Leisurely Farmhouse

The two got up and bowed, saying: "The villain has seen the two young masters."

"Uncle He doesn't need to be too polite. Our family's wine will be called Meiren Wine from now on, the red wine will be called Poppies, and the white wine will be called Simeiren. When Guiyuanju sells wine, you must understand the names."

"Yes, Master" He Shu agreed.

The large vats placed together in the room have a sense of settled history.Today, Su Mo pointed to several large vats of wine against the wall and said, "Simeiren and Yumeiren each set aside a thousand catties for aging wine. The shopkeeper Qian will come to deliver the goods in a few days, and there are two thousand catties of wine in total. You have to figure it out." Done.

In addition, everyone has been very diligent in the past few months, and there is no one who steals, rapes and cheats, so everyone in Leisurely House rewards three catties of meat for a month.From now on, you will be responsible for the rewards and punishments of the people in Youranju, just report to me at the end of each month. "

"Yes, the villain will definitely take care of it." Uncle He didn't expect the second young master to leave this matter to himself, so he replied calmly and calmly.

It is only the head of the family who is in charge of the rewards and punishments of subordinates. Once this power is handed over to the steward, it is the affirmation and true trust in the steward's ability, so Su Mo handed over this power to Uncle He. attitude.

"Master, there is a person outside who claims to be Wang Yuanwai who came to find the young master, saying that he is a distinguished guest of Guiyuan Residence." Shen Sugong reported standing outside the door.

"Wang Yuanwai?" 'Su Mo looked at Shen Chi and said, "Please come in."

People who practice martial arts have good eyesight. Su Mo saw Wang Yuanwai standing on the edge of the flower bed admiring the roses from a distance. The flowers and trees in Youranju have been watered by the well water in the space. The flowering period is very long and new branches are easy to grow, so the roses in the flower bed are still in bloom. very good.

"It's really splendid to see the king, please come in." Su Mo arched his hands in the gesture of 'please', and Shen Chi followed Su Mo quietly.

"There, I should have taken the liberty to bother you. Boss Su, the flowers in your yard are pretty good. I don't know what kind of rare species they are? My eyesight is poor, so I didn't recognize them."

"It's just an ordinary flower, there's nothing unusual about it, but the color is good, and the servants put more effort into serving it." Su Mo looked at the blooming rose and said: "If Wang Yuanwai likes it, let the servants take care of it." Dig a few plants and go back to plant them, it’s good for the wives and ladies to enjoy.”

Wang Yuanwai said with a smile, "Then I'm not being polite, just don't ask for three more plants. The main thing is that my wife likes these flowers and plants, and I don't think it's troublesome."

"Wang Yuanwai looks like a member of the Gu family. Your wife is lucky. Please!" Su Mo smiled and led the way for Wang Yuanwai.

"Hey, it's not worth it, it's not worth it. I've heard that Boss Su and shopkeeper Shen are famous for their harmony. I can't compare to it."

"Mr. Su, you're being polite. You didn't come to Youranju to discuss the relationship between husband and wife with me, did you?" Su Mo teased.

"Hahaha, Boss Su is a straightforward person. I came here today because of the wine. I wonder if Boss Su can save some face for Lao Wang?"

"Wang Yuanwai was joking, you are a regular guest of my garden, how can I not keep this wine for you, but this year the vines are still small and the yield is very low, so there is not much wine."

"I also know about Boss Su's situation. I wonder how much wine Boss Su can give me?" Wang Yuanwai looked at Su Mo eagerly and said.

"Sell a thousand catties to Wang Yuanwai, and the rest will be my home's goods, so I can't move it." Su Mo explained.

"Well, one thousand catties is one thousand catties. Old Wang, I love to eat and drink, but it's a pity that this wine will be sold in shops, otherwise the wine will be enough for me to drink for several years."

"Why should you feel sorry for Wang Yuanwai? My Leisurely Ju wine will only increase year by year. Even if Wang Yuanwai comes to buy it, I'm afraid that Wang Yuanwai will get tired of drinking it and won't like it."

"Hey, what is Boss Su talking about? This good wine is like a beauty that you can never get tired of seeing. Naturally, the more the better." Wang Yuanwai picked up a fan and fanned it a few times as he spoke, quite like some people playing in the world. Like a prodigal son.

Su Mo looked at Shen Chi with a teasing smile and said, "Wang Yuanwai is right. Beauty is like wine. Different temperaments and colors have unique charms. My Leisurely House's wine is also called 'beauty wine'. I don't know what Wang Yuanwai thinks of this name. how?"

"Beauty wine, wine is like beauty, beauty is like wine, Miaomiaomiao, the name is wonderful, Boss Su is really a wonderful person, I admire you, old Wang!" Wang Yuanwai bowed his hands to Su Mo.

"Miao praised Wang Yuanwai, since Wang Yuanwai came to my place today, why don't you just stay and eat, although my leisurely home's food is not as good as the chef's, but it's better because the fruits and vegetables are fresh, you can still taste it. "Wang Yuanwai has a clear mind and an open-minded nature. It is very comfortable to make friends with him, so Su Mo doesn't mind deepening this friendship.

Apparently Wang Yuanwai also had this intention, he waved his fan and said, "Then I'd rather be obedient than I am, and just go around your garden and pick some fruits to eat."

"I can't wish for it. If Wang Yuanwai likes something, let the servants pick it up and take it back for my wife to taste." Su Mo smiled and led the way for Wang Yuanwai.

go to the room

"Mother, it's not good, uncle wants to borrow money from our house, and he is on his way right now." Shen Xing shouted and ran to Lin's side and said.

Lin was doing needlework, when she heard Shen Xing's words, she slipped the needle and pricked her finger, pointing out the blood.

"You don't grow up, what are you yelling about? Who said your uncle wants to borrow money? Your uncle's family has much more money than ours, so we need to borrow money from ours." Put your finger in your mouth and hold it.

Seeing that Mrs. Lin didn't believe him, Shen Xing hurriedly defended, "It's true, my uncle's neighbor, Xiao Taozi, told me just now. He said that Brother Zhuzi lost his bet, and asked the gambling house to borrow five taels of silver to turn it over." Ben, I lost all the bets again. I owed more than 50 taels of silver to the gambling house after a few bets. My uncle didn’t have enough money, so he came to our house with the idea. Xiao Taozi came here specially when he heard what his uncle and aunt said. told me."

"Really? That's not okay." Mrs. Lin put down her work and walked into the house, took out the money in the stash room, counted it, and hid it again.After seeing that there was nothing of value in the house, he locked the barn door twice.

Shen Xing squinted his eyes when he saw the place where Lin's money was placed and said, "Mother, what are you doing? Aren't we going to help uncle save brother Zhuzi?"

"Help, save, save what? Where is the gambling house? It is a place deeper than the water at the pier. Our family's money is not enough to splash it. Go and save it?" Lin's hatred Pointing at Shen Xing's head and cursing: "In the future, you are not allowed to associate with Zhu Zi again. When will I bring you to that place where people eat people but don't spit out bones? I won't waste money to get you."

Shen Xing pulled Lin Shi in a fawning manner and said, "Mother, don't worry, I won't go to that place."

"That's about the same. Go and call your father back and tell him that there is no money at home, so you are not allowed to lend it to your uncle." Lin locked the kitchen cabinet and said.

"Okay, I'll go now." Shen Xing quickly ran away.

Lin Ada patted the courtyard door of Shen's house and shouted loudly, "Shen Xing, I am your uncle, come and open the door." After calling four or five times, Lin finally agreed slowly:

"Come on, don't shoot."

Lin Ada couldn't wait to walk into the house, and as soon as he walked into the yard, he said, "Sister, I came today to ask if you have any silver. There is something wrong with the pillar, and it takes more than 50 taels of silver to be enough. I sold it all." The food at home plus the money in hand is only thirty or so taels, and there is nowhere to make up for twenty taels, so I came to ask you to borrow some."

Mrs. Lin frowned and said, "Brother, it's not that I won't lend you any money. The bully's study costs a few taels of money. There are so many mouths in my house. Those who have to eat and drink ask me for money. My hand Where can I save money?"

As soon as Lin Ada heard Lin's words, he knew that Lin was unwilling to lend money to him.But he still didn't give up. He thought that Zhuzi was Lin's nephew no matter what, and it was impossible for Lin to really care about Zhuzi's life and death. He just wanted to get more benefits by not borrowing Zhuzi now.

Lin Ada sighed and said, "How about this, sister, when you lend me 20 taels of silver, can I pay you back 25 taels? Or with interest, I will pay you back the principal with interest."

Lin opened her mean eyes and shouted loudly, "Brother, this is not a matter of interest or non-interest, my family really has no money."

Only then did Lin Ada realize that Mrs. Lin didn't want to save her son at all. He stared at Mrs. Lin fiercely with widened eyes and said, "He's your own nephew. Are you going to die instead of saving him? Zhuzi called out." Your aunt for more than twenty years."

"What kind of aunt is not an aunt? When you die, you will remember that I am his aunt. Why can't you remember when you have something good? You can ask others to borrow it. I don't have a penny here." Lin made a gesture to invite Lin big out.

Only now did Lin Ada know what kind of person his sister who had been loving for decades was, and now he regretted that he had made the idea of ​​motivating Shen Suocheng to beat Shen Chi, otherwise he might have asked Shen Chi for help.

Lin Ada walked out slowly, as if there were heavy stones on his feet, which made his rickety back unable to support his body, so he could only stagger forward.

☆. Discuss road construction with the village

Before Lin Ada could sit down at home, his wife, Yan Shi, came up to him and asked, "The head of the house, how much money did my sister-in-law give? Is it enough to save Zhuzi?"

Lin Ada sat silently without speaking, Yan's tears fell when she saw it, she grabbed Lin Ada's hand and cried, "Hurry up, do you borrow too little? Two, you tell me, and I'll ask my natal family to borrow it."

Lin Ada thought for a while before saying, "Go get the title deed, Zhuzi won't have an aunt in the future, go quickly."

"Is it because my sister refused to borrow it? Didn't you ask her? Zhuzi is her nephew." Yan asked Lin Ada crying.

"Please, if I don't borrow it, you can just treat it as if you don't have this sister-in-law in the future. Go get the land deed, if it's too late, those people don't know how to grind the pillars." Lin Ada patted Yan's hand and said.

Thinking of her son who was still alive and dead, Yan wiped her tears and said, "Okay, I'll go get the title deed right now. If Zhuzi can come back in good condition this time, I will try my best to make him change his gambling plan." bad habits."

Lin Ada nodded and said to his son Xi Xiaoyan who was kneeling beside him, "Get up, your mother and I will redeem him tomorrow."

Lin Zhuzi's wife is Yan's niece who is out of service. She kowtowed and said, "Father and mother, if Zhuzi doesn't want to repent when he comes back, let him go to work in the quarry. Yuan Cheng is six years old this year." , should be a sensible age, if Zhuzi's problem of gambling is learned by Yuan Cheng, how about it?"

Yuan Cheng is the son of Little Yan and Lin Zhuzi. He is six years old this year and has a nine-year-old sister named Yuan Xiu.

Lin Ada pondered for a moment and said, "I'll just listen to you."

Yan took Xiao Yan's hand and said, "Daughter, I've worked so hard for you all these years, I'm sorry."

Xiao Yan smiled and said, "My father-in-law and mother-in-law treat me like my own daughter, no matter how hard I am, I deserve it."

leisurely living

"You mean that Lin Zhuzi has changed?" Su Mo asked Shen Chi in surprise, "Didn't you say that gambling addiction is hard to quit? How did Lin Zhuzi quit?"

Shen Chi smiled and said, "The so-called gambling addiction is nothing more than itchy hands. If you chop off a few fingers, you will naturally quit."

"You mean Lin Zhuzi's fingers were chopped off?" Su Mo touched his hand and asked, how painful is it when the fingers connect to the heart?

"Not many, just two. It's all little fingers and it doesn't affect the usual work." Shen Chi said calmly.I can't control my own hands, why do I need them?It's better to chop off the province's own relatives and feel sad for these two hands.

"Then Ada Lin and Mrs. Lin are divorced now. In the future, Ada Lin won't bother us, right?" Su Mo mainly wanted to know this question. uncomfortable.

"No, their family is busy tending his few acres of land at home now, and they don't have time to meddle in other people's business." Shen Chi said.

In order to save Lin Zhuzi, Lin Ada sold the family's four acres of good land.Their family was in urgent need of money, so the land was sold cheaply, and the second-class land was sold for the price of third-class land abruptly.And the loss of these four acres of land for their family is equivalent to losing seven or eight taels of silver a year. This is an expense for their family for one or two years. How can Lin Zhuzi, who has quit gambling, not feel distressed?

"That's good. Although Lin Ada is greedy, he is still very kind to his sister Lin. This incident made him see Lin's true face. I'm afraid he will never help Lin again. "Su Mo still felt a little worthless for Lin Ada.

"Yes," Shen Chi agreed.

"Master, Lizheng is here." Shen Sugong said standing in the yard.

"Grandpa Lizheng? What is he doing here?" Su Mo asked Shen Chi suspiciously.

Shen Chi shook his head and said, "I'll find out later," then turned to the yard and said, "Please come in."

Shen Su respectfully went down.

"Ah Chi, a few days ago I heard some people in the village have been spreading some bad rumors about our family. I guess that's why Li came here." Su Mo remembered telling his uncle a few days ago that someone in the village had rumored that Shen Chi was rich Forget the rumors of the villagers.

Su Mo didn't take it seriously. Why didn't the villagers come to help when Shen Chi was being abused by Mrs. Lin?In the half year when Shen Chi just returned home, Lin and Shen Suo had all rolled their eyes, why didn't anyone say anything fair?Now that Shen Chi has money, the villagers come to Balabala and say that Shen Chi doesn't take care of the villagers, how can there be such a good thing?

"What do other people's rumors have to do with us, don't worry about them." Shen Chi said coldly.

Su Mo hooked his lips and said with a smile, "Since those people intend to blackmail your reputation to force you to seek money for the village, then I will let their wishful thinking come to naught, what do you think?"

Shen Chi kissed Su Mo's brow and said, "What are you going to do? Don't worry about those people, they will naturally find it boring after a long time."

Su Mo smiled and took Shen Chi's hand and said, "Do you think the road in the village is a bit small? Two bullock carts can't fit side by side. Now that we have built a big house and opened a shop in the town, it should be for the whole village. It’s time for the people to do something good, why don’t we repair the road for the village so that the villagers can go to the town easily!”

Shen Chi snorted Su Mo's hair and said, "Listen to you, let's go, Li Zheng should be waiting."

"Hello, Grandpa Lizheng, why are you free to come to Youranju today? Did grandma not let you drink and you ran to hide with us?" Su Mo and Shen Chi said with a smile to Lizheng.

Li Zheng loves to drink, but Li Zheng's daughter-in-law won't let him drink when he's getting old, saying what if he gets drunk and falls and crashes somewhere?

Li Zheng stroked his beard and said, "You are a rascal, you used to think you were steady, why do you look more and more skinny now?"

Su Mo smiled nonchalantly and said, "Grandpa Lizheng's lesson is that the boy knows his mistake. But let's not let Grandpa Lizheng taste the newly brewed wine from Youranju, lest grandma find out and say that I am not prudent. "

Lizheng raised his beard when he heard that there was some wine and said, "You kid is messing around, why don't you hurry up and bring the wine?"

Su Mo smiled and took the wine from Shen Mogong and poured Lizheng a full glass, saying, "Grandpa Lizheng, drink it slowly, it doesn't matter if you drink two more glasses of this wine, and this wine can help sleep and relieve fatigue. It is also very beneficial to the body, and when I go back next time, let the servants bring a few catties home for grandma to taste."

Li Zheng acted as acquiescing to Su Mo's arrangement without saying a word.After taking a sip of the wine, Li Zheng smacked his lips and said, "The taste of the wine is a bit weak, but the taste is still good. Is this the way you came up with?"

"Where does this kid have such a skill? I just saw a prescription in an ancient book, and Shen Chi and the kid fiddled with it according to the prescription." Su Mo poured a glass of wine for himself and Shen Chi and said.

Ri was slowly finishing his glass of wine, hesitated for a moment and said:

"Second boy, I came here today to ask the villagers if there is any way to help them earn some money. Now your family is living the best life in the village."

Su Mo knew the point was coming, he smiled and refilled a glass of wine for Li Zheng and said:

"Grandpa Lizheng came just in time. Shen Chi discussed with me a few days ago that our family is prosperous but we must not forget the people in the village. After all, there are still people in the village who helped Shen Chi.

It's just that it's not so easy to come up with a way to make money. No, Shen Chi and I thought about repairing the roads in the village and laying a layer of bricks, so that it would be easier for the villagers to go to town. "

Li Zheng didn't expect that Shen Chi planned to do good things for the village so early on. Road construction has been a great merit since ancient times.The road in the village is muddy when it rains, making it impossible for cars and people to walk.Lizheng himself once thought about cleaning up, but the people in the village were not in harmony, and road construction was a big deal that cost money, so he never organized it.

Now that Shen Chi was going to build this road for the villagers, it was better to build it into a brick road, so Lizheng was naturally what he wished for.

"Second boy, is it true what you said about building the road? It will cost a lot of money."

Shen Chi nodded and said, "Of course it's true."

Su Mo added next to him, "Grandpa Lizheng, although my husband and I have earned some money, it's just that the man who built the house and opened a shop doesn't have much money in his hands, and the shop in the town has just opened. I didn't get back the money, so Shen Chi paid for the bricks, and the villagers had to pay for the manpower."

Li Zheng nodded and said, "It's natural. Road construction is the responsibility of the whole village. You can't rely on your family to repair the road for the village. How about this? After the autumn harvest, everyone in the village will be free. If people get together and repair it together, it should be repaired within two months."

"Then it will be arranged by Grandpa Laurie. Shen Chi and I are young, and we don't know what we need to pay attention to when building roads. If Lizheng needs it, he can just go to Uncle He." Su Mo said.

"I know, boy Mo, I can see that you don't really like the villagers. To be honest, some people seem to be very messed up by me. It's just that I came today because of the entrustment of the whole village. When they know If you want to build roads, the villagers will have nothing to say." Li Zheng looked at Su Mo and the two of them and said.

It stands to reason that Su Mo and Shen Chi don't need to care about the life and death of the villagers at all, but they can't help that there are many people in the village, and they insist on envying Shen Chi's money.

Now it's all right, Shen Chi and his wife would rather build roads for the village than find ways to make money for the villagers, it seems that they don't want to take into account the favor of a villager.In fact, this is also good, so as to save those bad counselors who always want to scrape a layer of meat from others to come up with bad ideas.

"Grandpa Lizheng is a boy who knows, but Shen Chi will not owe the villagers any favors in this way. Please Grandpa Lizheng explain this clearly to the villagers, but if there is anything wrong with Shen Chi in the future Chi Neng will still help, as long as the money is not involved. After all, if the money is really involved, it will hurt feelings when it is calculated seriously." Su Mo put the ugly words in front, so as not to be ugly in time.

Li Zheng took a sip of his wine and said, "I know. Kid Mo, it's his luck that Shen Chi married you. The two of you will have a great fortune in the future."

"What did Grandpa Lizheng say? Could it be that he was drunk? It seems that you can't drink this wine. Come..." Before Su Mo finished speaking, Lizheng protected the wine glass and said:

"Who says I'm drunk, don't be naughty, Mo boy, I haven't had enough!"

Su Mo held back a smile and said respectfully, "Yes, yes, Grandpa Lizheng, please drink slowly, and Shen Chi and I will accompany you to drink."

Li Zheng felt relieved.

☆, road construction

"Clang~clang~clang"

"What's going on? Why is the gong in the village ringing?" A villager in Qingshan Village, who was enjoying the shade under a tree, asked strangely.

"Yeah, it hasn't sounded for several years. Could it be that Lizheng made a mistake?" A woman sitting next to her said, looking in the direction of the threshing floor.

"You two women, don't talk nonsense, there must be something to do when the gong is beating, so hurry up and don't delay the matter." An old man walking on the road said.

All the people in Qingshan Village went to the threshing floor. In the past, when the village convened to discuss matters, they were all held on the threshing floor, and the villagers were used to it.

Seeing that people were almost coming, Lizheng coughed and said, "Has everyone from every household come? If you haven't come, ask your relatives and neighbors to send a message to let them know what was said today. Don't delay It's everyone's business."

"I see Lizheng, what's going on today? Our village hasn't had such a big battle for several years." The quick-talking villager asked.

"I called everyone together today to talk about something. This thing is a big event that benefits the whole village, so everyone waits for me to finish talking before talking, don't talk about me on the top, you talk on the bottom, like a woman . " Li was looking at the messy people below and said.

"I know Lizheng. Just tell me, everyone listen!" said the villagers.

"It's like this. The road in our village hasn't been repaired for a long time, so it's full of mud when it rains, and it's not easy for the villagers to go to the town. I'm calling everyone together today to let everyone Every family contributes some money to repair roads, and it will be convenient for us to go in and out in the future."

"Lizheng, this is not acceptable, my family has no money!" Chen Ergou yelled.

Chen Ergou is a well-known lazy man in Qingshan Village. He doesn't care about the fields at home all day long, leaving only his wife and children to work in the fields to support his parents, so the ambitious people in Qingshan Village don't like him.

Upon hearing this, everyone in the village yelled, and no one would give money.

"Okay, be quiet." Rizheng knocked on the gong in his hand and shouted loudly.

"Since none of you are willing to contribute money, you should contribute your strength. There must be two strong men in each family. A woman who does not have a strong man in the family will come to support, and bring water and cook for the workers every day. Do you have any opinions?"

"Lizheng, everyone in this village has worked hard, where does the money for road construction come from?" The person who spoke was a well-known old man in the village. Everyone in the village called him Mrs. Chen. He had studied in a private school in the town before, and he was very fair. People respect him very much.

Seeing that it was Mrs. Chen who spoke, Li Zheng's expression softened a lot.

"I know you all want to know where the money comes from, so I'll tell you today. The money was specially donated by Shen Chi and his wife to the villagers to build roads. For these things, I went to their house today and Shen Chi told me that he would give money to help the villagers repair the road, and it was considered as repaying the favor of the villagers for taking care of him in the early years.

It's just that Shen Chi and his wife just built a house and opened a shop in the town this year, so they don't have much money in their hands. Besides, the road construction is a matter for the whole village, so we can't let Shen Chi's family build roads for the whole village Look, so I discussed it with several clan elders in the village. Shen Chi's family will contribute money to buy bricks, and the villagers will contribute their strength. Do you agree? "

The villagers started arguing like an explosion when they heard it. Some said that Shen Chi was benevolent, some said that Shen Chi was generous, some were envious of Shen Chi's money, and some said that Shen Chi was too stingy and didn't know how to help the villagers earn money. Instead, the money is spent in these useless places.

Su Mo and Shen Chi stood on the tree and looked at the villagers gathered on the threshing ground. The weather was getting dark, and Su Mo and Shen Chi stood tall again, so no one in the village noticed them.

Su Mo wrote down the few people who spoke sour words and included them in his blacklist, and then whispered into Shen Chi's ear, "Look, at least half of the people in the village are talking about you now. While walking, I was thinking of a few ways to make the villagers change their views on us."

Shen Chi was itchy from the breath he breathed out, and his ears quickly turned red.

"Amo, thank you."

Su Mo pinched Shen Chi's red ears and said with a smile, "Thank you, you are my wife. Let's go home and take a ride in the wind, it will probably grow green hair."

Su Mo and Shen Chi quietly returned to Youranju, where they were discussing road construction with the villagers on the threshing ground.

As the weather gradually cooled down, the villagers harvested rice and planted winter vegetables such as cabbage and radishes, and there was not much work to do in the fields.Road repairs were put on the agenda.

The bricks for road construction were bought from Wang's family in the neighboring village. Because Shen Chi was a regular customer and needed a lot of bricks, the price was a bit cheaper.

There are more than 100 households in Qingshan Village, with seven to eight hundred people.This can be regarded as a big village in the Daqingshan area.After the auspicious time was set, Li Zheng and several elders in the village led the whole village to worship the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth. This is a must for road construction, otherwise it will be unlucky.

The ox carts and donkey carts of the whole village gathered together to transport bricks from Wang's house in the neighboring village. Some young and middle-aged people in the village carried sand and soil to level the road, while others held big pestles for tamping.Ramping means that a few people smash the road surface with pestles to make the road surface hard, so that the road surface is not easy to collapse and deform, and it is not a problem to walk a few generations on a well-tamped and good road surface.

Young and middle-aged people are doing physical work, and women and old people are not idle, doing what they can do.

Every three to forty meters there is a large iron pot, which was brought by the villagers themselves.There is boiling water in it.Some families with slightly better families even put a handful of tea in it, which can quench their thirst and taste.

Men like to rush to drink tea, which made the other women feel uncomfortable. The next day, they brought tea from home to make tea. Those who did not have tea also added some cooking seasonings to the water. It's not a taste to get up.

The rice is a big pot of rice, and each family brings two catties of rice or one catty of noodles a day. Vegetables, sweet potatoes and pumpkins are all worthless things, and the villagers are very willing.

Lizheng's wife took the big and small daughters-in-law in the village to mix the noodles brought by each family, and divided the vegetables and sweet potatoes among them, making sure that the noodles and vegetables in each pot were the same, so as not to let anyone feel upset. balance.

When we got together at dinner, Li was asking a few old people about the road construction.

"Lizheng, the pavement made of bricks is good, solid and clean, I dare not put my feet on it." Huang Xiaohu smiled at Lizheng while eating steamed buns, holding a big bowl of pimple soup in his hand Said.

"Huang Xiaohu looks at your virtue, so you don't dare to put your feet on the road! Will you not even walk when the road is repaired?" Xie Kang teased Huang Xiaohu's words.

The villagers next to him also happily echoed Xie Kang, Huang Xiaohu was still naive and let these people make fun of him.

Li Zheng looked at the half-repaired road and was in a great mood. Qingshan Village was about to go uphill in his own hands. This was something he had never dared to think about before. How could he be unhappy?

"Okay, Xie Kang, tell me how many days it will take for this road to be repaired?"

Xie Kang calculated the work situation these days and said, "As long as the bricks are supplied and the big guys don't get tired, it can be repaired within half a month."

Li Zheng counted the days and said, "It's best to fix it before it gets cold, so that everyone won't have to suffer from the cold."

Yang Qingshan walked over and said to Lizheng with a smile, "Lizheng, don't worry, the road built by our village is the best road in the Daqingshan area. People in other villages envy our village."

Yang Qinghu rushed to take it and said, "That's not true. When other villagers heard that our village had built a new road, some even secretly inquired about unmarried young people in our village. Maybe there will be more in our village after the road is repaired." Where is the new daughter-in-law!"

Li Zheng also knows what Yang Qinghu said. Since ancient times, marrying a daughter has to marry a good place. Qingshan Village has good mountains and rivers and is close to the town. Can marry a daughter-in-law.The girls in the village are also more popular than those in other places.

Now that the road has been repaired, it is more convenient to go to the town, and the dishes that can't be eaten at home can be brought to the town to earn a few oil and salt money. All these make the people in the neighboring villages jealous.

"Okay, don't talk about it. We have to thank Shen Chi and his wife for building the road. If they didn't pay for the money, we wouldn't be able to build the road." Li Zheng shook his head and said.

Yang Qingshan smiled and said, "Everyone remembers Shen Chi's friendship, Li Zheng is relieved."

The people around who were eating were echoing.Li Zheng nodded secretly.

In the afternoon, there was a lot of noise from the road construction crowd, and Li Zheng walked to the noisy place with a frown and asked, "What's going on? It's not time to rest yet."

Yang Qingshan smiled and raised a pig's ear and said, "Lizheng, that boy Shen Chi hunted a big wild boar from the mountains and brought it here. He said it was an extra meal for the road builders in the village!"

"Oh? Let me tell you, when did Shen Chi come?" Li Zheng asked, looking at the wild boar that had been washed and divided into pieces by everyone.

The net weight of the wild boar is at least three hundred catties, and the pork ribs in the water are enough for the villagers to have a good meal, and the eyes of the people around are green.Farmers save money and eat meat only during Chinese New Year and spring planting and autumn harvest throughout the year.Road construction is a time of leisure, so farmers basically don't buy meat to eat.

"Lizheng, Shen Chi left the pig and left. He probably got home by now. He said the meat would add oil to the villagers and let us cook it." Chen Ergou looked at the meat. Wipe away the drool.

Another person in the village who looked down on Chen Ergou laughed at Chen Ergou and said, "Ergouzi, you don't do as much work as a woman in a day, and you still want to eat meat. Why are you so thick-skinned?"

Chen Ergou said sophistry, "You are talking nonsense, I have a lot of work to do, but you haven't seen it, so what are you talking about here?"

Another young man in the village said, "I'm afraid you have done a lot of work in the bed with your wife when you go home. We can't see it, why don't you tell everyone?"

"Hahahaha, hurry up and talk about it." The people around were all men, who didn't care much, so they laughed loudly.

Chen Ergou was so ashamed, he stood aside and didn't speak, but his small eyes kept looking at the meat.

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Everyone looked at Lizheng, waiting for Lizheng to speak.If these wild boar meat were sold in the town, they would definitely sell for five or six taels of silver.

Now that Shen Chi gave it to the villagers with a flirtatious 'add some oil and water', this still made the villagers not at ease.So everyone looked at Li and waited for him to speak.

"Call over all the daughters-in-law who are good at cooking in the village." Li Zheng looked at the wild boar and knew that this must be another trick that that ghostly kid Su Mo came up with.

"Lizheng, everyone is here." Yang Qinghu said as he looked at the women who were gradually gathering together.

Li Zheng nodded and said to Yang Qingshan's daughter-in-law Pan, "How much meat can the biggest pot in the village make?"

Pan made some calculations and said, "The biggest pot in the village is the big iron pot in the temple. It's no problem to cook two gazelles in one pot."

The temple is a mountain god temple. People in the village are grateful for the upbringing of the mountain and believe in the mountain god. Therefore, every July [-]th, they worship the god. The mountain god who has been in the temple for a year is lifted out to wipe off the dust, and the dancers are invited to perform chanting and performances. Nuo dance.The rules of each place are different and the name is different, and some places are also called "Master Jiang".

On the night after the sacrifice to the god, the whole village gets together, and the dexterous daughter-in-law will boil the gazelle, which is a sacrifice to the mountain god, and let everyone in the village drink the sheep soup for good luck.So the pot in the temple is extraordinarily large.

"You and these daughters-in-law of the Qingshan family watched the wild pork stew. If you can't stew it in one pot, make another big pot. Let everyone eat the stewed meat tonight, and try to repair the road as soon as possible. When the time comes, everyone You can rest now." Li Zheng said to the surrounding villagers.

Originally, Li Zheng's daughter-in-law should do the cooking, but Li Zheng's daughter-in-law is old and weak, and has been drinking medicine for the past few days, so Li Zheng handed over the job to Yang Qingshan's daughter-in-law Pan's.

Pan's work is diligent and good at cooking, and she is well-known in the village as a kind person, so I feel relieved to entrust her to Lizheng.

"I know Li Zheng." Pan replied together with the others.

Leisurely staying in the house, Su Mo teased Haifeng with the jerky.Haifeng has faded from his childhood appearance and grown into a big tiger.The hair on its body is not black and white like ordinary white tigers, but white like snow.

Perhaps because of the well water in the space, Haifeng's IQ is very high, probably comparable to that of a six or seven-year-old child.Blast usually clings to Su Mo the most, and Su Mo will cook delicious food and love him more than Shen Chi, so Blast will lie beside Su Mo whenever he has time.

Shen Chi came back when they were having fun with each other. Su Mo threw the jerky in his hand to Gaifeng and said to Shen Chi, "How is it? Things are going well."