Chapter 80: The Zhu Brothers (1)
There are three brothers in Qingquan Town, the eldest is called Zhu Dafu, the second is called Zhu Erfu, and the third is called Zhu Xiaofu. The three of them are brothers, their parents died early, there are no other elders in the family, and the three of them are all singles, and naturally there are no children under their knees. The three of them all rely on working for the big families in the town, Zhou Yuanwai, to earn a living, although there is not much salary, but it is enough for the three of them to barely survive.
This week, Yuanwai's family is the largest family in Qingquan Town, and the family operates a medicinal herb business, and there are dozens of workers hired to do miscellaneous work, not to mention dozens of people.
The reason why everyone calls him Zhou Yuanwai is because he spent a lot of money to buy a non-official position to do it, but this official is in name only, and it is completely to satisfy his own vanity. Although he was willing to spend money on himself, he was very critical of others, and he changed his tricks to deduct the workers' wages in three days, and the workers hated him very much.
Now that the brothers of the Zhu family have reached the age when they should marry their daughters-in-law, they may not be able to afford to raise a dog.
When they came back from finishing their work one night, the three brothers chatted while eating their nests.
Zhu Xiaofu said first: "Two brothers, as the saying goes, a man should marry a woman, but we are all at this age, when can we marry a wife and live?"
When the second child Zhu Erfu heard this, he almost laughed out loud: "My stupid brother, we are tired and tired all day long to make so much money, and we can't support ourselves, you still want to marry a wife? I see that you are obviously daydreaming! Besides, even if you want to marry a wife, the eldest brother has not yet married, how can it be your turn to be in a hurry?"
Zhu Erfu said, looked at Zhu Dafu who was gnawing on the head of the nest, Zhu Dafu heard the chatter of the two younger brothers, so he sighed and said: "Isn't itββ!
After that, Zhu Dafu then gnawed on his own nest.
Although the two brothers didn't want to be in a hurry to find their wives, Zhu Xiaofu on the side was very anxious. He had long since fallen in love with a girl on the west side of town, and every day he would make a detour to sneak a few peeks at her near her house. Now that the girl has grown up, of course Zhu Xiaofu hopes to marry her, but every time he thinks of his own salary, he has to dispel this idea again and again.
But as a man who stands up to the sky, he doesn't want to watch his beloved girl become someone else's wife like this, his desire is getting stronger day by day, and now he can't bear it anymore, so he then said to the two elder brothers: "Two elder brothers, even if you are not in a hurry to marry a daughter-in-law, but I am in a hurry! If we can't continue the incense of the Zhu family, the spirit of our parents in the sky will definitely not bypass us!"
Seeing that his younger brother pulled his parents out to talk about things, Zhu Dafu, as the eldest of the eldest, naturally had to think about this problem, but they were all shy and there was really no way, but the third child was clamoring to marry a daughter-in-law all day long, and he also felt that his head was big, so he put down the nest in his hand and said helplessly: "Do you think I'm really not in a hurry? Last night I dreamed that my parents came to scold me! It's not wrong that you want to marry a daughter-in-law, but do you have the money to marry?!"
When the eldest brother said this, Zhu Xiaofu had to bow his head helplessly, but he still didn't give up, and after a while, he continued: "Two elder brothers, why don't we go to Zhou Yuanwai tomorrow to ask if he can give us some salary increase?"
The second Zhu Erfu listened, this time he really couldn't help laughing, so he said to Zhu Xiaofu: "Just his Zhou Papi, you still point to him for raising his salary?!
Zhu Xiaofu felt a little frustrated when he saw the second brother laughing at him, but he didn't intend to give up, so he continued: "But no matter what, we should give him a try! We have been working in the Zhou family for some days, if we tell Zhou Yuan the truth of the matter, he should be more or less kind, big brother, what do you say?"
Zhu Xiaofu said and looked at Zhu Dafu who was gnawing on his nest head. Under the repeated begging of the third brother, Zhu Dafu also had to make concessions, so he sighed and said: "Okay! I'll ask you tomorrow, let's rest as soon as possible today, and I'll be busy tomorrow!"
After that, he finished eating the nest head in his hand and turned to leave, lest the third brother talk to him for a long time, Zhu Xiaofu saw that his brother finally agreed to him, so he happily gnawed the nest head in his hand.
Early the next morning, the three of them rushed to Zhou's house to continue their work, and worked until noon, waiting for a chance to take a breath. But Zhu Dafu didn't have time to rest, and he still had to ask Zhou Yuanwai about the salary increase.
He then came to Zhou Yuanwai's study, knocked lightly on the door a few times, only to hear a shrill voice from inside the door: "Come in!"
Zhu Dafu hurriedly pushed the door in.
When I came to the study, I saw a big fat man sitting in the center of the study wearing a satin robe, with a dog skin plaster on his head, holding a mustache in one hand and drawing in circles on the paper with a pen in the other, looking like he was keeping accounts.
When Zhu Dafu saw him, he hurriedly bowed and said, "Master Zhou!"
Zhou Yuan asked without raising his head, "What's the matter?"
Zhu Dafu asked in a low voice: "Master, the salary for our work is too little, do you think you can increase it a little?"
As soon as Zhou Yuanwai heard Zhu Dafu mention the matter of money, he immediately raised his head, his eyes widened and said: "Increase your salary?
Zhu Dafu scolded in his heart after hearing this: You arrange three days of work a day, how can a normal person finish it? ! Now you still bite us back, it's really fucking shameless!
Although he scolded so much in his heart, Zhu Dafu didn't dare to say this, so he begged bitterly: "Master, the three of us brothers are really doing our best for the Zhou family! Now the three of our brothers are not small, but none of them can marry a wife, and please ask the master to be merciful, let us not end the Zhu family!"
With Zhou Yuanwai's personality, of course he doesn't care if your Zhu family will break the incense, he just wanted to scold Zhu Dafu loudly and tell him to go to work quickly. But Zhou Yuanwai suddenly thought of a bad idea in a blink of an eye, so he pretended to ponder, and said after a while: "Okay! For the sake of the three of you brothers who are so dedicated, I can give you a chance!"
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