Farmhouse Stone Mountain

Shi Shan swaggered into the bullock cart with the little pumpkin, and along the way there were some people who wanted to take the bullock cart to the town. Shi Shan didn't even lift his eyes, but the little pumpkin tugged at the hem of his clothes.

"Father, it's Aunt Erleng"

When Shi Shan took a look, he saw that it was the stunned daughter-in-law on Tuesday who he gave a rough steamed bun when he took the little pumpkin to dig out the bird's eggs, and there were two or three people who were going to town together standing beside her.

Shi Shan called them to get on the bus.

Several people saw Shi Shan obviously hesitated for a while.

"Master, hurry up!" Shi Shan saw a few people push me and push you, if they can't get on, then forget it.

Seeing that the ox cart was about to leave, it was Tuesday Leng's daughter-in-law who took the lead and hurried into the cart.

When they get in the car, they don't sit next to Shishan, but they are far away. Shishan sees that they have more or less brought things to sell, like Erleng's daughter-in-law, who only takes shoe samples, which can be exchanged for some money.

Shi Shan talked to Erleng's daughter-in-law next to her, "Sister, how often do you go to town?"

"The shoes at home look like I have saved up, and I usually go once a month to buy some brown rice for home use." Erleng's daughter-in-law heard Shi Shan talking to her, and after a moment, she opened the cloth covering the basket. There are more than a dozen pairs of shoes.

"If you have time, you can also make a few pairs. I'll help you take them to the town and sell them together, and save money on oxcarts." Erleng's wife saw that Shishan was really different from before, and she wanted to help him, but she didn't Trouble.

How could he, a big man, be able to embroider!Shi Shan shook his head, "How can I do this as a man?" He had only graduated from university for more than a year when he crossed over, and if he was to say what he would do, he couldn't do anything at all.

"What can't be done like this is less money and more beautiful patterns."

Shi Shan smiled, not intending to continue this topic.

Erleng's daughter-in-law also covered the cloth again.

The ox cart stopped at the entrance of Hexi Town, and the master who drove the ox cart rubbed his hands and took the agreed fifty Wen ox cart money with Shi Shan, flatteringly said: "Next time I want to ride an ox cart, I'll call him again."

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The daughter-in-law of Erleng separated from Shi Shan when she was going to sell flowers. Shi Shan walked in from the entrance of Hexi Town with a small pumpkin. There were many small stalls selling food, such as steamed stuffed buns, flatbreads, noodles, and soup. The vendors shouted loudly. Shout out, the town is fairly big, with restaurants, cloth shops, and rice shops.

Shi Shan searched all the way, but only saw two pharmacies in the town, so he picked the bigger one to go in.

"Grasp the medicine or take the pulse?" the clerk at the pharmacy greeted.

"No, I want to ask if your pharmacy accepts this stuff." Shi Shan opened the small bag and spread it out in front of the clerk. The little pumpkin leaned against his feet and gnawed on the meat buns that Shi Shan bought for him just now.

The clerk saw that he was a drug seller, and glanced at the things in Shi Shan's hand, "Wait, I'll call our shopkeeper over here."

Thanks to Shishan's luck, there are only two pharmacies in Hexi Town, but Huo's pharmacy is the only one with reasonable prices, the shopkeeper's medical skills are good, and his reputation is excellent.

Shi Shan waited for a while, and saw that the cloth curtain at the counter was lifted, and an old man with white hair frowned, and looked at Shi Shan according to what the clerk said.

"Are you here to sell medicine? Show me." The white-haired old man was a little impatient in his words. He didn't know if Shi Shan interrupted him or what.

The clerk led people to introduce to Shi Shan, "This is the shopkeeper Huo of our shop."

"Ho"

Shi Shan only said one word, and the wild Gastrodia elata spread out in his hands was picked up by shopkeeper Huo and placed on the counter in front of him.

"The color is good. Be careful when digging, but it hasn't been dried in the sun, otherwise the price will be higher." The shopkeeper Huo was a little impatient at first, but after seeing the medicinal materials that Shi Shan brought, his breath calmed down, and he treated Shi Shan. Gastrodia is very satisfied.

"I want all four taels of silver." Shopkeeper Huo gave a price without asking the waiter to weigh it.

Shi Shan thought it would take more effort to sell it, but he didn't expect it to go so smoothly, so he quickly agreed.

Shopkeeper Huo asked the clerk to fetch the money, and told him that if there were any medicinal materials in the future, he could still send them to Huo's Pharmacy. Although Shi Shan agreed, he only knew this kind of medicinal materials.

"Please exchange some loose copper coins for me," Shi Shan said, "I need to buy some small things later."

Shopkeeper Huo collected the medicinal materials, exchanged some scattered copper plates for Shi Shan, told the staff to dry them, and then hurried to the counter and opened the cloth curtain to go in.

In the backyard of Huo's Pharmacy, on the black and white chessboard, the black chess is overpowering the white chess, and it will defeat the white chess in just a few moves.

"Junzhi, I've been waiting for a long time, I've been waiting for a long time." Shopkeeper Huo entered the room and greeted the people sitting on the chess table in the room, "Come on, come on, keep going, I must win a game today."

The man on the chess table has black hair in a blue robe, a black belt around his waist, and a transparent jade-white jade pendant. The buttons from his neck to his waist are tightly buttoned. Bookishness has the feeling of not being angry and self-prestige.

The man's bony fingers picked up a sunspot and dropped it on the chessboard with Shopkeeper Huo's excited expression.

The black piece landed, and the white piece was defeated. The shopkeeper Huo, who was holding the white piece, looked at the divided game on the board, and his expression fell down with excitement, "Can't you let my old man play a game? I played three games and I didn't win a game. No, another plate"

"I have something to say first, we have agreed that the third round has arrived, and we will come here today." The man's voice was a little heavy, and he got up while speaking. The hem of the blue robe showed ink-colored fine patterns, and there was a touch of luxury in the simplicity.

Shopkeeper Huo looked at the people who left, stared at the chessboard and complained, "If I had known it, I wouldn't have said that I would only play three games."

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Shi Shan, who sold Gastrodia elata, first went to buy two thick quilts, the design and color let the little pumpkin choose his favorite, and bought pots and pans, a small half bag of white rice, and weighed some seasonings and a catty of sauce elbow, see Little pumpkin Staring at the candied haws, he bought another bunch of candied haws. Shi Shan bit one and tasted it. It was much more sour than the modern ones. The sugar juice on the outside was black and the taste was mediocre.

Shi Shan handed the remaining candied haws to Little Pumpkin.

The things they bought were about the same, and the father and son found an ox cart to go home. When the driver came, he saw Shi Shan and his son greeting him to ride in his ox cart. Seeing Qian's changed face, the driver was unwilling to take his ox cart again, so he took another ox cart.

"Bah! What the hell!" the driver spit on the ground and cursed when he saw Shi Shan go away in another bullock cart.

It was nearly dusk when we arrived at Zhoujia Village. When Shi Shan came in with his things, Little Pumpkin followed behind and was still biting the bunch of candied haws.

Shi Shan told him to eat it quickly, otherwise the hawthorn in it would be very sour after being mashed, and he would buy it for him if he wanted to eat it later.

As soon as Shi Shan finished talking about the little pumpkin, he handed the last remaining one to Shi Shan's mouth, as stubborn as Shi Shan had given Shi Shan to eat cakes when he was in the broken thatched cottage.

Shi Shan bit half with complicated emotions, and fed the remaining half into the little pumpkin's mouth.

The father and son looked at each other and smiled, enjoying this warm time, but it was suddenly interrupted.

"You bastard! You don't know how to behave! You have a good life, but let's forget about reconciliation, and exchanged three acres of land for the Zhou family's cubs. You want ten taels of silver for three acres of land? Why don't you find a piece of money if you are so stupid?" Forget it if you hit him and die!" A chubby old mother who was about the same age as Zhao's rushed in and scolded Shi Shan.

This old mother is Mao Xiding, a good sister from Shishan's mother Gu's village. After Shishan's mother passed away, Shishan's father immediately married another one. It must be difficult for the stepmother to enter Shishan. His father also watched He became more and more displeasing to the eye, and hurriedly found him a husband's family and married him, saying that the married son was the water that was thrown out, and told him not to come back in the future. I haven't seen anyone from the Shi family come to see him for so many years After crossing the stone mountain, only this Aunt Mao also took care of him in private, but the distant water could not save the nearby fire. Aunt Mao's village was some distance from Zhoujia Village, so she only came to see him during the New Year's holidays.

"Aunt Mao," Shi Shan called out.

"Come on, come with me to return He Li's book." Aunt Mao went up to Lashishan without saying a word.

"Hey, wait"

This strength is not ordinary, pulling Shishan is like carrying a little chicken, it was the little pumpkin who jumped over and hugged Aunt Mao's leg to make Aunt Mao stop.

Aunt Mao looked at the cub at her feet, and then let go of Shi Shan after a while, "You are now out of the house, and you still have a cub, tell me how you live! Don't worry, last time I fell my head and thought you would be safe." You said, Shi Shan, what kind of trouble do you have to make to live a peaceful life!" Aunt Mao scolded with a hint of crying, stomping her feet as if shaking the ground.

When Shi Shan came here, many people pointed his nose and scolded him, but at this moment, he could tell that the chubby man in front of him was doing it for his own good.

Shi Shan poured a bowl of water out of a new bowl he bought and handed it to her, bared his white teeth and said with a smile, "Aunt Mao, drink water, I really can't stay at Zhou's house this week, not to mention how comfortable it is to be quiet now."

Aunt Mao was out of breath just now, and now she took a good look at Shishan when she heard this. In the past, the only person who only knew how to cry was tidied up, and she looked different from before. She was more energetic, so her tone eased. "If you know how to check, why would you make such a fuss?"

Shi Shan welcomed the man into the house, and after drinking a bowl of water, Aunt Mao finally let go of her anger. Knowing that Shi Shan lived in this dilapidated house that cost [-] Wen for a month, she jumped up and asked Shi Shan to return the money. , living in this shabby thatched cottage can cost up to ten cents a month, isn't this a scam!

Shi Shan spread his hands, "There is no way, and only Li Zheng is willing to lend it to me because of his face. Twenty yuan is only twenty yuan. Money is something that people spend when they earn it."

Aunt Mao stomped her feet angrily. Aunt Mao had been there when Shi Shan was caught messing with people, but she only left a few taels of silver before being kicked out by Mrs. Zhao on the pretext that she was not related to the Zhou family. My aunt is from Lishui Village, and Lishui Village is the poorest among several villages in Hexi Town. People in Zhoujia Village naturally look down on her.

"This won't work, go and refund the money, and go back to Lishui Village with me, it's better than being raped by someone," Aunt Mao agreed.

"No, it's fine for me to live with Little Pumpkin"

Shi Shan was putting down the things he bought today, but when he heard this, he didn't say yes, and he remembered that it was not easy for Aunt Mao to get married in the early years.

"You have nowhere to go in Zhoujia Village now, and everyone doesn't like you, so come back to Lishui Village with me." Regardless of what Shi Shan said, Aunt Mao went to the house to collect Shi Shan's things in a hurry.

Shi Shan and her have been stubborn for a long time, but in the end they can only agree, but they will only stay for a month, but it is definitely not possible to leave at this time, and it will be until tomorrow.

Aunt Mao tidied up the house swiftly, and when she saw what Shi Shan had bought, she scolded him for wasting money. Shi Shan was washing the newly bought bowls to put the sauced pork knuckles he bought today. Meat dishes here are not cheap. He noticed it today when he was buying pork knuckles in sauce. They are more expensive than rice. Generally, the village is only willing to spend money on meat for meat dishes during the holidays. No wonder Aunt Mao started nagging again.

Aunt Mao searched around but couldn't find brown rice, only the white rice that Shishan bought today, nagging Shishan to buy brown rice in the future, white rice is too expensive and not worth eating.

Dinner is hot white rice porridge with sauced elbows and a pot of cabbage. Shi Shan swallowed it with his tongue. This is the first meal of meat in such a poor place. The chopsticks only hold cabbage to eat, and Shi Shan puts a piece of sauced elbow with less bone and more meat for him and puts it near his mouth.

"Come on, take a big bite, this piece has no bones"

The little pumpkin opened its mouth, Shi Shan was dissatisfied and "opened it bigger"

Little Pumpkin blushed, looked at Grandma Mao who was looking at her from the opposite side, and opened her mouth wider, a piece of fragrant elbow was fed into her mouth.

The final result was that the little pumpkin ate so much that his stomach became round. He was holding the bowl and licking the oily smell on the bowl. Shi Shan felt a little distressed looking at it.

“Want to eat more”

"No, save it for tomorrow. Daddy is big, so I need to eat more." The little pumpkin put down the bowl and lifted it with his small arms, picked up a piece of meat that he thought was the best in the bowl, gave it to Shi Shan, and then gave it to Aunt Mao took a piece.

Aunt Mao looked at the obedient little pumpkin and sighed, but didn't say anything more.

"From now on, Daddy will let you have meat to eat every day." Shi Shan touched the little pumpkin's head.