The Crossing of Fortune and Prayer Jubilee

When they arrived at the gate of the village, Lou Ming felt that the ox cart was too slow, so he took Lou Yuzhu and ran towards Zhang's house. Before entering the door, he started shouting: "Grandpa, grandma, Erlang is here to see you!"

Xu Se came out to welcome her, and she was so happy when she saw the two brothers put their arms around each other and made out with each other.

"Waiting?" Lou Yuzhu called out. "Where is grandpa? Is he at home?"

"Here, come, come into the house!"

After entering the room, the whole family raised their heads when they heard the sound, and Lou Yuzhu called out one by one based on her original memory.In the third room of the Zhang family, Zhang Dazhu, the elder brother, married the eldest son Zhang Ling, Zhang Heng, the seventh man Zhang Chi, and Zhang Dashun, the eldest son of the Zhang family. The only elder brother in the family, Zhang Ling; the third son, Zhang Daping, married a elder brother named Qiao in this village, and had four sons, Zhang Yuan, and six sons, Zhang Jing, and now they are pregnant with another one. It is Zhang Jiabalang.

"Brother Yu!"

I saw a five-year-old pink and tender cute baby running over, her small body, ruddy face and cute appearance immediately attracted Lou Yuzhu.

Zhang Ling ran over to Lou Yuzhu, pouted, and said strangely, "You've come to see me!" He was the only brother in the three generations, and he was worried that he would not have a brother to play with him on weekdays.

Lou Yuzhu immediately felt that the blood was empty, rushed forward and rubbed that little face: "I'm here!" With the feel of her hand, Lou Yuzhu felt that she was going to turn into a strange sorghum!After rubbing, he said to Lou Ming with a serious face: "Second brother, let's let father give birth to a younger brother!"

Before Lou Ming could react, Xu Se laughed.

"Brother Yu, please don't say that, your third uncle is already in a state of madness for wanting to have a brother!"

"Father!" Hearing this, Qiao Dongxue, the daughter-in-law of the third room, stomped her foot and refused to obey: "Obviously you are the ones staring at my belly to see if you want to have a brother, so why are you relying on me?"

Zhang Ling sighed like an adult: "Oh, why is it so difficult to want a brother~~"

Ming laughed when he went downstairs, took Zhang Ling to comfort him and said, "Brother Ling, don't be in a hurry, second cousin will take you to play in the future!"

Zhang Ling rolled her eyes at Lou Ming: "Every time Second Cousin said something good, he turned around and forgot about me! As a result, it's better to promise next time, and forget it afterwards. I don't expect Second Cousin to take me to play anymore."

"Absolutely not this time!" Lou Ming promised with a blushing face.

"Success, trust you again."

Zhang Ling's skeptical appearance amused the whole family, and even Qilang, who was younger than him, grinned with a few scattered deciduous teeth in his mouth.

Looking at this big family, Lou Yuzhu sighed in her heart that it was not easy for the Zhang family. With only thirteen acres of land and four acres of vegetable land in her hands, she had to support a family for three generations and two students to study. Life can be described as hard. There are just a few rooms and several people squeezed into an earthen house. In terms of conditions, it is much poorer than the Lou family, but everyone in the Zhang family has a smile on their faces, and the jokes are full of laughter. This alone makes Lou Yuzhu feel a lot closer to her, not to mention that Zhang's family is poor and she can't guarantee herself, and she still doesn't forget to help the third room.Thinking of this, the belief in my heart is more firm!

All the people who went to work in the fields at noon arrived, and after eating at two tables, Lou Yuzhu signaled that she had something to say.

Seeing Lou Yuzhu's dignified appearance, Mr. Zhang asked the third wife to lead the children away, and Lou Yuzhu also instructed Lou Chengyi to go out, and then he talked about the big red crayfish business.

"...The amount of two hundred catties is really too busy for our family, so I asked my grandpa to help me with this business. The shrimp nets are all ready-made, and we brought sixty here today, God Once dark, my second elder brother followed the three uncles to get off the net, and then got up again at dawn, and then sent to the gate of the town to meet our family, and then sent to the Jufulou together, and after passing the scale, you can pay at [-] cents per catty."

The three uncles all had expressions of ecstasy on their faces, but old man Du Zhang frowned and refused.

Lou Ming anxiously asked: "Why? Grandpa doesn't want to make money?!"

Lou Yuzhu signaled to be safe and not to be impatient, and asked Mr. Zhang softly, "Grandpa is afraid that the old man will have ideas?"

Mr. Zhang nodded: "The snail business is only a few taels of silver, we do it as soon as we do it. It can be heard that the big red crayfish makes a lot of money every day, and I am afraid that there are dozens of taels in a month. If it is too big to spread, I am afraid it will be ugly."

To put it bluntly, I was afraid that Sanfang's family would be difficult to do. After all, Lou Chengyi is the son of Mr. Lou. If he has business, he does not help the family but helps Yue's family. If it is spread, the reputation of Sanfang will be ruined.

"Grandpa thought of us wholeheartedly and we are grateful in our hearts, but we have to live up to grandpa's good intentions." I sighed in my heart at Mr. Zhang's character, and said slowly: "Grandpa is worried about the problem, and my grandson has also thought about it." It's not that I don't respect the old house and don't take care of relatives, but the facts force us to be worried about the old house. My grandpa didn't know, but the old house was called in because of the instigated business, so I understand and bluntly let us teach Fang Zi, if it wasn’t for me and my eldest brother who refused to obey, then Fang Zi might not be able to keep it that day. I am so angry that we didn’t hand over Fang Zi, and then we asked to borrow five taels of silver to the lobby to repair it, but we also rejected it. In front of Lizheng, he took back the two mu of land and the one mu of sandy land that he had allocated before. Did grandpa know that there was another stall selling snails in the town a while ago? The person who sold the stall was named Ji, He is my dear second uncle's elder brother."

Xu Se trembled angrily: "These shameless old bastards!"

Mr. Zhang's face is also gloomy. Isn't it enough that the three-bedroom family was squeezed out before?I didn't expect that now that the family is divided, they still have the idea of ​​​​three bedrooms!

"The snails that make a profit of [-] or [-] taels a month make Lao Zhai so envious. This month, the red crayfish that earns [-] taels of money will be known by Lao Zhai. Think about it, grandpa, our third room can still keep this business. Is it? The non-turbulent world is turned upside down, and the old house will live in peace?" Seeing that Mr. Zhang didn't answer, he continued: "Our family lives on these businesses now, and we don't have any land in our hands. Fortunately, the house we live in is barely enough in summer. What about the colder autumn and the cold winter months? My father is now two months pregnant, and the day when he was born happened to be the coldest time at the end of the year. Let alone the baby can’t even live in our house. Dad can't do confinement."

Speaking of Fu Linshu, Xu Se's eyes turned red when he heard it.

"To speak of unfilial piety, the current state of our third room is caused by the old house. Grandpa and grandma, as long as there are grandpa and grandma who treat us half-heartedly, we will not propose a separation, let alone get it today. This field." Liu Ama saw that Sanfang was not a relative, nor an enemy.

Mr. Zhang also had an ugly face when he heard this. He glanced at his three sons with anticipation and then at his wife who had white hair but was still worried. He must have nodded in his heart: "We have done the business of the big red crayfish."

Lou Yuzhu smiled: "Thank you grandpa for that."

"Why don't you thank me? You are helping us. We should thank you." After finishing speaking, Mr. Zhang looked at Lou Yuzhu: "We have done this business, but there are some things that need to be agreed."

"Grandpa, please tell me."

"One, the cost of the shrimp network is ours,"

"Okay, the grandpa's family counts as much as it takes."

"Two, we only play sixty nets every day, no matter how many."

Hearing this, Lou Yuzhu laughed, and once again sighed in her heart that Mr. Zhang's character is several blocks away from that of Mr. Lou. "I know grandpa's intentions, so my grandson has the cheek to agree."

Mr. Zhang pointed to his three sons and said, "Third, your three uncles will take turns to work in your house, and they will do all kinds of work without wages."

Seeing that it was busy farming season, every family only thought that the strong man had less labor, but Mr. Zhang still gave out a son to work for Sanfang for free.Hearing this, Lou Yuzhu's heart was full of gratitude, and she held Grandpa Zhang's hand and her eyes were red and said, "Listen to grandpa."

The matter was settled, and that day Lou Ming stayed at Zhang's family to teach them how to fish online. Uncle Zhang Dazhu followed Lou Chengyi and his son back to Yan's Village. After picking up the shrimp, he and Lou Chengyi each carried a load to the town.Zhang Dashun and Zhang Daping were already waiting at the gate of the town with Lou Zi, and Lou Ming was standing beside him with an oil lamp.

Lou Yuzhu went up to greet her: "Second uncle, third uncle, second brother."

Zhang Dashun and Zhang Daping responded nervously, rubbing their hands together.Zhang Dazhu and Lou Chengyi took the burden and came over, Zhang Dazhu asked: "Second brother and third brother, how many shrimps have been netted at home?"

"No scale," Zhang Dashun rubbed his hands nervously: "I just weighed it, and said it weighs more than seventy catties." For the big red crayfish, Mr. Zhang also got up early, and he started to weigh it when there was no scale at home. Weighed it, but Mr. Zhang is used to weighing food, so the difference won't be too big once you get started.

Hearing that Zhang Dazhu was also excited, he patted his head and said, "Okay, we have about one hundred and thirty catties here, I'm afraid it will exceed two hundred catties."

Seeing the excited faces of the four men, Lou Yuzhu pursed her lips for joy, and then coughed lightly and shouted: "Uncle, Uncle, Uncle, Uncle, Dad, let's go to Jufulou to deliver the goods." Coming here is not just about delivery, there is also a place to visit.

Hearing this, the four men immediately picked up the burden and rushed to Jufulou with the light of the oil lamp.At the side door of Jufu Building, there were waiters waiting for a long time. Hearing the sound, he hurriedly opened the door and shouted, "Brother Lou, you are here!"

Shopkeeper Jiao is the most interested in the spicy shrimp business. Not only does he arrange for a special person to guard the door every day, but he himself will show up every time.Today is no exception, as soon as he heard the voice, he greeted him.

"Brother Lou is here?"

"Shopkeeper Jiao is safe!" Lou Yuzhu moved closer, pointed to Zhang Dazhu, and said, "These are my three uncles. They will follow us to do the red crayfish business."

After dealing with this period of time, shopkeeper Jiao completely convinced Lou Yuzhu, and he didn't doubt it at all and just smiled: "I don't care about that, as long as Brother Yu supplies me with all the goods, it will be fine." become."

"With the help of three uncles, shopkeeper Jiao only sells spicy shrimp, so there is absolutely no need to worry about the supply of goods."

"Haha, then I'll throw away my arms and sell it!" Shopkeeper Jiao smiled and called the waiter to get on the scale.The Zhang family only played 76 nets, but the results were good. The net weight of the four Louzi was 360 catties!According to the calculation of eighteen Wen, there are [-] ​​and [-] Wen, which is more than two taels of silver!

Hearing this number, Zhang's brother-in-law was dumbfounded.Zhang Dashun foolishly took the money and didn't react for a long time.

It was Lou Chengyi's turn to say, and Lou Yuzhu picked out a small portion of big red crayfish, pointed to the rest and said, "Shopkeeper Jiao, let me weigh the rest. I'll keep these for use." Seeing that Shopkeeper Jiao was puzzled, He smiled and said, "To tell the truth from shopkeeper Jiao, there is a young master Pei in the east of the town who is kind to my family. Today I plan to visit my father at home. These twenty catties of red crayfish are a thank you gift."

Zhendong?Shopkeeper Jiao's heart skipped a beat: "But the one from Shangjing?"

Lou Yuzhu pursed her lips and smiled: "Exactly."

"That young master Pei is hard to see." Everyone in Huya Town knows that the young man surnamed Pei is a nobleman from Beijing, but unfortunately no one can knock on that door, even the county magistrate still eats it after handing over a serious post. closed the door.

"Young Master Pei's kindness to our family is like the kindness of rebuilding. If it's not good, I have to try it."

"Hehe, then I wish Brother Yu your wish come true first." Shopkeeper Jiao smiled, marveling at Lou Yuzhu's sophistication again in his heart, and he had an intuition that maybe Lou Yuzhu could knock on the door that the county magistrate couldn't knock on.Thinking of this, Shopkeeper Jiao's smile deepened: "Don't be in a hurry to leave after the money is calculated. It's not too late to visit after breakfast."

"Thank you, Shopkeeper Jiao, for your kindness."

At that moment, the two looked at each other, and the two foxes, big and small, smiled meaningfully.