Lucky husband

Li Chengshi caught the chicken to take it to the county government, and he would not eat it at home. He listened to Li Chengzhi's words and quickly explained what he saw on the mountain and his "speculation".

Li Chengzhi was very skeptical after hearing this, not because he didn't believe what his brother said, but because his knowledge of taro since he was a child made him feel that taro was inedible.

Not only Li Chengzhi was skeptical, but the old man Li and the old lady Li who heard about it in the room were also skeptical.

Under everyone's eyes, Li Chengshi took out the taro from the bag and showed it to his family.

The taro is already cold at this time, and it doesn't have the tangy aroma when it was just taken out of the ground, but it can still be smelled when you get close.

Li Chengzhi sniffed Li Chengshi's hand, not to mention, he smelled really good after he hadn't eaten breakfast, and he began to agree with his brother's words a little bit, maybe taro is really edible.

The old lady Li and the old man Li also smelled it, and they smelled the fragrance, but their attitudes did not change like Li Chengzhi's. They still think that taro is something that cannot be eaten, so Li Chengshi must not try it blindly.

"Father and mother, don't worry, I grabbed the pheasant and took two taro, just want to go to the doctor in the county to see if the cooked taro is still poisonous." Of course, Li Chengshi couldn't try it lightly.

He was the pillar of the family, and his wife and son had to rely on him, so he didn't dare to put himself in a dangerous situation casually.

Picking up other things he was about to take away, Li Chengshi said: "I'm going back to the county government. Father, mother, brother, I'm leaving first. Don't talk about the taro. I'll report it to the adults first."

When Li Chengshi got up in the morning, he had made an agreement with Jiang Zhiyun that when he went to the mountain to see it, he might go directly to the county government office so that Jiang Zhiyun didn't have to get up to see him off.

"This third child, I really don't know what he's thinking. The taro is poisonous. I taught you this way since childhood. Why does he think that the taro is edible?" Mrs. Li worried as she watched Li Chengshi leave. .

Li Chengzhi felt that his younger brother's thoughts made sense, and he chimed in: "I just smelled that taro very fragrant, maybe it's really edible."

"You have the nerve to say it! Which of the three of you brothers has ever touched a taro? I have warned you all since I was a child that taro is poisonous and your hands will itch if you touch it. Your second and third brothers are obedient, but you are the oldest and skinniest, so you must touch it." Touch the taro to see what it tastes like!"

Old lady Li got angry when she said that, she still remembered how Li Chengzhi went home to look for her after touching the taro with itchy hands.

"It turns out that Dad touched taro when I was young. No wonder I wanted to touch taro when I was young. It seems that Dad didn't take care of it." Li Mingli got up and heard Li Chengzhi's voice from the old lady, and ran out of the house, "Dad You keep scolding me, hum."

There were a few more people talking in the yard, and it suddenly became lively.

After breakfast, Li Chengzhi sent his two sons to the school in the county seat, and then stopped by to check several grain shops in the county, and found that only one grain shop was still open, and there was a particularly long queue outside.

Looking for a young man with a good-looking face, Li Chengzhi asked: "Brother, you guys have such a long queue, can you buy food?"

The little brother had a sad face: "Who knows, I rushed over as soon as the curfew ended this morning, and I am still in the back of the queue. I don't know if I can be lucky to grab some white rice today. My son is only over one year old. Adults eat it." Brown rice and coarse grains were fine in the past, but how could such a small child do it."

"Then can we still buy food in other places?" Li Chengzhi continued to ask.

"It's strange if you can buy it. These few grain shops are open differently. I heard people say that you can go to the countryside to buy grain. It's okay as long as you can buy it. When I went, every family was unwilling to sell it. They said that they didn't have any I have to eat, no amount of money will help." Speaking of what happened to buy food, the little brother was full of bitterness.

He wanted to say a few more words, but the people behind him were upset: "If you haven't been in the queue all the time, don't stand there, don't think about jumping in, we have so many eyes watching!"

Getting close and then taking the opportunity to jump in line, this routine has long since failed at the entrance of the grain store, and everyone is very vigilant.

Seeing that the people in the back were all staring at him fiercely, Li Chengzhi didn't want to ask any more questions, so he left quickly.

He still has one thing to do when he comes to the county today, and that is to find the small caravan who bought him rice noodles from Fucheng, and tell them that they don't need to buy rice noodles for him for the time being.

The leader of that small caravan also wanted to find Li Chengzhi: "Brother Li, you came just in time."

"What's wrong?" Li Chengzhi didn't know why.

The team leader took out the rice noodles brought back: "The price of rice noodles in Fucheng has increased, forty yuan a catty. I didn't dare to buy more for you, so I bought ten catties back. This is the remaining money. You take it."

Since the rice noodle business has stabilized to sell one hundred bowls a day, Li Chengzhi has made an agreement with the team leader to bring back fifty catties of rice noodles every five days. , and then make up the remaining one tael of silver and hard work expenses.

This time when we went to Fucheng, the price of rice noodles increased, so the team leader bought ten catties with only [-] Wen, and returned the remaining [-] Wen to Li Chengzhi.

"My daughter-in-law and I have discussed that we will not sell rice noodles temporarily from today. Everyone's life is hard now, and the rice noodle business is not easy to do. Let's wait until the drought is over." Li Chengzhi only picked up the ten catties of rice noodles.

Li Chengzhi didn't take the remaining [-] Wen: "Thanks to your caravan for helping us bring rice noodles back during this time, this [-] Wen is for the brothers to drink and refresh themselves."

Because of the relationship between Li Chengshi and Li Chengshi, this small caravan is very concerned about Li Chengzhi's affairs, and the rice noodles they buy every time are full of weight and not crushed, and the hard work fee is not much, one hundred Li Chengzhi didn't feel bad when Wen Ge went out.

After hearing Li Chengzhi's words, the team leader happily accepted the hundred papers: "Small business is really not easy to do now. When the drought is over, you can come to me if you want to sell rice noodles again. Then it will be the same as now." .”

Li Chengzhi simply gave money for his work, and the team leader felt that dealing with him would not be troublesome, not to mention earning some extra money, and being able to make friends with Li Chengshi, who was working in the county government, so why not do it.

After finishing what he had to do in the county, Li Chengzhi returned to the village with ten catties of rice noodles on his back, and put this part of the high-priced rice noodles together with the rest of the rice noodles.

After putting away the rice noodles, Li Chengzhi ran to the kitchen to help Bai Xiuhe make lunch, and took the initiative to take over the hard work of burning the fire this summer: "Fortunately, we stopped the rice noodle business in time, and now the rice noodles in Fucheng have risen to [-] cents a catty. What price will it be in a month."

"Forty Wen a catty, so expensive!" Bai Xiuhe was very surprised.

The price of rice noodles has risen so much that before selling a bowl of rice noodles, you can earn about three pennies, but now you can only earn two pennies. If it rises further, you may only earn one penny, or even less.

The two couples were discussing the sale of rice noodles in the kitchen, while Li Chengshi, who had gone to the county government, talked to Zhao Chengze, Tongzhi County, about the fire that happened in the village last night and the taro he picked up.

The pheasant was mentioned all the way to the county government office by Li Chengshi. I don't know if it was frightened or looked a little wilted, but it didn't die.

Zhao Chengze looked through the pheasants first, and then asked Li Chengshi to open the cloth bag to look at the taro in it. After smelling the taro, he wanted to reach out and touch the taro.

"No, my lord. I'm not sure whether this taro is poisonous or not. It's best to wait for the doctor to come and have a look." The master hurriedly stopped him.

The master was born and raised in the original Han province. He also heard from his parents that taro is poisonous since he was a child, but he dared not let his adults touch the taro with bare hands. If something happened, he would not be able to bear it.

Zhao Chengze resisted his curiosity about taro: "Okay, wait until the doctor comes."

When he was in the capital, although Zhao Chengze often followed his mother to the farms outside the city to watch the tenant farmers planting the land, he knew a little about farming, but the land in the farm was used for farming, and he would not let things other than food growing, so he hadn’t actually seen taro much.

The doctor came very quickly, and when he heard that he was asked to see if the taro was edible, he suddenly felt that the magistrate was just joking: "My lord, taro is poisonous, so how can you eat it? You can't joke about life and death. I came here for this?"

Zhao Chengze signaled Li Chengshi to come forward and explain the situation.

Li Chengshi had already lifted the pheasant to the center of the yard: "Doctor, this pheasant has eaten a lot of taro, do you think there is any problem with it?"

He also briefly explained the process of discovering taro: "Yesterday afternoon, a wildfire broke out on the mountain near my home in Shanghe Village. When I went to check whether the wildfire was completely extinguished this morning, I found a group of pheasants eating by the river. , What they eat is the taro that has been roasted by the wildfire. When I picked up the taro, because the taro had been buried in the ground and there was still heat, the taste smelled a bit like roasted sweet potatoes, but it was even better than roasted sweet potatoes It's more fragrant, so I suspect the taro can be eaten after it's cooked."

Listening to Li Chengshi's words, the doctor carefully checked the condition of the pheasant. The pheasant looked listless, but it didn't seem to be poisoned.

Afterwards, the doctor wrapped his hands with a cloth strip to check the roasted taro. He found that the surface of the cooked taro seemed to be non-toxic. itchy feeling.

"Weird! Weird!" The doctor held the taro and thought about it.

Zhao Chengze waited impatiently, so he took another taro with his bare hands and examined it carefully, and asked, "Doctor, can taro be eaten?"

"Old man, old man is not sure." The doctor is not sure whether to say that taro is not edible, nor can he be sure that taro is edible, and he is caught in a tangle.

Zhao Chengze frowned: "Why don't you just do this, bring another live chicken over here, Li Chengshi, you can feed it yourself and eat taro, if the domestic chicken eats taro, it should prove that the taro is not poisonous, then I will send someone to remove the taro Send it to the capital, and let the doctors in the capital see if the taro can be eaten."

Everyone knows that Zhao Chengze is a son of an official in the capital. After he said this, he took back the taro from the doctor's hand: "Today's matter must be kept secret. Before the official finds out, none of you can tell about this matter." go out."

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