After a while, at last, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance of the alley, which was narrow enough for a carriage to pass. After a moment, I vaguely saw two carriages connected in front and back, struggling to raise their hooves, snorting white mist, and walking over with a bang.

Two carriages came to a stop at the back door. Xiao Yunfei appeared in front of Zuo Shaoyang as if he had emerged from the ground, and his slightly hoarse voice lowered his voice and smiled: "I bought it!" In just one night, the price of rice and noodles has increased, and the brown rice and black noodles are 470 wen a bucket, and a total of 202 buckets have been bought. Where to put it? ”

"Good guy, the brown rice is four hundred and seventy wen a bucket?"

"No, the milled rice has risen to 600 wen a bucket. That's it, there are still a lot of people rushing to buy it at the door of the rice shop. ”

Zuo Shaoyang was surprised, happy and worried, the price of grain more than doubled overnight, indicating that his judgment was correct, and the shopkeeper of Sui and other insiders must have revealed to his relatives and friends that the rebels were going to attack Hezhou, and these people rushed to buy rice and noodles. "It's going well, right?" ”

"What's going well, when I went, there were already a lot of people at the door, probably people who were not afraid of curfew, all shouting and knocking on the door to buy food, and all they held in their hands boxes of money. There is also catching fast to maintain order, I see that they don't line up, they are all piled up there, and they don't care about catching fast, they take a lot of money, for fear that they won't be sold to me, so they honestly and unceremoniously squeeze to the front......"

As expected, Zuo Shaoyang smiled and said: "It's you who loses, and no one else can squeeze in." ”

"Hehe, that's it." Xiao Yunfei smugly stroked the sparse goatee and smiled, "As soon as the curfew passed, the door opened, I bought the first one, and I brought it after loading the car." Huh"

Zuo Shaoyang said curiously: "Where did this carriage come from?" Is it a rice line? ”

"Mi Xing is not so generous to lend you a horse, they only lend a trailer, and they have to pay a mortgage of one or two silver. I paid for it and borrowed two trailers, as for this horse, hehe" Xiao Yunfei lowered his voice and smiled: "I passed by the inn in front of me and 'borrowed' it from the stable." Hurry up and unload the goods, I'm going to return the horses and carts and return my deposit. ”

"Okay, unload it now!" Zuo Shaoyang stepped forward and picked up a bag and walked in crookedly.

"My God! Look at your delicate appearance that your ten fingers don't touch the spring water! Xiao Yunfei looked at it with a wry smile and shook her head, "It's better for me to come!" Grabbed a bag, carried it on his shoulder, and flew into the room quickly, and came to the lobby: "Where to put it—yo, the second elder is up?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang didn't have time to stop it, Xiao Yunfei came in, and when he saw his parents, he didn't panic, and said hello, only then did he come back to his senses, when Xiao Yunfei was a snitch, he wore a night robe and a veil, and he was usually dressed in a green coat and robe, which was not at all like the bearded man on the Yamen sea fishing notice, so he didn't have to worry about revealing his whereabouts. Hurriedly put down the rice bag and said, "Dad! Mother! This is my newly recognized eldest brother, surnamed Xiao. It's the rice and noodles he bought for us. ”

Zuo Gui hurriedly smiled and said, "It turned out to be Brother Xiao, thank you for this!" ”

Xiao Yunfei smiled and nodded: "Let's move things in first." Wait until you're free to talk about ,—— where to put things? ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Put my father's bedroom first, and when it is dawn, I will find someone to dig the cellar, and then move to the cellar." ”

Xiao Yunfei shook his head and said: "It's almost an hour before dawn, so much food can't be seen, so let's do it, I see that your medicine shop usually opens in the morning, and there is still about an hour and a half before now, I will transport the things in first, and then help you dig the cellar." An hour and a half is almost enough. ”

Zuo Shaoyang was overjoyed, but he was a little embarrassed: "Brother Xiao, that's too troublesome for you." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and prepare tools, you and the second elder can help me carry the soil on it."

"Are you busy alone?"

Xiao Yunfei is a snitch, although he often comes and goes, he often digs tunnels to enter from underground, so he is also an expert in this excavation work. Laughing: "It's just a small cellar, it's nothing." Hurry up! ”

"Good! Dad, mother, you prepare shovels and shovels and baskets filled with soil, and I will help Brother Xiao carry things. ”

Zuo Gui and Liang hurriedly agreed, these shovels and shovels are available in the room for concocting medicinal materials at home, and there are also baskets. Soon it will be ready.

Since the cellar was dug immediately, the food did not need to be transported to the bedroom, and was placed directly in the lobby, Xiao Yunfei had a lot of strength, walked like flying, and never rested in the middle, and soon moved all the food in the two truckloads into the lobby.

Then, Xiao Yunfei drove the carriage away.

Zuo Shaoyang and the second elder began to clean up the concoction room. When it was almost cleaned up, Xiao Yunfei came in through the back door, went straight to the concoction room, swept in with a goatee, and said, "Where are you going to hide the entrance?" ”

Zuo Gui and Liang shook their heads, Zuo Shaoyang remembered watching the TV of the anti-Japanese war mine warfare when he was a child, and there was a hidden stove at the entrance of the tunnel. He said: "Hide the entrance and exit under the stove and pot, and just lift the pot when you use it." ”

Xiao Yunfei cocked his thumb: "Good idea!" What to do with the excavated soil? ”

Zuo Gui said: "There is a dry well in the back street alley, and it has long been out of water, I don't know who pressed a big stone slab on it, probably to prevent children from falling into it while playing on the side." It would be nice to lift the slab and pour the earth into it, but the slab was too heavy to lift. ”

Xiao Yunfei said: "Take me to see!" ”

Zuo Gui took the lead, and the four of them came to the back streets and alleys, and they arrived after walking a short distance, in a corner, the slate was really heavy, although Xiao Yunfei had great strength, but it still took all his strength to push the slate half away. I took a stone and threw it in it and listened to the sound, the well was very deep, and the earth dug out of the cellar was enough. Xiao Yunfei said: "This is very good, just pour it here." ”

Next, Xiao Yunfei dug in the stove, Zuo Shaoyang carried the soil with a basket, Zuo Gui and Liang carried it with a basket, and the three of them were responsible for transporting the soil to the dry well and pouring it. After an hour, the day was bright, the cellar was dug up, and the soil was all poured. Because the well is very deep and the bottom is very large, only a small half of the soil poured into the bottom part of the dry well is buried, and even if you look closely at the wellhead, it is difficult to find that the soil has been poured into it.

Xiao Yunfei came out of the cellar, came to the dry well with Zuo Shaoyang, and worked together to push the big stone slab on the dry well back to its original position. No one in the alley was moving at the moment, it was quiet.

Zuo Shaoyang saw that his face was black, only his teeth were snow-white, and he smiled gratefully: "Thank you, Brother Xiao." ”

"Thank you, hurry back and put the grain in the cellar. This time you're going to have to work a little harder, I'll carry the grain above and throw it down for you, and you will stack the grain neatly below. ”

"No problem."

Zuo Shaoyang took out the five taels of silver and said to Zuo Gui and Liang: "Dad! Mother! Now that it's dawn, you should hurry up and go to Washi to buy some cabbage and come back. I bought all five taels of silver, don't be too expensive! ”

The two of them already knew the seriousness of the matter, so they hurriedly agreed, took the silver, and Liang said: "I have already boiled hot water on the pot, and you will take a bath when you are done." ”

"Good!" Zuo Shaoyang agreed, but Xiao Yunfei just smiled.

After the second elder hurriedly went out, Zuo Shaoyang went into the cellar, and Xiao Yunfei began to move grain to the cellar. It didn't take long for all the food to be transported to the cellar and put away, except for a small half-bag of what he usually ate. Zuo Shaoyang crawled out. Glancing at Xiao Yunfei, the two of them had dirty faces, and they couldn't help but laugh.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "There is hot water boiling, can you take a bath?" ”

Xiao Yunfei hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No need, I have to go!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang smiled: "What are you going to go, you are dirty, ugly to death." Wash it and then go, I'll help you rub your back! ”

"No, no!" Xiao Yunfei was even more flustered, for fear that Zuo Shaoyang would pull him, so he pulled his feet and walked to the back door, "The streets are full of dirty homeless people, it's a big deal to be a beggar." See you later! ”

Zuo Shaoyang chased out: "You have to be shy, you can wash it yourself, don't go!" ”

Xiao Yunfei had already gone out the back door, turned around and smiled: "I'm leaving!" - The thing we talked about earlier, I'll send it to you when I get it! ”

"Okay!"

Xiao Yunfei walked as fast as a fly, and soon disappeared at the end of the alley.

Zuo Shaoyang looked at his back, sighed, closed the door and returned to the hall. He took a broom and swept away all the dirt that had been scattered on the ground. I wanted to take a bath, but I was afraid that no one would open the door when my father and mother came back from buying good things. I sat and waited.

After waiting for a while, there was finally a knock at the door, and he hurriedly ran over to open the door, and sure enough, the second elder came back, and one of them only carried half a bag of things in his hand.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Did you buy it?" ”

Liang sighed and said: "Alas, I bought it, oops, no one bought the Chinese cabbage before, all of them were rushing to buy it, the Chinese cabbage was originally twenty yuan a catty, but now it has risen to eighty yuan!" Five taels of silver bought these twenty or so Chinese cabbages.

Zuo Shaoyang smiled bitterly and took the two bags: "Okay, it's good to be able to buy it." ”

"Not really!" Liang said with a bitter face, "When I went, all the vegetables in Washi were sold out, and the meat was gone. Your father and I are still blocking the gate of Washi, so we grabbed these. ”

Zuo Shaoyang put all the cabbage into the cellar, climbed out and sealed the tunnel entrance with bricks, and put the pot away, so that the cabbage could be stored in the low-temperature cellar for several months.

Zuo Gui and Liang stood in the concoction room and looked at him in a daze. Seeing him come out, Zuo Gui said, "What about that Brother Xiao?" ”

"Gone."

"Why did you just let him go? Stay for a meal and thank them. ”

Zuo Shaoyang spread his hands: "What can I do, his legs are long on him, and he has martial arts, where can I keep it." ”

Zuo Gui stroked his beard and sighed: "Where did you know such a good big brother?" It's really righteous, helping to buy food, and helping to dig cellars, not even drinking saliva, not taking a bath, what a good man! ”

Liang Shi also looked grateful, and said yes repeatedly, as if Xiao Yunfei was still in the house.

Zuo Shaoyang smiled: "Yes, he is very righteous, I just said it, don't worry." ”

(To be continued)