Zhao Laosan is a wooden person who has been working for ten years. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He is 27 years old this year, and his family is poor and has never married. He used to work as a long-term laborer in the rich Ai family in Zhuangzi, but he was too poor. Zhao Laosan secretly said that it was not possible to go on like this, so at the beginning of this year, Baba begged Zhao Le, the owner of the pig seller, to take him in and became a pig dealer.

Although there is only one or two taels of silver a month, it is much better than working long hours, at least this month's money can allow Zhao Laosan to buy rice and noodles and eat full.

To sell pigs, you have to go to the towns and villages to buy the fat pigs raised by the farmers, bargain, and then drive the pigs to the butcher's house in the market. Of course, some wooden Zhao Laosan does not need to bargain with others, he has the lowest status among a pig dealer, and is only responsible for catching pigs and driving pigs to the butcher's house.

This month, Zhao Le, the owner, said that he received a big business, saying that the big supervisor of Fanjiazhuang bought pigs with him, and bought five pigs a day. The proprietor Zhao Le was very happy, because Fanjiazhuang's business was stable, and the price given was fair, unlike those tricky butchers with black hearts - those butchers were not good at stubble, and they would bargain to death when they saw that your pig had arrived. The owner said that five pigs were sold to the general manager of Fanjiazhuang every day, and he could earn an extra two taels of silver every month.

Fanjiazhuang is quite far away, more than forty miles away from Zhao Laosan's village, but the owner is obviously willing to walk more than ten miles.

The owner's words made Zhao Laosan muttered a little in his heart.

That Fanjiazhuang Zhao Laosan has been there, and he passed by four years ago, isn't it just a poor military household living in Tuweizi? There is a one-man high earthen wall outside the village to prevent wolves, and there are three or four hundred people living inside. Those poor military families all live in the same adobe houses as Zhao Laosan, when did they live such a good life? Killing five pigs a day?

But no matter what, the owner is happy, and Zhao Laosan naturally follows suit. Isn't this chaotic year just a bowl of rice? If the owner has money to make, his job is guaranteed.

The owner is very careful about the trading of Fanjiazhuang and cannot afford to lose. A few days ago, the proprietors drove pigs to Fanjiazhuang with a few veterans. Today, an old helper was sick, and the owner asked Zhao Laosan to drive the pigs.

It was still dark, so Zhao Laosan rushed to the Hu family's set, where he found the owner who bought pigs with the farmers. The four of them caught five pigs and walked towards Fanjiazhuang with bamboo whips. Zhao Laosan knew that the owner valued this business and was careful all the way.

Halfway through, it was dawn, and Zhao Laosan said worriedly: "Owner, I'm afraid it's going to be late today!" ”

The proprietor said loudly: "It's okay, the helpers of Fanjiazhuang only eat meat at noon, and they eat eggs in the morning!" ”

Zhao Laosan was stunned when he heard this, eat meat at noon and eggs in the morning, this is a helper? Even the rich man in his village, the head of the Ai family, doesn't have such a luxurious day! The Ai family has more than 200 acres of dry land and five tenant farmers, which is not as good as the helpers in Fanjiazhuang? Are these helpers all masters? Eat so well!

Zhao Laosan has always lived in the village, and he doesn't like to talk to people, so he has never had much knowledge, and today he heard the words of the owner as an eye-opener.

Zhao Laosan asked: "Dongjia, are the helpers in Fanjiazhuang doing so well?" ”

The two helpers next to him were happy when they heard this, and they all said: "Zhao Laosan, you are so stupid, you don't even know about Fanjiazhuang?" ”

"Zhao Laosan, you don't like to talk in the village, you really don't understand anything!"

Zhao Le, the proprietor, shook his head and said: "Zhao Laosan, let me tell you, this Fanjiazhuang is really a strange place, you may not have been there in the past few years, right?" You'll find out when you go! ”

When he arrived at Fanjiazhuang, Zhao Laosan saw the towering Xicheng Tower from a distance. The two-zhang high heavy eaves tower is built on the brick-clad city wall more than one zhang high, which looks very majestic. The city wall paved with blue bricks extends for one or two miles left and right, where is there still the shadow of the tattered Fanjiazhuang in Zhao Laosan's memory?

This Fanjiazhuang has changed a lot, has it become a big city?

Zhao Laosan walked to the city gate and was stopped by the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate.

"What's your name? Don't have a pass? Does anyone do the insurance? ”

Zhao Laosan thought that those officers and soldiers were going to extort his money, and he was speechless.

Zhao Le went up flatteringly and said, "Master Bing, this is the helper I hired, and I am new today." ”

The officer and soldier said, "You two go to the team leader and press your handprint!" ”

Zhao Le asked the other two to be optimistic about the pig, and took Zhao Laosan to a sitting soldier next to him. The soldier asked Zhao Laosan again, wrote a few words in a notebook, and then asked Zhao Le and Zhao Laosan to press their handprints.

"If Zhao Laosan is doing illegal things in the city or spying on intelligence, you as the guarantor Zhao Le has the responsibility to sit jointly, do you know it?"

"Clear, we know, Master Bing!"

After the group leader sitting at the table finished explaining, he took out a small white wooden card and handed it to Zhao San. After getting this pass, Zhao Laosan entered the city.

Zhao Laosan wiped the fine sweat on his head, and secretly said that it was not to blackmail him. This Fan Jiazhuang is really strict.

Entering the city, the scene in the city surprised Zhao Laosan even more.

The roads in the city were wide, and the main road was two feet wide, so that two carriages could run side by side. The road is paved with bluestone, high in the middle and low on the sides, and deep drainage ditches are dug on both sides, which is very magnificent. On both sides of the road, two-story houses with black tiles and white walls are built neatly and decently. There are various shops on both sides of the street, selling all kinds of shops.

It was just dawn that day, and the shops were already open. Steamed bread shops, steamed bun shops, restaurants, tea shops, all have shouting and shouting one after another, pedestrians in twos and threes in each shop, a prosperous scene.

If it were Daming City elsewhere, how could there be so many people spending money in the shops outside? The people in other places are all bitter, and they all save money to buy rice and noodles to live. Only the residents of this Fanjiazhuang are so wealthy that they have money to spend in the shops outside.

The pedestrians on Fanjiazhuang Road are all dressed decently, and there are few patches on the clothes on their bodies. And those pedestrians are all good-looking, not as thin as people elsewhere, and they are all well-nourished. Zhao Laosan walked on the street and compared with those locals, his clothes were torn and thin, and he looked like a foreigner.

The people in this Fanjiazhuang are really rich! Where is this still the tattered Fanjiazhuang, this is a rich city! How has it changed so much in just a few years?

The law and order in the city is very good, and soldiers patrol the roads from time to time. The soldiers were very strong, and they marched forward with spears in hand. But these soldiers, though sturdy, did not bother the people in the slightest, and were not at all like the ruffians of other places. The people were not at all afraid of these soldiers, and they all seemed to be happy that there were soldiers to keep the law and order.

What surprised Zhao Laosan the most was that there was no garbage on the roads in the city, let alone disgusting human and animal feces. The city is clean and tidy, and there is no stench that you smell when you enter the city in other cities. On both sides of the road, there are large buckets of garbage every ten feet, and from time to time people come over to throw garbage, and no one dares to throw garbage on the ground. The soldiers on patrol seemed to be maintaining order in the city, ready to punish those who violated the order.

Even the leaves falling from the trees on both sides of the road, there is also a woman sweeping with a broom.

Is this the city of Daming? It's also so clean!

After entering Fanjiazhuang, Zhao Laosan's owner Zhao Le was very restrained, for fear that he would be arrested if something went wrong. He beckoned three helpers to drive the pigs to the "food department" in the south of the city, and halfway through, a pig pulled out a few pieces of pig manure on the road, and Zhao Le also hurriedly walked over to wrap it in paper, clean it up and throw it into the garbage can.

is to drive pigs into the Tian0jin Acropolis, and Zhao Laosan has never seen the owner so well-behaved.

The food department in the south of the city is a large room, and there seem to be many warehouses in it. Zhao Le asked Zhao Laosan and a few people to wait outside, walked in by himself, and walked out with a big supervisor after a while. The big man took Zhao Laosan and his party to the door of a pigsty. He asked Zhao Le to drive the pig to the side, weigh it on a big scale, and calculate the silver for Zhao Le.

Zhao Laosan saw that there were already more than a dozen pigs in the pigsty, and the five that came by himself made a total of twenty pigs. Seven or eight butchers were standing outside the pigsty, sharpening knives and boiling water, and a dozen people pushing carts were chatting and waiting, ready to transport meat, as if they were about to start killing pigs.

This Fanjiazhuang eats twenty pigs a day? According to the current calculation of fifty-one pounds of meat, it will cost more than 100 taels of silver on this day! The owner of this Fan Jiazhuang is really rich!

When Zhao Le drove the pig to the scale, Zhao Laosan asked the big man curiously: "Poor master, all the people who do bad jobs in Fanjiazhuang eat pork?" ”

The big man glanced at Zhao Laosan and said, "Thanks to Lord Ethics!" Those of us who work for ethical adults eat eggs in the morning, and three taels of meat each at noon and in the afternoon! ”

"Lord Ethics is so rich?"

The big man smiled and said, "You're new here?" The business of an ethical adult is not for fun. ”

Zhao Laosan took a breath and said flatteringly: "Poor master, is Fanjiazhuang still recruiting?" ”

The big man smiled and said, "How many people want to enter Fanjiazhuang to do things, if you want to come in, it's really not easy!" ”

Zhao Laosan knew that he was a fantasy, rubbed his hands, and said no more.

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