I finished my lunch.

Liu Xing took melon seeds and Xiao Budian to rest in the backyard.

And Liu Dongju went out to find Zhao Dongkui.

After a while, the person was brought back.

And brought back two more people.

They are Zhao Ji, the village head of Laowu Village, and Nie Sun, the team leader.

Looking at the way the three of them blushed and fluttered, they must have drunk a lot when they got together before.

Liu Xing looked at this scene a little helplessly, but he didn't say anything, but went directly to the topic: "Brother-in-law, last time my sister told you about the house decoration and shoe store, how did you think about it?"

Although he knew that Zhao Dongkui would agree, he still had to ask in advance.

After all, this house belongs to Zhao Dongkui, if you don't ask clearly, then if there is any misunderstanding in the future, it will not be good.

"What are you thinking about! You just have to decorate, do we still divide you and me?" Zhao Dongkui replied with a wave of his hand.

"That's fine. Liu Xing nodded.

Liu Dongju knew that Zhao Dongkui was drunk, so he shook his head and went to the room to rest.

Xiao Budian hated his father Zhao Dongkui's drunken appearance the most, and after whispering a few words with melon seeds, he tiptoed behind.

Although Liu Xing saw it, he didn't care about it, but moved a stool for Zhao Ji and Nie Song to sit down: "I don't know if there are masons and carpenters who have been idle at home in the old house village recently?"

"If there is, I would like to ask the two of you to help me get a few to decorate my brother-in-law's house, and the amount of work is not large, so I will paint lime, repair some broken walls, and make a few shoe cabinets. After a pause, Liu Xing added.

The reason why I wanted to ask Zhao Ji and Nie Song to help invite people was because the two of them were the heads of the old housing village, and the people invited were more or less capable, and if he invited them himself, he might not be able to invite them.

In other words, Zhao Ji and Nie Song will not come to Liu Dongju's house, and Liu Xing will also go to them later.

"There are many masons, and there are dozens of them, but the carpenter's words ......" Zhao Ji stroked his beard and looked at Nie Sun: "Is your brother Nie Quan at home?"

"I've been at home lately, but I can't guarantee he'll come!" Nie Song replied with a frown.

"Why?" Liu Xing was puzzled, he didn't pay his salary.

"Nie Quan was originally working with the master on the construction site, but recently the construction site boss ran away, and Nie Quan didn't get paid so he came back, this time we don't know if Nie Quan has eased up. Zhao Ji explained softly.

"That's it!" Liu Xing suddenly realized.

He originally thought that the arrears of wages for migrant workers only existed in the 90s, but where did he think that it would appear in the 80s!

"Why don't I go find Nie Quan and try it, if you are willing to come, I'll bring him over later." Nie Zhu said: "If you don't come, I will help you invite the old carpenter in the village to come, but I can't say for sure the time." ”

"Okay!" Liu Xing nodded.

He knew that he couldn't rush to hire people, otherwise he wouldn't have told his parents that he would have to stay in the old housing village for several days.

"Then I'll go find Nie Quan now. Nie Song got up and said, "It's just that you carpenter want a few! Don't be able to do it alone when Nie Quan can't do it alone." ”

Carpenters pay attention to 'hands-on' and 'hands-on', and generally those who carry a single burden and do crafts in the countryside will bring an apprentice.

If it's simple, it doesn't matter if you start or start.

If life is complicated, then there is something special about it.

The master must be the master, the apprentice is the master, if you don't do this, you will be found by the master's family but will be scolded.

Liu Xing is a person who was reborn, and he also learned carpentry from the third uncle, so he naturally knows the twists and turns in this, and he couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "There are probably several shoe cabinets I want to make, and one carpenter is definitely not enough, you can help invite a few more, I don't care if you start or start." ”

"That's fine. Seeing that Liu Xing understood the taste like this, Nie Yan smiled and walked away.

Zhao Jimu sent Nie Zhu away: "Liu Xing, why don't I go and invite you a good mason now, and when the time comes, I will have dinner at your sister's place, and discuss the decoration by the way?"

"Okay!" Liu Xing nodded.

What Village Chief Zhao said was exactly what he wanted.

"But I have to say that I can't pay the salary, but I have to have three meals a day, and I have to have tobacco and alcohol. Zhao Ji was afraid of Liu Xing's negligence, so he specially reminded.

"Okay! My sister is not a stingy person, and she will be paid. Liu Xing assured.

"Then I'll go and help you find someone first. Zhao Ji stretched out his hand and patted Liu Xing's shoulder, stroked his beard and smiled and left.

Liu Xingmu sent Village Chief Zhao away, and was about to go to the market to take a turn and buy some meat dishes and come back.

In the room on the right, there was Zhao Dongkui's cry.

Then I saw Xiao Budian running out with melon seeds and short legs, and the two of them had happy smiles on their faces.

"What are you doing in the room?" asked Liu Xing with concern.

Xiao Budian lowered his little head and ran away with a smoke.

The melon seeds also wanted to run, but they were hugged by Liu Xing.

There was no way, so Guazi had no choice but to tell the truth: "Brother, just now I was playing a game of pulling a beard, and the beard on my brother-in-law's chin ...... Bed...... Bedding ......"

She was embarrassed to say this.

When Liu Xing heard this, he couldn't cry or laugh: "You naughty ghost, you can't be like this in the future." ”

"Uh-huh!" melon seeds nodded obediently.

In fact, she didn't want to pull her brother-in-law's beard, but she said that it was okay, so she was curious to pull out two. Of course, this is also to blame Zhao Dongkui for promising to Xiao Budian before, saying that he can pull out his beard when he is drunk, so as to warn him that something is wrong.

Otherwise, the little ones and melon seeds would not dare to do this.

"Let's play! ”

Liu Xing guessed this insider to some extent, and put down the melon seeds after explaining a sentence.

"Wo will. Melon Seed ran away with a grin.

And at this very moment.

"Ouch, these two little ones. Zhao Dongkui walked out of the room at this time, and kept touching his chin with his right hand: "My beard was almost plucked off by them." ”

Liu Xing looked at it and smiled.

Only then did he know that in terms of naughtiness, he was less than one-tenth of the melon seeds.

"Who told you to go out for a drink. Liu Dongju appeared at the door, with helplessness on her pretty face: "There were two catties of pork belly in the kitchen a few days ago, why are they all gone this time, and there are still half a bag of peanuts! ”

"This ...... Eat them all. Zhao Dongkui scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Then what are the village chiefs and team leaders Nie bringing masons and carpenters to the house to eat? Liu Dongju threw the question to Zhao Dongkui.

"Why don't I go to the market?" Zhao Dongkui said with a sneer.

"That's all there is to it. Liu Dongju sighed lightly, took out ten yuan from his pocket and handed it to Zhao Dongkui.

"Let's go!" Zhao Dongkui had enough confidence, turned around and walked towards the street of the market with Liu Xing.

Liu Dongju looked at Zhao Dongkui's appearance and shook his head, but he didn't say anything, but went to the kitchen to get busy.

......

In the bazaar, the streets are empty and sparsely populated.

Zhao Dongkui took Liu Xing to the shop to buy tofu on the street as soon as possible, weighed two catties of fried tofu, and five pieces of water tofu.

Zhao Liang is Zhao Dongkui's cousin, who is five big and three thick, and his family's economic conditions are also good. But he is a well-known gangster in the market, and he collects the stall fees in the entire market.

Of course, the gangsters are not necessarily good people, on the contrary, Zhao Liang is very popular in the bazaar, and his relationship with Zhao Dongkui is very good.

Seeing Zhao Dongkui walking towards him with a Liu Xing, he hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "Brother, weren't you drunk before? Why did you come out for a stroll again this time?"

"I have guests coming in the evening, so I have to buy some groceries. Zhao Dongkui pointed to the grass carp in the wooden pot: "How do you sell this?"

"Brother, can I ask you for money if you want it?" Zhao Liang threw away the cigarette in his hand, rolled up his sleeves and grabbed the largest grass carp and put it in a woven bag: "But I have to go and join in the fun at dinner." ”

In fact, these grass carp were all netted in the unopened waterhole in the team, and he didn't need the capital at all, otherwise he would definitely not be so generous.

Of course, if you don't usually go to the market, you won't see anyone selling fish in this market. Today is Zhao Dongkui's luck, otherwise how could he see grass carp. When he saw Zhao Liang say this, he nodded and agreed: "Okay! ”

Liu Xing on the side was a little crying and laughing.

This Zhao Liang obviously has other intentions.

If I go to my eldest sister's house, I'm afraid that he will be in trouble later.

But I can only complain about this in my heart, and it is impossible to say it.

Seeing that the supply and marketing cooperatives were diagonally opposite, he walked over after saying hello to Zhao Dongkui.

As expected, the door of the supply and marketing cooperatives has been sealed, and it is a serious seal of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau.

The weight of this seal is very heavy, that is to say, Xiao Daodao, the owner of the supply and marketing cooperative, is afraid that it will be difficult to come back in a short period of time this time. But this is a good thing for him, if he gets it right, it will not be difficult to establish the shoe store in the bazaar in the next half a month.

"Liu Xing, Liu Xing!" Behind him, Zhao Dongkui's shout came.

"Huh?" Liu Xing looked back.

"Come on. Zhao Dongkui beckoned to Liu Xing.

"Oh. Liu Xing saw Zhao Liang whispering something beside Zhao Dongkui, and couldn't help but be vigilant at the moment.

When I got closer, I realized that he was too careful.

It turned out that Zhao Liang was going to ask Zhao Dongkui to raise funds to buy big fat pigs to sell in the market, and the money he earned was divided into five percent.

Zhao Dongkui has a thief's heart in this matter, but he has no thief's courage, so he came to ask Liu Xing's opinion.

If Liu Xing didn't object, he knew that his daughter-in-law would definitely be able to pass that level.

"Brother, aren't you afraid that Boss Xiao of the supply and marketing cooperatives will trouble you?" Liu Xing did not say anything at the first time, but asked Zhao Liang teasingly.

After all, if Xiao Daode was in charge of the supply and marketing cooperatives in the bazaar, he would give Zhao Liang ten guts, and he would not dare to buy a big fat pig and kill it to buy and sell in the bazaar.

Because in addition to the supply and marketing cooperatives, there are also those self-employed who have applied for business licenses, and no one dares to buy and sell pork in the countryside.

Except for those who kill pigs during the New Year.

If you get caught, your life will basically be wasted.

Even if Zhao Liang is a gangster and has some backers behind him, he can't afford to toss.

"Boss Xiao, he can't protect himself! He still wants to trouble me. Zhao Liang's face was full of disapproval: "Let me tell you, if I didn't have much money around me, I would have been able to take over his supply and marketing cooperative." ”

"What's the point of selling some pork, I'm going to sell fish openly in a few days!" After a pause, Zhao Liang added with a smile.

"You cow!" Liu Xing gave a thumbs up: "But where did you buy this big fat pig?"

Ordinary families, however, will not sell big fat pigs at this time.

Even if there is, it has already been booked by the people of the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Alas, it's a long story, Widow Wang's son is sick, and her family only has a big fat pig worth it, so I want to sell it to his son for treatment, and I was almost pitted by the people of the supply and marketing cooperatives in terms of price, so I thought that I could help it, after all, Widow Wang is still a member of my Zhao family!" Zhao Liang sighed lightly and told the inside story.

"That's it!" Liu Xing suddenly realized, and immediately looked up to Zhao Liang's character by three points: "Then you take my brother-in-law to buy it!" My sister will help talk, if there is no accident, there should be no problem." ”

For him, it just so happens that the shoe store also needs pork to entertain things, if Zhao Liang and his brother-in-law can buy a big fat pig, it will save him a lot of things, otherwise he can only go to the city or the black market to buy it without a meat ticket.

"It's just that now how much does it cost to buy the whole head of this big fat pig! If you don't buy one one, it costs a lot of money, then my sister is afraid that she will not agree. Liu Xing was afraid that there was fraud in this, so he asked again.

"The price charged by the supply and marketing cooperatives is four cents and eighty-one catties, but the butcher in the old house village collects five cents and eight catties, how much do you think I should give Widow Wang a catty?" Zhao Liang asked with a faint smile.

"So cheap?" Liu Xing froze.

He thought it was at least seven or eight cents a pound!

According to the price Zhao Liang said, the pork seller is now very profitable!

"Is it cheap?" Zhao Liang disagreed.

If it were cheap, people wouldn't be able to eat pork only during the Chinese New Year.

"Then I won't talk nonsense, you can take my brother-in-law to buy it!" Liu Xing took the tofu and grass carp in Zhao Dongkui's hand: "But it's best to kill the big fat pig before dark! ”

"You can rest assured. Zhao Liang smiled.

"It's just money, what to do!" Zhao Dongkui scratched his head.

He was embarrassed to ask Liu Dongju for it.

"Come back, I'll give it to you. Liu Xing said seriously.

It is almost impossible to ask the eldest sister to pay for a whole pig.

Because he knew that the eldest sister would not have more than a hundred yuan of money, which was saved under the condition of frugality, otherwise there would not be much money at all.

"Okay!" Zhao Dongkui nodded.

"Then let's go!" Zhao Liang knew that Zhao Dongkui couldn't be the master at home, so he immediately took it and walked towards the alley to the west.

Liu Xing parted ways and went back to his eldest sister's house.