country small landowner

After eating half a bowl of cherries picked by Grandma Zhou from the backyard in the morning, the aroma of chicken stewed with mushrooms wafted out. Qi Bao took a sip of his saliva. How many.

Qi Bao went into the yard and picked two gherkins, a handful of coriander and a shallot, washed and shredded.There were two pieces of dried tofu that Grandma Zhou bought last night, and she took a basket and hung them in the well.Tofu is not a good thing to put away. If there is little cooking in this season, it will go bad after a day, so the tofu producers in this village have turned off their fire at this time.

The dried tofu was brought by someone else when they went to the county the day before. I stewed some last night, and there are two sheets left to make cold dishes today.Qi Bao took it out and smelled it. Fortunately, there was no peculiar smell. It seems that the natural refrigerators written in those novels are quite useful.

Cut the dried tofu into shreds, put them in a clay pot, put cucumber shreds on top, shredded parsley, shredded green onion, minced garlic, a spoonful of salt, a spoonful of aniseed powder, and a spoonful of chili powder. A little vinegar, stir well.Qi Bao scooped up a large chopsticks, um, rated himself an eight out of [-], in fact, it would be better if he put some sugar in it, but Grandma Zhou would not agree, so forget it, fortunately, it doesn’t affect the taste very much .

A table, four people, two dishes, really can't be called rich, but they are all family members, and the big pot of vegetables is the most affordable.

Grandma Zhou also generously poured homemade rice wine for Father Zhou. In the past, he only allowed Father Zhou to drink a glass during the New Year's Eve.

"Why is your nanny so generous today? It's really not easy." Father Zhou teased with a smile. Usually, if he can take a sip, he will be in a particularly good mood.

Grandma Zhou glared at her men reproachfully, "Hey! You can't stop your mouth if you eat or drink." The two younger ones laughed loudly, and Father Zhou blushed, took a sip of his wine and giggled.

It's not such a rare reunion dinner, but Zhou Lao has been living in the mountains for a while, and he has been away for a while, so the meal everyone ate had a taste of reunion after a long absence.

This summer, Qi Bao's family picked two sacks of hazelnuts, which weighed five catties, and collected about ten catties from the villagers, all of which had passed through the water and turned into pulp.

I dried it myself again. After drying, there were about two catties of hazel mushrooms, three and a half catties of pine tree umbrellas, and a kind of dusty mushroom called gray mushroom, which was very fragile when touched. There was also a catty. about.Fortunately, gray mushrooms are quite easy to preserve after being dried, otherwise Qi Bao would never have asked Zhou Tao to pick them.The villagers below Mushroom also sent a lot, Qi Bao saw that the appearance was good, so he asked Zhou Tao to stay, anyway, the family was not short of the money.

Since Qi Bao was injured the first time he went up the mountain alone with Zhou Tao, he was restricted in his movements, so every time he saw Zhou Taoxing rushing up the mountain and coming back, he couldn't help but find fault with all kinds of things.Naturally, Zhou Tao just ignored him.

"Mommy, pack five catties of hazel mushrooms and pine tree umbrellas, put them in clean white cloth bags, and keep them for me. Leave me another five catties of hazelnuts, and let Taozi pick out the ugly ones. I want to give them away as favors." of."

Grandma Zhou responded with a "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs" and asked: "Is it for the merchants who come and go? Is it a little short, do you want to prepare something else?"

Qi Bao thinks about it too, after all, it's his elder brother's family, so it's a bit shabby to just give these things.But he didn't want to get too involved with his elder brother, and he wasn't born to a grandma. The eldest brother of the Qi family is doing well in the capital, and he is doing well in this small mountain village, so why bother? If you want to get involved together, you don't feel too tired to panic.

Forget it, Qi's father is still good to him, but he always feels that he owes his eldest son, so he thinks it is for his father.Now Boss Qi took the initiative to show his favor, saying that he had only settled down a few years ago, and he was so busy that he didn't care about his little brother. Now everything is going well, and he has time to think about his little brother.

The eldest brother of the Qi family spoke in and out of his heartache and helplessness when he left such a young brother alone in such a small corner. Qi Bao really didn't like it. He only gave such a small gift, as if he was living in a miserable life. .

Although life is a bit shabby, Qi Bao took a look at the furnishings in his house, at first glance, it is not as good as when Qi Lao was alive, it is really shabby.

Qi Bao seriously reflected for a day, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have the tendency to become Grandet.He is rich, absolutely sure, there is a secret cave in the back of his house, and the cave is full of silver, white flowers.Except for him and Zhou Tao, no one knew that it was all the money he had earned over the years.

At first, because he thought it was too eye-catching, he didn't dare to spend it with silver, but instead let Zhou Tao quietly exchange it for bags of copper coins outside.

The world has not been very peaceful these years, his small mountain village is relatively safe, when his grandma and grandpa passed away one after another, in fact, the family didn't have much idle money.Father Qi is a charitable person, and he often does some good deeds on weekdays, and there is not much money left in the family.Fortunately, Father Qi did not live up to his title as a landlord, and the family had a lot of land. After the second elder was buried, Qi Bao really lived well relying on the land.

Later, the world gradually stabilized, and there was a tax reduction and exemption policy, so Qi Bao gradually saved some money.He still understood the principle that money begets money, and because of his paranoia about land and forests, he took this opportunity to buy several nearby forests.

Qi Bao regretted his impulsiveness at first, but after thinking about it, it was a mountainous area anyway, so why not just plant fruit trees.Whether you eat it yourself, sell it, or give it away, it’s not easy to leave such a large mountain forest idle.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Tao was so capable that he sold the apples, pears, and apricots to the capital and the northwest.This beating is talent. As a lazy leader, the employees actually rely on one or two of your assumptions and a few "famous quotes" that pop up from time to time to do this. Qi Bao said that the real thing Couldn't be more satisfied.

"Mommy, do you still have the green apricots I pickled in spring? I remember I pickled them in several jars, but I didn't eat them much afterwards. Do you still have them?"

"Also, apricot hurts people. It's not good to eat too much. I hid it all, but I forgot about it later. Remember, there are still three or four jars."

"Well, if there are enough four jars, prepare four jars, if not enough, two jars are fine."

"Okay, then I'll go to the cellar and show you."

"Mommy, where's Taozi? Why is there no one in the early morning?"

"I took a piece of pancake in my mouth and ran away in the morning. I didn't quite understand when I said that I was going to the village to do nothing."

Qi Bao fiddled with the mushrooms that had been broken into small pieces and dried on the ground, and after a while about the things that Zhou Tao was asked to do recently, there was really nothing that needed to be done in the village. Could it be because of that brother from the Xu family?

Grandma Zhou moved two jars out of the cellar, then turned back, and moved two more out. The ladder in the cellar couldn't resist Qi Bao's stepping on it, and Qi Bao was very sensible and didn't try to help.

"Bao'er, there are still five jars. Our family left one jar, and I will bring the remaining four for you."

"Hey, thank you Mammy. Hey Mammy. Did you hear that someone else has something to do?" Qi Baozhuang asked indifferently.

"It seems that Xu Shui's family is going to build two additional houses. Didn't Xu Shui get two pieces of money as a helper in the county this spring? He is also old enough to marry a brother. It's okay for a family of three to squeeze into a thatched house. It looks like his brother is not young anymore, it's time to tidy up the house."

"Twice the money is enough to build a house." Qi Bao echoed, thinking to himself, why didn't I hear that someone came to his house to buy trees and build a house recently? The small Zhou Tao, why dare to hide this from him? Be the young master.It must have been sold to others cheaply, but I am embarrassed to say that I filled it with my own money.

In order to chase a brother, it is not easy for him.

Qi Bao has never treated Zhou Tao badly, so Zhou Tao has saved a lot of money for his wife, but now the wife has already spent some of it before he can say anything.Although Qi Bao and Zhou Tao don't care about such a small amount of money, they can't make people take advantage of them like this.

With nothing to do left and right, Grandma Zhou was fiddling with the work in her hand, while chatting with Qi Bao about the gossip in the village. "Speaking of which, the two younger ones of the Xu family are also pitiful. The Xu family is early, and his father Xu is also a good wine, and the little money in the crop field is not enough for him to drink a few cups. It is also true that the two dolls of the Xu family are both good. Xu Shuiding went around looking for work to support his little brother when he was a little older, and Xu Miao was also good. A few sentences. If it wasn't for such a father, the Xu family boy would have been able to make a kiss, and I am afraid that his father will drag the family down!"

Grandma Zhou sighed while talking, but what Grandma Zhou said was light.It wouldn't be the case if that old man Xu was only greedy for things in his cup, but this man gradually became addicted to gambling.This country family, how can there be any relationship with that word, once it is attached, it will be impossible for a child to fill in, it is a crime!

Xu Miao is capable, unlike his brother who only knows how to work hard to support his unsatisfactory father.Xu Miao hid all the money his brother earned every day, and did not restrict his father to go around, but told people that if his father borrowed money from outside, the two brothers would not be responsible for repaying it. If he was killed or wounded, his father's life would be taken if he wasn't afraid of losing money.

There are those who don't believe in evil and dare to lend money to Xu's father. When they go to Xu's house to collect debts, Xu Miao beats them out with a broom. For the younger brother, only give the money to the younger brother. If someone asks for a debt, as long as the younger brother is not bullied, he will not go forward.How can anyone really have the nerve to fight with a brother.

After going back and forth like this, no one would dare to lend money to Father Xu.Father Xu still has a bit of conscience, and he didn't dare to go to the county to find those loan sharks to borrow money, so it didn't cause any serious trouble.

Although Xu's family has only three people, there is not much land. When Xu Miao was not in charge of the family in the first few years, he only relied on Xu Shui to do some part-time jobs day and night to subsidize the family. The two brothers did not starve to death. Naturally, I can't save much money either.Now that Xu Miao is in charge of the house and has spare money, it is natural to make arrangements to build a house.His brother is already eighteen, but he hasn't even decided on a relationship.

After building a house, no matter how strict I am, I believe that my father can't do anything too outrageous.After having a brother, who is in charge of the house, naturally only the stricter ones will be taken care of.I am also twelve, and I will go out in three or two years. I believe my brother will not be too hard on myself.

The elder brother is honest and honest, he must be a strong brother to be able to subdue daddy, and a strong brother will naturally not be able to tolerate the elder brother who is in charge of the family, Xu Miao thought very clearly.

Don't talk about Xu Miao, just Qi Bao heard what Grandma Zhou said, but she could tell that Grandma Zhou still liked Xu Miao in her heart.From this point of view, Zhou Tao's matter is not difficult.