my weird life

Chapter 269 Opening the Temple (12) ([-])

When the sun is about to rise to its mid-heaven,
Three fat and strong mules pulled the three carts to the open space in front of the bamboo forest.

The bamboo forest behind the clearing has been cut down.
The felled bamboo was cut into strips, and more than a dozen old people from Qingshi Nianzi Village distinguished the strips of different lengths and widths, intertwined them, as if they were going to weave something with these strips.

The men, women and children of the village gathered in the open space,
Or help out, or get together to chat.

At this moment, when they saw three big mules dragging a cart and parked in the open space, everyone stopped what they were doing.
He couldn't stop looking at the bulging linen bags that were piled as high as a hill on the cart.

——They all got the news from Li Yueshan to the head of the village,

Naturally, it was clear that what was contained in those bulging sackcloth bags was the food they needed very much right now!

Su Wu and Li Zhu'er jumped out of the row car,

The former unloaded a large box from the front of a row car, dragged the box together with the latter, and dragged it under a square table.

"Unload all the food here, all here!"

Li Yueshan greeted the guys at Mizhuang,

After receiving his order, several workers hurriedly unloaded the grain from the row cart to a wooden water tank-like object,
The wooden water tank was covered with a lid,

There is only a fist-sized hole in the middle.

It was so dark inside that I couldn't see what was inside.

"Everybody come to help,
Help the old man unload the food! "Li Yueshan saw that many young and strong people from Qingshi Nianzi Village were about to move, so he simply called them all over and asked them to help with loading and unloading grain.

"okay!"

"All go, all go!"

"Master Zhang Zao has spoken, we have to do our best no matter what!"

The young and strong people made a noise and gathered beside the three row carts, unloaded bags of grain from them, and carried them to the place designated by the fat old man.

More than a thousand catties of grain were transported by a group of young and strong in a playful manner,

In the blink of an eye, they all got out of the car.

Subsequently,

Su Wu paid the final payment to the principal sent by Mi Zhuang: "I paid a tael of silver earlier, this is the balance of seven taels of money, you weigh it."

"Eh, good, good.

Thank you, sir, thank you, sir. "

Looking at the surroundings of the open space, the principal arched his back, holding the silver ingot that Su Wu handed him with both hands,

Conjuring a small scale from behind,
put the silver ingot on the weighing pan,
Fiddle with the small weight a little so that the beam is placed horizontally,
Then he squinted his eyes and looked at the numbers on the scale beam, and the smile on his face became even wider: "Guest officer, you are refreshing, it is exactly seven taels of silver, not bad at all, thank you, guest officer, thank you, guest officer!"

The principal bowed to Su Wu non-stop to thank him,
Afterwards, the two parties said goodbye,

Mizhuang's mules dragged two carts straight away,

There was only one platoon cart left in the open space—it was the platoon cart that Su Wu and Li Zhuer pushed when they went to the market, and it was not from Mizhuang.

"Yezhuzi, you are promising!"

"I've seen it for a long time, Yezhuzi must be a promising person in the future!"

"Ah, you can give my family some more food later. When you were young, I hugged you..."

Su Wu originally came from Qingshi Nianzi Village,

Now that the villagers are all gathered here, there are naturally many people who know him.

The villagers felt that Ye Zhuzi was a different person from before, and they dared not speak for a while.

Until the first person spoke to Su Wu,

The rest became more courageous, chatting with Su Wu one after another,
What's more, he had already handed over the rice bag he had prepared to Su Wu, and was going to ask him to make a small stove for himself first, so that he could bring some rice back home.

Everyone booed around Su Wu,

make various demands,

Su Wu didn't change his face, and was about to say something.

Li Yueshan's displeased voice sounded from behind him: "Don't gather here and make a fuss!

He has changed his name to Li Wu now, and he is my senior disciple, the old man.
It's not the wild boars or wild dogs in your mouth!

And don't try to coax him to give you more food - don't care how much he owed you before, and had a meal at your house, since he replaced the man in your respective family, the pillar, and went to deliver rice at night ,
He already owes nothing to you!

not to mention,
If he hadn't begged me to buy some food to distribute to you this time,
Do you still want to distribute food?

Pick up donkey dung in the field! "

Li Yueshan mercilessly scolded the surrounding villagers,

All the credit was put on Su Wu.

The villagers who gathered here were afraid of the fat old man's identity as the "master of the stove", and because the irony contained in Li Yueshan's words was almost overflowing, they couldn't refute.

So they all scattered.

Don't dare to harass Su Wu again.

"Come on, Ah Wu, come here." Li Yueshan patted Su Wu's shoulder.

Su Wu turned around and followed him towards the temple,
All I saw was Master's smiling face.

The two masters and apprentices entered the temple.

The piece of rag used to isolate the space and block the line of sight in the temple has been removed.

The mattresses on the floor were gone,
There are only Li Yueshan and Su Wu in the temple.

"Master, I bought twelve shi of grain this time, and spent a total of eight taels of silver.
I bought a few soldiers and three new sets of cooking utensils from Blacksmith Zhu. Old man Zhu said that it is enough to pay for those iron utensils.
But I think the quality of the weapons he made is not bad,

and gave him five denarii.

Later, I bought a copper bracelet for Li Zhuer..." Su Wu handed the remaining copper coins to Li Yueshan,
Li Yueshan waved his hand, but said: "The rest of the money, you can keep it yourself."

He looked at Su Wu with a smile: "I asked you to buy a bracelet for Zhu'er, and you bought it for her? I see a copper ring on her hand, it's very precious."

"Yes,

bought. "Su Wu blinked and responded without changing his face.

"I also bought a thimble for Li Qingmiao?
Give each of Xiuxiu and Goushengzi a pair of longevity locks? "Li Yueshan was still smiling.

But Su Wu suddenly felt a chill surge behind the smile,
"..."

He didn't speak.

"You son of a bitch!"

Li Yueshan glared at Su Wu fiercely: "I don't know if your brain is really not open, or is it pretending not to be open?!

I let you buy it for Pearl,
Just buy a bracelet for Zhu Er with other juniors and juniors on your back,
Bring all the other juniors and juniors with you,
So what's the point of this copper bracelet? "

"Master, it's not good to treat one more favorably than another. It's easy to create a gap between the younger brothers and younger sisters, which will ruin the big thing." Su Wu replied seriously.

"..."

"Forget it!"

Li Yueshan waved his hand angrily,
No longer obsessed with enlightening this stupid disciple to enlighten him.

He turned around and said: "When the burner of incense on the altar table outside burns to the end, it will be noon, and then I will immediately start frying Dagui and pretending to be dirty.

You will follow the old man later,

Don't leave an inch,

do you know? "

"understood."

For this kind of thing, even if the master wanted to drive Su Wu away, he would not leave.

You have to wait until you see the whole process.

"The matter of distributing food to the villagers,

Just leave it to Qingmiao and Zhu'er to do it.

don't meddle

Lest they blackmail you with bullshit past affection. " Li Yueshan walked out of the temple while talking, Su Wu followed closely behind.

The fat old man walked out of the temple,
Looking back at Su Wu again: "You bought something for them all,

Don't you think about buying something for the old man? "

Su Wu grinned,
He took out a copper pipe from his pocket, and handed it to Li Yueshan: "I found some scrap copper at the blacksmith shop, and made a copper pipe for Master."

"This smoke pot looks weird..."

Li Yueshan took the pipe,
looked carefully,
Suddenly he grinned loudly.

He also took out a copper seal button no bigger than a thumb from his pocket, and threw it to Su Wu: "You remember to buy things for the old man, even the old man can't leave you behind.

This thing is for you! "

Su Wu took over Yin Niu,

Turn it over and see,
The four characters "Yinxi Palm Stove" are engraved on the back of the seal seat.

He took Inu in his palm and clenched his fist.

on the clearing,
The three firewood stoves are arranged in the shape of "pin".

The eyes of the stove were burning red.

The villagers of Qingshi Nianzi Village gathered around the open space, talking to each other, making the place full of voices,
Being in it can't help but make people's brains buzzing.

In the middle of the three firewood stoves,
There is an altar.

In the incense burner on the altar table, the incense sticks have been burned to the root, less than a finger's length from the incense ash underneath.

Noon is approaching.

Li Yueshan assigned tasks to his disciples,

The dumb girl Xiuxiu and Gousheng are in charge of lighting the fire, and the other is in charge of carrying the firewood;
Qingmiao and Zhu'er guard the rice box and distribute food to the villagers.

His most valued disciple, Li Wu, now only needs to be by his side, and he doesn't have to do anything himself.

The fat old man saw that the incense sticks were about to burn out,

He took out the pottery altar from under a table at the back,
The fried oil in the jar made a hollow sound as he shook his hands lightly.

"The fate of this big treacherous dog in Tanjiacun is worth three to two or seven dollars.
To fry such a big fish, you need to prepare more than 37 catties of fried oil.

There is enough fried oil in our jar. "

The fat old man patted the big pottery altar that he was squatting on the stove, and while he was still free, he taught Su Wu various experiences: "It's very tricky to fry, and it's dirty to open a temple. It's necessary to set up an altar.

making god clothes,
Stand up to serve.

The cut bamboos were used to make altars and god clothes.

The temple blessing as a god attendant had already been chosen before.

Now is the hour,

Start frying big tricks! "

Li Yueshan saw that the roots of the incense sticks were also burnt out,
Take the cork off now,

Holding the clay pot, pouring tons and tons of black grease into the firewood pot,
Oil on one side,

At the same time, he shouted to the surrounding villagers: "Put down the altar,
Stand up the altar! "

voice fell,

A few young men hurried out of the crowd, they hurriedly lifted the altar, and moved it to a place far away from the open space like a gust of wind.
Then, tremblingly, a few old people moved a round bamboo platform not much bigger than the altar, but much lower, to the center of the three-eyed firewood stove.

——This is the altar.

"Burn oil! Burn oil!"

Li Yueshan took the new spatula from Su Wu,

Weighed it in his hands, and looked at Su Wu in surprise,

Immediately shouted to Xiuxiu.

Xiuxiu's sense of presence in the stove team has always been very low,
But the fat old man liked her very much,
I like to take her with me when I do everything.

The dumb girl is also a hard-working character,

Although he can't speak, he is as sensitive as Gousheng.

Before Li Yueshan gave his orders,

She had already picked up a bundle of firewood and stuffed it into the stove.

boom!
The already red eyes of the stove,
Because of the addition of this bundle of firewood, tongues of fire gushed out immediately, surrounding the firewood, urging a golden red flame to roll along the bottom of the pot!

The temperature rises!

in the firewood pot,
Ripples immediately appeared on the pitch-black oil surface.

(End of this chapter)