Chapter Twenty-Eight: Scenes
The stall of this big scar Liu is spread with two straw mats, on which are placed foreign nails, foreign cloth, glass foreign lanterns, glass Western mirrors and other goods...... In addition, there are three drum-shaped rattan basket large clay pots lined up, one is full of spiky brown sugar, the other is filled with white and shiny lumpy salt, and a rattan basket large clay pot is sealed, and a piece of red paper is pasted on the clay pot, and the word "wine" is written on it.
The two women who bought brown sand candy saw Chen Qinghua coming over and greeted with a smile: "The young master of the international student is here?" As he spoke, he avoided the side and made way for a place. One of the women quipped the stall owner: "No look, no look. Our eldest young master is here, you Liu Dascar dare to play tricks, you won't use it next time! ”
"That's, that's! This is a hundred miles in circumference, who doesn't know that our eldest young master can't hold sand in his eyes. The eldest young master is like the fixed star on this scale, with the eldest young master here, outsiders don't want to bully us mountain people, our people in the mountains will not embarrass passers-by. Dignified, peaceful and peaceful, that is called a long time. ”
Liu Dasa smiled, weighed the brown sugar, hurriedly put it down, turned around and pushed out the two big boxes behind him, lifted the lid of the box, and took a few paper bags from it, and presented them to Chen Qinghua, Xie Yucheng and others: "Young master, this gentleman, look, this is the dragon's tooth cup, this is the betel nut in Penang, and this is the dried mango ...... in Surabaya."
After everyone took it separately, Liu Dascar took out a pack of foreign cigarettes from his pocket again, popped out a few cigarettes, and first served them in front of Chen Qinghua, Chen Qinghua waved his hand, and he smiled:
"The eldest young master still hasn't learned to smoke? It's still not good to smoke! Don't smoke well! The eldest young master, in the winter of the year before the young, I heard that the eldest young master had gone east to Japan to study all these years, and the young good students admired him...... Back then, Sun Guofu and his alliance, including the current chairman of the Standing Committee of Nanjing, how many heroes were all studying on the Oriental ground..... The eldest young master has returned from his studies now, and the future of thousands of miles is only within the palm of his hand..... Master Da, this gentleman next to you is extraordinary, is he a friend who came back with you? Does this gentleman smoke, come one, come one. ”
Xie Yucheng refused with a smile, although there were a few people in the Chen Mansion who could smoke, they didn't dare to be Chen Qinghua's face. What's more, looking at the appearance of this big scar, he didn't plan to distribute it to his subordinates at all. However, there are also two smokers in the family, and when they looked at the signboard picture on the cigarette box, they said in their hearts, good guy, it turned out to be an old knife brand, this is a good cigarette.
At this time, a voice sounded next to him: "Yo, Boss Liu, I haven't seen you for a long time, yo, business is booming!" ”
Listening to the voice, everyone knew that the village's pranky Niu Er arrived with two or three escort teams.
I saw that Niu Er was like a different person today, and I don't know what medicine he used, his face was swollen like a pig's head last night, and it only happened overnight, and he recovered a lot, and he couldn't see it if he didn't look closely, and the tattered clothes on his body were gone, and he was changed into a blue cloth shirt with a red belt, and he was still so thin, but the whole person seemed to be more energetic and serious. It's just that a colorful snake wrapped around his left arm made his whole person a little evil.
"Yo, Boss Liu, you are a good smoke......" Seeing that at this time, Niu Er Boss unceremoniously squeezed to the front of the stall, stretched out his thin hand, first brushed the poisonous snake tail that he was playing with in his left hand to the side, wiped it on the placket with his free hand, and then grabbed two cigarettes from the cigarette case in Liu Dascar's hand, took them out, threw one, and put it in his mouth, and then he made a vague sound in his mouth with a cigarette:
"Hmm, Boss Liu, one more, one more......" said and handed back the extra cigarette.
Liu Dascar smiled on his face, waved his hand, and pouted:
"Hey, Second Brother Niu, you can take one more. A cigarette, what's the politeness? ”
"Oops, it's still Boss Liu!" Niu Er took a cigarette in his mouth, smiled, and pinned the extra cigarette behind his ear. Liu Dascar didn't seem to hear his words, so he turned his head and flattered Chen Qinghua, who was looking at the bird's nest.
Niu Er didn't have a fire to light a cigarette, and he was embarrassed to ask Liu Dasxian, who was busy, to ask for a foreign fire, so he had to take off the cigarette on his mouth and sniff it back and forth on the edge of his nose.
"Second Brother Niu, this cigarette is good, isn't it?"
"That's it, old knife brand, Mr. Xie, you know, this is an authentic foreign smoke." Niu Er narrowed his eyes, looking intoxicated.
The noisy and dusty voices in front of the Land Temple, the vigorous vitality of private commerce in the deep mountains made Xie Yucheng feel infinitely emotional.
At this time, I heard that Liu Dascar said: "Young Master, you see, this authentic dragon tooth cup is rare in China, and I specially brought it to Lord Lingtang!" ”
"It's rare that Boss Liu has a heart!" Chen Qinghua put down the bird's nest in his hand and looked left and right, "Boss Liu, how many days do you Ma Gang plan to set up a stall?" When to go to Tanghu Wei? ”
"Young Master, although there are a lot of goods brought by the caravan this time, most of them are set up by Tanghuwei, so this time I will only set up a stall in the village for one day, and I will have to go on the road tomorrow. What's wrong? Master, what's wrong? ”
Chen Qinghua glanced at Liu Dascar, looked at Xie Yucheng beside him, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just that I have friends who want to go to Tanghuwei, you know, people from outside the mountains, I don't know the road, I'm relieved to be with you!" ”
"This ......" Liu Dascar smacked his lips, as if he was a little embarrassed, "I have to ask the big boss." However, we have been friends for so many years, and I can trust you. I'll talk to the big boss, and it should be fine. ”
Seeing that Liu Dascar agreed, Chen Qinghua smiled and pointed to the bird's nest on the stall: "These boxes are in good condition, Boss Liu bothered, let's go back and send them home." ”
"Bhoo, belch, good, good. I'll wrap it up right away. Liu Dasa nodded and bowed, happy.
Seeing his old style and promise to let him accompany him, Xie Yucheng felt much more relaxed, and suddenly felt that his sleeves were gently pulled, and when he turned his head, it was Niu Er.
I saw Niu Er mysteriously: "Mr. Xie, take a step to speak!" With that, he took a few steps back and left the crowd.
Xie Yucheng was a little strange, followed him to the side, and asked puzzledly, "What's the matter, Second Brother Niu?" ”
"Mr. Xie, do me a favor." Niu Er glanced left and right, squeezed out a smile, raised the snake on his left arm, and whispered, "The soup cooked by this snake is good for the body, and I will sell it to you, as long as a piece of the ocean." What do you think? ”
As he lifted his arm, the viper coiled, raising its head in anger and spitting out scarlet letters.
Xie Yucheng recognized it at a glance, this was a highly venomous snake, seeing Niu Er playing with it fearlessly, he knew that he must have done something to it, but out of his natural aversion to this kind of cold-blooded animal, he still involuntarily avoided it a little, and frowned dissatisfied.