I am Fugui

Chapter 77
An ordinary ceramic jar, shaped like a simple and honest pig, I don't know what it was used for before.

But I don't think it will be anything expensive.

Hearing what he said, the old man lowered his eyelids and said, "I know this thing is not expensive, so I can exchange it for as much as I can. I really have no food at home."

Xu Fugui sighed, put the ceramic pot on the booth, thought for a while, and took out a bunch of copper coins from his body and gave it to him.

"Twenty copper coins, okay?"

The old man quickly took it, "I can buy a catty of miscellaneous grains."

Xu Fugui waved his hand to signal them to leave, he was upset by these bitter things.

The old man put away the copper coins, opened his mouth, his eyes hesitated.

Xu Fugui raised his eyelids, and asked patiently: "Old man, what else do you have to do, why not tell me, maybe I can help you."

The old man made up his mind and pushed his granddaughter, "Boss, are you in need of someone in your family? I don't want money, but I just want my granddaughter to have a way out."

Xu Fugui glanced at the timid little girl, "Old man, are you not afraid that I will sell your granddaughter?"

The old man was speechless, not knowing what to say.

Xu Fugui shook his head, "I can't help you with this."

After speaking, he picked up a marinated egg from the stall and put it in the little girl's hand, and said softly, "Take good care of grandpa, do you understand?"

The little girl looked up at her grandfather and nodded vigorously.

The old man sighed, with some despair in his eyes, said some words of thanks, and left with a hunched body.

"Master, these two people are so pitiful." Lai Shun said in a muffled voice.

Xu Fugui sat back on the wooden stool, "There are too many poor people, it would be nice to be able to take care of myself."

Laishun wanted to say something else, when he saw a guest coming, he greeted the guest first, and the matter of the old man was forgotten in a short while.

"Master, today's business is pretty good." When it was noon, Laishun looked at the spotless lo mei stall and said with a grin.

Xu Fugui happily put all the copper coins and legal coins into black clay pots, "Thanks to the restaurants and teahouses."

Their location is good, and the reason why they were able to sell out ahead of schedule today is a lot of blessings from Wang's Restaurant and Tongyou Tea Restaurant.

Many people like to drink with a stewed meat or stewed vegetables.

"knock off."

The two wiped the lo-mei stall with a damp sackcloth, put the seasonings and benches away, and put the stall in the back kitchen of Wang's Restaurant.

Then he went to several nearby pork stalls and bought the leftover pork offal from their sales cheaply.

The sun was shining brightly and the sky was clear, and the noon sun shrunk the shadows into a small ball. Xu Fugui looked at the sky and took Kang Baozi to the Tongyou Tea Tavern.

"Boss Xu and Boss Kang are here. Sit here. What would you like to drink?" Du Shanying greeted them warmly when she saw them.

Under her leadership, the three of them sat at a wooden table against the wall, and the chairs were comfortable wicker chairs.

Xu Fugui looked at the blackboard at the front desk and chose the cheapest pekoe tea.

"Boss Xu can read?" Du Shanying asked in surprise.

"I went to a private school before, so don't call me Boss Xu, if you're not used to it, just call me Fugui."

"Hehe, okay, let's drink tea."

Du Shanying greeted them a few words, then went to work on other things, Xu Fugui took a sip of tea, the taste was not bad, but that was it.

He doesn't pay attention to tea drinking, it doesn't matter if the tea is good or bad, and he can't taste any profound taste.

After drinking a cup of tea, the three got up and left.

After trekking for more than two hours in the bright sunshine, stepping on the stones and walking across a river, a few hundred meters ahead is the entrance of Xujia Village.

"Uncle Gui is back, Uncle Gui, Uncle Gui!"

At the entrance of the village, as always, children from the village gathered, and when they saw him, they shouted excitedly.

"Dad, Daddy!"

In the crowd, Feng Xia's voice was clear and loud, she pushed through the crowd and ran over, followed by a barking little yellow dog.

Xu Fugui lifted Fengxia high, turned her around twice, and then put her on his neck, making Fengxia giggle.

"Go back, ah, the lo mei are all sold out, there is nothing left for you to eat today."

The children were a little disappointed, but they still said loudly, "Uncle Gui, we don't want to eat lo-mei."

"You liar, just now you asked if you could let my father feed you braised meat." Fengxia said frankly, but the others denied it with blushing faces.

Listening to the chattering voices around him, Xu Fugui laughed loudly, all the exhaustion dissipated, "Let's go home safe and sound."

"The emperor recruited me to be his son-in-law, I won't go because the road is far away..."

Fengxia sat on his neck, singing a song in a childish voice, only this one sentence over and over again.

"Fengxia, where did you learn it?"

"I learned it from my father." Fengxia squinted her eyes and said.

"Me?" Xu Fugui couldn't help laughing, he remembered that he hadn't sung this ballad for a long time.

Fengxia nodded: "Dad often sang it in the past, but I only know this one sentence, Dad, can you teach me how to sing?"

"Okay, dad will teach you how to sing."

He cleared his throat and sang loudly: "The emperor recruited me to be his son-in-law~ It's a long way~ I won't go..."

Singing folk songs and returning home, Jiazhen tied a black apron and was washing clothes in the yard.

"The whole village can hear your voice, and you are not afraid of being laughed at." Jiazhen wiped the water stains on her hands, and came over to take the bamboo basket on his back.

There are sundries in the back basket, such as kettles, kitchen knives, clay pots and so on.

"I sing my own, afraid of being laughed at by others." Xu Fugui is confident.

Jiazhen gave him a charming look, "Fengxia, come down quickly and let your father eat."

"I don't." Fengxia hugged his head.

"That's right, our Fengxia won't come down." Xu Fugui grabbed Fengxia's ankles to prevent her from falling off.

"Just get used to her."

Jiazhen walked into the stove and brought out the hot food in the pot.

"Fugui is back." Mother Xu said with a smile when she saw him making cloth shoes.

"Mom, who are you making cloth shoes for?"

"I made it for you. You and Laishun walk a lot. You walk for several hours every day. It takes a lot of shoes."

Xu Fugui threw a big mouthful of rice.Vaguely said: "We just need to wear straw sandals, don't spoil your eyes."

"No way."

Xu Fugui was helpless, "Where did Dad and Changgen go?"

"Going to the field."

"In the field? What are you doing in the field, don't bump into it."

"Don't worry, they're just going to have a look, they're not kids, they're worried about what he's doing."

Together with Laishun, he finished all the leftover meals and went to the homes of Chen Yunsheng and Sun Daotang.

There are still no pigs in the water, and no one will kill pigs and sheep after the year, but there are a lot of eggs and duck eggs.

Afterwards, he and Laishun rolled up their sleeves and began to wash offal. Jiazhen and Fengxia wanted to help, but he blocked them.

"You are tired enough to take care of the child, so go and rest if you have nothing to do..."

(End of this chapter)