Chapter 6: Rush to the market
Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, and Luo Xueyun and his father couldn't hide a few quarrels from their neighbors.
He had to nod and say, "It's not a big deal, it's just some things about farming, and now it's all done." ”
"Just get it right, home and everything will be prosperous."
After Luo Shitang finished speaking, he took a sip of turbid wine, but he still couldn't help but say: "Your father is also embarrassed, the eldest son has to support the door, and the father and mother always have to post some, and between father and son, blood is connected, how can it be calculated so clearly." ”
Luo Xueyun was silent.
Seeing this, cousin Luo Xueyang said righteously, and said: "Don't say anything between father and son, but the brother clearly settles the account, and he has to give the same amount to the other sons as much as he pastes the eldest son, if he can't level the bowl of water, he is forcing his sons to fight." ”
"The son is pro, but the daughter-in-law is not."
Cousin Luo Liu interjected, and the cousin-in-law just came in with the dishes, and the scene was quite embarrassing.
Luo Xueyun hurriedly said: "Big brother and sister, I am an ambitious person, I can get mixed without relying on my parents, I don't care about these things, uncle don't have to worry about me and me arguing again." ”
Luo Shitang said: "Brothers always have to tolerate each other, not to mention that your father is more attentive to the style of study." ”
Luo Liu said: "What reason? ”
"There is a brother on the style of study, just born less than a month away, followed by two or three years without movement, seeing that Yang was born, my brother and sister-in-law were very anxious, begging grandpa to tell grandma, and went to the grave and the temple, and ran to the mountain to make a wish, and finally there was a style of study, they really hurt and loved, for fear that he would step on his brother's heels."
Luo Shitang sighed.
Does the sense of surprise of loss and the fear of loss cause the love of the eldest child?
This kind of feeling is understandable, Luo Xueyun thought to himself, but they are all ordinary sons, so it doesn't make sense to show their thickness, is it possible that they don't cherish them when they have too many sons?
This kind of entanglement between fathers, sons, grandfathers and grandchildren is unclear, Luo Xueyun simply stopped thinking about it, and hurriedly sold yellow eels to grow vegetables to make money, fill his stomach and practice well.
Before he arrived at the door, Luo Xuelei greeted him and said with a crying voice: "Second brother, I ate the yellow eel we caught, and I picked the big one." ”
Luo Xueyun laughed: "Isn't this a good thing?" I've already asked my eldest sister to do it, I'm not sure, how delicious is it? ”
Luo Xuelei cried and chirped: "I didn't even eat a few pieces, let Uncle Huang eat them all, he clamped it quickly and ......."
"Which Uncle Huang?"
"Sister-in-law, her father."
Luo Xueyun was stunned for a moment and couldn't help sneering.
He also thought that his father was very merciful, and he was willing to give oil and salt to improve the food for his children, but it turned out to be for hospitality, and he really stepped on a horse, and took a daughter-in-law and the whole family became guests.
Back in the house, the Eight Immortals table was in a mess, Father Luo was pushing the cup with Huang Guoqiang to change the cup, and when he saw Luo Xueyun coming back, the latter took the initiative to speak.
"Hey, why did Xueyun come back, the food has been eaten like this."
Luo Xueyun said: "I ate at my uncle's house, Uncle Huang, you and I will drink some more, don't worry about me." ”
Lying on the bed, looking at the roof beams and tiles, Luo Xueyun decided that he would have to go to the town tomorrow to catch the market and sell the yellow eel, otherwise if it was really a two-headed visitor in three days, his parents would have to use all the yellow eel he had worked so hard to catch as a favor.
It's funny to think about, if the predecessor saw this situation, I'm afraid I would be very aggrieved again.
I asked my eldest sister to fry a plate of yellow eel, but my father didn't let me, and I felt sorry for the oil and salt.
The in-laws came, and without saying a word, they picked the big ones and served them on the table.
I didn't ask the second son who caught the yellow eel at all.
But Luo Xueyun's heart is like a mirror, the problem of Chinese parents not respecting their children can't be changed for another forty years, their sons are all big anchors, and their own mother can still bring the bear child to the live broadcast room that her son worked so hard to build, and destroy the live broadcast equipment and out-of-print game records.
All he can do is make money and divide the family.
Keeping an appropriate distance from parents is more conducive to maintaining a parent-child relationship.
In a daze, Luo Xueyun fell asleep.
When he woke up, he learned that Huang Guoqiang had come for two things, one was when the fields in Xia Luowei would harvest wheat and transplant rice, and he could come to help, and the other was to sieve up the adobe when he was free, and strive to complete the new house of Luo Xuefeng and his family this year and move it to Poxia before the Chinese New Year.
Luo Xueyun didn't say anything, but the eldest sister and the second sister had some opinions.
"I eat my big in the old house, drink my big one, take care of the children, wash the diapers, and I'm not satisfied, Hengheng is not yet one year old, so he is in a hurry to move away, how worried is my mother harsh her daughter?"
The second sister complained: "Since the eldest brother married his daughter-in-law, I don't listen to my big words, and he is really useless all day long." ”
Luo Xueyun said with a smile: "This is called a woman singing with a husband." ”
At night, Luo Xueyun fought hard, ran a few rivers to rush, and estimated that he had caught more than ten catties before stopping.
Before dawn the next day, he got up early, poured the eel into a sack, and then put it into a basket, and at the other end there was a small bamboo basket, a rod scale, and a wooden basin that he had buried.
After many days of rebirth, these tasks have indeed become familiar.
Before the busy farming season, there were not many pedestrians on the country roads, only misty mist and crystal clear dewdrops, wetting Luo Xueyun's shoulders and neck.
It is a unique early morning in the countryside, where the faint sun gradually rises from the east, the birds and insects chirp happily, and everything wakes up from its slumber.
Taking a deep breath of the air that penetrated his heart, Luo Xueyun strode towards the town.
Huanggang Village belongs to Tianji Commune, and now it has also been changed to Tianji Town, in addition to farmers, there are many non-agricultural households in the town, and these people working in the yard of the station have much higher consumption potential than the village.
The yellow eels that Luo Xueyun caught were also aimed at them.
The more you go to the town, the more people come and go, and the local sound becomes lively.
He looked around the bazaar, saw that there were fish sellers, so he looked for a place nearby, took out the wooden basin, added the water prepared in the storage space under the cover of the basket, and poured the yellow eels in the sack.
Although the storage space is vast, it can't store living things, Luo Xueyun tried to throw a yellow eel into it, but it didn't move after a while, so he had to pick a dirt road of six or seven miles and come to the town.
I asked the uncle who sold the fish the price of some fish, and I knew how much the yellow eel sold for.
Yellow eels, crowded in the shallow water of the wooden basin, vied with each other to raise their heads, very lively, and soon attracted the attention of passers-by.
"Guy, how do you sell yellow eels?"
The person who came was dressed in blue cloth clothes, dressed cleanly, and looked not young.
Luo Xueyun said with a smile: "Four cents and one catty, send a bamboo basket, uncle." ”
"It's too expensive, Sanmao can't be sold."
The old man didn't want to think about it, so he continued to bargain, Luo Xueyun was dumbfounded, and said with a wry smile: "Uncle, the carp next to me is sold for five yuan, and my yellow eel is big and lively, and it is only four cents more expensive." ”
"That's a serious fish, you can make soup and eat meat, you can taste it."
"Yellow eels are also fish, and there is also meat that can be used to make soup......"
Luo Xueyun resolutely refused to let go: "Uncle, now the yellow eels are still in the hole, but I stayed up all night and worked hard to catch them, so I wanted to sell some money to buy some food for my brothers and sisters, you have a wide hand." ”
The old man said: "Three cents and five, I will buy three cents and five." ”
"Sanmaoba, if you give a step, I will also take a step."
"Hmph."
The old man snorted, turned his head and left.
Luo Xueyun shook his head and sat back on the upside-down basket.
The fish seller next to him said: "Baby, don't worry, there are still fewer yellow eels at this time, I'm afraid the whole street is just you, four cents and a pound is definitely not expensive, not to mention that the yellow eel is still alive, and people who know the goods will definitely not bargain." ”
"Thank you, uncle."