An Changyue brought the chestnuts back. After An Changzheng asked about the situation, they both agreed to listen to An Hongdou and share the chestnuts with their younger brothers and sisters.
"These chestnuts are so delicious. I wish I could eat them every day!" Six-year-old An Jianye squatted aside, his little face full of expectation.
An Dou Miao criticized him from the side, "You are thinking too much. It's all thanks to my aunt who secretly collected it. Otherwise, it would have been divided up by the villagers and we wouldn't have gotten anything."
After she finished speaking, An Dou Miao's eyes suddenly widened. "Grandma said that we can't let others know that we have chestnuts and mutton at home, otherwise others will come to grab them and we won't be able to eat them at home. We must remember this and not tell anyone about it."
"Need I say that? I'm not stupid. I definitely can't tell anyone about it." An Jianye said with his mouth full.
Seeing this scene, An Hongdou's smiling face suddenly became serious. Her eyes seemed to glance to the side inadvertently, and then she stood up and walked out.
Outside the wall of the An family's courtyard, Er Gouzi was standing on a tree and looking inside with great interest. Suddenly, he felt something poking his stomach, and he lost his balance and fell down.
Ergouzi screamed and his butt was almost broken into eight pieces. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that he was so unlucky.
Fortunately, he saw the secret he wanted to see, otherwise he would have suffered a great loss.
Er Gouzi got up from the ground, but halfway up he was kicked by someone.
He was about to open his mouth to curse, but when he looked up, he saw An Hongdou standing there, looking at him with a gloomy face.
Er Gouzi shuddered suddenly, "Hongdou, why is it you? I was scared to death!"
Ergouzi's original name was An Erlei. Because he was in poor health when he was a child, people thought it would be easier to raise him if he had a cheap name, so he was given the nickname Ergouzi.
He is An Hongdou's elder brother, although he is five generations older than her.
"What are you doing sneaking around on the tree near our wall?" An Hongdou asked him.
Er Gouzi smiled awkwardly and said, "Hongdou, I'm telling you the truth. I'm impressed by your ability."
"Get out of here now and stop thinking about those nonsense." An Hongdou couldn't control herself and kicked him again.
Er Gouzi was not angry. Instead, he stood up and took two steps closer, whispering, "Sister, don't look down on me. Although I don't usually do any work, I have many ways. If you can really get something from the mountains, I will help you sell it, and you can take the lion's share of the profits. How about that?"
Having said this, An Hongdou finally looked at him straight in the eye.
Then, he sneered, "Come on, with your IQ that's stuck in the mud, I dare not do those speculations with you. I have food and drink, why don't you just stay at home honestly? Why do you have to find trouble for yourself?"
"Don't think like that, sister. Isn't it because my brother is so stupid and blinded by beauty that he did such a stupid thing!" Er Gouzi looked at her and said, "Besides, although it's good to have food and drink, money is always a necessity no matter what time it is. Besides, you're getting married and you'll need money to live in the future. It won't hurt to save more. If you rely on digging for food in the fields to save money, you'll only be able to make ends meet in this life!"
As for diving into the mud, Ergouzi thought about it and felt that it was really stupid.
But he was not a good person. He jumped without thinking and never had the sole intention of saving people.
Of course, his thoughts at the time were a little dirty.
Sun Xiaoyue was an educated youth from the city. She was good-looking, but her family was extremely poor. She was in her twenties and still hadn't found a wife.
My eldest brother has been married and has children for several years, but his eldest sister-in-law is difficult to deal with and has a tight control over the family. He also found a wife two years ago, but unfortunately it was ruined by his eldest sister-in-law.
As he gets older, Ergouzi himself becomes anxious.
So when Sun Xiaoyue happened to fall into the water, he had bad intentions and wanted to fish her out first. The two of them would inevitably come into contact with each other while wet in the water. After leaving some messages in the village, Sun Xiaoyue had no choice but to marry him.
As a result, man proposes, God disposes.
He plunged his head in, with half of his head buried in the mud. The top of his forehead ached, and he completely lost all those romantic thoughts.
Even when facing Sun Xiaoyue, there was some blame in his tone, which made his words sound a little unpleasant.
Thinking about his own situation, Ergouzi became more determined to pull An Hongdou to his camp.
As the saying goes, the bold will die of overeating, while the timid will die of starvation.
If he had to rely on farming on his own, and with his sister-in-law causing trouble and his mother not being supportive, he would probably be single for the rest of his life.
Therefore, if you want to stand out, you have to take risks.
Besides, this village is surrounded by mountains. Even if no one dares to go into the mountains, it is still very common to do something outside the mountains.
Who hasn't been involved in speculation?
It's just that no one said it explicitly, so everyone pretended to be confused.
Seeing Er Gouzi's eyes rolling around and wondering what he was thinking, An Hongdou spoke thoughtfully, "Do you really want to engage in speculation?"
She thought so too, because she was very poor. Apart from the countless supplies in the space, she only had two dollars on her.
But doing business piecemeal like she did at the entrance of the bathhouse last time was too troublesome and too slow, and she had no other way, so she did not take any action.
Looking at Ergouzi now, he seems to have a way.
It’s just that she doesn’t know the person well and can’t trust him easily, so An Hongdou hesitated.
"It's not that I want to engage in speculation and profiteering, it's just that who in our village hasn't done it before?" Er Gouzi whispered. Do you know the small black market in our town? The mushrooms and fungus that our villagers usually save, as well as the pheasants and rabbits that they occasionally catch, are all traded there. ”
He didn't care. Only the two siblings from the An family and that educated young man Zhang were so foolish as to carry a few wild boars down the mountain in broad daylight, fearing that others would not know that they had hunted.
If it were someone else, they would have taken them home quietly. The three wild boars could have brought in a lot of money.
An Hongdou's heart was shamefully moved.
After looking Er Gouzi up and down, An Hongdou asked, "Can I trust you?"
"Of course!" Er Gouzi patted his chest to make sure. "Sister, you get the things from the mountains, and I'll be in charge of going to the black market. We'll split the money 30% to 70%, 30% for me and 70% for you. Whether I can get married in the future depends on how well this business goes!"
Ergouzi's situation was known to everyone in the village, and it was naturally also in the original owner's memory. An Hongdou dug up the memory about him after a little thought.
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