Caizhou City

Liu Niang kept busy in front of the case, trying to evenly spread the coarse salt on the skin of the meat sheep, so as not to rot before the second case was dissected. She had been doing this kind of work for almost a year, skillful and orderly, not very heavy, but rubbing the rough salt all day long, still eroded her skin without accident, and her body, which used to be fair and delicate, now felt as dry as elm bark.

It's been a long time since the barnsman called her to warm her bed. In fact, whether or not to warm the bed is not a big deal for Liu Niang, after all, her husband has been dead for more than three years, and she has long been used to living alone. Just thinking that if you don't warm the bed, you can't get that half of the chaff, I can't help but be angry and a little annoyed!

When there is anger in the heart, it is inevitable that the strength in the hand will be heavier, and the meat sheep under the hand will hum and chirp.

Liu Niang and several other women were in charge of the first case, and this process was to salt the meat sheep. The skin of the meat sheep is very thin, and if the salt is not applied tightly after passing through the water, it will give birth to an unpleasant taste, and the taste of the cured meat will be worse. The conscientious warehouse supervisor requires them to wipe the first salt cleanly, which is the key to ensuring the quality of the cured meat.

After this is done, the women will take an iron hook to hang the pipa bone of the meat sheep and hand it over to the second case to be disemboweled. Because there is no blood and feces on the head case, it is naturally a rare good job in the marinating workshop. This is also the benefit that Liu Niang warms the bed for the warehouse supervisor, just like half a chaff cake every night.

Thinking of the half of the chaff cake that has been gone since then, Liu Niang couldn't help but feel indignant in her heart, and beat the indiscriminate moaning work on the case a few times.

The irritable woman raised her arm, wiped the sweat on her forehead with the crook of her arm, and when she raised her eyes, she caught a glimpse of Niu Er who had just poked his head in at the door.

Niu Er is the head of the warehouse supervisor and is a shrewd and lively character. Although there are no big names in the yamen, he is very powerful, not only in the treasury department, but also in charge of all the affairs in this grain warehouse. Secretly, I don't know what the way is, but in this chaotic world, I have never been short of money and food, not only do I eat my own brains full of fat, but I can also secretly give some benefits to the good women.

Today, Niu Er is still as majestic as ever, shaking his slightly chubby body, holding three wisps of rat whiskers, pacing square steps, while loudly scolding the busy workers: "Don't be lazy with your dead mothers-in-law!" The king ordered my treasury department to make 10,000 catties of cured meat within ten years, if you dare to slack off and miss the handover time, you will be annoyed by the king! ”

A small warehouse supervisor, but always thinking about the official duties of the Treasury Department, also fully illustrates Niu Er's loyalty to the king! It's just that the slightly yellowed triangular eyes, but they are always staring at the women's breasts and buttocks, making the cow master who has always shown his dedication a little less solemn.

Liu Niang was also staring at Niu Er, and saw that after he entered the door, a pair of thief eyes kept patrolling the bodies of other women, but she didn't want to look at herself, which couldn't help but remind her of the half of the chaff cake that she had lost since then.

Women are narrow-minded! Although they look "big-hearted"!

Liu Niang, who lost the benefits, looked at Niu Er's thief embryo appearance, the more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she became, and finally couldn't help but feel angry in her heart, and she threw a handful of salt at Niu Er regardless of it, and scolded viciously in her mouth: "It's all some undercooked lambs!" The slave family is a cured meat and not a sheep slaughterer, so there is no reason to throw the dead and alive into my case? ”

Niu Er didn't expect Liu Niang to suddenly get into trouble, and he was caught off guard, and Liu Niang was sprinkled with salt grains all over his face. Taken aback, he hurriedly took a few steps back, slapping his shirt while cursing incessantly:

"The crazy woman who turned against the sky was killed by a thousand knives to ......"

"You kill, you kill, kill you! ……”

The jealous and hateful Liu Niang did not flinch, and while talking cruel words angrily, she rushed forward and resisted Hu Si with her strong chest.

"Look for yourself, just wipe it evenly, the meat sheep's body is surging chaotic, and the green salt has fallen to the ground again, how can the slave family do this job?" The woman pointed to the live sheep on the case, and complained unrelentingly.

Niu Er was splashed by this woman, and he was also angry, stretched out his hand and pushed Liu Niang away, and cursed loudly: "You don't care if it's dead or alive, just smear the salt and hand it over to the second case, even if there is something wrong with the water case, why do you want you to be a crazy woman here?" ……”

Niu Er, who lost face, naturally lost the interest of continuing to rub the woman, and was even more unwilling to stay in the workshop to entangle with this dizzy woman, and after scolding a few words indiscriminately, he turned around angrily and brushed his sleeves away. I kept thinking hatefully: "The dead woman who suffered a thousand cuts, sooner or later, the second master will rip off your two big lumps and make cured meat......

The meat and sheep in the marinated meat mill were all sent by the patrol soldiers and rangers. There is a large pond dug in the side yard of the workshop, and the meat sheep sent from all over must be thrown into the pond to bubble first, not only to cross the water to remove the floating mud, but also to guard the side and be responsible for observing the dead and alive. Already dead; After passing through the water, it is sent to the head case for pickling. If you encounter someone who is not completely dead, you need to smash a few hammers before sending them over.

The reservoir steward was originally a conscientious man, and he was always very down-to-earth in his work, and there were few mistakes. However, in these days, the king used troops to Zhu Wen in Bianzhou, the military rations were urgent, and there were too many meat sheep sent, piled up in layers and full of ponds.

Niu Er, the head of the warehouse, walked out of the workshop with an evil belly of fire, and was about to look for the bad luck of the pond steward, but he saw a captain standing outside the gate, waving at him from a distance, and when he looked at it, it was Xu Cun.

Xu Cun, the captain of the city guard, is a well-known good person in Caizhou City, Niu Er does some unsightly business on weekdays, and when he enters and exits the city gate, he does not ask him for convenience, he is living in Caizhou City, and he is the most particular about etiquette! Today, this man came to the grain warehouse, and he must be well treated.

Niu Er, the head of the warehouse, scolded the pond steward with a dark face: "Blind your dog's eyes!" Can't tell the difference between dead sheep and live sheep? There is a live sheep on Liu Niang's case, so don't hurry up and pick it up! After hurriedly scolding the housekeeper, Niu Er hurriedly turned around and ran to the gate to greet the guests with a smile on his face.

Niu Er went out of the gate and bowed: "Captain Xu, please please!" Holding hands and warmly letting Xu Cun into the main room in the front yard.

Today's "Daqi" still follows the old system of the Tang Dynasty, and there are clear regulations that the military warehouses under the Treasury Department are not allowed to enter without an order, and those who violate the military law are engaged! Therefore, in order to facilitate official exchanges, the official offices of the owners of each warehouse are located in the front yard away from the warehouse.

After the two of them sat down, Xu Cun explained with a smile: "There is a military disturbance here, and the military department ordered Xu to escort the grain to Bianzhou City ten days later. As he spoke, he took out a document and handed it to Niu Er.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say!" The warehouse supervisor Niu Er hurriedly agreed, and after receiving the documents and checking that they were correct, he ordered someone to serve the freshly brewed tea and soup, and arranged for Xu to rest in the main room, while he hurriedly went to the warehouse to prepare the grain listed in the documents.

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Brother Lu thought he had arrived in the underworld. Lying naked on the board, a strong-breasted woman muttered gossip and rubbed salt on him. I had just been soaked in the pond and poured cold water on my stomach, and now I was rubbed with salt and my whole body was hot, and I regained some consciousness a little. When he tried to move his body, he saw the woman pointing at herself and throwing herself at a fat man, and after a few words of noisy and shouting arguments, the fat man went away in a huff.

After a while, another shirtless man came, and when he entered the door, he shouted angrily: "Liu Niang, Liu Niang, where is the live sheep?" The woman didn't lift her head, but she snorted at herself. The man shook his head angrily, walked over with a sledgehammer, and muttered in a low voice: "Even if there are live sheep, call me to pick them up, how can it be worth complaining in front of Lord Cangchang?" ”

Brother Lu, who was lying on the case, looked blankly, only to see the man come closer, with a black face and no longer speaking, he picked up the sledgehammer and threw it at himself!

Brother Lu was suddenly frightened! Subconsciously kicked out, but hit the key point of that person! The man suffered a big loss, screamed like a pig, and couldn't hold the sledgehammer in his hand, and smashed it on the ground. Seeing that the man was struggling and wanted to take the hammer, how dare Brother Lu slack off, he quickly jumped off the case, picked up the sledgehammer first, and smashed it on his back, and the man stopped moving after snorting.

Seeing such a change, Liu Niang and a group of women hurriedly threw down the work in their hands, rushed out the door, and shouted at the top of their voices: "The live sheep has killed people, the live sheep has killed people......"

Xu Cun in the main room heard a noise outside the house, but he didn't know what happened, and he came to the patio one by one. I saw that the guards guarding the door of the warehouse had already carried knives and hurriedly rushed into the warehouse, and in the distance, there were several women with their hair scattered, and their mouths kept shouting: "The live sheep has killed people...... The voice was extremely poignant.

Xu Cun didn't know what was going on in the warehouse, and before he had time to think about it, he also took out the horizontal knife on his waist, took three steps and made two steps, and followed the guards into the marinated meat workshop.

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I saw a thin young man covered in stripes, covered with shiny grains of salt, surrounded by the guards. Xu Cun looked around and couldn't help but stand on the spot; The whole workshop was full of white flowers, all of them were dead corpses that had not yet been cut, and an irrepressible cold ran through the bone marrow, and Xu Cun already understood it in his heart. Thinking about the piece of salted meat that had just been distributed in his barracks yesterday, a burst of disgust came to his heart, and he stuck in his throat again......

The guards, who are usually used to killing live sheep, are not very panicked when they encounter this change, and are about to swing their knives to "slaughter sheep", but they see the captain who broke into the workshop with them, and they also know that he is Xu Cun, an old acquaintance of the warehouse supervisor, and the guards are not good at doing this kind of work in front of outsiders, so they were stunned for a while and had no idea.

Niu Er, the supervisor of the warehouse, has heard the news. Seeing such a scene in the workshop, he was originally a little annoyed, and was about to scold his subordinates to hurry up and "slaughter sheep", but found Xu Cun standing in the workshop, looking at a row of meat cases in a silent daze.

Niu Er's face turned pale with shock, and he beat his chest and said loudly: "Captain Xu, it's just a two-legged sheep making trouble, why are you so reckless and breaking into this workshop?" ”……