Chapter 147

The lieutenant was about to leave when he turned around and met Man Bao's eyes. He couldn't help but stop and asked, "Is this your little girl?"

Man Bao raised his small face and smiled sweetly at him, and Li Chang also subconsciously smiled.

Old Zhou Tou complied with his heart, pulled Man Bao over, and said in a low voice, "Call Grandpa Li Chang quickly."

Man Bao cried out in a crisp voice: "Hello, Grandpa Li Chang!"

Li Chang couldn't help but smile, the folds were all piled up, he stretched out his dry hands, touched her little head and smiled: "Okay, okay..."

The chief left with someone and went to the next house to collect money. Man Bao touched his little head, raised his head and asked her father, "Why does everyone like to touch my head?"

Man Bao's hair was fluffy. Because the weather was going to be cold, she hadn't shaved her head for several months. At this time, her hair was about to cover her ears, and it was fluffy. When Lao Zhoutou heard this, he touched her head and smiled. Said: "Because we are full of cute babies."

Man Bao was happy now, raised a smile and turned around to say goodbye to Thursday.

Chu Chulang took all his clothes, Xiao Qian Shi also made two pairs of thick shoes for him, and Man Bao packed him a bag of candy and said, "Fourth brother, if you're hungry, eat it. Tang, don't worry, tomorrow I will let the big brothers find you and cook broth for you, but I think ginger soup is better than broth, so let's cook ginger soup for you."

"No!" Thursday Lang said without thinking: "Third brother still has broth to drink, but I can only drink ginger soup?"

It's not that he hasn't drank before, and it doesn't taste good at all.

Man Bao coaxed him like a child, "Fourth brother, ginger soup is to ward off the cold. The elder brother said that you have to stand in the water to build a dam, and ginger is more expensive than meat."

Thursday Lang: "I just like to eat cheap, not expensive."

Man Bao pondered the taste of the ginger soup, and nodded in agreement. What a coincidence, so did she.

On the same day, Thursday Lang will gather to go to Jiangding Village with other strong men in the village. It is said that the county government has already purchased a batch of materials, and construction will start tomorrow.

Jiangding Village is not very far from Qili Village, at least a little closer than going to the county seat, but it is in the opposite direction from the county seat, and it takes about four quarters to go up along the water flow.

Qili Village is a small village with only about 60 households, so the head of the li is from Dali Village, who manages the 60 or so households here, and also manages the 30 or so households in Dali Village, which is a big village. There are only two in the light, so the large collections of several nearby villages will be placed in Dali Village.

The situation in Jiangding Village and Dali Village is similar. There are more than 100 households in the village, and they are directly managed by a li chief, and several small villages nearby are also used to go to market in Jiangding Village to do business.

Zhou Dalang and Tuesday Lang went to see the broken dam in advance. It happened to be three miles upstream of Jiangding Village. There was no one there, and naturally no one sold anything.

But on Tuesday, Lang felt that if they set up their stall here, someone would definitely follow, because it was too close to Jiangding Village.

By then, they probably won't have the upper hand.

So the brothers discussed it and decided to build a grass shed not far from the river bank, which would not only make it easier to do business, but also take up a place, and even sleep here at night to guard things.

It's not very cold now, they think it's fine.

The brothers who have done the Laoding business once are all very confident in this business, so they are not as constrained as the previous year.

Old Zhoutou and Qian Shi didn't stop him and let them go.

So Man Bao brought Wu Wulang to discuss with Zhou Dalang, "Brother, ginger soup is better than meat soup, do you want to cook some, we will sell it to you cheaply."

Zhou Dalang was surprised, "We still have to buy it."

"Of course," Man Bao said as a matter of course: "The fourth brother still owes the family money. If you don't buy it, if all the ginger in the field is eaten up, what will he use to pay back the money?"

Zhou Dalang thought for a while and felt that what she said made sense. Thinking that it would not take much ginger to cook a pot of ginger soup, he nodded and said, "Okay, how much do you sell to us?"

"I asked the fourth brother, and he said 30 wen would be enough."

Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang had no opinion at all. Anyway, the money was given to the fourth child, and the fourth child still had to give it to the family, so they just changed hands.

So don't say thirty, forty will do.

As for the money in the hands of the fifth and the others... Zhou Dalang looked around, picked up Man Bao, and asked in a low voice, "Man Bao, tell eldest brother how much money the fifth has saved with you?"

Man Bao covered his mouth and whispered, "I promised them I won't tell you."

"You tell eldest brother quietly, eldest brother doesn't tell."

Man Bao couldn't help but took his hand down and said, "Sir said it, it's not a secret if the secret passes the third person's ear, so I won't tell you."

Zhou Dalang: "..."

If you don't tell it, don't tell it, anyway, it will only take him a year or two to know.

The reason why Zhou Dalang wanted to know the money saved by Wuwulang and the others was because the old Zhoutou had said that after the labor service was over, the family would build a new house, and they would start talking to the fourth child.

After all, he was married, so he could take on the responsibility of a family by marrying a wife.

This year has been unexpectedly smooth, and the family is making money much faster than in previous years, so there is still money to build a house, but the money for the fourth-in-law may be a little worse.

Zhou Dalang thought about these things, and went to Jiangding Village with Zhou Dalang and Wednesday Lang to occupy a place, simply set up a grass hut, and then planned to open it.

The people who bought their soups and vegetables in the service last year knew what they were doing, but a large percentage didn't.

Including the yamen who came to supervise the work, they came up and asked curiously. They heard that Zhou Dalang was going to do business here.

Zhou Dalang smiled and said: "It's just for everyone to drink hot soup, it's not worth a few dollars, it's going to be cold today, and everyone is standing in the water again, so I cook some broth, and ginger soup will ward off the cold for everyone. , my brother is also inside."

"Oh? Which is it?"

Zhou Dalang pointed Thursday to them, and the yamen couldn't help laughing when they saw it, "This glib boy turns out to be your brother. I know him well. During this time, he often runs to our place to sell ginger, why? You have so much ginger that you can't finish it, and you still bring it here to make soup?"

The main selling places of Thursullang were the officials' community near the county government office, and the wealthy community next door. He wandered in these two places almost every day, and the officials of the government office knew him of course.

Although they don't live there, they work there. Those two places are also the main patrol places, okay?

So after coming and going, they not only knew each other, but also became acquainted.

Thursday Lang is very eloquent. He has been known as a brother during this time, so when he came to serve and met these acquaintances, he was directly arranged to carry stones and shovel dirt on the shore.