Xin Huzi, who was carrying a burlap bag, walked through the bustling crowd. He had eaten a little early this morning. So he carried the skins that had come to this cattle market shop and exchanged them for salt. These skins, which will be exchanged for salt, have been accumulated in recent months. Although Uncle Calf was exchanged for some wine. But there are still a lot left, just used to exchange some salt for the salt house that came to the market.

The place where the salt house is located, Xin Huzi is very familiar. Since I was a child, I followed my father for the first time and came to this city to learn words. He followed Daddy a lot and came to the salt house to exchange salt.

The old man Wu who is in charge of the salt house, although he is already old. But it is still in charge, this house in the cattle market, where the Tun people exchange their skins for coarse salt. is also because of the relationship between Mr. Wu and Daddy, and he gradually became very familiar with Mr. Wu in the salt house.

Walking in the lively market, looking at the approaching salt house. Xin Huzi also saw that at the door of the Yanba house, there were several mule-drawn carts parked. Except for a few people with skins waiting at the door of the salt house, it should be a tun who wants to exchange skins for salt. There are also some sturdy Tunren men, who are surrounding the door of the salt house, as if waiting for something. From time to time, these men also looked at the middle-aged man and Old Man Wu who were standing next to the cart, wearing a blue-faced soap robe.

And the middle-aged man and Old Man Wu were talking about something at this time. The middle-aged man is dressed up, but he can also see that he should be an errand boy from the township! On the waist tie around his waist, there was also a ring head knife.

Old Man Wu is still wearing the same blue cloth robe with white shampooed hair. Although the robe worn by the officer was almost the same, it was already pulped and washed, and it was all withdrawn from its original blue color. At this time, the old man Wu was nodding his head, pointing to the old man in his hand, and the shabby papyrus book he was holding.

"Master Zhou, take a look. Right? ”

"Hmmm! Not bad! It's all right! Hey! Old man Wu~ In this forest, it belongs to the collection you manage, and the skins are enough every time. Not bad! Not bad! ”

"It's all as it should be, isn't it~"

"Hey! Okay! You old man Wu can run errands, so the errands in this episode will naturally not be able to run away from you. When you can't do this errand, let your son at home or something, and continue your errand. ”

"Thanks! Thank you! Thank you! ”

After listening to the words of the errand officer, the old Wu leader was happy for a while and thanked him. Although he has been in this life, he has inherited this errand from his ancestors. There is an apprentice family who has been passed on to him by his ancestors, even if he can't do this by himself, he is doing an errand in the cattle market. The eldest son in his family can continue to attack, and he continues to run errands for the government.

But when the time comes, he can't do this job, an errand in the bull market. When he passed it on to his son, he said that he could not do it or not, and continued to stay in this cattle market, as a bad man in this salt house. If his son attacked him on his errand and went somewhere else, he did not know that he would be sent there to continue the errand of collecting the skin for salt.

When he was young, when he had just attacked his father, who had just died of illness, he started this errand. was sent to a very sparsely populated small set by the poor men in the old forest at that time. He, in that small collection that doesn't collect much, stayed for more than ten years before he could be regarded as having survived. After staying a few more, the errand of the salt house on the other sets was sent to this old forest, from the Changjia market to this cattle market.

In order not to let himself be that, the son who will attack his own errand in the future. Like himself back then, after he arrived at the Bull Market, he did his best to run errands for the old men who managed this forest. Even if there is not enough skin given by the government in the salt house, he will try his best to make up enough skin for the poor men who come to collect the skin

Over the years, he has been trying to make the old man say what he just said. is to wait for the old man to promise him, and when he can't do this errand, so that his eldest son can continue to stay in this big set and continue to do this errand when his son attacks his sub-errand.

"Okay~Okay~ You old boy, in this city, you have the best errands. We're not worried, aren't we? ”

"Yes! Be! Be! Thank you! Thank you! ”

After listening to the old man's words, the old Wu Tou'er thanked him for a while.

As he spoke, the officer's heart was filled with joy. After all, the skins in this bull market can be regarded as the place where the most skins and oil and water are collected in this old forest. He was able to be sent to this collection on an errand this time, but it was also the result of his own curry favor with the above. Otherwise, such a good errand would be really bad.

"Huh? Lu Xing? Didn't you eat wine with the young master? Why did you go back by yourself? ”

When the messenger looked around boredly, he saw another young messenger who was alone and had returned.

The officer was only twenty-three or fourteen years old. He was also wearing a blue-faced soap robe. I saw that his face was a little red, and he was still a little drunk when he walked to the salt house. In his hand, he also held a horsewhip.

"Brother Zhou, why don't you go over and have a few drinks?"

The young officer said with a smile, and he had already come to the Yanba house between words. Seeing that the young servant approached, the people who were surrounding the salt house also made way for him one after another.

Xin Huzi, who was standing next to the Yanba house, saw that the direction in which the young man was coming was just in front of him, so he hurriedly moved his position. When he had just moved his position to give way to the young man who had walked in front of him, he made his debut. But I didn't want to, the young man seemed to be deliberate, and he actually bumped into him all at once!

"Oops! Who is so short-sighted?! ”

The young officer who deliberately bumped into Xin Huzi fell to the ground without standing firm after hitting Xin Huzi. When he slowly stood up from the ground, he shouted loudly as he stood up.

"Huh?"

Seeing that the young officer deliberately bumped into Xin Huzi, and fell to the ground without standing firmly, the middle-aged officer who was standing at the door of the salt house was a little puzzled and puzzled. But he saw it clearly, and knew that it was a young man who deliberately ran into the young man. I also know that the young man fell to the ground when he deliberately bumped into the young man of Natun.

"Don't you kid have long eyes!? Didn't you see your grandfather coming? You dare to deliberately get in the way and knock your poor master down! It's a thing that doesn't know whether it's alive or dead! ”

The young officer who stood up said, grabbed Xin Huzi's shirt and said viciously. The drunkenness on his face just now, but it disappeared all of a sudden.

"I'm not in your way! You bumped into me yourself! ”

Xin Huzi retorted to the young man's errand and said. He had already made way for this young servant just now. But I didn't want this young man to be on an errand and run into myself so deliberately!

"Zhou, Zhou Ye, that young man is, it's me"

"Huh? Old man Wu, do you know that person? ”

"Yes! Be! The villain, the villain knows that, that's the villain knows, the baby Zhou of a Tun man's family, Zhou Ye can, can you let Lu Ye spare the baby who doesn't have long eyes"

After listening to Old Wu'er's words, the middle-aged errand officer didn't say anything. After a few steps, he came to the young officer's side and said, "Lu Xing, what's wrong?" ”

The young officer named Lu Xing, when he saw that the middle-aged officer came closer, he let go of his hand holding Xin Huzi's shirt and hurriedly said to the middle-aged officer: "Brother Zhou! This kid doesn't have long eyes! Just now, this kid deliberately knocked me down on the way over! Hum! What a thing that doesn't know whether to live or die! ”

The middle-aged errand thought for a moment, touching the stubble at the corner of his mouth. But he didn't know, what happened to Lu Xing today? Why did you look at this Tunren boy unpleasantly, and deliberately found the stubble of this Tunren boy

Lu Xing looked at the middle-aged errand officer touching his stubble, thinking about something. He hurriedly moved closer to the middle-aged officer, and as soon as he reached the middle-aged officer's ear, he whispered something.

"Huh? Is there such a thing? ”

"Hmmm! Brother Zhou! You say, "Can I leave this alone?" ”

"Hmm"

After listening to the young officer named Lu Xing, after muttering a few small words in his ear, the middle-aged errand also frowned and looked at Xin Huzi, who was still standing in place at this time. But he didn't want to, this kid in front of him turned out

Seeing that the middle-aged errand servant didn't say much, Lu Xing walked in front of Xin Huzi again, and said viciously: "It's not a long-eyed thing!" Now, I want to leave like this! Dare to deliberately knock down the officials of the government! Do you know the sin?! ”

Xin Huzi saw that just now, the young man who deliberately bumped into him. It was such unreasonable words, but he was not convinced: "What is my sin? It was you who deliberately bumped into me just now! Why do you say that I deliberately hit you? I didn't deliberately hit you! Why am I guilty? ”

"Bold! You're a little tun skin! How dare you be so bold! Fight against the official servants! Who gave you such guts? Well?! ”

The middle-aged errand also shouted loudly to Xin Huzi after Xin Huzi retorted that the young man named Lu Xing was a servant. His voice was really loud, not only shocking the people around him. Even some distance away from the salt house, I heard his shouting.

With the shouting of the middle-aged servants, the number of people surrounding the salt house also increased.