Chapter Eighty-Four: Seven Money
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A middle-aged black fat man held the account book and said unhurriedly, there was already a bookkeeper next to him who counted the seven cents and handed them over, in the eyes of the coolies or envy or numbness around him, Zhang Xin laughed, nodded and carefully received the seven cents, wrapped them carefully with a piece of rag, and solemnly handed them to Zhang Xi on the side.
Zhang Xi put the cloth bag wrapped in seven cents into his arms, lowered his head and followed Zhang Xin out of the crowd one after another. It's late autumn now, the cold wind in the evening is biting cold, Zhang Xi was shivered by the autumn wind, and couldn't help but tighten the single clothes on his body, and turned his head to find that there was a burning stove next to him, with crispy golden roast ducks on the strings, the cold wind blew, and the tempting aroma came to his nose, and suddenly, Zhang Xi felt a little unable to take a step.
It has been more than half a month since he came to Liangzhou to calculate the time, and when he was camping at night more than half a month ago, Lu Jinshi was frozen, his body was weak, and the injuries on his body were not healed. The next morning, Zhang Xin touched his forehead, it was hot and scary, and he began to talk nonsense before noon, scaring Liu Mei into snot and tears, but fortunately, Zhang Xin immediately took a few people to run wildly, and finally went to Liangzhou behind closed doors, and caught Lang Zhong out in the middle of the night for a busy job, which can be regarded as pulling Jinshi back from the ghost gate. But the illness is like a mountain, the illness is like a thread, half a month for horses, two waist knives, willow eyebrow bracelets, hairpins one by one, replaced by bowls of black decoction poured down, at this time several people have been penniless, Zhang Xin and Zhang Xi combined, it is not good to sit and eat the mountain, the two of them had to come out to find a job to make a living. Now every day, I unload a grain merchant surnamed Zhu, 50 catties of grain bags, unload 10 bags for a penny, and take care of a meal at noon.
Zhang Xin noticed Zhang Xi's abnormality, and followed Zhang Xi's gaze, one by one the roasted crispy yellow roast duck hung on the stove, and when the cold wind blew, an attractive fragrance wafted with the wind. Zhang Xin hadn't seen oil and water for a long time, and he couldn't take a step at the moment, when he heard Zhang Xi's throat muttering in his ear, Yu Guang watched Zhang Xi's hand unconsciously stretch into his arms, and touched the seven coins wrapped in rags.
"Smack" Zhang Xin's big hand pressed Zhang Xi's hand to the cloth bag, and shook his head firmly, "Let's go." ”
"Brother......." Zhang Xi called in a low voice, but slowly loosened the cloth bag wrapped in seven cents in his hand, and silently followed Zhang Xin through the tempting oven, the two of them walked on the street one after the other, a gust of autumn wind swirled and blew up a fallen leaf, Zhang Xi watched the leaves slowly fall from front of his eyes with blank eyes, suddenly, Zhang Xi stopped, "Brother ........" The sound contained grievances, hesitation, helplessness, and even a little choking.
"Brother, you said that what we are doing is not good, why ....... it"
"Zhang Xi!" Zhang Xin snorted, turned around, and stared at Zhang Xi with burning eyes, "I know what you're going to say later, shut up for me!" ”
Zhang Xi bit his lip silently, lowered his head, and didn't say a word.
"We have been brothers for so many years, there are some things you don't say, I know it. Do you think that you have practiced kung fu well, and dozens of people are not your opponents, Lao Tzu is a hero, but he only earns a few pennies every day, and that vulgar black fat man doesn't do anything, and he still yells at five and six, why is this world so unfair! Just him, there are a few hundred taels of silver in that drawer, with this money, wouldn't it be nice for us to fly away? Am I right? ”
“....... Be! Zhang Xi suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhang Xin deadly, "Brother, this is Liangzhou, if we hadn't bled and worked hard, this realm would have been the territory of Tubo dogs!" Brother, do you remember, when I was on this street, Brother Hu, there were so many brothers who died in front of our eyes one by one, and every day when we walked back from here, I felt ......... So many brothers' blood ........." Saying that, Zhang Xi suddenly threw the cloth bag in his arms on the ground, and the seven pennies were scattered to the ground, "How much suffering we suffered and how many sins we suffered at the beginning, brother, I remember that when we went home, you couldn't stand up when you were injured, but now, our brothers are worth seven yuan a day, seven yuan!" It's been so many days, I can't get enough to eat, my hungry eyes are full of gold stars, and Jinshi is still lying in a thatched hut with wind leaking on all sides, but what about the fat man? Tubo ran away on the first day of the siege, but now he is back with wine and fat chickens, hugging left and right, is this fair! Say, "Is that fair?" ”
Zhang Xin didn't look at Zhang Xi's red eyes, slowly bent down, picked up the money scattered on the ground one by one, and rolled two coins into the brick cracks of the two green bricks, Zhang Xin had to kneel on the ground and pull out the money little by little.
"Brother!" Zhang Xi rushed to Zhang Xin at once, half-knelt on the ground, and wrapped his hands around Zhang Xin's shoulders, "I just want to have a full meal, is this too much?" ”
Zhang Xin shook his head, "It's not too much....... I'm sorry, it's all my brother's incompetence, and I don't have any other skills except for this kung fu........ But ah, no matter how well you practice kung fu, you can't eat it, so what else can we do except these two strengths? Ah Xi, I taught you kung fu, not to let you use it to do evil, besides, the money of other people's Zhu Fat Man is also saved little by little, you go to seek money and kill your life, touch your conscience, do you lose a loss? There is no shame in eating with strength. Besides, Jinshi will be able to go to the ground at his sight, and after a few days, he will be completely healed, and he will not be going to grab the medicine, so it is not difficult for us to have a full meal......" He said and slowly got up and handed the seven yuan back into Zhang Xi's hands, "Ah Xi, since you still remember the brother who died here, you should know that the brothers don't want to see you go....... So many brothers died here, not so that the two of us could drink wine and eat meat, get promoted and get rich. It is to let all the people in Liangzhou live a peaceful life. Saying that, taking Zhang Xi's hand and standing up side by side with him, Zhang Xin looked up at a lantern on the side of the street, and smiled: "Look, the brothers did not die in vain. ”
Zhang Xi clutched the seven coins in the palm of his hand, looked at the lanterns on the street, and his eyes couldn't help but turn red.