Reborn I want to be a giant

Chapter 44
Fuqian Lane

Zhaohui came to the door of a small family according to the address in his hand. After years of wind and rain erosion, the wooden door was very old, and the metal buckle and decorative binding on it had long since disappeared. The middle is full of weeds, if it weren't for the sound of beating and scolding children coming from inside, he would think that his trip was in vain.

"May I ask if Luo Xing lives here?" Zhao Hui patted on the door.

"He's dead." The woman cursed from inside the door, and then hit the child several times.

The crying mixed with cursing disturbed Zhaohui to take a step back.

When Zhaohui didn't have to accompany Cheng Han to the academy, he would run errands for Cheng Fu to do more important things, which was mainly due to his literacy.Also because of this advantage, Bai Ju and Endo are very envious, and recently they are clamoring to start reading and learning.

"Are you looking for Luo Xing?" An old man passing by looked at him from the side of the road with his hands behind his back.

Zhaohui nodded, "Do you know the old man?"

The old man waved his hand, "Don't dare to be a gentleman, Luo Xing lives here." He raised his chin towards the door, "I don't go to work until dark, I should be sleeping at home now. If you are not in a hurry, you can wait for him to come out."

Zhaohui thanked the old man happily. Seeing that he was wearing ordinary beige gray clothes, the old man guessed that he should be a clerk in a business firm, probably looking for debt collection from Luohang, so he didn't say anything more, shook his head and slowly returned to himself home.

Zhao Hui didn't understand what the old man's last wink meant, but it was much easier to make sure that Luo Xing lived here.He sat down on a raised flagstone beside the door.This wait is the sunset.

The wooden door creaked open, and a young man in rough cloth came out. Just as he was about to walk towards the entrance of the alley, he caught a glimpse of the boy sitting by his door.

Zhao Hui had already got up, and stepped forward excitedly, "Brother, are you Luo Xing?"

The young man nodded hesitantly, "Are you the clerk of the restaurant on Shuimen Street?"

"How do you know?" Zhaohui couldn't believe it.

Luo Xing didn't say why he knew, "Is there something wrong?" He remembered that he didn't owe money to the restaurant.

The newly opened "Manshang" on Shuimen Street is the busiest place in Jinling City at the moment. He passed by it no less than five or six times, but never entered it once.

Zhaohui took out a letter and offered it with both hands, "My lady asked me to send it."

Luo Xing frowned, why did he get involved with a young lady again?He accepted the letter half-believingly and put it in his arms. "It's dark and you can't see clearly here, so go back first."

Zhao Hui remembered the young lady's order before, and sent the letter to Luo Xing without pretending to be someone else's hand. Since the other party has accepted it, then his task for today is considered complete and he can go back and report.So without further delay, he said a few compliments to Luo Xing and Gao Shengxue, and then ran away.

Luo Xing shook his head, the boy was obviously hungry and rumbling just now, it can be seen that he waited here for a long time.

Cheong Chun Building

Mama Xin twisted her buttocks and walked down from the second floor with a pair of small feet. She saw a few strong men and cats in the corner, and she chased them up cursing, "Every day you know how to be lazy. The poor people above touch the girl and don't give you money. I don’t want to work fast.” She was really angry, since the call came, the name of Changchun Tower has indeed become more and more famous, but with it, there are endless poor ghosts who just look at girls and don’t spend money .

Luo Xing and the two strong men went up to the second floor in three steps and two steps. The waiter was holding a tray in one hand, and pointed to the wing room at the end of the corridor with the other hand in disgust.Luo Xing didn't talk nonsense and walked straight in.

"My lord, I believe you are very talented, but my mother said that we are not good at calligraphy and painting, and we will pay for the wine. Don't embarrass my family." Shi Ying's embarrassed voice came out.

The door was open, and when Luo Xing walked in, he saw three disheveled girls and three young male guests arguing. The male guests were dragged away by the girls desperately, embarrassed and angry, one of them blamed the girl Their brains are full of money, which spoils the joy of tonight.

The girls are also really anxious, but after all, they are thin and weak. Don't look at the frail scholars, the men are much stronger than them.

"You guys look like scholars, why, have you read all the sages' books up to your waistband?" Lao Ba held a toothpick in his mouth, tilted his head and pushed one of them forward arrogantly, forcing that person to the ground.

"You...you want to fight? Jinling has the law of the king..."

The old man spat out the toothpick, and said with a sneer: "I touched the girl and didn't want to pay for the meal, why don't I ask the official to come and talk to you about the king's law?"

I didn't expect that a place like Changchun Tower would really make a real report to the officials, and the three scholars were shocked. They wanted to test for fame, so they couldn't put their future at Changchun Tower.

"Xiaosheng didn't bring any money when he went out, you should remember first."

"It doesn't matter if you don't bring any money, where you live, my brothers will escort you back to get the money now."

"You, you deceive people too much!"

"The guest officer ordered an escort to eat the overlord's meal, and he didn't want to give the money after it was over. I think it's because the scholar is bullying too much." The old nine was ugly, and when he smiled with his swarthy face, he was especially able to scare people.

Luo Xing, who had been silent for a long time, carefully looked at the clothes and accessories of the three of them, and whispered a few words beside Lao Ba and Lao Jiu, and the Lao Ba also glanced at the three of them, and said with a smile: "Changchun Building rules do not accept calligraphy and painting. , but jade pendants and bracelets can be counted. It's getting late, if you don't want my brother to accompany you back to get money, hurry up." The last sentence was raised in a high voice, and it seemed a little more threatening.

There was something the three of them didn't understand, and helplessly began to touch things on their bodies.

Mother Xin took two pieces of jade pendants, and went to the master craftsman in the building who specialized in handling these "real women's tickets" to inspect them. After confirming that the water head was good and how much it was worth, she let the three of them go.The three girls went back to their respective rooms to tidy up again, and continued to come out to pick up guests.

Jinling is lively at night, and most restaurants and boats will not close until the fourth watch.The guests staying overnight in Changchun Building will leave before this hour, and those staying overnight will sleep in the girl's room until dawn.Of course, if you want to spend the night in Ruanxiang, you will naturally have to pay the corresponding money.

Shi Kai sent the last guest out of the door, turned around and saw Luo Xing leaning against the stairs, she put on the outer shirt that was casually draped over her shoulders as she walked there, hiding the original exposed spring color in the clothes.

"My concubine got some good wine from the altar today, how about Lord Luo go up and rest for a while?" The beautiful appearance was lightly applied with makeup and powder, and with the fragrance of freshly bathed body exuding, the whole person was alluring from the inside out.

Luo Xing shook his head lightly, "No need."

It wasn't the first time he was rejected, Shi Kai still felt a little uncomfortable, not to mention how endearing he looked.

Mother Xin watched this scene countless times, and she got bored, "Master Luo, just go, I won't charge you money, um."

Luo Xing's face fell, "I'm going to patrol the field."

Mother Xin yelled behind him reluctantly, "Are you really not going? She is just a good age, and you won't go if you don't charge money? Is she a man?" Seeing Luo walking far away, she pulled Shi Yu to leave again. Caring, "Daughter, we can play whatever we want here, just don't play with sincerity. That Lord Luo, forget it, um."

She had known for a long time that the two knew each other, and that Luo Xing came to Changchun Building as a thug for Shi Jian.At first they thought they were lovers, but later found out that Luo Xing's pure purpose was to protect Shi Yun from being bullied, and he didn't care about anything else.But Shi Kai became interested in Luo Xing.

At five o'clock, when Changchun went upstairs, Luo Xing and Lao Ba greeted each other and went home.

As soon as I walked into Fuqian Lane, I heard the noise that should not have appeared at this time.Luo Xing saw someone lighting a lantern in front of him, and someone holding a torch and poking his head inside the door of his house.

"Lord Luo is back, it can be counted as back." A neighbor aunt who didn't comb her hair anxiously called out.

Luo Xing pushed away the crowd and walked into his yard, and saw a few people pulling his widowed sister-in-law and young nephew to go out.He stepped forward to block a few times at random, and those people fell to the ground.The widow and the child were able to escape, and immediately huddled together in a corner, staring at everyone in the yard shaking their bodies.

"This woman owed us another 3000 taels of silver the day before yesterday. Master Luo, what do you really think?"

They are all thugs in the gambling shop, they have been with Luo Xing, the widowed wife, a lot, and they have a certain understanding of Luo Xing's skills.They didn't want to come to the door, but this woman lost a lot this time, and the boss couldn't let her delay.Luo Xing worked as a thug in Changchun Tower and they knew very well that the monthly payment was only 20 taels, and the family property had been wiped out long ago, so it was impossible for him to repay such a large amount of gambling debts.

Sure enough, when he heard 3000 taels, Luo Xing's face was extremely ugly. He closed the door first, not wanting the neighbors in the neighborhood to watch the excitement.

Zou, who was huddled in the corner, trembled, and the child in her arms cried endlessly.Luo Xing didn't bother to ask her anymore, and turned to the thugs in the gambling shop, "What are you going to do?"

Seeing that he was still kind, someone boldly said: "My boss means to bring people back if you don't have money. Lord Luo, my brothers know that you are an upright person, but don't you brothers also ask for a living?"

Luo Xing didn't refute, just said: "Accommodating for a day, I will think of a way."

"Master Luo, aren't you embarrassing my brothers? If you want me to say, you don't have to worry about your widowed sister-in-law. She is not a good person. There are many songs outside, aren't you? Let the brothers take her back to help you vent your anger .”

When Mrs. Zou heard that she was going to be taken away, she looked at Luo Xing's hesitant face, and immediately rolled around, and the child didn't care, crying and saying why the child's father died, leaving their orphans and widows to be fished by mermaids , my brother-in-law is inhumane, he only cares about the women in the flower house and doesn't care about his relatives... the more you go to the back, the more ugly it is.

"A few brothers, just for one day." Luo Xing took out a few pieces of broken silver from his body and stuffed it into one of them.

"Master Luo...forget it, we'll come back at night."

That's what I said, but these people were also afraid that they would run away, so someone was always guarding the door.Luo Xing can go out, but Zou and the child can't leave half a step.

Luo Xing first took out a cloth bag from under the bed board in his room, which contained the house deed of the yard, and then searched other places, and there was nothing of value, so he went out.

After getting out of the pawn shop, Luo walked to the gate of Changchun Building, which was not open at this time.He hesitated whether to go in to find Shi Ji, but finally turned his head and left.That small courtyard was the only remaining property of their Luo family, and now it has become the 600 taels of silver bills in their hands.But even so, it is far from enough to repay Zou's debt.

Luo Xing walked aimlessly on the street, worrying about how to get the remaining 400 taels.At this time, a familiar figure appeared in the wine shop ahead.

It was the kid from yesterday.

Luo Xing remembered that there was still a letter in his arms, so he found a steamed stuffed bun stand, rubbed a chair, and took out the letter from his arms.The content is very simple, Miss Cheng Fucheng, the owner of "Manshang", wants to hire him as a guard, and the salary will be generous. If he is interested, he can go to "Manshang" on Shuimen Street to find Guanshi Zhou or Guanshi Qian.

Seeing Luo Xing appearing suddenly, Zhao Hui was very pleasantly surprised, "Master Luo wants to come to our house?" referring to the tavern.

Staring at the boy's sincere face, Luo Xing endured it, and finally nodded.

Cheng Fu was quite surprised when he heard that Luo Xing was coming.She sent a total of five or six letters, and only this one responded.She asked Luo Xing to be invited to her special tea room, and ordered Jiujiu to serve hot tea and snacks, so don't neglect her.

It was the first time for Luo Xing to enter this famous new-style restaurant, and even having seen the world, he couldn't help admiring the delicacy and comfort here.He hadn't eaten anything all day, so when he saw the refreshments being served, he was not polite, he picked up the pastry and stuffed it into his mouth.Anyway, even if they can't reach an agreement, at least his stomach is full.

After explaining a few words to the three stewards, Cheng Fu withdrew into the tea room to meet the guests. At this time, the dim sum plate on the table was already empty, and she ordered someone to prepare some more.Luo Xing was indeed not full, and he hadn't eaten those fine foods for more than ten years. The opportunity was rare, and he didn't eat for nothing, so he didn't want to lose face.

The little girl in front of me is dressed in a lady's attire. She has flawless skin, bright eyes and white teeth. At such a young age, people can't take their eyes off her. It will be even more serious when she grows up.

After eating and drinking, Luo Xing took out the letter from his arms and put it on the table, "Miss is looking for a guard?"

Cheng Fu nodded, "Exactly."

Luo Xing's past experience made him habitually think more than others.Although many people in Jinling City knew him, there were many people who could do such jobs as thugs and guards. He was just a strong man in the kiln, and it was really wrong for this young lady to show so much sincerity to him alone.

"I'm just a small person, how does Miss know me?"

Expecting that he would question him, Cheng Fu was not unhappy. He told the other party that he came from the capital with mixed truths and had always wanted to find a reliable guard, but he was unfamiliar with the place. It took him a long time to find out who he was. This character.

Her conditions are very strict, requiring military service and excellent skills, so the list of options is not long.After exhausting all the efforts to find someone, either there was no response or she looked down on her small family, so she directly refused.He alone is willing to appreciate face.

After confirming that the other party really liked his ability, not because of his previous experience, Luo Xing heaved a sigh of relief but also gained some confidence, "I don't know how Miss wants to use it?"

"Follows like a shadow." Cheng Fu needs a bodyguard who can be there on call, detect danger at any time, and protect her well.So her request is not low.

Luo Xing thought it was funny, "Miss, are you going to work your life?" Although he didn't know what danger this little girl would be in, but looking at the style of this restaurant, he could somewhat understand her concern.

"Sign the deed of selling oneself for ten years, after ten years Lord Luo can go and stay as he pleases." Cheng Fu knew that for a person like Luo Xing, it would be a great humiliation for him to sell himself, and it was impossible for her to buy out his whole life.Ten years, there is room for both sides.

Luo Xing hesitated, seeing the little girl drinking tea calmly, he asked tentatively: "How much is Miss?"

Cheng Fu was surprised to hear the other party talk about money so quickly. Could it be that Luo Xing came here because of some difficulties?But no matter what, it's a good thing for her. "Jiujiu goes to see if Zhaohui is still outside, and asks him to go back and fetch the cypress box from brother's desk."

(End of this chapter)