After coming out of the tunnel, Xiao Qiongzhi and Zheng Bang went to Zhou Yuangeng's house first.

She asked Zhou Yuangeng's wife Wu Jiuniang to help, arranged Da Niu and Shi Shan, and called Zhou Yuangeng's two widowed brothers-in-law.

Then, in their presence, she told them the origin of the hundred taels of silver, and gave them thirty-five taels of silver to each of them.

Wu Jiuniang saw that Xiao Qiongzhi had posted an extra five taels of silver from it, and was only willing to take thirty-three taels.

Her two younger brothers-in-law did the same, and they were only willing to take thirty-three taels.

Xiao Qiongzhi forced it into them, and said while stuffing: "Three grandmothers, this is a little bit of our family's heart. If you don't take it, I won't tell you how to recognize the grain! ”

"Okay then, thank you, I'll take it." The matter of recognizing miscellaneous grains is too important, among Wu Jiuniang's two younger brothers-in-law, Luo Luye, who quarreled with Liu Wuxiu yesterday, immediately accepted the other two taels of silver.

"Thank you, Zhi'er!" When it came to this, Wu Jiuniang and her other brother-in-law were not good at refusing again, so they had to thank each other and accept the other two taels of silver.

Xiao Qiongzhi was very satisfied, and said to them: "Three grandmothers, I still want to give the three hundred taels of silver to the patriarch grandfather with my uncle, you prepare the basket, hoe, and palladium, go to my house and wait for me first." When I return from giving the money, I will accompany you up the mountain to recognize the grains. ”

"Okay," Wu Jiuniang said three times, and did it immediately.

A quarter of an hour later, Xiao Qiongzhi and Zheng Bang arrived at Zhou Yuandong's house.

Zhou Yuandong was about to go out, and he was very happy to see them coming.

As he welcomed them into the door, he said to Xiao Qiongzhi: "Zhi'er, you and your uncle came just in time, I have something to go to your house to discuss with you." ”

"Then you first accept the three hundred taels of silver that Hui Hui gave you yesterday, and then talk about it, Grandpa Patriarch." Xiao Qiongzhi stretched out his finger and pointed to the big burden that Zheng Bang was carrying in his hand, and said with a smile.

"So you've exchanged the silver ticket for silver? Great, Zhi'er, you're such a sweet boy. Zhou Yuandong admired from the bottom of his heart.

Now the men left in the village, the old and the young, are not used at all at critical times.

Only Uncle Xiao Qiongzhi and Second Uncle Xiao Qiongzhi are the most reliable.

Yesterday, he just thought that the road was not smooth, and it was not safe to put three hundred taels of silver tickets on him, so he asked Xiao Qiongzhi to help hold it first.

But he forgot that if he returned to the village and took three hundred taels of silver tickets to the township money bank to exchange them, it would be very unsafe on the way back to the village from the township.

Fortunately, Xiao Qiongzhi thought of it first, exchanged all the silver tickets for silver, and brought them back.

"Yes, patriarch grandpa, you have also helped my family a lot, not to mention anything else, if it weren't for your help, my family's food, money, and jade pendant left by my father may not be recovered." Xiao Qiongzhi said very seriously.

Although she came up with the idea of finding out all this at that time, it was thanks to the active cooperation of Zheng Shao and Zhou Yuandong that she was able to succeed.

Moreover, all along, as long as it was her idea, Zhou Yuandong basically followed it.

This respect and trust is better than the affection between relatives.

"Haha, I should have done that." Zhou Yuandong understood how important that jade pendant was to Xiao Qiongzhi, and he was proud of it, so he hurriedly said with a smile.

While speaking, the three of them had already walked into the main house of Zhou Yuandong's house.

Zhou Yuandong's wife, Zhao Shuang'e, had already heard the movement, and took her three daughters-in-law to hurriedly clean up the table and put on the melon seeds, peanuts, red dates and a large piece of hemp candy to entertain Xiao Qiongzhi and Zheng Bang.

This is the treatment that only the people of the village can do when they entertain distinguished guests.

Entertaining ordinary guests, no one is willing to use hemp candy.

Because hemp sugar is made by mixing glutinous rice and glutamate sprouts, it is particularly expensive.

Those who sell hemp candy ask for a pound of rice in exchange for one or two hemp sugars when they pick up sugar into the village every month.

When Zhou Dazhi married Chu Yunniang, he bought several catties.

They wrapped each tael of each of them into a ball and tied it up as a return gift for the people who came to drink the wine.

However, they deliberately left three taels of hemp candy, no bag, and made snacks for Xiao Qiongzhi to eat.

After Xiao Qiongzhi ate it, she felt that the taste was okay.

But I thought it was too expensive, so in order to save the food at home, I lied to them, saying that it was not delicious and I didn't like to eat it.

They believed it and never bought it again.

Xiao Qiongzhi just glanced at the hemp candy, then grabbed a handful of melon seeds, slowly peeled them and ate them, waiting for Zhou Yuandong to say something.

Zhao Shuang'e thought that Xiao Qiongzhi was embarrassed to eat, so she immediately pinched off most of the large piece of sesame candy and stuffed it into Xiao Qiongzhi's hand.

Xiao Qiongzhi was about to excuse himself, but Zhou Yuandong spoke: "Zhi'er, I still have a big favor, I want you to help, what is this little thing?" Just eat, after eating, I'll let Grandma Zhao get it for you again! ”

Well, Zhou Yuandong was originally a very measured person, but since he talked about this, if he shirked it, it would seem to be angry.

Xiao Qiongzhi had no choice but to express his stance while eating: "Patriarch Grandpa, if there is anything, just say it, as long as it is within my ability, I will definitely help." ”

Zhou Yuandong was very moved.

He wasn't afraid that Xiao Qiongzhi wouldn't agree.

He just felt that Xiao Qiongzhi was still a child, and as an elder, he was a little embarrassed to open his mouth to Xiao Qiongzhi.

Originally, he planned to talk to Chu Yunniang and Zhou Dayong first, and then let them tell Xiao Qiongzhi.

As for Zheng Bang, he has always been more serious.

The night before, he still mustered up the courage to dare to ask him to go to the county seat with him, but later, Zheng Bang refused, which made him even more afraid to make any demands on him.

He first glanced at Zheng Bang, then looked at Xiao Qiongzhi, and said earnestly: "Zhi'er, you don't know, the grain of every household in our Zhoujia Village is not a big problem after this winter, but after the beginning of spring, it will be difficult to say." ”

"Yesterday, the clansmen in the village learned that you can recognize three kinds of miscellaneous grains, and many of them quietly came to my house at night and asked me to persuade you to teach the people of Wangjia Village, Xujia Village, and Liujia Village the three kinds of miscellaneous grains that you taught the people of Wangjia Village, Xujia Village, and Liujia Village to recognize."

"I know that although you are young, you have your own plans for doing things, and when you should say it, you will naturally say it. It's just that more than a dozen people have quietly come to me last night, and some of their concerns are also very reasonable. ”

"For example, seeing that the weather is getting colder and colder, it may snow at any time to close the mountain, in case you wait until the snow closes the mountain, and then decide to let our people recognize the three kinds of grains, then we will recognize it, and it will be difficult to dig it out of the ground."

"Do you think that's the case?"

So that's what happened!

Xiao Qiongzhi taught the people of Wangjia Village, Xujia Village, and Liujia Village to learn to recognize the three kinds of miscellaneous grains, which was originally to let them stop robbing the grain of the people of Zhoujia Village, and to return the food that had been snatched back obediently, so as to give the people of Zhoujia Village a living environment to live and work in peace and contentment.

And yesterday afternoon, she specially asked the 150 people in Wangjia Village, Xujia Village, and Liujia Village to help the people of Zhoujia Village dig Poria cocos, in fact, she also reminded the people of Zhoujia Village from the side that she was happy to let them have the opportunity to have these grains.

She said very sincerely: "Patriarch Grandpa, I am considering that yesterday in our village, there were many families, all of whom were injured and needed to be recuperated, and those who were seriously injured still need to be taken care of by their families. ”

"However, I didn't take into account, there will be snow and the mountain will be closed immediately, everyone's worries are really reasonable, you now let people inform everyone, go to my door to gather, Chen Shizheng, I will take everyone up the mountain, and recognize the three kinds of grains together."