There has been no messy strange thing in this year, and the whole Yangzhou city is as always, the coolies on the wharf are coolies, and the people who are having fun in the red mansion are having fun.

On this day, Jiang Lili was bored, and he squatted on the edge of the dock with a moon flower that he didn't know which yard he picked it from, looking at the poor men who were begging for a way to live, his eyes were full of sarcasm, and he said in his heart: No wonder it is a character who has no prospects, the dog-like prison officer with a whip in his hand doesn't dare to fight back with a bad face at you, you deserve to live with a sack for the rest of your life!

At this moment, a middle-aged man with a dry tobacco stick in his mouth came, the hat on his head was worn crookedly, and the buttons on his martial arts-style clothes were also buttoned messily, walked to Jiang Lili's side, and spat a puff of smoke into Jiang Lili's face. Seeing Jiang Lili coughing at the smell of smoke, he laughed and said vaguely: "Boy, you are also here to beg for work? I see that your thin arms and legs are afraid that you can't carry a few sacks! But looking at your appearance, you are quite delicate, why don't I introduce you to be a little rabbit master for a few young men with unique interests?"

Jiang Lili was so annoyed that she stood up and kicked the middle-aged man's belly, kicking the middle-aged man so much that he almost fell, and scolded: "A faceless dog thing, I think it's also a licking thing, and I dare to hit Lao Tzu's face?"

The middle-aged man was on fire at first, and was about to add punches and kicks to Jiang Lili when a man in a gray cloth shirt came next to him and grabbed his sleeve, "Eh, what are you anxious about with a child?"

The middle-aged man with the dry tobacco stick in his mouth snorted twice, looked back at the man who was sweating behind him, shook his hand, pointed at Jiang Lili's nose and scolded: "You are lucky today, if I let me see you again, I can't spare you!"

Jiang Lili naturally wouldn't be afraid of these cruel words, and sneered, "What's the matter? Don't you dare to fight back? It seems that she is also a bad breed, and the mother-in-law at the head of the family sleeps with whom, I'm afraid that she doesn't have the slightest temper!"

The middle-aged man turned his head and yelled at the gray-shirted man who had grabbed him before, "Old Zhong, look at him! I said let him go, this hairy boy still dares to scold my daughter-in-law?!"

As he spoke, he was about to step forward to seek justice, when a somewhat timid voice next to him grabbed him, "My lord, are you still recruiting people here?"

The middle-aged man looked around, and when he was wondering, he saw a black head under his shoulder, and then he realized that it was a half-sized man standing in front of him. Stunned for a while, "What did you say?"

The young man was eleven or twelve years old, born thin, with a pair of cloth shoes with flat soles on his feet, and a patched cloth coat on his body, white, but clean, and a black cloth bag on his back, like a bag.

The young man timidly asked, "My lord, are you still recruiting people here?"

The middle-aged man smacked his lips, but still couldn't come back to his senses, staring at the young man's eyes, which were a little evasive. Turning his head to look at Jiang Lili again, Jiang Lili stared at him with his eyes, and the middle-aged man replied halfway: "Are you talking about being a rabbit master?"

The gray-shirted man standing next to the middle-aged man pushed him and asked with a smile, "Are you here to do hard work on this dock?"

The young man nodded, "My name is Su Mu." ”

The gray-shirted man asked again: "What are you doing here, not to mention what you are doing with all this money, you can't carry any heavy loads even on your body!"

The young man named Su Mu was slightly afraid of life, but at this time, he dared to raise his head and said stiffly: "Don't look at me being thin, I have a lot of strength!"

The middle-aged man with a dry tobacco stick in his mouth exhaled a mouthful of smoke, choking Su Mu only frowned, and said with a smile: "How strong can you be, can you compare to those sturdy men who are adult coolies?"

Su Mu's tone weakened slightly, "Although it can't compare to them, it can be done with less!"

The gray-shirted man and the middle-aged man looked at each other, "Then what do you say you are doing these coolies? I don't dare to ask you for the reason! If you are crushed to death by a sack of goods, we will be very unlucky!"

Speaking of this, Su Mu's eyes were slightly misty, and his tone was slightly choked, "I'll sell coolies for some coils to find my father! My father, I don't want me to be with my mother, my mother was sick a few days ago, I have to find my father for some medicine money!"

The gray-shirted man was speechless, moved by compassion, and said: "Then I can deal with it, but this money still has to be settled, and I can't say that I pity you and give you some more copper plates." I just have to say yes first, you say that you have great strength, I believe it, but if you can't stand this hard work, you have to stop, otherwise if you have an accident, it will not be good for anyone!"

Su Mu nodded again and again, his eyes full of surprise.

Knocking the dry tobacco pole on the sole of his shoe, the middle-aged man held his big belly and scolded a few coolies who stopped to watch the excitement, then turned his head to look at Su Mu and nodded, "Since Lao Huang said so, then you can do it first! If you die, I don't care!"

"Thank you, sir!"

The middle-aged man hummed arrogantly, turned his head to look at Jiang Lili, who was smiling and watching the excitement on the side, and said, "Look, they are all children of about the same age, why is the difference so big?"

Jiang Lili snorted, "What's your business? Don't mess with me, I'm really annoyed, I'm worried that I'll call you dad in front of your mother-in-law!"

The middle-aged man was a little frightened at first, and then smiled: "You call me and I'll listen!"

Jiang Lili also smiled, "Really?"

The middle-aged man thought that he was also a master who was afraid of his wife, so he laughed again and again, "Teasing you!" Without waiting for Jiang Lili to reply, he hurriedly said to Su Mu next to him: "Now at noon, you first find a small restaurant to eat and come back, lest others say that I am not close to Supervisor Zhong!"

After saying that, the middle-aged man who claimed to be Supervisor Zhong was about to leave with a dry tobacco stick in his mouth, and suddenly turned back to Su Mu and said, "Do you want to consider changing jobs? Master Rabbit can earn more money than this, and it is very easy! I also guarantee that you will in the future." Before he finished speaking, the gray-shirted man next to him, known as Lao Huang, kicked him, looked at Su Mu, who was full of confusion, and smiled, "It's good to wait for you to come, I have a way for you to beg for money!"

"It's boring!" Supervisor Zhong muttered a few words and walked away scolding a few lazy men, and the old Huang next to him nodded slightly at the two teenagers and then left. Su Mu was a little overwhelmed here, and when he was about to turn his head to leave, he saw Jiang Lili smiling at him, he was a little cramped for a while, and said hello clumsily.

Jiang Lili laughed and shouted Rabbit Master?

Su Mu was still confused, but he didn't ask what the rabbit master meant.

Jiang Lili stared at this Su Mu's eyes and smiled with something else. Na Su Mu was originally a little uneasy, but then he actually laughed with Jiang Lili, his eyes were shrewd.

Jiang Lili stood up, "Your name is Su Mu?"

Su Mu smacked his lips, "Su of Suzhou!"

Jiang Lili said: "My name is Jiang Lili, go back to the river of Longjiang!"

just ordered two bowls of Yangchun green onion noodles, and Jiang Lili and Su Mu, two and a half years old, were very happy to eat. Jiang Lili asked: "I just heard you say that you are a coolie and entangled, where are you going?"

Su Mu tilted his head and thought for a while, "It's quite far, I heard an old master say that it's almost 100,000 miles away!"

"100,000 miles?" Jiang Lili snapped his fingers and didn't think about how far this 100,000 li was for a while, and he didn't want the young man sitting opposite him to see that he didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, so he pretended to sigh: "That's really far, it's really far!"

Su Mu chuckled.

Jiang Lili was a little annoyed, "You're laughing at a fart! What's so funny? Isn't a hundred thousand miles away?"

"It's far away!"

It didn't take long for a bowl of Yangchun noodles to finish eating, and after calling the second child, a greasy man with a big beard came over with a smile, "A total of ten cents!"

"You don't fart in front of me!" Jiang Lili jumped up directly from the chair, "Last time I came to eat with Pei Changfeng, that thief boy, it was only four pennies a bowl, why did the price increase today?"

The bearded man who opened the noodle shop rubbed the flour stains in his hands and smiled innocently, "Guest officer, the price of meat rose to ten cents yesterday!"

Jiang Lili pulled the leftover soup in the bowl, muttered a few more words to Su Mu, turned his head to look at the shopkeeper with an angry face, "You let your mother's dog stinky fart! Is there a little shredded meat in this noodle?"

The owner of this noodle shop still smiled honestly, "Naturally, there is no meat in your noodles, but I want to eat meat!"

Jiang Lili was dumbfounded, and the noodle shop owner was full of innocence.

Jiang Lili's trembling hands finally took out a few copper plates from the money bag and handed them to the owner of the noodle shop, scolded the dog thing that was not good to die for, and then turned around and left.

Su Mu took a sip of soup, and hurriedly followed after seeing Jiang Lili leave, but was grabbed by the owner of this noodle shop, "Wait for the guest officer, that person's money has been paid, but your money hasn't been paid yet!"

Su Mu's eyes widened, he glanced at Jiang Lili, who was scolding and leaving, smacked his lips, and finally smiled, muttered This person is even better than me, and then picked a few copper plates and put them on the table and left.

The owner of the noodle shop touched the copper plate, revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth and smirked.

Hurriedly followed out, without mentioning what happened just now, Su Mu carried a black bag and said to Jiang Lili, "Do you live in Yangzhou?"

"No, in a small mountain village. ”

Su Mu's eyes lit up, "Isn't it fun in the mountain village?" I used to live in a small town, and I always wanted to go to the top of the mountain to have a look, but I never went!"

Jiang Lili shook his head, "What's so fun about that? It's just a few mountains, nothing big!"

There was a pair chatting, and finally the two sat under a weeping willow for a long time, Su Mu glanced at the sky, patted his buttocks, and said to Jiang Lili: "I have to go to work as a coolie." ”

Jiang Lili sneered, "Just do it, what else do you want to report to me? I'm stopping you?"

With a sigh, Su Mu's footsteps were a little brisk, and he seemed to hum a little tune.

Jiang Lili squinted at Su Mu's back, how could she think that Su Mu's back couldn't stand up? Could it be that she couldn't straighten her back because she had done too much cooliework?

Thinking of Su Mu's hunched back being a little shorter than herself, Jiang Lili laughed two or three times, and taking advantage of the smoky sun, Jiang Lili closed her eyes and slept a little deeply.

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Zhang Jiuling came late, and on the way, he saw Jiang Lili holding a wooden knife and dropping two or three knives at random compared to a new willow, and secretly smacked his lips. Su Su, who was following Zhang Jiuling, ran over quickly, his face full of anger, "Jiang Gou, you are really very idle! Lao Zhang asked you to practice knives, what kind of tricks are you practicing? You must not be practicing properly! I knew that I would not accompany Lao Zhang to buy wine, so I will let you go!"

Jiang Lili waved the knife in his hand, but he didn't pick out any fancy tricks, and almost hit his head, which made Su Su smile a little happily. Annoyed, Jiang Lili said: "What's the matter with your little girl who doesn't have any hair? Besides, it's not strange that this old man surnamed Zhang has a lot of things to do? Do you have to go to a remote corner to buy wine and drink?" Speaking of this, Jiang Lili sneered, "I just heard that a cold spring just scraped to the edge of Yangzhou, it's very warm here, you must be frozen into a dog!"

"Tell you to take care of it!" Su Su raised his eyebrows!

Jiang Lili ignored her.

At this time, Zhang Jiuling walked over slowly, touched his beard and said, "It's done, I bought the wine, I have to go on the road earlier." ”

Jiang Lili was a little hesitant at this moment, and thought for a while, "Wait a minute!"

"Something?" Zhang Jiuling's eyes were inexplicable.

Jiang Lili turned his head to look at the left, on the left side of the road where there were not many pedestrians on the day, a young man with a steamed bun in his hand and a young man was Su Mu.

Following Jiang Lili's eyes, Zhang Jiuling glanced at Su Mu twice, raised his eyebrows and sighed, and then frowned slightly without knowing what he thought.

Su Mu walked slowly, and Jiang Lili shouted, "Will you die soon?"

Su Mu was stunned for a moment, and saw that Jiang Lili was followed by an old man and a young man, so he ran over quickly and bowed slightly to Zhang Jiuling, and said hello to the old man.

Su Su was a little scared, and stood two steps behind Zhang Jiuling slightly, without speaking.

Zhang Jiuling smiled and asked, "What's your name?"

"Ask a hammer, you ask!" Jiang Lili was impatient, and stretched out his hand, "Pay back the money!"

Zhang Jiuling was stunned for a moment, and then smiled.

Su Mu first reported his name to Zhang Jiuling before turning his head to look at Jiang Lili, "Where do I owe you money?"

Jiang Lili sneered: "Yesterday, I went to a noodle restaurant to eat noodles, and a bowl of Yangchun noodles only charged four yuan!

Su Mu didn't pay attention to it, suddenly startled, his eyes widened and asked, "Then the extra penny you gave is also mine?"

Jiang Lili nodded as expected.

"Bah, Jiang Dog, you don't fool people here!" Su Su finally said, "I don't know you yet, you must have paid your own money, can this also be counted on his head?"

Su Mu was stunned again, his face was full of surprise, but in fact, there was some cunning in his eyes, "You lied to me, your name is Jiang Dog?"

"Your name is Jiang Dog!" Jiang Lili turned his head and waved his fist at Su Su, who raised his head.

Jiang Lili snorted and turned his head to look at Su Mu, "Is it okay to talk less nonsense?" Anyway, it's all because of you and I for an extra penny, you have to pay me back today no matter what!"

Su Mu was a little helpless, and took out his pocket for a long time, but only found a copper plate, which was still the oldest kind, and then said: "I have to wait for seven or eight days before the supervisor Zhong is paid, and the money on my body has been exchanged for dry food, why don't you wait?"

Zhang Jiuling smiled and said, "Su boy, don't pay attention to him, he is a master who picks the door!"

"That's it, that's it!" Su Su helped aside.

Ignoring these two people mixing up the water, Jiang Lili squinted at Su Mu and shook his legs, meaning you see what to do!

Su Muyu hesitated, "Do you owe it first, and I'll pay you back later?"

"It's okay, but you have to charge interest!" Jiang Lili agreed, "Ten days will be counted as one more penny!"

Su Mu was dumbfounded, and said with a sad face.

Before he could say a few words, a rough voice came from there, "Su boy, eat a steamed bun for a year? Come and move the bricks!"

"Okay!" Su Mu replied loudly, then glanced at Zhang Jiuling apologetically, and hurriedly ran towards the dock after saying goodbye.

Jiang Lili shouted from afar, "You have to remember this money, if it's wrong, I won't spare you!"

Su Mu waved his hand from afar.

Zhang Jiuling first thought it was funny, then frowned when he looked at Su Mu's somewhat heavy steps when he ran, and then carefully looked at the black bag that Su Mu was carrying on his back, and finally was shocked, muttered a few words, patted Su Su, who was arguing with Jiang Lili, and didn't ask how the two teenagers met, just said to leave.

Where did all this nonsense come from?

Originally, the location of a few people was at a small wharf in Yangzhou, but in fact, it was not Yangzhou City, but only on the periphery of Yangzhou's boundary. From morning to evening, I actually walked a long distance with the strength of a few people's feet. If nothing else, it must have been out of Yangzhou.

At this moment, a few people were walking on a deserted path, unable to reach the village or the store, and they dug out their pockets, but they just took out a dried sweet potato! After eating two bites in three bites, Su Su complained: "Lao Zhang, where are we going? Why do I look at this place in a panic? What should I do if I encounter a robber?"

Zhang Jiuling smiled, "Feel free to walk around, just to see the customs and customs, the prosperous scene is good, if you can meet a few robbers on the road, it will be great, and by the way, you can also practice for Jiang Boy!"

"But what if the river dog can't beat it?"

"If we can't beat us, we'll run!" Zhang Jiuling didn't care.

Speaking of this, Su Su was really a little scared, "Where can we outrun the robbers?"

At this moment, Jiang Lili interjected, "Then what? Can other robbers catch you and go back to be the wife of the village? You are not blind to be a robber!"

Zhang Jiuling nodded, there was something to do!

"Jiang Gou, who are you with?" Su Su was already angry, but Jiang Lili couldn't help it, "If you meet a robber, you will be the first to be killed!"

Jiang Lili was too lazy to argue with her, so she didn't reply. Su Su only thought that Jiang Lili was rarely soft, a smile appeared on her face, and most of the fear in her heart dissipated, and she turned her head to look at Zhang Jiuling, "Old Zhang, where are you going! You always say that you can walk around at will, but you have to have a destination, right?"

Zhang Jiuling touched his goatee and thought about it, "Then let's go to Luoyang, you can pass through Pingsha on the way, kill two birds with one stone!"

"Luoyang? How far is that? I really can't walk!"

With narrow eyes, Zhang Jiuling glanced at Jiang Lili who was in a hurry, and said, "Since you can't walk, you can ask Jiang Lili to carry you!"

Jiang Lili said expressionlessly: "Come on, I can't carry a woman who can eat four bowls of rice per meal!"

"Jianggou, what do you mean?" Su Su was annoyed, "You mean I'm fat? Do you say that, girl, I deserve to be liked by no one for the rest of my life!"

"I don't like to worry about it, I can buy one or two daughters-in-law with money, but a woman who can eat four or five bowls of rice at a meal really can't get married!"

"Where are the five bowls? Where are the five bowls! Where are the five bowls!! are you ashamed to pinch your nose and talk nonsense?"

"Snort~~~"

Zhang Jiuling was very happy when he heard the two of them arguing, and he didn't want to say if his granddaughter had suffered a loss, so he saw an inn from a distance, and said: "Hurry up and take two steps, and we will spend the night in which inn later!"

As soon as she heard this, Su Su's eyes lit up obviously, covering her hungry stomach, and she walked a few steps faster, "Why are you two walking so slowly? Can't you go faster?"

"Rice bucket!"

"Jiang Dog! Who are you talking about?"

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This inn is just located in a small village, originally in the village to open an inn is not to make money, but can not stand this area left Yangzhou right by Suzhou, although remote, but more or less there will be a few pedestrians passing by, if you meet a caravan then it is a big deal!

It wasn't until it was dark that a few people arrived at this small village, and Su Su was out of breath, "What's going on? Looking at the flag of this inn, it's not far away, why did you walk for so long?" I'm tired to death!"

Zhang Jiuling didn't see any tiredness, just laughed, "If you don't listen to the more books I tell you, the daughters of other families will say the allusion of "Wangshan runs a dead horse", how can you compare to others when the time comes? You girl is also a little lazy!"

Su Su's eyes widened, "What's the matter? Why am I lazy? Do you dare to ask me?"

"I want it!" Zhang Jiuling was helpless, and quickly changed the topic, "Let's go to the inn first, it will be very bad if there is no room to stay in later!"

Su Su walked in front proudly, bumped into a big man head-on, almost fell to the ground, raised his head to look at the man's face full of meat, scared to death, hurriedly trotted back and hid behind Zhang Jiuling.

The man rubbed his face, and said angrily, "What's the matter?

Zhang Jiuling hugged his fists and smiled: "This strong man is not strange, my granddaughter is afraid of being born very much, and she has no intention of bothering her." ”

The man looked at Zhang Jiuling's bulging bags, "Are you in a hurry?" That's too bad, there is no room in the inn for you to spend the night at this time." “

Zhang Jiuling frowned slightly, "What's the matter?"

It took a long time to figure out the meaning of the words "what's going on", and the man complained and replied: "There are a lot of people in our caravan, and I'm afraid that the inn has been occupied at this time, so I can't say that we can only vacate a miscellaneous room." ”

When Su Su heard this, she muttered behind Zhang Jiuling, I don't want to live in a miscellaneous room, but I was listened to by a man with sharp ears and eyes. The man moved two steps to the left slightly and looked at Su Su, who hurriedly dodged two steps to Zhang Jiuling's right. The man moved back again, and Su Su hurriedly hid back, and so on, after half a sound, Su Su was annoyed, "You are sick!"

The man laughed, "You girl is so interesting, Lao Tzu looks at you well, I will keep a guest room for you!"

"Two rooms!" Su Su climbed up the pole, but when she saw the man's eyes were empty again, she pointed at Jiang Lili and said in a low voice, "I don't want to sleep in a room with him!"

Only then did the big man notice the thin young man standing beside Zhang Jiuling with a wooden knife on his back, and sighed, "Still carrying a wooden knife? Have you ever seen a real knife?"

"You've been talking about it for a long time, and you're not going to give me a room? Why are you like a? I see that the thing under your crotch is not as big as a doll!