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"Alas! Why are you dead eyes, little girl? A few cups of burning knives entered his stomach, and Yang Tashan was a little drunk and hazy, "Didn't I already say it just now?" I'm a part-time coolie, I can't support myself, what kind of maid do I raise? Wouldn't it make people laugh off their big teeth! ”

Xing'er put down the wine cup, knelt on the ground with a grunt, kowtowed, and said: "Young master, Xing'er can eat any hardship, the young master buries Xing'er's mother, Xing'er is your slave, Xing'er is willing to follow the young master for the rest of her life and serve the young master." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Willing to eat bran vegetables. Please, young master, don't drive Apricot away, please! ”

Yang Tashan bent down to help her up, but Xing'er struggled: "If you don't agree, Xing'er won't be able to kneel for a long time!" Then he fell prostrate on the ground and wept bitterly.

Seeing this scene, the fat shopkeeper who was greeting guests at the counter hurriedly walked over and said to Yang Tashan: "Guest officer, it's rare for this girl to be so benevolent and filial, you will take her in in the future, if you don't let her be a girl's house, where can she go." ”

Yang Tashan sighed and asked Xing'er, "Don't you have any family?" ”

Xing'er was already crying like a tearful person: "When I was very young, my father died, this famine, the family starved to death, my mother really had no choice, so she took me to escape from the famine and came to Qingyang Mansion - young master, you just let me follow you, I won't drag you down, I can do anything, I can help you work." I can endure hardship, please......"

The mean-speaking shopkeeper from before also came over and sighed: "Yes, guest officer, this girl sold herself to bury her mother, and no one took care of her for two days. Besides, now that we are in chaos, the Tartars cross the border from time to time to harass, and she has no family, a little girl's family, and she meets a bandit, so what can I do? You're a good person to the end, so take her in. ”

The fat shopkeeper also said, "Yes." I see that this girl is filial to her mother. You can't be wrong with the young master, I can help you make beds and fold quilts, do laundry and cook, and warm your feet when it's cold, how good it is for the two of them to depend on each other. ”

Xing'er cried and kowtowed: "Yes, young master, I can do anything, I can endure hardships, and I won't drag you down, so you can take me in." ”

Yang Tashan smiled bitterly, thinking that the fat shopkeeper and the shopkeeper were reasonable, so he said: "Okay, but let's make it clear, follow me but you have to endure hardships, if you are willing to follow me, you will follow, if one day you can't endure hardships and are not willing to follow, or if you have a good place to go, you can leave at any time, okay?" ”

Xing'er was overjoyed, kowtowed, and said: "Thank you young master, the young master is as kind to Xing'er as a mountain, Xing'er knows that the young master is a good person, Xing'er will follow you for the rest of your life, and repay you as a cow and a horse." ”

Yang Tashan said with a smile: "It's not necessary to be a cow or a horse, you can eat whatever I eat, anyway, I will never let you go hungry when I am full." Alright, get up. ”

"Hmmm! Thank you, young master! Xing'er was full of joy, kowtowed again, and then got up.

The fat shopkeeper smiled and said to Yang Tashan: "Guest officer, this girl is right, you are really a kind person, her mother's body has been parked at the door for two days, it stinks, and no one is willing to pay to help her." Glancing at the two hundred copper coins on the table, he secretly swallowed his saliva and continued: "You don't have much money of your own, and you still use everything you have to help this girl." It's really admirable, admirable! ”

Yang Tashan smiled: "Hehe, the shopkeeper is polite," he let his hand go, and said, "The shopkeeper sits down and drinks two cups?" ”

"No, no," the fat shopkeeper waved his hand and said with a smile: "I still have to greet guests, you are always slow to use it." "Gone with the guys.

Yang Tashan asked Xing'er to sit down, and took a glass of wine with a smile: "Since you follow me in the future, we are a family, come, let's have this glass!" ”

Xing'er picked up her half glass of wine, stood up, and said, "Thank you, young master!" Xing'er will definitely serve the young master with all her heart and soul in the future. ”

Yang Tashan said with a smile: "Okay, but your body is too single, the young master will give you a better meal in the future, and it will grow stronger, and we who work will not be able to have a single body." Come on, do it! He tilted his neck and drank the wine.

Apricot thanked her gratefully and drank half of the glass of wine. With the previous experience, this time there was no cough, but it was so spicy that tears came out. Yang Tashan smiled and asked her to eat the food quickly.

After drinking the wine, Yang Tashan ate two large bowls of rice, and when he was full of wine, he called the fat shopkeeper over and asked, "Shopkeeper, do you know where to work?" ”

"This city is full of people looking for something to do, and this job is really hard to find." The fat shopkeeper thought about it, looked Yang Tashan up and down again, and said: "I saw you carrying the coffin away alone in the afternoon, this strength is really not small, I have a bit of work in this store, I don't know if you want to do it?" ”

"Okay!" Yang Tashan stood up happily, "What are you doing?" Running the hall? ”

The fat shopkeeper smiled: "That's not it, I'm just hiring a short-term worker, I bought a few truckloads of firewood a few days ago, all piled up in the backyard, I want to ask you to help chop firewood, okay?" ”

"Okay!" Although it was only a short-term job, but in the end there was some income, Yang Tashan immediately agreed.

"Alright, you come with me." After the fat shopkeeper told the guy to take care of the storefront, he took Yang Tashan and Xing'er to the backyard firewood room. Pointing to a pile of firewood like a hill, "That's all, after a day's chopping, the yard is neat." Manage two meals, one meat and one vegetable, enough rice, twenty wen. What? ”

Yang Tashan looked at the firewood and said, "You want to take care of the two meals of me and Xing'er, okay?" ”

The fat shopkeeper looked at the thin apricot and nodded: "Okay!" That's it. Work will begin tomorrow morning. The words can be explained, tomorrow will not be finished, the day after tomorrow will continue to split, until the split, the day after tomorrow can not be eaten, and there is no extra salary! ”

"Of course!"

Xing'er looked at the pile of firewood and said, "Young master, it's such a big pile, two strong laborers can't finish chopping it in a day, and only twenty wen is given, which is too little!" ”

The fat shopkeeper's face turned red, he originally bid for thirty yuan for this pile of firewood, split it for two days, and manage six meals, but no one was willing, but now he sees that Yang Tashan is an honest man, and he is a bit of a taker. Not only did he kill the price, but he also reduced the number of days and less food. Now that it was exposed by Xing'er, she was a little embarrassed, so she said: "Okay, just rush to the kind-hearted person of the guest officer, and add ten more Wen." All right? ”

Yang Tashan didn't care, but there were ten more articles, which was always good, and nodded and said, "Okay, tomorrow morning, we will come over on time to start work." ”

Leaving this "Weixiang Restaurant", the sky has already darkened, Yang Tashan is a little smoky, behind his back, humming a mountain song in a low voice, walking on the street with a shallow foot, Xing'er saw this, hurriedly stepped forward to support him, walked a few streets, saw an inn, called "Qingyang Inn", a pair of stone lions at the door are very powerful, four red lanterns are raised high, the whole building is magnificent. Yang Tashan smiled: "Well, yes, let's live here today!" He stepped into the inn.

The shopkeeper greeted him with a smile: "Two guest officers, do you live in the hotel?" ”

Yang Tashan staggered and pointed to the shopkeeper and said, "Nonsense, we don't live in the store, what are you doing here?" Two upper rooms! ”

The shopkeeper accompanied the smiling face to the stairs and said, "Okay! Two rooms in the upper room! Please go upstairs! ”

Yang stepped on the mountain and was about to go upstairs. Xing'er grabbed him and said in a low voice: "Young master, wait......" turned to the shopkeeper and said, "What is the price of your upper room?" ”

"The coat room in the upper room is 500 wen a day, the single room is 300 wen, and the two-person room is 400 wen......" The shopkeeper said with a smile.

Yang Tashan's head was big when he heard it, he only had a total of two hundred and fifty Wen, not even a single room was enough, and suddenly the wine also woke up more than half: "Why is it so...... Isn't it cheaper? ”

The shopkeeper glanced at Yang Tashan's coarse cloth green shirt, and knew that he was a coolie, but doing business pays attention to a harmonious and wealth-making business, he doesn't have dog eyes to look down on people, and still smiles on his face: "Guest officer, our Qingyang Inn is one of the best in the entire Qingyang Mansion, a century-old brand, and the bath barrels in it are all made of sandalwood." The bare bed in the light suite is worth eighteen taels of silver......"

Xing'er said, "Young master, let's ...... We haven't brought our luggage yet, so let's go get our luggage first, and then come back to live, okay? ”

Yang Tashan borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and pointed at the shopkeeper with his finger: "Well, yes, good, I'll come when the young master goes to get the luggage!" Leave a suite waiting! ”

When the shopkeeper heard Xing'er call this coolie the young master, he immediately put away his contempt, and said respectfully: "Yes, ......, I must keep it for the two of you, and the uncle and the girl will walk slowly and ......" until the door.

Yang Tashan staggered out a long distance, then stopped, and said with a wry smile: "Xing'er, thanks to you, otherwise, the two of us would not be able to get out." ”

Xing'er said: "Young master, let's go further, I walked through these streets when my mother and I were asking for food, I know that there are a few inns in the front streets, which are quite cheap, why don't we go there and have a look." ”

Yang Tashan agreed, and the two came to the inns that Xing'er said.

I saw that the people who came in and out of the door were some coolies who were dressed similarly to Yang Tashan, and it was a hot day, and some of them sat at the door with open breasts and chatted in the shade.

Yang Tashan walked over, and a burly shopkeeper came up, glanced at Yang Tashan, and then looked at the thin and thin Xing'er, pursed his lips with disdain, hugged his shoulders and said in a weird manner: "Do you live in the hotel?" ”

"Well, how much?"

The shopkeeper didn't answer, and snorted at the wall.

Yang Tashan raised his eyes and saw a big wooden sign hanging on the wall at the door, with the price code written: 50 wen a day for a single room in the upper room; Thirty wen for ordinary single rooms, forty wen for two people, forty wen for three rooms, ten wen for each person in the Chase shop, and six wen per person in the ground shop.

(To be continued)