Chapter 471: Smashing the pot and selling iron
Li Laosi saw that Zhou Weiji was on the horse and was leaving, so he hurriedly stepped forward and wanted to hold the reins of the horse. Heizi is a fierce horse, how can he be allowed to get close, he shook his neck and neighed, Li Laosi's body staggered, and Li Cunfa beside him was so frightened that he cried.
Li Laosi was also startled, seeing Li Cunfa tearing his neck and crying with snot and tears, he reached out and slapped him on the back, "What's the howl!" With grandpa here, you can still make the horse mention that you can't do it, it's not promising! ”
Li Cunfa was yelled at by his grandfather, and he closed his mouth and sobbed. Zhou Weiji patted Kuroko's neck, "Fourth uncle, this horse has a strong temperament, not everyone can get close." ”
Li Laosi nodded, and stubbornly stepped forward, "Wei Ji, I won't ask how Tian Gui's leg was broken, even if he suffers on his own, let's turn over this article and don't talk about it." The fourth uncle is looking for you today, and there are other things. Tian Gui's leg is broken and he has to take medicine and someone takes care of it, and now there is only my old bone left in the family to do some work, and now the family is almost unable to open the pot, can you borrow some money from the fourth uncle first, so that our family can survive this difficulty. ”
Zhou Weiji frowned, he didn't expect him to borrow money from himself.
Seeing that he was silent, Li Laosi gritted his teeth and said, "Don't say you don't, I know that your family is having a good time, you just pluck a hair casually, and it is thicker than the fourth uncle's waist." I don't want much, as long as I can buy rice to put in the pot and give Tian Gui medicine, it's done. Besides, even if Yu'er doesn't recognize Tian Gui, the second uncle, our old couple is also his own grandparents, how can there be grandchildren who follow you to eat and drink spicy food, and let the grandparents starve and freeze at home, this doesn't make sense! ”
Doesn't make sense?! Zhou Weiji's face sank. "It doesn't make sense, Fourth Uncle, it's my business whether I have any money in my hands. Borrowing you is a favor, not borrowing you is a duty! Yu'er is my son, I can eat whatever I want for him, you can't control it, you can't control it! ”
Li Laosi saw that he was angry, and he didn't dare to go too far, "Wei Ji." I'm not the one who has to make inches and doesn't know what to do, isn't there really no way to ask for you? I'm a man half buried in the ground, and I'm just starving to death. But this kid still has to live. Wei Ji, we are not the kind of master who has no skin and no face, and I will definitely pay it back at the end of the year if I borrow your money. Smashing pots and selling iron land is also on the ground. We don't deal with each other. You don't know my temper, if you don't believe it, go ask your brother-in-law, I'm also spitting and smashing a hole, and talking counts. ”
"In that case, why should the fourth uncle ask me to borrow money, now go and smash the pot and sell iron for money to buy rice and see a doctor." Zhou Weiji's face remained unchanged, he was not fooled with two or three sentences.
Li Laosi saw that he didn't eat hard and soft, and he had no idea. He took a step back in frustration, no longer stopping Zhou Weiji from leaving.
Zhou Weiji dismounted. He said in a deep voice, "According to the law of my dynasty, a man is twenty years old, sixty years old, and you are still old when you are not yet sixty." There is no rice in the pot but you don't think about labor, you just want to borrow money for turnover, how can someone else lend you money like you! For Yu'er's sake, I'll give you an errand, you go to the south of the county to clean the cattle head of the livestock market, and follow him to work. Although it is not said that it can be fragrant and spicy, it is always enough for you to buy rice in the pot. ”
Li Laosi's eyes lit up, although cleaning the cattle and horse market was dirty, it was not tiring, and the daily cow and horse manure could be brought back to the fertile field, although the salary was not much, it was enough for their family to chew, "Wei Ji, I, I, the fourth uncle doesn't know what to say, your kindness, the fourth uncle has written it down." Hang your hair, kowtow to your uncle, thank him for showing our family a way to live. ”
Li Cunfa was pressed to his knees and looked at Zhou Weiji in a daze, this child is only one year younger than Yu'er, but his agility is much worse, and his appearance is incomparable. Zhou Weiji pulled up Li Cunfa and said to Li Laosi sternly, "Do a good job, smash this errand, don't expect next time!" Fourth uncle, if you can't raise your godfather, this grandson still has to rely on you to raise him, don't follow his father's old path. ”
Li Laosi looked at Zhou Wei's extremely distant back, pulled Li Cunfa and turned his head home briskly, "Cunfa, go, carry the basket with grandpa to work in the city." ”
When Zhou Suyi was sent back to the village, it was already halfway through, and Lan Yi and Jia were working on the slopes. When Zhou Suyi saw Lan Yi, he grinned at her and beckoned, making ahhh
Lan Yi saw that he was as Zhou Weiji said, although he was embarrassed but in good spirits, he nodded and smiled. Zhou Sufang took two steps quickly, "Second sister-in-law, keep this job and wait for me to change my clothes and come over to help you do it." ”
"It's okay, we'll just clean up the shelves and go back to use firewood." Lan Yi refused, "You guys hurry back to the village, they are all waiting, don't let the old man wait." ”
Zhou Sufang picked up a large bamboo pole, "Cheng, I'll hold this bamboo pole down." ”
Seeing this, a group of people also picked up the bamboo frame wrapped around the hemp yam vine, and put it on the donkey cart under the hillside for Lan Yi with a smile.
Seeing this, Jia Shi took off his gloves with a smile, "I see that Su Yi is in good spirits, when Wei Ji goes to his house to eat steamed buns at night, he brings some of our family's herbs over, and asks him to drink two pairs to go to the cold." ”
Lan Yi nodded in response, and turned to look at Wen Xuan, the little guy was squatting in the pit, holding a small shovel and shaving hemp yams. Seeing his mother coming, the little guy lifted the mud face that the little flower cat moved, stood up with a treasure, and raised a palm-sized yam, "Mother, look at it, this is Xuan'er dug it out by herself, is it powerful?" ”
"Awesome!" Lan Yi praised, took out a handkerchief to help him wipe the dirt off his face, "Dig out this root, and my mother will steam it and eat it tonight." However, you have to dig well, and you can't bury yourself. ”
"Okay." Wen Xuan happily squatted down and continued to dig.
The child was having fun, rubbing the dirt and digging up a hemp yam, Lan Yi clapped his hands, and then cleaned up his things.
When I turned around, I found that the fat man did not go back to the village with the group, but turned back again.
"Sister-in-law Tuesday, that, this, hemp yam, is it delicious?" The fat man grinned, staring at Ma Yam and asked. From Lan Yi planting hemp yam to now, he has been looking forward to it for many months. In his opinion, Lan Yi must be a good thing to be able to plant so attentively.
Lan Yi directly picked up two sticks, "The taste is good, you take two sticks back and steam them to eat, dip them in some sugar to make them sweeter; You can also peel and slice and fry it. Or cook porridge and eat it. ”
"Hehe, there are so many ways to eat. Tuesday sister-in-law, you don't plant much. I want half a stick, so I'll take it back and give it to my grandmother to taste. The fat man picked up half a root about a foot long on the ground, "Sister-in-law, if my grandmother likes to eat, can I buy you a few and plant some next year?" ”
This year, he followed Lan Yi to plant big red fruits and sell them for a lot of money, and now he is full of enthusiasm to farm and live a good life.
Lan Yi handed him the two sticks in his hand as well. "Fatty, take it back and cook it for grandma and your eldest sister, half a stick is not enough to stuff your teeth." If it's good to eat. Let's buy some from the grocery store next year and plant them. These things that are produced in this field are for everyone to eat. ”
When the fat man heard this, he was no longer polite, and took the hemp yam in Lan Yi's hand. Said with a smile. "Thank you Sister-in-law Tuesday, my grandmother said that she wanted to invite you and Brother Tuesday over for dinner in the next episode, you see a good day, my grandmother said that she was going to the market to buy two elbows and come back to stew."
Looking at the white fat man with a face full of longing for the fragrance of elbows, Lan Yile spoke up, "Fat man, go back and tell grandma that I will take the child over to visit her old man when I have time." How can she let her old man work hard to cook for us. ”
The fat man's grandmother has always attributed her grandson's ability to live a life with her heart on Lan Yi, and said that if Lan Yi hadn't given him one hundred and fifty big red fruits. The fat man will not keep watch in the field every day; If Lan Yi hadn't taught him how to fiddle with the big red fruit seedlings little by little, the big red fruit of the fat man's family would not have grown so many fruits, and he would have sold several acres of grain for money. For this reason, the fat grandmother has already sent Lan Yi eggs a few times and cloth shoes she made for Yu'er and Wenxuan.
Actually, Lan Yi felt that the fat man could be like this entirely because he was too greedy. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, after eating the big red fruit for himself, the fat man thought about planting a large piece of land and eating it his stomach, so he was so energetic.
"That's not possible, my grandmother said that if you don't go, she will stew your elbow and bring it to the door." The fat man said seriously, "Sister-in-law on Tuesday, you can go over." ”
Lan Yi had to nod her head in response, and the fat man was happy again, "Okay! I'll tell my grandmother when I get back. Sister-in-law on Tuesday, Aunt Jia, I will go back to the village first, I told Brother Wufeng that I would go to his house to help with the wolf skin later, and then Brother Wufeng cut off a piece for me, and I took it back to make clothes for my grandmother to protect my grandmother's waist. ”
It turned out that Dao Wufeng did not come back with the group, and was dealing with wolf skins in the mountains. Lan Yi nodded, watching his chubby body run briskly towards the village.
"The fat man is really mentally headed," Lan Yi turned her head and asked Jia, "Aunt Yao, can wolf skin make clothes cure low back pain?" ”
Jia nodded, "Using wolf skin to make clothes or make mattresses to cushion on the kang can relieve rheumatic and low back pain." Presumably, Wufeng skinned the wolf to treat Su Fuzi's leg injury. Two large pieces of wolf skins are enough to make a mattress, and one piece can be left for the fat man. ”
The wolf is a grateful and vengeful animal, and if humans take the initiative to provoke the wolf, it may attract the revenge of the wolf pack. Although there has not been a large-scale wolf pack in the mountains near Beigou Village, people still follow this rule, and they will not hunt wolves when they go into the mountains to hunt, so it is difficult to get wolf skins. Even if someone occasionally hunts wolves, they will take the wolf skins to the city and sell them for a good price, where is they willing to use them for themselves.
Lan Yi thought of the fat man's sister Jane Nier giving Dao Wufeng clothes again, if the fat man's grandmother could use the wolf skin that Dao Wufeng hunted back this time, would she have a better impression of him? Lan Yi later paid attention to and inquired about Jane's situation, and knew that she was a good girl from a dry family, and it would be good if Dao Wufeng could marry her.
The fat man ran home with Ma Yam in his arms, and met the leather monkey and Zhou Jiqing on the edge of the field not far from home, and the two were lying on the straw with grass roots in their mouths to bask in the sun.
The leather monkey raised his arm to support his head, and when he saw the fat man, he stood up, patted the grass clippings on his body, and leaned forward with a smile, "Fat man, what are you hugging?"
"You know!" The fat man glared at him and walked home with different steps.
The leather monkey lowered his face coldly and blocked the fat man's way, "Master, I'm in charge!" Hmph, you really don't know, isn't this thing dug out on the hillside of the stunned man's house on Tuesday, how did you shoot other people's ass, why did you shoot such two mud sticks! If you have the ability, you can get another hundred and eighty and plant them! ”
The fat man was angry, "Leather monkey, I don't know you like you, and you still have a nose on your face!" Looking for a fight, right? ”
"Hey, I said dead fat, you're not afraid of the wind flashing your tongue." The leather monkey hugged his shoulders and shook his legs, his eyes full of contempt, "When did you Humpty Dumpty win me in a fight!" ”
Zhou Jiqing also laughed, and walked to the skin monkey to help, "Dead fatty, don't think that if you hold Tuesday's stunned thigh, you will be able to fight, not to mention that you can't walk a few times in front of Brother Skin Monkey, even if you can't bargain with me." ”
The fat man glared at him, "Get out of the way, it's not your turn to interject before the adults speak!" Leather monkey, I don't have time today, I'll fight with you another day. ”
After speaking, he hugged Ma Yam and wanted to bypass the leather monkey and then run home, but he didn't expect the leather monkey to suddenly reach out to his arms, break off half of the Ma Yam and lick it to his mouth, frowned and fell to the ground, "Phew! Even this broken thing is worth protecting as a treasure! ”
Looking at the hemp yam that was broken into several pieces, the fat man turned red in the eye, put all the hemp yams on the ground, and greeted the leather monkey with his fat fist.
The leather monkey smiled cruelly, he had expected him to do this, bent down to dodge, raised his leg and kicked over. The fat man lifted one hand and grabbed his leg, pulled it forward, and threw it out. The leather monkey took half a step forward and would not raise his foot to kick the fat man back, and the fat man flashed sideways, raising his foot and kicking the leather monkey's ass.
The two have been fighting since they were children, and they are very familiar with each other, and it was difficult to tell the winner for a while. Seeing this, Zhou Jiqing rushed up and hugged the fat man from behind, "Brother Monkey, come on!" ”
As soon as the fat man raised his foot, he stepped on the top of Zhou Jiqing's feet, Zhou Jiqing screamed, and his hand was still tightly strangled by the fat man and refused to let go.
The leather monkey glared, "Let him go, I won't need your helper to fight." ”
Only then did Zhou Jiqing let go and hid to the side, watching the two of them roll in one place. Both of these men were really angry, and they were merciless, rolling from the edge of the field to the field, and the fight was inseparable.
In the end, both of them lost their strength and lay in the field panting, as if they were back to when they were children, when they were chasing and running all over the village for stealing and eating other people's things.
The fat man looked at the clear blue sky and snorted, "Leather monkey, plus the third brother, we grew up with bare butts, and now we are like this, as for it?!" ”
The leather monkey tilted his head and spat out a mouthful of bloody spit, "Hmph, isn't it that you are a dead fat man who looks down on me, and every day you think about how to tie up with the rich and powerful." ”
The fat man smiled bitterly, "Leather monkey, don't think I don't know what you think." Isn't it because I made money by planting big red fruits this year, are you angry? ”
The leather monkey sat up suddenly, "Yes, I'm just angry!" You've planted a hundred and fifty big red fruits, what's wrong with giving me fifty, huh? Didn't you say that you treat me as a brother, and my brother is not worth fifty seedlings, is it? ”
The fat man also sat up, "Leather monkey, don't take it for granted, didn't you take it for granted, didn't your sister-in-law give it to you on Tuesday, you yourself didn't plant it later." I worked hard for a long time to plant, and when it blossomed and fruited, you came to me and asked for fifty trees, you can really do it! (To be continued.) )