Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 137 New Identity
At this time, she also understood, so she suddenly said: "Huzi! The wooden house has collapsed, is there a place for uncle and aunt to sleep at night?"

While Huzi's mother and grandma were still in a daze, Huzi's eyes lit up, and he said, "Yes! Our family has three houses. I sleep in one with my grandma, and one with my mother and dad. There is another room. , Uncle and aunt will sleep tonight. But the three of them smashed our noodle restaurant, and uncle wants to avenge us."

Ye Chen couldn't help but secretly praised the little boy's intelligence again.He remembered that when he first entered the noodle shop, Han Keer asked, "Are we really going to rent a house here?"

Naturally, Ye Chen couldn't reply, but he nodded his head with certainty. This scene obviously fell into the eyes of the little boy.And that's why the little boy wanted to use Ye Chen's power to deal with the three villains in front of him.Of course, the whole wooden house fell on Ye Chen, but Ye Chen acted as if nothing had happened. This was the main reason why the little boy dared to take advantage of Ye Chen's momentum and had confidence in him.

In this matter, Ye Chen and this little boy named Huzi reached an astonishing tacit understanding.

Under the eyes of Huzi's mother and grandma who hesitated to speak, Ye Chen walked up to the three villains.

"Uncle Huzi, right? It's useless for Huzi's father to come, let alone you. Hmph! The location of Kou's noodle restaurant is good, but now there is news that the price will be lowered, which will not let us three noodle restaurants It’s business. So this broken house deserves to be smashed.” The three also saw that Ye Chen was not easy to mess with, and with more and more neighbors watching, the one who seemed relatively stable The middle-aged man began to reason sternly.

He works steadily, but the other two men are young and energetic. One of the strongest young men shouted: "Uncle Di! What nonsense are you talking to him? Since the three of us have already agreed, why are you still afraid?" Their Kou family can’t do it. They smashed their noodle shop today, what’s the matter?”

Another young man also shouted: "If you smash it, you will smash it, what's the matter?"

While the two young men were roaring arrogantly, one punched Ye Chen in the face, and the other kicked Ye Chen hard in the stomach.

Ye Chen waved two punches casually at the same time, bumping into that punch and kick respectively.

bang bang!The two sounds sounded almost at the same time, and then the two young men fell and flew out, while Ye Chen remained motionless on the spot, not even shaking his upper body at all.

The audience was silent for a moment, and Ye Chen himself was startled, because the two young people fell too far away, flying a full four or five feet away.

The remaining middle-aged man turned his head and ran away without saying anything.

The two young men screamed and tried to get up, but fell down again, until two women rushed out from two noodle shops not far away, crying, and helped the two young men back.

Everyone looked at Ye Chen with a little fear, and Ye Chen heard their whispered discussions very clearly.

"It turns out that Uncle Huzi is a master of martial arts."

"The Zhai family, the Wu family, and the Li family have kicked the iron board."

"It's their bad luck. Kou's noodle restaurant is clean and tastes good. It was a penny more expensive before, and everyone couldn't bear that penny. So this neighborhood is busy working to earn money to support the family. Only those who don't have time to cook go to their three noodle restaurants. , now that Kou’s noodle restaurant lowers the price, most of them will naturally go to Kou’s noodle restaurant.”

"Ah! In recent years, there have been more and more Yangzhou city gangs, and there are more and more knight-errants and martial arts masters. These people rely on their own strength and always bully ordinary people like us. Originally, the government bullied us. Forget it, now that there are more gangs, life is getting harder and harder."

"Isn't it! I heard that several gangs are coming to our area to collect protection fees."

"Damn it, let people live, do those people in the government really care about it?"

"What do you care? The emperor is busy reciting Buddhism and writing poems all day, so he doesn't go to court. The officials below are like sheep. Who cares. I heard that the Song Dynasty government in the north is strict with these rangers and martial arts masters. , ruthless, and our Nantang government doesn't care about them, so in the past few years, these martial arts rangers and martial arts masters have come to our Southern Tang. It's not that our Southern Tang people are easy to bully, no one will replace us call the shots."

"Exactly! I remember that Huzi's family moved here from Northwest Guanzhong, so I guess Uncle Huzi is also from the Song Dynasty, and it should be for this reason that he came to Yangzhou."

Ye Chen didn't hear the discussion later, because he and Han Ke'er had already been invited into the house by Hu Ziniang and grandma.

The process of renting a house went smoothly, partly because Ye Chen rented out a lot of houses.On the other hand, Ye Chen stood out for their family just now, not to mention revenge, but also solved their worries in one fell swoop.It doesn't matter if the wooden house is smashed, the planks are still there, and when Huzi's father, who was working outside at night, comes back, he will be able to build a new noodle restaurant in half a day.Besides, Ye Chen is Hu Zi's uncle now, even if it is for outsiders to see, the Kou family will let Ye Chen and Han Ke'er live for a while.

However, Huzi's father still needs to make a final decision.But both Huzi, Huzi's mother and grandma swore that Huzi's father would definitely agree.

After a brief contact, Ye Chen could tell that the Kou family, young and old, were ordinary poor people who were kind and honest.On the contrary, Huzi was so clever that he didn't look like a twelve or thirteen-year-old child, and Ye Chen found out from the words that this kid had read books.

As soon as the matter was finished, a middle-aged man rushed in outside the gate of the small courtyard. Huzi heard the sound, called his father, and went up to meet him.

"Huzi! That's great, as long as you're fine, as long as you're fine, the Li family, the Zhai family, and the Wu family, I'm going to settle accounts with them." The middle-aged man saw that Huzi was fine, and Changsong first He took a breath, and then rushed out the door again.

He heard the news that the other three noodle restaurants in this area joined forces to demolish his noodle restaurant.At the same time, his face turned pale with shock, he took leave of absence from the place of work, and ran back desperately.He just saw the wooden house collapsed outside, and his heart was in his throat. He knew that his son was usually inside as a waiter serving noodles and pouring water for guests, while reading and writing.

Huzi's father's name is Kou Yuzhu.

Naturally, Kou Yuzhu didn't rush out, and at the same time that Huzi held him back, Huzi's mother and grandma called back.And Huzi, as if asking for credit, told him what happened just now in a few words.

Kou Yuzhu was obviously an honest person, and he was shocked when he heard it, and rushed to the room on the right in three steps at a time.

Ye Chen and Han Ke'er were tidying up a rented room, and they could hear the movement outside clearly. Knowing that the owner of the house had come in, they stopped and turned their heads to look.

Kou Yuzhu was sincerely grateful to Ye Chen.Because Ye Chen helped too much just now. Not only did he save his only son, but he also directly gave their family a chance to keep the noodle shop open. You must know that this opportunity will be the chance for their family to survive.With his humble, hard-working, but pitifully paid job, he simply cannot support his family.Without the income from the noodle shop, they would not be able to eat a piece of meat for a year, and at best they could barely maintain food and clothing.

Kou Yuzhu is tall, strong, and solid, and when he smiles, he shows his white teeth.I don't know if it's because he knew Ye Chen was dumb, or he didn't say thank you at all, he just held Ye Chen's hand and giggled, but the gratitude in his expression was very obvious.

Ye Chen felt a foul smell, but the strong ninja didn't frown, because the smell came from Kou Yuzhu, and he even saw feces on Kou Yuzhu's feet.

"Tiger's father! Don't drag my little brother around. Seeing that you have been picking dung for a day, your body stinks to death. Hurry up and change your clothes and wash them before entering the house." Hu Ziniang appeared at the right time, holding her nose, and Kou Yuzhu pulled it out.At this moment, Ye Chen seemed to have really become Uncle Huzi, at least Huzi and his mother were already called like this.Ye Chen has no relatives in this world. A clever little boy calls his uncle, and a simple and capable young woman calls his brother. He can't help but feel warm in his heart.

In fact, the happiest one is Han Keer, who has already smiled like a flower, like a bird, humming a little song that Ye Chen has never heard before, while jumping around to tidy up the room.She was so happy, naturally because Huzi called her aunt, Huzi's mother and Kou Yuzhu called her younger siblings.

The foundation of the wooden house was still there, and the planks were basically undamaged. With Ye Chen helping Kou Yuzhu, he rebuilt what was more like a wooden shed than a simple wooden house.

Kou Yuzhu's job is the same as that of nearly half of the adult men in this slum.To be more specific, it is to pick up the feces and urine excreted by the people in this city into the car, and then pull them outside the city.This was an indispensable job in ancient times, and it required a lot of people. According to Ye Chen's calculations from Kou Yuzhu's words, in a city like Yangzhou, there are already nearly [-] people picking manure.

Moreover, just like what Ye Chen heard about the guild in Kaifeng, Yangzhou also has a manure bank, which governs all the people who carry manure in Yangzhou City, even without the consent of the manure bank, poor people like Kou Yuzhu, like picking manure This job will be lost.

When they returned to the small yard, Hu Ziniang and grandma were cooking.There is no kitchen, and the pot and stove are in the corner of the small courtyard, with a few wooden boards on it.

Kou Yuzhu said: "My mother can cook good dishes."

Ye Chen smiled slightly and nodded.He has seen and smelled the thick porridge made of vegetables and brown rice in the pot.

Grandma Huzi smiled, and added a big bowl to Ye Chen. Ye Chen was not polite, and just ate it after taking it. Of course, he couldn't say "thank you".

(End of this chapter)