Fields of Gold

Chapter 52: Close to the door

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Little Shitou was squatting in front of the door, combing the little one's hair with his little hands. Hearing the sound of "Deer... Deer...", he raised his head to follow the prestige, and found that the young man in the lead looked familiar, so he couldn't help squinting his eyes to identify it carefully.

"Young master, the five houses with courtyards in front are the homes of Uncle Yu. I have inquired about it, and there are not many households with such a big house in the whole village. It's just..." Si Mo, Young Master Zhou's close servant, paused hesitantly for a moment.

"Just what?" Zhou Shao recognized from a distance the little guy squatting in front of the door, it was Xiaocao's cute younger brother. It should be here!

Smo also saw the little boy wearing a ragged jacket full of patches, and he seemed to sigh and said: "Judging from Uncle Yu's ability and these few houses, the Yu family should be in a good family. Why are the children wearing the jacket?" , not as good as the children of other families in the village.

Look, isn't that the little grass girl's younger brother? The padded jacket is torn and should have been thrown away long ago. These days, the prey money that Zhenxiu Restaurant pays for settlement is at least sixty or seventy taels. It’s almost Chinese New Year, and I’m not willing to make a new padded jacket for my child…”

Zhou Zixu frowned slightly, and said, "Uncle Yu doesn't look like someone who is mean to children, is there something hidden?"

Having personally experienced the struggle for fame and fortune and intrigues in the family, Zhou Zixu always thinks deeply when things happen. Isn't it the same at home? If it weren't for the old lady and the old man on the top, and I have shown my talent in business in the past two years, the second room might have been swallowed up by those greedy relatives. Uncle Yu, probably he has something to hide, right

"I remember you! You are the third young master of the Zhou family, right?" Xiao Shitou stood up, raised his head, and smiled brightly.

Zhou Zixu got off his horse, touched the little guy's furry head, and said kindly, "Little Shitou, what is Master Wednesday? Call me 'Brother Wednesday'! Next time you make a mistake, I will punish you!"

"Punishment for what?" Little Stone blinked and asked curiously.

"Punish you..." Zhou Zixu took the food box containing pastries from Smo, and said with a smile, "I will punish you not to eat the pastries brought by brother Wednesday!"

The little stone stared eagerly at the exquisite food box in Shao Zhou's hand, and read the sign on it word by word: "Lian... Ji... dim sum shop! It is the dim sum of 'Lian Ji', the largest shop in the town and the most expensive dim sum. ? This box is worth a lot of silver, right?"

Zhou Zixu was a little surprised and said: "Yo, the little stone is only so big that it can read?"

Xiao Shitou scratched his head embarrassingly, and said, "When I was playing at Wu Zi's house, I learned a few words from Brother Wen..."

"Little Shitou is so smart! I heard that your second sister is sick?" Zhou Zixu asked.

"Hmm! I'm very ill. If my grandpa didn't lend us money, my second sister might..." The little guy lowered his head, feeling very depressed. He and his sister are very obedient, why doesn't grandma like them

"Stone, who are you talking to? Why don't you take advantage of the good weather and pick up some firewood and come back to play! Every day, you just eat with your mouth open and don't work, and you have to offer a medicine jar! I owe you this." !” Zhang’s ear-piercing yell came.

Zhou Zixu couldn't help frowning: How old is a child, and he is ordered to work

Just as he was thinking about it, an old lady with a mean face and fierce eyes came out from the door, put her hands on her waist, and acted like a shrew cursing the street.

Seeing the imposing three people in front of the door, Mrs. Zhang swallowed the curse she was about to utter. As for Zhou Zixu, who was obviously born in a wealthy family, the aggressive Zhang family suddenly shrank, shrugged his shoulders and said weakly, "Who... are you looking for?"

Si Mo couldn't understand the old witch's high eyebrows and low eyes, so he said with a stern face, "Is this Yu Hai's house?"

"Yu Hai? Yu Hai, did he offend the nobles? This bastard knows how to cause trouble for the family! This young master, he went hunting in the mountains and hasn't come back yet. What he did has nothing to do with us!" See Smo With a bad complexion, Mrs. Zhang was so frightened that she could speak incoherently, scolding and disregarding the relationship.

Si Mo was even more displeased, and interrupted her words impatiently, saying: "Yu Hai is not at home, should Yu Xiaocao be at home?"

"Xiaocao? Is there something about her? I'll just say that this damn girl has sharp teeth and will cause trouble sooner or later. This is not... a troublemaker, she will only add chaos to the family..." Mrs. Zhang muttered in a low voice, at a loss.

"Are you here!?" Si Mo saw his young master narrowed his eyes, which was a sign of his anger, and his face became even uglier.

"It's... in the Westinghouse!" Mrs. Zhang shivered in fright at his suddenly raised voice. The nobleman is angry, so it won't implicate them, right

Zhou Zixu threw the reins to Si Mo, led his steward, and walked into the yard without turning his eyes. After looking around for a moment, he turned into the low and squat Westinghouse.

"Young Master Wednesday, you're finally here!" The room was dimly lit, and Zhou Zixu's eyes hadn't adjusted to the light inside before he heard Xiaocao's surprised voice.

Zhou Zixu glanced at the simple furnishings in the house - a large kang, the quilts on the kang were worn out but clean, and on the top of the kang was an old rattan box. There is a wooden table under the kang that is about to fall apart, and there is nothing else. The lowest servants of the Zhou family lived better than them.

Zhou Zixu frowned, and said displeasedly: "Where is the money you earned? Where did you spend it? How hard is this quilt? Can it still be covered? Your family has made a lot of money selling prey. Don't worry." Not willing to spend…”

"Hush ... Hush ..." Xiaocao busy holding the arm of Wednesday. If it wasn't for a short, she gambled his mouth early!

"Third Young Master, I don't live up to my health. My family borrowed a lot of money to see a doctor for me. The money my father earned from hunting these days is not enough to pay off the debt! How can I have spare money to buy new bedding?" Yu Xiaocao amplified her voice , Said towards the direction of the door.

Zhou Zixu looked along her line of sight, the mean-looking old lady and a fat woman in the courtyard looked here from time to time.

He winked at Small. Smo went out of the Westinghouse, and Da Ma stood in front of the door with a black face like a door god, staring at the two sneaky mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were both cowards, and shrank back to the main room under Si Mo's unfriendly gaze.

Mrs. Li carefully looked into the yard, lowered her voice, and said, "Mother! Who are these people! They look like they are asking for debts! The second son borrowed usury, right? That's the benefit of the donkey rolling." , Borrow one tael and pay back ten taels!"

Mrs. Zhang couldn't help panicking, and cursed: "The second child won't reveal the exact amount of the drug money for that damn girl Xiaocao. I heard from the third daughter-in-law that there is ginseng in the prescription, so it must not be missing! A money-losing product." , It’s not worth the money for ginseng! If I had known about this disaster, I would have strangled it to death and thrown it to Nanpo!”

"Mother, what should I do! There are three of them, the second child must owe a lot of money. If the second child can't pay it back, won't he use the things in our house to pay off the debt? No! I have to hide the valuables Oh..." Mrs. Li couldn't sit still anymore, and was about to go to the east room.

Mrs. Zhang was also very anxious. She grabbed Mrs. Li and scolded: "What is valuable in your house? Boss won't hide money behind my back, right?"

Li's face froze, and he hurriedly said: "Mother, how can it be? Dashan is the most filial, how can he be so careful? Didn't my son go back to his mother's house before? My mother brought me a piece of cloth and stuffed it Some private money she saved. Mother, you are the most reasonable, you don’t even have to hand over the private money given by your wife’s family, do you?”

In fact, Zhang has not never done such a thing. Every time the second daughter-in-law's natal family came, the things and money they took ended up in Zhang's pocket. As long as that can't be settled, say that the second room has two medicine jars, or don't expect her to pay for medical treatment after handing them in.

However, Mrs. Li's natal family was tough, so Mrs. Zhang didn't dare to use the same way she treated her daughter-in-law on her. Regarding the fact that Mrs. Li poured food from her mother's house here every three days, half of the food and use fell on her grandson anyway, so she just turned a blind eye.

"Okay, okay! Can people see your copper coins? If you don't worry, go there, be careful, don't anger the nobleman!" Mrs. Zhang only waited for Mrs. Li to go out, and put the things in the cabinet away. The silver was transferred to a hidden place, so as not to fill the bottomless pit for the second child.

Seeing that the courtyard was finally clean, Zhou Zixu took a look at Yu Xiaocao, sat down on the kang, and said, "Okay, everyone is gone, don't cry poor!"

"I can't help it! You don't know the situation of our family! The old lady is most jealous of her children's hiding money, especially our second room. It's like watching a thief all day long! If she knows that I have money in my hand, she won't give it away. The second room turned upside down?" Yu Xiaocao didn't shy away from talking about her own situation.

Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, Zhou Zixu shook his head, and said softly: "So, your money is in your hands, and sooner or later you will cause trouble. Why don't you take it out and do business together!"

He also said this casually, but Yu Xiaocao didn't expect Yu Xiaocao to wait for him: "I heard from Xiaolian, what kind of business you can't handle with Mr. Wednesday, so you insist on pulling me in?"

"Hey! I can't handle it? And I, Mr. Zhou, can't handle it?" Zhou Zixu gave her a slanted look, and said, "I just want to get you rich together for the sake of helping me. Since If you say that, forget it..."

"Don't!" Seeing that he was about to leave, Yu Xiaocao hurriedly grabbed him. She was also joking just now, if the Emperor Shang Zhou family can't handle it, what can she, a fisherman's girl, do to help

"Okay! You have a lot of adults on Wednesday, don't be as knowledgeable as a little girl like me! Tell me what kind of business it is!" Yu Xiaocao laughed and bowed again and again.

Zhou Zixu was not really angry with her, he smiled and nodded her forehead and said, "You! Don't make such a weird appearance! I want to open an oyster sauce workshop and sell it to big restaurants in several surrounding cities. But, you also Having said that, the shelf life of oyster sauce is not long, I would like to ask if you have any suggestions."