After crossing over, he has no taboos among the zombies.

The leader was an old man with a pointed face and sparse beard. There was a gleam in his eyes and a very calculating look on his face.

But the person with the highest status in the crowd was not him, but another old man wearing a flat-top square scarf, a yellow and white shirt, and an unhappy expression.

"Uncle San, Changshou is such a rude kid. He told me at the beginning that he was not going to get married, but only to take a concubine. Yet, at the last minute, he suddenly arranged such a big thing and lied to me. Our Xu family is the descendant of a royal family, and we have lost face just like that." Old man Hu Xi said to the old man in the literary shirt with a look of disappointment on his face.

The old man's name was Xu Deye, Xu Changshou's uncle. He ran a salted fish business. No matter where he went, he smelled of fish.

This person loves to take advantage of others. His eyes are like abacus beads, full of calculations.

When selling salted fish, people always shortchange the seller by weight, using as little salt as possible. The fish is dried in the sun first, and then only a thin layer of salt is applied on it. If you lick it, you can taste the saltiness. If you chew the whole fish, it will definitely be bland.

The problem is that this is salted fish. If salted fish is not salty, can it still be called salted fish?

It will go bad in two or three days.

When buying fish at the dock, they would specifically look for fish with their bellies turned upside down, and would even fight with the fishmonger over a single copper coin.

If you get something for free, you'll be happy all day long. If you don't, you'll just walk around the city three times.

What?

Pick up two piles of cow dung, dry them and sell them for money.

Anyway, he has to take some "benefits" home when he goes out, otherwise he will lose his appetite for the whole day.

Once I met a peddler selling kitchen knives and bought some salted fish from him.

The peddler hadn't been open for two or three days, and he didn't have much money in his pocket, just one copper coin short.

Logically speaking, it was just a copper coin, so if it was short, it was short. The knife vendor was no stranger. He was called Wang Mazi and had been selling kitchen knives in Dongcheng for more than ten years. He was a common sight on weekdays.

If you are generous, don’t even think about selling it. Even if Xianyu gives it to you, it’s not worth much.

But Xu Deye is not like that. Not being able to gain any advantage is already frustrating enough, so how can he suffer a loss?

That would cost him his life and shorten his life by several years.

Seeing a whetstone on Wang Mazi's waist, he took it, gathered the kitchen knives, scissors, flints, axes and other tools from his home and started sharpening them.

After the tool is sharpened, the whetstone is also coated with a layer of paste.

Now Xu Deye was happy. The whetstone in the hands of the vendor selling kitchen knives must be a good thing. He took it for a penny and used it, which meant he made a profit.

The next day he told everyone he met that he had used Wang Mazi's whetstone for a penny.

That's it.

It's okay for him to take advantage of outsiders, but he also takes advantage of his own people without hesitation.

Who are our people?

His brother, Xu Changshou's father, Xu Dehai.

It is said that people from the same family tend to be similar, but this is not the case with the Xu family. Xu Dehai and Xu Deye are completely two extremes.

Xu Deye was stingy, while Xu Dehai had the same personality as Xu Changshou, treating others to meals every day. Xu Changshou would pawn his knife at the restaurant to pay off the bill for a breakfast, and Xu Dehai also did that.

With such a generous "brother", Xu Deye was determined to take advantage of him.

I never dry salted fish at home; I always bring it to Xu Dehai's house. Yesterday, I pulled two clotheslines, and then, snap, two baskets of salted fish landed on them. I just bought two pounds of salt the day before, and within two meals, half of it was gone.

Xu Deye used the other half to pickle salted fish.

He got two steamed buns in the morning and a meal at noon, but felt embarrassed to ask for help in the evening. He came to borrow a fire, but the owner said that the flint at home couldn't be lit. He then turned around and took a piece of firewood as thick as his thigh from the stove and ran away.

In a word, grab what you can and occupy what you can.

Things in my eldest brother’s house are just like my own.

It becomes a habit if you keep occupying it.

If anyone dares to prevent him from having it, that person is his enemy.

For example, Yang Qiaoer.

As we mentioned earlier, Yang Qiaoer came from a fishing family and was a fisherman.

One is a fisherman and the other is a fish pickler, it’s hard not to know each other.

The two parties not only knew each other, but also had a "festival" with each other, at least that's what Xu Deye thought.

Because Yang Qiaoer was one of the few fishermen who never let him take advantage of him, they even put him on the blacklist and would rather dump the fish back into the river than sell them to him.

What a joke. How can a woman with such a curvaceous figure and still such a charming demeanor who can run a tofu stall at the dock without ever suffering any loss be an ordinary person?

When Xu Deye learned that Xu Changshou was going to marry Yang Qiaoer, he was shocked.

If Yang Qiaoer became the eldest brother's daughter-in-law, and she wanted to take advantage of the eldest brother's family so easily in the future, there would be only two words to describe it: dreaming.

Even the eldest brother's family cannot have a daughter-in-law who gets in the way.

What kind of family lineage should be passed down and what kind of generation should be continued?

I have four grandchildren and I can no longer afford to support them.