The rise of the poor

Chapter 165
In the early morning, the sun is like a shy girl, opening up the morning light in the east, slowly revealing her red face, shyly shedding golden rays of light.Xiahe Village had just woken up from the morning mist, and Zhu Ping'an's house was already bustling.

Today is the time when Zhu Ping'an's house holds a water banquet. Grandparents, uncles and uncles all came to help. The aunt and Zhu Pingjun also came, but the uncle who just came home the day before yesterday did not come. I heard from my grandfather that he was studying at home. .The uncle didn't come, but the mother Chen breathed a sigh of relief, it would be better if she didn't come, and she was upset when she came.

It is not so simple to hold a flowing water banquet in the countryside. Although the villagers only come to the table at noon, they need to prepare one day in advance. The ingredients, venue, tables, chairs, benches, bowls, spoons and chopsticks all need to be prepared one day in advance.When my father came back from the town yesterday, he bought a lot of vegetables and fruits. In the afternoon, he asked the butcher in the village to deal with a big fat pig at home, and sold it to the butcher. The remaining pork was kept for tomorrow. It was used for a running water feast, and some meat was given to the neighbors and grandfather's house.

In addition, the eldest brother Zhu Pingchuan picked a lot of fungus, mushrooms and other fungi from the mountains, and he also caught a lot of big fat fish, enough for each table. There are also eight hares, which are not bad enough. Add another meat dish to each table.

Early this morning, my grandfather packed up neatly and brought the people from the old house over to help, picking vegetables, washing dishes, etc., and he was busy all morning.Although mother Chen didn't say anything, she looked at her grandparents with much warmer eyes.

At about nine o'clock, women who are familiar with their mother Chen came from home with fruits and vegetables. After a few days, I rolled up my sleeves to help Mrs. Chen pick and wash vegetables, and do some kitchen work, feeling happy and harmonious.

Zhu Ping'an went to Shanghe Village early in the morning, but his mentor still didn't come back.When I got home, the house was already very lively. In the village, there is a kitchen head who specializes in this kind of banquet, that is, a cook. The kitchen head of Shanghe Village is Liu Dalou, who is famous for his cooking. Ten miles and eight villages Everyone loves to find him, and now he is leading a few boys in the family busy with clay pots, cutting meat and handling ingredients, looking very professional.

It was almost noon.Villagers came to Zhu's house to have a banquet one after another, and most of the village was empty.Sitting is the word of the villagers, "a banquet is also a banquet".Banquet and feast, two names and one thing.Because of the large number of people, Zhu Ping'an's yard couldn't sit down, and the big guys put the water banquet on the open space outside the door, and there was a lot of people talking.

"Oh, your second primary school is doing well."

"Your old Zhu's family is smoking from the ancestral grave this time."

"I was only 13 years old and took the exam for a scholar. It's really amazing. In a few years, I will come back with a champion."

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Whenever Zhu's family passed by, the villagers always expressed a word or two of envy or jealousy.

Ever since, mother Chen became the happiest person today, with a feeling of elation, and her face was rosy and radiant all day long.

Mo Xiao's farmhouse is full of wine and drunk, and he stays with chicken and dolphin in good years.

The Zhu family's flowing water banquet today has a lot of dishes, especially meat dishes, such as fish and pork.Rabbit meat, mutton, and fish meat were placed on the table in different ways. Villagers were only willing to eat meat during the New Year and holidays. They hadn’t eaten meat for more than half a month. Now Zhu Ping’an can open his stomach and eat them deliciously. No, the banquet organized by Zhu Ping'an's family was full of thumbs up, which made the mother Chen's face even more radiant.

Grandfather also felt that he had more face. In this flowing water feast, he sat with Li Zheng and the village elders. Not only that, Li Zheng and the village elders also praised Mr. Zhu a lot. This sourness directly made grandfather almost All drunk.

A water feast.We ate until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone was happy.

Standing outside the door with his grandfather and father, Zhu Ping'an saw off the villagers one by one.Mother Chen greeted her acquainted neighbors at home, and divided the dishes that had not been touched by chopsticks, as well as the lettuce ingredients one by one, and asked the neighbors to serve them in bowls.This is the habit of holding banquets in the village. No one will feel slighted, but will be happy.

It wasn't until the sun was setting that Zhu Ping'an's family restored the courtyard to the appearance that there was no running water feast.

In the evening, Zhu Pingan took out the book he had borrowed from Li's family last time, and copied down the last part that was not finished.

The next day, after breakfast, Zhu Pingan walked to Shanghe Village with his schoolbag on his shoulders.I plan to return the book to Li's house, and then borrow two more.

This time, as soon as he knocked on the door, Uncle Li, the concierge, opened the door. It is probably because the rich man Li came back, and Uncle Li, the concierge, started to do his duty again.

"Master Xiao Zhu is here to borrow books again, fast forward, fast forward."

Hearing the indecent address of the concierge Uncle Li, Zhu Pingan could only smile wryly and arch his hands into the door.

The study room was different from the past. When Zhu Ping'an entered the study room, there were already many people in the study room. It wasn't the black-bellied girls, but more than ten smart-looking accountants.They sat on three tables, and there were four or five people on each table. Some had abacuses, some read accounts, and some took records. They performed their duties, and the whole study room was filled with the sound of dialing abacus.

Rich man Li fidgeted restlessly, and went to a table to look at it from time to time.

When Zhu Pingan came in, he didn't have the nerve to bother them. He bowed his hands to rich man Li from a distance, took out the book from his school bag, and signaled that he was here to return the book.

The rich man Li was so anxious that he just waved his hand casually, signaling Zhu Pingan to take care of himself.

So, Zhu Pingan quietly bypassed the accountants who dialed the abacus to check the accounts, went to the rows of bookshelves, and put the books back in their original places.Then, he stood in front of the bookshelf, looking for the books he borrowed this time.

The Four Books and Five Classics are almost gone through, this time I am going to borrow a miscellaneous book to read.

Zhu Pingan was aimlessly behind the bookshelf, flipping through one by one, and when he saw a book he was slightly interested in, he stopped to read it for a while, and then read the next one.

The sound of crackling and dialing the abacus outside is still the same, and it has hardly stopped. The accountant in charge of checking the accounts is miserable. It has been checking the accounts for three days in a row. Except for sleeping for a while at night, basically he has not had much rest. What's the problem, rich man Li urged them urgently, which made these accountants even more exhausted.

While Zhu Ping'an was flipping through the books, the black-bellied girl led the steamed stuffed maid into the study, followed by two old women.

"Daddy, did you find out?"

The black-bellied girl asked as soon as she entered the door.

"Shu'er, why are you here? The study is too hot. How nice it is to stay in your room. Daddy asked someone to deliver two more basins of ice to your room." The rich man Li saw that his precious lump had entered the study, and he didn't even care about the books. Incredible.

"Daddy, I'm not hot, did the account book find out something wrong?" Li Shu twisted her body twice, pouted and asked.

"Cough, cough, hurry up." Rich Man Li coaxed.

"It's coming soon again, you said that yesterday, but it hasn't been found out yet... Today is..." Li Shu's pursed mouth could hold a bottle of oil.

"You should check the accounts quickly, and you are not slow when collecting money."

Seeing that his baby Pidao was angry, rich man Li also became a little anxious, and turned to rush the accountant with three desks behind him.

(End of this chapter)