Siheyuan: Starting from the Pig Killer

Chapter 63 Unexpected Wild Flowers

"Boss, how do you sell this monkey face?"

At the front door, there is a shop specializing in selling various woodworking, bamboo carvings and other handicrafts. Xiang Yunduan pointed at a monkey face mask hanging on the wall and said.

After coming out of the commissioned store, he came to the front gate of the large fence.

He thought about it and figured out that if he wanted to hide his face when he went shopping in the black market, he would still have to rely on a mask. This was the simplest and most straightforward thing to do.

There’s no way anyone would just take off their mask, right?

It happened that he had seen a shop selling masks near Dashilan before, so he came over.

"Oh, don't dare call me boss, we are all gay. This mask is not an ordinary monkey face, but the Monkey King!" said a bald man in his fifties behind the counter.

"What's wrong with the Monkey King? Aren't they just ordinary masks? Is it possible that this thing is more expensive than other masks?"

Xiang Yunduan said strangely.

This mask should be carved out of wood, and it is painted with different colors of ink. It looks really alive and the craftsmanship is very good.

But just because it depicts the Monkey King, it shouldn’t be more expensive than others, right? This doesn't make sense.

"It's expensive, of course it's expensive, but don't worry, comrade, you'll understand it as soon as you see it!"

The boss took the monkey face mask off the wall, but did not hand it to Xiang Yunduan in a hurry. Instead, he held the mask and showed it from different directions.

At this moment, Xiang Yunduan immediately understood the extraordinary nature of this mask.

It turns out that this mask actually shows different faces when viewed from different directions.

It looks like a monkey from the front, but from the side it turns into a tiger's head, and from the other side it turns into a dragon's head.

In just a few moments, the boss showed Xiang Yunduan five or six faces on one mask.

"It's amazing. This skill is really incredible. Although there are no seventy-two transformations, if you can have these five or six transformations, you can already be called the Monkey King!"

Xiang Yunduan gave a thumbs up and praised it, and then continued to ask: "How much? I want it, just this one!"

"Fifty cents!" the boss said anxiously.

This mask was made by accident, and it is impossible to repeat it now, because he has not figured out the secret yet, and now he can only present a mask with three changes at most.

It was too cheap, but he wasn't willing to do it. It was too expensive, and no one wanted it. After all, a pound of meat only cost 68 cents, so he was very confused.

But what the boss didn't expect was that Xiang Yunduan didn't even respond to the price and just paid 50 cents.

"Aren't you going to see something else?" When the boss saw Xiang Yunduan paying and leaving, he couldn't help but said. After all, there were not many such heroic guests.

Seeing what the boss said, Xiang Yunduan walked around the store again. There were a lot of gadgets in the store, such as bamboo whistles, wooden paintings, wooden monkeys (tops), bamboo guns, bamboo dragonflies, ghost balls, and Luban locks. etc.

Especially the wood-carved craftsman ball, although it only has three layers and is far inferior to the ivory-carved craftsman ball with more than 70 layers in the Forbidden City, it can still be seen that the boss's craftsmanship is extraordinary.

If this is left to future generations and I become the master of the arts and crafts area, I guess it won't be a big problem to have millions of fans.

"How much does that wooden slider cost?"

Xiang Yunduan looked around, and finally settled on a wooden slider that could play the Huarong Road game. He planned to take it home for his little sister to play. This kind of puzzle game is still very interesting. Just think of it as a preschool for your little sister. Educated.

"It's not expensive, only thirty cents!" the boss said with a smile.

Xiang Yunduan paid directly.

……

"Brother, how are you? Have you met your sister-in-law?"

As soon as he got home, Xiang Yunlong couldn't wait to ask, with a curious look on his face.

"Sister-in-law, don't scream!" Xiang Yunduan said angrily.

"What's wrong? I haven't seen anyone or haven't taken a fancy to him?" Xiang Yunlong asked quickly when he saw that his elder brother was a little unhappy.

"Not interested!"

Xiang Yunduan replied, seeing that his brother was still asking, he quickly stopped him. This kid was not going to finish, and he was planning to break the casserole and ask to the end.

"Go, go, go outside and practice cycling. I haven't eaten yet!"

Xiang Yunduan waved his brother away.

I originally planned to eat outside, but I gave Old Man Dong four yuan and spent another eight cents on masks and Huarong Road. I really have no money in my pocket. I just have a few cents left to have a meal in the factory cafeteria at noon tomorrow. Waiting for wages to be paid.

While cooking, Xiang Yunduan took the monkey brother's mask over again and began to mobilize his luck to strengthen it.

Originally, he just bought a random mask, but this mask could change into several faces, which aroused his curiosity, and he was ready to try strengthening it to see if it could produce any special effects.

After this period of experimentation, Xiang Yunduan also figured out a general rule, that is, the higher the level of the item, the greater the probability that it will have a unique effect.

Of course, this advanced level refers to comparing similar items with each other.

For example, the items he had enhanced before, such as the wolf fang pendant, were higher than ordinary necklaces and the like. Things like bicycles and butcher knives were ordinary items, and the enhanced effects were naturally mediocre.

This face-changing mask is undoubtedly an advanced one among masks, and it should probably be able to enhance some special effects.

Three consecutive strengthening attempts ended in failure.

However, Xiang Yunduan is not discouraged. During this period, his luck has not been used much. He has saved a lot, so he doesn't feel bad about wasting it at all.

The most important thing is that the more difficult it is to strengthen something, the better the effect will be after it is successfully strengthened.

Finally, when the eighteenth channel of luck was consumed, the mask was successfully strengthened!
  Item: Mask (Bronze)

Effect: Wear it and have seventy-two different faces (cannot change into real people). Each time it lasts for an unlimited time. However, after taking it off, if you want to use it again, you must wait for forty-eight hours.

Looking at the mask in his hand, Xiang Yunduan resisted not putting it on. Tomorrow was Friday and he was going to explore the black market. If he put it on now, he wouldn't be able to play with it tomorrow night. He couldn't keep wearing it until tomorrow. Bar.

"This effect is almost what I expected from the bottom of my heart!"

When Xiang Yunduan bought this mask, he was thinking that if the enhancement was successful, it would have effects like Brother Monkey's seventy-two transformations. Now it seems that it is indeed the same.

And there is another difference in this enhancement, that is, the level of the mask has directly reached the bronze level. When he strengthened it just now, he used white luck. Strengthening to the bronze level was really a stroke of luck.

Putting the mask back into the space, the meal was ready at this time. Xiang Yunduan filled his stomach and soon fell asleep.

the next day.

Xiang Yunduan killed four pigs in a row in the morning. Now he has learned to be lazy and started to leave a lot of work to Wang Shitou and Zhang Dahe.

At this point, instead of being angry, the two of them were very happy, because when they were working, Xiang Yunduan would give serious instructions. This opportunity was not available to everyone.

And the most important thing is that they always feel that they learn things much faster when they are with Xiang Yunduan, as if they are receiving divine help.

I had never felt this way before when I followed Yang Jiadi.

In just the past few days, Wang Shitou and Zhang Dahe have almost learned how to kill pigs. They can kill them with one knife eight times out of ten. However, learning how to kill pigs is not easy.

Like Xiang Yunduan, when cutting a pig, the knife can easily move along the bones of the pig. Not only is it fast, but the key is not to damage the meat.

But the two of them couldn't do it. They kept cutting the meat into pieces.

Xiang Yunduan also said that practice makes perfect with this thing and requires more practice, so he will set aside time every day for them to practice.

This kind of treatment makes other apprentices and temporary workers in the same class envious.

This is what Xiang Yunduan wants, because he does not intend to accept only Wang Shitou and Zhang Dahe as his apprentices, but the more the better.

His plan was also very simple. After training these two guys, he would transfer them to other slaughterers, and then transfer the apprentices and temporary workers who followed the other slaughterers to him to continue the training.

He believed that no butcher would refuse, because with two skilled hands, their daily workload would be greatly reduced.

It's a win-win-win situation.

First, other butchers will have less work to do.

Secondly, those apprentices and temporary workers will be given opportunities to learn and improve.

In the end, Xiang Yunduan got more luck.

After lunch, wages started to be paid in the factory.

Without any surprise, Xiang Yunduan successfully received half a month's salary, a total of seventeen yuan and seventy-five cents.

Wang Shitou and Zhang Dahe were stimulated by the salary, thinking that they would have to become regular workers after the end of the year assessment, so they worked harder in the afternoon, which made Xiang Yunduan much more relaxed.

After get off work, Xiang Yunduan did not go home. Instead, he found his younger brother and explained that he had something to do in the evening and would not go home until very late. Don't forget to leave the door open for him then.

Although Xiang Yunlong felt strange, seeing that his elder brother had no intention of telling him, he stopped asking any more questions.

After leaving the factory, Xiang Yunduan found a similar restaurant, ordered a plate of mutton stir-fried with green onions and a plate of cumin beef, ordered four taels of rice, and then ate to his heart's content.

Eating in a restaurant is a bit more expensive, but one advantage is that there is no need to pay for food, even if it is meat dishes. You only need to pay for the food stamps of the staple food and the price of the meal.

Therefore, in theory, if you have enough money, you can eat meat in restaurants every day and eat as much as you want without worrying about meat tickets at all.

Speaking of which, this is the first time Xiang Yunduan has eaten beef and mutton after traveling through time.

Compared with pork, beef and mutton are undoubtedly much less. The meat tickets that ordinary people get are pork tickets. Beef and mutton tickets are generally for halal people. That is to say, during the holidays, ordinary people can get some beef. Lamb ticket.

Of course, if you really want to eat it, you can go to a restaurant like Xiang Yunduan. When it comes to making beef and mutton, halal restaurants are very good at it.

Among the large and small restaurants in Sijiu City, Shandong cuisine is the most popular, which can be said to be half of the country. There are also some Sichuan cuisine restaurants and Northeastern cuisine restaurants, but there are relatively few other cuisines. There are only a few halal restaurants than Shandong cuisine restaurants.

Therefore, it is not difficult to eat beef and mutton, provided you have money.

After dinner, Xiang Yunduan went to Quanyechang again. Last time he was in a hurry and didn't take a good stroll. Today, he had time anyway, so he walked around the city's premier commercial complex.

First, he went to the billiard room to play billiards for a while, and then admired the beauties in the ballroom for a while. According to his observation, most of the people dancing here were college students, and of course there were some various ladies and madams, almost all from before liberation. Upper-middle class people.

Don't think that this era is all about uniforms. In fact, in some places, you can still see colorful life.

There are also many families like the Lou family, shareholders of the steel rolling mill, and there are also so-called masters and celebrities in various art and cultural circles who need to be supported. Of course, the daily lives of these people are different from ordinary people.

It was only after the humanitarian flood began that these things became much less common.

Xiang Yunduan originally planned to just have a good time in the ballroom, but he was so handsome that he couldn't hide it even in the dimly lit ballroom. As a result, he was beaten by a man in his thirties who was dressed in a somewhat classical and gentle manner. His eldest sister took notice of him and dragged him to the dance floor where they had sex for a long time.

Xiang Yunduan was a little unable to react for a moment. If this kind of thing happened in later generations, it would be too common. It could happen in a matter of minutes in any bar.

But at the moment, it still surprised him.

Fortunately, although times were different, experience could still be used. He quickly adapted and took the initiative.

What surprised him was that this eldest sister seemed to be very young. Apart from taking the initiative when she pulled him onto the dance floor, she was quite reserved the rest of the time.

Fortunately, he is skilled in his skills. After all, there is a silver-level house-level technique there.

I don’t know what kind of satin material the eldest sister’s cheongsam is made of, but it is very silky. When dancing, she puts her hands on her waist and keeps sliding it down.

The slits of the cheongsam are a bit high. Unfortunately, the quality of the stockings of this era was much worse. They were completely incomparable with those of later generations, and they also lacked a little elasticity.

Unfortunately, time passed too quickly. When the song ended and the dim lights became bright again, Xiang Yunduan could only pull back his wet fingers.

This is the disadvantage of not having central air-conditioning. It was too hot and there were many people on the dance floor. After the song, the big sister was so hot that her whole body turned red and she sweated a lot.

"What's your name?" Xiang Yunduan asked.

"I didn't scream... No, don't ask, I don't want to... I don't know... I drank some wine... Forget about just now, please... I didn't want to... From now on, just pretend that we don't know each other, Okay?" The eldest sister said incoherently, and by the end of the sentence, her eyes were almost watery!
  "That's not possible. You just held my hand. What if you threaten me?" Xiang Yunduan looked at the eldest sister and said, she is so beautiful.

Just now I couldn't see it clearly under the dim light, but now I can see, two words, stunner.

"I didn't, it was you who held my hand, I..." The eldest sister felt aggrieved.

"Then you're going to catch me for ten minutes?" Xiang Yunduan suddenly lowered his head and approached the eldest sister's head fiercely, his eyes seeming to penetrate through the eldest sister's window, piercing her soul.

"I...um~"

As soon as the eldest sister made eye contact with Xiang Yunduan, she didn't know what she saw. Her body suddenly trembled, her legs under her cheongsam pinched hard, and then she fell limply to the floor.

(End of this chapter)