Huanxi Farm: Pick up a husband for farming

Chapter 35 The River God Festival

Li Luzi narrowed his eyes sinisterly, still held his dagger high and did not put it down, looked at the man suspiciously and said, "What kind of tricks are you playing? I will warn you, if you dare to play tricks on me, I will tell you not to ask for your life." Can't die!"

Hearing Li Luzi's threat, the man didn't care, smiled slightly, and said, "Strong man, let me just say one thing, I have a big enmity with the Rong family just like you, so can you believe it?" Me?"

Seeing his sincerity, Li Luzi asked, "What enmity do you have with them?"

The man gritted his teeth and spat: "Cutting people's fortunes, killing their parents, there is no vengeance! To tell you the truth, I just moved to Jiangshui Town not long ago. I'm a mere incompetent, but I also opened a small business." The store sells some stewed chicken and ducks, etc., who knows where a Rong’s fried chicken shop popped up, and the small shop of Xiao Ke’s family was squeezed out! Xiao Ke had no choice but to learn how to open a fried chicken shop. Chicken shop, but in just two or three days, those customers returned to Rong’s house. How can I bear this outrageous hatred! As the saying goes, don’t compete for steamed buns. The house is beautiful, so I sneaked to Rong's house in the middle of the night, and I happened to see two strong men, so it can be seen that this is not fate?"

Li Luzi also heard about the newly opened fried chicken restaurant in the town, so after hearing what the man said, he dispelled his doubts about him, rolled his eyes, and a smile appeared on his face, saying: "You Having said that, then I will trust you for the time being! Let’s go, let’s find a secluded place and have a good talk.”

The man also showed a satisfied smile, turned sideways and made a gesture of invitation, and said with a smile: "Please, two strong men."

Li Luzi and Zhao Zhuzi followed the man who claimed to be Luo Can, and went straight to Luo's house. Luo Can took them to an empty room, asked them to wait a while, and called an old woman to serve them a bunch of peanuts, A stack of pickled cucumbers, a pot of stewed beef, and a few glasses of wine, I apologized and said I would not accompany you.

The two of them hadn't had a good meal for many days, and they grabbed the stewed beef and stuffed it into their mouths desperately, as if they were reincarnated from starving ghosts.After eating and drinking, Zhao Zhuzi said: "Brother Li, do you think this Luo Can is reliable?"

Li Luzi smiled darkly, and said: "I don't care if he is reliable or not, I just know that he and the Rong family really have an enmity and it can't be wrong. If that's the case, then he is our friend."

Zhao Zhuzi used to spend his days and nights learning from others. He was a strong mother and had no opinions since he was a child. Now he is only following the lead of Donkey Li. Whatever he says, even if he has some thoughts in his heart, he dare not say it. He just waits. Li Luzi gave him orders.

Luo Can came back after a while, first confessed to the two, then punished himself with three cups, and sat down in front of the two after doing a lot of extravagant work, which made them very useful and friendly to Luo Can Not a lot.

Li Luzi could see that Luo Can was a smiling tiger, so he didn't bother to beat around the bush, and cut straight to the point: "What does Boss Luo want our brothers to do?"

Luo Can smiled lightly, poured himself a cup of tea, and took a sip slowly. When the two people who were hanging were upset, they opened their mouths in a leisurely manner.

It turns out that the name Jiangcheng has a origin, because there was a big river flowing through this place before, so it was named so.

It's just that the big river is raging, and every time the flood season comes, the water level will rise sharply. After ten years, there will be floods for five or six years.

Later, a master came out and said that it is necessary to choose a beautiful girl with yellow flowers, dress up and send it to the river to be the river god's wife, so that the anger of the river god can be calmed down, and there will be no floods at every turn.

So Jiangcheng has had the festival of the River God Festival since then. Although with the diversion of the river, it gradually dried up, leaving only the dry riverbed, and there is no flood in ancient times, but the traditional festival of the River God Festival has been preserved. down.

Every time it comes to the beginning of winter, an ingenious and beautiful girl is selected, dressed in a costume, sitting in a sedan chair with eight loads, and walks along the dry river bank. People sing and dance after her, praising the kindness of the river god.

The River God Festival is a festival that the locals value very much, and it is almost in time for the Spring Festival, so when it comes to the River God Festival, every household will definitely mobilize the whole family and gather in the town to participate in the festival.

And Luo Can's plan is to take advantage of the chaos of the crowd, let Li donkey and Zhao Zhuzi tie up Rong Wan and send them to him. When he was mature, in order to preserve Rong Wan's reputation, the Rong family could only swallow their anger and marry Rong Wan to him as a concubine. After he married the Rong family, he could openly ask the Rong family for the secret recipe for fried chicken.

Luo Chan is also very intelligent, and in just a few days he saw the problem. He knew that although his shop could gain a momentary success by relying on crooked ways, in the long run, it still needs fried chicken to be successful. Hold on, that's why he came up with such a bad idea, planning to annex Rong's fried chicken shop completely, with the idea of ​​marrying Rong Wan by force.

He promised the two of them that as long as the matter is completed, he will give each of them 100 taels of silver, and he will send the two of them to other places with a car fee. The conditions he gave are very generous.

When Li Luzi heard the words, he smiled ferociously, and immediately assured Luo Can that on the day of the River God Sacrifice, they would definitely send Rong Wan, complete beard and tail, to Luo Can. When Luo Can heard this, his chubby face smiled A flower, a stack of "Thanks to the strong man, thank you to the strong man."

After the three agreed on this insidious plan, Luo Can asked the two to take a bath, changed into clean and brand new clothes, and left with a smile on his face.

In the early morning of the next day, after Rong Wan helped Rong Ming and Rong Shui to sell fried chicken at the Rong's shop, she realized their hard work, and she was really moved.

Fortunately, although Luo's family has attracted the attention of many people for a while by relying on low-level methods, after the novelty wears off, they still have to rely on their strength to speak. People who bought fried chicken in a daze and returned home gave their family members a taste of the fried chicken, and they all said it was unpalatable. Then they realized that they spent a lot of money, and they were angry. After thinking about it, it was still the authentic delicious food of the Rong family. He went to the Rong's house to buy some to make up for their tongues ravaged by Luo's fried chicken.

As a result, the number of customers in front of the Rong family store gradually increased, and many customers said loudly in front of the Rong family brothers and sisters: "Your Rong family's fried chicken is still authentic! There are some people with bad intentions, even if there are more tricks , whether it tastes good or not, we don't buy it."

After hearing this, many people echoed: "That's right! It's better to belong to the Rong family! From now on, I'll be looking for the Rong family!"

Rong Shui listened to everyone's words, smiled sweetly, and said with a sweet mouth, "Thank you, uncles and brothers! Our Rong family is not a person who doesn't know what to do. We are very grateful for everyone's support. So in order to give back to all the folks, we decided that every first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, customers who come to our house to buy fried chicken will be given a small gift. As for what the small gift is, let us look forward to it then! "

Everyone applauded, and the scene was full of joy and harmony. It seemed that the fight between the Luo Rong family had come to an end, but at this moment, there was a haze hiding in the corner, watching all this secretly.

For example, Luo Can, who was hiding in a corner and secretly observing the Rong's shop, had a white and fat Maitreya Buddha face without a smile on his face at the moment, gloomy as water, and his eyes were venomous.But when he put his eyes on Rong Wan who came out to help, he instantly became obscene and lustful again.

He stroked his plump double chin, and thought to himself that based on Rong Wan's beauty, he would not suffer a lot from taking Rong Wan as a concubine. He was only 14 years old after the new year, and he was at the age of a flower bone, so let him take this concubine. Let's pick the bright flowers.When the time comes, the Rong family's secret method of making fried chicken will be the dowry of this flowery bone.

Luo Can showed a perverted smile, put her fat belly behind her back with both hands, and walked away in square steps.

Rong Wan, who was busy going in and out, suddenly felt a chill behind her back, she was clever and froze on the spot, seeing her strange appearance, Rong Shui asked curiously: "Sister, what's wrong?"

Rong Wan came back to her senses, and smiled at her: "It's nothing, come on, give me this, you go and work on that."

She didn't say it out, and at that time her back felt a chill, as if something bad was about to happen.But she was afraid that speaking out would hurt Rong Shui and worried that it was related to the Rong's fried chicken restaurant, and she also felt that she might be thinking too much, so she laughed at herself and put it aside.

The weather is getting colder day by day, and life is going on as usual. Many people are reluctant to go out. There are many fewer pedestrians on the street, but the number of customers in Rong's shop has not decreased, but there is a faint increase trend.

This is because the fried meat itself has a high calorie content. After eating it, the stomach is warm and can provide more calories. In addition, the fried chicken just out of the pan is hot. Wrap it carefully in oil paper and put it in your arms. It was like putting on a small heater, and it took a long time for the temperature to gradually drop, so many people originally planned to go out to buy some other meat to go home for the Teeth Festival, but in the end they all returned home with steaming fried chicken.

Luo's Fried Chicken Shop is just the opposite. There are fewer and fewer people. In the end, there are no glamorous ladies at the door to attract customers. By the end of the day, the number of customers can be counted on two palms.Compared with the Rong family, this kind of dismal management seemed even more embarrassing.

Luo Can looked at the deserted shop, gritted his teeth with a stern face, the fat on his face was trembling with anger, and seeing the Rong's house in full swing, he felt so resentful that he wished he could take a broom and drive those customers back to his house immediately shop.

The distant house of his local squire saw that his shop did not make much money, and looked at him a little ugly, but for the sake of his deceased father, he didn't say anything, but his attitude was obviously indifferent There were many, which made him very anxious.He knew that if he wanted to take root in Jiangshui Town, he had to hug his uncle's thigh tightly.

(End of this chapter)