I, the fox clan, Arita!

In the next few days, the relationship between Lingshu and Wei Xiuya remained tepid and remained the same.

Wei Xiuya has already thought of countless ways to test whether Ling Shu is a little fox, but he has been hesitating in his heart whether to prove it or not.

When eating with Lingshu every day, Lingshu's behavior was no different from usual, and except for the time when Lingshu accidentally slept in his room and the little fox didn't show up that night, the little fox was still the same in the following days. Come and climb into his bed at night.

Several times, Wei Xiuya couldn't help asking the little fox: Are you Lingshu?

But in the end he held back.

While wanting to know the truth, one is a little afraid of the truth.

Wei Xiuya felt that he had never suffered so much in his life.

Even after he killed his first enemy on the battlefield at the age of 16, he could continue to fight without changing his face and never wavered because of it.

But when he met Lingshu... he was in a dilemma and didn't know what to do.

When Wei Xiuya fell into trouble, Lingshu didn't feel it at all. At most, he felt that Wei Xiuya seemed to be silent again these days, but originally he didn't talk much, so Lingshu naturally didn't take it to heart.

These days, during the day, Lingshu and his eldest brother Yan Dachuan took Chen Daniu and Yan Degui to boil bean seeds, grow bean sprouts, and cook for Wei Xiuya. At night, he turned into a little fox and went to bed.

Every day in front of Yan's house, people came to line up to buy "Lv Ruyi" vegetables. After a few days, the first batch of [-] boxes of green bean sprouts were harvested in the bean sprouts room. We went to the vegetable market.

The bean sprouts were taken out of the sand, and the silt had to be washed away before they could be bound and weighed. Because the batch was too large, the entire Yan family went to work, and Chen Daniu and Yan Degui also came to help wash and bind the bean sprouts.

Liu Cong asked for twenty boxes by himself, but he thought it was too little. If it wasn't that the carriage couldn't fit, he might have to take another ten boxes.

For the rest, you have ten boxes and I have five boxes. After a while, you have divided up one hundred boxes of green bean sprouts.

Standing in the yard, Lingshu raised his voice to the small vendors and shopkeepers who came to buy vegetables: "Does anyone want to learn how to grow my 'Green Ruyi'? It's not expensive, just ten taels of silver. There are masters who come to guide, build bean sprouts houses, make wooden boxes with shelves, grow bean sprouts, and keep the learning. If you can’t learn, you will not be charged, first come, first served!

I don't know how to teach too many people in one place. If there are too many people, no one can make money, and those who are late will have no chance!Bean sprouts can mature in at most fifteen days in winter, and ten days in summer. After learning it, they can be harvested every day like my family!But there is one thing, without my permission, the method cannot be spread to the outside world, written clearly in black and white, and anyone who does not abide by it will see the officials. "

Liu Cong immediately expressed that he wanted to learn, and the deposit of two taels of silver was directly put into Lingshu's hands.

"Will you go tomorrow?" Liu Cong asked eagerly.

"No," Ling Shu said, "There are still two orders that haven't come to the door before, and the two families can only teach your family after teaching them."

Liu Cong: "Can't we teach together?"

"The main reason is that there are no hands now. Now only my elder brother and the two elder brothers from the neighbor's family can plant. My elder brother needs to watch the business at home. The two of them will go to the house one by one. When they come back, they will go to your place as soon as possible." Ling Shu explain.

"Okay, let's just say that," Liu Cong urged, "Hurry up."

Lingshu nodded in agreement, and saw the rest of the vendors chattering away, and the content of the discussion was naturally about whether or not to learn the method of "Green Ruyi".

Lingshu didn't listen carefully, anyway, he would speak up if he wanted to learn.

He planned to train Chen Daniu and Yan Degui as master masters, and then contact Carpenter Li, asking him to send out a few apprentices to follow the two of them, and go to the door to make wooden shelves and wooden boxes for the two previously agreed. It was done by Carpenter Li, and his apprentices also have experience.

Lingshu told Chen Daniu and Yan Degui about this plan: "The two elder brothers will guide them to grow bean sprouts. You will each take one or two of the ten taels of silver, and you will have food and accommodation there. The only inconvenient thing is to leave My home is a little farther away, and it will take several days to go there. Then I will draw a picture of the house, and when you build the house, you just need to show them what the picture looks like."

"Bring a few wooden boxes from home, demonstrate planting first, and wait for the carpenter to make shelves and boxes. After three or four days, the bean sprouts will grow out, and the shelves and boxes will be ready. You will collect the rest of the money. can come back.”

Yan Degui said: "No, no, it's okay for me to teach human race, but I can't get a tael of silver, which is too much! Originally, you taught us this craft."

Chen Daniu also nodded: "One tael is really too much."

Now he is the only one in his family, farming and eating by himself, and he can't afford a tael of silver a year. This is really too much, how can he take it?

"It's not much, you can just take it, it's not easy," Lingshu said angrily, "If you don't want the money, then you don't treat me like a brother and look down on me. If you don't want to help, then Forget it, when I saw the wrong person!"

"No, no!" Yan Degui quickly waved his hands, and said anxiously, "We definitely didn't mean that. Everyone treats you like a younger brother, Da Niu, do you think so? Don't be angry, don't be angry, we will help you—"

"Well, Brother Degui, you agreed to this." Lingshu immediately interrupted him, "Just treat me as a younger brother, and I am a younger brother. Is it nothing to give brothers a little hard work? Just say that It's settled, I'll be really angry if you talk to me about the money again."

"This—" Yan Degui wanted to say something, but Ling Shu gave him a glare, and he was speechless, so he nodded honestly.

The merchants obviously haven't come up with an agreement yet, and many of them plan to go home to discuss with their families. After half a morning's busy work in the Yan family's small yard, they finally sold out all the bean sprouts harvested today.

Since this day, the Yan family has been so busy every morning. Lingshu thought that Yan Degui and Chen Daniu would be leaving soon, and they would be unable to keep up with their work without two strong laborers, so Then I thought to ask some villagers to help me, and I should teach the people in my village how to grow bean sprouts in sand.

Before Lingshu could spread this plan to the village, the village chief Yan Youcai came the next afternoon, and there were two people with him. The oldest elder in the big family named Yan is also very respected in the village. The other is a man named Chen, whose name is Chen Tiekun. Although he has a foreign surname, he has a good reputation in Yan's village.

The surname Yan in Yanjia Village is an aborigine, and there are the most people with the surname Yan. Those surnamed Chen all escaped from the flood in the south in the early years, and there are also some retail investors, such as Carpenter Li's family.

It was noon when the three of them came, and the Yan family was all busy at the moment, and the family had just finished lunch.

When Yan Dachuan saw the person coming, he immediately lifted his spirits, stepped forward to support the white-haired old woman, and said enthusiastically: "Fourth grandma, why are you here? I haven't seen you for a long time. Come in and sit down. It’s so cold, why do you still come out? Don’t freeze. Uncle and Tie Kun brothers also come in quickly. Father—mother—! The fourth grandma and uncle Youcai are here! Lanzhi! Go and pour some Here comes the hot water!"

The fourth grandma was wearing a dark blue coarse cloth jacket. Although it was old, it was cleanly washed, her white hair was combed properly, her head was wrapped in a windproof scarf, and she was holding Yan Dachuan with a cane in her hand. Arms, took small steps, slowly walked in, and said with a smile:

"Dachuan is living a prosperous life now. Are your father and your mother in good health? Are the two children good? The fourth grandma has old arms and legs, and it is not convenient to go out and walk around on weekdays. I heard people say you I have recognized a cute little brother? I have always wanted to come and see him, but my legs and feet are not good enough, and the little ones in the family are not allowed to go out. If you hadn’t had a wealthy uncle who came to the door today and said that there was something serious, the fourth grandma would be afraid. I can’t come out yet.”

Yan Dachuan hurriedly replied: "My parents are fine, Liangliang and Wan'er are also well-behaved, the younger brother I recognize is at home, he looks very handsome, I will let him come out to see you."

"Okay, okay," Fourth Grandma patted Yan Dachuan's hand in satisfaction, "That's good, that's good."

Yan Youfu and Chen Guihua greeted them, and greeted them again and again: "Sit down, sit down, the room is warm, Fourth Grandma be careful."

This fourth grandma is of a high seniority, and Yan Youfu and his wife are not wrong. In the family with the surname Yan, the seniority is complicated, and almost every household is related, such as Yan Youfu and Yan Youcai, and Yan Degui next door. Several families are all relatives. If we really want to find out, I’m afraid it will take a while to figure it out. The identity of the fourth grandmother is even more complicated. After a long time, everyone doesn’t care so much about her name. Anyway, she is the highest seniority. , So the village from Yan Youfu's generation down, everyone called her fourth grandma.

Fourth Grandma took the main seat, Yan Youcai and Chen Tiekun sat on the right, Yan Youfu sat opposite them, Chen Guihua sat on the side with her arms around Wan'er, Chen Lanzhi took a bowl and served hot water for everyone in the room Pour on some hawthorn paste as tea.

Lingshu came in from the outside, first said hello to Yan Youcai, then walked to the fourth grandma, squatted down, took the old lady's hand, and put a thin silver hairpin in her hand , Xiao Yingying said: "Hello fourth grandma, I am Xiaoshu, my elder brother rescued me from the mountains, and now I have worshiped my ancestors, and I am also a member of the Yan family.

In fact, I have always wanted to visit you, but I have a lot of things to do on weekdays, I am too busy, and I have not been able to spare time, and I have caused you to come to see me in person. I am really sorry. It is the first time I see you, and there is nothing at home Good thing, I honor you with this hairpin, and I hope you don't blame me. "

Although this remark sounded nice, Lingshu really didn't know that there was such a person in Yan's Village. Today was the first time he had heard of this fourth grandma, and it was also the first time he had seen her.

There is a village head in this village. If there is anything to do, everyone will go to Yan Youfu. Yan Youfu is not a good person, but he is not a big villain. They all share the same surname, and usually it’s just trivial matters. Even if they quarrel in private, they can maintain harmony on the surface. At least in these years, there has never been anything that requires the whole clan to come forward. event.

If it was in the past, Lingshu would not be so kind to a stranger he just met, nor would he carefully apologize.

But Lingshu knows that people in ancient times valued filial piety and respected the elders of the clan. For a generation like the fourth grandma, let alone her own family is a big family. Her younger generation had to listen to her, even in the entire Yan family village, few people dared to refute her words.

Unless the elders are old and disrespectful, and their character is so bad that everyone hates them, if someone disrespects a senior elder, the spittle of the whole village can drown him.

Lingshu is also an outsider with unknown origins, and he is also worried that if the fourth grandma thinks old-fashioned and rejects his identity, his status in Yanjia Village will be very embarrassing, so Lingshu is the first to curry favor with this Fourth grandma, I just hope she has a better impression of herself, even if she doesn't speak for herself, don't make things difficult for herself.

The fourth grandma took the silver hairpin, looked at it with squinted eyes, touched the flowers carved on the hairpin, patted Lingshu's arm very satisfied, the folds on her face turned into a flower with a smile, and said: " Ouch, this hairpin is so beautiful, your name is Xiao Shu, right? You are handsome and well-behaved, you child has a heart, get up quickly, stop squatting, and sit next to Grandma Fourth."

That silver hairpin is definitely not beautiful to Lingshu, he always likes delicate things, and this hairpin has a big and tacky peony carved on it, but he knows that the old man just likes this kind of one that looks big Because the carvings are large, the weight of silver is naturally not light.

Lingshu got up and sat aside.

The fourth grandmother, the village chief Yan Youcai, and a well-known village representative with a foreign surname, Chen Tiekun, all the Yan family knew when they saw her, that they came here on purpose today.

As the head of the family, Yan Youfu asked first, "Brother, fourth grandma, what are you doing here today?"

Yan Youfu and Yan Youcai are not biological brothers, but in terms of seniority in the clan, Yan Youcai is the oldest in their generation, and those who are a little closer to their family are called big brothers.

"That's the thing," Yan Youcai patted his beard, and said, "Why do I hear people say that your family's 'Lvruyi' vegetable is taught to outsiders? Blessed, you are so It's not kind, they are all from the same village, so if you want to teach, you must first teach the people in our village, how can you teach outsiders first?"

"You have to think about it. Some time ago, if it wasn't for the help of the folks, would the hawthorn business of your family go so smoothly? In the past few days, many people have been gossiping outside, saying that you are rich and don't care about the people in your family. That's all, but he even taught the skills to outsiders. If people in our village want to eat this dish, they have to buy it with money.

You let the folks learn this skill, and everyone didn't expect to compete with your family for business. At least everyone can have some fresh vegetables to eat in winter, right?In this village, everyone usually looks up and down. If you only care about your own family, if anything happens in the future, other people will have resentment against you, so they will not help you. "

When the members of Yan's family heard Yan Youcai's words, the expressions on their faces suddenly became ugly.

"If you teach this skill to outsiders, you will be charged—" Yan Youfu was interrupted by Lingshu before he finished speaking, with his beard curled up.

"Father," Ling Shu stopped her godfather and said calmly, "Let me tell."

Lingshu immediately asked with a smile: "Uncle Cai, Fourth Mistress, Brother Tie Kun, what do you guys want our family to do?"

Lingshu also knows that now his family is doing well, selling hawthorn sauce and selling these bean sprouts. People come and go in front of the house every day, and the people in the village are all watching. How can anyone not be envious?

It must be that some people in the village were jealous of his family, and went to the village chief Yan Youcai and said something to encourage him. It happened that Yan Youcai himself had such thoughts, so they hit it off and found the fourth grandma and this well-known Chen Tiekun. Come hold the stage.

This trio is obviously here to put pressure on their family!

Yan Youcai's heart, Taoism, and spirituality are very good, so he said, "I heard someone in the village say that the name 'Lv Ruyi' is a sweet name, but it's actually bean sprouts grown from soybeans. This thing is not worth a lot of money, especially because the buds are green, that's all.

It’s better like this, I’ll go to the village first and let the word out, anyway, it’s cold today, and there’s no work to do in the field, I think your family is busy in the morning and you’re free in the afternoon, so you can spend some time going to your house Teach everyone, not to mention anything else, at least let every household in our village learn it. "

Lingshu almost laughed angrily.

Touching the upper and lower lips, it's easy to say!

Want me to come and teach?

Do you want every household to learn it? !

This request is too much!

Yan Youfu was so angry that his beard was trembling. He was not eloquent at first, and Yan Youcai was the eldest brother of his family.

Yan Dachuan was also sullen and silent, Chen Lanzhi was a junior and a woman, she couldn't speak, so she had to bow her head and sulk.

Chen Guihua didn't have so many scruples, and immediately said sharply: "Brother, what you said is wrong! Our family made the hawthorn sauce and asked the villagers to help, but it was not for nothing. ! Each person is paid thirty Wen a day! You should go outside and ask, who pays such a high salary?!"

"Besides, the skill of growing bean sprouts in our family didn't just fall from the sky for nothing! Soybeans are not rare, and bean sprouts are not rare, but bean sprouts with green sprouts are rare! In the city, this 'Green Ruyi' is still sold for ten cents. A catty of money! Those outsiders you mentioned are willing to pay ten taels of silver to learn this craft, and you let us teach the whole village for free? Even if they are all from the same village, it doesn’t make sense!”

"So expensive?!" Yan Youcai was taken aback when he heard that. He turned to look at Chen Tiekun and asked, "It costs ten taels of silver to teach outsiders? Why didn't anyone tell me about this?!"

Chen Tiekun's face was quite calm, obviously he knew this in advance.

"I seem to have heard someone say that." Chen Tiekun said.

Yan Youcai said angrily, "Why didn't you tell me earlier!"

He smiled at Chen Guihua again and said, "Oh, brother and sister, this is really a misunderstanding. I really didn't know about it. If I knew it earlier, I would definitely not say such bastard words. Don't be angry. ah?

Blessed, brother, what I just said is a bit wrong, but teaching outsiders ten taels of silver, so people in the village have to pay ten taels of silver to learn it, right?They are all from folks in the village. Isn't it too mean to charge so much money?Everyone asked me to ask a question, since everyone trusts me, I can't just answer the question empty-handed, otherwise——Let's discuss it again? "