on the side of the highway, and had asked the gunsmith to blow up a gap in the hillside on the side of the highway.

Jia Youniu led a cow and prepared to put it on the hillside, let it graze by itself, and when he saw Jia Youfen, he greeted him. Jia Youfen almost didn't recognize Jia Youniu anymore, because Jia Youniu's beard was unshaven, which was completely different from the original appearance. Yesterday at the wedding banquet, people came and went, and I didn't see it clearly.

"Isn't this Sister Fen? Are you leaving? Jia Youniu said.

"Are you ......?" Jia Youfen asked in surprise.

"This is Brother Niu, remember?" Jia Youhu said.

"Oh, Brother Niu, remember. How are you? Jia Youfen said.

"Good, good. It's going well now. Jia Youniu said.

"It's good. Brother Niu take care. I'm going to come back next time to visit you, but I'm in a hurry to come back this time, and I'm running on the road. Besides, the villagers in the township, as well as childhood memories, feel the human flavor, in Jianghai District, everyone is busy making money, people have no family affection, no human taste, become cold, not fun. When I'm old, maybe I'll come back to live, the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, the air is good, there are no typhoons, no earthquakes, no tsunamis and no bird flu, how good! Jia Youfen said.

"Yes, welcome to come home often. My daughter works in Shenzhen, and she said that she can see Jianghai District from there, and the buildings there are very high, right? Jia Youniu said.

"The building is very high, there are a lot of people, the room is very small, living in Jianghai District, the consumption is high, and people are very busy. It's better to be comfortable here. Jia Youfen said.

"Yes. Nowadays, young people like to run to the big city, and they don't know what is good there. Jia Youniu said.

"Everyone has their own aspirations. I think there is a way out for entrepreneurship in rural areas. Like my nephew, he's good. Not everyone is suitable for a big city. Jia Youfen said.

As he was talking, the bus came, Jia Youfen waved his hand to everyone, and got on the bus, and the bus gradually started and drove down the mountain along the winding mountain road.

Watching the bus turn over the mountain beam, the bus was no longer visible, and everyone was about to return, when they suddenly saw Jia Xinyi walking slowly along the road. Jia Youhu saw him and immediately greeted him.