After the battered little teapot was taught a real lesson by Sister Yi, she could only helplessly return to the "Liufangzhai" teahouse, continue to be his shopkeeper, and continue to bear the cruel reality of being called around.

Since there is no way out for the time being, then we can only continue to endure and wait for the opportunity, at least to figure out this legendary cannibalistic society before we can talk about something else - the mentality of the little teapot is slowly flattened, except for the first day of resumption of work when I accidentally broke a tea bowl, the next day is quite good.

The little teapot no longer has a flattering smile on his face, which is very different from the humble boy who nodded his head when he met people in the past, but he is not humble or arrogant, diligent and diligent, and occasionally ridiculed and laughed by the guests, and can also accept it calmly, these performances fell in the snobbish eyes of the teahouse Deng shopkeeper, who read countless people, first surprised, and finally thought of the small teapot seriously injured before healing, perhaps stimulated by this to wake up and know how to work hard!

Therefore, the shopkeeper Deng didn't think much about it, in his opinion, as long as the teapot is honest and diligent, other things are not important.

During the period when the assassination occurred, the repeated interrogations of the officers and soldiers made the shopkeeper Deng fearful, but fortunately, three days later, things suddenly took a turn for the better, the officers and soldiers no longer came to the door to look for trouble, martial law in the city was also lifted, and the guests gradually came back and more and more, many guests came to see the gimmick of "the scene of the assassination" in person, and this craze lasted for a month, so that the name of "Liufangzhai" spread throughout the city of Chengdu and beyond, and the shopkeeper Deng also made a lot of money.

It's just that now a few Yangzhou Qingqi people have moved elsewhere, and after entering the cold winter, the long nights and short days coupled with the continuous cold rain have made the business of the teahouse a lot lighter.

The whole city of Chengdu is the same, when it is dinner time, the flow of people on the streets will be drastically reduced, because the streets are not lit by electric lights, it is not safe to walk in the middle of winter, people in this era have no nightlife habits, except for restaurants and restaurants, the rest of the industry is almost closed.

The business hours of Liufangzhai are naturally greatly shortened, from six o'clock in the morning to six o'clock in the afternoon, changed to seven o'clock in the morning to five o'clock in the afternoon, but now after four o'clock in the afternoon, the guests in the teahouse are tired of returning to the birds, and basically go to the light, this situation is helpless and a loss for the boss, but it is undoubtedly a huge blessing for the tea doctor and the shop Xiaoer.

As a result, the small teapot gets a lot of free time, and can learn a lot of information about this era from the mouths of the workers who always complain, and can also quietly take back the old newspapers that the tea customers have read, read them carefully, and taste the bits and pieces of society.

What made Little Teapot extremely happy was that he had just returned to work for two days, and the three friends who cared about him took the initiative to find him, and after the teahouse closed that day, Little Teapot took back a lot of delicious food from the teahouse in the form of withholding salary, brought the three brothers back to their nest, reunited, and stole a pot of wine from the small cabinet of the old man in the kitchen to help the fun.

For the little teapot to make friends are all unpopular gangsters, although the hard-mouthed and soft-hearted Sister Yi is not very happy, but she still acquiesces, after all, the little teapot is slowly growing up, and he will move out in the future, and a man can't live without one or two friends who are heartfelt.

Since then, the three dead friends of the small teapot have come to play every now and then, sometimes together, sometimes alone, in and out of the side door, everyone's mouth is very sweet and not annoying, and as soon as they come, they get into the room of the small teapot, not noisy or noisy, so they did not let the shopkeeper and others criticize it, and slowly everyone got used to it.

After getting along more, the little teapot figured out the background and spleen surnames of his brothers, among them, who was only fifteen years old and had a pointed face and monkey cheeks, named Luo Fa, was the youngest of the four, and the family ran a small grocery store in the south of the city, with two older sisters and a younger sister, he was deeply favored by his parents, and often carried a few copper plates in his pocket, so he was the richest of the four brothers, and the most settling one.

The boy with a thick skeleton and a tiger's head is called Wu San, he has not taken a big name so far, he is the third in the family, and the third among the four, his rough hands are all calluses, and there is a two-inch-long scar on his left cheek, he wears a thin coarse cloth patch shirt on a cold day, and he is not afraid of the cold with his bare feet.

To Wu Wei's consternation, Wu San's coolie father turned out to be the little incense head of the local elders' association, and the two elder brothers were also the small leaders of the association, only Wu San, who was nearly sixteen years old and had a slightly wooden surname, was still a small gang that was often sent to run errands, and he had no power or power.

On that day, the tall and thin boy with pig's head meat was called "Ma Pole", the two younger brothers respected him as the second brother, and the street gangsters respected him as "Ma Ge".

The origin of the hemp stick is as humble as the small teapot, only the nickname has no name, no family and no occupation, but he is the most free and easy of the four, this guy is thin, the limbs are very long, the nose is high, the small eyes are deep sunken, and he speaks with a big grin full of dirty words, but his surname is Ge Jianyi, quite arrogant, and has repeatedly refused the help of the two younger brothers, and still lives in the broken temple outside the Xilai Temple, which has collapsed most of the time, and occasionally returns to the purple bamboo forest next to the Qingyang Palace, following a group of people who specialize in helping people carry coffins and dig graves.

But after getting along with each other for a long time, Little Teapot slowly learned that the real occupation of the second guy is actually a habitual thief, and it is estimated that he will occasionally do some grave digging and robbing activities, but several brothers are reluctant to mention this, and Little Teapot is not easy to annoy people to ask.

The little teapot never remembered how he got mixed up with the three brothers, and the three of them didn't say anything, except that the eldest brother and the little teapot suddenly knew some words, and the braincase was a little confused than usual, and it was the same as before, how to deal with it or how to deal with it.

On the evening of the second day of New Year's Day in 1907 of the new calendar, the second child covered his frozen red nose, pushed open the door and came in, and saw the eldest brother's small teapot actually writing with a brush under the oil lamp, and wiped his eyes in shock. ”

The little teapot put down the brush, turned his head, and smiled: "What's the matter?" ”

Ma Zhu hesitated slightly, but still said truthfully: "Our brothers have been dating for more than three years, and I never knew that you could read and write, and you also said that it was useless to study, but now you ...... Little brother, why do I feel like you have suddenly changed after you were injured? ”

The little teapot tilted his head sideways and smiled again: "After being injured, I always stay in this small house with a big asshole, and I am miserable!" Fortunately, the girl next door came to see me every day, she knew the words, and said to me that the old man should learn to write a few words, otherwise he would be bullied in the market in the future, I think about it, anyway, there is nothing to do, so I learned from her...... How? Do you want to learn too? ”

Ma Pole looked bitter, waved his hand and hurriedly refused, quickly took out a cloth ball from his arms, carefully placed it on the table, and opened it gently: "Little brother, if you can see this thing, it is estimated that it will be worth a few dollars, and tomorrow we will go to the pawnshop in the south of the city to try our luck." ”

The little teapot leaned over to take a closer look, and raised his head in surprise: "This is a phoenix-patterned jade pendant, and the pattern is rare...... It seems that there are probably some dynasties, where did they come from? ”

Ma Pole subconsciously looked around, approached the small teapot, and whispered: "Remember what I told you about Boss Qu?" This turtle son scolded me for beating me since I was a child, and I didn't say anything, and I ruined the three girls that we all liked, so I secretly opened the secret compartment in his room, which was full of funeral goods that he stole from digging people's ancestral graves, there were three or four baskets, but there was no gold and silver, I didn't like those broken copper and iron, I only took this jade pendant, thinking that maybe it could be a good price, and it was good to make new clothes for our brothers, it's almost the New Year, little brother...... Hey!? Little brother, what's wrong with you? ”

The little teapot was stunned for a while, picked up the jade pendant again, approached the oil lamp, looked at it again, and slowly put it back on the table: "I don't know much about these things in antique jade, but this thing is very comfortable just looking at it, maybe it's really a rare treasure, I don't know how much it's worth, anyway, those black-hearted guys in the pawnshop are very deceitful, and they will definitely not give a good price, maybe a few copper plates will send us away." ”

"Huh!? So what to do? This thing can't be eaten or worn, it's useless to keep it! Ma Zhu frowned, very bitter.

The little teapot didn't have a good way to do this, just wanted to comfort the hemp pole for a few words, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, he pondered for a moment, and after thinking about it, he approached the hemp pole: "Second brother, this thing is also white jade, it should be worth a few dollars!" But if this thing is from the Three Kingdoms or the Tang and Song dynasties, it is an antique and a cultural relic! In our eyes, it is naturally useless, but if we can meet a big buyer who collects antiques, we may be able to sell it for a large price! ”

Ma Zhu hurriedly looked at the jade pendant, and then raised his head in some surprise: "Little brother, what do you mean ......?"

The little teapot nodded solemnly: "This matter can't be rushed, you first find a place to save this Dongzang, let's inquire slowly, I don't believe it, except for those local pawnshops and jewelry shops that have no conscience, there are no people who know the goods." As for the new clothes, don't worry, the day after tomorrow to start the construction money, the shopkeeper promised to give me three yuan and five buckles, and go to the small shops on Gulou South Street to buy four sets of semi-new and old thick clothes, which is still enough. ”

Ma Zhu shook his head again and again after hearing this: "No, no! Little brother, you spend money indiscriminately, I'm afraid that Sister Yi will beat you, no! In a few days, it will be a good day to catch the market before the year, I will think about ideas, if I am lucky, it will not be a problem to get some silver back. ”

The little teapot hurriedly stopped: "Stop!" Second, I don't want you to take risks, it has not been easy for us brothers in the past few years, but we have come back safely, I don't want you to be like me, lying in bed for dozens of days without moving. ”

"It's okay, little brother, don't worry, you don't know my craft, even if something happens, I can get out, few people run faster than me, haha!" After the hemp pole finished speaking, he laughed heartlessly, grabbed half a plate of boiled peanuts on the table and chewed it.

The little teapot was speechless, scratched his head and thought about it, and finally came up with a way, just about to say it, he heard the door ring, and the hemp pole flew like a jade pendant and stuffed it into his arms, and then turned his head to look over with the little teapot, and saw that it was Wu San and Luo Fa who came together, and they were still carrying a greasy paper bag in their hands, so they laughed and scolded with confidence.

The four brothers gathered around the low table and began to tear the roast chicken and pig's head, although the food had been frozen to a layer of oil, but the four of them ate it with relish, and did not worry about any problems with the stomach of the lowly people.

The little teapot threw down a chicken bone and wiped the meat flowers off his fingers: "Fourth, don't you steal your father's money again." ”

"This time I didn't steal money to buy it, it was packed back from my eldest sister's wedding banquet, but unfortunately the portion was too small." After Luo Fa finished speaking, he quickly grabbed the rest of the chicken neck and stuffed it into his mouth.

Wu San slowed down his hand, looked at the empty table and complained: "Fourth, you turtle son, didn't you say that you were tired of eating the big fish and meat at the banquet when you came?" Why are you still grabbing this chicken neck with me? ”

"Fourth, you guy is not kind, your little body eats more than us, and you say that you are here to honor your little brother, a foodie who is reincarnated by a starving ghost." The hemp stick hasn't touched the meat star for a long time, so the opinions are also very big.

The little teapot saw that Rod had gnawed on the chicken's neck as if it was nothing, and even the bones were bitten "rattling", shook his head with a smile, stood up and went out quietly, and soon slipped back with a big bowl and put it on the table.

When the brothers saw most of the tempting braised pork in the sea bowl, they reached out and grabbed it without saying a word, and they scrambled to be the first to eat one by one. When the teapot sat down, there was only a pitiful layer of gravy left in the bowl, and the brothers realized that they had forgotten to leave some for the boss, and bowed their heads in embarrassment.

The little teapot smiled bitterly: "Eat, it's okay, I'm not hungry." ”

"Little brother, what should I do if I find that there is less meat in the kitchen later?" Ma Pole raised his head and asked with some concern.

The little teapot smiled: "This bowl of meat was taken from the small cupboard of Li Fatzi, he just finished his work and went back, and he will have to wait until at least tomorrow at noon, when I have already started work in the teahouse." Again, yesterday I heard him quarrel with another person in the kitchen, that person said that Li Fat Man stole a pot of good wine from him, Li Fat Man did not admit it, saying that it was a bloody mouth, and he almost made a fuss in front of the shopkeeper, if Li Fat Man found out that a bowl of meat was missing tomorrow, hehe......"

The three of them remembered the pot of wine that the little teapot had brought some time ago, and laughed knowingly, and the fourth laughed and said, "Little brother, you are getting more and more cunning." ”

Ma Zhu immediately gave the fourth child a burst: "You kid learn a little, this is not cunning but tricking, just like Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms." ”

The little teapot suddenly remembered something, waved his hand to make everyone quiet, turned to Luo Fa and asked, "Fourth, didn't you say that there are a lot of books at home?" ”

"Yes! My dad asked me to read books often, and said, 'Men don't read "Three Kingdoms" and women don't read "West Chamber"" are all nonsense, only by being familiar with the Three Kingdoms and knowing the Three Kingdoms, can you not be deceived when you do business, and you have to guard against people, right? It's just that...... Little brother, why are you mentioning this? Xiao Si said a little before returning to the topic.

The little teapot thought about it, but still said his plan: "I have learned hundreds of words in this paragraph, and I want to get a few books to come back and read, and by the way, I can read more words." ”

"Can you read it?" The three brothers looked at the teapot in disbelief.

"How do you know you can't do it if you don't give it a try?" The little teapot glanced at a few brothers: "Today's world is different, if you don't hurry up and recognize a few more words, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make a difference in the future, even if it's a small business, at least you have to be able to settle accounts, right?" ”

The three brothers still didn't believe that the little teapot had reached the point where they could read books by themselves in a short period of time, so they exchanged glances with each other, coughed lightly, and challenged the boss: "Little brother, we have never heard that you can read books by yourself, do you really make up your mind to ask for hardship?" Don't know you by the time, you don't know the book! ”

"Don't believe it, do you?"

The little teapot was full of anger on his face, stretched out his finger, and pointed to the three brothers one by one: "Today Lao Tzu will show you a hand, I will say a paragraph of the Three Kingdoms, which I knew after reading the guest's book in the teahouse in my free time a few days ago, and today I will let you know what it means to hide deeply, sit down for me, and watch the tea!" ”

The three of them burst into laughter, and the little teapot realized that this was not a teahouse, and he was not an uncle, so he had to smile and cough: "That's it, the Three Kingdoms won't talk about it for the time being today, I've only read a few pages of the content in it, and I don't remember the details very clearly, I'll tell you a joke first, if I'm done, you can hold back and roll on the floor, I won't mention the matter of reading again, how about it?" ”

Where does the little teapot know, when he stole meat, he let a girl in the thatched house see it, and the girl immediately ran to the front hall to report to the old bustard Lu's mother, Lu's mother was furious, and grabbed Sister Yi to go to the backyard to find the little teapot to ask for the guilt, and just arrived at the door to listen to the little teapot's arrogant words.

Mother Lu thought it was funny, and hurriedly pressed Sister Yi, who was about to hit the door, and the two of them and a few little girls quietly approached the door, pricking up their ears, all wanting to hear what jokes the little teapot could say that made people laugh.

As soon as a group of women stood still, they heard the sound of a small teapot that sounded good and a little storytelling: "This is a story that happened in Shahe, outside Chengdu in the Ming Dynasty, one evening, there was a little widow washing clothes by the river, suddenly, a tall figure pounced on the back of the little widow, hugged the little widow and began to do bad things, what bad things?" You know that...... Ha ha! After the bad thing was done, the man flew away, the little widow came back to her soul, looked around in fright, saw that no one around her was much more stable, thinking that this kind of shameful thing could not be known, but after a closer look, she found that there was a child herding cattle on the other side, she suddenly panicked, thinking that this is over, the child must have seen it, if he goes back to the village and talks nonsense, his name is not guaranteed, and he has no face to see people, what should I do? What should I do? ”

"What should I do, little brother, what do you say?" The little teapot deliberately shook his hands and made the appearance of six gods without an owner, which made the three brothers cry out in a hurry.

The little teapot was very satisfied with this effect, and said more devotedly, learning vividly: "The little widow thought about it, and finally gritted her teeth and went to the yamen to report the case. The widow replied, "The little woman was so distraught that she didn't see it...... The county magistrate was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes, and then asked: How could you not see it? The widow had to reply for a long time: He is doing evil behind me, so I don't see it. The county magistrate asked angrily: Won't you look back? The widow hesitated for a long time, and finally replied very embarrassedly: I ...... I'd like to look back, but ...... But I'm worried that when I turn around, I'll take it off below......"

When the little teapot said this, the three brothers were stunned for a moment, and then suddenly burst into laughter.

The little teapot smiled with satisfaction, but it wasn't long before he seemed to hear a burst of unbridled laughter coming from outside the door, and immediately realized that something bad was wrong.

The little teapot was just about to stop the three brothers who were still laughing, but the door was kicked open with a "bang", and Sister Yi, who was already angry, rushed with a broom high, and behind her was a group of women who were laughing crookedly.......

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