my grandmother

Chapter 143
Matchmaker Miao made up her mind to wait until the framed shop was closed, and sat in the corner behind the signboard to wait until it was dark and a cart came, and the two people behind the cart dismounted and led the horse in. In the tea house next door, the cart stopped at the entrance of Cailian Lane, and Li Jinzhu and Li Xiaonan got out of the cart one after the other.

Matchmaker Miao stood up, hurried to the center of the street, stopped suddenly, turned around, walked a few steps to the side of the coachman who was about to whip the donkey away, grabbed the coachman and asked, "The two girls from the Li family hired me?" Your car? Where did you go?"

The coachman glanced sideways at Miao Matchmaker, snorted, and was about to throw his arms to break free from her, when Miao Matchmaker took out two copper coins and stuffed them into the driver's hand.

The coachman weighed his money and said, "Hejia Village on the east side of Guoxiang."

"Why did you go?" Miao Matchmaker asked immediately.

The coachman glanced sideways at Miao Matchmaker again, and Miao Matchmaker handed over another copper coin.

"Watch people weaving."

Miao Matchmaker let go, and just let go of her hand, suddenly took a step forward, grabbed the coachman again, "You take me there."

The coachman glanced sideways at Miao Matchmaker.

"A lot of money for your car!" Matchmaker Miao climbed into the car.

"It's getting dark, I haven't eaten yet, so I won't pick up jobs." The coachman turned his head and looked at Miao Matchmaker.

"I'll give you ten extra copper tins." Miao Matchmaker sat firmly in the car.

The coachman stretched out his hand to her, "Then give the car money first."

"Give half first." Miao Matchmaker took out the copper tin and gave it to the coachman.

Matchmaker Miao came back from Hejia Village and entered Pingjiang City, and it was already timed.

Miao matchmaker asked the coachman to take her directly to Ping Yatou's house, and paid the rest of the fare. Miao matchmaker knocked on the door, called out Second Grandma Wu, leaned over her ear, and muttered for a long time.

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Linhai Town, the pier.

At the gate of the inspection station, the bearers waiting in line for the lottery to be placed stretched their necks, looked at the lottery in the hands of a young bearer in front of them, then looked at the lottery in their own hand, and then looked at other people's, be careful He raised his hand and leaned closer to compare.

His lottery is only half of others at most!
"Hey, brother, are these all yours?" Xiao Ma couldn't bear it any longer, tapped the shoulder of the porter in front, and asked with a smile.

"Of course! It's not all mine. Could it be yours?" The young porter was in a great mood.

"Then why do you have so many!" Xiao Ma cried out, "Look at mine, it's half as small as yours! I've been working all day today, and I haven't stopped for a while!"

The young porter glanced sideways at the pony, the corners of his mouth pulled down little by little, and after a while, he stretched his head over and said with a smile: "You want to pay tribute, but we don't."

"What do you mean by that? I don't pay tribute." Xiao Ma was puzzled.

"You issue certificates at two places, send two and receive one, and we will issue certificates at one place, and every trip is the same." The young porter looked terrified, and shook the bamboo that could hardly be grasped at the pony. sign.

"Ah? Can it still be like this? You are impostors! How can this be done! You will definitely not be able to pass the inspection!" Xiao Ma stared at the young porter.

The young porter leaned on the pony, and then shook the handful of lottery chips, so he had to move forward in a hurry.

Pony pursed his lips tightly, staring at the young porter lying on the inspection counter, handed in the full handful of lottery tickets, immediately stepped forward, squeezed beside the young porter, and stretched his neck to look at the three people inside. a gown.

One of the three gowns quickly counted the lottery tickets, one checked the authenticity one by one, and the other wrote down the number of lottery tickets, stamped it, and handed out the two-finger long slip.

"Let me see!" Xiao Ma didn't care about his lot, and rushed forward to look at the slip that the young porter had just received.

The young porter handed the little strip in front of Xiao Ma, and let him read it very generously.

Xiao Ma stared at the number on the strip, until the young porter held the strip and swayed towards Yinzhuang, he still stood there dumbfounded and didn't react.

The number on the strip is more than double his!
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Huang Xianzhou and Mr. Yao each had a small horse, and two adobes in front of them built a wooden plank, on which there was a large bowl of stewed meat cubes, both fat and thin.

Mr. Yao scooped up some broth, picked out a thinner piece of meat, took a few dried bamboo shoots with chopsticks, and put them in a bowl.Huang Xianzhou took only two chopsticks of dried bamboo shoots, scooped up a few spoonfuls of broth to burn on the rice, then put down the spoons, calling out to the porters squatting around them.

"Xiao Jiu, it's just good for you to be sick. You come first and take two yuan with you. Lao Zhao, you are getting older, so you can take an extra one. Come all over, one yuan per person."

The porters hurriedly stood up, took a piece of meat each, and divided the rest of the broth.

"Thanks to the blessings of the two masters, these days I have a tooth sacrifice every day." A porter said with a smile.

"Thanks to my son." Huang Xianzhou replied with a smile.

Ever since the elder son set up a shed on the pier, people sent him such a huge bowl of meat or chicken every morning and night. Thanks to the elder son's blessing, his popularity has become better and better.

"Master Huang, those people over there count on one trip at a time, have you heard?" a middle-aged porter asked Huang Xianzhou.

Huang Xianzhou nodded.

"This is impersonation, don't you care?" asked the middle-aged porter.

"It's out of my control, I can't control it." Huang Xianzhou laughed.

"I've seen it several times, and the inspection office doesn't care. Those gowns just bury their heads in counting tickets and writing notes. How can this be done!" Another porter looked angry.

"Isn't it always counted as one trip to carry husband and work? Why do you have to count two trips as one trip here? I am really puzzled about this matter." Mr. Yao asked slowly.

"Our place is Linhai Town, so of course it's different from other places!"

"It was 30 years ago when I first arrived at the wharf. At that time, two trips counted as one trip, but ten trips were subsidized for two chips. Later, two chips were changed to one, and then there was no subsidy." The oldest Old Zhao, the porter, spoke a little slowly.

"I, Weng Weng, said that in the earliest days, we also counted trips here. I, Weng Weng, will be seventy this year!" A young porter next to Lao Zhao answered.

"You, Weng Weng, are so confused!" said a middle-aged porter on the opposite side.

"My Weng Weng is blind, but he is not confused at all!" The young porter snapped back.

"Master Huang, didn't the elder son say he was here to take care of the pier, those people over there pretended to get the lottery, and the elder son didn't care? The elder son can always manage it?" The head husband next to Huang Xianzhou frowned. asked.

"Why don't you go talk to Shizi?" Huang Xianzhou suggested.

"Isn't that good?" The middle-aged porter next to the head porter answered.

"What's wrong? They pretended to claim it!" A young porter said angrily.

"Then you go and talk about it." The middle-aged porter said bluntly.

"I'll go! I'll go! They're impostors!" The young porter took a few mouthfuls of food, stood up and asked, "Is there a way to go? Go! Go now! Do the same job, why should they compare?" Let's double the amount!"

Three or four porters stood up.

"Master Huang, hurry up and persuade me, the young bastard is not sensible! This is going to cause trouble!" Old Zhao stood up anxiously.

"Don't worry, it's okay, Shi Ziye can't care about them, it's okay, you can go if you want, it's definitely okay, don't worry!" Huang Xianzhou waved his hands at those people, signaling them to go quickly.

(End of this chapter)