Oil Mill
Maple Ridge was a small Changsha. Apart from four noodle shops and one shop, there was also an oil press workshop from the British and Chinese departments. As long as the oil mill was opened, the fragrance would fill the air above the lower lotus pond, seeping into one's stomach.
Many years ago, the population of the British and Chinese families had grown rapidly. Their large houses could no longer accommodate this huge family. Therefore, they opened their first infrastructure house under the Forbidden Garden Tree.
This was a groundbreaking work. They had to dig out a foundation for a house with a hoe on the mountain, move the soil away with carrying poles and dustpans, bake many bricks, and buy many trees. Without the hard work of several generations, it was impossible to do so many things.
Studying the population development map of the Anglo-Chinese department, he found a very interesting phenomenon. No matter which generation, it was the brothers above who could not pass it down. Only the last brother could pass it down safely. In this way, the efforts of the brothers above to build this manor were all for the sake of marriage. Even so, they were still working hard for this goal because they knew that this was the honor of the English and Chinese departments and the honor of the family.
The English and Chinese factions had been in the Mei faction since the fifth generation of this manor. They had three brothers. The eldest was called Mei Ji, the second was called Mei Zhe, and the third was called Mei Xing. Mei Zhe and Mei Xing were blood brothers, and they were cousins with Mei Ji.
One day, Mei Ji summoned his two cousins to his house for a meeting. He said,""Our Yingzhong Department has a large population, and our lives are vigorous. In our generation, only our three families are left. Today, I've called you two brothers here to discuss how to develop our family better and faster.”
Mei Zhe said," Big Brother, you're probably too old to talk like this. You're fifty-six this year, and I'm fifty this year. Even Little Brother Mei Xing is forty-five this year. If it were anyone else, they would have already entered the eyes of the earth. Look at Big Brother Xingren. He was only 47 when he died. He had already achieved something. Brother He San was only thirty-six years old when he died. He had left the vigorous establishment of his business to Brother Tong Shan. We're already at this age. What's the point of starting a business?”
Mei Xing said," Second Brother's words make people feel discouraged. Actually, a person's lifespan is determined by the heavens. You will live as long as the Emperor tells you to. The reason why the three of us can live for so long is because we haven't started our own business yet. The Emperor is waiting for us to start our own business. This is a chance for us.”
Mei Ji said," There are two characteristics of the people of the English-Chinese Department. One is that we have a tenacity, like roasted bamboo. When they founded our manor, they had seen all kinds of difficulties and experienced all kinds of hardships. They have survived all of them. The other was to have a spirit of unity. For example, Hou Xiaogong's branch originally had three children and two grandchildren. As time passed, their branch died out. Despite such a decline, they still worked hard to build this manor. Their spirit was not wasted.”
"Actually, there's another characteristic of us from the English and Chinese departments. We don't study much. It's already good enough for two people in a generation to study for one or two years. Take the three of us for example. Only big brother has studied for a year. Are people from the English and Chinese departments very stupid?”
Mei Ji said," The people of the English and Chinese departments are also very smart. The reason why we don't study much is that our ancestors were wholeheartedly building their homes. They were too pragmatic and always wanted to spend every cent of their money on building their homes. In the future, we also have to cultivate scholars. We can't always let the people of the English and Chinese departments bask in the glory of a scholarly family.”
Mei Zhe said,"According to you, I was short-sighted. I'm old and muddle-headed. Then please tell me your plan and see what you have in mind.”
Mei Ji said," I have two plans for development. One is to expand the population. If a family wants to be strong, they must first have people. If they have people, they will have everything. If they don't have people, all efforts will be empty talk. "One is to develop our assets. Look at our Maple Ridge. Now, we have noodle shops and shops. It's meaningless for us to follow their example and open noodle shops and shops. These days, I've been thinking, why don't we open an oil mill!”
Mei Zhe said," Big Brother, this is a good idea. It's good to open an oil mill. The fragrance of oil will spread everywhere and spray for ten miles. We don't have many oil refineries in the Lower Lotus Pond.”
Mei Xing said,"It's good, but buying a set of equipment will cost a lot of money!"”
Mei Ji said," This is the headache. We can't do this alone. The three of us will work together to do this. In the future, the profits will be divided equally. What do you think?"”
Mei Zhe said," That's good. Our three families now have two children each. The momentum is the same. The three-way split is also very reasonable. Big Brother, you can be the leader!”
Mei Ji said," There are two things that are most important here. First, we need to have money. We need to see how much money each family has. How much money is needed to complete this set of facilities and how much money is distributed to each family. Secondly, we need a master who knows how to extract oil. We can't hire this master. It's not worth it to hire someone. We have to train our own masters and send our own people to the oil refineries outside to learn.”
" I think so too," Mei Xing said." How about this? Tomorrow night, our family will hold a bigger meeting. All the family members will participate and bring their sons."”
The next day, the people from the English and Chinese departments knew about the parents 'plans. Their faces were filled with smiles, as if they had smelled the fragrance of the oil in the workshop, as if they were holding the ram that was hitting the oil press.
In the evening, all the people from the English and Chinese departments, regardless of age, gender, all came and gathered in the main room of Mei Ji's house for a meeting. Xiuyou was twenty-four years old this year. He was the second-oldest among the younger generation. He had gotten married very early and already had a five-year-old son named Qimei. Xiu Lang was twenty-one years old this year. He was Xiu You's younger brother and was already married. He was holding a three-year-old son in his hands. His wife, Fan Yaoyao, was holding a one-year-old son in her arms. Xiu You and Xiu Lang were Mei Ji's two sons. They were now living with Mei Ji. Xiupin was twenty-five years old this year. He was the oldest among the younger generation and had gotten married early. He held the hand of a three-year-old son named Yan Nan. Dacai was twenty-one years old this year. She had just gotten married and had not given birth yet. Xiu Pin and Da Cai were brothers. They were Mei Zhe's sons and lived together with Mei Zhe. Xiuting was twenty-three years old this year and was already married. He was holding the hand of his younger daughter. Among the six brothers of this generation, Xu Cai was the youngest. He was only twelve years old, so he was naturally not married. Xiuting and Xucai were brothers. They were Mei Xing's sons and lived together with Mei Xing. In fact, the current English and Chinese department was made up of three families.
Mei Ji's opening speech said," Tonight, all the people from the English-Chinese Department will gather for a meeting. Yesterday, a few of our parents held a small meeting. Today's meeting is very big. Everyone from the English-Chinese Department is here. What we are going to discuss today is what we discussed yesterday. One is to expand our population. Women should have more children, especially boys. Our Fan Yaoyao is worthy of everyone's attention. She is only 22 years old, and her man is only 21 years old, but she has already given birth to two children. If all the women are like her, our English and Chinese departments will prosper. The second thing is to develop our assets. Our three families now have money left over and some silver at home. This is not enough. We have to expand our assets and build an oil mill.”
Mei Zhe said," Big Brother is right. What I want to add is that building an oil press is not an easy task. It requires a lot of money. From now on, we have to live as frugally as possible. We have to shovel the pig fat in the pot and put it for the second meal before stir-frying it. Little children don't have to go to the refining hall to buy sugar particles anymore. Women can't buy burning paper for their menstrual period. They can only use cloth made of rags. Men have to smoke sparingly. In short, everything is for the sake of building an oil press. The oil mill is a money tree. When this tree grows up, we will live a good life.”
Mei Ji said," Second Brother said it very well. Everyone must bear it in mind. The three of us are just leading the way in this matter. The ones who have to worry about it are your juniors. We are all people who have been buried in yellow mud up to our necks. We can count the days we have lived on our fingers. Five of the six brothers of the next generation have already grown up. This time, all of you will go to the oil mill outside to learn how to extract oil. If you learn well, come back. If you don't, don't come back.”
"When farming is busy, you still have to come back and help out. When learning skills, one had to concentrate, be willing to spend effort, and learn skills through hard work.”
Xiu Lang said,"You guys are so aggressive. You want to make people rich and you can only catch one fish with one hand." If we go out to learn how to extract oil, won't our wives be left empty at home?”
Mei Xing said," Xiulang, Yazi, luckily you already have two sons. You play with the ram in the oil mill during the day and play with the ram at home at night. This is a good way to make a fortune."”
Everyone laughed and said that Hideo and Yako were so stupid that they were cute.
The meeting was soon dismissed. Everyone's opinions were unanimous, and there were no objections. Xiuyou and his brothers would go out to learn in a few days. They would go to two places. Xiuyou and his brothers would go to the Yellow Emperor Garden, where there was an oil mill. Xiu Pin and the other two brothers went to Zemir's house by the White Mud Lake. There was also an oil mill there.
At night, Xiu Lang said to Fan Yaoyao in the bedroom,""Our Yaoyao is a Yaoyao. If I leave, I wonder who you, a vixen, are going to charm?”
Fan Yaoyao said," I don't care. I need a man to do my homework tonight. If you're not around, I'll find someone else to do it. I'll reward whoever does it well."”
Xiu Lang said," You're my wife. How can you find another man to do your homework? I'm not dead."”
Fan Yaoyao said," I mean, if you're not here, I'll find someone else to do it. If you're here, why would I find someone else to do it?"”
Xiulang was anxious. He said," I'm going to study. I definitely can't go home every night. Can't you understand?”
Fan Yaoyao said," I don't care. I need a man to accompany me when I sleep at night. I need a man to do my homework."”
Xiu Lang said,"Don't we have two children at home? It's not enough to have them accompany us!"”
"Chew on the maggots," Fan Yaoyao said."They're my babies."”
Xiu Lang said,"Are you tired of doing homework every night? Isn't it the same if you rest for a few days?"”
Fan Yaoyao said," Look at how fun it is to do homework. I'm in a state of ecstasy. I'm in a state of ecstasy. I'm addicted now. It's all because of you." Besides, don't you do your homework twice a night?”
Xiulang said,"Yaoyao, do you still remember how many times we did it on the first night?"”
Fan Yaoyao said," I think it was seventeen times. Who would remember to clear the area like that? Anyway, you were the one who did it a few times and then went down again, and then went down again. And you kept laughing. You're so funny!"”
Xiu Lang said,"It should be eighteen times. I broke my fingers at that time."”
"There was one time when I grabbed your waist and didn't let you go down," Fan Yaoyao said.”
Xiu Lang said,"Of course it counts as one time. Is it done?"”
Fan Yaoyao said," Xiulang, when I mentioned squeezing oil, I thought of the two of us doing homework. Look at how similar squeezing oil is to doing homework. We had to hit the rod again and again to squeeze out the oil. It's over. All the oil will be gone." It's the same when you do your homework. It's also hitting again and again. In the end, when the oil comes out, your ram will be useless.”
Xiu Lang said,"You little demon, you always think of such things."”
Xiu You brought Xiu Lang to the Yellow Emperor Garden's oil press workshop to learn. They worked there for a month. Because they were willing to work hard, Master Huang liked the two brothers very much.
One day, Master Huang said to them," It's not difficult to extract oil. The most important thing is to control the heat well when frying the seeds. The fire in the stove can't be too strong or too weak. It must be just right." The vegetable seeds in the wok could not be too much or too little. Too much would make it difficult to stir-fry, and too little would make it easy to stir-fry. When stir-frying the seeds, he had to keep turning the stir-frying handle. It wouldn't work if he was too fast or too slow.”
Xiuyou said," In that case, frying the seeds is the first priority. Only when the seeds are fried well will the oil be squeezed well."”
Master Huang said,"If the seeds are fried well, not only is the oil squeezed well, but it also produces the most oil." If you overcooked the seeds, the oil would have a burnt smell, and the amount of oil would not be enough.”
Xiu Lang said," In this case, frying seeds is the first technical job of extracting oil. Then what's the second technical job? Is it hitting the ram?”
Master Huang said," That's not it. To hit the ram, you just need to have good eyesight and strength. The second skill is to step on the cake. This is a unique skill.”
Xiu You said," This job looks so easy. You just need to use your feet to step on the cake back and forth. Why is it a unique skill?"”
Master Huang said," You don't understand. Look, after the seeds are ground into powder, they are so fine. To put them into the barrel, they need to be wrapped. What should we use to wrap them? The cost of cloth is too high, so we can only use straw. Think about it. Isn't it a technical job to wrap such fine powder with straw?”
Xiu Lang said,"Yes, yes, if you think about it seriously, it really is the case."”
Master Huang said," There are certain rules when using straw as a package. It can't be used directly. If it is used directly, the straw will break easily because it is not tough enough. To make it tough, he had to use a hammer to beat it on the stone block a few times. When steaming the flour, he would put it on the stove and steam it for a while. In this way, it would be flexible.”
Xiu Lang said,"Once the straw is flexible, it will be like a twenty-eight-year-old woman. You can rub it at will."”
Xiu You said,"Xiu Lang, you're called the Chicken Lord. You think about some crooked things all day long."”
Master Huang said," Xiulang hasn't been home for a few days. It's skyrocketing. Young people are all like this."”
Xiu Lang said,"It's not a big deal if I don't go home. I'm just worried that my wife will go and eat wild food."”
Master Huang said," It's not easy to scatter a handful of grass evenly in an iron circle. First, twist the grass stump. This knot should be placed in the middle of the iron circle. The knot should be formed naturally. You can't use the grass to make a lump. After the straw was evenly spread out, the steamed vegetable seed powder was spread out. The person then began to step on the cake. After stepping on it, the straw was turned over to cover the cake surface. In this way, a vegetable cake was formed.”
Xiu You said,"Master Huang has taught us all the skills. Can we finish our apprenticeship now?"”
Master Huang said,"Master, you're dreaming." Reason was reason, but even if you understood reason, you might not know how to do it. This dish was made. If you didn't repeat it thousands of times, you wouldn't be able to grasp the trick. In the end, you would only be able to talk on paper.”
Xiuyou and Xiulang worked in Master Huang's workshop for a whole year before they finished their apprenticeship. At this time, the three Xiupin brothers returned home from Zengmir's workshop.
The Mei Ji brothers were not idle at home. Their mission was to buy wood and build a mill. The wood needed to be made of dense Camphor or Trees, and could only be bought in Pingjiang Cave.
After a lot of hard work, Mei Ji and the others finally transported the wood to their home. The next task was to make the mill and the press. The local carpenters would not do such a thing. Only the carpenters in Pingjiang Cave would do it. Mei Xing followed Mei Ji's instructions and went to Pingjiang Cave again. He invited four masters who made the mill and the press.
Youzha Manor had two buildings. The main building was a three-story hall that faced north and south. The auxiliary building was a one-story central house that faced east and west. Mei Ji and the others decided to arrange the mill and wok in the three-story central house, and the mill in the first-story central house.
One of the mill-makers was surnamed Chu, and he was slightly older. One was surnamed Feng, and he was younger. Master Zhu nailed a nail to the ground in the middle of the hall and tied it with a string. At the other end of the string was an iron stick. He wanted to use this method to draw a circle.
Master Feng said,"Have you left the cow road well? How wide is it?"”
Master Chu said,"The cow road has been left well, leaving a foot wide."”
Master Feng said," Isn't this a joke? Look at which adult cow's back is only one foot wide. If you leave a narrow path, it won't be able to walk."”
Master Zhu said casually as he worked,"The salt I eat is more than the rice you eat. The bridges I cross are more than the roads you walk. Do I need you to teach me this? The cow was walking on the cow road, and one side of its belly was above the trough.”
Master Feng thought about it carefully and felt that Master Chu was right. He quickly said,"That's right, that's right. You're old and knowledgeable. I'm too ignorant.”
The two of them stopped talking and went about their own business. Mei Ji could not help either. After a moment of silence, Master Feng could not help but ask,"Are you drawing an inner circle or an outer circle?”
Master Chu said," Don't you have eyes to see things? Don't you have a brain to think about things? Isn't this the outer circle or the inner circle? He really knew the answer and was trying to find something to say!”
Master Feng said,"That's right, that's right. I'm really a dog biting a mouse. How idle I am!"”
Mei Ji couldn't help but say,"Why do you always fight? Harmony breeds wealth."”
Master Chu said," Boss, you're not allowed to scold people. We've always been like this when we work together. We're just fooling around. We're just having fun."”
Master Zhu and Master Feng worked together to draw the inner circle and the outer circle. Then, they used an iron stick to chisel two deep grooves on the drawing line. Then, they laid pieces of Camphorus wood planks on it to determine if there was enough wood.
Mei Ji said," Ah, I understand now. This is how you make crushers. This is a stupid way. I thought you were brilliant!”
Master Chu said," Do you think we're gods? There are no blueprints for this mill, and we don't know how to do homework on the blueprints. It's not easy to make this mill well. Do you believe it?"”
Master Feng said,"Boss, it's easy to look at flowers but difficult to embroider them." You see, it's not difficult to make the bottom plate of the grinding groove well. It's a little curved inside and outside. It's fine as long as the two sides are cut off. However, it's difficult to make the inner and outer side of the grinding groove well. It has craftsmanship and wisdom. Just imagine it!”
Open your imagination to think, how to think? Mei Ji racked her brains but could not figure out what to do with the side of the partition. The grinding groove was circular. It was a magical thing to put pieces of wood together to form a circular grinding groove. Mei Ji felt that the more amazing thing was that there must be gaps between the wooden boards, but the vegetable seed powder would not leak through the gaps. He took this question to Master Chu for advice. Master Chu said,"There's nothing magical about it. We're just making a groove.”
There were two other masters who made the barrels in the mill. The older one was surnamed Qian, and the younger one was surnamed Sun. Mei Zhe was here to help and serve them.
The tree used to make the squeezing cylinder was a huge Camphor tree, about ten feet long and ten feet in circumference. Master Qian first used an ink fountain to draw lines on it. The two ends of the cylinder were left five inches long, and they became two gears. Then, he drew two lines on the right side of the middle part. The distance between the two lines was one foot high. Then, he drew two lines on the left. The distance between the two lines was one foot and five inches high. This also needed to be hollowed out.
Mei Zhe said,"The belly that is used to put the pancake is still small. It's not as tall as Yi Bing."”
Master Sun said," You don't understand. When the belly of this pancake is dug to the middle, it will expand up and down. It has to be dug into a circle, just like a pregnant woman's belly.”
Master Qian said,"Master Sun's metaphor is good. His wife is a pregnant woman with a round belly."”
Master Sun said," The skill of squeezing oil is very similar to the skill of men and women doing work. The ram will ram the oil into the oil one by one. After a round of collision, the oil will finally come out. It was also the same for men and women to do their work. After rounds and rounds of collisions, finally, something happened.”
Master Qian said," There are still differences between them. Men hit women to get pregnant, but the ram hits women to compress the oil cake in their stomachs. Only when they are compressed to the peak will they be squeezed dry.”
Master Sun said," One got pregnant, and the other got a miscarriage. Anyway, they both got a miscarriage. It's all for the sake of their stomachs. There's no difference. That's it, that's it."”
After all, Mei Zhe was old. His life was almost far away from the matters of men and women. His words were also almost far away from such dizzy words. Hearing the jokes of his two masters, his face actually blushed.
Master Sun said," Don't tell me the boss is an old man? He hasn't met a woman before, right? Why is he blushing?"”
Master Qian said,"You're chewing maggots. The boss already has a grandson. It's not like you don't know."”
Master Sun said,"Of course I know. I'm just teasing you!"”
Mei Zhe said," Everyone has their own experiences. Everyone will grow old. You will know when you reach my age.”
By the time Xiuyou and the other brothers returned from their studies, all the equipment in the oil mill had been prepared. Some of them went to touch the stir-fried meat, some held the ram, some pushed the millstone rack a few steps, and some wrapped the iron plate around their necks. They looked eager to try.
"Take it easy," Mei Ji said."There will be a time when you will serve.”
In the first month of the second year, the parents of the English-Chinese Department discussed how many tables they would invite before the opening ceremony. Maple Ridge would invite two guests from each house, and three more from Big House. The houses in the surrounding four miles and eight villages would invite two elders from each house. Including their own family, there would be ten tables of guests in total.
The date of the banquet was set to be the Lantern Festival. The weather was still very cold. Two pots of charcoal were burning in the upper hall of the mill. The air outside was cold and the bones were frozen. The interior was warm and everyone was talking about the topic of the oil mill.
Mei Ji said," Our Yingzhong Department's oil mill will be opening this spring. We can squeeze vegetable oil and cotton seed oil. I hope that the elders of the tribe and the elders of the Righteous Gate will do their best to help.”
Li Dad said,"Your Yingzhong Department has people and wealth, but my family is so cold and desolate."”
"You're pitiful, and I'm even more pitiful. It's not appropriate to say such things today."”
Fuqing said," I didn't expect that I would see something rare when I'm old. This is the first time that we've seen this in Maple Ridge. It's worth celebrating! It's worth celebrating!”
Ai Ting said," Brother Mei Ji isn't bad. They are united. Junior Xiu You and the others are willing to learn. They will have good results in the future." Sigh, we can't do it!”
Yue Xing said," Uncle Ai Ting, don't always praise others. Isn't your Mei Di Plum Blossom doing well selling water in Yuezhou City? You must make a few bucks a day!"”
" Congratulations, Big Brother Mei Ji," Tong Shan said." I'm going to get drunk today. From now on, all the seeds I collect will be shipped to you for oil extraction. I hope you'll have good results."”
Mei Ji said," Of course, of course. Brother Tong Shan will support us wholeheartedly. We will definitely help you."”
The elder of the Sun family said," When the pole is knocked, there will be a hundred taels of gold. Once your oil mill opens, the fragrance will float over our Sun family. We will just wait for Zhang Nose to smell the fragrance."”
The elder of the Yan family said," Old Man Sun, you're speaking in a strange way. Mei Ji and the others didn't open the workshop for you to smell the fragrance. He's here to serve you and me. Don't be ungrateful."”
The Sun Family Elder said," To serve you and me? This is really new. He doesn't accept your money, but he doesn't accept my money? Then you can ask Mei Ji. If she is, I will admit it and drink three cups of wine as punishment.”
The elder of the Fan manor said," Let's drink. Their service is also a kind of business. We'll just do it according to the rules."”
Rong Fa said," If you ask me, Mei Ji and the others have set a good example. The big house field's noodle shop is one shop, but their oil mill is three shops. The more people there are, the more power there is."”
Xigui said," Shrimps have their own paths, turtles have their own paths. Getting rich is fatal. Sometimes in life, you must have it, and sometimes in life, you can't force it. Tell me, how is my fortune?”
Wei Yun said,"You're not the one treating today. Who's going to talk about your fortune?" If you want to know your fortune, invite a guest. We will support you.”
Wan Ren said," I don't know if I'm lucky or not. I only know that what I do makes me lucky. It's like a chicken pecking at its food. If you don't peck at it, that grain of food won't go into your mouth.”
The banquet ended in such a happy atmosphere. Spring had come, and the rape flowers were golden all over the place. They were like a huge golden blanket that wrapped the earth. The bees were busy coming and going, picking flowers and making honey. The flowers faded, the rape seeds grew, and the bees flew away.
In the blink of an eye, it was April. The seeds of the rape were trampled. People carried loads of rape seeds to the oil mill to extract oil. Mei Ji did it very kindly. The first step was to squeeze his own vegetable seeds. The grinding groove was tightly sealed, and the stomach of the squeezing cylinder had to eat oil. After he walked this time, others would not be late if they followed him.
The forbidden garden trees were changing their leaves, and the fragrance of Camphor permeated the air above Maple Ridge. Together with the fragrance of the vegetable oil emitted by Youzha Manor, it spread in all directions, and the sky above and below the lotus pond became fragrant and refreshing.
One year passed, two years passed, and the Xiuyou brothers 'oil extraction skills were getting better and better. They produced more and more oil. They did not burn the pot, fry the seeds, or squeeze the oil. Their reputation was quickly established. The rapeseeds and cotton seeds from the surrounding villages were transported to the oil press village by load and cart. Then, they were transported back to the oil press village. The number of busy pedestrians on the road naturally increased. Maple Ridge was even more like a small Changsha.
When the Youzha Village was in its sixth year of business, the descendants of the Anglo Chinese family were unlucky. First, Xiuyou died. He was only thirty years old when he died. There was no sign at all. The usually lively young man didn't notice anything unusual when he went to the press that day. He moved the vegetable cake into the press belly nimbly. He added the top increment, then the oblique increment, and then he held the ram to push the oblique increment in. He did this again and again. When it was about to be tight, he finished a round with the tail rod. He put down the pole and fell to the ground, unconscious.
Xiuyou was dead. His eldest son, Qimei, was only 11 years old. His youngest son was still in his wife's womb. His daughter, Huaxiang, was only a year old. This family had fallen. 20 days after Xiuyou's death, his old master Mei Ji also died. This year, he was 60 years old. Some people said that Master Mei Ji died of grief because of his son's death. Some people said that Master Mei Ji was about to die, but he had been getting worse and worse over the past two years. He couldn't do anything, and he ate less. After Xiuyou died, he lay in bed and didn't get up.
Fifty days after Mei Ji's death, Hidekuro's two sons died in bed one morning. At this time, his eldest son was already nine years old, and his youngest son was seven years old. They were both studying at Mr. Rain's place, and they had always been healthy and lively. The Xiulang couple really couldn't understand. There was no sign at all. They had eaten two or three bowls of rice the night before and practiced their calligraphy at night. In the morning, when they were woken up for dinner, they had all turned into zombies.
Hidekuro wondered if the workshop was the cause of this disaster. Four men suddenly died in a family in 70 days. Who was the culprit? It didn't seem like it was the workshop's problem. The workshop had been running for six years and had always been doing well. Everything was smooth sailing and the money was not bad.
What was the reason? Could it be a problem with the foundation? Six generations had lived on this foundation! Originally, there were also situations where families died. Why didn't the ancestors ask? Were they ignorant?
Just as Xiu Lang was puzzled, Mei Zhe and Mei Xing had also died on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. They had eaten lunch, drank wine, and even ate a few pieces of meat. Then, they sat in the round chairs and dozed off. When they fell asleep, they fell asleep forever. When their family called them for dinner, they did not answer no matter how hard they tried. They used their hands to probe under their noses and found that they were not breathing.
After Mei Zhe and Mei Xing were seven years old, Xiu Pin gathered his brothers and said,""Our year isn't good this year. It's a bad year. The outside world has spread that our village is a ghost village. If this rumor really spreads far and wide, it will be very detrimental to our business in the future. My suggestion is to go to Yang Si Temple and invite General Yang Si to do a ritual to help us drive away the evil qi. We can't move, nor can we destroy it. We can only cultivate righteousness and yang qi through rituals.”
Xiu Lang said," This idea is good. I agree. Everyone says that General Yang Si's brain is thin and his spirit is still quite spiritual. We believe in General Yang Si's spirit.”
That night in bed, Fan Yaoyao hugged Xiu Lang and said,""Have we been working for nothing in the past ten years? We do homework twice a night for 365 days a year. That's more than 700 times a year, and more than 7,000 times in ten years. If you put all the things you shoot into a jar, it would probably be full.”
Xiulang wrapped his hands around Yaoyao's waist and said,""We still have to work for nothing. Didn't we work hard to give birth to two babies? Although they left, it also proves that our labor was not in vain. "In the future, we will have to do more homework at night. We have to keep making people. It doesn't matter if they die. The gods will always leave a few for us.”
Fan Yaoyao said," How old are you this year? Twenty-seven? I'm twenty-eight this year. We're not young anymore. One more time and you'll be exhausted. Do you think it's the wedding night?!"”
Xiu Lang said," If it doesn't increase, then it doesn't increase. Just listen to our Yaoyao. Let's take action now!"”
After saying that, he flipped over and pressed Yaoyao under him. Then, he pushed her thighs away and began to do his homework. They did it casually and talked about some of their feelings about life as if they had never experienced hardships. It was so easy and indifferent when they talked about it.
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