"It will be the Little New Year in a few days. After the Little New Year, the fourth child will marry his wife. Our family has to kill a pig and hold a banquet. There are still many things to be busy with.
You guys should stop going to the mountains for a while and help out at home to arrange the fourth child's wedding, okay?"
Zhou Guilan knew that when her son was older, he could not force himself. Beating and scolding would be useless, and he could only push his son further away.
Therefore, Zhou Guilan adopted a gentle policy and softened her tone, showing concern and pleading in every word.
Xu Shiyan's original plan was to hunt as many prey as possible and save more money while he was still in the big house.
This place is remote and has few people, and there are a lot of prey in the mountains, and he also has a gun and a dog in his hand.
When they move out after a year, the guns and dogs will have to be returned to the brigade, so there won’t be such convenient conditions.
The Donggang area is densely populated and there are few wild animals, so there is little opportunity for hunting.
But my mother's words are also reasonable. The brothers have been tossing a lot these days, and many people in the village are jealous.
In a village, there are not only good people, but also bad ones.
Although Xu Shiyan is not afraid of those people causing trouble behind his back, he still has to worry about his parents and cannot let the old man worry too much.
How could Xu Shiyan ignore his mother's love for her son? He had no choice but to agree.
"Mom, we understand. From now on, we will all stay at home and help with the wedding arrangements."
Fortunately, I did get a lot of things recently, and there are only a few black blind people who are brave.
In addition to all kinds of skins and other things, the money brothers sold them for five cents, and each family could probably get hundreds of cents.
Okay, people have to be satisfied. If you are too greedy, things can easily get into trouble, so just stop and rest.
Xu Chenghou scolded him and Zhou Guilan coaxed him.
The couple tried to be a good person and a bad person, but they finally managed to persuade their sons, who had been hunting for the top these days, to stop.
The Xu Shiyan brothers all agreed, except for those clips that they would have to check out in a few days and would never go hunting in the mountains again.
The old couple felt relieved, and the family returned to its former warmth and harmony.
In this year and age, it is said that we are planning a wedding, but in fact there is not much to do.
Nowadays, there is no saying that you have to buy a house when you get married. If you have a lot of houses in your family, you can clear one out and build a new house.
There are three rooms like the Xu family, and the rooms all face the Kang, so the east room and the North Kang are set aside for the young couple.
If it were a family with poor financial conditions and a whole family sleeping on the same bed, they would still have to get married.
Xu Chenghou knew the carpenter's craft, and Xu Shixian and Xu Shi'an also learned a little bit from it, so they didn't need to find a carpenter to make furniture.
The furniture of this era was of that style, so there was nothing difficult about it. The old man started working on it at the beginning of winter and had already finished the furniture.
There was no need to worry about bedding or anything else. Zhou Guilan had prepared cotton and cloth in advance, and the quilt cover was brought back from Tonghua by Xu Shiyan.
There were only two bunks and two covers, so Zhou Guilan took her daughter and daughter-in-law to make them a long time ago and put them on the kangqin.
Finally, all that was left to do was the banquet on the wedding day.
This is also easy. The Xu family raised two fat pigs and killed one on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.
In addition, Xu Shiyan sent back so much meat before and recently went to the mountain to hunt it. Isn’t it easy to host a few banquets?
What needs to be purchased is the candies, cigarettes and alcohol at the banquet.
So, on the New Year's Day, the Xu brothers borrowed a horse sledge from the brigade and went to the county town with all kinds of skins, bear bile, etc. they had obtained a while ago.
The brigade along the Dongjiang River is close to the Songhua River, which is the first road. The river flows northward, meets the Tanghe River at the mouth of Tanghe River, and then flows northward through the west of the county.
Therefore, from the Dongjiang River to the county seat, there used to be a way to discharge the water in summer.
The wood is bundled together to make rafts, which can be carried down the river to the county seat.
In the past, when people went to the county town to sell firewood, most of them used this method, and several people could sit on the raft.
This method has certain dangers. With the construction of roads, no one will release emissions gradually.
In winter, it will be easier. You can just use horses and sledges to pull people and run north along the frozen river.
In winter, the ice on the river is more than one meter thick, so it is no problem to drive, let alone walk.
All the way from the big house to the north along the river, the horse and sledge ran very fast, and we arrived at the place in two and a half hours.
This is faster than walking to Songjiang River and then taking a bus from Songjiang River to the county seat, and you have more time.
The horse sledge stopped under the bridge in the west of the county. The embankment was too steep and the sledge could not go up, so Xu Shixian was left to watch the sledge.
Others went up the embankment and went straight to the purchasing station.
The New Year is approaching, and many hunters in villages want to sell their mountain products in exchange for money to buy New Year goods, so there are many people at the buying station.
Xu Shiyan and others waited in line for a while before it was their turn. They quickly took out the various skins they had hunted recently, as well as three bear bile.
Of these three bear gall bladders, one was snatched from under the tiger's mouth, and the other was obtained by some brothers who killed the black blind man in a warehouse.
There was another one who he met when he took Yang Chunming and others into the mountains.
Everything else is easy to talk about. The one we did together with Yang Chunming and the others must be kept in separate accounts and shared with everyone after we return home.
Three bear gallbladders, two copper gallbladders and one grass gallbladder, especially the brown bear one, with its big copper gallbladder, one can take two.
These three skins alone were sold for two thousand one, and other chinchilla skins, badger skins, otter skins, sable skins, etc. were sold for another five hundred yuan.
It sold for 2,600 yuan at once, and the brothers were very happy, while everyone else in the room also looked at it with envy.
Xu Shiyan took the money and directly gave the three brothers one hundred yuan each.
This is not a dividend, but a way for them to buy something.
"Second brother, you accompany the fourth brother to buy candies, tobacco and alcohol. Fifth brother, aren't you going to the bookstore to buy review materials? Go quickly.
I took the money and went to find my brother quickly. We will wait for you under the bridge. Come back as soon as possible after finishing the work. We have to go home quickly."
With so much money, Xu Shiyan didn't dare to wander around.
You must know that at this time, the county town is crowded with people coming to buy New Year's goods. What if something goes wrong?
Xu Shiyan was carrying a knife and two guns on his horse sledge.
So after Xu Shiyan gave his brothers the money for purchasing, he hurried out of the purchasing station and went straight to meet Xu Shixian under the bridge.
Xu Shiyan hurriedly walked to the Xijiang River in the county seat, but he didn't notice that as soon as he left the purchasing station, someone was following him.
Several people followed Xu Shiyan to the riverside and saw Xu Shiyan meeting and talking to a man on the river.
One of them hid in a hidden place and continued to watch, while the others were sent back to report and call for help.
"Go quickly and tell Brother Sheng, Brother Cao and the others that that kid came to the county again last time.
This time they brought more money, so there are only two of them, let Brother Sheng and Brother Cao bring more people, remember to bring someone else."
Not long after, I saw a group of people running over in a hurry. The leader was the one Xu Shiyan met last time.
There was another person next to him, not too tall, with a bit of sternness in his eyebrows, and a bulging bag around his waist, as if he was carrying some household items.
"Where is he? Damn it, I let him run away last time, this time I have to kill him." The leader asked.
"It's right under the bridge." Someone pointed towards the river.