Yin Erhu walked out of Xiu Niang's room with the door half-opened. Xiu Niang wrapped herself in a blanket and held a bulging money bag. She wanted to call him, but Yin Erhu waved her hand and left.
Because it is convenient for the next person to enter, there is no need to close the door.
At this time, it was already dark, and the gate of Jinchangfang had been closed long ago, so he could not get in.
Therefore, he did not leave Guangfufang, but sat on the steps of the new house that had just been built here, looking up at the moon like a fishhook.
After sitting for a while, he felt bored, so he threw a piece of licorice into his mouth and slowly squeezed out the sweetness inside.
The sweetness of licorice is not too pure, but soft, which makes people feel good.
The owner of the new house stood at the door and glanced at him and said, "Can you please stop sitting in front of my door?"
Yin Erhu didn't argue, he got up and sat down on the steps in front of the door of another new house. Soon, a woman's timid voice came from behind the door.
"My husband is not here, and I only have women at home. Can my husband go and sit somewhere else? Don't ruin my reputation."
Yin Erhu stood up again, patted the dirt on his butt, looked around, and found that he had nowhere to go.
Looking at the high square wall, Yin Erhu spit into the palm of his hand and prepared to use his momentum to climb up.
So, he ran a few steps quickly, stepped hard on the wall with his feet, and grabbed the wall of the square with both hands.
Just when he was about to use his arms to lift himself up the wall, a woman said from below: "He will be caught by bad people."
Yin Erhu looked down and saw that it was Xiu Niang. This time she was wearing clothes. Fortunately, there was still a waning moon that illuminated her face.
"The guest gives you a lot of money. If you don't mind it, you can stay overnight and go back until dawn."
Yin Erhu let go of his hand, let his body fall freely, and then stood firmly on the ground. Xiu Niang didn't say much and walked in front with her head lowered. Yin Erhu followed behind, walking neither hastily nor slowly.
When I came to Xiu Niang's door again, there was a drunkard guarding the door. When he saw Xiu Niang coming back, he grabbed Xiu Niang's hand and said, "Where did he go? Grandpa has been waiting for a long time."
After scolding Xiu Niang, he smiled at Yin Erhu and said: "Brother, you are here first, you have to wait. I guess it will be over in an hour or two."
Xiu Niang was pinched so tightly by the drunken man that she didn't dare to struggle, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
Yin Erhu's fist hit the drunkard hard on the stomach with a sound of wind. The drunkard's body immediately bent like a prawn.
Yin Erhu carried the drunkard and carefully placed him in the special garbage disposal areas in Guangfufang and Jinchangfang, putting his head down to avoid choking to death on his own vomit while he was in a coma.
Xiu Niang looked at Yin Erhu in horror and said, "Chi An is very vicious. I will beat you to death when I wake up tomorrow."
Yin Erhu glanced at Chi An and said, "He is very drunk. Even though he looks sober, in fact he doesn't remember anything now."
Xiuniang opened the door dubiously and let Yin Erhu in. This time, Yin Erhu refused to enter her house. Instead, he found a big rock to sit down and said to Xiuniang: "I don't have any money anymore, so I will sit in the yard."
It's dawn, if you don't want to do business tonight, just go to bed."
"You just gave me a lot of money." Xiuniang whispered.
"That's the account from the last time too." Yin Erhu's voice was very calm, and no change in tone could be heard.
Looking at the moon is one of Yin Erhu's few hobbies. Seeing that Yin Erhu ignored her, Xiu Niang entered the house carefully. She wanted to close the door, but for some reason it opened a crack and said to Yin Erhu: "
If you feel cold, come in."
The air in Guangfufang does not smell good, not even as good as Jinchangfang where people come and go. The main problem is the trees in Jinchangfang. There are too many bamboo forests, while the trees in Guangfufang are pitiful.
When the moon is very round, no other stars can be found around it. Only when the moon is crescent like a hook, you will find that there is actually a very bright star beside it.
Yin Erhu stared at the star for a long time, and finally closed his eyes and tried his best to calm down his trembling hands.
The master said that there will be a fierce battle in the future, killing everyone who can be killed, and not falling into the enemy's hands.
Yin Erhu didn't think there was anything wrong with such an order. In the past two and a half years, his master had indeed treated him very well.
At least they treat themselves better than those in the army. They have no shortage of money and food, and they have no worries about food and clothing, but they are very boring.
Yin Erhu knew that something might be wrong with him, because he had no other thoughts except to go into battle and fight.
Although he doesn't know who the enemy he will face the day after tomorrow is, Yin Erhu still hopes that the day after tomorrow will come early.
As for who he wanted to kill, he really didn't think it was important. Two and a half years of support was worth risking his life for anything.
Just when Yin Erhu was getting a little impatient, the door opened again, and Xiu Niang came out carrying a big pottery bowl.
"I made some soup cakes, do you want to eat some?"
Yin Erhu smelled a sour aroma. This was the soup cake recipe in the Jinchangfang cafeteria. However, it was not called soup cake, but sour soup noodles.
He took the big bowl. There was a lot of noodles in the bowl, and it was covered with a layer of green garlic. It tasted good, but there was very little diced meat on it.
When Xiu Niang saw Yin Erhu starting to eat, she smiled and said, "I went to Jinchangfang to take the servant girl exam. As a result, the cook said that the soup cake I made was not good and I was not selected."
Yin Erhu paused and said, "Don't listen to that woman's nonsense. She wants to stuff her relatives into being cooks, and you will naturally fail. Your soup cakes are very good, and you are good enough to be a cook in the big cafeteria."
Xiuniang was a little surprised after hearing Yin Erhu's words, and said happily: "Really?"
Yin Erhu took another bite of noodles and said, "Really, the noodles in the cafeteria are all supported by rich oil and water. In terms of taste, they are far worse than the soup cakes you make."
Xiu Niang squatted down with a smile and looked up at Yin Erhu who was eating and said: "Nonsense, how can I compare with the cook in the cafeteria?"
Yin Erhu shook his head and said: "I eat in the cafeteria every day, how could I not know?"
Xiu Niang said enviously: "Do you eat it every day?"
Yin Erhu thought for a moment, took out three bamboo chips from his arms and handed them to Xiu Niang and said: "You can go to the Jinchangfang cafeteria to try it tomorrow. You can eat a lot of things with one bamboo chip. You will know after a try.
"
Xiu Niang took the shiny bamboo chip, looked at it again and again, and finally said doubtfully: "I heard that the emperor often went to Jinchangfang, and noble people also often went there. Can people like me also go to Jinchangfang?"
"
Yin Erhu said with a smile: "If you have two cents and throw it into the iron box at the door, you can go in swaggeringly.
Of course, if you don’t want to pay two pennies, you can pretend to be a beggar and get in. You can also eat the leftovers left by the guests. The taste is not bad. The most important thing is that there is enough oil and water. One meal can satisfy you for three days.
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Xiu Niang said angrily: "You are talking nonsense again, who's kitchen will give good food to beggars?"
Yin Erhu chuckled and said: "Really, I have eaten it before. Maybe the cook saw that I was thick, so she gave me a bowl of noodles. There was half-bitten fat meat from the guests. You don't know, that piece of fat
The meat was cooked so fragrant and glutinous that it melted as soon as you licked it with your tongue. I still can’t understand how someone would throw away such good meat.”
"You don't look like a beggar..."
"Three years ago, I got seriously ill. My family was afraid that my disease could be passed on to others, so they threw me in a mass grave, where I faced a wolf for three days, and I actually came back to life.
I slowly climbed down from the mass grave and hung out with beggars for two months. My health kept getting worse, so I went to the back kitchen of the cafeteria to beg for food. Unexpectedly, it was the leftovers from the cafeteria that allowed me to regain my health.
Already."
"Are you still a beggar now?"
"No, let's do something else now."
Unknowingly, Yin Erhu finished a large bowl of noodles. When he returned the empty bowl to Xiu Niang, he was shocked to realize that this might be his only bowl of rice.
Xiu Niang smiled and said: "I have a small appetite, so it doesn't matter if I don't eat. If I can talk to you more, it will be better than eating."
"No one's talking to you?"
"After my mother-in-law passed away and my brother joined the army, and I did what I am doing now, no one is willing to talk to me properly.
It doesn't matter if they don't talk to me. I'm just looking forward to the day when Jinchangfang will demolish my small courtyard and replace it with a two-story building. When my brother comes back from the Western Regions,
It would be nice to get a wife and have children.
When the time comes, I will stop doing my current job and take care of the children for my brother."
Yin Erhu was stunned for a moment and asked carefully: "Your brother is a soldier in that Zhechong Mansion?"
"Qizhou Zhechong Mansion, oh, he is not a soldier. When he left, he told me to wait for him to come back. After he has achieved military merit, he can give me the promised dowry."
Yin Erhu lowered his head and listened to Xiu Niang chattering to him. He knew that Xiu Niang's brother would probably never come back. Su Dingfang and Pei Xingjian had a big battle with Ashina Helu in Congling. I heard that
, that battle was extremely tragic, Qizhou Zhechong Mansion was under the command of the general manager of Congling March.
"Haha, when your brother comes back, you can get married."
"Would anyone want someone like me? As long as I don't dislike him, I will follow him for the rest of my life.
By then, he will definitely have many, many children, and I will help them take care of the children and cook. They will work hard to make money, and they will never have to live such a hard life again."
Yin Erhu himself couldn't figure it out. He who usually didn't bother to say a word could actually talk to a prostitute with the door ajar for a whole night...
At dawn, when he walked out of Xiu's mother's house, he found that Chi An had woken up, pulled open his clothes, and stared blankly at the clear mark of a fist on his stomach.
So Yin Erhu stepped forward again, grabbed Chi An's collar, exerted all his strength, and punched Chi An seven or eight times in the stomach.
It wasn't until Chi An started to vomit blood in his mouth and there were obvious signs of internal injuries that he let go of his hand. Looking at Chi An softly falling to the ground, he felt that he would have to lie in bed for at least a month or two before he could get up.
Then I left Guangfufang with peace of mind.
After returning this time, he felt that he still needed to make more preparations, so as not to die in the battle arranged by his master.
That woman is really pitiful. I didn’t even know that my brother died in the battle. It would be nice to chat with her again if I have a chance.
This chapter has been completed!