Chapter 2 There is a "happy" event at home "It's really strange. There are people asking for directions in this corner. It seems that they are not from the village. Could it be that they are from other villages?"
"There's no way anyone would be so stupid as to come out of Sangzhong Town and end up unable to find their way back..."
"It's impossible for him to come from behind Calabash Mountain, right? It's not easier than the German army bypassing the Maginot Line and passing through the Ardennes Forest..."
After saying goodbye to the man and leaving, the young man named Wu He lowered his head and walked on the dirt road home. His thoughts were racing in his mind, but after some speculation, he could not come up with any definite answer, so he had to adjust his thoughts and continue on his way.
The boy's appearance is simple and honest, just like other villagers, but from his eyes that are obviously different from those of ordinary villagers, it can be seen that his mind is not as ordinary as his appearance shows...
But when you don’t know anything, no matter how extraordinary or extraordinary it is, it’s of little use.
After all, reasoning is not like divination, it requires clues...
Wu He's home was not far from the river, so he returned home not long after walking.
His home is quite large, and the whole is made of relatively strong fir wood. The huge pillars and tiles on the roof all reflect the characteristics of ancient oriental architecture.
Wu He was obviously used to the style of this house, so he walked directly to the door. But just when he was about to push the door open, a figure jumped out of the house next door. He pulled, stopping his progress.
"Ahe, dad is discussing business inside, don't go in yet..."
Suddenly hearing a voice from behind, Wu He retracted his hand and turned his head. The person holding him was a child about meters tall and about eleven or twelve years old.
This child has red lips and white teeth. He is quite good-looking. He has a bun on his head and a pair of big watery eyes that reveal a dexterity that is not for this age group.
"Oh, Ah Yu, this is business again, good things or bad things."
This child's name is Wu Yu. He is Wu He's cousin and the son of Uncle Wu He. He likes numbers. After being taught mathematics by Wu He, he got out of control and kept pestering Wu He to learn this aspect.
As for addressing people, Wu Yu likes to imitate the nicknames of adults called Wu He and never changes them, so they basically call each other by their nicknames. By the way, Wu Yu has an older brother who is one year older than him. The guy named Wu Yan likes to listen to stories... …
Moreover, these two names were named after Wu He, one of the few people in the family who could read and write, and his fourth uncle who died young. This way he avoided being given names like Gou Sheng or Er Hu...
Nodding slightly, Wu Yu tilted his head and said:
"The person who came here is wearing a white scarf and has a sad look on his face. He should be Bai Shi, and I heard it outside the door. He should be from the town, and his life is about the same..."
Wu He's family is an opera singer, or an actor in higher-end terms.
However, in this remote and remote area, survival is the biggest problem. There are not many people in Lower Riba, let alone Yangchun Baixue.
Those various material high-rise buildings like those in various story novels, until they are happy, they laugh loudly and wave a bounty of a thousand taels, which are just the lustful fantasies of the lower-class people who consider themselves to be at the bottom, but are not considered to be at the bottom.
In a place like this, the only uses of opera are for red and white affairs.
Either sing a happy song or send it to an old friend.
It is precisely because of this that Wu He's family takes care of all the arrangements for weddings and weddings, whether it is the long red cloth ribbon and red flowers for the red wedding; or the coffin with coins and wreaths tied with paper for the the only red and white business practitioners in the Thirteen Villages, the Wu He family has basically taken care of the life and death of most families in the Thirteen Villages.
However, although the business is more than that of the Shengsheng Hall next door, but compared to the Shesheng Hall's monopoly on Liyue's weddings and the ability to provide for Zhongli, the thirteen villages combined have a lot of people, but Lin Lin finally adds up, plus the next door There are only two to three thousand people in Sangzhong Town, and weddings and weddings cannot even afford food and clothing for the whole family.
Two to three thousand people seems to be a lot of people, but this is really not how it is calculated. If you really want to calculate it, the elderly among the two to three thousand people will be at most two to three hundred. When you die, let alone find someone to sing in the opera, you can buy a coffin. They are all considered "middle class", and there are many in their prime, but those who have wives who can lift the sedan can't even have two hands.
Wu He's family takes over three red and white events throughout the year, and two is the most important the wilderness really comes, or if the plague is rampant and countless people die, where will the red things come from? As for the white things, I am afraid that the vast majority of the dead will belong to the wilderness...
In addition, Sangzhong Town actually has its own shop selling red and white goods, and the neighboring villages are obviously more willing to find other shops for help. Wu He and his family can also cover seven or eight nearby villages, so the work is naturally more complicated. not enough……
And even if the villagers in the small mountain village are willing to ask Wu He and his family to go out to the mountain, how much money can they make? Usually they only earn a hard fee, some dry food, and half a fan of pork to survive starvation...
Therefore, this kind of thing is actually just a gimmick. If you really want to spend a year, you still have to rely on Wu He's grandfather to lead the team from Sangzhong Town to look for business in several surrounding towns.
Those slightly larger cities are different from this small rural village in the corner of the country. There are basically prosperous families in those larger cities.
Those families are really rich, and they are really generous when they spend money. In order to let their ancestors bless their family's luck in the next year, to make money, and to have descendants, many of them will invite Wu He's grandfather to go. Singing operas please the ancestors and ask for their blessings.
This kind of family is generally not short of money, and they may directly reward several taels of silver for a performance.
Starting from Sangzhong Town, we first go east, reaching Qingfeng City in the east and Wuyang County in the north, then return to Huxiao Village in the west for repairs, and finally return to Sangzhong Town in the south and return to the village.
It passed through more than a dozen towns and dozens of villages in one circle.
The trip was full of expenses for the team, and when they took it home, they could also buy some food and cloth in Sangzhong Town to survive the winter.
Generally speaking, the cycle of spring, autumn, winter, and repairs goes back and forth, and there is no shortage of livelihood...
Of course, this is all based on the most ideal situation. In fact, there is no life after running all the way. It is very common to even encounter thieves on the road. Sometimes, it is even possible to encounter unclean things on the road.
Well~, although most of these things were told by my grandfather, Wu He followed him out twice and never saw them...
This year should be the third time Wu He goes out together...
"That's right, the time has almost come..."
Looking at Wu He who was deep in thought, Wu Yu's delicate little nose, which did not look like a boy's, twitched slightly, and then turned his leisurely gaze to a large leaf wrapped in rattan in Wu He's hand.
Looking at the long look in the other person's eyes, Wu He also understood what the other person meant and couldn't help but smile.
"Okay, okay, let's go back first. We need your food. It will be dinner time soon, and you will have your share of fish soup then..."
He nodded and sent Wu Yu away. Looking at the closed door, listening to the rustling discussions and faint cries coming from inside, Wu He's eyes as steady as a sword's edge couldn't help but frown slightly. .
"Inexplicably, I always feel like something bad is happening..."
However, Wu He didn't stay in this look for long before his eyes quickly opened up. A trace of helplessness and self-mockery flashed through his bright eyes due to regular exercise.
"Sixteen years later, I have been assimilated by this group of people, and I still believe in these baseless whims. Sure enough, the materialistic education I received for 16 years in my previous life was still given to the teacher..."
Of course, even though he said that, Wu He still raised his eyes and looked belongs to materialism, who says whims and monsters do not belong to materialism?Maybe it's the unique ecology of this world...
But this is his home after all. After walking around suspiciously for two times, Wu He put these things behind his mind and went about his own business...
(End of this chapter)