Chapter 424 Is This Sled Yours?
Soon, it was the fourth day of the New Year, the day for everyone to visit relatives and friends.
On this day, many villagers got up early in the morning, had a simple breakfast, and then were busy packing up, preparing to visit their grandmother's house, or staying at home, waiting for their married daughters to come back.
After packing up their things, they ran to the village stable to find Lao Sun, or to Li Guoqiang's house.
After all, it was the coldest time of the year and the roads were covered with snow. If one walked to visit relatives, one might set out in the morning and not arrive by noon.
What's more, compared with previous years, their pockets are fatter now and they don't care about spending such a small amount of money on transportation.
Moreover, for this matter, Li Guoqiang also helped to make a large sled for the brigade and his own family, which was more than six meters long and more than two meters wide, enough to carry more than a dozen villagers on the road at one time.
In this way, there are more than thirty people on two sleds.
You know, there are only thirty or forty households in the entire Jinshan Fort. Excluding some who are waiting for their daughters to marry, the demand of the rest who want to go out can be fully met.
Even if there really isn't enough space, we can change the day.
After all, compared to walking there, riding a sled has many advantages. Not only will you not be tired, but you can also save face in front of your relatives. It's hard to find such a good thing.
By the time most people had arrived, Li Guoqiang had finished his breakfast with the help of Xu Yuping, Ma Shufen and others, then put on his new thick cotton coat and walked out of the house.
The next moment, more than twenty women and children with excited faces came into his sight.
Among them, most are the wives and children of Old Xu's family, and a few are from Old Ma's family.
As for Old Sun's family, even if they wanted to come, they had to consider the family's reputation, so naturally they all went to the brigade stable to find Old Sun.
When everyone saw Li Guoqiang coming out of the house, they hurriedly greeted him.
Li Guoqiang nodded in response, then went to the next yard, led a fat and big sika deer over, and then put it on the newly made large sled.
After everything was ready, he asked everyone to carry their luggage and children and get on the sled.
Fortunately, it is winter now and the road is covered with thick snow. In addition, the special structure of the sled only requires half the strength of normal times to pull a vehicle weighing several thousand kilograms.
Otherwise, it would be quite difficult to survive with just one sika deer.
"Everyone seated?"
After a while, Li Guoqiang sat on the driver's seat of the sled with a whip in his hand, and then shouted loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of cheers from behind him.
It was at this moment that he suddenly realized that the person sitting behind him was none other than Ma Guifang, with whom he had had in-depth contact before.
This surprised him slightly, but that was all.
After all, after Ma Guifang rejected his proposal last time, he and Ma Guifang no longer had any special relationship. What they had was just the relationship between ordinary villagers and superiors.
Soon, he waved the whip, driving the sled to pull the sled and started off.
The first stop is Wangjiatun next door.
Just when they arrived at the entrance of the village, they happened to meet Lao Sun riding a donkey pulling a sleigh coming from the brigade stable.
Moreover, from a distance, Li Guoqiang saw Lao Sun waving the whip at him with a very enthusiastic smile on his face.
From this we can see how happy Old Sun is to have such a big sled in the stable.
This means that in the future he can pick up and drop off more people to the county town during the cold winter and earn more work points.
Although that little bit of work points is nothing compared to the dividends that can be obtained from the bee farm and Xiangmi Zhai every year, you should know that most of this dividend is distributed according to everyone's work points!
The more work points you earn, the more dividends you can get!
Moreover, according to the unspoken rules of the brigade, this stable is the private land of the Sun family!
With such a sled, it can be passed down from generation to generation.
Therefore, how could he not be enthusiastic about Li Guoqiang?
However, Li Guoqiang didn't care much about it. He responded by waving the whip, and then drove the sika deer to speed up. After a while, it left Lao Sun's donkey behind and slowly disappeared.
On the way, due to the cold wind blowing in their faces, everyone had to shut their mouths, shrink their necks and hug their arms to keep warm, so the only sound they could hear was the swishing sound of the sled rubbing against the snow.
After speeding all the way for more than half an hour, they finally arrived at their first stop, Wangjiatun.
"Shut up!"
Following Li Guoqiang's shout, the sled pulled the sled and slowly stopped at the entrance of the village. Then he reached into the sack beside him, took out a small bunch of firecrackers, lit them with a match and threw them into the air.
The next moment, a loud sound of firecrackers reached the ears of the villagers in Wangjiatun, making them all feel a little confused and not understanding what was going on.
At the same time, the people sitting on the sled were also confused by Li Guoqiang's move, until they saw some villagers running out of the house to check the situation, then they came to their senses.
In fact, the reason why Li Guoqiang did this was, on the one hand, purely for fun, and on the other hand, because he wanted to give face to the villagers who came to visit him in this way.
"Hey! Auntie, isn't this your daughter? Why is she back in a car?"
"I I don't know!"
At this time, the woman who was asked was looking at her daughter and grandson who had just gotten off the sled in confusion, with a look of surprise on her face.
Although she knew that her daughter would usually visit her parents' home on the fourth day of the New Year, in previous years she would always come back late, and by the time she got back it was almost time for lunch.
Now what? We are coming back by car?
Could this be a new project launched by the Jinshanbao Production Brigade?
Just as she was secretly guessing in her heart, the other two families also recognized their daughters and grandchildren, and then came forward with some surprise.
Seeing this situation, she didn't think much about it, and hurriedly pulled her daughter-in-law to follow and prepare to pick up the person, and by the way, find out what was going on.
When Li Guoqiang saw that everyone had got off the sled, he immediately prepared to drive the sled to turn around and head to the next stop, but just as he turned the corner, he was stopped by someone.
"Qiangzi, wait a moment!"
"Ha! Brother, Happy New Year!"
Hearing the voice, Li Guoqiang pulled Ma Lu, turned his head to look at the person who came, and then hurriedly smiled and said hello. "Happy New Year, Happy New Year!"
Wang Yongliang looked at the increasingly handsome and mature Li Guoqiang in front of him, and his mind couldn't help but emerge with the miraculous knife skills of Li Guoqiang when he helped to kill the pig. Then he quickly replied: "Well, your brigade asked you to send them back to visit their relatives?"
"no!"
Li Guoqiang shook his head when he heard that, then he laughed and explained, "I just happened to be going to the commune, so I'll give them a ride."
"So this sledge is yours?"
When Wang Yongliang heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes and speak.
You know, in his impression, those big animals and big belongings are all public property. He has never seen any family that can own such a large sled!
Apart from anything else, if their family had such a large sled, they could make a lot of money just by helping people transport goods.
Otherwise, the rickshaw driver would not have become a position that everyone in the village covets.
"Ok!"
Li Guoqiang looked at Wang Yongliang's surprised expression, and smiled slightly. Then he nodded and said, "I made this sled myself, and I tamed this sika deer myself."
What he meant was that this deer sled vehicle belonged to him.
Moreover, it can also avoid misunderstandings.
After hearing what he said, Wang Yongliang and the other villagers who came to pick up people immediately looked at Li Guoqiang with admiration and envy.
Among them, Wang Yongliang felt even more ashamed in his heart.
These are also Xu Guangshou's apprentices. He has been in the village for so many years, and the most he can do is to make some money when the village slaughters the New Year pig.
Li Guoqiang not only has amazing knife skills, but also has skills in animal training and carpentry.
Not to mention, the news about the Jinshanbao Bee Farm had already spread throughout their village.
This really is the case of comparing yourself with others, which makes you angry!
"that."
Seeing Wang Yongliang suddenly fall silent, Li Guoqiang could only continue to speak: "Brother, let's talk next time when we are free. I will send the person to the place first."
"Oh, okay, then you go ahead and do your work!"
Wang Yongliang came back to his senses after hearing this, then nodded quickly and answered.
After saying that, he silently watched Li Guoqiang wave the whip and drive the sika deer away from their village.
Immediately afterwards, before he could think of what to bring to visit his master Xu Guangshou and deepen his fellow apprentice relationship with Li Guoqiang, he heard a cry of surprise in his ears.
"Oh! Girl, if you don't plan to spend this day together, why did you bring so many things here?"
Hearing this, Wang Xiaohua, the wife of Jinshanbao who had been married for seven or eight years, immediately waved her hands with some pride and said, "It's okay, mother. Our family is different now. These things are nothing at all. When I have the chance in the future, I will bring more good things back to you and my father."
After she finished speaking, she glanced at the surprised expressions on the faces of the villagers around her, and couldn't help feeling a sense of satisfaction in her heart. Then she hurriedly pulled her child and urged her mother and sister-in-law to go home quickly.
At the same time, the other two women who married to Jinshanbao from Wangjiatun did not bring back as many things as Wang Xiaohua, but they brought back much better things than in previous years, which made their families all smile from ear to ear.
As for the other villagers, they felt as if they were scratched by a cat. They followed behind, wanting to find out what had happened that made Wang Xiaohua, who always liked to go back to her parents' home to cry about her poverty, become so generous.
Soon, when Li Guoqiang drove the sleigh to the next village and lit firecrackers, the villagers of Wangjiatun finally learned from Wang Xiaohua and others that Jinshanbao had distributed several hundred yuan to each villager last year.
This made them so envious that their eyes turned red on the spot.
Afterwards, they couldn't help but secretly curse the villagers of Jinshanbao for being so lucky to have met Li Guoqiang, a real God of Wealth.
If kidnapping was not illegal, they would probably have wanted to kidnap Li Guoqiang directly.
As Li Guoqiang sent people to village after village, this feeling was like a whirlwind, creating a storm in the hearts of the villagers in every village.
Fortunately, when he finally sent Ma Guifang and the other two women who had married from the commune to Majiadian Commune, it did not cause much commotion. Otherwise, he would have been worried that he would not be able to get away and return to Jinshanbao.
But even so, by the time he returned to Jinshanbao on his sled, his name had already spread to most of the production brigades in Majiadian.
If before, most people only knew that there was an educated youth named Li Guoqiang in Jinshanbao who was quite capable, then now their impression of Li Guoqiang has become extremely specific and vivid, and he also has a very descriptive name, Li God of Wealth.
After all, Li Guoqiang made sure that every villager in Jinshanbao received dividends of several hundred yuan!
How could they bear the consequences for those who toiled in the fields all year round and still owed the production team a favor for the famine?
Afterwards, naturally, many people set their sights on the young men of marriageable age in Jinshan Fort, and even the widowers who had lost their wives were targeted.
If it wasn't for the fact that it was New Year's Day and it wasn't possible to find so many matchmakers to come to the house at once, I'm afraid that the door of Jinshan Castle would have been broken down by those matchmakers.
At this time, Li Guoqiang did not think so much. After returning to Jinshanbao, he took Luo Huijuan, Xu Yuying and others to visit Xu Guangfu's home.
Although most people in the village were just speculating about the relationship between Li Guoqiang and Xu Yuying and others, Xu Guangfu's family knew the inside story.
Therefore, they did not think there was anything wrong and just greeted Li Guoqiang, Luo Huijuan and others enthusiastically.
After eating and drinking, Luo Huijuan, Shang Xiuzhen and others went back home first, leaving only Li Guoqiang and Xu Yuying, sitting around the fire pit with the old couple Xu Guangfu and Tian Guixiang and talking.
"Well, Qiangzi! You are not an outsider, I will just say what I want to say!"
Xu Guangfu took a puff of his pipe, then glanced at Xu Yuying, who was sitting next to Li Guoqiang with a happy face, and then spoke in a deep voice.
"You say!"
Li Guoqiang was slightly stunned when he heard this, then nodded quickly and spoke.
"Ok!"
Xu Guangfu nodded slightly in response, then said earnestly: "Although you have thought of a way to give Yingzi and those girls a legitimate identity, it is not right for you to live with them every day. You still have to be more cautious!"
"Listen to what you say!"
When Li Guoqiang heard this, he immediately frowned, and then asked in confusion: "Did you hear anything?"
(End of this chapter)
Soon, it was the fourth day of the New Year, the day for everyone to visit relatives and friends.
On this day, many villagers got up early in the morning, had a simple breakfast, and then were busy packing up, preparing to visit their grandmother's house, or staying at home, waiting for their married daughters to come back.
After packing up their things, they ran to the village stable to find Lao Sun, or to Li Guoqiang's house.
After all, it was the coldest time of the year and the roads were covered with snow. If one walked to visit relatives, one might set out in the morning and not arrive by noon.
What's more, compared with previous years, their pockets are fatter now and they don't care about spending such a small amount of money on transportation.
Moreover, for this matter, Li Guoqiang also helped to make a large sled for the brigade and his own family, which was more than six meters long and more than two meters wide, enough to carry more than a dozen villagers on the road at one time.
In this way, there are more than thirty people on two sleds.
You know, there are only thirty or forty households in the entire Jinshan Fort. Excluding some who are waiting for their daughters to marry, the demand of the rest who want to go out can be fully met.
Even if there really isn't enough space, we can change the day.
After all, compared to walking there, riding a sled has many advantages. Not only will you not be tired, but you can also save face in front of your relatives. It's hard to find such a good thing.
By the time most people had arrived, Li Guoqiang had finished his breakfast with the help of Xu Yuping, Ma Shufen and others, then put on his new thick cotton coat and walked out of the house.
The next moment, more than twenty women and children with excited faces came into his sight.
Among them, most are the wives and children of Old Xu's family, and a few are from Old Ma's family.
As for Old Sun's family, even if they wanted to come, they had to consider the family's reputation, so naturally they all went to the brigade stable to find Old Sun.
When everyone saw Li Guoqiang coming out of the house, they hurriedly greeted him.
Li Guoqiang nodded in response, then went to the next yard, led a fat and big sika deer over, and then put it on the newly made large sled.
After everything was ready, he asked everyone to carry their luggage and children and get on the sled.
Fortunately, it is winter now and the road is covered with thick snow. In addition, the special structure of the sled only requires half the strength of normal times to pull a vehicle weighing several thousand kilograms.
Otherwise, it would be quite difficult to survive with just one sika deer.
"Everyone seated?"
After a while, Li Guoqiang sat on the driver's seat of the sled with a whip in his hand, and then shouted loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of cheers from behind him.
It was at this moment that he suddenly realized that the person sitting behind him was none other than Ma Guifang, with whom he had had in-depth contact before.
This surprised him slightly, but that was all.
After all, after Ma Guifang rejected his proposal last time, he and Ma Guifang no longer had any special relationship. What they had was just the relationship between ordinary villagers and superiors.
Soon, he waved the whip, driving the sled to pull the sled and started off.
The first stop is Wangjiatun next door.
Just when they arrived at the entrance of the village, they happened to meet Lao Sun riding a donkey pulling a sleigh coming from the brigade stable.
Moreover, from a distance, Li Guoqiang saw Lao Sun waving the whip at him with a very enthusiastic smile on his face.
From this we can see how happy Old Sun is to have such a big sled in the stable.
This means that in the future he can pick up and drop off more people to the county town during the cold winter and earn more work points.
Although that little bit of work points is nothing compared to the dividends that can be obtained from the bee farm and Xiangmi Zhai every year, you should know that most of this dividend is distributed according to everyone's work points!
The more work points you earn, the more dividends you can get!
Moreover, according to the unspoken rules of the brigade, this stable is the private land of the Sun family!
With such a sled, it can be passed down from generation to generation.
Therefore, how could he not be enthusiastic about Li Guoqiang?
However, Li Guoqiang didn't care much about it. He responded by waving the whip, and then drove the sika deer to speed up. After a while, it left Lao Sun's donkey behind and slowly disappeared.
On the way, due to the cold wind blowing in their faces, everyone had to shut their mouths, shrink their necks and hug their arms to keep warm, so the only sound they could hear was the swishing sound of the sled rubbing against the snow.
After speeding all the way for more than half an hour, they finally arrived at their first stop, Wangjiatun.
"Shut up!"
Following Li Guoqiang's shout, the sled pulled the sled and slowly stopped at the entrance of the village. Then he reached into the sack beside him, took out a small bunch of firecrackers, lit them with a match and threw them into the air.
The next moment, a loud sound of firecrackers reached the ears of the villagers in Wangjiatun, making them all feel a little confused and not understanding what was going on.
At the same time, the people sitting on the sled were also confused by Li Guoqiang's move, until they saw some villagers running out of the house to check the situation, then they came to their senses.
In fact, the reason why Li Guoqiang did this was, on the one hand, purely for fun, and on the other hand, because he wanted to give face to the villagers who came to visit him in this way.
"Hey! Auntie, isn't this your daughter? Why is she back in a car?"
"I I don't know!"
At this time, the woman who was asked was looking at her daughter and grandson who had just gotten off the sled in confusion, with a look of surprise on her face.
Although she knew that her daughter would usually visit her parents' home on the fourth day of the New Year, in previous years she would always come back late, and by the time she got back it was almost time for lunch.
Now what? We are coming back by car?
Could this be a new project launched by the Jinshanbao Production Brigade?
Just as she was secretly guessing in her heart, the other two families also recognized their daughters and grandchildren, and then came forward with some surprise.
Seeing this situation, she didn't think much about it, and hurriedly pulled her daughter-in-law to follow and prepare to pick up the person, and by the way, find out what was going on.
When Li Guoqiang saw that everyone had got off the sled, he immediately prepared to drive the sled to turn around and head to the next stop, but just as he turned the corner, he was stopped by someone.
"Qiangzi, wait a moment!"
"Ha! Brother, Happy New Year!"
Hearing the voice, Li Guoqiang pulled Ma Lu, turned his head to look at the person who came, and then hurriedly smiled and said hello. "Happy New Year, Happy New Year!"
Wang Yongliang looked at the increasingly handsome and mature Li Guoqiang in front of him, and his mind couldn't help but emerge with the miraculous knife skills of Li Guoqiang when he helped to kill the pig. Then he quickly replied: "Well, your brigade asked you to send them back to visit their relatives?"
"no!"
Li Guoqiang shook his head when he heard that, then he laughed and explained, "I just happened to be going to the commune, so I'll give them a ride."
"So this sledge is yours?"
When Wang Yongliang heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes and speak.
You know, in his impression, those big animals and big belongings are all public property. He has never seen any family that can own such a large sled!
Apart from anything else, if their family had such a large sled, they could make a lot of money just by helping people transport goods.
Otherwise, the rickshaw driver would not have become a position that everyone in the village covets.
"Ok!"
Li Guoqiang looked at Wang Yongliang's surprised expression, and smiled slightly. Then he nodded and said, "I made this sled myself, and I tamed this sika deer myself."
What he meant was that this deer sled vehicle belonged to him.
Moreover, it can also avoid misunderstandings.
After hearing what he said, Wang Yongliang and the other villagers who came to pick up people immediately looked at Li Guoqiang with admiration and envy.
Among them, Wang Yongliang felt even more ashamed in his heart.
These are also Xu Guangshou's apprentices. He has been in the village for so many years, and the most he can do is to make some money when the village slaughters the New Year pig.
Li Guoqiang not only has amazing knife skills, but also has skills in animal training and carpentry.
Not to mention, the news about the Jinshanbao Bee Farm had already spread throughout their village.
This really is the case of comparing yourself with others, which makes you angry!
"that."
Seeing Wang Yongliang suddenly fall silent, Li Guoqiang could only continue to speak: "Brother, let's talk next time when we are free. I will send the person to the place first."
"Oh, okay, then you go ahead and do your work!"
Wang Yongliang came back to his senses after hearing this, then nodded quickly and answered.
After saying that, he silently watched Li Guoqiang wave the whip and drive the sika deer away from their village.
Immediately afterwards, before he could think of what to bring to visit his master Xu Guangshou and deepen his fellow apprentice relationship with Li Guoqiang, he heard a cry of surprise in his ears.
"Oh! Girl, if you don't plan to spend this day together, why did you bring so many things here?"
Hearing this, Wang Xiaohua, the wife of Jinshanbao who had been married for seven or eight years, immediately waved her hands with some pride and said, "It's okay, mother. Our family is different now. These things are nothing at all. When I have the chance in the future, I will bring more good things back to you and my father."
After she finished speaking, she glanced at the surprised expressions on the faces of the villagers around her, and couldn't help feeling a sense of satisfaction in her heart. Then she hurriedly pulled her child and urged her mother and sister-in-law to go home quickly.
At the same time, the other two women who married to Jinshanbao from Wangjiatun did not bring back as many things as Wang Xiaohua, but they brought back much better things than in previous years, which made their families all smile from ear to ear.
As for the other villagers, they felt as if they were scratched by a cat. They followed behind, wanting to find out what had happened that made Wang Xiaohua, who always liked to go back to her parents' home to cry about her poverty, become so generous.
Soon, when Li Guoqiang drove the sleigh to the next village and lit firecrackers, the villagers of Wangjiatun finally learned from Wang Xiaohua and others that Jinshanbao had distributed several hundred yuan to each villager last year.
This made them so envious that their eyes turned red on the spot.
Afterwards, they couldn't help but secretly curse the villagers of Jinshanbao for being so lucky to have met Li Guoqiang, a real God of Wealth.
If kidnapping was not illegal, they would probably have wanted to kidnap Li Guoqiang directly.
As Li Guoqiang sent people to village after village, this feeling was like a whirlwind, creating a storm in the hearts of the villagers in every village.
Fortunately, when he finally sent Ma Guifang and the other two women who had married from the commune to Majiadian Commune, it did not cause much commotion. Otherwise, he would have been worried that he would not be able to get away and return to Jinshanbao.
But even so, by the time he returned to Jinshanbao on his sled, his name had already spread to most of the production brigades in Majiadian.
If before, most people only knew that there was an educated youth named Li Guoqiang in Jinshanbao who was quite capable, then now their impression of Li Guoqiang has become extremely specific and vivid, and he also has a very descriptive name, Li God of Wealth.
After all, Li Guoqiang made sure that every villager in Jinshanbao received dividends of several hundred yuan!
How could they bear the consequences for those who toiled in the fields all year round and still owed the production team a favor for the famine?
Afterwards, naturally, many people set their sights on the young men of marriageable age in Jinshan Fort, and even the widowers who had lost their wives were targeted.
If it wasn't for the fact that it was New Year's Day and it wasn't possible to find so many matchmakers to come to the house at once, I'm afraid that the door of Jinshan Castle would have been broken down by those matchmakers.
At this time, Li Guoqiang did not think so much. After returning to Jinshanbao, he took Luo Huijuan, Xu Yuying and others to visit Xu Guangfu's home.
Although most people in the village were just speculating about the relationship between Li Guoqiang and Xu Yuying and others, Xu Guangfu's family knew the inside story.
Therefore, they did not think there was anything wrong and just greeted Li Guoqiang, Luo Huijuan and others enthusiastically.
After eating and drinking, Luo Huijuan, Shang Xiuzhen and others went back home first, leaving only Li Guoqiang and Xu Yuying, sitting around the fire pit with the old couple Xu Guangfu and Tian Guixiang and talking.
"Well, Qiangzi! You are not an outsider, I will just say what I want to say!"
Xu Guangfu took a puff of his pipe, then glanced at Xu Yuying, who was sitting next to Li Guoqiang with a happy face, and then spoke in a deep voice.
"You say!"
Li Guoqiang was slightly stunned when he heard this, then nodded quickly and spoke.
"Ok!"
Xu Guangfu nodded slightly in response, then said earnestly: "Although you have thought of a way to give Yingzi and those girls a legitimate identity, it is not right for you to live with them every day. You still have to be more cautious!"
"Listen to what you say!"
When Li Guoqiang heard this, he immediately frowned, and then asked in confusion: "Did you hear anything?"
(End of this chapter)
