Chapter 44: The Hired Servant
Qingzhou is still the original Qingzhou, from the outside of the city, Qingzhou City is no different from when he ran away from home 20 years ago, the mottled city wall shows the traces of erosion by the years, more than 20 years of wind and rain, Qingzhou two big characters have also become a little blurred.
Sitting in the carriage, Su Tongwen was full of emotion for a while, he had a stiff relationship with his father back then, and ran away from home in a fit of anger, it has been more than 20 years, and he has also sent people back to Qingzhou to inquire about the information of his family in the past 20 years, but his old house has long been bulldozed and rebuilt, and his father's whereabouts are unknown, this matter has been in Su Tongwen's heart for many years.
It wasn't until he was older and had children that he gradually understood his father's hard work, but the Si people have passed away, blood relatives are hard to see, and he has experienced the ups and downs of his life.
A convoy of more than a dozen carriages entered Qingzhou City, and Su Tongwen also looked at today's Qingzhou all the way.
Compared with 20 years ago, Qingzhou has indeed undergone great changes, and the low-rise houses in my memory have now been replaced by high-rise compounds, but compared with the three-story buildings in Xincangzhou, they are still very ordinary.
The road is obviously also repaired, Su Tongwen remembered that in Qingzhou City twenty years ago, the roads were still bluestone roads, which were in disrepair, and the carriage did not dare to run fast in the city, and now, even if the horse was galloping, there was no sense of bump in the carriage.
Entering from the east gate of the city, after only half a burnt of incense, the coachman turned his head to Su Tongwen in the carriage and said, "Guest officer, the economic development zone has arrived." ”
Su Tongwen didn't care about anything, he got out of the carriage directly, and at the first glance when he came out, he saw a huge and endless tent-like thing towering in front of his eyes.
Beneath this huge tent, there are many people coming and going, some building simple doorways, some consignments, and many more are laughing and laughing.
The man from the rickshaw dealer carried down Su Tongwen's four large boxes of goods, and then a yellow-clothed man came over to Su Tongwen and said: "Guest officer, your goods have been unloaded, if you still want to continue to transport goods, you can hire a porter to help you move the goods, if you want to rent a storefront store in the economic development zone, go to the platform in front of you to find someone from the industrial and commercial bureau to register." ”
Su Tongwen followed the direction pointed by the man in yellow, and sure enough, he saw a flat-roofed house built of cement, in front of the door, there was an image of a golden dragon flag, and a plaque with seven big characters written on it: "Qingzhou Industrial and Commercial Bureau Branch".
Su Tongwen nodded yes, those yellow clothes drove away in a carriage, and at this moment he took a good look at the surrounding environment, this is an extremely wide square, Su Tongwen is standing on the left side of the city wall of the square.
This square obviously does not look like the handiwork of the Song people, the smooth marble surface, the exquisite water spring, and the neatly built unknown flowers and plants, these things, Su Tongwen has only seen in the new Cangzhou City, presumably these things are also made by the New Song Dynasty.
"This guest officer, I see that you have been looking around here for a long time, and there are goods beside you, do you want to find some porters to help you move the goods?"
Just as Su Tongwen was looking around, a young guy suddenly appeared next to him and came up to talk.
Su Tongwen glanced at this little guy up and down, this little guy didn't look very old, sixteen or seventeen years old, his body was very thin, and he didn't look like he had eaten for a long time, which caused his nutrition to be a little unable to keep up, but his big eyes were very smart.
"I'm looking for porters to help me move my goods." Su Tongwen looked at the little guy's eyes and said, "I don't know how much you want?" ”
When the little guy heard the voice, his eyes suddenly brightened, he subconsciously licked his lips, and then said: "I still have seven brothers, give us 700 yuan, and we will work for you for a day." ”
One person has a hundred wen a day, which is also a lion's big mouth, you know, in Qingzhou, the average slave's salary is only two hundred wen a month, and this little guy will open his mouth a hundred wen a day, which is a big breath.
"One person has 20 wen a day, I have to do business later, I can hire you for a long time, and you have to do business everywhere every day, what do you think?" The thoughtful Su Tongwen proposed a tempting plan.
When the little guy heard this, he was obviously very moved, they hadn't pulled a guest for two days, and the big guys thought he wanted to add too high, but the money they wanted was less, and it was not enough to meet the next noble person who needed help to get the goods, so they could only keep raising the price, but there were fewer and fewer people willing to hire them, and now, their money had been spent, and they urgently needed to find the next customer.
"I'm going to have to talk to my brothers." This little guy also has some brains, and proposed to discuss, Su Tongwen was not in a hurry, only to see him wave his hand and say: "I'll wait for you here, give you an hour of incense to answer me, if you are willing to do it, just follow me, if you don't want to, then forget it." ”
When the little servant heard this, he immediately rushed out, and in less than half an hour he returned, but when he came back, he came back with his seven brothers.
When he saw this group of people, Su Tongwen finally knew why no one was willing to hire them, although this little guy was thin, he looked like he was the oldest among these people, and the others were all half-sized, and there was even a female doll mixed in.
"These are your seven brothers?" Su Tongwen asked interestingly.
"Hey" This little guy was also a little embarrassed, but he scratched his head and said, "Don't look at their young age, they are all good at work." ”
"Hmm..."Su Tongwen nodded lightly, "Then you tell me, one person has twenty wen a day, long-term employment, do you want to follow me?" ”
"Follow! We'll do it for you. The little guy said excitedly, "My name is Chen Xiao, these are orphans we adopted outside, sir, you are willing to reward us with food, and we will try our best to repay you." ”
"Well, Chen Xiao, a good name." Su Tongwen nodded, "I'm going to go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to handle it now, and you can take care of the goods for me here." ”
"Yes."
Su Tongwen said, and walked directly towards the industrial and commercial bureau, pushed open the door, and saw a man in a dark green official uniform sitting at a table drinking tea. The house was empty, but no one came to register.
"Yo, it's finally someone here, I said that this train has been open for two days, why are there so few people coming, I guess they are all behind...."
"This lord, I want to register my business in this development zone."
"Well, did you bring the household registration book?"
“... Belch... What is the Hukou book? ”
"It's the red skinned household register, or the blue skin, and the gray skin is not allowed to do business here."
"Oh, yes, some... You're talking about this New Song Dynasty Resident Registration Book, right? With that, Su Tongwen took out the blue book issued to him by the Dizhou Government from his sleeve.....
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