Seed dealers in ancient times

The spring rain is lingering, and it lasts for several days at a time. It is not happy to go out on rainy days. The business in these two days is not as good as before.

Chu Xian hurt his foot, and Zheng Jiangting refused to let him go to the restaurant. Although he wanted to see Zheng Jiangting all the time, his legs and feet were inconvenient, and it was even more inconvenient when it rained outside. Rather than dragging people down, it would be better to be honest Stay home.

He ate the breakfast delivered by Zheng Jiangting early in the morning, and was thinking about why the errands he told him yesterday hadn't come yet, and before he could stop his thoughts, he heard a knock on the door outside.

Overjoyed, he hurried to the yard to open the door.

"Master Chu, I have brought you all the cloth you asked for, just take a look."

Chu Xian took a few bundles of cloth from the smiling woman's hand, looked at the color and feel, but did not fool him with inferior goods: "Thanks for your hard work."

"Young Master Chu said it kindly, you are a regular customer." The woman said: "These two red cloths are good products that only arrived in the provincial capital, and I specially kept them for you after your confession."

Brother Xian nodded: "It's a good material."

The woman covered her mouth and smiled lightly: "Master Chu has found Mr. Ruyi, so he prepared a red cloth."

Brother Xian didn't deny it either, he wished everyone would know that he and Zheng Jiang stopped together: "Yes, we're engaged."

"Hey, congratulations to Mr. Chu, I don't know which family's young master, my concubine may come to ask for a wedding wine."

"It's not a wealthy family, but a person with a heart, so I welcome shopkeeper Liu to show respect."

The woman was a little surprised when she heard the words. Chu Xian was a frequent visitor to the tailor shop, and she knew what people did. She imagined that an artist like Chu Xian would be able to find a husband with a wealthy family, but unexpectedly, she found an ordinary person. However, seeing the faint smile on his face, he is a really satisfied man.

She said: "That's really a good thing, what can be better than marrying the person you want."

The two chatted a few words at the door, and the woman left first because the shop was busy.

Chu Xian went back with the cloth full of joy. He placed the cloth on the table and touched it lightly. According to his skill, the wedding dress would be ready when his feet recovered.

When his mother was still alive, she said that she would make a wedding dress for him by herself, but it was a pity that he didn't wait for him to find the person he wanted, but fortunately, he had learned a lot about her mother's skills, so she thought it was her wedding dress for him. .

He was sitting at the table and carefully cutting the fabric, without paying attention to the time. When the courtyard door rang again, he realized that it was already noon. He hurriedly put the things into the basket and hurried to open the door.

"Why is it so early today?"

Zheng Jiangting held the food box in one hand, stepped forward a few steps to help him: "I made a new dish, I brought it over earlier for you to try."

The two entered the room together, Zheng Jiangting tidied up the table, he picked up the sewing basket on the table, and was about to see what was in it, when Brother Xian saw that his heart tightened, he quickly grabbed the basket and hugged it to his arms inside.

"what happened?"

Chu Xian turned her back: "I'll clean up my little brother's things myself."

Zheng Jiangting touched the tip of his nose in embarrassment: "Oh, then put it away and come over to eat."

He opened the food box and brought out a plate of roast chicken with potatoes and a pot of tomato and egg soup.

Brother Xian smelled the fragrance from a distance, put the basket and went out quickly.

The potatoes have been soft and rotten after being cooked for a while, and the little yellow chicken is not only fragrant but also delicious.

Zheng Jiang stopped to add two bowls of rice, put a spoonful of egg soup in one of the bowls, and then put the bowls and chopsticks in front of Brother Xian: "Eat quickly."

Chu Xian withdrew her gaze from the potatoes and roasted chicken, turned to Zheng Jiangting who was sitting opposite her, and said happily, "Let's eat with me today?"

Zheng Jiangting felt uncomfortable being looked at, and put a piece of potato into the bowl: "Everyone eats on the left and right, so it's the same when you come here to eat."

Brother Xian took a bite of the potato. It was sweet and soft, and then he stuffed another piece into his mouth. He had only seen Zheng Jiang stop bringing potatoes home, but he had never cooked them. This was the first time he tasted them.

Zheng Jiang stopped to see that he liked to eat, so he didn't take a few bites himself, and was busy picking up food for others. He didn't slowly add food to his own bowl until people were almost eating.

"I went out for a walk today, and I saw a family in the Minxiang alley in the north of the city moved to a new house, and the firecrackers were set off for a long time." He said casually: "The houses in that area are not bad. .”

Chu Xian didn't know how people mentioned this, but she also echoed: "It's much better than our Qingwu Lane, it's much more spacious, and it's more elegant."

Qingwu Alley is just the dwellings of poor people, the courtyard is the room, the kitchen and the bedroom are connected together, and the houses in the north of Rencheng have side rooms at the entrance, main room and wing room, which are much more particular than here.

Hearing the words, Zheng Jiangting thought there was something interesting, and tried again: "If you were asked to choose a house in Jincheng, where would you like to be?"

"Why do you say this suddenly? As long as you can be with Brother Zheng, everything is fine."

Zheng Jiang paused: "The premise is to be with me, and then make a choice?"

Chu Xian raised her eyebrows: "What exactly does Brother Zheng want to ask?"

Seeing that he couldn't hide it from anyone, Zheng Jiang had no choice but to say: "I want to buy a new house, so we can live in it when we get married."

Chu Xian was surprised when he heard the words. Ever since someone proposed to get married, he has been immersed in the joy in front of him all day long, and he has never thought about these things at all.

"I shouldn't have let you bother about these things, but I thought it would be better to choose a place you like."

Chu Xian frowned, he hadn't really paid attention to the house, but after Zheng Jiang stopped to mention it, he felt that he should really want a bigger house. If there is a baby in the future, the house here will definitely be Can't live.

"Then Brother Zheng is interested?"

Zheng Jiangting said honestly: "I have looked at the houses in Jincheng these days, and now I think the ones in the north of the city are okay once they enter the courtyard."

The family can live there, and the price is high. Of course, he also wants a better house, like a big mansion with three entrances and three exits in the east of the city. Although Brother Xian is not very old, he can't make people wait for a few years, he is also very anxious to get married.

"When the days are better in the future, I can buy you a bigger mansion."

Chu Xian laughed: "The houses in the north of the city are already very good."

Zheng Jiangting nodded: "Then let's settle down on the house in the north of the city for the time being. When the house is bought, we will get married."

Chu Xian saw that people looked determined after eating the weights, and she was happy that Zheng Jiang had stopped to think about their future seriously, but at the same time, she was deeply worried about her wedding day.

It’s not that he doesn’t believe in Zheng Jiangding, but he heard that the most affordable ones in the north of the city cost 40 taels of silver. Two taels of silver, according to the status of the family, it will take two years for them to buy a house in the north of the city.

There was nothing on the surface, but he felt angry in his heart, now he should find another job to earn some money to subsidize the family, so as to speed up the process of their marriage~

Zheng Jiangting went out from Chu Xian's house, and just after he left Qingwu Lane, a bullock cart on the outer street came straight towards him.

"I also said that if you don't come to the city, I will go to the village to find you."

Cai Lin jumped off the bullock cart: "I went to the restaurant and looked around but didn't find you. The tomatoes I picked have already been unloaded in the shop."

Zheng Jiangting nodded: "Have you planted all your crops?"

"It's all planted, and it catches up with the spring rain. It's good luck." Cai Lin said: "It's business, I did what you said, but it's not what you expected. The next day, folks came to the house. Everyone in the village knows about this, and there are currently five households who have booked with me, and they need to borrow a total of four hundred catties of grain."

"Are you reliable?"

Zheng Jiang paused and said, "How unreliable is it? I'm afraid you won't be able to bring the news. I will take someone to the village tomorrow and send it with food. You will know when the time comes."

Cai Lin was skeptical: "Then I'll just say that when I go back today. When the time comes, let the villagers come to my courtyard to pick up the grain. Don't play tricks on me. Once the news is released, it's not just the villagers who will go to my place to pick up the grain. People who come to watch the excitement are indispensable, don't really let people see the joke."

"Don't worry, I've already made contact." Zheng Jiang patted Cai Lin's shoulder and said reassuringly, "I'm also doing things for others, and my superiors have already sent people to Jincheng. If you don't come again, I will Burning eyebrows."

Cai Lin twisted her neck: "Really?"

"What am I coaxing you to do!"

Having said that, Cai Lin felt a little more at ease. He felt that Zheng Jiangting was doing things for others. Since he had a backer, he naturally had a source of food.

"Well, you can come early tomorrow."

After sending Cai Lin away, Zheng Jiang stopped without stopping to bring Huang Jingyi out.

"The master is so anxious to find slaves, what's the rush?"

Zheng Jiangting heard that he had more than half of Jincheng's accent, and said unexpectedly: "It's only been a few days, but you have learned Jincheng's accent."

"There are customers in the shop every day, and I deliberately learned the accent of Jincheng, so that it is easier to do errands."

"Nowadays you have to use your own accent."

After a few words, the two arrived at a tailor shop. Zheng Jiang asked the shopkeeper to take some decent clothes according to Huang Jingyi's figure. He confessed, "Come with me to the village tomorrow to do some business."

Early the next morning, two carriages sped towards Yangmu Village.

In Cai's courtyard, there were seven or eight people sitting or standing at the moment, men, women, and brothers each occupying a seat, stretching their necks to look at the road from time to time, all of them with five-point expectations on their faces, Five points anxious.

The leader, Old Man Yu, stood up from the stone pier in the yard, walked around the gate of the yard with his hands behind his back, and then returned to the yard: "Dachai, is the landlord you are talking about coming today?"

Cai Lin didn't eat breakfast, and his stomach was a little angry. The farmers in the past didn't eat breakfast. Since he had Zheng Jiangding's potatoes, he couldn't do without three meals a day. One can fill his stomach, so he opened his mouth, and even had to get a bowl of brown rice porridge for breakfast.

Today the rooster just crowed and the sky was still gray. He was about to take a pee and make breakfast when he was distracted. When he opened the door, he saw two black shadows in the yard, which frightened him a lot. Yu the old man and the other The folks have not known how long they have been waiting outside.

He was too embarrassed to go back to sleep, and even more embarrassed to cook breakfast. The best people in the village only eat breakfast every now and then. Before the water boiled, several villagers came one after another.

"Uncle Yu, what time is it? Even if our village is not far from the city, it would take half an hour for a bullock cart to arrive." Cai Lin was asked several times, and once or twice he was not panicked. Three times and four times, he had to feel a little guilty, but with so many eyes watching, he couldn't show timidity, so he could only persuade people with confidence: "Didn't the landlords who came to the village before come here at noon?" , it's early, my master is willing to get out of bed."

Seeing that people were still in the mood to tell jokes, the old man hung his eyes and backed away. That day when Cai Lin said that the good-hearted landlord rented grain at a low price, he happened to be at Lin's house. He was the first person to ask Cai Lin to ask, and he was affirmed. After the reply, he quickly went back and pulled two relatives.

It’s a good thing from heaven, but most of the villagers in the village don’t believe it, otherwise, under such loose lease conditions, there would not be only five villagers who came here, and these five families were really desperate and forced to do so by the landlord.

Cai Lin said yesterday that the food would be delivered today, but he couldn’t sleep a night. If the food was delivered, everyone would be happy. If the food didn’t arrive, it would be a trivial matter to be laughed at by the rest of the villagers. The whole family waited anxiously for the food. In the end, it turned out to be nothing but joy, and he didn't know how to live this year.

In fact, this is not only his own thoughts, there are no ones who are waiting here.

After about a quarter of an hour, Brother Lin came over with his sister-in-law's three-year-old child in his arms, along with a group of folks who came to see the fun.

A woman pulled Lin Ge'er and laughed and said: "Lin Ge'er, don't ask when the food will be delivered, don't make the big guys wait, if you can't come, you have to say it earlier, folks in the village Don't delay everyone from going to the ground, right?"

Brother Lin was not happy with the woman's jokes about Cai Lin, and said: "Several families in our village have seeds to plant, and my aunt said these things."

"Oh, Auntie was just joking, you're still angry after talking about Dachai, this is really someone who wants to enter the family."

"Auntie, that's wrong. Brother Lin isn't married yet, so why must he join the family?" A young man in his early twenties suddenly squeezed between the two of them: "While this is the time, Lin Brother, take a good look and see if Cai Lin is really capable of hiring a landowner who rents grain, or is he just talking big to save face."

He lowered his voice and said: "If you talk big and play tricks on the folks, that's a bad character. You must not marry such a person."

"What do you mean, boy, don't get so close to Brother Lin, the food will definitely come!"

Cai Lin came over with a few strides and scolded the man. The man didn't dare to cross in front of the burly Cai Lin, clamped his shoulders tightly, and dodged to the side in desperation: "You just said it nicely, why didn't you see the food?"

The villagers who ordered food in the yard didn't say anything, but those who came to see the excitement first followed suit: "Yeah, when are you coming?"

"Why did such a good thing happen to be next to our village?"

"Yeah, I said it's unreliable, depending on what time it is, it's probably useless to wait."

Naturally, Cai Lin can't talk to more than a dozen people with one mouth. Men talk less, and women can't close their mouths. The village is so big, and the people who look up and down are all elders with relatives, so he can't. Shouting people, logically speaking, no one listened seriously, and at the moment when they were in a state of desperation, a panting and joyful voice suddenly sounded: "Come, come! Two carriages are coming from the entrance of the village, and they are coming this way." Lie!"

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