Chapter 12 Porters

As soon as Bai Guo and the two went out, they found that they were being followed, and the two walked quietly into the secluded alley. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Bai Guo blew his fingernails and walked over leisurely: "Tsk, it's not good to go out!" Hit us with such a hard stubble. Right? Are you going to rob money or do you want to rob money? “

The person who came was not angry but happy: "Miss, I'm A Ning!" ”

Baiguo and Xiang'er were stunned, is this reliable to send to the door by themselves?

"You're Aning? What proof is there that you are Anin? Bai Guo asked, looking at him, in his twenties, not tall, medium build, the kind that he couldn't find in the crowd at all.

"The old gang leader's name is Shi Taiyuan, and he has been living in seclusion on Yuheng Mountain, and I go to the mountain every three months to report on the affairs of the gang if there is no major incident. Moreover, I am the only person in the world who knows about your existence, and I have bought you a little notebook several times! In the end, A-Ning threw a knowing look at Bai Guo and said, "The old gang leader told me your address in Thornton Harbor, and said that if something happens to him, let me wait for you there." ”

"Then do you know Master's situation?" Bai Guo hurriedly asked.

"Well, I have been secretly investigating before you came, it should be the old gang leader who is in the gang and the outside should be calculated, but they must get the Nine Flame Holy Flame Order to change hands justifiably, so the old gang leader is safe before finding the Holy Fire Order. The Holy Flame Order is yours, isn't it? ”

Bai Guo squinted his eyes and didn't answer, but asked, "Maybe you are the inner ghost who plotted to rebel!" Then he came to me, gained my trust, and inquired about the whereabouts of the Holy Fire Order. ”

"Conscience of heaven and earth, miss! Our family's lives were saved by the old gang leader, I was arranged by the gang leader to do eyeliner at the most inconspicuous bottom when I was a child, and if I want to rebel, I would have already started when I went up the mountain to see the gang leader for so many years, why wait until now there is one more of you to get in the way! ”

"That makes sense!" Bai Guo applauded, "Maybe there is something to rebel against you all of a sudden, right?" “

"I, hmm......" As soon as A-Ning opened his mouth and wanted to continue to defend himself, he was stuffed with something by Ginkgo fruit, and Ginkgo used internal force, and the thing slid directly down the esophagus, and A-Ning didn't feel whether it was square or round, bitter or sweet. But he was still being pointed, and he couldn't move.

"This is a little gadget I raised, let it play with your body. Don't underestimate it, it has a mind sense with me, as long as I move the thought, you will explode and die without warning! If you don't believe me, just give it a try. Bai Guo picked at his fingernails and said lightly.

"I, well, if that reassures Miss. Miss, don't ask about the affairs of the gang anymore, this is a sensitive time, and you have just arrived from other places, and you will be alarmed. I'll find a way to inform you of something. Aning said, "You have to believe me! “

Bai Guo's ears moved and found that someone was coming, and motioned to Xiang'er to relieve A-Ning with his eyes, and Xiang'er moved quickly, and then the two of them flashed into the alley.

As soon as A-Ning wanted to make a sound, he heard someone coming from behind, so he turned around and limped out. The visitor saw A-Ning walking forward quickly and asked, "What's wrong, this is." I saw you coming with the two girls, and I was afraid of you! ”

"Don't mention it, I was about to catch up with that little girl, I don't know who swooped out of a dog, I was out of luck. Bah! A-Ning replied angrily, not at all in the respectful tone just now. The man walked out of the alley with Aning in his arms.

The two of them slowly walked out. Regardless of whether this A-Ning is reliable or not, there is something he said right, he can't inquire about Shengtianhuo so blatantly. Since Master is safe for the time being, let's take it slowly.

"Miss, what did you give you food?" Xiang'er asked. The young lady's ability to come when she opens her mouth is getting more and more skillful!

"The jelly beans I bought on the way home last night!" Bai Guo replied seriously.

Xiang'er glanced sympathetically at the direction in which A-Ning left.

I haven't had a good walk around the port for a few days, and I don't know how to do it here in the future, since it is a port city, let's go to the dock first.

At noon, the two of them entered a restaurant and went to the private room on the second floor by the window, from which they happened to see the dock opposite. While eating, Bai Guo looked at the porters who were eating lunch opposite, they were wearing vest leggings, beads of sweat the size of beans dripping down from the top of their heads, snorting and finding a place to squat down and take out their own dry food from their arms, most of the cornmeal nests, cold, dry and hard, take a bite and drop the slag, catch the fallen slag with one hand, and finally send it into the mouth. After eating, go to the beach and take a sip of water and drink it.

Bai Guo looked sad, no matter when these low-level working people are the disadvantaged groups who contribute the most and gain the least. Even in the modern era with a developed degree of civilization, those migrant workers leave their hometowns, earn wages that do not match their labor, buy and risk being in arrears, and are reluctant to spend all the money they earn to send back to their hometowns, and continue to play the most poignant little people in the lonely city!

A lot of thoughts flashed through Bai Guo's mind at once. Before I could understand it, I heard a sudden noise from the other side. A porter faints on the ground. Bai Guo told Xiang'er to pack, and then went over first.

Bai Guo came to the periphery of the crowd and said, "Driver, I know a little about medical skills, let me come and see him." ”

The original crowd quieted down because of Bai Guo's words, and everyone looked at the little girl who didn't know where she came from, her big round eyes looked at everyone as bright as if they would glow, the corners of her mouth were curved, and the clothes and skirts on her body were blown by the wind and rippled layer by layer, as if she was going to ride the wind in the next second. How could such a young lady be willing to come and treat this lowly porter?

Everyone unconsciously branched out a way for Baiguo to go forward. Bai Guo came to the patient and squatted down to probe the pulse, and was shocked, hungry? Then he quietly passed some internal force through his fingers to him.

Bai Guo got up and looked at everyone and said, "I'm hungry." Just as Xiang'er also came over, Bai Guo took the food in Xiang'er's hand and told her to buy a porridge and come back, and continued: "I have some food here, let's divide it if you don't dislike it, and I will feed this big brother some porridge in a while, and he will wake up soon after drinking the porridge." “

Xiang'er handed the dish in her hand to a person next to her, and everyone was very happy, what a Bodhisattva she met today. Bai Guo was reluctant to eat it at all after seeing that everyone had shared the food, but carefully wrapped it and put it in his arms. I want to say something but don't know what to say.

"Can any of you tell me about this eldest brother, why he fainted from hunger and didn't pay him?" Bai Guo pointed to the one lying on the ground.

A chubby man in his thirties replied: "His name is Wang Zhonglin, and recently the old lady in the family has been sick, and the salary has been used to buy medicine for the old lady, and there are five wives and children at home who point to his salary, and he is reluctant to eat these days." Ay! “

"How do you get paid?" Bai Guo asked.

"A bag is generally a stone, and a bag is a penny. Settlement is made on the same day. ”

"So how many bags can you resist in a day?"

"If you have a lot of strength, you can resist 100 bags a day, and if you have a lot of strength, you can only have dozens of bags."

Bai Guo converted it in his heart, according to the value of the silver he estimated according to his purchasing power, a bag is only three cents, which means that he can only earn more than 30 yuan a day in such a tiring and tiring day!! It's really hard to squeeze labor so much!! It's so hot!

Bai Guo suppressed the fire in her heart, this is not something she can change, at least not now. After a while, Bai Guo asked again: "I see that you all bring dry food from home, it is cold and hard, how can you eat it?" Can't this guy provide some hot water or something? Also, I see that there are hot steamed buns and hot buns on the other side, which are not expensive, so how good it is for you to buy some hot ones to eat! ”

"Whew!" Someone in the crowd chuckled, "Miss, you are pampered and pampered, so naturally you can't eat our dry food, but this is the best food in our family." That bun is not expensive, two pennies a piece, and we can't eat enough if we eat ten! Besides, two pennies can buy a good thing for my doll! ”

"Little four, how can you talk to Miss!" The slightly chubby man saw that Bai Guo was a little embarrassed and reprimanded.

"No, he's right, it's me who didn't think it through." Just when everyone was stunned and looked at Bai Guo, they only heard her say again: "If Wuwen can make you eat a lot and have hot soup to drink, are you willing?" “

"Don't be kidding, if there is really such a good thing, I am willing to pay ten cents!" It was a young and strong young man who spoke, and he seemed to be one of the kind with a hundred and ten bags a day.

"That's it." Everyone agreed, only when this eldest lady was tired of a good life, she came to care about them on a whim, and no one took it seriously. Bai Guo didn't speak again.

After feeding a bowl of porridge, Wang Zhonglin slowly woke up, and when others told him what had happened, he stood up and bowed deeply to Baiguo, and said: "Miss's life-saving grace today cannot be repaid, and you will be useful to me in the future, even if you tell me, you will not hesitate!" ”

Before Bai Guo could reply, someone next to him said, "What can Miss Ren do with you?" “

Bai Guo helped Wang Zhonglin for a while: "Brother Wang, please get up, raise your hands." “

"The grace of a drop of water must be repaid with a spring!" Wang Zhonglin bent down deeply again.

Bai Guo said: "Your body is so weak that you have to go home and lie down immediately, I will send you back." After speaking, he motioned to Xiang'er to rent a carriage.

"I can't do it, I can't do it! Don't dare to drive Miss! Wang Zhonglin was so frightened that he hurriedly waved his hand.

"There's nothing you can't do, you just let me be a good person to the end and send the Buddha to the west. Besides, you won't be able to go back today! Instead of bothering others, it's better to slaughter me, a rich man! Bai Guo pointed at himself with a grin.

"Lao Wang, you have met a living Bodhisattva today!" Someone next to him shouted.

"No, no, never!" Wang Zhonglin still strongly objected.

"Brother Wang, there are more and more people around, you see my little girl's ......," Bai Guo whispered to him.

"I, but ......" Wang Zhonglin hesitated, it is true that a little girl is surrounded by a group of old men, what is the matter! Ay! Let's go! He entrusted the chubby man to help him receive today's salary, and then dragged his weak steps behind Bai Guo to the carriage, but he did not enter the carriage alive, and only sat with the driver outside.

The carriage drove towards Xicheng, slowly changing from prosperous and rich to poor and dilapidated, the carriage finally stopped in front of a dilapidated house, and the surrounding residents were curious to look over, and the high-end means of transportation such as the carriage would hardly appear in Xicheng.

Wang Zhonglin got out of the carriage and said apologetically to Baiguo: "The house is really simple, I am afraid that I will dirty the lady's clothes, so I will not invite the lady into the house. If you have the opportunity to ......"

Without waiting for Wang Zhonglin to finish speaking, Bai Guo jumped out of the car by himself, pushed open the door with a wooden board missing in the middle, and entered, leaving Wang Zhonglin dumbfounded.

Broken ruins, this is the first word that Bai Guo thought of, and he stepped from this house to that with a slight step.

The three children were playing in the yard when they saw Bai Guo come in and their eyes widened. Suddenly, the youngest one cried in his voice.

A woman rushed out of the house, short clothes and trousers, with a washed and colorless headscarf wrapped around her head, and she was stunned when she saw the ginkgo in the courtyard. The three children all ran over to their mother at once, looking at Bai Guo curiously.

At this time, Wang Zhonglin came in and introduced to Bai Guo: "This is the three children of Beni and me. Then he introduced Bai Guo to the woman: "I fainted today, and it was this Miss Bai who saved me and sent me back." “

The woman was stunned: "I fainted, what's wrong with you?" “

"I'm fine, that, Miss Bai, we really don't have a place to sit at home." Wang Zhonglin said very embarrassedly, and also hoped that Bai Guo would go back with interest.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm not sitting. How is the old lady sick? Why don't I show it? "Bai Guo has no intention of leaving.

"Well, don't dare to bother, the doctor has seen it, as long as you take the medicine on time, you will be fine."

"Oh, your four children?" Bai Guo looked like he was going to push his knees and pull homely.

"Yes, two men and two girls, the eldest is nine years old, and the younger is two years old." Wang Zhonglin's forehead was dripping with sweat, what did this young lady want to do.

"Oh, sent to school?"

"What kind of school do the children of poor families send, I have been a bookkeeper for a few years before, and Mr. knows a few words, so I will teach them."

"Mr. Bookkeeper? So why is it getting to this point? ‘

"That's a long story."

"Oh, it's okay, speak slowly."

"Huh?" Wang Zhonglin wanted to cry, this is a living bodhisattva, it is a plague god! Who knows who this is!

Wang Zhonglin failed to pass the township examination several times, so he went to a restaurant to work as a bookkeeper for a few years, and once was framed for stealing money from the store and was kicked out, and no one dared to use him since then. After a few years, I can only go to the dock to work as a coolie to earn money.

Bai Guo listened to the symbolic sigh for a while. He turned to the woman and asked, "Sister-in-law, do you know how to make cakes?" “

Before the sister-in-law returned, a little boy beside her rushed to say: "My mother's baked cakes are delicious, once my father took back some white noodles, my mother baked cakes, and the taste spoiled the neighbors!" “

"Don't listen to children's nonsense, ordinary women will do it." The sister-in-law dragged the little boy and stopped him from talking nonsense.

"Brother Wang, you follow me." Bai Guo said something nonsensical, which made Wang Zhonglin confused.