The next day when Daddy Niu and Aunt Seven got together, Aunt Niu came to the door, she blocked the door of Aunt Seven's house, and as soon as Daddy Niu came out of Aunt Seven's house, she stepped forward, this time she didn't want to be paid, but forced Niu Da to push her with a cart to do business, and said: "The surname is Niu, I have been married to you for so many years, is it not as good as the dewy couple of this mutual aid group?" No matter how bad it is, if you have a way to make money, you can't eat inside and out, and give the profit to the mutual aid woman, right? ”

Aunt Qi's nose was crooked, she pointed to Aunt Niu and said, "Early in the morning, what are you howling in front of my house?" Niu Da pushes a cart to sell eggs, he is just a helper, he doesn't go to us to do business. ”

Aunt Niu didn't believe Aunt Seven's words at all, and she thought that Aunt Seven relied on Daddy Niu to push her to the city to do business in a car. If Niu Da doesn't push her, her business will be doomed.

Aunt Seven also wanted Aunt Niu to sober up, she looked angry and said: "Niu Da, you don't have to push me today, the old lady still does business, and saves a salary and three meals, I don't believe we can try it today." "What a seventh aunt, she took out the flat pole from the house to carry water, packed the eggs left over from yesterday in two baskets, and carried them on her shoulders and walked out. Niu Da didn't squeak, pushing the empty car behind her, no matter how Aunt Niu scolded him, he just didn't make a sound, and didn't look up at Aunt Niu, just followed behind Aunt Niu out of the village, at the fork in the road, Niu Er's father had already pushed the cart and waited there, the car was an egg crate on one side, and the other side was empty, Aunt Niu hurriedly got into the car, and Niu Er's father pushed the cart behind his brother Niu Da, with an interval of five or six steps, and walked to the city without pulling a step.

Niu Da saw that Aunt Qi's head was sweating, and there was no light burden on the long way. The seventh aunt is competing for her age, and the year is unforgiving. Just now, I saw a breath walking fast, but after a long time, I lost my strength, slowly slowed down my speed, and kept changing my shoulders. It's obvious that I can't hold it anymore.

Daddy Niu shouted anxiously: "You are stupid, you don't sit in a car, didn't I ignore them?" This time I will not be confused, and I will stand firmly on your side. ”

Aunt Qi listened to Niu Da's confession, stopped and asked Niu Da: "Is this true?" ”

Niu Dalang replied: "I will never break my promise, my heart is very clear, I am earning food for myself." Seeing that Niu Da was on her side, the seventh aunt put the eggs in the basket back into the wooden box on the car, put the basket and the flat pole on the car, and she sat on the car sideways, urging Niu Da to go quickly.

The second father of Niu pushed the cart and followed the cart, and the two groups entered the farmers' market one after the other. Daddy Niu pushed the cart to the stall as before, helped Aunt Seven pick up the eggs into the basket, and gently put them on the counter, Aunt Seven entered the counter, sat on the chair, and did not rest, filled the counter with eggs, took out the fan under the counter, and while running away the flies that fell on the eggs, while soliciting customers, and began to do business. Niu Da put the small cart in the storage area, and when he came back, he lay on his back on the chair to rest.

Niu Er's father also followed into the counter, he looked at the front and back, left and right, each counter was full of all kinds of agricultural products, there was no free space, he didn't know about renting a counter at all. I thought it was the same as the kidnappers, and I could sell it in a random place. When the market manager saw him blocked on the sidewalk, he came over and asked him what counter he was. Niu's second father couldn't answer, which aroused the suspicion of the management, surrounded him in the middle, and carefully interrogated his lease number, name, etc.

The seventh aunt said to the administrator: "Comrade, you can't stand in front of my counter and affect my business." The administrator didn't care about 3721, he wanted to push out the cart of Niu Er's father, and the anxious Niu Er's father pointed to the cow lying on the chair in the counter and shouted: "He's my brother." ”

The administrator snorted and sneered: "It's not okay if he's your own father, this counter is rented by others for money." He's just a helper, and he doesn't have the right to use the counter. "There was a lot of noise here, and several other administrators hurried over, no matter how Niu Er struggled, several people pushed and shoved him and invited him into the fire department. Niu Er refused to accept it, and was kicked several times before he softened. A leader who looked like a person explained to him and Aunt Niu for a long time before he realized that the counter was bought with money. When he asked about the price, it rose from 3,000 yuan earlier to 15,000, which startled him. Only then did he realize that he couldn't do anything without money in the city, and he didn't even have a place to sell an egg. Under the escort of the city management, Niu Er's father pushed Niu Er's aunt, left the farmers' market in frustration, and walked back slowly in the direction of his home. After this setback, Aunt Niu never went to trouble Aunt Seven again. The poor don't fight with the rich, let alone provoke Niu Da, for fear that he will go home and eat and drink for nothing. There is another "father" in the family.

Even the wise can make mistakes. Xing Er went from entering the cattle farm to learn carpentry, and later changed the cattle farm to Xing Er Wood Factory, as well as making joint chairs to developing new products and making joint sofas. There is also a counter to buy a counter to do business with Aunt Seven, and it is smooth sailing. There was not the slightest setback. He began to be impetuous, and with a few dollars in his hand, he held his head proudly, bought a new motorcycle, often took Tian Baobao for a ride, ate and drank everywhere and made friends, and was generous. Some of the eyes are empty and a qiē taste. Ordinary people, he doesn't care about it at all. There is a manager Wang of the county timber company, who saw that Xing Er often came to buy wood from the Northeast, so he interacted with him, and also took Xing Er to Liaozhou, the origin of the timber, to see the timber market. I also went to the largest wood sales center in Liaozhou to see the wood products exhibition. At the fair, I got acquainted with Wang Erbao, the owner of the exhibition center, and Wang Erbao learned that Xing Er had a wood factory. So he invited him to dinner together. During the banquet, it is indispensable to push the cup and change the lamp, and only stop when you get drunk. During the three days in Liaozhou, Wang Erbao skimmed the work of the sales center, and carefully accompanied Xing Er to check the timber and finished goods market, as well as the prices and styles of various woodware, and roughly calculated the more and less profits. At that time, the federal wooden sofa developed by Xing Ergang was a new variety, and it could not be pushed away locally for a while, so Wang Erbao tried his best to persuade Xing Er's products to be sold by him. He decided to set aside a special gold area in the exhibition center to distribute the products of Xinger Wood Factory. Xing Er was not at ease, and he went to the exhibition center to actually see it, and when those exhibitors saw Wang Erbao, they all called him "Boss Wang". After turning around, Xing Er confirmed Wang Erbao's identity without doubt.

Wang Erbao personally went to Xinger Wood Factory to see the goods and pick up the goods, and the two also signed a sales contract and wrote down the sales price and profit distribution method in detail on paper. This time, Wang Erbao asked to take away 60,000 yuan of federal wooden sofas, for fear that Xing Er would not be at ease, and he also wrote an IOU of 60,000 yuan for Xing Er. The two parties agreed: half a month later, Xing Er went to the Liaozhou Exhibition Center to get the payment. If the remaining part of the sofa cannot be sold, the payment will be temporarily paid by Wang Erbao. A qiē formalities are properly handled, loaded and shipped. Wang Erbao, Boss Wang, also escorted the truck back to Liaozhou.

Xing Er's 60,000 yuan of goods is basically all of Xing Er's belongings, and also includes the 10,000 yuan worth of wood he borrowed from Boss Wang of the timber company. He sat in the office, counting the days with his fingers every day, and finally survived the fifteen days, he arranged the work of the wood factory, instructed Niu Da to say a few words, and hurriedly went north to Liaozhou to get the 60,000 yuan payment.

He first came to the wood exhibition center, couldn't find Wang Erbao's figure, looked around, and didn't see his federal sofa, and was happy: it was sold quite quickly. He asked a salesman: "Comrade, have you seen Boss Wang?" When people heard that he had a foreign accent, they asked him, which boss Wang are you looking for? Xing Er replied unequivocally: "Wang Er, Leopard Wang, Boss." The salesman pointed to the second floor and said, "Boss Wang is in the manager's room." ”

Xing Er went upstairs and looked into the manager's room, only to see a boss sitting behind the large boss's desk, writing something. When he saw Xing Er leaning in, he smiled and asked, "May I ask you what's the matter?" ”

Xing Er replied casually: "I'm looking for Wang Er, Boss Leopard Wang." ”

The man said, "I am Wang Erbao." Sit down and talk about something. ”

Xing Er carefully looked at the person in front of him, it was not the Wang Erbao who was doing business with him a few days ago. He was a little suspicious, and asked softly, "How many Wang Erbao are here?" ”

The man laughed: "You must be a foreigner, right?" I don't know the situation here, this exhibition center, I am a boss, and I am a Wang Erbao, so I will listen to it slowly. ”

So, Xing Er told the details of how he and another Wang Erbao met and how to do business to the Wang Erbao in front of him, and at the end, he also took out the IOU of 60,000 yuan to show the Wang Erbao in front of him.

After listening to Xing Er's words, Wang Erbao frowned, and read the 60,000 yuan IOU several times. He said: "Brother, I have some impressions of this, a few days ago someone led a customer from other places around the center, it turned out that the outsider was you, you were fooled." The person who pulls your goods is called Wang Erhao, not Wang Erbao, is a Li ghost, he is a local social idler, he opened a carpenter shop in his early years, and he also sold goods in my exhibition center, but this person has a problem, he is very happy to see Bo, and he loses his family property, and even the carpenter shop is given to others. The wife and children saw that life was hopeless, married away from home, and never came back. ”

Xing Er hurriedly asked, "He pulled me a cartload of goods, didn't he sell them here?" ”

Wang Erbao said: "It's sold here, it's very popular, it was sold clean yesterday afternoon, I paid the fee for renting the venue, and I took the money and left." ”

Xing Er asked, "Where does his family live?" ”

"It's hard to say, to be honest, he doesn't have a home at all."

Xing Er was puzzled: "He has to sleep, right?" ”

"He, it's like this: if you have money, you will live in Binwan, if you have less money, you will live in a bathhouse, and if you have no money, you will drill firewood and stacks."

Xing Er was anxious: "May I ask Boss Wang, which hotel bathhouse can I go to to find him?"

Boss Wang smiled bitterly and said: "Brother, this is really hard to say, there are hundreds of hotels in Liaozhou, and there are many song halls and bathhouses, and there are countless firewood stacks, presumably he knows that you are coming to him, he has already taken precautions, the cat does not come out in a small hotel, you are not easy to find, looking for a needle in a haystack, it is difficult. There is also a possibility, he is not in Liaozhou, out of the province to find new customers like you may not be, you are in this situation, there are several cases every year, I have not heard that someone wants to return the money, tens of thousands of yuan, even prostitution, within half a month, spend a fine light, even if you find him himself, there is no way, his life is worthless, take your IOU, look for it in various hotels outside, try your luck, it is estimated that nine out of ten will return empty-handed, please, I still have something, I will not be accompanied. Wang Erbao handed the IOU to Xing Er and stretched out his hand to make a send-off gesture.

Xing Er circled around for a day, and he didn't find any trace of Wang Er's trouble until it was dark, he sat on the road in despair, his eyes were full of tears, his body was motionless, stupid. He finally understood that he had been deceived, not only was he deceived, but he was not lightly deceived, and he was deceived. Not only was all the family wealth accumulated in the past two years defrauded, but he also owed a large amount of debt. The wood payment on the side of Boss Wang of the timber company alone is 10,000 yuan, and there are more than two months of unpaid wages. There is also the timber company Boss Wang's 10,000 yuan is public funds, originally did not see the money is not delivered, Boss Wang violated the operation, signed his name on the invoice to bring the wood, his money is ready to pay wages to the workers, the workers point to the wages to buy food, can they not make trouble? How can Boss Wang explain? Thinking of this, Xing Er was anxious to break out in a cold sweat, feeling in his pockets and wanting to buy food, but his pockets were empty and his wallet was missing. It turned out that he was a wolf who was not willing to give up, went in and out of various hotels, and asked around about Wang Er's troubles, and was already targeted by pickpockets, followed him, and secretly took out his wallet when he was wholeheartedly asking the hotel waiter. Without money, I can't live in a hotel, I can't eat. From this morning to now, he has been running around all day and tired, the water and rice have not touched his teeth, his stomach is growling with hunger, and he has no one he knows, and he is in a desperate predicament. He looked around at the red lights everywhere, a song and dance were leveling, the smell of barbecue wafted from the hotel behind him, and Teresa Teng's sweet singing voice came from the song hall not far away. At this qiē, Xing Er sighed. Sit in a leeward corner, place your head on your knees, and wrap your arms around your bare parts to allow mosquito bites to bite your bare parts. Maybe it was a complete mental breakdown, or maybe it was too tired from running around all day, and after a long time, he fell asleep in a daze.

When the sky was bright, Xing Er woke up, hungry and uncomfortable, and felt a little hot. He pressed his stomach with both hands to reduce the pain. When he got up and stood up, his legs felt a little weak, but he persevered. The fragrance of some fritters came from the wind, he turned the corner, and saw a fried fritter stall not far away, he couldn't resist the temptation of the fragrance, and his legs involuntarily stepped over, in the territory of Liaozhou, fried fritters are not called fried fritters, they are called fried big fruits, and the big fruits are not the same shape as the fritters in the Guannai, some fat and short. Xing Er swallowed the foam, walked around the stall, took out all the bags on his body with both hands, and did not take out a penny. Due to the early morning and the opening of the store yet, it was a pair of young people who fried the big fruit, and the brother and sister came to Liaozhou from the remote mountainous areas of the mainland to beg for a living. The sister asked Xing Er: "This boss, do you want to buy fruits?" ”

Xing Er was a little embarrassed and said: "I came here from Guannai to settle the bill, but I was cheated of the payment, even my wallet was lost, I was penniless, I haven't eaten since yesterday, this stomach is really not angry, can you give me a dollar of fritters to eat?" The right should be to help the poor and do good deeds to accumulate virtue. Either I'll pay you back when I've earned the money. ”

The girl smiled slightly, glanced at Xing Er, and saw that he was not like a beggar begging for food, but probably a person in distress who was temporarily inconvenient, so she took out three large fruits from the fruit basket and put them in a small basket, handed them to Xing Er, pointed to the small table on the ground and said, "You sit down and eat, take a bowl and serve a bowl of soy milk for yourself." ”

Xing Er took the small basket with the fruit, and almost burst into tears, he nodded his head, grateful, and thanked the girl several times. Then he sat down at the small table, picked up the big fruit, swallowed it wolfly, and stuffed it into his mouth. He was really hungry, and he had the ugliness of a starving ghost. After eating and drinking, Xing Er got up and bent down to bow deeply to the kind-hearted brother and sister. Then walk to a small park not far away. He carried an abandoned wooden sign in his hand, looked for a piece of iron, tied the wooden card, hung it on a tree, found a piece of dry lime from nearby, drew a goose egg-sized garden circle in the center of the wooden sign, and some people who were exercising in the park came to watch the excitement. Xing Er pulled out two flying knives from his waist, raised his hand and shot them six or seven steps away from the wooden plaque, only to hear two swishing sounds, and the two flying knives were inserted side by side in the middle of the white circle. Everyone present applauded and praised Xing Er's good skills. Xing Erchong made a gesture to everyone, described his current predicament, and said that those who are interested should also try it. Among the people who practiced in the park in the morning, there were many people who practiced martial arts, and after asking the price of Xing Er, several young people who were eager to try it lined up to try their skills. Xing Er didn't ask for much, flying a knife and a dime. He praised a few words regardless of whether the guests hit the target or not, and personally picked up the knife and returned it to the guests with both hands to continue the exercise. There were a few who spent ten yuan to practice, Xing Er simply taught them some flying knife essentials, half a day of hard work, Xing Er earned twenty-eight yuan, at noon, he collected the flying knife, rushed to the brother and sister's fritter stall, returned the one dollar, and bought two yuan of fruit, and ate a full stomach. After the break, he still went to the small park to earn money. He also carefully explained the knowledge of flying knives to the guests. Everyone is sure that they doubt the authenticity of Xing Er's flying knife, and tell everyone that he really has this ability, which was taught to him by the magistrate of Hong County a few years ago, when Xing Er accidentally hit and cured the tuberculosis of the elder of Hong County, he had nothing to repay, so he taught Xing Er his flying knife skills, and gave Xing Er the two flying knives that he had treasured for many years. That's why Xing Er has such a stunt.

A few days later, a noble young woman got off the taxi, enjoyed the flowers in the park, saw a circle of people around to see the excitement, she also walked lightly, when she saw Xing Er demonstrating the flying knife, she pushed aside the crowd, walked to the wooden sign, pulled out the flying knife that Xing Er had just flown over to take a look, and then said to Xing Er who came over: "Three rivers and one river." ”

Xing Er immediately replied: "Twelve climbs to the Golden Tower." Everyone present was deeply surprised, and the young woman reached out and grabbed Xing Er's hands and shouted in a trembling voice, "Senior brother." ”

Xing Er was also very excited, and shouted emotionally: "Senior sister." With his four hands clasped together, Xing Er put away his flying knife, and paced with the young woman to a fountain, where he sat on a wooden chair by the fountain and spoke.

As early as the Boxer Rebellion, the tide of civil resistance against the Eight-Nation Alliance was higher and higher, and it was at that time that the Hongjia Flying Knife Gate came into being. At that time, the uprising was announced at the Honglou in West Lake, and he joined the camp against foreign invaders. And in the struggle, he has repeatedly performed miraculous feats. Unfortunately, the Manchu government was corrupt and incompetent, and in order to please the invaders, they raised their butcher's knives against the Boxers. In order to preserve their strength, they scattered to all provinces across the country, scattered guerrillas, and carried out various righteous deeds to resist the enemy's aggression. In order to contact the brothers of the family, the head of the family prescribed two code words to distinguish the inside and outside of the door. The first sentence of three waters is a river, of which three points of water next to a total is the word "Hong", the second sentence of the twelve refers to the twelve generations of disciples, Shangjin Lou single take the last of which a "building" word, and the word Hong of a sentence is juxtaposed, that is, "Hong Lou". The implication refers to the meaning that the flying knife door originated in the Honglou back then. At that moment, the young woman reminded Xing Er that his flying knife was engraved with the word Honglou, and it was indeed a famous weapon secretly made by the Flying Knife Gate back then, but because the knife was marked, it was not suitable to use it in the rivers and lakes, and it was easy to expose his identity. Therefore, it is best to use ordinary flying knives to avoid many incidents. Xing Er nodded in agreement, and the two said goodbye.

Not far from the grove is a small dirt hill, and scattered on the hillside are many one-room huts, which are rented out by locals for rent to foreign bachelors like Xing Er. After Xing Er settled here, he fantasized about earning more money so that he could go home and make a comeback. Unexpectedly, the good times did not last long, and within a month, the park management kicked Xing Er out of the park and did not allow him to continue his flying knife performance in the woods. The reason is very simple, in order to stabilize the situation. The noble young woman received a lot of money from Xing Er, but it was not a way to sit and eat empty. He thought about it, so he went to work in a nearby carpentry factory, relying on carpenter's craftsmanship to earn money, but the salary was not high, and the boss bullied the outsiders, obviously working more than the locals, but the wages he received were less than the locals. He approached his boss for a theory, but he was so angry that he quit his job and left the woodworking factory. He wants to work in the construction team, but he doesn't know how to work as a bricklayer, not to mention the pitiful little pay of a small worker, and he has to settle accounts at the end of the year, and whether he can get the salary at that time is still a matter of two questions. Xing Er had no choice but to go to the coal kiln, where the salary was high, but the danger was high and the labor intensity was high. In order to save money to go home to pay off his debts, Xing Er reluctantly persevered, and after a long time, he slowly adapted to this high-intensity and high-risk working environment. When going to work, he is always cautious, and he advances and retreats with other workers, and shares weal and woe. Help each other, resist risks together, avoid several disasters, and be lucky to get the hard-earned money they deserve.

Late at night, the wind and snow were combined, Xing Er went back to the hut, tripped over something in the snow on the road, got up and was about to scold, but found that the person who tripped him was a long-haired girl, dressed thin but very gorgeous, and had passed out from the cold, snorting with some slight breath in and out, his heart was still beating slowly, and his hands and feet were already frozen. It is important to save people, Xing Er is not ambiguous, he takes the girl back to the hut he rents, puts her on the small kang, immediately lights the firewood to raise the fire, and burns the small iron stove very hot, put an iron kettle on the iron stove to boil hot water, the stove is connected to the small kang, not much effort, the small kang begins to heat up, Xing Er uses boiling water to make some ginger syrup water for the girl to drink, and uses the basin to hold snow to rub the girl's hands and feet. After tossing for an hour, the girl groaned and sat up, Xing Er turned on the dim light, and then he saw the girl's face clearly, the girl who was rescued was none other than his noble young woman's junior sister.

Xing Er asked her what happened? The sister fell into his arms and wept. Xing Er comforted her and ordered two bowls of noodles, one bowl for each person. The younger sister's love gradually stabilized, and she cried to Xing Er about what happened to her、、、、、、