Chapter 17: Thinking about the rich man's dog
Li Dazhu was carrying a load and was afraid of showing off again, so he never entered the town along the way! He slept in the open all the way, spent money to buy some food after passing the village, and walked all the way to Shangcai, bought some dry food in Shangcai City, and entered Huaiyang City five days later.
"You're home now! Have a good meal at noon and you can get to our county town when it's dark." Li Dazhu said happily.
Stepping into Huaiyang City, I passed by Shangxiang City God Temple! People are surging here, and the people who burn incense and worship gods are coming in and out of the City God Temple. There are also a few old beggars begging for food, wearing tattered clothes, and asking for food.
After passing Chenghuang Temple and entering the county town, the county town was very lively! When you walk to the street, you smell the fragrance of Hula soup and braised noodles.
"Date! Just-cut dates." Some people put the dates they cut from trees in baskets and were hawking at passers-by along the way.
"I want to eat mutton soup noodles! Drink a bowl of hot soup." Guo Xiaowu said, swallowing his saliva.
"Okay!" Li Dazhu carried a load and squeezed into the crowd in the market.
"Fresh water fried bread, hot soup!"
"Do you want to weigh a few pounds of cucumbers? Mahua will go back to try it for the younger ones!?"
"Candy haws skewers..."
"How much does a pound of cabbage cost??" "One cent per pound!" "One cent per pound"
There were people coming and going in the shop, shouting and hawking at the market, and asking for advice and bargaining.
Li Dazhu and Guo Xiaowu sat down at a mutton soup noodle restaurant! After putting down the load, Li Dazhu ordered two bowls of mutton noodles and two kilograms of oil cakes.
"Brother Dazhu, I want to eat sesame cakes." Guo Xiaowu looked at the sesame cake stall next to the noodle restaurant and swallowed.
The sesame cakes are made of charcoal fire, and the grilled food is burnt. The layer of sesame seeds sprinkled on the sesame cakes adds a unique flavor to the sesame cakes, and they are full of fragrance when eaten.
"Boss! Come and have two sesame cakes." Li Dazhu shouted.
The two of them had a bowl of stewed noodles with a big head, and the oil cakes and sentries were delicious.
After dinner, Li Dazhu settled the bill and the two continued to rush! They started walking from noon until the sun sets until they entered Taikang County. The two of them walked one by one for three hours without stopping.
The more I get to the door of my house, the more urgent the feeling of seeing my loved ones.
"I'm here in the county town! I don't know how my third brother is?" Guo Xiaowu called out his third brother and said worriedly. He remembered that when he was in the army three months ago, the third brother was locked in a cell for killing a bully.
"I think it's very difficult to come out! If you want to save your third brother, please go home first and discuss it with your parents before making plans." Li Dazhu said.
"You are right! I have money now, so I'll go home now." Guo Xiaowu said anxiously.
"Don't eat dinner anymore? Let's not enter the county town?" Li Dazhu asked.
"It's only a dozen miles away from the county town. I remember when I walked, I said that I was executed after the autumn! I don't want to delay my third brother's life." Guo Xiaowu said, and walked around the road in the county town and headed back to the village.
"My house is still far away. You can only go back after entering the county town! That's the best. I'll send you home. It's not too late to go back tomorrow morning, so I can ask for a drink at your house." Li Dazhu followed Guo Xiaowu's footsteps.
"Brother Dazhu is tired? I'll pick a while when I get home soon." Guo Xiaowu turned around and said with concern.
"No, you can't pick it! It's more than ten miles to get tired of you, so it's more important for us to hurry up." Li Dazhu waved his hand and refused with a smile.
"Then I'll win. I'll give the money to my parents when I get home and I'll send it to Director Dong early in the morning." Guo Xiaowu made up his mind.
"You have thought about it, this is your life-long money! It's okay to use this money to marry a wife and build a new house to live a prosperous life for two years." Li Dazhu persuaded.
"Brother Dazhu is right, but my third and fourth brothers are not married yet? I can walk ahead of them, and it will be like my third and fourth brothers who are very unpromising." Guo Xiaowu responded.
"Hey! It would be great if I had a brother, so I felt relieved if I got the money for him to spend it." Li Dazhu envied.
"My brother is very nice to me, Brother Dazhu! I will be your brother from now on." Guo Xiaowu patted his chest and said.
"Zhong! We are also friends in times of distress. If you don't have enough money to save your third brother, you can tell me. If life is not easy in the future, we will join you in two years and bring you." Li Dazhu promised.
"This is what Brother Dazhu said. I'm not afraid that my fault will implicate you." Guo Xiaowu responded.
"What's the matter? We have proved that you are a man when we were on the road, and I can prove this." Li Dazhu said.
"Hehe, I said that I'm braver! Aren't you asking my father to calculate the fortune of the year? It's a chance to stay at my house tonight." Guo Xiaowu said.
"Yes, I'll forget if you don't mention it! These days are getting worse and worse." Li Dazhu shook his head and said.
While the two were chatting, they walked through villages! When passing by Wangjia Village near Guolouzi Village, Guo Xiaowu paused and looked at the village: "The son of the King and the rich man had a dog, and he bit my butt two years ago! Fortunately, my fourth brother bumped into it and broke the rich man's head with a stick.
I want to go over and see if the dog is still alive?”
"What do you want to do?" Li Dazhu asked for a moment of fright.
"I want to use a gun to break the dog. I will meet me when I look for my fourth brother in the future." Guo Xiaowu gritted his teeth.
"You are very revenge! Your fourth brother almost beat the little rich man to death with one stick. If your fourth brother hadn't been the livelihood of the King of the rich man, he would probably have spared him. That night, he practiced family rules and stripped off your fourth brother, tied them to a wooden stake and whipped thirty whips. Forget this, if you are angry, there will be a chance in the future." Li Dazhu advised.
"I will never spare that dog." Guo Xiaowu grinned and continued to rush forward with unwillingness.
Guolouzi Village is not big, with only about twenty families! It was moved by a former nobleman. There were seven or eight brothers from his ancestors, and they developed through branches and leaves. Now there are hundreds of people.
After writing to three generations, the old Guo family once had a high-ranking official! It is said that he was a third-rank governor and was considered a rank of officials.
As the saying goes, wealth is only three generations. Guo Xiaowu's ancestor is the youngest, and he is a gambler by nature and has many wives and concubines! After losing his family business, he brought his descendants back to this ancestral home. In more than 40 years, he developed into a village.
The prodigal Zu is still alive. There is a big willow tree on the street in the village. The old man, who is already in his seventies or eighties, likes to lie under this willow tree and smokes a cigarette pot. The chair shaking and enjoys the rest of his life.
Li Dazhu, other people in Guolouzi Village, may not have an impression of him, but I remember clearly the old man! When I was having nothing to do, I could feel his free and unruly life when I was young.
Chapter completed!