"Dog!"
"Oh, the second boss."
"How are you? Are you okay? I also said I wanted to see you. Come in, isn't it cold outside?" Lu Xu lifted the curtain for him and saw that the cloth on the dog's head was gone and there were no injuries on his body. , couldn't help but feel a little happier.
"I'm fine, everything is fine," Gouzi was infected by his smile, smiled, and hurriedly asked Lu Xu to put down the curtain, "The store is busy and I won't go in."
After that, he trotted over, took something out of his arms and handed it to Lu Xu.
Lu Xu opened the bag, which was full of broken silver.
Gouzi: "This is thirty-two taels. I will pay back the rest slowly."
Lu Xu was confused, "Give it to me? When did you owe me money?"
Gouzi: "Yan Shulang gave me money for the doctor's visit and medicine. You went to jail because of me and fined me fifty taels. You also paid Master Six ten taels as compensation..."
Lu Xu looked down at the bag of money.
He knew that Song Liu compensated Gouzi thirty taels, and Gouzi took it all without spending a penny. Not only did he not spend any money, he even got an extra twenty taels!
Lu Xu refused, "You have money, if you don't buy some good supplements, what are you going to do for me? If you want to give it, I should give it to you." Lu Xu was still blaming himself for causing Gouzi to almost lose his life for no reason.
Gouzi said calmly: "It's because of me that you... went to jail."
Lu Xu: "I beat Song Liu because I don't like him. We have had a grudge for a long time and it has nothing to do with you. If I hadn't had a grudge against him, he wouldn't have beaten you like that. I don't want the money. You can keep it for the winter." Bar!"
Gouzi said hurriedly: "Medicine money..."
Lu Xu: "I should also pay for the medicine."
Lu Xu opened the curtain and asked Han Lu to make some pies for him.
The pie was something Han Lu and Xiao Xia thought up when Lu Xu was in prison to expand the types of vegetables they could sell.
They didn't have Lu Xu's cooking skills, and if they couldn't copy gourds and gourds, they would lose customers, so they simply focused on the staple food. Han Lu had an idea and asked Xiaoxia to pat the steamed buns into pancakes and bake them like scallion pancakes. It tastes like an extra layer of deep-fried aroma and is very popular as soon as it comes out.
The two sisters were encouraged. From the original cabbage and pork filling, they have added five flavors: cabbage and pork, cabbage and radish, tofu, fungus and carrot, bean paste, and pumpkin. They are salty, sweet, meat and vegetarian, to meet the needs of all customers.
A pie is as big as an adult's hand and is wrapped in oil paper.
Lu Xu asked Hanlu to pack two of each flavor and handed them to Shitou, "Song Liu is in prison. Where will you go from now on? Do you want to follow Song Qi?"
Gouzi shook his head.
After this experience, he has already decided not to go to any boat gangs or gambling houses again.
Lu Xu asked: "Then what will you do in the future?"
Gouzi: "I cut firewood with my father and sell it."
In the past, he thought this work was hard and unprofitable, and he felt that like his father, spending his whole life chopping wood and weaving straw sandals would not be able to give his wife a good life. Now, he feels that he can be like his father, who can protect his family all his life and keep the whole family in peace. An'an, if your life is simpler, you will be happy.
He was content.
When Lu Xu heard this, he looked at his hands and saw that there were indeed many small wounds. He didn't know whether they were scratched by cutting wood or chapped by the cold weather.
Lu Xu said: "I heard from Jun Qi that your father's legs and feet are not very good. It's about to snow and the mountains will be closed. Your injury hasn't fully healed yet, so don't chop wood. Why don't you use these thirty taels as principal?" A little business."
Gouzi said calmly: "I...I don't know how to do business."
Lu Xu: "Isn't your wife doing a good job in making snails? I'll teach you how to make it. If you sell snails in the future, I won't sell them."
Gouzi shook his head: "If I'm not in the boat gang, there will be no snails."
Lu Xu was startled, yes, it turned out that Gouzi also sold snails for Song Liu, and he had forgotten about it.
Lu Xu pondered, "Otherwise you'd better come to my place."
Gouzi said hurriedly: "No, no, no, I can't, I..."
Lu Xu opened the curtain and said, "If you can't do it, why not be as good as him?"
Gouzi took a look inside the store and saw someone calling Lu Wen to scoop out the porridge. Lu Wen asked him to scoop out the porridge himself, but he also didn't allow him to scoop out more red dates. Someone was checking out by himself, throwing money into the small basket in front of the twelfth month, and kept shouting: "Little girl, did you see that I finished putting the money? I want to give me a coupon."
In the twelfth month, he cared more about stamping than looking at the money, and said in a milky voice: "I didn't see it."
The man was stunned, and everyone around him testified on his behalf: "It's given, it's given, we all saw it, you ask your sister."
Han Lu, who was in charge of collecting the accounts, said while loading cakes: "Give him a coupon!"
She drew a piece for him in the twelfth lunar month and looked at them with big eyes, not forgetting to solicit business, "Uncle will come to eat tomorrow too."
The other party: "Come on, come on, definitely come! Will you give me the coupon if I come tomorrow?"
Twelfth Moon is distressed: "I won't come tomorrow, so I'll give you another one!"
Gouzi: "..."
Even Song Liu's gambling house is not so casual, and the dog is confused.
Lu Xu didn't care about his sister's behavior of throwing coupons randomly. Anyway, it was only a penny, and he would still make money from one more repeat customer.
Lu Xu: "See, I'm quite short of people here."
Gouzi: "..."
This was Lu Xuchun teasing him. Take a look at his shop. He is either a relative or Lu Yong who has been following him since he set up the stall. Where is the real shortage of people?
If there is a shortage, what kind of capable people can't their Guanyang Alliance find?
Lu Xu: "Go back and think about it."
"what are you guys saying?"
While they were talking, Yan Junqi came with Lu Zhou.
On Lu Zhou's head was a hat that Yuan Manniang had made for him. The hat was a bit too big, so it would fall down to cover his eyes as soon as he walked away. He would have to hold it up after walking a few steps.
Everyone in the family has a hat.
This year, their family's conditions have improved. Yuan Manniang had a lot of cloth and cotton left over from making winter clothes, and she made hats for the whole family. Lu Xu came back and took a look. They were all round watermelon hats. They were warm, but there was always something missing.
He gave Yuan Manniang an idea and asked her to sew earmuffs on each hat. There was a rope under the earmuffs, and they were tied down and tied around the neck to ensure that they were warm and not blown away by the wind.
Someone happened to catch rabbits on the mountain and brought them to the grocery store to exchange for things. Lu Xu cut off two handfuls of rabbit fur and asked Yuan Manniang to make ears for several small hats at home.
Lu Zhou is also one of the children. He has two fluffy cat ears on his hat. He looks good, but he has gone to the county school to study. It is a bit embarrassing to wear the same hat as Lu Rui. Many classmates in the school touch him. hat ears.
Lu Zhou pulled his hat down and ran out after class with his face half-covered.
Now listening to Yan Junqi talking to someone, he held his hat and looked at the person politely.
Hey, isn't this the person that brother asked them to go to the hospital to see?
Gouzi also knows Yan Junqi and Lu Zhou.
He was carried to the hospital, and the official helped him advance money to see the doctor, but there was no reason to give him money for medicine since he had no money. Since the gambling den was imprisoned, and he and Song Liu were imprisoned for fighting with the Qiu family, their family had almost no income, so where could they find money for medicine.
He was unconscious at the time, and Yueniang and his parents were so anxious that they knelt down and begged the doctor, but Yan Junqi hurried over and paid for the medicine for them.
He stayed in the hospital for several days. Yan Junqi sometimes came to see him at noon, always with a child beside him. Later he found out that this was Lu Xu's younger brother.
Lu Zhou asked: "Brother, are you feeling better?"
Gouzi nodded, unconsciously showing a big smile, "Okay, everything is okay."
Lu Zhou smiled and didn't know how to talk.
Gouzi's family regarded them as their saviors, which made Lu Zhou feel somewhat uncomfortable. He already knew the whole story, and he always felt that Gouzi was the most innocent person and the one who suffered the most.
Seeing the pie in Gouzi's hand, Lu Zhou was speechless: "Are you here to buy a pie?"
Before Gouzi could say anything, Lu Xu said first: "No, he came to me. If you don't want to work with me, I can find other jobs for you. Don't chop wood with your body."
——The injury was not healed in the first place, and it was scratched by a branch.
Lu Xu silently thought to himself that it was too bad that he didn't say anything.
Yan Junqi understood the key immediately and said, "Lu Xu invited you because he trusted you."
Gouzi was startled: "Trust?"
Lu Xu: "Of course, I'm not wanted by anyone." Are you so shocked?
"If you go back and think about it, I'm really short of people here, and since it's warm and not tiring, you can definitely do a good job."
The dog walked away in a daze.
Lu Xuzhu sighed at the door, "Oh, it's so difficult to find a reliable person. Why did such a loyal person fall into Song Liu's hands?"
Sad, uncomfortable, envious!
Yan Junqi laughed at him: "Since you admire him, you should make it clear to him."
Lu Xu was in disbelief, "Didn't I make it clear enough?"
For the first time, he reasoned, Song Liu was not a good person, stop messing with him, come with me.
Rejected.
The second time, talk about needs, set conditions, and draw a big pie.
No one responded.
Yan Junqi shook his head, "You didn't mention that he cared."
Lu Xu had to sigh: "Huh? It's so difficult to convince a stubborn person!"
The "dead-hearted man" he said carried the money and the pie home, forgetting to worry about whether the bag of money would be robbed along the way.
When she got home, Yueniang saw that he had lost his soul and quickly asked him what was wrong.
"Why did you bring the money back? You don't want it?"
Gouzi nodded, "Well, he...he doesn't want it."
Yueniang: "Then...?"
Gouzi: "Dad said it will be cold this winter. Let's buy some cotton to make thick clothes."
Yueniang took the money and plucked off the grass clippings stuck somewhere on the dog's head. In order to make it easier to pack the medicine, a large piece of his head was shaved. Now his hair has grown out, short and thick. Exploded, it becomes more and more obvious that the hair is too much and the head is too small.
Yueniang smiled and said, "Okay, we have to get on with our lives. I'll find more embroidery work. When spring comes, our lives will be easier and faster, and people won't refuse to accept the money out of pity."
Gouzi nodded.
He looked at Yueniang, looked at the firewood piled in the yard, and lowered his head in silence for a long time.
At dinner time, he made up his mind: "Dad, I want to work as a waiter in Lu Xu's shop."
The bitch paused and said anxiously: "Didn't you say that we should stop hanging out with those people and live our own lives?"
Gouzi whispered: "I think Lu Xu and Liu Ye are different."
Yueniang also said: "Mom, I think the Lu family are good people. When I wash clothes by the river, I often see people from their Guanyang Alliance. Their style is different from that of the Boat Gang."
Gouziniang was already afraid of the numerous gangs and alliances. She disagreed and said: "Even if they are good people, it has nothing to do with us. Let's just live our lives quietly..."
"Go." Father Gouzi suddenly said, "Go if you want to. If it doesn't suit you, just quit."
Gouziniang: "I'm not saying..."
Gouzi Daddy: "He's so old that he can't make up his own mind after being beaten once? Let's eat."
Yueniang gave one to Gouzi and one to his father. She looked at each other and smiled at him, "Eat it quickly!"
Gouzi giggled, suddenly remembering that moonlit night, he was riding on the earthen wall of the yard, and Yueniang stood in the yard and smiled at him in the moonlight.
My heart moved that day, just like today.
trust.
Yan Shulang said that Lu Xu trusted him.
Gouzi gave one of the bean paste pies to Yueniang and the other to his mother.
He also believed in himself one more time, just this time. If he still lost, he would accept his fate.
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