Early the next morning, Douzi took a few older children to put on clean clothes, and their hair was tied up with a cloth belt, although the clothes were very torn, but at least they looked clean and comfortable, and when Douzi and they left, Li Zhang also specially told him not to forget what he told him yesterday, after all, this is related to their next money-making plan, and Douzi also patted his chest and promised that he would not disappoint Li Zhang.

Douzi left with a few older children, Li Zhang was not idle, but commanded the children left behind to pull a bad board car in the yard, the so-called board car, in fact, is two wheels with a flat body on it, and two shelves in front of it act as wheels, which can be pulled by people or cows and horses, so it is also called a frame car.

Li Zhang's frame car is a bit special, because it is used to pull the corpse, after all, this is Yizhuang, there is an unclaimed corpse in the yamen, so Li Zhang's gambler father needs to pull it back for temporary storage, and if it is unclaimed for a long time, it will be pulled to the mass grave and buried, and sometimes he has to act as a servant, of course, the yamen will give him some remuneration for these things, which is also one of the main sources of wealth for Li Zhang's family.

However, Li Zhang's gambler father is too lazy, especially in the past two years, he has been away from home all the year round, and he can't find anyone in the yamen, if there are no acquaintances in the yamen, I'm afraid this errand will be lost, and he won't even be able to live in Yizhuang at that time.

The frame car that pulled the corpse had long been broken, and Li Zhang's father was too lazy to repair it, so he kept throwing it into the yard in the wind and rain, and now it looks even more dilapidated, but after Li Zhang checked it, he found that the problem was not big, mainly because there was a piece of missing from the axle of the truck underneath, just add a piece of wood to nail it up, and the nails were also ready-made, after all, this is Yizhuang, and there are still a few nails for the coffin.

Li Zhang had difficulty moving, so he could only command a few children to help, but these children were too weak and sometimes couldn't understand Li Zhang's words, so a group of people tinkered for most of the day before the frame car was repaired.

When the beans came back in the evening, they still brought back a bucket of leftovers, but compared to yesterday, this bucket of leftovers today is less, but it is much cleaner, and a few young people have been hungry for a day, and when they see the leftovers, they immediately want to eat, but they are pushed away by the beans.

"Ugly girl, pour all the food at home into the pot and cook it into porridge, let's make it up first, don't touch these leftovers!" Li Zhang instructed the eldest girl next to him at this time, this girl is just like that, she looks really ugly, with dark skin, small eyes, big mouth, and a thick skeleton, and she looks more like a boy at first glance.

The ugly girl agreed, and immediately took a few girls to the kitchen to cook, but the raccoon dog came to Li Zhang's side in a little anxious and whispered: "Big brother, our family doesn't have much food, if we eat it all today, then what should we do in the future?" ”

Although Li Zhang is the boss of these orphans, he is not obliged to support them, in fact, he and these orphans have always been in a state of huddle for warmth, with benefits, everyone takes a share in proportion, and when you run out of your share, don't think that others will help you.

"It's okay, I've got a way to make money, and we'll have hot cookcakes to eat tomorrow!" Li Zhang said with a reassuring smile to Tanuki at this time.

"Don't worry, big brother, I've already told me, I'll definitely buy you white and soft cookcakes to eat tomorrow!" At this time, Douzi also came over and said, yesterday Li Zhang explained his way to make money, although he didn't understand it very well, but he had confidence in Li Zhang.

Out of trust in Li Zhang and Douzi, the raccoon finally put her mind at this time, and then ran to help the ugly girl cook together, there was not much food at home, and in the end she could only boil out a pot of millet soup like clear water, a few little guys were very complaining, after all, the leftovers next to it were much better than millet soup, but Li Zhang didn't let them eat, but they complained and complained, Li Zhang was their boss after all, so they didn't dare to say more.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Zhang woke up Douzi and a few older children, and then instructed them to load things into the car, originally his legs and feet were inconvenient, but considering that Douzi was too small, and today was the first time to do business, so Li Zhang still decided to go with him, so he got in the car and let Douzi and they pushed away from Yizhuang.

Although Li Zhang's place of residence belongs to Kaifeng Mansion, it is not in Kaifeng City, but in the western suburbs outside Kaifeng City, after all, Yizhuang cannot be in the city, otherwise no one wants to live around at all, but now Kaifeng City has a large population, and the city can't live at all, so it is also very prosperous outside the city, and there are large and small towns everywhere.

Two or three miles to the north of Yizhuang, there is the Bianhe River that crosses Kaifeng City, and there is a wharf on this river, where many goods in and out of Kaifeng will dock and trade, so it has slowly formed a lively town, the name is Bianhe Town, which is also the main activity area of Li Zhang's group of orphans.

Li Zhang and his entourage went straight to the wharf, at this time it was not yet dawn, but there were already a lot of people gathered on the wharf, most of them were coolies carrying large bags at the wharf, and when the day dawned, there would be a head to pick people to load and unload goods, and the wages were settled every day, and they also relied on this for a living.

Niu Da shrunk his neck and came to the open space by the dock, where there have been a lot of coolies like him, Niu Da surnamed Niu, the body is also strong like a cow, in the words of the head, he was born to eat this bowl of rice, others can only carry one sack at a time, but he can carry two sacks at a time, and the coolie is calculated by the amount of money, so he naturally earns more than others.

However, the cow is tall and big, and the amount of food is also a top two, so it is also a poor jingle for a few years, eating dry when there is work, and eating thin when there is no work, and even supporting yourself is a problem, let alone saving money to marry a daughter-in-law.

Now it's just spring, it's the busiest time for river transportation, Niu Da is not worried about not working, now he is pinching the ten cents in his arms and thinking about how to spend it, this ten cents is his day's meal money, this meal must be full in the morning, otherwise there will be no strength to work, the cooking cakes on the dock are two pennies, he can eat four or five in one breath, and he has to add a bowl of pickle soup, after all, they are doing manual work, no salt has no strength, but now the price of salt has risen, and the result of the old Wang who sells pickle soup has also increased in price, a bowl costs two cents, It's just too black-hearted.

"Cooking cakes~, freshly steamed cooking cakes!" Just when Niu Da scolded Lao Wang in his heart, he suddenly heard a familiar shouting sound, which made the coolies who were waiting to work all their bodies shake up, the surname of the cookcake seller is Liu, known as the cookcake Liu, the cookcake is not only strong and delicious, but also full of portions, most of the coolies on the dock like to buy a few cookcakes to eat in the morning, and they are hungry.

As soon as Liu's shouting came out, Niu Da's group of coolies immediately surrounded him, and the big and soft cooking cakes were two pennies, and the others could eat two of them, but Niu Da had to eat four or five.

"What smells so good?" Just when Niu Da and the gang were buying cooking cakes, they suddenly smelled a strange fragrance, and then heard a child's crisp shouting: "Fold the basket~, a penny and a spoonful, there are vegetables and meat!" ”

Niu Da and the others thought at first that it was a child messing around, and they didn't know what the basket was, but it was impossible to have vegetables and meat for a penny, after all, Lao Wang's pickle soup cost two pennies a bowl.

But they soon saw that just behind the right side of Liu's stall, several shabby-dressed, but very clean children were shouting hard, and behind them, a large pot was set on a simple brick stove, and the pot was steaming hot, emitting a strange fragrance, which was the smell they had just smelled.

Li Zhang sat on the shelf car behind the stove, looking at the beans with a calm face and shouting hard, the so-called "folding basket" is actually a hodgepodge of leftovers mixed together, this name is not many people knew in Li Zhang's era, but if it is pushed forward for decades, many people know that many hotels put the leftovers together, heat them and sell them, because there are vegetables and meat in them, and the most important thing is that they are cheap, so they are very popular with poor people. And today, he also has to earn his first pot of gold after coming to the Northern Song Dynasty by folding a basket.