An Yi can get out of bed, and he can walk to the street and turn back, but he has walked to the street for a few days and is no longer far away, this is not because he is unable to do it at the beginning of his serious illness, but after figuring out the various signboards on the small street and the dresses and conversations of people passing by, he is finally sure where he has been.

An Yi, a native of Guangzhou, can basically understand the soft Cantonese language, and even the famous Cantonese opera song "Fen Feiyan" and some other classic Cantonese pop songs he has sung countless times, but he can't say it in conversation. As for Jiangxi dialect and Hunan dialect, it is even more difficult for him, many of the peers in the school and workshop he originally studied are from various provinces and cities in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is not much obstacle to communication between them, not to mention that An Yi himself is extremely smart, the reason why he can't be admitted to a prestigious university is not that he doesn't have such potential, but he has liked machinery since he was a child, and he is very biased, and he is always dominated by some kind of subconscious that goes deep into the bone marrow - the things he likes are very hard-working, what he doesn't like is not like, and he never spends any effort to force it.

In the past few days, Dongzi and Mr. Lao's many casual words and deeds have always moved An Yi with gratitude, and Dongzi diligently supported him on the day he was able to get out of bed, when An Yi asked Dongzi why he said that he was his brother? Why save him? Who knew that Dongzi was surprised for a long time before he replied in a low voice: You are my brother when you are with me...... My parents have always told me before their deaths that saving a life is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, which is a matter of accumulating yin virtue, not to mention that when I saw you at that time, I felt that you were just like my brother.

The market calmed down Mr. Lao can go out to set up a stall again, I heard that the stall is supported in the aisle between the two shops opposite the Tianzi Wharf, as long as there is no turmoil in Guangzhou City, Mr. Lao's business is still good, most of the people can receive one or two dollars a day, lucky to meet generous guests, a reward to ten yuan and eight oceans have also been there. Speaking of Dayang, An Yi paid attention, and after carefully inquiring about Dongzi, he learned that there is a slight difference between the ocean in Guangzhou and the Yuan Datou that is currently used in the whole country, and one ocean in Guangzhou is one dollar, which is one to two percent cheaper than Yuan Datou, which means that eleven or twelve oceans cast in Guangzhou can only be exchanged for ten Yuan Datou.

A dollar in Guangzhou is divided into ten jiaozi, on the surface it seems to be silver, but there is not much silver in it, three jiaozi can live in an ordinary inn for one night, and one jiaozi can go to the old store every year to eat a large plate of smooth, greasy, mellow and delicious beef rice noodles, but Dongzi himself has only heard of this famous Lingnan rice noodles, but he has no ability to eat it, because his monthly salary is only eight yuan, plus a variety of additional overtime and errand subsidies, the best month is also twelve yuan of income, except for the rent of five yuan, After eating, Dongzi didn't have a few leftovers every month. An Yi settled in the Qinjia compound this time, so that Dongzi broke a lot of money, and spent all the savings that Dongzi had squeezed out of his teeth in the past three months, until the evening before yesterday An Yi saw Dongzi send a big bowl of meat porridge as usual, but he ran outside to satisfy his hunger with two half-baked papayas, An Yi realized that he owed this kind brother too much.

In the evening, Mr. Lao sent An Yi and Dongzi a pack of oily braised duck feet, seeing Dongzi's eyes shining green and munching and An Yi motionless, Mr. Lao thought about it and asked with a smile: "Don't like this kind of sweet broad-flavored braised duck palms?" ”

An Yi shook his head apologetically: "No, no! Sir, I just feel that I don't lack arms and legs, and it's not a taste to lie at home all day long, and it's not a good feeling to live in vain all day, a manly husband should be self-reliant, how can I make you increase the burden...... Dongzi, don't be in a hurry to listen to me, it's not easy for you, you buy me meat porridge every day for my illness, but you secretly nibble on some rotten papaya and half a sweet potato, do you think I didn't see it? I feel really uncomfortable, you and Mr. Lao's life-saving grace are so kind to me who has never met, how can you repay me for this affection? Are you embarrassed to lie at home all day and eat white food? Mr. Lao, you have been in Guangzhou for four years and are familiar with the situation in Guangzhou, so I would like to ask you about it, is it difficult to find a job in the city? ”

Mr. Lao's eyebrows shook slightly, and a look of appreciation flashed in his eyes: "Xiao Anzi, you don't have to be in such a hurry, let's take care of it for a few days." ”

"I'm all right...... By the way, sir, don't call me 'Xiao Anzi' in the future, it's okay to call me Xiao Yi or An Yi, please, okay? An Yi said sincerely.

Mr. Lao was quite surprised: "How smooth this little Anzi is!" Naturally, there is also a sense of kindness, why don't you like it? ”

An Yi waved his hands together: "No, no!" It's hard to hear, the name 'Xiao Anzi' is exactly the same as the title of the eunuch, I remember that the Empress Dowager Cixi played on TV called the eunuch An Dehai like this, disgusting! ”

Mr. Lao laughed, and Dong Zile asked curiously, "Brother An, what is TV?" ”

"yes, I was just going to ask you." Don't think about hiding anything from Mr. Lao, who is as careful as a hair.

An Yi immediately realized that he had leaked his mouth, and his thoughts were like electricity and hurriedly remedied: "When I was a child, I watched a play in the countryside of Chengdu, and the stage in that town was padded with many large stones, and the people in the town called that stage 'Stepping Stone Stage', and there were often performance teams acting on it. ”

Mr. Lao suddenly realized: "I see...... Bashu is the country of abundance, where the literary style is prosperous for thousands of years, and many place names seem simple and crude, but it is a history book when you think about it! Ha ha...... In that case, I'll call you Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi, seeing that your gestures are really natural, and you have a few detailed gifts for taking people and things, you must have a family history, right? ”

An Yi said bitterly: "I'm sorry, I can't recognize all the signboards on the street, and I can barely understand those traditional characters, but I don't know half of them, and I thought about it for a long time to figure it out." ”

"You call the characters on the signboard traditional characters?" Mr. Lao Xiao looked at An Yi with interest.

An Yi was stunned again, and then said with a wry smile: "I'm annoyed when I look at words with more than ten strokes, so I call him 'annoying characters'." ”

Mr. Lao laughed when he heard this: "Interesting, interesting!" Haha, you're smart! This kind of generalization is novel and unique, and this is the first time I've heard it. Take Dongzi as an example, his deceased father was a private school teacher in his hometown, and his mother turned out to be the daughter of a big family outside Ji'an, Dongzi is also eighteen years old this year, and he was born on the first day of the seventh month of the old calendar, only one month younger than you, and he was born in the thirty-second year of Guangxu. Dongzi can recite the whole text of "Zengguang Xianwen" at the age of seven, and he can also write in a good way, otherwise how can he be admitted to the Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau? Ha ha...... Xiao Yi, since this is the case, I estimate that you may not be so smooth to find something to do, the big foreign firms employ people who can write and calculate, and the minimum education must also be graduated from a provincial middle school, and there are many people who have graduated from college and even stayed abroad, so ah, I think you still find those local ordinary shops to try maybe it is smoother, and when you are familiar with the words in the future, your experience has increased, and it may not be necessary to go to those big commercial houses. ”

Dongzi thought for a while and suggested: "Big brother, Section Chief Cai of our Civil Affairs Bureau is very good to me, she said that my handwriting is beautiful and will count, and she plans to transfer me from the service team to the garment factory in the bureau as a clerk, if I can go, see if I can beg Section Chief Cai to accept you." ”

Although An Yi felt sad, he was still full of gratitude to Mr. Lao and Dongzi: "Thank you, Dongzi, although I can't recognize all the words in the newspaper, but I think it won't take long to get used to it, the Civil Affairs Bureau you said is a good place, I saw that Mr. Sun's father-in-law Sun Ke was the mayor of Guangzhou, as long as you work hard, you may be able to have a good development prospect, after all, today's national political axe is a new political axe, maybe it will soon be able to rule the whole of China, and then all kinds of talents will have their own place." As for me, I don't like to work in the political axe agency or their subordinate agencies, and I can't do things that nod to my boss all day long, so I'd better try my luck in factories or shopping malls, I believe that as long as I work hard, I will definitely find a suitable job. ”

Dongzi was no longer reluctant to hear An Yi's words, but Mr. Lao was secretly surprised in his heart, he didn't expect that this young man in front of him was easy-going and polite on the outside, but he was so arrogant in his bones, and his words were smooth and fluent, not a few refreshing and subtle words, he seemed to have some knowledge of officialdom, and it was surprising that the Kuomintang was so high in adversity and limited strength today, if he thought about it carefully, if he didn't have a certain amount of experience and cognition, it would be impossible to say such a thing.

However, on the other hand, Mr. An Yi was deeply confused, when he asked him his age some time ago, he only said that he was eighteen years old, but he did not know what year he was born. Mr. Lao pointed out without hesitation that the eighteen-year-old birth year of this year is the thirty-second year of Guangxu, and the year zodiac belongs to the horse, and the first day of July in the new calendar is the first day of June in the old calendar. This ordinary sentence made An Yi dumbfounded at that time, and a sentence that "returned to ancient times" popped out of his mouth unclearly, which made Mr. Gao Fulu, a Taoist who was a fortune teller who came to observe his face and look at the fire, was deeply puzzled, and he didn't know how to judge it.

The three of them chatted for a long time and rested separately, but An Yi still insisted on his cleanliness problem, took the toothbrush that Dongzi had finally gotten back, dipped it in some tooth powder, tore off the cotton cloth and face towel on the bamboo pole and walked to the well in the courtyard.

Dongzi put down the newspaper, and couldn't figure out how An Yi would call the toothbrush he finally got back a shoe brush, Dongzi asked An Yi twice without explaining, but smiled apologetically and said something else.

In fact, it is understandable why An Yi called the toothbrush in his hand a shoe brush, this self-produced toothbrush in Guangzhou is made of rough plastic and plexiglass full of impurities as the handle, and the front end drills three rows of small holes to tie three rows of brushes, and the brush part is made of a neat ponytail, which is a small shoe brush.

An Yi did not explain why he called it a shoe brush, because he knew that this toothbrush was not easy to come by, although there were advertisements for toothbrushes made in the United States in the newspaper, but the price of a toothbrush was equivalent to Dongzi's salary for three days, and Dongzi was able to buy him this locally produced toothbrush and a small packet of calcium carbonate tooth powder, which already made An Yi grateful.

It was late at night, An Yi was still asking Dongzi about the industrial and commercial layout of Guangzhou City, and after learning that most of the few factories were small workshops run by family members, An Yi secretly turned his employment goal to the commercial field. Guangzhou has been an important treaty port since ancient times, and the development of commerce and finance has a long history and is among the best in the country, but the industry has not received due attention, and compared with Wuhan, Nanjing and other places, there is not a small gap, so there are more opportunities in the commercial field.

Having made up his mind, An Yizhi fell into a deep sleep with triumph, where he expected to encounter so many bumps in the road to employment.