When the rain stopped, the beggars began to beg on the streets, and handed over all the things they got back to Zhu Laosi one by one. Zhu Laosi wrote down the amount of silver. Take out some of it and buy some rice and noodles. Boil some porridge every night, and the food you get back is used as the staple food. After eating in the morning, they went to the streets again to beg. Everyone sat together, eating, sharing some interesting stories, and had a good time, like a big family. The beggars all thought it was good, and sometimes they begged a lot, and they felt that they were contributing to the gang. There will be fewer beggars, and they will not go hungry.

After Zhuang Xiaochu had dinner every night, he would gather a few younger juniors in the gang together, and he taught them to sing the songs he had adapted. After the song was learned, it was rehearsed for them. The beggars in the village didn't understand what they were doing. Zhuang Xiaochu said that he wanted to set up a red and white beggar who could make more money.

Zhu Laosi gradually saved a little money in his hands. Zhuang Xiaochu asked Zhu Laosi to go to the street to buy back the fabric. After buying it back, she asked Grandma Huang to make a new set of clothes for each of the rehearsal students. There are also a few elegant patches sewn on the clothes. Bought a few strings of firecrackers. All preparations continued, and Zhuang Xiaochu set off with his brothers.

The rich family of Zhang in the east of the city married four rooms today. The blue tile and pink walls of the mansion are colorful, and the lights are colorful, which is very magnificent. Inside and outside the house was a sea of people. Zhuang Xiaochu instructed the brothers to tie the red ribbon on their arms, and let the firecrackers light up half a catty, and the firecrackers crackled all the way into the gate of Zhang's house, and several brothers rushed in.

As soon as the sound of firecrackers stopped, Zhuang Xiaochu and his brothers said hello to Rich Master Zhang in unison: "Congratulations to Master Zhang, congratulations to Master Zhang." The red and white beggars of Hanakozhuang have congratulated you. The sound was crisp and loud, and the sound of the horn and suona stopped suddenly, and everyone came to watch.

Then the beggars lined up and sang congratulatory songs;

Every street and alley, every mouth,

The first sentence of the meeting is congratulations,

Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations,

.......

After singing, the beggar brothers said in unison: "Congratulations to Master Zhang for having a beautiful wife, and a good match for a hundred years." ”

To tell the truth, in the past, when anyone had a happy event, the beggars also had to go, and they went to the door, dressed in tatters and dirty, and refused to leave, and the main family could not drive away, so they had to send a few. These seven or eight beggars, dressed neatly and neatly, looked like a pomp and circumstance, and looked comfortable. It's firecrackers and singing, and the songs sung are good. I don't know how many times stronger than the beggars around the door. Zhang Caizhu was happy and rewarded two hundred taels of silver on the spot. After receiving the reward, Brother Pony dragged his voice and shouted loudly: "Huazi Gang Red and White Beggars Xie Zhang will reward Master Zhang with two - one hundred - taels of silver." The rest of the beggars said in unison, "Thank you." The guests below all praised: "Master Zhang is generous." "That's it, Master Zhang is wealthy. When the rich man heard this, he was very proud.

This time, the red and white beggars of the Hanako Gang are also famous.

The residents of Yancheng are scattered in the east and west cities, but there are many residents, in addition to the local residents, there are many foreign merchants who have also bought houses here, some of them move their families here, and some of them leave the eldest lady in their hometown, and marry the little lady here, so there are really a lot of red and white happy events every year, and the red and white beggars are dedicated to this business.

Whoever has a happy event, the red and white beggars run to ask for a reward, and the lyrics they sing are still different. Those who marry are singing congratulations on the 100-year reunion, the 100-day banquet is singing congratulations on the noble son, and those who open a store say that they are congratulating on the opening of the business and the wealth is rolling...... Those who do happy events like to be lively and auspicious. Inevitably, I will reward a few. Everyone in the world has a good face, and there are too few rewards, so I am afraid of losing face in front of the guests. So this tip is generally not too small. and the generous one, and opened another table for them.

They not only go to red things to ask for rewards, they also go to white things to join in the fun.

When they arrived at the Lord's house, no one entered, the crying came first, and when they arrived in front of the coffin, they knelt on the ground with a brush, and they cried as if they had died of their own mother, and they kept saying: "What about the great good man, why did you leave?

After a period of time, the red and white beggars were famous in Yancheng and became a fashion, and everyone was proud of the presence of red and white beggars on red and white ceremonies. It seems that if there are no red and white beggars present, it seems that the main family is poor and backward, and even the beggars are not present to congratulate and help. Later, there was no need for the beggars to ask around by themselves, and the host of the red and white ceremonies would contact them themselves.

Some of the hosts also came to contact in advance to discuss how much to give, and asked the red and white beggars to sing the reward high on the spot. In this way, the main family showed their faces, and the Hanako Gang also benefited. Sometimes the business is busy, and the red and white beggars have to run several fields a day, and the red and white beggars have slowly become the main force of income in the flower gang.

The gang has money, and everyone's living standards have improved a lot, so everyone in the gang is happy, and they also admire Zhuang Xiaochu immensely. They all affectionately called Zhuang Xiaochu the owner.

At the regular meeting that night, (the daily meeting was thunderous, the head of each team came to pay the account, and after paying the account, the beggars exchanged together) Zhu Laosi put the account into the account and said happily: "Let's help now have almost two thousand taels of silver." I really didn't expect our gang to make so much money so quickly. Zhuang Xiaochu thought for a while and said:

"Let's build a house. ”

Building a house, everyone was stunned, this is something they never dared to think of, Zhuang Xiaochu said:

"Let's build a courtyard behind the small temple, so that everyone can have a house to live in the future. "Having your own house to live in is the wish of people in every era. But building a house is not an easy task. Many people ask:

"Will it work?"

"It works. Zhuang Xiaochu said firmly: "Our Huazi Gang now has its own manpower, and there is no need to hire people anymore." This saves a lot of money. As for the money, the gang has also saved up some silver during this time. The big guy can also make money while repairing. ”

"Yes, yes, but who knows how to repair a house?"

"Me. Zhuang Xiaochu said. In fact, Zhuang Xiaochu studied architecture, but his university is an ordinary junior college, and it is difficult to find a job after coming out, and no one takes him, so in the end, he went to the talent market to find a company to work. Just do it, and hand over the red and white beggars to the management of half a catty and eight taels. Asked the lame Lao Li to take the money and bring the beggar brothers, buy materials and bricks, buy tiles and boards, and work vigorously.

There is a large open space behind the small temple, overgrown with weeds, flat and open, this is a good place to build a house, Zhuang Xiaochu designed a pattern, a small door was opened behind the small temple, and a large square yard was built behind the small door, in the middle of the courtyard is a large open space, which is convenient for practicing martial arts and children to play, the yard is surrounded by houses, there are more than 20 rooms before and after, each of which is designed as a suite with a toilet, there is a large conference room, there is a large kitchen and dining room, Zhuang Xiaochu also led the brothers to dig an underground storage room, the side of the yard, another door was opened, so that it was convenient for the brothers to enter and exit。

Except for the red and white beggars (they are the main force of money now, their priority is to make money, the more they earn, the better), the rest of the beggars are all divided into two shifts, one group goes to the street to beg, the other group works on the construction site, the next day, the begging people come back to work, and the people who work go to beg, so that the income of the gang does not decrease much, but everyone in the gang does their part to repair the house.

It's not easy to repair the house, because in ancient times, there was no mechanization, they were all shoulder-to-shoulder, Zhuang Xiaochu also made a row of raceways with rolling logs, which saved some effort, and bought two trailer carriages, but each brother was still tired and exhausted, and people turned over on their backs. But fortunately, there are many brothers in the gang now, and it turned out that there were only more than 20 people when the Hanako Gang was first established, and with the continuous development, more than 20 more people joined their organization.

There are now all kinds of people in the gang, there are a few women, so they arrange to take turns cooking, those who know civil engineering help organize the work at the construction site, and those who can count help with the purchase. In the evening, the children followed Zhao Fuzi, who has a bit of culture, to learn cultural knowledge, what era to cultivate children is the top priority, children are the future of the motherland.