My Taoist buddy has practiced surrogacy

Chapter 414 Resolved
I help you cook and wash clothes every day, but you are getting engaged and have a birth with me, you really have no heart!

Zhou Rong'er sat in front of the stove in a daze, and unconsciously, two teardrops flowed down from her eyes.

In the reflection of the stove fire, Zhou Ronger, who was as beautiful as jade, was sitting. Zhou Xing saw it in his eyes, and he was already infatuated. When he saw a teardrop rolling out of the corner of his eye, Zhou Xing felt pain in his heart, and said softly: " Sister Rong'er, what's wrong with you?"

Zhou Rong'er was startled, stood up abruptly, wiped her face quickly, then turned around, and said angrily, "It's scary, you don't even say hello when you enter the door?"

Seeing that Zhou Rong'er was slightly annoyed, Zhou Xing hurriedly said, "Sister Rong'er, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, did I scare you?"

Zhou Rong'er gave Zhou Xing a blank look, and said, "I'm not that timid, don't be sorry. The meal is ready, let's eat quickly."

Zhou Xing hummed, and went to wash his hands and face. Zhou Ronger brought the food, bowls and chopsticks to Zhou Xing and put them in the room. Zhou Xing sat at the table, smelling the smell of the food, his stomach could not help but growl. Feeling very embarrassed, he smiled and said, "It smells so good, I'm really hungry."

Zhou Rong'er sat on the side, looked at Zhou Xing, and said quietly: "Brother Zhou, will the rice cooked by the new sister-in-law be more delicious after that?"

Zhou Xing laughed, and said, "New sister-in-law? The new sister-in-law you brought?"

Zhou Rong'er said in a low voice: "New sister-in-law, of course you just got engaged, my new sister-in-law?"

Zhou Xing was taken aback: "Engaged? Who is engaged? When did I get engaged? Why don't I know?"

Zhou Rong'er hurriedly said, "Aren't you engaged?"

Zhou Xing was also in a hurry, pointed at the sky, and said: "Sister Rong'er, don't dare to talk nonsense, our villa is so big, how can we hide it, I am not teaching every day, but practicing, whoever sees me Engaged? Who said I'm engaged? Sister Rong'er, tell me, I'll ask him (her)!"

Zhou Rong'er heard it clearly this time, and she was very happy. The troubles just now had already been thrown to the Java country. She lowered her head and murmured to herself: "Sister Rong'er, sister Rong'er! Not engaged"

Zhou Xing saw Zhou Rong'er whispering to himself, but couldn't understand what he said, and asked, "Sister Rong'er, what are you talking about? Who said I'm engaged?"

Zhou Rong'er blushed, and said in a low voice: "No one said, you can eat, I'm leaving, Brother Zhou." After speaking, she turned around and ran out briskly without looking back.

Zhou Xing looked at Zhou Rong'er's jumping and jumping back, very puzzled, shook his head, and said: "This girl, what is she doing, who said I'm engaged?"

When Zhou Rong'er returned home, it was quite dark. Uncle Zhou had already finished his meal and went to find Uncle Zhou Zhou. Seeing Mrs. Cui sitting at the table and the neat white food on the table, Zhou Rong'er was very embarrassed and said: " Mom, you haven't eaten yet."

Cui looked at her excited daughter and said angrily, "You're still running around at this age. If you don't come back, mother will wait for you."

Zhou Rong'er stuck out her tongue, made a face for Mrs. Cui, sat at the table, and started to eat, maybe she was hungry, maybe she was happy, it was the same meal, but Zhou Rong'er felt that the meal cooked by her mother today was really delicious and very good eat.

Cui shi was eating, looking at her happy daughter, she felt relieved for a while.When I married into the Zhou family, I gave birth to such a girl. Since childhood, both I and the child's father loved her very much.Although the villa is remote, the care of the husband and wife has made the child never suffer any grievances.Seeing her daughter growing up day by day, Missing her younger self more and more, Mrs. Cui is full of pride, regardless of her appearance, bearing or personality, counting all the girls in the villa, who can catch up with this Rong'er half?
Rong'er was about to turn seventeen, and it was time to talk about marriage.

In the past two years, whether it is the Zhou family, the Wang family or the Chen family, they have all secretly revealed their intention to get married. If you want to say that this is someone else, it is fine. Wang Tong, not to mention his character and appearance, is also smart, but he is good at counting. My child, Uncle Zhou is very fond of it.It's just that Mrs. Cui has been hesitant. For some reason, she always feels that her Rong'er is not the life of the village women who planed food in the soil. Her Rong'er should not be wronged here for the rest of her life. Birth, old age, sickness and death in remote valleys are unknown.It was this hesitation that made Uncle Zhou and his wife politely refuse anyone's overt or covert marriage proposals.

Traveling in the villa this week, without the help and support of the Zhou family at the beginning, it would be impossible to get along so well.Watching Zhou Xing go from being a desperate county king to gathering the villa around her step by step, and becoming the wife and the biggest principal in the mirror of everyone in the villa, Cui received surprises one after another. She has concluded: Zhou Xing's future will definitely not be limited to this remote valley, and the future of the villa will also be closely linked with Zhou Xing's future.

As someone who has been there, Cui has seen her daughter's emotions and changes these days, seeing her concern for Zhou Xing, her concern and consideration for Zhou Xing, Cui understands her daughter's hazy little thoughts better than her own. .The reason why she never confronted her daughter, did not find a way to promote or pinch off the weak love seedlings, was because Cui still couldn't conclude: if she really promised her daughter to Zhou Xing, what would happen to her for the rest of her life? Is it a curse or a blessing.

Seeing her daughter's happiness today, Cui thought to herself: "Perhaps, it's time to make a decision."

In the period of the Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties when the productivity was relatively low, a self-contained small environment like the villa could basically be self-sufficient in other aspects, such as food, planting, and hunting.To wear, you can grow hemp and weave cloth.Medicine, you can go up the mountain to collect it.But only one thing must be foreign, and that is salt.

Salt, in addition to seasoning, the most important thing is that once there is a lack of salt in life, if you don’t eat salt for a long time, you will be weak and sick. This is mainly because the sodium ions in the salt are an essential substance for the body’s electrolyte balance. Without sodium The intake of ions will cause human agency disorder.

In the past, although the villa was closed, it was not completely isolated after all. The people in the villa would occasionally go out of the mountain to the county, city and town to sell their own fur goods and buy some salt and other items back.

Since many mountain people came to the villa last time, everyone knew that the nearby area had become a battlefield. Zhou Bao went to buy paper and ink, but was almost captured by the officers and soldiers.Everyone knows that it is impossible to go outside.Besides, it's arranging newcomers and practicing team courage.Even if the family ran out of salt occasionally, they had no time to go out, and they were unwilling to take risks.They are all borrowed from the neighbors in the east and west.This came and went, and soon many houses had the problem of running out of salt.

Now this villa, especially the newcomers, has already regarded the villa as a backing. The villa is not only a place where I live, but also my own organization and support, and it is the backbone of my family. who?So this matter naturally began to be reported to Uncle Zhou and Uncle Wang.

When Zhou Xing heard about this, he scratched his head. He never thought that the salt was actually a big problem.It's no wonder that in later generations, this salt is very worthless. Although he has never cooked in later generations, he also knows that whether he goes to a supermarket or a small store, he can just buy a few bags and use it back.When I came to this villa, I was eating from the owner and eating from the west. How could I remember that this person wanted to eat salt.

Now that this matter is mentioned, Zhou Xing vaguely remembers that there are several types of salt. One is sea salt, which is dried in sea water and boiled. It is not clear how to do it. Chiyan is the most famous place. Of course, I still remember that there is a salt lake in Qinghai. It is said that salt was used to build roads, and later it was a very important chemical base.There is also a kind of well salt in Sichuan, which is boiled with brine from the well.The land of Hanzhong is dangerous and far away from the sea. The salt is probably either well salt or pool salt.

Everyone gathered in Zhou Xing's room, surrounded by a circle, these armor chiefs all had bitter faces.Everyone discussed for a long time, but there was no idea.The key is that the situation outside is unclear, and I don’t know what the army is fighting outside. If one side wins, no matter which side it is, as long as the front line is not in this area, the county here will be open, and the road will not be so dangerous. It can still be done if you want to buy some or pan for some salt.I'm afraid it's still the same as before. There is chaos here. If they go out, the better ones will be caught as cannon fodder to fight in the war. If they are unlucky, they may be regarded as the other party's spies and their heads may be beheaded.

Zhou Xing vaguely remembered that in the original history, this battle belonged to Wang Jian, the former Shu lord of Sichuan, who sent several godsons of his own, headed by Dongchuan Jiedu envoy Wang Zongbi, in the name of welcoming the emperor to borrow the road. Come to grab Qi Wang Zhou Maozhen's territory.At the end of the fight, Wang Zongbi claimed to be calm and wise. The Shannan Xidao Jiedushi here seemed to have won a few times at first, but in the end he was really no match.It seems that this battle has been fought for a long time, almost a year.

Everyone talked about it, but there was no idea, Uncle Zhou said: "Anyway, we have to find a way to get salt. This salt is not something that any household can have. It can only be bought in the county or university. Let’s go to the town to buy, and tomorrow we’ll send two nimble people out of the mountain to find out what’s going on. As long as we can get to the county seat, it’s easy to arrange for people to buy salt and transport it.”

Zhou Xing listened, nodded, and couldn't help saying to himself: "If there is no private salt, we can get some dealers."

Everyone was silent when they heard this sentence, Huang Hai opened his mouth, hesitating, and before he could speak, Uncle Zhou said softly: "Master, I dare not say this, how can I sell this private salt, it is the crime of beheading .”

Zhou Xing smiled lightly, and said: "Uncle Zhou, it's true that you said this on the Taiping Festival. The king's law is as great as the sky. The current situation is the old emperor's calendar. What's going on outside here? You just talk about the battle outside, who is fighting with whom? That family is not a courtier and general of the Tang Dynasty, but this scramble for territory is still a serious fight. Not to mention the county officials and state capitals, it is the emperor's decree, Which of the two sides will listen? Now that the world has lost the law of the king, what is this crime?"

Zhang Jiang responded: "Sir, what you said is right. Outside, you are just farming honestly, why don't you just arrest it? Anyway, if you are not arrested here, it will not be good if the army comes over there. Fleeing to survive , this smuggling of private salt is also for survival, there is nothing to be afraid of, you have to do what you have to do, and you can't let the people in Yizhuang have no salt to eat like this."

Uncle Wang said: "The words are true, but apart from knowing that there must be salt in the big cities of the county and state capitals, I don't know where the salt is elsewhere. It's not empty talk."

Everyone nodded when they heard it, and they didn't know where to buy salt, so it's useless to say that private salt is not private salt?
Seeing that everyone was silent, Huang Hai hesitated for a while, and then said softly: "I know someone, but I have done illegal salt work."

Zhou Can immediately jumped up and shouted: "You still have this connection, hurry up and talk about it, let's find him!"

"Yes, yes, there is such a way, why didn't you say it earlier?" Everyone in the room, hearing Huang Hai's words, immediately felt that there was hope, and they all looked at Huang Hai eagerly. Only Uncle Zhou sighed softly , bowed his head and remained silent.

It turns out that there is a brother from a distant place in the Yellow Sea. He liked to dance with knives and guns since he was a child. Leave the fields to Huang Hai and the others to take care of them, and go out on their own. It has not been two years, but in the Sanquan area, they have the title of "Mountain Flying". He once told Huang Hai that he and a group of brothers, By selling private salt, he established a small foundation.

This Huang Hai and the others have been honest peasants for generations, and the fact that such a person came out was considered a great shame in the family, and they never mentioned it to outsiders. Although they knew where this person was based, they It is also better to go to other places to escape disasters and seek refuge, and no one wants to go to the brothers in this clan to find a living.

It's just that today, seeing that Zhuangzhong was worried about the matter of salt, the villa's kindness to people like himself was as great as a mountain, and he couldn't just leave him dead. Things have been said.

Zhou Xing came from a later generation, so he naturally didn't think it was a big deal to sell smuggled salt.From a historical point of view, this salt and iron monopoly, since the Han Dynasty, has been the supreme method for the government to collect money. To put it bluntly, it is just that the government wants to earn this monopoly profit. Selling and buying private salt is for the country. Poking holes financially will naturally be attacked and suppressed by the government.But in essence, compared with murder, arson, and looting of the people, what kind of crime is that?

Seeing that everyone except Uncle Zhou was in favor, Zhou Xing immediately decided to ask Huang Hai to take a few people out of the mountain tomorrow. He tried every means, one was to inquire about outside news, the other was to find a way, and he thought about contacting his brother, to see if it was possible. Solve the problem of using salt in the villa.

Several young people saw that the matter seemed to have hope of being resolved, and they were very enthusiastic. They wanted to go with Huang Hai. Zhou Xing immediately dispatched Huang Hai, Zhou Bao, Zhou Can, and Wang Tong to go, and the rest stayed behind. In the villa, it is time to train and work.Seeing that they were not allowed to go, Zhou Dahu and Tuesday Hu were very upset, they yelled together, but they were reprimanded by Uncle Zhou, so they didn't say anything.

Zhou Xing and Uncle Zhou Zhou gave some more detailed instructions, and the five of them agreed in unison, and each of them dispersed to prepare.

When Uncle Zhou came home, Mrs. Cui was lighting a pine light, making some female reds while the lights were on.

(End of this chapter)