1

Hangzhou Chuanxiang Building.

Wearing a green scarf and a blue skirt, Jin Zi stood behind the counter and smiled at every guest who came to drink and eat.

After his brother was beheaded, Jin Zi stayed alone in the room quietly for three days, and on the fourth day, he went to the street to find work, and after looking for four or five days, he finally came to this Chuanxiang building to do a handyman.

It was already dusk, and the guests were gradually leaving, leaving only a dozen guys, Jin Zi and the other two girls, Peng Lisha and Wu Ling, were washing the dishes, and the rest of the male guys were busy cleaning up their seats. When Jin Zi first came to the restaurant to find something to do, the shopkeeper Shan Shuling promised to give 300 yuan a month, and if the business was good, he could add another 10 to 100 yuan. In the past month, the restaurant business has been booming every day, and Jin Zi is secretly happy, thinking that he should be able to get more than 350 yuan this month.

"What's the joy in your heart, seeing that you are happy, don't you think about your salary?" Peng Lisha's voice came from behind, Peng Lisha put the washed dishes into the kitchen, straightened her apron and walked out to chat with Jinzi.

Jin Zi smiled: "I just came, I haven't done much, how much can I get paid, Sister Sasha, you have been working here for a long time, the salary should be a lot, right?" ”

Peng Lisha laughed at herself: "What's the use of doing too much, how can the shopkeeper give us too much salary?" He doesn't want to try to detain you, it's the Bodhisattva. ”

The Golden Monster asked, "Didn't you say that when business is good, you will give everyone more?" Isn't the shopkeeper trustworthy? ”

Peng Lisha sneered: "You are too naïve, let the shopkeeper give you an extra penny, he is as heartbroken as a dead mother!" Sister Jinzi, let me tell you that all businessmen in the world are three ghosts. ”

Jin Zi was puzzled: "Three ghosts? What are the three ghosts? ”

Peng Lisha smiled: "I don't know this, it's a miser, an elf ghost, and a vampire!" ”

Jin Zi was silent, skeptical of Peng Lisha's words.

"Sister Lisa, you don't talk a little less." Another helper girl, Wu Ling, also came over to join in the fun: "There is still a little bit of businessmen in the world, they are all perverts, giggling......"

"Yes, yes, it's still Wu Ling's sister who is comprehensive," Peng Lisha gave Wu Ling a thumbs up, first appreciating, and then teasing: "Because Wu Ling's sister is beautiful, well, I feel it the most, haha." ”

Wu Ling rolled her eyes: "How can I compare to Sister Jinzi, as soon as Sister Jin came, the pervert didn't pester me anymore." ”

Listening to Wu Ling's words, Peng Lisha seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked Jin Zi softly: "By the way, Jinzi, did the shopkeeper treat you...... He's a pervert, which girl is beautiful, he has to make up his mind, but fortunately, the shopkeeper Mei Ying is a dominatrix, so he won't be too presumptuous. ”

Jin Zi smiled: "No, the shopkeeper is very good to me." ”

Wu Ling said: "It must be Mei Ying who is strict, otherwise that old pervert would not be so responsible." ”

Jin Zi asked the two tentatively: "I'm so scared when the two sisters say this, is the shopkeeper really that bad?" ”

Wu Ling smiled: "Which one in the world is not bad as a shopkeeper?" Be careful, don't be like me...... Alas, you remember not to stay alone with the old pervert, especially not to go out with him, if he invites you to eat and drink, it is a trap nine times out of ten. ”

"Go back, the shopkeeper is here." Peng Lisha saw Shan Shuling and Mei Ying hurrying from outside from a distance, and quickly dispersed with Wu Ling and sat on the edge of the table in an orderly manner.

Jin Zi has been here for just a month, during which Shan Shuling looked at himself many times, and asked himself to go out to eat, although Jin Zi is young, but from Ren Bao and Chen Lundi, he has already learned some things about the wind and snow, and he has long understood Shan Shuling's intentions. Today's words of Peng Lisha and Wu Ling made Jin Zi even more convinced that Shan Shuling was a despicable shopkeeper.

"Everyone takes turns to come upstairs to get paid," Shan Shuling, who was less than six feet tall and fat, said a word to everyone and walked upstairs. Mei Ying followed behind, and when she walked to Jinzi's side, she squinted her eyes and peeked at the new girl, and snorted softly, with a look of disdain.

When Mei Ying walked away, Wu Ling said coldly: "It's really a dominatrix, who takes care of Wu Dalang like a baby, who is rare!" ”

Peng Lisha pursed her lips and snickered a few times when she heard this, and said, "In your eyes, it is Wu Dalang, and in the eyes of others, it is Ximen Qing!" ”

Wu Ling snorted and said, "A short and ugly woman like her, every man she sees is Ximenqing." ”

Peng Lisha couldn't help but giggle.

The people went upstairs in turn to receive their wages, and when they came down, many of them looked angry. When it was the turn of the gold, Shan Shuling took the account book and said: "If you are late on the eighth day of the first month of last month, you will be deducted ten yuan." On the ninth day of the first month, if the guest complains about you, 20 yuan will be deducted. Eleven washing dishes to break the rice bowl one, deduction 20 wen. Fifteen gossip with Wu Ling when he was working, and deduct ten yuan. Nineteen sweeps the floor and is not clean, and five articles are deducted. Twenty-seven and the guests talk about fifteen articles. A total of 80 wen will be deducted, this is 220 wen, you can count it. Shan Shuling handed over a pile of copper coins and put them on the table.

The gold didn't go to take it, and asked quietly: "The shopkeeper, breaking a bowl is worth three or four yuan, why do you have to deduct twenty yuan?" Besides, it's because of ......"

Before Jin Zi finished speaking, Mei Ying next to him shouted and asked, "Is it you a subordinate who has the final say or the shopkeeper has the final say?" ”

Jin Zi glanced at Shan Shuling, and saw that Shan Shuling bowed her head and was silent, while Mei Ying squinted at herself arrogantly, revealing the arrogance of the king's subordinates. Although Jin Zi was young, he was full of courage, and thought to himself: "You are so arrogant, I will be angry with you today." Jin Zi pretended to be very scared, took the money from the table with both hands, did not count, and said timidly: "Of course, the shopkeeper has the final say." ”

Mei Ying was very proud to see Jin Zi like this, "snorted", and scolded meanly: "Then what kind of fart are you farting?" ”

Jin Zi whispered: "But didn't the shopkeeper say that he would send me a few hundred more money to buy jewelry?" ”

As soon as Jin Zi's words came out, Shan Shuling broke out in a cold sweat, that was the promise made by Shan Shuling when he coaxed Jin a few days ago, although Jin Zi knew that it was Shan Shuling's temptation, he didn't take it seriously, and he didn't fall for him, but he remembered this sentence, and it came in handy at this time.

Mei Ying was furious when she heard this, and casually picked up the ledger in her hand and threw it at Shan Shuling, hitting Shan Shuling in the face, and said, "You killed them with a thousand knives, how much silver did you give them behind my back?" Mei Ying said as she rushed over to grab Shan Shuling, Shan Shuling pushed Mei Ying away, and scolded: "What are you spreading this dominatrix, when did I give them money, just to coax them to work hard, just talk casually." ”

Shan Shuling, Mei Ying and his wife were crying and fighting upstairs, making it vigorous, and there were more than a dozen guys standing upstairs and downstairs who didn't know what was going on, everyone was stunned one by one, and no one dared to go in to find out.

Gold quietly exited the room, went downstairs, packed up his clothes, and floated away.

2

The cold night is bleak, and the ridges are vast. Autumn kills the shadow luan, and the cold is lonely.

Jin Zi walked alone on the street of Hangzhou, and happened to meet a pharmacy that was about to close, and when he looked closed, it turned out to be "Jirentang". The pharmacy is a place to save the dead and help the wounded, presumably they are all good people, Jin Zi was about to step forward to ask if he needed help, and when he hesitated, the man who was about to close the door asked: "Where is the girl, and she is not going home so late?" Jin Zi hurriedly said: "Brother shopkeeper, I am from Sichuan, I am alone, I want to find a job in Hangzhou, dare to ask the eldest brother if the pharmacy is short of manpower?" When the man heard this, he looked the gold up and down, and said with a smile: "I won't tell you, I just need manpower, but it's a pity that you don't know Qihuang, how can you do things in the pharmacy?" Jin Zi said: "Big brother, I can learn." When the man saw that the gold was sincere, he said, "Alas, it is pitiful for a girl of yours to be far away from home, so let's try it tomorrow, and if you can, I will leave you behind." Jin Zi was overjoyed and even said thank you.

The shopkeeper's name is Shi Zhiqiang, and he is not a good person, because he saw Jin Zi walking alone late at night, he had already guessed that he was a lonely and helpless country girl, so he took the initiative to ask and tempted, and learned that Jin Zi was eager to find a place to stay, and he was happy in his heart, and he wanted to indulge in it, and deliberately made a reluctant appearance.

The next day, Jin Zi and the other three worked in the pharmacy, Shi Zhiqiang took care of Jin Zi in every way, patiently taught Jin Zi to recognize medicine, roast medicine, and decoction medicine, but after nightfall, he drunkenly pushed the door in, and forced Jin Zi to accompany the wine, Jin Zi was furious, pushed Shi Zhiqiang away, threw the door away with his burden, and wandered on the street again.

"The embroidery room is dedicated to women's work, and all the women who work in it are women, so if I want to come clean and have no nuisance, why don't I go to the embroidery room and find a job to do." Gold is looking for all over the street, looking for seven or eight shops for a few days, most of them need to pay the insurance money first, and finally find a person who does not want to protect the gold, how can I do it for five days, the shopkeeper lady always has to scold for no reason, the gold can't stand the anger, bump a few words, was the shopkeeper pulled the hair and beaten, the gold was angry for a while, punched hard, and knocked the tall shrew over. The shopkeeper shouted to report to the official, but Jin Zi was afraid and kicked her a few times before escaping.

3

Although it is said that there is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou below, at this moment, Jin Zi is so disappointed in this paradise on earth, and he can't help but sigh again and again about the sinister nature of human feelings and the coldness of the world. When he was helpless, he suddenly remembered his brother's instructions and decided to go to Hanzhong to seek refuge in Xiaolong, perhaps, my brother was right, "People like us who have no power, no wealth, no name, no merit, and no lord, except for sword travel in the rivers and lakes to kill and kill, there is really no other way to live." ”

I hope Xiaolong is really as affectionate and righteous as his brother said.

Hanzhong City is not big, the streets are not as clean as Hangzhou, everywhere seems chaotic, dirty, ascetic months of gold fatigue and fatigue, after several inquiries, finally found the Hanzhong Mongolian Museum on the outskirts of the city.

"Kid, do you know Mr. Xiaohu?" Kaneko saw a boy about ten years old and tried to ask him. The boy replied, "Sir is in the school, I can take you to find it." Jin Zixi said, "Thank you so much." The young man said, "You're welcome, sister, sir, we all like him." "yes, what's wrong with the gentleman?" "Mr. is kind and gentle, never beats and scolds us, he is a reasonable and good gentleman, but the teacher is too fierce." As he spoke, the young man took the gold and turned a few corners to a hut, and the young man raised his hand and knocked on the door, and a man opened the door and came out, and the young man said, "Sir, there is a sister looking for you." When Jin Zi saw that the man was in his thirties, wearing a silk scarf, a robe, and a gentle face, he knew at a glance that he was a showman.

As soon as Xiaohu saw that there was no stranger, he asked the student: "Wenwen, who is this sister?" Jin Zi hurriedly said: "Sir, I am here to find Brother Xiaolong." At this time, the young man named Wenwen said hello to Xiaohu and Jinzi and jumped away, Xiaohu saw that Jinzi was looking for his brother, and hurriedly invited Jinzi into the house to sit down, and then asked: "Little sister, how do you know my brother?" Jin Zi said: "My brother and Brother Xiaolong are friends, and Brother Xiaolong told my brother before returning to Hanzhong that I should come to Hanzhong to find him." Xiaohu said, "Oh, I see. Xiaohu knew that his brother had always been righteous, so as soon as Jin Zi said it, he understood what was going on, and Xiaohu said: "My brother lives with me, and I will take you home." ”

After the tiger knocked on the door, a woman in a coarse cloth dress but with a bewitching figure opened the door, and when she saw the gold behind the tiger, she blocked the door with a surprised face and asked, "Yo, who is this girl?" Xiaohu said: "It's my brother's friend." He turned back and said to Jinzi, "This is your sister-in-law." Jin Zi was about to call "sister-in-law" when the woman turned around and went back to the house in a huff.

Xiaohu took the gold into the hall and sat down, and hurriedly knocked on the side door and shouted, "Brother, brother." The door opened, and a tall, sad-faced man in his forties stood in the door, looking at Xiaohu with a bright gaze and saying, "You're back." Xiaohu said: "Brother, this girl is looking for you." The man glanced at the gold and asked, "Are you?" Jin Zi hurriedly got up and replied: "Are you Brother Xiaolong?" I am Liu Zhiping's sister Liu Sumei. ”

The dragon was suddenly stunned, and suddenly quickly greeted him and said, "Are you gold? Sit down, are you from Jintang County? Jin Zi replied, "I'm from Hangzhou." ”

When Jin Zi saw Xiaolong, he secretly regretted in his heart, this is clearly an honest farmer, what kind of No. 1 thug in Hanzhong is that? My brother looked away again, this man must be a stateless gangster who likes to brag, my brother was ignorant, and he was deceived by it, so that I came to this ghost place after months of asceticism.

"Oh, how did you come from Hangzhou?" Xiaolong asked.

At the mention of Hangzhou, Jin Zi was sad from his heart and replied gloomily: "My brother has suffered a lawsuit in Hangzhou and has been corrected. ”

"Huh?" Xiaolong was shocked, and after coming back to his senses, he comforted Jin Zi and said: "Jinzi, you will regard this place as your home, don't be sad, just tell me if you need anything in the future." Jin Zi smiled and said, "Thank you, Brother Long, I just want to find a stable job." "It's on Brother Long," Xiaolong readily agreed.

Xiaolong poured tea for Jinzi, and asked some about Liu Zhiping, Jin Zi told Xiaolong and Xiaohu about his brother's arrest in Hangzhou for robbery, and finally sentenced to beheading.

The woman poked her head out of the room, and when she saw that the dragon and the tiger brothers were not in the hall, she swallowed melon seeds, and walked to the gold and sat down with her ass crooked.

Jin Zi immediately stood up and called "sister-in-law", but the woman did not answer, glanced towards the kitchen, leaned sideways to Jin Zi, and asked softly, "Girl, how did you know him?" ”

Jin Zi replied: "Sister-in-law, my brother and Brother Long are good friends, and my brother asked me to come to Brother Long after the lawsuit." ”

The woman said, "Oh, I'll just say, where did he, a poor and ugly old bachelor, come out of such a girl!" ”

Kaneko said, "I'm sorry to disturb my sister-in-law when I come here." ”

The woman smiled and said, "It's okay, we are all women, and only women know the difficulties of women." Besides, it's good that you're here, you can do something outside by yourself in the future, and rent a house alone, our house is small, and it's too crowded to live together. ”

As soon as Jin Zi heard that the voice was wrong, he also smiled and said, "I'll go find a job tomorrow, and I can't disturb Brother Long, Brother Hu and sister-in-law for a long time." ”

The woman was stunned and asked, "What?" He won't go out with you? ”

Jin Zi said: "I'm so old, and I'm not a child, so I don't need to take care of it." ”

The woman who talked to Jin Zi was named Ma Chunhong, a native of Qingyang, Gansu, although she had Shao color, she had no boudoir virtues, and she was born with a sharp knife mouth and a pair of poisonous liver sausages.

When Ma Chunhong was ten years old, he came to Qili Village in Hanzhong with his parents to do business, and lived very close to the two brothers, Xiaolong and Xiaohu, and the two families were close neighbors. At that time, his elder brother Xiaolong was twenty-two years old, fierce and aggressive, gathering crowds to make trouble all day long, and his neighbors were afraid of him, but at a young age, he became a little bully with thirty or forty stateless villains under his command in and around Hanzhong City. The younger brother Xiaohu has just turned fifteen years old, is gentle and honest, kind-hearted, and often helps others. Later, Xiaolong beat people to death, sentenced to exile, and sent Nanjing, the fifteen-year-old Xiaohu became the target of public criticism, and those villains who had suffered from Xiaolong ** before all vented their resentment on Xiaohu, and often took pleasure in beating Xiaohu. Ma Chunhong's parents saw that Xiaohu was pitiful, so they took him to Qingyang to live for a while, and everyone couldn't find him for a while, and the matter slowly calmed down. Later, Xiaohu was admitted to Xiucai, and returned to Hanzhong as a private school teacher, because he was grateful to Ma Chunhong's parents, he often came to visit Ma's family, and Ma Chunhong's parents also liked Xiaohu's loyalty, so they married their daughter Ma Chunhong to Xiaohu.

Soon after marriage, Ma Chunhong's parents died one after another, and the two had less to rely on in life, so they had to live frugally. Ma Chunhong and her parents have extremely opposite personalities, are mean and powerful, mercenary, love to take advantage of small advantages, often insult Xiaohu for being incompetent, Xiaohu is honest and does not want to and dare not argue with her, always swallowing his breath, silent, and letting the shrew**.

Ma Chunhong originally disliked Xiaohu as a private school, Mr. Low income, no income, always living in the old house, a year ago, a poor brother who came back from prison in the family for no reason to eat and drink for nothing, so he couldn't stand it anymore, and often sneered at the brothers. After a few months, Xiaolong went to the brick kiln to find a job, and became an authentic bricklayer, people who don't know his details saw him come out of the brick kiln with a gray head and a gray head, no one would have thought that this was the famous first thug in Hanzhong eighteen years ago.

Now that she saw the gold, Ma Chunhong thought that it was Xiaolong's woman who came to the door outside, and thought that now you have to go out by yourself and become another family, but the words of the gold disappointed Ma Chunhong again.

At night, Kaneko stayed in the dragon's room, and the dragon slept on the floor in the hall.

The next morning, Xiaohu went to the Mengguan Pavilion, Xiaolong wanted to take Jinzi to the street to play, and was about to go out, Ma Chunhong came out of the room and said, "Brother, what kind of work are you looking for Sister Jinzi?" ”

Xiaolong said: "Jin Zi just came, and she is not in a hurry to do things, so I will take her to the city to play for a few days first." ”

Ma Chunhong said weirdly: "Ouch, what's fun in Hanzhong, our family is not a wealthy family, how can we have leisure to play, I have been with your brother for so many years, and he has never taken me out to play." ”

Xiao Long frowned when he heard this, he was quite embarrassed, and said with a forced smile: "Jin Zi has come from afar, so he has to go around the city anyway." After speaking, he didn't pay attention to Ma Chunhong, and went out with the gold.

After several hardships in Hangzhou, gold has tasted the hardships of man. Now in Hanzhong, I met Ma Chunhong's sneering again, and sighed the difficulty of being a man. Although the gold is small, he has long been sophisticated, and seeing that Ma Chunhong is mean, he doesn't want to embarrass Xiaolong, so he said with a smile: "Brother Long, you can take me to find something to do, let's not play." ”

The Thunder Dragon looked at the gold, and the gold was smiling at the Thunder Dragon. Xiaolong's face was full of shame, and he said guiltily: "Jinzi, Brother Long really can't stand you and your brother, don't worry, I will definitely find you an easy job to ensure that no one bullies you." ”