laughing saint

Chapter 116

In the early morning of the next day, after a simple wash and breakfast, everyone started to move in their respective positions. Before departure, Hongye also specially told everyone to pay special attention to safety.

After hiding the portable sword like everyone else, Chen Xiaofan left the dilapidated house and began to look for wine shops on the streets of Chongcheng. There were not many pedestrians in Chongcheng in the early morning, so Chen Xiaofan, the place where he lived Unfamiliar people can get acquainted with the streets of Chongcheng without attracting attention. Fortunately, Chen Xiaofan's experience as a beggar allowed him to familiarize himself with the environment of the surrounding streets in the least amount of time.

It was only when the sun was high that the people in Chongcheng woke up one after another, and the large and small wine shops opened to welcome customers, and at this time, all kinds of people came to the streets in an endless stream, and the merchants began to... When talking about business, people in the Jianghu began to talk about the Jianghu, and the porters who accounted for the largest number of people in the heavy city also rushed to the large and small freight and docks at this time. At this time, the heavy city was full of vigor.

After wandering around for a few times, Chen Xiaofan found a wine shop where many people from all over the world gathered. He walked into the wine shop with a slight bend, and the waiter who thought it was a visitor greeted him with joy. Seeing Chen Xiaofan's appearance in disguise, he immediately frowned, already guessing in his heart: "This guy must not be here for dinner!"

Although the waiter in the shop has made a final decision on Chen Xiaofan's intentions, he also understands that there are still many strange people and strangers in this year, so he still said with a smile while being responsible for the work: "Please come to the guest officer, I will prepare something right away." .”

Chen Xiaofan smiled slightly, his smile was not flattering at all, he asked in a low voice: "Brother, do you need help here?"

The waiter in the shop showed a smile as expected, and then said: "The shopkeeper is inside, you can ask yourself."

Chen Xiaofan walked out of the restaurant with his head down, came to the counter and asked, "Boss, do you need help here?"

The shopkeeper of the restaurant is a lean middle-aged man. He lowered his head and fingered his abacus continuously. After hearing Chen Xiaofan's inquiry, he didn't raise his head. He said calmly: "Ten copper coins a day, keep what you want to do." The back kitchen reports, if you don’t do it, get out of here.”

Chen Xiaofan heard the wages reported by the shopkeeper and cursed secretly: "The beggars are paid more than you!"

Fortunately, Chen Xiaofan didn't come here for money, so he nodded and agreed, "I'll do it, shall I go to the back kitchen now?"

The shopkeeper waved his hand impatiently and said, "Yes, hurry up and work harder, or I will deduct my wages!"

Chen Xiaofan bowed his head with a very proper expression and nodded, then walked into the back kitchen, where the cooks were busy preparing the ingredients for lunch, the manager of the back kitchen saw Chen Xiaofan walking in and shouted loudly: "What are you doing? !"

"Come to help!" Chen Xiaofan replied.

The steward pointed to the outside of the back kitchen and said, "Go and help cut the firewood first. It must be cut before noon. It is busy at noon. After you finish cutting the firewood, you have to help serve the dishes, understand?"

Chen Xiaofan nodded, then walked to the front of the huge pile of firewood, and asked the man who was chopping firewood: "Brother, where is the axe?"

The man who was chopping wood saw Chen Xiaofan come to help, you handed the ax to Chen Xiaofan and said: "Use it first, I'll get another."

Chen Xiaofan took the ax from the man's hand, smiled and said: "Thank you." But the man stood up and walked to a room beside him as if he hadn't heard it.

An hour later, Chen Xiaofan had chopped a pile of firewood in front of him, but the man who went to find another ax hadn't been seen yet, Chen Xiaofan cursed while watching: "What shit~!"

After another half an hour, the man looking for the ax finally came back. He sat down sweating profusely, and began to chop firewood slowly. The man seemed to have counted the time correctly. When he came over, he saw the manager approaching and said with a smile: "Brother Zhao, I cut a lot today, I'm exhausted and I need to pay more later."

Zhao Guanshi looked at the man covered in sweat, and then at Chen Xiaofan, who was not blushing or out of breath. It was true that the man was more like working, while Chen Xiaofan was just joking there, so Zhao Guanshi looked at him with an unkind expression. Looking at Chen Xiaofan, he said: "Lazy! Tell the shopkeeper later!"

Chen Xiaofan is not a person who can be bullied by others, if he had something important to do at this time, he might have already started a quarrel, he smiled helplessly, and didn't reply to Manager Zhao's words.

After Zhao Guanshi left, Chen Xiaofan said coldly to the woodcutter next to him: "Brother, what people are doing is what the sky is watching! Let's do it for ourselves!"

The man was furious when he heard it, he turned his head and wanted to show his prestige to Chen Xiaofan, but just met Chen Xiaofan's eyes, the moment he met Chen Xiaofan's eyes, the man had to sweat all over his body. He swallowed all the swear words in his stomach, and then hurriedly turned around to continue chopping firewood.

At noon, Chen Xiaofan began to be busy serving dishes and clearing the tables where leftovers were stored. Although he was busy with work, Chen Xiaofan took the time to shuttle between the tables, paying attention to what those people in the world were talking about.

The most talked about by those gangsters was that they went to a certain brothel last night and ruthlessly cleaned up a certain beautiful woman, how to make that woman want to live and die, and things like that are worthless, which also made Chen Xiaofan He felt a little disappointed, but he soon felt relieved, and he comforted himself in his heart: "How could it be so lucky that I found out what I wanted on the first day I came out."

Chen Xiaofan, who got nothing at lunch time, began to look forward to something at dinner. After eating pickled cabbage and white rice for lunch, Chen Xiaofan was arranged to do some miscellaneous things, and he was arranged to serve the dishes when the dinner time came. .

During the dinner, the content of the conversations of those Jiang Hu people changed a bit, and they began to talk about the fights between the small gangs in the heavy city, but the content basically had nothing to do with the Song family. Time passed quickly, and the people in the wine shop The diners began to leave one after another, just when Chen Xiaofan was lamenting that he had been busy all day and got nothing, the conversation of a table in the left corner of the restaurant aroused his interest.

A man who looked like a monk at the table raised his glass and said: "Brothers, this meal is my brother's invitation to welcome you. Have a good rest tonight. Second Lord Song will treat you well tomorrow. Come and have a toast with us." ,Wish we can co-operate well."

The Nine Lives men at the same table all raised their glasses and said in unison: "Do it!"

When he heard the name of Second Master Song, Chen Xiaofan began to pay attention to their every move. From their gestures, Chen Xiaofan could conclude that these people were of some cultivation level, so Chen Xiaofan thought to himself: "The Song family has a great career, how can I say it?" Everyone should have their own guards, why would they need to cooperate with some people from the Jianghu? Could it be that they said that Second Master Song is not the owner of the Red Manor and the Song family?" Thinking of this, Chen Xiaofan decided to find out.

(End of this chapter)