Chapter 693 The sound of artillery in Xiyuan
After lunch, Zhu Pingan paid the bill. The shopkeeper came over with a smile and said, "Hahaha, I originally wanted to give you zero money, but it's exactly two hundred cents. I want to It can’t even be wiped off.”
Hearing this, the little loli girl rolled her eyes.
“Hypocrisy!” The naughty kid waved his fat face and looked down upon the shopkeeper.
“It’s easy. I happen to be not full yet. Give me two more buns and you can wipe the zeros off.”
Zhu Ping'an rubbed the naughty boy's head, looked up at the shopkeeper, slightly curled his lips and smiled brightly, showing the innocent smile of a sunny boy.
Ahem
The shopkeeper seemed to be choked when he heard this. With a dark face, he ordered the waiter to go to the kitchen and get two meat buns.
After a while, Zhu Ping'an led the two little ones out of the restaurant with two meat buns wrapped in mulberry leaf paper.
In the restaurant at the back, the shopkeeper had a dark look on his face.
After leaving the restaurant, the naughty child admired Zhu Pingan so much, and the little loli girl Niuniu's eyes also shone when she looked at Zhu Pingan.
“They first used chicken racks to pretend to be chickens, and the store bullied customers, so I gave them a small lesson. We can’t imitate them in doing things. We must pay attention to integrity in life. If you don’t trust someone, you can’t stand the store. Without trust, their store will fail sooner or later." Zhu Pingan touched the heads of the two little ones and instilled in them the importance of integrity.
I don’t know how serious it is.
The two little ones nodded ignorantly.
After walking for a while, Zhu Pingan gave two meat buns to a child held by Lifu, and chatted with Lifu by the way.
I learned that Lifu was from a village ten miles outside the capital, and his name was Zhang Dazhu. When Anda Khan sent troops to siege the capital in August last year, he destroyed the crops in their village, causing them to lose all their autumn harvest. In order to make a living, all the strong laborers in their village came to Qihuamen Wharf to work as laborers moving goods to earn a living.
I am a little tired, but on weekdays, I can earn almost a hundred yuan a day. When I catch up with the water transportation of grain, I can earn dozens of more yuan, which is more than what they made before farming. .
So since last year, the strong laborers in their village have come to Qihuamen Wharf to earn some extra money during the slack season.
When talking about diet, Zhang Dazhu felt a little distressed.
They all had dinner at home early in the morning and then came to the dock to work. They only had one lunch here. But even just having lunch makes them feel a little distressed. The restaurants here are not cheap. In order to have more time to work, they don't have time to go far away to eat, so they can only eat here.
They work hard and must eat enough. But if they are full, they will have to eat at least four or five pancakes to be full. Eating dry is not enough. Just a dish and a bowl of soup will cost more than 20 yuan in one meal. arts.
As for meat and vegetables, they are generally reluctant to order them. Only when the body is very weak, or the work is too much and the body needs to replenish nutrition, can one bite the bullet and order a meat dish to replenish the body.
When Zhang Dazhu mentioned restaurants, he complained a lot. For example, everything in the store costs money, tea also costs money, even garlic costs money, pancakes are expensive, and vegetables are expensive. The cooking is not very delicious, and it looks like a dog's eyes. He was a lowly person, and he seemed to be begging them after a meal. The table was not wiped clean, and the floor was not clean either.
After bidding farewell to Zhang Dazhu, Zhu Pingan looked at other nearby restaurants. Listen to what other people have to say about the restaurant.
Generally speaking, the restaurants here don’t seem to be very popular. They all have some problems: expensive prices, bad taste, bad service attitude, bad environment, etc.
There are many problems.
Zhu Pingan glanced at the rows of restaurants and sighed.
Near the city gate of Qihuamen, there is a small stall of a candy blower. Many people gathered around it. When the naughty child saw it, his little eyes lit up, and the little loli also had his eyes wide open. Light.
"Let's go and have a look."
Zhu Ping'an picked up the little Lolita with one hand and led the naughty child to the candy man stall.
The candy blower is an old man with a white beard. The stall is a rectangular cabinet with a shelf. The cabinet has several drawers, which contain maltose cubes and reed rods. There is a half-meter round hole under the cabinet, and inside the round hole are placed There is a small charcoal stove, and there is a shelf above the cabinet. On the shelf are various candy figures made by the old man, including chickens, piglets, rabbits, etc. They are very cute and pleasing.
There were many children surrounding the stall, and some were led by adults.
The children passing by are basically like naughty children. They can’t walk when they see them.
Even if they didn’t have money to buy it, they wouldn’t leave around the candy player’s stall. When the old man blew out a candy player, the children cheered in surprise. And when the child who spent money to buy the candy man took the candy man from his old man, he felt as if he had received a certificate, and he was so proud and proud that he accepted the envy of the children around him.
Zhu Ping'an gave the money to the naughty kid. The naughty kid took the money and squeezed away the onlookers. He dragged him in. Under the envious eyes of the children, he shouted: "Give me the two most expensive ones." of sugar figures, one for a boy and one for a girl.”
The old man took the money with a smile, took a piece of warm maltose next to the charcoal stove, and squeezed it skillfully with both hands. The maltose turned into a round ball, and then the old man pressed a small hole in the ball. Use your hands to pull out a long airway. Then he brought it to his lips and blew, and the warm maltose swelled up. While blowing, his hands skillfully held it, and soon the third prince of Nezha, riding a dragon and making waves in the sea, appeared vividly
“Sister, give it. ”
The naughty child took the Third Prince Nezha and Magu Xian Shou from the old man’s hands. Under the envious eyes of many children, he walked out dragging Magu Xian Shou and Xian Bao among them as if they were treasures. In the hands of little loli Niuniu.
“Thank you, brother-in-law.”
After little Loli Niuniu took the candy man, she squinted her big round eyes and sweetly thanked Zhu Pingan. The money to buy the candy man came from her brother-in-law. What's coming out
The naughty kid looked at Zhu Ping'an with a resentful look.
"Thank you, Brother Rui."
However, the next second, after hearing the next thank you from little Loli Niuniu, the naughty kid's little His fat face suddenly became clear, he smiled so hard that he could hardly find his little eyes, and then he started playing happily.
The world of children is so simple. Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but smile.
“Boom.”
While the two little ones were enjoying the candy, they suddenly heard a dull thunder in the distance. The sound came from the west, which startled the two little ones.
Zhu Pingan also subconsciously raised his head and looked to the west.
However, people around seemed to have gotten used to it. Someone explained: "This is where the Holy Master was training his chamberlains in the Xiyuan inner training ground. He had been setting off cannons for several days. Last year, Anda Khan invaded the capital, stimulating When we arrived at the Holy City, the Japanese pirates in the south did not stop. The Holy King trained his servants to defend the capital when the capital's troops were insufficient."
Zhu Ping'an remembered what Zhang Siwei said about this when he first arrived in the capital. However, Emperor Jiajing, who was training his chamberlain, was really insecure. Zhu Pingan shook his head slightly. Even if these servants are well trained, they will not be able to guard the capital. They can only give Emperor Jiajing a sense of security, and oh, they can also intimidate his ministers. However, the internal training of soldiers will bring trouble to the future.
(End of this chapter)