Nongmen scholar

Chapter 28 Distress
Before eating, I put a few bowls of sauerkraut fried pig intestines into a bamboo basket, and then took the bamboo basket to the well in the yard, tied the bamboo basket to the pulley, and sent it down the well, so that the basket was suspended on the cold water. , the underground temperature is low, and the vegetables will not be afraid of spoiling overnight.

The next day, Gu Xiaobei got up early when it was just dawn. Due to the hot weather, Gu Xiaobei didn't cook any hot dishes, so he only cooked two big pots of porridge.

Gu Sanlin volunteered to sell porridge by himself. Gu Erye and others saw that his injuries were much lighter than Gu Datian's, and he had basically acted quickly in the past few days, so they had no objection.

The brothers and sisters carried their things to the head of the village, but they were stopped when they were about to put them in the carriage of Uncle Niu's house.

"Master Bai?" The Gu brothers and sisters looked at Bai Qingli who stopped them in surprise.

Bai Qingli smiled and greeted the people around and Gu's elder brother before saying: "Since we are going to sell porridge, we may sell it quickly or late, if we can't catch the village carriage, how can we come back? "

"That's right, why did we forget about this?" Gu Erye patted his head angrily.

Gu Xiaobei called Bai Qingli aside and asked, "Can you lend us your carriage?"

"What benefits do I have?" Bai Qingli asked with a half-smile.

"Didn't you claim to be kind? Just let you be a good person once, I must be very grateful to you." Gu Xiaobei said.

Bai Qingli looked her up and down, and his smile deepened: "What kind of gratitude? Shall I promise you with your body?"

Gu Xiaobei gritted his teeth, with a fierce look in his eyes: "Are you going to borrow it or not?"

"Can I say no?" Bai Qingli stared.

"No, but it's really unkind to use your car like this." Gu Xiaobei thought for a while and said, "Didn't your family ask someone to bring food every day? You can ask them to bring it back directly to my third brother, which saves the money." You spend a lot of money, your family helps my family, and my family also helps your family, killing two birds with one stone, how great it is!"

"No, I have a better idea." Bai Qingli touched his chin.

Gu Xiaobei looked at him suspiciously: "What idea?"

"You can do the laundry for me. I don't need your third brother to help me bring the ingredients back. My wife is not short of money!" Bai Qingli smiled so hard that her eyes almost narrowed. After speaking, she realized that the temperature around her was suddenly chilly, so she hurriedly put it away. A smug smile.

Under Gu Xiaobei's eyes, Bai Qingli finally compromised.

Watching Gu Sanlin walk away, Gu Erye went to help others harvest, Gu Xiaobei followed Bai Qingli to Bai's house to make breakfast, and then went home to do housework to help Gu Datian take Xiaobao.

The family waited expectantly while working, and in the evening, Gu Sanlin finally came back.

"Excluding the capital, I can earn one or two taels of silver and five hundred copper coins." Gu Xiaobei touched the money Gu Sanlin earned back with a smile and said.

"Little sister's pig intestines are very popular and can be easily sold." Gu Sanlin smiled reluctantly.

"Cough." Gu Datian cleared his throat and put on a benevolent look. Before he could speak, Gu Erye laughed: "Brother is pretending to be an old man again!"

"Haha." Gu Xiaobei couldn't help laughing when he saw Gu Datian's appearance. Every time Gu Datian wanted to explain the truth to his younger brothers and sisters, he seemed to be worried that he was not majestic enough, so he always put on a deep expression like an old man.

Gu Datian glared at them, and then said to Gu Sanlin earnestly: "Sanlin, contentment is the most important thing in life, and it is already very good to earn so much on the first day."

Gu Sanlin said helplessly: "Brother, where are you thinking? I don't think I earn less at all. I sold out all the porridge at noon today. I wanted to come back early, but guess who I met?"

"Who?" The impatient Gu Erye immediately asked.

"Third Uncle." Gu Sanlin gave them a deep look.

"We also have a third uncle? Why didn't I know?" Gu Xiaobei said in surprise, she didn't have any impression of the third uncle even after thinking hard.

"It's a long story." Gu Datian sighed and said eloquently.

It turned out that Gu Xiaobei and the others still had an uncle named Gu Changjue, but before Gu Xiaobei was born, he fought with someone and maimed him, and was arrested by the government to serve his sentence. He was imprisoned for more than ten years and was only released recently.After he came out, he might feel ashamed to see his parents and fellow villagers, or maybe he thought his family was poor, but he didn't go home anyway, but did hard work outside.

Gu Changjue met Gu Sanlin on the street today, and was recognized by Gu Sanlin first, then took Gu Sanlin to drink for a long time, inquired about the affairs of the village for more than ten years, until the sun was about to set. let him back.

"Wow!" A baby cry suddenly interrupted the silence between the brothers and sisters.

"Xiaobao woke up, come and give me a hug from my third brother, I miss seeing you for a day." Gu Sanlin hastily hugged Xiaobao in Gu Xiaobei's arms.

The brothers and sisters coaxed Xiaobao for a while, washed his hands, ate, slept, and had nothing to say all night.

In the next few days, Gu Sanlin went to sell porridge in the county as usual. Since the sales were very good, he kept increasing the quantity, and he could earn two or three taels of silver in a day after excluding the cost.

Gu Datian was still recovering from his injuries, and Gu Erye went to help the villagers harvest. Apart from going to Bai's house to cook and helping Gu Datian take care of Xiaobao, Gu Xiaobei's most frequent place was to go to the vegetable garden.

The vegetable garden is at the lowest point of the gentle slope by the river. It is very easy to get water and irrigate vegetables near the water source. Many people's vegetable gardens are by the river.

Picking vegetables, planting vegetables, watering, this work is not hard and can exercise muscles and bones, Gu Xiaobei likes it very much, but what Gu Xiaobei likes the most is the scenery near the vegetable garden.

A long time ago, when the flood flooded, many big stones were washed up on the gentle slope of the bank. After the river flowed away, many big stones were left on the gentle slope. Because the gentle slope is not easy to roll down and hurt people, no one in the village moved them away. These big rocks.

From a distance, it looks like big stones on a chessboard, with a different view. There are also many big stones on the gentle slope above the vegetable garden of Gu Xiaobei’s home. Gu Xiaobei occasionally sits on them, very leisurely, but Gu Xiaobei often goes to the vegetable garden. A pair of vicious eyes in the dark looked into my heart.

This afternoon, Gu Xiaobei went to water the vegetables in the vegetable garden as usual, went to the door of the vegetable garden and opened the door but did not go in, but went to the river next to the vegetable garden and fetched a bucket full of water.

Just as he lifted the water and walked up two steps, a sound of "gurgling" suddenly came from above the gentle slope by the river. Gu Xiaobei immediately looked up and was shocked. Three big rocks that hadn't moved all year round suddenly moved. Roll straight down!One of the big stones was facing him! "Wow!" The bucket in his hand fell to the ground and rolled into the river. Gu Xiaobei's heart trembled. Seeing the stone rolling closer and closer, he didn't have time to think about it. He instinctively moved to the right, and his face turned paler before he stood still. In a moment of desperation, she even forgot that there was a big rock on the right!

(End of this chapter)