Snack Street Tycoon

Another half-moon has passed, and it is still in the rainy season, but the rain after nightfall in the past two days has not fallen as much as when it first entered this season.When Fan Yu woke up that day, he could feel a slight coolness in the air. It wasn't because of the change of seasons that the weather turned colder, but it was just that the air at dawn was filled with moisture left over from last night's rain. It's just a cool feeling on the skin.He glanced at the clepsydra on the low table beside his bed, the water level on it had stopped between five o'clock and six o'clock, and there was an arrow next to the vertical bar of the water level, in a semicircle opening to the right There is a divider between five o'clock and six o'clock, and now the water level stops above the divider, and then look at the point where the arrow points to "twenty and fifty", then at this moment It was five twenty.And if the water level stops below the dividing line, and the arrow points to the point "twenty and fifty," then it's five fifty.

He felt that the timers here were very precise and well-operated. Although they were not necessarily more accurate than Rolex, it was not easy for the people here to come up with such accurate timing tools.Although this thing is accurate, compared to a watch, the only difference is that it can only be accurate to the hour and minute, and there are no arrows to see how many seconds, and there is another one that cannot be carried with you, so it can only be placed on the table like this. .He bought this clepsydra a few days ago at a shop specializing in clepsydra in Yunu City. He didn't buy it as soon as he saw it. Instead, he compared two or three of them for several days, and finally picked this one. He was also afraid that if he bought a cheap one, the time would be inaccurate, and the money would be wasted, so he simply bought a medium-priced one with some guarantees in quality.

He would think of buying this timer because he is really not used to not being able to check the time all the time, so he has to follow the example of half the population here to estimate the time by looking at the sun every day, and he can't do it.He is used to having a certain amount of time for everything, so clocks and other tools that can tell the time have always been extremely important to him in the past, and it is the same now.So although such a clepsydra was not considered cheap, he bought it anyway.After buying it back, Sisi was placed squarely on the low table next to the bed in the room where he slept, looking out of place with the surroundings. A beautifully carved clepsydra was placed in such a simple room, which looked like It was the owner of this room who stole from someone else's house and put it on.

He looked at the time again, and it was half past five in the blink of an eye, and he got up in a hurry.First, go to the kitchen next door to lift the quilt and open the tank to collect charcoal.After putting the charcoal in a wooden box in a corner of the kitchen, I pushed the cart down the mountain to fetch water.After hitting the water, it starts to filter the water.

In fact, the mother-in-law also got up shortly after he went out to fetch water, and went into her kitchen to steam the wheat buns.Elderly people generally sleep less, and can't sleep much in the morning.

The two of them filter water and steam wheat buns, both doing some daily work.

At noon that day, Fan Yu went to the city to deliver the goods again, and he also brought the deposit bar and the full amount of money that he ordered the mill from the mill seller last time.The last time I made an appointment, I can pick up the goods today.

He delivered the goods first, and after the money was correct, he came out from the backyard of the restaurant.Pushed the cart to Mangguzi Alley to deliver bags.Some of the people who were supposed to come were already there waiting for him early in the morning, and my mother-in-law didn’t always have fifty wheat bags left for these people, and if there were too many steamed some days, there would be sixty or seventy, and they were used for distribution. These wheat buns are very big, as big as an authentic standard-sized pineapple bun.Some of these people took one back and broke it in half, and gave half to the workers, because people like them don't seem to have a big appetite by nature.It is really rare to see someone like Fan Yu who can eat meat every day without experiencing any indigestion. He is simply a "rare and rare" person.

He doesn't know what's going on with this appetite, and he doesn't know whether it's because Fan Yu's own inertia of food needs has been brought into his current body, or whether this body has also "genetically mutated" after changing hands. In short, he thinks A man has to eat like him.And he didn't think there was anything wrong with the amount he was eating now, he just remembered that he had the same amount of food when he was growing up, and he seemed to be able to eat more than now.He also doesn't want to care about whether his appetite is normal in this world, he just knows not to eat enough.

After delivering the bags, he was pushing the cart and was about to go back in. He still had the coconut shells and the mill that he confiscated.He was full of worries, because he thought that he would not be able to transport the mill back with manpower, last time he saw that there seemed to be an ox cart for rent in the market, so it would be better to rent an ox cart this time and let someone help to carry it back. Then transport the mill back and set it up.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the voices of talking echoed in the quite quiet Mangguzi Alley after the people who had come to pick up the wheat bags had dispersed.He looked to the right, and saw Zu Xin, a drunken man perched on Zu Xin's thin frame, talking nonsense like he would only say after he was drunk.It's just that he was very drunk, and he just uttered some nonsense that was sometimes vague and sometimes clear in his mouth, and his whole body was like a drunk crab marinated in wine, unable to move, only lowered. Head down.

Fan Yu pushed the cart and approached, afraid that it would be inconvenient to speak even though he was in an empty alley, so he just winked at Zu Xin.Zu Xin raised his eyes and compared to the base of the wall in the distance, meaning to let him stand there and wait for him.So he pushed the cart and walked away, standing next to the wall, pretending to be arranging the baskets and cloth pieces on his cart.

After a while, a man who looked like a servant drove a carriage into the alley, stopped in front of Zu Xin and the others, and a person got out of the carriage, and Zu Xin took over the ugly old man The naked man was helped into the carriage, and the carriage was driven forward.I thought the owner came to this house because the alley was not wide, and he thought it was troublesome to turn around, so he drove straight out of the entrance at the other end of the alley.

At this time, Zu Xin looked around and saw no one, so he approached Fan Yu and said to him, "You have survived, and you look so good. Last time... I don't know what to say, It's all because of me." Fan Yu said: "Oh, don't mention it. But you, why did you help that person out? Could it be that the mother of the brothel has already let you start..." Zu Xin lowered his eyes, as if he didn't want to mention it He looked like that, and said: "That's not true. This guy just became so drunk. I happened to be walking on the corridor, and I was grabbed by him who was still able to move at that time. The person in charge sent me to help him out, saying that he was dead." He sent someone to inform his family servant that he was coming to pick him up, and he just told me to wait here in the back alley, for fear that it would be ugly on the street." After finishing speaking, he paused again, and then said: "However, the people here My mother has indeed let me live in a separate room, with luxurious clothes and delicious food every day. I don’t think it’s far from the days you mentioned.”

Fan Yu thought for a while, and said: "You might as well stop eating those things, go to bed late every day, and simply feed yourself, and I will find a way to redeem you to go out." Zu Xin said: "It's useless, I also thought so at first, but there are people watching everything in the house, ranging from rituals and conversations to small eating and drinking. The rules are complicated, and I have to practice singing. Where can I compose myself? Low body, don't eat, drink or sleep."

Fan Yu couldn't think of any good countermeasures at this moment, but he felt a kind of sadness caused by being powerless at the moment.He just raised his eyes and said to him: "I will definitely pick you up." Zu Xin may have felt relieved when he heard this, but perhaps it was because of his despair of reality that he heard this now. There was no expression at all.After a while, he realized that maybe a close friend in the past said something like a vow, but he didn't express anything, which was unjustifiable, so he raised his eyes and looked at Fan Yu, nodded, Said: "You are coming to pick me up. I have been living in a separate room for more than a month." Then, he glanced behind him again, maybe he was afraid that someone who came out of the brothel would see him. Said to Fan Yu: "You go first, it is troublesome to be seen."

Fan Yu said to him: "I haven't told you yet, my name is Fan Yu. I'm not called Fu Ji." Zu Xin was a little stunned, and asked, "When was it changed?" He answered vaguely, "It was changed later. .I live with a mother-in-law now, and she is my new employer. Don't be depressed all the time, and believe that things will always turn around." Zu Xin nodded and urged him to leave.

He pushed the cart and walked out of the alley.Just now he didn't tell Zu Xin about his new employer—what a nice person her mother-in-law is, and it's different from other employers. He didn't think it was appropriate to mention this.Zu Xin is now trapped in such a place, and he is feeling a sense of life experience for his future destiny, but if he mentions that he now has a good employer in front of him, it is a very ignorant and unreasonable Human psychology approach.So he didn't mention that, but only mentioned the existence of a mother-in-law, because he thought that Zu Xin should not know that he was taken home by a mother-in-law after being beaten that day.

He pushed the cart all the way along the street to Brother Fruit Stand, collected the coconut shells, then turned right into an alley and walked towards the market in the east of the city.

When I arrived, I found the grinder, and the uncle who was in charge said that the grinder had been polished, and asked him to go to the backyard to have a look.The market in the east of the city here is a place with quite a large area, and there are shops and merchants selling in the open air.It's just that the shops here are naturally not as rich as the shops on both sides of the main street like Daqi Street. The shops here are relatively simple, and no matter the main hall in the front or the yard in the back are very beautiful. small.

He pushed the cart to the backyard, and saw that the mill he wanted was placed in a corner of the yard. He took a closer look and found that there was nothing wrong with it.At this time, the uncle in the main hall also followed behind, leaving his buddy to watch at the front.The uncle asked him: "How?" He replied: "Not bad." The uncle said: "You take it home and use it at home. If your boss finds something inappropriate, you can take it back and change it for you. If you change it, don't change it." It's the money, but you have to pay for the round-trip transportation." He thought it was appropriate, so he readily agreed, and took out all the strings of money that had been hidden under the cart before going out.The uncle asked him to go with him to weigh the money in the front hall. It is impossible for them businessmen to count the coins one by one. Generally, a string is exactly the same weight, so you can use a small scale specially designed to weigh these strings of money. up.So he followed the uncle and walked towards the main hall, naturally he would not forget to take the [-] pieces of cloth bag that he received from selling gray wheat bags today.The fifteen hundred pieces are fifteen strings.Because every time the wheat bag is sold, only fifteen bunches are collected, and there is no way to save trouble by giving him a small ingot, because a small ingot is worth twenty bunches.Fortunately, the "zi" here is not heavy, it is a kind of light and delicate coin, with a round body and square hole, and the coin body is bright, and the fifteen strings do not seem to be heavy in the hand.

The two of them went to the front and weighed the money, and the money and goods were delivered.He said that he was going to rent a bullock cart to transport the mill home, and the uncle said: "It just so happens that I have to pull goods here in the workshop today, and I will be there in a while. After delivering my trip, I call They will help you to deliver this to your home. Is your home far away?" He thought it was free of money, and of course he was happy now, so he said that his home was on the mountain outside the north gate of the city.The uncle asked him to wait, their people should be coming soon.

At this time, he was a little hungry, just remembered that after collecting the big coconut shells, he rushed here to inspect his mill, and even forgot to buy the meat buns, so he said to the uncle: " Uncle, my scooter will be parked in your backyard first, and I will go out here and buy something to fill my stomach at the market." The uncle said, "Go, just come back within two quarters of an hour."

After he heard this, he hurried out, because he thought that it would not be long before the craftsmen in Uncle's workshop came to unload the goods, and it would definitely be unreasonable to ask people to wait here for him.He went out and found a nearby one that sold gray wheat buns and pancakes.Even though he was very reluctant to touch the gray wheat bun, even though he was [-]% eager to eat the meat buns sold in a few stalls, he still chose the gray wheat bun.Because the market was full of people all day long, he might not be able to find any dark alleys for him to eat meat buns alone, so in order not to attract attention, he bought gray wheat buns and ate them along the street.After eating two of them, I found that people would still look at him, and I don't know if they think he looks ugly, or think he eats too fast, or think he eats too much.Fan Yu gave these people a hard look in his heart, bowed his head and walked towards the uncle's shop.

He found that the craftsmen of the stone mill workshop had just arrived and were working together to move down stone mills of various sizes.He only waited for a while before these people unloaded the goods.Then, their boss, the uncle, asked two of them to drive one of the carriages to follow Fan Yu back, and transport the mill he ordered back to his house for placement.

The two of them went with Fan Yu, because there was only one mill, and their cart was a large horse-drawn cart along with a high cart. In this case, it would not be difficult to go up the mountain, and in addition, the mountain road back to Fan Yu's house was slow. , then it takes less effort to pull it up.

The mill was placed in the kitchen of the back house where Fan Yu lived.Because he had already thought about where to place it early in the morning, the two people who came with him only needed to place the mill at the point he designated.He asked people if they wanted water or something to eat, and they said no.Only then did he realize that it was inconvenient for him to just give his own water to outsiders to drink like this, and he probably didn't have another boiled unfiltered river water in his kitchen.Fortunately, people said no, and said that they drank it in the store before, so he went to the front kitchen and got four gray wheat bags for people, and told people that these were made by his mother-in-law, and they were very delicious.The two of them didn't refuse before they were in time for lunch. After that, one of them drove a horse, and the other sat on the edge of the open-air cart behind and left.On the way, the two of them ate the gray wheat bun. Although it was not hot, they felt that they had never eaten such a delicious wheat bun.