"Little sister, how old are you?"

Xu Daizhuo handed Xiao Jin a piece of fruit candy with a wolf grandmother-like smile.

The girl looked at him, put the candy in her mouth, and muttered, "I don't know." ”

Then she was shocked by the sweetness that filled her mouth.

Human beings always like sweetness, especially children who have no self-control.

For a little girl who has never tasted sweetness in her short life of ten years, the happiness that a piece of apple-flavored fruit candy can bring is enough to melt all anxiety and doubt.

Xiao Jin immediately regarded Xu Daizhuo as his best friend.

The kind that talks about everything.

"So, little sister, how many years have you been working in that shop?"

"It's been years, years." Kim doesn't know how to count.

"I know, I know!" The little boy who was carrying the water with him just now was a little older and seemed to know better: "Xiao Jin came five years ago, and she was five or six years old at that time, right?" She and her mother were slaves bought from the north, and her mother was taken to the south of the Yangtze River, and she herself was sold to the owner. ”

"Oh, little brother, you know so much." Xu Daizhuo gave the little boy another piece of candy.

"That's right, I worked for the owner when I was four years old, and I worked for eight years." The little boy licked the candy cube with a happy face, and said as if flattering: "My name is Da Qian, big brother, just ask me if you have anything." ”

"Big money? Goldie? Zhang Ning stood to the side, smiling inexplicably.

"Ask me, ask me, I know many, many things!" Kim feels a sense of crisis, and she feels that big money may take away the sugar that belongs to her.

The other children also looked at Xu Daizhuo with bright eyes—mainly at his small pocket where he put sugar.

Xu Daizhuo smiled, directly took out a handful of candy, and gave everyone a piece.

"So, can you tell me how many people you have in your store right now?"

"Many, many people!" Xiao Jin replied first: "It's windy today, and there are a lot of customers who haven't made it!" ”

The children can't answer exactly how much, but to summarize everyone's words, the approximate numbers can still be analyzed:

Including the shopkeeper and his wife, their cook, thugs, the smuggler and the merchant, there should be about forty people in the store now.

But there are six of them in the store, and there are five girls, all of whom have no combat power, so they can not be counted.

Everyone else was armed with swords and sticks, and it was not known if there were any weapons such as bows and crossbows, and theoretically there should be no muskets.

"Up to thirty armed men." Xu Daizhuo said to his comrades-in-arms: "There are ten of us, can we fight or not?" ”

"Why don't you beat us?" Zhang Ning sneered: "Is it really to eat and live in a black shop? ”

"Each of us can have three heads." Another young soldier said, "The thief's head is worthless, but three of them together can always be counted as a credit, right?" ”

Intermediate cadets are citizens when they graduate, and for them, every credit earned is a ladder to the aristocratic class.

"The question is, what if they don't fight us?" One of the young soldiers raised their only concern: "If they are good people, we will kill them without saying a word, and if we can't find evidence to convict them, we will all have to be stabbed by the instructor when we go back." ”

Chinese military discipline, officers and soldiers oppressed the Han people and beheaded.

I don't know if Xu Daizhuo can be an exception, but if this happens, everyone else will die.

"If they hit us first, we'll be fine." Xu Dai sneered and leaked out all his fangs: "Although I think that we will definitely find evidence of their illegality by laying down that wild shop, but since you are worried, let's find a way to let them strike first?" ”

"How?" Wang Ning asked.

Xu Daizhuo stretched out his right hand, revealing the gold watch made by the Imperial Navy Precision Machinery Factory on his wrist.

"Big money and little gold, the wild shopkeeper is so greedy for money, how can he let go of a fat sheep like me."

……

This wild shop is a small two-story building with a civil engineering structure.

The ground floor is the lobby, where the residents and the owner and his wife eat, and next to it is a small thatched house, which is the kitchen, where the chef of the wild shop lives.

There is a wooden staircase on the east wall of the lobby that leads to the second floor, which is guarded by a thug with a large knife, and on the second floor is the guest room and the girls' residence.

If the merchant has that need, he can spend more money to live on it.

If not, then lay the floor in the lobby.

Normally, there are only a dozen customers at the most at the same time, but today the wind and sand are too strong, and the people in front can't walk, and the people in the back have to settle down, so the number of people in the store is more than twice as many as usual.

The lobby could not be opened on the floor, so the leaders of the caravan and the bodyguards could only choose to go to the second floor to rest.

But fortunately, although those pheasants are thin and thin, they are still women, and they are somewhat fatty, and it is much better to hold them than to squeeze them together with a bunch of rough men.

The problem is that there are too many people staying overnight, and five girls are not enough.

"Tamad! Not even enough women! What kind of business do you do in the vegetable garden! ”

The leader of a bodyguard, who came a little late, shouted dissatisfiedly:

"Call your mother-in-law out to compensate Lao Tzu!"

The owner of the wild shop, Zhang Qing, who was called a vegetable garden, smiled: "Oh, what is this guest talking about, what's good about my yellow-faced mother-in-law?" ”

"Haha, vegetable garden, your dominatrix actually has some taste, and the flesh is white...... Tsk, it's just that the eyebrows and eyes are too fierce. ”

A group of helpers and bodyguards who can only make a bunk in the lobby coax together:

"You can't serve her in the vegetable garden, can you? It's better to call it out, let's go up together, and make sure she screams! ”

"Hahaha!"

There was laughter and laughter in the wild store, and even Zhang Qing smiled disapprovingly.

He knew that this was a joke, his mother-in-law was nicknamed Dominatrix in the rivers and lakes, she learned guns and sticks since she was a child, and she had been tempered by opening a wild shop in a chaotic place for more than ten years, and she danced a pair of knives to seven or eight big men who couldn't get in, who dared to treat her as an ordinary woman who could be bullied?

Although this dominatrix is indeed good-looking, with a plump body and a prodigal style, unless she is willing, the merchants will not dare to stretch out their hands.

"This customer, if you really want it, then it's better to be like this, it's not that there are no other women in the store."

The vegetable garden with the sharp-beaked monkey's gills squinted, smiled obscenely and said to the head of the bodyguard:

"The few girls we will raise have also come to the day when they will open the door to pick up customers."

"The girl you will raise?" The head of the bodyguard expressed disdain: "What kind of thin monkey is there to play." ”

"It's a after all, but a chick."

The head of the bodyguard thought about it and felt that this was indeed reasonable: "Okay, it's better to have a girl around you than nothing, but Lao Tzu only gives you fifty wen!" ”

"Hahaha, okay, fifty is fifty." Cai Yuanzi said with a smile: "When they come back with water, the guests will pick one directly." ”

"Hahaha, big brother, you are going to be a groom today!"

The people in the lobby began to heckle again.

At that moment, the door opened.

Xiao Jin, who was talked about, carried an empty bucket into the house, and everyone swept over with evil eyes, as if they wanted to peel off the girl with their eyes.

Then all eyes froze.

It was not only the two men, four women and six children who entered the house, but also ten young soldiers in red with excited smiles on their faces behind them.