After lunch, Zhu Pingan settled the bill, and the shopkeeper came over with a smile, “Heh heh heh, I would have liked to erase the zero for you guys, but it’s exactly two hundred wen, so I can’t erase the zero if I want to.”
Upon hearing this, the little loli Nyonya rolled a big blank stare.
“Hypocritical!”The bear child flung his fat face, despising the shopkeeper.
“This is simple, it just so happens that I’m still not full, give me two more buns, won’t you guys be able to erase the zero.”
Zhu Pingan rubbed the bear child’s head, looked up at the shopkeeper, slightly hooked the corners of his lips with a bright smile, showing the innocent smile of the sunny big boy.
Ahem ……
The shopkeeper sniffed as if he was choking, and with a black face ordered the shop assistant to go to the back kitchen to get two meat buns.
A few moments later, Zhu Pingan led the two little ones out of the eatery with two meat buns packed in mulberry leaf paper.
Inside the eatery at the back, the shopkeeper had a black line on his face.
After leaving the eatery, the bear children were adoring Zhu Pingan, and the little loli Nyonya’s eyes were glowing as she looked at Zhu Pingan.
“It was they who first used chicken racks to pass off as chicken, the shop was big and deceived the customers, so I just gave him a small lesson. We can’t learn from them when we do things, we have to be honest when we do things, people can’t stand without trust, shops can’t prosper without trust, sooner or later, their shop will lose on a breach of trust.”Zhu Pingan touched the heads of the two little ones, instilling in them the importance of integrity.
Unknown.
The two little ones nodded in ignorance.
After walking for a while, Zhu Pingan gave the two meat buns to a small child being held by a Li Fu, and in the meantime, he chatted with the Li Fu.
He learnt that the forceman was from a village ten miles outside the capital, named Zhang Dazhu, and that last August, when I-Ta-Khan’s troops besieged the capital, they destroyed their village’s crops, causing them to have no return from the autumn harvest. In order to make a living, all the strong labourers in their village came to Qihua Gate Pier to work as footmen to carry goods to make a living.
It’s a bit tiring, but on weekdays, they can earn almost 100 yuan a day, and when they catch up with the grain shipment, they can earn a few dozen more yuan, which is even more than what they used to earn when they farmed the land.
That’s why since last year, all the strong labourers in their village came to Qihua Gate Pier to earn some extra money in their spare time.
When talking about food and drink, Zhang Dazhu was a bit distressed.
They all ate at home early in the morning and then came to work at the pier, only having one lunch here. But even if they only had one lunch, it still made them feel a little pain. The prices of the eateries here were not cheap, and in order to have more time to work, they didn’t have time to go to distant places to eat, so they could only eat here.
If they are labourers, they must be full, but if they are full, they need to eat at least four or five cakes to be full, and if they eat dry, they can’t, so if they have one dish and one bowl of soup, they will have to eat twenty communications in one meal.
As for meat and vegetables, they usually don’t spare any. Can only body loss is very, or work too much to eat, need to supplement nutrition, only had to bite the bullet and order a meat dishes to make up for the body.
Zhang Dazhu mentioned the eatery, complained a lot, such as the shop what all want money, tea also want money, even garlic want money, the cake is also missing catty two ……The food is also not very good, and they also look down on others, so it’s like begging them for a meal. ……The table is not clean, and the floor is not clean either. ……
After leaving Zhang Dazhu, Zhu Pingan observed the other eateries in the neighbourhood and listened to other people’s comments about them.
On the whole, the eateries here don’t seem to be very popular, and more or less have some problems: expensive prices, bad taste, questionable service attitudes, bad environment, and so on and so forth.
There are a lot of problems.
Zhu Pingan swept a glance at the rows and rows of eateries and sighed with emotion.
Near the Qihua Gate city gate, there was a small stall blowing candy men, surrounded by quite a few people, the bear child’s little eyes were glowing when he saw it, and the little loli’s eyes were also glowing.
“Let’s go, take a look.”
Zhu Pingan picked up the little loli with one hand and led the bear child towards the sugar man stall.
Sugar man blowing is a white-bearded old man, the stall is a rectangular cabinet with shelves, the cabinet has a few drawers, respectively, put malt sugar blocks and reed sticks, the cabinet has a half-metre round hole below, inside the round hole put a small charcoal stove, above the cabinet there is a shelf, on the shelf put the old man blowing all kinds of sugar man, there are small chickens, piglets, rabbits and so on, it’s very cute and delightful.
In front of the stall were surrounded by small children, and there were also adults leading them.
The children who passed by were basically similar to the bear children, who could not walk when they saw them.
Even if you don’t have money to buy, but also around the candy man blowing stalls do not go, did not see the old man blowing out a candy man, the children are a burst of surprise cheers. The children who spent money to buy the candy man, when they received the candy man from the old man, it was as if they had received an award, majestically, accepting the envy of the surrounding children.
Zhu Pingan gave the money to the bear child, who took the money and squeezed through the small children surrounding him, tugged his way in, and in the envious gazes of the children, shouted, “Give me two of the most expensive sugar figures, one for a boy and one for a girl.”
The old man took the money with a smile, and beside the charcoal stove where the fire was built, he took a piece of warm maltose, and pinched it skilfully with both hands, and the maltose turned into a round ball, and then the old man pressed out a small hole on the ball, and with his hand hand together, he drew out a long tube airway. Then to his lips to blow, warm maltose will bulge, while blowing, two hands skilfully pinch, soon a riding a dragon to haunted the sea Nezha the third prince will be alive and well appeared ……
“Sister, here.”
The bear child took the Nezha Third Prince and the Ma Gu Xianshou from the old uncle’s hands, and in the envious gazes of the many children, he tugged and tugged, putting one of the Ma Gu Xianshou into the hands of the little loli Niu Niu as if it were a treasure.
“Thank you brother-in-law.”
After the little loli Niu Niu received the candy man, squinting her big round eyes, she sweetly thanked Zhu Pingan, the money to buy the candy man was paid for by her brother-in-law ……
The bear child looked at Zhu Pingan with a grudging face ……
“Thank you brother Rui.”
However, the next second, after hearing the little loli nyonya’s next thank you, the bear child’s little fat face instantly turned sunny and smiled so much that he couldn’t even find his little eyes, and then happily played.
The world of little children is so simple ……Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but smile.
“Rumble ……”
While the two little ones were enjoying the sugar man, they suddenly heard a dull thunder in the distance, listening to the sound coming from the west, startling the two little ones.
Zhu Pingan also subconsciously looked up to the west.
However, the surrounding people seemed to have already seen the strange, someone explained: ”This is the saint’s inner teaching ground in the West Garden to drill the chamberlains, and has been firing cannons for several days in a row. Last year, I-Ta Khan’s attack on the capital stimulated His Majesty, and the Japanese invaders in the south are not stopping. His Majesty drilled the inner guards in case the capital’s troops were insufficient, to defend the capital with the inner guards against the enemy ……”
Zhu Pingan recalled that when he had just arrived in the capital, Zhang Siwei had said this matter.
But drilling the inner guards ……Emperor Jiajing was still really insecure, Zhu Pingan shook his head slightly. Even if these chamberlains are well trained, how can they be enough to guard the capital, they can only add a little security to Jiajing Emperor’s heart, oh, they can also deter the ministerial public. However, the chamberlain practice, the danger of future ah ……
