Three big, fat mules pulled three platoon carts to the open space in front of the bamboo forest.
The bamboo forest behind the clearing has been cut down.
The felled bamboo wood was cut into strips. More than a dozen old people from Qingshi Nianzi Village distinguished the strips of different lengths and widths and intertwined them, as if they were going to use these strips to weave something.
All the men, women and children in the village gathered in the open space.
Either lend a hand to help, or gather together to chat.
At this time, when they saw three big mules pulling a cart parked in the open space, people stopped what they were doing.
He kept looking at the bulging linen bags stacked as high as a hill on the platoon cart.
——They all got the news that Li Yueshan conveyed to the chief,
Naturally, it was clear that those bulging linen bags contained exactly the food they needed very much at the moment!
Su Wu and Li Zhuer jumped out of the platoon car,
The former moved a large box from the front of a platoon truck, and dragged the box with the latter under a square table.
"Unload all the food here, unload it all here!"
Li Yueshan greeted the waiters at Mi Village,
After receiving his order, several waiters hurriedly unloaded the grain from the cart to a wooden water tank-like object.
The wooden water tank has a lid on it,
There is only a fist-sized hole in the middle.
It was so dark inside that I couldn't see what was inside.
"Everyone, come and help,
Help the old man unload the grain!" Li Yueshan saw that many young people from Qingshi Nianzi Village were ready to make a move, so he simply called them all over and asked them to help load and unload the grain.
"okay!"
"Everyone goes, everyone goes!"
"The master in charge has spoken, we must do our best no matter what!"
The young and strong people gathered around the three platoon trucks with noisy, unloaded bags of grain from them, and carried them to the place designated by the fat old man.
More than a thousand kilograms of grain were carried by a group of young men playfully.
In just the blink of an eye, everyone was moved out of the platoon truck.
Subsequently,
Su Wu paid the remaining balance to the manager sent by Mi Village: "I paid one tael of silver before, and this is the remaining balance of seven taels and eight cents. You can weigh it."
"Hey, okay, okay.
Thank you very much, guest. Thank you very much, guest.”
The boss, who was looking at the decorations around the open space, had his back hunched over and holding the silver ingot handed to him by Su Wu in both hands.
As if by magic, he took out a small scale from behind,
Put the silver ingot on the weighing pan,
Slightly fiddle with the small weight so that the scale beam is placed horizontally.
Then he squinted at the number on the scale beam, and the smile on his face became wider: "Sir, you are very happy, it is just seven or eight yuan of silver, not bad at all. Thank you, sir, thank you!"
The manager kept bowing to Su Wu and thanking him.
Afterwards, the two parties said goodbye,
Mi Zhuang's mules dragged two platoon carts and left straight away.
There was only one paizi cart left in the open space - it was the paizi cart that Su Wu and Li Zhuer pushed when they went to the market, and it was not from Mi Village.
"Yozhuzi, you're on your way!"
"I have long seen that Ye Zhuzi will definitely be a promising person in the future!"
"Ashe, please share more food with me later. I even hugged you when you were little..."
Su Wu originally came from Qingshi Nianzi Village,
With all the villagers gathering here, there are naturally many people who know him.
The villagers all felt that Ye Zhuzi was now a completely different person from before, and they did not dare to speak for a while.
It wasn't until the first person spoke up to talk to Su Wu,
The rest became bolder and spoke up one after another to talk to Su Wu.
What's more, he had already handed Su Wu the rice bag he had prepared, planning to ask him to open a small stove for him first and let him bring some rice back.
Everyone cheered around Su Wu,
Make various requests,
Su Wu's expression didn't change and he was about to say something.
Li Yueshan's displeased voice sounded from behind him: "Don't gather here and make noise!
His name has now been changed to Li Wu, and he is my eldest disciple, old man.
This is not the wild boar or wild dog you are talking about!
Don't even try to coax him into sending more food to any of your families - never mind how much he owed you before, or which of your families he had a meal with, starting from the time when he took the place of the man in your respective family, the mainstay, and went to deliver rice to Gui at night. ,
He and you already owe each other nothing!
not to mention,
If he hadn't begged me to buy some grain for you this time,
Do you still want to share food?
Go pick up donkey dung from the fields!"
Li Yueshan scolded the villagers who came around him mercilessly,
He even pushed all the credit to Su Wu.
The villagers who had gathered were afraid of the identity of the fat old man as the "Master in charge of the stove", and because the sarcasm contained in Li Yueshan's words almost overflowed, they couldn't refute.
So they dispersed in all directions.
Don't dare to harass Su Wu again.
"Come on, Ah Wu, come on." Li Yueshan patted Su Wu on the shoulder.
Su Wu turned around and followed him towards the temple.
I only saw Master's smiling face.
The master and apprentice entered the temple.
The rag used to isolate the space and block the view in the temple has been removed.
The mattress on the floor was also missing.
There were only two people in the temple, Li Yueshan and Su Wu.
"Master, I bought twelve shi of grain this time, spending a total of eight taels of silver.
I bought a few soldiers and three new sets of cooking utensils from Blacksmith Zhu. Uncle Zhu said that it was enough to pay for those iron utensils.
But I think the quality of the weapons he makes is pretty good.
So he gave him five pieces of silver.
Later, I bought a copper bracelet for Li Zhuer..." Su Wu handed the remaining copper coins to Li Yueshan,
Li Yueshan waved his hand and said, "You can keep the rest of the money yourself."
He looked at Su Wu with a smile: "I asked you to buy a bracelet for Zhu'er, and you bought it for her? I saw that she was wearing a copper ring on her hand. It's very precious."
"yes,
I bought it." Su Wu blinked and responded calmly.
"You also bought a thimble for Li Qingmiao?
Give Xiuxiu and Gou Shengzi a pair of longevity locks each?" Li Yueshan was still smiling.
But Su Wu suddenly felt a chill surging behind his smile.
"..."
He didn't speak.
"You son of a bitch!"
Li Yueshan glared at Su Wu fiercely: "I don't know if your brain is really stupid or just pretending to be stupid?!
I asked you to buy it for Pearl,
Just go behind your back and buy Zhuer a bracelet.
Bring all the other junior brothers and sisters with you,
Then what’s the meaning of this copper bracelet?”
"Master, it is not good to favor one over the other. It will easily create a gap between the junior brothers and junior sisters, which will ruin things." Su Wu replied seriously.
"..."
"Forget it!"
Li Yueshan waved his hands angrily,
No longer obsessed with enlightening this stupid disciple and making him enlightened.
He turned around and said: "When the incense burner on the altar table outside burns to the end, which is noon, then I will immediately start frying the big tricks and open the temple to pretend to be dirty.
You will follow the old man later,
Don't leave even an inch,
do you know?"
"knew."
For this kind of thing, even if the master wanted to drive Su Wu away, he would not leave.
You must hold on and read the entire process.
"The matter of distributing food to the villagers,
Just leave it to Qing Miao and Zhu Er to do it.
Stop interfering,
Lest they use bullshit past relationships to blackmail you." As Li Yueshan spoke, he walked out of the temple, and Su Wu followed closely.
The fat old man walked out of the temple,
Then he looked back at Su Wu: "You bought things for them all.
Don’t you think about buying something for the old man?”
Su Wu grinned,
He took out a copper pipe from his pocket and handed it to Li Yueshan: "I got some scrap copper in the blacksmith shop and made a copper pipe for Master."
"This smoking pot looks very unique..."
Li Yueshan took the pipe,
Looked carefully,
Suddenly he grinned.
He also took out a copper seal button less than the size of his thumb from his arms and threw it to Su Wu: "Remember to buy something for the old man, and the old man can't leave you behind.
This is for you!"
Su Wu took Yin Niu,
Turn it over and take a look,
The four characters "Yinxi Zhangzao" are engraved on the seal base.
He took the inu in his palm and clenched his fist.
open space,
The three-burner firewood stove is arranged in the shape of 'pin'.
The stove eyes were all burning red.
The villagers of Qingshi Nianzi Village gathered around the open space and talked to each other, making the place full of people.
Being in it can't help but make your head buzz.
In the middle of the three wood stoves,
There is an offering table set up.
In the incense burner on the altar table, the incense sticks have been burned to the root, and are less than a finger length from the incense ashes underneath.
Noon is approaching.
Li Yueshan assigned tasks to his disciples.
The mute girl Xiuxiu and the dog Sheng, one is responsible for lighting the fire and the other is responsible for carrying the firewood;
Qingmiao and Zhuer guarded the rice box and distributed food to the villagers.
Li Wu, the eldest disciple whom he valued most, now only needs to stay by his side and does not need to do anything himself.
The fat old man saw that the incense stick was about to burn out,
He took out the pottery altar from under a table at the back,
The fried oil in the jar shook gently with his hands, making a hollow sound inside the jar.
"The fate of this big swindler in Tanjia Village is worth three taels and seven coins.
To fry such a big fish, you need to prepare more than 37 kilograms of frying oil.
We have enough fried oil in the jar."
The fat old man patted the big pottery altar on which he was squatting on the stove. Taking advantage of the free time at the moment, he taught Su Wu various experiences: "Fry big tricks, open a temple to pretend to be dirty, you need to set up an altar.
God-making clothes,
Establish a god to serve.
The cut bamboos were used to make altars and sacred robes.
The temple blessing as the divine attendant has already been chosen before.
Now just wait for the time to come,
Let’s start frying Dagui!”
Li Yueshan watched the roots of the incense burn out,
Remove the stopper immediately,
Holding the clay pot, he poured tons and tons of dark fat into the firewood pot.
While pouring oil,
While shouting to the surrounding villagers: "Carry the offering table down,
Put up the altar!"
The words fell to the ground,
Several young men hurriedly walked out of the crowd. They hurriedly lifted the altar table and moved it to a place far away from the open space like a gust of wind.
Then, several old men tremblingly moved a round bamboo woven table that was not much bigger than the altar table but much lower to the center of the three-burner wood stove.
——This is the altar.
"Burn the oil! Burn the oil!"
Li Yueshan took the new spatula from Su Wu,
He weighed it in his hands and looked at Su Wu with some surprise.
Then he shouted to Xiuxiu.
Xiuxiu's presence in the Zao team has always been very low.
But the fat old man liked her very much,
I like to take her with me when I do everything.
Mute women are also hard-working and hard-working.
Although he can't speak, his dexterity in doing things is not inferior to that of Gou Sheng.
Before Li Yueshan gave the order,
She had already picked up a bundle of firewood and stuffed it into the stove hole.
boom!
The already red stove eyes,
Due to the addition of this bundle of firewood, tongues of fire suddenly surged out, surrounding the firewood, triggering a golden-red flame that rolled along the bottom of the pot!