Chapter 119: Study
It was almost eight o'clock when Duanmuyang and Liu Zhibai were sent away, and Li Xiaobao ate a little casually and lay down, but he couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, and he was always thinking about the ancient tomb in his mind.
The next morning, Li Xiaobao got up early the next morning, and after breakfast, he went to the house of Song Deyin, who was the most inquisitive in the village.
"Fifth uncle, are you at home?" Song Deyin is the fifth oldest in the family, he was a primary school teacher in the village in the past, and his ancestors used to be a jinshi and a big official, but later the family declined.
"Xiaobao, why are you here? Come in and sit!" Song Deyin's wife was feeding the chickens in the yard, and when she saw Li Xiaobao coming, she was excited, put down her work and let Li Xiaobao into the house.
Since Li Xiaobao helped the village to plant gastrodia and after confronting Zhang Laicai's contracted mountain, his prestige has reached its peak in the backing mountain village.
"Fifth aunt, don't be busy, I'm here to find the fifth uncle for something!" Li Xiaobao looked at Song Deyin's wife and poured water and took cigarettes, a little embarrassed.
"It's okay, you don't usually come to our house, sit down first, he went to the field early in the morning, he should be back soon!"
"It's Xiaobao here!"
At this time, Song Deyin happened to carry a hoe into the house, and Li Xiaobao hurriedly got up.
"Sit down, Xiaobao is a rare guest, what is the matter with me?" Song Deyin washed his face, sat down and asked.
"Fifth uncle, when I came to your house before, I saw that there were a lot of books in your house, I wanted to see them!" Li Xiaobao didn't say what books to read, in fact, he also knew what books to read, anyway, Song Deyin's family has a lot of books, and if you can find a little information about the ancient tomb, you can find it, and then talk if you can't find it.
Song Deyin smiled faintly when he heard Li Xiaobao's words, and said, "Xiaobao, what's wrong with you today? I remember when I was in elementary school, the whole class counted you as the naughtiest, tell my uncle, why did you remember to read today?"
"Uncle, don't people say that reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles? Don't I like to study?" Li Xiaobao smiled, he knew that Song Deyin must not know about the tomb robber.
It's not that Li Xiaobao is afraid that Song Deyin will rob his treasure if he finds out, but he is afraid that once Song Deyin knows about it, he quietly touches Altair Mountain, and if he really runs into that guy who kills people without blinking, it will be over.
"Haha, you kid, let's go, I'll open the door for you!" Song Deyin knew that Li Xiaobao didn't want to say anything, so he didn't ask anymore, untied a bunch of keys from his waist and walked towards the east house.
The east house of the Song family is an adobe house, which is specially used to hold the books left over from the past.
The moment Song Deyin opened the door, a burst of book fragrance came to his face, which made Li Xiaobao feel a little relaxed and happy, and slowly walked in.
"Xiaobao, look, what's the problem call me!" Song Deyin went to the ground without breakfast, said to Li Xiaobao, and went to have breakfast.
Li Xiaobao didn't care about Song Deyin, and looked at it one by one.
"Hey, Deyin, what's going on on the hill of the rich family?" asked Song Deyin, whose wife looked at him while he was eating.
"What's the matter? What else can it be?" Song Deyin shook his head helplessly, Zhang Laicai's work is really authentic, and he gives the people in the village a salary of seventy a day, of course the people in the village don't do it, but he can only take his own brother Zhang Laisheng to do it.
"Deyin, I heard that Laicai seems to have grown his salary to eighty!" Song Deyin's wife added some millet porridge to his bowl and said excitedly.
"Who did you listen to?" Song Deyin was a little surprised, Zhang Laicai finally couldn't stand it.
"When I went out this morning, everyone in the village said that Zhang Laicai was recruiting workers in the village committee......!
Before Song Deyin's wife's words were finished, she was stopped by Song Deyin with her eyes, and said coldly: "Just that **** thing, I won't go!"
Indeed, at this time, Zhang Laicai was recruiting you at the door of the village committee, and the small sign next to him clearly read: Recruitment, eighty a day!
But what made him depressed was that he had already raised his salary to eighty, but the crowd around him was just watching, and they didn't come to sign up.
"Big brother, what the hell is going on? Li Xiaobao's plan doesn't work!" Zhang Laicai looked at the eldest brother Zhang Laisheng next to him very depressed and said.
Zhang Laisheng listened to Zhang Laicai's words with a black line on his face, and said: "Come to wealth, it's not that other people's Xiaobao's methods don't work, it's that you raised the price late!"
"What, what do you mean, big brother!" Zhang Laicai looked at Zhang Laisheng even more puzzled.
"When you came out of Xiaobao's house, if you directly raised the salary to eighty a day according to what Xiaobao said, someone would definitely come!" Zhang Laisheng knew that they were all villagers in the township, as long as Zhang Laicai's price was right, and he would say that the villagers were really not good to come.
However, Zhang Laicai didn't follow Li Xiaobao's method, so he had to follow a salary of seventy a day. Well, I didn't recruit anyone.
After working for a few days, just him and Zhang Laicai, Zhang Laicai couldn't stand it anymore, so he remembered to raise his salary to eighty-one days.
But at this time, the villagers still scolded him? Zhang Laisheng knew that the villagers who came today were not only to see Zhang Laicai's jokes, but to see if Zhang Laicai could raise the price further.
Anyway, they think that Zhang Laicai can raise the price to 80 per day, and he can raise it to 100 per day.
"What?" Zhang Laicai almost jumped up when he heard Zhang Laisheng's explanation, looked at the surrounding villagers angrily, and wanted to vomit blood angrily.
Zhang Laicai was helpless here, insisting on recruiting people with a salary of eighty every day, but he couldn't recruit people, and Li Xiaobao ran to Song Deyin's house every day when he got up, and stayed until late at night before going home.
After a few days of hard work, Li Xiaobao almost rummaged through Song Deyin's books, and he didn't find what he wanted, but this did not discourage him from being more serious.
However, Zhang Laicai finally had no way to raise the price to one hundred per day with his teeth, and sure enough, many onlookers began to sign up, which made him even more angry, which was more than twice Li Xiaobao's salary at that time.
After leading his men to plant the No. 3 mountain in one day, Zhang Laicai suddenly discovered a very serious problem, that is, there was no water on the three hills.
In the rural areas, the peasants mainly look at the sky when the land is planted, and the harvest is naturally good when the weather is good, and the weather is good, which means that the wind and rain are smooth, and there was a heavy rain a few days ago, and who knows that it will be dry again in the past few days.
"Come to Cai, then what are you going to do?" Zhang Laisheng sighed and said helplessly.
"Hey, big brother, I don't seem to have watered Li Xiaobao's two mountains for so many days!"
Zhang Laicai's words made Zhang Laisheng stunned, and he couldn't help but look at Li Xiaobao's two hills.