Chapter 14: Foothold (1)
The big girl didn't eat sugar, she knew that the family was in trouble, even if there was one more candy, it would be good to go to the market to exchange for an extra handful of rice noodles.
The girl carefully put away the rest of the sugar, but she hid a few pieces of candy paper, and there was actually a rabbit painted on the candy paper, and there were a few vulgar characters on it, "white rabbit", and some earthworm-like patterns.
White Rabbit? Is this the name of a long-established store that specializes in candy? But it's a strange name, I've never heard of it.
It's just that this candy paper is really exquisite, and if you sniff it yourself, you can smell the sweet fragrance of sugar from the paper.
Guoda Road gave the girl casually, it was the White Rabbit Milk Candy, which was just transmitted from the trash can yesterday, but the milk candy was not soiled, because the milk candy was not even opened in the packaging bag, and the whole was thrown away.
I don't know which stupid boy actually gave the girl a white rabbit toffee, you must know that the girls in the Institute of Health Technology can't count the grains of rice to eat, how can they eat the high-calorie toffee.
Naturally, this packet of toffee was thrown directly into the trash.
However, the White Rabbit Milk Candy is indeed a good thing, genuine, and produced by a well-known time-honored brand, claiming that three milk candy can be soaked in hot water to top a glass of milk.
Where has Li Ruhai's family eaten such a good thing, it is naturally regarded as a treasure.
Guo Dalu didn't know that the toffee he gave out casually triggered a small family tragicomedy in the Li family. Early in the morning, he welcomed a large group of villagers into his house, because the villagers brought him a lot of things.
These things were all given to the Guo family by the villagers last night, including half a bag of small yellow rice, a few pieces of broken linen, a few pots and bowls, a basket of eggs, and a few dry firewood.
The heaviest gift is the coffin board given by the old village chief Zhu, the daimyo Zhu Youde, cough cough, now it has naturally become a bed.
However, Guoda Road refused to sleep in this bed even if he was killed, he used the excuse that Guo Jin was not in good health, and he wanted to rest and recuperate, and insisted on letting Guo Jin sleep in the bed, which was filial piety, and the villagers had to praise him again.
After sending off the villagers, Guoda Lu laid a layer of dry straw on the new bed, and then covered it with sackcloth, and then with the help of Hao Ge'er, Guo Jin was carried up, Guo Jin was tall, but he was so thin that he had a handful of bones left, and Guoda Lu could easily pick it up, and muttered in his heart, this cheap dad is so thin that he has to fight with Somali refugees. However, it doesn't matter, with my son who delivered you to the door, I will soon be able to raise you to be chubby.
Guoda Lu knows that in fact, Guo Jin has no major problems, as long as he eats and sleeps well, and with him and the trash can, these are not any problems.
Guoda Lu took a stoneware bowl, threw a few white rabbit toffee into it, poured boiling water, turned it into a bowl of toffee water, brought it to Guo Jin, and fed him one bite at a time.
casually threw a few toffees to Brother Hao'er, Brother Hao tasted one, his eyes were round, and Guo Dalu smiled: "Children's eating things, I am fortunate to have you today, you have helped me a lot." There's nothing going on at home, you go home. ”
Brother Hao said: "Brother Guo, if you have something, just squeak." He tucked the rest of the sugar up his sleeve and walked briskly home.
After sleeping all night, Guo Jin's spirit was much better, but because he was blind, he couldn't get off the ground for a while, when he just drank the milk candy water, he was stunned for a while, but he was quickly relieved, and he didn't ask much, and drank it in a big gulp.
Guo Dalu cleared his throat: "That, Dad, for more than 10 years, son--"
Guoda Road is preparing to lie, to tell a big lie.
I have been "missing" for more than 10 years, and I have to make up a lie to settle this matter -- how did I disappear more than 10 years ago? Where have I been for more than 10 years? What are you doing? Why did I come back?
This lie is not easy to make up, as long as there is a flaw, it will be exposed.
Guan Jian is Guoda Lu doesn't know anything about the ancient world he is in, he doesn't know which dynasty and which generation, which emperor sits on the dragon chair, and he doesn't even know the name of the place.
But you have to make one up and coax Guo Jin first before you can deceive others.
However, as soon as Guoda Lu spoke, Guo Jin fumbled and held his hand: "Lu'er, you can go home, that's a blessing from God to our family, Dad doesn't want to know anything else, it's enough for you to be by your side." ”
Ah, what is this matter? Guoda Lu was stunned, and he searched his intestines and thought about it for a long time, planning to use a vulgar "amnesia" as a fake to explain his bizarre disappearance for more than 10 years, but before he opened his mouth, he was blocked by Guo Jin.
Guoda Lu said hesitantly: "Dad, that, you really don't want to know where your son has been for more than 10 years?
Guo Jin smiled: "No matter where Lu'er has been for more than 10 years and what you have been doing, haven't you gone home now?"
I don't know what to say -- is this okay? The biggest obstacle to integrating into this world has disappeared like this?
Whose child has been lost for more than 10 years and suddenly came home, and the father didn't even ask the bottom of it?
At this time, Guo Jin suddenly said: "Lu'er, when you suddenly went missing, you were still young, and your father only gave you a nickname, called Lu." There is a big road next to the word king, which originally meant beautiful jade. Now that I think about it, we poor children should not have such a precious name, beautiful jade is a good thing, but it is easy to break and cannot be left for a long time. Dad has decided, renamed you, and will take this Lu character apart. ”
Guo Da Lu grinned -- Guo Wang Lu? What is this name?
Guo Jin couldn't see the expression on Guo Dalu's face, and said: "From now on, your name will be Guo Dalu - the word Wang Lu is taboo, and the prince is not something that we ordinary people can touch, so simply call it Dalu." This name is good, but it is good that it is lowly enough, and the children of the poor are called lowly enough to feed. ”
Guoda Lu can understand this kind of thinking, in fact, even in the 21st century, there are still old people who give their grandchildren a lowly nickname, which is not an insult, but the more lowly the name, the more humble the child, the Lord of Yama is not eye-catching, and it is easy to feed.
Guoda Road will be renamed Guoda Road from now on.
Guo Dalu scratched his head, yes, Guo Dalu is Guo Dalu, and the original Guoda Road has only changed one word, and the sound is the same.
Guo Jin asked Guo Dalu to find the old village chief Zhu and asked him to help Guo Dalu put his name on the family tree, and he also had to go to the county government in the city to register and make a register - when Guo Dalu disappeared that year, he had a case in the yamen, and the case had to be closed at this time, and he had to be put on the yellow book. The yellow book is equivalent to the household registration book of the 21st century, and only when you get the household registration book can the government recognize you as a person, otherwise, it will be difficult to move an inch.
The old village chief Zhu was a little embarrassed: "When you go to the yamen to do things, you have to do some work, those officials and fast hands, all of them are like tigers and wolves, and they don't see a little fishy smell, but they won't do anything for you - it's already good to find you." In fact, if you want me to say, it doesn't matter if you don't go to the Yellow Book, if you go to the Yellow Book, you have to pay a poll tax and have to serve hard labor, and the children of several families in our village are not on the Yellow Book, so they don't live the same life. ”
Zhu Lao's village chief's words are true, the common people have a lot of taxes on their heads, and the people have thought of all kinds of ways to evade taxes and avoid taxes, and giving birth to children and not going to the yellow book is the most commonly used method, as long as they do not want to study and become an official in the future, or do business and go far away, whether they are on the yellow book or not means little to the peasants, anyway, they are facing the loess with their backs to the sky, digging and eating in the soil. Some peasants have never been three miles away from their villages all their lives, and they don't know where the yamen is going when they kick their legs.
But Guo Jin didn't know which tendon was wrong in his mind, so he had to ask the old village chief to help him get on the yellow book, and he was even willing to borrow money from Yinzi to do some servants.
Guo Dalu agrees with this matter, what he needs most now is a legal and open identity in this world, for him, this yellow book is as important as taking a Beijing hukou in the 21st century. Isn't it just spending some money, among the garbage he collects, take it out casually, it is a priceless treasure.
However, Guo Dalu didn't want to take out glass marbles, mirror shards, etc., because these things were different from toffee.
Although Guo Dalu doesn't know how far the productive forces have developed in this era he has traversed, he knows that it is not much better when he looks at the clothes of the villagers.
But if Guo Dalu recklessly took out the glass marbles and mirror fragments, one could not tell the origin, and the other was that he could not sell them for a good price as a farmer.
You know, such "treasures" are not sold for a high price as soon as they are placed on market stalls. Ordinary people are not willing to buy such useless things at all, and only those who are really rich and noble have spare money to pursue these rare things.
This is the same reason as the luxury sales of the 21st century, LV bags are placed in the boutique cabinet of Yongcheng and Yi Avenue, and a shopping guide girl wearing a short skirt can be sold at a sky-high price of tens of thousands of yuan, if you throw it on the stall in the Wanghuqiao market, it is still 50 yuan a, and you can also bargain.
Seeing that the father and son of the Guo family insisted on going to the Yellow Book in unison, the old village chief Zhu no longer persuaded each other, and thought for a while: "Don't say the word about borrowing Yinzi money, the Yinzi money that the donkey rolls on is a debt of the king of Hades, and if you touch this money, you will not die and shed your skin." Guo Jin, your son is back, you have to think about things in the long run, marry your daughter-in-law in the future, build a new house, and ask for money. borrowed money from Yinzi, and if you were not careful, you would pit the child. No girl's daughter will marry into a family with a lot of debts. ”
Guo Dalu's head was full of black lines, this old village chief Zhu was a good person, but he was thinking too long-term, and he began to worry about his daughter-in-law, but he also knew that he was really thinking about the Guo family, and he was busy saying thank you.
Guo Dalu is thinking about it, he is now 18 years old, of course, in the 21st century, it is not time to talk about marriage, but in ancient times, you can hold a baby, the ancients married early, and there are not a few people who are engaged at the age of 14 or 5.
The old village chief Zhu discussed with Guo Jin for a long time, and finally decided to borrow some money from the villagers first, and then slowly repay the money after the kudzu grass was harvested and the rice grain was distributed.