The chief was about to leave, but when he turned around, he met Man Bao's eyes, couldn't help but pause, stopped and asked, "Is this your little girl?"
Man Bao raised his small face and smiled sweetly at him, and Li Chang also smiled subconsciously.
Old Zhou Tou responded with a raised heart, pulled Man Bao over, and said in a low voice, "Quickly call Grandpa Li Chang."
Man Bao yelled crisply: "Grandpa Li Zhang is good!"
Li Chang couldn't help but smile, the creases were piled together, he stretched out his withered hand, touched her little head and said with a smile: "Okay, okay..."
The chief left with the people and went to the next house to collect money. Man Bao patted his little head, then raised his head and asked her father, "Why do everyone like to pat my head?"
Man Bao's hair is fluffy, because the weather is going to be cold, and she hasn't shaved her head for several months. At this time, her hair is about to cover her ears, and it is soft. Old Zhou Tou also touched her head and laughed. Said: "Because we are cute."
Man Bao was happy now, raised his smiling face, and then turned to see Zhou Zhou Lang off.
Zhou Zhoulang brought all his clothes, Xiaoqian also made him two pairs of thick shoes, and Man Bao wrapped him a bag full of sugar, saying: "Fourth brother, if you are hungry, eat it." Don’t worry, Tang, tomorrow I’ll ask my elder brother to find you and make broth for you, but I think ginger soup is better than broth, so I’d better cook ginger soup for you.”
"No!" Zhou Zhoulang said without thinking, "Third brother still has broth to drink, but I can only drink ginger soup?"
It's not that he hasn't drunk it, it doesn't taste good at all.
Man Bao coaxed him like a child, "Fourth brother, ginger soup is good for keeping the cold out. My elder brother has already said that you have to stand in the water to build a dam, and ginger is more expensive than meat."
Zhou Zhoulang: "I like to eat cheap ones, not expensive ones."
Man Bao thought about the taste of ginger soup, and nodded in agreement, what a coincidence, she is too.
Zhou Zhoulang will gather that day and go to Jiangding Village with other strong men in the village. It is said that the county government has already bought a batch of materials, and construction will start tomorrow.
Jiangding Village is not very far from Qili Village, at least a little closer than going to the county seat, but it is in the opposite direction to the county seat, and it takes about four quarters to walk up the water.
Qili Village is a small village with only about 60 households, so the head of the village is from Dali Village, who is in charge of the 60 or so households here and the 30 or so households in Dali Village, which is considered a big village. There are only two Lichang, so the Daji of several nearby villages will be placed in Dali Village.
The situation in Jiangding Village and Dali Village is similar. There are about a hundred households in the village, which are directly under the management of a village chief, and several small villages near it are also used to go to the market in Jiangding Village to do business.
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang went to see the broken dam in advance, which happened to be three miles upstream of Jiangding Village. There were no people there, and naturally no one was selling anything.
But Zhou Zhoulang felt that if they set up their stall here, someone would definitely follow, because it was too close to Jiangding Village.
At that time, I am afraid they will not have the advantage.
So the two brothers discussed it and decided to build a thatched shed not far from the river bank. It will not only be easy to do business, but also to occupy a place. They can even sleep here at night to guard things.
Anyway, it's not very cold now, so they think it's okay.
The brothers who have already done Laoding's business once have full confidence in this business, so they are not as restrained as they were in the previous year.
Lao Zhoutou and Qian Shi didn't stop them, so they let them go.
So Man Bao took Wu Lang to discuss with Zhou Dalang, "Brother, ginger soup is better than broth, do you want to cook some, we will sell it to you cheaply."
Zhou Dalang was surprised, "We still have to buy it."
"Of course," Man Bao said as a matter of course: "The fourth brother still owes money to the family. If you don't buy it, if you eat up all the ginger in the field, how can he pay back the money?"
Zhou Dalang thought for a while, and felt that what she said was reasonable, thinking that it would not take much ginger to cook a pot of ginger soup, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then how much will you sell it to us?"
"I asked my fourth brother, and he said thirty cash is fine."
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang didn't have any objections at all. Anyway, the money was given to the fourth child, and the fourth child still had to give it to the family, so it was just a transfer.
So don't say thirty essays, forty essays are fine.
As for the money in Lao Wu's hands... Zhou Dalang looked around, picked up Man Bao, and asked in a low voice, "Man Bao, tell Big Brother quietly, how much money have Lao Wu and the others saved with you?"
Man Bao covered his mouth and murmured, "I promised them that I won't tell you."
"You tell the elder brother quietly, but the elder brother won't tell."
Man Bao couldn't help but took off his hand, and said: "Sir, I said that a secret is no longer a secret if it has passed the ears of a third person, so I won't tell you."
Zhou Dalang: "..."
Don't tell if you don't tell, anyway, he will know in just a year or two.
The reason why Zhou Dalang wanted to know the money saved by Wu Lang and the others was because old Zhou Tou said that after this hard labor, the family will build a new house and start to make love to the fourth child.
After all, he has grown up and married a daughter-in-law so that he can take on the responsibility of a family.
This year has been unexpectedly smooth, and the family is earning money much faster than in previous years, so there is still money to build a house, but the fourth child may have less money to get married.
Thinking about these things, Zhou Dalang went to Jiangding Village with Zhou Zhoulang and Zhou Zhoulang to occupy a place, simply built a straw shed, and then planned to open it.
Those who bought their soup and vegetables during the military service last year knew what they were doing, but a large part of them didn't know.
Including the yamen servants who came to supervise the work, they came up to ask curiously. They heard that Zhou Dalang was going to do business here, and they couldn't help being happy. "This is Lao Ding, what business is it?"
Zhou Dalang said with a smile: "It's just for everyone to drink hot soup, it's not worth a lot of money. It's going to be cold this day, and everyone is standing in the water to work, so I cook some broth and ginger soup to keep everyone away from the cold." , my brother is also inside."
"Oh? Which one?"
Zhou Dalang pointed out Zhou Zhoulang to them, and the yamen servants couldn't help laughing when they saw it, "This glib boy is your brother, I know him well, and he often goes to our area to sell ginger during this time, why, You have so much ginger that you can’t finish it, why do you bring it here to make soup?”
Zhou Zhoulang's main selling places are the official quarters near the county government office, and the rich man's quarter next door. He wanders around these two places almost every day. Of course, the government servants know him.
Although they don't live there, they work there. Those two areas are also the main patrol areas, okay
So after coming and going, they not only knew each other, but also got to know each other well.
Zhou Zhoulang is very eloquent, and he has been called brothers and sisters for a while, so when he came to serve and met these acquaintances, he was directly arranged to move stones and shovel dirt on the shore.