Chapter 184: Patriarch, He's Not Stupid
It was a sunny day, Zhao Lan's mother was sitting by the lake washing clothes, and Chen Fan walked over with a pen.
A-Niang is still very good to them, even if their wounds have healed a lot, but the clothes they are wearing are still something, all of which are washed by Zhao Lan's A-Niang.
It can be said that she is a very virtuous, very gentle, and very good lady.
The cake that Chen Fan ate in his mouth was also made by them, although it was not very exquisite, but the original taste was already very good, but there was no salt.
Chen Fan thought that if there was salt in this cake, the taste would be even better.
If you don't think about it, you still tell them directly, Chen Fan thought about it and was ready to tell them around the bend.
Otherwise, they would definitely think that they were something, why did they know so many things, Chen Fan sat next to Ah Niang.
Zhao Lan's aunt watched Chen Fan sit there eating, looked at herself writing with a serious face, and looked at Chen Fan very funny, "Why are you young man watching Ah Niang wash clothes?" Is it so good to do your laundry? ”
Chen Fan didn't know how to call this lady, Zhao Lan called Ah Niang, and Chen Fan also called Ah Niang, but this Ah Niang didn't refuse, and she seemed to like this title very much.
The reason why Zhao Lan is good-looking is because his parents are not bad, although A-Niang looks older, but her facial features are correct, that is, her strength is relatively large, and her figure is relatively tall and strong, otherwise how could she give birth to a man as good as Zhao Lan.
Chen Fan coughed a few times and then nodded and said, "A-Niang is originally your good-looking, if you were young, you must be a beautiful girl, right?" ”
Chen Fan looked serious, not like talking at all, Ah Niang raised her head and glanced at Chen Fan, how could this little mouth be inexplicable, Ah Niang was very happy after listening to it, and her strength in washing clothes was getting bigger and bigger, and she almost washed her clothes, "You young man, you can talk, but you are really right, when my mother was young, but a flower in this tribe, the threshold was broken, and I married your father." ”
"So that's the case, no wonder such a handsome Zhao Lan was born."
Although A-Niang always says that she is good-looking, can she eat it as a meal if she looks good? But hearing Chen Fan say this, he was still very proud in his heart that he gave birth to such a handsome son, and he was still very happy in his heart.
Chen Fan counted in his heart, when should he tell this matter?
One, two, three, four, five, Chen Fan gently erected in his mouth.
Just when Ah Niang washed all the clothes and put them in the bucket, Chen Fan suddenly slapped his thigh, "By the way, Ah Niang, I suddenly remembered!" ”
A-Niang looked at Chen Fan with a confused expression, "Why are you young man so surprised, is there anything wrong?" ”
Chen Fan nodded lightly and continued to sit on the stone, not standing up yet, "I do have something to ask Ah Niang, by the way, Ah Niang, is the salt in your town particularly expensive?" ”
A-Niang put the clothes into the bucket one by one, bent and shook it lightly and said, "That's natural, the salt we have here is very expensive, we can't afford to buy salt, it's important to fill our stomachs, it's just a seasoning thing." ”
Although salt is a seasoning thing, it is an indispensable element for them and for the body, Chen Fan said with a smile, "Is salt really so expensive?" ”
A-Niang sat down suddenly, nodded lightly, looked at Chen Fan's white face, and knew that this kind of young man had never suffered, Macheng was also a son-in-law when he was at home, and he must have eaten salt every day, "That's natural, we must be different from you, it is estimated that you should have salt at home." ”
"But, we are relatively poor here, so we can't afford to eat salt, and this eye pressure is much more expensive than meat, how do you say we should eat?"
Chen Fan took a deep breath, sad and sad, it was so sad, looking at these barren lands, Chen Fan smiled and put his finger on Ah Niang's ear and said, "Ah Niang, let me tell you one thing, that is, I had a dream yesterday, I dreamed that your land was full of smoke, and asked us to dig it, maybe we will get rich." ”
Ah Niang obviously didn't believe it when she heard this, and broke her hands as if she had heard a big joke, "Oh, what are you talking about, it's not allowed to dream, do you still believe in dreaming?" It's all fake, don't believe it, boy, you can't grasp this kind of thing. ”
Chen Fan sighed, why can't he grasp it? He is not Gazi or Panzi, Chen Fan said seriously again, "A-Niang, why don't you believe me?" What I said was true, I remember one time I dreamed that there was a place where I picked up money, and then I went to that place, and guess what the word was, I actually went there and picked up money. ”
Chen Fan immediately made a look of concern, and he was really at the level of an actor, "It's true, Auntie, don't believe it, some things would rather be believed than not, let's just find someone to dig it up, anyway, we don't suffer, don't you say." ”
A-Niang didn't believe it, but when she heard Chen Fan say this, she really felt that it was possible to feel some truth, and she made an attitude of giving it a try, "What you said is true, if it is true, we can give it a try, but the probability should be very small, if there are really many people underground, then we will be rich." ”
Chen Fan nodded again very seriously, "Of course, I swear to the sky that Tong Su is not bullied, Tong Su is not bullied, every time I dream is very accurate, one hundred percent!" ”
After hearing Chen Fan's words, A-Niang finally believed it, pulled Chen Fan up and said, "Let's go, accompany A-Niang to dry the clothes, and after the clothes are dried, we will go to the patriarch, and let the patriarch gather all the people in the tribe, let's dig in, go to the place you said to see if there is really one!" ”
Although A-Niang thinks that the possibility is very small, what Chen Fan said is very reasonable, it is better to believe it than to believe it, and if there is no harm in believing in some things, you can still believe it.
Chen Fan followed A-Niang to put the clothes one by one on the bamboo pole town, and after drying the clothes, he followed A-Niang to the door of another earthen wall and knocked lightly, "Are you scolding the patriarch for the patriarch again?" ”
After a while, the door finally opened, and it was the patriarch who opened the door, with a pipe smoke in his mouth, and Chen Fan, who was choking, hurriedly took a few steps back.
I thought in my heart that I was so old, why did I still smoke, and life was relatively short, and after smoking, life was even shorter, I am afraid that I can only live to be thirty or forty years old.
The patriarch smoked a cigarette, but after seeing them, he immediately extinguished the cigarette, wiped the corners of his mouth, and looked very polite, "What's the matter, sister-in-law Zhao, are you looking for me with great interest?" ”
A-Niang smiled, looked at the patriarch and said, "That's the case, Chen Gongzi said that he had a dream recently, and he dreamed that we have a place where the ground is all salt, so I will tell the patriarch, why don't you organize people and we will dig it to see if there is one." ”
After hearing this, the patriarch laughed out loud and patted Ah Niang's shoulder hard, Ah Niang frowned and looked at the patriarch's skinny hand, "What do you mean, director?" Why are you laughing? Are you mocking us? ”
The patriarch laughed again, looked at Chen Fan and burst into tears, looked at A-Niang with a smile and said, "A-Niang, you are too stupid, you say that this young man is stupid, forget it, why do you still follow the young man to make fun of this kind of thing, can you believe it?" Haven't we dreamed? ”
Ah Niang didn't believe in dreams, but Ah Niang believed more, Chen Fan frowned, looking at the patriarch like this, looking a little unhappy, "Patriarch, you said this is a bit too much, you said that if there is really salt behind the mountain, what can I do?" Don't we regret it? We have been silent for generations! ”
Because they can't eat salt without money to buy it, and they can't stop eating food just to eat salt, and they won't have to starve to death when the time comes!
The patriarch smiled, then calmed down and apologized, "I'm really sorry Sister-in-law Zhao, everyone is busy, I don't have time to play with you, how can this be fate, we have lived here for so long, you see that I have lived so old, where is the salt!" ”
Chen Fan took a deep breath, why didn't they believe it? Chen Fan walked in front of the patriarch, "Patriarch, why don't you believe my words?" I said yes, my dream is very accurate, can't you give it a try? If you give it a try, when I return to the capital, how about I reward your tribe with a hundred catties of salt? ”
This sentence frightened the patriarch so much that he almost dropped his pipe on the ground, looked at Chen Fan blankly and immediately nodded, "You are really, don't lie to me, a hundred catties of salt, as long as we go to play, you will definitely send us a hundred catties of cigarettes?" ”
What is a hundred catties of salt, if they dig out their eyes there, I am afraid it will already be rare, Chen Fan still nodded seriously and said, "Of course, Tong Su is not bullied, big men are talking, I dare to guarantee." ”
The patriarch took a closer look at Chen Fan, Chen Fan does look like a very upright one, at first glance he is a scholar, at first glance he is a child of a rich family, he should be able to take a hundred catties of eyes, and during this period of contact, he also knows that Chen Fan is a good person.
So he agreed, "Okay, since Childe said so, then let's dare to give it a try." ”
The patriarch felt that Chen Fan was a little stupid in his heart, but he was still willing to give it a try, mainly because there were benefits and no disadvantages.
At noon, the patriarch gathered all the men in the tribe, neatly lined up, and there were some young girls, and some sisters-in-law, of course, these were relatively few, most of them were men.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be some people who wouldn't be able to marry their daughters-in-law.
They lined up neatly here, and they didn't know what was going on, they hadn't even slept at noon, and an eldest lady yawned and held a big rooster in her hand, "Oh, patriarch, what the hell is going on with you?" I called people out at noon, but they haven't slept yet, it's really annoying. ”
The big man had to go to work in the afternoon, so he had to sleep at noon, and now he was called out, and he was very unhappy inside, looking at the patriarch and saying sullenly, "Is there something that the patriarch can't call us out at night?" We still have to work during the day, how do we work at night, and if there is anything in the future, we can be called at night. ”
"It's just that it's the middle of the day that calls people out, and they don't let people live!"
The village chief coughed awkwardly a few times, and was very embarrassed to say to them, "That's right, I called you out today because there is something very important. ”
They don't know what is important, is it important to farm and work for big things? They live their whole lives to work, and if they don't, they don't have money.
"Look at what you're talking about, what is more important than our work?"
Chen Fan, who was seen by the patriarch, also looked a little embarrassed, and said to them, "Oh, that's the case, this son had a dream last night, and he dreamed that there was an eye in a place at the foot of our mountain, and there were eyes underneath, and if we dig it out, we can sell it for money, and then we will embark on the road to prosperity!" ”
They were quite excited when they heard the first half of the sentence, but when they heard the second half of the sentence, they became less excited at all, it turned out to be a dream, how can this kind of thing be trusted? It's all fake, they looked at the patriarch with tears and laughter and said, "Aren't you stupid by the way, patriarch?" How can you still believe in such a thing as dreaming, this is too fake! ”
"A lot of people still believe in this kind of thing, I'm afraid it's not a brain show, isn't the village chief's IQ fully developed!"
These people are rough people, they have not learned knowledge, and these scolding words are also heard from other people's mouths, after all, scolding words are the fastest to learn, and they scold people that practice makes perfect.
It seems that the status of the patriarch in their hearts is not high at all, Chen Fan took a deep breath, and there was no majesty of the patriarch at all.
The patriarch looked a little aggrieved, shook his head and explained seriously to everyone, "Oh, don't get me wrong, it's not for me to let everyone dig it, but this son firmly believes that there is salt there, so let us play, if we listen to the son, when he goes back, he will reward our tribe with a hundred catties of salt, and then everyone will be able to get one catty of salt to two catties last time." ”