It is said that Qingniu Town was originally just a small fishing village, but due to the convenience of water transportation, it has gradually developed into a transportation hub from south to north over the years.

Bustling, profit comes and goes.

Every year, many merchants come from afar to trade agricultural and sideline products, the most common of which is the trading of rice and grain.

If a peasant family in a radius of 100 miles and 8 towns wants to sell the excess rice and grain in his hand at a good price, most of them will drive donkey carts to Qingniu Town.

Coriander and coriander were lucky, and they took a ride from a kind Samaritan halfway through, and they arrived at Qingniu Town before dark.

The streets of the town are bustling with people coming and going. Small shops and food stalls are lively inside and out.

The acrobatic troupe set up stalls in situ and opened the performance, attracting a lively crowd. Everyone rubbed shoulders to watch the wonderful acrobatic performance, clapping and cheering from time to time, and the crowd was boiling, as if everyone did not feel the cold brought by this winter.

Coriander and Coriander didn't linger on the streets, and the two went straight to the pier in Qingniu Town and waited in line at the ticket office.

When it was finally their turn, Coriander couldn't wait to ask the ticket staff sitting in the ticket window, "How much are the two tickets to Shanghai?" ”

The ticket seller sat in a small window, and so far there were not a thousand but hundreds of people who had received them, with impatience in their expressions, and they didn't even look at the Lin brothers and sisters.

There is still a long queue behind the Lin family brothers and sisters, and many people are waiting anxiously.

The ticket clerk spoke succinctly and clearly, "What class do you want?" ”

Tickets are roughly divided into seven classes, special class, first class, second class, third class, fourth class, fifth class, and the last class is the ordinary seat. However, Coriander feels that the passenger ship tickets in this era are not so detailed.

The Lin brothers and sisters are strapped for money, so they naturally pick up the cheapest ones to buy.

"Ordinary ones will do."

"There are two tickets to Shanghai, a total of three silver dollars, which day do you want to buy?" The ticket seller asked, not looking up.

Hearing the price of the ferry ticket, Coriander gasped, afraid that so many people were present, and did not dare to exclaim.

There are a total of 20 coriander on him, 6 silver dollars and 14 copper dollars, if they spend 3 silver dollars to buy a ferry ticket, and only use the rest of the money, then it will be difficult for them to eat, drink, live and travel in Shanghai.

Do you want to put blood back in the end?

Anyway, the coriander is retreating, 3 silver dollars, I don't know how much grain I have to sell to earn it back.

He scooped the sleeve of his coriander coat, his face was full of timidity, and he glanced at the ticket window again, and immediately retracted his gaze, as if it was a place where people were not eaten and bones were not spit out.

"Forget it, let's think of another way."

The ticket seller became even more impatient, curled his fingers, clasped the glass window of the ticket gate, and said loudly: "Do you want to buy it or not, if you don't buy it, leave quickly, there are so many people waiting behind!" ”

As soon as these words fell, the people at the back of the team echoed -

"That's right! We've all been waiting here for a long time! ”

"The two in front, hurry up!"

"If we can't get on the boat, you guys are responsible!"

The sound of scolding came and went, and Coriander blushed with shame and looked down at the ground to see if there was any place on the ground where he could get in.

Coriander was not as overwhelmed as he was, and looked at the conductor meaningfully, knowing it in his heart.

The conductor's voice was so loud just now, obviously deliberately embarrassing the Lin family brothers and sisters.

Behind the Lin family brothers and sisters is a fashionably dressed noblewoman, wearing a white fur coat, with heavy makeup on her face, fragrant red lips, and impatience in her tricky eyes.

She was quite unreasonable to knock the Lin family brothers and sisters aside, stepped on the fiery red high heels and crossed to the ticket window, thought that she was arrogant and gave the conductor three silver dollars, and looked at the Lin family brothers and sisters critically while saying to the conductor: "Give me a ticket to Shanghai this afternoon, a first-class seat, and you don't need to find the rest of the money." ”

She already has a snarky look, and she also trims the eyebrows on her mouse eyes to be slender, revealing her fierce appearance, which is intimidating, and she really can't have a good impression of her.

Coriander saw only two words in her sarcastic eyes-

Poor, ghost!

Forget it, there's nothing to worry about with this kind of person.

Coriander pulled the coriander and left the ticket office indifferently.

Along the way, the coriander kept her head down, consciously avoiding the strange stares cast by the people in the team.

Leaving the ticket office is like leaving a filthy and dirty place, and finally breathing in the fresh air outside, Coriander feels refreshed.

Looking up to the sky and inhaling, she told herself that nothing was too much to get by.

The episode at the ticket office just now didn't make her look bad, but as soon as she saw the coriander cowering, the coriander became angry.

Her brother's ability to resist pressure is too weak!

Where did he get the confidence to run out alone?

Coriander shook her head lightly, helplessly comforting herself: People who have never seen the world are like this, keep it and cultivate it slowly in the future!

Coriander quickly patted the chest, back and stomach of the coriander, and said concisely and powerfully: "Raise your chest and raise your head to close your abdomen!" ”

Coriander reflexively, unconsciously doing so, stretching the body straight and straight.

Coriander taught him seriously, "A big man walks with his head down and bends over, and there is money on the ground?" ”

As soon as Coriander relaxed, like a deflated ball, he scratched his ears and cheeks for a while, and said at a loss: "That, the ticket to Shanghai is too expensive!" ”

Three silver dollars and two ferry tickets were enough to save a year's rations for the brother and sister.

"Can you please stop being so pessimistic—"

Before Coriander could finish speaking, a man with a fat brain came up.

This man was bloated and shiny, and his clothes were made of satin, especially the black silk gown on which he was put on his hood, the cuffs and edges of his clothes were rolled with gold thread, and the clothes were embroidered with copper embroidery thread with copper dollars.

This person seems to be rich and graceful, and usually a person like him who likes to show off his wealth and stinky show off may not have a very solid family background.

This fat man has a big face and very small eyes. From the cunning that he can't hide in his eyes, coriander can be seen that this person is particularly greedy for small gains.

The fat man circled around the coriander for half a circle, as if looking at a satisfactory product, and nodded while muttering "good" to himself.

The abacus was finalized, the mind was decided, and the fat man smiled at the coriander and said, "Little brother, this is going to Shanghai?" ”

Coriander had seen people in the village pick boars to breed sows, and at this moment, under the nose of this fat man, he felt that he was the boar.

He didn't know how the boar was picked, and he was uncomfortable being treated like this anyway.