novelaction Chapter 208 Family Heirloom
Chapter 208 Family Heirloom
Several people laughed.
When we entered the village, we met some of the original residents. When they saw how many things they were carrying on their carts, they were all shocked and envious. "You're back and bought so many things. It's not cheap, is it? How much money did it cost?"
Li greeted, "Hey, isn't this a bare house with nothing, not even a table for eating, and our family doesn't have much. These days there happens to be a craftsman working at home. Don't be afraid of you laughing at him, but he eats every meal squatting on the ground with his bowl in his hand, like a beggar, which is really not decent. I gritted my teeth and spent my savings to buy these, and I bought them at the cheapest price. Fortunately, the government exempted our taxes this year, otherwise we would have starved to death."
Yes, everyone thought about how they were when they first arrived, with nothing and only the things on the ox cart, so they still needed the most basic things.
The two sides exchanged a few words of greeting and then parted.
But watching them pulling away with the ox cart, with all the brand new furniture, basins, tables and chairs on the cart, it was still eye-catching.
"It's really weird. Nowadays, the refugees are living better than us. I don't know what the world outside is like. If I can't stay in the village anymore, I will go and escape one day. Maybe I will have money when I come back."
The person nearby couldn't stand it anymore and spat at him, "What the hell are you dreaming about? You think fleeing is fun, you only see those who are still alive, why don't you ask about the dead? I tell you, there are always deaths in a refugee, look at the Zhou family who just passed by, they look powerful, don't they?
I heard that their old man can hunt, but even so, this family has lost or died. It's so tragic. This old man is the master that the girl from the Zhou family recognized on the way. Her own grandparents are dead. There is not even a young and strong person in the family. I heard that they are gone too. One of the children died, one was lost, and one went crazy. This is because they are very capable. At least no one starved to death. If you go to escape, I'm afraid you will come back crying after running away for less than two miles. If you run into a few rogues, you don't know if you can come back alive."
It was the first time for many people to hear this. They asked, “How do you know so much?”
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The people behind were talking about it. Zhou Guo and his companions were driving the ox cart home. When they met several other families working in the fields, they started greeting each other.
The others looked at the wooden furniture on their carts and their eyes lit up. "You all went to the market to buy furniture today, why didn't you ask us? If we go together, we can buy more and get a better price. We don't have anything at home, and we are just wondering when to go buy something. So, what are the prices of these things here?"
Zhou Guo told the prices one by one.
Several people clapped their hands, "What a great relationship, you guys were able to negotiate this price for all these things, I'll ask those families to go together later, if everyone buys more, it should be cheaper. It's only after we came out that we realized that although our family was poor and the things were a bit broken, at least we had them. Now that we're in a new place, it's not easy to buy a decent home, and junk can be worth a lot, how much does it cost."
Li said, "That's not the case. How much money do you think two strings of silver is? Even if we save money in previous years, a family may not be able to spend that much in a year."
Everyone agreed and began to recall the hard times in the past, how hard life was, how food was scarce, how the children didn't even have decent clothes, and there were even some poor people in the village who only had one set of clothes for the whole family...
The old man felt uncomfortable listening to this and walked away quickly.
Zhou Mi frowned as he listened.
Zhou Guo listened as if he was listening to a story. The more he listened, the more silent he became. It turned out that everyone's life was so difficult. If they hadn't encountered such a wonderful adventure on the road, if they hadn't met the gentleman, without these, they would probably be living a life of having no food to eat, eating grass roots and gnawing tree bark.
"But now everything is fine. Fortunately, we have the old man and your Guoguo. Otherwise, our life would be similar to others. I just don't know how the group of people who followed Zheng Xiucai to the capital are doing."
"Hey, why are you still worrying about them? Who are the people who followed the scholar? Either they have a family background or they are young and strong. They are all good. At that time, most of them followed him. With so many people together, no one dared to do anything. They should have arrived by now. The capital is the doorstep of the emperor. Their lives must be much better than ours."
Everyone nodded, feeling a little sad. They were all people who had lived together for several lifetimes, and were more or less related. Now they might not see each other again for the rest of their lives, so how could they not feel sad?
Seeing that no one was talking, Zhou Guo urged Li, "Mom, we should go now. I have to go to the fields with you."
Just think about sad things for a while, don’t think about them for too long, as it can hurt your health.
After saying that, he looked at the others and said with a smile, "Aunts, you go first, I'll be there soon, just don't work too fast, and wait for me."
Everyone laughed at her, "Then you better hurry up."
After returning home, Zhou Guo helped unload the things from the cart. He held up a table in one hand and four stacked benches in the other, and put them briskly in a corner of the shed.
The workers who were digging the well originally wanted to lend a hand, but when they looked up and saw Zhou Guo's horrifying scene, they were stunned for a moment!
They all suspected that the table and chairs were made of paper, otherwise how could a little girl have so much strength?
There was a young craftsman who looked not very old. He came up and tried it out of disbelief. After he lifted it up with great effort, he finally believed that it was a real table. He looked at Zhou Guo with a strange look in his eyes.
Li said quickly: "She is stronger than ordinary people, just like her father. Her father is also stronger than ordinary people."
This was a reason she had finally come up with. A family tradition is always better than one that comes out of nowhere.
When they heard that it was a family tradition, they breathed a sigh of relief and waved their hands, saying, "It's better to be stronger so that no one can bully you. I also want to be that strong, but it's a pity that our ancestors didn't have that much strength."
Everyone began to envy him again. Yes, if they had this much strength, they wouldn't have to work so hard to dig wells here. They could do anything and make a fortune.
When I think about it this way, I feel that it is a waste of energy to put so much energy on such a little child.
The workers had originally looked down on Zhou Guo because there was no decent man in the family. But now they saw how strong Zhou Guo was. Besides, there were no young and strong men in the family, but there were many grown-up children. They thought that she was not the only one who had such strength. The others had more or less strength too. So they started to work very seriously.