"Second child, you're still busy, do you want to go home?"

Xu Lao Er was startled: "It turned out to be an aunt."

The voice of the mother and this aunt is very similar, Xu Lao Er thought that his mother was coming, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly put away his things.

All the chopsticks on this side of the shop are used to make small pavilions, and it has not been successful in invalidating so many. This kung fu, if the mother comes, then he will be beaten. Thanks to the fact that it was not his mother, he had not been found yet, and he still had the kung fu to make up for it with chopsticks made from bamboo.

"Auntie, what's the matter?"

The aunt was also stunned by Xu Laoer's reaction, but she didn't forget to tell the truth: "I saw that your uncle came to pick up your milk, can you go back and see?"

The smile on Xu Laoer's face immediately paused, and he took out the discarded chopsticks as if nothing had happened, and continued to make a small pavilion.

"Don't look, the old lady will go there if she wants."

When he said this, Xu Lao Er already had the answer in his heart, that is, the old lady would follow back.

Because sons are closer than grandchildren.

In the past, ten words for a son were worth a hundred for their grandchildren. Their grandchildren in the second room, no matter how they take care of the elderly, they can't afford to be the grandson of the eldest house.

Not to mention, Tian Xin had just "tortured" the old lady, and the old lady couldn't prepare for it and wanted to leave a long time ago.

The Xu family in the village.

"I'm not going back."

Boss Xu looked at the old lady and wrinkled his eyebrows and said, "You are looking at the second room and now that life is better, don't you plan to go home with me?" Mother, mother, mother is not poor, I didn't expect you to be like this."

Boss Xu looked sad, and wrinkles piled up on his face.

I never thought that parents were snobbish.

Boss Xu felt that he would go out once, and when he came back, all the people around him had changed.

At first, the villagers looked at him with subtle eyes.

From the moment he entered the village, he greeted him and said that he had a promising niece and granddaughter, who knew a general and rode a horse with the general, which was very important to the general.

As an elder, he said casually: "What kind of system does a little girl become. How old is it to hug and hug people, which is called a good person, and it is almost the same to be embarrassed!"

Then the eyes of the villagers changed when they looked at him: "...... Female general."

How did he know it was a woman? Go out and inquire, but outside but have a little ability at home, the woman's family has to go out of the door, and the farmer in our village doesn't pay attention to that.

Not to mention, how many women can become generals? Others dare to do it, but he doesn't dare to imagine.

So, he just misunderstood, as for everyone who sees him like that?

Then, before they could enter the house, they found the village inside.

He thought that Li Zheng had heard that his son had a book and had a good family affair to inquire, but he didn't expect to come to ask him when he was going to Erdaohe, and Li Zheng said that he wanted to walk around with him and visit the old lady.

But after he answered Lizheng, Lizheng didn't know what he heard from a villager with a broken mouth, and said that it was okay to go to Erdaohe together, and patted him on the shoulder and said something like that, saying to him: "You, you, how can I say hello to you? You really gave up the king of the stove to worship the god of the mountain."

Boss Xu asked and learned that the newly appointed Zhenting treated his younger sister Hao Xianghua like a mother.

And Li Zheng, it is fake that he wants to visit his mother with him, and it is true that he wants to make friends with his younger siblings.

It's all snobbish stuff.

As for when my mother left and how she got to Erdaohe, Boss Xu heard about it since he entered the village, and it was fake when he heard it.

When his mother left home, she was stunned and said that she had to live on the other side of the Erdao River. Before leaving, you still have to save face, in fact, it would be good if that side was not brought back by that side.

He thought it would be easy to pick it up, but he never thought that the old lady would not go back.

At this time, the old lady looked at her eldest son and thought: You can think as much as you want.

Because you are my own son, I didn't go to discuss right and wrong with you in front of so many working people, which is called leaving you a dignity.

"I'm comfortable here,

The second daughter-in-law, great-granddaughter, several grandchildren, and Qinniang's granddaughter-in-law, not to mention, all treat me properly. You can go back with confidence."

The old lady has never been so frank.

In the past, she had a problem, that is, even if she was good, she liked to say things casually. was a little unhappy, so he beat his heart and sighed as if the sky was falling.

But since she came here, the second daughter-in-law is not used to her problem. said that listening to her speech ruined the excitement and made it necessary to change, and it was even more difficult to beat her heart, and she really got rid of this problem.

The old lady felt that she was telling the truth.

Although her great-granddaughter "tortured" her every night, it was said that she could be drugged herself without showing it. The great-granddaughter had to stare at her, it can be seen that she has never disliked her for being old, smelly and dirty, and every time she shouts and howls, she comes in with water every day and night, not for her good? I heard that the medicine was very expensive, and she used it well.

It's like eating here or something, it's never been the same.

She saw that her second daughter-in-law drank a kind of tea every day these days, Qin Niang's granddaughter-in-law also drank milk and fish bubbles, and her great-granddaughter drank more styles, so she looked at it with a daze, and now she also drank tonic. It's just that the taste, it's just very unpleasant.

Even wiping your face is the same. The women of this house are washed and scrubbed,

That day, the daughter-in-law wiped her face and said that as long as she could keep her mouth shut, talk less about wiping that, not eat and drink properly, and spend money, don't care about how to live in this family, and don't go out to pay attention to family affairs to outsiders, then she will have what others have.

So she was old and greased again.

The past is not recalled, what woman doesn't love pretty? The last time I had the leisure to smear my face was when I was a maid, forty years ago.

And the thing that moved her the second daughter-in-law the most was not to give her face oil to eat and drink, but to give her a bath the day before yesterday.

At that time, she was lying in front of a bunch of people, and her second daughter-in-law rubbed her meticulously and pressed her on a rub, saying that this massage was called great health care.

It's a big show, but she's happy.

Because a group of old women soaked in the pool together, they also laughed and joked at Tian Xin's group of girls and said: You little girls have fragrant wind petal egg soup, and grandmothers have massage pedicure and great health care.

Therefore, she is rare now.

She is also at this age, living one day less, who cares about the eldest son or this and that? Wherever there is a life, there is a rush, where to stay.

The old lady pulled away her eldest son: "You go quickly, don't affect *** life."

"What do you do? It's only been a few days, and they dare to make you work? You don't have to do anything in my house."

"Shut up your pit! At your house, I can't eat anything, I haven't talked to you until now, so don't kick your nose in the face, boss, ah? With so many people present, I am too lazy to cause trouble to my second daughter-in-law and grandchildren, so as not to make people look at the excitement, don't make me angry."

This time the old lady was really annoyed, and said:

"No one lets *** live, I'm happy to help take care of it. Unlike in your house, I want to cook, does your daughter-in-law dare to hand me a rice spoon? All you have to do next year is hand over the four acres of land in my name to the grain and they will get a few seeds, and where I stay, the rations should be taken with me, and you don't have to take care of the rest. You don't come to see me, you're busy."

"Earth?"

"Yes. Also, bring your family back, your family is back, don't pretend that you don't know that your siblings and your nephews are helping you raise your children."

Somehow, this sentence seemed to poke the lungs of the eldest son of the Xu family: "Okay, mother, you tell your brother and sister, I will never go to her door again, she is awesome, I can't afford to climb high, I can't look down on my poor relative, I still have this ambition." And don't regret it, don't look back and cry and be driven home!"

After shouting, Uncle Xu slammed the door and walked out of the yard, so that many women who came to help were startled, and the women who responded quickly were all angry, and regardless of whether the old lady would be unhappy when she heard that, she directly pulled her voice and said:

"Who's door is it, your family, don't be ashamed. This is our presence, and we have to fool you if we are not there, and there is no one to summon them

At home, I can't be busy with business, let alone say that I look down on you, what are you going to bite indiscriminately!"

Later, Mrs. Xu heard about it.

That night, the old lady was obviously flattering and cautious, and Mrs. Xu was stared at by the old woman several times, so that she had to take the initiative to say, "You look at me as a meal? Eat quickly, and then sew your clothes, and then apply medicine after sewing."

"It's almost finished, and the third and fourth don't delay when they go out to wear it, right?"

"After sewing clothes, you have to make shoes, don't think you don't have a life."

"Selling for money? Okay."

"When the third and fourth children come back, you will continue to sew the handkerchiefs and bedding of the bathhouse."

Old lady: "......"

To borrow a phrase that the second grandson often mutters, she can't finish it, she can't finish it at all, she wants to eat boiled fruit in sugar water, but if she doesn't give it, she can't finish it quickly.

To say that after this incident, the most unlucky person is the youngest daughter of the big house, Zhao Di.

Zhao Di didn't want to go home, her father had to bring her back, and she was walking three times at that time.

And her mother hasn't seen her for a few days, not only is she not intimate at all, but when she meets, she counts why she came back, why she continues to eat and drink at the second aunt's place, and by the way, she can learn some crafts, and then her family can also do business.

Zhao Di thinks she is telling the truth: "If you can't learn, even if you learn, our family can't do business. I don't think I can compare to my second aunt's family in any family. The second aunt has a Tian Xin who knows several nobles in her family, who of us, including the eldest brother, has this ability? And the mother is not as good as the second aunt. I heard that the second aunt took a group of men to Fucheng to buy goods, but that's all, mother, you can't do it, you go to the county seat and turn around."

These words are actually the original words that the villagers of Erdaohe often say.

said don't look at the Xu family's ups and downs, it was the Xu family that took advantage of the time, place and people. The most important thing is that you can't just look at people eating meat, but also how much money you invest in the early stage. We don't even have the capital, what do we want, what do we want now? People eat meat, so it's good that we can drink soup by the way, and we can earn money as a helper.

Zhao Di never expected that her heartfelt truth would be exchanged for a beating from her mother.

Even her father scolded her for being a white-eyed wolf and told her to get out.

On the second day, her mother heard outside that her second aunt's family had bought three cars, and when she came back to find fault with her, she was beaten again.

Zhao Di's hands were red marks from being beaten with burning sticks, and she wiped her tears while recalling the days of making soap in Erdaohe, but the tiredness of work was the day when she smiled the most.

She doesn't know if there are any girls who have ever envied the children of their relatives, whether they have also dreamed of being children of their relatives, anyway, she wants to recognize her second aunt as a mother very much at the moment.

Zhao Di also heard her mother beat her as if she was nothing, chatting with her father in the house, "...... The third and fourth went out with a new ox cart, saying that it was full of three carts of goods, and this time, the second room didn't know how much silver taels they earned."

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It's a lot of money.

County.

Xu Laosan unloaded the goods in front of the restaurant: "Shopkeeper, Erdaohe's 200 catties of jade ring has arrived!"

The shopkeeper of the county restaurant Wu hurriedly settled the bill for the Xu brothers for twenty taels.

On this trip, the Xu family did not stop at the home of Liu Laoda County, because the road in front of the village was opened, and the journey from the village to the county could be saved for a day and a half.

So when they arrived at the county seat in the morning, they didn't dare to delay much after handing over the goods, and planned to buy some steamed cakes immediately and hit the road.

"Auntie, do you still know our brothers?"

"Those kids, who smelled like they could smoke people? Oh, I don't dare to admit it, this body is still wrapped in a pigskin jacket, like a decent person."

Xu Laosan and Laosi were a little ashamed, not borrowing their nieces to wear leather jackets, and their group was very thick this time:

"That's right, just a few of us. Auntie, I went around to you to buy cakes. When you gave us hot water, our brothers mentioned it to our mother when we got home, and my mother said, we must say a few words to you when we go out this time."

"Which two?"

"She said thank you last time, and also: these steamed cakes

, all of them are on a few bags for our brother, and we often run this line in the future, as long as we go out in Erdaohe Village, we will buy them all from you."

"Okay!"

When he was hurrying, Xu Laosan pointed to the small houses rising from the ground and said to Xu Youyin, "These newly-built big car shops, according to my mother, were mentioned by our family Tian Xin and General Jia Lai. Presumably, these big car shops were built by the surrounding villages."

The village boys who went out last time testified: "That's right, there were no such shops last time, and this time I am not afraid of a big car shop without a stop after a day of walking."

Xu Laosan pointed to the street sign with arrows painted on the side of the road, and proudly introduced Qin Niang's younger brother: "This is also what my family Tianxin and General Jia Lai talked about."

Dali said, "It's like a dream, they really listen to Tian Xin, and I'm a little excited about what's going on."

At the very least, those of them who know the inside story have a much more complicated mood every time they see street signs and new car shops than when others see them.

What Xu Laosan didn't know was that at the same time, on the side of the road in Erdaohe Village, a group of officials from the town were also building houses and building garrisons to guard the pavilion in rotation. Soon, there will be several large caravan stops along the way, and there will be soldiers from the north of the town to garrison them. The shopkeepers didn't dare to make black money, and the caravans didn't dare to eat without paying.

And Erdaohe Village is very bold, it really set up billboards along the road, the painting is particularly clear, how many miles ahead, Erdaohe Restaurant welcomes you. The picture shows a villain eating.

When the patrolling Zhenbei Army saw the billboards rising from the ground, they wondered when Erdaohe Village did it secretly.

At this time, at the door of Boss Liu's inn, Xu Laosan checked out quickly as if he was in a county restaurant, intending to leave quickly. With a place to live along the way, he was not afraid to hurry.

"Uncle, this is a little radish pickle given to you by the villagers, since our village can fish, there is more fish and salt, and each family has pickled a lot this year. Everyone, I heard that the last time I bought the goods, you took extra care of it, and I had to bring it to you, and there was half a cart of cabbage on this car, which was also made up by everyone, and I will carry it for you."

Boss Liu smiled and said yes.

Xu Laosi gave his gift to the past: "This is the meat sauce that my mother made when she got home, not much, just a jar. My mother said, Uncle will send a message home after eating, and who will bring you next time."

Xu Lao Siwan didn't expect that when they came back from Fucheng, Boss Liu didn't want meat sauce to eat, but to buy meat sauce.

No, even if I didn't taste the meat sauce at the moment, I only saw the sausages and instant noodles brought to the Fucheng Inn, so I didn't dry it, so I had to order. "You brothers eat so deliciously, I can smell it. It's good to cook it and cut it into a plate."

"Next time, uncle, let's be honest with our own family, this time there is really not much, and there is less meat in the intestines."

Boss Liu will settle the bill with Lu Song, one hundred and twenty taels in place.

The Xu family delivery party hit the road again.

Fucheng Inn: "Shopkeeper, do you still know us?"

"Oh, I'm looking forward to you, goods."

"Don't worry, I'm going to teach you how to cook this frozen sausage first, and then let's talk about the price, it's okay, if you are too expensive, we will send it to the restaurant to sell it, and this cooked one is also counted as our brother's."

Fucheng Inn, when Xu Laosan stayed that night, he bought instant noodles and all the sausages, the instant noodles paid fifteen taels, and the sausages filled by himself were sold for twenty taels.

Fucheng Restaurant, three hundred catties of jade ring in place, and thirty taels.

Vigorously asked the brothers of the Xu family: "Every time I collect money, my heart is puffed, and I can't sleep well these days, I'm always afraid that someone will rob the money." What's next for you?"

Xu Laosan took out the piece of paper that he couldn't afford to buy a book, he looked at the plaque of the bookstore and said with emotion: "My mother said that it is time to spend money next."

Buy books, buy clothes, buy wine, buy cloth and cotton for the bathhouse, and order a still.

To buy oil, the oil mill in the county town sells it the cheapest.

I also have to go to the cave where I lived with the general of Zhenbei and pull up the horse manure piled up at the bottom of the mountain.

When we get to the county, pull Liu Laozhu's father and mother again, and we will go back to the village.