Chu Yi knew very early on that in his grandfather and grandmother's heart, grandsons and grandsons were different, and he could only stay in the countryside to work without his father and mother, how could he compare with the talented eldest grandson?

It's just that Chu Yi glanced at his younger brother who was a little overwhelmed next to him, he shouldn't have let Ah Li hear this today!

"Mother, I didn't mean that......"

Grandpa Chu glanced at his wife and the two brothers Chu Yi, who were speechless, sighed, and interrupted Third Uncle Chu: "Okay, Ayi, it's not that Grandpa and Grandma are eccentric, I'm old, my physical strength is not as good as before, and your third uncle is inconvenient, most of the work in this family depends on you, you should know that life at home is not easy!"

Your uncle also wants your cousin to have a good future, Chu Ren is studying in the town, which one of the food, clothing, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone does not need money?

He has to go to Fucheng every three years to catch the exam, and there are expenses everywhere, where can you support your uncle alone, you have to work together with the whole family!

If Chu Ren is in high school in the future, it will be a great joy for the whole family to follow the light! Old woman, just take out one or two more, and make up three taels of dowry! ”

"Daddy!"

"Third uncle, let's just three or two." Ignoring everyone's reactions, he led Chu Li out of the Chu family's hall.

Chu Li looked up at his expressionless brother and hesitated: "Brother......"

Chu Yi stopped and patted his younger brother's shoulder: "Don't worry, Brother will find a way." ”

"Ayi!"

Hearing this, Chu Yi turned around and walked two steps, helped the third uncle Chu who chased him out, and saw that Chu Li was still standing in place, urging: "Ah Li, you should go to the school." ”

Third Uncle Chu saw Chu Li go out of the yard, so he spoke again, and some things should not be said in front of the child: "Ayi, don't blame your grandpa and grandma, they ...... They are also for this family. Alas, don't talk about this, there is really less metal in three or two, the village is hired, no matter how ordinary people are, they have to make up five or six taels, the Shen family is living a prosperous life, and the bride money is less and you can't take it, the third uncle has also saved some silver money over the years, and the rest of the third uncle will give you it, and we will also pay ten taels of dowry! But don't let your grandpa and grandma know! ”

After Daddy and Auntie left, the third uncle always regarded him and Ali as his own son, and Chu Yi knew it, so he didn't want the third uncle to be embarrassed between him and his grandmother: "Third uncle, you keep the money, and I will find a way to pay the bride price." ”

"There are elders in the family, how can you find a way to make money by yourself! Besides, what can you do, either go out to work or find someone to borrow, the work at home is inseparable from you, you can't work, is it really for you to borrow? It's not that there is nothing at home! ”

Chu Yi knows the rules of the family, after the children and grandchildren become relatives, if they finish the work at home, they can do some private work to earn money, his uncle, his father and the third uncle are all like this.

But his third uncle broke his leg since he broke his leg, and he has never done any private work, and the money was also saved before, and he has to make up for it at home from time to time over the years.

"Third uncle, I really don't need to! I have money! "Before Chu Yi's father died, he left some money for his two sons, Xu was not worried about the two sons who were left alone in the world, and he specially instructed Chu Yi not to talk about it with others, and put it away for emergencies.

"You keep the money, Chu Li will get married after studying now, don't you have to rely on you? When your father left, I promised him to take care of the two of you as his own sons, why do you want the third uncle to break his promise? ”

"Third Uncle ......"

"When I broke my leg and left, what did you say, saying that in the future, he and Ah Li would take care of me like a father, why didn't you want to admit it?"

"It's not."

"What's wrong with a father giving his son money?"

Chu Yi said that he couldn't say that his third uncle, but he didn't want the third uncle to empty his family funds to marry him: "Then the third uncle will help me make up two more taels, and I will do the rest." ”

"Don't ......"

This matter can't be hidden from grandpa and grandma, even if it is hidden for a while, it will be known on the day of the recruitment, and then grandpa and grandma will know that the third uncle has filled so much in private, and he doesn't know how to end it, Chu Yi doesn't want the third uncle to be bad at that time: "The third uncle is always not good to cross grandpa and grandma." ”

Third Uncle Chu hesitated for a moment, and knew that what his nephew said made sense: "In that case, the third uncle will add three taels to you, and you can make up the rest by yourself, all of them are three taels, and it is not counted as going over your grandpa and grandma." ”

The matter of the bride price is temporarily solved, wine, tea, and pastries are handled by their own grandmothers, but they still need a pair of geese to make the first gift on the day of the recruitment, Chu Yi plans to go to the courtyard of the grandfather's house next door, and call his cousin Chu Ping to try his luck on the mountain together.

Chu Ping was squatting under the eaves of his house to drink porridge, and when he saw Chu Yi coming in with a basket on his back, he asked, "Cousin, why are you here?" ”

"Na Zheng also sent a pair of geese to make the first salute, and I came to you for help!"

Chu Ping listened to three or two mouthfuls to solve the breakfast, and smiled: "If you don't say that I love to run with my cousin since I was a child, or my cousin knows me best, I don't dare to say anything else, this matter of catching chickens and catching birds, the entire mountain village is not my opponent!" ”

Chu Ping's mother Qian heard movement in the yard, and as soon as she came out of the stove room, she heard her son sneering there: "It's annoying to recruit cats and dogs all day long, and people don't dislike you, you have to catch a bird!" Ayi, even if you ask him to go to his useful place, he is useless at home, and it saves me from looking upset. ”

Although the Qian family dislikes it very much, in fact, except for Chu Ping and his grandmother on weekdays, the most favorite Chu Ping belongs to the Qian family!

Chu Ping's grandfather is Chu Grandpa's cousin, the cousin's family is a little scarce, and Chu Sanshu's contemporaneous is only one male, that is, Chu Ping's father, Chu Ping's father and his aunt Qian gave birth to five daughters in a row, and finally got Chu Ping's only seedling!

It is no exaggeration to say that Chu Ping is the baby bump of their family, and he can't be scolded or scolded, for fear that this only lone seedling will have a little mistake! Doesn't this raise Chu Ping to have a loose temperament, others are not bad, they are just hanging children, and the work in the field is not good, and there is no positive shape for going up and down the mountain and down the river to recruit cats and dogs!

Chu Ping saw that his aunt was about to start nagging again, so he hurriedly stuffed the dishes and chopsticks in his hand into his aunt's hand, went back to the house, grabbed the slingshot, pushed Chu Yi and went out!

Xing'an County and Changshui Town, where the village is located, are located in the north of Daqianguo, and it is already mid-September, which is the season for geese to migrate south.

On the way up the mountain, he talked to Chu Yi about his thoughts: "Cousin, although I haven't really caught geese, the birds and pheasants on this mountain have been beaten down a lot by me with a slingshot. ”

"It's okay, the female goose is smaller, so it should be easier to use a slingshot." Although Chu Yi has never heard of this statement, he knows that Dayan is monogamous, so it doesn't hurt to give it a try.

The two walked and chatted all the way, and soon entered the forest halfway up the mountainside, and chose an unknown small lake as a stop, which had a wide view above and was a good place for hunting.

Chu Ping picked up the stones to be used for a while on the shallows by the lake, picked up a bag, and then ran behind a few pine trees by the lake to hide, intending to use this as a base and start squatting.

Chu Yi was not idle, he took advantage of Chu Ping to pick up stones and walked around the lake, on a flat shoal opposite the lake, he buckled the basket upside down on the ground, sprinkled some grains in it, and used the branches he picked up to support a corner, and laid a simple trap.

Then he tied the rope to the bottom of the branch, held the other end in his hand, and hid in the grass not far away, and the two could faintly see each other's figures across the lake.

The two squatted by the lake for more than an hour, during which only a few deer came to the lake to drink water, and there was not even a single wild goose feather!

Chu Yi was thinking that he should not be able to use this trap, so he could only count on his cousin's side to see if he could shoot down two from the sky, when suddenly a cry of "quack-quack-" mixed with the sound of wings flapping came from a distance, getting closer and closer, until a flock of geese landed on the lake in front of him to drink water and rest.

Chu Yi lowered his body on his stomach, and waited for a long time before he caught a glimpse of a wild goose swaying its body, eager to try near the trap he laid, Chu Yi silently wrapped the rope around his hand twice, while waiting for the wild goose to relax its vigilance and eat the grains under the back basket.

After a long time, the wild goose tried two or three times, and found that there really didn't seem to be any danger, so he finally walked down to the back basket to eat the grains, and at that moment, Chu Yi pulled the rope in his hand hard, and then the whole person also pounced!

The geese nearby were frightened, and they all flapped their wings and flew back into the sky, and at this time, Chu Ping on the other side of the lake also moved.

After three sounds, it hit two geese that had not yet flown far, one landed in the grass not far from Chu Yi, and the other fluttered its wings on one side and fell into the nearby forest.

Chu Yi tied up the two geese that had fallen into the trap and the grass near him, put them in the back basket, and got up to find Chu Ping, who had entered the forest.

Caili walked more than ten zhang away, and saw Chu Ping, who was carrying two geese: "Cousin, this method is really good, I haven't approached yet, I saw this male wandering around the mother's side, and I simply caught it together, and I don't know if the two were male or female just now, fortunately, I thought that cousin you made a trap, thinking that when you do it, I will not be too late to do it, this is not all at once I caught four, hahaha!" ”

Chu Yi didn't expect that he had only been in the mountain for more than two hours and caught four of them in one go: "I saw it, it just happened to be a male and a female, but the wings were injured a little, thanks to you today!" ”

Only a pair of geese were needed on the day of the conquest, and the extra pair was injured and could not be released, so Chu Yi and his cousin discussed and decided to go to the town to try their luck and see if they could exchange some money.

It was also a coincidence, as soon as the two arrived at the market in the town, someone stepped forward to ask if the wild goose was to be sold, it was the grandson of the rich family in the town, and he was worried that he didn't get the wild goose, so he sent a housekeeper to the market to find it!

The two sides quickly negotiated the price, and a pair of geese gave two taels of silver!

It is impossible to sell it at such a high price on weekdays, and it may not even be sold, ordinary people are impossible to pay for it, and it is not a big deal to replace it with a wooden goose.

Chu Yi and the two came out for a short day, not to mention the wild goose that they needed for the dowry, and they each got a tael of silver, and even the pace of returning to the village was a lot brisker!