Porridge and side dishes [farming]

The next morning, there was a small roe deer weighing more than 20 kilograms at the door, which can be said to be an unexpected surprise.

Knowing that it must have been sent by the little wolf, it's just that the gift this time is too expensive.

Er Gouzi was busy going up the mountain, Li Ji had no choice but to deal with this poor little guy by himself, he used to watch Er Gouzi do it, at most Li Ji was helping him, because he hated such things as skinning from the bottom of his heart of.

Repelling doesn't mean you can't touch them. When Er Gouzi entered the mountain, Li Ji gestured at the little roe deer with a knife, and they quickly fell apart.

The leather was still damaged, but the damage was not serious. It could be sold for some money, and the meat was picked out. Li Ji was not greedy at all, so he packed them all up and stewed them in a pot for delivery to the wolf.

Little Tail saw Li Ji stewing meat in a pot that stewed livestock food, and eagerly walked around Li Ji twice.Li Ji thought that the little tail and the wolf were acquaintances, so he picked out two pieces of meat for the little tail when they were cooked.

But isn't this little tail fat a bit outrageous?

In fact, the food that Xiaowei eats is strictly controlled, but this guy will cheat and play tricks. Not only will he catch bugs to eat, but he will always act like a baby, getting a piece or two of meat from Li Ji or Er Gouzi as snacks.

I don't eat much staple food, but snacks are constant, so this little tail grows bigger and fatter.

Take the little tail and go up the mountain together to deliver food to the wolf, and take back the pot that was used to deliver food yesterday, clean it up and save it for tomorrow.

After feeding all the animals in the house, Li Ji lay down on the kang and ate peanuts to pass the time when he had nothing to do.

Li Ji fell asleep unknowingly, and he didn't know how long he slept when he woke up.But it definitely won't be long, Li Ji can't sleep when he sees the light, and he can sleep for half an hour during the day.

After sitting up and taking a sip of the cold tea, Li Ji went out again to see if the animals had enough to eat.

At this time, I heard someone calling him Fourth Uncle Li from afar, and Haile called him Fourth Uncle in the village, but most of the people who added their surnames were people with foreign surnames.

Li Ji went out to meet her, and saw a woman with a haggard face, she looked familiar, but Li Ji really couldn't remember who it was for a while.

"What's the matter? Call me all the way to scare me."

The woman didn't care about etiquette anymore, she reached out and grabbed Li Ji's arm: "Fourth Uncle Li! Let me ask you, did the person who killed a thousand dollars in my family borrow money from you?"

Li Ji was a little dazed. Thinking about it, Zhao Ergua was the one who borrowed money from him. Seeing the woman's appearance, something happened.

Li Ji asked solemnly: "What's the matter? You speak slowly."

The woman burst into tears when she heard this: "Fourth uncle, what evil do you think I did! Why didn't you go out and was stabbed with a knife, and was run over to death by a car?" Walking and falling to my death, I beat the drums! Tell me, tell me something fair, what am I missing when I marry into their old Zhao family? Who mentions me and doesn’t say good things about me? I owe him eight lifetimes Yes, a good life, but he is going to die!"

The voice of crying and talking was unclear, and Li Ji could barely distinguish what she said, and continued to ask in a low voice: "What's wrong with him? Don't worry, tell me everything, if you really did something I will accompany you to find the village head for something that is unreasonable."

The woman was crying so hard that she was almost out of breath, and said indistinctly: "What do you think he is doing badly? Even if he smokes and drinks, I will admit it. Why did he go to play with money! I won’t say if he wins or loses a game of mahjong. Go to the boss to get money, and steal the boss's wife's dowry while the two of them are away!"

The tone of the speech was not in the same tone, and it sounded a bit messy intermittently. Li Ji managed to tidy it up, and asked, "You mean that Ergua lost all his family's wealth by playing with money?"

"Isn't it? It's said that it's a family scandal that shouldn't be publicized. I held back and didn't say anything. I thought I wouldn't gamble if I lost everything, but he came to you to borrow money. I borrowed money yesterday and went to the county. It’s played inside, and there’s not a single word lost! Guess how I know! That black-hearted bastard just wanted to steal my girl to sell for money and continue playing!” The more the woman cried, the more she lost her strength and simply Sitting on the ground, "What a shameless person! How can I live like this! God just let this beast gasp!"

This time there is a tone and a tune, and anyone who pulls the strings can sing a paragraph.

Ergua's daughter-in-law was crying vividly, and she was really pitiful. Li Ji let him cry for a while, and when the crying stopped and laughed, Li Ji took a towel from the house and came out to wipe her tears and nose.

"When we've had enough crying, let's go to the village chief together. It depends on whether you still want to live this life. He can't get him to go to jail if he plays with money, but he can lie to me for money, and he also steals money." Daughter-in-law's dowry is also a crime, let's go to the village chief and ask if there is anything else that can be punished."

Ergua's daughter-in-law trembled when she heard the sentence, and opened her mouth to curse: "This animal should be put in a big prison, why doesn't God strike him with a thunderbolt! Let him suffer a thousand knives, our mothers, and be a widow." Better than being his wife!"

She scolded badly, but Li Ji could understand it when she said it like this, she was reluctant to punish Ergua to death.

People are so contradictory. When emotions reach this level, they often say things in reverse. The more they care, the more utterly utter they will be. But if something really happens to Ergua, Ergua's daughter-in-law will be the one who will protect her the most. .

It can't be said that people are obsessed with obsession. They have three children. The couple has been in love for nearly 20 years. In the village, a lot of people who died before the age of 20 were caught. In the past, the couple lived a prosperous life. Fights and quarrels are rare, so it can be said that they are a happy family.

What a good day, but Ergua just likes playing with money?

We cannot participate in or understand how other people live and think.

"Anyway, let him be punished for playing with money first, so that he can't play with money, so naturally he doesn't have to try to get money. If he dares to sell his daughter today, he can sell you tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow he will go to murder and set fire to steal money. Playing. This kind of thing is also evil, and he can do anything if he is addicted. At least let him go to the fence (prison, prison) to stay sober for a year or so." Li Ji thought about those five years Qian Yinzi, when he speaks, he speaks with gritted teeth.

It is true that Li Ji is not short of money, but it does not mean that he can not treat money as money.Every copper coin in his hand was earned by working hard with Er Gouzi from dawn to dusk, how could he be willing to be cheated away by someone's lip service?

And now that I think about it, that guy named Ergua is really capable. When he came to "borrow money", he couldn't tell anything strange. He said that he used it to pay for his son's education. cheat.

If these two melons can fool one person, they can fool the second and third.Even if Ergua is captured now, when will this ass debt be repaid?

Ergua daughter-in-law, a married daughter-in-law, a soon-to-be-married daughter-in-law and an infant girl.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this home is ruined like this. How should I live in the future?

After hearing Li Ji's words, Ergua's daughter-in-law cried even harder: "Damn it, what a crime I did!"

After tossing for a while, I finally sent Ergua's daughter-in-law to the village head.There are many trivial matters in the village, all of which are presided over by the village head. The village head just came back today, and he was shocked to see Ergua's daughter-in-law crying like this.

"What's wrong?" the village head asked.

Li Ji explained clearly what happened before and after, and the village chief spat twice angrily.

"Shameless thing, live a good life, but he has committed a terrible death!" The village head thought for a while, and then said, "It's a sin to play with money, and it's a sin to cheat money, but it's really because there are so few people in prison. Yes. There are a lot of people who play with money, and the money Ergua loses is not as much as other people’s change. It’s not up to him to squat. If you want him to be safe, you must either tie him up or send him directly to the prison to let the prison leader help Discipline."

Ergua's daughter-in-law became more emotionally stable at this time, and wiped her tears and cried: "I can't care about anything else now. At least I can restrain this murderer! I'll let my son be tied up first." , if we let it out again and give me a famine to make money, how can we live!"

He was a poor man at first, he was about to turn [-], and he didn't have many years left to live. He thought that he would be able to enjoy the happiness when he was old by guarding a girl, but he didn't expect such an accident.

"Then find two young men and throw him in the ancestral hall first, and we will continue to discuss. It is easy to send him to the officials or lock him up. We can lock ourselves up and take care of the food ourselves. We can't be wronged, because we are afraid that a village will see him. It's not that there is no such thing as playing with money in the village, and you can win or lose a game of mahjong, but no one is as wicked as him, maybe it's just a momentary fever, let's let him calm down." Li Ji said.

The village chief nodded: "You are right. At least let him calm down now. If he runs away, he can borrow money to steal or rob him. I will arrange this matter. Ergua, you stay here first, and I will follow him." Xiao Ji will arrange it."

Li Ji shook his head and said, "I won't go. Er Gouzi has gone up the mountain. I don't know when I will come back home and I can't leave him. If there is anything that needs me, let someone go and call me."

Li Ji didn't want to go and couldn't force him to do so. The village chief nodded and followed Ergua's wife to send Li Ji out.

When Li Ji walked back, his head was in a mess. He really cared about the five renminbi. Normal people work desperately for two or three renminbi a month. For ordinary people, only these renminbi are left all year round. There are not many.

The money to buy rice and fine grains is enough for him and Er Gouzi to eat for two months, but Er Gouzi tricked him away just like that.

Although the money was borrowed, it is impossible to get the money back. With the current situation of Ergua's daughter-in-law, the family may not be able to pay a few pennies, and Ergua can steal the dowry from her daughter-in-law. Even stealing his own daughter to sell, that means the family really has no money.

Thinking of this, Li Ji felt even more distressed.I think that I will not dare to lend in this way again in the future. Whoever will borrow money in the future will be able to push it, and the two coins that cannot be pushed will be capped.Most families don’t have big expenses, and the biggest expense is to marry a wife, but marrying a daughter-in-law for three coins is a big deal for the daughter-in-law. There are also couples who have a good relationship and need more than ten copper coins as a bride price.

Thinking so wildly, Li Ji went home to play with Xiaowei and the two squirrels for a while, and then went to the kang to be lazy for a while. It was almost noon, and he went down to the kang to cook.

Li Ji still has to think about how to tell Er Gouzi about this matter. Er Gouzi probably doesn't know what it means to play money. If he knows that the money can't be returned, he doesn't know how to react.

Er Gouzi is so easy to talk, what Li Ji said is what, this is a profound lesson, and in the future, the money in the pocket must be killed, no one can take advantage of the hard-earned money

Li Ji was just thinking wildly when he was in trouble, and when the meal was ready, Li Ji squatted in the yard to see if there were any weeds sprouting, and then he stretched out his hand to pull them out. Don't worry about planning, planting everything piece by piece. Last year, Li Ji tried to make kimchi by himself, but the results were not very good. Try more.

Taotao was squatting on Li Ji's shoulder, holding a peanut in her claws, suddenly raised her head, and the little tail lying at the door stood up, and Songsong who was lying on it fell to the ground unsteadily.

The little tail wagged its tail and jumped up and ran to the door.

Just by looking at Little Tail's performance, he knew Er Gouzi was back.Li Ji hurriedly stood up, Taotao saw Songsong's lesson, dropped Peanut and grabbed Li Ji's hair to stabilize his body, sat on Li Ji's shoulder and followed him out to meet Er Gouzi.

From afar, he saw a red patch on Er Gouzi's shoulder, Li Ji was startled, thinking that Er Gouzi was injured, he quickly walked two steps to meet him.

When he got closer, he saw that it was not blood, but the color of the fur of the prey. Li Ji was slightly stunned, and then realized: "I hit a fox!"

Er Gouzi nodded: "I didn't find the white fox, I only saw this. It's very smart, and I caught it for a long time."

At this time the fox has died, the skin is intact and not broken at all, but there is blood coming out of the nose, it seems that it was strangled or smashed to death, and the skin is intact, so it can be sold for a good price.

Taking the fox from Er Gouzi is quite heavy.Li Ji smiled from ear to ear, pulled Er Gouzi and kissed Er Gouzi on the forehead: "You are too good, you said you went up the mountain to fight well and you beat back."

Such a kiss made Er Gouzi's tail almost curl up, and his happiness was bubbling.It's not in vain for him to chase foxes all over the mountain so hard, it's worth it.

Li Ji is in a good mood, and Er Gouzi is in an even better mood. When they go home together, they will eat first and then peel the fox.

During the meal, Li Ji was still thinking about how to tell Er Gouzi that being cheated was actually quite embarrassing, and it was still worth five renminbi.

"Er Gouzi, let me tell you something, this matter is actually half resolved, but we are a couple, even if I don't understand this matter, I have to tell you." Li Ji added a piece of meat to Er Gouzi.

"Tell me." Er Gouzi opened his mouth directly and took the meat that Li Ji sent over into his mouth.

Li Ji watched Er Gouzi chew the meat and swallowed it, sorted out his vocabulary and said, "Didn't the old Zhao's Ergua come to borrow money yesterday? He said it was for the children to study. I just found out today that he lied. I don’t know what’s going on, but he’s addicted to playing money, and he came here to borrow money for the purpose of playing with money. I don’t know if you can understand the matter of playing with money. Can make a fortune."

Speaking of this, Li Ji sighed heavily: "I'm afraid we won't get the money back, and it's hard to ask for it. This Zhao Ergua is under control, but the money is gone. From now on, Ergua's daughter-in-law If you want to live alone with a young lady and two children, Zhao Ergua will take away all the money in the family, whether you can have food or not is another matter, we have to leave a way for them to survive."

Er Gouzi didn't understand Li Ji's words very well. Seeing Li Ji's serious tone, he couldn't help but become more serious: "I really don't understand, as long as you understand, it's up to you how to deal with it in the future."

It was only when Er Gouzi said that, and Li Ji was very moved in his heart: "I also know that you don't like to participate in this kind of thing, even if I decide everything, I will tell you. Most of our family You earned all the money, we are still a couple, we discuss everything."

After the meal, Er Gouzi sat on the bench in the yard and skinned the fox. The red fox is red on the back, and the rest of it is white. .

A piece of leather was removed and started to be tanned to prevent it from becoming hard. When the leather was drying, Li Ji watched the cloudy sky gather, and wondered if he could do it tomorrow.

Tomorrow Li Ji will go to the county to buy leather, sell some more leather and buy more animals.

In the evening, I took back the half-dried leather, and sure enough, I heard the sound of rain outside not long after it got dark.

At this time, Li Ji was being held in Er Gouzi's arms to take advantage of it. Li Ji supported Er Gouzi's head to temporarily stop him from moving: "I will go to the county tomorrow if it rains and I can't come back, I will stay in the county overnight , if I can come back, I will come back as soon as possible.”

Er Gouzi hugged Li Ji's hand tightly, and couldn't care less about taking advantage: "No."

"Don't worry, you stay at home and take care of your home. The weather is not good recently, and we are in a hurry to buy animals. Any decent animals will be taken away. If we want to buy any more, we will not be able to buy them. The money in our hands is Quite a lot, but if we buy more livestock, there will be nothing left in the house, and we can buy whatever we want only after changing the money." Li Ji kissed Er Gouzi on the chin.

"Let's go together." Er Gouzi demanded.

"No, our family is no better than before. We used to be poor, and other families didn't know how much money our family had, but it's different now. Our house is so big and we have so many animals. Even if we don't come to steal Money, it’s distressing enough to go with two animals, we must keep someone. The leather must be sold as soon as possible, and there must be no shortage of people in the family. If you are really worried, I will take the little tail with me. If I can come back tomorrow, I will come back as soon as possible. Don't worry if you don't come back, I have money in my pocket, pick a good hotel and sleep well, nothing will happen."

It is difficult to guarantee the rain at this time, if it really falls for a day or two, it is also possible.But in a hurry to sell the leather, unless it rains heavily tomorrow morning and cannot go out, otherwise the matter of making money will not be delayed.

"Then I'll go." Er Gouzi said, he has experienced no matter how harsh the environment in the mountains, not to mention heavy rain, even mudslides, he can return home, but Li Jixi's arms and legs are not good enough, even a little rain is enough for Er Gou My heart hurts.

"You don't understand the price. The shopkeeper of the fur shop is like a man, especially the fox fur. I can see his face and talk about the price. It's a pity that we broke up with Gao Orion, otherwise we can let him Ask for the price."

Speaking of Gao Orion, Li Ji hated that White Fox Fur was almost cheated by Gao Orion. Fortunately, it was Li Ji's seniority who suppressed him, otherwise the matter would have ended.

There is Gao Orion in the front and Ergua in the back.Thanks to Li Ji's self-proclaimed cleverness, thinking about it this way is really a disadvantage.

"We're not short of money, and we don't want to check how much." Ergouzi turned over and pressed Li Ji directly, "I don't want to be separated from you, and I don't want to sleep without you at night."

Beating Er Gouzi came down from the mountain, and the two slept together at night. Except for Li Ji who lost his way up the mountain for a day and a night last year, the two slept together at night no matter how they divided their labor during the day.

They have been used to each other's existence for such a long time, and no one can do without the other.

Li Ji patted Er Gouzi's head: "Then I can assure you that I will come back that day. The matter of Zhao Ergua is still waiting to be resolved. I'm going to sell leather in the county. If anyone comes to me, there must be someone in my family. What did they tell you, tell me when I come back."

After several times of persuasion, Er Gouzi directly turned his worry into motivation, stopped talking and concentrated on torturing Li Ji.

When Li Ji woke up the next morning, his waist felt sore, and he squinted at Er Gouzi, who was full of food and drink, and secretly decided not to let him do it for the next seven days.

With a sore waist, he lay on the bed with peace of mind and let Er Gouzi serve him for breakfast. After eating, Li Ji stretched himself, put on his clothes and tidied up his leather, and made the ox cart ready to go.

Er Gouzi, who was delivered to the door, asked without giving up: "Aren't you tired? How about tomorrow."

Li Ji tapped Er Gouzi on the top of Er Gouzi's head with a whip for driving cattle: "You can do it, don't make trouble. I didn't think of you when you went up the mountain. I just went to the city. You should learn more. You don’t need to participate in whoever comes, just tell them to wait until I come back, and then you can tell me when I come back, do you listen?”

Er Gouzi nodded, then watched Li Ji go out.

Li Ji had been to the village by himself before, for example, the last time he paid taxes.It's just that the weather is bad now, Li Ji also sounded the alarm and said that he might not return home at night, which is the reason why Er Gouzi is worried.

Li Ji specially brought a coir raincoat, so that if it rains, he won't be drenched.I don’t have an umbrella at home. The reason is that there was little rain last year, and I didn’t feel much in the light rain. I didn’t go out in heavy rain, and I didn’t use the coir raincoat much.Although there is nothing missing at home now, the two of them only have coir raincoats.

It seems that this time I go to the county to buy two more coir raincoats and two more umbrellas.There is no shortage of money in the family. Don’t lack these useful things if you have the conditions. It’s better to leave them unused than not to use them when you need them.

It rained last night, the ground was a little muddy, and the clouds in the sky have not cleared yet. It is really uncertain whether it will rain today.

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