Afraid of meeting the little maid and girl of the Yang family on the road, Murong Bai bought Sha Wanting a sunshade hat with a black gauze tent. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Coming out of the hotel, turning left for more than 300 meters, I came to the vicinity of the central square, because I didn't know the specific location of Granny Shi's house, Mantianxing asked the square guards about her home address under the pretense that it was a distant relative of her family.

They expected that Guard Liu specially escorted Granny Shi and Tao Momo to the capital, and there should be someone in the know among the guards.

After several inquiries, they finally found a person who had a good relationship with Liu Shouwei in the guards guarding the east gate, and under the leadership of that person, the three of them came to Granny Shi's house before evening with their bags on their backs.

The façade of Granny Shi's house is very narrow, located in the east of the square, known as the slum of Little Chicken Lane.

At that time, the small alleys were full of stalls selling chickens and ducks, but after the yamen divided the block and rectified, it was no longer allowed to sell live poultry here.

Like other alleys in Shabai Town, this is also a series of arcades, all wooden structures, divided into two floors, the first floor can support small stalls to sell things, and the second floor can live people.

The guards sent the three of them to the door and left, not forgetting to tell them to pay attention to their safety before leaving, and not to go out on the street during curfew.

After the man was far away, Mantianxing pushed the door and entered.

Granny Shi is as poor as a family, and the house built is estimated to be close to a hundred years if it is not a hundred years, and before half a foot has stepped in, there is a burst of rotten wood unique to the smell of rot in the door.

Moreover, the room looked like it was two or three stories high, but it was so dark that there was no light on the inside.

Murong Bai couldn't stand the smell, covered his mouth and nose, and took two or three steps back: "Tianxing, you go in first and open the windows, I really can't stand it." ”

In fact, Man Tianxing couldn't stand the musty smell, and after he tried hard to open all the doors on the first floor, he was already choking and coughing.

But Sha Wanting, as if she had no sense of smell, easily entered the house, and without candle lighting, she fumbled to open the windows on the second and third floors.

Fortunately, the evening breeze blew strongly, and after two quarters of an hour, a relatively fresh air finally drifted into the house.

At this time, Murong Bai and the stars entered the house.

The poor family's house is relatively simple, and as soon as you enter the door, you can see a wooden ladder in the corner of the living room leading to the second floor, and there is a door next to the wooden ladder.

Pushing the door in, Man Tianxing found that it was the kitchen, the kitchen was as big as the living room outside, the ceiling was high to the second floor, and there were three ventilation and light vents on the top, and by the faint light, Man Tianxing also saw a small house with three steps in the corner of the kitchen.

I thought it was a bathroom connected to the kitchen, but Sha Wanting reminded: "It's a toilet." ”

"The latrine!!" starry eyes were about to pop out: "How can the latrine be connected to the kitchen!"

"You are all big families, so you don't know that the latrine is in the kitchen. Poor families are not like you, who can ask for manure every day, so we will collect all the firewood ashes after cooking and pile them at the bottom of the latrine. This is it, you see, is there a low door under this small house, and the firewood ash is put in from here, whether it is Dagong or Xiaogong, the three-foot thick ash is enough for a family for a month. ”

"What about in a month?" Man Tianxing was very curious: "Won't the kitchen stink this month?"

"In a month, please ask the dung picker to come, and you can sell it for money." If you can't afford it, you can pick it up and use it in the field. Please rest assured that there is firewood ash buried in the dirt, and there will be no peculiar smell. Don't look at us as poor, every family knows how to be clean. The countryside is not as good as the town, and there is no latrine in the township, so you have to go to the fields. Sha Wanting laughed as she spoke.

"Oh~That's what it looks like~" Mantianxing then understood how the ancients went to the toilet.

Sha Wanting found a shovel in the corner, opened the bottom of the latrine, and reached out to shovel firewood ash, she found that no one used it for two months, and many places were clumped, so she continued: "Two sons, you better go upstairs and have a look, I'll clean up here, and I have to get new firewood ash." Otherwise, no one will be able to go to the toilet tonight. By the way, can you give me 50 yuan? and buy new firewood ash. The firewood ash from cooking for a while is definitely not enough. ”

"Good. Then you deal with it. Murong Bai shook his hand and handed her a tael of silver.

Sha Wanting was stunned for a moment.

Murong Bai explained: "Before it's dark, you can find someone to buy it near this alley, you are not afraid of being expensive, but you can't let you go far alone." In addition, I bought all the dishes for dinner and asked for new dishes and chopsticks. Not her family. ”

As soon as the dishes and chopsticks were mentioned, Mantianxing immediately thought that the futon had to be used as a new one, so he proposed to go shopping with Sha Wanting, so that she would not be able to move.

Murong Bai acquiesced, he waved his hand, signaling the two of them to go and return quickly.

Every evening in Shabai Town, there will be a period of time to ask for goods in the vegetable market, and the store will sell all the goods at a reduced price in order to clear the goods that are not easy to stay overnight.

Man Tianxing was very satisfied that he had chosen the right time to shop, first buying meat and then vegetables, then dishes and chopsticks, and finally bedding.

According to this efficiency, it will not take an hour to return to Granny Shi's house.

Coincidentally, when they were buying meat at the butcher shop, they actually met Han Zhong's follower, Lu San.

That night he stole silver, and the stars slept to death, and he didn't recognize Lu San.

And Lu San didn't recognize Mantianxing at first, and when Mantianxing opened his mouth and said that he would wrap up all the leftovers, he looked up a few more times.

The shopkeeper was also surprised: "Brother Gongzi, is it a banquet for relatives and friends in the evening? The rest of the meat must be seventeen or eighteen catties." ”

Mantianxing was straight and responded: "It's not a banquet, it's that you don't have so much effort to go out to buy vegetables." Anyway, it's cold now, and the meat won't stink. ”

"This meat is enough for you to eat for half a month. The shopkeeper was envious, even if there was plenty of food and clothing, no one would eat meat every day, at least in Shabai Town, people did not have this habit, they ate a lot of meat, the smell of sweat would be very strong, and it was easy to attract demons and ghosts.

Mantianxing is a person who is accustomed to meat, and almost all of them are not happy with meat, and after a few pleasantries, he will buy all the pork at the most affordable price.

The shopkeeper was very happy, and he asked Lu San to quickly cut the meat and bones for the customer.

This Lu Sanxin has a lot of eyes, and when he saw that the stars were so generous, he immediately thought of the two generous sons and brothers in the hotel.

It's just that the stars were sleeping on his stomach that night, and Lu San saw that he looked very familiar, so he asked tentatively: "After this meat is cut, you have to put it in a ventilated place, if there is no wind in the house, wrap it tightly in oil paper and soak it in ice water." This allows you to leave it for a few more days. ”

The stars didn't know what it was, so he replied honestly: "Then I'll put it on the top of the attic, which can be regarded as a ventilated place." ”

"It depends on what kind of loft you are, like a hotel, where customers often dry bacon to the top. If it's an attic at home, I suggest you put an extra plate of water to soak it, because there is also a rat infestation here in winter. Lu San secretly raised his eyes and looked at the starry face, and he was basically sure that he was the rich boy in the hotel.

It was at this glance that Lu San decided to hide from Han Zhong and make a big deal for himself.