Leisurely Farmer's Family: A Strong Man and His Broken Leg Son-in-law

Several people were sitting in the main room. Liu Shan smelled the smell of meat that still lingered in the air, and looked at his grandma sadly.

"Brother Yu, the walnuts we carried can fit two cars. When are we going to Wuzui to sell them?" Liu Maoye asked Liu Yu as soon as he sat down.

"No rush, we have to fry a batch first. Fry as much as we can in the past two days. When the road is completely dry, we will go to cook the black beetles."

Although the road surface was no longer sticky, even with the rented oxen from the village, it was still very laborious to pull a cart full of things. It was almost sixty miles back and forth, so it was good to save some time.

After listening to this, everyone agreed that no one wanted to pull a cart full of goods on a road where the wheels could make a rut.

Even if you use cattle, you have to be careful not to borrow them because the owner is worried about the long journey.

After several people discussed it, each family finally divided two bags of walnuts and rushed to fry them in the next two days. They set off at the end of the day. The weather has been good these days, and the wind and sun are probably drying them out.

If you walk fast, you can arrive almost in time.

This hour is when there are the most people in the town.

After a good discussion, the few of them started to pack the walnuts. They began to regret pretending. If they had known, they would have to carry them home and pour them out when they came back.

Liu Yu faced the resentful looks of several people, touched her nose, smiled sheepishly, picked up a bag, took the water ladle handed by Nian, put a lot of it in three or two, and then picked up the bag again, slightly quarrelsome. The ground shook. It took only two or three breaths to fill a small bag.

In the next two days, the three families started frying whenever they could. Each family had two bags of walnuts, and they finished frying them in time for lunch the day before departure.

There were also some people in the village who were curious about why they fried so many walnuts. Some of them were thick-skinned and rushed to the kitchen. They kept looking around and asking questions, for fear that the Liu family would get some idea to make a fortune and hide it. It looks like he is bound to dig out other people's ways of making money.

Xu Hong was so annoyed, and because her mother-in-law told her not to reveal anything, she had to pick and choose.

"The family is having a new family after the Chinese New Year, and there is a money-burning patient in the old house. The third brother also wants to save more money to collect a bride price for the second son."

"No, a few children can just pick some walnuts, fry them and sell them, and they can get some hard-earned money."

"Mother Mei Xiang, the walnuts you fry have thick shells and small meat. Although they taste really sweet, the businessmen in the town are all like human beings. I'm afraid they won't be able to fool the enemy."

The big ladle was picking at the walnut meat while pointing at the walnuts being fried in the pot.

"If you don't like it, give me back the walnuts." Xu Hong was so angry that she handed the shovel to her son who was lighting the fire, and went up to take out the walnuts that Wang had packed on her body.

Ms. Wang retreated and begged for mercy: "Hey, it's just these two walnuts. There are many in the mountains. I'll make you stingy. Okay, okay, okay. I won't say anything anymore. I have something to do at home. I'll see you tomorrow." I want to talk to you!"

After saying that, he walked out of the ajar door, covered the walnuts in his arms, and ran away without looking back.

"There are a lot of them in the mountains, so you should go pick them up. You can even eat them and take them from my house." Yuhong spat at the figure with a big mouth and saw the neighbors looking around.

She hurriedly recited what Big Mouth Piao said to everyone, and after she finished speaking, she clapped her hands and let everyone comment: "Do you think she said it in human language? I haven't even started selling yet, and she cursed me so that I can't sell anything. , who is that!"

Everyone tried to persuade her to calm down. The big-mouthed person had no control over his words and it was not worth getting angry with her.

Their neighbors are not as shameless as the Wang family. They know that someone's home is doing food to make money, but they still come to the door without even noticing, and only snoop around.

Xu Hong has been very annoyed these past two days. Her character is showing here, and she can't scold anyone she catches like Qi Chunhua. She didn't give up after seeing a few people, so she simply grabbed a lot of unroasted walnuts from the house and gave them to them. .

"That's it. It tastes slightly better when fried than ordinary walnuts. The children worked hard for several days and carried it down the mountain exhaustingly, but it was all lost. So I just fried it and saw if I could sell it."

When several people heard this, they felt something was wrong. Looking at the walnuts in their hands, which were longer and thinner than ordinary walnuts, they also felt that there was some truth in what Big Mouth Poop said. The walnuts were not round and looked plump.

I'm afraid that only people who are taken advantage of buy it.

Sure enough, his mouth is hairless and his work is weak.

They didn't know if these walnuts could be sold, but the firewood used to fry the walnuts in the past two days was probably in vain.

Putting the walnut back into Xu Hong's hand, several people started to comfort her.

This one said: "It's okay. Children who have just started a family don't know how hard it is to earn money. They eat sweet things and think they can be sold for money. When I was a child, I thought I could pull out the roots of thatch and sell them for money. Now I eat them. I find it difficult to dig.

The one said: "Fortunately, it is a natural thing in the mountains. Even if you lose money, it will be fine. It is just a lesson and a few days of effort will be wasted."

Xu felt that the words were a bit straightforward. Looking at Xu Hong's gloomy face, he went back to make up for it: "Hey! Look at Dazui Laopin, he likes to eat very much. He must be able to sell it, but he can't sell it out. Keep it. It’s also good to give it to the children who are paying New Year’s greetings at the end of the Lunar New Year.”

The rest of the people glanced at the person who spoke. It was true that there was no pot that could not be opened. People with big mouths and ladles would take advantage of them. As long as they didn't spend money and effort, she could give them even a handful of weeds. Put it back to dry in the sun to light the fire.

A few people realized that they had made a mistake, so they quickly pointed out something and dispersed.

Xu Hong closed the door and finally found peace. When she turned around and walked back, she saw the raw walnuts in her hand and couldn't help but murmur.

When I think about the taste after frying, I feel confident again.

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As soon as the rooster crowed that day, Liu Yu suddenly woke up.

After getting up and washing up, I loaded the ripe walnuts sent by my uncle's family and my third uncle's family into the car. Six bags of walnuts filled the entire carriage.

Liu Fusheng spent twenty large sums of money to borrow cattle from Huang Laosan's family in the village.

While the ox cart was being hitched and Liu Yu was loading dry food, Liu Maoye came over with the three brothers.

Several people only carried small backpacks with bamboo tubes and some dry food.

Liu Fusheng placed the scale package properly, said a few words, lit a few torches, and urged the people on their way.

When Liu Yu went out, she turned around and glanced at the window of Changsheng's room, feeling an indistinguishable feeling in her heart.

The sky was dark, and the place where I was looking was within the scope of the torch. The people and cattle on the nearby country road were all very familiar with it. Now that there were torches, the people didn't bother to slow down.

Soon, several people arrived at the official road.

Walking straight ahead along the official road, there was a fork in the road about fifteen miles away. Then they walked to the right for another fifteen miles. They thought about what the old man said repeatedly before setting off, and chose the right path.

Traveling along the way is inevitably boring.

Liu Shan was a talker again and said, "Let's give this walnut another name. The big one is called walnut, and the small one is also called walnut. It will also affect the business when others compare it."