With Magistrate Jiang's help, this is no big deal.
Song Dekui was certainly happy when he heard about this good thing.
The gloomy mood of the past few days suddenly subsided. Song Dekui happily went to the main room to report the good news to Song Zhenping, and then asked someone to bring the news to his elder brother in Qingping Town, but he did not leave.
Knowing that Uncle Kui was staying at home, Song Zhenping was so happy that he clapped his hands and insisted on getting up to drink with Song Dekui.
It’s good to have more people at home, it’s getting more and more lively, not to mention Uncle Kui is here.
Although they were separated by generations, Song Dekui was only two or three years older than him, and they became intimate when they went to Ruijin Town together.
Now that Song Laoer is causing trouble, they are even more like brothers.
Song Zhenping's leg had just been rebonded for two days, so how dare Song Dekui let him move around and drink, he yelled and scolded him before he stopped.
Two days later, when Song Dekui learned that Song Zhenping and his sister were engaged, he was stunned.
I heard that Song Zhenping married a village girl from the mountains.
Song Dekui just sighed that this girl had a strong heart and was able to take on the task, so he didn't ask any more questions.
The affairs of the Song family are making a fuss, and the marriage is not yet a success, so it can only be regarded as Daping's good luck.
As for the family that Song Liyun was engaged to, neither brother nor sister revealed anything. They only said that they were a large sheep farmer who lived on the grassland. They had met each other when they came to town occasionally, and it was Luo Baihu who worked as an iceman.
With the matchmaker Luo Baihu here, Song Dekui regarded the other party as a military household.
Although the Zhenbei Army is poor, it still has a large family and a large business. There are also many military households like the Song family who rely on the Shangwei camp.
It was Song Dekui's marriage that made the brother and sister laugh for a long time.
During this year, Mrs. Li Zheng was constantly looking for people to propose marriage to him.
Whether it was the diligent and capable farm girl or the literate Biyu from the town, he was dissatisfied. Madam Lizheng was so angry that she scolded him to become a monk in the future, and Song Dekui also laughed at himself that he would be alone all his life.
Song Liyun made it clear to him in one sentence: What does it mean to be alone all your life? It's because you are wild at heart. You don't want to have a family in a palm-sized place in Qingping Town, Xiaoshi Village. You want a fresh and exciting life.
Song Dekui laughed when he was told that his thoughts were broken. This is what he thought.
No matter whether he was farming in Xiaoshi Village like the second brother, or doing trivial things in the town hall like the eldest brother, he would be driven crazy.
After learning that Song Zhenping was going to get married in the twelfth lunar month, Song Dekui got excited and decided to host the wedding banquet as a parent.
Song Zhenping naturally agreed wholeheartedly. With an elder helping to attract wedding guests, his wedding would be more decent.
Song Liyun also wanted Song Dekui to attend as an elder, but deliberately joked: "You are an elder, and your uncle is going to marry your nephew's wife, but what kind of meeting gifts have you prepared?"
Song Dekui was dumbfounded and immediately panicked!
Daping is getting married in one month, and he is now penniless. Even if Xiaoyun gives him one tael of silver as wages, he still can't get it out of his hands!
Ten days passed in a flash, and Song Liyun came back from the Huangsha River looking wilted.
Song Dekui just happened to load the dishes for Tianxianglou into the car and prepare to go into the city in the afternoon.
When he saw Song Liyun coming back with a bad look, he quickly came over and asked, "Xiaoyun, what's wrong with you? I see you're worried every day!"
Song Liyun sighed: "When can it snow and the river freeze?"
He always felt that he was just here to make a living in Baolinju. He could not help with building a cold storage and managing two factories. He could only collect and do chores every day.
Song Liyun just went to see how the river was freezing.
Winter has entered late this year, and it hasn't snowed yet, but the wind is howling all day long, and it's dry and cold to the bones.
There wasn't much ice on the river, but it made people's hands and feet stiff from the cold. The carton factory that Song Liyun wanted to expand had to shorten the time.
The traffic problem that worries Song Liyun the most is the blocked road to the Huangsha River mouth.
Now there is thin ice on the narrow road by the Huangsha River, and the horses' hooves will start to slip when they step on it. It is safe to wait until the ice is solid.
Luo Baihu has ordered people to strictly guard Broken Gold Pass, and no one, including Song Liyun, will be allowed to pass freely.
Fortunately, the live sheep delivered earlier have been kept in the health center, and Tianxianglou's sales are not yet tense.
Seeing that Song Liyun was so anxious about the ice on the river, Song Dekui asked curiously: "Why are you so anxious about the ice? The ice cellar has not been repaired yet, and you can't use it."
The acorn food shop needs to soak the acorns, and if the Huangsha River freezes, a hole must be dug every day, otherwise it will be frozen and unable to be lifted.
Song Liyun looked melancholy and frowned: "I want to go to the grassland to visit. Tianxianglou's beef jerky is about to be sold out. I will bring some grain, salt and cloth to sell there."
She wanted to ask how the grassland was doing now, but when she asked Luo Baihu every day, the answers she got were "everything is normal" and "very smooth", which made her feel relieved.
You can't enter the Mida Valley, so you can take a look around the grassland, and maybe you can figure out what happened.
"To the grassland?" Song Dekui perked up. Thinking about money these days gave him a headache.
Although the Song Liyun brothers would not really accept gifts from themselves and could borrow money from Zhou Xiang and Lin Tao if they had no money, Song Dekui still wanted to find some money on his own.
He knew that there were still many herdsmen on the border of the Wu Dynasty when he served as a corvee in the guard station.
These people lived in the Wu Dynasty and usually made a living by grazing on the grasslands.
They are said to be common people of the Wu Dynasty, but they are actually similar to people from the grasslands.
If you buy the goods and sell them at the homes of these herdsmen, and then exchange them for furs, you will be able to make a fortune by changing hands.
Apparently, this is how Song Liyun makes money.
Song Dekui said excitedly: "Xiaoyun, we can't walk through the Huangsha Valley now, but we can take the Yu Road!"
"Conquering the Tao? What kind of Tao is it?" Song Liyun was confused.
Song Dekui laughed: "It's the carriage road used by the guards to transport supplies!"
Song Liyun's eyes lit up instantly, and she quickly asked him to say a few more words...
Song Zhenping's injured leg has been recovering for ten days. He drank medicine and applied plaster. The pain has been relieved and he can sit up and move around the house a little.
During these times, Madam Yun always brought food to his room and set up the Kang table for everyone to eat together.
Today Song Liyun cooked in person and worked for an hour to make hot pot on a small charcoal stove.
The bright red oil soup, the green vegetable leaves, the white potato slices, and the newly dug lotus root slices are rare items, so naturally everyone wants to try them.
There are also stewed beef tendons that are soft and glutinous, tumbling in the boiling butter red soup.
Song Dekui picked up a piece of beef as big as a palm and as thin as paper, cooked it quickly in a red soup pot, wrapped it in garlic seasoning, and stuffed it into his mouth. His eyes immediately turned red and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.
When the beef was just down his throat, Song Dekui hurriedly picked up the cold soup that had been prepared nearby and took a sip. He squeezed his eyes and made an exaggerated expression and smiled: "This hot pot is so refreshing! It's so delicious!"
He learned this word "shuang" from Song Liyun. He didn't understand what it meant at first, but somehow it fit the feeling at this time.
Staying in Baolinju these days, as long as you don't think about money, you are really living a magical life every day.
Xiao An tilted his head and pulled the tendon of the beef, his mouth was full of oil and he had no time to speak.
Madam Yun sat next to Xiao An while eating. Not only did she take care of the Song brothers' food and drink, but she also didn't forget to fish out potato chips for Hei Jin who was squatting next to her: "Hei Jin, eat slowly, or you'll have snot bubbles in your nose after a while!"
Hei Jin grinned to show his happiness, showing her two rows of big teeth.