"Fourth!"
Mr. Xue reached out his hand subconsciously, and the ashes of the cigarette pot rolled out and fell on his leg.
He reached out to pat, but his expression was stunned.
Yeah, why did he just sit and watch? The fourth child has a straightforward personality, and he says one thing at a time. Every time he repeats it to his family, the fourth child is tired from running around for the family, but he is not greedy for a single penny.
Maybe he had some suspicion in his heart, or maybe he was afraid that other sons would have conflicts because of suspicion, so he repeated it over and over again. So the eldest went to the field to find him, saying that the eldest bought a mule cart with money from the family, but he actually believed it in his heart.
No, no, he actually still wanted to hear the fourth explanation, so he kept silent. Isn't the matter to be clear, there is no gap between talents in a family
Mr. Xue felt a dull pain in his heart, and his mind was stiff and stiff.
He heard the boss say again: "It's not that the Sun family has no sons, and the silver is willing to give it to the daughter. Who are you foolish?!"
He suddenly stood up, and by the time he reacted, he had already slapped the boss hard.
"shut up!"
Zhao Shi screamed: "Old man!"
"Shut up for me!"
The world suddenly quieted down.
It may have been a moment or two, and Sun's joyful voice suddenly sounded in the yard: "Hey, I really bought this car. Hey, look at this mule, which is strong and can plow and pull the land. Che, what a good guy. Hey, where's the boss? Brother Huai! Where's the family?"
And Mao Dan's voice: "Mule, what a big mule!"
It was not until he came to the main room that Mr. Sun saw the people standing in the room.
"What are you all doing?"
Zhao'er moved a bit, walked to the square table, picked up the two deeds, and came to the door.
"Fourth aunt, this one belongs to your family, take it quickly."
"Zhao'er, what's the matter? Why did you turn over this deed? The place where I put it is hidden. Your fourth uncle must have turned it over for a long time."
Zhao'er didn't speak, she sighed and passed her back to the house.
Sun also realized the abnormality, looked at the people in the room, and then looked at Zhao'er's back, and finally realized what was going on and rushed back to his house.
"Oh, my God, this is a thief!"
The people in the main room quietly dispersed. This is the first time Xue Qingshan has been beaten for so long, but he doesn't dare to say a word. Including the Zhao family, everyone knew that Mr. Xue was really annoyed this time.
Yang's head bowed and supported Xue Qingshan away, and the three-bedroom couple didn't stay much. They had just returned to their own houses, and the door of the fourth-bedroom was slammed open, and Sun's seemed to be crazy. come out.
Originally looking at the mule's fur egg in the yard, he was immediately scared and cried.
Zhao'er couldn't sit still in the room, she came out and called out to the fourth aunt, Sun's eyes were straight, and she ignored her, and rushed to the east wing.
She didn't go in either, and as soon as she sat down in front of the big room, she started crying.
"I've lost my conscience, I'm so shameless! I bully people, I've been bullied to the point of death, my family is so shameless, I've become a worm, I think I'm great, I'm riding on people's heads, shitting and urinating, and falsely accusing others. Come on! These people who have lost their conscience, have long opened their mouths after living their whole lives. For half my life, I couldn't even be good, but instead I became a thief!
"I said back then that the head of the family was stupid. You said you worked so hard for what, for your brother? Your brother treats you like a fart, raising a dog and wagging its tail when it sees its owner, raising a brother and eating and drinking blood and bone marrow It's all been swallowed clean, and I think your meat is smelly!"
Sun's scolding these words was too heart-wrenching, Xue Qingshan's face became a pig's liver with anger, and Yang's body was shaking with anger. But the couple huddled in the room and didn't dare to move. Seeing that the fourth couple was crazy, wouldn't it be stupid to use jade to fight against the rubble? !
Don't move, be patient.
The couple in the big room could bear it, but Zhao Shi couldn't bear it any longer. She stood up and walked out the door.
"Where are you going?! Sit for me!"
"Old man!"
"If you want this family to go away, you go!"
Zhao tore the corners of his clothes a few times, turned around and sat on the kang, bursting into tears.
Outside the door, the Sun family was still scolding, but now the object of scolding has become Xue Qinghuai.
"...How could I be blind in the first place, and married into this family. Seeing that you are a down-to-earth and hardworking person, but you forgot to buy pigs and look at the pigsty's rationale... After marrying in these years, the hairy eggs are so big, I can count the number of clothes I have made. I searched all over the house, and if I can find ten copper coins, I am rich, and I have to dowry to make clothes for my children. Every time I go back to my mother's house, my mother asks me, Girl, how many years have you been wearing this dress
"How many years? I don't even know myself! My mother secretly gave me some money, but she didn't dare to spend it, for fear that those bad-hearted people would make a fool of yourself. Well, this is finally the separation of the family. I was planning to do some petty business for Mao Dan, but I was framed again. Xue Qinghuai, why did you think I was blind and married you! Who are this family?"
Zhao'er had brought Mao Dan into the house long ago. Seeing that he was crying sadly, he took out the cakes he had bought for the little man to coax him.
While eating the fur egg, tears were still falling down, Zhao Er stroked his little head again and again, but his heart was full of sigh.
Sun shi cried with tears streaming down his nose, and sat on the ground like a mad woman. Fortunately, the Xue family's yard is large, and the house next to it is far away, otherwise people from the village would have come to watch the fun. But if the commotion goes on like this, it's impossible to say. Who knows when someone will pass by the door.
Xue Qinghuai appeared in front of the four houses and came over to pull him.
"Get up, go home!"
"I don't go back, I'm not feeling well and I'm not allowed to cry twice."
"Don't be ashamed!"
"You still know shame, you know shame, but he doesn't know some people!"
Sun shi was pulled from the ground while crying, and slapped him twice angrily, and the couple dragged me back to the house.
The yard finally quieted down, but it was dead silence.
No one cooks at noon, and everyone seems to have forgotten about eating.
In the evening, the Zhou family cooked dinner, but no one in the fourth room came out to eat. Zhao'er didn't go to the main room to eat because there were still a lot of leftovers yesterday. He heated the leftovers and brought some to the fourth room, and ate the rest in the room by himself.
After eating, Xue Qinghuai went to the three houses, not knowing what he said to Xue Qingbai, after he left, Xue Qingbai went to the main room.
"Father, the fourth one said that he only needs 20% of the extra food from several families."
Mr. Xue was startled for a moment, then nodded slowly.
Xue Qingbai sighed, turned his head and went out.
Early the next morning, before dawn, Xue Qinghuai and Zhao'er went out.
The two drove a mule cart around several nearby villages and entered Huyang Town when the sun rose. The two didn't go to Nanshi either. They went to a restaurant with a carload of food.
Huyang Town is not big or small, because it is the largest town in the nearby Shili Baxiang, so it is also extremely prosperous and lively. There are three big restaurants, 'Xiankelai', 'Liuxianju' and 'Duixianlou', and there are countless small restaurants and tea houses.
Zhao’er and Xue Qinghuai went to Xiankelai first.
It is just when the sun is rising, and usually the restaurant is already busy at this point. Although it is only when it is time to do business, it is always necessary to prepare in advance for food.
For example, the food of cyclamen is always the freshest, and it is not necessary to leave it overnight, so people in the restaurant have to go to the market to buy it every morning.
It's not that no one has thought about letting the vegetable sellers deliver it, but the farmers who come to buy the vegetables don't do it specially, but there are a lot of people in the family who can't finish the food and sell them. Second, the village households still have to farm the land, and it is not very cost-effective to visit the town just to sell vegetables for a few pennies.
Therefore, it is a big task to buy a restaurant every day. Fortunately, there are all kinds of products in the market. Although it is cumbersome, you can buy all of them.
The door of cyclamen has not yet opened, but the back door has been opened, and people who bring salt, rice, all kinds of seasoning, firewood, and all kinds of meat come in an endless stream. There are two guys at the back door, one is responsible for counting points and the other is busy with weighing.
The mule cart was parked at the back door, Zhao'er jumped out of the mule cart, stepped forward and said with a smile: "Little brother, I want to find the shopkeeper who is in charge of purchasing."
The guy was entangled with a man who looked like a butcher because of the weight. It was also the guy who was too busy. Someone interrupted him at this moment. He originally said it was 22 pounds and seven taels, but he remembered it as 21 pounds and seven taels. two. The butcher asked him to weigh it again, but he didn't want it, and the thing was too heavy. He couldn't finish the weighing by himself, and his companions just led the vinegar-bender in.
"This is obviously wrong, you weigh it again."
"It's not what you looked at just now."
He was still talking to people, and another person came to look for the shopkeeper. The man naturally didn't have a good tone: "What are you doing, come up and find our shopkeeper."
Zhao'er wasn't annoyed at all, she smiled and said, "I brought some vegetables that I want to sell. They are all very fresh and just picked in the morning."
"No, our food doesn't need to be delivered. We buy the freshest food at the market every day."
"Brother, let's take a look at it. My family's dishes are very complete."
"Complete? How complete can I tell you not to, why are you still entangled here." In fact, the guy would refuse so much, and there are other reasons. It's not enough to buy the same thing. I still have to go to the market. Gotta get everyone in trouble.
Because the restaurant is different from other places, the front hall is the front hall, the back kitchen is the back kitchen, and the purchase is the purchase. And the things bought back have to be counted and put into the account, like these fixed delivery of various things, the way is familiar, the things are sent, the number is counted, and the bill is settled at the end of the month.
But vegetables are different. They are already cheap. It may cost tens of pennies to buy a single dish. How could there be a debt. Since there are no outstanding debts, people have to pay, and the money will not pass through the hands of the people below, and the shopkeeper in charge of buying and buying will not be the same tossing people to pay. Instead of being so troublesome, it's better to go directly to the market and finish the toss.
Of course, the various folks among them wouldn't tell Zhao'er, but Zhao'er used to sell vegetables at the market, and he had also been close to these restaurant buyers, so he knew a little bit about it.
"I know your shopkeeper. He said before that he asked me to bring the dishes."
Hearing this, the man gave her a suspicious look and asked, "Then wait, we don't care about this dish. Shopkeeper Yao will come in a while."
Zhao'er nodded with a smile on his face, then stepped aside and stood beside him.
Xue Qinghuai got out of the car, walked to Zhao'er, and asked in a low voice, "Zhao'er, you..."
Zhao'er gave him a quick wink, and then the two stood there waiting.
After an unknown amount of time, a person suddenly came out from the back door.
He was wearing a sapphire blue robe and looked in his forties, with a large opal ring on his hand. As soon as they saw this person, the two guys respectfully said, "The shopkeeper."
There were two guys behind him, he nodded, and was about to leave, but a person suddenly rushed in front of him.
"Hello, Mr. Yao."
"You are-"
"Master Yao, have you forgotten me? You bought my food, didn't you tell me that I thought my food was fresh, so I would send it to you when I had it?"
Shopkeeper Yao looked puzzled, did he say such a thing
"On that day, you said that the vegetables I sold were fresh and tender, so I could keep them for you next time, and you said that you were from Cyclamen, have you forgotten?"
Before the meeting, the young man looked a little aggrieved, and the shopkeeper Yao thought that he was not afraid that he really said such things.
It may be that this young man misunderstood. He has said this kind of thing tomorrow, but few people take it seriously. The business in the market is like a prostitute in the kiln, right? Those who talk about old love are all on a first-come, first-served basis, and whoever will keep it and not sell it just to wait for it to be sold to a specific person.
He himself had never taken it seriously. When he saw that someone really took it seriously, he hesitated for a while and said, "Where's your food, let me see, if it's okay, just leave it all." What he thought was People always come here. Anyway, I am going to the market, so I can buy some first if it suits me.
"I've brought the dishes, come and see." Zhao'er pointed to the mule cart not far away.
Vegetable sellers also use mule carts! As soon as this thought slipped by, Shopkeeper Yao was stunned by the baskets of vegetables that Xue Qinghuai unloaded from the car.
Then the young man, who was a little honest and honest in his eyes, smiled brightly and said to him: "Look, I can't say that the food in the market is not as fresh as my family's, but it's definitely not as fresh as my family's. When you said I'll put it in my heart. I picked all the new vegetables that just came out of the garden and brought them to you. Look at these green peppers, shepherd's purse, celery, rapeseed, and Xiaobai Song, how tender. And These toon sprouts were just picked from the tree."
Not to mention, it's really tender.
Especially after a winter and half a cold spring, I didn't see any green in my eyes for a long time, and now I am overjoyed to see the baskets of green, tender and raw vegetables. Every winter and spring, when the new dishes of spring have not yet come out, it is the time when shopkeeper Yao has the most headache. The restaurant sells food, but it is not enough to eat only meat. It must be accompanied by some green and refreshing.
But no, if there is, it is very little.
Sometimes the shopkeeper Yao would like to go and tell those villagers that if you have new dishes, don't just eat them yourself, but sell them. But few villagers are aware of this, and they only sell what they can't eat at home. And he didn't realize it either. He had probably come here all these years and got used to it. Occasionally he would say a few words, but no one would hear it, and he would not say it after a long time.
During this period of time, the fresh vegetables are sold in the restaurant by picking up the quantity. Shopkeeper Yao was still thinking about whether there were any dishes he liked when he went to the market today.
He was so surprised that Shen'er was stunned for a long time, but Zhao'er's voice called him back: "Manager Yao, how much do you want for your family?"
"All!" He waved his hand proudly.
Immediately stopped in mid-air, he was hesitating, and the young man said again: "Your family probably won't use this much, right? This fresh vegetable is different from others, and it can't be put away. It's reluctant to leave it for a day. But the most sophisticated place in our town never sells overnight dishes. If you don't need enough for today, I'll deliver it to you tomorrow?"
"And tomorrow?"
"Yes, of course! There are as many as you want!"