"Auntie, I've made it clear, please run more for a while, if this happens, in addition to the thank you gift from the old ganbang, I will give you an extra three liters of wheat!"

"Three liters of wheat?" The matchmaker's face was full of shock, she was originally sitting on the kang, but now she stood up, didn't believe her ears, raised two fingers, and confirmed to Wang Chong: "Captain Wang, is it really three liters of wheat?" Don't mess with my wife. ”

In fact, there are not many three liters of wheat, one liter is about one and a half catties, and three liters are almost four or five catties.

The flour milled from wheat is a fine grain, and the villagers do not eat much, but mostly take it to the city to exchange it for coarse grains such as corn and sweet potatoes.

Three liters of wheat can be exchanged for a lot of coarse grains, enough for a family to eat for several days, if there is a famine, these three liters of wheat may be able to save a few lives.

The matchmaker's face was full of anticipation.

Wang Chong said solemnly: "My Wang Chong speaks, a mouthful of spit and a nail, as long as the aunt says that I have a brother Dao, two liters of wheat, I will serve it with both hands, and I will never be like the big head of the horse, and make people with the covered wheat lake." ”

"With your Captain Wang's words, this family business is wrapped up in me!"

"Auntie, there's another thing!"

"What's the matter?"

"You know about the three liters of wheat, don't tell anyone about it." Wang Chongdao.

The matchmaker was stunned for a moment, and then reacted: "Don't worry, your aunt and I have the tightest mouth, and I won't let the third person know." ”

"Auntie! Then bother you! ”

"No trouble, no trouble!"

After a period of prevarication, Wang Chongcai came out of the matchmaker's house.

"Big Bug?" As soon as Wang Chong's front foot went out, an exclamation came from not far from his back foot.

"It's three monkeys!" The three monkeys were dressed in cotton jackets, gloves, hats, several layers of straw stuffed into their shoes, a fork on their shoulders, and a basket behind them.

Look at him like this, you can know that he is picking up dung: "How much dung did you pick up?" ”

The three monkeys looked annoyed and depressed: "When I went, I happened to bump into the old donkey walking back with a dung basket and a dung rake, where is there still dung for me to pick up." ”

"When the weather gets warmer in a while, let's dig some silt out of the river and dry it as fertilizer!"

"Silt in the river?" The three monkeys frowned: "Silt can also be used as fertilizer?" ”

"What, don't you believe me?"

"How can you!"

"I can do whatever you say!" The three monkeys said with a smile.

After saying that, the three monkeys suddenly reacted, Wang Chong came out of the door just now, so he curiously stretched his neck and looked into the courtyard, although he didn't see anything, but his mind flashed with inspiration, turned his head to look at Wang Chong, a smile appeared on his face, and the fire of gossip was ignited: "Brother Big Worm, are you going to find a daughter-in-law?" ”

Wang Zhong smiled mysteriously: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed." Then he turned around and walked away.

"Big Bug!" The three monkeys hurriedly caught up and walked side by side with Wang Chong: "Whose girl are you looking at?" Are you handsome or not? How old are you? ”

The three monkeys' questions full of curiosity were gradually obscured by the torrential north wind and the heavy snow that fluttered like goose feathers.

In the cold winter, the snow is falling, and the mountains are all over the wilderness, turning into a white expanse.

"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow. Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, only reckless; Up and down the river, suddenly lost and surging. Mountain dance silver snake, the original Chi wax elephant, want to be higher than the heavenly public test. It must be a sunny day, and look at the red dress, which is extraordinarily enchanting.

There are so many delicate rivers and mountains, leading countless heroes to bend their waists. Regret the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, slightly lose the literary style; Tang Zong and Song Zu are slightly less coquettish. A generation of Tianjiao, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the wither. The past, the number of romantic figures, but also look at the present. ”

In the upper reaches of the Maixiang River, on the edge of the big waterwheel, Wang Chong stood by the river with a hat, with the wind and snow on his head, stepping on the earth, looking at the snow scene on both sides of the Maixiang River, he couldn't help but feel emotional, and read out the song "Qinyuan Spring Snow" written in 36 years

"Good words, good for the occasion, good interest!" Ma Renli, who was wearing three good words in a row, wearing a horse coat and a felt hat, strode to Wang Chong's side.

"Why are you here?" Wang Chong didn't look back, still looking at the vista.

"The snow is too big, I thought about asking you to come and see our big waterwheel, and when I arrived at your house, I found that you were not at home, and I asked Ma Renlian to know that you had already come." Ma Renli put his hands in his sleeves, shrunk his neck, curled up, like a monkey.

"Ruixue is a good year, with such a big snowfall, there will definitely be a good harvest in the coming year." Seeing that Wang Chong didn't speak, Ma Renli sighed again.

Wang Zhong retracted his gaze and turned his head to look at Ma Renli: "You don't want to please your sweetheart, you come here to spoil some scenery." ”

Ma Renli was suffocated by Wang Chong's words that he couldn't go up or down: "What kind of sweetheart, don't talk nonsense." ”

With this clumsy acting skills, Wang Chong didn't bother to expose him: "The ancients said well, marry a wife and marry a virtuous person, just like you are now, people don't look down on you." ”

"What's wrong with me?" If it were anything else, Ma Renli would have confessed to it, but it involved Qiao Yue, which was his last dignity as a man.

"Then why did you invite her to join our support group, but she didn't agree, but was determined to follow Niu Bold?"

"I ······ I don't know! Ma Renli said.

"Qiao Yue, this person, pampered, fine skin and tender meat, is worse than you, people work hard in the field, she pinched the orchid finger on the kan and sang, a scarf from autumn to spring, she didn't leave it when she worked, like the kind of people who work hard?

Besides, Niu is bold, he is full of strength, he is a good hand at work, a good hand in camping, he can do the work in Qiao Yue's field, can you? ”

"I ······" Ma Renli still wanted to defend a few words, but he really had no confidence.

Wang Zhong said disdainfully: "You can't understand the little work in your own field, if you were Qiao Yue, between you and Niu Daring, which one would you choose?" ”

"Although I promised your father to take care of you, but you are not my son, these words are the last time I tell you, if you are a smart person, you should dispel the unrealistic thoughts in your heart as soon as possible, and live your life seriously first, better than anything else."

"In a few years, people will let go of their prejudices about you, and then find someone who is honest, has good ingredients, works hard, can help your daughter-in-law, and have a few more dolls, and your life will not be so sad."

This is Wang Chong's heartfelt words, now Ma Renli because of the waterwheel and the canal although he has gained a wave of prestige, but because of the identity of Ma Datou's son, the time is too short, people's prejudice against Ma Renli has not been completely eliminated, fortunately, most of the people in Maixiang Village are relatively simple, there is no bad intentions, otherwise, Ma Renli's background, maybe what crime will be suffered.

"Okay, it's cold outside, just your bones, hurry home and stay on the kang."

After saying that, Wang Chong turned around and went back first, Ma Renli looked at Wang Chong's tall back, gritted his teeth, and followed with steps.

Wang Chong has already said what he should say, whether he can listen to it or not, that is Ma Renli's business, after all, Ma Renli is a mature adult who has read poetry and books, has his own ideas, and is not Wang Chong's marionette.

Chinese New Year's Eve, as the first New Year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the villagers of Maixiang Village are silent in unprecedented joy and joy.

Although the days are equally difficult now, they are much better than before, and other entertainment projects can't afford it, but the three things of pasting couplets, setting off firecrackers, and making dumplings can still be arranged.

Early in the morning, not long after dawn, I heard sporadic firecrackers in the village.

For the Chinese New Year, Wang Chong also plans to give himself a few days off to rest and rest.

Not long after breakfast, Lao Ganbang and the three monkeys came to Wang Chong's house.

In the study room of the east wing, in front of the desk, the old dry stick lays paper, the three monkeys grind the ink, Wang relifts the pen and dips the ink, the pen walks the dragon and snake, the clouds and rivers flow, and between the moments, a couplet is written.

"It's good-looking, it's beautifully written!" The three monkeys praised from the bottom of their hearts.

"It's really pretty!" The old ganstick couldn't stop nodding.

"Brother Big Worm, how do you pronounce these words!"

The three monkeys and the old were both born poor, and they have been digging in the field all their lives, and they have never gone to school, so they naturally don't know how to read.

"A hundred years of heaven and earth rejuvenation!" Wang Zhong pointed his hand from top to bottom and read word by word.

"What about the next link?" The three monkeys couldn't wait to ask.

Wang Chongchong glanced at the old, and the old immediately put the written couplet aside and replaced it with a new piece of paper.

"This next link is: unify the mountains and rivers and peace."

"The horizontal batch is: Guotai Min'an!"

"Unify the mountains and rivers, the country and the people!" The old ganbang nodded his head in a similar manner, looking very satisfied, "It sounds quite imposing." ”

"The momentum is enough, but it's a little less festive." The three monkeys said with a shy smile: "Brother, can you write me a festive one!" ”

"I don't know the goods!" This kid obviously didn't look at this picture, Wang Zhong glanced at him and said: "Greet the New Year with lanterns and celebrate the festival happily, how about this couplet?" ”

"This is good! This is good! The three monkeys were all laughing.

Wang Zhong shook his head, and wrote down this couplet with a pen, and the horizontal criticism is also simple and popular, only the four words "celebrate the Spring Festival", and the three monkeys like it.

The stick to the old man is: Fuxing will always shine in the safe house, and the good times often come to the Kangle family, and the horizontal batch is written in Sanyang Kaitai.

Ma Renlian in the front yard and Niu Daring in the side yard saw the old ganbang and the three monkeys going out happily with the freshly written couplet, Ma Renlian holding a plate of steamed buns, Niu Daring brought a bowl of dumplings, and one person asked Wang for a couplet, looking at the big characters of the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing, the faces of the two were also full of smiles.

"Brother Daring, paste the couplet!"

Niu Daring had just set up the ladder, scraped the lake on the opposite side, and was about to paste it on the ladder, when suddenly Qiao Yue's voice came from the gate of the courtyard.

"It's Qiao Yue! What's wrong, what's the matter? The cow boldly turned his head and continued to climb the ladder.

Qiao Yue hurriedly trotted to the edge of the ladder and helped Niu boldly hold the ladder: "It's nothing, just go shopping." ”

"Where did this couplet come from, it's well written!" Qiao Yue can barely be regarded as a half-cultural person, although she doesn't have any skills, but she understands a little bit.

"Spring is everywhere, and this couplet is not bad."

"Not bad! The next link is: thousands of rivers and mountains are full of brilliance, and the horizontal batch is: Vientiane is renewed. Niu Daring showed a smile on his face and said with emotion: "Wang Daworm wrote it, he wrote several pairs, and I took a look at this one." ”

"Wang rewritten?" Qiao Yue was stunned: "He writes so well?" ”

"It's good, it's good, it's good-looking!"

The couplets written by Wang Zhong for everyone are all in block letters, and the font is upright and elegant.

This big character and small Kai can be different, can write a good small Kai, may not be able to write a good big character, looking at the penmanship of the dragon flying phoenix dance, the strong and powerful skeleton, without a hard practice, can never write such a word.

It's a pity that Qiao Yue is just a half-ass, after all, it's just a play, if it is Ma Renli, it is estimated that he can still see some clues.

Helping Niu boldly paste the couplet, Qiao Yue didn't stay, and Niu boldly said a few words and left, walking and walking, and the ghost sent the god to the inner courtyard.

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"Is anyone home?" As soon as Qiao Yue entered the courtyard, she shouted with a raised voice.

"Inside the house! The door is not bolted, come in by yourself! ”

The voice came from the east wing, Qiao Yue walked to the south room of the east wing, pushed the door open and walked inside.

"It's Qiao Yue! What's the matter with me? ”

Qiao Yue closed the door with her backhand: "I can't look for you if it's okay!" ”

Qiao Yue pursed her lips and smiled as she walked towards the kang, and gave Wang Zhong a wink.

"On this cold day, you don't wait for a kang as big as the main house, why did you come to the wing?" Qiao Yue walked to the side of the kang and sat on the kang with her buttocks, and immediately bounced up in shock, exclaiming: "Oops, why is this kang still cold?" You're not afraid of freezing. ”

Wang Chongdao: "I am young, my body is hard-boned, and I am resistant to frost. ”

When Qiao Yue heard this, she couldn't help but look up and down at the tall figure sitting cross-legged with her back to the window on the kang, and couldn't help biting her lower lip again, and said, "You person, people care about you." ”

"Good intentions, but you really don't have to, you have to have this idle time, it's better to care more about Niu Daring, he doesn't help you less on weekdays, if it weren't for him, you will be hungry this year."

Qiao Yue didn't care: "Brother Daring does take good care of me······"

"Wang Chong! At home? ”

Before Qiao Yue's words fell, Ma Renli's voice suddenly came from outside.

"Here!" The king replied.

Immediately outside the door, there was the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer, accompanied by the sound of the door opening, and Ma Renli's voice: "Why don't you live in the main house, and run to the east wing?" ”

As soon as Ma Renli's words fell, he saw Qiao Yue sitting by the kang.

Dressed in a floral cotton jacket, or the shoulder-length short hair, smooth and supple, obviously taken care of day by day, the face is white, the eyebrows are picturesque, compared to the younger, there is not much change, and the red scarf around the neck is still the same as the gift, which was still given by Ma Ren.

"Qiao Yue?" Seeing Qiao Yue, Ma Renli was very surprised: "Why are you here?" ”

"Why can't I be here?" Qiao Yue replied.

"That's not what I meant!" Ma Renli hurriedly explained.

"I came to Wang Zhong to discuss a couplet, what are you doing here?" Qiao Yue is now respectful of Ma Renli, for fear that others will contact her and Ma Renli.

"I'm going to go to the county seat, come over and ask Wang if he wants to go together!"

"Go, why don't you go!" Wang Zhong asked, "You go to Sister-in-law Jinhua to bring the cow back, and I'll go to the backyard to push the car out." ”

There is a backyard behind the courtyard, which used to be the location of the horse family workers and the livestock shed, the firewood house, the pigsty, the chicken pen and the duck house are all behind, and now it is divided into two pieces, the west side was originally the chicken pen and duck house, which was given to the cow bold, and the east side is the firewood house and the pigsty and the cowshed, because it is behind the Wang Chong main house, it is given to Wang Zhong by homeopathy, and there is a sandwich road from the west side of the main house to pass.

Wang Zhong was about to go out, so Qiao Yue naturally didn't want to stay any longer, but when she heard that the two of them were going to the county seat, Qiao Yue suddenly moved her mind.

"Captain Wang, can you take me with you?" Qiao Yue said: "I also want to go to the county seat to buy something." ”

"No problem!" Before Wang Chong could speak, Ma Renli agreed for Wang Chong first.

It's a real hammer, and it's a licking dog again.

Wang Chong shook his head, he didn't say anything, it was useless to say, Wang Chong had already said what he should have said before.

The next day, on the morning of the first day of the new year, just after breakfast, some people came over to Wang Chong to pay New Year's greetings, with the return to the hometown group incident, to the construction of windmills and threshers, to the successful completion of the first and second stages of the siege of water conservancy and irrigation, the winter wheat that the villagers worked hard to plant, no longer have to worry about the winter irrigation and spring irrigation, and the accumulation again and again, Wang Chong's prestige in the hearts of the villagers is naturally getting higher and higher.

Especially recently, the village chiefs and party secretaries of Shili and Eight Townships have come to visit Wang Chong, ask for advice and learn from the experience of water conservancy and irrigation, and ask Wang Chong to help build windmills and threshers.

In the hearts of the villagers in Maixiang Village, Wang Chong seems to have become a figure like Zhou Yihu.

For this situation, Wang Chong naturally likes to hear about it, otherwise, he would not be so hard-working.

After all, the main task given by the system is to change the fate of everyone in Maixiang Village as much as possible and avoid those regrettable tragedies.

Wang Chong already had preliminary calculations in his heart, but in order to realize these calculations, the first step was to expand his fame as much as possible, and it could not be limited to just one place, Maixiang Village.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the matchmaker came to Wang Chong with joy, and when she came up, she said hello to Wang Chong.

"Auntie, it's not me asking someone to say goodbye, what kind of joy do you pour me?" Saying that, Wang Chong gestured in the direction of the old gangster: "Where is the person you should be happy about!" ”

"Auntie, sit in the house, drink hot water to warm your stomach first." Wang Zhong welcomed the people into the main house, sat on the kang, and poured a bowl of hot water.

The old ganstick grinned, although he was a little embarrassed, but he was more expectant: "Auntie, is there any news?" ”

That's a daughter-in-law, in the past ten years, Lao Ganbang couldn't even think of it.

The matchmaker took a sip of water and said with a smile: "Yes, this time, you will definitely be satisfied." ”

A few years ago, the matchmaker also introduced one to the old, and at first the people agreed, but when Wang Zhong and the old came to see it, the girl was also handsome, only eighteen years old, which is the same age as the flower, and the girl's parents originally agreed, but the girl was not happy when she saw that the old was old, not tall, and not outstanding.

No matter what her parents say, the girl just refuses to let go, the matter of marriage is still what you and I want, after all, the two will still live together in the future, if they are reluctant, even if they become relatives, they may not know what will happen in the future, the old doesn't want to force other girls, let alone embarrass their parents, so he simply refused this matter through the mouth of the matchmaker.

"Which girl is it?" The old gan couldn't wait to ask.

"It's the second girl of the fourth family of Han Lao in Jixian Town, her big name is Han Chunmei, she is twenty-two years old this year, she looks like Zhou Zheng, she doesn't say anything, she does laundry, cooks, and cleans up the house. Sewing and mending these are not a problem, and working in the field is also a good hand. ”

"Such a good girl, can people take a fancy to me?" The old gan has no confidence.

"Auntie, if this girl is really as good as you say, the one who goes to her house to propose marriage will not break the threshold of her family." Wang Chongdao.

The matchmaker said: "Who said it wasn't, if it was before, people might not really look down on the old gangster, but now it's different, Han Laosi has six children, two girls, four sons, his eldest son just got married last year, and now the second son and three sons have also reached the age of saying kissing, but last year just divided the land into the household, Han Laosi's family has a large population, how much surplus grain is there in the family, and now their family is worried about the bride price of his second and third children." ”

"The old ganbang is indeed not young, but the bride price is high, ten liters of wheat, ten eggs, three-foot flower cloth, such a thick dowry, I have told people about the matchmaker for most of my life, and it is the first time I have seen it in our village."

"Then find a time, my aunt will take the old gan stick to visit the girl's house, and we will see each other first!"

"No problem, anytime!" The matchmaker patted her chest and assured.

"How's tomorrow?" Looking at the old ganbang's eager appearance, Wang Zhong suggested.

"Done! Then tomorrow, we'll go early tomorrow morning. ”

The next day, when the old ganbang came back, the smile on his face never broke.

"It's finished?" Wang asked again.

"It's done!" The old guy said happily.

"When is the date?"

"Eighteenth day."

"So fast?" Wang Chong was a little surprised, this is the ninth day of the first month, and it is only nine days away from the eighteenth.

"It's your future father-in-law who is in a hurry to tell your two future brother-in-law daughters-in-law, I'm afraid you will change your mind and regret it, right?" Wang Zhong guessed.

The old gan smiled and didn't defend himself.

Wang Chong: "Did you tell your second grandfather about this?" ”

The old ganstick shook his head and said, "Not yet, I'll go and talk to the second grandfather!" ”

On the same day, the old ganbang used ten liters of wheat as a bride price, and it spread throughout the entire Maixiang Village in an instant, which caused a lot of sensation at once, and the three monkeys had always been good friends with the old ganbang on weekdays, and they came to the door to find the old ganbang to confirm the news.

Everyone began to help the old ganstick Zhang Luo to get married, set up a banquet to do the old ganbang naturally does not have that ability, now every household is living a tight life, although the old ganbang has a little food in his hand, but the bride price went to most of the part, there is not much left, and after getting married, his family will have one more mouth to eat, fortunately, it is not long before the summer harvest, and the wheat at home is replaced with rice and sweet potatoes These coarse grains, eat until the summer harvest should still be left.