The boys who worked in the brick kiln were all stunned on the spot.

Their numb faces finally showed some expressions, and they froze in place one by one, looking at Liu Laozhu in disbelief.

When they whispered to each other to make sure it was true, they finally moved their straw sandals.

Three, five, ten, twenty, the boys from Erdaohe Village gathered more and more and walked towards Liu Laozhu.

When I heard Uncle Li Zheng ask them again, "Where is the luggage?" It seems that a small flame sprang out in his heart first, and slowly became a spark.

Liu Laozhu went into the cave and personally packed the luggage for these boys, and his mind was full of the appearance that even his nose and eyes were black.

Even his nose can be covered with soot, even if he is dressed in tattered clothes, and his thin clothes hang on his body like rags.

Liu Laozhu carried one tattered luggage roll after another, his heart was never extremely firm, and he kept repeating Mrs. Xu's words in his head:

Stand up, get rich, get strong, all get up, and they will honor them one by one.

Don't let the village boys come out to do this kind of black work.

The boys in our village can be bitter or tired, but they can't do this kind of work that doesn't treat us as people in the future, as long as he is there, he must stand in the way, and take these young boys with light in their eyes and enthusiasm to make money.

And the whole process, Xu Tianxin was broadcast live, and she also helped pack her luggage in the dark cave, tied the mats spread on the ground into a stack with hemp rope, and carried them out with Grandpa Liu.

She is currently Grandpa Liu's secretary, mainly working as an accountant to help settle accounts.

So Grandpa Liu went to the Bai family to write an IOU and ask for help, and Xu Tianxin, as a secretary, felt it more than anyone else.

For example, Grandpa Liu should have been many years later, when he first told someone to owe it first, his mouth was really open and closed, and he was embarrassed, and he became more and more proficient later.

For example, at the moment, she knows better than anyone that Grandpa Liu will have an economic hole after settling the brick money, and they haven't gone to the county to buy goods yet.

But so what, the more you drill this kind of broken cave that is difficult to bend over, the more determined you are that as long as everyone goes home, there are always more ways than difficulties.

At this time, Grandpa Liu's ox cart was full of luggage rolls of his uncles in the village.

Xu Tianxin walked backwards.

She had the expressions of others in the black brick kiln on the live broadcast who were envious of Erdaohe Village who was coming to pick them up, and she also caught the uncles in the village slowly smiling on their faces, and the pace of returning home became faster and faster.

Xu Tianxin waved to his uncles.

Uncle Mingzi, the youngest son of Liu Yongtian, who had broken his leg by Wang Jiagou, smiled with only white teeth, and he also waved his hand to Xu Tianxin.

Along the way, Xu Tianxin also explained to his uncles about the recent events in the village.

Liu Laozhu listened beside him, his face was silent, but whenever Xu Tianxin was excited and walked backwards, he showed Xu Tianxin the road and reminded him that there were stones and puddles in front of him, don't fall.

After hearing this, the uncles once again showed disbelief: Is this our village?

"Uncle Li Zheng, is what Tian Xin said true?"

Liu Laozhu turned his head and smiled at the boys, and said in a low-key manner: "Hmm." ”

When they heard Xu Tianxin talk about fighting, everyone secretly hated why they weren't in the village.

Xu Tianxin even recorded this, and Grandpa Liu took the lead in shouting in each village, and the uncles in the village shouted together: "Harvest sweet stem sorghum seeds, harvest sweet potato seedlings and broken rice......

When the uncles heard that they were all bought for the village, they picked up the burdens, carried the sacks, and carried the bamboo baskets on their backs, and Grandpa Liu said that they could no longer accept the ones that could not be carried on their backs, but they did not agree, and scrambled to fill the autumn cabbage and radishes collected from the villages along the way.

So Xu Tianxin was tired and choked all the way, and she had to gossip with her uncles and talk to the aunts of various villages, she never said so much: "Grandma, the account is not calculated like this, you see that your mustard gnocchi can't top a hundred catties of fish like sweet sorghum, sweet sorghum is an algorithm, and mustard gnocchi is another kind of seven catties ......"

Xu Tianxin was pulled by his shoulder before he finished speaking: "Girl, give me this pumpkin to issue a ticket first." ”

"Okay, okay", Xu Tianxin hurriedly pulled a small ticket for the lady standing behind him, and went to their Erdaohe Village to collect fish seven days later.

Liu Laozhu also said dryly, feeling surrounded by a group of old ladies, who were selling everything, and was twisting his eyebrows and said: "I don't accept gourd scoops, what we have in our village, what do you want to do with this thing." ”

The eldest lady said unhappily: "Didn't you say that you will accept everything?" Leave this gourd with a salt scoop and scoop up water. ”

"But what do I exchange for the gourd scoop?"

Why are you giving you fish scales? For fish, we don't do it yet, not a pound.

Liu Laozhu had to shout again what he wanted, and he was still standing on the big stone, pointing to Kuandianzi Village standing in the distance, and shouting to the villagers:

"I'm Erdaohe Village, and I'm very familiar with you.

If you don't know each other, he won't allow me to scream in your village, right?

So I said that I could do it, and I said that if you go to get the fish with the ticket in seven days, you will definitely be able to get it, and you don't have to ask repeatedly. I borrowed your sacks and returned them as well. Yes, use them to fill the fish then.

In short, in a word, we do things in Erdaohe Village, you can rest assured! ”

provoked Kuandianzi Village to think that Liu Laozhu should be crazy, since he was kicked in the county last time, it is not normal.

You say that Liu Laozhu's style will also affect his weight in the hearts of the villagers, and he feels that he is like this bear.

The daughter-in-law of Kuandianzi Village also stared at Liu Laozhu, disgusted and embarrassed.

So when he was in Kuandianzi Village, when he wanted to ask Liu Laozhu what was going on, he was dragged by his daughter-in-law.

"I'll just go and ask if he, Liu Laozhu, really ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and really wants to fight against Wang Li." Look at this situation, to exchange the fish is to do it to the end.

"You are not allowed to pass, why is it so good to believe. Let me tell you, he will come to the house to sit in a while, I don't welcome it, you see that he has got those buried people, I am afraid of crawling lice all over the house if it touches the threshold of our house. ”

Liu Laozhu glanced at the back of Kuandianzi Village who was hurriedly turning around and leaving while he was busy, and sneered in his heart, thinking: It doesn't matter.

He asked the villager who had just sold him a lot of sweet sorghum: "Sister, our village is still a little far away from your village, can you please give us a sip of water to drink?" ”

The boys have a lot to carry on their backs, and at least they have to drink saliva.

The woman who was asked said enthusiastically, "Yes, come and come into the courtyard." ”

The boys from Erdaohe Village did not enter the courtyard of the villagers' houses, but only stood in front of the villagers' houses with wells, and drank water in turn with two gourd scoops.

After drinking, Xu Tianxin was just about to help someone brush the gourd scoop, Liu Laozhu grabbed the brush, and said while brushing: "Thank you, big sister, thank you Kuandianzi Village villagers." ”

Before leaving, he also waved to the villagers and said, "We in Erdaohe Village, everyone is welcome to exchange their goods for fish at any time, our fish there are big and fat." ”

Liu Laozhu wrote down in his heart that when he turned back to these people from other villages to get fish, our village would set up two large pots at the entrance of the village to put firewood on the rack, and give hot water to the people who went to get the fish.

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On that day, it was almost midnight when Xu Tianxin arrived home, but the entire Erdaohe Village was very lively.

Most of the families came out, holding torches to greet those who had returned in the middle of the night.

Some people cried and some laughed: "Don't go out again, your aunt Xu said that the work in the village will be enough in the future." ”

"Mingzi, your father's revenge, my mother is waiting for you to come back and burn paper."

Akiko's two older brothers also hid in the dark to wipe their tears when they saw their younger brother thin like this. I heard that it was Li Zheng who gave me the salary he was asking for, and the resentment I felt against Li Zheng in my heart also saw Liu Laozhu's tired face disappear at this moment.

There is only regret left, regret that their father did not see this day.

More villagers greeted happily: "Boys, let's go to the dam and have a look?" ”

"Let's go." If you have to be hungry in the middle of the night, you have to look at the river and their boat that belong to them.

And Mrs. Xu reported to Liu Laozhu with the fourth uncle the amount of rice, flour, grain and oil that each family wanted to buy. The fourth uncle also told the wasteland that the grass had been set on fire, and the foundation could be dug tomorrow.

Liu Laozhu also reported to Mrs. Xu and the fourth uncle what they owed for this trip, the vat and jar will be delivered tomorrow, and after two days of bricks, many adobes set in the six villages will also be in place one after another.

In addition, how many catties of fish are still owed, it has been ranked in the second wave.

At present, the fish that belong to the public of the village committee are arranged in this way, and the fish caught every three days, that is, on the fourth day, no matter how much is fished, all belong to the village committee, which is agreed by the whole village according to their fingerprints. The fish caught within three days will be distributed to the villagers according to the work share.

Because there are a number of fishing boats, they have been fishing again after many years, and even the boats are equivalent to starting from scratch, so the fishing boats cannot be attributed to anyone's family.

As for the fish belonging to the village committee, Liu Laozhu has already reached the second wave according to the current average number of catties caught every day.

The fourth uncle understood, this is really demolishing the east wall to make up the west wall, and before even the fish was hit, they were all set out one after another.

He looked at Liu Laozhu, a man in his fifties, his voice was hoarse.

The fourth uncle could feel that what Liu Laozhu and the eldest niece of the Xu family were going to do was a good thing for the whole village, and said with relief and firmness: "You just let it go, boldly owe, and you can make a boat in two days, and it will be the turn of fishing for the village that day." ”

But the plan didn't change quickly, and the next day it became cloudy.

Everyone first scolded this thief, this year's rain has not stopped, flooding our fertile fields to make the harvest bad enough to choke, this autumn is also falling, under your grandmother's legs, you said that we want pickled vegetables and pickled fish, and the village requires to beat the wool grass, where to dry.

The kang in the Xu family's house was also full of half-dried vegetables, and the room couldn't describe what it smelled like.

Salted fish, preserved fish, fish maw, dried radish, cucumber money, gourd, cabbage, green onions, dried coriander, and all kinds of hay to be kept to dry and feed to mules and horses, and Mrs. Xu took advantage of the cloudy day and rain to go out, and was pickling sauerkraut in the stove.

Xu Tianxin had to use a damp cloth to plug the nose and eyes, it was not her hypocrisy, she was dizzy from smoke when she got up in the morning, and she had to vomit it if she smelled it for a while, in that case, it would cost food. Don't you go hungry after throwing up?

And the Xu family is in the village, which is still a family with many houses and big houses, and the houses are also full of ropes to hang fish. Xu Tianxin went to the kang to take something, and walked on tiptoe carefully, for fear of stepping on the dried vegetables. It is conceivable that the farmhouse with a large population and few rooms does not even have a place to stay.

But with the arrival of another day, the white lightning flashed as if to explode the sky, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the evil wind blew, and at noon, the house was as dark as the middle of the night, and during the day the lamp oil brazier could be used to work, and the whole village no longer cursed, but began to beg God.

Don't let it go, we just dug the foundation, and we have to soak it in such a heavy rain.

Don't get down, our boat can't go down the river or fish.

Liu Laozhu and Mrs. Xu also began to inspect the dam with a group of strong laborers, dressed in robes. When I found that there were signs of loosening in the sediment and debris flow, I hurriedly transported stones to the dam and blocked them.

Liu Laozhu wiped the rain on his face, and prayed for one more thing in his heart than other villagers, that is: The villagers from other villages must not come, how can he have fish.

Since the evil wind blew, their village has been affected by this rain for many days and has not dared to get out of the boat to fish. Although under this rainstorm, I saw the fish jumping out of the river, but it had to be fatal, and a strong wind came over the boat and overturned the river.

Liu Laozhu was sure that the adobe that was being saved by the villages would not be sent at this time.

He was worried that those who first collected the turnips and cabbages from each village would come to ask for it.

Sure enough, even the world's knives could not stop the craving for food, and many representatives were sent from village to village.

Liu Laozhu shouted that some mothers-in-law should come to his house to help boil water and pour water, and even the Yi'er family next door and the Sun family on the other side also levied it, and quickly vacated the space for people from other villages to sit.

Things are also scratching and pulling, don't bask in the sun, don't show your wealth.

While giving pepper a look, let him go to the dam and call Xu Meizi to help him think about it, how to explain to people that he didn't deliver on time.

Let's just say, is it okay for him to rewrite the IOU and set a date, does he have to give money?

He had a total of thirteen taels of silver left in his family's shoulder pockets, and he still had to keep the goods.

Once this is given, after two days the rain stops, what will he take to lead the team into the city to batch goods.

In fact, this is not enough, only thirteen taels to make a book, how many can you earn when you go back to wholesale to make money? He planned to pass by the eldest brother and ask for back the twenty taels of silver that he had given to the eldest brother with an uneasy conscience, and then let him have a conscience when he had money. Just imagining that scene, it's like seeing the expression of the eldest brother who wants to scold, and he will be kicked at his age.

Liu Laozhu and the people from other villages were chatting politely: "On a rainy day, if you are idle, you are idle, so you will come to fetch fish?" ”

"No, while there is no thunder and no one today, we are here. What, Liu Lizheng, what about the fish. ”

Just when Liu Laozhu wanted to say that you can rest assured, there are no fish, I will convert it into a copper plate for you, and I must let you know that we people in Erdaohe Village are very reliable, and the pepper head wore a hat and ran back.

"Did you see the girl?"

"Emma, his father, it's not good, the bank of the river on the side of Wangjiagou has collapsed, and the river water has poured into their village at a moment's notice. The sister asked you to wait, and she took the strong boys from our village to help first. ”

"What?" Liu Laozhu stood up suddenly.

Why help them, believe it or not, our village is flooded, the other side will be laughing!

Besides, this is too much love, my own head is still packed, and I can't do the dam work, so I went to help Wangba Village? I really forgot to beat us up.

"Then you go and call Tian Xin, and let that girl come over and help me settle the account."

"Tian Xin also went."

And Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin, who have great love, are dripping rainwater down their faces, and they are standing at the gate of Wangli Zheng's house in Wangjiagou Village, directing the strong men of Erdaohe who rushed in to scoop fish with basin water.

"The fish are in the village, help them!"