"Ah, this soap is so clean!"

The women gathered around the river in surprise, taking their washed clothes in their hands and looking at them over and over again, even staring at the light from time to time. The more I looked, the more I rejoiced.

"It's really clean."

"Not to mention clean, the most powerful thing is that I don't use a washing hammer, and my arms are tired and sore......

"No, it's good now, with soap, I always save my arms from being tired!"

"You smell it, it's clean, it smells so good......"

The woman who was happy laughed even more.

"But no, the most important thing is to save the hammer of the clothes, especially the old clothes of last year, the more the hammer is rotten, it will not be a year, the hammer is rotten, and you can only accept the soles of the shoes......"

The woman next to her also laughed:

"Oh, Sister Tao, I was thinking about whether this soap would be more expensive, but when you say this, I understand, one end out and one end in, this dress will be worn for half a year, and the more than ten dollars will come back...... No, I'll have to buy a piece. Save yourself from breaking your clothes! ”

…… A similar scene was staged on the riversides all over Nanjing in the next half month, including the "salesmen" hired by Shi Yiwen, and more of them were the women who showed off among relatives and neighbors after using soap, but it was only ten days of work, and the pale yellow "unity soap" became something that everyone knew and knew about in the streets and alleys of Nanjing.

For a time, the soap of 12 wen was even sold as "Luoyang paper is expensive", and many stores actually rose up to 3 yuan, which was sold for 15 yuan.

But even so, it can't stop people's enthusiasm.

The weather is getting warmer.

The wind blowing from the sky is no longer cool, the weather is finally warm, and the weeping willows on the banks of the Qinhuai River are all green. On the banks of the Qinhuai River, there are more and more scholars, they call friends to go out of the city, of course, when they go out, they will definitely bring the courtesans in the Qinhuai River painting boat.

However, most ordinary people do not have this kind of leisure, most of them have to run for a living, those who do not touch the spring water with their fingers, where they know the hard work of ordinary people.

The streets are quiet, and the alleys are rich and poor. In this narrow alley, the people who live in it are often poor people, and the alleys of rich families are large roads where cars can be crossed. The alleys more than two feet wide, where sunlight does not enter, and the damp walls are covered with green moss, these dark and damp alleys are flanked by the residences of most of the flat-headed people in Nanjing.

At noon, the sun finally darkens the alley, and it is at this time that the alley can see a little light. At the entrance of the alley, the elderly sit on a small bamboo chair, nestled in the corner of the alley, enjoying the warmth of spring, and the old man who seems to be napping occasionally opens his eyes and greets pedestrians who come over.

"Three, have you eaten? Is this going to work? ”

Tian San, who was dressed in a short body, listened to the words of the old man at the entrance of the alley, and immediately smiled.

"Have you eaten, are you always warming up here? If you don't work for a day, you'll be hungry tomorrow. ”

"That is, if you don't want to starve, you have to work by yourself, you can't beg for food with a shy face, no, it's a good day, I guess, there should be a lot of people who take the car out of the city to play."

"I hope so."

Tian San casually wiped the car in the corner with a cloth towel, and then pushed the wheelbarrow and ran on the street after wiping it clean. While running, yo drinking.

"Do you want a car?"

"Do you want a car? Master. ”

……

In the city to push the cart, in addition to the mouth and legs, but also to have eyesight, to know to see people, to see the people's clothing, but also to see whether they are carrying things in their hands, if the person carrying things in his hands, run up and shout a few words, that person must be on the car.

Since he went out, Tian San has not been idle, although not everyone cares about the twenty or thirty yuan for the car, but after more than an hour of busy work, this business has also faded.

However, Tian San's tired back was already sweaty, but he didn't dare to stop, he could earn one more, until he had been in the city for two hours, he already felt that he had sold enough strength, so he stopped by the Qinhuai River and rested. He didn't want to run anymore, and he didn't have any strength, so he rested for a while, and when it was dark, he would go home with orders.

After resting his feet, Tian San, who was tired and tired, sat in the car and yawned. Although tired, but even more boring, there is no other coachman to chat, to pass the time, look left and right, everywhere by the river can see laundry women, occasionally there will be a coachman far away to tease a few words, but more or less so.

"Sister of the Chen family, why do you still use a washing wooden hammer, let your man buy a piece of soap, which saves effort and cloth, which is much easier to use than using laundry wood......"

"It's not, just soap it, even if you wash it for half a day, you don't feel tired......"

"Hey, don't mention it, didn't you buy it? If you buy soap, you don't have to knock on your clothes with a mallet, this cloth can't stand a few knocks. ”

Soap?

What is soap?

I haven't heard of it.

Puzzled in his heart, before Tian San could ask for an explanation, someone sat in his car.

"Go to the docks."

"Okay!"

When the business came to the door, Tian San naturally responded with a smile, shouted, and ran to the dock with the cart. But it was just a cup of tea, and he sent the guest to the dock, and dozens of dollars fell into his pocket, and before he could rest, there was another guest who entered the city.

trotted all the way into the city, and the guest dressed in silk was also generous, and his shot was a piece of broken silver, about a penny.

"Thank you, sir, for rewarding ......"

Saying thank you in his mouth, Tian San's face was already smiling, if he could touch such a guest all day long, it would be developed.

When I sat in the car and rested on the side of the road, the sound of the roadside grocery store reached my ears.

"The shopkeeper, Chengye sent the soap, but there are only three boxes."

"Three boxes? How is it so little? Don't we want ten boxes? ”

"Shopkeeper Fang said, there is no way, if we don't take care of us, we can only take one box at most, just these three boxes, or he has an idea."

"That old thing, that's what it says, hurry up and put the soap on the ......"

The conversation between the shopkeeper and the guy in the shop surprised Tian San.

Is it difficult for soap to be so rare?

Thinking of the words of the woman by the river before, he thought of his daughter-in-law's thin body, and thought of her difficulty in constantly beating her clothes with a laundry wood when washing clothes, Tian San didn't think about it, and went into the shop.

"The shopkeeper will bring me some bars of soap."

By the time I got home, it was already dark. Tian San's house is a small and narrow courtyard, the house is damp and old, before people enter the courtyard, they hear the sound of hammering clothes in the courtyard, through the light can see that there is a sixteen or seventeen-year-old woman in the courtyard with a washing hammer in her hand, washing clothes there.

"Apple, stop hammering with a mallet, look what it is."

Tian Sanxian took out the two bars of soap he had just bought.

"Yikes!"

Seeing the yellow bricks in Tian San's hand, the woman's hand loosened and said in surprise.

"Isn't this soap, third brother, you bought it from, and bought two pieces, these days, the neighbors are talking about this, laundry clothes and labor-saving, and cloth-saving, I have bought it two or three times, but I just didn't buy it......"

Looking at the woman's happy appearance, Tian San was happy, just the happy appearance of the woman, the thirty dollars were worth it......