When I got home, it was already the beginning of the afternoon.

Several families are still busy, Gu Dafu, Gu Dalin, and the Luo family father and son are grinding beans, picking buckets of ground soybean milk to Gu Dashan's house, filtering the soy milk, and then carrying the soybean milk to Gu Dashan's kitchen.

And Gu Dashan, Gu Jin'an, and Cui Shi boiled soybean milk in the stove and ordered marinade to make tofu.

As for the half-grown children of several families, all of them went out to chop wood and collect firewood, and everyone was so busy that their feet did not touch the ground, and no one was idle.

When the third grandmother saw them coming back, she hurriedly greeted them and asked, "How is business going today?" Nothing happened, right? ”

She has been worried that Zou Xiancheng will find trouble with them for the past few days, and the shopkeeper of the rich building still wants their prescription, and she is afraid.

"It's okay, business is very good, no one comes to make trouble." The third grandfather unloaded his burden, took the silver money that Qin Sanlang was holding, and said to them: "You guys go home first and get busy, and then come over at night to divide the money." ”

Several families are not rich, and there are too many places where money is needed, so the money is still one cent a day, so that the accounts are clear, and everyone is happy.

"Eh, third uncle, then we'll go back first." Gu Damu said, taking the Yan family home first, and after Qin Sanlang left the things that the Gu family bought, he also returned to the Qin family.

When Gu Jinxiu heard the movement and knew that they were back, she put down the half-finished shoes in her hand and brought them hot soy milk and soybean cakes: "Third grandfather, Xiaoyu, come over and eat something to cushion your stomach." ”

Gu Jinli ate a bean cake and drank a bowl of hot soy milk, and the whole person became comfortable.

After eating, Gu Jinli went to the kitchen to take over Gu Dashan and Gu Jin'an to make tofu, while the two of them followed the third grandfather, and then called a few men, and went to the back village together to tidy up the wasteland of their families.

The wasteland was full of weeds, thorns, gravel, and stakes, which had to be cleared and turned over several times before crops could be grown. But they were too busy, so they had to rush to the fields after finishing the stall.

It wasn't until it got dark that they went home with their hoes and baskets.

After a busy day, everyone is tired, but there is hope for the days, and no matter how tired they are, they feel that it is worth it.

And today's dinner is no longer stewed soybeans, but fragrant bean dregs cake and fried golden tofu, as well as sweet and crisp soybean sprouts, and warm stomach sweet potato and aged rice porridge.

After dinner, they have to divide the money, which makes everyone even happier.

"Sanbo, Dashan, we're here." Gu Dafu shouted outside the courtyard gate, and after dinner, everyone came to Gu Dashan's house to gather and count the money.

Gu Dashan went to open the door for them, and when everyone came to the hall, the third grandfather took out all the money he earned today, and asked several families to count it, count it three times, and after making sure that it was correct, he began to divide the money.

"We actually made seven or four hundred wen today, and this business is better than before." These seven taels or four hundred wen is a net profit, or a net profit after deducting one or two reserved capital. The Chu family was originally worried that after the Lu family's affairs, their business would be much worse than before, but they didn't think about it, but this business was better than before.

Chen said proudly: "Sister-in-law Luo, what are you surprised about?" Don't you see the people who bought tofu today, they came to buy it one by one, and there are many people who can't buy it with us. Today's earnings of seven taels of silver are less, but tomorrow at least eight taels. ”

The more Chen spoke, the happier he became, and he praised Gu Jinli fiercely, and finally said with pity: "If I had a daughter like Xiaoyu, I wouldn't have to worry about it in this life." "As long as she lies at home, this daughter can earn her untold amount of money.

Gu Jinli thanked Bumin, or goodbye, a mother like Chen, she couldn't bear it, she couldn't help but cut each other with a knife, or a gentle and insignificant mother like Cui's was more suitable for her.

After counting the money, everyone began to divide the money, Gu Jinli's family received two hundred and nine hundred and sixty Wen, and the other six families received seven hundred and forty Wen.

Everyone got the money, their faces were full of smiles, and after talking about tomorrow's stall and entertaining Shang Xiucai, they went home.

Before dawn the next day, several families got up early, made tofu, went out of the stall, chopped wood, and worked for an hour before resting for breakfast.

After breakfast, Gu Jinli's family began to clean the house and prepare to entertain Shang Xiucai.

At the beginning of the hour, two green pengpeng mule carts drove into Dafeng Village, and soon came to the old house at the end of the village and stopped in front of the mud courtyard of Gu Jinli's house.

The first mule cart was driven by Ah Jiu, and in front of the cart sat a maid of his age.

The maid called Peaches, got off the mule cart first, took down a stool, and put it on the ground, then bowed down and lifted the green cloth curtain, and said to the people in the mule cart: "Old lady, the Gu family has arrived." ”

Shang Xiucai got out of the car, first hugged his daughter Yuanyuan, and then helped Jiang get off the mule cart.

Jiang Shi looked up at the dirt yard in front of him and asked Shang Xiucai next to him, "Is this here?" ”

The courtyard wall of this mud yard has collapsed by a small part, and the five yellow mud and grass houses are also low and dilapidated, so that the old and dilapidated houses are still inhabited.

Shang Xiucai nodded: "Well, this is the home of our little benefactor." ”

When Jiang heard this, she sighed in her heart, this little benefactor looked very poor, but she didn't mean to look down on the little benefactor. Their Jiang family was in her grandfather's generation, and they were also farmers who shaved food in the field, and they used to be so poor, but it was after her father joined the army that she made a fortune and let her live the life of a young lady of the official family.

Jiang glanced at the mule cart behind him, and whispered to Shang Xiucai, "Are we missing the gifts?" Let's not add an extra silver ticket. ”

Shang Xiucai shook his head: "No." Although the Gu family fled the famine, they are not beggars, since we regard them as benefactors and want to walk around with them, we can't do this. ”

Giving a silver ticket is no different from buying a favor.

Although this favor can indeed be bought and sold with money, Shang Xiu doesn't want to do it.

This Qin Gu Luotian family has backbone, unlike ordinary farmers, who only endure it after being bullied, but are willing to report to the officials, and they are not the kind of people who ask for retribution, so he is willing to respect them and deal with them with their old friends.

When Jiang heard this, he no longer insisted, and followed Shang Xiucai towards the Gu family's courtyard, and before he reached the courtyard gate, Gu Jinli's family greeted him.

"This is the little benefactor's grandfather, Uncle Gu, and this is the little benefactor's father, Brother Gu......" Shang Xiucai introduced the Jiang family one by one, and specially told her: "This little girl is the little benefactor who saved our Yuanyuan." ”

Although the night of the Lantern Festival was chaotic, Jiang vaguely remembered Gu Jinli's appearance, and after seeing Gu Jinli's appearance, he smiled: "It's really our family's little benefactor." ”

"Xiaoyu has seen Uncle Shang and Aunt Shang." Gu Jinli smiled and saluted Shang Xiucai and his wife, which was taught by Cui's family, and looked at the little girl held by Shang Xiucai, and smiled at her: "You are Yuan Yuan." ”

Yuan Yuan was also looking at Gu Jinli, and when he saw her talking to her, he was not afraid of life, but nodded heavily, and said in a soft and glutinous voice: "Yes, Yuan Yuan is Yuan Yuan." ”

This childish remark made everyone laugh, eliminated the barrier between the two families when they first met, and made it a little more harmonious.

"Don't stand still, come in and talk." The third grandmother welcomed the three members of the Shang family into the house.

Although the Gu family's old house is dilapidated, the house is very clean, there is no mud and moss from the old house, and there is no peculiar smell, only a faint smell of wormwood.

Gu Jinli smoked the house with wormwood every three days, completely smoked the musty smell in the house, and many small insects and bacteria were also smoked to death.