One or two branches of plum outside the bamboo

Chapter 19 Accommodation
The two carefully came out of the small alley, and it was almost time for curfew.

They quickly found a nearby car shop and asked for a [-]-cents cubicle inside.

The big car shop here is similar to the big car shop next to the official road. It is named because it can store vehicles and sell fodder.

However, large car stores built in the city are rare, only near the distribution center in the city, there are only such two.

The environment of the big car shop was average, and the blue-black kang quilt had a strange smell. Yan Qingzhi shook her hands, and the flying smoke made her choked up.

She thought that she had even done the work of throwing dung, and she must have no cleanliness, but she did not control her disgust. She didn't have it, mainly because she was afraid of lice in it.

"Qingzhu, bring the lamp and I'll see if there are any lice!"

Yan Qingzhi's face was wrinkled together, and the hard and heavy kang was folded into a long strip.

Yan Qingzhu found a wind lantern on the palm-width earth window sill. There was not much oil in it, but he still lit the wick after a few clicks.

The small flame the size of a bean twitched twice, and then black smoke rose. Yan Qingzhu was not prepared, so he was choked and coughed twice, and quickly buckled the rough glass lampshade on it.

Yan Qingzhi took the handle of the wind lantern and rummaged through the kang. Finally, she was sure that there were no lice, so she was relieved.

However, after this close contact with the kang quilt, Yan Qingzhi held back, but Yan Qingzhu couldn't accept it.

Considering that this thing is almost as hard as a tile, it doesn't matter if you use it or not, after a little discussion, the two decided to sleep directly on the kang mat.

Although a little hard, it is also very warm.

"I'm going to order hot water and food, you wait for me in the house!"

They have been in this world for more than ten days, and their bodies have not changed much, but their appetites are getting better and better!
The multi-grain steamed buns of La Sangzi are just hot water. Even if you don't want to eat them, you can eat seven or eight separately.

Yan Qingzhi can't say whether the situation is good or bad. Now she just feels like her stomach is leaking, and she is very hungry every day!
I used to be embarrassed to eat more at the Li family's house, but later on the road, I didn't have the conditions to eat enough. After finally having the right opportunity, she decided to eat a full meal today.

The food in the car shop is very simple, and the service is only for those traveling merchants and out-of-town businessmen.

As soon as you enter the hall, there are stoves and pots. No matter what time of day, there is always a fire burning. There are people in the hall. Some people are renting a stove and sitting and cooking what they brought.

More people are too lazy to do it, just buy something to eat directly on the cabinet.

The hot soup here is enough for two cents, and the miscellaneous grains are as big as the fist of an adult man, and two cents a cent.

There are also vegetarian buns and meat buns, one for one vegetarian bun and one for two for meat buns.

Yan Qingzhi is rich, but he is unwilling to buy buns, either because of the difference, or simply because he is not full.

In the end, she bought twenty miscellaneous grain wotou and two large bowls of hot soup, and rented a clean washbasin and a chamber pot for three cents and returned to the cubicle.

As soon as I went back, I saw Yan Qingzhu lying dead on the kang. He was so hungry that he was about to digest himself. When he saw the miscellaneous grains, he was not as conflicted as a few days ago. He didn't even put the kang table standing on the side. He ate directly with the light on the plate.

In the middle, Yan Qingzhi went out to refill three times of soup, and no one cared. The boss only glanced at her and went to work on other things.

If it is soup, just throw a few big bones in it, add ginger and seasonings, and keep cooking there. When the water runs out, add water. If the taste is weak, add salt. The cost is not high, and the boss is very willing.

But aside from the taste, it is very comfortable to have a bowl of hot ginger water in such weather.

After they were full, Yan Qingzhu slept with his clothes on his pillow. Yan Qingzhi was also a little sleepy, but he still had a lot of things to do, so he covered him with a leather jacket and walked out. Locked, only to the front hall.

The front hall was quite lively, and many people from different places were talking about all kinds of interesting things.

Yan Qingzhi asked the boss on the counter for a few kilograms of dry food and dried meat and paid for it. After listening to the story, she was worried that Yan Qingzhu would be in danger alone in the room, so she went back to have a look.

Yan Qingzhu was still asleep, she sat on the side, took out the things the two of them bought before, carefully packed the bags, and organized the space. Seeing that Yan Qingzhu was still sound asleep, she walked out again.

There is a brazier in the middle of the front hall, and there are large pots on it. Like those small stoves, they can be rented for a few firewood.

When sister and brother Yan Qingzhi entered the door, there were more people than now, but due to the curfew, no one will come back.

Many of these people also know each other. There are almost no women. They seem to meet here every once in a while, drinking wine and talking and laughing.

Yan Qingzhi squatted in a corner and listened quietly.

Most of the time these people talk about local knowledge and their parents' shortcoming, because they are business people in various places, their eloquence is good, and the stories they tell are very interesting.

For someone like Yan Qingzhi, who is desperate for the situation in this world, these stories, whether good or bad, can reveal many things.

From time to time, some people will say some dirty jokes, and some people find Yan Qingzhi listening to the story in the corner, and they make fun of her directly.

Because she was wearing men's clothes, everyone didn't feel embarrassed.

And Yan Qingzhi, an old driver in the future world, will not be embarrassed!

She just came to hear the news. She was afraid that she would be tricked by others, and she didn't want to chat with these people. She just pretended to be an ignorant teenager, pretending that she didn't understand, which often caused these people to burst into laughter.

Among them, there are different behaviors, some people are calm and self-controlled, some people drink excessively, some people are not likeable, but they can always grasp the interests of others...

But their acting styles are very different from what Yan Qingzhi imagined.

Time passed little by little, and because she was worried about Yan Qingzhu, she ran back and looked at it several times, but she didn't find any problems.

She just listened to what others said, and when it came to Zi Shichu, when everyone dispersed, she went to buy ten pounds of cheap wine from the boss and brought it with her.

Most of the wine here is mixed with water, but it is only for my two children.
In today's weather, drinking can really solve many problems when walking outside, and the two have also drank all the way.

I don't know where they will settle down in the future. Yan Qingzhi is very worried that if they can't stabilize for a long time, they will accidentally become alcoholics.

The wine jar of more than ten kilograms is no pressure for her now. She carried it back to the room, fastened the door and took out the ragged clothes to cover herself. She just lay down beside Yan Qingzhu and fell asleep quietly. .

This night, she didn't sleep very well. Although it was better than on a carriage, it was not an absolutely safe environment. She didn't dare to sleep too deeply if she had something in her heart, and woke up before dawn.

When I opened my eyes, I thought that when I have a house in the future, when the two live together, I must raise a few big dogs to guard the home...

She got up, her whole body was sore, and it was relieved after a few exercises.

Yan Qingzhu has been so tired these days that he hasn't woken up yet.

Yan Qingzhi didn't greet him, but went out and washed his hands and face with face wash. Seeing that he didn't want to wake up, he went to the front to ask the boss for breakfast.

The boss is no longer the one from last night, the one from the morning is a little old man, it seems that the one who stayed up late last night didn't get up.

The little old man saw that Yan Qingzhi acted steadily at a young age, so he chatted with her.

She's not stage fright, and she's right.

She had already agreed with Yan Qingzhu, and she said to the outside world that both their parents had died, and they were going to Zhuo County to join their relatives. They stayed here in Lincheng because they wanted to find a caravan, spend some money to go with them, and there was someone to take care of them on the way.

The old man felt that the child was very good, and he enthusiastically recommended two caravans with good reputation to her.

Yan Qingzhi also appreciated it, bought the food and thanked the old man solemnly.

When she went back to Yan Qingzhu, she was still asleep. Seeing this, Yan Qingzhi didn't have the heart to wake him up. He had been running around before, and now his body is only seven years old, so it was not easy to carry it until now.

She put the face wash under the kang edge of the compartment, put soup and wotou in the space, and locked the door to go out.

Yesterday's purchase was incomplete, and today I will buy some tung oil, beeswax and lacquer.

It's a pity that when she got to the shop, she gave up the idea, without him, because the price of lacquer is too expensive!

Because the cut paint will solidify soon after being filtered and cleaned, so they are all oil-paper-sealed jars. For small jars, it takes effort to paint two pieces of furniture. It takes [-] pieces from Yan Qingzhi. The cost has gone up a lot.

Let her give up this plan in an instant.

Her own family knows her own affairs, and her current level is not worthy of such expensive paint.

Fortunately, tung oil and beeswax are still within the acceptable range, and she also bought a lot of rosin and shellac of ordinary texture.

These things are not as pure as the ones she bought in later generations, and it is estimated that they have to be disposed of when they are used.

In addition, she also bought some colored stone powders of several colors in the store. These are all minerals. After grinding and washing, they are mixed with animal glue and alum to form a simple paint. Waterproof, moisture-proof and moth-proof, and more beautiful.

Animal glue is generally pig skin glue, boiled from pig skin.

There is also fish maw glue, but that is Yan Qingzhi's nightmare. She once made it herself like a convulsion, and the process was quite painful.

It is said that even a good man can't play two or two swim bladder glue, it can be said to be quite true...

These things cost another ten.

And the Shen one, but fortunately Yan Qingzhi carried it up even though it was laborious, even the shop owner thought it was amazing.

A thin and small child swayed out the door with a huge wicker basket on his back. The shop owner silently stood up and watched her walk away step by step, frowning in fear for a while before sighing and turning his head back.

(End of this chapter)