Rise From the Humble

After lunch, Zhu Ping'an paid the bill. The shopkeeper came over with a smile and said, "Hahaha, I originally wanted to give you zero money, but it's exactly two hundred cents, so I can't even wipe it off."

Hearing this, the little loli girl rolled her eyes.

"Hypocritical!" The naughty kid waved his fat face and looked down upon the shopkeeper.

"It's easy. I just happen to be not full yet. Give me two more buns and you can wipe out the zeros."

Zhu Ping'an rubbed the naughty boy's head, looked up at the shopkeeper, slightly curled his lips and smiled brightly, showing the innocent smile of a sunny boy.

Ahem

The shopkeeper seemed to be choked when he heard this. With a dark face, he ordered the waiter to go to the back kitchen and get two meat buns.

After a while, Zhu Pingan led the two children out of the restaurant with two meat buns wrapped in mulberry leaf paper.

In the restaurant at the back, the shopkeeper had a dark look on his face.

After leaving the restaurant, the naughty child admired Zhu Pingan so much, and the little loli girl Niuniu's eyes also shone when she looked at Zhu Pingan.

"They first used chicken racks to pretend to be chickens, and the store was bullying customers, so I gave them a small lesson. We can't imitate them in our work. We must pay attention to integrity in life. People cannot stand without trust, and stores cannot prosper without trust. They Sooner or later, our store will fail due to breach of trust." Zhu Pingan touched the heads of the two little ones and instilled in them the importance of integrity.

I don't know how serious it is.

The two little ones nodded ignorantly.

After walking for a while, Zhu Pingan gave two meat buns to a child held by Lifu, and chatted with Lifu by the way.

I learned that Lifu was from a village ten miles outside the capital, and his name was Zhang Dazhu. When Anda Khan sent troops to siege the capital in August last year, he destroyed the crops in their village, causing them to lose all their autumn harvest. In order to make a living, all the strong laborers in their village came to Qihuamen Wharf to make a living by moving goods.

They were a bit tired, but on weekdays, they could earn almost a hundred cash a day. When the time came to transport grain by water, they could earn dozens more cash, which was more than what they had earned from farming before.

So since last year, the strong laborers in their village have come to Qihuamen Wharf to earn some extra money during the slack season.

When talking about diet, Zhang Dazhu felt a little distressed.

They all had dinner at home early in the morning and then came to the dock to work, and only had one lunch here. But even just having lunch makes them feel a little distressed. The restaurants here are not cheap. In order to have more time to work, they don't have time to go far away to eat, so they can only eat here.

They work hard and must eat enough. But if they are full, they will have to eat at least four or five pancakes to be full. Eating dry is not enough. Just a dish and a bowl of soup will cost more than 20 yuan in one meal. arts.

As for meat and vegetables, they are generally reluctant to order them. Only when the body is very weak, or the work is too much and the body needs to replenish nutrition, can one bite the bullet and order a meat dish to replenish the body.

When Zhang Dazhu mentioned restaurants, he complained a lot. For example, everything in the store costs money, tea costs money, even garlic costs money, the pancakes are expensive and the food is not very good. Eat, but you look down on others, and you just have to eat as if you are rushing to beg them. The table is not wiped clean, and the floor is not clean either.

After bidding farewell to Zhang Dazhu, Zhu Ping'an looked at other nearby restaurants and listened to other people's evaluations of the restaurants.

Generally speaking, the restaurants here don't seem to be very popular, and they all have some problems: expensive prices, bad taste, questionable service attitude, bad environment, etc.

There are many problems.

Zhu Pingan glanced at the rows of restaurants and sighed.

Near the city gate of Qihuamen, there is a small stall of a candy blower, and many people gathered around it. When the naughty child saw it, his little eyes shone, and so did the little loli's eyes.

"Let's go and have a look."

Zhu Pingan picked up the little Loli with one hand and led the naughty child to the candy man stall.

The candy blower is an old man with a white beard. The stall is a rectangular cabinet with a shelf. The cabinet has several drawers, which contain maltose cubes and reed rods. There is a half-meter round hole under the cabinet, and inside the round hole are placed There is a small charcoal stove, and there is a shelf above the cabinet. On the shelf are various candy figures made by the old man, including chickens, piglets, rabbits, etc. They are very cute and pleasing.

There were many children gathered in front of the stall, some of them led by adults.

The children passing by are basically like naughty children. They can't walk when they see them.

Even if they didn't have money to buy it, they wouldn't leave around the candy player's stall. When the old man blew out a candy player, the children cheered in surprise. And when the child who spent money to buy the candy man took the candy man from his old man, he felt as if he had received a certificate, and he was so proud and proud that he accepted the envy of the children around him.

Zhu Ping'an gave the money to the naughty boy. The naughty boy took the money and squeezed away the children who were watching, and dragged him in. Under the envious eyes of the children, he shouted: "Give me the two most expensive candy men, one is a boy." Yes, a girl’s.”

The old man took the money with a smile, took a piece of warm maltose next to the charcoal stove, and squeezed it skillfully with both hands. The maltose turned into a round ball, and then the old man pressed a small hole in the ball. Use your hands to pull out a long airway. Then he brought it to his lips and blew, and the warm maltose swelled up. While blowing, his hands skillfully held it, and soon the third prince of Nezha, riding a dragon and making waves in the sea, appeared vividly.

"Sister, give it."

The naughty child took the Third Prince Nezha and Magu Xian Shou from the old man's hands. Under the envious eyes of many children, he walked out and placed Magu Xian Shou and the treasure in the hands of little Loli Niu Niu.

"Thank you, brother-in-law."

After little Loli Niuniu took the candy man, she narrowed her big round eyes and sweetly thanked Zhu Pingan. Her brother-in-law paid for the candy man.

The naughty kid looked at Zhu Pingan with a resentful look.

"Thank you, brother Rui."

However, the next second, after hearing the thank you from little Loli Niuniu, the naughty child's little fat face suddenly turned bright. He smiled so hard that he could hardly find his eyes, and then he started playing happily.

The world of children is so simple. Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but smile.

"Boom."

While the two little ones were enjoying the candy, they suddenly heard a dull thunder in the distance. The sound came from the west, which startled the two little ones.

Zhu Pingan also subconsciously raised his head and looked to the west.

However, the people around seemed to be used to it. Someone explained: "This is where the Holy Lord is training his chamberlains in the Xiyuan inner training ground. He has been setting off cannons for several days. Last year, Anda Khan invaded the capital and stimulated the Holy Lord. The south The Japanese pirates are not going away. Your Majesty trains your servants to guard the capital when there are not enough soldiers in the capital."

Zhu Ping'an remembered that Zhang Siwei had said this when he first arrived in the capital.

However, Emperor Jiajing, who was training his chamberlain, was really insecure. Zhu Pingan shook his head slightly. Even if these servants are well trained, they will not be able to guard the capital. They can only give Emperor Jiajing a sense of security, and oh, they can also intimidate his ministers. However, the internal training of soldiers will bring trouble to the future.