Chapter 148 Clues

Even if there is a gossip that the eldest son of the Li family has become a hundred households in Jinyi and Wei, which makes the neighbors talk about it, but the opening of the new roast meat wine shop of the pole restaurant on the street, and the news of the wild delivery of dried meat makes the people in Gongxian Hutong even more excited.

From the year to the present, the price of grain in Jingshi has been very stable, but for the ordinary people in the hutongs, vegetables and meat are still a rare thing. The reason is that there are still too few ways for ordinary people to earn money, and the money they earn is still too little.

Jiao Laosan, who lives in the deepest part of the alley, is Liba, who makes money by carrying in Dongdian Bridge.

I have to go out every morning, and if I go late, I don't have any work. It's okay in summer, a single jacket can be mixed for a season. There was no food in his stomach, so he scooped up a large scoop of water in the water tank with a gourd, and drank it to fill it up. The rest of the water was splashed directly on his face, and then he wiped his face with his sleeve before walking out of the house.

On weekdays, he spent about half an hour walking from Gongxian Hutong to Dongjiaqiao. Then use five copper plates, buy three flatbreads and a small bowl of water or dismantled meat, and eat them with a sigh, so that you can have the strength to deal with the next work. The vast majority of daily livelihoods are spent moving goods and loading and unloading goods. At most, this work will be done until the end of the day, after which there will be no bulk goods coming in, and it will be a waste of food to consume in the market.

Usually at this time, he will use the money he earns today to go to the grain store to buy some heterozygous noodles and then stop by the slaughterhouse. There are always once or twice a month, and a few poor haha can get together to buy a little pig and sheep to go into the water, and sometimes even a cow to go into the water, most of the time is to see. At the end of the day, sometimes there is nothing left, and at the best time there are twenty left. And then threw all today's harvest to his sister-in-law.,Just mix it up day by day.。

I woke up late this morning, and it was already dark when I went out. Who knew that if he was lucky, he didn't walk to the main street, but he saw Xiao Dong's family at the Pole Restaurant losing his temper with the old man who was transporting goods.

"The freight of two taels of silver, you can't find this price in the capital, who will unload if you don't unload the goods."

The one who drove the car was an old man, and at first glance he was born as a gangster, but he was not in a hurry:

"Who the old man you are looking for doesn't know, there is no unloading on the list for the old man. Anyway, we are a delivery person, and what we earn is a hard money, if you don't accept it here, I will drive the car and goods back the way when the time comes. ”

As he spoke, the old man slowly removed a stool from the ox cart and placed it under the wheel, freeing the old ox from the trailer. Then he went to the back of the ox cart, took out a large iron basin, poured some wheat bran from the pocket under the padding of his driving position, and sprinkled in the grass he had cut along the way, and then put it in front of the ox, and watched the old cow graze with joy.

When the cow began to eat, the old man took out a few black multigrain cakes from the pocket tied to the wheel, tore them and put them in the bowl, poured a little cold water into the bowl from the water bladder on his waist, accompanied by the sound of the old cow eating grass, snoring and eating sweetly.

There are also many idlers at the street entrance, all of whom are like Jiao Laosan to watch the excitement. Shawdenku didn't have a temper and didn't dare to have a seizure. Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, there were more and more flies and gadfly, all of which landed on the mutton in the carriage. The guys are being taken out of meat by Zheng Xiangzu today, and there is no idler. He still has to go out to confirm the whereabouts of a few noble housekeepers, but there is no way, he glanced at the old man squatting in front of the cow hatefully, and had to grit his teeth and say.

"Guys, can anyone help unload a car, thirty copper plates."

Hearing this, Jiao Laosan felt that his luck was so good. As far as the eye can see, the surrounding area is full of idlers hanging out. I quickly took off my shirt and ran over with my naked and strong upper body.

"The owner, the owner, I'm Jiao Laosan who lives in the back street, do you think thirty-five copper plates are appropriate?"

Xiao Dengku didn't care, at this time it was more to anger the old man opposite. Directly and boldly:

"Done! This is the day when our roast meat brewery opens, and I will give you forty copper plates. Don't be in a hurry to leave after moving the meat, it's all in the neighborhood, and it's time for breakfast, so I'll bring a little roast meat and dried meat back. ”

No one knows if the old man squatting there doesn't regret it, but Jiao Laosan is definitely happy. I thought I was up late, but today I might be empty-handed, but I didn't expect to meet such a good thing before I got out of the alley.

"You see."

He didn't wear clothes either, and it was not easy to wash the greasy and greasy clothes, so he directly put half a fan of pork on his shoulder.

"Boss, please bother to tell me a place."

Xiao Dengku walked in front, and Jiao Laosan followed behind.

Entering the courtyard, he pointed to the small door next to the well, and then deliberately asked:

"Well, I saw the little door without the left hand, and inside was a ladder, you just go down the ladder and hang the meat on the shelf." After speaking, he deliberately took down the oil lamp that was placed by the door, lit it with the flint in his hand, and handed it to him.

"The genius is bright, the cellar is very dark, you take this oil lamp down, put it in the dirt hole against the wall in the middle of the ladder, and shine a light on it, don't fall it."

For Jiao Laosan, this job is the easiest job, a matter of a few steps. Seeing that Jiao Lao and the three of them went down, Xiao Dengku shouted to the workshop behind:

"Brother Zheng, I'm out. The meat is being unloaded. Later, you will come out and count the number, and by the way, you will settle the account of forty copper plates. ”

"What's the matter, you go."

For Zheng Xiangzu, when he left Manchuria, the only thing the teacher confessed was that he wanted to have merit in the enemy's territory, and the only requirement was to pretend to be something. Zheng Xiangzu, who was shaking a folding fan and wearing a green coat, was gone, and was replaced by Zheng Xiangzu, who was only wearing a crotch cloth, naked, and shiny.

Then, just after a batch of meat was free, he went out and glanced at Xiao Dengku, and nodded:

"Does the Liba you are looking for look familiar, it's done, call me after unloading the goods in a while."

"This is the neighborhood, I'll bring some meat later." Shawdenku added.

Zheng Xiangzu should have known by now that the first assassination attempt in Manchuria must have failed, or was not so successful. However, he felt that there were still a lot of opportunities here, and the most important thing now was to mingle with the people here.

If it weren't for another captain in the lake this time, it is estimated that he would have escaped with Xiao Dengku again. Therefore, let the innocent people next to you subconsciously cover themselves, this is the right way.

"No problem." Saying that, he didn't look at Jiao Laosan, so he ran into the steaming workshop again.

Jiao Laosan is very satisfied with the style of the owners, even if he knows that people will definitely verify the number in the end, but this kind of boldness that regards himself as his own person still makes the young man more motivated to work.

In less than half an hour, there were still a few heads left in the car, but the hooks on the shelves in the cellar were already full of meat.

So he went to the door of the workshop, where the stove was whirring, and seven or eight workers and proprietors were busily unloading racks of meat from the shelves and pushing new ones up.

"Owner, the shelves are full." Jiao Laosan shouted loudly.

Zheng Xiangzu, who was facing away from everyone and observing the barbecue heat, heard it, and he thought it was the work behind him that reminded him that the shelves sent to the barbecue kiln were full.

"The one on the right is still empty, you put it in first, and I'll come and see it later."

Jiao Laosan thought that the owner had replied to his question.

He went down to the cellar again, straightened the shelves, and then unloaded another sheep from the cart, and went to the little door to the right of the well, which was closed from the outside with a fork.

With no free hand, he picked open the crossbar with his foot and gently kicked open the wooden door.

It was dark inside, Jiao Laosan raised his foot to try it, and sure enough, like the cellar next to it, it was also a wooden ladder placed at the door. He turned sideways, held the mutton in one hand, and the oil lamp in the other, and walked on.

Unlike the cellar over there, the smell of blood here was heavier, and there was a smell of feces mixed in.

After taking more than a dozen steps, it seemed to have fallen to the ground, and he stepped on one foot repeatedly before he was sure that he was stepping on the ground. When I turned around, I found that this place was different from the cellar next to it, there was no table for oil lamps, but there seemed to be a long wooden table.

He laid the sheep on the long table, and then turned around with the lamp and looked into the cellar. Or a couple of wooden shelves. He was about to put the mutton on the oil lamp and hang it up, but he found that the shelves here seemed to be full of things too.

"Bang Bang ......"

After Jiao Laosan saw it clearly, the oil lamp in his hand fell, and his legs trembled and he couldn't move.

After a long time, I bit my tongue fiercely, and under a burst of pain, I regained control of my legs, and turned around and climbed the wooden ladder with a trembling rope.

"Why don't you hang meat to the right?"

Zheng Xiangzu asked the little guy behind him strangely, and the little guy looked at him innocently, just like that for a few seconds.

"Damn!"

Zheng Xiangzu also knew that something bad was wrong, grabbed the iron hook in his hand, turned around and walked out of the workshop.