Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 45
Seeing that Li Xin was frowning tightly, Guan Wen thought that Li Xin didn't want him to do the work, so he quickly assured Li Xin: "It's really nothing, I used to deal with people at the pier before , everyone knows each other and will help each other, so don't worry too much."

Li Xin gave him a sideways glance, "If you tell me not to worry, I can really feel at ease? You are talking about how you can solve it when you eat and sleep? Just find a corner on the pier and make do with it?"

Guan Wen smiled awkwardly, and Li Xin said, "Don't worry about this, let's discuss it after paying the public rations?"

After the daughter-in-law said so, Guan Wen could only nod in agreement.

There are still a few days before the day of paying the public grain, and the work at home is basically exhausted, and there are not many major events.Li Xin thought about it, and then decided to ask Guan Wen to take her to the town to have a look.

Guan Wen thought that she hadn't been to the market for a long time, so he was happy to accompany his wife to wander around.It just so happened that the next day was the rush day, the couple got up early to tidy up and went to town.

When the couple arrived at the market, it was already full of voices and a lively scene.Selling chickens, ducks and vegetables, selling fresh fruits and food, selling cloth and cotton wool, selling knives and accessories, there is a dazzling array of everything that one expects to find.Li Xin stared intently, wandering from one end to the other, and then from the other end to this end, Guan Wen thought she was looking fresh, and felt a little bit fond of her in his heart, so he didn't pull her, and let her wander around.

After walking around for a while, Li Xin was also a little tired. Guan Wen found a tea shop, and the couple sat down to rest.

Li Xin drank some water, and said to Guan Wen, "Usually, it's only lively when you're on the market. If it's not on the market day, I'm afraid it will be very deserted."

"That's right, people from several villages can only get together at this time, selling and buying, and doing this every day is unbearable."

Li Xin thought for a while and asked, "Is the pier far from here?"

"It's not too far away. It's only half a stick of incense from here." Guan Wen paused, "Xin'er, what do you think?"

"No, not yet."

Li Xin looked at the businessmen who were shouting for business, then looked around, and said to Guan Wen, "Take me to the pier, please? Speaking of which, I haven't been to the pier yet."

Guan Wen naturally nodded in agreement, paid a copper coin to the owner of the tea shop, and led Li Xin towards the pier.

The wharf entrance is a gap naturally scoured by the Dagui River, and the deeply recessed deep port forms good conditions for ships to berth.At this time, there was a lot of excitement at the wharf. The shirtless men unloading and carrying goods were busily busy. The men and family members of the big and small families who got off the boat got on their horses and got on their sedan chairs. There are also people's yelling and cursing in the middle, and the sound of Dagui River's flowing water is even more lively.

Naturally, there were quite a few fish, shrimp, and bastard sellers near the river. The unique fishy smell of the river came in bursts, and the crowd smelled strongly of sweat.The combination of these three flavors, let alone a few days, even an hour, Li Xin couldn't bear it.

The conditions are too bad!

"Awen, look at the people who move things on the pier, they are much stronger than you, and their hands and feet are better than others. Your legs and feet are not as convenient as others. Maybe you come here to work, and no one wants to let you do it. " Li Xin held Guan Wen back and said, "Besides, you can't eat well here, and you can't sleep well. Even if you make a little money, you might be stolen by someone when you fall asleep or are careless. It was taken away. From my point of view, let’s forget about coming to the wharf to do work, and let’s figure out a way about the money.”

Guan Wen sighed, why didn't he know this truth?Although he does have some connections at the pier, but in the end he is doing work here, and his legs and feet are a big problem.It’s just that here, if you do something, you can get money. If you do other things, you have to wait for the day to get the money.

"It's been a long time since we agreed on the marriage with the Hu family. If we don't hurry up and hire him, I'm afraid the blind Hu will have some ideas in his mind." Guan Wen said helplessly to Li Xin: "I guess you are in the house of the daughter-in-law that Xiao Si wants to marry. I don't know much about the situation. Hu's family is at the end of our village. There is only a widower named Hu, who is a blind man. His mother-in-law left a long time ago, and only left him a daughter named Yueying. This year. There has been no talk of marriage. In addition to the fact that the girl from the Hu family is worried about her father, and the family cannot afford the dowry, the more important thing is that the girl from the Hu family is not good-looking. Although there are some people in the village who think highly of the girl from the Hu family who does things quickly and without procrastination, the family She is good at her job, but because of her appearance, few men are willing to marry her."

Li Xin opened her mouth slightly - she had heard Mrs. Sun say a few words about the Hu family on the day Mrs. Sun was suspended, but she really didn't understand the specific situation.

It seems that a woman's appearance is also very important in this era, Li Xin thought.

"Xiao Si didn't want to marry this girl from the Hu family at first, and hated her for her poor looks. I made the decision to marry the Hu family." Guan Wen said: "The family doesn't have that much money, so I can't take care of the other if I care about one. The girl from the Hu family is not good-looking but can start a family. She has served her father blind Hu Wuwu no regrets for so many years. She is not hungry or cold, so she knows she is a good girl. The Hu family does not want our dowry, but how much we have It's still okay, isn't it? After all, there is only one girl in the Hu family."

This is true, if there is no ostentation at the wedding, the idlers in the village will have to gossip again. The woman's condition is not good, and she will be angry if the man is not allowed to come.

As a woman, Li Xin also wanted to help this Hu family whom she had never met.

But - it's hard to move without money, first of all, we have to solve the problem of the expenses of talking about marriage!

While the couple were talking, they suddenly heard a loud commotion at the corner of the pier. It didn't take long before they saw a swarm of people rushing there.Guan Wen and the others were not too far away from that place, and before Li Xin came back to his senses, Guan Wen took her in his arms and stepped back a lot.After a crackling sound, the crowd parted into two, a burly man about thirty years old walked out with a frail young man in his hands, and threw the young man to the ground——

"How dare you come to the pier to grab food with your brothers like a bitch? You're so impatient!"

The shirtless men around laughed loudly, and the man on the ground struggled to get up, brushed off the hem of the dust-stained cloth clothes, and said tremblingly, "You...you bully people too much, it's demeaning!"

"Hehe, you still want to drag the text with me, don't you? Do you think you can say four words and four words, so you are really a scholar?" The big man sneered, "Can the scholar come to the pier to sell calligraphy and paintings? Are you ignorant? Who are you! Could it be that you want to hook up with some lady who got off the boat here?"

There was another burst of laughter around.

Watching the excitement is probably also a hobby of people, and more and more people gathered around it one after another.The man who seemed to be a scholar had his face flushed from suffocation, his mouth was tightly pursed, but he couldn't hold back a word. It was really a bit like "a scholar meets a soldier, and he can't explain why".

Look at that scholar is indeed pitiful, handsome in appearance, elegant in temperament, at most eighteen or nineteen years old, he should not be some charlatan.Li Xin was kind-hearted for a while, and said politely: "Brother, everyone is out to make a living, it is not easy, forget it, no one has any difficulties, he is also very thin and pitiful, if he is a Poor scholar, we don't have to make things difficult for others."

The burly man looked at Li Xin, obedient, but a beautiful woman, her breasts are straight... But why is there a hand on her shoulder?Looking to her side, the big man froze for a moment, and said in surprise, "Ah Wen?"

Guan Wen looked a little worried, but he still nodded and called out, "Brother Yan."

"Awen, someone you know?"

"Well, I had acquaintances when I was walking darts."

Guan Wenchong said to that third brother Yan, "Brother Yan, this is the daughter-in-law I just married, her maiden name is Li."

Third Brother Yan said with a embarrassed smile: "It turns out they are siblings. I know that Ah Wen married a wife, but I was busy at that time and didn't go to watch the ceremony. Don't be offended by siblings."

Li Xin quickly smiled and said no.

People like Yan San, who are struggling at the bottom, have more respect and understanding for those who are also struggling at the bottom like him. After all, everyone is suffering from the same disease.So even though I know that Li Xin used to be a kiln sister, I don't have much opinion of Li Xin. Instead, I think that this kind of woman can earn a human appearance, okay!But for the scholar who kept saying that he was a scholar, Yan San didn't have a good temper.

When Li Xin said this, Yan San naturally wanted to give Li Xin and Guan Wen face, scolded the scholar a few words, and warned him not to come again before letting him go.

The spectators dispersed, Yan San called Shang Guan Wen to talk about the old days, the two found an open place to sit, and Li Xin also followed Guan Wen with a smile.

Yan San first asked about Guan Wen's recent situation, and when Guan Wen said that he planned to go to the dock to find a job, Yan San shook his head and said, "I advise you not to go, the man in charge of the dock is not the old Du Ye, who is now in charge of the dock. This spoon is cruel."

Guan Wen paused, "The leader has changed again?"

"Isn't that the old saying? Talented people emerge from generation to generation, what...there are always newcomers replacing old ones." Yan San said carelessly.

Li Xin couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing with a "puchi".

"Siblings, I'm just a rough person, don't laugh at what I say wrong..." Yan San scratched his head, Li Xin hurriedly said: "No, no, third brother is very funny."

Yan San smiled embarrassedly, sighed again, and said to Guan Wen in a slightly serious manner: "Ah Wen, I plan to leave the pier in two days and find another job. You want to change money, this pier is a place of right and wrong I can’t come, I really can’t come.”

(End of this chapter)