The Li Chang was about to leave when he turned around and met Man Bao's eyes. He couldn't help but pause, stopped and asked, "Is this your little girl?"
Man Bao raised his little face and smiled sweetly at him, and Li Chang also smiled subconsciously.
Lao Zhoutou responded with his heart in mind, pulled Man Bao over, and whispered: "Quickly call Grandpa Li."
Man Bao shouted crisply: "Hello, Grandpa Li!"
The director couldn't help but smile on his face, and his wrinkles were piled together. He stretched out his somewhat dry hand, touched her little head and said with a smile: "Okay, okay..."
The headman left with the people and went to the next house to collect money. Manbao touched her little head, raised her head and asked her father, "Why does everyone like to touch my head?"
Manbao's hair was fluffy. She hadn't shaved her head for several months because the weather was getting colder. At this time, her hair was almost covering her ears and was soft. When Old Zhou heard this, he also touched her head and smiled.
Said: "Because we are full of cute babies."
Man Bao was happy now, raised his smile, and then turned around to say goodbye to Zhou Lang.
Zhoulang brought all his clothes, and Xiao Qian made him two pairs of thick shoes. Manbao packed him a full bag of sweets and said, "Fourth brother, if you are hungry, eat
Don’t worry, Tang. I will ask my eldest brother and the others to find you tomorrow and make some broth for you to drink. However, I think ginger soup is better than broth, so I’ll make some ginger soup for you.”
"No!" Zhou Lang said without thinking: "Third brother still has broth to drink, but in the end I can only drink ginger soup?"
It's not like he hasn't drunk it before, it doesn't taste good at all.
Man Bao coaxed him like a child, "Fourth brother, ginger soup can ward off cold. Big brother said that you have to stand in the water to build a river dam, and ginger is more expensive than meat."
Zhou Lang: "I just like to eat cheap food, not expensive food."
Man Bao pondered the taste of the ginger soup and nodded in agreement. What a coincidence, she did the same.
Zhou Lang will gather that day and go to Jiangding Village with other strong men in the village. It is said that the county government has 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 to the county seat. It takes about four minutes to walk up the water.
Qili Village is a small village with only about 60 households, so the village chief is from Dali Village. He is in charge of the 60 or so households here and the 30 or so households in Dali Village. Dali Village is considered a big village.
There are two of them in the area, so the large gatherings from several nearby villages are placed in Dali Village.
The situation in Jiangding Village and Dali Village is similar. There are about a hundred households in the village, which are directly under the management of a village chief. Several small villages nearby are also used to going to the market in Jiangding Village to do business.
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Erlang went to see the broken dam in advance. It was located three miles upstream of Jiangding Village. There were no homes there, and naturally no one was selling anything.
However, Zhou Erlang felt that if they set up their stall here, someone would definitely follow them because it is too close to Jiangding Village.
By then, I'm afraid they won't have the advantage.
So the two brothers discussed and decided to build a straw hut not far from the river bank. Not only would it be easier to do business, but it would also be a good place to occupy a place. They could even sleep here at night to keep an eye on things.
Anyway, it's not very cold yet, so they think it's okay.
The brothers who had already done the labor business once were very confident in this business, so they were not as hesitant as the previous year.
Lao Zhoutou and Qian didn't stop them, they just let them go.
So Man Bao took Wu Lang to discuss with Zhou Dalang, "Brother, ginger soup is better than broth. Do you want to cook some? We will sell it to you cheaply."
Zhou Dalang was surprised, "We still want to buy it."
"Of course," Man Bao said matter-of-factly: "Fourth brother still owes money to the family. If you don't buy it, if you eat up all the ginger in the field, what will he use to pay back the money?"
Zhou Dalang thought for a while and felt that what she said made sense. He thought that it would not take much ginger to make a pot of ginger soup, so he nodded and said: "Okay, how much will you sell it to us?"
"I asked my fourth brother, and he said thirty cents is enough."
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Erlang had no objection at all. Anyway, the money was given to the fourth son, and the fourth son still had to give it to his family, so it was just a transfer of hands.
So don’t say thirty cents, forty cents is fine too.
As for the money in the hands of Lao Wu and the others... Zhou Dalang looked around, picked up Man Bao, and asked in a low voice: "Man Bao, tell me quietly, how much money have Lao Wu and the others deposited with you?"
Man Bao covered his mouth and whined, "I promised them not to tell you."
"You tell the elder brother quietly, and the elder brother won't say anything."
Man Bao couldn't help but take his hand off and said, "Sir, I said that if a secret reaches the ears of a third person, it is no longer a secret, so I won't tell you."
Zhou Dalang: "..."
If you don't tell me, don't tell him. Anyway, it will only take a year or two for him to find out.
The reason Zhou Dalang wanted to know how much money Wu Lang and the others had saved was because Lao Zhoutou said that after completing this hard labor, the family would build a new house and start marrying the fourth child.
After all, he is a grown man, and he has a wife so that he can take on the responsibilities of a family.
This year has been unexpectedly smooth. The family is making money much faster than in previous years, so there is still enough money to build a house, but the money for the fourth child's wedding may still be a little short.
Thinking about these things, Zhou Dalang, Zhou Dalang and Zhou Dalang went to Jiangding Village to find a place, simply put up a straw shed, and then planned to open the business.
People who served in the military last year and bought their soups and vegetables knew at a glance what they were doing, but a large part of them didn't know.
Including the government servants who came to supervise the work, they came up curiously and asked. When they heard that Zhou Dalang was going to do business here, they couldn't help but be happy, "These are all laborers, what kind of business are they doing?"
Zhou Dalang said with a smile: "I just give you hot soup to drink. It's not worth a few bucks. It's going to be cold today, and everyone is standing in the water working, so I made some broth and ginger soup to keep everyone away from the cold."
, my brother is also in there."
"Oh? Which one is it?"
Zhou Dalang pointed out Zhou Lang to them. When the government officials saw it, they couldn't help but laugh, "This smooth-tongued boy turns out to be your brother. I know him well. During this time, he often went to our area to sell ginger. Why?"
You have so much ginger that you can’t eat it all, and why are you bringing it here to make soup?”
Zhou Lang's main peddling places were the officials' community near the county government office and the wealthy community next door. He wandered around these two places almost every day, so of course the government officials knew him.
Although they don't live there, they do work there, so those two areas are also the main patrol areas, okay?
So after going back and forth, they not only knew each other, but also became familiar with each other.
Zhou Lang was very eloquent and had become brothers with others during this period. So when he came to serve and met these acquaintances, he was directly assigned to move rocks and shovel soil on the shore.