Linxia

Chapter 50, lively

"Hahaha!"

Huang Di was startled for a moment, then reacted and burst into laughter.

Chai Yiwei even sprayed directly.

Fang Lin couldn't hold it together and the corners of his eyes twitched.

After laughing, Huang Di asked: "Brother Cheng, can you tell us what it feels like to go to a brothel?"

"What does it feel like? It's hard to say."

Cheng Shiliang sipped the soup like drinking wine, and after swallowing it, he let out a long breath. Then, he squinted his eyes and recalled and shared his experience: "A woman's body is as soft as tofu and as delicate as silk. Once you touch it, your hands can't control themselves... At the last moment, I shivered and my scalp went numb. Nothing can compare to it. I wouldn't trade it for a god."

Huang Di listened with fascination, Chai Yiwei's face turned red, but Fang Lin was the only one who remained calm. He was just starting out and it was not a test for him.

After saying that, Cheng Shiliang looked over and said, "How about I take you guys to try it some other day?"

"Ogi?"

"I don't have money, so I can't go."

"Yiwei?"

"I...I won't go!" The honest man was so scared that he waved his hands repeatedly, leaned back, and even dropped his chopsticks.

"Linzi?"

Fang Lin also refused.

"You have never eaten meat, so you don't know how it feels, otherwise... hehe!" Cheng Shiliang said, looking like an experienced person, lonely as snow.

"Just pretend!"

Huang Di exposed him: "You are always like a monkey, scratching your ears and cheeks, jumping up and down, waiting to take care of the brothel business. But when you come back, hey, guess what happened?"

"What's the matter?" Fang Lin asked.

"Like the giant Buddha in the temple."

Huang Di said this with a funny face, pretending to have no desires, pinching his fingers, pinching his throat, and imitating someone else's tone: "It's boring, it's really boring, going to a brothel is boring, working is boring, and living is boring. Tell me, what is the purpose of life?"

"Ha ha!"

Chai Yiwei burst out in anger again, saying that Huang Di had imitated him too closely.

Fang Lin was also laughing, laughing at the contrast between someone before and after the event. The wise man always spoke with confidence.

Cheng Shiliang became angry and humiliated, and punched Huang Di twice, but as he punched, he began to laugh.

As we ate and talked, the topic drifted away and I didn't know where it went.

Outside, the wind was howling, a light was dim inside the house, and laughter could be heard from time to time. The fatigue from the evening's work was dissipated in the laughter, and the friendship gradually deepened in this way of finding joy in adversity.

……

The next morning, Fang Lin got up. The other three were still asleep. Only Chai Yiwei vaguely heard some noises. He yawned and looked up: "Brother Fang, why are you up so early?"

"I'm used to it. You guys sleep a little longer. I'll go out for a walk."

"Hey!"

Chai Yiwei responded in a daze, turned over and continued to sleep.

Cheng Shiliang and Huang Di were not alarmed at all - last night, the four of them finished their meal and lay in bed, and Huang Di was still asking Cheng Shiliang about his feelings and experiences of visiting the brothel. Cheng Shiliang taught him without reservation, and the two of them dared to ask and answer, and the discussion was so passionate that it lasted until midnight, at which time they naturally could not wake up.

Go out.

Outside, a dung man had already gotten up early and was walking through the streets, shouting "Come and get the yellow man", and then he arrived at Xuan Mo Zhai.

Fang Lin had never seen it with his own eyes, so he went over to take a look. Just then he saw Manager Liu carrying a toilet out and pouring the feces to the night soil man.

"Xiao Fang, is this your first time meeting me?" Shopkeeper Liu asked with a smile.

"This is indeed the first time we've met."

Fang Lin nodded: "In the past, in the village, manure was a good thing. If it was not enough to irrigate the land, we had to spend money to buy it from other families."

Shopkeeper Liu laughed and said, "In the city, if you store feces, and if you have enough, you can ask a dung merchant to come and exchange it for a little silver. However, if you store it for a few days, it will stink, and the neighbors have to be able to tolerate it." "By the way, the work last night was not easy, why did you get up so early?"

"Shopkeeper, aren't you the same?"

"I am old, I don't sleep in bed for long."

Shopkeeper Liu shook his head: "Come on, go out and take a walk with me?"

"okay!"

The two men went out and talked as they walked. Having lived in the capital city for so many years, Manager Liu naturally had a deep understanding of the city and could basically answer whatever Fang Lin asked.

Shopkeeper Liu has a bit of a know-it-all personality, and Fang Lin is an excellent supporting actor. Although he speaks little, his few words are often enough to make Shopkeeper Liu feel that they touch his heart.

As a result, the two of them were able to chat and had a very pleasant time.

Halfway through the journey, they encountered a quarrel and many passers-by gathered around to watch. Shopkeeper Liu was a childish person and pulled Fang Lin over to watch.

It turned out that a dung man had collected dung from a street and wanted to sell it to a dung merchant. The two were bargaining over the price and were arguing until they were red in the face.

"You dare to ask me for three hundred copper coins for this shit? Why don't you just rob me?"

"I am not an ordinary person..."

"Hey, you man!"

The dung merchant was amused: "Dung is not wine, what's the difference?"

"Of course they are different." The manure man said confidently, "I collected all this from Yanzhi Hutong. They are high-quality manure with oil and water."

As he spoke, he said proudly: "Yanzhi Hutong has always been different. It's not just about excrement. People in other places call me 'excrement man', but do you know what they call me in Yanzhi Hutong? They call me 'honey collector'!"

……

The onlookers burst into laughter.

Fang Lin's eyes twitched.

Thanks to what Cheng Shiliang said yesterday, he knew that Yanzhi Hutong was probably equivalent to "brothel street". Needless to say, the women in the brothels could not have eaten badly, and the same was true for the people who could afford to visit brothels. The feces there were naturally different from those elsewhere - although it was feces, it was high-quality feces with oil and water.

Shopkeeper Liu was standing nearby, shaking his head. "The so-called 'honey collector' was created by those pedantic scholars who were pursuing elegance. But honey collectors were supposed to collect honey, but now it's turned into excrement. Isn't this disgusting?"

Fang Linshen nodded in agreement. This was indeed something that only people with nothing to do would do.

……

The quarrel between the dung man and the dung merchant continued.

"Whatever kind of feces it is, I'll give you a hundred bucks. You can sell it to me or not."

"One hundred coins? Even if it's a dog's poop, it can't be that cheap."

The dung man became anxious, his face flushed, and he forced the dung merchant over. He stirred his own dung with a spoon and scooped it up. His original intention was to let the other party see the luster, smell, and viscosity of his dung, just like selling grain to others to see its quality.

But the dung merchant thought that the man wanted to feed him shit, so he struggled and shouted, "If you don't want to sell it, then don't sell it. Why are you so anxious? How can you force someone to eat shit?"

……

The onlookers burst into laughter again.

There was also a busybody who suddenly shouted in the crowd: "No, you are not being fed feces, but honey!"

The laughter got louder.

Manager Liu also laughed so hard that his beard was shaking.

Fang Lin couldn't help laughing as well.

In this kind of atmosphere, laughter seems to explode, happiness seems to be contagious, and one person's share becomes many people's share. This is the fun of watching the fun.

Shopkeeper Liu and Fang Lin watched the excitement, strolled for a while, and then went back to Xuan Mo Zhai.

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(End of this chapter)