Chapter 24: Empty-handed queues

"Hey, what you're saying is, let's go, let's go." Li Jicai didn't want to entangle with him, so as not to cause bad consequences, after all, this is the capital, if she really offends someone, who can speak for her, and who can stand up for her? pulled the rope on his hand, and signaled Xiao Erhei to stop grinning with those horses, it was not worth it.

Last night, she slept in the stable, and she looked at the trough when she looked boxy, and thought it was a cowshed or something, but she didn't remember that the animals that the ancients traveled on behalf of were horses, and they naturally had to use carriages to go in and out of everything.

She saw that there was hay on the clean floor inside, but she thought she could sleep for the night, and although it smelled a little, she could still sleep well.

The coachman watched with great eyes as Li Jicai left the stable in a humble and pitiful manner, walked out of his line of sight, and went to the ground with a fierce "puff" when Li Jicai's figure disappeared completely.

As if she was afraid she wouldn't hear it.

Li Jicai's footsteps froze slightly, she was not deaf, she let go of her palm and grabbed it hard, her eyes stared at the stone slab in front of her, she took a deep breath and then raised her feet and continued walking.

I've never experienced anything like this, at least not being spit on in my back for no reason.

If she could, she wanted to take her mother as the center and her relatives as the radius, and draw a circle to open the scolding.

"Xiao Erhei, let's go, let's go find home!" She didn't believe that in modern times, those homeless people could find a flyover as their home, and she couldn't find a corner to live in in the huge capital of Chu State.

Xiao Erhei shouted twice at Li Jicai, who was still in a daze, "Wangwang", recalled her thoughts, ran forward two steps, but because she was tied by a rope, she pulled it back again, and couldn't help but whine very dissatisfied.

Li Jicai patted the dog's head and signaled it to be restless, but then there was a protest in his stomach.

I'm so hungry......

It's early in the morning, and it's a hot day, and people come out mostly in the morning and evening.

The stalls selling breakfast, the shops and other things have already wafted out of the white light smoke, and the steamer is mentioned, not to mention the smoke, and the aroma is overflowing.

You can smell it from afar......

It should be the smell of meat buns, Li Jicai thought uncertainly.

When they got out of the stables, they wandered about the streets, without purpose or direction, without knowing the way forward or returning.

There are not a few shops along the way, not the shops that sell breakfast are basically still tightly closed, either the gilt black background of the big signboard, or the vertical hanging sail, or the round flag, in short, a dazzling array of flowers, each with its own characteristics.

The saliva of a greedy person and a dog is going to flow down, it's so fragrant!

There was a big man who sold steamed buns, with a white towel on his head, a handkerchief on his shoulder, and three of them in his hand.

People lined up in an orderly manner, and whoever had their turn said what he wanted, whether they wanted to eat meat buns or vegetable buns.

Li Jicai also wanted to queue up, but she didn't have any money on her, so she didn't notice that Xiao Erhei next to her also showed a longing look.

It wants to eat it too.

Most of the streets on this side sell breakfast, but it is this big man's business that has the best, and the other bun shops are more or less, and there are one or two people scattered around.

The guys and bosses of those steamed bun shops are all very envious to look at this Cui Ji steamed bun shop, which has a particularly hot business.

It seems that the owner of this shop should be surnamed Cui. I don't know what to think, Li Jicai also went to the queue, but she didn't have the money, so whenever the queue was about to approach, he came out of the queue again, and then silently walked to the back of the line.

Xiao Erhei is very well-behaved, he doesn't look at other people with low eyebrows, at first some people were afraid of this big wolf dog, but when he saw Xiao Erhei leaning obediently next to its owner, he gradually relaxed his vigilance, but looked curiously at this thin and dry Li Jicai who was holding the dog leash.

But the attention of this person and the dog was focused on the fast snow-white buns picked up by the owner of the bun shop, and they didn't care about the eyes of the people around them.

They're really hungry.

Li Jicai turned his head sideways and looked at the inside of the bun shop, there were about three or four guys, some of them brought plates to the store to sit and eat, and some people chose to wrap them in paper and take them away.

It's so fragrant, for the first time, she feels that the folds on the bun are as beautiful as flowers.

Xiao Erhei didn't understand why Li Jicai always queued up for a while, and then took it to the back to continue the line.

But it didn't dare to ask, after all, if it screamed, Li Jicai would take it out of the crowd.

They stretched out their hands to beg in front of the sparse bun shop, but they were all rejected by the other party.

After all, people don't do anything charity, it is impossible to give them for free, not to mention that their business stores are not big, and if everyone comes to give alms in a small business, then do they still want to make money?

So Li Jicai didn't stay in front of their shop for long, after all, the disgusted eyes of others were not comfortable when they fell on them.

But only this thriving shop, she saw that the person picking up buns at the door should be a kind person, is it possible that she will reward them with alms and give them one or two, so she will be satisfied.

If only it were exactly what they thought.

After queuing for a while, the crowd gradually dispersed, and the buns were sold one drawer after another, and almost all the buns piled up with a dozen cages were sold out.

The peak period for selling breakfast is almost over.

The owner of Cui Ji's steamed bun shop has long noticed this strange man and dog. I felt secretly funny.

He has been selling steamed buns for so many years, and he is also famous. The children are in pairs, the wives are virtuous, and the life is prosperous. Look at this little girl is about the same age as her daughter, but she is like a little tramp, especially when she stares at his buns, that look, that saliva.

It's really funny and distressing to look at him. Open the door to do business, what beggar has not seen the man who stretches out his hand? It was the first time he had encountered such a thing, and the eyes of the tall and majestic wolfdog were the same as those of his master.

"Little girl, buns, five cents a piece." Cui Sheng looked at Li Jicai and said with a smile.

Other people's steamed buns may cost three cents a piece, but his steamed buns are sold for five cents, which are large and thin-skinned and thick-filled, smell fragrant and very attractive, and are made with the freshest ingredients.

So he has the confidence to dare to sell at this price.

Wuwen? Not to mention five pennies, she can't take out even one penny!

Li Jicai could feel the kindness that the person in front of her exuded towards her, but she shook her head in shame, she was embarrassed to speak, the courage she had originally mustered was like a leather ball, she was pricked with a needle, and then quickly softened and deflated.

Li Jicai took Xiao Erhei and turned around and wanted to leave, she still didn't ask for food from this shop, let's change places, if it doesn't work, she will steal it, she will rob it.

No matter how eager Xiao Erhei's eyes are, it won't work.

"Hey, stop." Cui Sheng hurriedly called out to her.

Li Jicai turned around in some horror and asked her to do something? What's wrong with her?

"Hungry, huh? Take this and eat it. Cui Sheng skillfully lifted the last drawer, and inside were broken and squeezed out of shape or leaked fillings, that is, defective products, not for takeaway.

Then he touched three broken buns from the inside with his big hand, and stretched out his hand to Li Jicai.

Li Jicai looked at him in surprise, a little incredulous, oh my God, did people really give it to her for nothing?

No way!

Just as she trembled with excitement and stretched out her dirty hands to pick them up.

Cui Sheng frowned suddenly, as if he had seen something out of the corner of his eyes, and the big hand that was stretched out at Li Jicai was suddenly withdrawn.

Li Jicai, who was almost about to get it, was dumbfounded in the face of this sudden change, what is going on?

Could it be that he repented and didn't give it?

It turned out that it was not that he didn't give it, but that Cui Sheng found that the little beggars who often came to make trouble came again.

Or rather, when they saw the bun they gave to the little girl in front of them, they pinched the timing and rushed out.

Because Cui Sheng withdrew his hand in time, the two little beggars did not succeed and did not snatch the bun in his hand.

Cui Sheng didn't speak, but stared at the two little beggars very dissatisfied.

He knows these two little beggars, they often mix in this area, they do everything to steal chickens and dogs, and even dare to touch the purse of other people's wives, they are little scoundrels.

Cui Sheng, such a person, disdains to give them buns. At the beginning, Cui Sheng would give them buns, but then they had to make trouble every day, and even disrupted his guests' queues.

didn't interfere with other people's queues, nor did he cheekily ask him for this or that. You must know that the two little beggars in front of him pointed to his nose and asked for meat buns, this bun, that bun.

"Fuck off." Cui Sheng said unhappily, today's buns have been sold out, and they can almost be packed up and packed into the shop. He also made a lot of money today, and he didn't want to be in a bad mood because of the two little beggars in front of him.

Li Jicai came back from the surprise and realized that the boss suddenly took his hand back, and it turned out that it was because there were two children next to him who wanted to snatch it, no wonder.

Looking at the outfits of the two of them, they are not much different from themselves, and they look like beggars.

This is?

Before everyone could react, Xiao Erhei understood and shouted. Seeing that the bun was about to reach its mouth, but it was disturbed by the two little beggars who suddenly came out, can it not be in a hurry?