Chapter 44: Observing the Night Market
"Okay!Heh, but the rent can't be cheaper! Because I rent out every room in this yard at this price, and the one you want is a little bigger, because it's closest to the toilet, so I didn't raise the price, boy! It's 80 yuan a month, if you can rent it, you can rent it, I can't help it, hehe, otherwise I'll rent it to you cheaply, and the other tenants will let me lower the rent, don't you say?"
Although Old Man Li said it with a smile, his attitude was very resolute.
Xu Tongdao said a few more words, and when he saw that he couldn't pay the price, he admitted it.
80 is 80!
Looking at the old man's attitude, it is estimated that even if he wears out his mouth, he will not be able to repay much in the end.
"Okay, then we'll rent that one! Shall we sign the contract now?"
"Okay, okay, you come with me......"
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After the house was rented, Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin began to work together to clean up the room and lay the bedding, but in fact, they didn't have much to pack.
They didn't have much luggage with them.
When Xu Tongdao was making the bed and folding the quilt, Xu Tonglin was sweeping the floor, and while sweeping the floor, Xu Tonglin asked, "Xiaodao, what should we do next?"
"Go to the scrap collector and see if you can buy a second-hand tricycle. ”
"Oh, do you know where to collect scrap?"
"Let's look for it!"
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As a result, after the two of them cleaned up the room, they went out to look for it all morning, and found three scrap collectors one after another, only to find a second-hand tricycle that could barely be used.
That's it, it cost twenty dollars.
Among them, the front tire should be broken, no gas, and the lines on the tire are worn so that they are almost invisible, Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin pushed the broken car, and went to find a bicycle repairer, replaced the inner and outer tires of the wheel, and equipped the car with a chain lock.
By the time everything was done and the car was finally able to ride, it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon.
The two of them were already rumbling with hunger.
Riding this broken tricycle, when passing by a noodle restaurant, Xu Tongdao took Xu Tonglin in and ordered two bowls of green vegetable noodles.
"Xiaodao, we spent more than two hundred, right?
While waiting for the noodles to be served, Xu Tonglin asked in a low voice.
"It's okay! Xu Tongdao smiled and reassured him.
"That's good, so what are we going to do when we're full?"
"Let's go buy condiments first!"
"Xiaodao! Before you came, your mother told you to go to your cousin and cousin as soon as possible, when are you going to find them? Where did your mother say they worked? Is it called the Red Star Hotel?"
Before they set off in the morning, Xu Tongdao's mother Ge Xiaozhu did tell him again and again.
Maybe in Ge Xiaozhu's opinion, after all, they are only 17 years old, and they are both half-grown children, and they are definitely not at ease when they come to the county for the first time to find a way out by themselves, and they have no relatives and friends to take care of them.
Hearing this question, Xu Tongdao shook his head slightly, "Don't worry! Let's break through ourselves first, it's really not good, let's go find them again!"
He said this, but in his heart he didn't even think about going to his cousin or cousin.
After eating the noodles, Xu Tongdao rode a bicycle, Xu Tonglin sat in the back compartment and rushed to the nearby vegetable market.
After riding for a while, Xu Tonglin suddenly thought of a question, "Hey, by the way, when will you ride this kind of tricycle? I can't ride it, I heard that this thing is not easy to ride!"
Xu Tongdao, "It's very easy to ride!"
"Really, you come down and let me ride?"
"Let's go buy condiments first, and try again next time!"
"Oh, well!"
After a moment of silence, Xu Tonglin couldn't help but ask again: "Is it really easy to ride?"
Xu Tongdao couldn't help but smile and nodded.
When they arrived at the vegetable market, locked the car, and the two went to buy all kinds of condiments, as well as bamboo skewers, charcoal and other things needed to skewer mutton.
In addition, in order to save living expenses for the next life, Xu Tongdao picked some pots and pans, coal stoves and other things.
After buying it this time, another hundred and dozens of yuan were paid out from Xu Tongdao.
After the money was paid, Xu Tongdao didn't have much money.
There are only about two hundred pieces left.
They didn't buy lamb today, they only bought two bottles of hot sauce and a handful of dry noodles to cook for dinner in the evening.
The reason why he didn't buy mutton was because Xu Tongdao didn't plan to come to the county seat on the first day today, so he set up a stall to sell skewers.
First, there was too little time, not enough time to process the ingredients, and there was no time to grill the skewers with bamboo skewers.
Second, although he knew that there were a lot of supper sellers here at night before he was reborn, he had never been to this area after all around 98 years in the original time and space, and he didn't know the specific situation of this night market, so before he came to the county seat today, he had already thought about it - first find out the situation of the night market here.
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Night fell as scheduled.
Xu Tongdao, who had already filled his stomach with noodles, took the curious Xu Tonglin out of the small courtyard of the rental house, and continued to walk out along the small alley, until he came to the main road by the river.
At this time, the street, which was deserted in the morning, has become very different.
Almost all the shops on the roadside are open, barber shops, dance halls, game halls, restaurants, mahjong parlors......
Unlike other places, many of the storefronts on this street are lit red.
There are more cars on the street than in the morning, and there are more than ten times as many pedestrians.
At a glance, this place is more than ten times more lively than when Xu Tongdao and they came in the morning.
"It's so lively! Is this street dedicated to evening business? When we come back from shopping in the afternoon, it's still very deserted, right?"
Xu Tonglin sighed in a low voice while looking at the scene on the street.
Xu Tongdao snorted, but his attention was not on Xu Tonglin, his eyes were attracted by the small stalls on both sides of the street.
At a glance, he roughly estimated that there were at least twenty or thirty stalls.
There are those who sell fried rice and fried noodles, those who sell steamed buns and steamed buns, and there are those who put dozens of knick-knacks on the ground and charge customers to throw small traps to trap those gadgets......
Wait a minute.
Eating and playing are all such small businesses.
Selling barbecue, Xu Tongdao also saw three stalls.
In one of the stalls, a middle-aged couple was working on a big fat man, this fat man was wearing a white vest, and his exposed arms were tattooed in cyan color, the other was a bald man doing it, and the third stall was ...... It was a thin long-haired man doing it, and in the long-haired man's stall, there was a young girl with white skin and a melon seed face serving dishes and collecting money for guests.
Xu Tongdao stood under the plane tree on the side of the road, squinting his eyes and watching quietly.
Not long after, Xu Tonglin also followed his gaze.
When Xu Tonglin saw clearly who the owners of the three stalls were, Xu Tonglin was a little scared, and said in a low voice: "Xiaodao, do we really want to set up a stall here?" Those three people ...... They don't look like good people! Let's grab business with them here, they won't smash our stall, right?"