peasant girl wedding

Chapter 146
Large and large, like plum blossoms in full bloom.

Tong Zhi'er covered her mouth in panic.

Seeing her worried face, Ji Guzi said, "It's not mine."

Tong Zhi'er blinked, and it took a while to understand what she meant.

"Aren't you going to your shop?"

"Well, yes, Mr. Ji is in the car, please."

As soon as Ji Guzi got into the car, Tong Zhu'er and Tong Zhaofu took the initiative to stay away from him, frightened by the blood on his body.With a pale face, he didn't say a word.

When the carriage passed a market, Tong Zhi'er asked Tong Zhixin to stop the carriage, got off the carriage and went to a clothes shop, bought a clean dress for Ji Guzi to change into.

The sky in the west gradually darkened, and in the blink of an eye, it became pitch black, and nothing could be seen.Fortunately, Tong Zhixin drove the carriage to a temple that he saw when he came, so he had a temporary place to stay for one night.

The temple was the Town God's Temple, and there was an old man in charge of guarding and cleaning it. After Tong Zhixin explained his predicament, the old man was very willing to help them. After a while, he cleaned up two rooms and prepared meals for them.

After a day's driving, several people were a little sleepy, so they went to the room to rest after talking for a while.

Tong Zhi'er, Tong Zhu'er, and Tong Zhaofu share a room, and Tong Zhixin and Ji Guzi share a room.

Tong Zhu'er tossed and turned, unable to sleep, thinking of Ji Guzi's blood-stained appearance during the day.

"Pearl, what's the matter?"

Tong Zhi'er noticed her abnormality and asked.

"Second Sister, Mr. Ji scares me a little." Tong Zhu'er hugged Tong Zhi'er's neck and said in a trembling voice.

Tong Zhi'er blamed herself for being careless, a child like Tong Zhu'er, who has never seen a battle of fighting and killing, naturally has fear and panic in his heart.

Tong Zhi'er went to see Tong Zhaofu again and found that he had fallen asleep, probably he was better than Tong Zhu'er.

"Zhu'er, don't be afraid, that gentleman is not a bad person." Tong Zhi'er comforted her, "When a bad person comes to beat him, he will inevitably bleed when he is fighting. hit..."

"Ah."

With Tong Zhi'er's comfort, Tong Zhu'er finally got better the next day.

Tong Zhixin thanked the old man who entertained them, gave him five taels of silver, and then got back into the carriage and started on their way.

I don't know if I know the way, or if I want to return home, the way back is very fast, and I arrived in the county just after noon.

Tong Zhixin parked the carriage in front of the shop, and the four shop assistants Zhaocai, Jinbao, Caiyuan, and Guangjin all came out to greet him.

"My master, my little master, my young master, my young lady."

Tong Zhi'er nodded, and asked several people to help Tong Zhixin move the contents of the carriage to the shop, then led Ji Guzi into the room and sat down.

Before departure, the shop has already prepared shelves for displaying goods. There are three rows in total, which are displayed on the east, west and north sides.In the middle was a large table with ten delicate little baskets filled with boiled peanuts.

The basket was made by Tong Zhixin himself. He has this skill, and under Tong Zhier's suggestion, he added some tricks to it. Every time a customer comes to the store, he will always be attracted by the appearance of the basket.

"Sit down, Mr. Ji."

Tong Zhi'er poured Ji Guzi a glass of water and said with a smile.

It's easier to do things with more people, and after a while, Tong Zhixin and the four assistants moved all the things into the store.

"Everyone, come here." Tong Zhi'er shouted, and when everyone stood up, he introduced Ji Guzi to them, "This is the new accountant in the shop, and you will work together from now on."

Seeing Ji Guzi's extraordinary bearing, the four said in unison, "Yes, my little master."

"Guangjin, take Ji Guzi to his room to have a look." Tong Zhi'er continued to order.

Jin Bao's eyes lit up, "Mr. Ji also lives in the shop?"

Tong Zhier nodded.

In the renovated shop, there is a business in the front and a kitchen in the back. After passing through a circular arch, there is a courtyard surrounded by walls. There are six rooms in total, three of which are for the folks who live far away from home, and the rest The three rooms are where Tong Zhixin and others rested when they couldn't go home in time.

Guang Jin looked at Ji Guzi, said respectfully and nervously: "Mr. Ji, please come with me."

Ji Guzi nodded lightly, and the two walked towards the backyard.

After buying the dry goods, Tong Zhi'er planned to put them up today, and immediately asked the big guys to put the dry goods into three categories on the east, west and north shelves.

Tong Zhi'er took a pen and paper to write and draw on the paper, calculating the price of dry goods.

"what is this?"

She was too immersed in her own thoughts, and the sudden male voice startled her.

He raised his head and looked at last Ji Guzi suspiciously.

"Why haven't I seen this before?"

Seeing that Tong Zhi'er didn't speak, Ji Guzi pointed at a place on the paper and asked again.

Looking at his hand, Tong Zhi'er somehow thought of Qin An.Qin An's fingers were shiny and fair, with a soft light of jade.In front of Ji Guzi's hand, the joints are distinct, slender and long.

Tong Zhi'er was stunned for a while, then responded: "These are Arabic numerals."

"Arabic numerals?"

"It's equivalent to our one, two, three, four, five..." Tong Zhi'er wrote one, two, three, four, five in Chinese characters on the paper while talking.

Ji Guzi looked at her deeply, and suddenly said: "How do you know such a number?"

Tong Zhi'er's face remained unchanged, "A person with blue eyes told me," Tong Zhi'er's eyes were lost in memories, "I remember when I was five years old, once..."

Tong Zhier casually made up a story about a blue-eyed person calling her a number, and a person with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division algorithms.Ji Guzi listened thoughtfully, but there was no emotion on his face.Tong Zhi'er didn't know whether he believed it or not, but even if he didn't believe it, he insisted that it was taught by others, and he couldn't help himself.

At this point, Tong Zhi'er suddenly felt a little regretful, she was so careless, why did she forget that there is a shrewd person like Ji Guzi in the shop who is not easy to fool?
Tong Zhi'er felt depressed as if he had lifted a rock and shot himself in the foot.

"Teach me."

While Tong Zhi'er was dreaming, he heard Ji Guzi's voice again.

"You want to learn?"

Ji Guzi nodded, "With such a good accounting method, as the accountant of Tongji Shop, I naturally have to learn it hard."

Tong Zhi'er is not a clumsy person, so he should give him what he knows.

There was a small sound in the shop, but after only a cup of tea, the sound stopped.

Tong Zhaofu looked over curiously, and Tong Zhi'er had already come out from behind the counter, sitting comfortably on a chair and drinking tea.

He walked lightly to Ji Guzi's side, moved a chair on tiptoe, climbed up, and watched excitedly as Ji Guzi took out the account book that Tong Zhi'er had remembered before and calculated.

"Mr. Ji, what the second sister taught you so soon?"

Ji Guzi raised his head, and nodded lightly to the excited Tong Zhaofu.

"Mr. Ji, you are so smart."

Tong Zhaofu looked at Ji Guzi with admiration at this moment, "Mr. Ji, the second sister said that it is easy for a smart person to be a scholar. You work as an accountant in our house. Don't you plan to be a scholar?"

Ji Guzi looked at Tong Zhaofu, "You want to be a scholar?"

"Well," Tong Zhaofu puffed up his chest and said proudly, "Second Sister said, when I am ten years old, I will be able to take the Tongsheng examination, and after three years, I will be able to take the scholar examination at the age of 13."

Ji Guzi glanced at Tong Zhi'er strangely, turned his head and said to Tong Zhaofu meaningfully: "There are many definitions of smartness, you can't pass the exam by being smart alone..."

Tong Zhaofu looked at him suspiciously, not understanding what Ji Guzi meant.

But Tong Zhi'er on the chair understood.

Examinations for talents, candidates, and champions are indeed not just for being smart.

The test questions given by the examiners have their own preferences. If you can know the examiner's preferences and which examiner is the one who set the questions during the scientific examination, Ah Fu can naturally carry out targeted training before the test and win steadily.

However, with the current appearance of their family, they don't know any high-ranking officials. In the future, Ah Fu will definitely put in ten times and a hundred times more effort than others to examine officials.

There are bends and straights in the road to the imperial examination.The crooked one is that Ah Fu is relying on himself alone; the straight one is that their family met a nobleman who supported Ah Fu.

However, it is so easy to meet noble people...

Tong Zhi'er thought of Qin An, and also the magistrate.

Well, now that there is an accountant in the shop, her father and uncle come to work in the shop every day, and she can spare time to take care of the relationship and pave the way for Ah Fu's future.

……

After Ji Guzi calculated the price, Tong Zhi'er wrote it down in the booklet and distributed a copy to each of the four assistants.Things in the shop were almost busy, Tong Zhi'er, Tong Zhu'er, Tong Zhaofu and Tong Zhixin were driving their carriage to the village.

Fang Cuiwei has been out of her mind for the past few days.

My husband, second daughter, third daughter and youngest son all went out of town, and only my eldest daughter was with me at home. Although the journey was not too far away, I just couldn't rest assured, worrying about this and that.However, with many thoughts in her mind, she dared not tell Tong Duo'er, for fear that she would also be frightened.

Hearing the sound of a carriage outside, Fang Cuiwei couldn't sit still, and quickly ran out of the house, staring at the shadow in the distance.

When she was within sight, Fang Cuiwei saw the man driving the car and couldn't stop her joy.

"Duo'er, Duo'er, your father and Zhi'er are back!"

Tong Duo'er, who was doing needlework in the room, heard Fang Cuiwei's happy voice, and immediately put the things aside and ran out of the room.

At this moment, Tong Zhixin is only one mile away from home in a carriage.

The two hurriedly closed the door and ran over here quickly.

"The child's father."

"father."

Fang Cuiwei and Tong Duoer shouted one after the other.

"Woo!" Tong Zhixin pulled the rein and stopped the carriage.

Tong Zhi'er, Tong Zhu'er and Tong Zhaofu drove the curtain first, looking at Fang Cuiwei and Tong Duo'er excitedly.

"Mother, eldest sister."

The two got into the carriage, Fang Cuiwei was sitting in front, Tong Duo'er was inside with Tong Zhi'er and others.

Tong Zhixin yelled "drive", and the horse pulled the carriage and ran leisurely along the road again.

"Why did you come back today? Did you encounter anything on the way there? Did you buy anything in the shop..."

Cuiwei on the top of the carriage asked Tong Zhixin in a rambling manner, and Tong Duo'er was also talking to Tong Zhi'er and others in the carriage.

"During the three days you went, mother was worried. She ate less food and talked less. After finishing her work, she always looked towards the door. Whenever she heard a sound, she would go out to have a look..."

"When you go out next time, you must bring your mother and elder sister with you," Tong Zhi'er said.

Tong Zhu'er looked at Tong Duo'er with a smile, "Eldest sister, why do you just talk about mother, how about you, do you miss us?"

Tong Duo'er's gentle eyes glanced over the faces of the three of them one by one, and she stretched out her hand to touch Tong Zhu'er's head, with a smile on her face, "Of course I miss you too. Zhi'er, Zhu'er, I, the head of the family, I made a new headband for you, and the one on your head is worn out, so it’s time to replace it with a new one.”

"The eldest sister is very kind."

As soon as Tong Zhu'er heard that there was a new hair tie for her hair, she rushed towards Tong Duo'er, unable to get out of her arms.

"Pearl, quickly let go of Eldest Sister, you are hugging her too tightly, Eldest Sister is almost out of breath."

Seeing that Tong Duo'er's face was flushed, Tong Zhi'er was obviously being pulled too tightly by Tong Zhu'er, so she hurriedly said.

Tong Zhu'er looked up, and sure enough, she saw the uncomfortable expression on her face, and immediately jumped out of her arms, but it's a pity that this is a carriage, the scope of movement is limited, and for some reason, the carriage bumped a bit, and she Jumping back, he hit his head on the board, making a "dong" sound.

Tong Duo'er and the others were startled.

Tong Zhixin at the front also stopped the carriage, opened the curtain and looked at them worriedly, "What's the matter? Is anyone hurt?"

Tong Duo'er rubbed her arm that hurt from the bump, and said, "Zhu'er hit her head."

Fang Cui looked anxiously at Tong Zhu'er, only to see that she was rubbing the back of her head with her hand, but she had a naive smile on her face.

"Does it hurt? Show mother quickly!"

Tong Zhu'er obediently stretched her head over to let Fang Cuiwei watch carefully.

"...Fortunately, nothing happened... I don't know who put a stone on the road, really..." While Fang Cuiwei was speaking, Tong Zhixin jumped out of the carriage and moved the stone away.

For the rest of the road, Tong Zhixin drove carefully.

Inside the carriage, Tong Zhi'er gently tapped Tong Zhu'er's head with her index finger, jokingly said: "Be honest this time."

This made Tong Zhu'er look ashamed, turned her head aside in embarrassment, and looked at Tong Duo'er for help.

"Alright, Zhi'er, stop making fun of her."

Tong Duoer said with a smile.

……

The carriage stopped at the door of the house, Luo Shi heard a voice coming out of the house, saw Tong Zhixin and others, ran over in surprise, "Fourth brother, are you back?"

"En." Tong Zhixin responded with a smile.

Tong Zhi'er got off the carriage and greeted Luo Shi one by one.

Several people entered the house, and Tong Zhixin moved the rest of the carriage to the house.

Tong Zhier distributes gifts to everyone one by one.

"Mother, eldest sister," she handed the jewelry and rouge to Fang Cuiwei and Tong Duo'er respectively.

Looking at this scene, Luo Shi couldn't stop envious eyes.

"Second aunt, this is for you."

Hearing what Tong Zhier said suddenly, Luo raised his head in surprise, and in front of him were the pieces of cloth that Tong Zhier handed over, the material is not cheap just by looking at it.

Luo Shi was flattered and said: "Zhi'er, this..."

"Second aunt, hold it quickly, Zhi'er's hands are sore from holding it." Tong Zhi'er giggled.

"I can't take... Zhi'er, you should take it yourself." Luo Shi declined.

Tong Zhu'er came over at this time, "Second Uncle, we bought it ourselves, it's for you, take it quickly."

"Yes, Second Sister-in-law, it's almost autumn, and you're still wearing summer clothes, you should catch a cold." Fang Cuiwei also said.

When the Luo family was separated, they left the house clean, and the old lady didn't let them take anything. From summer to now, they only wore two summer clothes, Tong Zhixin and Fang Cuiwei. old clothes.

Tong Zhaoyin works as a waiter in a restaurant, and the money he earns is kept by Luo Shi, and Luo Shi also keeps it well, never spending any money, and saves it for him so that he can go to the Zhou family to hire him.

It is already mid-October now, and the weather will get colder and colder in the future. After all, the old clothes are not as warm as the new ones.When going to Qingzhou this time, Tong Zhi'er had long planned to introduce new material to the family.

The second uncle Tong Zhide's family was very kind to their family. They secretly came to help when their family built thatched huts. Tong Zhi'er will always remember that they gave charcoal in a timely manner.After that, Erbo's family also helped them a lot.

For Tong Zhide's family, they are grateful, they are well, and they also want to be well.

Looking at the big guy's kindly smiling face, Luo Shi finally couldn't bear to refuse any more, and happily accepted it.

"Fourth brother and sister, let's go together when we make clothes."

she says.

Fang Cuiwei naturally understood Luo Shi's meaning. The two of them made clothes together, and she wanted to help herself by making the clothes well.

Fang Cui smiled and nodded.

"Huh? What is this?"

Fang Cuiwei exclaimed when she found a very heavy bag.

Luo Shi put the material aside and looked over curiously.

"This is wheat."

Tong Zhaofu said with bright eyes.

Fang Cuiwei opened the bag of wheat, "It's really wheat. Fortunately, our family has a stone mill. Let's make noodles tonight."

"Mother, this wheat is for making seeds, not for eating."

Tong Zhuer explained.

Do seeds?
Fang Cuiwei and Luo's colleagues glanced at each other, then at Tong Zhixin.

Tong Zhixin nodded, "It's for making seeds. Zhi'er said, it's a pity that our land has been empty all the time, but I bought wheat seeds and came back, intending to reorganize ten acres of land, so I put the wheat seeds on the ground. Sprinkle it on."

"Can this be done?"

Fang Cuiwei hesitated.

Tong Zhi'er came over and looked at her with a smile, "Mother, let's try if we succeed or not."

"Yes," Luo Shi also smiled, "Zhi'er is a smart girl with ideas, and she may bring new vitality to our village."

Luo Shi was referring to the survival of wheat, which can improve the lives of poor people. In this way, Tong Zhier's move is a great act of charity.

It was rare that Tong Zhixin and others came back from a long trip, so they stayed with Luo Shi for dinner.

Of course, the dinner was made according to the order Tong Zhide and Tong Zhaoyin came back, so that when they came back, they could have a hot meal with everyone.

At the dinner table, Tong Zhixin talked about growing wheat.

For a true farmer, farm work is a big deal.Tong Zhi'er's shop has a clerk, and now it has an accountant. Tong Zhi'er used to be in town, and they don't necessarily have to go there.

So Tong Zhide and Tong Zhixin discussed it, and the two of them will stay at home tomorrow to reorganize the ten mu of land, trying to reorganize the land early so that they can plant wheat.

The best days of winter wheat growing are behind us, time is running out, and everything has to be done as quickly as possible.

Oxen and plows are required for land preparation. In the village, this is public property and is placed in the village head's house.

Early the next morning, Tong Zhixin went to the village chief's house.

"The fourth child is here."

Seeing him, the village chief greeted him happily.

"Village Chief," Tong Zhixin called him respectfully.

The village head put down his work and led him into the house, "Come on, don't stand outside, sit inside...Daughter-in-law, pour two cups of tea quickly."

"Not the village chief, I have something to do, so I won't go into the house." Tong Zhixin waved his hand.

The village chief asked, "What's the matter?"

Tong Zhixin explained why he came here.

The village chief was at a loss, "Now the farm work is done. Even if you borrow the plow and oxen to prepare the land, you will have to do it again next spring."

"Village Chief, I am preparing the land to grow wheat."

Tong Zhixin thought about it, and told the village chief what he was going to do, regardless of whether he would laugh or not.

Sure enough, the village head looked at him with complicated and hesitant eyes.

"Village chief, you don't need to persuade me, just lend me the plow and the ox."

Tong Zhixin rushed to speak before the village head spoke.

The village chief sighed, and went to the house where the cattle and the plow were kept, and asked Tong Zhixin to carry the plow out, and then went to the cowshed to pull the cattle out, and then handed them over to him.

"Village Chief, thank you very much."

Borrowing the things needed for land preparation, Tong Zhixin didn't keep much. He carried the plow on his shoulder, and led the ox in his right hand, and drove to his own field.

Along the way, it attracted the attention of the villagers frequently.

When someone asked him what he was going to do, Tong Zhixin only said that he was going to clean up the land, but he didn't say anything else.

I couldn't find any news from him. After a while, someone couldn't hold back his curiosity and went to the village chief's house.

After half an hour, the news that Tong Zhixin's family wanted to prepare the land to plant wheat spread like snowflakes in the village.

Men pass on men, women pass on women, and when they get home, the wife tells the husband who doesn't know, or the husband tells the wife who doesn't know.

"The fourth child of the Tong family wants to prepare the land to plant wheat?"

"Yes, our village has grown peanuts for generations, but I've never heard of a wheat grower. I guess it's not viable. Otherwise, why would no one grow them?"

"That's right, the fourth child of Tong's family has made a fortune, so he doesn't take this little money seriously."

Every household is guessing like this, saying that Tong Zhixin's family has become rich, so they have become rich and powerful, and they don't take money seriously.

When Tong Zhixin and others heard such rumors, they just laughed it off.

With the concerted efforts of Tong Zhixin and Tong Zhide, the ten mu of land was reorganized in the shortest five days.

(End of this chapter)