Volume 14 Chapter 30

In Zhongzhou City, the house of Dasheng Goldman Sachs, there is no grand atmosphere.

In the middle of the hall, more than ten shopkeepers of dashenggao have gathered with their families.

East first against the wall place put incense table, set up a big iron pot, white soup rolling, boiling a fat sheep, the soup water did not put wine ginger and other things to be ashamed, but sprinkled salt foam and wild onion, strong smell of sheep and aroma of warm intertwined.

This is the annual sheep's head feast.

The reason for the custom of dashengao is that when it was founded, a group of brothers couldn't afford meat for a long time, and it was snowing, so shengjiazu came up with a way to spend the rest of his money, buy a sheep, pretend to be a wild sheep, and design to run into it when entertaining his brothers The excuse is that God is helping them. Seeing that they can't eat meat, they all send a sheep to their door when it snows. At that time, the morale of those brothers who were demoralized was greatly shaken, and the prosperity was so high.

Therefore, the grand banquet of dashenggao was held immediately after the news of the first snow fall in Shanyin province.

This year, however, the feast was held much earlier than usual. It was held before the first snowfall in Shanyin.

Sheng Manying, the big boss of dashenggao, doesn't explain anything, but every shopkeeper who comes here knows why.

As in previous years, Sheng Manying and his family met a dozen shopkeepers who have been working hard for Da Shenggao for a year. After a lot of fun, they cut off the sheep's head, cut out a piece of hot mutton and began a feast.

For a while, cheers and noises shook the hall. More than ten shopkeepers cut meat one after another. Stacks of eager potted vegetables were also placed on the table like running water.

Everything seems to be no different from the previous years, but after a few drinks, it's a natural silence.

All the shopkeepers, including those who have just begun to learn to write, have their eyes on Sheng Manying.

He filled his glass and filled it a little more. He stood up and drank it all. Then he gave a deep salute to all the shopkeepers and family members present: "sorry, everyone It's a drag on everyone. "

All the shopkeepers are slightly astringent in their noses and know the decision of Sheng Manying.

"Next year, I'm afraid you'll find another job. I'm sorry, everyone I have prepared some silver for you at the back of the table. I hope you don't dislike it. "

Sheng's voice trembled, but his face was full of sincere smile.

Long silence.

A sigh sounded.

It seems that a lot older than last year's big and big boss Mu Zong stood up with a glass.

"Big boss, I'll give you this drink."

He gulped down the wine. "I'm old." He breathed out a breath of wine and said in a slow voice: "after working for a firm like dashenggao and dadexiang, he doesn't want to work in another firm, so just rest. Thank you very much for your kindness, but thanks for your kindness these years, life must be ok If the big boss is still my friend and needs money badly, don't mention to me that this kind of silver will be used to sever an Lao. "

"Big boss, we also respect you..." During the banquet, several points are solemn and stirring, and several points are reluctant to give up.

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There is a village in the fertile fields in the south of Yunqin.

There is a small stream in front of the village, beside which there are large areas of farmland that have just been burned with weeds and turned over.

In the two low rooms closest to the farmland, an old woman, who was ill in bed and was dying, forcibly removed her head and gave up her embroidered cloth pillow.

The son and daughter-in-law in front of her bed knew that she was going, and they couldn't help crying loudly.

Her son is wearing a clean white cotton padded robe. He looks like a private school teacher in the countryside.

He knew that his mother was thrifty all her life. In the straw cloth pillow she was sleeping on, there was her life savings This savings is not much, but will not increase his burden, enough to bear the cost of her funeral after death.

The old woman with a sallow complexion blushed inexplicably.

The old man, who has been in bed for a long time, has really arrived at the last moment of returning to the light. She had some loose and confused eyes, but she has become alert.

"Go to shopkeeper Liu..."

She moved her head and let the pillow out, but with her last strength, with her face, relying on her pillow, she made such a sound.

The son and daughter-in-law lying in front of her froze.

This is what Yun Qin said about the real coffin. Her mother

The son stayed and froze, but the dying old woman got angry. Her hands, which she couldn't lift for a long time, were lifted up. It seemed that she wanted to beat her beloved son. Her voice was as angry as a thread, but it shocked people's hearts. "My whole life Hard work, I don't know how much I have suffered Let you read Did you read your book into the dog's stomach Da Dexiang is for us to close the shop How can we not pay back the money we owe The coffin is a little thin, and I feel at ease when I lie down... "

The old woman's hand was frozen in the air, falling down and never lifting again.

Her son, who knelt in front of her bed, could no longer hear her reprimand, nor the truth of life she had told him. He could only nod his head in tears and let the old mother leave the world go safely.

……

There is also a common village in the north of Yunqin, which is far away from the southern provinces.

Apple trees are planted everywhere in this village. The harvested apples will be sold to many big cities in Yunqin.

In this village, there is only one blacksmith named Ding Tiezhu.

It's called iron pillar. When I grow up, I really deal with iron blocks and iron pimples all day long and become a blacksmith.

In the eyes of other people in the village, he is a very thick, ferocious looking and loud voice, but actually he is a man with a good temper, gentle to his wife and the old man at home, but sometimes he is stubborn.

This stubbornness is reflected in that he likes to eat streaky pork with fat. If he can't buy streaky pork, he would rather not eat it. If he is forced to taste the refined meat of leg, he may be angry.

This stubbornness is reflected in the fact that what he has identified is hard to change.

On this day, he cut down a lot of pine trees and prepared to burn some charcoal for winter.

So even though it was cold, he was still going to take a bath because of his sweat.

However, when he saw a piece of soap paste that his wife handed him, his thick black eyebrows were deeply wrinkled, and he said in an unhappy voice, "how could it not be Da Dexiang?"

The wife is in a hurry to add firewood to make hot water, for fear that her husband will catch cold, she casually replied, "this is from Tang Qingshan, and it's almost the same."

Ding Tiezhu sinks his face and doesn't speak.

The firewood was being added, and some wives who were blinded by the smoke did not pay attention.

"Pa!"

Ding Tiezhu then clapped the soap cream on the stove with great force, and made a loud voice. He said angrily, "no more washing!"

His wife just saw his face, pulled him out, looked at his wet cotton padded clothes, it was heartache, it was grievance, tears in the eyes began to turn, "it's OK, you're angry with me, what anger do you have, you wash it first."

The wife's temperament is gentle, and the man is the easiest to soften. However, Ding Tiezhu is still straight with his neck, and says angrily: "almost! Can Tang Qingshan's and Da Dexiang's be the same! The mother-in-law is the long hair, the short sight! Is this a different relationship between things! What did Da Dexiang do! What did Tang Qingshan do? Dade Xiang let the southern provinces have hot porridge to drink, so I must buy Dade Xiang's soap paste! That's what I think! It's not about the difference between things. Do you understand that? "

"I understand." The woman loves, does not argue, just pushes him to the stove, "I remember that I will help you to buy a big Dexiang next time It's just that Mrs. Chu didn't have one today. And sister Chu also said that Dade Xiang's shop in the city is closed, and it will be difficult to buy Dade Xiang's soap paste later... "

Ding Tiezhu was stunned: "is Dade Xiang's shop closed? How could it be off? It will be difficult to buy in the future When Dade Xiang's shop is closed, it won't open? "

The woman wiped her tears, first wiped his cold and wet body with a dry towel, and said softly: "it's because there are too many credit accounts, too many deficits, and there's really no way to turn them around, so I closed the shop It's not just one pass in the city, but all the others outside. "

"Losing so much Can't fill it in? " Ding Tiezhu asked stupidly, "isn't it just the rice noodle business Da Dexiang's business is so big that everyone uses his soap paste. This soap paste can earn a lot of silver all the time. If you can't support it, you should close only the rice noodle shop at most. How could you even close the soap paste grocery shop? "

The village's most powerful blacksmith couldn't think of a reason.

His women, like him, had never read a book and could not answer his questions.

He lost his soul and didn't even rub the old dirt on his body. He just went to chill in confusion and put on his clothes and went to the village head's most experienced home.

"Business is not as simple as making iron. A hammer is as simple as a hammer."

The old man with bent back sighed and slowly explained to Ding Tiezhu, "it doesn't matter if you can't afford the wages. You have to pay silver for some raw materials Even if you can get credit first, you may not get it then, and people will not always give you credit. In addition, when doing business, others think that you are definitely not going to succeed, so they are afraid that the debt you owe previously will not be paid off, but they will urge you to settle the account, which will make it worse. Moreover, in such a large business as Dade Xiang, many places are linked one by one. If there is a problem in one link and there is not enough money to fill it, the whole chain will be broken. With so many mouths open, it's not easy for Da Dexiang to last so long The soap and paste shops that used to be the same can't hold up now. "

The village head explained in detail that even if soap paste was made in one place, if there was a problem in the delivery process, it would only continue to suffer Business can't go on. Ding Tiezhu listened a lot and listened carefully. Although he was still confused, he could at least be sure that what his woman said was true. Dade Xiang was really going to close down. The manager of Dade Xiang, who used to be talked about by many people in the streets and lanes, seems to be at the end of his tether.

Why is Dade Xiang so big and such a good firm closed?

Why can Da Dexiang always give those lines rice noodles on credit