A few roads outside the front door, there are two escort agencies and three rice stores.
At dusk, a young man walked out of the escort agency on the left, his dirty face full of exhaustion.
He let out a long breath, held a dark steamed bun in one hand, and walked out boredly while nibbling on it.
"Zhou Pori, where are you going?"
"Just take a walk."
While he quickly swallowed the dry bun in his mouth, he turned around and responded vaguely.
I don't dare to offend others, even though I am just a janitor.
"Don't go too far, go to bed early.
There will be escorts out tomorrow morning, so you must rest well, otherwise something will happen easily. "
The man at the door scolded him a few more times, showing severity and a hint of concern.
"Oh, come back soon."
As he spoke, he sped up a little faster, moving further away from the entrance of the Escort Bureau and towards the city gate.
Qingshi County can only be regarded as a remote place, located near the southeastern border of Wu Sheng Kingdom. The west side of the county is the front door, and several roads lead to different places.
You can't go to the east. Once you go there, you'll be right at the border, and you'll easily be caught as a spy.
The reason why the steamed buns in his hand look dark is because they are made from poorer coarse grains, and their only function is to keep them full. It's quite big, so if you're hungry, it's okay to eat it while it's hot. Once it's cold, it's like a stone, stings your mouth, and is difficult to swallow.
After most people eat one, they won't want to eat it again.
Even if you're not full, you're definitely half full. Why are you still eating this?
He took advantage of the heat and ate two of them in one go, but he still didn't feel full.
As I grow older and do heavy physical work, there is always not enough food. I may not be able to eat a bit of oil in a year, and I am as thin as a rib.
Zhou Pai Gu became his name in Wuhu Escort Agency.
Of course, most of the time the last name is also omitted.
He is just a waiter in the Wuhu Escort Bureau. He started doing this job when he was thirteen years old. After working for more than three years, he is already considered a veteran. Because I was afraid of being fired, I worked extremely hard, so I finally stayed.
The wages finally increased from the original two hundred cents to two hundred and fifty cents.
It was not easy for him to find a long-term and stable job at his age. If he had this opportunity, he did not want to lose it. He gritted his teeth and endured no matter how hard and tiring he was.
It's really difficult, as long as anyone in the escort agency is slightly dissatisfied, he may be fired.
There are plenty of people who can do the job. Someone else might be more diligent, so why should I keep you?
He managed to survive the full three years.
Three years is a hurdle because wages are going to go up.
Why do we have to pay an extra fifty cents when we can find another one who can do the job at any time?
In three years, most of the new recruiters will be fired, and they will have to find new ones without extra money.
He was still kept, and it was worth the extra fifty coins.
It depends on diligence.
In fact, his team had just returned at noon. Everyone else had gone out to have fun, and he was left behind to unload the goods.
Originally, there were two people who were more junior than him. Seeing that they were eager to go home, they let them go, and he finished unloading the goods alone. Unexpectedly, the rice store next door wanted to consign a hundred bags of rice. It was an urgent shipment and would be dispatched early tomorrow morning.
He had to move the hundred bags of rice to the escort agency compound so that he could load the rice and hit the road early in the morning.
I have been busy for a long time and am almost falling apart from exhaustion. In fact, I have been anxious to go home and have a look, but I don’t want to go back when I go out.
It's not time to get paid yet, and it's pointless to go back empty-handed.
At first, I felt like returning home, but when I walked out of the escort agency, I felt cold again.
"Pai Ribs, come over and have a drink."
The area near the city gate is quite lively, with restaurants, theaters, and bookstores all there. This is also the time when idle people gather.
In a restaurant, several old gangsters who were on his team had gathered here to drink and gossip, and someone shouted to him.
Judging from this posture, he must have seen him moving rice and deliberately avoided going back to help.
If you can be lazy, who wouldn’t want to steal something?
Zhou Paigu is such a hard-working person, having him save others a lot of trouble. He works hard and never haggle, so he is considered a popular person.
Everyone likes to have such a person among their teammates.
"Won't."
He smiled and shook his head.
The main reason is that I don’t have any money, and I couldn’t come up with it when we split the money for the drinks later. It was too embarrassing, so we stopped joining in.
He took home every month's salary without leaving a penny, and he still had younger siblings to take care of at home.
When walking through the city gate, two big steamed buns were completely eaten into his stomach, and he wiped his hands casually on some loose clothes. The laborer's overalls were in tatters and he still looked ill-fitting and too thin.
I didn't want to go home and seemed to have nothing to do, so I casually walked towards the lively Huaqiao Lane.
Huaqiao Lane is more lively because there are several brothels there, and many women are posing and ogling.
At this age, he really has some interest in women, and he can't help but want to take a look. Some girls with good looks really make his heart beat. In particular, there was a good-looking escort in the escort agency who borrowed some clothes and pretended to be a rich man. He actually coaxed a girl to elope with him and got a wife for free.
He was also very attracted by his wife who did not need money.
He knew that he was the kind of person who couldn't get a wife. He had nothing and no money or property. No blind woman would marry him. We can only hope that this kind of woman who doesn’t need money will not dislike it...
After these girls in the brothel are old and mature and no one wants them anymore, they are kicked out by the brothel. It is true that they can take them home.
But that would have to be after he was thirty or forty years old.
Now, just take a look and if there is someone who meets your eye, it will be possible in about ten or twenty years...
These things are what I heard from the old thugs in the escort agency when they said dirty things. It would be great to have a wife, and I have no right to dislike others.
Girls from several brothels are vying for customers and business on the street, and every man who passes by here has to pull up, which is quite interesting.
He walked back and forth several times, but no girl came close to him at all. Instead, they all subconsciously stayed away.
The smell was too strong, and the person who hadn't taken a shower for an unknown amount of time had his hair all messed up and covered in mud, like a beggar.
In fact, you can't blame him for this. What he does is dirty and tiring work. No matter how clean he is after washing, he will be dirty again after a while. Most of the time I'm too tired to move and don't have the energy to take a shower.
Although even if you pull him, you don’t have the money to go in, it’s not bad to hold a woman’s hand at least...
No one pulled him, and he couldn't pull any woman randomly, so he was quite disappointed.
Just as he was about to leave, a man jumped down from the second floor of a brothel and fell on him.
Zhou Paigu was caught off guard, and the two of them rolled into a ball.
"Catch him, the thief stole my son's things..."
Several thugs from the brothel chased him out, and the man broke away from Kai Zhou Pai Gu and ran away quickly.
"unlucky."
Zhou Pork Ribs rolled all over his body.
Even though his clothes were dirty, he still felt uncomfortable after rolling on the ground a few times. He could only admit that he was unlucky, and quickly got up and stayed away from the place of right and wrong.
Never go where there is trouble. This is the rule of escorts.
You have to avoid people in order to safely deliver the dart to its destination.
Traveling as a dart is a very hard and boring job. In the morning when the sky is dark and you are most sleepy, you should set out quickly. The thief will sleep soundly.
When the sun is at its strongest at noon, leave quickly because the thief will not come out.
It’s a comfortable and cool time, nesting in the wild, there is no wind, and there are many mosquitoes...
The most comfortable thing about an escort is that you don't have to do anything. You just have to carry a knife and follow him with a swagger.
Everything else was done by hand, and I had to race against time to pull the cart and carry the load, and sneak into potentially dangerous areas. I was so nervous that I even got cramps in my legs. If you really encounter a thief who is blocking the road, you have to go up and fight with a knife.
There is no technical content in the job. As long as you are willing to endure hardships and stand hard work, you can do this job.
Very tired and not much money.
But in a place like Qingshi County, there are so many people who are willing to endure hardships and stand hard work, but they still can't find decent jobs, so they can be found at any time.
He still had to keep his job.
Looking all the way, although the lights are bustling, the scenery is nothing more than that.
Not in the mood to see the scenery, I walked back to the city gate, only to find unexpectedly that there was a money bag in my arms.
His clothes were too wide and were held back with a belt. The clothes still protruded like a man with a big belly. He didn't know when a money bag came in.
This kind of good thing can only happen when there is smoke coming out of the ancestral grave, right?
After thinking about it for a while, I felt that the thief had placed it in the wrong place during the entanglement and stuffed it into his arms.
If it was stolen goods, he was a little scared, worried that the owner would treat him as an accomplice.
He was holding the money bag with his hand and didn't dare to take it out to look at it. He subconsciously looked around.
"Pork Ribs...Come here and drink!"
He happened to arrive in front of the restaurant again, and Da Zhuang, who was facing the door, greeted him loudly again, which startled him.
This time escort Wu is here too.
There are eight people in his team, five of them, and two are novices who are less than three years old. Their qualifications are not as old as his, so naturally they are not qualified to drink together.
"I really can't. You drink well."
He smiled and ran over.
"This is so stubborn."
Da Zhuang cursed and spread his hands helplessly.
In fact, when the escort team goes out, there is a corresponding travel fee, which is regarded as a travel subsidy. This money will definitely not reach the hands of novices, and it will become drinking money for these veterans.
Although Zhou Paigu is younger, he has survived for three years, and he can still be considered a veteran. Da Zhuang felt that it was time to give him the money, and wanted to invite him over to have a drink and say a few good words, which would make him officially a veteran.
"Do you think the food is too good?"
Someone also sneered angrily, "Don't worry about things that shouldn't be yours to worry about. Master Wu is here, what's the matter with you?"
Da Zhuang saw that the old escort Wu was turning a deaf ear, so he had no choice but to shut up.
