Wang Siliu was working in the yard, and he didn't recognize Xu Hao, who walked in front of him, otherwise he would have to jump up happily.

Every time Xu Hao came back, he either held a church meeting or invited the troupe, and held a lively three-day banquet, allowing the villagers to drag their families and eat and take, which seemed to be the festival that the villagers were most looking forward to.

Wang Siliu, who had been busy for a long time, was a little tired, and came out and squatted at the door, he had only one hobby in the past two years, that is, smoking leaf cigarettes, at that time, Xu Hao was holding a homemade cigarette roll, and gave him one, but Wang Siliu became addicted to smoking. After his planting, he harvested fresh vegetables such as bean pods in the corner of the field, and he could also harvest enough leaf tobacco for him to smoke for a year.

Lit the cigarette, Wang Siliu took a beautiful puff, and Xu Hao, who happened to be walking over, looked back and saw it, turned back, and asked, "What tobacco leaves?" Bring me one. ”

"Yo? Isn't this the third master? Hello! Wang Siliu stood up in surprise.

"Come back for two days, come, let's smoke a cigarette and chat." Xu Hao squatted down directly.

Wang Siliu was a little flattered, and hurriedly rolled a cigarette and handed it over, Xu Hao ignited it with the butt of the cigarette butt, and took a puff gently.

Xu Hao was a smoker in his previous life, and he would occasionally smoke two puffs when he was fine in this life, but he usually didn't smoke, and he didn't want to set a bad example for his children.

"How's this year's harvest going?" Xu Hao asked casually.

Wang Siliu grinned and said: "We are an old-fashioned style, seasonal solar terms, ploughing and sowing, what can be planted in each piece of land, it is clear, as long as the weather is not twisted, the rain is timely, only two seasons a year are full of harvest." Thanks to you, I have some money left over in the past few years. ”

"Hmm." Xu Hao smiled and lifted the cigarette roll, and the two of them took a puff like a toast.

Wang Siliu is a well-known diligent person, and he knows that the surplus money is saved by his hard work. Farmers like the Wang family are never idle all year round, and they can only take a break during the Chinese New Year. But even in those days, according to custom, clean the house, dig open ditches, clear the garbage, and accumulate some miscellaneous fertilizer by the way, and make a few piles of compost.

Usually every day, he would blow up the family before dawn, work hard all day, and go home with the moon on his back at night. After dinner, I have to make up some things to sell and earn some pocket money. The bamboo cages, bamboo baskets, mandarin duck pockets, and bamboo mats used at home are all woven by themselves. With this craft, in addition to earning money for oil and salt, he can also tear a few zhang of cloth for his children and ask his wife to sew clothes and make shoes for the family.

Xu Haojian said: "It's best to do something with spare money, my son is older, right?" The daughter also has to marry and earn more money. Why don't you buy a calf from me, and you don't charge interest, and you can pay it back when you have money. ”

"The third master and I want to go together." Wang Siliu was very excited, but politely declined: "Thank you Third Master." I've already chosen, so I won't bother you. ”

Xu Hao nodded, how much did he know that this Yao Ming of Xiaojia Village belonged to the kind of honest person who never wanted to ask for help. That's right. In his life, Wang Siliu is proud of being able to make the family eat and clothe without asking for help.

In addition to smoking, he also likes to drink, drinking is very modest, never alcoholic, he has always been to meet some unpleasant neighbors. People who spend money to pour half a jar of wine down, and those who use wine to drown their sorrows are very disapproving, thinking that they are too ambitious as a man.

Whenever he also buys a little bit of wine to drink. It's really too tired to do it, or the farm work in the field is too busy, so ask a few short-term workers to help, and according to the rules of the countryside, drink and invite short-term workers to drink, and relieve their fatigue by the way.

All the things to eat are grown by themselves, the food outside is a copper coin will not be spent, rice and wheat are not willing to eat, usually his family only eats corn corn sweet potatoes this kind of coarse grain, only the New Year, to honor the ancestors to worship the gods, only to buy a few catties of meat back to fight the tooth sacrifice, their own pigs are sold.

Now that he has some money in his hand, Wang Siliu, who is good at careful planning, has pondered a lot, and there is nothing more profitable than lending money like Master Tong. But he didn't dare to do it, let alone let go of the "Hades Debt" that hurt heaven and reason, not because he was afraid of retribution, but because he knew very well that he had no power, unlike the Tong family, he could send someone to rob other people's pots, go down to other people's doors, or hire two scoundrels to live in the creditor's house to make trouble, and his debts would be yellow, and even the capital would be lost.

I also thought about doing some small business, or going to other places to resell goods, but the farm work entangled him, and he couldn't get away, and he was afraid that he would be made up by those officials and tax collectors along the way, and the goods would be detained, and he would have to pay a ransom.

In the end, he planned to raise a big buffalo, which was most needed for farming, and he had been thinking about it for more than three or five years. It costs money to borrow oxen to plow the land, and every time he struggles to mop the plow in the field, he thinks about how good it would be if he had a cow. It is a trivial matter to have cattle and less effort, but the most important thing is that from now on, you can not miss the agricultural time, you can cultivate deeply, and you can harvest more grain.

With cattle, in turn they can be rented to those who lack cattle, and the rent is quite a lot. When the farm is idle, you can pull it out to transport people and goods, and sit in the car and whip it, how beautiful is it?

Xu Hao's idea coincided with him, and sure enough, Xu Sanye was an expert, which made Wang Siliu admire him very much. But in fact, his little extra money is okay to buy a cow leg, and it is far from a whole cow with four legs.

Five years ago, he had bought a cow in partnership with several yeoman farmers, and he had one leg, but the four families partnered, and when the farm was busy, they couldn't tear the skin, and each family used the cow to death, and they didn't care about it at all, and as a result, the cow was half dead, and he withdrew when he saw this.

At that time, he decided that he had to buy a water cow, even if he couldn't afford it, he would use it if he bought a cow to feed it.

Since then, buying a water cow has become Wang Siliu's life goal, he must start his family business and be invincible, so as not to give the Tong family who hopes that he is unlucky and the masters below who collect money, silently plot their family business, only to buy a cow, after all, people will always have the day of aging.

When you have a big bull, you can fly, you can save more money every year, you can work for two or three years, you can also take advantage of the danger of others, lend money to those shabby children who eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, make a lot of profits, pawn other people's fields at a low price, and then buy land and land, and live a happy life where rich people sit and collect rent, how comfortable it should be!

Whenever he thought of this, Wang Siliu was happy in his heart, and he smoked a cigarette and calculated. He never told anyone about this dream, and he didn't ask for people's character, so he never thought that there were any reliable friends in the world, and he didn't even tell it to his family, and buried the dream deep in his heart.

It is based on Xu Hao's construction, and any person from Xiaojia Village will gladly accept it. And with Xu Hao's identity, how could he take the opportunity to plot against the villagers? Of course, Wang Siliu himself knows it, but he just wants to rely on himself, otherwise even if he realizes his dream, the taste will not be sweet. Ordinary peasants do not want to be favored by others, nor do they want to be gossiped about by the villagers.

In short, he refused, and Xu Hao saw that his tone was resolute, so he just left.

After smoking a cigarette, Xu Hao said goodbye and left, Wang Siliu was still squatting there, thinking about it, thinking about it, and even more fascinated. Holding the cigarette stick that had long been extinguished, it seemed that the beautiful and sturdy big bull had been bought, and his eyes lit up with excitement.

Blink an eye, take a closer look, and oh! It turned out to be the cow of the second master of Tong's house in the big yard, and the cow herding baby led the cow back from the hillside.

Wang Siliu couldn't help but stand up and chase over to take a look, to see how beautiful this cow was, flicking his tail proudly, and slowly stepping on four legs.

No one expected that Xu Hao's words would completely obsessed Lord Wang. After that, I had to think about it for a while every day, and I often sat at the dinner table and ate my meal, and suddenly remembered the big bull, and I couldn't help but giggle.

Originally, he was a person who didn't like to laugh, which inevitably caused the surprise of his family, and they asked, "What are you laughing at?" Got a golden doll? ”

Wang Siliu put away his smile and said coldly: "It's better than picking up a golden doll." ”

At night, when he woke up from a dream, he suddenly heard the sound of cows grazing in his hut, and hurriedly turned over and went to the hut to see what was going on.

The grass hut is empty in the moonlight, how can there be any cows eating grass? The disappointed Wang Siliu went back to the house and continued to sleep, and sank into his sweet dreams in a daze, dreaming that on the threshing field in the village, he was going round and round in the herd, looking at the fat and strong big bull that was being fed, and he was very proud, or looking at a thin cow that was not well raised, he straightened up the cow's mouth, carefully counted his teeth, and saw how old the cow was, touched the back ribs of the cow, and estimated how strong the cow was.

But every time I woke up, I still slept on my own kang, opened my eyes and looked at the stars in the sky outside the window, and sighed, it was time to wake up the family, it turned out to be just another dream.

Soon Wang Siliu couldn't help it, and he hurried to the bull market when he was empty. Walk around the herd, touch this cow, look at the teeth of the other, open your ears and listen to what experienced people bite their ears to say.

Or standing in front of the buyer and seller and watching the bargain be the most exciting time for him, as if he was the lucky buyer. Or just stand in front of a water cow, look carefully, the yellow fluff on the back is very soft to the touch, the hooves are turned up to see, very good foot strength, even the cow pulled out, it doesn't seem to smell, with the fragrance of grass.

He looked at the mouth again, it won't be wrong, the cow is less than five years old, and it is the time to make a big effort. It's a pity that its owner doesn't care much, he doesn't feed him with all his heart, his fat is not very good, and the cow seems to be staring at him with amorous eyes, and he looks very sad.

"If I had this cow to raise, I would never have raised it like this." He was in a daze when a man from a cow came over, thinking it was a buyer, and asked, "Is this cow right?" As he spoke, he stretched out his sleeve to negotiate with him.

At this moment, Wang Siliu suddenly woke up, hurriedly put his hand behind his back, and muttered, "No, I'm just looking, seeing." After speaking, he lowered his head and hurriedly left the bull market. (To be continued......)