When the birds return to their nests and the cubs go home, it is a good time; Take the bow of the boat, watch the sunset, and walk the end of the world; The wind blows pomegranates all over the streets, and there are good rivers and mountains.

The dazed dog led the even more confused Dang Lang, and walked around the street market in Dongfang City several times before stopping.

"Brother Pang, why are we here?"

Turning sideways to give way to a man who was carrying a burden, the dog turned his head and asked the huge man who was pulling the reins.

"I know!" Panglang complained: "As soon as you came out of the yamen, you walked to the market in a daze, I saw that you were contemplative and didn't dare to disturb you, so I kept following, I said, dog, what are you thinking, you are so fascinated?" ”

"Oh, nothing!" The dog touched the back of his head and smiled: "I just want to sell briquettes!" For a while, I was a little distracted. ”

"How can I sell it? Pull it to the market and sell it, let's go, get on the horse, let's go back! ”

Dang Lang rode on his horse and stretched out his palm to the dog, but the dog turned his back to look at a small stall cooking wontons in the distance, especially the little girl who was obediently sitting in front of the stove stuffing wood for the fire.

"What's the matter, puppy, do you like that girl? Do you want my brother to tell you? ”

I don't know when Da Lang jumped off the horse again, and quietly slipped behind the dog, and followed the dog's line of sight to look at the little girl.

A woman's sixth sense is superb, even when she's in her early teens.

"Grandma, those two officials are so rude, they've been staring at me for a long time!"

The stall owner, who was beckoning customers to eat wontons, turned his head and glanced at the dog and reprimanded his daughter: "Look at you and you can't drop two pieces of meat, burn your fire honestly, if the fire is extinguished, I will beat you carefully!" ”

may have been scolded and scared by Grandma, the little girl quickly lowered her head and glanced at the flames in the hearth, and saw that it was burning vigorously, so she breathed a sigh of relief, raised her head and was startled, and hurriedly grabbed the corner of Grandma's skirt and pointed ahead, shouting:

"Grandma, they're here!"

"Come here! What is there to be afraid of! The grandmother who was cooking the wontons knocked off her palm, raised her head and beckoned to the dog, "Do the two officials want to eat chaos?" ”

The dog said, "No! ”

"Isn't it?" Grandma glanced at the girl who was burning the fire, and whispered: "For her? ”

The dog glanced at the girl who was nervously shrunk behind the stall owner and smiled: "It's not either! Well, that, since I'm here, I'm just eating a bowl of ravioli. ”

"Alright! Guest, you two pick a place to sit. ”

Seeing that the two officials were not here for their granddaughter, Grandma sighed in disappointment: "The old woman will cook for the two of them immediately." ”

"Don't be busy" the dog stopped: "Grandma, the kid wants to ask you something!" ”

"You, what's the matter with you?"

The stall owner was a little nervous when he saw that the dog was wearing an official uniform, followed by a military man with a steel knife.

"Grandma, don't be afraid, I see that the fire in your hearth is going to burn non-stop, and you have to arrange someone to take care of it, so I want to ask why you don't use charcoal to burn the fire?"

"Coal? It's good, but it's so expensive that we can't afford to do it with a small business! ”

"Oh yes!" The dog took the wonton she handed over and said, "If it was cheaper, would you use it?" ”

"Of course, that thing is so convenient, just stuff it in and don't care, it's not like firewood, you have to keep watching."

The dog nodded, turned around and beckoned to Panglang and said, "Brother Pang, eat quickly, after eating, let's go to Nanchengfang to find the iron old hammer!" ”

"What? It's getting dark, what are you looking for him? It was dark at night, and he couldn't hit anything, so I said I'd go again tomorrow! ”

It was indeed getting dark on this day, and the old man who was sewing clothes opposite the wonton stall lit the oil lamps.

"Forget it, I'm in a hurry, but tonight! Oh, by the way, what are you guys doing today? ”

After all, Panglang is an adult strong man, and a bowl of wontons is not enough to eat, so he beckoned the stall owner to cook another bowl.

"The two of them spent a day on the school field, and I had no place to go, so I went to block the head and played two tricks! By the way, dog, you go back and ask the general judge if you can find me an errand, my brother who is resting day by day is upset! ”

"Restless?"

The dog looked at him stunned, "If you want to find something to do, then you can go sell briquettes with me these days!" ”

"Selling briquettes?"

In this way, Da Lang was caught by the dog and stood on the street for three days.

At the entrance of Nanchengfang Market, the woman selling leek boxes said to the stall owner selling wontons:

"Sister-in-law of the Shen family, is this briquette easy to use?"

"Easy to use!" The sister-in-law of the Shen family wiped the briquette stove in front of her with a linen cloth and said excitedly: "I said sister-in-law Zhang, you should also hurry up and buy a stove, as long as you have this thing, you don't have to arrange for people to keep an eye on the fire all the time, and just such a black ball can burn for three hours, I think we who sell snacks are the most needed!" ”

"Really? Then I have to take a good look, my family is just me and the little baby, once I have to get busy, I can't take care of the fire, and I realized that the fire has been extinguished several times, if this thing is really as amazing as you said, I will buy one, by the way, is this thing expensive? ”

"Not expensive, not expensive!" The sister-in-law of the Shen family crossed her waist and said proudly: "I heard from the little official who sells briquette stoves that this thing was invented by our general judge, and he saw that we were working hard all day long, so he made this black ball and stove!" ”

"A tin stove sells for only five dollars, and a briquette only sells for twenty yuan, and if this thing is equipped with a tin chimney, it can be installed in the bedroom, and there is no need to smoke the stove in the house with firewood!"

The sister-in-law of the Shen family is easy to say, and she tried her best to recall what the little official said to herself: "This thing is said to be a good helper for our women who wash and wash all day in winter, you think, there is always a fire in this stove, and the iron kettle on it will have hot water available at any time, how convenient it is!" ”

"It's very convenient!"

Sister-in-law Zhang looked at the Shen family lady enviously and said, "But sister-in-law of the Shen family, the price of this consistent five is still very expensive!" And a black briquette costs 20 yuan, and it costs 80 yuan a day, which is really a lot! ”

"Oh, sister-in-law Zhang, what do you think, this iron stove is not bad for more than ten years, and it is very cost-effective to use it for more than five years, as for this black briquette, it is more expensive, but it is much more convenient than burning firewood, we are all in business, and this money is to sell a few more bowls of chewing!"

The lady of the Zhang family thought about what she said and was right, so she replied: "That's right, the rest of the people who watch the fire can still help me greet business!" ”

The sister-in-law of the Shen family saw that the person was moved, so she quietly walked up to her and said: "It's drip, it's drip, how convenient you think this thing is, and I also told you, if you don't use this thing, just use an iron piece to cover the briquettes burning inside, just this piece can be burned overnight, and when the sky is bright, there will be hot water available!" ”

"Also, when you go back to buy it, you will say that I introduced it to you, and the little official who sells briquette stoves can give you some cheaper money."

The lady of the Zhang family thought about it, in order to be more convenient to use fire in the future, it was nothing to spend some money, so she secretly made up her mind and said: "I happened to sell it for 100 yuan today, plus what I saved before, I can almost buy one!" ”

"Then go ahead! This thing is useful to our women's house, oh, by the way, I heard that there are only twenty of these stoves for sale, and if you want to buy it, you have to go and see it! ”

The lady of the Zhang family finally decided to buy it, but she didn't want to be unable to buy something, so she begged the sister-in-law of the Shen family to help take care of the stall, and she ran home in a hurry, took the money and quickly ran to the market to buy a briquette stove.

The entrance of the market is a place where people come and go, and the government is holding a "charity sale" here today, so a lot of boring idlers have all poured in, and the Zhang family's aunt who has money in her pocket doesn't want to be crowded with this gang of scoundrels, so she has to find someone to look in a few remote places.

Bang, a sudden gong sounded, but it startled her, if the government or businessmen had anything to say in business, they would ring the gong to silence.

Sure enough, after the gong sounded, the originally noisy scene instantly quieted down.

"Fellow neighbors, the twenty sets of tin stoves and tin chimneys to be sold today have been sold, and there are still 200 pieces of 1,000 black briquettes, and you have to come and buy them quickly, the official in the yamen said that the price of 20 wen a piece will only be sold for ten days, and then it will be sold for 25! If you want to buy something, hurry up! Syllable! ”

The lady of the Zhang family listened to the loud voice in the crowd, shouting that the tin stove had been sold, and she was a little anxious, and she didn't care about what to squeeze at the moment, so she squeezed it hard with her hand around her chest, not only she was squeezing, but the people in the surrounding circle were also squeezing hard, and for a while, there was a scolding sound in a mess.

The dog, who was sitting in the shed drinking tea in the corner of the field, suddenly saw that the crowd was in chaos, so he stood up with a frown to see who was making trouble, and just when he stood up, he saw that in the middle of the crowd, five or six scoundrels dressed in flowing air were cursing loudly around a woman.

I was a little unhappy in my heart, thinking that I was only twelve years old and had to take on the errand of finding military pay for the army, and these pimples were all twenty or thirty years old, and in addition to fighting and brawling all day long, it was really ridiculous, I was not able to do it before, but now it is simple.

"Brother Pang, have you seen those splashes? Go, grab people and beat them up! If anyone dares to resist, they will be arrested and put in prison and let them eat the board! ”

Huge Lang, who was supervising the collection of money from a few small servants, heard the dog calling him, and hurriedly walked over, and when he heard that he was going to arrest someone, his heart was already happy.

I knew it, and I didn't call for help, so I walked over with a waist knife on my shoulder.

The splashes in the state city are naturally more magnificent than the splashes in the small county town, and a mere military man naturally doesn't pay attention to it, so he shouts to fight with Dang Lang, and then is knocked unconscious by Dang Lang with a fist.

"Thank you to the official for helping me get angry, these scoundrels are really rude, not to mention the old lady's oil, and still thinking about stealing the money to buy the stove, it's really a lesson, beg the official to put them in prison!"

"Good, good!"

The dog, who originally wanted to beat up the finished meal, heard that someone was going to buy his own iron stove, so he immediately changed his mind, called Wang Laoji and Liu Laogen, two messengers who were waiting on the side, and escorted these splashes to the cell.

Watching a group of people leave, the dog smiled and said: "This aunt, the briquette stove has been sold out, but there will be one tomorrow, you can buy some black briquettes home today, and when the stove comes tomorrow, how about I let them send it directly to your house?" ”