Chapter 721 Family Members Are Coming
Sometimes Zhou Silang had to go to a very far place in the countryside, and he was not very familiar with the place. He was afraid that he would be bullied in the village, so he would occasionally bring two people with him to go to the countryside.
Zhou Lijun knew that those people usually begged on the streets, but as long as there was work to do, they would do it no matter how hard it was.
Zhou Lijun was not surprised at all that Zhou Silang came to them.
She found a child in front of a restaurant on Kangxue Street and asked, "Where's San'er?"
The child also recognized Zhou Lijun. He thought carefully and said, "He was at Ganxianglou last night. Can you go look for him there?"
Although beggars have a certain territory, they are also mobile.
So when Zhou Lijun found San'er and brought him home, Manbao had already returned from the pharmacy.
San'er was eating a bowl of noodles with relish. When he saw another person coming into the yard, he turned around a little uncomfortably.
Zhou Silang immediately introduced her to him, "This is my youngest sister."
Manbao waved and greeted him, then put down the backpack and sat next to Zhou Silang. He glanced at his hands before looking at Saner, "I recognize you. I've seen you before."
San'er was stunned.
Zhou Silang was afraid that she would tell him about the time they gave them their own unpalatable food, so he immediately interrupted, "I know you have a good memory and remember everyone you've met. I called San'er here for something important."
Zhou Silang took the opportunity to bring up the matter of hiring people to transport grain, saying to both Manbao and Saner, "I haven't seen Da Chong and the others for a while, so I want you to help me call Da Chong and the other six. I want to hire them to drive the cart, and it's only a one or two trips back and forth."
San'er asked, "How much is the salary?"
Zhou Silang said, "Eighty cents, and we'll cover the food for the round trip."
San'er's eyes lit up and he said, "Brother Zhou Si, do you think I can do this?"
Zhou Silang was speechless when he looked at San'er, who was eight or nine years old...
San'er said, "Brother Da Chong and his friends didn't get any land this time, so they left with a group of traveling merchants. They said they couldn't live their whole lives as refugees and beggars in Yizhou City. We're young, so we won't get any land either."
He said, "But Zhou Si, don't look down on our young age. We can drive the cart and move the goods. At most, we only want half the wages."
Zhou Silang didn't want to agree at first, but when he heard that he only wanted half the wages, he couldn't help but ask, "Who else but you?"
"And my eldest brother, second brother Quanzi and the others. If you want six people, then we will be six."
Zhou Silang frowned and looked at San'er.
Manbao also looked at San'er and asked, "Are they the same age as you?"
San'er straightened his back nervously and said, "Brother Zhou has seen them. They are a little older than me, already fourteen years old."
"Fourteen years old," Zhou Silang said. "How did you calculate fourteen? The oldest of them is only twelve or thirteen. Driving a cart is no problem, it's just an ox cart or a mule cart, which is easy enough. But if they encounter a robber, can you expect these little brats to rush up and fight?"
San'er immediately said, "Brother Zhou Si, don't underestimate us. We are very good at robbing things. If we really encounter a robbery, we might be more powerful than those coolies you hired on the street."
Seeing that they were all looking at him suspiciously, San'er said anxiously, "Really? I'm not lying to you. We are all very good at robbing things. Even adults are no match for us. When we returned to Yizhou City, we robbed people for food all the way back."
Zhou Silang hesitated, but Manbao made the final decision, "Okay, I'll take you."
Zhou Silang glared at her.
San'er looked at Zhou Silang cautiously.
His own sister has agreed, can he take it back?
Zhou Silang could only nod.
San'er cheered, put down his bowl and shouted, "Then I'll go tell my eldest brother and the others right away."
After saying that, he ran away.
Zhou Silang then glared at Manbao and asked, "Why did you agree to this?"
Manbao said: "As long as you can drive the car, you don't have to worry about being robbed."
"Why?"
Man Bao chuckled and said, "I'll go find County Magistrate Tang. If he hasn't caught the man yet, I'll have him send someone to pick you up halfway. With so many of us, I don't believe any thief would dare to rob you."
"You are so powerful, you can still ask County Magistrate Tang to send someone to pick us up?"
"It wasn't possible originally, but it's possible now," Manbao said with a smile, "We had a patient with an injured arm in our pharmacy today. Do you know who he is and how he got injured?"
"Who? How did you get hurt?"
"A yamen runner, I don't know who got the news that you were robbed on the road. Merchants passing by on the official road have been very worried these past few days. Among them are several herbal medicine merchants who donated medicinal herbs to the county government. They went to the county government, and County Magistrate Tang sent people to escort them halfway. That's why there are often yamen runners on the official road recently."
Man Bao said, "Since there are always yamen runners, then please ask County Magistrate Tang to take care of us as well. After all, this business is done with their county yamen. If we are safe, their business will go smoothly, right?"
Zhou Silang was very curious, "How did that yamen runner get injured? Did they run into robbers?"
"No, he wasn't looking at the road while walking, and he stepped on a small stone on the side of the road. His foot slipped and he fell. He used his hand to support himself, and that's when his hand got injured."
Zhou Silang: ...
Manbao said, "It's enough that they can drive the cart. The wages are cheap, only forty coins a day. Think about it, that's forty coins a day less. A round trip takes three days, right? That means one person will save one hundred and twenty coins, so six people will..."
Zhou Silang counted on his fingers, but found that he couldn't figure it out, so he looked at Zhou Lijun.
Zhou Lijun: "Seven hundred and twenty coins."
Zhou Silang's eyes widened, and he slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, use them, and no one can stop me."
Zhou Lijun ignored him, hugged Manbao's arm and asked, "Grandpa and the others should have received the letter. It's been three days since it was sent out."
Not long after they finished speaking, they heard knocks on the door next door, and then heard a very familiar voice say, "Excuse me, is there a family from Luojiang County here who came here to study? The teacher's surname is Zhuang, and the two students he teaches are named Bai and Zhou..."
Manbao was stunned for a moment, then jumped up and rushed out to open the door. He looked out and saw that his neighbor had just come out. Two dusty men were standing in front of the door, slightly bending over and looking at their neighbors.
Manbao shouted happily: "Second brother, sixth brother!"
Zhou Erlang and Zhou Liulang immediately turned around and couldn't help but smile. Manbao rushed out and hugged them, yelling, "Second brother, Sixth brother, why are you here?"
Zhou Lijun rushed out and also shouted, "Dad, Sixth Uncle!"
I also rushed over, but didn't hug them. I just stood there and smiled at them.
Zhou Silang also walked out carefully with his right hand on his waist. Zhou Erlang and Zhou Liulang were shocked to see Zhou Silang. He still had some bruises on his face, especially his tied hands, which looked seriously injured.
Zhou Erlang hurried over and looked at his hand carefully, "Lao Si, are you disabled?"
Zhou Liulang was about to cry, and with red eyes he said, "Don't worry, Fourth Brother. We will take care of Fourth Sister-in-law and the child from now on."
Zhou Silang: "...I'm just disabled, not dead. No, I'm not disabled either."
First of all, today is the first day of the year, which is the birthday of our motherland. I wish our motherland a happy birthday.
Secondly, today is the first day of the holiday, I wish you all a happy National Day and have fun
Third, I was having so much fun that I couldn't keep up with the updates, so I decided to only update two chapters a day from the 1st to the 4th.
I will return the four chapters I owe you after I get back on the 5th.
Finally, good night!
(End of this chapter)
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