In the blink of an eye, in mid-September, the autumn was crisp, and Yu Shu and his party had been in Anling City for a month.

Yu Shu is now setting up a hexagram stall in Qiu Kwai Fong to make a living, because of various reasons, the business is bleak, sometimes there is not even a single customer a day, on the other hand, other customers on this street, the business is poor, there are also one or two taels of income a day.

Yu Shu has perseverance, a guest is a guest, and he has been carefully calculated, but unfortunately most of them are asking about trivial things, and she can't show any ability, so that it is not a gimmick that does not charge money, but it has become the reason why the guest does not look back, and in the past seven or eight days, I have not seen a repeat customer who said that he was accurate and sealed a red envelope.

Gradually, Yu Shu couldn't sit still, not because he lost his patience, but because he didn't have much money on hand, he bought a house in front of him to settle down, added furniture, spent a hundred taels, and paid Jingchen medicine, went to forty or fifty taels of silver, and the remaining twenty or thirty taels had to feed a family of four.

If you don't have enough money to spend, you have to think of ways to make money, otherwise if you continue to look for this, you will have to eat bran in another month. Qiu Guifang is not a place where there is no easy gambling, and the money comes quickly, but Yu Shu does not dare to try it easily, pointing out that he is afraid that he will get used to gambling while gambling, and he still makes a serious living.

Xia Mingming caused trouble for Yu Shu that day, so he never went to Qiu Kwai Fang with her, and saw that Yu Shu couldn't make any money all day long, so he persuaded her in turn:

"You can't do this, you still have to prepare for the Dayan exam with me, as long as you can get a hundred yuan, get Si Tianjian's Yi Shi name card, and find a Yi Pavilion to make a career, people have to be polite to you, how can you be guilty of being exposed to the wind and sun on the street."

Yu Shu was unmoved: "It's only September now, how can I wait until then, I won't make money, you all wait to drink the northwest wind." ”

After that, she still got up early the next day to set up a stall as usual, Yu Xiaoxiu wanted to follow, Yu Shuling read a book at home, and the math problem was done for him the night before, another reason was to leave him at home to cook for Jingchen, so he also specially taught him to cook noodles, sometimes she would cook two dishes first when she got up early, and then let them eat hot at noon.

If Xia Mingming belongs to the kind of person who eats and lives for nothing, and he is not ashamed of himself, and he makes a mess for Yu Shu from time to time, then Jingchen is too self-aware, although he can't be physically tired, but what he can do by himself, he will never trouble Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu, and he will help clean up the dishes and chopsticks after dinner.

Some time ago, Yu Shu praised him for his beautiful paintings, and begged to stick them in the house, so he wrote it down, and every day he had to paint a picture for her, or a naughty Jinbao, living is Yu Xiaoxiu who is learning, and living is a bird staying on the eaves, every day is different, so that Yu Shu, who has been tired outside for a day, can smile happily when he returns home

Yu Shu is accustomed to pushing a hexagram or two to herself every night before going to bed to prevent "trouble", last night there was a hexagram of broken wealth, the next morning she only took the meal out of the house, did not take the money bag, and in the morning, a few ruffians came in front of the hexagram stall, she knew that this broken wealth does not refer to the loss of money and theft.

"Boy, who asked you to set up a stall here to tell fortunes, do you know what kind of place this is? This is Qiu Kwai Fong, the pavement on the street is to calculate the rent, and the one in charge of this territory is the Evergreen Gang in the south of our city, and the brothers didn't pay attention to it, so you occupied the place for a few days, you say, what should I do. ”

It was very unceremonious to listen to a few hooligans, and the leader was wearing a short shirt, with thick arms, the neckline was open to the chest, showing a few pinches of chest hair, and he spoke with some alcohol.

Yu Shu knew that she was here to collect protection money, she was alone, and she was not stupid enough to go against the ruffian, so she stood up and politely said:

"The younger brother is a newcomer, and he doesn't understand the rules on the street, and a few big brothers are tolerant, and they dare to ask how much the rent is in this place, and I will make up for it."

The ruffian saw that she knew each other, his attitude was a little better, and he introduced the business: "We collect rent on the second day of the first month of every month, the ground is different, the rent price is not the same, this is a good place in the street, people come and go, you get ten taels of silver a month, today is fifteen, you pay five taels of silver." ”

Yu Shu frowned secretly, and said in his heart that this group of people really dared to ask for it, ten taels a month, or a hundred taels of silver in a year, which was enough to buy a house.

She turned her gaze and looked at both sides of the street, and saw that no one was surprised by her movements, they were all used to it, it seemed that the snake on the ground in Qiu Kwai Fong was the Evergreen Gang.

Yu Shu reached out to take out the money belt, touched the emptiness, and remembered that in order to avoid it in the morning, he only brought it before the meal, so he arched his hand and said:

"I'm really sorry, I got up late this morning, and I forgot to take the money when I came out impatiently, do you think I'll make up for it when I come tomorrow?"

How could you think of a sentence, and the ruffian immediately changed his face, "Wait for tomorrow?" If you don't come tomorrow, it's not for you to occupy a space for days. ”

His worries are not unreasonable, the south of the city does not know a change of place in Qiu Guifang, not to mention more than a dozen, out of this Qiu Guifang is not under their control, often some Yi Ke who come out to eat mixed rice does not want to pay protection money, and changes a place every few days.

But Yu Shu didn't know this, and said with a smile: "How can it be, I didn't come out to deceive people, where can I go, you can rest assured, five taels of silver, right, I'll bring it early tomorrow morning." ”

The ruffian listened to her assurance, sneered, the wine came up, he didn't say a word, raised his leg and kicked on her small hexagram stall, the whole stall car "clanged" and overturned out, Yu Shu hurriedly took two steps back, tripped by Ma Za, sat down on the side of the road, and the stall sound ink cartridge spilled out, splashing on her head and chest, and the paper was all around, looking extremely embarrassed.

"Hiss" Yu Shu pressed her leg socket with a muffled pain, annoyed in her heart, she supported the ground with one hand, raised her sleeve and wiped a handful of ink on her forehead, secretly clenched her fist, looked up at the fierce-looking ruffian, held back her temper and smashed the Mazha in his face.

"Boy, tomorrow is still this time, send the money to Mingyuan Gambling House, if you dare to slip away, you can try, hide in the north of the city, and the master can also find you out, poof!" The ruffian spat out a mouthful of thick yellow phlegm, which was impartially glued to Yu Shu's shoes.

Yu Shu is not a person who can be angry, and his angry teeth are a little trembling at this time, but for the sake of his livelihood, he still lowered his head and swallowed this breath, and when the three people left, he silently got up from the ground, bent down to help up the stall, and limped to pick up the bits and pieces that fell everywhere.

There were a lot of people on the street, but no one stepped forward to help.

Yu Shu squatted on the side of the street, looking at the feet of pedestrians with a strained face, and only after a while did he see the turtle board that fell in the middle of the road, and was stepped over by one foot, so it was almost not broken.

She was busy hunching her waist, and just after taking two steps, before she could reach her, she saw a figure bent down in the middle of a pair of yellow legs, picking up the turtle board.

She hurriedly stretched out her hand and squeezed forward: "I'm sorry, that's me-"

Half a sentence was stuck in her throat, and there were pedestrians walking by beside her, she looked up at the face that appeared in front of her, dumbfounded, she never thought that she could really meet her in a huge Anling city, or in this situation.

"Yours?" Xue Rui handed over the turtle board he had just picked up, and looked at the person in front of him by the way, but the young man's face was sticky and black, and he couldn't see it clearly, he had just walked from the street, and he didn't see the ruffian.

Yu Shu saw that he looked unfamiliar, as if he didn't recognize her, he was stunned, then came back to his senses, hurriedly took the turtle board, coughed low, suppressed his voice, and said thank you tentatively, I don't know if I want to see if he denies her, or doesn't want to be recognized by him.

"Not necessarily." Xue Rui glanced at her again, then walked sideways past her and entered the tavern behind her.

Yu Shu stood in place for a while, raised his hand and touched the ink on his face, his eyes were in a trance, he turned his head and disappeared from the figure, lowered his head and smiled bitterly, he couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

It's not the first time we've met and don't know each other.

She went to put all the things she had picked up back into the secret cabinet, did not linger on the street, and pushed the cart out of the street with a heavy heart.

In the tavern, Xue Rui sat on the first floor, and when he turned his face, he could see the street outside from the window, he was holding a glass of wine, trickling it down, and when Yu Shu disappeared, he withdrew his gaze and asked the shopkeeper Sun who was settling accounts behind the counter.

"What happened at the door?"

Shopkeeper Sun stopped his work, glanced out the window, shook his head and said: "It's not that the Evergreen Gang collects land rent, that little brother may have no spare money, so he was taught a lesson, he said that he has no luck, he has been here for several days, and he hasn't earned a few red envelopes, and he will be exhausted all day long." ”

Xue Rui said again: "Do you recognize the shopkeeper? ”

"Well, that little brother is a good person, he made a special trip to greet me on the first day, saying that he was going to take the test Dayan, and the money was not enough to spend before he came out, I saw that he had some ability, and he could win 100 yuan in the future, and he would take care of one or two on weekdays, but look at this, he will not come tomorrow."

Xiao Er's eyes moved, he raised his hand to send the wine into his throat, and after only drinking a glass, he put down the silver tael and got up to leave

Yu Shu found the river on the road, washed his face, retied his hair, sat alone for a while, and waited for his mood to calm down before going home.

The sun was good in the morning, Yu Xiaoxiu proposed to take the cup out to dry, and Jingchen helped tie a rope under the wall.

The door was not closed, Yu Shu pushed it open, Yu Xiaoxiu and Jingchen heard the door ringing, turned their heads and saw that it was her who came back, Yu Xiaoxiu also said strangely: "Why did you come back so early." ”

"Business is not good," Yu Shu casually put the cart with one less wheel against the wall, and touched his neck into the back room.

Jingchen looked at her thin back, and for some reason he could sense that she was in a bad mood, so he put down the rope in his hand without thinking about it and followed.

"Brother Jing, where are you going, the rope hasn't been tied yet." Yu Xiaoxiu hugged a quilt and came out to tie the rope first.