Chapter 15: Butcher Zhang Jin
"Boss Xie, I see that your business here is so good, you are almost too busy, do you still need manpower?"
Zhang Guangyi walked through the crowd and came to the shopkeeper who was fiddling with the abacus, and euphemistically explained his intentions.
Boss Xie, this is when Zhang Guangyi came, he heard the passerby who had just checked out.
Boss Xie, formerly known as Xie Hong, a native of Hongyang County, is just over 40 years old this year, and is a fallen talent, and his cousin is the lord of Hongyang County.
There are only three in Hongyang County that can sell salt, and this grain store is one of them.
As an indispensable concoction in people's lives, salt is an indispensable thing in every household, and it is not just a seasoning.
The human body needs to eat some salt every day to maintain the substances needed by the body, once you don't eat, it doesn't matter if you don't eat for a day or two, but after a long time, all kinds of diseases will appear.
If people do not eat salt for ten days, the sodium content in the body will be too low, and the phenomenon of loss of appetite, weakness of limbs, dizziness and other phenomena will occur.
In severe cases, symptoms such as anorexia, nausea, vomiting, rapid heart rate, weak pulse, muscle spasms, blurred vision, and decreased reflexes may occur, and even lead to death.
The fact that so many symptoms occur without eating salt shows the importance of salt.
Although salt is a necessary daily necessities for people, but the sale of salt can only be sold by the government, and all those sold without permission are illegal.
Xie Hong was able to get the right to sell salt because he had an elder brother who was the main one, and the same was true for the other two families.
There is no relationship, how can they be qualified to sell salt, they are all related households, and part of the money earned must be handed over to the county officials.
Hearing someone call him, Xie Hong subconsciously glanced up at Zhang Guangyi, his eyes narrowed slightly, and then lowered his head and continued to play with the abacus.
"This store doesn't accept people anymore, so you might as well go to another store and find a job."
Sure enough. β
"Excuse me."
There was some speculation in his heart, Zhang Guangyi was not very surprised by the rejection, nodded slightly, didn't say more, and turned around and left directly.
When passing by the man with the national character face, Zhang Guangyi nodded in a friendly manner, thanking him for the reminder.
I went to five or six stores in a row, but the result was that they all went away in a hurry and returned in disappointment, even if it was a store that was obviously short of people, it did not recruit outsiders.
During this period, Zhang Guangyi did not fail to show his ability, such as arithmetic, and calculated the accounts that ordinary people need more than a dozen interest to calculate, and only used less than one interest.
Although he was amazed that Zhang Guangyi was amazing, it was a pity that others still didn't want him as an outsider, in the final analysis, they just didn't trust him. The smarter the part-time workers, the more uneasy they are.
These shopkeepers are not big names, just small owners of shops, I don't know what Zhang Guangyi's talent will bring them, perhaps, even if they know, they won't use him, in their eyes, smart people are very dangerous.
"Was it so difficult to find a job in ancient times?"
Hitting the wall many times in a row, Zhang Guangyi was very frustrated, his eyes wandered on the street blankly, and before he knew it, he came to a butcher shop.
"Hey, little brother, haven't you found a job yet?"
A voice pulled Zhang Guangyi back from the trance time and space, and made him subconsciously look in the direction of speaking.
I saw that in the stall next to him, a man with a Chinese character face who had a relationship with him was standing in front of the stall.
Beside him, there was a little girl of eleven or twelve, who appeared in front of the stall, waving a fan to drive away flies that wanted to stay on the fresh meat.
This little girl is a little thin and thin, with a few little sparrows on her delicate face, and she looks at Zhang Guangyi with a cute face, which is very cute.
"Hey, what the eldest brother said is right, this job is really hard to find."
Zhang Guangyi sighed and came to the shop, hugged his fist in the face of the national character and said: "Boy Zhang Guangyi, Gong Chang Zhang, Guang who makes friends, Yi Bo Yuntian, I haven't asked the name of the eldest brother yet." β
When Zhang Guangyi said his name, the pupils of the man with a Chinese character face shrank sharply, but he quickly returned to normal.
This series of changes in the face of the national character happened to be when Zhang Guangyi bowed his head, so he didn't see it.
Before the man with the Chinese character face could speak, the little girl beside him looked at Zhang Guangyi with a dissatisfied face and shouted: "Not much older than me, you actually call me daddy big brother, shameless." β
As she spoke, the little girl didn't forget to roll her eyes to express her dissatisfaction.
"Huh."
Zhang Guangyi smiled awkwardly, and only then did he remember that he was only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old teenager, and the other party, no matter how to say it, was at least a person over thirty years old.
In this era when marriage and children are relatively early, the other party is indeed his uncle's generation.
"You girl, what's wrong with calling me big brother, it means that your father and I are young, hahaha."
Guozi patted the little girl's head lovingly, and the little girl who was patted pouted and looked at her father with disgust.
Zhang Guangyi was also relieved of his embarrassment by the smile on his national face, and smiled with him.
"It's really a coincidence, little brother, my surname is also Zhang, Zhang Shun, maybe we were still a family hundreds of years ago."
Zhang Jin said, and patted the little girl's head again, "This is my daughter, Zhang Manman." β
"Brother Zhang, I'm glad to be happy, the barbarian girl is good."
greeted the two of them one after another, but the little girl was still unhappy, and Zhang Guangyi didn't care, after all, no matter who it was, it was inexplicably a generation shorter than the same generation, and it would be uncomfortable.
The two chatted for a while, and it was very pleasant, especially when Zhang Guangyi talked about some jokes from the previous life, both of them laughed, and even the little girl with a straight face on the side also laughed.
During this period, someone bought meat, Zhang Guangyi watched quietly, and after the meat buyer left, he continued to tell the two of them.
Waiting for Zhang Guangyi to finish a paragraph again, Zhang Jin suddenly said seriously.
"Little brother, I see that you are in good health, and you have the strength to come, I just lack a helper, I don't know if you want to come to work with me."
For fear that Zhang Guangyi would not believe it, he continued: "Don't worry, I will pay me at the current market price, thirty yuan a day, and take care of breakfast and lunch." β
Here, you can buy two large meat buns for a penny, or a bowl of noodles, and the purchasing power is about three yuan now.
Thirty yuan a day, that is, ninety yuan, this money is already a lot, not to mention that it is still in charge of breakfast and lunch, the conditions can be said to be quite good.
At the same time, a prompt appeared.
γDing! Quest Tips! γ
[Task content: Be Zhang Jin's assistant and slaughter thirty pigs and sheep. γ
[Reward: XP +1000, System Coin +400.] γ
[Accept: 'Yes'...... 'No'!] γ
[Countdown: 368 seconds!] γ
Talking to him today, Zhang Guangyi's panic and anxiety accumulated in his heart in the past few days and the depression of hitting a wall today were vented, and the whole person was a lot more relaxed.
Thinking that the two of them chatted, Zhang Jin was not bad, and he had encountered a wall many times in his job search, and there was not much surplus food at home, so he really needed a job to support himself.
'Yes'.
At that moment, Zhang Guangyi nodded without hesitation and agreed.
"Okay, then I will be taken care of by Brother Zhang from now on."
"Okay, when I'm done today, I'll take you to see where you're going to work tomorrow."
ps: This transition will be a little boring, let's make up for it, the writing is not enough, and the cheekiness will make up.