After receiving the short brown quilt, Old Wang led Ruan Qing into the backyard through the back door of the shop and walked along the corridor.There is also a row of houses under the opposite porch, which is probably a kitchen, and there are two water tanks outside the door.

Hearing Lao Wang's voice, the boy in the room leaned out half of his body, and saw that it was Lao Wang, so he shouted happily, "Uncle."

Old Wang heard this, nodded at him, and then led Ruan Qing to a wooden door, explained that it was a woodshed, then turned around to find the young man opposite, and pulled him into the kitchen.

Ruan Qing took her eyes away from Lao Wang.

He wrapped his hands around the quilt, and gently pressed his toes against the door leaf, and the door leaf was slowly pushed open. Split firewood.

Stepping in, I saw that besides firewood, it was also full of things, obviously a place to store sundries.

He looked around the room, but couldn't find an open space.

This was originally a place to put sundries, and I didn't think about living there.

So he could only put the quilt on the firewood pile first, then untied the girdle and skirt, took off the large robe, and put it on the quilt.

As if aware of something, he turned around while pulling up the straight sleeves inside, and saw a boy of seventeen or eighteen standing diagonally opposite the kitchen door. A blue belt, a head of jet-black hair tied into a small bun, wrapped in an old square scarf.The other party was crossing his arms and looking at him with an unhappy expression.

Ruan Qing knew that someone had already been booked in the shop, and it seemed that it was this child.

Presumably Lao Wang had already told the other party about this.There is no sign of Lao Wang beside the child, so he should go to the Qiandian to meet the master.

He smiled at the boy.The boy's brows suddenly wrinkled as if they were knotted, he snorted heavily, and turned back to the kitchen.

Ruan Qing's expression was stunned for a moment, and then she calmed down quickly, smiling gently, not caring.

No wonder the kid looked at him so hostile, after all, the job of bartender should be in the pocket of the other party, and he didn't want to kill Cheng Yaojin halfway.

He walked to the right corner of the room and moved some messy tools to other places. Finally, the space was vacated. He swept it again and was about to make the bed. Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and walked around the room again. Pull out the straw that was pressed under a piece of firewood, and spread it on the ground as evenly as possible.

There are no beds here, and the straw cushions are more comfortable besides being able to isolate moisture.

In this way, he spread the bedding on the straw.

His fingertips lightly brushed the wide belt, the soft fabric brought extreme comfort to the skin, he folded the clothes neatly and pressed them under the end corner of the quilt, then took the worn out set of clothes and shook off the top , worn on the body.

Rich and noble children don't need to work, so they wear loose clothes to show their temperament and aptitude.As for ordinary people, they still wear simpler shorts and trousers.

The crotch of the trousers was a bit loose, and he tied it with a strip of cloth as a belt, but it was still a bit bulky.

The material of this suit is a little hard, even a little rough, old and faded, and it is not comparable to any one he has worn before.

"Hello." The young man came in at some point, stood at the door, and said to Ruan Qing, "Go and fill the tank with water."

Ruan Qing didn't speak, just looked at the young man quietly, the young man suddenly felt a little guilty, immediately puffed up his chest, and bluffed, "What are you looking at, did you hear me?"

"Okay." Ruan Qing replied.

Reach out and remove the hair band that tied your hair, and tie it tightly around your wrist, making it easier to store energy.Passing by a pile of firewood while walking out, he casually pulled out a long wooden stick, pushed half of it with his thumb, and threw the half back behind him.

He didn't stop walking, but he raised his hand to hold his thick long hair, skillfully, and tied it into a bun at the back of his head in two or three strokes, and fixed it with a wooden stick.

There is a well in the courtyard.Ruan Qing threw the bucket tied with a rope into the well, and the wooden bucket floated on the water, refusing to go down no matter what.

Squatting on the edge of the well, I was suddenly distressed.He remembered that Cao Cao taught him how to fetch water, how to do it?

After tossing and tossing for a long time, the wooden barrel finally sank. He hurriedly turned the handle on the wooden shelf, and with the creaking sound, the rope was wrapped around the pole.

Seeing that the barrel was coming up, he was about to pull it, but the handle that he let go of turned upside down twice.

With quick eyesight and quick hands, he hurriedly fixed it, and the wooden barrel was suspended in the well again.

Ruan Qing, "..."

Very risky.

He shook it up again, fixed the handle, pulled the barrel over and lifted it, almost falling into the well.

so heavy...

Holding his breath secretly, he staggered and walked to the side of the tank with difficulty, and had to lift it up and pour it in.

The weight of the bucket gradually lightened, and he was relieved just now, but his heart suddenly felt a sharp pain, like being pricked by a needle.

Covering his heart with his palms and clenching his clothes tightly, he half leaned on the edge of the tank, seeing himself reflected in the water, his brows were furrowed, and his lips were pale.

He guessed in his heart that this was probably the aftereffect of dripping blood from his heart.

"Hey." The boy's impatient voice came from behind, "Hurry up and work. Both tanks must be filled, don't try to be lazy."

The person in the reflection bit his lower lip tightly.Enduring the discomfort, Ruan Qing straightened up, carried the bucket and returned, repeating the original movement over and over again.

His footsteps gradually slowed down, his arms were sore and weak, and his fingers lost all strength.When he was halfway through filling another bucket of water, he finally couldn't hold it anymore, and the handle suddenly slipped from his hand. Fortunately, he was quick on his feet and stepped back.

The wooden barrel fell to the ground with a 'bang', splashing a lot of water. If he hit his feet in this posture, he would be limping for several days.

Chen Ji moved the bed and sat at the back door of the shop, leisurely watching Ruan Qing busy.

Suddenly, he heard footsteps.So he leaned his head into the door and saw that Lao Wang was going down the stairs behind a very richly dressed man.

He turned his head and saw Ruan Qing struggling to drag the wooden barrel against the ground, so he got up quickly, cleared his throat, came to Ruan Qing and said, "Seeing that you have been busy for so long, forget it, I Help you, you sit there and take a break."

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help but snatch the wooden barrel from Ruan Qing's hand, lifted it up, bent over, and continued walking the rest of the way.

Ruan Qing straightened her waist and stared at the suddenly abnormal young man lightly.

Chen Ji turned around and saw that he was still standing there, so he said, "Go and rest, I'll finish the rest."

These two tanks have already been filled a lot by Ruan Qing, and they are only short of the last two or three tanks being full.

Since the other party said so, Ruan Qing couldn't do anything to grab it, so she turned around and wanted to go back to the woodshed.

He used too much strength, his palms trembled uncontrollably, his heart still hurt, but he became a little dull.

"Chen Ji." Old Wang, who sent the Yang family's lord away, came to the backyard. He stood on the porch and saw Chen Ji struggling to pour water into the tank, and asked, "Is the tank full?"

"Soon." The water was poured into the tank, Chen Ji looked at Lao Wang, and smiled, showing his white teeth, "It will be full in one more trip."

Lao Wang nodded in satisfaction, looked at Ruan Qing who was about to return to the house, frowned, and shouted impatiently, "Cao Qing."

Ruan Qing didn't realize it for a while, and it wasn't until Lao Wang shouted loudly for the second time that he realized that he was calling himself, so he stopped and turned to Lao Wang.

Lao Wang said, "Go and chop all the firewood in the house."

"All of it?" Ruan Qing glanced sideways at the wooden blocks that were almost forming a hill in the room, and asked again.

"Of course it's all of them, why don't you just chop it up once or twice for fun." After Lao Wang finished speaking, he turned to Chen Ji again, "Chen Ji, the store is not busy right now, so go and rest after you finish lifting the water. Something to do I'll call you again."

"Okay, Uncle." Chen Ji replied with a smile.

Lao Wang nodded in satisfaction and left.

Ruan Qing looked at Chen Ji with deep meaning.Chen Ji also looked at Ruan Qing, the smile on his face was still there, seeing Ruan Qing looking at him, he said, "Your name is Cao Qing? Then I will leave the firewood chopping to you. It's hard work."

Ruan Qing gave Chen Ji a blank look, went back to the house, hugged a handful of firewood with trembling arms, came to the stake, let go, and the pieces rolled to the ground.He went back to the house and came out with an axe.

Chen Ji quickly finished carrying the last bucket of water.

He walked up to Ruan Qing, and said quite proudly, "Uncle Wang said you want to steal my job? You are overthinking yourself, I advise you to leave quickly. The shopkeeper just now is my cousin. If it weren't for the For the sake of the hotel owner, he won't let you try it out for a few days, instead of spending a few days here, you might as well get out early, lest you will be persuaded to leave by yourself in the end, and it will be ugly when the time comes."

Ruan Qing ignored it, and put a piece of wood on the stake. When the person finished talking, he squeezed the wooden handle tightly and raised his hand. On the bare forearm with rolled up sleeves, it was usually covered with white and soft, The thin and thin muscles suddenly tensed and swelled, the blood vessels under the skin were dilated, and the blue-purple lines were immediately obvious.

The sharp blade flashed a cold light in the sun, broke through the air and fell, fast and hard, the wood split in two and fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

After all, Ruan Qing had practiced martial arts before, and Ling Ling's murderous aura was engulfed in that axe.

Looking at the two halves of the wood, Chen Ji's eyeballs straightened, and he felt his neck feel a little cold, so he swallowed hard.

Ruan Qing glanced at Chen Ji, the brown pupils were filled with thick cold air, like the snow falling into the cold pool in the twelfth lunar month, it was extremely cold, and the deepest part was condensed with an inextricable haze and darkness.

When he met Ruan Qing's gaze, Chen Ji suddenly felt a chill rise up his spine, reaching straight to the sky, making him tremble uncontrollably.

Why does this person have such a terrifying look in his eyes?

Although his heart was trembling, Chen Ji still bite the bullet, puffed out his chest, and tried to make himself taller. He said, "What do you look at? Work hard, why? You want to hit someone. Let me tell you, you If you dare to do it, you have to get out today."

Ruan Qing didn't speak, just stared at Chen Ji.

Chen Ji finally couldn't stand it anymore, and ran away quickly after speaking.

After entering the store, he stepped aside, leaning against the wall behind him, still feeling a little palpitating.After taking a long breath, he suddenly remembered that he had a backer, and the other party was just a foreigner, why should he be so afraid of the other party?

Thinking of this, Chen Ji suddenly became confident, and thinking that Ruan Qing had just frightened him so much, he couldn't help getting angry.

'Cao Qing, right? '

Chen Ji gritted his teeth, thinking to himself, "Let's wait and see." '

After all, Ruan Qing moved the water many times, his hands had long since lost strength, and the first hit just now was to fool Chen Ji.When splitting again, it takes two or three knocks to split.

The pile was hacked until the sun went down.

At night, the job of guarding the store is left, and the store takes care of the meals.

Ruan Qing stayed in the backyard the whole time, and didn't know the situation in the front shop, and didn't know if she needed to go to the waiter.

Lao Wang didn't come over until the meal was ready in the kitchen, saying that he was not allowed to eat until he finished his work.He also ordered not to leave the firewood in the yard, otherwise it would be difficult to light the fire if it got wet.

So he took the chopped firewood back to the house again and again.

After finishing this, the night has already fallen, and the moon has been hanging in the sky for an unknown how long.

Ruan Qing supported her exhausted body and fell on the mattress. Every inch of her body was sore and exhausted, and she didn't even want to move a finger.

According to this posture, it is still unknown whether he can get up tomorrow.

He opened his eyes and stared blankly in the dark space for a while, then sat cross-legged, put his hands together beside his lower abdomen, closed his eyes, and breathed out slowly. Tighten the tendons and soothe the overdrawn body.

So the night passed.

On the second day, when the first ray of morning light shone into the room through the window sill on the wall, he opened his eyes and exhaled a foul breath.I stood up, stretched my arms, thumped my shoulders, and I have recovered most of it.

He raised the curtain and walked to the front shop, where the shopkeeper was yawning and coming down the stairs.Seeing him, I couldn't help laughing, "Hey, you got up quite early. Seeing that you are thin and small, your physique is not bad."

Smiling shyly, Ruan Qing didn't answer.

The shopkeeper went to open the store door and said, "Since you are up, you can wipe the countertops in the store and sweep the floor again."

"Okay." He replied honestly, found a rag, knelt on the ground, and wiped it carefully.

It was still early, and there were not many people on the street.The shopkeeper stood at the door and watched for a while, and when he turned around to see Ruan Qing working carefully, he clicked his tongue softly, and a moment of regret flashed in his eyes.

"Where are you from?"

Ruan Qing listened to the old Wang behind him.He turned his head and said, "Pei Guoqiao County."

"It's far enough away from here." The shopkeeper asked again idly, "How did you come here?"

Ruan Qing said, "I first came to Fufeng with my parents to join my relatives. I didn't want to meet bandits on the way, and my relatives' family didn't know where they went. I stopped and stopped all the way and came here."

When the shopkeeper heard this, there was a little pity in his eyes, he didn't say anything, and went back to the counter to set the abacus to settle the accounts.

The store suddenly fell silent, only the crisp sound of abacus and the rustling of linen rubbing against the wooden surface.

Not long after, I heard someone shouting from upstairs again, "Xiao Er, bring a basin of hot water."

Ruan Qing heard the voice and turned around to look up, only to see someone leaning on the railing on the second floor looking down.

"Okay." He hurriedly got up, wiped his hands on his clothes, and ran to the backyard.

The sound of the beads slowed down, the shopkeeper raised his head slightly, looked at Ruan Qing secretly, and said leisurely at the moment Ruan Qing was about to go out, "There is a basin in the kitchen, boil more hot water in the morning."

"Okay." Ruan Qing replied, and her figure disappeared behind the curtain.

The shopkeeper lowered his eyes again, counting cracklingly.

Ruan Qing was not familiar with the stove, so he was at a loss for a while. Just when he made the kitchen a mess and almost choked to death, the cook came to the door, saw the scene in the room and hurried in, and asked, "Why do you What did you do? Where did you get the firewood?"

Coughing, with tears in his eyes, Ruan Qing looked up at the fat cook and said, "Cough, cough, just the firewood over there." He pointed to the corner of the wall.

"Those don't work." The cook knelt down to help him, and squinted his eyes because of the smoke, and said, "Those are all damp, you have to take them out to dry today, and you can pick up a new bundle."

After Ruan Qing heard this, he brought another bundle, but the cook didn't let him touch it. He explained it while tinkering with himself. Finally, when the fire started to rise, he looked at Ruan Qing who was staring at the bottom, "Isn't this going to be a fire? It's on fire."

"So that's how it is." Ruan Qing smiled obediently at the cook, "Thank you uncle."

"No need." The cook waved his hand, "You chopped those firewood yesterday, I can use it for several days."

It was only then that Ruan Qing realized that the job of chopping firewood was originally assigned to the kitchen.

While Ruan Qing was busy in the backyard, Chen Ji, who had returned home yesterday, came to the store. He glanced at the empty lobby and called out, "Uncle."

The shopkeeper raised his eyelids, "Here we come. Come and dig out the latrine."

Chen Ji choked.

Seeing that the other party was still standing, the shopkeeper said, "Why are you standing there, don't hurry up."

"Oh." Chen Ji asked as he walked towards the backyard, "Where is that Cao Qing who came yesterday?"

The shopkeeper fiddled with the abacus and said casually, "The backyard."

After Ruan Qing delivered the water, when he returned to the backyard, Chen Ji was sitting at the door of the firewood room with a bed. When he saw Ruan Qing coming back, he shouted, "That, Cao Qing?"

Seeing Ruan Qing looking at him, he said again, "Go and dig out the latrine."

Ruan. Has been a civil servant for decades. He is familiar with the art of war. He has achieved quite a lot. Qing, I can't believe it, "What did you say?"

"Are you deaf?" Chen Ji stood up and said impatiently, "Go dig out the latrine."

Ruan Qing didn't speak, but just watched the other party silently, with a gloomy look in her eyes.

Chen Ji straightened his chest, pinched his waist with both hands, and stared wide-eyed, "What are you looking at, don't hurry up."

Approaching the other party step by step, Ruan Qing stopped when the other party was forced to take two steps back, narrowed his eyes slightly, and a cold light flashed inside, he asked in a deep voice, "This job is mine after all, Or yours?"

Chen Ji swallowed his saliva and secretly strengthened himself. He stood on tiptoe and said confidently, "Of course it's your job. My cousin ordered it. If you don't believe me, go ask."

With a sneer, Ruan Qing looked at Chen Ji with deep meaning, "No need." Then he asked again, "Just tell me how to do this job."

Chen Ji said, "How do I know, I just came here too."

The cook in the room heard it, and he knew it was Chen Jizheng who was bullying the newcomer because the shopkeeper was a relative. He also saw that Ruan Qing was good-looking and obedient, so he couldn't help but lean towards Ruan Qing. Off.

But one thing more is worse than one thing less. It's not good for him to explain the matter directly and stand up for Ruan Qing.So I just stood at the door and pointed out, "You put it in a barrel first, then put it on the cart, send it out of the city, and then go... Just dump it there."

Still going out of town...

"Understood, thank you Uncle." Ruan Qing agreed with a smile on her face, thinking a few times in her heart.Looking at Chen Ji again, he said, "This job is going out of the city."

"I heard."

Ruan Qing added, "I chopped firewood until midnight yesterday, and the shopkeeper knew I hadn't eaten."

"You deserve it for not eating, who made you slow down." Chen Ji looked puzzled, "Why are you telling me these things, I won't help you."

"It's nothing." Ruan Qing smiled softly, and went into the dry toilet in the corner of the courtyard when the second monk Chen Jizhang was puzzled.

Enduring the impact of smell and vision, Ruan Qing is now more cautious than going to the battlefield.

He comforted himself, he had seen all the people with broken arms, legs, heads, and intestines spilled all over the place on the battlefield, and the scene before him was nothing more than pediatrics.

Gritting his teeth, he took the shovel and started working.

Ruan Qing's brows were wrinkled as if they were about to be knit together, her eyes were so cold that icicles would appear.

Of course he knew that Chen Ji was pushing his job to him.But he can't get angry right now.The shopkeeper is a relative of Chen Ji, and it would not be of any benefit to him to make a mess. Now he has nowhere to go, this job is very important to him.

After all, it wasn't about major matters such as principle and life. He, Ruan Qing, had been immersed in the world of mortals all these years, and he still had some stamina.

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感谢在2021-09-1607:43:32~2021-09-2112:43:45期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: Xiyan 1;

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: 16 bottles of cute little fox sauce;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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