frightfiction Chapter 407 It Can’t Be a Last Glow
Chapter 407 It Can’t Be a Last Glow
At the entrance of Tangjia Village, the plump white daughter-in-law of Grandma Bai was sitting under a big locust tree, stuffing handfuls of fried soybeans into her mouth.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
It tastes so good!
She was not selected for the Jiuzu recruitment, not because they disliked her for being fat, but because the wife of the head of the village said to her: "When will you change your bad habit of stuffing food into your mouth from time to time? I will choose you. Look, your hands are so greasy, how can you do the work? What if they stick to the hairpin?"
Besides, if you keep stuffing food into your mouth, won’t it waste time? Do you have time to eat or work? "
But for the fat white daughter-in-law, it is impossible to change the habit of eating at any time. She will feel upset if she doesn't have something to eat in her mouth.
But fortunately, their second sister-in-law was chosen. Anyway, the family business has not been divided, so it is better that she does not have to go to work herself. She can sit and eat beans when she has time.
Just when he was enjoying his meal, he saw two people and two horses at the entrance of the village.
The leader was extremely handsome and looked very noble.
"Ouch! Am I dazzled? This young man is so handsome. We are in Tangjia Village. Who are you looking for?"
As she spoke, she stood up and quickened her pace to go closer to look at the handsome boy.
He was still mumbling, "No way, he looks like this, I've never heard of anyone having a relative like this."
Suddenly remembering that Shen Zhiqiu and his team often have people from other places come to buy goods, she asked again: "Are you here to buy goods, shoe soles?"
Ah Chi looked at the plump white lady in front of him, who was talking nonstop with beans in her mouth, and was stunned: "Will your throat not get stuck while you're eating and talking?"
Fu Huaian looked at his servant's speechless look and thought, "Why did I choose Ah Chi as my personal steward?"
I could only ask aloud: "Aunt, let's look for Shen Zhiqiu."
The fat white wife slapped her thigh and said, "Look, I knew you were going to find his house. His is the only house in our village that has people coming to visit every day.
However, you are a little late. Several groups have already gone there, all waiting to get the goods. I wonder if you can't get in line today."
Ah Chi also reacted at this time, he said: "Just tell us how to get there, we don't need to queue up, we know Shen Zhiqiu, we are one family."
The fat white wife rolled her eyes and said, "Nonsense, ten out of ten people who come here say they know Shen Zhiqiu, but they still line up. I saw that the people in front of you have come to our village to buy goods many times."
Ah Chi was helpless: "Just tell us how to get there, don't worry about the rest."
Only now did the fat white wife grasp the key point. It turned out that she had not told them how to get there for a long time. Alas, beauty can mislead people. They were all fascinated by this young man.
She pointed to the bridge over the river and said, "Look, go over that bridge and see the houses on the high slope. That's where the Nine Clans live."
Fu Huai'an was puzzled: "Nine clans?"
But he didn't say much. Instead, he thanked her and rode across the bridge.
The fat white wife stood there and looked at the two men's backs for a while, then suddenly turned around and ran towards the headman's house: "Oh, oh, Aunt Hua, your family has business again, and this time it's two handsome young men."
He ran and shouted all the way, and the people around him were used to it: "Bai Laosan's wife, why are you making a fuss? Isn't it normal for them to come here to buy goods? When don't people from across the river come to buy goods?"
The fat white wife: "It's normal for someone to come here to buy goods, but it's abnormal for someone so handsome to come here. Don't servants usually come here with a cart?"
Old Lady Hua and the others also heard her shouting outside: "What happened?"
"Ah! Aunt Hua, there are two handsome young men in your house, riding fine horses that look more expensive than the carriages I've seen before..."
After listening to the fat white wife, Old Lady Hua and her sisters looked at each other in bewilderment: "Who is it, coming to their house to buy goods? I've never seen anyone like that before!"
Forget it, there are more people coming every day anyway, so I'll just continue teaching them how to make hairpins. They have people to entertain them at home anyway, so I probably won't be able to get the goods even if I come at this time."
The old ladies here didn't take it seriously and continued to teach the newly recruited workers. The main reason was that they would never have thought that General Fu would come to their village to look for someone.
at the same time.
Fu Huaian rode a maroon horse onto the bridge. Dajun was a famous horse from Guizhou.
It is known as a divine horse and also as a "dragon colt". According to legend, the dragon colt was born in a dragon-raising pit.
According to records, there was a man named Liu in Yanglongkeng. He allowed a spirit dragon to mate with a mare, and a dragon colt was born.
The dragon colt has bright white fur and is very unruly. In order to tame it, a 400-jin sandbag must be placed on it.
It can only be tamed if someone rides on it. After it is tamed, riding the dragon colt is like "riding on the clouds, without disturbing a speck of dust."
The characteristics of the dragon colt are that it can climb mountains and cross ridges, chase lightning and count rain clouds. There were only a few of them in the Daqing Dynasty, and they are much more precious than the Ferghana horse.
Moreover, just by listening to the name, we can tell that this horse must have been a gift from the emperor. It was also given as a dowry to the eldest princess when the old emperor was still alive. The current Da Jun is the descendant of that pair of old horses.
So even the fat white wife, although she didn't know what kind of horse it was, knew it was a good horse.
Fu Huaian crossed the bridge and not long after he walked, he saw a row of animal carts. There was no one in the carts. Everyone was sitting in a simple shed at the bottom of the earthen slope, drinking tea.
This shed is actually the tea stall built by Shen Zhiqiu and his team.
It is a place for customers who come to buy goods to rest and drink tea. You can't just wait in line when there are too many people, right? This is not the way to treat guests.
"Master, it turns out that Shen Zhiqiu and his family still live in thatched houses. Look at the houses in Tangjia Village on the east side of the river. They are almost all blue brick houses.
The contrast is quite striking. If Shen Zhiqiu hadn't said that they had a good relationship with Tangjia Village, I would have felt that they were being treated harshly.
Fortunately, we are here, otherwise they would really ask them to hand over the recipe, and their current income-generating business would be gone, and their lives would be even more difficult in the future."
Ah Chi muttered to Fu Huaian with mixed feelings: "You know, even if Shen Zhiqiu is like this, he is unwilling to join the military camp, which shows how much he loves his people... Hey! Everyone has their own aspirations!"
These two have simply misunderstood each other. They have no idea why Shen Zhiqiu doesn't want to go to the military camp?
What’s more, you may not know that even though they don’t live in a very nice place and always feel that they don’t earn enough money, they are really not poor!
At least they have land and a job now. Although they haven't saved enough money to build a house next year and they still eat corn bread, they are already very content.
It can only be said that the gap is too big and there are different thought processes. This is because Fu Huaian and A Chi have been in the military camp since childhood. They are not the kind of people who are unaware of the poverty of the people and think so.
If people like Ning Yu were to think otherwise, they would probably feel, "How can someone as talented as Mr. Shen live in a house like this?"
However, he was not given much time to smuggle, because Master Shen was the first person in the family who was not allowed to do any hard work. There was no other way, the old man was old, and his health was badly damaged after fleeing from famine.
We were busy these past few days, but couldn't ship the goods. The old man got anxious and angry and fell ill. Now he really doesn't allow us to do anything.
But he couldn't sit idle, so he sat in the tea stall every day and served as the receptionist for merchants who came to purchase goods.
At most, you can add some firewood to the stove, watch it so it doesn't go out, and avoid a shortage of hot water.
As for pouring the tea, these businessmen would not let him pour it himself, after all, they had come more than once or twice.
When I got to the bottom of the slope, I greeted the old man and he started making tea for himself. They both seemed very familiar with each other.
As soon as Fu Huaian and Ah Chi crossed the bridge, the merchants in the tea shed noticed them: "Old man, there's someone else coming!"
Mr. Shen stood up, hunched over, and squinted his eyes. As he was old, he couldn't see clearly from a distance.
But as the two men and two horses got closer, the old man's eyes widened in disbelief, and he even hurriedly raised his hand to rub his eyes.
"Oh my, didn't Guo say that this disease was cured? Why did I have hallucinations again? It can't be a last moment of life, otherwise why would I feel like I saw the young general?"