When you come out of the small station in this county, you can see the vast solitude around. The living rental that can be seen everywhere in future generations is nowhere to be found in this county.

However, if you want to enter the mountain where Gu Zheng stockade lives, you still have dozens of kilometers of simple foot journey.

Even if he climbs deep into the mountains along the cliffs, he must first reach the mountain of Tujia.

"Suck, giggle..."

A donkey barked at the door of the small station.

An old man with a long cigarette bag and pot in his mouth and full of vicissitudes showed his head from a donkey cart full of straw. Some were eager to try and some were ashamed to speak. He looked around at Gu Zheng. His lips trembled... But he couldn't open it.

At first glance, this is to pull people to make some money, but they can't open their mouth because of face or fear.

Gu Zheng was not in a hurry. After seeing that no one came out of the station, he leaned close to uncle's car and chatted like catching a fire with each other.

"Old man, borrow a fire?"

Using the local dialect, the relationship between the two people was brought closer at once.

After seeing the clothes Gu Zheng was wearing and hearing the words in his mouth, the expression on his face relaxed.

After remembering the difficulty of a child going out alone, he took out a vegetable nest from his dry food pocket and planned to let the hungry and cold family fill their stomachs.

Gu Zheng, who had never broken it, just smiled and pushed his pocket. Instead, he pointed to the animal skin water bag hanging around the uncle's waist and said, "no, ask for a sip of water from Grandpa."

"The water in the village is sweet."

There is no smell of tap water or disinfectant.

After hearing this, the eldest brother was happy. Without hesitation, he untied the water bag and planned to give the pleasing young man a sweet mouth.

When the two handed over, Gu Zheng handed the front door he had pulled out to the uncle's hand. There were as many as five or six. Under the uncle's surprised eyes, Gu Zheng said something close as if nothing had happened.

"Grandpa, try my cigarette. It's no worse than dry tobacco. It's the same!"

After the old man was stunned, he put two cigarettes on his burning pipe. One was held in his mouth by Gu Zheng, and the other... Was stuffed into the gap between his fingers.

Come on, listen to good advice. Old people haven't tasted cigarettes yet.

Mr. Tian, who has smoked a cigarette bag and pot all his life, smoked the cigarette handed over by his noble man on the first night of private work.

And two men smoke together, which is the first step in their relationship.

The two bored people in the middle of the night, starting with tobacco, finally got to the point.

"Grandpa, you see how miserable I am. I have to catch dozens of miles of night road later."

"Our long-distance bus in Anning County doesn't leave at 8:30 p.m."

"If a car can pull me to the edge of Shili mountain, let alone fifty cents, I'll give you a dollar."

"A piece?" after hearing the super high price, uncle Tian shook his hand holding the cigarette and almost burned a piece of skin off his old rough hand.

"One dollar, isn't it? Yazi, you get in the car and I'll pull you over. I'm such a kind-hearted man. This dollar must earn you."

It's really my father. I don't have friends if I'm so honest.

But this is the final result Gu Zheng wants.

With a cigarette, he persuaded the old man to take the first step in private work, and brought a poor middle farmer with Miao Honggen into a backwarder who made money by speculation.

Not only that, after the journey of dozens of miles came down, Gu Zheng talked about the wealth of old man Tian.

Gu Zheng used his powerful deception ability to pull the first leader of the transport team for the people in Mengshan village.

This uncle, who lives in Anning County, the first step to becoming rich is to pull a high amount of private work for a dollar.

When he returned home with this warm note, his mind was still as messy as a pot of freshly stirred paste.

How did he take out his heart and lungs with Gu Zheng, and how did he accept this young man?

Now he has forgotten almost everything except to meet him at the gate of Anning county railway station three days later.

Gu Zheng in the car seems to have explained everything, and he doesn't seem to have said anything.

That's awesome. Young people are terrible.

But such a powerful young man is from their Tujia family.

After a brief worry, uncle Tian was only deeply proud.

He felt that there was nothing wrong with listening to the arrangements of the younger generation.

As for this young man who is regarded by Uncle Tian as a talent of heaven, what are you doing now?

I'm climbing a mountain.

……

From the foot of Shili mountain to Gu's cottage, you need to cross a trestle, a cableway, climb half a cliff and cross a stream,

Then... You can get there.

The journey is not far at all. Really, according to Gu Zheng's foot journey, it takes two hours. How can we get there.

This time probably has a great relationship with Gu Zheng's body.

When Gu Zheng climbed over those steep places, he felt no fear at all, as if he had passed thousands of times.

When he approached the gate of the camp in the dark, he was thrown to the ground by Da Hei, who was lying at the gate of the stronghold and guarding the yard.

"Oh... Big black..."

"Why don't you sleep in the yard..."

The big black dog raised by Gu's family is lying on Gu Zheng's body and licking Gu Zheng's cheek enthusiastically to express his enthusiasm in this way.

The noise of darkness woke up three or two families closest to the stockade.

Among them, there are Gu Zheng's father and mother.

"His father, did he recruit a thief?"

"What's the brain of this woman? Who steals things from Gu's stronghold?"

Yes, the richest people in the village... Are poorer than thieves, and the rice jar at home is cleaner than that of dolls.

"But big black screamed so happily. I'd better go down and have a look."

Miao Meili, who was still worried, pushed Gu de out of bed.

Let her careless old man secretly look at the door. Is it possible that a wild boar with short eyes broke into the stockade?

The man in charge of the family is his father. After the eldest son left, the family seemed to lack a backbone. If there were not three small ones in the house, I'm afraid she would be lazy to manage so much.

"Your aunt is timid."

Although Gu Defa complained, he still took the fire sickle and lit the tung oil torch, and looked out along the air leakage gap at the door of his house.

"It's Zheng's son!"

"Squeak"

"Get up, mother!"

At one glance, Gu Defa excitedly opened the door and was facing Gu Zheng with a big black dog in his arms.

"Why did you come back? Why didn't you inform your family first? Your aunt didn't prepare anything."

The family was short of a bite. If Gu Zheng knew that he had come back all night, he could go up the mountain at noon and steal some mountain goods.

But isn't Gu Zheng just out of the stockade?

It's only a few days. Why did you come back?

However, Gu Defa, who had just been happy for a moment, immediately fell into worry. He was a little nervous. With some hesitation, he greeted Gu Zheng and tried to see clearly the current state of his eldest son with a weak torch in his hand.

"Dad, I'm fine... Let's go inside and say."

Looking at this time of Kung Fu, there was a noise from the two nearby houses around his house. Gu Zheng quickly helped his father, put down the black dog, took the torch and pushed people into the house.

When the barking of the dogs in the courtyard subsided, Gu Zheng turned and inserted the door... He saw two worried old faces sitting on the rattan bed in the hall.

"Father, mother, I'm back!"

"Don't worry, it's not a bad thing, it's a good thing."

"Nothing happened to my son. Look at my face. Are you fat these two days?"

This is against his heart. Although Gu Zheng didn't treat himself badly when he had money, he always came out of the stockade. How could he get fat so soon.

He's not steamed bread with noodles.

Gu Zheng's father and mother are not foolishly simple people. The famous smart husband and wife in gujiazhai only believe what they see in their own eyes.

So now Miao Meili touched Gu Zheng's black and thin cheek and shed sad tears.

"You're talking nonsense."

"Where is fat? It's very thin."

In order to prevent his family from performing the tragic drama of the whole family crying together at night, Gu Zheng immediately turned his attention to other aspects when the situation was about to get out of control.

In order to show that he had really been good, Gu Zheng made a special awesome thing.

He took off his indigo cotton jacket in front of his parents.

Inside the coat with patches stacked on top of each other, there was a white linen vest.

There is a bundle of money wrapped around it.

The turquoise banknotes glowed with copper smell, blinding the eyes of two old people who had never seen such a large denomination of 100 yuan.

"My God! My baby!"

"Are you going out to rob the credit union?"

Otherwise, how can you make so much money?

It's amazing to say that this Gu family member, even after seeing such a shocking scene, Miao Meili and Gu Defa didn't shout a word in surprise.

Instead, they kept their voices down. Lest I break my most capable eldest son in because of myself.

However, Gu Zheng, who was standing opposite, was not as frightened as they thought. Instead, he burst out with a smile. He untied the paper money on his clothes and pulled his parents to tell them the origin of the money.

"I came back this time just to make a fortune with big guys..."

"It's just a small fortune for me to fight alone. I can't trust anyone outside. I only trust the people in our stockade."

"People always say that the village Party, the village Party, there are few people in our stockade for the road of the camp and the future of the children..."

"No one will sell the people because of this little money..."

After a detailed explanation and Gu Zheng's appeal for returning home this time, Gu Defa nodded repeatedly.

He agrees with what Gu Zheng said, because what his son is doing now is too dangerous.

There are many joints that need their own cooperation.

Moreover, this is an opportunity for most of the strong men in the camp to go out of the mountain without going too far.

At that time, the few fields in the stockade will be looked after, the old people will be looked after, and the young people in the stockade will have some money and some knowledge.

It's a good thing to kill more with one stone.

It's just that he needs to touch his son more.

After meeting the patriarch tomorrow, we will hold a public election meeting in the stockade.

It is bound to decide the initial candidate.

The first group of people to be taken out must be reliable, so that his son's efforts will not be wasted.

Seeing the speculation between the family's father and son, Miao Meili yawned and went straight to the board shed behind the house.

Look at the strength of the father and son. I'm afraid I won't sleep this night.

She'd better search for the surplus food at home and make a good meal for her eldest son who just came home.

Just now her son put a small ten thousand yuan into her hand.

If she hadn't said that the man should leave some money in his hand, the fool would have sent the bundle to her, who was a Niang.

Thinking of this, Miao Meili glanced at the beam of the shed ovary, picked the only one finger wide bacon, and cut off the fattest section with three fingers.

These need to be cut into diced meat, heated in a wok and set aside.

After finding the most valuable thing in the whole kitchen, Miao Meili picked up a small basin in the cool and ventilated place in the corner.

There is an old flour starter made of fine grain. Pull out a small dosage from it and keep it aside. The rest is to grind all the flour residues that can be made into flour cakes.

When all kinds of grain dough are soft together, the quick Miao Meili rolls out into book sized... One by one.

After the rolled rows of these cakes were stacked, the cut diced bacon and fat and thin oil were brushed on the cake surface with a brush. It was hot on the stove and pasted on the special pancake plate.

The fire was booming, but after a while, the cakes floated out with the burning smell of meat.

Yes, this is the simple version of the slag burning cake. If it is more troublesome, you need to wrap a lot of meat stuffing in the cake, spread it out like a pie, and then brush the meat sauce outside.

But now where does the family get so much oil and water?

These meats are still the meat oil in the house. They are directly made into meat stuffing on the skin.

But this is the slag burning cake, which is the most rare food in that era.

Even the father and son of Gu family, who had discussed the key link, couldn't help but stop talking because of the smell of son meat.

"Hoo..."

You two did the same action

Take a big breath to make the nasal cavity feel more intense about the fragrance.

After doing this, the two people laughed face to face.

"Dad, how can I smell the crumbling cake? Isn't it a dream?"

Because of this smell, the three young children who were sleeping in the side room rubbed their eyes and got up.

This is to wake up hungry.

Meals without oil and water make people empty in heart and stomach.

When the three dolls first opened their eyes, they thought they were dreaming.

"Ah! It's elder brother! Elder brother is back!"

The three little ones rubbed their eyes even more after they broke into my parents' room.

This must be a dream. How can their favorite elder brother appear at home?

"Yes, brother is back. Come here and hug..."

But Gu Zheng's words made the three little ones cry out at once, and they rushed into Gu Zheng's arms one by one.

It's not a dream. It's really brother.

These are ten years away from Gu Zheng, but only one or two-year-old Xiaodou Dingzi is missing from each other. In order to seize the ownership in the arms of big brother, they push and shove one after another, lest they fall behind others.

The excitement had long forgotten the cake.

"Elder brother, why did you come back? Ah ye said you went out to make a lot of money."

"Yes, brother, what's it like outside? Isn't it fun?"

The three little turnip heads were held in his arms impartially, and Gu Zheng told them the outside scene without impatience.

In order not to disappoint the three dolls, Gu Zheng returned empty handed and explained in detail the reason why the money he made could not be moved for the time being.

"So, brother, I promise that it will only take half a year. No, five months. Xiaoman, Xiaofu and Xiaoduo in our family will have something to eat and play."

"Not only that, brother also wants you to go to the county to go to the best school until you are admitted to university."

"Let gujiazhai fly out of the real Golden Phoenix."

Listening to elder brother's description under the torch, the eyes of the three dolls were shining.

They did not envy the delicious and interesting things Gu Zheng said, but they did know that studying was too important for them.

In the stockade, only elder brother has walked out of the mountain and spent high school in the county. In addition, no one knows what the children outside are learning.

They also hope to go out and have a look like brother, go to school outside, and be the most knowledgeable and capable person in the stockade like brother.

The three brothers, fumanduo, who were dazzled by Gu Zheng's beautiful vision, were about to talk more about elder brother, but a Niang's voice rang out from the shed in the back room.

"Are the three little children awake? Hurry to get the cake. Your brother has been tired all day. You can help him get it."

The crumbling cake is cooked!

For a time, a Niang's delicious food immediately diverted Xiaofu's attention. The three and a half children jumped down from Gu Zheng's arms and rushed towards the back room.

"Ah Niang, come!"

"I'll get it!"

"I'll clean up the scum!"