Chapter 1 Osmanthus, Drink, Green Bamboo Basket
In July, the fire flowed, and the city was full of cinnamon.
On the Jinming River, the official ship Jia Bo, the boat is linked to each other, and the sails are lined up, stretching endlessly. On both sides of the riverbank, the restaurant foot shop, the colorful building is open to the door, embroidered and windy, there are more clever and laughing and contending for the song of the song, by the column to invite, there are sumo wrestling, overshooting, monk speaking, singing, kicking and so on in turn, attracting visitors to pause.
The BMW incense cars on the street are crowded with people, and all kinds of snacks, toys, and fortune-telling stalls have also held up large green cloth umbrellas, stacked beds and stools, or shouted hard, or looked around......
However, the excitement is all someone else's, and it has nothing to do with Lu Jing.
Lu Jinggang carried the goods on the dock for a long time, feeling that his body was almost no longer his own, and he was paralyzed under a laurel tree at this moment, looking directly at the drinking stall not far away.
The so-called drink is a drink, the recipe is not the same, but it is basically made of herbs, fruits and flowers and other materials mixed in a certain proportion, the taste is a bit like the Wang Laoji that Lu Jing bought in the convenience store before, it is not very delicious, but when you eat hot pot or just after exercising, you can get a bottle, it is still very refreshing.
It's just that Lu Jing really didn't expect that one day he would fall to the point where even Wang Laoji was greedy, which even reminded him of the horror of being dominated by a little raccoon when he was in elementary school.
And like a pack of little raccoons, a bowl of drinks in front of him is only two pennies.
This price is really not expensive, so the business of the drinking stall is booming, and there have been many people around since early in the morning, but Lu Jing is still reluctant to pay these two cents.
It is said that it has been six months since Lu Jingtra, but he still knows a little about the world he is in now. I only roughly know that this is a novel dynasty that has not been seen in the history books, and the country name is Chen, but it is not the Chen of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it is really closer to the Song Dynasty in history than the real one.
Lu Jing didn't care, anyway, with his half-baked knowledge of history, he would go anywhere.
And he is not the kind of person who is good at drilling interpersonal relationships, and likes to call friends, he was just buried in work in the unit before, and went home directly after work to play games and watch movies, and rarely had nothing to do with the leader like other colleagues, or frequently socialized, so if he really traveled to a well-known dynasty, he could not be shocked and recruit the world's heroes, and it was estimated that he could choke on what decent thighs he could hold.
However, tens of millions of people in the world have their own ways of living.
Lu Jing reluctantly withdrew his gaze from the drinking stall and glanced at the waist card on his waist.
Unfortunately, this is not a magical artifact that can take people through or have its own system.
In fact, each member of the Qingzhu Gang has a piece of such a waist tag, with their names engraved on the front and the fire mark of the Qingzhu Gang on the back, which is regarded as the identity certificate of the Qingzhu Gang.
And with this thing, you can...... At the Wujiang City wharf, the cargo was unloaded and moved for the merchant ships.
Yes, the Qingzhu Gang is essentially a basket line, also called a foot line, most of the gang members are porters in the city, relying on the thirteen wharves in the city to make a living, and Wujiang City is located at the intersection of the Wujiang River and the Grand Canal, is the southern waterway hub, the transportation town, the river ships are like scales, and the demand for porters is also very large.
As soon as there are many people, it is naturally easy to form gangs, and because many porters use baskets to carry goods, and most of the baskets are made of bamboo, which is named after the Green Bamboo Gang.
Lu Jing was almost deceived by this rather elegant name before, and thought that it was full of literati and elegant guests who loved gardening, until he saw the distributed basket and didn't understand what they did, but Lu Jing, who learned the truth, chose to join the Qingzhu Gang after hesitating for a long time.
There is no way, although he was the technical backbone of the unit before the crossing, and he was also quite famous in the industry, but the profession he was engaged in happened to belong to the kind that was useless in ancient times, plus he was a newcomer, although Chen Chao also spoke Chinese, but there were accents everywhere, and Lu Jing was also at a loss when he heard it, so he was willing to accept him in a place where he relied purely on his strength to earn food.
It's just that the hard work of this line is also real, not to mention getting up early and greedy for darkness, and earning little, Lu Jing inquired about the tea doctor on the street next door, people can almost earn 100 yuan a day, and the work is easy, cooking tea to welcome customers, by the way, just clean up a little, and you can also listen to the traveling merchants and high-rollers who travel between the north and the south tell some strange things and increase their knowledge.
On the other hand, Lu Jing, who works as a porter at the wharf, only has an income of about forty or fifty yuan a day, and each piece of goods has to be carried on his shoulders, because it is a piecework system, and he can get the corresponding number of chips when he moves, and finally settle the salary according to the signs, even if he wants to fish with pay.
However, Lu Jing gritted his teeth and persevered, and he did it for six months.
During this period, he managed to exercise his listening and speaking, and finally overcame the language barrier, got rid of the embarrassing state of being half-mute, and was able to communicate with people normally, but after that, Lu Jing did not leave the Qingzhu Gang.
It's not that the Qingzhu Gang is unwilling to let go, this line is originally highly liquid, and it is very common for porters to save enough money, can't stand the suffering, or can't do it when they are old, except for some core members, the Qingzhu Gang has always pursued the principle of wide entry and wide out, but it is like a labor intermediary, relying on the freight commission of the porters to maintain its operation.
This is also the reason why Lu Jing, who had nothing before and stumbled in his speech, successfully joined the Qingzhu Gang, but it was not the reason why Lu Jing had been working in this line with obviously no development prospects for half a year.
Lu Jing hasn't left until now because there are people in the Qingzhu Gang who know martial arts!
And it's not Master Ma's traditional kung fu that can only be pointed, but genuine martial arts, just like those described in martial arts novels.
Lu Jing was fortunate to catch up with a big drama on the first day of joining the gang, the gang leader of the Qingzhu Gang led people to greet the Cao Gang on the dock, it is said that it was to talk about raising the freight, but he didn't think that the steward of the Cao Gang jumped ashore directly without the help of any tools.
You must know that the boat he was on was not completely docked at that time, and it was still about two feet away from the shore, but the steward was on the bow of the boat, and then like a swallow spreading its wings, it landed lightly in front of everyone, and the faces of the Qingzhu Gang on the dock changed.
Fortunately, the new gang leader of the Qingzhu Gang also made a timely move, took a deep breath, took half a step forward, and made a gesture to greet him, but the bluestone slab he was standing on left a shallow footprint.
The steward of the Cao Gang also restrained the smile on his face when he saw the footprints on the ground, and praised with his hand, "Xie Gang Master's handsome internal kung fu." ”
"Where, Steward Lin's light body kung fu is really what makes me wait to open my eyes. The leader of the Xie gang also hurriedly replied, his tone was neither humble nor arrogant.
"I heard that your gang has set up a banquet in Gonglou, and it just so happens that the old stomach is also hungry at this time, let's go, let's talk while eating. The steward of the Cao Gang had received the invitation early, but he had been dragging it out and not expressing his position, until this time he took the initiative to bring up the matter again.
Hearing his words, everyone in the Qingzhu Gang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, raised their eyebrows, and walked towards Gonglou with the Cao Gang steward together.