Although Liao Township and Zhangmu Township are neighboring townships, Saltpeter Village is a little far away from Liao Township.

From saltpeter village to Zhoujia village, it will be even farther.

It is at least nearly ninety miles back and forth.

If you walk, it's almost as good as one round trip a day.

Every time Zhou Qiuxiang went to Zhoujia Village before, because there were many children, she walked over.

So in the hearts of Liu Ye and Liu Ziran, they were very disgusted with going to their grandmother's house.

Because I was so tired from walking, I didn't sit down and rest for a while, and I had to go back.

It's not that they don't want to spend the night at their grandmother's house, but that Zhoujia Village is poorer and more backward than saltpeter village.

If it weren't for the concerted efforts of the villagers in the village in the past two years, the mountain road would have been repaired and the bicycles could have passed, but I am afraid that it would have been even more backward.

And Liu Xing, riding a bicycle carrying Zhou Qiuxiang and melon seeds, according to the route in his memory, was cautiously moving towards Zhoujia Village.

Many of these roads were not available at all in '82.

If it weren't for Zhou Qiuxiang pointing out from behind, I was afraid that the three of them would all get lost.

But fortunately, it's a sunny day, so you won't be able to get out if you get lost.

At a quarter past two o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Xing rode a bicycle and finally saw the boundary stone monument of Zhoujia Village, which made him breathe a long sigh of relief and make him a lot happier.

But Zhou Qiuxiang was vigilant, because there were all the wild mountains around, and many wild beasts were hiding in them, and if they collided, it would be a big trouble.

But fortunately, her worry was unnecessary, after all, Liu Xing rode a bicycle very quickly, and it only took half an hour to finally come to the gate of her second uncle's house.

Liu Xing's second uncle, whose real name is Zhou Ziqiang, is two years older than Zhou Qiuxiang and is a well-known hunter in Zhoujia Village.

A shotgun has always been a bullet in the mountains, but it is often accompanied by great danger when hunting, and this is not the year before last when he was hit by a wild boar and broke his right leg, and he is still limping when he walks.

Liu Xing knew the inside story, and after stopping the bicycle, he shouted: "Second uncle, second aunt, are you at home?"

"Second uncle, Wolaicha is the Asian pork in your house!" melon seeds also shouted.

Asian pork is wild boar, Zhou Ziqiang, who was chopping wood in the backyard, naturally understood, he was stunned at first, thinking that he had heard it wrong, and after coming back to his senses, he hurriedly limped out happily and came to the gate.

When he saw that it was Zhou Qiuxiang who came with Liu Xing and Liu Qingmei, he was happy: "Haiying! Don't be busy, look who's coming." ”

"Hey!" a woman in black in her early thirties ran out.

She is Haiying in Zhou Ziqiang's mouth, her real name is Wang Haiying, and she is Liu Xing's second aunt.

Seeing that Liu Xing hadn't seen him for half a year, he had grown so tall, and he was surprised: "Oh my God! What are you eating? I haven't seen you for a few months, and I'm actually a head taller than my aunt." ”

"Look at what you said, it's impossible to eat chemical fertilizer, right?" Zhou Ziqiang glanced at Wang Haiying, but the smile on his face did not decrease: "Don't rub it off, my sister and Liu Xing and melon seeds must not have eaten yet, hurry up and go to the kitchen to get something to eat." ”

"Hey!hey!" Wang Haiying hurriedly ran into the kitchen when she heard this.

Liu Xing smiled, and helped take down the items tied to Zhou Qiuxiang's body.

Zhou Ziqiang only noticed the changes in Liu Xing at first, and didn't see the things on Zhou Qiuxiang's body at all, but after taking it down, he hurriedly came up curiously: "Qiuxiang! What are you carrying with this big bag?"

"This is a new dress for your family, Zhou Shan and Zhou Min have it. Zhou Qiuxiang hurriedly took out all the things in the red woven bag: "These white sugar and bacon are for my mother, and as for other things, the eldest brother and Xiaojun also have a share." ”

"It's not...... It's not Qiu Xiang, what are you doing here? Is your Dazhao's leg better now? Don't buy me these things, I don't need them. Zhou Ziqiang was a little anxious, and his face became ugly.

In his heart, as long as this sister's life is good, it will be happier than anything else.

And now it's only been a few months, and I've come back with so many things, and I'm afraid it's hard to get these new clothes, let alone the money to buy new clothes.

"Second brother, I have money now, and it's more than a little bit. Zhou Qiuxiang took out a large stack of ten-yuan bills, with a smile on her face: "This money was borrowed from you before, and I will pay you back." ”

"It's not...... How did you earn it?" Zhou Ziqiang's eyes widened: "It's only been two months, right?

"It's the credit of Xing Yanzi, who now has a shoe store in the bazaar and manages a department store, and it doesn't matter if he earns a thousand yuan a month. Zhou Qiuxiang replied with a smile.

"Really?" Zhou Ziqiang looked at Liu Xing.

"It's true, otherwise my mother wouldn't have so much money to buy you things!" Liu Xing replied.

"You kid, you can't see it!" Zhou Ziqiang patted Liu Xing's shoulder: "I knew you were very promising since I was a child, but I didn't expect that you would be able to make a lot of money so quickly." ”

The second uncle laughed. Liu Xing scratched his head.

Among the three uncles, the second uncle is the one who loves him the most.

When he was a child, he did say that he would be very productive when he grew up in the future.

Thinking about it now, it really happened like it happened yesterday, but the second uncle is also old, and gray hair actually appeared on his temples.

"You must be hungry, I have to go to the attic to get the dried wild boar meat down, how about we wait for a drink?" Zhou Ziqiang saw that the melon seeds were eaten when he saw the diced radish on the side, and even said at the moment.

"This ......" Liu Xing looked at Zhou Qiuxiang.

"Drink as much as you want, you're grown up now, but you can't get drunk. Zhou Qiuxiang said with a smile.

"That's fine. Liu Xing nodded.

In fact, he didn't want to ask his mother's consent for this, but wanted his mother not to let him drink.

After all, I have to ride a bicycle back later, and if I get drunk, it will be a big problem.

Now that my mother has said so, it is natural that I can't refuse the kindness of my second uncle.

Besides, he and his second uncle can be very close to each other, and there were endless topics to talk about when he was a child, which grew up because of the distance from home, and now he feels a little strange and uncomfortable in his heart.

So, it's time for a drink and a good chat.

Zhou Ziqiang saw that Liu Xing agreed, and hurriedly ran to get wax wild boar.

Zhou Qiuxiang was not idle, and went to the kitchen to help cook.

Liu Xing wandered around the second uncle's house with melon seeds, and couldn't help but shake his head when he found that there was a lot of cotton in the dry field in front of the second uncle's house.

The reason for this reaction is because the price of cotton in 82 years in his memory has fallen to the point where he can't even recover the fertilizer money.

The reason for this is that cotton is highly produced in all parts of the country except for Shonan Province.

No matter what kind of crop you have, once you have a high yield, the price will collapse.

And cotton is no exception.

Although there are reasons for unscrupulous traders to lower prices.

But more often than not, it was a kind of helplessness of the peasants in the eighties.

Just as he was about to go back and ask his second uncle how much cotton he had won today, a peasant girl with long braids appeared on the winding mountain road on the right-hand side.

The peasant girl had crystal sweat on her forehead, her pretty face was flushed, and when she saw Liu Xing, she was very happy: "Xing Yanzi, when will you come to my house!"

"Just now. Liu Xing smiled and greeted him, and easily took the woven bag on the peasant girl's shoulder in his hand.

The peasant girl's name is 'Zhou Min', and she is the eldest daughter of her second uncle's family.

is four years older than Liu Xing, and he is already twenty years old this year.

Because of the fact that the family lives in a large middle school, he has not yet married.

It's not that their own conditions are not good, it's not that they have a problem with their appearance, but that the boys from several nearby villages are reluctant to marry girls from Zhoujia Village, because the people of Zhoujia Village are too strong, and they carry shotguns to the door to look for trouble at every turn, and in the early eighties, it was still legal for Zhoujia Village to have shotguns.

After all, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water.

If Zhoujia Village didn't hunt, I was afraid that many people would starve to death.

Liu Xing knew a little bit about the inside story of this, and when he saw that the woven bag was full of pigweed, he couldn't help but ask, "Cousin, how many pigs have you fed this year?"

"Three-headed. Zhou Min replied with a smile: "And it's almost out of the slaughter, but no butcher has come to collect it recently, and my father has pressed the price to two cents and ninety-one catties, and no one has come to collect it." ”

"What? It's only two cents and nine pounds?" Liu Xing thought he had heard it wrong.

"Don't believe it, the price of live pigs on our side is this price, but if the butcher sells it, the pork belly will cost more than a pound. Zhou Min reached out and wiped the sweat on her forehead, and then picked up the melon seeds that greeted her: "How much is the price of pigs over there?"

"It's more than six cents, and many villagers still refuse to sell, and they are waiting for the price to increase in the second half of the year!" Liu Xing replied.

"Isn't it?" Zhou Min was stunned.

She did the math in her mind, and her eyes widened in surprise.

Because he found that if these three pigs went to Liu Xing's side to sell, he was afraid that he would have to sell them for a lot of money, and he would have another dowry.

"What's wrong with that. Liu Xing looked at Zhou Min's appearance and smiled: "If you don't believe it, you can go to my side to have a look! ”

"What Brother Wo said is true. Melon Seed followed up.

"Then I can't go to you, it's too far. Zhou Min was a little sad.

I know that the butcher in Zhoujia Village is at the card price, but because the road is impassable, what can I do!

Liu Xing saw the helpless thoughts in Zhou Min's heart, so he didn't talk about this topic at the moment, but asked, "By the way, why didn't you see Zhou Shan at home?"

He went to Dong Li's house to do farm work, and it is estimated that he will not come back until the evening. After Zhou Min said this, he took the lead and walked towards the adobe house in front.

"Do farm work for Dong Li's family?" Liu Xing was stunned when he heard this, and chased after him: "Cousin, what do you mean by this?"

In his impression, Dong Li is a girl about the same age as Zhou Shan, and she seems to be seventeen or eighteen years old.

This is a good farm work for Dong Li's family, but I'm afraid that things are not simple!

"You probably don't know it yet. Zhou Min sighed lightly: "What my dad means, I am going to let Zhou Shan enter Dong Li's house, after all, it is very difficult to find a daughter-in-law in Zhoujia Village now, and there are more than a dozen singles in this area." ”

"That can't let Zhou Shan get into trouble!" Liu Xing's face darkened when he heard this: "Besides, Dong Li's person is bitter and mean, and it's not easy to get along with!"

It's not nonsense, it's factual.

Because in the past, when I came to my second uncle's house to play, I would meet Dong Li.

She's okay-looking, but she's the kind of mouth that is too mean to scold the dead.

Married to such a person, to be honest, he might as well continue to be single!

"Otherwise, where do you let Zhou Shan find his daughter-in-law?" Zhou Min turned his head to look at Liu Xing: "I didn't see my parents, because of our marriage, are you even gray now?"

"Cousin, do you believe me?" Liu Xing suddenly became serious.

"Of course. Zhou Min replied without thinking.

"Then wait and go out with me to work! As for the subject, I can guarantee that you will have a choice. Liu Xing said.

"This ......" Zhou Min didn't know how to answer for a while.

After all, he has grown so big, and he has never left Zhoujia Village for a long time.

Liu Xing didn't force Zhou Min to agree, but said with a smile: "You can ask your parents about this matter, and there are still two hours to think about it." ”

"Okay!" Zhou Min breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly walked into the adobe house with melon seeds.

Liu Xing did not follow, but sent the pigweed to the kitchen.

The second aunt 'Wang Haiying' saw that Liu Xing was back, and asked with a smile: "Your mother just told me that your shoe store has made a lot of money, and you have invited more than a dozen people to make shoes, can you let Zhou Shan and Zhou Min also help?"

"Of course you can!" Liu Xing replied: "I told my cousin about this just now, and I want to take her out of Zhoujia Village to work, but she is too timid to agree!"

"This kid, even you don't believe it!" Wang Haiying shook his head.

In her opinion, among the children of the Zhou family's brothers and sisters, Liu Xing is the most kind-hearted.

If Liu Xing can't believe it, then others can't be counted on.

"Mom, I don't believe it, if I go with Zhou Shan, what will happen to the pigs in that pen and the more than ten acres of land in the house?" Zhou Min heard this outside, and hurriedly walked in and explained.

"I'm not old with your father!I'm worried about things at home!" Wang Haiying couldn't help but glance at Zhou Min.

"That'...... Then I'll call Zhou Shan now. Zhou Min said happily.

"This ......," Wang Haiying hesitated.

After all, the matter of Zhou Shan's entry into the Dong family has been discussed by the two adults recently.

If Zhou Shan leaves at this time, I'm afraid that something will be wrong.

Just when I didn't know what to do, Zhou Shan's strong voice came from outside: "Mom, are there any leftovers in the kitchen? ”

"You kid, you've been doing farm work at Dong Li's house for most of the day, and you can't even mix up the food?" Wang Haiying sighed when she heard this, but the movements under her hands were not slow, and she hurriedly accelerated the speed of cutting bacon.

Liu Xing ran out, and when he found that the tall and tall Zhou Shan in his memory was as black as a piece of coal at this time, he shook his head: "Cousin, what's wrong with you, it's not so dark to go to the coal mine to mine?"

"Ouch! Xing Lingzi is here!" Zhou Shan was stunned for a moment, and then happily put down the hoe in his hand and rushed up and gave Liu Xing a bear hug: "Hahaha...... I want to kill you kid, why didn't you come to my house yesterday to play! ”

"It's raining heavily, how can you get here if the road doesn't work? Besides, yesterday was my fifth aunt's birthday, and I had to give her a birthday. Liu Xing pushed Zhou Shan away and patted him on the shoulder with a smile.

"Yes. Zhou Shan nodded: "Don't talk about this, drink and chat with me, it's all starving." ”

"You can't drink alcohol on an empty stomach. Liu Xing politely refused.

"You kid. Zhou Shan scratched his head with a smile: "Then tell me, how have you been at home in the past few months?

"It's not a matter of one, two, or three that I'm looking for a partner, but it's you ......" Liu Xing smiled and became serious: "Why can't you even cook for Dong Li's family doing farm work?"

"Hey! It's hard to say, Dong Li went on a blind date without telling me today, and brought the blind date partner and matchmaker to the house, I reasoned with Dong Tianbo, and I was kicked out. Zhou Shan told the inside story dejectedly.

For him, being a son-in-law means that he has no human rights.

As for Dong Tianbo in his mouth, he is Dong Li's father.

"What?" Liu Xing froze.

Is this Dong Tianbo still a fucking human?

actually did such a shameless thing.

"Then you just forget it?" After coming back to his senses, Liu Xinglian asked.

"What else do you want?"

Zhou Shan asked.

I have known Dong Li for so long, although I have not yet reached the point of talking about marriage, but I still have feelings. If he made a fuss, he really couldn't bear it. After all, Dong Li's blind date this time is not very good, and he still wants to wait for Dong Li to come to him in person!

"At least you can't do the farm work for Dong Li's family in vain, we have to ask him for wages. Liu Xing frowned and proposed.

If it is forgotten like this, then Zhou Shan is afraid that it will be more difficult to find a daughter-in-law in the future.

Because after this incident, everyone knows that Zhou Shan is a bully.

"Yes, we have to go to Dong Tianbo to settle accounts. When Zhou Ziqiang in the house heard these words, he walked out with a shotgun in a huff: "Zhou Shan, if you don't go today, I won't have your son in the future." ”

Letting his son into the fold has already made his face gloomy.

If it weren't for the impossible, who would do such a thing.

It's good now, Dong Tianbo has to ride on Zhou Shan's head.

If it goes on like this, I am afraid that I will not be able to raise my head in the Dong family in the future.

Therefore, he must seek justice, even if Zhou Shan does not marry a daughter-in-law, he has to vent his evil anger.

"Dad. Zhou Shan was in a hurry.

If it's really going to be stiff, then in the Zhou and Dong families, I'm afraid that they will be enemies in the future.

"What are you shouting, I think your father did the right thing, and you must find Dong Tianbo to seek justice. Wang Haiying walked out with a stack of cured pork, with anger on her face: "If you don't go, your life will be over, you know?"

"If you want to find a daughter-in-law, go to me, and promise to find someone more beautiful and virtuous than Dong Li within a month. Zhou Qiuxiang, who followed behind, also said.

She didn't dare to say this before when she had no money, but now it's different, she has money, as long as she is willing, it is not a very simple matter to find a daughter-in-law for Zhou Shan.

"Really?" Zhou Shan was a little tempted.

After all, Dong Li is sometimes too unreasonable.

It's okay to divide it, at least he won't have to live under the fence in the future.

"Of course it's true. Liu Xing put his arm around Zhou Shan's shoulder: "You don't believe my mother, but you have to believe my words, right?"

He and Zhou Shan have played since childhood, if they are not far apart, I am afraid that there will be no secrets between each other at all.

And the trust between each other is even more indescribable.

"Okay then! I'll go with my dad to settle accounts with Dong Tianbo now. ”

Zhou Shan gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind.

It's not that he thinks differently, but since he has a choice, why did he hang himself on a tree! Not to mention that Dong Li's tree is still a tree with a crooked neck, and it is not worth nostalgia at all.

"Wait, let's eat first. Wang Haiying walked into the hall with cured pork: "Otherwise, where will you have the strength to fight." ”

This is true. Zhou Ziqiang beckoned to Liu Xing: "Let's go, have a drink with me, and talk about your shoe store by the way." ”

"Okay!" Although Liu Xing didn't want to drink, he still walked with Zhou Shan and walked into the hall.

Zhou Qiuxiang followed behind with melon seeds.

Although Zhou Min and Wang Haiying didn't eat, they also followed closely and prepared to join in the fun.

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