Since leaving Huizhou for the first time last year and going to Hangzhou, Wang Fulin's footprints can be regarded as from the southeast to the central south, and he has traveled to many prefectures and counties, but what is very strange is that there must be accidents everywhere he goes, and all of them have to deal with local officials. So now after arriving in Danyang involuntarily in this life, as soon as he and Xiaobei followed Lu Guangwu out of Shao's house, he immediately made it clear that he had no other requirements, the only requirement was to bypass the Danyang County Ya, and go anywhere else, as much as you want!

He really didn't want to have anything to do with the government in this already unlucky trip!

Lu Guangwu, who also hated the red tape of the government, felt that this proposal was very right, so he didn't say anything, and even found a ready-to-wear store and asked Wang Fulin and Xiaobei to change their clothes. These clothes are all made of genuine coarse cloth, not to mention that when Wang Fulin was most embarrassed, the family was at least a small landlord, and all the debts were strictly concealed by his father Wang Daoyun, the fine cloth was the minimum, and the clothes when he went out were all silk robes, and this coarse cloth shirt was worn for the first time; Even Xiaobei's last experience of wearing coarse cloth clothes can be traced back to six or seven years ago, when he followed the nurse to the southeast. So both of them have to be unaccustomed to it.

"The place I'm going to take you to next is too dazzling."

It's not so much that I'm not used to the rough texture of the clothes, but that Wang Fulin has a habit of cleanliness, and I'm a little unsure whether the clothes in the ready-to-wear store are cleaned and clean, and whether they carry any germs. But Lu Guangwu set an example and changed into a gray dress, Xiaobei didn't say anything, he was so picky. However. Lu Guangwu seemed to be familiar with the shopkeeper of the ready-to-wear store. The clothes and horses that the three of them had replaced were directly handed over by him to others for safekeeping. Immediately after, the three of them transformed, as if a father and a family of three with two sons, passed through the richest neighborhood in Danyang and came to an area with low houses.

After passing through a narrow alley, what appeared in front of Wang Fulin was a long street. As soon as you step inside, there is no hustle and bustle of the city. Instead, there is a never-ending screeching noise. Lu Guangwu took the lead and walked forward, and Wang Fulin, who didn't know why, exchanged a look, and hurriedly followed, and after a while, Wang Fulin understood what kind of place this was.

From the street to the end of the street, there are small courtyards with detached families, and some houses directly facing the street, all of which are large or small machine shops, and the harsh sound is the noise of hundreds of thousands of looms shaking together. Wang Fulin once saw with his own eyes how those machine shops in Hangzhou recruited workers. And how did the mechanic apply, and it is not surprising that there were no people who came to apply for jobs here. If you want to come to that kind of talent market, it should be not far from here. But what he didn't understand was the purpose of Lu Guangwu bringing them here.

Just as they were halfway through the long street, they heard a commotion in a small courtyard nearby, and in a short time, an unkempt man was erected out.

"You're sick like this, and you still dare to come to work? Do you want to give me dozens of mechanics here? , I don't need you from now on! ”

"Boss, boss! Please keep me, my illness will not pass, and I will be well in a few days......"

Despite the pleading pleas of the flushed man, the proprietor and the two helpers turned and left, and the door of the small courtyard closed mercilessly, never opening a crack again. Seeing the middle-aged man sitting on the ground and crying, he then reluctantly got up, and after throwing a glance at Wang Fulin and the others, he turned his head in disappointment because of their shabby clothes, and staggered away. It was only at this time that Xiao Beibei came back to her senses, she only felt that her whole heart was tightened, and she couldn't help but hold Wang Fulin's sleeve, bit her lip and asked, "Are you really not going to help?" ”

"Compared with Suzhou, Hangzhou and Songjiang, the machine workshops in Zhenjiang Mansion are very few." Lu Guangwu didn't catch up with the middle-aged man in front of him, but said to Wang Fulin and Xiaobei, "The big machine owner in Suzhou has thousands of looms, and the cotton cloth and white silk produced every day are a very terrifying number. In the past, men cultivated the land and women spun and weaved, but now there are more people in the southeast and less land, because the male mechanics have good physical strength, and the number of workers in the machine workshop is not less than that of the female mechanics. It's probably unfortunate that the machine boss is not here, otherwise the owner of this machine shop would not be so arrogant. ”

Lu Guangwu saw that Wang Fulin and Xiaobei were all at a loss, so he smiled casually: "I came to Danyang City once last year, and Shao Fang should have been in Huguang at that time and did not come back. It was on this street that I witnessed a fight between a fighter and a group of green skins hired by the owner. He is a person who has gathered a large number of mechanics under his hands, and he is quite powerful. For this reason, I had a momentary itch, and I fought him once, and in terms of pure strength, he was better than me, but he lost because of his poor skills. The fight was hearty, and I got drunk with him afterwards and said goodbye, but I don't know if he remembers me. ”

As soon as these words came out, not to mention that Xiaobei was speechless, even Wang Fulin didn't know how to evaluate it. Xinchang Lu Gongzi, who once fought the Japanese and relieved the siege of Tongxiang, actually ran here to fight with the machine bully because of his itchy skills? Forget it last time, why do you want to find someone to fight again this time when you look at Lu Guangwu's posture? Now it's not when Shao Fang was not in Danyang at the beginning, if Shao Fang knew that Xinchang Lu Gongzi was doing this, would he think that this was a big bully for the time being, and people wouldn't deliberately spread it out and take the opportunity to belittle Lu Guangwu's reputation, right?

Wang Fulin felt that he had really refreshed his impression of Lu Guangwu again today, but suddenly found that the staggering mechanic in front of him was in a trance and directly bumped into a tower-like giant man who was the leader of the group of six or seven people. However, the mechanic was not as he expected to be scolded by a burst of head and face, but as if he had met a savior, he hugged each other and cried bitterly, and was helped up after a while, and a group of people asked for a while, only to hear a burst of shouting, and a large group of people rushed over to this side with great momentum.

When these people arrived, Wang Fulin was still looking at these people, and he only heard a sudden shout.

"It's you!"

"It's me."

This is a short and brainless answer, because there was Lu Guangwu's explanation before, so Wang Fulin and Xiaobei all woke up. The person who came should be the machine bully who had fought with Lu Guangwu before. Really. After the other party heard that it was me. actually rushed forward suddenly, and without saying a word, he punched Lu Guangwu in the chest. But I saw that Lu Guangwu didn't dodge or dodge, and directly pulled his right shoulder back with a smile, and then his shoulder went straight forward, catching up with the fist that rushed towards him with great force. only heard a bang, and the giant man suddenly withdrew two steps, while Lu Guangwu shook his shoulders and retreated half a step, and the victory or defeat was self-evident.

"Fucking lost again. You have such a big strength in your shoulders, what kind of strange power do you have! The giant man hissed, shook his right hand vigorously, and said angrily, "As soon as you come back, you will run to such a place, and you will not be afraid of insulting your identity!" I'll get down to business first, and I'll come back and practice with you! ”

After saying this, the giant man immediately looked at the small courtyard on the side, but he did not greet the people behind him, but took a deep breath. An arrow rushed forward, and it was a fierce fist that slammed into the two gates. See this simple and crude scene. Wang Fulin couldn't help but be dumbfounded, followed by a toothache. Wouldn't it hurt to smash such a solid gate with your fist, even if it wasn't an egg hitting a stone? However, it seems that Lu Guangwu did the same thing in the inn at the beginning, and he still remembers that when he went out early the next morning, he saw the debris of the door panels everywhere, and he had the feeling that he knew a monster.

Sure enough, the next scene reproduced the scene when Lu Guangwu broke the door and entered the inn. The giant man was like a fist like iron, as if he didn't feel any pain at all, and slammed one punch after another on the gate, and he didn't know that after dozens of punches, the gate was already overwhelmed and gurgling, and the untired giant man suddenly took a few steps back, followed by a rush forward, and actually kicked the door violently. With another loud thud, he saw the two doors fall backwards at once, and a cloud of dust exploded in all directions. And with this huge movement, someone finally shouted from inside, who didn't react at all.

"Fourth Master Niu, this is the Shao family's industry, do you really have the courage to go against the Shao family?"

"How is the Shao family? The Shao family also has to be reasonable! Lao Chen is so good at craftsmanship, he has been a mechanic for your Shao family's machine workshop for more than ten years, and this disease will drive him out, which is unreasonable! In the future, even if he is willing, I will not let him work for your Shao family! Now, bring me ten taels of silver for the potions!" ”

The voice inside suddenly became angry: "Ten taels, why don't you grab it!" ”

"Do you give it or not? If you don't give it to me, you can come in and get it yourself! ”

"Good, good, count you ruthless! Come, go and give him ten taels of silver. ”

Seeing that the giant man known as Niu Siye didn't go in at all after slamming the door, with the power of this actual action, people took ten taels of silver out in embarrassment to calm the matter, Wang Fulin couldn't help but be amazed. But when he saw this Fourth Master Niu weighing the ingot of silver in his hand, turning around and stuffing it directly into the hand of the middle-aged man at the beginning, he was even more impressed. Even Xiaobei couldn't help but exclaim: "It turns out that he really gives people a head to fight!" ”

"Niu Si, the machine tyrant, usually does fight grievances for mechanics, punishing those owners who are too greedy to squeeze machine workers, or recovering arrears of wages for people, recovering pensions for the dead and injured, asking for soup and medicine for patients, asking for New Year's money for the elderly and children at home for them during the New Year's holidays, and even helping those unemployed mechanics find another way to make a living...... So the word machine bully, that is the nickname given to him by the owner of the machine shop, and all the mechanics under him are called Niu Siye, and he can afford it. ”

When Lu Guangwu said this, he saw that Wang Fulin showed a hint of discoloration, and he thought that Wang Fulin was strange about what this person lived on, so he explained with a smile: "With such a person coming forward, the mechanic will naturally pay for it." Only ask him to shelter and recognize his head, and everyone only pays one percent of a month's salary, but the small amount becomes a lot, and hundreds of mechanics are all like this, which is naturally enough for him to live. He is quite good at eating in the third shift and six rooms, and he is measured, and he has a group of powerful mechanics under him, even if the owner wants to hire foreign mechanics, he will desperately help others resist, so his prestige is very high. ”

At this moment, Wang Fulin has only one thought in his heart - isn't this the Daming version of the trade union? Just this giant alone has done what a whole organization can do? Talent!

Sure enough, although the middle-aged man holding ten taels of silver cried with joy and wanted to pay money to thank people, Niu Si, the giant man, refused and even ordered others to send him back. When he saw the others leave, and he was the only one left, he came to Lu Guangwu with his hands on his hips, and said in a loud voice: "Okay, the business is done, now you can talk well." Lu Gongzi, what are you doing in Danyang this time, are you itching your hands and want to fight with me Niu Si? (To be continued......)