Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Sunshine Farm

Chapter 166 The Deaf Old Lady’s Cousin
"This deaf old lady, I have long felt that she is not a good person. You don't know, when I moved into this courtyard, I found someone hiding in this old lady's home, but when I wanted to check carefully Later, I found that there was no flaw at all.”

"Has anyone been hiding in the deaf old lady's house?"

Grandma Li's words surprised everyone.

Grandma Li nodded: "Not only that, her status as a five-guarantee household was also exchanged for this yard. She always said that she made shoes for former guards. This is basically impossible, because at that time, our guards She didn’t come to the Forty-Nine City at all, who did she do it for?”

"Yes, why didn't I react? In fact, the deaf old lady told the public about making shoes for the guards. Everyone believed her because she was a five-guarantee household, but no one really knew about her. Have you ever done it.

Hey. This deaf old lady is really good at what she does. Why is she so powerful? "He Yuzhu sighed for a while.

"Then what should we do now, how to expose her?" He Yuyu asked quickly.

"There is no rush for now. We need to continue to monitor slowly. I suspect that the aunt and uncle around her have problems. You must know that we are in a delicate moment in Sijiu City. At this time, if the bad elements If there is an opportunity, there is a huge hidden danger.

So we must be careful. "

Grandma Li warned again.

Everyone nodded in unison, and everyone began to secretly monitor the deaf old lady.

During this time, Zhou Guoan had been staring closely at the deaf old lady's house in the backyard.

Anyway, Zhou Guoan had nothing to do at home, so he often ran to the backyard to play with a few children in the backyard. The deaf old lady did not do anything special, but on this day when the Chinese New Year was about to come, the deaf old lady An unexpected guest came to my wife's home.

This was an old man who walked with a limp. After he entered the courtyard, he asked someone where the deaf old lady was. The people in the courtyard were kind and pointed out the address of the deaf old lady to the lame old man.

In the afternoon, the deaf old lady took the initiative to bring the lame old man to see He Yuzhu.

"Pillar, pillar!"

The deaf old lady had not come to the door for a long time. After He Yuzhu heard the deaf old lady's voice, he immediately opened the door. Following He Yuzhu, he saw an old man behind the deaf old lady.

He Yuzhu looked at the old man and asked doubtfully: "Old lady, who is this?"

"His name is Li Chaoqun, and he is a distant relative of mine. As you know, grandma, I have very few relatives. Today, this distant relative actually asked about me and asked me for help. I had to help." Deaf old lady Looking at He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu said 'Oh': "That's right, that's right. What does this Uncle Li want to help?"

At this time, Li Chaoqun quickly looked at He Yuzhu and said: "Little comrade, my leg was injured due to a fall while riding a horse, so I asked for leave from the venue, hoping that my injured leg could be cured.

But when I come to this Forty-Nine City, my eyesight is completely blank, so I hope someone can help me find a doctor or hospital. Oh, you don’t have to worry about money, I have it. "

Speaking of this, Li Chaoqun took out about 1000 yuan. At this time, He Yuzhu quickly smiled and said: "What's the matter? It's okay, it's okay. I can do it for you. The hospital is the People's Hospital. The orthopedics department there is quite good. Otherwise, I’ll take you there now!”

"Hey, that's really great, thank you, thank you!" Li Chaoqun said thank you quickly, and then He Yuzhu took Li Chaoqun to the Sijiucheng People's Hospital.

After Li Chaoqun was sent to the hospital, the doctor determined that the injury was a fall, which is called a [-]-day injury, so the doctor suggested that Li Chaoqun temporarily live in Sijiu City so that he could get better rest and medical treatment.

Then Li Chaoqun had an honest excuse to live in Sijiu City. However, Li Chaoqun did not live in a courtyard. Instead, he begged He Yuzhu to help him rent a room in a large courtyard outside.

Here, Li Chaoqun has more room to operate. Fortunately, He Yuzhu knew some signs in advance this time, otherwise He Yuzhu would have been pulled down this time.

The old deaf lady's health is getting worse and worse. After all, the old lady's age is also there. During this time, He Yuzhu has been working hard with his family to monitor the old deaf lady.

It's just that since the deaf old lady became ill, such surveillance has become less and less, because the person on the opposite side should not regard a dying person as a pawn.

On Li Chaoqun's side, Director Zhang also investigated and found that Li Chaoqun was indeed the same as he introduced himself, without any excessive exaggeration. Later, the street rented a house for Li Chaoqun.

And this Li Chaoqun often came to take care of the deaf old lady, and this Li Chaoqun smiled at everyone. People in the courtyard felt that this person was good, and everyone gradually lost their vigilance towards him.

Some time passed, just before the New Year.

He Yuzhu took He Yuyu and Yu Haitang to the Cliff Village in Nanyun to visit Ran Qiuye.

During the day and night journey, He Yuzhu drove alone. In the back of He Yuzhu's truck, he carried a large amount of daily necessities, including three hundred kilograms of rice, one hundred kilograms of oil, two hundred kilograms of noodles, fifty kilograms of pork, fifty kilograms of beef, and five kilograms of mutton. Ten pounds, twenty pounds of apples, twenty pounds of candy, etc.!

These are for Ran Qiuye and the villagers of Cliff Village.

In the blink of an eye, Ran Qiuye has been in Cliff Village for almost a few months. You don't know that in just a few months, Ran Qiuye has not only grown stronger, but also learned how to make wine in the village.

Winemaking is a heavy manual labor. The first step on the job is to "get out of the cellar". You have to dig out the materials that were fermented in the cellar 7 days ago and transport them to the pot.

The work of "leaving the cellar" involves first removing the two-inch-thick mud layer used to seal the lid. A hot lees smell hits the face. Two people wearing high water boots stand on the soft and hot wine material. It is not easy to use a large shovel to remove hundreds of kilograms of material in 20 minutes.

The material you start digging is close to the ground, and the further you dig down, the more laborious it becomes. Not only do you have to raise a big shovel high, and each shovel weighs more than ten kilograms of material, you have to throw it into the pit. What's even more unbearable is that The temperature gets higher as we go lower, and most of the water boots are already filled with sweat.

At the beginning, Ran Qiuye and others were not to mention awkward, thanks to the village chief who paired these girls who came down from the top with the most capable young people in the village, and those young people were doing it at a faster speed. , while also asking the girls to go up and rest.

The surrounding villagers were transporting materials while looking at the girls' embarrassment and laughing.

"Loading ingredients" into the pot is not an ordinary job. First, use a wooden spade to loosen the ingredients that have been mixed with distiller's yeast, and then spread the ingredients evenly on the grate of the pot with one spade.

Because the water in the big pot below has been boiled, and the water vapor is constantly coming out of the good ingredients, the person loading the ingredients must carefully cover the leaky areas with new ingredients evenly.

In this way, all the materials taken out of the cellar are stored in the pot layer by layer, and this work is the key to how much wine is produced.

It looks easy, but it is difficult to make. Ran Qiuye only shoveled half of the ingredients and spread them unevenly.

When the other villagers were loading the ingredients, they were really focused, with quick hands and quick eyes. They finished loading the pot without a trace of water vapor escaping, until the umbrella-shaped pot lid made of wooden boards was tightly covered.

There is a large 20 cm diameter tin tube on the lid, which leads directly to the tin pot in the cooling barrel. The tin pot is also a cooler made up of many thin tin tubes, which acts as a cooler for the wine on the steamer. When it reaches the tin pot, it will be cooled by the circulating cooling water into wine, and then flow out from the water pipe below.

For about more than a month, whenever the wine was released, the village chief called Ran Qiuye. At the mouth of the wine dispensing pipe, he not only taught Ran Qiuye how to watch the hops flowing into the barrel to determine the concentration of the wine, but also taught Ran Qiuye at different times. Always ask Ran Qiuye to taste the taste of the wine, and take the trouble to explain to Ran Qiuye the relationship between the raw materials of the wine and the taste of the wine, the differences between the wines made from wheat, corn, and sorghum, as well as the role and influence of yeast and distiller's yeast on the wine, etc. .Not only did Ran Qiuye have a deeper understanding of wine, but it also made Ran Qiuye increase his drinking capacity through constant tasting.

He Yuzhu, He Yuyu, and Yu Haitang had just met Ran Qiuye after they arrived at Cliff Village, and then they began to listen to Ran Qiuye talk about wine making, and they kept talking.

He Yuyu asked with a teasing smile: "Qiuye, you don't want to go back to teaching, but are you going back to make wine?"

It was originally a joke, but Ran Qiuye nodded quickly and continued: "You really understand me about Yu Yu. You are right. I will not go back to teach in the future. I want to make wine here and I want to help the cliff." The village brews delicious wine from Cliff Village and then sells all of it to lift Cliff Village out of poverty."

"Clam?"

This sentence shocked He Yuyu and Yu Haitang.

However, He Yuzhu smiled and nodded: "This is a good idea. As long as your wine is good, I can help you sell wine in the future."

He Yuzhu, He Yueyue and Yu Haitang have different ideas. Yu Haitang and He Yuyu certainly think that teaching is the best profession. As long as Ran Qiuye can survive, he can definitely go back and become a teacher again.

But now Ran Qiuye actually said that he didn't want to be a teacher, but wanted to stay here and sell wine. Of course Yu Haitang and He Yuyu couldn't understand it.

But He Yuzhu could understand Ran Qiuye, because He Yuzhu knew what the general trend was. Although the light could not be seen yet, there would be light soon and he could help farmers get rid of poverty. This kind of thing is something to be proud of.

"Really?" Seeing He Yuzhu's words to her, Ran Qiuye was pleasantly surprised, because during this period of time, she said that she wanted to stay and learn how to make wine, and then brew the most beautiful wine to make the villagers of Cliff Village rich. Such words directly made many girls sneer at him.

These girls who came here with Ran Qiuye basically thought that they could be lazy and then go back to Sijiu City or their own homes. Their feelings for this place were not very deep.

Every plant and tree here is just a passing passer-by to them, nothing more, so when Ran Qiuye said such words, not many people agreed with Ran Qiuye.

And He Yuzhu is No. 1 who agrees with Ran Qiuye.

Looking at Ran Qiuye, who was a little excited, He Yuzhu smiled and nodded: "Of course it's true, by the way. I can buy back all the wine you have left this year. I'm now the director of a canteen, one thousand I can sell out any wine that weighs less than a kilogram, and I’m giving out some gifts during the Chinese New Year. If your wine is really good, I’ll buy it back.”

"Ouch. How could I have forgotten this? Brother Zhuzhu, you are the canteen director of the Red Star Rolling Mill. You can buy wine. Wait a minute. Brother Zhuzhu, wait a minute. I will call the village chief right away. Ask him to bring you our wine so you can have a taste!" After saying that, Ran Qiuye ran away without looking back, directly leaving He Yuzhu, He Yuyu and Yu Haitang aside.

"puff!"

After a while, both He Yuyu and Yu Haitang laughed in surprise, and then heard Yu Haitang say: "Qiuye really regards himself as a person here."

In less than 10 minutes, the head of Cliff Village led a group of people outside the village and saw He Yuzhu, He Yuyu and Yu Haitang sitting beside the truck. The head of Cliff Village quickly walked over and apologized: "He Director, I'm sorry, we didn't know you were coming. If you had said hello in advance, we would have come to the village entrance early to greet you."

Hearing the other party call him Director He, He Yuzhu knew that Ran Qiuye had already told the other party his identity.

He Yuzhu nodded and smiled at this time: "It's nothing. I came here today to give something to Qiuye. After all, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. I don't know if she is doing well here."

"Brother Zhuzi, I have a good life here. The village chief and everyone are very good to us." Ran Qiuye said quickly.

He Yuzhu smiled and nodded, then said to the village chief: "Thank you village chief for taking care of me. I brought some things in my car for Qiuye to celebrate the New Year. Could you please ask the village chief to find a few young men to help unload it."

The village chief quickly agreed: "That's no problem." Then the village chief quickly called some young men over and asked these young men to get on the truck to unload. Originally, everyone didn't know what He Yuzhu would bring to Ran Qiuye this time. When they saw what was on the truck After getting all the supplies, everyone was stunned.

Rice, flour, oil, hundreds of kilograms of meat, and various snacks. Together, these things are almost enough for the entire Cliff Village to celebrate the New Year, but this is just what Director He in front of him brought to Ran Qiuye alone.

Seeing these things, everyone's eyes were straightened.

The girls who came with Ran Qiuye didn't know what to say.

When Ran Qiuye saw these things, he was full of thanks to He Yuzhu. He must be the only person who could help him selflessly when he was in trouble.

"Thank you, Brother Zhuzhu. But, Brother Zhuzhu, I can't eat these things by myself. Can I pass them on to other people?" Ran Qiuye looked at He Yuzhu and asked.

"Of course. These things are for you. You can give them to whomever you want." He Yuzhu said very generously.

"Thank you, Brother Zhuzhu!" Ran Qiuye said happily, and then said to the village chief behind him: "Village chief, I want to divide the things here into several parts, and every household in the village will come to get one to take back for the New Year.

Everyone has worked hard this year, and it’s time to have a good year. "

"But those things were given to you by Director He." The village chief was a little embarrassed, because those things are really good things, and even if you have money, you may not be able to get good things now.

Ran Qiuye smiled and said: "Village chief, if the wine in our village can be sold, then we will have money in the future. As long as we have money, we can buy any good thing. My brother Zhuzi has a way, you can Don’t worry.”

In this case, the village chief had no choice but to nod his head and say: "Okay, I'll listen to you!"

He Yuzhu didn't say anything here. He Yuyu and Yu Haitang also showed faint smiles and followed the things being moved into the village. Then the village chief came to He Yuzhu with a smile, took out a gourd and said: "Director He, this is It’s the Erguotou brewed in our village, would you like to try it?”

"it is good!"

He Yuzhu nodded, and the village chief immediately asked someone to bring out a bowl, and then poured a bowl of wine for He Yuzhu. The wine was fragrant. He Yuzhu took a slight sip and felt that the quality of the wine was above average and the taste was good.

So He Yuzhu asked: "How much does this wine cost per pound?"

"Sanmao...!" The village chief immediately looked at He Yuzhu expectantly and said.

What made the village chief a little disappointed was that He Yuzhu shook his head slightly. The village chief thought that He Yuzhu felt that the price of the wine was too expensive, so he quickly said again: "If it were you, we would sell it for [-] cents, but it really can't be lower. Yes, our village’s annual harvest is in this wine, and the village’s dividends depend on it.”

But what the village chief didn't expect was that He Yuzhu said slightly: "One piece, I'll take as much wine as you have."

"Huh." The village chief didn't know what to say for a moment. He didn't expect that He Yuzhu actually raised the price to one yuan. At this time, the village chief said quickly: "We still have two thousand catties."

"I want all the 2000 yuan." After saying that, He Yuzhu smiled lightly.

(End of this chapter)