There were still more than ten steps away from the gate of the small courtyard, and Li Sangrou heard the gong-like voice of the blind man, pinching and singing: "...... Rain silk wind film, smoke wave painting boat, Jinping people ......"

Li Sangrou couldn't help but rub her ears.

It's so ugly.

Pushing open the courtyard door, the golden retriever who was squatting outside the door saw her, covered her ears, stood up with a painful face, closed the courtyard door behind Li Sangrou, rushed into the house in a few steps, and shouted on the ears of the blind man:

"Stop singing! The boss is here! ”

The blind man ignored him, pinched his orchid fingers, and continued to sing: "...... This Shaoguang is cheap. ”

"Got the store calendar?"

Li Sangrou entered the room and waited for him to finish before asking.

"Such a small thing can be achieved immediately!"

The blind man waved his arm twice, triumphant.

The golden retriever pounced on him and took out a thick store calendar from the arms of the blind man.

"On August 11, Shen Zhengjin's Anfu old number.

From the shopkeeper to the guys, everyone remembers him, his proud nostrils are facing the sky, he is dirty as soon as he enters the door, he has wiped it twice in front of him, and it is still dirty, and the shopkeeper is so angry that he almost doesn't want to do his business. ”

Li Sangrou listened to the blind man while quickly turning to the pages of the eleventh.

"Liu Yun?"

"That's him!" Rice blind happily fingers dotted.

Li Sangrou carefully read the records on the store calendar, closed the store calendar, put the store calendar and Nanmu pipe into a cowhide bag, bundled it and handed it to the golden retriever, and happily instructed:

"Prepare to prepare, leave as soon as the city gate opens tomorrow and go to Jiangning City.

Get ready to come with me to the Tongfudi store. ”

Li Sangrou instructed the golden retriever and walked out.

"Do you still look at the other side of the Shuai Si Mansion? When will you come back next? The blind man hurriedly asked.

"Look. If you can't come back, you won't come back. ”

Li Sangrou replied casually.

The blind man watched Li Sangrou go out of the courtyard gate, stayed for a while, and then walked out of the courtyard gate with his hands behind his back, kicking and stepping towards Liuhua Lane.

Li Sangrou's sentence will not come back if he can't come back, he said that he was sad, and he had to find a place to evacuate.

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Tongfudi store.

Li Sangrou sat in the warehouse across the wall from the counter, drinking slowly with a bottle of wine, listening intently to the movement next door.

The wine is a fine bamboo leaf green.

Li Sangrou took a sip of wine, a little sad.

This bamboo leaf green is brewed by Zhao's shopkeeper himself, the taste is excellent, she has been drinking it for two years, and after that, there is no such bamboo leaf green.

Alas.

Next door, Yang Xian was still reprimanding the tent.

Li Sangrou listened quietly and waited.

In the dead of night, the sound of Mr. Tent's procrastinating footsteps became farther and farther away, Li Sangrou stood up and quietly walked out of the warehouse.

Behind the half-height counter, Yang Xian hummed a small tune and put the scattered pieces of silver into the money box one by one.

Li Sangrou stepped into the counter, and when Yang Xian looked up at her, the thin and narrow short sword in his hand accurately pierced Yang Xian's throat an inch.

Yang Xian's eyes were round and protruding.

Li Sangrou let go of the short sword, reached out and grabbed Yang Xian's bun, dragged him out of the counter, and asked with a smile at the thick and solid corner of the counter, "Your brother-in-law was killed here." ”

Yang Xian had already begun to convulse.

Li Sangrou dragged him close to the corner of the counter, raised his foot and stomped on his knee, stomping him on the ground, and pressed his upper body against the corner of the counter.

For a moment, Yang Xian was motionless.

Li Sangrou drew her short sword, carefully avoided the red all over the ground, tied the door to death, and jumped out of the window.

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When the sun rose high overhead, the first river boat from Jiangdu City to Jiangning City slowly approached the Jiangning Wharf.

Li Sangrou wore a gray silk silver rat skin crane and a hat, a rich but not expensive woman, came out of the top private room, the golden retriever was dressed as a long one, carrying a burden and carrying a rattan box to follow behind, and got off the boat together.

Up the long stone steps, the golden retriever beckoned to the car and told the coachman to go to Jufu Building.

Li Sangrou picked the private room at the corner of the second floor, entered the house, pushed open the window, and looked at the guard's mansion across the street.

"The person we inquired about last time, didn't the prince say that he knew who it was?"

The golden retriever stretched his neck, and from behind Li Sangrou, he also looked at the guard's mansion.

"Our portrait, where did this General Shao get it? He's seen us? ”

Li Sangrou said to the guarded general's mansion.

The golden retriever was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized.

"That's right! He hasn't seen us again! How does he know what we look like? How did he know that it was us who escorted the prince across the river? Just one night later, he knew it all? Who told him? ”

"I think it's General Wu, you sneak to the opposite signing room at night and look for it, maybe there is an official letter from General Wu."

"Huh? Can an official letter be sent about this? This ......"

"Why not? On the surface, he assisted in the arrest of Jiangyang thieves, and the two countries were friendly. As for secretly, naturally I know it. Let's go out for a walk. ”

Li Sangrou closed the window, changed into a half-used cotton cloak, and walked out of Jufu Building with the golden retriever and walked in the direction of the dock.

On the two streets up from the wharf, between the warehouse and the tooth shop, there are large courtyards full of boatmen, their wives and children.

Most of the boatmen and their wives were from families on the water.

There are not many people living on one boat, and if a family has several sons, and one son is married, he has to move off the boat.

When they moved off the boat, the man went to work as a boatman, and the daughter-in-law and children rented such a large courtyard, and when they earned enough money to buy their own boat, the family moved to the boat and then became a water family.

However, there are not many people who can afford to buy their own boats.

But there are far more boatmen who die in the water than they can afford to buy boats.

In September, a boat capsized, and none of the people on the boat came back.

Li Sangrou stopped in front of a large compound and looked into the courtyard.

In the middle of the courtyard, there was a thick stack of sails, on which sat four or five women dressed in coarse linen filial clothes, talking, and sewing sails with their hands and feet.

The few busy women next to him were all in the same coarse linen filial clothes.

Li Sangrou motioned for the golden retriever to wait outside, and carried her skirt into the courtyard.

The busyness in the courtyard stopped, and the woman sitting on the sail, as well as a few people who were holding shoe soles and grinding tofu next to them, looked up at Li Sangrou together.

"Does He live here?" Li Sangrou asked with a smile.

"Who is in charge? We are on this street, what are the three masters? The filial piety woman who grinded tofu spoke sharply, and smiled first.

"This aunt is asking who used to live here in the past, right?"

A woman sitting on the sail of the ship didn't know whether to talk to Li Sangrou or the woman who was grinding tofu.

"Let me think about it, he has no sons, only three daughters, and the eldest daughter seems to have married at the beginning of this year."

Li Sangrou was a little embarrassed, looking familiar and unfamiliar with He Dangjia.

"That's the house that used to live next door to us."

The woman grinding tofu laughed and wiped her hands with her apron.

"He's moved out, just moved out at the beginning of this month, what are you looking for him? In stock? My brother's boat is idle, he's an honest man, where are you going? ”

"There is no goods here, I will go to Yangzhou, pass by here, and come to have a look.

He is a good person who helped me. ”

Li Sangrou said as she walked to the stack of sails.

"I didn't expect him to move away. I came all the way from the north of the city, my feet are sore, let me rest for a while. ”

"Sit sit, sit sit."

Several women on the sail hurriedly moved over, patted the place in front of Li Sangrou, and took a few clean cloths and spread them on it.

"This is good clothes on you, don't sit dirty."

"Sister Fu, pour a cup of tea for this aunt and take that white porcelain cup." The woman who grinded the tofu raised her voice and commanded her daughter.

"Thank you." Li Sangrou sat down, smiled and bowed, and thanked him in unison.

Sister Fu came over with tea, Li Sangrou took the tea, touched a bag of lychee candy from her sleeve pocket, and handed it to Sister Fu.

"Take it and share it with your younger siblings."

Sister Fu didn't dare to take it, and looked at her aunt.

"Take it." The woman grinding tofu smiled heartily.

"How many sisters are this?" Li Sangrou gestured to the filial piety clothes on several women.

"Alas, this courtyard is full of miserable people.

Just last month, the boat we were in charge of took over the work to the north, and the boat capsized, alas. It's a hard life. ”

The woman who grinded tofu stopped grinding tofu, wiped her hands with her apron, came over and sat on the edge of the sail, and talked to Li Sangrou.

"How will those sisters live in the future? Is there anyone else in the house? ”

Li Sangrou looked at the six or seven filial women gathered with concern.

"It was He Dang's job, saying that the owner was kind, but at the moment it was not rich, saying that the ship was under the top of the owner, and it was as if the ship was still there, and the wages were given according to the original, and they were sent over twice a year.

He is really a good person! ”

"It's a blessing in disguise." Li Sangrou sighed and sighed.

"Who knows how many times it will be delivered?"

A round-faced sturdy woman next to Li Sangrou sighed.

"There are fourteen families in total, a lot of money a year, it's not rich, can you support us for a few years? Alas. ”

"I think the same as Sister-in-law Song, I can't all point to this money, what if it's gone, don't you say?

We still have to think of ways to earn our own money, we can earn some money by ourselves, and with two wages a year, this life will be easy.

If this salary is gone, our family can still live, don't you say?

You see, like this, sewing sails or something, this is all the work we can do, that is, carrying in and out, there are many of us, two men carry it, we are four, six, the same in and out.

This has this tofu, you see I'm trying it, I heard that this tofu is making a lot of money. ”

The tofu grinder spoke quickly and neatly, and seemed to be the leader in the middle of a courtyard of women.

"Where did He Dang's family go? Do you want to pay it back? Li Sangrou looked at the woman grinding tofu and asked with a smile.

"That's not true.

He Dang's family has a big ship, our Jiangning is a big wharf, no matter where his family moves, it must be here often, that is, when to come, it depends on the goods he receives, there is no accurate head. ”

The woman grinding tofu laughed.

"It looks like it's not going to be easy to meet him. I'm resting, thanks to my sisters, I'm leaving. ”

Li Sangrou stood up and said goodbye with a smile.

Li Sangrou returned to Jufu Building, did not go out, and the next morning, with the golden retriever, set up a caravan, and left Jiangning City to go north.