Chapter 29 Goodbye Zheng Tu
"Uncle Zheng!" Chen Mo sold not much. After selling his mother's girl and some chicken eggs, the rest was to buy some meat and make it into jerky. This winter was almost over, so the first thing Chen Mo thought of was Zheng Tu.
Zheng Tu turned his head to look at Chen Mo after hearing the sound: "You guy has grown a lot taller."
"I'll buy some meat." Chen Mo shook his money bag. This time, his mother's girl sold nine hundred yuan, and the income from chicken eggs was more than one thousand yuan. He planned to buy more meat back.
"What meat? How much do you want?" Uncle Zheng stood up and began to sharpen his knife.
"Ten kilograms of pork and mutton each." Chen Mo thought for a while, so much meat, air-dried and preserved, and the cold weather in winter, it should be late to the beginning of next year.
"Okay!" Uncle Zheng smiled and said, "You can wait here and I'll cut it for you."
"Thank you, Uncle Zheng." Chen Mo hesitated and said, "Uncle Zheng, have you ever seen Uncle Wang during this period?"
"He." Zheng Tu nodded and said, "Last month, I sent some fur and then walked north. What's wrong with him?"
"I don't know very well. Uncle Wang and Uncle Cai went out. When they came back, Uncle Cai died. Uncle Wang left a few days after he came back." Chen Mo did not say the troublesome Aunt Cai's family, which was considered a family scandal.
"Is that family surnamed Cai going to make trouble?" Zheng Tu sighed.
"Yes." Chen Mo hesitated for a moment, nodded, and looked at Uncle Zheng and said, "Uncle Zheng, is it Aunt Cai's fault?"
"What do you think?" Zheng Tu sighed while cutting the flesh neatly: "If you want to say something wrong, it is actually true. A woman dies and the sky falls. Do you still expect her to be reasonable? But with your Uncle Wang's personality, if you can save her, you will save her if you fight for her life. Sometimes, there is nothing right or wrong in this world."
"My mother said the same thing." Chen Mo nodded.
"I know, I'll ask." Zheng Tu grinned at Chen Mo and said, "Do you miss you Uncle Wang?"
"Well, when will he come back?" Chen Mo asked, "I think Aunt Cai is not that difficult to talk to now."
"This is unsure. Women usually don't make sense, especially when they feel that they have the right to do so." Zheng Tu smacked his lips and said, "Your name is Chen Mo, right?"
"Well, Uncle Zheng just needs to call me Ergou." Chen Mo nodded.
"Okay, Ergou, I'll give you a piece of advice today. From now on, stay away from those girls. This woman is a scraper. The more beautiful the woman is, the more she is, the more she will be. They will wipe out your ambition and courage." Zheng Tu's efforts to chop meat were obviously much stronger.
"Uncle Zheng, you won't have women, are you?" Chen Mo asked carefully. He remembered Uncle Wang said that Uncle Zheng had two wives, and they all died later.
"Yes, I don't have a wife, but I have three concubines, so I won't do anything big." Zheng Tu laughed.
"You have them?" Chen Mo looked at Zheng Tu in surprise. The child could cry when he saw this face. Chen Mo suddenly wanted to see the three concubines of Zheng Tu. How ugly are they?
"What do you mean?" Seeing that Chen Mo's eyes were wrong, Zheng Tu said in a bad mood: "My three concubines are so beautiful. If you don't believe it, you will take you back and have a look."
"No." Chen Mo quickly shook his head and denied: "I'm just curious, why didn't Uncle Zheng marry and only take concubines?"
"Hey, although you uncle, I am not a prominent family, my name is not small in the Xiaqiu area. In terms of family wealth, I am also considered a wealthy family. If I want to be my wife, I have to be a good family." Zheng Tu said proudly.
In these days, those who can be a butcher's family will not have bad conditions. They just died two wives in a row. Others think that he is defeated, and those who are of equal status do not want their daughter to marry him.
Chen Mo suddenly realized when he heard this, looked at Zheng Tu and said thoughtfully: "I don't want to marry you if I have a good family?"
"I originally wanted to cut you a few more taels, but now... forget it!" Zheng Tu glared at Chen Mo fiercely and ignored him.
Chen Mo: “…”
Although I never thought about taking advantage, I always felt that I had lost something.
"Okay." Looking at Chen Mo who stopped talking, Zheng Tu smiled and said, "Didn't you ask you about Uncle Wang just now? He probably won't be back for a while."
"Oh?" Chen Mo said in confusion after hearing this: "Uncle Zheng knows where Uncle Wang has gone?"
"I don't know the specific details. He went to join his former friend, but don't worry, as long as the family surnamed Cai is still here, he will definitely come back. Since he feels guilty, he will definitely try to make up for it. Besides, I think he treats you well and will definitely come back." Zheng Tu smiled.
"Uncle Zheng, are you very familiar with Uncle Wang?" Chen Mo looked at Zheng Tu curiously, feeling that the two shouldn't have any intersection.
"It's been many years." Zheng Tu said with a few memories: "We were only older than you back then. Maybe because of this, we were rejected by others, so we became a ranger in this area."
"Ranker?" Chen Mo looked at Zheng Tu curiously. This title sounded very touching.
"Well, I walk around on weekdays and make friends with heroes from all over the world. If I encounter unfair things, I will take care of them." Zheng Tu nodded.
"Then what do you eat on weekdays?" Chen Mo said inexplicably. If you don't farm, you can still live and moisten your life. How can they make a living on weekdays?
"Sometimes there will be some rewards for helping people solve problems, but not too much, and sometimes we won't want them. I have hundreds of acres of fertile land at home, and I have my own servants to farm on weekdays. This slaughterhouse is also a good life." Zheng Tu pointed to his slaughterhouse and said with a smile.
"Where is Uncle Wang?" Chen Mo said in surprise. Uncle Wang does not have the foundation of Zheng Tu.
"Your Uncle Wang is different from me. Although your family is poor, he is loyal and has good abilities. Therefore, everyone is willing to accept him. Although many years have passed, he is a bit famous in the entire Xuzhou area." Zheng Tu wrapped the chopped mutton and pork with leaves and handed it to Chen Mo and said, "I'll give it to you."
"This is not possible." Chen Mo shook his head, took out the coins from his bag and handed them to Zheng Tu according to the market price: "I came to buy meat, and I came here because I was close to Uncle Zheng. How could I ask for it for nothing?"
"I have some temperament. No wonder Lao Wang valued you so much." Zheng Tu didn't push it, took the coins, didn't count it, and threw it into the cash box next to him, looking at Chen Mo and said, "What, do you want to live here for a few more days? My family is quite big, so I can save you going to the inn when I move in."
"No, I came with the villagers and I will go back in the afternoon." Chen Mo shook his head and said, "Thank you, Uncle Zheng."
"That's fine, there are many people to take care of, and it's getting less and less peaceful recently." Zheng Tu put the knife on the knife holder and sighed.
"Uncle Zheng, I also want to ask why so many foreigners came from the south recently and were suffering from disasters in Jiangdong?" Chen Mo looked at Zheng Tu and asked. Chen Mo was not very clear about the concept of Jiangdong, but he also heard many people say that these refugees came from Jiangdong.
"I don't know very well. I heard that it was a great wise and good teacher who wanted to preach, and the scholars in this Jingyang land all ran north." Zheng Tu shook his head and said.
"All those are from the Taiping Sect?" Chen Mo frowned.
"It's probably." Zheng Tu nodded and said, "Ergou, have you messed with someone?"
"No... ..." Chen Mo originally wanted to say no, but he thought that he had a conflict with the people in the inn when he came to Xiaqiu last time, and had a conflict with the people from the Taiping Sect in the village, and even shot a person in the eyes blinded. He didn't say this without any confidence.
"Be careful, I saw a few people shaking around here just now, and my eyes kept looking here." Zheng Tu raised his eyelids and said. He had just invited Chen Mo to go back to his home, but he realized something was wrong.
Chen Mo was a little panicked when he heard this, and looked around, but he didn't see any problem.
"Silly boy, if someone wants to keep an eye on you, how could you find out so easily? Go back to my place first." Zheng Tu frowned.
"I... go home." Chen Mo shook his head. He was even more worried about his mother's safety at this time.
"Why are you so unaware of the matter?" Zheng Tu frowned.
"I'm worried about my mother." Chen Mo just shook his head.
Zheng Tu was stunned when he heard this, then sighed without stopping him. After all, he just met twice and invited him home. Although there were reasons why he liked this child, it was more important to look at Wang Biao. Since Chen Mo insisted, he would not talk much.
"Be careful, it's not peaceful recently, and there are many more outlaws. Holding this knife, it may be possible to save your life at critical moments." Uncle Wang took a sharp knife about a foot long from the knife holder and handed it to Chen Mo.
"Thank you, Uncle Zheng." Chen Mo did not refuse this time, took the knife obediently, took another piece of pig skin, wrapped it in his arms, and said goodbye to Zheng Tu.
"How come even a child can be targeted in this world?" Seeing Chen Mo leaving and his followers followed, Zheng Tu cursed inwardly.
"How to sell this meat?" a young man walked over and looked at the meat and said.
“Sold out.”
"Don't you still have this?" the young man frowned.
"I said I'm sold out!" Zheng Tu said with a glaring eyes.
The young man still wanted to argue, but looking at Zheng Tu's face, he suddenly became weaker and turned around and left silently...
Chapter completed!