"If my eldest brother and the others don't take home the money they earn outside, and go directly to buy wine and meat to eat, they probably won't even be able to enter the door when they go home. Not to mention my father, my sister-in-laws will not let them go."
Yang Heshu was thoughtful, took a sip of tea and asked with a smile, "Have the three long-term workers in your family married a wife?"
The three children froze and shook their heads together, "We don't know."
Yang Heshu laughed and said, "Go back and ask, after all, you are the owner of the village, and you are only a small villager. You should also care about the long-term workers."
The three nodded blankly.
Yang Heshu took a look at the shop Manbao bought with them, and before he got there, he narrowed his eyes, "This is a good place, how did you buy it?"
"I knew the previous store owner, so he sold it to me."
Yang Heshu thought for a while and said, "This seems to be the Shi family's shop."
"Yes, yes, Uncle Shi sold it to me."
Yang Heshu smiled at her, "You know a lot of people."
Man Bao smiled embarrassedly, "The county is so big, I've known him since I've been here a lot, do you know him too?"
Yang Heshu stood on the opposite side of the street with his hands behind his back, watching the old Zhou's people rushing in and out of the shop, and said with a smile, "You said it all, the county is so big, I've been here for almost two years, so naturally I know him Yes, the Shi family is not an unknown person."
The smile on Yang Heshu's face was faint, and he said: "The Shi family has fallen~~"
Bai Shanbao glanced at Man Bao, then turned his head to look at him, and asked, "Is it because of gambling?"
Yang Heshu nodded slightly, got up and walked into the shop, saying: "In autumn, when the old man of the Shi family passed away, Shi Xiaoen started selling the land and the shop. I heard that he owed a lot of money."
Man Bao was not very happy, and asked sadly in his heart: "My lord, why does the county allow gambling houses to exist?"
Yang Heshu lowered his head to look at Manbao, Manbao looked at him seriously with his clear eyes like glass, Yang Heshu looked away, and said calmly: "The imperial court can't help gambling, and the Holy Majesty also likes cockfighting."
Man Bao's eyes widened, "The emperor also gambles? Isn't he afraid that gambling will ruin his fortune?"
As soon as Man Bao finished speaking, she felt something was wrong. She frowned and said, "Can the emperor lose his entire family?"
"It's probably difficult," Bai Shanbao said, "If he has no money, he can ask us for it."
Man Bao's face became bitter, and Yang Heshu was amused, so he patted her on the head and said, "You are still young, so don't worry about such things for now."
But Bai Shanbao said with a stern face: "When we grow up, we don't have to worry about such things."
Zhou Dalang had already seen County Magistrate Yang, and hurried out to greet him, "Why is the county magistrate here?"
Yang Heshu smiled, stepped forward with a smile and said, "I heard that Manbao bought a shop in the city, so I'll take a look."
The members of the old Zhou's family welcomed Yang and Shu very much.
Nonsense, their family will do business in the county in the future, so of course they have to establish a good relationship with the county magistrate, at least they have a backer, right
Zhou Dalang moved out the chairs he found in the shop for them to sit on. Yang Heshu shook his hands and smiled, walked around the lobby on the first floor, and said with a smile, "This shop looks pretty good, when do you plan to open it?"
Zhou Dalang said: "There are fewer tables, chairs and benches in the shop, and things in the kitchen have to be arranged. It may take several days, so we think about opening after the third day of junior high school."
Yang Heshu nodded, "That's right, when the day comes, you can post me a post, and I'll congratulate you."
Zhou Dalang was so excited that he responded again and again.
Tuesday Lang and Thursday Lang didn't come back yet, they didn't come back smelling of alcohol until they cleaned the inside and outside of the shop and were about to close the door and go home.
Zhou Zhoulang took out a document to show them, and said with a smile: "It's already recorded, and my fourth son and I watched him record it with our own eyes."
Zhou Dalang asked: "Is it a lot of money?"
"It didn't cost much," Zhou Zhoulang said with a smile, "It only cost more than a hundred yuan to treat him to a good meal."
Zhou Dalang felt relieved, and put away the documents and the house deed together.
Man Bao poked his head out of curiosity, Zhou Dalang patted her on the head and said, "Hurry up and go home, parents must be in a hurry."
Man Bao didn't care about it, anyway, the shop was not hers, so her elder brother and sister-in-law would take care of it, she just waited for her to come to the county to eat delicious food when she was free, or ask her elder brother to bring her back.
Man Bao climbed into the bullock cart, sat next to Bai Shanbao, and discussed with him about blind dates for the long-term workers, "I don't think they can find their own wives. It's been two years and I haven't found them. I think we have to give them a blind date." .”
"It's not what you said, they don't have money, so people won't marry them?"
"Then it's been two years, and they haven't saved any money yet?" Man Bao stared, "We even gave out big red envelopes for the Chinese New Year a while ago."
Bai Shanbao thought so too, mainly because he thought the magistrate Yang's proposal was weird, so he also wanted to see why he asked them to pay attention to the matter of long-term workers marrying wives.
As a result, they only made a start when they went back, and Bai Zhuangtou bent down and said: "Just about to tell the young masters, the three long-term workers are planning to get married."
Man Bao sprayed the water he just drank into his mouth, and Bai Shanbao's eyes widened, "All three are going to get married?"
"Yes," Bai Zhuangtou was also very helpless, "They also told the little old man the night before that they were planning to get married, and they wanted to report back to the masters."
Man Bao: "It's almost New Year's Eve. I just told us at this time. Is there still time for the banquet? There are also betrothal gifts and house decorations."
Bai Zhuangtou just laughed, "Miss Man, they all married second-married widows, and two of them had children. The family is poor, so how can they be so particular about it? There is no betrothal gift and dowry, only the bedding. , I plan to have a meal with the three families and it will be fine."
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao opened their mouths wide in surprise. It was the first time they had seen such a married couple when they grew up. It took a while to recover, and they stammered and asked, "Aren't you going to visit the hall, and don't you want to drink?"
Bai Zhuangtou nodded and said: "The little old man has gone to see it today, and they have pasted the Chinese characters "囍" that they cut out on the windows and doors, saying that it will be done when the wife comes to have a meal tomorrow."
He said: "Fortunately, the houses are ready-made, and they can live in the house when they get married, but there are too many people in the village, whether to hire them together, or not to use them all has to be decided by the little masters."
Man Bao asked, "Do they have land?"
Bai Zhuang shook his head and smiled: "They are all women. If you remarry, you can't take away your husband's land. How can you have land? There are two with children, but the children are still young, so even if they can inherit the eternal business of their biological father Tian, this time the original village is farming..."
"Oh, they are not from our Qili Village," Man Bao remembered now, scratched his head and looked at Bai Shanbao, "You might as well keep them all, don't you dislike the fact that their vegetables are not always carefully grown, and the chickens they raise Isn't that good too?"
"Of course it's not good," Bai Shanbao muttered, "We raised more than a hundred chickens, but we only laid a few more eggs than yours. All right, let's keep them, and the wages will be compared with theirs. Tell me If they do a good job, we will give them wages next year."
Bai Zhuangtou immediately bent down to respond.