It didn't take long for Er Niu to bring three pairs of shoes, including a pair of embroidered shoes that she herself wore when she was a child.

This pair of embroidered shoes was naturally for Yin's daughter.

The Yin family was naturally grateful, and was busy trying to make his child kneel and kowtow, but was stopped by Lu Yuan.

"Director Yin doesn't have to be like this, everyone is a neighbor, helping each other is what they should be, these are nothing, as long as the Lu family can get better and better, the neighbors will naturally get more than these benefits, and when the Lu family is richer in the future, my Lu family will also fund the construction of a school, so that the children in the neighborhood can study and do not spend money, the money is paid by the Lu family, so you just need to do good things for the Lu family now."

As soon as Lu Yuan said this, the Yin family nodded with tears in his eyes: "Well, don't worry, young master, the Yin family will do a good job, not for himself but also for the children in the neighborhood." ”

Yin said so, saying that for the children of the neighborhood, his heart is naturally for his own children, so he is more willing to help the Lu family become bigger.

Lu Yuan said that it is not empty talk to build a school in the future, and the heroes who have been successful in the world since ancient times do not have a complete talent training system of their own.

The conversation turned back.

After Yin's three children put on their shoes, Yin said goodbye to Lu Yuan and Lu's mother.

Lu Mu and Lu Yuan did not force them to stay.

The next day is the eighth day of the first month of September, and tomorrow is the day when the Lu family hires the Tang family to pay the currency.

According to the marriage customs of the Ming Dynasty, civil marriage requires three processes: najib, naji, and ritual.

Najib is a mutual gift of love, which is also a gift between Lu Yuan and Tang Ying.

And Nabi is a subordinate hire.

And because the Tang family is a family of eunuchs, the Lu family's dowry naturally cannot be too thin.

Therefore, when Lu Yuan wanted to go to Tang's house to give the dowry, he had to ask a good helper in advance to help carry the dowry.

The people in the neighborhood are basically working in the Lu family weaving workshop now, and Lu Yuan can only go to the canal wharf to find helpers who are not neighbors.

Linqing is a city developed by canals, and there are countless people who sell coolies all year round, do some work of pulling fiber and moving goods, and in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it directly developed into an organized Cao Gang.

Therefore, it is not difficult for Lu Yuan to come to the canal wharf in Qingcheng to recruit coolie workers.

But just when Lu Yuan was about to go to the canal wharf and passed by a dark kiln, he saw Xiao Chunlai coming out of it with his trouser belt in his belt, and came to a pastry shop next to Lu Yuan, looking at the pastries and saying to Lu Yuan: "Childe is going to the canal wharf today to ask for help?" ”

The request that you can't pretend to be familiar when you meet on the street is what Lu Yuan said to Xiao Chunlai and Tu Dazhu, Xiao Chunlai also remembered Lu Yuan's request, so he didn't show too eagerness now, and even in the eyes of passers-by, the two seemed to just happen to be standing together.

Lu Yuan nodded: "It's going to the canal wharf." ”

"Zhang Heng and Zhang Gongzi of the Zhang family have already greeted the people on the other side of the canal wharf, saying that they know that Lu Yuan, the son of the Lu family in Xinhufang, is coming to ask for helpers today, so that the coolies at the canal wharf are not allowed to take your work."

Xiao Chun rubbed the rouge marks on his face as he spoke, then leaned into his nose and sniffed it, and then threw it on the ground, didn't buy pastries, just threw his sleeves away.

Lu Yuan's face sank after hearing this, and he couldn't help but smile faintly, thinking that this was like Zhang Heng's style.

But Lu Yuan still came to the canal wharf, and countless coolies who were begging for a living here sat in a pile by the wharf smoking dry tobacco, and then walked over and asked, "I have a job here, who is the leader?" ”

"What is the name of this son, the accent of the person who listens to this is a local, which fang is it from."

As soon as the stout man with the same accent attribute as Lu Yuan crossed over, he spit out the grass in his mouth to the ground and asked.

"You only say if you want to do it, why do you ask these things, do you still have to pick people to work?"

Lu Yuan asked.

"Of course, I'm afraid that some owners will regret not giving money and earning our labor in vain, and someone has already said hello in the past few days, the Lu family in Xinhufang, we can't work, so naturally we have to ask."

The stout man replied.

"My surname is Lu, my name is Zhang Hengdi, if any of you want to come to work with me, stand up."

Lu Yuan said with a smile.

As soon as they heard Lu Yuan say this, all the coolies present stood up, and they couldn't wait to do the work.

But at this time, a person came over and scolded: "He is Lu Yuan!" The surname is Lu, you dare to scold my young master, saying that it is my young master's father, you ......"

Lu Yuan followed the sound and saw that it was Dou Ding, thinking that the people of the Zhang family who dared to love him had been staying here all the time, preventing him from recruiting workers with a fake identity.

Lu Yuan didn't wait for this Dou Ding to finish scolding, so he gave Uncle Fei a look on the spot, and Uncle Fei immediately pressed the Dou Ding to the ground.

At this time, the stout man also understood: "It turns out that you are Lu Yuan!" ”

As he spoke, the stout man snorted coldly, then sat back lazily, and said, "If you want to eat this bowl of rice on the dock often in the future, sit back!" ”

Thereupon.

Litter by litter of coolies sat back.

Seeing this, Lu Yuan did not give up, and only shouted: "I'll pay twice the price!" ”

No one responded.

Lu Yuan shouted again: "I will pay three times the salary, three dollars of silver per person!" ”

"How many people does Gongzi need, I have seven brothers here."

At this time, a long-faced man who was resting in a simple shed by the river replied in an unfamiliar accent.

"Shen Guangzu, you son of a bitch, do you want to bury your wife or your daughter-in-law who lost the baby, who gives you the dog dare to take the job without asking Lao Tzu, this Linqing City is Lao Tzu's territory! A group of outsiders settled down, it's good to have a soup to drink, and they dare to grab meat to eat! Don't want to live?! ”

At this time, the stout man scolded, and smashed the bamboo cup in his hand towards Shen Guangzu.

Meantime.

The stout man also said to Lu Yuan: "I'll miss you five cents of silver, and we'll take this job!" ”

Lu Yuan smiled slightly, neither agreeing nor refusing.

And Shen Guangzu, who was scolded, looked at the bamboo cup thrown at him and kicked it out, and when he heard that the stout man was going to take Lu Yuan's job again, he was also angry on the spot, and directly picked up the stick and hit the stout man: "You don't take the job yourself, why can't we take it, now that we take it, you grab it again, Qu Laosan, you are not so unreasonable as you!" If you don't want us to live, then no one wants to live! ”

Bang!

The stout man, Qu Laosan, was hit on the spot and fell to the ground.

When the people from Qu Laosan's faction saw that Qu Laosan was beaten, they immediately became angry, and they all hurriedly copied the guy and called Shen Guangzu.

Naturally, Shen Guangzu's gang would not let Shen Guangzu suffer, and they all picked up sticks and joined the battle.

All at once the whole dock was in chaos.

Lu Yuan and Uncle Fei watched from the sidelines, as if watching a play.

Uncle Fei shook his head: "Brother, let's come back later, these coolies on the dock are like this, they are so brave and ruthless, they fight in order to grab the activity, the government is too lazy to care now, and now this situation, it won't stop for half an hour." ”

"It's okay, the weaving mill and the cloth shop don't need you and me to stare at it every day, just take a look, it's worthy of pulling fiber and moving on the dock, and the fight is quite organized, knowing that the long stick is far away, and the short stick is close to attack, this is a good source of soldiers!"

Lu Yuan said.

Uncle Fei also replied: "That's not, people who have heard the story say that the Qi family army is composed of a group of Yiwu miners who love to fight."