Chapter 43 [The Adventures of Liu Kuaijiao]

Xiao Liuzi nodded hurriedly, and his mouth responded. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The three of them hurriedly walked towards the direction of the wine shop, and when they were about to pass through the moon cave, Chen Ruolan suddenly stopped again.

"Brother Liuzi, if the guest asks Uncle Yang later, you can just look for him, but in the end, you can't really find him, understand?"

Her words sounded a little strange at first glance, Xiao Liuzi obviously didn't understand much, so Chen Ruolan said patiently: "If the guest really asks about Uncle Yang, then you can go to the backyard, pretend, and go back after a while, just tell the guest that Uncle Yang happens to be away, understand?" ”

Xiao Liuzi nodded as if he didn't understand. Curious, he didn't ask much.

Tang'er couldn't hold back the curiosity in her heart: "Sister, what's the matter with Uncle Yang, why is it so strange?" Besides, you haven't even seen what the guest looks like, so how do you know that he will definitely ask Uncle Yang? ”

Chen Ruolan shrugged her shoulders and said, "It's just a precaution - my sister also guessed, not necessarily accurate." I'll explain to you later, let's go meet the guests first, don't make the family wait too long! ”

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Liu Kuaijiao has indeed waited for a long time.

At this moment, he was sitting anxiously in the corner of the wine shop, and the tea in front of him had been placed on the table halfway through, and there was a string of copper beside him.

How did this little six sons, a young man who is quite awake on weekdays, why is he dragging his feet like this today?

Today is not here to sharpen, Liu's fast-footed big green horse is tied to the door, looking leisurely, but his master is not as leisurely as it, sitting on the chair and looking back at the curtain next to the counter from time to time.

After waiting for a long time, the curtain finally opened, and the three of them came out. Tang'er looked at Liu Kuaijiao with wide eyes, obviously wanting to see who the stranger named to buy bricks was and whether he had three heads and six arms.

He used to be a sturdy man, nearly fifty years old, of medium stature, and fairly well-dressed, but a pair of straw sandals under his feet had long been torn, and he carried a wooden splint under his arm, which was a bit like a long box, and he carried a burden in his hand. The sun was rising outside, warm and warm, but the sharp-eyed Tang'er found that a corner of the robe was faintly exposed in Liu Kuai's foot.

Looking at this dress and the things in his hands, he should be a postman. The poster was mainly a person who transmitted documents and messages between the ancient post stations, and it was normal to always have a robe in case of emergency.

He's a normal person.

The appearance is normal, the profession is normal, and the look is normal, not like he is here to mess around.

The naughty Tang'er was slightly disappointed. In her opinion, those bricks are very strange, and the first customer who is willing to spend money to buy them should be a strange person, but she didn't expect that she seemed to be thinking too much.

Seeing that Xiao Liuzi ran in for so long, he actually pulled out two big girls, and Liu Kuaijiao was also a little surprised.

"Little Liuzi, who are these two?" Liu Kuaijiao stood up from his seat and asked in confusion.

Xiao Liuzi hurriedly introduced: "These two are the owners of our shop, this is our eldest lady, and this is the second lady." ”

Chen Ruolan gave a gentle salute: "The little girl's surname is Chen, this is the sister, and the two of us sisters are the owners of this shop." ”

Although the boss is a woman, they are still two such delicate girls, but Liu Kuaijiao didn't care too much, and hugged his fists and said straight to the point: "Two Miss Chen, Xiao Liuzi must have told you two that Liu came today to buy and lick bricks." ”

Chen Ruolan made a gesture to sit down, and sat down with Tang'er, "Uncle Liu, Brother Liuzi has already told you what you mean." Forgive me for asking, how do you know that our shop has licking bricks for sale? To be honest, we haven't actually officially sold this licking brick to the outside world. ”

Liu Kuaijiao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, "Liu Mou has already bought a piece last time, of course I know that you have a ...... for sale."

Chen Ruolan looked at Tang'er, Tang'er naturally knew the question in her sister's eyes, and quickly shook her head gently, the meaning was self-evident, none of those bricks had been sold.

In fact, Chen Ruolan also had questions about the number of licked bricks, she vaguely remembered who mentioned that Li Qingshan should have sent ten licked bricks, but under the inventory just now, there were only nine. She also specially asked Xiao Liuzi about this, and Xiao Liuzi patted his chest and swore that all the bricks in the stable had been delivered, and none of them had fallen.

In this case, I don't know where to go for the missing piece. Now it seems that the missing piece was obviously bought by Liu Kuaijiao, but I don't know when this incident happened, I had asked Tang'er before I came just now, and she obviously didn't know.

"But speaking of which, Liu didn't buy it last time, that Brother Yang is really a good person, seeing that Liu's horse kept licking, he gave me a piece directly, half a copper didn't care about me......" Liu Kuaijiao said and looked around, "Hey, by the way, what about Brother Yang?" Why haven't you seen him today? ”

Tang'er and Xiao Liuzi looked at each other, and Liu Kuaijiao really asked about Daddy Yang, and he was stunned.

Only Chen Ruolan is as good as her name, listening to Liu Kuaijiao's tone, she is more sure of her own conjecture, and said with a smile: "Uncle Liu, you are talking about Uncle Yang from our store, right?" He's here, little Liuzi, hurry up and invite Uncle Yang to come! ”

Xiao Liuzi was quite clever, and when he heard this, he responded and immediately ran in the direction of the kitchen.

Liu Kuaijiao glanced at the back of Xiao Liuzi, "Liu really wants to thank Brother Yang in person......"

The profession of the poster is equivalent to the courier of later generations, although nominally it is a government-specific courier, but in private, in order to earn more extra money, these posters often help others send some private messages while completing their own work. The transmission of information is not only needed by the government, but also by the people, and the means of communication at this time are very lacking, and almost all the news transmission relies on manpower. There are also some brokers among the people, who specialize in writing letters and carrying letters, but they have not formed a scale, and in terms of speed, ordinary brokers are far inferior to the fast horses.

For the staff, if this part of the business is large, the income can even exceed their own work. In wartime, there was even a situation of sending letters to families at sky-high prices, and the income of the postmen was even higher.

may be because of the nature of Yiding's profession, which determines that he must often deal with all kinds of people he is not familiar with, Liu Kuaijiao is quite talkative, Chen Ruolan knocks on the side from time to time, and after a conversation, Chen Ruolan quickly figured out the ins and outs of Liu Kuaijiao to buy licking bricks.

The first half of the story was pretty much the same as she had guessed.

A few days ago, Liu Kuaijiao, who was passing by the orange fragrance post on business, came to the north and south wine shops to play sharp, sent his mount in the stable, and added some forage by the way. When leaving, the horse kept licking a brick in the stable, and couldn't pull it away, when he happened to meet Daddy Yang who went to the stable to get something.

Daddy Yang was honest, he didn't have much hope for these bricks that Li Qingshan made up blindly, and he was laughed at many times because of this matter, and he didn't dare to mention any business at the moment, so he picked up the brick that was licked a little wet and gave it to Liu Kuaijiao directly.

At that time, in order to deliver an urgent mail, Liu Kuaijiao didn't stop long, but just casually asked questions such as "Is this brick for sale?" How to sell? After receiving a vague answer from Father Yang, he thanked him and left.

These things are not much different from Chen Ruolan's conjecture.

But later the development of things far exceeded Chen Ruolan's expectations, and even exceeded Liu Kuaijiao's expectations.

After returning to Lianggou Ziyi, the seemingly strange brick slowly showed its magic.

First of all, the green horse of Liu Kuaijiao's food has increased significantly, and his mental head has grown a lot longer than in the past, these things can be clearly reflected in the horse's foot strength, the same foot journey, he may have to rest twice on weekdays, and now he can run in one breath. Liu Kuaijiao thought about it, and finally could only lock the reason on the brick that the horse had to lick several times every day. Curious, Liu Kuaijiao gave the brick to the other three horses in the post station for a few days, and it actually had the same magical effect, and the food of the three horses also increased significantly, and the change was really visible. Although the other posters couldn't figure out the reason, as soon as they heard that Liu Kuaijiao had a precious brick, they asked to borrow it, and some even found a brick by themselves, but after the horses licked the bricks they found once, they didn't even look at it anymore.

This is a bitter time for Liu Kuai.

There is only one brick, but there can be thirty or forty post horses inside and outside the Lianggou Zi Post, except for those who perform tasks outside, there are twenty or thirty horses stationed in the post station every day. This led to a strange phenomenon, in the stable of Lianggouzi Post House, there is a strange brick that has to be hung from beginning to end in front of a whole row of mangers every day, and a special person has to be responsible for calculating the time, and then untie and hang the brick again, and then untie and hang it again. If someone's horse is unlucky enough to miss the wheel, or misses it, its owner will finally look for it, and then he will have to find Liu Kuaijiao.

Although there was so much trouble, Liu Kuaijiao also got a lot of benefits, a few days down, the foot strength of the horses in the post station has improved to varying degrees, Liu Kuaijiao also has a nickname in the post station, Liu Kuaijiao has almost become Liu bricks.

The most dumbfounded person was the old king who was in charge of the supply of forage in the post station, and the horses in the post suddenly went crazy, and his appetite was great, and his forage suddenly became nervous. After pondering for a long time, Lao Wang finally decided to report these seemingly abnormal situations, and if he didn't report it, he couldn't do it, and if it continued like this, the normal forage supply could no longer meet the needs of this group of crazy horses, so he could only ask the top to increase the budget. If you conceal it and don't report it, and then poke it out when there is really no forage, the horses in the post will probably be hungry, and then his old king can't afford it.

I thought that such a request would definitely give a bloody scolding, but I didn't expect Zhang Yicheng, who had never been generous, to go crazy, not only promised to increase the forage budget, but also called Liu Kuaijiao as soon as possible, and after asking about it, he immediately made a wise and decisive decision.

"Lao Liu, take these coppers and buy me another ten bricks like this, so that you don't have to lick a brick in turns, and you're sick to death. These horses are the most precious lords in our inn, so they have to be served......"

Liu Kuaijiao was still in a daze, and Zhang Yicheng had already kicked over.

"Why are you still stunned, why don't you go quickly?"