This side of the Bao'an Post Office.

Han Chunlei hung up the phone and prepared to take the car back to Hubei Village.

It's been ten days since he came out, except for the first day after he asked Huang Shouye to help him bring a message back, he has been busy until now, and I don't know how Zhang Xilu, Ah Xiong, and Sister Hong have been doing recently.

Since he has earned money, he plans to go back and invite everyone to have a good meal and be happy together.

As soon as he walked out of the post and telecommunications office, he suddenly heard someone calling him from behind:

"Huh, Chunlei?"

Familiar sounds.

Han Chunlei turned his head and saw that it was Zhang Xilu.

It's really daytime, don't talk about people.

I haven't seen him for more than ten days, Zhang Xilu is obviously thin, and he has two small black beards, and he looks quite energetic.

When he got closer, Han Chunlei could clearly smell the smell of alcohol bubbling from him.

"Sure enough, it's you! Good fellow, it's been so many days that you're finally willing to show up. Sister Hong also said yesterday that if I don't see you come back, I will go directly to Lao Huang's scrap station to ask for someone. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Xilu raised his eyebrows and said with a wicked smile: "If you haven't returned to Hubei Village for so many days, is Lao Huang's dilapidated courtyard really that fun? Lao Huang won't find you a good match, right? Hahaha......

When Han Chunlei heard this, he couldn't laugh or cry, "You don't talk about it, I have partnered with Lao Huang to do a small business." It's you, why are you here?"

"Let's not talk here like two poles. Why don't we find a place to sit down, have some tea and have some snacks. Zhang Xilu proposed.

Han Chunlei had this intention, nodded and said, "Okay, I happen to be a little hungry, I'll invite you to have morning tea." Come with me, I know there's a good place to go. ”

Han Chunlei took Zhang Xilu to stop a minibus on the side of the road, and about 20 minutes later, got off near Dongmen Market. Then I entered an old tenement building.

There is a place to eat morning tea on the fourth floor of this old tenement building, Sister Hong took him here last time, and Lao Guang's morning tea can be eaten here.

He came in and sat down, and ordered a lot of things with his buddy.

Pork knuckle in brine, barbecued pork in honey/sauce, Dongjiang tofu, shrimp dumplings, rice rolls, barbecued pork buns, plus steamed pork ribs with soy sauce......

I asked for another pot of pu'er.

It's a pretty luxurious and authentic morning tea.

Today is not the day of the market, the business in the teahouse is very bleak, and there are a few guests sitting sporadically reading the newspaper and drinking tea, not particularly busy. So Han Chunlei and the things they ordered came up quickly.

"Chunlei, you have a lot of this. Zhang Xilu chewed a large piece of barbecued pork in his mouth and said politely vaguely.

"Not much, not much, we are two young men, not much. Besides, it won't cost a lot of money!"

Han Chunlei had just finished sharing the red with Huang Shouye, and he didn't panic when he had money in his pocket, and he was very wealthy.

Then, he picked up the previous topic and asked, "By the way, why are you in Bao'an?"

"Of course, we came here at four o'clock in the morning, and the corpses were fished out at seven or eight o'clock. Didn't I go to the commune to settle the corpse expenses, but I happened to see you at the door of the post office. Zhang Xilu said while eating.

Han Chunlei raised his forehead and smiled, how could he forget about the corpse, and said with a smile: "Are you still doing corpse fishing?" Didn't you say that you partnered with Ah Qiang to open a dance hall?"

Zhang Xilu said: "Isn't the dance hall not open yet? Ah Qiang is no longer collecting corpses now, and he is preparing for the opening of the dance hall." But I want to have a good meal, so recently, I have been coming over every once in a while to collect corpses with Brother Xiong and earn some living money. When the ballroom opens, I'll quit completely. ”

Han Chunlei sighed and nodded secretly, Zhang Xilu was right to do this, it seems that he has been a lot more practical recently, and he knows that he will not sit and eat empty mountains and waste time. It was not in vain that he made a matchmaking and introduced him and Brother Xiong to go to retrieve the corpse.

He suddenly remembered that on the road just now, Zhang Xilu was alone, and asked, "Brother Xiong, why didn't you see him go with you to settle the money just now?"

"Hey, he usually goes to settle the bill with the commune, but today, he said that he promised Sister Hong to buy goods for Sister Hong's fast food restaurant, so he left after fishing for the corpse. Let me settle today's corpse fee. Zhang Xilu said with a smile.

"So as soon as Brother Xiong leaves, you will go for morning wine first!"

Han Chunlei frowned slightly, lifted the teapot and poured a cup of Pu'er tea for Zhang Xilu, and said, "You drink more strong tea to go to the wine, don't go to the commune for a while, and you will still be full of alcohol." ”

"Poof—"

Zhang Xilu smiled, put down his chopsticks, and said happily: "You really wronged me." Don't look at me drinking in the morning, you think I'm bad at studying again, I also need to work. ”

"Drinking or work? Han Chunlei was puzzled.

"Hahaha, there are things you don't understand. Well, I haven't done the job of digging up corpses, and I really don't understand the way here. Listen to me tell you in detail......"

Eating morning tea, Zhang Xilu eloquently told the unknown side of this corpse harvesting work.

It turned out that when the corpses were fished out at the beach, they had to work at high tide.

When the tide rises, the corpses will float from the sea to the shore with the tide, where they will be picked up by the people. The other day they went to collect the corpse in the afternoon, because the other day it was the first month.

But lately it was almost the middle of the month, and the tide was high in the morning, and they had to go to the beach at four or five o'clock in the morning, waiting for the corpses to be washed ashore by the tide. If you go in the afternoon, the corpse has already been robbed by other corpse diggers, where is there still money to make from corpse fishing?

As for drinking alcohol for work early in the morning, it is also related to the particularity of the work of recovering corpses.

First, it is to strengthen the courage, just imagine, the dead are already quite scary, let alone a corpse that is swollen and rotten in the sea?

The second is the smell of alcohol, which can cover up the rotten smell of the corpse soaking in the seawater. Ordinary people are sick to their stomachs when they smell stinky fish, let alone the smell of rotting corpses? Anyone who experiences it once will be disgusted.

As for the third reason, it is related to the worship of ghosts and gods.

When a corpse is fished up, each corpse collector has to take a sip of white food, and then bow solemnly to the corpse, and say in his mouth: "Excuse me, disturb the game!"

It is said that after this ceremony, the deceased's last regret or resentment towards the world will dissipate. In this way, the corpse collector no longer has to worry about the sudden corpse swindling, nor does he have to worry about curses such as resentful ghosts asking for their lives.

......

"There are really different doorways in different walks of life. ”

Han Chunlei couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this corpse work is not easy to do, and this money is not easy to earn!

"No, to be honest, I won't do this job in the future, and when Ah Qiang and them open the dance hall, I will completely wash my hands and not dry it, you don't know, since I did this work of collecting corpses, I don't dare to walk alone at night. In the past, I was a well-known Zhang Daring in our Hongqi Village, and now, I am a well-known worshipper for ghosts and gods!" Zhang Xilu couldn't help but complain.

Han Chunlei laughed and said, "People are a little awe-inspiring, it's not a bad thing, at least they won't do anything too out of the circle." ”

"Man, another cage of shrimp dumplings!"

Zhang Xilu raised his hand to greet him, and then smiled awkwardly at Han Chunlei: "Hehe, you said it, it's really not enough to eat." This Lao Guang thing, it's delicious, it's delicious, but the portion is too small. ”

"It's not enough to call again," Han Chunlei also waved his hand and motioned to the guy, "Little brother, change the pot of tea for us, don't want Pu'er, change the pot of Longjing." ”

The guy said yes.

Zhang Xilu looked at Han Chunlei's wealthy appearance, and couldn't help asking: "So generous, you must have made a lot of money from that deal with Lao Huang, right?"

"Not much. Han Chunlei smiled and shook his head.

Zhang Xilu asked: "How much is it? What else is good with me, how much do you earn?"

"Well, it's more than a thousand. Han Chunlei said softly.

He said it very lightly, but when he heard Zhang Xilu's ears, it was tantamount to a startled spring thunder!

Zhang Xilu exclaimed: "More than a thousand?

Han Chunlei said with a smile: "Is it still a food stamp? I have divided a total of 1,500 yuan." Then Uncle Cao took out the principal, and then took a hundred shares, and also divided about three hundred, but this time it was really thanks to the old books and old test papers that Uncle Huang and his family had recovered......"

Since he asked to the end, Han Chunlei didn't intend to hide it from him, and whispered how he was lucky to find the third year of high school exam papers at Huang Shouye's house and made a fortune with these papers.

"Grass, really...... I really made a thousand and a half, and even Boss Cao divided more than three hundred!"

After Zhang Xilu heard this, he regretted that his intestines were blue, and he regretted why he wanted to separate from Han Chunlei? Otherwise, he will also have a share of the transaction of this test paper!

Ahh......hhh It's uncomfortable!

Seeing a windfall flying in front of him, Zhang Xilu was a little depressed.

Looking back on the past 10 days or so, in order to open a dance hall, he got up early and worked late to watch the venue and look for equipment, how much money he earned? To be exact, the dance hall had not yet opened, and he didn't earn a penny! He went out for several meals in vain.

Zhang Xilu felt very uncomfortable, and ordered the dish that Han Chunlei had ordered just now.

"It's okay, order, touch, eat more. Han Chunlei really couldn't comfort him, so he could only let him eat more.

At this time, the dragon well he asked for was delivered.

Both of them are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they are not used to drinking this Pu'er tea, they are too scraped with oil, and they finally have some oil and water in their stomachs, and they are really reluctant to scrape it clean like this.

So it's still Longjing, at least it still has the taste of hometown.

Who knew that after Zhang Xilu took a sip, he couldn't help frowning and said: "You said this is a good teahouse, how can the tea be used?!"

Han Chunlei thought that he was missing out on a windfall and was in a bad mood, so he complained about the tea.

However, when he took a sip of the freshly brewed Longjing tea, he couldn't help but shake his head.

What is the taste of hometown?

It's like the smell of stinky socks that I've been covering for days...