8. Street drums, not singing (1)

Zhou Quan didn't know that his own affairs would pass from the mouth of Yang Jian, a traitorous eunuch, to the emperor.

He had now finally figured out his situation.

It is now the first year of the Great Song Dynasty, and the current emperor Zhao Ji has been in power for eleven years.

Zhou Quan knew a little about history, and knew that this emperor was the famous Song Huizong, a famous faint monarch in Chinese history, who was about to face the shame of Jingkang, and then was taken to the northeast to sit in the well and watch the sky.

However, now Zhao Ji is only thirty years old (imaginary age), and it should be some time before Jingkang's shame.

As for his own family, he is a resident of the outer city of Bianjing, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and his cheap Lao Zi Zhou Fu is a small official in the Public Affairs Bureau, and the "scholar" is the position, taking care of some miscellaneous affairs. However, going back further, the Zhou family was originally a forbidden army, and it was only in Zhou Fu's generation that they took off their military status and became a civil servant.

His mother, Zhou Wang, is also the daughter of the forbidden army, has been married to Zhou Fu for 18 years, and has two sons and a daughter, but the other two died of the epidemic, so Zhou Quan has no brothers and sisters.

Originally, such a family, in Bianliang City, Tokyo, was more than enough than the upper and lower levels, and could live more comfortably. But Zhou Fu is a good and righteous character, and he is a group of brothers who are now very miserable from the forbidden army, and he can help if he can, and help if he can. This made the Zhou family overstretched, and they could only live in the shop and house set up by the imperial court.

Fortunately, the low-rent housing in Da Song is okay, and the house rented out by this shop is not bad, and it can shelter the Zhou family from the wind and rain.

"One word, how poor!"

With his hands behind his back, Zhou Quan circled around his house and muttered.

In the eyes of Zhou Quan, who has experienced an era of great material abundance, the Zhou family is of course poor.

Behind him, the master pursed his lips and laughed: "Brother said something wrong, those are two words!" ”

Zhou Quan glanced back at her, and said a little sullenly: "Little girl, what do you know!" ”

The master raised his chin: "Although the slave doesn't know too much, he knows that his father and mother let the slave stare at his brother, so as not to cause trouble for his brother!" ”

This is the first job that the little girl took over in the Zhou family, keep an eye on Zhou Quan, and don't let him be instigated to do bad things again.

So Zhou Quan had a small follower behind him, and in the past few days, he has almost never left.

Zhou Quan was very strange how his parents completed this deal with Aunt Li and turned the teacher over. There must be some reason in this that he doesn't know yet, and no matter how much he asks, he can't get the answer from his parents.

Master Wang also didn't know the answer, but a little girl like her, she was precocious, and she had already accepted her situation, so she coaxed Zhou's mother to a great time, and she hurt her more than her son.

"This piece is poor......" After going around his house, Zhou Quan began to walk around the neighborhood again.

This area is all the houses of the imperial court shop, according to the size, the old and the new, the rent is different, each room ranges from more than 50 wen to more than 100 wen per month.

When he turned to the innermost and darkest room in the alley, Zhou Quan was about to turn around and leave, when he suddenly heard a sharp scolding.

"Eat, eat, you know how to eat, your one meal is worth ten people from the old lady, even a kid of your age, and you can't eat one-third of you!"

This voice is somewhat familiar, Zhou Quan looked for it in his memory, and after a while, he knew: Three Immortal Gu.

It turned out that this three immortal aunts who pretended to be ghosts were so close to their homes and were in the same alley.

However, the public housing rented by the Three Immortal Aunts family is more dilapidated than Zhou Quan's family. Zhou Quan's house still has two floors, while the three immortal aunts' house is only a low floor, and it is shrunk in the deepest part of the alley.

The door made of two broken wooden planks blocked Zhou Quan's face, but it couldn't stop the scolding from inside. It should be the three fairy aunts who are scolding her short and strong son, Zhou Quan has no interest in other people's housework, but just as he was about to turn around and leave, the door made of broken wooden planks opened with a "bang", and the short and sturdy boy walked out with a gloomy face.

Seeing Zhou Quan, this kid glared at him, ignored him, and left directly from him.

Zhou Quan glanced into the room, the room was empty, and the thin Three Immortal Gu was wiping tears and scolding.

In addition to the kid, there was also the boy's father, and from the scolding of the three immortals, Zhou Quan still heard something.

"It turns out that the kid's name is Li Bao, and the three immortal aunts have been widowed since more than ten years ago, and it is ......indeed not easy to pull such a kid alone in this capital."

Zhou Quan thought secretly in his heart, and the three immortal girls wiped their tears at this time, and were chasing after their son, and collided with Zhou Quan head-on, and their faces changed suddenly.

Not only frightened, but also with fear and a bit of hatred.

Over the years, the three immortal aunts have relied on washing and sewing people and pretending to be ghosts, so that they can pull their son Li Bao up, among them, pretending to be gods and ghosts has become the main business.

But after exposing her two scams to Zhou Quan last time, she pretended to be a ghost and had no business, and even some people who had been deceived by her before came to the door to quarrel with her.

"What are you doing here?" She said angrily.

"Look at the excitement." Zhou Quan smacked his lips and then turned to leave.

The Three Immortal Gu pointed at Sang and scolded Huai behind his back, Zhou Quan just didn't hear it, but when he turned to the alley and left the sight of the Three Immortal Gu, he saw the short Li Bao rushing out and pushing him.

"Let you bully my mother!"

Zhou Quan was pushed and stumbled against the wall, if it weren't for the fact that this body was still strong, he was afraid that he would be overturned by this kid.

"What do you do?" The teacher who followed Zhou Quan hurriedly held Zhou Quan and glared angrily at Li Bao.

Zhou Quan waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, he's also anxious...... I didn't bully your mother, your mother was angry, you provoked it. ”

He had already discovered that Li Bao had some simple tendons, and the two sides did not have a deep hatred, a little misunderstanding was just a matter of uncovering.

Li Bao snorted, his face sullen.

"Your mother is angry because you have eaten too much?" Zhou Quan asked curiously again.

"I don't want to eat that much...... But if you don't eat much, you won't have the strength, and if you don't have the strength, you can't work! He said angrily.

"Work? What do you do? Seeing that this kid was the same age as himself, Zhou Quan asked curiously.

"Go to the South Corner Menzi to carry the bag."

It turned out that Li Bao had gone to the Bianhe River for the past few days to unload the boats. It's just that he is young and stupid, although his strength is not inferior to that of adults, but when he broke the rules when doing business, he made the leader over there angry.

"How much money can I earn when I go to Nanjiao Menzi to find a bag?" Hearing this, Zhou Quan shook his head: "It's only two hundred wen a day, and you have to be deducted by the steward and the head, and your temper is not suitable for this." ”

In the past few days, Zhou Quan has not been idle, and has done some research on the prices and labor in Bianjing City at this time.

"What can I do if I don't do this, my mother wants me to go to school, saying that I have a good reputation, but I'm not that material, I want to go to the hook bar to learn sumo, but my mother doesn't allow it!"

"You want to learn sumo?" Zhou Quan asked curiously.

"Naturally, if you look at Mahan on the front street, he is a sumo wrestler, not only full of wine and meat, but also called by people everywhere, how face-saving!"

At this time, sumo wrestling was popular, but it was not easy to learn sumo, and even if he learned it, he was in the limelight when he was young, but when he reached his thirties, his physical strength declined, and he was injured and sick, so he could only survive on the sickbed. Li Bao, this kid, can only see the scenery of the sumo wrestler, and the three fairy aunts see the bleak evening scene of the sumo wrestler.

"Generation gap, ......," Zhou Quan said.

"What, what's the ditch?" Li Bao asked.

"Don't worry about the ditch, do you want to make some money to subsidize the family?" Zhou Quan asked again.

"I, I don't want my mother to pretend to be a ghost and deceive people, if I can make money, her old man can enjoy Qingfu at home!"

This kid still has some filial piety, Zhou Quan agrees with the view of "filial piety first", a person has filial piety, then there is always a little bit of salvation.

He had an idea in his heart, but now the conditions are not enough, and he can only keep Li Bao in mind for the time being.

Turning from side to side, he felt a little bored, and walked down the street.

Before he stepped on the street, there was a voice from behind him: "Brother, don't go to the street to make trouble!" ”

She pouted as she spoke, and there was a hint of annoyance in her eyes.

Although she is young, her heart is high, she originally fell into the hands of Aunt Li, and there was a trace of grief and indignation in her heart, but now she is treated as a commodity and transferred to the Zhou family, but she is serving Zhou Quan, a muddy boy!

Yes, she looks down on Zhou Quan, in her heart, she feels that Donghua is famous outside the gate, and the literary style flows all over the world, that is a real man and a real hero.

As for Zhou Quan, a child in the market, he is dumbfounded, although he is not a scoundrel, he is also 108,000 miles away from the hero in the heart of the teacher.

"Don't worry, I won't make trouble, I'm just going to the streets, and I've been stuffy at home these days. If you're still not at ease, you might as well come with me! ”

Zhou Quan promised in his mouth, but he didn't stop at his feet, and the teacher had no choice but to follow.

At this time, it was the most prosperous time in Bianliang City, Tokyo, Zhou Quan went out of the alley, and when he arrived on the street, he saw people coming and going, on both sides of the street, there were many shops, all kinds of shouting and shouting, one after another.

In the future generations, this kind of excitement is nothing, but at this time, it is definitely a first-class treasure in the world!

Zhou Quan looked at it, and suddenly, there was some change in his foreground, a ball of flames, swallowing up the prosperity in front of him, and in a trance, those shouts and drinks turned into screams and cries.

What flows through the ravines is no longer water, but blood. The neighing of the horses, the laughter of the barbarians, and the miserable and miserable cries of the women......

All this rushed to his face, making Zhou Quan's hair stand on end, and the whole person was in a state of panic, he almost wanted to turn around and escape!