Chapter 101 0101

"Get out of here for me, you two bastards!" He scolded, "Usually you are as stupid as a donkey, you can't even draw a straight ink line, your gouges are uneven, and you don't know how to plan. Well, why are you sweeping the store?!" I don't mean to scold anyone, but I feel that the coffin shop always looks like a coffin shop. Near the benches, the shavings and sawdust cover the floor, and there are scattered pieces of wood everywhere. There is a kind of prosperity like spring flowers everywhere, if even this bit of prosperity is swept away, only two cold coffins are left, not to mention people, I am afraid that even ghosts will not be able to stay.

"Give me a dime for dinner." He lay on the lid of the coffin, picked up the tin pot from the inside of the coffin with his backhand, and told one of the apprentices, "Walk a few more steps and go to the cabinet at Wanliang Shop." Hit, if you want the original soaked ones that don’t leak flowers, go back to Lao He’s burden, cut two or two bundles of hooves, and bring a bag of salted peanuts along, and pick the ones that are cooked more thoroughly.” The door of the shop faced west, and the day was gloomy, and only at dusk and before sunset, a weak and faint shadow of the setting sun slanted over from under the lintel and landed on the black wall bricks, like a dying sick face, Shining obliquely there reluctantly.Every time this kind of time comes, people feel melancholy for no reason, cold and gloomy melancholy pours into the bones of people like lead, and their hands and feet are sore and lazy.

There are always some children playing in the stone alley outside the shop, laughing like foam, and many children always have a mysterious and ominous premonition about the coffin shop, as if there is really some kind of legend hidden in the shop. The ghosts are flying out of the dark dusk to grab someone; they rode bamboo horses in groups, shouting and screaming, rushing past the door of the shop like a tide, relying on one's courage. The shattered silence gathered again amidst the distant shouts. ... The children who shouted like this many years ago have all been put into this long box and no longer speak. Wancai's throat is itchy. Why hasn't the little apprentice who went to drink wine not come back? !

"Go and look for him, little button." Wan Cai said to another apprentice: "It's getting dark, don't squat by the corner of the door, dazed like a bat." The apprentice named Xiaokouer agreed, turned around and pulled out his shoes. Just as he pulled out one shoe, there was a thin shadow blocking the door. His shoulders could be seen shaking. "What, Heisuoer?" Wan Cai said, "Where have you been going for a long time?" The one who didn't speak, just babbled. "You f*cking bear! Why are you crying so much? Who bullied you?!" Wan Cai turned to the one who pulled the shoe and said, "Light the oil lamp in the wall hole for me, little button." Xiao Kou'er responded and went to touch and light the lamp, Wan Cai chased Hei Suo'er again and asked, "Where did you buy the wine and vegetables for me?"

"Master...Master...Master," Hei Suo'er said in a crying voice, "I was beaten...by someone!" Wan Cai turned over suddenly, sat up from the coffin lid and said, "Tell me, tell me, Heisuoer, what's going on?!" The vegetable oil lamp in the wall hole was lit, and the dizzy yellow light illuminated the face of Hei Suo'er who was limping over. One of his foreheads was swollen with a bruise the size of a cup, and his right leg was also injured. , jumping and hitting the toes on the ground, presumably to protect the pain. "Find Wanliang shop to get wine," he said, "unexpectedly, the gates on both ends of the street were blocked by the gun team, and the people on the gun team would not allow me to enter the gate, so I took the wine jug and gave it to them." Look, I was arguing to go in for a drink, but a guy hit me with the butt of a gun, snatched the flagon from my hand and crushed it! Look——" He held up the crushed flagon and said: " It’s a good tin pot, and he forced him to step on it like this! Master...fu..."

"Stupid, stupid," Wancai said, "you didn't explain it to them. You are an apprentice in Wancai's coffin shop, and you go to Wanliang shop to drink?! The gun team is the gun team of Wanjialou, not Those tigers and wolves in the defense army who wear two and a half feet, you explain to them clearly, how dare they stick out their guns to mess with people?!" "I've... said it all, Master," Hei Suo'er wiped his tears from his sleeves and said, "They just chased me away and told me not to be wordy. When I spoke again, they kicked my knee again."

"It's a fucking rebellion!" Wan Cai patted his knees, his eyes could shoot sparks, and cursed Li Li Li Lie: "My apprentice, I can't bear to beat and scold, but let them Come to fight and scold?! I want to go and see for myself, to see which Fang clan's gun team dares to be so brutal? It's all right, if it doesn't make sense, I want him to pay for my flagon, and also You have to come to my door to apologize for me, this is really...fucking, how can it be... such a reason!" "I, I said, Brother Wancai, why are you so angry with your apprentice? The whole alley is listening?" At some point, another black shadow leaned against the door, and Wancai yelled past, then Black Shadow spoke in a thick, depressed nasal voice, as if he had a cold.

No matter how the voice changes, Wan Cai will know who it is when he hears it. "I'm not angry with my little apprentice, I'm angry with that unreasonable guy!" Wan Cai said, "You can judge for me, Big Banya! ——I want Hei Suo'er to go to Wanliang for me He walked to the gate of the street, and was stopped by the gunmen for no reason... It doesn't matter if you need to seal the gate for something, when you encounter people coming in and out, you have to say it calmly, I don't know what it is Which inhuman guy actually smashed Hei Suo'er's gun butt in the face, crushed the hip flask in his hand, and kicked him in the knee....Why don't you pull your gun and shoot Jiang Fangjun? Even the little Xie'er from Yangjiao Town couldn't stand it, he just ran back, but he had the face to bully a little boy, what kind of thing is this?!...Ah, am I right? ... I, Wancai, definitely did not intend to protect my apprentice, but the other party was too unreasonable! Tomorrow, I will ask Master Gu, what happened to Wanjialou? I need to seal the fence in the street The door prevents people from entering and exiting, and the gun team is indulged so violently?!"

"Hey, it's no wonder you lost your temper, brother." Da Banya said, "You spend all day making coffins in a dark corner, how do you know the changes outside?!... In the past two days, the east and south sides of Wanjialou Tens of thousands of refugees came, like locusts falling. Gu Ye was afraid that they would spoil the green crops at will, so he transferred all the gun teams from each house to the outside of the town to protect the crops, leaving only the gun team from the second house to guard the fair. My son, there are not enough guns and manpower, and I am afraid that the bandits will take the opportunity to rob, so I sealed all the gates inside and outside, those masters of the gun team are on duty day and night, tired and sleepy, how can there be any reason for not being angry?"

"Well," Wan Cai said, "Since Master Gu has ordered me, I'm considered unlucky, but I don't have dinner, my throat itch to my heart." "I have it here if you want to drink." Big Banya said, "Look here!" He patted his long unbuttoned coat tied by the belt and said, "I always carry a jug of original brew. for drink." As soon as Wancai heard that there was old wine to drink, Wancai's anger dissipated, and he ordered Xiaokouer to lie down and rest with Hei Suoer on his side, and patted the coffin lid with his hands and said, "Come on, come on, Big Banya, I'm good." Brother, why do you have time to come to me tonight? Aren’t you serving Master Gu enthusiastically?”

"I eat at the ancestral hall. I have to serve whoever is in charge of the family affairs." Dabanya said in a muffled voice, "From the old man of the long house, through the lord Bao, the lord, and the waiter to the lord Gu, this is what I have done. Let me tell you something heartfelt, Master Gu is really difficult to serve, fortunately I am an easy-going person, otherwise, I would have resigned from this job a long time ago." "Let's not talk about this first," Wan Cai said, "How about we have a few cups of it first? If you don't shy away, come over here; let me roll up the little mattress like this, we old brothers, right here Drink from the lid of the coffin." "Okay," Da Banya said, "it's getting to this point, I just don't want to be drunk today even if I have wine... I said, brother, why do you only have two mouthfuls of white wood in your shop?" coffin?!" "There is no material in stock." Wan Cai spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "If I can buy wood to make a coffin, why would I want to drink old wine?! Hands can't be idle all day long." Big Banya sat on the coffin lid with his butt tilted up, and took out the tin jug from his arms. Wancai touched the jug of wine, put his big mouth on his small mouth and took a sip first. "Good wine, it's real." He handed the jug back to Big Banya, thinking of something and said, "Aren't you doing anything else?" "It can be said that there is nothing else." Da Banya also took a sip of the mulled wine, wiped the saliva from the spout of the jug with his palm, handed the jug over and said, "Master Gu ordered me to come... order two first. The coffin...tomorrow night, after the ancestral hall meeting, Master Gu will bring someone to carry it...to go." "Either, it's just these two. There's no one to choose from." Wancai said, "After selling these two coffins, my apprentice and I have nowhere to sleep, so we have to make another floor berth! It's time to rest." Big Mater took another sip of his wine, raised his upper lip and hissed. "Hey, tell me, Da Banya, Gu Ye, why is he buying coffins again?" Wancai suddenly remembered and asked, "Tell me, Da Banya, who in the town has fallen down?" ?!" Big Mater frowned, and the black shadow of his eyebrows blocked his eyes.