Chapter 599: Old and New 11
When we got up early the next morning, we were on our way.
Zhang Qi and the three of them thought about it all night, and came out majestically, and almost everyone in the town knew that they were going to come out.
It's a shame to be robbed and go back.
It's all the way to earn it, and you can earn it to Haicheng.
Everyone went to a small pier in the county seat and bought a ferry ticket, and they could go to the next more prosperous place, where they could buy a ferry ticket directly to Haicheng.
Zhang Qi took out all the money and bought tickets for everyone, and used the rest to buy flatbread.
Therefore, there is nothing left on his body.
Everyone boarded the boat, the boat was not big, several people sat in a row, Meng Li held the child in his arms, and ran the exercises in his body.
On the water, the boat was moving again, people couldn't help but feel a little cold, Zhang Qi put his clothes on Guo Liujun, Guo Liujun glanced at Meng Li, there was a kind of secret show-off.
Meng Li directly ignored it.
What is there to boast about enjoying the hospitality of someone else's husband?
Everyone's expressions were not relaxed, and when they arrived at the dock at noon, several people went ashore, and they all felt very confused.
Meng Li said to Zhang Qi:
"There's a temporary porter shouting over there, why don't you go fight for an afternoon?"
Zhang Qi followed Meng Li's eyes, looked at a shirtless man with a towel on his shoulder, and shouted.
Zhang Qi hesitated, and Bao Xingfa said with a little bitterness:
"Why don't you ask."
Guo Liujun was silent and didn't speak, and Zhang Qi said:
"Let's go."
Everyone moved towards the man, who looked at the three men in front of him and said:
"Looking for a job?"
Zhang Qi nodded, the man looked at it, several of them were not wrong, looking like a man with strength, he said:
"Okay, do it at any time, go at any time."
"How much is that?"
"It depends on how much you resist, and the ship will stop there." The man pointed to a ship, from which someone was carrying a large bag of goods.
Unload.
"How much is one?"
"How long have you been working, there are goods in the past few days, and there is a shortage of manpower."
"How much?"
"Well, if you can do it for a few days, the price will be higher, so that I don't have to find someone tomorrow."
"Not sure."
"Then it's a day."
"How much does it cost to just make one piece today?"
"Three pieces of copper plate, that's interesting, right?"
Zhang Qi squinted his eyes and saw that there was only one copper plate when he unloaded three pieces, and he couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, his expression was very hesitant.
But the man was impatient, and said:
"Do it or not? If you don't do it, don't delay me to find someone else. ”
Bao Xingfa hurriedly said:
"Do it, do it."
"Three people, huh?"
Zhang Qi nodded depressedly.
The three of them went to move things, and Meng Li found a place to sit down and hold the child to cultivate.
Guo Liujun was reluctant to sit down reservedly at first, but finally seemed tired of standing, so he sat next to Meng Li.
It is not easy to earn this copper plate, and it takes about seven or eight minutes to move a piece of goods back and forth, and two or three copper plates an hour.
Now it takes about 300 copper plates to get a silver dollar.
Meng Li and Guo Liujun didn't talk to anyone, so they waited.
Wait, wait, they were close to four hours of work, and it was almost dark before it was finished.
Seeing them walk out, Guo Liujun hurriedly stood up, and Meng Li followed.
Zhang Qi walked in the front, his cheeks were red, panting, Guo Liujun hurriedly took out a handkerchief from his body, raised his hand, originally wanted to wipe Zhang Qi's sweat, Meng Li coughed, Guo Liujun pursed his lips and handed the handkerchief to Zhang Qi.
Zhang Qi said thank you and gently wiped the sweat from his face.
Guo Liujun said with some distress:
"Good work."
Zhang Qi shook his head:
"It's not hard."
They went to the man to settle the salary, and the man counted the goods they moved, took out a handful of copper plates from his body, counted them, and said to Zhang Qi:
"Oh brother, there are still ten left, not enough, you can come and get it tomorrow?"
Ten copper plates are equivalent to an afternoon's labor for one man.
If it's not enough, I don't believe it, Zhang Qi talked to the man for a while, but the people relied on the fact that they were locals, and they saw that Zhang Qi, a group of outsiders, could go ashore, and there were more than a dozen workers behind him to support him, so they just didn't give it.
If you have to leave in a hurry, you will definitely not be able to take this money tomorrow.
No matter how powerful Zhang Qi's mouth is, no matter how Guo Liujun raises his eyebrows and reasoned coldly, it will be useless, so he can only swallow this breath and take some of it and leave.
Twenty copper plates were at least enough for them to find a place to sleep for the night, and to eat something cheap along the way.
After working all afternoon, and his stomach didn't get any oil and water for two days, Guo Liujun thoughtfully suggested eating some beef noodles.
It's a bit oily and meaty, but it's also better than cake.
Sitting in a roadside stall, under the dim light, Guo Liujun looked at Meng Lidao:
"You didn't say a word when you just asked for money, and your mouth is not so powerful usually, don't you think of yourself as a person in this line."
It's really annoying for this kind of person, who doesn't come forward to defend the interests they should have, but they have to eat when they eat.
Meng Li said lightly:
"You are the most noisy, the most reasonable, the loudest, the question is do you want the money back?"
Guo Liujun choked and said:
"You see, now my mouth is terrible, although I didn't get there, but I took care of it, and I took it as my own business."
"Unlike you, you don't feel sorry for their labor, they work so hard to move things, just to have a place to settle down tonight, you know to sit back and enjoy it."
Guo Liujun was upset for the three men, which made the hearts of the three men pass a trace of warmth.
At the same time, I also feel that the difference between women and women is so big.
It also made Zhang Qi feel a little disgusted with his wife for no reason.
Meng Li says:
"Didn't you notice that you only shouted four bowls of beef noodles?"
"Also, you don't have to worry about staying overnight." Meng Li said.
It's rare to quarrel around.
Guo Liujun looked at Zhang Qi for a moment, and Zhang Qi whispered:
"Just now she said she wasn't hungry and didn't eat."
Regarding Meng Li's later sentence, everyone only thought that Meng Li was angry.
Guo Liujun snorted.
I want to say that my mouth is powerful now, and when I have the backbone, I will really find a place to live by myself.
Meng Li smiled, he drank a tube of nutrients before, and no matter how bad it was, he could manage it for two days.
I really don't have much appetite right now.
And looking at the beef noodles are not delicious, what you don't want to eat, you have to force yourself to eat it is not a sin.
The noodles came, Guo Liujun had five pieces of beef on his noodles, Guo Liujun picked the fastest one for Zhang Qi, and the remaining two people picked one in their bowl.
Zhang Qi discovered this small detail, and his heart suddenly beat faster.
Guo Liujun kept saying that it was delicious and fragrant.
People who deliberately eat without food.
Meng Li's face did not change, and he felt that Guo Liujun was competing with her now.
The youngest daughter thinks that Guo Liujun hopes that Zhang Qi will be towards her, and she is naturally willing to be special to Zhang Qi.