Miao matchmaker made up her mind and waited until the framing shop closed, then sat in the corner behind the signboard and continued to wait until it was dark and a large cart came over. The two people following the cart got off their horses and led the horses in.
After arriving at the teahouse next door, the cart stopped at the entrance of Cailian Lane. Li Jinzhu and Li Xiaonan got out of the cart one after the other.
Matchmaker Miao stood up and hurriedly walked to the center of the street. She suddenly stopped, turned around, and walked a few steps to the coachman who was about to whip his whip to urge the donkey away. She grabbed the coachman and asked, "Those two girls from the Li family hired me?"
Lost your car? Where did it go?"
The coachman glanced sideways at the Miao matchmaker, snorted, and was about to throw his arms away from her, when the Miao matchmaker took out two copper coins and stuffed them into the coachman's hand.
The driver weighed the money and said, "Hejiacun on the east side of Guoxiang."
"What are you doing?" Matchmaker Miao asked immediately.
The coachman glanced sideways at the Miao matchmaker again, and the Miao matchmaker handed over another copper coin.
"Watch people weave cloth."
Matchmaker Miao let out an oh, and just let go of her hand when she suddenly took a step forward and grabbed the coachman again, "Send me there."
The driver glanced sideways at the Miao matchmaker.
"It's a lot of money for your car!" Miao Matchmaker climbed into the car.
"It's getting dark and we haven't eaten yet, so we won't take any more work." The driver turned his head and tilted his head at the Miao matchmaker.
"I'll give you ten more copper coins." Miao matchmaker sat firmly in the car.
The driver stretched out his hand to her, "Then give me the fare first."
"Give me half first." The Miao matchmaker took out the copper coins and gave them to the coachman.
The Miao matchmaker came back from Hejia Village and entered Pingjiang City. It was already time to arrive.
Matchmaker Miao asked the coachman to take her directly to Ping Yatou's house and paid the remaining fare. Matchmaker Miao knocked on the door and called out Mrs. Wu. She leaned over and whispered for a long time.
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Linhai Town, Pier.
At the gate of the checkpoint, the bearer Xiao Ma, who was queuing up to count the lottery chips and deposit them, stretched his neck and looked at the lottery chips in the hand of a young bearer in front of him, then looked at the lottery chips in his own hand, and then looked at the other people's, be careful.
He raised his hand and came closer to compare.
His signature is at most half of others!
"Hey, brother, are these all yours?" Xiao Ma couldn't help it anymore, lightly tapped the porter in front of him on the shoulder, and asked with a smile.
"Of course! If it's not all mine, is it possible that it's also yours?" The young bearer was in a very good mood.
"Then why do you have so many!" Xiao Ma shouted, "Look, mine is half less than yours! I worked all day today without a break!"
The young bearer glanced sideways at the pony, and pulled down the corners of his mouth little by little. After a moment, he stretched his head and asked, "You want to pay tribute, but we don't."
"What do you mean? I won't pay tribute." Xiao Ma was confused.
"You issue visas in two places, give out two sticks and receive one. We will issue visas in one place, and it's just a trip." The young bearer looked embarrassed and shook his hand at the pony with an endless amount of bamboo.
Sign.
"Ah? Can it still be like this? You are pretending to claim it! How can this be done! You will definitely not be able to pass the inspection!" Xiao Ma glared at the young porter.
The young bearer tilted his pony, waved a handful of lottery chips, and moved forward.
Xiao Ma pursed his lips tightly and stared at the young bearer lying on the check counter, handing in a handful of lottery chips. He immediately took a step forward, squeezed in beside the young bearer, stretched his neck and looked at the three people inside.
A long gown.
One of the three gowns quickly counted the lottery chips, one checked the authenticity one by one, and the other wrote down the number of lottery chips, stamped it, and handed out the two-finger-long strip.
"Let me see!" Xiao Ma ignored his own signature and rushed forward to see the small note the young bearer had just received.
The young porter handed the small note to Xiao Ma and let him see it very generously.
Xiao Ma stared at the number on the strip until the young bearer held the strip and staggered towards the bank, still standing there without reacting.
The number on the strip is more than double his!
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Huang Xianzhou and Mr. Yao each had a small mazaar. In front of them, two adobe blocks were set up on a wooden board. On the wooden board, there was a large bowl of stewed meat that was fatter than thin.
Mr. Yao scooped up some broth, picked a leaner piece of meat, took a few chopsticks of dried bamboo shoots, and put them into the bowl. Huang Xianzhou only took two chopsticks of dried bamboo shoots, scooped a few spoons of broth and burned it on the rice.
He put down his spoon and called to the bearers squatting around them.
"Xiaojiu, you are sick, so you come first and take two pieces. Old Zhao, you are older, so you should take an extra piece. Come here, one piece for each person."
The porters stood up in a hurry, gave each of them a piece of meat, and divided the rest of the broth among them.
"Thanks to these two gentlemen, I have been beating teeth every day for the past few days." A porter said with a smile.
"Thanks to Master Shi." Huang Xianzhou responded with a smile.
Ever since the prince set up a shed on the pier, he has been bringing huge bowls of meat or chickens to him morning and night. Thanks to the prince, his popularity has become better and better.
"Mr. Huang, those people over there are taking one trip at a time, have you heard about it?" A middle-aged porter asked Huang Xianzhou.
Huang Xianzhou nodded.
"This is a false claim, don't you care?" the middle-aged porter asked.
"This is not my business, I can't control it," Huang Xianzhou said with a smile.
"I've seen this several times, but the inspection office doesn't care. Those in long gowns just focus on counting the chips and writing notes. How can this be done!" Another bearer looked indignant.
"Doesn't it always count as one trip when carrying a husband? Why do you have to count two trips as one here? I'm really confused about this." Mr. Yao asked slowly.
"We are in Linhai Town, so of course it is different from other places!"
"When I first arrived at this pier, thirty years ago, even though two trips counted as one trip at that time, the subsidy was two chips for ten trips. Later, the two chips were replaced by one, and then there was no subsidy." The oldest.
The bearer, Lao Zhao, speaks a little slowly.
"My Wengweng said that in the early days, we used to take one trip here. I, Wengweng, am seventy this year!" A young porter next to Lao Zhao answered.
"You are so confused!" said a middle-aged porter opposite.
"I, Wengweng, am just blind, but he is not confused at all!" the young porter retorted.
"Mr. Huang, the prince didn't say he was here to take care of the dock. Why doesn't the prince take care of those people over there who pretended to be in charge of the lottery? The prince can always manage it, right?" The leader of the husband-bearers next to Huang Xianzhou frowned.
Asked.
"How about you go talk to the prince?" Huang Xianzhou suggested.
"Isn't this bad?" the middle-aged porter next to the head porter added.
"What's wrong? They pretended to be the leader!" a young porter said angrily.
"Then you go talk." The middle-aged porter said rudely.
"I'll go, I'll go! They're just pretenders!" The young porter ate a few mouthfuls of food, then stood up and asked: "Is there anyone who wants to go? Let's go! Go now! They are doing the same job, why should they compete with each other?"
Let’s raise twice as much!”
Three or four bearers stood up.
"Master Huang, please advise me, this young man is ignorant! This is going to cause trouble!" Old Zhao stood up anxiously.
"Don't worry, it's okay. How can the prince argue with them? It's okay. If you want to go, you can go. It'll be okay. Don't worry!" Huang Xianzhou waved to those people and motioned for them to go quickly.
