Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 713 Takes Both Sides
When Wang Laoqi heard this, he said, "Go away, go away. You are everywhere, Xiao Shandong. I tell you, tell Chen Quezi that if you don't register with me, I will arrest you all."

Xiao Shandong rolled his eyes and said, "I don't know where the boss is. Otherwise, how could I take this job? I have no food to eat."

Wang Zhan took one look and said, "Okay, Seventh Brother, go ahead and do your work. Let him take me there. We have to give him something to eat."

Wang Laoqi said, "Okay, go with him. He is very familiar with this place."

Wang Zhan and his companions followed Xiao Shandong to Shuangyu Hutong. When they entered Courtyard No. 5, Xiao Shandong called out, "Tieguai Li, are you there? I'm here to bring you some business."

When Wang Zhan heard this, he realized that this was a very smart person who wanted to have his cake and eat it too.

Li the Rail came out and said, "Get lost. I need you to attract business. You are covered in lice. Don't come into my house."

Xiao Shandong stopped, and an old lady at the door shouted, "Xiao Shandong, if you don't leave the yard, I will beat you with a stick."

Xiao Shandong ran away, and Wang Zhan said, "Hello, I wanted to buy a fishing rod, so I asked him to bring it over."

Tieguai Li looked at the children and said, "Come in, how many do you plan to buy?"

Wang Zhan said as he walked, "Three sets, you have to get them all."

Tieguai Li led them into a side room. When Wang Zhan went in, he saw that three walls were covered with fishing rods. Tieguai Li introduced them to them and finally recommended the ones made of purple bamboo and arrow bamboo. Wang Zhan bought one purple bamboo and two arrow bamboo ones. Tieguai Li equipped him with all the hooks, fishing lines, floats and pulleys, and even gave him a spare set. He charged Wang Zhan 100,000 yuan for them, and Wang Zhan did not bargain.

Several people took their fishing rods and happily went out of the yard. As soon as they went out of the yard, they saw Xiao Shandong squatting in a corner, waiting for them. Wang Zhan walked over, gave Xiao Shandong a thousand yuan, and said, "Thank you, shall I treat you to a meal?"

Xiao Shandong looked at Wang Zhan in disbelief and said, "Are you sure?"

Wang Zhan smiled and said, "I also begged for food for two years. You look about the same age as me. Let's go. Meeting is fate. But you are familiar with this place. Let's see which noodle shop has the best food."

Xiao Shandong smiled and said, "Okay, let's go. Of course we should go to Xincheng to eat noodles. It's on Food Street."

Xiao Shandong took Wang Zhan and others to Xincheng Noodle Restaurant on Liangshi Street.

When we arrived at Xincheng Noodle House, several people sat at the table outside the door. The waiter inside came out to greet them. He saw Xiao Shandong at a glance and said, "Hey, Xiao Shandong, someone is treating you to noodles again. You are so lucky."

Xiao Shandong said, "That's right. Give me a bowl of small stew. By the way, what do you want to eat? He has three kinds, tomato and egg, small stew and sesame sauce. I suggest you get the small stew."

Several people listened to Xiao Shandong's words and ordered small stewed meat. Xiao Shandong said: "You are the second person who invited me to eat noodles. The first one was also a good person and an important person. He was Principal Xu of Qianmen Primary School. He often invited me to eat noodles."

Wang Zhan and Xiao Shandong started chatting. Xiao Shandong was from the Beggars' Gang. His boss was called Chen Quezi, and they were active at the Zhenwu Temple outside Zhengyangmen. But he also had his own home in Tofu Lane near Qianmen. His boss suddenly disappeared in recent days, so Xiao Shandong had no place to eat and could only hang around in Dazhalan. He had been hungry and full during this period.

Wang Zhan asked, "Where is your boss? What will you do if he doesn't come back?"

Xiao Shandong said, "It's okay. He used to be like this. He would disappear for a few days and come back after a while."

Wang Zhan felt strange. Although you are the leader of the beggars, you are still a beggar. Why do you disappear when you have nothing to do? Wang Zhan said, "My home is in Keyuan, Maoer Hutong, Nanluoguxiang. If you have no food, come to me."

Xiao Si said, "Yes, you can go find us over there. Although we don't eat well, we won't be hungry."

Xiao Shandong looked dejected and said thank you. Wang Zhan asked him why he was called Xiao Shandong. Xiao Shandong told him his origins. He was also an orphan. There was a war over there, so he followed the refugees to beg all the way north. He came here three years ago and met Chen Quezi, who accepted him as his disciple. When he had nothing to do, he followed a group of people to beg for a living in Qianmen.

Wang Zhan felt very sympathetic towards Xiao Shandong, so he told him to go to him if he had no food to eat, because Wang Zhan knew that Xiao Shandong couldn't leave Chen Guizi, otherwise something would happen to him.

After eating the noodles, several people left. Xiao Shandong also went to Zhenwu Temple. On the way home, Xiao Si and Xiao Wu had an unpleasant discussion about the ownership of the third fishing rod. Finally, they reached a consensus that each person would fish one rod per day, which made He Yushui and Wang Li laugh all the way.

Why the third one? Because Wang Zhan took Zizhu's one, Wang Li and He Yushui took one, and there was only one left, which belonged to Xiao Si and Xiao Wu.

Several of us were a little tired today, so we made an appointment to go fishing in Shichahai early tomorrow morning.

Xiao Si and Xiao Wu left happily, and He Yushui also went back. Wang Zhan asked Wang Li if she wanted to rest for a while before eating. Wang Li nodded and said that she would lie down for a while and he would call her when it was time to eat.

After Wang Zhan put away his fishing rod, he started looking for a small iron bucket, which was not too big, and swiped it out. As for the bait, he could just dig it up from under the tree by the river when the time came.

After that, he prepared food for Jinbao. Jinbao was not really hungry, so he ate two bites and stopped eating. He kept circling around Wang Zhan, who teased him for a while. Then he went to the kitchen to see what to cook in the evening. For some reason, he suddenly thought of Xiao Shandong, so he rolled up his sleeves and started making steamed buns, but he used two-grain flour.

After putting all the steamed buns on the steamer, he began to add fire seriously. After the water boiled, he walked out of the kitchen. Looking at the bacon made by the master hanging on the corridor, he thought of the master again. He didn't know how he was doing. Forget it, he might as well eat it. After it was gone, he would no longer think about the unreliable master.

He thought of the woman who had plotted against him. He didn't know how Uncle Li's interrogation went. Anyway, he called Uncle Li and told him all his suspicions. Captain Li, who was eavesdropping nearby, was shocked when he heard what happened. Why didn't Uncle Li think of it?

Wang Zhan picked up a piece of bacon with a bamboo pole and put it in a basin of clean water to soak. He went to the backyard to check on his sister. She seemed really tired and was even snoring.

Wang Zhan walked out of the bedroom, poured himself a glass of water, and sat at the door in a daze.

At this time, in the front yard of the courtyard, Yan Bugui was restless and paced back and forth in the room. Yang Ruihua saw Yan Bugui like this and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so flustered?"

"Why are you so flustered? I'm just thinking about something." Yan Bugui said.

Yang Ruihua smiled and said, "What else can stump you, Yan Suanzi?"

Yan Bugui said unhappily, "What do you know? Principal Ren of our school is going to be promoted to the Education Bureau. I heard that Principal Xu of Qianmen Primary School is going to be transferred to our school as principal."

Yang Ruihua said: "What does this have to do with you? Why are you worried?"

"I told you I'm not worried, I'm just thinking about whether I should visit Principal Xu now?" Yan Bugui said.

Yang Ruihua asked in confusion: "Do you know Principal Xu? Why are you visiting him?"

(End of this chapter)