Zanthoxylum bungeanum

Chapter 72 What a Blessing

Every year when the weather is cold, Wang Mazi's house will become lively, and there will be at most five or six tables of people playing cards at night.

They are all old men, smoking cigarettes, peeling peanuts and melon seeds, and telling anecdotes and strange things, or talking about nasty things, spending long and cold winter nights.

Tonight was busier than usual, all the poker players who hadn't been here for a long time came, Wang Mazi didn't even get a seat, and was standing behind the others with his melon seeds in his hands, watching the cards.

The courtyard door slammed, who came so late?
Wang Mazi lifted the curtain, opened the door and looked out, it was Li Xiangming who had arrived.

"Ah, Li Erleng, what kind of wind is blowing today, you have come here." Wang Mazi said in an exaggerated tone.

Li Xiangming glared at him, "What? Are you not welcome?"

"Welcome, welcome, but there are no seats left." Wang Mazi gestured to invite him in.

Li Xiangming came in and took a look, and sure enough there was no place, "Oh, I couldn't spare the time to come here, and it turned out that the trip was for nothing."

Wang Mazi shrugged and continued to eat melon seeds, "I can't help it, and I didn't sit down either."

Li Xiangming looked at him, his eyes lit up, "You, me, call another person, and the three of us can play together."

Wang Mazi looked around the room, "The usual poker players are here, who are they calling?"

Li Xiangming squeezed his chin and thought about it, "I saw Niu San go to the village just now, I'll ask him to play a few games."

Wang Mazi threw the melon seeds in his hand on the ground, and smiled playfully, "Niu San? He wished me to die, and I'm afraid he won't come."

Everyone in the room knew what happened some time ago, and immediately burst into laughter.

"Wang Mazi, what happened last time was clearly your intention. We all know what the purpose is. You are not afraid that he put a sack of medicinal herbs around your head and beat you up that day." Zhao Zhigang frowned. explain.

Li Xiangming also nodded, "I heard from the girl that Ding Meilan asked her to buy the silver bracelet, so stop talking nonsense."

"Anyway, a lonely man and a widow live in the same room, you understand..." Wang Mazi yelled loudly with a look of disbelief.

Li Xiangming didn't bother arguing with him, "You're the one who babbles all day and has the most things to do. I don't have any cards to play, so I'm leaving."

"Come over early tomorrow." Wang Mazi greeted.

Li Xiangming shook his head, "Tomorrow my girl will go to Lanzhou, I want to see the chicken farm, so I won't come."

When he left the house, the card players immediately started talking about it.

"Li Erlen is really lucky. He's a very powerful girl. I heard that green shelled eggs are sold for [-] yuan each."

"Not only that, green-shell chickens are very popular in the county now, and her daughter has a big pocket."

Hearing that they praised Li Yan as a flower, Wang Mazi sneered when he thought of Lu Zhengyong's words, "Hmph, she is the only one who raises this chicken because she is looking at the glory now? I heard that there are people in other villages who raise it too." , she won't be the only one by then, it won't be fragrant."

Zhao Zhigang went to the county town last week to buy new year's goods, and his tone became mysterious, "You know what, I heard that she is the owner of the Jiangfeng Yuhuo Hotel that sells green-shell chickens, even if someone else raises the chicken, she will not worry about selling it go out."

Everyone stopped talking, you looked at me, I looked at you, and I knew in my heart that the Li family was afraid that they were about to blow up.

"Zheng Jinshui is going to raise chickens in the spring, and I want to raise this chicken too." Jiang Dapeng, who lives next door to Zheng Jinshui, was the first to know that he wanted to raise chickens.

His words are on the minds of many people.

"Why don't we discuss with Li Xiangming together now?" Zhao Zhigang put the poker cards away and looked at the three people at the same table with questioning eyes.

"OK……"

Everyone immediately responded to his words, put down their cards, and hurriedly left Wang Mazi's house to chase Li Xiangming.

(End of this chapter)