Chapter 31: A Coincidental Encounter with Shi Guangzong
Early the next morning, before dawn, Cai Zijun was woken up by Li's knock on the door, and she touched her clothes in the dark, draped them on her body, stepped on her shoes, and went to open the door, and a ray of bright light came in.
Li walked into the door and put the oil lamp in his hand on the table, "Hua'er, it's not early, get up and wash your face and eat breakfast, the ox cart from the village head to the county seat will leave late when it is late." ”
"I see, mother." Cai Zijun answered and began to dress, Li turned around and walked out, and heard her call Hu to get up and make breakfast.
People got up one after another, breakfast was two mixed noodles for each person, a bowl of sweet potato porridge, this time, Cai Zijun had no privileges, and ate the same as everyone, Cai Zijun used pickled vegetables to make porridge, drank a bowl of porridge, gnawed a nest head, and was already half full, so he put down his chopsticks.
The remaining one of the mixed noodles was put in Cai Qigui's bowl, Cai Qigui glanced at her, "Why don't you eat it?" ”
"If I don't eat, I'm going to lose weight."
During this time, she has been shouting to lose weight, Li glanced at this side, and didn't say anything, Cai Qigui ate the nest head, and it just so happened that he couldn't eat enough for the two nest heads.
After eating, Cai Qigui picked up a burden, in addition to seventy catties of bean sprouts, there were also bamboo chairs and bamboo baskets tied together, Cai Qifu also carried a load of bamboo tools, but Cai Zijun carried a big empty bamboo basket, which was ready to sell things for money, and by the way, he brought some New Year's goods back to load New Year's goods.
Under the watchful eyes of their families, the three of them left the house and walked under the locust tree in the center of the village, where the ox cart of Peach Blossom Village stopped, and at this time, the sky had begun to brighten.
"Third brother, how long will it take for us to take the ox cart to the county seat?" Cai Qifu has been mixing outside all the year round, and he is clear about these doors.
"It will take an hour."
An hour in ancient times was two hours in modern times, and two hours in ox carts, which was not very far, and if a modern car came to run, it should be less than half an hour to arrive.
"Oh, it's okay, it's not far."
"Sister, hurry up, we have a lot of things, go and occupy a place first." Cai Qi's noble man walked fast and urged the two of them in front.
"Got it, Fourth Brother. Third brother, let's go faster. ”
The three brothers and sisters hurried to the center of the village, and when the three of them arrived, the ox cart in the village had just arrived, and there was no one in the car, so the three brothers and sisters breathed a sigh of relief.
"Grandpa Seven!"
Cai Zijun sweetly called the old man who was driving the car, in the memory of the original owner, he called her the seventh grandfather, who was the brother of Cai Dazhu's father, separated by several rooms, not a relative.
"Hey...... Are they flowers? Why don't you three brothers and sisters go to the county seat too? Seventh Grandpa couldn't get Cai Hua'er to call him, he was surprised for a second, and quickly greeted the three of them.
"Yes, Seventh Grandfather, you always know that something has happened in the family, there is no silver, my third brother will do the work, make some baskets, baskets, chairs, and prepare to sell them in the county town."
Hearing this, Cai Qifu's face was a little sneering, and the seventh grandfather glanced at Cai Qifu, then withdrew his eyes and swept over the burden, "Hua'er, you have a lot of these things, you have to occupy a position, and you have to pay two more people's money, can you?" ”
"Yes, Seventh Grandfather, then count the five of us as silver." Cai Zijun responded, it is true that they have a lot of things, and the position they occupy is afraid that it will cost three people, and the seventh grandfather only accepted two people, which is to give his father Cai Dazhu's face.
The price was negotiated, the three brothers and sisters carried all the things on the ox cart, and the people also sat on it, and after a while, the people in the village who went to the county seat also arrived one after another.
The first people to come were two men, I heard Cai Qifu and Cai Qigui call both of them brothers, Cai Zijun also parroted the two of them, and then came a woman, two people called aunt, and she also called aunt.
The last two people came, a woman in her thirties, with a mean face, followed by a teenager, Cai Zijun felt that these two people were too familiar, and couldn't help but search in the memory of the original owner in his mind.
These two people used to be the objects of the original owner's crazy flattery, and Shi Guangzong's mother and son often took food, use, and even silver money to make up for it.
After Cai Zijun recognized the two, she immediately withdrew her gaze, pretended not to see it, and moved her fat body, allowing Cai Qigui's tall body to block her.
After Shi Guangzong's mother and son arrived, the ox cart was full, and the seventh grandfather shook off the bullwhip, and the ox cart moved and drove slowly on the country road.
After Du Shi and Shi Guangzong sat down, they found that there were three Cai family members on the ox cart, as well as Cai Hua'er, who was often currying favor in front of them at that time.
Shi Guangzong glanced at Cai Zijun, still that fat, so black, a few sparse yellow hairs tied into a strange ponytail and dragged behind his head, leaning on the back of the fourth child of the Cai family with his eyes closed, squinting, still napping.
A trace of disdain flashed in his eyes, except for eating, he only knew how to sleep...... Pig!
Du Shi also glanced at the things beside the brothers, and opened his mouth to talk to Cai Qifu, who was sitting opposite her, "Yo, Brother Qifu, are you also going to the county seat?" ”
Cai Qifu glanced at her, nodded, and didn't speak, Du was a well-known snarky person in Peach Blossom Village, and he didn't want to pay too much attention to it.
"What are you going to sell in the county? Small baskets, small baskets, hey, what is this? Du Shi stretched out her hand and dialed the bamboo utensils, the small basket, and the small basket she could barely recognize, but she didn't know the thing that looked like a snail shell.
"Chair!"
"Chairs? And what kind of weird chairs? ”
Not only Du Shi, but everyone else looked at the "snail shell", and their eyes were strange, and even Shi Guangzong, who boasted that he would be an official in the future, also looked at him twice.
"Well, this chair can be sitting, lying down, and swinging."
Seeing that everyone was concerned, Cai Qifu proudly introduced the function of "snail shell" to the people in the car.
"Young people's brains are good, they can come up with these new tricks, there are many rich people in the county, if people look strange, they will probably buy and try it." Grandpa Seventh also complimented him.
"Grandpa Tuoqi, I didn't come up with these tricks, my sister drew them for me." Cai Qifu looks like he is proud of his friends, the former younger sister, since he returned home, he feels that his younger sister has become a lot better, and he often helps himself.
"My sister drew it?"
Everyone looked at the chubby black girl who was still sleepy in surprise.
"That's right, my sister drew it."
"Is your sister literate? Can you also draw? Another woman asked, surprised.
"My younger sister has been literate with her eldest brother since she was five years old, how can she not be literate?! As for painting, it was her own thoughts, and my eldest brother said that she was good at painting and praised her for her talent. After Cai Qifu refuted the woman, he didn't forget to do propaganda for his sister.
Cai Zijun, who closed his eyes and recuperated, listened to his third brother blowing hard for himself, and secretly twitched the corners of his mouth, and then the corners of his mouth hooked up a warm smile.