Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty Seven

In July, wolves come. At the beginning, the wolf was on the top of the plateau.In the silent night, the sound of howling wolves was as sharp as a knife, waking people up from sleep.The doll slipped into the arms of the woman in fright, and the woman slipped into the arms of the man in fright. The man held his wife’s doll tightly, and opened his eyes wide in the dark, trying to see if the doors and windows were fastened. Lest the light call the wolf over.Later, the wolf felt that the plateau was too desolate and unpopular, so he came down from the plateau and had fun in the fields and moats next to the stockade.People in the Zhou family village were in panic, and the gate of the village, which had not been closed for a long time, was closed before it got dark.As soon as the sun went down, the village was empty, and everyone huddled under the covers early, not daring to speak loudly, even yawning and farting became dumb.

Ordinarily, people in Zhoujiazhai shouldn't be so afraid of wolves, don't they have Orion?This is usually said to be happy for them, but now it is said that Orion in Zhoujiazhai is not happy at this pass.They said where are we Orion?Like everyone else, we grow crops, but when the farming is off, we go to the ditches to hunt some small wild animals to subsidize our family. How can we be called hunters?The person who brought down the tiger and leopard in the Qinling Mountains is called the Orion.People have lifting rods and iron guns, what do we have?The soil gun in our hand can only scare hares and pheasants, and dealing with wolves is almost like a poker!In addition to not wanting to admit that they are timid, it is true that their weapons and skills are not good, these half-baked hunters in Zhoujiazhai dare not hunt wolves at all.Although wolves are small in size, they are as fierce as tigers and leopards. Not to mention livestock, they often hurt people.These guys usually hide in deep ditches and rotten kilns, and come out to have fun in autumn. The green gauze curtain is a natural barrier to protect them.

Don't take the egg baby out!Zhou Liang told Chun'e that she was afraid that something might happen to her precious grandson.Mrs. Zhou Liang loved her grandson, but her grandson didn't appreciate it. If you didn't hug him outside, he would cry in the house.Is this a wild baby, Zhou Liang said.This is what Zhou Kewen is used to. Ever since his grandson was full moon, Zhou Kewen would hug him around the village whenever he was free.He loves his grandson crazy, and feels that he has been wronged by keeping his grandson in the house.Of course, going around the village is also showing off, he wants to let the whole village see that Mingdetang has a future.This doll is wandering around like this, and he doesn't want to stay in the house. Although he can't speak yet, he can cry and laugh.Cry as soon as you enter the house and laugh as soon as you go out.This can be difficult.

Chun'e didn't know what to do, and suddenly remembered a treasure, she took it out and put it on for her son.There are amulets, we are not afraid.Chun'e said to her in-laws. Zhou Kewen was shocked when he saw the object on his grandson's neck, and immediately took it off and asked sharply, where did it come from?Who would dare to wear this to my grandson! Chun'e turned pale with fright, she didn't know what taboo she had violated. Zhou Liang saw it and asked Chun'e, did Lide give it to you? Chun'e said that he left it for Danwa, saying that it could ward off evil spirits and protect him from a long life.

Zhou Liang yelled at the old man, why are you so fierce?This is a foreign Bodhisattva, very spiritual. Nonsence!Zhou Kewen spit out a mouthful of phlegm, his voice was higher than his wife's, what kind of foreign Bodhisattva?You're blind, it's called moving a mouse!He pointed to the villain on the cross and said, the rats who spread foreign religions to destroy the quintessence of the country, your father was in righteousness and boxing back then, and they were the ones who beat you, but you are still his daughter! Zhou Liang refused to accept it, she said, my father gave it to me, and my father was able to escape from the guns of foreigners, all because of it.

Oh, Zhou Kewen suddenly realized, he said, no wonder my father-in-law choked to death after eating so well, it turned out to be caused by this thing!My grandson can't wear this. Zhou Kewen raised his hand, intending to throw the thing on the dung pile outside the courtyard wall, but he pinched it again the moment he let go.Zhou Kewen found out its weight, it is pure silver. I want to wear the amulet of the real god on my grandson!Zhou Kewen said.He took the mouse to the silversmith's shop in Jiangzhang Town, had it melted down, and cast it into Confucius.The silversmith asked who Confucius was, but he had never seen it, so he couldn't describe it.Zhou Kewen really wanted to slap the silversmith in the face. There are still people who don't know the most holy teacher, King Wenxuan, in the place where Ma Rong lectures!He took out a silver dollar and said to the silversmith, this is travel expenses, you come with me, and I will take you to see the saint.He led the silversmith to the Confucian Temple in the county town, kowtowed nine times in front of the statue of Confucius, and when he came back, the silversmith cast a peach-shaped silver ornament for Zhou Kewen, with a big-headed figure chiseled inside.

Zhou Kewen invited Confucius home, Zhou Liang looked at it, curled his lips and said, just this old man Benertou is not as good-looking as that foreign Bodhisattva.Zhou Kewen admitted that the silversmith's skills were poor, and he chiseled the sage into a bull's head and horse face, but he didn't dislike it. He said that good-looking is of no use, the key is aura! As soon as the amulet was put on, they felt at ease. This amulet is very powerful, and it can also be said to be very strange. Whoever wears it, whoever it protects, no one else cares about it, even if these people are close relatives of its owner, they will not be honored.No, on the third day Danwa put on the amulet, Zhou Kewen met a wolf!

During breakfast that day, the people in Zhoujiazhai still held the old bowl meeting under the big locust tree.Although the wolves have already made a fuss, after all, it is at night, and it is not so crazy during the day, not to mention that the wolves have been tossing around for so long, and no one in Zhoujiazhai has seen wolves, and no one has been harmed. That's it.After all, people in Zhoujiazhai still can't let go of the old bowl meeting. If they don't get together to eat, they will be tasteless, and they have the right to treat it as if they didn't eat it.Therefore, if it wasn't for the catastrophe, the people of Zhoujiazhai would hold an old bowl meeting as usual.

The topic at the old bowl meeting unknowingly came to the wolf. Everyone was talking about it, and suddenly saw a sheep rushing towards it like crazy. A lot of rice bowls and dishes.Some people recognized that this was Zhou Kewen's dairy sheep, and they felt strange. Xiucai's sheep are usually very stable like Xiucai. What happened today?The person whose food was knocked over was about to scold the sheep when he saw Zhou Kewen rushing over in a hurry. Run to the village. The chewing mouth froze.Someone shouted at Zhou Kewen's back, Uncle Xiucai, can there be wolves in broad daylight?You look dazzled now!

We all know that wolves are nocturnal animals and generally do not come out during the day.But there are exceptions to everything. That year Zhou Ligong and Yinwa met a wolf in the daytime, Liu Ye can testify. Zhou Kewen didn't turn his head, but everyone still heard his words.The sheep saw the wolf first... it broke free from the rein... Zhou Kewen used the bridle to herd the sheep, fearing that the sheep would ruin other people's crops.Everyone saw the way the sheep ran for their lives just now. Even if people can cheat, sheep can't cheat, right?This wolf seems to have really existed, and it is so courageous that it dares to come out for a walk during the day!

Although everyone will not express their fear immediately, there are still ready-made excuses to go home.Some people said, hey, the meal was eaten quickly, and I went back to refill the meal.As soon as he picked up the bowl and left, there were several more people who wanted to go back to add more food.As soon as these few people left, the rest of the people said that this old bowl meeting was just for the sake of being crowded, and they all left, so what's the point?Let's go too. Datou and Shanyan father and son are also among the people who broke up.Shan Yan said, this is really strange, why do people in Mingdetang always meet wolves?The big head snorted and said, I have done too many bad things! As soon as Zhou Kewen came home, he immediately brought a pot of fine ingredients for the sheep, and mixed salt and sesame oil into it. Zhou Liang looked at the scene and said that you are generous, but the days are over?The concentrates are beans and corn, which are occasionally fed to tall animals, and only when horses and mules have done heavy work. Even cows don’t even want to eat a bite, let alone sheep.Every day, Zhou Kewen takes the sheep out to eat green grass. They eat so much that their stomachs are bulging and their teats are turned up. When they come back, they milk the goats, half of which is given to the piglets in the pen, and half to Zhou Kewen and his wife. But today, this old man not only feeds the sheep concentrate, but also mixes it with seasoning. Has he become a Bodhisattva? Did the sheep cry wolf to scare the sun down!Zhou Kewen said. No wonder the sheep and people were out of breath when they entered the yard.Zhou Liang asked, is it still the wolf that frightened the second child? Your wife is asking a strange question, Zhou Kewen rubbed the sheep’s buttocks and said, who dares to look carefully. Did the wolf bite the egg?Zhou Liang asked. Zhou Kewen said, yes. God!Zhou Liang was amazed.She said, look at how mysterious this is, it almost killed me!She also hurriedly rubbed the other half of the sheep's eggs.She felt sorry for the sheep, but also for the old man.After rubbing it for a while, she felt strange, why didn't the wolf bite the wound? She asked the old man, and Zhou Kewen couldn't hold back the question any longer, and burst out laughing.His smile stunned Zhou Liangshi, and she stared straight at Zhou Kewen, wondering if the old man had been scared by wolves.Zhou Kewen has no melons, he is laughing at his wife, he said with a smile, how can someone as mediocre as you, the wolf catches all the goats, and can escape with his life? Then what do you do for the sheep to rub the eggs?Zhou Liang was puzzled. Did I prick the egg of the goat’s scorpion with saponins, Zhou Kewen said. You're not a doll, isn't it fun to prick sheep's shirred eggs?Zhou Liang was even more puzzled. If you don't tie a sheep, it won't run, it can only fly when it hurts!Zhou Kewen said with a smile. Why are you telling the sheep to fly?Sheep are not sparrows!Zhou Liang said angrily, hurry up and rub the sheep's eggs again. Only when a sheep flies up does it mean that it has seen a wolf, and the villagers will believe that a wolf is coming when they see it!Zhou Kewen seemed to say a tongue twister. What?Zhou Liang asked in surprise, you mean there are no wolves?Is it a lie you made up that the wolf bites the sheep's scorpion? right!Zhou Kewen said. wrong!Zhou Liang said, how can there be wolves howling without wolves?Didn't you hear that tonight? That's me calling!Zhou Kewen said. What?Zhou Liang's eyes widened with fists. Zhou Kewen asked her, was I by your side when you heard the wolf howling? That's right, this is what makes Zhou Liang's strange.Every time the wolf howled, she woke up in fright, and wanted to hold the old man's hand to strengthen her courage, but every time there was an empty bed around her, she thought he was adding grass to the animals, or went to the hut. Zhou Kewen proudly imitated another wolf howl, which was exactly the same as what Zhou Liang heard at night, but the voice was very low. What is this for?Zhou Liang felt that the old man was crazy. For our cotton!Zhou Kewen said. Cotton blooms slowly in July, and Zhou Kewen's cotton is particularly good this year.Due to the abundant fertility of the land and careful cultivation, it seems to be a bumper harvest year.But at this time, there was one thing that worried Zhou Kewen. He was afraid that such good cotton would not be received by himself, and it would all go into the thief's pocket.When the cotton is ripe, the green gauze curtains are all over the mountains and plains, and it is very convenient for thieves to come and go. They come and go secretly, and it is difficult to find them even when they are acting under the nose.Zhou Kewen is not afraid of bandits now, but thieves.Bandits don't know how to rob cotton, it's bulky and hard to carry, it's better to grab big cigarettes and it's more affordable, and now that the boss's reputation is outside, no bandit dares to harass him.But thieves are different. Those people are either blind or greedy for petty gain. Most of them are from their own village or neighboring villages. Cotton went.Even if he picks it all night, it won't be worth much, and you can't do anything if you catch him. If he is ashamed as a fellow villager, you are ashamed.But if you don’t take care of him, the others will follow suit. Everyone will steal it, and you will lose your hundreds of acres of cotton.Guanzhong is a traditional grain-producing area. Over the past few years, it has become popular to grow tobacco. Few people grow cotton, but those who do not grow cotton all need to wear clothes. Clothes must come from cotton.Now only Zhou Kewen's family grows cotton for tens of miles around, so it's no wonder he's not worried. This is really more wolves and less meat!Zhou Kewen said with emotion.As soon as the word wolf was uttered, Zhou Kewen suddenly had an idea, and a clever plan to protect cotton came to mind: use wolves to scare the thieves. After hearing the old man's ingenious plan, Mrs. Zhou Liang poked Zhou Kewen's forehead with his finger and said, you are really smarter than a monkey. Zhou Kewen smiled smugly again, and then seriously told his wife, don't tell it, it won't work! Mrs. Zhou Liang said, the long-term workers have all gone to the ground, and the sheep can't talk. We are the only ones in this yard, so what are you afraid of? As soon as the news of the wolf coming spread from Zhoujiazhai, it was out of control, and soon there were wolves in the neighboring villages.Everyone knows that wolves are wanderers, and they won't only be greedy for Zhou's village.A calf in Liujiagou was bitten off its hind legs by wolves. Deng Baldzi’s big fat pig in Bailongwan was carried away by wolves at night. What’s even more frightening was that a girl in Dachenzhuang went to visit relatives with her father. After urinating, she burrowed into the sorghum field to relieve her hand and didn't come out for a long time. Her father got impatient and went in to look for it. He only found a shoe and half of his trouser belt, and they disappeared without a sound!This kind of thing spread more and more, and the more it spread, the scarier it became. No one had ever seen it before, but it was more realistic than what they had seen before, and people couldn't help but believe it. It was in this rumor that Zhou Kewen's cotton blossomed.Cotton flowers bloom with a smile. Their mouths are opened a little bit, their tongues are stretched out a little bit, and finally they laugh into an old man with a white beard and white hair.Once the cotton blooms, it must be picked quickly, otherwise it will become moldy when it rains.Thanks to the care of the wolves, the mature cotton has not been damaged.The most important thing now is to get them back as soon as possible. Cotton matures in stages and in batches, which is beneficial for cotton farmers to manage it in an orderly manner. If you plant less, you can treat it calmly.But Zhou Kewen planted hundreds of acres, and the first wave of flowering was overwhelming. Standing on the ground and looking at it, it was like heavy snowfall. It was obvious that so much cotton was picked by a few long-term workers in his family. The first batch has not been picked, and the second batch should bloom again. Zhou Kewen has a solution, he thought of an au pair. An au pair is to exchange one's own things for someone else's labor. It can be labor for labor, animal power for labor, or technology for labor.You can change it at the moment, or you can change it at the wrong time.For example, my family is short of manpower to build a house. If you come to help me, I will naturally help you when you build a house, or I will lend you a cow to pull a plow when you plant the land next year, or your family needs a kang , This is a technical job, I will check it out for you, it is all in the form of an au pair.Anything can be exchanged for work, as long as it is needed by both parties, except money.If you pay, then you are hiring part-time workers. They are all from the same village, and they are familiar with each other. How dare you talk about money?Anyone who says this word is treating himself as an outsider. On the surface, the au pair is friendly, as if it is the same as changing with anyone, but in fact it is not.Everyone still has plans in their hearts, and they will choose the right one.Zhou Kewen is the person everyone is willing to choose because he is good.There are some things that everyone has seen. That year when they planted wheat in the winter, Hei Chou’s family encountered difficulties. He had no livestock and no father. He was orphaned and widowed. no way.Zhou Kewen offered to change jobs on his own initiative, and put on his own livestock to plant land for them. It is impossible to leave this matter to others. What can the black ugly family do?Au pairing with this kind of family is actually helping for nothing.Everyone thought that Zhou Kewen was doing good deeds, he wouldn't ask a twelve-year-old doll to work for him, even Hei Chou's mother thought so.She said to Heichou, go and kowtow to your scholar uncle, it's repaying the favor, you are small and weak, what can you do for others!But everyone was mistaken, Zhou Kewen really insisted on changing jobs.In the summer of the second year, when the wheat was harvested, Zhou Kewen called Heichou and asked him to follow his own stall. These were all technical tasks, and Heichou did it timidly, and Zhou Kewen taught him hand in hand.After seeing this scene, everyone understood his intentions and admired the scholar even more.Hei Chou's father died early, and no one taught the baby farming skills. If he doesn't learn the skills, he will be a useless person in the future. Zhou Kewen is training him.Of course, if you can teach skills, you don’t need to change jobs, but Hei Chou’s mother is a widow, Zhou Kewen has to avoid this suspicion, he is too good for this baby, others will gossip, and if you do favors for no reason, others will feel indebted and become a burden .Through this incident, the people of Zhoujiazhai saw that they would not suffer from changing jobs with Zhou Kewen. Of course, everyone is willing to change jobs with Zhou Kewen not only because he is nice, but more importantly, because his family is rich and he can exchange a lot of things.A poor man has nothing but manpower, and manpower is the least scarce thing in the countryside. What everyone lacks most is livestock, farm tools and culture. Zhou Kewen has these things, and it is these that everyone wants to exchange.For example, livestock are needed when farming is not in time for the season, carts are needed when grain is sold out of town, when there is drought and no rain, people want to borrow livestock water trucks to carry water, and when weddings and funerals need people to write congratulatory posts and inscriptions... Zhou Kewen knew his advantages, as long as he was willing to change jobs, he would yell casually in the village, and there would be no one in Zhoujiazhai who would not be willing to come. That's what I said, but Zhou Kewen didn't play tricks after all, and he still went door to door to tell people.Chun'e saw his father running hard from the east to the west, and said, "Father, if you ring the clock, the whole village will come out. You can tell them how easy it is."Zhou Kewen said, we are begging for help, we can't make it so public, even if others are willing to exchange jobs with us, we have to ask them, this is not only a courtesy, but also gives people face and makes people feel respected.Chun'e said, then I will invite you, you rest.Zhou Kewen said, you are a junior, and you are afraid that people will say that you have slighted them, but my old face will still work. But Zhou Kewen didn't expect that his old face would not be very effective this time, and many invited people had embarrassing expressions.This was beyond Zhou Kewen's expectation.Not to mention that most people in the village are idle now, because they are all growing opium. The opium is ripened once a year, harvested in May and planted in September. This time is just empty time.Even in the busy farming season, with his popularity, if he asks for help, others will find time to help.Now this matter made his old face too unbearable, he cheekily asked the reason, the others hesitated, and finally said embarrassedly, he was afraid of wolves.Hey, look at what happened, it really made me dig a hole and jump myself!Zhou Kewen couldn't say that he pretended to be a wolf. Being scolded like that would be a minor issue, but the loss of cotton would be a major issue.He can only explain to others that we are going to the field during the day, and we are still in groups, and the wolves dare not come.Others say, I can go, but there must be many people who can pick up cotton!Zhou Kewen patted his chest and assured that there were dozens of people!Zhou Kewen's chest hurts after taking pictures of each family. On the second day, more than 30 people came, almost every family had it, which made Zhou Kewen very happy.Of course, all the people who came were women. This was definitely not someone else's way of dealing with Zhou Kewen, but what he wanted.Picking cotton is a job that depends on dexterity rather than strength, and men are definitely not as good as women.Since they were all women, Zhou Kewen asked his daughter-in-law Chun'e to lead the team, so he couldn't get mixed up with women. A group of women came to the cotton field chattering, and they marveled that they had fallen into the sea of ​​clouds and mountains.What a fine cotton, so dazzlingly white and as tough as silk, whether it is spun or wadding, it is the best material.No one has grown cotton in Zhoujiazhai for many years, let alone such good cotton! Chun'e is a careful person. She knows that her duty is not only to take the lead in picking cotton, but also to manage the women's army.After a while, she came out of the cotton field to observe the workers on the ridge.To pick cotton, one wears a cloth pocket and hangs it around the neck, and the picked cotton is packed in this cloth pocket.This cloth pocket is very big, usually made of furoshiki, and it can hold all the cotton picked by one person in a noon.The cotton plants are almost as high as a person's waist. When picking cotton, people have to bend over and use both hands. Chun'e found that Lian Cheng's daughter-in-law picked the fastest, leaving everyone behind by a long way.She was going to praise Lian as a daughter-in-law, but this woman's strange movements caught her attention.When others pick cotton, whether they bend down or straighten up, everyone can see her, but Lian Cheng's daughter-in-law seems to hide and seek like a cat. From time to time, she will squat in the cotton field. At this time, the cotton plants will submerge her. There was no sign of her.At first, Chun'e thought she was relieved, as a woman, it is always convenient to find a place where people can hide, but after observing for a while, Chun'e felt that something was wrong, this woman squatted too many times, how could there be so much excrement and urine? excretion?After thinking about it for a while, Chun'e understood that this guy was putting a mallet in her eyes. In the countryside, this method is often used by women to steal things.Those women with dirty hands and feet stole things, and the safest place to hide them was in their crotches.Don't think that the crotch is too small to hide things. In fact, there is only an entrance, and things fall into the trouser legs when they enter the crotch.Women wear leggings, and the trouser legs above the ankles are a pair of large pockets, which can hold anything except cats.People who are stolen will usually consider themselves unlucky when they encounter this kind of woman, and they will not chase after her fiercely. If you chase after her, the woman will get into the crop field, and those who are interested will stop here.If you don't give up and continue to chase, she will pretend to relieve her, take off her pants with a swipe, and put the stolen things into her crotch. At this time, you will be stupid and have to cover your eyes. escape.You are not afraid of her, but of her crotch.In the countryside, women's trousers are the most vicious charm, if you bump into this object for no reason, you will definitely suffer. Understand these Chun'e very angry.How well his father thinks, everyone has given enough face, even a fart baby respects him, but why don't these people respect themselves?This is really shameless!But she couldn't be sure that Lian Cheng's daughter-in-law must be stealing cotton, after all, they were relatively far away, and there were cotton plants covering them, so they couldn't see clearly.Chun'e thought about it, and yelled at Liancheng's daughter-in-law, "Hey, fifth sister-in-law, slow down, you're walking too fast, beware of wolves!" It really works to say that, the speed of becoming a daughter-in-law really slowed down.Liancheng's daughter-in-law was stealing cotton, and half of the cotton she picked got into her crotch.Such good cotton makes people greedy. Coupled with her poor family background, Lian Cheng's daughter-in-law couldn't help but become greedy.Lian Cheng and his father are tuberculosis ghosts, and the two medicine pots have boiled away all their belongings. What does Lian Cheng's daughter-in-law use to buy cotton?Her house has always been built with sacks, and in winter, it is barely enough to squeeze the kang together, but people can't always sit on the kang, it is so cold that they shiver when they get off the kang, let alone go outside, no Cotton clothes will freeze to death when you go out!Liancheng's daughter-in-law was worrying about this matter, and happened to meet Zhou Kewen as an au pair.Liancheng's daughter-in-law went into the cotton field and danced her hands, and quickly distanced herself from everyone, playing tricks where no one could see.Maybe she was too involved and forgot about the wolf. When Chun'e reminded her, she looked up and was startled. She had already run far away alone. What if the wolf was hidden in the cotton field and took her away? No one else can see it.Women are timid, so she quickly slowed herself down. After picking for noon, everyone's pockets were full. Chun'e called out to call it a day, and said that I would take care of everyone's food, oily and spicy noodles: biang, a Shaanxi folk novel.Noodles, Shaanxi snacks. !Everyone was happy to hear that, and they all praised Zhou Kewen as a kind person.The au pair never cared about food, Zhou Kewen not only took care of food, but also made good food.August and September are also the junctures of the green and yellow. Most people have eaten up their summer grains long ago, and the autumn grains have not yet come in. Except for the wealthy family, few people can afford fine grains. The cotton picker went back to Zhou Kewen's house to empty his pockets, happily picked up the old bowl and sipped noodles, but Liancheng's daughter-in-law wanted to go home, saying that there were two patients waiting for her to cook.Chun'e saw that her trousers were chubby, which confirmed her guess, so she joked, "Sister-in-law Wu, you have become so fat after not seeing you for a few days, what good food is there to support you?"No wonder you don't like my family's food.Liancheng's daughter-in-law said, where is there food? It's because I stood for too long picking cotton today, and my legs were swollen. Oh, look, my fifth sister-in-law is tired, Chun'e said, I will beat your legs.As he said that, he was about to touch Lian Cheng's wife's leg, Lian Cheng's daughter-in-law hurriedly backed up and said, "Break my life, grandma, how dare I work for you!" Chun'e said, then you are going to eat at my house today, why don't I feel bad about it?She stopped Lian Cheng's daughter-in-law, so anxious that Lian Cheng's daughter-in-law blushed. At this time Zhou Kewen spoke, and he said, Chun'e, don't be polite to your fifth sister-in-law. She is a filial daughter-in-law, and there are two people in the family who have to serve her. How can she eat here with peace of mind?Tell your fifth sister-in-law to go home, we owe you fifth sister-in-law. Liancheng's daughter-in-law got the amnesty and turned around to leave.But Zhou Kewen said, don't worry, wait a minute, this sound made Liancheng's daughter-in-law nervous again, she watched Zhou Kewen walk up to her, wondering what he was going to do.Zhou Kewen asked for an empty bag from Liancheng's daughter-in-law, walked to the pile of freshly picked cotton, filled the empty bag, and brought it to Liancheng's wife, saying that you should take this cotton back to your father and Liancheng. Let's wear a cotton coat, winter is coming soon, and the patient is not resistant to cold. Even Cheng's wife and Chun'e were stunned.Liancheng's daughter-in-law thought Zhou Kewen was mocking her, he must have seen that she stole his cotton, so he used this hand to embarrass her.She pushed her pockets like burning her hands, and Zhou Kewen said, I am not just for you, everyone who picks cotton today will have a share. village people.When the people who were eating heard this, they were so happy that they choked. After eating in twos, they hurried to the cotton pile to pack cotton for themselves. Chun'e was wondering why his father did this, Zhou Kewen told her, Chun'e, you see your fifth sister-in-law's leg is swollen, you can send her the cotton back.When Liancheng's wife heard this, she quickly said, "I can recite it, I can recite it."Then he walked away with his pockets on his back. Chun'e was so angry that she was on the verge of tears, she had never seen such a useless father, not to mention letting the thief go, and somehow distributing so much cotton to the whole village!She said angrily, Dad, don't you see that Liancheng's daughter-in-law is playing with a stick? Zhou Kewen said that I saw it.Chun'e said, let her go after seeing it?Zhou Kewen said, so what if you don't let her go?You can't take off her pants, can you? I want her to suffer for a while, Chun'e said, to shame her in front of the big guys! Zhou Kewen said that a tree is afraid of hurting its skin, and a person is afraid of hurting its face. If you hurt her face, you have made an enemy with her. It is not worthwhile to make an enemy for a few catties of cotton. Chun'e thought that even if his father was right, there was no need to distribute cotton to the whole village.Although he didn't say this, Zhou Kewen could see it from the tense face of his daughter-in-law.He said, we give up this cotton to keep more cotton.You think, everyone has seen the daughter-in-law stealing cotton today, and we can’t do anything to her, and then they will follow suit, unless we don’t change jobs with the villagers.But if we don't exchange jobs with the villagers, we have to hire part-time workers, which will cost more money, and the villagers will complain that we can't trust the villagers.After all, we can only exchange jobs with people in the village. In this way, rather than being stolen by others, it is better for us to give it automatically. I think people’s hearts are fleshy. If we treat people like this, will they still have the nerve to steal us? Chun'e said, Dad, you always think too well of people. Zhou Kewen said that people are like animals, you can lead them on the right path, and only then can they go on the right path. After saying this, he asked Mrs. Zhou Liang to prepare a pot of oily and spicy noodles, and ordered Chun'e to take Liancheng's wife home.Chun'e didn't want to, Zhou Kewen said, it's better to ask people to owe us, don't ask us to owe others, let's do good deeds to the end.Chun'e said that even if she gave it away, she wouldn't be able to give it so much, would it kill her?Zhou Kewen said that it was for her family, and we had to make up for the delay in cooking when the wife did the work for us. Chun'e sent the meal to Lian Cheng's house.She didn't expect that a thick-skinned person like Liancheng's wife would shed tears when she saw this pot of oily and spicy noodles. This season's cotton was harvested from August to plucking in October, and there was basically no damage. In the hall of Mingde Hall, cotton piles were piled up so high that even the altars of the ancestors were blocked.Zhou Kewen was so happy that he couldn't help but write a letter to Zhou Ligong, asking him to contact the textile factory to collect cotton immediately. The cotton harvest is piled up like a mountain, looking east to Chang'an, looking forward to it.Zhou Kewen said so at the end of the letter.