Workers don't have a bad sense of potatoes. This yellow "potato" not only has a strong sense of satiety, but also hunger, which is considered a kind of real estate on the same level as sweet potatoes.

Another benefit of potatoes is that they can be prepared in a variety of ways and can be paired with any seasoning. Someone has eaten baked potatoes on the construction site of the new district before, and the baked potatoes smeared with salt powder taste quite good, which is not comparable to sweet potatoes.

The laborers who were discussing baked potatoes at the dinner table did not know that in the past two days, the first McDonald's ancestral fried chicken restaurant opened by Xingang Savage in Guangzhou has been renovated.

Poor people will soon find out that the potato fries would be so expensive that they could not breathe.

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All in all, the atmosphere of today's luncheon was very good. After eating porridge, everyone talked about it, and their spirits were much better than before.

Those present have all benefited directly or indirectly from the new city in the recent days, and life has become a little better.

However, this kind of general pattern involving social transformation, these low-level people in the courtyard can't say one, two, three, they can only express some simple joy.

In the words of later generations, this situation is that after the capital injection of the people and the opening of the process of primary industrialization, with Guangzhou as the center, the employment rate of the surrounding people has risen, the price of goods has decreased, and the economy of the Ming Kingdom, which had previously fallen into stagflation, has been sorted out, so that the per capita disposable income has slowly increased and the people's sense of happiness has increased.

He Biandan's happiness today is also very strong, because it is his turn to scrape the bottom of the pot again. After eating more than half a bowl of rice, He Bian went back to the house to take a nap, and in the afternoon, he went out again to pick up the work.

After a few days of such an eventful day, early this morning, He Biandan, as usual, stayed at the tea stall where the porters often waited for work, with the inferior tea bought for two pennies in front of him, and the household goods that he ate next to the table, waiting for the customers to come to the door.

In recent months, there seems to be a lot of work in the city, so He Biantan is very confident that he will receive a job today. Sure enough, it didn't take long for business to come.

The business is simple: a customer has bought goods at the Nancheng Pier, which has been loaded onto the ship, and needs to hire someone to unload the goods along the way. The unloading point is on the other side of the Pearl River, and it needs to be bulk cargo along the Dongjiang River all the way, and finally arrive at the terminal Zengcheng County.

He Bian was a single, and this kind of business that required him to go out for a few days was naturally suitable for him, so he negotiated the price with his employer, and after receiving the deposit, he set off with the other three porters.

The employer's surname is Wu, and he is a very amiable thin old man who is the shopkeeper of a chain grocery store in Zengcheng County.

He Bian Dan and his entourage followed the shopkeeper to a nearby medicine store first, and picked up a few loads of seahorse, musk, rhubarb, cinnabar, deer antler and other medicinal materials from it. Next, the team walked out of the south gate and carried the goods onto a cargo ship at the docks.

The cargo ship, Pingfu, was a common flat-bottomed ship on inland rivers, with almost 300 materials, and it was already stuffed with cargo. After He Bian carried them on board, the ship pulled anchor and set sail.

After leaving the South Gate Wharf, the Pingfu went east along the wide Pearl River. On this way, because the crossing people have marked the reefs and shoals with buoys, the speed of the boat is very fast, and without waiting for noon, it has completed 50 miles of waterway and arrived at Huangpu.

When passing by Whampoa, everyone on the Pingfu, including the boat boss, the boatman, the grocery store manager, the man, and He Biandan and others, all ran to the port side of the ship, stretched their necks and looked at the port that suddenly appeared on the shore of Whampoa.

A large ship with a blue background and gold lines, reflecting a dazzling light, is moored at the pier of Huangpu Port. The white sails on top of it are towering, and there are many small boats going back and forth under your feet, and you can see the majesty of this giant ship from the proportions.

It was the first time he had seen this Western-style ship, and he was growing his mouth, and while he was looking at it, he listened to the boatman's foaming mouth.

After listening to it with great interest for a long time, He Biantan knew two things: First, the surname of this big ship was Cao, which was the Cao of General Cao, who brought him salty vegetable porridge.

Second, there are dozens of cannons as thick as a man in the belly of this big ship, and as soon as the side flap door is opened, a series of cannons are fired, which is eroded for dozens of miles, and all ships on the ocean are beaten into powder!

After He Biandan heard such a powerful story, his saliva flowed, and he immediately pestered the boatman to tell it to others. As soon as the shipwright saw that the audience was enthusiastic, he recounted the scene of the big ship suppressing bandits that he had seen at the mouth of the Pearl River, and he had to add oil and vinegar during the period.

In the process, the Pingfu turned along the river bank and entered the Dongjiang River basin.

The Dongjiang River originates in Jiangxi and eventually joins the Pearl River from Huangpu, and is an important tributary of the Pearl River.

After entering the Dongjiang River, the Pingfu began to move smoothly along the north bank. After walking about 20 miles of waterway, Pingfu arrived at the first stop, Tangqiao Town.

The grocery chain where Shopkeeper Wu works has a branch in Tangqiao Town, so when the boat docked at the stone wharf in Tangqiao Town, He Bian and the others began to get busy. Together with a few guys on board, everyone took turns unloading some of the ship's cargo to the town's grocery store.

In this process, He Bian Dan was appreciated by the shopkeeper Wu because of his skill, not lazy, and hard work. When it was time to eat, the shopkeeper Wu smiled and asked the shopkeeper to add a bowl of chicken offal with meat to this pleasing young man, and also gave a chicken leg in his bowl to the flat dan.

He Biandan's IQ decreased as soon as he ate, and he could eat more without being beaten this time, and the shopkeeper Wu immediately conquered the young man.

In the afternoon, the Pingfu continued to set sail along the Dongjiang River. In the afternoon, when the ship arrived at the junction of the Dongjiang River and the Zengjiang River, the second unloading point arrived.

It's still a town, and it's still a quarter of the ship's cargo to be unloaded. This time, the goods included all the medicinal materials, which were piggyback by the shopkeeper Wu for the crude medicine shop in the town.

Because He Bian Dan ate well at noon, he worked harder this time, and he did the work of two people by himself. Finally, after the ship lifted anchor, he was privately pulled over by the smiling shopkeeper Wu and asked about his family history.

After learning that He Bian Dan was a bachelor, the shopkeeper Wu made a promise on the spot: when he returned to Zengcheng this time, he would be accepted as a regular employee of the chain store, and in the future, he would be specially escorted with the ship to escort goods, and in a few years, he could be promoted to be the manager.

He Bian was desperate to take on this kind of good thing. Regular employees are guaranteed to harvest in drought and flood, and they don't have to be hungry and full like he is now. The main family not only manages food and housing, but also learns a little bit of bookkeeping and other skills in the future, and in the future, people will not be able to resist living in middle age, and they will be promoted to store managers or even shopkeepers, which is a very bright road for the poor.

So the Pingfu turned into Zengjiang happily.

The Zengjiang River, unlike the Dongjiang River, is a tributary of the Eastern Guangdong Mountains. Therefore, starting from the entrance, entering the Zengjiang River in the north-south direction is equivalent to entering the mountainous area. From here to the north, after walking another forty miles of waterway, it is the terminal Zengcheng County.

However, the Pingfu will not be able to reach Zengcheng County today, because it is too late. It would be getting late, and the ship would have to spend the night on the road.

So the boat boss sailed the boat into a fork in the river and headed for a village where boats often stopped. The village, called Stone Beach, is a large village of thousands of people, and ships often dock here.

I don't want the next moment, the unexpected happens.

Hearing only the sound of stabbing and stinging, the Pingfu suddenly shook, and then the speed dropped suddenly.

"Oh no, it's a rock!" The experienced ship boss got out of the cabin as soon as possible, and soon he ran up again and shouted: "Leak, go and plug the crack!" ”

Hearing the boss's order, someone ran down the bilge on the spot. The captain of the ship then began to direct the boatmen on the deck to turn the rudder and sail, and the Pingfu slowly approached the shore.

At this moment, a lot of water was already pouring out from under the bilge. Not long after, the drenched boatman ran up: "Big guy, two boards are broken, and they can't be blocked!" ”

After hearing the curse, the captain could only order the helmsman to pull the rudder sideways, and the next moment, the Pingfu plunged headlong into the sand on the shore.

"Xu sent a landscape a few days ago, and the big boulder that rushed down the river cut the bottom of the boat, which is really unlucky." After going down to the cabin again to inspect it, the ship boss made a judgment.

By this time, the whole ship was dumbfounded. Fortunately, the shopkeeper Wu was experienced, and he first ordered the hired workers to go down to the cabin to transfer the goods.

So He Bian hurriedly got out of the cabin and transferred the goods stored under the bottom to the upper cabin one by one. This is also thanks to the fact that half of the cargo has been unloaded before, otherwise there would be no place to transfer the cargo.

By this time, it was already dark. The captain of the ship then lit the oil lamp and led the people down to the bilge to repair the ship. However, the bottom of the ship is now half a layer of water, and there is a long crack, and it will definitely not be repaired for a while.

After learning about the situation in the bilge, Shopkeeper Wu had a gloomy face, called two guys, and ordered them to report the news overnight.

The Fuping is now in a terrible position, seven or eight miles away from the nearest village of Shitan, and even farther away from Zengcheng to the north and the town where it was previously unloaded. So Shopkeeper Wu could only order two fellows, one to the north and the other to the south, to report to the distance.

He Bian on the side didn't understand this operation: The ship is broken, wait patiently for the ship to be repaired, won't it be over? Why send someone overnight to report the news?

After secretly raising the question, Shopkeeper Wu couldn't help but smile bitterly when he looked at this stupid young man, and then pulled He Bian aside to secretly explain to him: Sending someone to deliver the message is just in case. In this wilderness where there is no village and no shop, the boat is broken down, and I am afraid of encountering bandits, so I must notify my family to come to help.

He Biantan understood when he heard this. It's no wonder that he has no experience, he has always been carrying work in Guangzhou before, and he doesn't go out very often, and he doesn't know much about survival in the wild.

The shopkeeper then confessed that he wanted He Bian to pay more attention tonight and inform him at any time if there was a situation.

The young man quickly nodded in agreement.

After this step, everyone had no choice, and Shopkeeper Wu had a gloomy face throughout the whole process, and could only silently pray that the ship would be repaired as soon as possible.

He Biandan, the only one who was in a good mood, took advantage of this effort to gnaw a lot of dry food, and also ate two salted fish, and when it was the middle of the moon, this product also drank two bowls of porridge.

However, not long after he finished his porridge, one of the ship's workers shouted, "What are you doing!?" ”

In the bright moonlight, a figure appeared on the beach not far away, and then disappeared into the reeds with a shout.

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