"If my eldest brother and the others make money outside and don't take it home, but go directly to buy wine and meat, they won't even be able to get in. My sisters-in-law won't let them go without talking about my father."
Yang Heshu was thoughtful, took a sip of tea and asked with a smile: "Have your three long-term workers got wives?"
The three children were stunned and shook their heads together, "We don't know."
Yang Heshu smiled and said: "Go back and ask, you are the owner of the village, you are just a small village, you should also care about the long-term workers."
The three of them nodded blankly.
Yang Heshu and them took a look at the shop where Manbao bought it. Before he got there, he narrowed his eyes and said, "This is a good place. How did you buy it?"
"I knew the previous store owner, so he sold it to me."
Yang Heshu thought for a while and said, "This seems to be the Shi family's shop."
"Yes, yes, it was Uncle Shi who sold it to me."
Yang Heshu smiled at her, "You know quite a few people."
Manbao smiled sheepishly and said, "The county is such a big place. I've come to know him naturally since I've been here a lot. Do you know him too?"
Yang Heshu stood on the opposite side of the street with his hands behind his back, watching the people from the old Zhou family rushing in and out of the shop, and said with a smile: "As you said, the county is so big, and I have been here for almost two years, so naturally I recognize him.
Yes, the Shi family are not unknown people."
The smile on Yang Heshu's face was faint and he said: "The Shi family has fallen~~"
Bai Shanbao glanced at Manbao, then turned his head to look at him and asked, "Is it because of gambling?"
Yang Heshu nodded slightly, stood up and walked into the shop, saying: "In autumn, the old man of the Shi family passed away, and Shi Xiaoen started selling land and shops. I heard that he owed a large sum of money to someone."
Man Bao was not very happy, and asked with a sad heart: "Sir, why does the county allow gambling houses to exist?"
Yang Heshu lowered his head and looked at Man Bao. Man Bao looked at him seriously with a pair of clear eyes like glass. Yang Heshu looked away and said calmly: "The imperial court does not prohibit gambling, and the emperor also likes cockfighting."
Man Bao's eyes widened, "The emperor also gambles? Isn't he afraid of losing his fortune in gambling?"
As soon as Man Bao finished speaking, she felt something was wrong. She frowned and said, "Can the emperor lose so much that he loses everything?"
"It's probably very difficult," Bai Shanbao said, "If he has no money, he can ask us for it."
Man Bao's face turned bitter. Yang Heshu thought it was funny, so he patted her on the head and said, "You are still young, so we don't need to worry about such things for the time being."
Bai Shanbao said with a straight face, "When we grow up, we won't have to worry about such things."
Zhou Dalang had already seen Magistrate Yang and hurriedly greeted him, "Why is the county magistrate here?"
Yang Heshu smiled and stepped forward with a smile: "I heard that Man Bao bought a shop in the city, so I came to take a look."
Everyone in the old Zhou family welcomed Yang Heshu's arrival.
Nonsense, if their family is going to do business in the county in the future, of course they have to have a good relationship with the county magistrate. After all, they have a backer, right?
Zhou Dalang brought out all the chairs found in the shop for them to sit on. Yang Heshu waved his hand and smiled, strolling around in the lobby on the first floor, and said with a smile: "This shop looks pretty good, when do you plan to open it?"
Zhou Dalang said: "There are few tables, chairs and benches in the shop, and the kitchen needs to be purchased. It is estimated that it will take several days, so we are thinking of opening after the third day of the Lunar New Year."
Yang Heshu nodded, "Yes, you can leave me a post on that day and I will congratulate you."
Zhou Dalang was so excited that he agreed repeatedly.
But Zhou Lang and Zhou Lang hadn't come back yet. They didn't come back until they had cleaned the shop inside and out and were about to close the shop and go home.
Zhou Erlang took out a document and showed it to them, and said with a smile: "It has been recorded. The fourth child and I watched him record it with our own eyes."
Zhou Dalang asked: "Does it cost a lot?"
"It doesn't cost much," Zhou Lang said with a smile: "I only spent more than a hundred cash to treat him to a good meal."
Zhou Dalang felt relieved and put away the documents and the house deed.
Man Bao looked curiously, and Zhou Dalang patted her on the head and said, "Go home quickly, my parents must be anxious."
Man Bao didn't care. The shop didn't belong to her anyway, and her eldest brother and sister-in-law would naturally take care of it. She just waited until she was free to come to the county town to eat delicious food, or ask her eldest brother to bring it back to her.
Man Bao climbed onto the bullock cart, sat next to Bai Shanbao, and discussed with him the blind dates for the long-term workers. "I don't think we can let them find their own wives. It has been two years and they haven't found any, so I think we have to match them with each other."
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"Didn't you say that because they have no money, people won't marry them?"
"Then it's been two years and they still haven't saved any money?" Man Bao stared, "We even gave out big red envelopes for the Chinese New Year a while ago."
Bai Shanbao thought so, mainly because he thought Magistrate Yang's proposal was strange, so he also wanted to see why he wanted them to pay attention to the long-term worker's marriage.
As a result, they had just started talking when they returned, when Bai Zhuangtou bent down and said: "I was about to tell the young masters that the three long-term workers are planning to get married."
Manbao squirted the water he just drank into his mouth, and Bai Shanbao's eyes widened, "All three of them are going to get married?"
"Yes," Bai Zhuangtou was helpless, "They only told me the night before that they were planning to get married and wanted to report back to the masters."
Man Bao: "It's almost the Chinese New Year, is it too late to tell us about banquets and so on? There are also betrothal gifts, house decorations and so on."
Bai Zhuangtou laughed and said, "Miss Man, they are all marrying widows from their second marriage. Two of them still have children. The family is poor. How can they be so particular? They don't have any betrothal gifts or dowries. They only bring bedding and bedding."
, I just plan to have a meal with the three families and that’s it.”
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao opened their mouths in surprise. This was the first time they had seen such a marriage. It took them a while to come back to their senses and asked with some stuttering: "Aren't you going to worship or invite a drink?"
Bai Zhuangtou nodded and said: "I went to see it today, and there are 囍 characters cut by them on the windows and doors. They said it will be settled tomorrow when the woman comes and has a meal."
He said: "Fortunately, the houses are ready-made, and they can live in the house when they get married. But there are more people in the village. Whether to hire them all together or not, the young masters have to decide."
Man Bao asked: "Do they have land?"
Bai Zhuangtou shook his head and said with a smile: "They are all women. If you remarry, you cannot take away your husband's land. How can you have land? There are two with children, but the children are still young. Even if they can inherit the inheritance of their biological father,
Tian, this time the original village is farming..."
"Oh, they are not from our Qili Village," Man Bao suddenly remembered, scratched his head and looked at Bai Shanbao, "Why don't you just keep them all? Don't you dislike that they are always careless in growing vegetables and raising chickens?
Isn’t that good too?”
"Of course it's not good," Bai Shanbao muttered: "We raised more than a hundred chickens, but we only laid a few more eggs than yours. Okay, keep them all, and the wages will be the same as theirs. Tell me
If they do a good job, they will be paid next year."
Bai Zhuangtou immediately bent down and responded.