Wu Xiujuan's youngest son muttered unhappily, "Liar." ”

Wu Xiujuan's face suddenly turned black like the bottom of a pot, if Pan Yang hadn't been there, she would have taken off her shoes and smoked him at this time, a dead child, with the same elm head as his father, she didn't know how to give her some face!

Pan Yang silently looked at Pan Guangchen with an embarrassed face, and somewhat understood something.

After dinner, Pan Guangchen wanted to take Pan Yang out to see if he could help her find a job.

Pan Yang rejected his kindness, "Brother Guangchen, you are busy with you, I am hanging outside, maybe I will be able to find a job today, and I will come back to tell you if I find it or not." ”

The implication is that I won't be staying at your house tonight.

Pan Guangchen rubbed his hands and sighed, not knowing how to say, "Zhaoke, I look at my situation"

Pan Yang raised his hand to prevent him from talking, and said with a smile, "Brother Guangchen, don't say it, I understand your difficulties, it's not easy to support the old and young at home with the salary of you and your sister-in-law, I won't bother here, I have already gone out today to meet you, a nobleman, I can't wait until I get out of your house to find a job." ”

Seeing that Pan Yang was not angry, Pan Guangchen put his hanging heart back into his stomach. Seriously, he really wants to help this childhood friend in front of him, but he has a strong wife at home, and he looks down on them from the countryside, every time he goes back to the countryside to see his parents, he will be broken by Wu Xiujuan when he comes back, not to mention bringing his fellow villagers home today.

In fact, how could Pan Yang blame Pan Guangchen, it was a gesture for people to help her, and it was also their duty not to help her, and now is not the era when she didn't have to worry about food and clothing, she couldn't live well, and she could still take care of others?

Wu Xiujuan can manage her for a meal, and Pan Yang will not be so big as to blame this and that.

After sitting for a while after dinner, Pan Yang said goodbye to Pan Guangchen and his wife, Wu Xiujuan heard that Pan Yang was leaving, her eyebrows opened, and she said with regret, "It's rare for the eldest brother to come here, how good it is to stay in my house for two days, why did you leave!" ”

Saying that, Wu Xiujuan abused Pan Guangchen with her elbow and complained to him, "Guangchen, you are too, stay big brother, you see that I can't speak well, you can persuade him quickly." ”

Poor Pan Guangchen is an honest man, he can't react to his daughter-in-law's face, which is her true face?

Pan Guangchen and I have been for a long time, and I have not come out.

Pan Yang smiled and said, "Brother Guangchen, sister-in-law, you don't have to say anything, in the future, I will have a place to disturb my brother and sister-in-law in the county, sister-in-law, don't bother me." ”

Wu Xiujuan said, "Look at what the eldest brother said, just look for us if you have something, as long as your sister-in-law can help, she will definitely help." ”

During the jokes on the scene, Pan Guangchen and the others sent Pan Yang out of the house, and when they saw Pan Yangren coming out of the alley, Wu Xiujuan's originally smiling face suddenly disappeared, pulled a face, and said to Pan Guangchen, "Pan Guangchen, I have ugly words ahead, like this kind of fellow, you'd better have less contact with him, you look poor, you have more contact with him will only reduce your status." ”

"Alright, don't say it!" Pan Guangchen couldn't listen to it, turned his head back to the house, and let Wu Xiujuan use her theory behind him.

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Here Panyang out of the alley, look around, the county seat is better than their rural houses, the eye is full of low bungalows, next to the road teeth every fifty meters erected a telephone pole, the stone road under the feet is uneven, but it is much better than the rural dirt road.

It was the middle of the afternoon, and there were a few people on the road, walking in a hurry, and everyone had the fatigue of being oppressed by life on their faces.

She still remembers the place where Pan Yang went, a bit like Xiaoximen, when she used to be in high school in this county, she often made an appointment with a few classmates in self-study the next night, and came to Xiaoximen here to eat snacks together.

At that time, Xiaoximen was a famous snack street in this county, no matter day or night, there were people here, there were students after class, rural people who went to the city to play, and local residents who got off work, all concentrated here.

But now, there is so little silence that even human figures are hard to see.

With her memory, Pan Yang walked along the road towards Daqianmen, in fact, she didn't think about a way to make a living for a while, because her understanding of this era was nothing more than from books and from the mouths of her parents and grandparents, and she needed to find out the situation of the current era.

From afar, Pan Yang saw the three words of the supply and marketing cooperative, the red and glamorous were very eye-catching, she walked a few steps quickly, entered the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative, and entered the long cabinet made of a piece of wood, facing the direction of the guests is a row of glass windows, and inside is a row of wooden sliding doors.

The glass window displays a variety of items, daily necessities such as soap, laundry detergent, fire, kerosene, toothpaste, etc., and the food includes noodles, meat, fish, spices, cigarettes, alcohol, etc., and there are cloths, liberation shoes, needles and threads and other items on the large counter.

The supply and marketing cooperatives were quiet, and there were two supply and marketing clerks sitting on the left and right in the long counter, and when they saw someone coming in, the two raised their eyelids, looked Pan Yang's clothes up and down, and lowered their eyes.

Pan Yang stared at the objects in the window, and what immediately came to her mind was what things she could sell, and what price she could sell to others if she sold them.

Knowing that he was invincible, Pan Yang stretched out his hand and pointed to the noodles in the window and asked one of the salesmen, "How do you sell noodles?" ”

The salesman raised his eyelids and said lazily, "One dime and six cents a catty, plus two taels of food stamps." ”

Pan Yang pointed to the white flour next to the noodles and asked, "What about this?" ”

The supply and marketing clerk sat up straight, looked her up and down again, and showed an impatient look on his face, "One dime, eight cents and one catty, plus two taels of food stamps, hey, where did you come from, whether you can buy it or not, don't ask here if you can't afford it." ”

Pan Yang didn't know that the supply and marketing staff of this era was already a terrible profession, and it was not her era when she treated customers as gods.

Coming out of the supply and marketing cooperative, Pan Yang was so angry that he muttered to himself, "What kind of attitude, what kind of attitude this is!" ”

After walking on the road for a while, Pan Yang decided to find someone to ask if there was a free market, it has been seven or seven years, even if the situation is strict, Pan Yang does not believe that there will be no fish that have slipped through the net, as long as there are social relations, there will definitely be a market.

At this time, a middle-aged man walked towards Pan Yang, combing his big back, wearing gold-wire glasses, carrying a briefcase, looking like an office worker, looking at his face, not like a treacherous person.

Pan Yang walked towards the middle-aged man, approached the middle-aged man and said, "Big brother, I want to ask you about you." ”

The middle-aged man stopped, and did not look at Pan Yang's clothes, but asked her enthusiastically, "What do you inquire?" ”

Pan Yang said, "Where is there a market, I want to buy something." ”

Hearing this, the middle-aged man's face changed, he looked around, and made sure that no one heard their conversation, so he pulled Pan Yang's sleeve, took her to an inconspicuous alley, and said in a low voice, "I see that Comrade is a foreigner, I won't hide it from you, now this point in time is gone, if you want to buy, wait until tomorrow morning, remember to go to Yaqianmen as soon as possible, there will be what you want to buy." ”

Pan Yang was grateful and thanked the middle-aged man repeatedly.

The middle-aged man was polite and left in a hurry.

Now that she has a clue, Pan Yang feels like she has taken a reassuring pill, now as long as she finds a place to sleep and goes to the market tomorrow morning, she will not worry about not making money.

Seeing the sun set in the west, the old man who dragged the figures on the road. Pan Yang asked people to find the only guest house in the county, the façade was old, and there was a counter on the left hand side after entering, the middle-aged eldest sister was wearing a dark blue cardigan gown, and asked Pan Yang with a smile, "Serve the people." Comrade, come to stay, what kind of stay do you want to stay? ”

Seeing that the middle-aged eldest sister had a good attitude, Pan Yang felt comfortable and asked the eldest sister with a smile, "What are the kinds?" ”

The middle-aged eldest sister took out a piece of cardboard from the counter, on which the accommodation fee was written, two yuan a night for a single room, one yuan for a double room, and the cheapest was five cents a night for a chase shop.

Pan Yang immediately converted it in her heart, when she went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to inquire about the price just now, the noodles were only a dime a pound, even if she lived in Datong Shop for one night, she could buy three catties of noodles.

She has ten yuan on her, which is almost all the belongings of the old Pan family, thinking of the tattered clothes on the few radish heads in the family, thinking that Pan Hengchun is still living in a broken tent, Pan Yang pinched the money in his pocket, and suddenly reluctant.

The eldest sister at the counter smiled embarrassedly, and Pan Yang raised his feet and walked out of the door of the guest house.

Pan Yang walked out of the door of the guest house with his front foot, and another man entered with his back foot, looking like he was in his thirties, with a wide forehead and a square chin, and his appearance was very tough.

The man went in less than two minutes, and came out again like Pan Yang, at this time Pan Yang had not gone far, the man walked a few steps quickly to catch up with Pan Yang's steps, and shouted behind Pan Yang, "Big brother, stay one step." ”

Pan Yang didn't react at first, and it wasn't until the man shouted again that she realized that the man was calling her.

Pan Yang turned around and asked the man, "Big brother, what's wrong?" ”

The man's face was dark, and he smiled and showed his white teeth, "I want to ask my eldest brother, is there a place to sleep at night?" ”

Pan Yang couldn't figure out the man's meaning for a while, and glanced at the man vigilantly.

The man was afraid that Pan Yang would misunderstand, so he hurriedly said, "Big brother, my name is Liu Tiezhu, I came from the countryside, I originally wanted to find a guest house to stay for one night, but I didn't know that it was too expensive to live, and I saw that the eldest brother also came out of the guest house, so I wanted to ask the eldest brother if there was a place to go, if not, why don't we find a place to stay outside?" Two people are safer. ”

When Pan Yang heard this, she also felt reasonable, originally she was still a little wary, but then she thought about it, she was not a 28 yellow flower girl now, but a middle-aged man who was nearly forty years old, dressed in tatters, who could beat her idea? Could it be that he murdered her and sold human flesh?

Pan Yang thought about it for a while, and said with a smile, "Big brother's statement is okay, my name is Pan Zhaoke, you can call me Brother Pan." ”

The middle-aged man also said, "Brother Pan calls me an iron pillar." ”

Because of the companionship at night, Pan Yangxin put it back in his stomach, and when it got dark, there were fewer people on the road, and the two looked for a place to sleep all the way, and finally found a dry bridge hole at the big front door.