Xu Lao and his wife are the maiden family of the second year of junior high school, and Tian's son-in-law can't wait to come to Erdaohe to talk about business in the third year of junior high school.

But he went back and caught a cold for three days.

I also thought that after the third aunt caught the ducklings and the little goose cubs, it would be more important to come to Erdaohe again, so that I could go to relatives with more face.

In this way, he only came to the door early in the morning of the seventh day of the new year.

Before Tian's son-in-law came, he never expected the Xu family to be so enthusiastic about him.

And the Xu family's attitude towards him, isn't this the Xu family's attitude towards his sister-in-law Xiaoqin?

So when he heard that Mrs. Xu asked him to eat, Tian's son-in-law thought about it, and turned around to catch a car and take a detour to Yujiazhuang, so that he could tell the third aunt about what happened in Xu's house, so that the third aunt would be happy and happy.

"Hurry up, sit on the side of the kang. Cold, right? The family is just divided into two groups of meals, we just ate this wave, you follow and then pad your stomach, warm and warm. ”

In Mrs. Xu's eyes, what our family ate this morning is really not a good meal.

It is the day of the seventh day of the first month, eat a meal of marinated noodles, the noodles are still made of cornmeal, and the shredded pickles are mixed with chili oil.

Yesterday, she and Qian Yuanwai also drank some wine in the restaurant in the town, which really saw that she was a woman, they all toasted, and they came back late after chatting and drank several bowls of rice wine, very tired. Take a casual bite this morning.

And Mrs. Xu, as a modern person or a northerner, has a saying that you can't be hungry after passing the Shanhaiguan, if anyone has no money in their pockets to knock on someone's door, you say that you want to beg for food, if there is ready-made food at home, you don't look like a criminal, most people can give saliva and leftovers.

This is not bragging, starting from the older generation in the Northeast, it has always been like this to sample the younger generations, and it has nothing to do with the rich and the poor.

Even sometimes the poorer you are, the more generous you are, and not so calculated, this is the temperament that the locals have cultivated in cold regions.

Otherwise, would they have been able to break into the eastern part of the country, and the diligent Guanli people would have come to the north without food. In other words, those who are not so diligent only go to the capital and settle down in Beijing, so it is better to be less diligent......

The topic is far away, so Mrs. Xu has been used to it for decades, and her habitual thinking and polite words to the guests are: "Have you eaten?" I didn't eat anything with my family. ”

How many times has the old lady complained about this problem in private, but fortunately, the old lady is not at home at the moment.

The old lady heard last night that she was going to wrap a lot of rice balls, so she got up early in the morning to wrap Nan Nan in a quilt, and followed Xu Laoer's car to the shop to make rice balls. Yu Qinniang also followed, not at home.

But this problem made Tian's son-in-law's heart suddenly hot, waved his hand again and again, and said happily and nervously: "Auntie, and eldest niece, don't be busy, I really ate it." ”

Tian's son-in-law still has a basket of duck eggs at his feet, which is a New Year's gift that his father asked him to bring to the Xu family.

Before coming, the old father specially instructed him to come to the Xu family to give gifts and wear high hats, don't put on a score and really take yourself as a relative, so that he can say something.

And even if he finishes speaking, it doesn't matter if he decides not to order his duck in the future, he politely walks around as if he is a relative, and it will not be a relative to the Xu family.

But what Tian's son-in-law never expected was that before he had time to sell, Aunt Xu simply finished eating, and asked him without picking up the table: "How much is a duck?" ”

Even the eldest niece...... Why does it seem to have changed, it doesn't look like what he saw two years ago, and he almost didn't dare to recognize it, for fear of calling the wrong person. He was smiling and looking at him for an answer.

"Back to my aunt, I told your brother-in-law last time that if you sell someone else for 100 yuan, you can't sell it at that price specified by our family, and sell it for 85 yuan a duck."

Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin glanced at each other, and immediately had an idea.

The duck rack was boiled to make soup.

The duck meat was marinated in advance, and then the men in the village made some roasted steamed buns and brought them, and when the scene came, their old Xu family distributed meat sandwich buns and hot soup.

So as not to do anything else, you have to travel long distances with pots and stoves.

In this arrangement, you only need to bring some firewood to the scene to set up a soup pot to goo, and the braised duck meat can be reheated with soup, and the cutting board can be taken out and the meat can be distributed by chopping the meat with a knife.

Xu Tianxin nodded.

Mrs. Xu looked at Tian's son-in-law with a smile: "Then you came just in time, you are like this, go home and prepare a thousand ducks with about the same number of catties for your aunt." I listened to the price you gave is really real, this is worthy of a relative, and I will go to pull the goods at the tenth of the first ten. ”

What, what?!

Tian's son-in-law almost thought that he had heard the stubble, and the first order was not one hundred and eighty, but one thousand!

He added it all a year, and he had to make some money to sell a total of 2,000 ducks. The whole family has been busy for a year from morning to night, and after removing the cost of a year, they can net eighty taels of silver, and they have already lived a very good life in the village.

And starting from his father, the family has never sold such a big order for decades, but he didn't expect his aunt's opening to let him earn three old cows for the family with one order.

You don't have to go out and run around and sell a few ducks a day.

Tian's son-in-law was not stunned by the surprise, his face was red, and he tried his best to stay rational and persuaded:

"Auntie, don't worry, no matter when you buy it, my eldest nephew, I won't sell it to you anymore, and I will always keep it for you at this price. I'm a big man, and although I don't have any skills, I can talk and count. There's really no need to buy more, so let's get a few dozen first. Otherwise, if you buy so much at once, let's be honest, you still have to have a free place to freeze. After a few days, it didn't sell out, and it was civilized. ”

Mrs. Xu told the truth to Tian's son-in-law about what she wanted these ducks to do.

She really didn't buy much. To consider the cost and wages of the meat sandwich steamed bun, as well as the way to the border, she plans to distribute four rice balls for free to the guards guarding the checkpoints everywhere.

Including the large number of people who accompanied him, in case he didn't come back that night, he would have to stay in a big car shop and eat. These must be counted as capital, so let her Xu family take the lead and the Xu family will come out.

That's why she didn't open her mouth to two thousand ducks.

After Mrs. Xu finished speaking with her front foot, Xu Tianxin hurriedly stood up and avoided with her back foot.

Because her second uncle's third cousin-in-law stood up very suddenly, and suddenly bowed respectfully to her grandmother.

"Auntie, I admire you so much, I ......" he was incoherent.

Tian's son-in-law has been in a row for several times since he entered the Xu family, but he never expected that the Xu family would not be like other villages to give together wild vegetables, which was a real silver hundred and eighty taels of silver for nothing.

One hundred and eighty taels of silver for a farmer's family, that is, he can marry five daughters-in-law, and he can also buy six or seven cows for the family to farm. Five daughters-in-law and seven cows work together for the family, and the gap is big.

It sounds silly to give it away for nothing like this.

But there must always be people who do "stupid things" in the eyes of others, including those villages that make vegetables, so that the hearts of the army will be warmed, and those troops will train to win more battles in the future, so that these "top people" can live a peaceful and stable life in the future.

"Auntie, the eldest nephew can't take out a few dozen taels of silver.

But the family has accumulated over time, and the family still has surplus food.

I decided, I don't need to discuss it with my father, seventy-five wen a piece...... Auntie, listen to me first, just like you said, your family has a good life today by relying on the mutual market, so if you earn more and earn less, then you will have to be prosperous and stable, so you should not earn it.

Isn't it the same when I sell ducks?

If it weren't for those garrison officers and soldiers guarding the city gates, my duck would have been caught by the enemy and bled out, and not a penny would have been brought to me. It's not good, my newborn child has to be provoked by the enemy with a sword in the heart. ”

In Tian's son-in-law's opinion, it is really so sexual (powerful).

Because as early as many years ago, Tian's son-in-law heard his father say that the enemy army entered the border city not only for eating, drinking, and looting, but also for the indiscriminate torture and killing of people, and in order to make the people surrender immediately, slaughtering the city was the fastest way to deter. Slaughter the city intact and attack the next city, or then the people will not be convinced, and it will be easy to cause chaos.

Moreover, it is difficult for the people of the border city to escape in advance if there is no way out at home during the war, because the next city will not open the door to let the lost people in order to guard the city gate.

So many years ago, when the army was not enough to recruit from the people, Tian's son-in-law still remembers his father's original words, his father said: Why do every family have to choose a strong guy, although the young men are afraid of dying, but just tearfully look at their parents at home will stride meteors to follow, just because they understand this truth.

Either they will fight to the death and still be able to defend the gates.

Either the enemy will attack and everyone in the family will die if they have nowhere to escape.

At this time, Tian's son-in-law looked at Mrs. Xu and said sincerely: "Auntie, you let me do my best, and then I will go with the team, because my uncle's family, my second cousin, and my second uncle's family, my third cousin, my third uncle's family......"

He has six uncles.

Mrs. Xu understood, except for Tian's son-in-law, who was an only son, the rest of the families all died like Xu Youtian who was a young man who had just been in the right year.

"I want to go over there and give a few of my cousins incense, aunt, that's it, I'm leaving!"

He also wanted to be a "fool".

"Auntie, I'll send you all the ducks when I go back."

Mrs. Xu was sitting on the kang and was stunned, and her feelings were sublimated, and sure enough, she gave people roses with a lingering fragrance.

Suddenly, he hurriedly chased out: "Emma, Tian, my aunt wants hair, you keep duck feathers for me!" Also, if you have seventy-five dollars, you can add fifty more ducks to me. ”

Meanwhile.

Bai Muyan and these students have already finished ordering cotton and cloth, and the merchants who sell cotton are all hairy, and they are very puzzled about what they can do by buying so much.

On the banks of the Erdao River, there are already forty or fifty-year-old men from four villages.

If you want to ask them about the young and strong laborers of the village? We have to live our own lives, so we have to go to the ownerless river to continue shaved ice and save some fish to eat.

They do free work, what's wrong with getting older? It's still dry.

And a large group of people in their forties and fifties, carrying hoes and bringing their own guys, also suggested that Liu Laozhu said: "The manpower is absolutely enough, Liu Lizheng, other villages are too far away, what are they doing here?" "And can't provide food, no one can afford to feed so many people: "Hurry up, let's start fishing for the army!" ”

If you make up less, it's not worth tossing a trip to the border, and you can't take it.

After the words were closed, a group of middle-aged and elderly people standing on the dam slipped out of the river one after another and slid to the surface of the river.

Someone was lying on the plow and sliding down, the sliding speed was too fast, and he accidentally almost traveled to Wangjia Village. I saw that it had become a small black dot and disappeared.

Sun Li scolded angrily: "This old boy, is there a slippery one?" ”

Running two rivers to find childhood?

Presumably, when you meet up with everyone again, everyone else will be able to dig out the ice pit.

After Xu Tianxin sent away Tian's son-in-law, he was going to be busy with his own stall, and he happened to see this scene when he passed by the river.

She thought about turning a corner, and after a while, a group of older Erdaohe old men ran out, set up sheds by the river, and boiled water and drank for the old men who helped with fishing in other villages, while sitting in small baskets to do manual work, and even Gao Mantang cut bamboo strips here.

And the Li Zheng of the four villages thought that Liu Laozhu had summoned it, and he was sincerely envious, why were the villagers of your village so obedient. How do you train them on weekdays, you look at the oil sheds that have risen from the ground in the blink of an eye.

Liu Laozhu said sadly, our village can have this appeal, only Xu Tianxin can do it. Where is to listen to him.

It is gratifying that Liu Laozhu smiled again, and the boss said loudly: "She can't do it!" ”

In the backyard of the inn in the town, Xu Youliang lifted the straw curtain on the ox cart to reveal the wood inside:

"Is this the thing?"

Shopkeeper Guo coughed immediately while drinking water.

I have to admit that the Xu family's execution is too strong.

Then the shopkeeper Guo was shining brightly, where is this like the Xu family boy said that it is only a hundred years, he looked at the red light for at least a thousand years, for fear of seeing the wrong eye, specially called a deputy who must know wood to take a look.

After a cup of tea, several people and Xu Youliang set off to Xu's house again.

When he saw the whole amber tree of the whole boss in the half-warehouse house, the shopkeeper Guo really felt that the wisdom and efficiency were in the people.

When the officials of the Zhenbei Army were still asking him what he wanted to do with this, and he must fill in the reason clearly, this side of Erdaohe had already been supplied.

How did the shopkeeper Guo know that the big family asked him to buy a thousand-year-old amber wood, the more the family has more secrets, in case people pay attention to the coffin to use this, it is impossible for people to explain it to him clearly. And it's directly entrusted to their owner.

So where can he and the Zhenbei Army officials make it clear, fortunately, he, hahaha, has two rivers.

"You sell me those two trees too." Shopkeeper Guo pointed to the ash that is also hundreds of years old, these two woods are so good, find a craftsman with extremely skilled craftsmanship to make a cabinet, at least twenty times more.

No wonder it is said that this place is vast and rich, and it is rumored that I don't know which dynasty will confine this place and not allow it to be bought and sold, and many rare wood materials are directly supplied to the royal family.

When Xu Youliang heard what Shopkeeper Guo said, he was even more reluctant. It is not easy for him to get into trouble and cut him home, and he can't prepare for the day when he has to go to the conscription, and strive to turn himself in after finishing the cabinet.

Xu Youliang has already planned, and when the time comes, he will be guilty alone, and his younger brothers and nephews, including Liu Jingdong, will not confess, so he will say that he will come home one by one every day in the first month of the month.

Let's get down to business, the price of those amber woods.

The shopkeeper Guo and his assistant went to the side to study and said: "Acquaintance, honesty is the foundation, to tell you the truth, you are all a thousand years, one hundred and fifty taels of silver, all received." ”

Xu Youliang: "......??? ”

"No, if you dare to give, I won't dare to accept it." Isn't this a pine tree oil, and a thousand years are not valuable, just like is for a thousand years.

But the shopkeeper Guo waved his hand and said: "Little brother, I can't explain it to you in detail, this time it's okay, just after finishing the business, we will leave tomorrow, passing by here and pulling it away, you will settle the silver, and then there will be no less, you will consider whether the two trees are sold or not." ”

When the shopkeeper Guo hurried back to the town.

Xu Youliang is still standing stupidly at the door of his house: this world is too crazy, and mice can be mothers for cats.

Yes, he had to go to his mother and ask how much he would give to his brothers when he got the money.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the beautiful man and the beautiful man said: "Daughter-in-law, help things, no matter how much wood is sold, how can I ask for money." Are you right? It's like the eldest lady also helped our family settle in this shop, and now the price of the shop's land has risen, and people don't confiscate a penny from us, right? Helping is pure help. ”

"You're right." Today, the Erdaohe shop not only came to Guo's shopkeeper and his party, but also seemed to have returned one after another to the guests who gave New Year's gifts to the officials. It can be seen that before the old Xu family went to the border to do good deeds, Mrs. Xu was very busy, and she could still earn a little.

Xiaozhu was praised by his daughter-in-law, and he was even more complacent. When he braised the pork, he still hummed a small tune and thought: Besides, how much can you earn from a broken pine tree oil, and if you sell other wood without selling it, then at most you will give one or two halves. What's up? I haven't seen money, but it's a small proprietor right now, and we can't hurt our relatives for that little money, we're not that kind of person.

What if I divide you ten taels?

You said it earlier!

Wei Fengshou knew that the Xu family wanted to divide his ten taels of silver money from logging, and he seemed to be the one who owed the money, and his face flushed and said, "Grain, what are you doing!" ”

Later, he was anxious, "If I accept it, I won't be able to come to your door in the future." You're really ashamed of your brother. ”

Or Mrs. Xu persuaded her second son: "The father and mother of the old Wei family are too biased, Fengshou is a simple man, and the red dates are not willing to let their father and daughter earn more and can't eat enough. ”

As for Liu Jingdong, don't give it first, wait until you get married, don't cover the scum, I'm afraid that people won't know that our family is secretly logging. That's a real can't be wanted, and it's easy to be anxious and white-faced and refuse to be heard loudly.

And guess why everyone doesn't know about such a big movement? Because the old Xu family always buys things, presumably someone dares to arrest people in this kung fu, and the villagers will swear to fight with people and say: "This is what we bought!" "I thought I bought it.

However, at this time, the Xu family was not clear, in fact, there was no need to hide it, Xu Tianxin had already begun to write a "review letter".

Xu Tianxin wrote and said to himself with his chin crutched:

The most law-abiding in this world belongs to our little people. Alas, if you make a little mistake, you can't pass the psychological level, so you go to the spiritual shackles and cut down a forbidden tree, don't you know what those big corrupt officials are doing.

How did people do it so ruthlessly? The shopkeeper Guo had just given one hundred and fifty taels, and the family had also paid taxes on other trees.

Even her uncle tied up the mountain bandit before, saved the sister-in-law of the Bai family, and robbed the mountain bandit of seven taels of silver, and the mountain bandit almost killed her uncle. Later, when the third uncle went to Fucheng to buy goods, he deliberately went to the mountain to dig out the hidden knife to see if those people had escaped.

Xu Tianxin procrastinated, and the old lady heard her muttering and asked, "Eldest grandson, what kind of disease do you have?" You're so sick. ”

Sometimes it is lazy, and the eldest grandson also said that she has intensive disease, and she can't help people scrape lice with a grate, and she doesn't dare to look closely at the house, and she must apply medicine. You see, the grains of rice and the broken silver are not dense.

In short, it was not until the evening of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month that Xu Tianxin did not dare to delay any longer and wrote a passionate confession letter. This letter was written by her, and any general who reads it will call it out, and I'm sorry for the literature if I don't reward it.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when the convoy of twelve villages was full of goods, and at three o'clock in the morning they were carrying torches, like a winding stream towards the city gate, the city gate army was shocked.