"You're a half-year-old kid. It costs at least three hundred yuan to buy this store! How did you get the money?"
"My parents gave us a little bit to let us go out and make a living. The money is definitely not enough. It was collected by friends. I hope the boss will give in, okay?" Mazi said calmly and smiled.
They bargained with each other and finally settled the deal for 220 yuan.
What Mazi did was to leave only masters Red Case and White Case, and send all the other clerks, clerks and workers home. It was perfect for the kids from the Money Gang to take over the work in the store.
6-27
Xiaoyan, Mazi and others walked around and got their second harvest.
They rented a small courtyard at the other end of Sujia Lane, not far from the small restaurant.
This small courtyard was built with all kinds of messy things after the Changsha fire. But it is also very suitable for grandma and several children to live here.
According to Xiaoyan's idea, the twenty or so children must live in at least three or four places to be safe!
The restaurant needs eight or nine children to work as waiters and laborers, and they live in the store at night. Grandma's small courtyard can accommodate five or six children. Finally, there are four or five older boys who need to be found separately.
A residence.
The official said: "What's the matter? I'll take a few people to find another place to live, and then go out to find a job. It's nothing to do!"
The place the official was looking for was not too far away. It was on Dongmao Street in the north. Several shabby houses were huddled in the corridor, which was very hidden. The official and his wife lived in one room, and the other children lived in two or three rooms.
The room is also very good!
6-28
After this agreement and the lease was settled, Xiaoyan and others returned to Yiyang and brought the children to Changsha in batches.
Grandma took Shitou, her brother, brother and sister Anjiang, and a rose as a family, living in a small independent courtyard.
Mazi lives in a restaurant with his ten children. He is the owner of the restaurant and the accountant in Anjiang. The other children work as waiters and vegetable pickers during the day and live in the store at night, which is pretty good.
Zhugan and several older children, led by senior officials, lived in a broken house on Dongmao Street in the north.
They have to look for work outside during the day, and they have another task at night, which is to walk around restaurants and small courtyards to see if there are any unusual people!
Xiaoyan took more than twenty children from the Money Gang and hid in Changsha City!
She made it very clear to the children, "We are hiding here! Don't stand out! Don't attract attention! Just wait until the limelight passes! Once all dangers are over, it will be a good day for us!"
Shitou asked: "How long will it take?"
Mazi stared at him coldly and said: "At least a year! Maybe longer! No one can ruin everyone's affairs!"
6-29
There used to be a signboard outside the door of the small restaurant in Sujia Alley, but it has been covered in dust for a long time, and it is hard to tell what it is called.
Mazi took a rag and wiped the signboard, and then he realized that this small restaurant originally had a nice name: Wanfuju. Oh my god! What an impressive name! So Mazi didn't plan to change it.
When Mazi returned to the shop, he saw two master chefs standing at the door of the kitchen looking at him, as if they had something to say.
Mazi once asked their names. One was named Gao, a master of the red case, and the other was named Yan, a master of the white case.
He smiled and asked: "Master Gao, Master Yan, what's the matter?"
Master Gao said: "You are the boss, please tell me how to improve this store?"
Mazi still smiled and said: "How I did it in the past, I still do it now. The two masters are both expert masters. Whatever should be done, just tell these children to do it."
Master Gao said: "I asked just now. None of them have ever done this before. They are so clumsy. How do they do it well?"
Mazi said: "Two masters, how much was your monthly salary before?"
Master Gao said: "Sixty yuan a month, what, do you want to reduce it?"
Mazi said: "No, I want a raise. Starting from this month, the monthly salary will be 80 yuan, how about it? The purpose of giving you two a salary increase is to ask you two masters to be more considerate and teach them more.
Disciple, how nice is this?"
The two masters were a little surprised and took a good look at him before confirming that he was not joking.
Eighty yuan is a high salary, I say it, I really say it! How easy is it to say!
At this point, the two master chefs had nothing more to say. They began to teach these children how to pick and chop vegetables, how to knead dough, and how to make a fire.
It was the first time for the children to do this job. Although they were unskilled, they were all diligent and quick.
Therefore, Wanfuju Restaurant in Sujiaxiang was on the right track in just one day.
The people living around here are poor people, so the restaurants naturally don't serve any delicacies from the mountains and seas. They only serve the flatbreads, fried dough sticks, steamed buns, steamed buns, etc. that are commonly eaten by ordinary people.
After running the business for two days, An Jiang said to Mazi: "If the generals are defeated, they won't make much money."
Mazi smiled and said, "It'll be good if it's even. After a while, we'll figure out how to make it better."
6-30
Xiaoyan, her grandma, and a few children live in a small courtyard at the east end of Sujia Lane. It's very comfortable.
Little Anxiang and her brother were almost inseparable, holding his little hand and walking in the yard every day. Her biggest wish was to pick her brother up, but she tried several times without success, so she had to give up.
The two children looked at each other and giggled.
An Xiang pinched his little nose and said, "You are just a little fat pig, dead!"
The younger brother smiled even more happily, as if to say: "You are stupid. Others can hug me, but you can't!"
Grandma is becoming more and more kind, always with a smile on her face, obviously very satisfied with the life in front of her.
Grandma is good at cooking. Although it is simple, it is delicious. The most important thing is that this is the food at home. Children like Xiaoyan have not eaten food at home for a long time. No matter how simple it is, rice, vegetables, vegetables and noodles
, and also delicious.
But Xiaoyan always harbors anxiety in her heart.
Mazi is right, Chongqing boss Zhao will find them sooner or later! What if he does find them?
What she is anxious about now is that she must find a way out! To put it more clearly, it is a way to escape! At least, at least, the lives of these children are what she wants to save! Others can only be regarded as secondary.
!
6-31
Daguan Ren, Bamboo Cane, Shitou and several older children spent a day wandering around the area and found work cleaning up the ruins.
They had vaguely heard about the Changsha Fire when they were in Chongqing. But they really saw the tragedy after the fire at the scene where they were cleaning up the ruins.
While they were wandering around the street, a rather vicious-looking man came over and said, "Boy, are you looking for a job?"
The senior official nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, we can do whatever we want."
The man was originally going to take them east, but now he stared at them and asked, "Where are you from?"
The official said vaguely: "People from Sichuan. We heard that we can earn a lot here, so we just want to make a living here."
The man stared at the senior officials again, turned around and led them westward.
The official felt a little strange, but didn't think much about it.
The man took them to a ruins, murmured a few words to a man in black clothes, and then waved to the senior official and told them to come over.
The man pointed at the man in black clothes and said: "This is the Qiantou. The Qiantou is responsible for cleaning up this area. You all listen to the Qiantou honestly and do whatever the Qiantou tells you to do! You must also work hard!"
The senior official hurriedly asked: "Qiantou, please worry, we don't have any problems with our work. How do we calculate wages?"
Qiantou simply said: "One yuan a day! One day counts as one day! What do you want to do!"
The official said hurriedly: "It will be done. Don't worry, we will do it well!"
Qian Tou pondered for a moment and then asked: "Are you from Sichuan?"
The official said: "Yes, I am from Sichuan. I want to make a living here."
Qian Tou asked again: "When will you come to the ground?"
The senior official did not dare to tell the exact date, so he could only say: "I have been here for more than two months, and I have been doing small jobs here and there, but it hasn't been long."
Qiantou stared at him calmly, as if he wanted to see through his internal organs. But in the end, he led them to a ruins, pointed to the shovel and pickaxe on the ground, and said: "There are tools there, take whatever you use, and clean them."
This venue!”
So the officials, Zhugan and others started working here.
The ruins they were cleaning were once a tall and large building, which was completely destroyed by the fire.
For more than a year, ordinary people have collected bricks from here and built their own bungalows at home. Therefore, there are not many bricks in this ruins. They are mainly garbage accumulated over the past year, as well as cement blocks and burnt wood.
, broken bricks and limestone.
The high-ranking officials work hard, and when the money boss tells them to do something, they rush over to do it, and there is nothing to say about it.
6-32
These days, Mazi has to do one of the most important things: hide money!
So much money is hidden next to every child. This is the most dangerous thing!
Money can tempt people to take risks! Damn it, that's how we got here! Any child who can't stand the temptation of money will also take risks! In that case, if money helps more than 20 children, they will all be ruined!
But where to hide so much money is a big problem!
Mazi walked around Wanfu Juli and realized that he couldn't hide here! There were many people here, including outsiders! The most important thing was that there was no place to hide money!
Mazi finally found the place where the money was hidden, which was the small courtyard where grandma lived.
He first bought a medium-sized water tank, and then dug a hole next to the kitchen stove. When he dug it deep enough, he and a few children carefully put the water tank in. The surrounding area of the water tank was filled with lime charcoal to prevent moisture. Then he put it in
Pack after pack of money was put in, filling the water tank. The amount alone surprised everyone!
He found a piece of oilcloth, covered the water tank, and tied it tightly with a rope. Finally, he pressed a large stone slab on the water tank, and then placed the original water tank on the stone slab.