Once upon a time......

Oh Sauri, do it again:

It is said that in many legendary stories, the hero often goes through a lot of twists and turns, such as a dead father and a dead mother, a dead Baguio, and then becomes disheartened and ignorant of the world.

At this time, they usually choose a map that seems to have no sense of storage, and use it to brush up on their huge sense of storage that is not so well hidden.

We generally call this kind of scene with universal cannon fodder NPCs for the protagonist to go berserk and resurrect with full blood, called a small town, an or, and a small town.

Morning, half past six.

It stands to reason that the festival season in October should be bright. Somehow today, the clouds are very low, gloomy and lonely, but it looks like the climate of early winter.

Chu Qing walked down the long dilapidated alley, flanked by old residential buildings. This area is the staff dormitory of the coal mine, which has been built for many years, and the buildings are still dense, with restaurants, guest houses, dance halls, billiard rooms, and even a small cinema...... The former living quarters may have been abundant, but now they are deserted, leaving behind decaying walls and mottled signboards.

Dozens of buildings, each of which can carry out ten households, is considered to be full of people. Everything that should be moved has been moved, and those who can't be moved have to continue to struggle.

Chu Qing walked very slowly, as if he was stepping on crushed cinders under his feet, and there were dirty ash particles floating in the air, as if if he would break off several hours of life if he took one more breath.

The spirit is a little heavy, I didn't sleep well last night, or rather, I slept very badly for the past three days. The bed was so small and hard that I couldn't stretch my legs out at all, so I had to curl up. Quilts, pillows. The sheets were full of rotten smell, and even the room was rancid.

That's it. is still a place that Wang Chao is easy to find, the original workers' dormitory, and it is also a scene in the play. Originally, I wanted to clean up, at least a new set of bedding, but I don't know if it was a twitch of my head, or if the artist was possessed, and I was stunned as a spiritual nobleman. They all refused, evacuated the hotel directly, and moved in.

Outcome. It's a shame!

On the first night, I didn't fall asleep at all, I just wanted to vomit; The second night, slightly better. slept for two hours; Third night. It's a little stronger, and the delicate body that may be used to sleeping in the blood beech wood bed has finally recovered a trace of the roughness when picking up the rags.

No wonder the ancient sages said: It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

He shrugged, didn't he ask for it?

At the end of the alley, there is a wide road leading to the main city, and three buses a day come and go half-dead. There are basically no passengers. There is currently only one grocery store left in the public service facilities in this area. A tiny, tiny wet market, and a restaurant.

The grocery store is on the left side of the road, the vegetable market is on the right side of the road, and the restaurants are a little quirky, although they are next to the market, but because of the low-lying terrain, they look at it coldly, like a dry toilet built in a big pit.

When he first came, he was very curious about this restaurant, and he always felt that there would be hidden tasks in it, and he could give the best equipment or something. After eating breakfast for two days, I found that the best equipment was thought, and the best Hu spicy soup was quite good.

"Uncle, let's have a bowl of two!"

Chu Qing pushed open the creaking wooden door, met the hot white steam on his face, shouted by his neck, and dragged a stool casually.

The old man boiled a large pot of spicy soup, which was thick and swaying in the pot, like a large piece of reddish-brown soft jelly. didn't answer, quickly stirred a few times with a wooden spoon, and then skillfully swung his arm, turned his wrist, and filled the bowl with a spoon, ensuring that the soup and meat were not ambiguous.

Immediately, he changed the iron spoon, dug a piece of delicate and white tofu brain from another bucket, and poured it on top of the spicy soup. Finally, add a few drops of sesame oil, scoop a small spoonful of tahini paste, and drizzle with a little balsamic vinegar.

"Hey, I'll come, I'll come!"

Chu Qing saw that he was trembling and about to serve the bowl, so he hurriedly reached out and held it on the table and asked, "Is there any oil cake left?" ”

"No, there's a meat box!" The old man's voice was not hoarse at all, and it was just as sharp as the room.

"Then, then two meat boxes, one for eating and one for packing."

He instructed, then lowered his head and took a shallow sip along the edge of the bowl, hot, fresh, fragrant, slightly spicy, but not hurting the stomach, extremely comfortable.

Judging the quality of a bowl of spicy soup is very simple, if the soup only contains three traditional ingredients: minced meat, vermicelli and gluten, but the store is confident that it will be served out, then it must be delicious if you drink it properly. On the contrary, the more the soup tastes bad, the more many auxiliary ingredients are added to reconcile.

The old man is obviously extremely confident in his craft, and he can't hang anymore.

As for adding tofu brain, it was yesterday when Chu Qing saw others eating it, so he tried it, and it felt okay, neutralizing the spiciness, and it was more tender.

The meat box is filled with pork vermicelli, super thick, neatly cut into four small petals, with spicy soup, it is absolutely amazing!

"Boy, I've been here for forty years, and I've never seen you before."

The old man estimated that he had eaten too much, and his stiff dough was rarely squeezed out, so he took the initiative to ask.

"Oh, I just moved here."

"Still moving here?" The old man laughed strangely, obviously not believing it, and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"Well, I also own a restaurant." Chu Qing took a bite of the meat box and said with a smile.

"Smack!"

The old man shook the rag in his hand and said, "Don't fool me, boy, I've seen a lot of business, tall, short, fat, thin, it's all the same, you're not." ”

"So what do you think I'm doing?" He chewed something in his mouth and mumbled.

"What are you......" said the old man, glancing at him, "like a craftsman." ”

"Huh?" Chu Qing blinked, a little surprised, and said, "Yo, you are ruthless enough, you will knock me from the big boss to the end at once." ”

"Big boss?"

The old man sneered and said, "The craftsmanship of shaving your head and trimming your feet is all based on your ability to eat, and you are not ashamed!" ”

As he spoke, he picked up the spoon and knocked on the edge of the pot, and when it sounded, he said, "You kid, you are a person who eats by ability, don't fool me." ”

"You can see that."

Chu Qing laughed a few times and said, "I, uh, actually I'm a car repairer." ”

…………

Eight o'clock, the main city.

This is outside the walls of the institution's family home. Across the side street, there is a car repair stall. Walk 100 meters down the street and you will arrive at the main road. If you go a little further, there is a middle school.

All in all, good location and a lot of cyclists.

Lao Zhu squatted steadily, wearing a greasy and black blue-bottomed worker's uniform, and was chaining a broken car. The owner of the car lives in the family courtyard and puts this by every day. They were all familiar, chatting while waiting, and asked, "Hey." What about your apprentice? ”

"What apprentice, I don't know you at all."

"Don't know? Then he calls you a master, and you still teach him to repair cars? The man was astonished.

"You ask me, who do I ask?"

Lao Zhu was worried when he mentioned this. Said: "Exactly." I'm telling you, you have culture, help think about it. That man, he came to me the morning before yesterday, and if I asked him to teach him to repair the car, and if he had any work, I would just help him. I don't want the money I earn, it's all mine. Then, give me back this number every day......"

He stretched out his hand. Hold up five fingers.

"Five?"

"Where, fifty!"

"Much, how much?"

"Fifty!"

The man was scared to pee instantly, fifty a day, a month is one thousand five, and when it comes to a big moon, it is one thousand five hundred and five! My salary is only 12,000!

What a neuropathy that popped out!

"Then you, you want it?" He asked.

Lao Zhu made a bitter face and said, "I didn't dare to ask for it at first, who knows what happened to him." Later, he said that he would not leave, and I had no choice, so I just wanted it. ”

"Then how long did he say he had been studying?"

"Well, it's only a week at the longest."

"Oh, that's fine." The man had a lot of balance in his heart, smashed his mouth, and helped ponder: "I analyze, he must have used this car repair to do something." ”

"What are you doing? Don't catch me. Lao Zhu was stunned and slightly uneasy.

"Well, that's not going to work." He waved his hand and said, "People may be chasing the little girl, the bicycle is old and bad, and the young man deliberately spends money to learn." Now young people are good for this, romantic, don't worry. ”

Romantic or not, Lao Zhu doesn't want to know, he just thinks about making some money and supporting his family steadily, and is busy saying: "Yes, I am also a total." If you don't say it, I'm only a dozen yuan a day, good guy, give me fifty yuan at once, I don't feel steady. ”

"What's not down-to-earth, it's not good to give money for nothing!"

The man straightened up, turned the bicycle over, kicked it twice, and praised: "Your craftsmanship is amazing!" ”

"A dollar!" Lao Zhu ignored him and said directly.

"Yes, yes! I still owe you ......"

The man went to touch his pocket as he spoke, but he looked left and right, but half of the eldest didn't take it out, so he couldn't help laughing and said, "Ouch, I'm sorry, I went out in a hurry, and I forgot to bring money." I'm looking late, and I'll send you ...... in the evening."

"You're not!" Lao Zhuming flickered at a few coins in his handkerchief, but he was stunned and didn't look at it.

"Ahh Oh, look at my eyes! ”

The man took out a coin, shoved it into his hand, and stepped into the driveway: "Let's go!" ”

Lao Zhu answered, and looked at his broken watch again, this point, it shouldn't be able to come.

To say that the young man has a smart head, a good personality, and is a fast and precise learner. Especially for repairing the tires of the car, the little leather is finely ground and extremely sticky, like an old craftsman for decades, who has no hands at all.

If there really is such an apprentice, whether it is a business or a family heirloom, it is enough. It's a pity that repairing a car is not a good thing, I can't get on the table, and I can't get home, so I can only make do with a few cents and a few dollars.

He was thinking about it when he heard a shout from behind: "Master, give!" ”

As soon as he turned his head, before he could react, a plastic bag was thrown into his arms, but it was a fragrant meat box, and there was still temperature.

"Eat it while it's hot, it's a little late today."

"Hey, this, this won't work!" Lao Zhu was inexplicably in a trance, paused for a moment, and then hurriedly refused.

"If you can't do anything, I'll buy it all, you can eat it."

"I, I've eaten."

"Come on, your half-pulled steamed buns are also called eating, hurry up, it'll be cold in a while. Come, lend me another garment of yours to wear. Chu Qing couldn't help but say, he forcibly tore off his coat and put it on, and then took Zhang Mazha, sat down with a golden knife, and said casually: "Master, how many did we repair yesterday?" ”

"Fourteen."

He nodded, looked left and right boredly, and waited for a long time before he looked at a woman from afar, riding crookedly and running here, patting his thigh, and saying, "Come to life!" ”

"Cheer up!"

The woman came up to her and threw out two words.

“……”

Chu Qing depressedly pulled out the air gun and gave it to her, and said, "One hair." Then he stared at the woman and began to pounce and piston movements.

When she flashed, she immediately said: "I said master, you should also raise the price, it's only a dime for cheering, and it's okay to raise it by two cents." ”

Lao Zhu finished eating the meat box, looked red, and said with a smile: "Hey, I've been working here for five years, and cheering is always a dime, and it can't go up." ”

"Something else, mend the tire, bruise the skin ......"

"Heh, let's repair bicycles, it's always been this price."

Chu Qing pursed his lips, didn't say anything more, and continued to wait boringly.

Today's business is obviously not as good as the previous two days, after noon, I received the third customer, and it was more troublesome, and the brakes were broken.

He was a beginner and didn't dare to start, so he handed it over to the master to deal with. Over there, Lao Zhu took the brake cable apart and looked at it, picked it up neatly, and pinched it twice and tightened it. After trying it several times, I saw that there was really no problem, so I was relieved.

This time, two dollars.

It wasn't until the evening that the two of them repaired a total of seven and earned ten dollars and five cents.

When Chu Qing was leaving, he took out fifty yuan to him as usual, but Lao Zhu didn't pick it up like he did two days ago, pushed it, and said, "Young man, I don't know what your name is, and I don't know why you have to learn to repair cars." I'm glad you'll be able to talk to me, an old man who is halfway down to the ground. You will also repair it now, but you won't use it tomorrow, and I have to go. ”

"I'll tell you, young man, in addition to farming in my life, I have the strength to do it. In the early years, I came to work in the city, carrying work for the construction site, and the harvest was not bad. Later, my leg and foot were broken, and I learned this craft. ”

"Now that I'm getting older and have no children or daughters, I'm ready to go back to my hometown. Anyway, the villagers know each other, they can have a care, and if they die, someone will know. ”

……

In the evening, Chu Qing took the rickety bus and returned to the dormitory area.

Passing through the dark and secluded corridor and opening the door, the smell of rancidity was still strong. Small beds, small tables, small televisions, porcelain jars with the logo of the coal mine on them, and squatting squatting with stinky water.

He had eaten a meal in the morning, strangely not very hungry, and lay straight on the bed, with his long legs curled up, his arms blindfolded, and he was no longer able to breathe.

It's a......

(Status is still disconnected, I need full health, full health) (To be continued......)