Chapter 173: A Special Evening Breeze Meets a Special You (Two Chapters in One)
The arrival of General Lu Yan and his entourage can be said to be an addition to the years of passion burning in Erdaohe Village.
Mrs. Xu came in the expectant gaze of everyone.
As soon as she arrives, she will take over everything.
The father and son of the Bai family always watched from the sidelines.
"When I read the following names, a representative from each family came forward.
Lizheng family, Sibo's family, Wanjia, Wang's family, Cao's family, Sun's family, Hao Yinhua's family, my family.
Each family only left one room to live in their own family, and left someone to boil hot water for the kang.
As for the rest of the house, it is all vacant and requisitioned tonight."
These families will go to other people's homes in the village tonight to find accommodation.
Like the Xu family, Xu Tianxin and Mrs. Xu will stay in the new shop, and the others will either huddle in one room or go to Guan Erbald's house to stay overnight.
With Mrs. Xu's roll call, representatives from each family stood up and waited for the leaders to go home and move in.
Because some of the houses on the side of the new shop have not yet been built, there are no more than 400 soldiers to live.
Mrs. Xu continued to read without pause: "Here is the quilt group......
Neither the Xu family nor Liu Laozhu had any extra money, and there were no bedding even for opening a bathhouse and a lodging shop, and there was no money to buy too many handkerchiefs to wipe their bodies and faces.
The Xu family is waiting for the next delivery of fish floss and fish knock noodles before they can use the silver taels of the next shipment to buy these again.
So tonight, I will collect decent quilts from each house for the soldiers to use and transport them to the new shop. Otherwise, there is no quilt cover, this is the current status quo of Erdaohe Village, but it will not go on like this forever.
"Next is the horse feeding team, and I read the name of the list, Wang Yusheng."
"Here."
"Three fierce sons."
"Here."
"Wang Daye, Li Tietou, one ear, blessing, keep, tie ......"
Each one stepped forward with the call.
Regarding this group of people, Mrs. Xu deliberately selected the best people in the village to feed the horses. The war horse, she had mud at a cursory glance.
Although Mrs. Xu didn't dare to make her own opinions, she rubbed out the sparks for the war horse like a bath, and the water was used with a bang.
But she asked her granddaughter, to be precise, she asked the family members in the live broadcast room to help her check, and the war horse can be dry cleaned.
Cover the barn tightly with sacks, make the hay soft, wash the mud and a few parts with warm water, and then brush the hairbrush. Such a war horse, like a human, can be comfortable and comfortable when running around for a while.
"Next is the rice cooking group......
Mrs. Xu plans to cook two rice of dry rice and stewed fish for General Zuo Lu Yan and his party tonight.
Someone asked her, convener, our big oven is almost set up, and it is too troublesome to steam rice, otherwise it will be used tonight, and the naan cake will be baked directly to the soldiers.
Mrs. Xu refused, and the group had been running around outside for a few days, because they were coming from the other direction, not from the town. So she guessed that she had been in a hurry for a few days, and she had already eaten enough cakes, and she hadn't been on the road.
Everything is done, it is better to steam two rice.
The rice was received from her daughter-in-law, and the women of each family whose names she had named took back and steamed it in wooden barrels, and after steaming, some of it would be left for the soldiers who lived in the village to eat, and some of it would be pulled to the new shop by sending two carts.
The woman whose name Mrs. Xu named herself earned money and worked in the Xu family.
According to the usual hour, the work has not been finished, Mrs. Xu simply said, your next work is to steam rice, including the cooking group, and the Xu family's wages will be paid accordingly.
As for firewood, the village collective has a separate stack of firewood, which was used to boil water for the fishermen in the village, and the firewood is directly used by the village collective.
"What else do you use from the village? I see who is embarrassed to fetch firewood from the village collective." Sibodao. The fourth uncle belongs to the ugly words, but he is confident that there is no such person in the village. In the past, there were, but now in order to make money or to get closer to everyone, so as not to be isolated, I don't dare to do that.
Liu Laozhu twisted his eyebrows and said to Mrs. Xu: "Rice, vegetable oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, through
It's all about the two of us."
The leaders of the village also said, "No, everyone is evenly divided." He whispered to the villagers who didn't know the situation, and explained that they were all coming to grab the land outside, but after the village entertained such a big general, outsiders would not dare, and this simple truth was not understood.
"That's right, it's all borrowed."
Mrs. Xu didn't have time to talk about these with everyone, because when she came to her granddaughter, our family style was either not, and she couldn't throw the child down.
What's more, even her daughter-in-law, who was slamming the door, actually talked to her on the way when she came:
"Mother, it's time to see the real chapter, don't be reluctant to have any money.
We'd rather tighten our belts and earn a hard life on our own.
I only know that our Tian Xin'er knows such a big official, even if he doesn't have contact in the future, he can use this big official to pull the tiger skin after getting married, and no in-law will dare to bully our Tian Xin.
Why are we fighting so hard? Isn't it just because our family is looked down upon, taken seriously, and can be fed and clothed, and our children can't be bullied by anyone."
Look at it, not to mention the other benefits that Qin Niang didn't imagine, just say that even Qin Niang's ideological realm is rising slowly today, how can Mrs. Xu, her own grandmother, be worse?
So Mrs. Xu not only waved her hand to Liu Laozhu and them to stop delaying time and talking about expenses, "If you want to take some, if you don't, pull it down", this all depends on whether you have a heart, and you can take a cabbage sauerkraut. And she's starting to dig into it.
This is the first time that Mrs. Xu has taken out money in front of everyone.
In the past, Mrs. Xu was hidden, and no one had ever seen her spend money outside.
This time, everyone looked at her quietly, and they didn't want to keep a low profile anymore.
Mrs. Xu took out the money for the chickens, and whoever could kill the chickens in the village wanted to kill, she bought them.
Because together with the pork she saved at home, she wanted to wrap pork or chicken stuffed dumplings for General Zuo and his party tomorrow breakfast. Get on the car dumplings and get off the noodles, and tomorrow morning people will just eat when they leave, and they will be auspicious.
She pulled out the egg money again.
Mrs. Xu thought about it, and she wouldn't bring dry food when she left, after all, the next stop would be in the town.
But I didn't take anything, I didn't think about it.
The Xu family can still afford one boiled egg per person.
That is to call the four hundred soldiers to drive Ming'er back to the barracks, as long as a handful of people remember this, if it is mentioned to others, Jia Lai will have face when he hears about it.
Is it called a question of attitude, which shows that the Xu family and Xu Jiatian are particular about their work and have a very correct attitude, and they welcome all major generals to come to the Xu family as guests.
If you want Mrs. Xu to tell the truth, it's okay to make friends all over again, the Zhenbei Army is the world of their family, entering the barracks will be like entering a no-man's land, it is easy to find anyone, and people will know who they are talking about, and there will be people covering them when they go outside to do business, and if they do a good job, they can also do the business in the barracks.
The benefits are indeed many.
But, then again, Emma, how much is this for?
Mrs. Xu took off a string of copper plates from her waist again, which was the money to buy fish.
Today, the fish in Erdaohe Village are all made into fish floss and fish noodles by her family, even if there are a few, there is not much left, and the net cannot be put off now, and it can't be fished out, and the fish is not a fool who says that he will go ashore. So if you want to stew fish tonight, you have to buy it elsewhere.
Some people in the village were not happy: "Why did you buy Wangjiagou, the people in that village are not good birds. Let's see what we have done to our village this time, and several people have blood on their faces."
Mrs. Xu mentioned the names of several Wangjiagou families, and all she knew was that they were all surnames in the opposite village, and they were so pressed by Wang Lizheng's branches that they couldn't develop earlier.
Mrs. Xu didn't have time to explain in detail, but she also said casually, one, only the fish in the village on the other side are still close, and they will be picked up and taken back for her. Second, if you want to sell fish to her in the future, let the Wangjiagou family behave well, just mention it.
Because you wait and go, (the guests go).
Let Wang Lao be a centipede, and he wants to mix a foot wherever he has many legs. Is it as simple as just looking at the excitement? Mrs. Xu didn't believe it. In this pile, someone can still be beaten into the trench, look at the two bald people, and there are few hairs in the hair
, do you know that she is covered? In short, if you don't give Wang Laoba a service, her blind granddaughter knows two such big officials.
Mrs. Xu has even planned that she will not ask for reasons if she is bullied in Erdaohe Village in the future, but whenever someone comes to find fault, she will take someone to beat Wang Laoba.
If Wang Laoba feels wronged, he will go to find out who is looking for the fault.
Don't underestimate the little king and eight calves, cats have cats, mice, and rats, and there are many ways. She just waited for the ready-made letter to get it, and she beat Wang Laoba.
After Mrs. Xu gave all the money, she ordered the manpower of the cooking group and the boiling water and pressing well group one after another.
And above, Mrs. Xu did not arrange more than half a stick of incense.
"Everyone put down what they are doing, and then we will rush to work. Today's main purpose is to entertain the general and his party, and it can also be used as an advance drill for a caravan to come suddenly."
Mrs. Xu waved her hand and said, "Let's do it."
Gathering is a fire, and scattering is a sky full of stars.
As Mrs. Xu started talking, everyone moved in place.
drove to Wangjiagou to collect fish; In the village, eggs are gathered to kill chickens; steamed rice and food delivery; Hurry back to get the bedding to be carried and delivered; They also ran a few people who went back to clean up their homes quickly, and those few families beckoned the soldiers to follow them into the village to stay.
No more messes like before.
Father Bai looked at this scene and thought: You can convince it or not, anyway, he is convinced.
And listen to the arrangements, from the washing of the horses, to the food and accommodation of the female general and her party. Father Bai was very emotional.
On this day, the two of them didn't seem to have done anything, and they were busy sighing.
That is, no one can succeed casually, and no one can meet nobles casually and get married, with no intentions, at a glance.
Alas, if this opportunity could be given to the Bai family, he would rather spend two hundred taels to five hundred taels to pave the way for his son, so envious.
And Bai Muyan here, there is another sentence in his heart:
That is to find the root cause, Tian Xin acts like his grandmother. Down-and-out generosity is the family style.
He was suddenly curious about what life in the Xu family would be like.
Father Bai asked Bai Muyan, "Shall we go?"
Bai Muyan said, "I want to stay a little longer."
Father Bai looked sideways, his youngest son is a little strange in all aspects today, yes, since he is reluctant to leave, and wants to continue to stay and watch the excitement, then he will go and see what he can do for everyone.
Bai Muyan slowly paced to the window.
He knew that Xu Tianxin had specially asked the female general and the two female guards if he would hear the ticking of water and the sound of burning wood and not be able to sleep.
Naturally, the soldiers who are crawling and rolling around don't care about this.
So Xu Tianxin took the five-grade female general and the two female guards to the house where she worked alone on weekdays. I heard that only Xu Tianxin used that room.
Bai Muyan didn't know what the vessel in front of Xu Tianxin was called, but he had smelled the fragrance of flowers in the room. It seems to be the smell of the steaming vessel.
Bai Muyan thought that Xu Tianxin at this time should have been guarding in front of the utensils as before, which was also heard, and once the utensils began to be used, no one was allowed to disturb her work.
What I didn't expect to see was that although the utensils were burning and steaming hot, Xu Tianxin was sitting on the kang, quietly, and carefully, smearing something on the rough hands of the sleeping female general.
After wiping the female general, she moved to the two sleeping female guards and carefully continued to apply.
Bai Muyan knew that he couldn't look at it anymore, but the sympathy between the women in this scene was rooted in his heart.
He guessed that maybe the female general hadn't thought of herself as a woman for a long time, but he didn't expect to be reminded by a little girl to cherish her hands.
Bai Muyan couldn't take a second look, because the old lady was sitting on a small bench and was guarding the door, and she had already squinted at his "voyeuristic behavior" several times.
Bai Muyan squatted in front of the old lady, smiled with crooked eyes and asked in a low voice, "Grandma, why are you sitting here, and what are you holding in your hand?"
The old lady already knows
The little descendant in front of the road is the famous Xiucai Gong of Ten Miles and Eight Villages.
It's a great honor for her to speak from her heart today.
was helped by this prodigy Xiucaigong, and this incident alone was enough to go out and brag for a long time.
I was greeted by many villagers from Erdaohe and asked: Tian Xin, her grandmother is here.
When she came to the village before, how could there be so many people talking.
What's more, even the two female guards with knives nodded slightly when they watched her guard the door before entering the house. Nodding her head, the old lady was excited and frightened. After all, the female general who was killed like chopping a chicken nodded, let's see you for the first time, what else can a woman do this? The mood is a bit complicated.
However, in addition to being flattered, there are also a little bit of bad things.
The old lady had not recovered from typhoid fever, and with a thick nasal voice, she was telling with her breath as if she was a little aggrieved, "My great-granddaughter won't let me walk around."
She said to help cook rice, Tian Xin said, "Grandma, what are you doing with a cough and runny nose, don't make a mess." Come, give you a padded jacket to light up the roasting fire.
"She also said that her grandmother was busy, as if I was here to make a mess, no, give me a few pairs of shoes, and let me guard the door, while not letting people in and disturb me, while roasting and drying and sewing indigo grass."
"What about the little granddaughter you brought?"
"Her little aunt was also arranged by Tian Xin to go to the next room to grind flowers and plants."
Bai Muyan couldn't help laughing a little, and he couldn't scan the pairs of women's military boots, so he had to persuade: "Whether it's cooking rice or sewing shoes for the general, it is all done to arrange it, and it can't embellish the reputation of the Xu family. In my opinion, what you do is more meaningful than cooking."
The old lady immediately snorted and laughed, "That's right, that's right, only I've touched the general's shoes. Hurry up and get out of here, and don't disturb the sleeping inside." Resolutely carry out the orders of the most prominent great-granddaughter.
Bai Muyan: "......". net
Meanwhile, inside the house, this side is quiet.
Mrs. Xu summoned the people in the village to shout, and they all called everyone into the distance.
The reason why Xu Tianxin applied hand cream was because it was all cracked and blackened. As she rode the horse, she found that the hands of the three women were several times rougher than those of her grandmother and her aunt. The family members in the live broadcast room said one after another, give it a thicker coat.
The reason why she asked her grandmother to help sew indigo grass into her shoes was because she knew that the female general was coming to her menstrual period, and the inside of her shoes was wet due to her hurry.
Xu Tianxin thought that his quiet behavior would not be noticed by the three people who fell into a deep sleep.
But unbeknownst to her, just as she turned around and concentrated on distilling osmanthus essential oil, Lu Yan opened her eyes and looked at Xu Tianxin's side face with the smell of flowers in the house.