Siheyuan: Starting from the Pig Killer

A candle as long as a thumb, the light is like a bean, the candlelight flickers, as if a slight gust of wind can extinguish it.

In the dim room, four figures sat around the table, their figures swaying gently with the candlelight.

This silent scene at this moment is the truest portrayal of the Xiang family's heart.

On the table, there is a pile of money piled in the middle. It looks like a lot of money, but most of it is dime, and there are three or five green and black silver dollars rolling aside.

"A total of seventy-eight yuan!" Liang Honghua didn't know how many times she counted the money. After several times, there was only this much and she couldn't count the flowers.

After the old man and his father heard Xiang Yunduan's plan, they naturally took out all the money in the family. The old man even took out the coffin book, but there was only this little money in total.

But Xiang Yunduan also said just now that the price of buying a job is three to four hundred, and it is still very expensive.

The little money in front of me will most likely not be able to get through to Director Cui.

"Dad, does our family really only have this little money?" Xiang Yunduan scratched his head.

Why did he go home today? Wasn't it because he had no money in his pocket and wanted some support from his family?

Unexpectedly, I only managed to collect this little money by rummaging through boxes and cabinets at home. This is definitely not enough.

"That's all. I had some savings in the past few years, but when the situation stabilized, I built a new house. Alas, I didn't expect this!" Xiang Chuanzong took a deep breath. He took a puff of cigarette and said.

"Don't we have any old things in our house?" Xiang Yunduan asked expectantly, playing with the few Chuanyang coins in his hand.

"What old things? Our new house is built with new things. We spent a lot of time buying these things," Liang Honghua said.

"Oh, mother, the old things I'm talking about are antiques. Don't we have any antiques in our house? For example, is it possible that the jar for pickling pickles is from the Tang Dynasty? Is it possible that the porcelain bottle containing soy sauce and vinegar is from the Song Dynasty? ? If not, what about the chamber pot? Could it be from the Yuan Dynasty?" Xiang Yunduan gestured.

"Oh, eldest grandson, you really dare to think that antiques are something that a family like ours can have? What kind of noble lords do you think our ancestors were?" The old man said with a helpless smile.

"Do you really have no foundation at all?" Xiang Yunduan was a little unwilling to give up.

"Still have some heritage? What heritage can our family have from three generations of farm laborers? Three generations of single inheritance can still be passed down. By the time your brothers have flourished, it will be our family's greatest heritage!"

Xiang Chuanzong patted Xiang Yunduan's shoulder and said earnestly: "Now I have no foundation. If you want to have foundation, you have to work hard. It depends on what good fortune you four brothers and sisters can have. Your father and I don't have any." Think about that!"

"Hi~"

Xiang Yunduan took a breath: "This is going to be difficult!"

"Borrow money?"

An idea popped up, but he quickly rejected it.

Not to mention their family's embarrassing position in Liangjiazhuang, everyone is poor these days. Even if they are willing to lend you something, they are still unable to do so. The poor are naturally surrounded by poor people.

Liang Honghua's natal family was from Liangjiazhuang. However, her natal family was poor and her daughter was married to Xiang Chuanzong, so she barely survived. Everyone else had been reduced to dust in the war.

Lying on the kang, Xiang Yunduan regretted offending Yi Zhonghai in a daze. Among the people he knew, there was no one who could have offered such a large sum of money, but Yi Zhonghai was the only one. This old guy is now seven years old. A grade-level job earns 90 yuan a month. There are only two people in the family to pay for it, so I estimate that I have saved a lot of money for retirement.

However, there is no regret medicine in the world!

……

"Yeah, big brother!"

Early the next morning.

Xiang Yunduan got up and pulled his second brother and third brother to have a fist fight and stretch their muscles. The little girl who had just gotten up after washing came out of the house and happened to see him. Yun Jin, who was originally sleepy, immediately became energetic. , spreading his legs and running straight towards him.

"Oh~"

Xiang Yunduan bent down and reached out to pick up his sister, and then spun her around in the air several times while making strange screams, which scared her so much that she crawled into his arms.

"Big brother!"

"Ok?"

"When will you come back?"

"Last night, you were asleep when I came back!"

"Big brother!"

"Ok?"

"Big brother~"

"Ok?"

"I want to eat sweets~Dulu~"

……

Seeing his sister looking at him expectantly with her big black eyes, Xiang Yunduan's heart almost melted, but he still said teasingly: "Oh, brother forgot to buy you candied haws!"

As soon as Yun Jin heard this, her little mouth tilted, and her big, watery eyes suddenly filled with mist. Tears were about to form in threads, and her little face was extremely aggrieved.

"Oh~ Okay, eldest brother lied to you. The candy he bought for you~ Du Lu~ is just sitting in the house. If you don't believe me, go and look in the cabinet!" Xiang Yunduan looked at the little sister's aggrieved face and immediately surrendered.

"Ah, brother, you lied to me, you are evil, I will never pay attention to you again!" Yun Jin retaliated with a series of small punches.

……

Breakfast is simple, consisting of cornmeal paste, steamed buns, and cold vegetables.

However, this was food for five adults. As for Yun Jin and her third brother Xiang Yunjie, who had not graduated from elementary school, the food was not very delicious, so they only thought about the snacks brought back by Xiang Yunduan. Liang Honghua was so angry that she had both brothers and sisters eat. tidy.

"I'll go take a look at the mountains!"

After eating, Xiang Yunduan said to his parents.

"How can you be so lucky that Ganoderma lucidum can be used as mushrooms for you to pick up?" Xiang Chuanzong said.

He thought that Xiang Yunduan was still worried about money and wanted to try his luck in the mountains again.

After all, the Ganoderma lucidum harvested last time was sold for over fifty.

But the problem is, we can't use luck as our ability!

Xiang Yunduan did have this idea, but the real reason he went into the mountains was to hunt.

During this period, pigs have been killed. Except for the wild boar that contributed red luck at the beginning, the other pigs killed have white luck.

He guessed that it was very difficult for domesticated animals to produce high-level luck, so he wanted to go into the mountains and hunt some wild animals to see if they could produce higher-level luck.

As for Cui Mingliang, he thought about it last night and vaguely thought of a way.

If he really couldn't raise the money, he planned to buy a few bottles of health-enhancing medicated wine, then strengthen it a little more, and get a small blue pill with enhanced effects and no side effects.

Deputy Director Cui is past middle age and his health is really declining, but his wife is not yet thirty and has just given birth to a child, so it is time for her to get better.

In this way, it is nothing new for Deputy Factory Manager Cui to say that he is a man during the day but not at night.

Presumably, Deputy Director Cui must have a great need for "health preservation".

As long as such medicinal wine can be strengthened by then, Xiang Yunduan doesn't believe that Deputy Director Cui will not be tempted.

At that time, he believed that giving away wine would be much more effective than giving away money.

However, there is a difficulty in this matter, that is, it is hard to say what the final effect of strengthening this item will be. Just like the strengthening of the Wolf Fang Pixiu Pendant, Xiang Yunduan never thought that it would strengthen the space. .

I can’t say, I can only try more when the time comes.