"Congratulations to the host for getting: 100 copper coins and a jar of soju."
The family has become so poor that Zhu Chuanwen certainly has not forgotten his "subsistence allowance".
The 100 copper coins are pretty good. The latest machine-made coins of the Guangxu period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, ten copper coins worth ten, are also very beautifully made.
It is obviously different from the previous round and square hole copper coins. It can be considered a good collection after a hundred years.
However, no matter how beautifully made this thing is, no matter how solid the materials are, it can exceed the imperial regulations. The exchange rate of copper coins and silver coins is one thousand to one. It is already very difficult.
No matter what, it takes eight or nine hundred yuan to exchange for one silver dollar.
In this disaster year, one hundred yuan can't buy three kilograms of grain.
A five-pound jar of sorghum sorghum liquor is quite precious in such a disaster year.
If you can exchange it, you can get a lot of money, but it's still not as versatile as food.
But when food is temporarily sufficient, shochu also has the value of shochu.
After clarifying all the situations.
Zhu Chuanwen was determined that what he had to do now was to wait.
Waiting for a letter from dad, then leading the family to Guandong.
Even if there is a disaster, I can still support my family in my hometown in Zhangqiu, Shandong.
But no matter what, I can't leave my father alone outside the customs.
Zhu Kaishan was stabbed in the back by the Manchus, convicted, and wanted to behead him. It was okay to hide outside and no one knew him, but he could not stay in his hometown.
There is no option to call Zhu Kaishan back so that his family can live in his hometown.
"I'm not coming, I'm not coming, I'm tired and I can't fall anymore."
After thinking clearly and leaving the house and entering the courtyard, Zhu Chuanwen saw Chuanjie complaining again.
We can't entirely blame Chuanjie. The two of them practiced martial arts together, whether it was trying out moves or wrestling.
The eighteen-year-old Chuanwu can crush the fourteen-year-old Chuanjie in all aspects, and Chuanjie is definitely the more tiring one.
"San'er, look at how bad you are. Get up. Second brother will teach you two more moves."
Chuanwu was not a person who only used his mouth. As he spoke, he walked towards Chuanjie, preparing to continue to throw Chuanjie down.
No matter how tired Chuanjie was, Chuanjie would not let Chuanwu throw him for fun. He would naturally resist and become a mandatory sparring partner.
"Okay." Zhu Chuanwen stepped forward and separated the two people. Although the two of them were covered in dirt after tumbling around outside, Zhu Chuanwen himself was not clean. After three years of drought, the water shortage was so severe that he could not get clean.
:
"Chuanwu, Chuanjie, you have been practicing for half an hour. Go back to the room and study for a while. Chuanwu, don't just teach Chuanjie how to practice martial arts. If you have time, let Chuanjie teach you a few more words.
"
In line with the principle of fairness, after Chuanjie is done with the pain, Chuanwu should also feel the pain.
If you want to be idle, there is no entertainment in the village. These teenagers are bored and have to go out to cause trouble. It is better to read a book and learn a few words.
"Brother, no matter what kind of books I study, there is no way I can be admitted as a scholar."
Chuanwu replied to Zhu Chuanwen with a dissatisfied look on his face. He was not so convinced by Zhu Chuanwen, the boss.
This is the result of Zhu Chuanwen's suppression of the bandits today, otherwise this eldest brother would have no prestige in front of his younger brothers.
After being assigned, Chuanwu will obey whatever he is willing to do.
If you don't want to do something, just talk to Zhu Chuanwen.
"Boss, you really think too much. I just want you to know a few more words and not become illiterate. I never heard that if you start working hard at the age of eighteen, you can still pass the exam as a scholar." Zhu Chuanwen patted Chuanwu on the shoulder,
Let Chuanwu feel his brute strength and continued:
"Go back to the house and study. If you study well, my eldest brother will come back from Tanjia Village and take you two to ride horses."
If you want this savage donkey to be obedient, you still have to rely on profit.
Tanjiacun is not very far from Zhujiayu, just a few miles away in a straight line.
Even though the mountain road is rugged, it is not even ten miles away.
Even in this day and age, villagers can go there often, and within the scope of daily activities, it takes less than an hour.
With Zhu Chuanwen riding a horse, it wouldn't take much longer.
Tan Xian'er and Zhu Chuanwen decided to get engaged very early.
Zhu Chuanwen from Tanjia Village comes here often and is actually very familiar with this place.
After arriving at Tanjia Village, before reaching Tan's house, he saw Tan Gui loitering in the village.
They are all farmers. After there is no work in the fields, there is really nothing to do.
"Chuanwen, when will you come to marry Xian'er? If you don't marry Xian'er away, how can I get married?"
When Brother Xian'er saw the message, he urged her. The Tan family was very anxious about getting married.
"My dear, are you so anxious to get a wife?"
Zhu Chuanwen looked at the anxious-looking nominal brother-in-law and joked.
This is an ordinary farmer's boy, he doesn't have any bad intentions and is quite friendly.
When you get older, you want a wife, and what you think about most is getting a wife.
"I'm a grown-up now. It's hard to say this. Can you not be anxious?"
The old Tan family had to ask the Zhu family for a stone of millet before they would marry their daughter.
It was because Tan Gui proposed marriage that the woman asked the Tan family for a stone of millet before she was willing to marry her.
"Everything goes hard, and a wife will come sooner or later. Why should a man be without a wife?"
Zhu Chuanwen comforted Tan Gui.
When life becomes more difficult, there will be many families fleeing the famine on the small road at the entrance of the village. As long as they can afford it, they can marry a wife at any time.
There is no need to fight against this unscrupulous family, who insists on paying a stone of millet to marry their daughter. This is selling their daughter, who can be an easy person to deal with.
Tan Gui and his daughter had no basis for any relationship at all, and it didn't matter who he was looking for.
"Since you are a real man, why worry about not having a wife? What are you doing here?"
Tan Gui obviously felt that Zhu Chuanwen's words were wrong, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong.
The young people in the village are relatively naive and easily deceived.
"Didn't I come to explain to your father? I also came to see Xian'er by the way."
"Chuanwen, have you brought Xiaomi?"
While the two were chatting, they arrived at Tan's house. Tan Yongqing, Xian'er's father, saw Zhu Chuanwen and asked for millet.
There is no such thing as a quasi-father-in-law and a quasi-son-in-law attitude.
I didn't care at all when I met bandits, and I didn't make any difference between marrying my daughter and marrying my daughter-in-law.
Even though this person still cares about public opinion, he still has some friendship with Lao Zhu's family, but he still needs food, and his friendship is not much.
"No." Zhu Chuanwen shook his head.
"Without bringing Xiaomi here, there is no way I would let my daughter marry into your family." Tan Yongqing said to Zhu Chuanwen with a fierce look on his face.
"When I came here this time, I didn't say that I was going to take the person away. I came to discuss with you that the marriage should be put on hold for a while."
Regarding Tan Yongqing's reaction, Zhu Chuanwen expected it and was not angry.
"Do you, Mr. Zhu, still have integrity? Do you still want to recognize this family?" Tan Yongqing was immediately anxious and anxious to marry his daughter.
"No one denies it. If something like this happened today, we can't just pretend that nothing happened. I'll just take him back. No matter how we don't pay attention to rules in the countryside, we can't have no rules at all."
"Then when will your family plan to pick us up again?"
"Whenever you decide on a date, you must ask someone to take a look and choose a good day. The hasty arrangement is what it is today. If possible, I want my dad to attend my wedding."
Zhu Chuanwen's idea is that even if he wants to marry Xian'er.
Then we have to go to the Northeast and find Zhu Kaishan.
"What are you waiting for, your father? Your father will never come back. I have heard from people that your father has been beheaded a long time ago and is hanging on the building in front of the capital."
Tan Yongqing may have really suspected this, so he lost respect for the Zhu family.
"Who told you that my father is dead? My father is still alive and well. If you continue to curse my father randomly, our two families will no longer be close."
Zhu Chuanwen scolded with an angry look.
This would-be father-in-law is really not a good person.
This news is meant to tell Zhu Chuanwen that what he says to Zhu Weishi can directly give Zhu Weishi Qi disease.
After all, the two families were quasi-in-laws, and this man opened his mouth and cursed Zhu Kaishan.
No one else was paying attention to Zhu Kaishan, but Tan Yongqing, the quasi-in-law, actually started talking nonsense.
"You're still having fun with me."
Of course Tan Yongqing would not be willing to endure it
"If you talk about my father again, let's not talk about our marriage. Let's see who is willing to give your family a stone of millet."
Zhu Chuanwen replied unceremoniously that because he had such a good father-in-law, Zhu Chuanwen had a bad impression of Tan Xian'er.
After giving Tan Yongqing silence, Zhu Chuanwen continued to ask: "Where is Xian'er? I want to see Xian'er."
"Brother Chuanwen, you are here!"
When Zhu Chuanwen asked, Xian'er ran out of the back room.
Apparently after Zhu Chuanwen arrived, Xian'er hid in the back room and eavesdropped.
"I heard you're worried. I'll come over here and let you see if I'm fine."
Xian'er is indeed pretty, that's the first thing to confirm.
"Dad, Brother Chuanwen and I went out to talk."
Xian'er pulled Zhu Chuanwen's sleeve and wanted to take Zhu Chuanwen out.
"snort……"
Tan Yongqing snorted and turned around. Although it was his default attitude, Zhu Chuanwen still took the blame.
Zhu Chuanwen really looked down upon Tan Yongqing.
The person who is in trouble still talks about himself so grandly.
In this kind of disaster year, only the rich landlords can afford to marry young wives.
Ordinary people don't have enough to eat, so they never think about getting married.
When Zhu Kaishan was still at home and the Tan family insisted on marrying the old Zhu family, Tan Yongqing had such an attitude.
Now that Zhu Kaishan is not at home, the Zhu family is having a hard time, but he is always nice to the old Zhu family.
"Xian'er, let me tell you that the stone of millet I borrowed has been returned to the villagers..."
He did not tell the truth to Tan Yongqing, but wanted to know more about Tan Xian'er, Zhu Chuanwen still told the truth.
Not to mention what changes happened to Tan Xian'er later, Zhu Chuanwen's own memory of Tan Xian'er.
There is only this girl, she is very beautiful, and she loves to sing, and there is nothing else.
"Brother Chuanwen, are you unwilling to marry me?"
Xian'er said with a worried look on her face. It could be seen that although it was an arranged marriage, Tan Xian'er also had true feelings.
"No...I don't want to marry you. I just don't want you to have nothing to eat after you come to our house. I borrowed this stone of millet from all the relatives and friends who could borrow it.
Given this stone of millet, if the situation continues to be difficult in the future, people will really starve to death, not only ourselves, but also our relatives and friends."
"What about our marriage?"
"Look at the horse I rode here. When I exchange the horse for food..."
For the time being, the priority is to appease. Zhu Kaishan's letter has not yet arrived, and Zhu Chuanwen cannot say that his family will run away soon.
"Brother Chuanwen, I'll wait for you." Xian'er said affectionately.
"Okay, I'll come over to see you tomorrow."
"Chuangwen, you came back from the Tan family. Did their family allow us a period of grace?"
After the family ate some gruel in the evening, Mrs. Zhu Wei asked Zhu Chuanwen.
The Tan family's urging of the Zhu family for food was similar to the landlord's urging for debts, which put a lot of pressure on the Zhu Wei family.
"Allow it, we can slowly gather the needed food." Zhu Chuanwen replied, even if Tan Yongqing was dissatisfied, the Zhu family still had the initiative in this matter.
It's because the Tan family wants Xian'er to remarry. Apart from sending Xian'er to the landlord's house as a concubine, it's impossible for anyone else to give her a stone's throw of millet.
"It's all your fault for that damn dad. He's been gone for four years and there's been no news at all. If he was at home, how could the family worry about your wife?"
Mrs. Zhu Wei was tired and worried and talked about Zhu Kaishan.
Apart from anything else, if there was a working man in the family, Lao Zhu's family wouldn't have such difficulties.
Whether it is plowing or doing work, Zhu Kaishan is a good hand.
A person can plow a field faster than an animal.
One person is equivalent to several strong laborers. There is no way that Lao Zhu's family can't have enough food to rely on only one woman from the Wei Zhu family.
When Lao Zhu's family was well off, they had enough money to send Chuanjie to a private school, and he was already a high-class household in the village.
"Mom, who is my father?"
Four years is enough time for a child like Chuanjie to have a vague impression of Zhu Kaishan.
"Your father has a strong back, a bearded face, a leopard head and eyes... I don't know if he is living alone outside, making a lot of money, building a big business, and marrying three wives and four concubines..."
When Mrs. Zhu Wei was lost in memories and conjectures, there was a rapid knock on the door of Lao Zhu Jie's house: "Mom, there is someone knocking on the door outside."
"I'll open the door."
Chuanwu got off the kang and ran to the yard to open the door.
"Mom, do you know who is here?" Chuanwu walked in first and said with a look of surprise on his face.
"What's the point? Let's welcome the guests in."
Zhu Chuanwen scolded Chuanwu, saying that Chuanwu couldn't distinguish the importance of many things.
"Chunshan, you are Brother Chunshan, have you returned from Guandong?"
Zhu Chuanshi said in surprise when he saw the person coming.
Zhu Chunshan was the brother who went with Zhu Kaishan during the Boxer Rebellion.
The return of this person means that there is a high possibility that he can bring back news about Zhu Kaishan.
"Sister-in-law, it's me." The visitor nodded and replied.
"Is there finally news about that heartless Zhu Kaishan?"
"Sister-in-law, when Brother Kaishan took us out to fight the Boxer Rebellion..."
To put it simply, after Zhu Kaishan came to the capital and beat Mao Zi, the court turned against him.
Under the chase, Zhu Kaishan took the remaining remnants and ran all the way to the northeast of the pass, and finally settled down.
Zhu Chunshan came back firstly to reunite with his family and secondly to help Zhu Kaishan deliver the letter.
