Coal Mountain, the place where the fate of the dog changes, because of it, the comfortable life has changed since then, as for the result, it is neither good nor bad, in short, the dog will never come to this place, nothing but today......

"Steward Jiang, this group of men is too thin, they can actually fall down while walking, I think, instead of letting them go into the mine to dig charcoal, it is better to let them wash and wash and sleep in the shack for a day, and then go when they are full of energy."

Today is the day when the craftsmen of the conscription arrive at the Coals, and the words frightened, emaciated, and tattered are very appropriate to describe these people.

These beggar-like people actually let the government watch them all the time as if they were facing a great enemy, which really fulfills the old saying "When life becomes pain, death is only a relief", and it is often those who are desperate who revolt.

On the site of the original Tangjia Village, there were 100 large shacks made of wooden stakes and haystacks erected in the ruins.

If it weren't for Su Tongju's letter that he noted the sentence "discuss everything with Zhao Dagou", otherwise, the dog's words would be like the wind blowing in the sky, gently drifting behind his ears.

"Oh, Zhao Xiaoguan, you are moved with compassion again, the old man told you, the debts owed by these people to the imperial court are all paid in advance by our Su firm, so these people have to earn the money back as soon as possible. Besides, it's not for them to come here, it's not for them to play, where is there a reason to let them sleep and not work, we don't have a shortage of them for today's food, drink, and clothing, so let's go to the mine early in the morning to work! ”

The director of the mine, a steward surnamed Jiang, wore a fur coat and a big belly, and explained to the dog with an impatient expression.

People are lowly and lowly to say that dogs are like this.

Sighing, he glanced up at the vicious miner waving the leather whip in his hand, driving the group of numb craftsmen slowly towards the entrance of the mine, and the dog said: "At least you have to eat a bite, at noon, they have been walking for a long time, how can they have the strength to work without eating." ”

"Oh, the little official is really kind-hearted, you don't have to worry about this, the entrance of the mine has already been arranged, each person has two millet buns, working while eating, and you can't swing a shovel if you don't have the strength." Speaking of this, Steward Jiang paused, patted his belly and smiled enthusiastically: "Look at the junior official, you don't say that you are old and forget!" You see it's noon this day, we have been busy all morning, we must be hungry early, let's take a walk, there is a newly hunted fat rabbit in my house, stewed for you to taste. ”

There is a poem by the great poet Du of the previous dynasty called "Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road." The prosperity and withering are very different, and the melancholy is difficult to recount. ”

Now the scene of this mine is exactly what was described in the first two lines of the poem, so as a person with a conscience, the dog naturally would not go to eat wine and drink meat with him, so he excused himself and said: "Thank you for the steward of the river, my academy, today is the time for classes, and many things are still waiting for me to deal with in the past, so after I am busy here, where do I have to go, so let's go back and get together." ”

After saying that, the dog couldn't bear to look at the group anymore, and clung to the craftsman with a hard erection of black flour, and turned around with his arched hand.

"Oh, little official, you see that you are so fortunate to send the militia over, how can you leave without a meal?"

The dog looked at the guy who was talking about saving himself in his mouth, but walking outside the mine, and his heart was deeply disgusted, if it wasn't for the next part of the material to bother him, he would have thrown off his sleeves and left.

"Steward Jiang, you go and get busy, don't worry about me, wait for the next time you have a chance, and then drink with you!"

"In that case, the petty official will go by himself."

The dog bowed his hand and said goodbye to him, turned around, untied the reins of the mule tied to the tree, waved his horsewhip, and ran towards Yuchuan Castle.

It was cold, and I couldn't run fast, so I let the speed of the mule run slowly, and I arrived at the tea shop in Dongchengfang for half an hour.

"What is your shopkeeper busy with? Why didn't you come out?" asked the dog, deftly jumping off the mule's back, handing him the reins.

"I don't know, I've been biting my ears with Granny Hua all morning, and I can't even bother to greet guests," Shi complained.

"Granny Flower?" The dog was stunned for a moment and asked, "What is she doing here?" Selling her inferior gouache again? ”

As he spoke, the dog walked into the tea shop, and happened to meet Liu Hong, who came out of the mother-in-law who sent flowers.

"Oh, Zhao Xiaoguan is here, you are really a noble blessing, it is really enviable to have such a good helper to help you take care of your business."

Granny Hua is in her fifties, and she is still wearing a saffron jacket, that's not all, you see her face full of wrinkles and spots, actually smeared with a thick layer of gouache, white and singing, "not serious"!

The dog didn't bother to take care of her, the nose hummed as a deserved, and the flower mother-in-law saw that the dog didn't like her, so she covered her mouth with a handkerchief and said: "It's really eyeless to look at the old body, the little official has to have something serious to find the willow shopkeeper, I'm still here to be verbose, I really shouldn't be, you talk, the old body goes around elsewhere, don't delay the two of you hehehe." ”

This mother-in-law looked at the dog with a look full of deep meaning and then winked at Liu Hong behind her, Liu Hong's face was flushed, and the angry dog scolded: "You mother-in-law, what nonsense for no reason, dare to talk nonsense again, carefully arrest you and go to the yamen to squat in the cell." ”

When Granny Hua heard this, her head shrank, and she didn't dare to say in her mouth, so she hurriedly turned around and left.

"Brother Dog, don't be angry, Granny Hua is just joking."

"Are you kidding?" The dog glanced at the red-faced Liu Hong and said: "It's just that she is looking for me to be happy, why is she still taking you, you are going to find your mother-in-law's house in less than two years, if some gossip spreads, I see who else is willing to want you!" ”

"Don't want it, don't want it, anyway, no one wants me since I was a child" Liu Hong muttered in a low voice, and opened the topic: "What are you doing here at this point, didn't you say that you would send the little second brother to Shitan Mountain?" Done? ”

The topic was diverted by her, and the dog couldn't continue to talk about her, so he followed the topic: "Send it, I'll come back if it's nothing." ”

Leaving these words, the dog turned and went into the house, and as soon as he entered, he retreated, and shouted to the stone that was rubbing his face with the mule: "Stone, the mule is not your family, what are you kissing there, go to the opposite side to buy some food, don't you know noon?" ”

Hearing this, the stone hurriedly responded, and ran across the street, and the speed seemed to fly as fast as it was, and in a blink of an eye, he was gone.

The dog frowned and said, "Did he bring any money?" Besides, does he know what I'm eating? ”

Liu Hong in the back sneered: "Or I'll go over." ”

"Don't go, I have something to ask you" After speaking, he turned his head to the big banya who was smirking at himself and said: "You go to the counter to spend some money, go buy some meat steamed buns, and buy a few copies of hot and sour soup." ”

Da Banya said well, and left quickly.

At noon, naturally no one came to drink tea in the shop, so the dog found a random place to sit down and said, "I let you find the person you are looking for?" ”

Liu Hong brought the teapot on the counter, put it on the table, turned around and took the two teacups and was pouring water, and when she heard the dog's question, she stopped and replied: "I found a few vegetable sellers, and they are also willing to join our four seas firm, they said, as long as the vegetables can be sold, it is also appropriate to give some commissions, but I don't know if our business has the ability to sell them!" As for the cloth sellers, rice and grain sellers, and meat sellers, the reason why they haven't agreed is probably because they have this idea. ”

The dog nodded, took a sip of tea and said: "What do they have to worry about, I will help them find a market here, and they will only take a cut if they sell it, and they don't want to sell a copper plate, what do they have to worry about." ”

Liu Hong said cautiously: "If you want to join our firm, don't you have to ask to keep the goods?" They put the goods here in the business, in case they can't sell them, they are all for food, and they are bad and rotten and not fresh, and if they can't sell them again, won't they lose money......"

The dog sighed: "You, you, what I told you before is that only the goods are prepared, and I didn't say that I want to put the goods in our firm, but I just record them on the list, if the firm needs them to prepare the goods immediately or the next day, where do they ask them to put the goods here with us!" ”

The words are a bit heavy, although Liu Hong has been a shopkeeper for more than a year, but after all, she is a woman, and the dog was about to cry when she saw her nose, so she quickly interjected: "Don't cry, I'm just talking about things, and I don't complain about you!" ”

"Well, I, well, I don't cry anymore."

In just a few breaths, her eyes turned red, and seeing her wipe her tears with a handkerchief, the dog suddenly regretted that he had entrusted her with this errand.

"Forget it, you haven't done this either, I can't complain about you, that, I'll go back and let the dog do the rest, you don't care, look at this tea shop."

Liu Hong wiped her tears and nodded, the dog didn't know what to say when she saw this, she sighed in her heart, and was about to comfort her a few words, when the stone and the big plate tooth at the door ran in with a giggle and a smile.

As soon as Shi Shi's muffled voice came in, he shouted: "Brother Gou'er, Sister Liu Hong, I didn't buy steamed buns, but we bought meatloaf stuffed with mutton, okay?" ”

As they spoke, they put their things on the table.

The dog stared at the steaming meatloaf and sighed, "You've brought it all, what's not to do!" Go, bring garlic from the kitchen. ”

"There is no garlic in the back kitchen," Shi Hehehe smiled: "But we bought it!" ”

Dogs: ......

Forget it, don't bother with this idiot, stand up and come to the back kitchen, wash your hands, come over and sit down again, and say, "Eat quickly!" After eating, you two will go with me to the opposite academy. ”

"To the academy?" Da Banya was stunned and said, "We don't study, what are we going to the academy for?" ”

"Go to the academy to work!"

The dog knows that this litter of people are stupid, and I don't know how they were chosen to come to this tea shop, so after thinking about it, the dog suddenly felt that this tea shop has not improved, is it because of this group of stupid people?

Looking up at the four people who took a bite of mutton and a mouthful of garlic, especially Liu Hong, who was smiling and biting the mutton patty, sighed in his heart.

"Forget it, it's enough to find them a job to fill their stomachs, why ask for so much."