After Mei Bin returned home, he slept in a separate bed with Hongdi that night, left home early the next morning, and never came back. A month after he left home, the donkey meat restaurant was also closed, because Xu Sangui and Yu Lonely no longer came, and she was not a good woman. Hongdi felt that there were difficulties in life, so she cleaned up the house and used the original savings to buy some beds and quilts, opened a hostel, and asked Bao Xiangdong to write her an advertisement for opening a hostel and hang it in the north of Baozhuang.

One night a few days later, three middle-aged male guests came, one with a round face, one with a square face, and one with a long face. They said that they had come to Baozhuang to sell cattle, and asked if there were good cattle to sell near Hongdi. Hongdi shook her head, saying that she had opened a donkey meat restaurant, but she only knew where to sell donkeys nearby.

They no longer talk about this matter, but ask the price of the hostel, Hongdi said that the new opening, you are also the first guest, originally 35 yuan per room, now only 30 hangs, 5 hangs, I hope you often come as guests. The round face said: Check out tomorrow morning, right? By the early morning of the next day, the three guests had not gotten up, but there was a sound inside, indicating that they were all awake, and the door was not open, so Hong Di knocked on the door and asked them what they wanted to eat in the morning, and one of them replied: Eat braised beef.

Okay - Hongdi agreed happily, but there was no braised beef in the store. She thought: they haven't gotten up yet, and it's still too late to buy braised beef. So he took the coins and went out, only walked two steps, turned back again, and looked at the bunk on the side of his bedroom, the two children were sleeping deeply, and had not yet woken up.

At this moment, she walked past a locust tree in front of the door, and suddenly felt something black and white fall from the top of the tree, and it landed right on her hair. She touched it with her hand, and was very annoyed, and a piece of bird poop stuck to her fingers. Alas, she sighed in her heart, early in the morning, a piece of bird fell on her head, and when she carried it!

She went back to her room and dipped her head in a basin of warm water and rubbed it a few times until she felt the dirt clear. When she went out, she said to the unopened guest room over there: "Guests, if you get up, just wait, I will go to the market to buy braised beef for you, and I will be back immediately."

Middle! There you go! The person in the room still spoke in the thick male voice.

The market is about two miles away from Baozhuang, and there is a ditch, a steep slope, an embankment, and a mixed village. Hongdi hurried in a trot, and although the morning breeze was a little cold, beads of sweat still drenched from her forehead. When she arrived at the stewed beef stall in the vegetable field, she asked how much money a catty, the stall owner said 5 hangs 5, she said to buy 3 catties, and took out a total of 17 hangs to let him change, but he weighed the braised beef, bandaged it properly and gave it to Hongdi, and collected the money, and repeatedly took it out in the money bag, but could not find 0.5 hangs. Hongtu looked at him, anxious to leave, so he said hurry up.

The stall owner said with difficulty: It's not a coincidence, you are the first to buy some braised beef from my stall this morning, so there is no change to find, wait a while, see if anyone else comes to buy goods, if there is, maybe you can make a convenient change.

Hongdi waited anxiously for a while, and a few people came, glanced at the stall, but did not buy the goods, and left. Hongdi thought in her heart that the few guests who stayed in her hostel might have gotten up and washed up, and if they didn't return, what should they do if they couldn't bear to leave? So she said to the stall owner: Just remember the change you didn't find, and I will come to you next time.

The stall owner is an old man with a beard on his face, rubbing his hands and saying, "Just remember my stall."

When I went out, the east was only white, and now on the way back from the market, the sun had risen high, but the clouds were thick, and the sun was wrapped in it like a bright cocoon, sometimes brilliant, sometimes bleak, like a blank mind shrouded in the feeling of red.

Hongtu returned home with the braised beef, excited, but an unexpected scene annoyed her. Before she walked under the locust tree, her child Bao Shuaiying said as if complaining: Mom, the three guests left, I didn't stop them, I said that my mother went to the street to buy braised beef for you, and you want to eat that, why don't you wait for my mother to come back and leave? If you want to go, you can leave the accommodation fee, a total of 30 yuan.

I also said that I heard the price my mother said last night. But they were all cooing and cooing, looking at me indifferently.

The round face said, "Little girl, we are familiar with your mother, so we will go to your mother to pay the accommodation fee." I said no, give me the money, my mother is not present, I can collect it on my behalf.

The square face said, no, I gave it to you, you are a child, you can't be trusted, if the money is lost, how can we explain to your mother? They walked as they talked, and I couldn't stop them. When the long face saw me rushing up, he stretched out his foot and stumbled over me, so they took the opportunity to hasten their pace and run.

After listening to the child's statement, Hong Di said: Shuai Ying, you can't be blamed for those three bad guys running away, you are so good. She picked up Shuai Ying, and Shuai Ying asked again: Can you find those three people?

In order to make the children feel better, Hongdi lied that I would find them sooner or later to pay the bill. But those three people were strangers to the countryside, and Hongdi was not sure to find them at all, and the more she thought about it, the more resentful she became, and what made her even more resentful was that she had been deceived into running a vegetable stall for nothing in the morning, and paid the owner of the braised beef stall 0.5 yuan more.

Hong Di put down the handsome Ying who was hugging, twisted the braised beef in his hand, gritted his teeth again, and then said with a curse: If you meet them next time, you must kill them.

The story of the three cattle dealers playing tricks on the three cattle dealers soon spread. This is what Shuai Ying said, she bypassed the locust tree, went to the neighbor's house to play with the children, and the adults asked when they saw it: Shuai Ying, I heard that your donkey meat restaurant is not open, is it good to open a hostel now?

What a ghost. Shuai Ying squatted on the ground while grabbing the boy and replied casually. Adults asked: Why is business not good? Shuai Ying said: Don't ask, don't ask, let me tell you after I finish this game of catching boys. The adults watched her play with another child and the result, Shuai Ying lost, she rubbed the boy in her hand and said ideally: Not only is my family's luck bad today, but my luck is also bad.

What do you mean by that? Adults need to ask what is going on. Shuai Ying refused to say, and had to fight a game of catching children with children. It was a boy with a bald oval head and a lock of hair on the top of his head, and he said very mischievously: Did you answer the adult's question?

What was asked? Shuai Ying asked rhetorically like this, obviously pretending.

The adult smiled and said, "You lost the game of boys, which is good." What did you lose in your family? Shuai Ying said: Let's just say it, there are three cattle dealers who stayed in the hostel owned by my family and left without paying a penny.

Will your mom let them go?

They took advantage of the fact that my mother went to the vegetable market to buy braised beef and didn't come back, and they were forced to walk, and I couldn't stop them even if I stopped them.

The adult's mouth was like a trumpet, and it soon spread the news in Baozhuang.