Gouzi had something on his mind and didn't feel like he owed Lu Xu any more. He hummed a tune and pushed the trolley into the backyard of the gambling house. When he opened the door, he saw Song Liu and Song Qi directing people to move goods in the backyard. His tune stopped abruptly, he quickly stood up solemnly and timidly shouted: "Sixth Master, Seventh Master."
"What are you talking about, did you find the money?" Song Liu was shirtless and fanned with a big fan, "No eyes or no hands, can't you see that others are busy, why don't you hurry up and move the goods!"
Gouzi said "Hey", quickly put the car away, and ran to help move the goods.
The boat gang harvested so much grain that the warehouses near the dock could no longer hold it. They were afraid that the wheat would get damp due to rain, so they had to transport it in batches to the warehouses of several shops.
The warehouse of the gambling house has been empty all year round, and now it comes in handy.
Most of Song San's men were coolies who ran ships and loaded and unloaded goods. They came in rain or shine. The most despised among the brothers were the gangsters in the gambling house who couldn't lift their shoulders. They saw the dog being weighed down by a bag of wheat. As soon as he was short, he immediately laughed out loud.
"Sixth Master, are you not letting your buddy eat enough? Look at the skinny one, you can't even move a bag of food!"
When Song Liu heard this, he came over angrily and kicked Gouzi's knee, "You're squealing! Hurry up!"
Gouzi and Maizi were thrown to the ground, and his knees hit the ground. He was so painful that he couldn't stand up for a while. Song Liu kicked him in the butt again before he went to the house to hide in the cool air.
The friend who was close to Gouzi helped him up, "Why are you back now?"
Gouzi endured the pain and stood up, "I delivered to a family who wanted snails."
The clerk sneered, "You can send him home for just a few cents of business!"
The dog said nothing.
The clerk put the towel on his shoulder, then picked up the bag on the ground and put it on his shoulder, "I'll enter the warehouse later. Find a place to hang out. Be smart and don't let anyone watch. Wait until Mr. Liu and the others leave before coming out."
The dog said "Hmm" and limped in carrying the wheat.
They were busy until dark before Song Liu let them go back.
Gouzi limped and went home with his buddy, "Brother, isn't it that we can't buy food, why did we bring back such old wheat?"
The boy's name is Shouhou, and he is his neighbor. Although he is called Shouhou, he is fatter than the dog. He patted the dirt on his body and said, "I stocked it from the countryside. I heard that there was a leak in the boat. It was repaired at the dock. After it was repaired, the grain was transported to the state capital for sale."
He whispered: "I heard that food prices are more expensive in the state capital!"
Gouzi took a breath, "Isn't this wheat going to be sold in Guanyang?"
Thin Monkey: "Where can I get the chance to watch the Yang?"
Gouzi sighed.
The thin monkey smiled, "Why are you sighing? We are members of the Boat Gang, we can't be hungry."
He said proudly: "The third master collected the grain, and the sixth master and the seventh master paid a lot of money. We have the sixth master and the seventh master to protect us, but we still have to worry about buying grain? Don't look at the coolies at the dock who are laughing at us because we don't have the strength, bah, it's hard, haha, do it One day, just a pound of fucking wheat.”
The dog lowered his head and said nothing.
Thin Monkey: "I think you have to transport food tomorrow, if you don't, you can rest at home for a day, and if Liu Ye doesn't ask, I won't talk about it. If you ask, I will help you fool it."
Gouzi lowered his head even lower, "Brother, if I hadn't delayed you, you would have gone to be in charge of the third master."
Thin Monkey waved his hand: "That's not the case. It's hard work under the Third Master, and I don't want to go to the pier to bask in the sun every day. Have they looked down on you recently?"
Gouzi shook his head.
Their steward from Guanyang Pier who fishes often comes to the gambling house to give the gambling house face, "I work for Mr. Liu, and they don't dare to embarrass me."
Thin Monkey: "That's right, if they dare to give you shame, you can say that Liu Ye asked you to come, who dares to provoke you, you come back and tell me, I will ask Liu Ye to take someone to help you get it back .”
Gouzi nodded, "Sometimes they even give me some small fish."
The thin monkey snorted twice and said disapprovingly, "They have the nerve to take things that no one wants as a favor. If you didn't want it, they would have to throw it away. I'm just kicking you in the face because you're easy to bully. Don't give it to me next time. They are stewing fish and snails, you are selling some, save some money, and make clothes for your aunt, brothers and sisters."
The dog laughs.
Shouhou despised him for being a loser, "Sometimes you look very excited, and sometimes you act like a fool. Remember, just coax Master Liu. As long as Master Liu is willing to let you be around, we brothers are in Guanyang." Walk sideways!”
Gouzi touched the tip of his nose and said nothing.
I thought to myself that Mr. Liu would not dare to walk sideways in Guanyang.
The gambling house is the uncle's business, but the uncle is in the state capital all the year round and can't come back easily, so the sixth master and the seventh master can take care of it. It sounds like they are in charge, but in fact they are in charge.
Without even mentioning it, the third master scolded the sixth master like a grandson all day long.
There are also those government servants and rich men in the county who are not polite to anyone they meet.
Skinny Monkey arrived home first, and then turned two alleys and turned into Gouzi's house. Gouzi said goodbye to him: "I still have snails at home. You have to take them home."
Thin Monkey: "Okay, let's go back and rest."
The dog limped home.
Their house is next to the south city wall, which is the most run-down area in Guanyang County.
There are blue brick houses in the center and north of the county, and there are many earthen houses in the south and west.
It's even worse here. Many people's houses are broken down and they can't repair them, so they build shacks.
When Gouzi got married, his family had just renovated their house, which was a brand new adobe thatched house. Both his mother and his wife loved to be clean, so the small yard was kept neatly. The red paper from when he got married was still pasted on the wall of the yard, which had turned white and turned pink.
The dog opened the courtyard door and smelled the smell of stewed fish.
His father was sitting in the yard, knitting straw sandals. Seeing him like this, he used to ask: "What's wrong with your legs? Did you get beaten again?"
His mother ran out, "Let me see, where is the injury?"
Gouzi: "It's okay, I fell down."
His mother felt distressed: "It was fine, why did it fall?"
His father grabbed a handful of grass and scolded him with eyes that were not eyes or a nose, "If he is the only one doing that kind of work, will he be less likely to get thrown?"
Gouzi pursed his lips and said unhappy, "I can't do anything else."
His father grabbed a straw sandal and threw it away, saying, "You're worthless!"
The dog didn't hide, and the straw sandals weren't heavy anyway, so the beating didn't hurt: "I'm useless in the first place! I can't carry it, I can't read, I can't calculate accounts, I'm not clever, and I can't do hard work!"
He had been thin since he was a child, and when he got older, his father asked someone to find him a good job as an apprentice to a bookkeeper. The bookkeeper thought he was stupid, illiterate, did not calculate accounts well, and was slow in calculating, so he was kicked back. His mother found a noodle shop for him to run around again, and met a man who was acting rude and refused to give him money. He asked the man for money and was beaten. It was obviously him who was beaten, but the noodle shop said he was not smart and wouldn't let him. went.
The thin monkey wanted to take him on a boat trip to fish, but he was afraid of water and seasick. In the end, he went to the gambling house for the sake of the thin monkey.
His father doesn't want to see the gambling house, but he can't find any other job!
His wife came back from fetching water from outside. She heard a quarrel at home in the distance. She walked in quickly, put down the bucket and looked at him, "Where's the injury?"
Gouzi: "It's okay."
His wife patted the dirt on his body and spoke for him, "Dad, Gouzi has made progress recently. Don't always say that he has no future. Where can we buy such cheap food if he has no future?"
Father Gouzi remained silent with a cold face.
His wife asked Gouzi to go back to the house, "Although he works in a gambling house, he has never done anything harmful to the world, and he has not been addicted to gambling. Now he gets up early every day and does some business every day, and he can live a good life. Don't worry. Always scolding him."
Gouzi Daddy snorted, put down his straw sandals and went back to the house.
His mother and his wife looked at each other and shook their heads to do what they should do.
Gouzi was applying medicated oil in the room by himself, and when he heard his wife speaking for him, he felt uncomfortable.
The two families were neighbors. His daughter-in-law's father passed away early, and it was not easy for orphans and widowers. His parents couldn't bear it, so they often helped. Later, his mother-in-law also died of illness, and she entrusted her daughter to them before she died.
Gouzi has liked her since he was a child, but his wife is older than him. He doesn't know if she treats him as a younger brother. He doesn't dare to say anything when others come to propose marriage. But if anyone came to his door, he would go to that person's home to inquire about the eighteenth generation of his ancestors, for fear that she would be deceived into marrying him and be wronged.
Each poor family has its own dissatisfaction. She is just an ordinary girl, not the most beautiful girl in the world. She has no parents, and the matchmaker can't introduce her to a good family. Seeing the man who came to introduce the widower, Gouzi angrily beat the matchmaker out.
After beating the matchmaker, he was beaten out by his father the same day.
In the middle of the night, he secretly climbed over the wall and went home. He saw his wife standing in the yard waiting for him. The moon was just right. He rode on the earth wall and halfway over the wall, his wife carried a ladder and asked him if he wanted to marry her and live together.
"If you don't want to, I'll remove the ladder."
The bright white moonlight shone on her face, making everyone look dumbfounded.
He grinned stupidly, and everyone said he was stupid, but his wife was obviously stupider than him.
How can there be such a fool in the world who likes such a worthless little bastard like him?
He jumped off the wall excitedly and vowed to let his daughter-in-law live a good life...
But almost a year has passed, and he still hasn't done well, and it's getting worse and worse. Anyone can scold him and hit him.
The more the dog thought about it, the more frustrated he became.
It is said that his wife married him with flowers inserted into cow dung, and his wife said she was not a flower, but he really wanted to become cow dung, no, shit.
The dog's daughter-in-law came in with water and closed the door, "Father is afraid that you will get into gambling problems, so don't take it to heart."
Gouzi was depressed: "I know. I don't even look at the card table."
The dog's wife laughed: "I know."
Her father lost his fortune in gambling, so their family moved to South City Wall from elsewhere. Pian Gouzi went to work in a gambling shop again, "Dad feels sorry for me and my miserable life."
Gouzi: "I feel sad too."
His wife smiled: "I think it's okay. It's enough to eat and drink. However, in the future, see if you can talk to Mr. Liu. Let's pay more money to the gambling house and concentrate on selling snails. You'll be fine later." Don’t go to gambling houses either.”
The dog is in trouble.
If he only works for a gambling house, the relationship will gradually become distant, and many conveniences will be lost to him.
Now he is beaten and scolded in the gambling shop, at least he can get in front of the sixth master, the food can be bought cheaply, and the snail fish doesn't cost money, if it is low, he has to pay.
He has no capital.
He suppressed his melancholy and comforted his wife: "I know, let's talk about it after a while when food prices are not so expensive."
"Well, you can hide from Liu Ye when he is unhappy in the future."
Gouzi lowered his head to look at the medicinal oil bottle on the ground. He felt a dull pain where he had been beaten.
The next day, when I saw Lu Xu again, Gouzi took advantage of the early market breakup and called Lu Xu into the alley where he was yesterday: "I think you should stop looking for our sixth master. Our sixth master has a bad temper." If you like beating people, you should find Master Twelfth, and I will tell you quietly when he comes."
Lu Xu: "..."
He just set up a saying, did this person help him think of ideas all night? This is too honest!
Although he didn't want to join any of them and had other ideas, Lu Xu still thanked each other sincerely. Their Guanyang people have simple folk customs and there are many honest people!
A little touched!
The dog didn't dare to move, he was afraid that people would see him meeting Lu Xu privately, looked around, and ran away pushing the cart like a thief.
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