Sister Shi Jiu looked at Xu San's back, stood with Zhu Xingde, and muttered in a low voice:

"Who is this person? He rides a tall horse and is dressed quite well.

In our village, who has relatives riding horses? Why haven’t I heard of it?”

I thought to myself: I still look fierce, but it looks a bit unlucky, not like I can earn money to ride a tall horse and have money.

Zhu Xingde didn't know anyone who had never met Shi Jiu's sister-in-law.

Zhu Xingde looked at Xu San's back again, and always felt that the man looked at him incorrectly.

I don't know if he is sensitive.

Just now, when Sister Shi Jiu called him "Dezi", the man immediately raised his eyes and stared at him.

Not watching, but staring.

Sister-in-law Shi Jiu smiled and turned around and looked at Zhu Xingde. She was still willing to look at this person.

Look at this young man Dezi has a good face and looks, with big eyes and double eyelids, which shows that he is very particular about people.

Chatting with Zhu Xingde:

"He may have been passing by and can't wait to go to another village.

My family lives at the fork in the road, which is not good. Sometimes, things I don’t want to know will be seen and heard before others.

Your uncle often says that I am showing off all day long and asking around.

You said, how can I be blamed on me? Then I saw that there was a village living in a village. For example, if this person came to the village and wanted to find someone, we wouldn't help but arrange it? Do you think the aunt was talking about this?"

Zhu Xingde calmed down a little and smiled, "No. And Auntie, you are not doing anything, you are kind-hearted. I'm here just to ask Auntie to help you."

"Oh my god, you said you kid. Everyone said that your grandmother was praising you tightly. If I were me, I would praise you too. What's the matter? You said, the aunt can help you, and you will guarantee to help you with something that is easy. Is it still lacking stones?"

Zhu Xingde said: "It's not short of it, it's all covered. I ask you Lao Fu. Last night, thirty pig lambs lived in the new pigpen. I looked at them and they were very beautiful. That's the case. Didn't I promise everyone to help sell dried mushrooms? I want you to help collect them. I don't have to deliver them to your door separately, and the family is busy making wine."

Even though Zhu Xingde didn't say too thoroughly, Shi Jiu's sister-in-law slapped her and understood.

There are three or five, and soon this family knocks on the door and sends mushrooms for accounting. The Zuo family will have to come out and stand at the door and say a few words to accompany them.

Then he went into the yard and pulled his neck and shouted, "Give away mushrooms, but people were coming out of the house, so he collected the mushrooms and sent them to see them off."

If this continues, the Zuo family will no longer have to do serious business every day.

As we were about to set off, our family was busy making wine, and we were kind-hearted to help everyone sell mushrooms. We couldn’t delay the serious business for some broken mushrooms. That was called buying so much food for making wine, and we were still anxious to make money.

"That is, your family is good-natured, so if you change me, you will have to be anxious.

Isn't this causing trouble for your family?

OK, Dezi, go back, don’t worry, the aunt will help you with this matter.

I will talk to them about ugly things. I will help pick the mushrooms I just picked. Don’t bury them and then dry them. The mushrooms must be dried, and the ones that are transparent must be packed. Each company must prepare the sacks themselves.

If you can help everyone arrange the sale, it’s not bad. Who can help them build a few sacks? Don’t carry a dirt basket and fall to the ground and leave. That’s what’s going to happen.”

Before Zhu Xingde could add, Shi Jiu's sister-in-law waved her hand and added:

"As for money, don't worry, I will explain it to them in advance.

It’s impossible to pay money first for helping, that’s not the case.

If anyone wants to get money in a hurry, then don’t send it to us here and let her sell it herself.

Including if you think that selling is expensive and cheap, don’t talk about that, don’t treat us kindly. If anyone dares to give us less money here, let her sell it at a high price.

No matter how good things happen, we won’t help such people with such leisure. That’s called being heartless.”

What Zhu Xingde said made him embarrassed. He wouldn't tell so many difficulties to the villagers, as if he wanted favors. After all, we also wanted to make money.

"Anyway, I'm going to trouble you. I'll help our family organize the work. We also need to control the amount of pounds. The empty space of the mule cart is limited. By the way, I'll take a look at how many mushrooms your family has picked."

Zhu Xingde followed Shi Jiusao to the yard.

I was shocked as soon as I came in.

He thinks he is a person who can save time, the kind of person who squeezes time and has to do a lot of things in the day, and it is best not to waste every cup of tea.

But I didn't expect that Shi Jiusao was even more a master.

Yesterday I was helping to cook for the people who built the pigpen at his house, but today I was drying mushrooms in half of the yard.

And it's not finished.

Shi Jiusao said: "There are still many unpicked mushrooms. I just went to the gate just to think about slashing the ground so that there is no place to dry it. There is enough sunshine there, so I will first dry it on the path at the gate and take up the location."

"Auntie, you picked all these up?"

"Well, it's not raining. The situation in each village is different. My two daughters-in-law missed their parents' home and burst into tears. Their parents' home is still far from us.

After we have collected the fields, I have also been a daughter-in-law for others. Knowing the difficulties, I have asked my sons to accompany their daughter-in-law to their parents' home. I can feel at ease when I go back and take a look.

There is no one else at home, but I am not the only one doing it.

I was in the dark last night and picked some mushrooms at the foot of the mountain. This morning, I went to the other side of the grave circle. Most of them dare not go to the other side to pick mushrooms. Actually, what is there? We have never done anything wrong to sorry for our ancestors.

I tell you that there are only a lot of mushrooms behind the grave circle. You turn around and tell your mother that if she wants to pick it, she can go there with me. I know the place."

Zhu Xingde looked at Shi Jiu's wife's man.

When he entered the yard just now, he greeted Shi Jiusao's man, Zuo Jiubo, and the other party whispered, and then continued to weave a basket.

Zhu Xingde felt a little uncomfortable, for the simple aunt in front of him.

The grave circle, which is where they once hunted pigs, is quite far from the village. They have to drive mule carts for a while, and it is even more tiring to walk on their legs.

The aunt went to the grave circle so far away to pick mushrooms. Judging from the meaning, Zuo Jiubo didn't even accompany him.

There are so many mushrooms that get up early and go to bed late, but you can't do it if you are a man. Let your wife pick it up on her own, right?

Zhu Xingde was used to seeing men who helped women to do things, so he didn't like Zuo Jiubo.

"Auntie, you can put all the grass mushrooms and the more expensive monkey head mushrooms into bags. If I can sell them at a high price, I will help you toss and make money at a high price. As I said, I don't care about other families, yours, I want them all."

Sister-in-law Shi Jiu waved her hand and refused: "That's not the case. You can pretend as much as you can. I heard from someone that you can. You said that you can let all households in the village get some money and buy them all for sale. Then you can collect them from the village. If we say something, you must be able to close your mouth. You don't have to worry about the aunt. At worst, you can talk about it again and eat the rest yourself."

It was then that her man looked up and glared at her.

When Zhu Xingde left for the front, Zuo Jiubo was unhappy. "Do you have any problems with your brain? He wants to take it all away? You actually refused. Since you refused, you were so tired that you hummed, picking up so many mushrooms for something."

Shi Jiu's sister-in-law pressed the well and touched the cold water. While drinking water with a gourd ladle, she wiped her mouth and replied:

"It's not that I have something wrong with it, it's you. I have to take advantage of it at one time?

If the great dezi can say that, it means remembering that I would worry about his family. He is a kind and righteous child.

But we should not be greedy in front of others.

Old man, why don’t you think about it? If the Zuo family could really sell wine, would his family go to the city? That year, the New Year, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month would not go?

In the past, our family didn't know anyone who could help when we went back and forth, but in the future, we couldn't help but expect to borrow the Zuo family's mule cart from time to time, and borrow the Guangzuo family from time to time to go to the city to sell goods.

By the time of New Year, the meat will be a few more expensive than usual. Then we will ask us to help sell more dried mushrooms in the city. Look, what will happen? Just weave these broken baskets and cover curtains, and you can sell them at a good price if you can't prepare them."

Zuo Jiuyi stood up and muttered before entering the room: "I can't tell you. I'm going to do anything all day."

He was obviously quite convinced, but he didn't expect that this girl had such a brain, but she didn't say anything good.

Shi Jiusao was also numb, so she continued to drink a few sips of cold water, then tidy up and went out to help Zhu Xingde instruct the mushrooms.

...

On this side, Zhu Xingde came out of Shi Jiusao's house and walked along the way to Li Zheng's house.

While walking, I was thinking about the man just now.

Who is that person? Then take a look at him.

Still someone who can afford to buy a horse.

Can you be the official magistrate who came to catch the mute?

Then he asked who had a grudge against Wang Laizi, someone mentioned his name, or even?

Zhu Xingde hurriedly shook his head, and urgently stopped his imagination, and advised himself: My wife is right, don’t be "sincerely guilty."

The man passed by their village and looked at him. He probably had nothing to say, but he looked fierce and serious.

Besides, what if it is even a magistrate? At this critical moment, he already has a grudge against Wang Laizi. If he dares to make small moves and ask people to Dawang Village for inquiries about the official and the case, it would be a bit like sending him to the door to death.

Zhu Xingde calmed down and pushed open the door of Uncle Zuo Wu’s house: “Grandpa Wu, are you at home?”

Zuo Lizheng's family was having a meal, and enthusiastically asked Zhu Xingde to eat with him.

Several sons of Grandpa Li Zhengwu also used chopsticks to gesture the empty seats given away by the women, insisting on serving.

Zhu Xingde said he had eaten it when he came, so he was really not polite.

Grandpa Li Zhengwu didn't force him anymore.

And the old man immediately drank the rice porridge from the bowl, took his cigarette puff and pointed at the main hall, and asked him to follow the room and talk.

Grandpa Li Zhengwu knew that he didn't need to ask too much. Zhu Xingde designated that something was wrong when he could come to the door for dinner.
To be continued...