12. Confidant in the sea
"So much. Minister... I can't move! Liang Rui said. Ning Qiwei swallowed the contents of her mouth and said, "You won't find a car to load." ”
"Oh, but where to find it?" Liang Rui stood there anxious. "Stupid. Won't you ask the lantern shop owner? Ning Qiwei turned to the boss as she spoke: "Boss, help me find a car and install the lantern, I want to take it away." The lantern shop owner smiled: "Guest officer, wait a minute." I'll help you find a car to load. ”
After the last lantern was loaded into the carriage, Ning Qiwei threw a sentence: "Liang Rui, pay." She drove the carriage herself. After Liang Rui paid the money, Ning Qiwei drove the carriage and walked far away. Liang Rui smiled helplessly: How could he be such an emperor.
It took Liang Rui a lot of effort to catch up with Ning Qiwei, if it weren't for the fact that there were too many people on the street, he was afraid that he hadn't caught up yet. Before Liang Rui could catch his breath when he got into the carriage, Ning Qiwei threw the horsewhip to him, and she sat aside to play with the lantern.
Liang Rui asked suspiciously, "Where are we going?" "Just go shopping." Ning Qiwei played with her lantern to herself. Ning Qiwei sometimes stood up and hung the lantern on the carriage, and sometimes squatted down to pick and choose.
Liang Rui drove the carriage intently, and Ning Qiwei immersed herself in her own world. The carriage "clicked" along, and suddenly the carriage didn't know what it had run over, and the body of the carriage shook. Liang Rui hurriedly pulled the reins, and the carriage stopped instantly. Ning Qiwei had just stood up, and the sudden conflict made her unsteady, and her body fell out of the car, "Ahh In danger, Ning Qiwei instinctively shouted.
Liang Rui turned his head and saw Ning Qiwei falling out of the car. Liang Rui was startled, and he reached out to pull Ning Qiwei. Liang Rui couldn't pull Ning Qiwei's hand, he grabbed Ning Qiwei's foot in a hurry. Ning Qiwei's feet were pulled, and she fell heavily on the carriage. "Wow, my waist!" Ning Qiwei stopped and shouted. She finally understood what it meant to be self-inflicted.
Liang Rui hurried over: "Where is the injury?" How's it going? Liang Rui's voice was a little worried. Ning Qiwei lay on the carriage for a long time before the pain in her waist eased. Ning Qiwei tried to sit up.
"Peng", Ning Qiwei's forehead hit something. Ning Qiwei covered her forehead and looked over, Liang Rui was rubbing her forehead. Ning Qiwei suddenly laughed "hehehe", and Liang Rui also laughed.
"Two of you, let me get through." Liang Rui and Ning Qiwei turned their heads at the same time. A fat man who looked like Li Kui was standing in front of the carriage they were riding in with a cart of charcoal in a dirty body. Ning Qiwei looked at the crowded street, and her carriage took up exactly half of the street.
Ning Qiwei looked at the cart of charcoal, and then looked at the fat man who was trembling. Ning Qiwei said to the fat man: "I want this carcoal of yours." Liang Rui, pay! "Ahh Emperor... What do we want charcoal for? Liang Rui asked with some confusion.
"It's useless! Just help him. Ning Qiwei said flatly. Oh well! Liang Rui replied softly, he took out the silver from his arms, and said, "How much is this carload of charcoal?" The fat man said in a hoarse voice, "Thank you!" A tael of silver. ”
Liang Rui gave him five taels of silver. The fat man excused himself: "You don't need so much, just one or two." Ning Qiwei smiled and said: "The extra is counted as labor expenses." "What is the labor fee?" The fat man asked, puzzled.
Oh! Ning Qiwei forgot that the ancients could not understand this modern terminology. Ning Qiwei paused and said, "You help me deliver the charcoal to where I'm going." "Okay, but I'll just deliver it to you. Not so much. The fat man said sincerely. Ning Qiwei was a little impatient: "If you say it's for you, it's for you." ”
The fat man was anxious: "The money is yours, and I take what I deserve." I can't ask for the extra one. Just give me a tael. Ning Qiwei was not reluctant: "Okay! Liang Rui, give him one or two. "I don't have change. That's it. ”
When the fat man heard this, he put down the handlebar in his hand and walked to the baked cake stall next to him. He asked the stall owner to wrap some baked cakes for him, and he handed the stall owner the five taels of silver. The stall owner shook his head and said something, and he pointed to the other stall and said something.
The stall owner put down the bread wrapped in his hand, took the silver in his hand, and walked to another stall. The stall owner walked around a few stalls before walking back to the stall with a pile of change.
The stall owner counted the money to the fat man, and the fat man carefully took it and counted it carefully. After counting, the fat man held the money tightly in one hand and walked towards Ning Qiwei with the other hand holding the baked cake.
He walked to the front of his charcoal loading truck, put the baked cake on it, and then walked up to Liang Rui: "Guest officer, I changed it for zero." It was four taels of silver. Find it for you. As the fat man spoke, he counted out four taels of broken silver in his hand and handed it to Liang Rui. Liang Rui insisted on refusing to accept it. The two of them just pushed.
Ning Qiwei saw the scene just now, and she said to the fat man and Liang Rui: "Don't fight between the two of you." I have a compromise here. "Liang Rui, it's so cold, let's go eat a bowl of noodle soup." This big brother, let's go over there and sit down and say. Ning Qiwei spoke, pointing to the noodle soup stall on the side of the street.
Ning Qiwei jumped out of the carriage, walked to the noodle stall on the side of the street, and picked a clean place to sit down. Liang Rui drove the carriage to an open place and parked it, and the fat man followed him to push the cart of charcoal to the side of the carriage, and the two walked to the noodle stall together.
"Little Er, let's have three bowls of noodles." Ning Qiwei shouted at the top of her voice. Xiao Er greeted him with a smile: "Guest officer, do you want a big bowl or a small bowl?" "Big bowl." Ning Qiwei said without thinking. "Okay. Wait a minute. Xiao Er walked away quickly, and Liang Rui and the fat man happened to be sitting in their positions.
Ning Qiwei looked at the fat man in thin clothes and said, "Big brother, you are still walking in the ice and snow on such a rainy day, you are still wearing so little!" The fat man sighed and said, "No way." Life is forced. Ning Qiwei frowned and said, "How do you say it?" As Ning Qiwei spoke, Xiao Er happened to come up. Ning Qiwei beckoned: "Big brother, let's talk about it after eating." ”
The fat man didn't shirk, he picked up the chopsticks and ate them. Ning Qiwei was not polite, she also picked up chopsticks and ate, and Liang Rui also ate.
Ning Qiwei only took two bites, Liang Rui was still chewing the first bite in his mouth, and the fat man's bowl of noodles had already been swallowed. Ning Qiwei and Liang Rui looked at the fat man dumbfounded, and the fat man was a little embarrassed: "I eat a lot, and I eat fast." Ning Qiwei smiled: "Little Er, serve five more bowls." "Okay, I'll be there soon." Xiao Er immediately came up with five bowls of noodles.
The fat man picked up the chopsticks and ate, and in thirty seconds, Ning Qiwei had five more empty bowls in front of him. Ning Qiwei was dumbfounded: "Can the eldest brother still eat it?" The fat man nodded wryly.
Ning Qiwei squeezed out a smile and said, "Little Er, there are ten bowls of noodles." Xiao Er still greeted him with a smile: "Guest officer, do you want a big bowl or a small bowl?" Ning Qiwei said firmly: "Big bowl." Xiao Er smiled a little stiffly and replied, "Okay." You wait a moment. Ning Qiwei thought to herself: It's nothing, doesn't modern society also have a big stomach. Ning Qiwei thought of this, and she laughed stupidly to herself.
Xiao Er came up with the noodles, the fat man picked up the chopsticks and ate again, almost forty seconds later, the ten bowls of noodles also bottomed out. Ning Qiwei said with a smile: "Can the eldest brother still eat?" The fat man smiled embarrassedly and said, "My stomach is four-fifths empty." ”
Ning Qiwei forced out a smile and said, "Little Er, come up more." Xiao Er walked over with a surprised expression: "Guest officer, how many bowls do you want?" ”
Ning Qiwei forced a smile and pointed at the fat man and said, "Until he is full." Xiao Er left with a frightened expression.
At the end, Xiao Er served bowl after bowl of noodles, and the fat man ate them all in the shortest time. Ning Qiwei thoroughly watched an ancient version of the Big Stomach King.
After Xiao Er served a few more bowls, he gasped and said to Ning Qiwei: "Guest officer, the noodles in our store have been sold out. "Sold out. Ning Qiwei was so shocked that her eyes were about to fall.
Xiao Er nodded very seriously. Ning Qiwei endured the collapse of her heart and said, "Little Er, go to another stall to borrow a few bowls." "Guest officer, how many bowls do you want?" Xiao Er asked with an expression that seemed to be eaten if he didn't pay attention. The fat man naturally said, "Twenty bowls." ”
Ning Qiwei's feet were trembling when she saw Xiao Er walking away. After a long time, Xiao Er served twenty bowls of noodles one after another. The fat man ate all the twenty bowls, he finally burped, Ning Qiwei, Liang Rui and Xiao Er sighed and wiped their sweat.
"Little Er, check out." Ning Qiwei said to Xiao Er, who was standing beside her. "This... Guest, you wait. I'm going to count. After saying this, Xiao Er began to "One, two, three... Count the ground. "One hundred and forty-eight, one hundred and forty-nine, one hundred and fifty." Xiao Er finally finished counting the stacks of bowls stacked on the table. "Guest, a hundred and fifty bowls in total. Ten taels and one pennies of silver. Our boss said that you have eaten so much, give you a discount, even if it is ten taels! Ning Qiwei felt weird when she heard it, but she also knew that Xiao Er was well-intentioned. Liang Rui, ten taels. Ning Qiwei said.
Xiao Er cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks under the table and left. Ning Qiwei said to the fat man: "Big brother, you haven't asked what to call it?" The fat man said very sincerely: "My name is Fan Hai." Ning Qiwei asked with a smile: "Brother Fan, what do you do for a living on weekdays?" Why are you so diligent on a snowy day? ”
Fan Hai listened to Ning Qiwei's words and sighed: "I make a living by selling some coolies and charcoal on weekdays. Just because I eat too much, I don't even earn enough to eat every day. I can only come out on a snowy day to sell some charcoal to make ends meet. ”
Ning Qiwei heard these words and said with a smile: "Big brother is also a bold person, and I am short of people. I wonder if the eldest brother is interested? Fan Hai said happily: "Today is the fullest meal in my life, and I am worried about how to repay you." Of course I do! ”
Ning Qiwei said with a smile: "Big brother said it was funny. Talk about what to repay and not to repay. Who is in the eldest brother's family? ”
Fan Hai patted his head and said, "I don't know if the baked cakes are cold?" My mother said today that she wanted to eat pancakes. Ning Qiwei said with a smile: "Brother Fan also has a mother in the family. Fan Hai smiled and said, "Yes! Just me and my mother depend on each other. ”
Ning Qiwei turned her head and said to Liang Rui, "Give me twenty taels." Liang Rui took out the money bag from his arms, took two silver ingots and handed them to Ning Qiwei. Ning Qiwei handed the ingots to Fan Hai and said, "Big brother, take this money to buy some delicious food for your mother." ”
Fan Hai refused to answer, and Ning Qiwei said to Fan Hai: "Big brother, go home and settle down your mother, and go to the Xilai Inn to find me." When you go there, just say to the shopkeeper that you are looking for Liang Rui, and remember to settle your mother! ”
Fan Haicai was willing to take the silver, and he insisted on sending the charcoal to Ning Qiwei. Ning Qiwei said that she was a foreign businessman, so Fan Hai gave up. Liang Rui and Ning Qiwei drove the carriage, and Fan Hai pushed the cart of charcoal and parted ways.