The little fat man Liu Shu replied: "He has been doing it all the time, and he can only do this. Brother Mang, why do you have the time to care about this?"
Liu Mang asked: "Does he still accept apprentices? I just want to find something to do recently."
Liu Shu looked hesitant: "It's not easy to make a living recently, it's hard to make money. My uncle dismissed all the apprentices he used to follow..."
Liu Mang smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will help you for free, no money required."
"Recently, I was taught a sword technique by an expert, which requires killing animals to make progress. After thinking about it, I thought of your uncle."
"Sword skills?" Liu Shu's eyes lit up, "Brother Mang, can you teach me!"
The little fat man Liu Shu believed in Liu Mang so much that he did not doubt the authenticity of Liu Mang's words.
Liu Mang shook his head and said: "The law should not be passed on lightly. I cannot pass it on to you without the consent of the master. I will talk about it in the future if there are other opportunities."
Liu Shu regretfully smashed his mouth and took Liu Mang to find his uncle Qi Dazui.
Qi Dazui is one of the two major butchers in Liujia Village, and his family's financial resources are obviously much stronger than those of ordinary families. His family is located in the row closest to the river bank. The high wall forms a courtyard of about 200 square meters, and there are people inside from time to time.
The sound of cock crow came.
Liu Mang followed the little fat man Liu Shu and walked into the courtyard with ease.
Then I saw that there were seven or eight areas separated by wooden fences near the walls on both sides of the courtyard. Each area had different chickens, such as yellow chickens, black-bone chickens, royal chickens, etc.
Only a small path paved with blue stone slabs was left in the middle, which seemed quite narrow.
The sound of chicken crows, the smell of chicken manure, and the special odor of poultry came from all directions, making Liu Shu couldn't help but frown.
However, Liu Mang's expression remained unchanged and he looked at the man and woman at the end of the stone road and in front of the house.
The man has dark skin, a lean build, and is wearing a brown linen vest. He is sitting on a bench. At this time, he is holding the wings and neck of a large white chicken with his hands. With his other hand, he is skillfully cutting the chicken's neck with a chicken knife.
With one touch, the chicken body was hung upside down, and the blood flowed freely into a large porcelain basin.
The woman's skin was fairer, but her figure was stronger than the man's. She rolled up her sleeves, held the feet of a dead black-bone chicken, and rinsed them in the boiling water in another large porcelain basin, and then
Lift the chicken and start plucking the feathers cleanly.
"Uncle, aunt!" Liu Shu shouted loudly.
"Here comes Xiaoshu." The man who killed the chicken raised his head, revealing a face that seemed to be forty or fifty years old. The most impressive thing was that his purple face was wider and thicker than that of ordinary people.
The lips are none other than Qi Dazui, a chicken-killer from Liujia Village.
The woman next to him looked much younger, about thirty years old.
Liu Shu led Liu Mang and said, "Uncle, Brother Mang wants to come to your house to help kill chickens!"
Qi Dazui looked at Liu Mang, who was taller than ordinary people, and frowned: "It turns out to be Tieniu. Unfortunately, my family's business has been bleak recently, and we have no plans to recruit him for the time being."
Liu Shu said loudly: "Brother Mang doesn't want money! He just wants to practice his sword skills by killing chickens!"
Liu Mang:......
Qi Dazui:......
Liu Mang had prepared other excuses, but now he didn't know what to say. How could this Liu Shu be so sincere?
Qi Dazui naturally took it as a joke. Although the silver ring-headed knife Liu Mang was carrying was very attractive, had the country butcher ever heard of knife skills, let alone how could knife skills be improved by killing chickens?
He paused and was about to refuse, but Qi Zhao next to him pulled his arm and winked at him.
Qi Zhao smiled and said, "Tieniu, let's go in and discuss it."
Mrs. Qi Zhao and Qi Dazui entered the inner room.
"If he doesn't want money, why don't you let him come?" Qi Zhao said dissatisfied.
"That's what you said! We are all from the same village. We can't see each other when we look up. How can we let others work in vain?"
"At the worst, I can give him some chicken blood and chicken offal at the end of each day. It's time, so some food would be good." Ms. Qi Zhao still insisted.
Seeing Qi Dazui's expression of emotion on his face, Qi Zhao continued to persuade: "Recently, those little gangsters in the morning market have been looking for trouble. If you take Tieniu over, maybe they won't dare to come."
The reputation of Tieniu's strength spread far and wide, and villages all over the place had heard about it. Qi Dazui, as a fellow villager, knew it even more.
This reason convinced him.
Business is hard to do now. Since the price of rice has increased, the prices of meat and vegetables have also increased. Although the price has increased, there are many fewer customers than before, so the profit earned is naturally far less than before.
What's even more irritating is that recently, thugs have come to the morning market from time to time to cause trouble, specifically targeting those selling loose chicken, resulting in fewer customers than before.
Qi Dazui understood that these scoundrels were most likely hired by Shen Laosan.
Shen Laosan is the largest chicken seller in the market. Unlike them who only have a small stall, he has an independent storefront. Moreover, his chickens all come from chicken farms run by the Sanhe Association, and he has a strong gang background.
Nowadays, not many people have enough money to buy chickens. If they buy yours, they won't buy mine. It's not unusual for Shen Laosan to use dirty tricks.
If Tieniu goes to the market to help him, maybe those rogues won't dare to provoke him.
Thinking of this, Qi Dazui made a decision.
He walked out of the house and said to Liu Mang: "Tieniu, we are all neighbors, and I will definitely not let you work in vain. But we are also very tight on money now, how about we use chicken blood and chicken offal to compensate? I definitely won't let you do it.
The one who suffers."
Naturally, Liu Mang had no meaning to Qi Dazui's suggestion. He was originally here to kill chickens, and it would be good to earn some extra meat.
However, Qi Dazui made a request, hoping that Liu Mang could also go to the morning market to help them, because some people like to pick live chickens and slaughter them on the spot.
Liu Mang asked about the time. The busiest time in the morning market was usually between Mao o'clock and Chen o'clock, so he went to Yin's hometown to practice martial arts without delay. The most important thing was that there were chickens to kill.
After the two parties reached an agreement, Qi Dazui gave up his position to Liu Mang.
Liu Mang was responsible for killing the chickens and bleeding them, Qi Zhao was responsible for plucking the feathers, and Qi Dazui was responsible for removing the internal organs and processing the offal, forming a simple assembly line.
Qi Dazui pointed to a wooden cage about three or four square meters in size and said, "Thirteen chickens need to be slaughtered tonight. All the chickens in this chicken cage must be cleaned. I can send them to them in the evening."
"Two are for the funeral of the Liu family in the village, two are for the wedding of a family in Shenjia Village, and the other nine are for the Food Weitian Restaurant on Fugui Street."
Liu Mang nodded. Fugui Street can be regarded as the only commercial street in the outer city. There are restaurants, gambling houses, red buildings and other businesses that cannot be seen in other places in the outer city. The entire Fugui Street is controlled by the Fei Sheng Gang, and ordinary people also
Don't dare to make trouble.
He bent down slightly, opened the gate, reached into the chicken coop in front of him, and took out the largest black-bone chicken. He pinched the wings and neck of the black-bone chicken with his left hand, and picked up a good-looking ring-head knife with his right hand.
With surprised looks in their eyes, the Zui couple gently wiped the chicken's neck and began to bleed.
Do a complete show. Since I said at the beginning that I need to kill chickens to practice swordsmanship, I naturally have to use the ring-shou knife to kill.
At the same time, the energy value column, which was originally 0, also jumped slightly and became 0.1.