Chapter 298 Eating Hot Pot
With the help of County Magistrate Jiang, this is not a problem.
When Song Dekui heard this good news, he was of course happy.
The gloomy mood of the past few days suddenly dissipated. Song Dekui happily went to the main house to report the good news to Song Zhenping, and then asked someone to take the news to his eldest brother in Qingping Town. He would not leave.
Knowing that Uncle Kui was going to stay at home, Song Zhenping clapped his hands with joy and insisted on getting up to drink with Song Dekui.
It’s good to have more people at home. It’s getting more and more lively, not to mention that Uncle Kui is here.
Although the two were of different generations, Song Dekui was only two or three years older than him, and they became close when they arrived in Suijin Town together.
Now with Song Lao Er's disturbance, they are even more like brothers.
Song Zhenping's leg had just been straightened two days ago, so Song Dekui didn't dare let him exercise or drink. He only stopped after yelling and scolding him.
Two days later, Song Dekui was stunned when he learned that Song Zhenping and his sister were engaged.
I heard that Song Zhenping married a village girl from the mountains.
Song Dekui just sighed and said that this girl was very generous and capable of doing things, and didn't ask any more questions.
The affairs of the Song family have caused a lot of uproar, but this marriage has not yet fallen through. It can only be considered Daping's good luck.
As for the family Song Liyun was engaged to, the brother and sister did not reveal it. They only said that it was a large sheep breeder living on the edge of the grassland. They knew him when they occasionally came to the town. He was also the ice man of Captain Luo.
With the matchmaker Luo Baihu around, Song Dekui just treated the other party as a military household.
Although the Zhenbei Army was poor, it was still wealthy and powerful, and there were many military households like the Song family that lived near the garrison camp.
However, Song Dekui's marriage made the brother and sister laugh for a long time.
During this year, the wife of the village head had been looking for many people to propose marriage to him.
He was not interested in either the hardworking and capable farm girl or the literate Biyu in the town. The wife of the village head was so angry that she scolded him to become a monk in the future. Song Dekui also ridiculed himself that he would be alone for the rest of his life.
Song Liyun's words made it clear to him: What's the point of being alone for the rest of your life? It's just that he is wild at heart. He doesn't want to settle down and start a family in the small place of Xiaoshi Village and Qingping Town. He wants a fresh and exciting life.
When his thoughts were revealed, Song Dekui laughed. That was what he thought.
No matter whether he was asked to farm in Xiaoshi Village like his second brother, or do trivial things in the town’s public housing like his eldest brother, he would go crazy.
When Song Dekui learned that Song Zhenping was going to get married in the twelfth month, he became excited and wanted to host the wedding banquet as the head of the family.
Song Zhenping naturally agreed. Having an elder to help with socializing would make his wedding more presentable.
Song Liyun also wanted Song Dekui to attend as an elder, but she deliberately joked: "You are the elder, and as an uncle, you want to marry your nephew's wife. But what gift have you prepared?"
Song Dekui was dumbfounded and panicked!
Daping's wedding is in a month, and I'm penniless now. Even if Xiaoyun gives me one or two taels of silver as wages, I can't afford it!
Ten days passed in a flash, and Song Liyun returned from the Huangsha River with a depressed look on her face.
Song Dekui had just loaded the dishes to be sent to Tianxianglou into the car, preparing to rush into the city in the afternoon.
He saw Song Liyun coming back looking unhappy, so he hurried over and asked, "Xiaoyun, what's wrong with you? You seem worried every day!"
Song Liyun sighed: "When will it snow and the river freeze?"
He always felt that he was just there to make a living in Baolinju. He couldn't help with building the cold storage or managing the two factories, so he could only do miscellaneous tasks every day.
Song Liyun just went to check the frozen condition of the river.
Winter came late this year and it hasn't snowed yet, but the wind is howling all day long, and it's dry and cold to the bone.
There was not much ice on the river, but it did make people's hands and feet stiff. Song Liyun had to shorten the time for expanding the cardboard factory.
The traffic problem that worries Song Liyun the most is that the road to Huangsha River Mouth is blocked.
There is now thin ice on the narrow road beside the Huangsha River. Horse hooves start to slip as soon as they step on it. It is safe only after the road is frozen solid.
Captain Luo has ordered his men to strictly guard Suijin Pass, and no one, including Song Liyun, will be allowed to pass through freely.
Fortunately, the live sheep that were delivered earlier have been kept in the garrison, so the sales of Tianxianglou are not yet in a tight spot.
Seeing Song Liyun so anxious to freeze the river, Song Dekui asked curiously, "Why are you in such a hurry to freeze the river? The icehouse hasn't been repaired yet, so you can't use it."
The Acorn Food Shop needs to soak acorns, and they have to dig a hole every day when the Huangsha River freezes, otherwise the acorns will be frozen and unable to be lifted out.
Song Liyun frowned with a melancholy look on her face. "I want to go to the grasslands and see if the beef jerky at Tianxianglou is sold out. I'll bring some grain, salt, and cloth to sell there."
She wanted to find out what was going on on the grassland, but every time she asked Captain Luo, the answers she got were "everything is normal" and "very smooth". How could she feel at ease?
Since you can’t enter the Mida Valley, you can look around the grassland and maybe you can find out what happened.
"Go to the grassland?" Song Dekui was cheered up. He had been thinking about money so much these days that it gave him a headache.
Although Song Liyun and her brother would not really accept any gifts from him, and he could borrow money from Zhou Xianglintao if he had no money, Song Dekui still wanted to find some money himself.
He knew when he was doing labor service in the garrison that there were still many herdsmen on the border of the Wu Dynasty.
These people lived in Wu Dynasty and usually made a living by grazing on the grasslands.
They are said to be the people of the Wu Dynasty, but in fact they are similar to the people of the grassland.
If you buy something and sell it to these herdsmen in exchange for furs, you can make a lot of money.
It seems that this is how Song Liyun makes money.
Song Dekui said excitedly: "Xiaoyun, we can't go through the Huangsha River Valley now, we can take the Yudao Road!"
"Control the Dao? What Dao is it?" Song Liyun was puzzled.
Song Dekui chuckled: "It's the carriage road used by the garrison to transport supplies!"
Song Liyun's eyes lit up instantly, and she quickly asked him to say a few more words...
Song Zhenping's injured leg was healed for ten days. He drank medicine and applied plasters. The pain has been relieved and he can sit up and move around the house.
During this time, Madam Yun would bring food to his room and set up a table on the kang for everyone to eat together.
Today, Song Liyun cooked by herself and spent an hour making hot pot on a small charcoal stove.
The bright red soup, the green vegetable leaves, the white potato slices, and the freshly dug lotus root slices are rare goods, so naturally everyone has to try them.
There is also soft and glutinous beef tendon, rolling in the boiling red beef fat soup.
Song Dekui picked up a palm-sized piece of beef that was as thin as paper, quickly boiled it in a red soup pot, wrapped it with garlic sauce, and stuffed it into his mouth. He ate so much that his eyes turned red and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.
As soon as the beef went down his throat, Song Dekui frantically picked up the cold soup that had been prepared nearby and gulped it down. He squinted his eyes, made an exaggerated expression and laughed, "This hot pot is so refreshing! It's so delicious!"
He learned the word "shuang" from Song Liyun. He didn't understand what it meant at first, but it somehow fits his feeling at the moment.
I've been staying at Baolinju these days. As long as I don't think about money, I'm living a god-like life every day.
Xiao An tilted his head and pulled the beef tendon, his mouth full of oil, and he had no time to talk.
Madam Yun sat next to Xiao An to eat. Not only did she take care of the Song brothers' food and drink, she also didn't forget to pick up some potato chips for Heijin who was squatting next to her: "Heijin, eat slower, or you'll have runny noses again!"
Heijin grinned to show his happiness, showing her his two rows of big teeth.
(End of this chapter)
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