Text 34. Daming bricklayer

Yuan Hui yawned: "Who knows, someone will take us away anyway." ”

Yao Guangqi suddenly turned around and asked, "You don't know how to get out of the city?" Are you still so sure? ”

Yuan Jue seemed to be about to fall asleep again, and said very slowly: "I am sure of my friend, he said that if he can let us out, we will go out." ”

Early the next morning, Yao Guangqi and Yuan Heng had just eaten, and they saw the little Taoist priest who led the way to deliver the food last night coming, lying on Yuan Heng's shoulder and muttering, Yuan Heng smiled, stood up and said to Yao Guangqi: "Take the salute and go." ”

Yao Guangqi followed Yuan Hui to the back door of the Taoist temple, only to see a tall strong man walking towards him, Yuan Hui walked up to the strong man with a smile, and punched the strong man in the chest, "How is the arrangement?" ”

The strong man was punched by Yuan Heng, but he was happy, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the arrangements are proper, you can rest assured that I will do things." Is this brother going with you? ”

Yuan Heng said with a smile: "Yes, just the two of us, if you get us out of the city, it will be none of your business." ”

The strong man hurriedly nodded respectfully at Yao Guangqi, and said happily: "My name is Wang Maosan, they all call me the third child, and you can also call me the third child." As he spoke, he picked up the package in his hand and handed it to Yao Guangqi: "Hurry up and change it, come with me, even if you are my follower now, but you don't have to do anything but take the baggage, those heavy jobs, nobles like you can't do it." After speaking, the third child smiled again, and his smile was honest and honest.

At this time, Yuan Heng took out a piece of silver and stuffed it into Wang Laosan's hand, Wang Laosan quickly pushed Yuan Heng's hand back: "Don't you dare to ask for this money, serve you, if I collect money, my father and my brother can beat me to death, you have helped my family enough in the past two years, and our whole family can't repay it." ”

"Take" Yuan Hui forced the money to the third child, "This money is not for you, go back and buy delicious food for your mother to make up for your body." ”

In this way, Yao Guangqi and Yuan Heng followed behind the third child and came to the vicinity of Hongwu Gate, and after arriving, Yao Guangqi finally understood what the third child just said that he didn't have to do heavy work, because the third child and his people really do heavy work. And this heavy work is not ordinary heavy work - moving bricks.

They are not moving ordinary bricks, it is the bricks of the city wall, the bricks of Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty, it is a standard 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, 10 cm high large bricks, each brick net weight of 40 catties, if you are interested, you can read the detailed records in the "Tiangong Kaiwu", as well as illustrations.

The third they are resting on a section of the city wall, the third is obviously the head of the construction site, to the construction site, many workers have come to ask the third child, some are counting how many bricks are missing, how much is broken, how much to make up, and some say that the materials are not enough, and they need to be reported to make up. After a while, the third child pointed to Yuan Hui and Yao Guangqi and said, "You two, take the things, follow me to urge, and say that the good materials will arrive today, why haven't you come yet." ”

In this way, Yao Guangqi and Yuan Hui followed the third child to the city gate, Yao Guangqi knew that there must be a secret agent of Jinyiwei near the city gate, maybe someone in this officer and soldier is the inner line of Jinyiwei, whether he can get through the city gate is the key to his safe exit from the city, at that time, Zhu Di was unable to send Zhang Yu and himself out of the city, so he came up with a way to let the two of them dress up as entourages and go out of the city with the guard of honor, which led to the chaos later.

The gate of this city is indeed very tightly checked, all the people who come and go, regardless of men and women, young and old, must be checked, and some even have to open the salute they carry to search, seeing that the inventory is so strict, Yao Guangqi can't help but be a little nervous. However, Yuan Heng beside him looked very natural, following behind the third child very casually, walking generously, seeing that Yuan Heng was so calm, Yao Guangqi was also much calmer.

The military academy guarding the city gate is obviously very familiar with the third child, and when he saw the third child coming, he didn't stop the third child, but just said hello: "Go out again, what's going on today?" ”

Lao Sanle came to the military academy and said naturally: "Don't mention it, the bricks that should have arrived yesterday have not arrived today, I have to urge myself, delaying the construction period, the lord above is to blame, and we have to deduct wages, we earn those hard money, this deduction and that, what is left, I have to hurry up to urge these bastards who transport bricks." ”

The military academy didn't care, waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go, hurry up and earn your money, clean up your fucking complaints every day, are these two your followers?" ”

Yao Guangqi saw that the military academy asked himself, and suddenly became nervous again, he was afraid that the person would come to check on him, so he unconsciously moved half a step back, but as soon as he moved, he felt that something was blocking his feet, and he couldn't move, and the corner of his eyes swept away, Yuan Heng didn't know when he moved to his side, and pressed his foot against his foot, so he couldn't move. Wang Laosan was also afraid that the military academy would come to check on Yao Guangqi and Yuan Hui, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "They are new to my ......" As soon as he said a word, he couldn't go on, because a pungent smell suddenly came into his nose.

This smell came from Yuan Hui's body, the smell was extremely heavy, pungent and unpleasant, Yao Guangqi next to him was almost fainted, Wang Laosan and the military academy who were very close also smelled it, the two of them immediately covered their noses tightly, Yao Guangqi knew that it must be Yuan Heng's ghost again, pointed at Yuan Hui and complained: "Let you not eat indiscriminately, you don't listen, we have to suffer with you if you eat a bad stomach." ”

The military academy was so smoked that I couldn't stand it, so I hurriedly waved my hand at Yuan Heng: "Go, hurry up, it's so fucking stinky." ”

Wang Laosan was amnesty, so he quickly nodded yes, and took Yao Guangqi and Yuan Heng out of the city gate.

After leaving the city gate, the three of them sped up their speed, and soon walked out of the sight of the city gate, Yuan Heng said to Wang Laosan: "Third child, let's go, you don't have to worry about the rest." ”

The third child smiled innocently: "Then you go slowly, if there is something in the future, even if you command, my father said, what you ordered, our family has to do it for you if we work hard." ”

After breaking up with Wang Lao, Yuan Hui turned around and asked Yao Guangqi with a smile: "Do you know how to ride a horse?" The two of us rode to the Purple Mountain and tried to have lunch there. ”

Yao Guangqi shook his head, he had never ridden a horse.

Yuan Hui frowned, and said in embarrassment: "Why don't you know how to ride a horse, how can we go to Purple Mountain if you can't ride a horse?" Then he looked at Yao Guangqi in surprise, it seemed very strange that Yao Guangqi couldn't ride a horse, but Yuan Heng immediately laughed again: "It doesn't matter, you don't have to ride anyway, I asked them to prepare a car, which is more comfortable than riding a horse."

Only then did Yao Guangqi know that Yuan Heng had made a little joke with himself.