On the morning of August 14th, Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan went out early to see Jiang Hua off for the last time.
Zhao Jun was at home, taking his two sisters for dinner.
After finishing the meal, as soon as Zhao Jun took the table down, Wang Meilan and Zhao Youcai came back.
Zhao Jun handed the two little girls to Wang Meilan, and he went to work in the forest farm.
After a day of study, although Zhao Jun passed the inspection first, he did not get off work early today. Instead, he waited to take the forest farm commuter train down the mountain with Zhao Youcai.
After the father and son returned home, not long after, Jiangzhou Zhen came to the door and invited Zhao Jun's family of five.
Yesterday, Jiangzhou said that there would be twenty tables, but that was a bit exaggerated.
Regardless of what he said yesterday, the reason for setting up the banquet was to thank the folks who saw Mr. Jiang off on his last journey.
But in fact, all those villagers were turned away by his morning meal of cornmeal porridge and pickle sticks. And he served this meal tonight just to collect gift money.
But human beings are human beings, and once Jiang Hua dies, Mrs. Lao Jiang will be left alone. And I heard from Jiangzhou that in the next few days, Mrs. Lao Jiang will be taken to his home for retirement.
This old lady is getting old, and it is really unknown how long she can live. Therefore, almost all the people who come have some history with the Jiang family. Moreover, the old couple gave them gift money, but they have not returned the gift. It is normal.
Take advantage of today to pay off what you owe the old couple.
As for those who have not been polite to the old couple, they will not come at all.
Zhao Jun's family was sitting in the yard, on the table near the house.
Sitting with their family of five was Mrs. Jiang, Jiangzhou's parents, the village chief Zhao Guofeng and his mother.
It can be seen from this that not everyone can sit at this table.
Before the banquet started, Jiangzhou's parents spoke several times to thank Zhao Jun's family. But Mrs. Jiang sat there quietly, looking at the empty table without saying a word.
Zhao Jun glanced at the old lady and sighed silently in his heart. He had done everything he could do. If it still didn't work, there was nothing Zhao Jun could do.
Thinking of this, Zhao Jun turned around and looked around, and saw Li Baoyu's family and Zhang Yuanmin's family sitting around a table in the corner of the courtyard.
Zhao Jun got up and went to the hut outside the courtyard. When he came out of the hut, he met someone.
This young man is a little over 1.8 meters tall and weighs 180 or 90 pounds. He looks very powerful.
At this time, he was carrying a large wine barrel in each hand. A thirty-pound wine barrel, two weighed sixty pounds, and he had one in each hand. He could still trot while carrying it. He was in really good shape.
"Brother Jun!"
"Hey, Gu Yang!" Zhao Jun greeted him and asked, "Are you here to help?"
"Yeah." Gu Yang grinned at Zhao Jun and said innocently: "I told Grandma Jiang, and Grandma Jiang agreed to my coming."
"Ah." Zhao Jun saw that he was sweating a little, so he said to him: "Then let me carry one for you."
"No, no need." Gu Yang smiled and moved a step aside, avoiding Zhao Jun's outstretched hand, but said to him: "Brother Jun, I want to ask you for something, okay?"
Zhao Jun heard this and responded readily: "What's the matter? You tell me."
"Um..." Gu Yang seemed a little embarrassed, he hesitated for a long time, and then said: "I heard that you have medicinal deer beans, can you give me one?"
Zhao Jun waited for him for a long time, thinking it was a big deal. When he heard that he only wanted medicine beans, Zhao Jun laughed and said, "It's not a big deal."
With that said, the two of them walked to Jiang's house together. As Zhao Jun walked, he said to Gu Yang, "But I don't have those medicinal beans. I gave them to Brother Zhang."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yang blurted out and asked: "Zhang Yuanmin?"
"Yeah." Zhao Jun said, "I'll talk to him later, and then you can go to his house to pick it up tomorrow."
"Okay, okay, thank you, Brother Jun."
"Thank you for what."
When the two were talking, they returned to Jiang's house. When Jiangzhou saw Zhao Jun, he hurriedly greeted him, smiled at Zhao Jun and said, "Xiao Jun, come into the hospital quickly, the food will be served soon."
Zhao Jun smiled and nodded, and then walked into the yard. But at this moment, Jiangzhou was heard shouting to Gu Yang: "Hurry up, take the wine behind, wait for it to be used."
Zhao Jun paused and then walked towards Zhang Yuanmin.
At this time, Zhang Yuanmin was discussing Chinese classical literature with the Li family and his son, and did not even notice that Zhao Jun had come behind him.
It was Yang Yufeng who, after seeing Zhao Jun, hurriedly grabbed Zhang Yuanmin and said, "Let's talk later, brother is here."
"Hey, brother." Zhang Yuanmin turned around. When he saw it was Zhao Jun, he hurriedly got up.
Zhao Jun hurriedly held his shoulders and pushed him back to the stool. Then he first looked at Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei nodded before saying to Zhang Yuanmin: "Brother, I saw Gu Yang just now. He asked me for a medicine bean.
I'll ask him to go to your house tomorrow to get it."
At this point, Zhao Jun hurriedly gave another warning, saying: "He is in a very difficult situation. Brother, if you still have one over there, just get one for him."
"Okay!" Zhang Yuanmin agreed without thinking, and then said to Zhao Jun: "When he comes, I will give it to him. This guy is very good. When you were building a house, he worked very honestly."
"Yeah." As soon as Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, Jin Xiaomei continued at the side: "Gu Yang is okay. Later he helped my family with work, so he worked hard."
"Huh? That's not right." Unlike Zhang Yuanmin and Jin Xiaomei, Li Dayong looked around and then asked with some confusion: "I didn't see anyone from the old Gu family today, so Gu Yang came by himself?
"
Jin Xiaomei pulled Li Dayong, frowned and said: "This kid is just here to help, and then he can make a living after finishing the work."
"No." Yang Yufeng said with some sympathy: "When we were building a house for Xiaojun, he would stay with us and eat twice a day. When he got home at night, he would pinch his stomach and wait for the next morning to come back to work and eat again.
Didn't it rain for a few days? I asked him later and he said that he didn't even have a full meal at home during the three days it rained."
"Alas!" Zhang Yuanmin sighed and said, "His family's conditions are even more difficult than ours."
"You don't know!" Suddenly, Li Ruhai straightened up, pressed his right elbow on the table, slapped the table with his left hand, and whispered: "How old is Gu Yang and his third brother, and he is still a bachelor?
, let alone him. I heard that Gu Yang’s father and mother want him to step in and find a good family. If the woman can give his family money, their family can take the money.
Give his third brother a wife."
"Oh my God!" Li Baoyu couldn't help but pull Li Ruhai off the table and said angrily: "Who did you listen to?"
"Hey!" Yang Yufeng waved her hand to Li Baoyu and said, "Baoyu, let Ruhai say that what he said is not adulterated."
Li Dayong, Jin Xiaomei, Li Baoyu: "..."
When Li Ruhai heard this, his face suddenly brightened, and he continued enthusiastically: "If Gu Yang doesn't work hard, then he can't work anywhere every day. Do you want to save money to marry your wife?"
After Li Ruhai said this, he had already started to serve the cold dishes. Zhao Jun walked back, but after taking two steps, he turned around and glanced outside the courtyard door, but he didn't see Gu Yang.
He knew that in his previous life, Gu Yang had not been able to save enough money to marry a wife, so in the end he stepped in and became someone's son-in-law.
The woman's family gave the Gu family fifty yuan, which was regarded as a betrothal gift. Gu Yang and his family used the fifty yuan and the money Gu Yang had earned from hard work over the years to marry Gu Yang and his third brother a wife.
Zhao Jun and Gu Yang were from two different worlds. Although they lived in the same village, the first time they met was because of Zhao Youcai.
It was already a millennium ago. Zhao Youcai suffered a cerebral infarction while walking in the countryside. It was Gu Yang who notified the Zhao family.
Although the relationship between the two men was not good at that time, blood was thicker than water after all. After Zhao Jun rushed back from the city, he wanted to repay Gu Yang and promised to take over the reservoir outside the village and build a farmhouse like the one in Fenghuang Mountain nearby.
Then, he asked Gu Yang to help him take care of it.
When Zhao Jun said these words, it was when his career was at its peak. But not long after, he went bankrupt.
Let alone the farmhouse, it would be difficult for him to buy an old man's house.
Gu Yang never blamed Zhao Jun from the beginning to the end, but Zhao Jun had no shame in seeing him and walked around Gu Yang every time he met him in the village.
Until one time, Zhao Jun met Gu Yang who was picking up plums from the orchard and came home. Gu Yang forced himself to grab two handfuls of plums for Zhao Jun.
Although seven out of ten plums contained insects, Zhao Jun still missed this love when he was at his lowest.
Therefore, when Gu Yang asked him for medicine beans just now, Zhao Jun agreed without thinking. In his opinion, Gu Yang's request for medicine beans was just because he wanted to go to Medicine Deer.
And if he can cure deer and sell all the deer hooves and tendons like Jie Chen did, it won't be a problem for him to get a hundred or ten yuan. If he can scrape together some more by then, it will be enough for him to marry a wife, and that won't be a problem either.
As for the upside-down door.
You know, Gu Yang had a very difficult life in his last life. Being a son-in-law meant a lot of work and a lot of anger. When he gave birth to a child, he had to take his family name.
If a medicine bean can change Gu Yang's fate, then all the debts of gratitude from his previous life will be repaid.
Zhao Jun thought, sat back at the table, and watched the helper put food on the table.
Shredded potatoes, mixed with tiger vegetables, homemade cold dishes, fried peanuts, stewed potatoes with green beans, stewed pork vermicelli, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, braised river fish in sauce, fried river shrimp, braised bear paws.
There were ten dishes, but the last dish was a hard dish. When Zhao Jun saw the bear paws, he couldn't help but sigh secretly.
He left four bear paws for Mrs. Jiang yesterday, and the cook divided each of these bear paws into three, three, four, twelve, exactly one portion for each table.
Because it was a white matter, there was no joy or laughter in or outside the courtyard, and everyone was busy eating.
Mrs. Jiang got off the table and went into the house without taking a few bites. The Jiangzhou couple, as well as Jiangzhou's parents, didn't bother with the old lady.
Zhao Jun heard the old woman beside him sigh softly, turned around and saw Wang Meilan put down her chopsticks and walked into the room.
Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai looked at each other and continued eating.
After dinner, Zhao Jun asked Zhao Youcai to take the two little girls home, while he sat at the table, waiting quietly for Wang Meilan.
The Jiangzhou couple had already gotten up to see off the guests, but his parents were still here talking to Zhao Jun.
When everyone dispersed, Wang Meilan still didn't come out of the house. By this time, it was past seven o'clock and it was already dark.
Suddenly, Zhao Jun heard someone outside the hospital say: "You haven't finished eating yet? Eat quickly, and clear the table after you finish."
Zhao Jun looked outside and saw only one person eating at four tables outside the courtyard. He was Gu Yang, but he didn't eat from scratch until now. Instead, he waited until everyone at the table had left before he sat down and picked up some.
Eat the leftovers.
These days, when you sit down to a meal with courtesy, the cups and plates are in a mess.
There were ten plates on one table, and only some vegetable soup was left. But Gu Yang didn't mind it, and first mixed the stewed bear paw soup with sorghum rice.
After finishing eating, I soaked the sorghum rice in the soup of home-cooked cold dishes and ate it.
Just like this, his wife in Jiangzhou was not happy because she thought Gu Yang ate too much.
"Gu Yang!" At this time, Zhao Jun shouted outside the courtyard: "Come here, bring a bowl!"
"Hey!" Gu Yang responded, holding the bowl and walking inside.
When his wife in Jiangzhou saw that it was Zhao Jun who was speaking, not only did she not dare to stop him, she even smiled at him.
When Gu Yang arrived at the table, Zhao Jun invited him to sit down, moved the plate of braised bear paws over, and said to him: "Eat this."
There were twelve plates of braised bear paws in total, and only this table and the table where Li Baoyu sat had any left.
To others, this bear paw is a good thing, but to Zhao Jun and others, they have long been tired of it.
But where has Gu Yang ever eaten this? He stretched out his hand, grabbed the bear's paw, and bit into the remaining muscles.
Zhao Jun watched with a smile as Gu Yang finished eating the bear paws, and then swept away all the leftover food and rice on the table.
"Brother Jun, I've finished eating. That black blind man's palm is so delicious." Gu Yang stood up after eating, smiled and praised the braised bear's claw with Zhao Jun, and then said: "You sit down, I'll help Aunt Jiang."
Remove all the tables."
"Yes." Zhao Jun nodded, and when Gu Yang was about to leave, he said, "I made an agreement with Brother Zhang, you can just go to his house to pick it up tomorrow."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Yeah, thank you, Brother Jun." Gu Yang became even happier after hearing this, and walked quickly outside the hospital.
As soon as Gu Yang left, Wang Meilan came out of the back room and called Zhao Jun to go home without saying anything.
Seeing that the couple was leaving, Jiangzhou and his wife hurriedly came over to see them off, but Wang Meilan gave Jiangzhou a cold look and left without leaving a word.
When Zhao Jun saw this, his brows furrowed. He didn't know what was going on with my mother, so he just said a few polite words to Jiangzhou and then left to chase Wang Meilan.
When he caught up with me, Wang Meilan said a lot before Zhao Jun could ask any questions. When she finished speaking, Zhao Jun also looked livid.
When they got home, they didn't tell Zhao Youcai about the matter, they just washed and went to bed.
The next day, Zhao Jun went to work as usual. However, Gu Yang came to Zhang Yuanmin's house.
Today is August 15th, Saturday.
Under normal circumstances, Xiao Ling Dang should have a holiday. However, Yong'an Primary School organized a general cleaning today. As the squad leader, Xiao Ling Dang had to take the lead, so he went to school early.
While Yang Yufeng went to the market, Zhang Yuanmin was left alone at home.
At this time, Zhang Yuanmin was leaning on the kang cabinet, half lying and half lying down, thinking about things.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door twice. As soon as Zhang Yuanmin stood up, someone asked: "Brother Zhang, are you at home?"
"Gu Yang." When Zhang Yuanmin heard Gu Yang's voice, he immediately smiled and said, "I'm at home, come on, come in."
As soon as Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, Gu Yang came in from the outer room. Seeing Zhang Yuanmin sitting on the kang, he nodded to him and called him Brother Zhang.
Zhang Yuanmin raised his hand to signal Gu Yang to sit down, but when he was about to get up and pour water for Gu Yang, he was stopped by Gu Yang.
"Brother, stop working. I'll sit down for a while and then leave."
Men are lazy. When Zhang Yuanmin heard this, he didn't go to boil the water. Instead, he stood up, pointed to the big wardrobe against the wall, and said to Gu Yang: "There is a paper package on the top of the cabinet. Touch it down, and slow down."
Potassium aluminum cyanate is afraid of water and tide, so Zhang Yuanmin placed the medicinal beans he brought back at a high place.
But he is short, so he usually has to step on a stool to pick up or take it down. Now that Gu Yang is here, Zhang Yuanmin won't cause any trouble for him.
Gu Yang took off the paper bag from the wardrobe and handed it to Zhang Yuanmin. Zhang Yuanmin carefully packed the bag and checked it carefully. When he saw that the medicine beans were not wet, he folded the paper bag again and handed it to Gu Yang, but
The hand holding the paper bag did not let go.
I saw Zhang Yuanmin saying to Gu Yang very solemnly: "This thing is no joke, you have to pay attention."
"Yeah." Gu Yang knew that Zhang Yuanmin had good intentions, so he said, "I understand, Brother Zhang."
Hearing Gu Yang's words, Zhang Yuanmin nodded, gave the paper bag containing potassium aluminum cyanate to Gu Yang, and then asked casually: "Where did you learn how to dig a deer's nest? Why haven't I heard of it?
Does anyone at home do this?"
Whether it was Zhao Jun, Zhang Yuanmin, or even Li Dayong and Li Baoyu, who had heard about it yesterday, they all thought that Gu Yang was asking for medicine beans instead of medicine deer.
But what Zhang Yuanmin didn't expect was that when Gu Yang took the medicine bean, he said: "Brother Zhang, I don't want to cure deer. I am taking this to cure the black blind man."
"What the hell?" When Zhang Yuanmin heard the word "black blind man", his heart suddenly trembled, and his hands and feet became cold.
"Black blind man!" Gu Yang didn't know that he was frightened by the black blind man, so he repeated it specifically, but when Zhang Yuanmin heard this, his face instantly turned pale.
"Gu Yang, brother." Zhang Yuanmin calmed down and said to Gu Yang in a tone like someone who had experienced it: "The black blind man can't mess around. Look at the old boss Jiang and Tao Dasheng, don't they all let the black blind man kick him?
Is it done?”
"Brother!" Gu Yang felt the sincerity in Zhang Yuanmin's tone. He felt warm in his heart and immediately said to Zhang Yuanmin: "I am already nineteen. I have to earn my own money to find a wife."
Upon hearing his words, Zhang Yuanmin couldn't help but think of his previous hard life, but after a second thought, he still stopped him and said, "Gu Yang, you can't make trouble. If the black blind man can't be cured, it will cost his life."
"It's okay. Brother Zhang, don't worry." Gu Yang said with a smile: "I have a trick, I'll tell you about it, you can listen and see if it works."
"You have a trick..." At this moment, Zhang Yuanmin felt that the tone of this boy's speech was a bit like his own.
Gu Yang said: "Brother, that big guy you're doing the medicine weighs five hundred catties at least."
"Yeah." Zhang Yuanmin nodded.
Gu Yang added: "The black blind man only weighs about three hundred kilograms, weighing up to four hundred kilograms. This medicinal bean can kill the big man, but can it not kill the black blind man?"
"Oops!" Zhang Yuanmin exclaimed, Leng Buding startled Gu Yang, and then he saw Zhang Yuanmin raised his hand and patted his forehead.
This frightened Gu Yang and he thought to himself: "If you don't want to give me the medicine beans, just say so. At worst, I won't take them. What are you doing?"
But little did he know that what Zhang Yuanmin was thinking was: "This is a very clever plan. This is how we can fight without bloodshed, without any effort, and without fail!"
Suddenly, Zhang Yuanmin remembered the scene where Zhuge Kongming accepted Jiang Wei when he came back from the banquet last night and reviewed "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
For a moment, when Zhang Yuanmin looked at Gu Yang again, a thought suddenly came to his mind, "If I can accept him as my disciple, then I can be considered a successor to my own abilities!"